What I Watched Today

(rambling, random thoughts & annoyingly detailed recaps from real time TV watching)

Fear the Walking Dead

John writes to June, I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot lately. Maybe it’s being away from you – my heart, my everything – that my thoughts drift to my family. We weren’t together nearly as long as I would have liked, and I suppose I could say the same thing now. He packs a bag, and puts the letter in. He goes out into a little town. The neighbors are friendly. They smile and wave. He goes into an establishment that flies a flag with a key on it, and gets his guns. They’re still important to me, things I care about to this day. He goes to a guardhouse next to the Lawton sign, and relieves the man on duty. The letter continues, one thing I was told that I’ve carried particularly close, is that people deserve to live in a world where they know which way is up, or have someone else who knows if they can’t. I suppose that’s the reason I became a cop, and the same reason I became a cop again when Ginny asked me to. I eased into the role because I had reservations. Understandable, given the way things played out the last time I wore a badge. This feels different. Life here isn’t as I imagined. In the guardhouse, he reads the letter over. People give up some freedoms, but I’m starting to believe it’s worth the cost. They haven’t lost a soul in the 246 days I’ve been here. It’s a comfort, knowing I played a part in that. It’s not the world my dad dreamed of, but the people know which way is up. I hope you can find out for yourself. Maybe one day we can be together here. He knocks at a door, calling to someone named Cameron, saying Cameron missed his shift. There’s no answer, so he goes around to the back. He sees a man stuck on a barbed wire fence, being eaten by two zombies. John kills them, and the newly zombiefied guy, presumably, Cameron. The letter concludes, until then, sending you all my love, always.

Morgan goes to a storage space, and picks up a hoodie. He ponders it for a while. He gets in his truck, and shows it to a bloodhound, saying Daniel left it for them. The dog smells it, and Morgan asks if the dog will bark now, when they get closer. He asks if he should take the dog to the last place he saw him. He looks in the windshield mirror, and wonders if he’ll be recognized, and drives out.

At Cameron’s place, a small crowd has gathered. Ginny, says, don’t move him. She tells John, he knows how it can take its toll, especially if it’s one of theirs. The best thing is to go home. He says he’s trying to secure the scene, and she says, understood, but they should round the people up. Cameron warned her about his drinking. He must have gotten too close. John says, one way to find out is to look into it, but she says he can’t exactly investigate. He says he can collect the body. The last thing they want is anyone else getting hurt. She appreciates that he takes his duties seriously. It hasn’t gone unnoticed. He thanks her, and she and her Rangers leave. John looks around near the fence, where the guy , and picks up an earring.  

A car comes by, and Victor gets out. He and John hug. John sees a key on Victor’s lapel, and asks how he ended up with the hardware. Victor says, the same way John did. They do what they can to get by. He’s going to a meeting of the settlement council. John tells him about finding Cameron dead in the barbed wire, and says Ginny thinks it’s an accident. Victor says, and John? John says he’d be lying if he said he didn’t have doubts. Victor asks if he can do anything, and John says, no, but if that changes, he’ll let Victor know.

John goes over to Janice, who’s scrubbing some clothes on a washboard. She says she doesn’t have a letter, but John says that’s not what he’s there for. He wants to talk about Cameron. They were close, right? She says she did his laundry. She asks if he knows what happened, and he says Cameron was tangled in the fence, but he doesn’t know how or why. He shows her the earring, and asks if it looks familiar. He found it near the body. She says, it’s not hers, and he says he knows, but since she does laundry… She says she’s never seen it, and asks, what’s going on? He says he doesn’t know, but until he does, be careful. She’s the closest thing he’s got to family.

John goes to see Ginny, and tells her that he went back to Cameron’s. He says he doesn’t think Cameron stumbled. He doesn’t think Cameron was drunk. There was a bottle of moonshine in his house, and he hadn’t touched a drop. What if he was pushed? She says, by who? and he shows her the earring, saying he found it in the dirt. He bets whoever has the matching one is the person they’re looking for. She looks at it, and says, a man in the first place she lived murdered a friend over a can of tuna. The town elders made a show of it to keep everyone in line. They tied him to a stake outside the walls, and blasted music to draw the dead. He was picked clean to the bone, like a turkey on Thanksgiving. He says he doesn’t want that. She’s talking punishment. She says he doesn’t even know if a crime was committed, and he says, and he won’t, unless he looks further. She says she’d appreciate it if he kept it quiet. A place is only as safe as the people feel it is. He says, making people feel safe is good, but actually making them safe is better. She says he’s right. She’ll put on more patrols until they figure out what’s what.

