And the goal with Travis was always to break him down to a very fundamental point by the end of the season. This was the final gesture that he could make - the final attempt to hold onto his humanity and his nobility, and it fails. He tries to do the right thing by this soldier and it comes back and it bites him in the ass and then almost gets one of his extended and blended family killed. It was important to us that we had one character who wrestles with and held on to his humanity for as long as possible, and I think the final insult for him is he tries to have one last benevolent act. It would make it that much more difficult for them to save Griselda and Nick and Liza. In their minds - being Madison and Travis and company - if they were to notify the entire neighborhood, it would raise alarm. What they don’t know is that the National Guard is leaving. I also think it would have been easy enough for a neighbor to have come and pressed the button and closed the gate as well. And the question came up: What about the people in the neighborhood, because they’re basically ringing a dinner bell for the walkers to come in? In my mind, you don’t see it on camera, but because Salazar is able to figure out how to open the gate - we don’t see Travis get out of the truck but he very well could have jumped out and hit that button and closed the gate. There’s actually a version where they just slam through the gate with the truck and knock it over. As for the neighborhood, we don’t see it on camera, but we went back and forth.
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