After the mess at Celia's place, Madison, Ofelia, Alicia, and Strand manage to find a hotel with an excellent barricade system and hot running water. A cynical Ofelia takes off on her own in the group's truck, driving as far as she can and then walking until she reaches the U.S. border. The remaining group members team up with some folks already hanging around the hotel, clearing the rooms and luring the Walkers off the pier into the ocean like lemmings.
While the hotel crew are trying to keep out of hot water long enough to enjoy their hot water, Nick heads to Tijuana. Injured and in bad shape, he encounters Luciana (Danay Garcia), who takes him to her hidden community "La Colonia" so he can be treated. Outside of some light ritual sacrifice, it's a pretty nice place to live. Nick becomes part of the community, getting involved in their oxycodone-for-supplies dealing with a gang called Los Hermanos by day and getting cozy with Luci by night. When the gang finds them and the end of the colony seems inevitable, Nick — who spied a helicopter near the border — persuades the community to head toward it. He and Luci end up getting knocked out and imprisoned.
Elsewhere, father-and-son team Chris and Travis join a bunch of testosterone-charged, all-American Tourist Bros, who got stuck in Mexico during the outbreak, which coincided with Spring Break. Emboldened by their stupidity, Chris becomes even more intolerable and ends up killing a farmer in cold blood. Convinced that Nick is hanging around the area, Madison flashes the hotel lights. While Nick doesn't see them, Travis does. Unfortunately, he's not the only one, and when he shows up at the hotel gates, it's among a fairly thick crowd.
Shortly after Travis tells Madison about the Tourist Bros, two of them show up sans Chris, saying that they killed him after he sustained minor injuries in a car crash. Travis kills them both, injuring hotel resident Oscar in the fray and understandably damaging his relationship with the hotel folk. Leaving Strand, who is too into #hotellife to leave, Alicia, Travis, and Madison head to the gangster grocery and La Colonia in search of Nick, only to find both locations have gone bad. A dying Alejandro tells them Nick made a run for the border, and they all end up there around the same time.