Rabbi Jacob speaks at Cameron’s grave. He says, in Hebrew tzedakah means charity. We need to do what is right. Cameron answered the call, making their lives safer until his last breath. His life is a reminder that they should dedicated their lives to tzedakah, to be worthy of the world they inhabit, and goodness will prevail. They all put handfuls of dirt on the grave. John hands Dakota a piece of candy, saying he’s off of them until he gets his tooth sorted out. He asks if she knew Cameron, and she says, only that he was on Ranger detail outside of the gate, and Ginny had been having a hard time with him. Ginny comes by, and tells Dakota to go home.

John sees Janis being handcuffed, and trots over. The officer says she was trying to sneak to the fence. Ginny asks if Janis was trying to run off again, and tells John to check her bag. He dumps it out, and we see a few supplies. Ginny looks through them, and picks up an earring that matches the one John found. She says, how about that?

John visits Janis in her cell, and she says she lied to him when she said it wasn’t her earring. He shows her a sketch pad, and says he found this in Cameron’s house under the mattress. He was pretty talented. He flips to a sketch of the back of a woman, sleeping in bed, and asks if it’s her. She doesn’t say anything, and he says he can’t help if she doesn’t talk to him. She says he can’t help her even if she does. Ginny has had it out for her since she and Tom refused to kiss her ass. She had Tom killed. If Ginny decides it’s so, than it is. He says, no. She wants people to feel safe; that won’t happen. Janis says she wasn’t lying when she told him the earring wasn’t hers. She thinks Ginny planted them. John tells her, be straight. What’s going on? She says she and Cameron were together, but they hid it. They were afraid Ginny would use it against them, and try to split them up. They piled up supplies, and figured in a few more days, they could leave this place for good. She didn’t want be there without him. Cameron wasn’t perfect, but he listened and cared. She was lonely, and so was he, and they found each other. They thought they may as well be lonely together. It sure sounds crazy it, doesn’t it? The guy at the desk calls to John, saying, Ginny needs to see him. He tells Janis, if he can, he’ll set this straight. She says she knows he will.

Ginny tells John, the strawberry yield was good. It makes her think they’re on the right track – in more ways than one. He bites into some toast and jam, and she tells him that he should have someone look at his tooth. She thanks him, saying, if they hadn’t had that talk, she never would have doubled up Ranger rounds, and Cameron’s killer would be half way to Mississippi. John tells her, Janis says it’s not her earring, and Ginny says Janis was trying to run away during the funeral. He says he knows how it looks, but he didn’t even properly inspect the body. She asks if he’s going to dust for prints. She knows what he wants to believe, and asks if it’s intuition or that he doesn’t want to lose his carrier pigeon. He asks if she read his letters, and she says, every single one. Cameron made sure of it. She tells him not to worry. The things he said show he believes in this place. He’s invested in what happens. Janis is an example that needs be made. She tells him, go home, get some rest, and be proud of the work he’s done there. She is. She thinks his daddy would be too. I get angry, since she’s using his dad as a manipulation tactic, and someone did that to me once.

When John goes outside, Dakota asks if he was a cop. He says he was, and she asks if he ever killed anyone. He says he did, but he didn’t mean to. She tells him, don’t listen to her. He’s doing the right thing. She’s protecting someone. He asks, who? but Dakota doesn’t know. He needs to keep on it. Ginny pops out, and tells Dakota to get back in the house.

John lies awake in bed. He finally gets up, and goes to Cameron’s grave, digging down to the body. He looks it over, covering his nose and mouth. He sees Cameron’s throat has been slit. A zombie tumbles in, and John puts Cameron’s body between him and it. Another falls in, and John struggles to keep their mouths away from him. He pushes them off long enough for him to grab the shovel, and he kills them with it. He looks in Cameron’s hand, and takes something out of it. He looks at it, and it’s a piece of a knife. He hoists himself out of the grave.  

