Fear the Walking Dead foreshadowed the surprise return of a missing character with a callback to a season 8 episode of The Walking Dead. Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Althea (Maggie Grace) go AWOL during a recon mission assigned to them by Virginia (Colby Minifie) in Sunday's "Alaska," where Dwight reminisces about Sherry (Christine Evangelista). His wife went missing a year earlier in a season 7 episode of The Walking Dead when she freed Daryl (Norman Reedus) from captivity before fleeing the Sanctuary, where the couple was torn apart while living under the rule of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors.