In Fear the Walking Dead’s latest episode, Dwight (played by Austin Amelio) appeared for the first time and was soon embroiled in a heated gun fight.
He was in a Wild West theme town called Humbug’s Gulch in the AMC series and came across June (Jenna Elfman) and John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt).
It was soon revealed he has been on the hunt for his wife Sherry ever since leaving The Walking Dead world and John and June promised to help him find her.
Now, showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss have spoken to Entertainment Weekly about the decision to introduce Dwight in this way.
A sign of what could have happened to Dorie
Andrew Chambliss
Andrew revealed: “We definitely played with some other ideas, but what I think led us to the Gulch was the fact that it really seems like Dorie and June being the first people to encounter Dwight just felt right because of all those similarities that Ian just mentioned, the fact that Dwight is looking for someone who he loved and Dorie had been through that same exact experience.
“It really seemed like those two parallel story tracks were telling us that Dorie and June should be the first people to encounter him.
“And we really saw it as Dwight being a mirror image of Dorie and almost a sign of what could have happened to Dorie if he had not had the luck to find June.
“And given where Dorie is at the beginning of this season, of kind of feeling the guilt for all the things that he does have in the apocalypse — Dwight really exacerbates that, because it is someone who has not had the same fortune he’s had.”
The episode also saw a crossover reunion between Dwight and Morgan Jones (Lennie James) in Humbug’s Gulch as the rest of the