John tells Victor, Cameron’s throat was cut. It was plain as day. He stands near the grave, where a couple of guys deal with what’s left of Cameron and the two zombies. Victor says, Cameron got chewed up in there, and John nearly got chewed up with him. John says, not by choice, and Victor says, even if Ginny wanted to get to the bottom of it, the evidence has been chewed up and spit out. Showing Victor the knife piece, John says he found this in Cameron’s hand; it must have broken off. Victor says, Janis couldn’t have gotten a knife out of lockdown without anyone knowing, and John wonders who would have access to the sign-out list.  

Victor waits while John looks through drawers. He tells John, the next shift starts at five, and who would be dumb enough to bring the murder weapon back? John says he’ll see who checked it out, and flips through a ledger. Victor says it’s his ass if Ginny find out. John says, hand-carved bone, and Victor asks when it was checked out. John says, the page is missing. Someone doesn’t want him to find it. He’s going to find the rest of the knife. It’s got to be there, or just outside the gate. Victor says, what then? and John says, people only safe feel if they know what’s going on. Victor asks if he thinks Ginny is going to sit by, and John says, she won’t have a choice. Even her sister thinks she’s protecting someone. Victor tells him, think long and hard before he commits to this course of action. If he goes down this path, there’s no going back.

John goes to Janice’s cell, and she says he shouldn’t be there. He says he thought it would give them a chance to talk. Ginny is protecting someone. He doesn’t know who or why, maybe a ranger, but there’s no way Janice could have gotten her hands on the weapon he found. She tells him, stop. He says he can get her out. Ginny comes in with Victor and some others, and she says she wasn’t expecting him. Victor says he sees John got his message, and thanks him for coming. He tells Ginny, they’ll need a witness, and John says, for what? Ginny says, her confession. Janice says she knows she said she was innocent, but she did it; she killed Cameron. She lied to him. She was there the night Cameron died. They were planning on running away, but he said he couldn’t go; what they had wasn’t worth it. She was hurt and angry, and the fight spilled outside. She got out of control, and pushed him into the fence, then watched the dead tear him apart. Ginny thanks her for unburdening herself, and hopes she makes peace with it. John says, she confessed; it has to count for something. Ginny says she knows he’s invested, but people need to feel safe, and she has to make sure they do. She’ll give them time alone to say their goodbyes. Victor locks eyes with John before he leaves.

John asks Janis why she’s making it easy. Ginny isn’t going to take mercy on her. Janis says, it’s okay. She has no one in her life. Tom, Cameron, there’s nothing more for her, but there is for him. She tells him, look under the floorboard in Cameron’s place, there’s a can of gas for the generator and a spare key; Tom has a dirt bike. She gives him the directions to where it is, and tells him, take it. Get out of here. The place is rotten. It spoils everything it touches. Sooner or later, there’s going to be something he doesn’t want to do. He tells her not to give up, but she says she’s not. She’s setting them free. He says, it’s not just her life, but the truth. She says, it’s okay. Let her go.

John looks at a map, and drinks. There’s a knock at the door, and Jacob comes in. He says he thought John might need company. John guesses Jacob heard about Janice, and Jacob says, she’s set to be executed at daybreak. He spoke to her as her officially sanctioned spiritual advisor. She’s a brave women facing a cowardly act. John says he always followed the rules; the rules made sense to him. Jacob asks if he’s thinking of running away, and John says Janice wants him to. She told him, find June, and get the hell out of there, but he’s not going to do it. Jacob asks what he is going to do, and John says, get Janice out. Jacob says, there are only a few Rangers on duty during shift change, and John says his dad had a case when he was knee-high. The term didn’t exist then, but it was a serial killer. They found him living in a compound with a bunch of people he’d brainwashed, who thought he was the second coming. He was nothing but a two-bit mortician, spouting about death and new beginnings; nonsense that he made sound profound. The entire force, his dad included, combed the place. The guy was guilty, but they couldn’t pin it on him. His dad found a purse from a missing woman squirreled away in a back closet. It was enough evidence to put the SOB away for the rest of his life. Jacob says it sounds like his father was a her, and John says he planted the purse. He knew the man was guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, and broke the rules to set things right. He felt like the people living in the world knew which way was up. The people who knew were happy to get a dangerous guy off the street, and saved the women he would have hurt, but they never looked at him the same way. They weren’t certain they could trust anything he did now. His parents’ marriage fell apart. His dad moved north, and he started drinking. He did the right thing, and it cost him something hard. Jacob says, it’s going to cost John, but he seems to know that. John says he’s not worried about himself, and he trusts Ginny won’t hurt June. She needs people who know medicine, but he know he’ll never see June again. When his dad disappeared, it was hard on him. His dad had to do what he did, and he knows there are people alive who wouldn’t have been, whose lives his dad saved, even if it cost him the one he was living. It’s the choice he’s making. Jacob says they could find another way. He could talk to Ginny; buy them more time. John says, there’s none to buy, and asks Jacob to make sure June gets the letter he’s written, so she knows why he had to do this. They hug, and John thanks Jacob. Jacob says, who knows? John may yet see her again. John says, let’s hope so. Jacob leaves, and John puts his head in his hands and cries.

