Nick escapes before she can attack him, but is then hit by a car and ends up in hospital with minor injuries and possible concussion. While searching for Gloria he finds the fresh, bloody corpse of a fellow junkie and then Gloria herself who has died from heroin overdose, reanimated and now feasting on the body of another addict. Nick awakens alone in an abandoned church after taking drugs with his girlfriend Gloria and other fellow junkies, the night before. Around the beginning of the apocalypse, Nick spent a lot of his time in an abandoned church with his girlfriend, Gloria, and other fellow junkies where they used substances together. One of his drug dealers and friends was Calvin. The loss devastated Nick and which led to his depression and relapse into his use of heroin. It was during one of these times in rehab that Nick's father was killed in a head-on collision. Some time prior to the beginning of the outbreak, Nick met Gloria in rehab and began a relationship with her.
During this time, Nick was often living somewhere in Los Angeles (possibly the abandoned church that became a junkie den), though often not at home with his own family. He had a difficult relationship with his father, who he believed had "changed" and become distant and was no longer fulfilling his duties as a father. Prior to the outbreak, he struggled with an addiction to drugs, and was in and out of rehab many times. Nick was born to Madison and Steven Clark in 1991. After getting revenge upon Ennis and following the advice of Morgan Jones who went through a similar experience, Nick seemed to finally find a sense of peace in his final moments. Nick chooses to dedicate himself to growing things, something that inspires his friends and family to bury Nick under a tree following his death.Īfter the loss of the stadium and his mother, Nick's experiences and PTSD appear to have transformed him into a tormented individual unable to find peace. Madison states that due to his experiences, Nick feels he needs to remain in a safe place rather than risking himself by going out into the world. Though Nick recognized that smearing himself in walker guts allowed him to walk amongst herds unharmed, he seemed to fail to realize that it was the walker guts disguise that made him invisible instead of some ability inherent in himself or because the walkers retained some form of humanity.įollowing the destruction of Gonzalez Dam, Nick appears to have developed post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, due to his experiences, preferring to stay behind the walls of the Dell Diamond Baseball Stadium and experiencing a traumatic flashback when he tried to leave. As a result and Celia's words, Nick came to believe that the undead weren't actually dead. In a conversation with his mother in " Shiva," Nick told her that during the encounter, he didn't feel fear or hate and could walk amongst the undead invisible. Nick is also impressionable and easily led by those with a stronger personality, such as Victor Strand, Celia Flores, Alejandro Nuñez, Luciana Galvez and Jeremiah Otto.ĭue to an encounter with a walker that left him unharmed in " Ouroboros," Nick became somewhat convinced of his own invincibility, at least in relation to the undead.
His mother, Madison, claims that his volunteering to go ashore with Reed in " Captive" was yet another addiction for Nick- that he was seeking out danger as a substitute for heroin. Nick, as can be seen by his drug habit, suffers from an addictive personality. He is quite intelligent and quick thinking, such as being the first member of the group to realize that the infected aren't infected, but rather dead, going as far as to prevent Alicia from visiting Matt, as he knew he would already be dead and attack her. However, he can be selfless at times, such as wanting his mother to tell the Cruz family what is happening, worrying that they would be killed by the new threat or letting Griselda Salazar have his oxycontin instead of himself, due to her injury. This addiction can leave him to perform more selfish acts, such as stealing Hector Ramirez's morphine IV, which therefore causes this act to be endangering his life. During his withdrawal, he often spends time searching for drugs, even when its not appropriate, such as when visiting Matt Sale's house. This addiction often causes trouble for his family, who suffer because of this, and his attempts to stop this would further result in more failure. Nick is a flawed teenager who suffers from heroin addiction.
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