54 Facts About Daniel Salazar

Daniel Salazar is a fictional character in the television series Fear the Walking Dead, portrayed by Panamanian actor Ruben Blades.

Daniel Salazar is highly adept with firearms and hands to hand combat.

Daniel Salazar is shown to be a skilled torturer with extensive knowledge of interrogation techniques and is willing, albeit reluctantly, to use this skill when he feel it is necessary to survive.

Daniel Salazar hid from her the truth of his past life, and dealt with the trauma privately with his wife's support.

Daniel Salazar was shown to be devastated by the loss of his beloved wife, the anchor that kept him stable.

Daniel Salazar subsequently came unhinged for a time and nearly killed himself.

Daniel Salazar is extremely cautious around those that he does not trust, and appears to be highly skilled at identifying a potential threat from body language and social cues.

Daniel Salazar sneaks outside the fence to investigate and finds evidence that the guardsmen killed civilians, even the uninfected.

Daniel Salazar warns Madison of his El Salvador experience, when the sick were taken under the guise of receiving hospitalization but instead killed.

Travis learns that Daniel Salazar tortured Adams into revealing what "Cobalt" means: in the morning, all civilians will be killed, and the guardsmen will evacuate the city.

The group infiltrates the base after Daniel Salazar distracts the guards by leading a horde of walkers from the arena.

Fortunately, the intervention of Strand's partner - Luis Flores - started a shootout that ended most of the pirates and created a distraction, which Daniel Salazar took advantage of to disarm Reed and get him to be mortally wounded.

Daniel Salazar agrees to let Chris stand outside Reed's door, explaining to Ofelia that its better than leaving Chris alone to think dark thoughts.

Daniel Salazar tells Madison that they can use Reed's relationship to Connor as leverage over Connor, Daniel Salazar listens into Luis and Strand's plan on how to get across the border and advises Madison to let Nick and Chris help fight Connor's group, urging her to stop treating them like children.

Everything culminates in Daniel Salazar setting fire to the mansion in order to destroy the zombies held in the basement and what he feels to be an unholy place.

At peace, Daniel Salazar is apparently killed when the fire he set engulfs the mansion, making no move to escape.

Daniel Salazar remains interested in where Ofelia is and finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between Dante and Lola.

Ultimately, unable to bring himself to kill Lola, Daniel Salazar kills Dante and his men and saves Lola instead.

Madison takes the dying Ofelia to a bazar where Daniel Salazar will meet up with them, but Ofelia dies, having finally understood the man that her father was and wishing to have had the chance to get to know him better.

Daniel Salazar realizes the truth and confronts Strand who shoots Daniel Salazar in the face, leaving him unconscious but alive.

Daniel Salazar is hidden by Lola who launches a suicide attack before being killed herself.

Subsequently, Daniel Salazar is believed to be dead with Nick having somehow survived and reunited with his family, but with Madison's group being left with no sign of Daniel Salazar after the dam's destruction.

Strand later seeks out Daniel Salazar's help and although Daniel Salazar allows Strand to use his equipment to call Luciana, he refuses to help him further as he believes that Alicia and the others are better off without Strand's help.

Charlie inadvertently hitches a ride with Daniel Salazar who reveals that he is disarming the traps that the warehouse's previous owner had left around supply caches and dealing with the zombies that they had created.

Things go awry, leaving Daniel Salazar chased by a growing herd and with the warehouse no longer being a safe place to retreat to due to the group tearing down part of Daniel Salazar's fence to get at the plane.

Daniel Salazar, who is revealed to blame Strand for the fact that Daniel Salazar never got to say goodbye to his daughter, reaches a peace with the other man.

Daniel Salazar departs to continue disarming traps, but he allows the group the full use of his warehouse and supplies to help their friends.

However, it's quickly revealed that Daniel Salazar is only faking his dementia in order to keep Virginia and her Pioneers off-guard and he secretly begins working as a spy for Morgan inside of the organization.

