Alicia Clark is a fictional character in the AMC television series Fear the Walking Dead, created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson. Portrayed by Alycia Debnam-Carey, Alicia is the daughter of Madison Clark, the former protagonist. She begins the series as a teenager who struggles with her family situation and plans to leave the city for a new life, before facing civilization slowly crumbling due to a zombie outbreak. The character has received praise, with critics calling her an emotional anchor of the series, complimenting her evolution, and naming her one of the most memorable characters of the Walking Dead universe.
Appearances Season 1
Alicia becomes more worried about her brother Nick's chemical dependency. School closes early due to the high levels of absenteeism and rumors of an epidemic. Alicia, her mother Madison, Nick, and Madison's fiancé Travis Manawa choose to flee to the desert, and they want Travis' son Chris, and Chris' mother Liza to follow. Alicia finds her boyfriend Matt ill in his disheveled house. Travis arrives and sees a bite on Matt, who convinces Alicia to leave. The group returns to Madison's home to gather supplies. Travis tells Madison to take the kids to the desert without him; he will catch up. Alicia witnesses her infected neighbor, Mr. Dawson, attacking Mrs. Cruz across the street, but Madison prevents her from intervening. The Manawas and Salazars flee the chaos in the streets. The group reaches Travis' truck and escapes, but Daniel Salazar's wife Griselda is injured by a collapsing scaffold. Unable to reach a hospital, the group drives to Madison's house, from which Alicia, Madison and Nick temporarily flee when Mr. Dawson enters, attracted by the barking dog Nick had let in.
Nick leads Madison and Alicia to the house next door, where they take a shotgun. All three families stay the night and evacuate in the morning. As the Clarks and Manawas start driving away, the National Guard arrives and quarantines the neighborhood into a Safe Zone. Later, Chris shows a video to Travis and Madison of a light signaling from the Dead Zone. Madison exchanges signals with the flashing light in the Dead Zone. She sneaks outside to investigate and finds evidence that the guardsmen killed civilians, including the uninfected. Soldiers take Griselda and Nick to a military hospital while Nick's family attempts to block his departure. Liza agrees to go assist the medical team, despite not wanting to leave Chris. Travis retreats to the roof and sees the signal from the Dead Zone. In the abandoned home of a wealthy family, Alicia and Chris get drunk, play luxury dress-up, and vandalize the home. In a military cell, Victor Strand bribes a guardsman to save a feverish Nick from being moved, and recruits Nick for an escape plot.
The group drives to the National Guard's headquarters to rescue Nick, Liza, and Griselda. Officer Adams agrees to be their guide when let go by Travis. The group infiltrates the base, and Travis, Madison, Daniel and his daughter Ofelia go inside, while Alicia and Chris stay behind. The infected breach the perimeter defenses and swarm the base. Alicia and Chris are threatened by soldiers who want to take their vehicle. Travis' group reach the holding cells and set the detainees free before reuniting with Nick, Liza, and Strand. They try to escape through the medical ward, where Dr. Exner tells them of an escape route, but stays behind. Before they can escape, the group encounters Adams, who shoots Ofelia in the arm. Enraged, Travis brutally beats Adams and leaves him for dead. Strand leads the group to his oceanside mansion, where he tells Nick that he owns a yacht on which they can escape. On the beach, Liza reveals to Madison that she was bitten during the escape. Liza pleads with Madison and Travis to kill her before she turns.
Season 2
The city of Los Angeles is bombed by the military. Madison, Alicia, Nick and the others board Strand's yacht, the Abigail, and escape the bombing. Strand refuses to pick up survivors they come across at sea. Strand informs the group they are heading to San Diego. Alicia mans the radio, hears distress calls, and strikes up a conversation with another seaborne survivor named Jack. Alicia learns from Jack that his boat is sinking, and he asks for help. Strand rejects her plan to help Jack and threatens to throw overboard anyone who disobeys him.
The group arrives at a small island where they find a family who inform them that all the cities on the west coast have been bombed, and the borders have been closed. The group is later unable to save the family from the father's suicide plan. Nick, Alicia, Chris, and Daniel scavenge supplies from a plane crash. A herd of walkers attacks them, and the group make their escape with two plane survivors. After debating whether or not to take the new survivors aboard, they decide to tow the survivors in their life raft – until Strand severs the tow line. The group heads to Mexico, the true destination where Strand is headed.
Nick goes ashore to find Strand's contact in Mexico. The group on the yacht is deceived by two people in distress needing to board, and they turn out to be allied with Jack, the man Alicia had communicated with on the radio. The newcomers end up taking over the yacht. When their leader arrives, he takes Alicia and Travis with him and brings the yacht to shore. Nick and Luis, Strand's contact, head back to the Abigail, and help free those on the yacht. They take one hostage to get back Alicia and Travis. Alicia attempts to befriend Jack and find her way back to the yacht on her own, while Travis is locked in a cell. Madison obtains Travis' release by trading him for the infected brother of the leader, and they escape in the mayhem. Alicia breaks free from Jack, and goes with Travis and Madison back to the yacht.
