Why Strand Risks Life and Limb for a Bottle of Liquor in Fear the Walking Dead Episode 13

Strand should have never left his mansion.

He's marooned with John Dorie, and, as if that wasn't bad enough, they're penned in by an aggressive alligator.

"John misses his girl, so he's doing everything he can to get off [of the island]," says Garret Dillahunt in a new video taking viewers inside the episode.

Inside Episode 13

Strand, on the other, remains reluctant to risk it all for an escape.

"Strand is not really far from where he started. He's given up," says Executive Producer/Showrunner Scott M. Gimple.

That is until a bottle of Lagavulin catches his eye.

Click here to find out why the scotch is so crucial to Strand and how John Dorie instills hope in his friend.

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