John packs a bag, puts the map inside, and blows out the candles. He goes to Janis’s cell, and sees it’s empty. He says, no, no, no, no, and goes out the gate. He hears music coming from a boombox, and sees zombies feeding. He shoots them, and finds a body that been totally mutilated. He looks up at the radio and sees zombie Janis on the ground, a noose half in her mouth, and her hands tied. He comes closer to her, and his face shows a thousand emotions. He shoots her, and then shoots the radio.   

John pounds a cross into the ground in the cemetery, and hangs the plaque with Janis’s name on it.

John strides into town, gun in hand. Jacob comes out, and John says, they moved up the execution. Jacob says he knows, and John asks if Jacob told her. Jacob says, someone told him, and Victor comes out. John asks Jacob if he told Victor, but Victor says, he didn’t have to. He knows John. John asks if Victor arranged for Janis’s confession, and Victor says it was Janis’s idea. John asks if Victor told Ginny what he was going to do, and Victor says he told Ginny that Janis was a flight risk. John hits Victor a good one in the head. Victor falls down, and John walks away, but Victor gets up, and they fight. They’re both on the ground, and John says Victor killed her. He keeps punching Victor in the head, and reaches for the gun nearby, but Jacob grabs it up. Victor says Janis was going take the fall, and he kept John from going with her. John says, they could have gotten away, but Victor says, Ginny would have hunted him down killed them both. Jacob suggests Victor get cleaned up, and John says, Janis was right. This place destroys everything.

Ginny stands on a porch in front of a crowd of townspeople. She says they’re all after same thing. Not just Lawton, but all the settlements in the franchise. They want to feel safe from the danger lurking beyond the place they call home. Cameron’s murder tested their stability, and they won because of one man’s pursuit of the truth. John stands next to her, looking a little sad and unkempt. She says, with men like him on watch, their enterprise is rife with promise. He was there for them in their hour of need, and she asks him to accept this small token of gratitude. She pins a key to his lapel, and says, the key to the future; their future. She quietly tells him, congratulations, Ranger boy. He’ll find the honor will afford him many privileges. He looks at Dakota, then looks down sadly.

John can’t sleep, which is understandable. There’s a knock at the door. It’s June, and he asks what she’s doing there. She says, Ginny didn’t tell him? Ginny transferred her. She’s based out of Lawton now. He wonders why, and she kisses him. She asks, what is it? and he says, nothing, Junebug. He tells her to unpack, and he’ll clean up. He’s glad to see her. She goes inside, and he turns, and closes the door.

In the bathroom, John pokes at his tooth, and pulls it out himself with a pair of plyers. You may now flinch as I did. He lets it slide down the drain. He looks long and hard at himself in the mirror. A song plays, and we hear, I won’t cry as long as I have you…

Morgan drives, and tells the dog, they’re almost there. He puts up the window, and the dog lies down on the floor. Morgan says he’s not going to lie. This is the last place in the world he wants to go, but if that’s what it takes, right? He laughs, and a car comes out of the blue, T-boning him. He asks if the dog is okay, and he is (thank God – I can’t believe I have another dog to worry about now). He sees the other car has stopped, steam coming from the engine. He rubs his shoulder, and tells the dog to stay there. He gets, bringing his battle ax with him.

