The group find themselves in a crisis situation after crashing a plane and drawing dozens of walkers, along with a group of kids who are suspicious of anyone offering help to strangers.
Morgan and Alicia search for their missing friend, leading them to a survivor who tells them that the danger they face here is far more grave than they knew. Meanwhile Strand makes an appeal for help from an old friend.
As the group maps a perimeter in search of Al's captors, June and Dorie are forced to seek shelter at an abandoned attraction modeled after the Old West. Alicia and Luciana get a lead on the kids, which might lead them only deeper into trouble.
Daniel Salazar's simple life is interrupted when Strand, Sarah, and Wendell try to take his plane. While Daniel finds himself on a supply run with an uninvited passenger, Dylan leads the others into a trap.
Morgan's group attempts to repair a wrecked plane at the truck stop, while Annie considers whether to take the other children back out on their own. John helps Dwight in his search for his wife, and Morgan responds to a call for help when Grace reports that the plant is nearing a meltdown.
While Grace struggles to keep the generator alive Alicia puts everything on the line to bring the kids back from their camp. Al confides in June, and Dwight learns the truth from John.
With the reactor entering meltdown Alicia faces an uncertain future, as she, Morgan, and Grace attempt to elude a herd of walkers. Elsewhere Sarah tries to arrange for a workable runway for her friends, and John and Dwight look for a way home before time runs out.
Al and the others use video cameras to document the group's efforts to bring help to those who need it. After discovering a woman and her son inside a house surrounded by landmines, the group goes to great lengths to try and help them.
After receiving a call for help Morgan and Grace search an abandoned shopping mall, where Grace hopes the urgent care clinic will tell her once and for all if she has cancer. Dwight puts himself in harm's way to get close to one of Logan's men.
Alicia and Strand make a new acquaintance while searching for the person who is painting trees with words of optimism. Morgan and Al run afoul of Logan's crew when they try to rescue their friends.
Charlie goes missing from the camp and turns up at a Jewish synagogue, where she meets a rabbi who has been surviving on his own. When John and June go looking for her, things get complicated when Logan's forces show up at the camp site.
Logan and his crew show up at the oil refinery, forcing a stand-off with the others over control of the precious resource – and revealing the history that is now motivating Logan.
Morgan and Al encounter a survivor whose community has been taken over by a band of men on horseback, sending them on a questionable mission inside the compound. Grace and Daniel make a connection on the road.
The group sets out to prove Virginia wrong by leading dozens of survivors to a place where they hope to build a new community. Virginia uses her own documentary video to lure newcomers to her side, and Grace's condition deteriorates.
With Virginia on her way the group seeks to lead a herd of walkers away from their new home – setting up what will be either a deadly confrontation or a tenuous new alliance.