The group arrives in Mexico. While walking to a compound, they are attacked by walkers and Madison is knocked to the ground while Chris stands by watching. Alicia sees this and kills Madison's attacker. The group arrives at the compound, where Luis' mother Celia tells them they can stay but must leave their weapons outside. Alicia tells Chris that she saw him do nothing about Madison's attack. Madison, now aware of what Chris did, tells Travis she thinks he isn't well. Daniel discovers that Celia is keeping the compound's dead family members in the cellar. Madison sleeps with Alicia that night to provide comfort and they are woken by a gunshot to find Chris standing over them holding a knife.
Chris runs off and Travis goes after him. Nick goes after Travis and Chris, and when he finds them Travis says they aren't coming back as he needs to help Chris. He asks Nick to tell Madison he couldn't find them. Celia takes Madison to the cellar to show her the dead, but Madison locks her inside the cell. Daniel goes to where the dead are held and sets the place on fire. Nick tells Madison that he couldn't find Travis and that he is leaving Madison and the group because Celia was right about the group destroying everything in their path, and he no longer wants to be a part of it.
Madison, Alicia, Strand, and Ofelia flee north and find a hotel in the city of Rosarito. A large horde of walkers attack the hotel, trapping all four inside. Ofelia, shaken by losing her father, leaves the group and Alicia on the verge of death. Alicia suggests luring all of the infected into the sea, where the riptide current will carry them away. Madison, Alicia and Strand manage to eliminate the walkers, and together with the survivors of the hotel begin to build a community there.
Upon returning to the hotel from Tijuana for a supply run, where she heard of Nick's survival, Madison turns on the hotel lights against everybody's wishes in hopes of attracting Nick's attention. Alicia argues with Madison, hurt by her mother putting everyone's lives at risk for Nick, and convinces her to respect Nick's decision to leave his family. Madison shuts off the lights, but not before Travis, now alone, sees it. The next morning, survivors who had seen the hotel's lights begin to flock to the hotel gates, but the hotel community refuses to let them enter. Madison spots Travis among the crowd and lets him inside. She later talks with Alicia and reveals to her that her father's car crash was not accidental, but suicide.
Madison sees that the survivors from earlier have been allowed into the hotel compound, and are being checked if they're healthy or sick. Later that night, a new group of survivors arrive at the hotel, among them Brandon and Luke, whom Travis recognizes and asks them about Chris. Travis finds out that Chris was killed by them, and Travis beats them to death, in the process severely injuring Oscar, the leader of the hotel survivors, who tried to stop him. Oscar dies from his injuries. Travis is kicked out of the hotel, and Madison decides to leave with him the following morning. Enraged, several of the hotel survivors break into Travis' room and attack him, forcing Alicia to kill one of them to save Travis' life.
Travis, Madison, and Alicia are forced to flee the hotel while Strand decides to stay behind after helping them escape. They go to the bandits' supermarket, where Madison had traded for medical supplies, and find the entire building abandoned. Alicia questions Madison's motives when she starts searching bodies for clues to find Nick. They arrive at an abandoned community, where Alicia finds a dying Alejandro, his last words instructing them to look for Nick at the border.
Season 3
After encountering a military patrol on their way to the border, Alicia and her family are captured and taken to the military installations, where they were separated from Travis. Alicia and Madison meet a militia leader named Troy Otto, who assures them that they would release them once they passed the test. Looking for a way to escape, Alicia lends her balisong to her mother and together devise a plan to escape. Madison assures Alicia that she will not kill again, and Alicia carries out her mother's plan. Madison holds Troy hostage until his brother Jake arrives, who asks Madison to release Troy and takes Alicia and her family to their community. While traveling in a helicopter in the middle of the night, the helicopter is attacked and Travis is fatally wounded. Setting up a small camp for the night, Alicia and an unconscious Luciana stay with Jake. Once they reach Jake's ranch, Alicia informs her mother of Travis' death and Nick threatens Troy with his weapon with the intention of protecting Luciana.
At the ranch, Alicia befriends Gretchen who invites Alicia to join her "Bible study". Later, Alicia, Gretchen, and four other teens meet underground, where they drink, smoke from a bong, and chat. Alicia later begins a sexual relationship with Jake and gradually gains the trust of the ranch community. Madison manages to make peace with the community and convinces their militia to go extract Alicia from the reservation of Qaletaqa, leader of the Native Americans with whom the ranch's leader, Jeremiah Otto, has been in conflict. Alicia later questions her mother's decisions, after which Madison informs her and Nick of her dark past.
The problems in the ranch worsen and they are forced to sacrifice cattle to save water. When Jake asks Alicia to flee with him to start a new life, Alicia declines. Jake accuses Alicia of manipulating him in the way that he thinks Madison and Nick have done to his relatives. Nick informs them that a horde of infected, attracted by Troy (whom Nick covers for), are heading to the ranch. Jake and Nick leave to find Troy, leaving Alicia as the sole leader of the place. Determined to prevent the ranch from being destroyed, Alicia alerts the community of the situation, and they create motorhome barriers in an attempt to prevent the infected from crossing the ranch.