A guy tumbles out of the car, and Morgan asks if it was an accident. Now would be a good time to say he’s sorry. The guy asks, where’s Emile? and Morgan says, Virginia knows where he is. The guys asks, who’s Virginia? and Morgan sees that another guy is on his other side. The new guy says he just wants the key, but Morgan says he doesn’t know what they’re talking about. He tells them, stay back; he doesn’t want to hurt anyone. The second guy has come closer, and they move in for an attack, but Morgan slices into the second guy, disemboweling him, as I say, ooh, then OH. His intestines literally fall out. The first guy gets Morgan in a headlock, and we see a key on a chain around Morgan’s neck. Morgan slices that guy open too.

Morgan looks at the key, and says, what the hell do you unlock?

Next time, masked people, Al tells Dwight that it’s not his call, Dwight tells Shari that it will all be behind them, and Dwight is trapped and surrounded.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond

Huck told everyone, what was on the other side was rougher than what they’d seen before. Felix got Elton on the side to confer, but Elton said he hadn’t told Felix he was in. Felix said Elton hadn’t said he wasn’t in either. He told Elton, the Mississippi would be the last chance to get everyone home safe, and he’d need Elton’s help to do it. Elton asked why Felix thought anyone would listen to him, and Felix said Elton cared about them, like he did. Felix told Huck that Elton was with them, but she thought maybe they should head to Plan B. The best way was for one of them to go with the girls, and the other with the boys. They stopped at a dock, where there was a lone boat, and Elton said it had probably been used as an escape route, and this boat was the last one. Iris suggested they get creative, and build their own. She saw a hull, and thought they could do a remodel. Silas thought it could work, and Felix was like, damn!

They looked through a supply warehouse, where we got Elton’s backstory. Elton flashed back to being with his dad and pregnant mom in his dad’s office at the Natural History Museum, where his dad was apparently a paleontologist. He told Elton about the end of the dinosaurs, and said it was never too early for science. Elton also felt his little sister move, and named her Esmerelda. His mother said they’d talk about it. She had to leave for a meeting, and said she’d heard there was a lot of police activity near the hospital. Elton’s father told her to stay safe, and after she left, he showed Elton how to dust a fossil. They began to hear a lot of sirens outside.   

Felix told the kids, they had no engine to fight the current. Elton tried being discouraging, but Iris thought they could get parts from an air conditioner, and make a steamboater. Silas compared it to the dorm furnaces he had to fix.

Hope said the river was the last big thing in their way, and Felix told Huck, the closer they were to finishing the boat, the harder it would be to convince them. Huck said she thought maybe they should let the plan go. Hope eavesdropped, and asked Elton if he was involved. She told Iris and Silas that Elton was working with Felix, and asked Felix what Plan B was, to sabotage the boat? Felix said he was going to have them take the boat downriver, then go back to the university. They didn’t know where they were going, or what they were doing when, or if, they got there. They didn’t even know for sure if their dad was in trouble. He could have sent more messages while they were gone. Hope said he didn’t even believe his own words, and he said he’d made a promise to their father to keep them safe. Iris said they didn’t have time for an argument, and Felix needed to leave his sh*t at the door. Without everyone giving 100%, they wouldn’t make it across the river.

Huck and Hope looked for a fuel source, and Huck said she’d tried to do what was best for everybody. Hope asked who’s side Huck was on. She’d heard Huck tells Felix they should call it off. Huck said she was all for stopping them for a long while, but now she didn’t know. Going cross country was big, and doing sh*t like that was what made them stronger and better. She explained she’d been found floating down the Missouri in a raft with a broken arm. She’d messed up, and wasn’t sure if she was coming or going. The next thing she knew, they were calling her Huck, which she thought was kind of cool. She said she left a lot out, but she hadn’t known if she was going to live or die, and came close to giving up; just letting the water take her away. She had to push every single moment, and the pushes she’d overcome caused her to be stronger and better. Maybe that’s what this would be for them. Maybe even Felix. Hope thought Huck should tell him, but Huck said it wasn’t her place. Maybe Felix had to figure it out for himself in his own way.

Felix tried talking to Hope, who said she was pissed at herself for thinking she could turn him. She and Iris never got a brother, since he never acted like one. They weren’t his sisters; they were his problems. She’d trusted him more than anyone, and he should have told their dad not to. She guessed it was time for her to grow up.

Silas said the nail polish box at the warehouse could help them with the fuel situation. It started to storm, and Iris asked if Felix thought her dad was really safe. He said he did. He had to be, and so did Will. He should have gone, but their dad asked him to stay behind, and Will took his place, but Felix wasn’t there to protect him. Silas and Elton dumped all the polish into containers. Elton said people knew death was inevitable, but was so horrible a concept, they tried to put it off for a while. Fear was the body’s reaction to risk, and if they understood risk on a conscious level, there was no need to fear. He flashed back to being with his dad, who told young Elton he was going to find them a safe home. He was locking door, and gave Elton a giant tooth fossil that he said was special, and would keep anyone safe who was holding it. It sounded like chaos outside, with a lot of screaming and shooting. He put Elton in a crate, and closed the lid.

Iris told Felix, something was weird, and asked if his skin was tingling. Felix pushed her down, and lightning struck. A bunch of zombies toddled out of a nearby bar.

Iris and Felix ran back to the makeshift boat. Iris told Huck the empties were coming, and they couldn’t risk the rising water washing the boat away. Hope suggested they get in when the sh*t hit the fan. Elton and Silas ran back, but Elton tripped and fell, spilling the nail polish. He swore it wasn’t on purpose. Silas helped him up, and when they got to the boat, iris poured the polish into the engine, and got it going. Flames shot up, and then it died. The zombies from the bar were headed their way, and Felix put fishing line across the trees a bunch of times to slow them up. Iris said a belt had come off, and that’s why the engine failed. They needed someone small to go underneath, and Elton was small enough. Elton said he was claustrophobic, and Iris said, please, which sent him back to being in the crate. She told him that he could do it. Felix kept an eye on the zombies, holding a sword as they pushed against the line. Elton recited the planets to himself, along with young Elton in his head. He got the engine started again, but got stuck trying to wriggle back out. Hope and Iris had gone to help Felix, and Elton remembered his dad giving him the fossil. He put the same faith in a paintbrush, using it for magical protection, but Hope and Iris got back in time to pull him out. Good thing, since I don’t think the paintbrush was going to do much for him, and the zombies had broken free. The group pushed the boat, but it was slow going, and the zombies were getting closer. Hope thought they’d better run for it, but Felix joined in, using a piece of lumber as leverage, and the boat moved. The zombies were just a few feet away when the boat was all the way in the water, and they jumped on. Everyone was all proud of themselves.

Felix admitted that he’d was going to turn them around, but said he realized he’d do zero good, and told Hope that she was stubborn as sh*t. Huck thought it might be good for them, and turn them into the people they were supposed to be. Hope said the clues she’d left weren’t just because she hoped he’d turn them around, but that he’d help, and he was there now. Huck told Hope that Felix would keep them safe, and keep Will safe when they found him. She said the best thing was to divide and conquer. Their intel was weak, and she told them she’d be back in 48 hours max, but she was leaving them in good hands until then.

Elton looked at the sky and remembered his last time with both of his parents, and cried. He wrote in the margins of a book that nature had accounted for everything in the human race except self-awareness. Humans can act in ways nature isn’t expecting or ready for. It lets them see a path in the wind, even if for a moment. Sometimes a moment is all you need. Young Elton came out of his hiding place, and went out in the hallway. He saw his dad dead, shot in head, and everything was a mess. He picked up a messenger bag, put the fossil in it, and walked out into the world. As he exited the museum, he picked up a flyer that said Public Evacuation. Hope asked if he was okay, and he told her, the night the sky fell, his father told him not to be scared, and he wasn’t. He said his father was scared, probably more than he’d ever been, but that didn’t stop him from doing what needed to be done. He was brave because he was scared, not in spite of it. Hope wished she could have met his parents, and thought they must have been pretty cool to make a kid like him. He said he sometimes thought his mother was still out there somewhere, and his sister Esmerelda. Hope said that wasn’t so crazy, but looked at his mother’s picture, and remembered shooting her.

As they sat around a campfire, the group heard something. It was a zombie, and Iris said she had this.

Next time, an uninvited guest, a group of robbers, and zombies in garbage.

🍸 A 00Goodbye…

Somewhere at a heavenly bar, a suave sharply-dressed man sits down, and orders a martini, shaken, not stirred.

https://people.com/movies/sean-connery-hollywoods-quintessential-james-bond-dies/

🦅 Gotta Fly Now…

Tomorrow, lots of costumes and a new Deck. Until then, stay safe, stay serene, and stay aware while you’re driving, even in an apocalypse. And don’t forget to vote.