Daniel Salazar goes so far as to allow a herd of walkers to threaten the gates of the community to try to force the thief to turn over the weapons, but Morgan returns and eliminates the herd with the guns on Al's SWAT van.

Ultimately, it turns out that all of the strange occurrences that Daniel Salazar has been paranoid about have been caused by Daniel Salazar himself.

Unwilling to continue to put his friends in danger, Daniel Salazar decides to leave with Skidmark and return to his warehouse, but Strand offers to take Daniel Salazar back to his base in Lawton, Oklahoma where he can look after him for Ofelia's sake.

Daniel Salazar remains outside with many of Morgan's friends and watches in horror as the cult manages to get a nuclear missile with ten warheads off before Morgan and Strand can stop them.

Daniel Salazar realizes that Rollie is actually a spy for the cult and kills him, leading Riley to try to attack Daniel Salazar only to get shot himself by Charlie.

Riley confirms that Daniel Salazar was right about Rollie, explaining that the incident with Daniel Salazar at Morgan's community broke Rollie's faith in them.

Luciana reassures Daniel Salazar that all he needs is a little help and that they will be fine if they stick together.

Daniel Salazar eventually descends into a full fugue state where he experiences memory blackouts and believes that his daughter Ofelia is still alive.

In "Ofelia," Daniel Salazar delusionally becomes convinced that Ofelia is sending him messages and needs his help, causing Daniel Salazar, Luciana and Wes to get captured by the Stalkers who seek the location of a weapons cache that Dwight has found.

Daniel Salazar becomes convinced that an old boat in the salvage yard that the Stalkers are living in is The Abigail, Strand's yacht from season 2 and the last place that Daniel Salazar remembers seeing Ofelia.

Enraged, Daniel Salazar kills the Stalker Sage and then feeds the Stalker leader Arno to a pit of walkers in revenge for their attempts to manipulate him.

Luciana's ability to see him at his worst and still accept him causes Daniel Salazar to declare her to be his family while Arno's death allows Luciana to convince the Stalkers to join them.

Daniel Salazar reveals that his guilt over his inability to reconcile with Ofelia and show her the truth about who he really is causing his issues: Daniel Salazar's mind is tricking him into thinking that Ofelia is still alive and that he can make amends with her.

In "Divine Providence," Daniel Salazar joins Alicia in entering Strand's Tower, now completely delusional and seeking his daughter.

Daniel Salazar helps the two fight through the tower, focused on finding Ofelia.

In "Amina," following the destruction of the tower, Daniel Salazar joins the others in evacuating from Texas for good.

Daniel Salazar explains that he was abandoned by PADRE in a swamp because they saw him as being too old and he has since gathered an army of the parents of the children who PADRE has taken as a resistance force.

In "More Time Than You Know," Daniel Salazar initially agrees to help with the mission to clear out PADRE's shipyard, but he backs out after learning that it needs to be done by hand.

In "All I See is Red," Daniel Salazar joins the mission to save PADRE's Prefects - many of whom are the children of Daniel Salazar's group - from the herd unleashed from PADRE's shipyard.

Daniel Salazar helps Madison to escape from Shrike and he attempts to use his own experiences as a child soldier to convince the Prefects to stand down before they do something that they can never come back from.

In "Iron Tiger," a mission to find fuel leads to Daniel Salazar reuniting with Luciana and Charlie who was cured of her illness by PADRE.

In "Keeping Her Alive," Daniel Salazar agrees to join Madison's mission to find Alicia using Troy's daughter Tracy, but Strand realizes that Daniel Salazar is hoping to use Tracy to get revenge against Troy for Ofelia's death.

Tired of war, Daniel Salazar finally makes peace with Strand and they part as friends.

Unbeknownst to Daniel Salazar, Alicia had found the cat on her travels and had discreetly returned Skidmark to her old friend, deciding along with Madison to allow their friends to continue to think that they're dead.

Daniel Salazar has been widely considered to be one of the series' best characters and Blades' performance has been lauded by critics and fans alike.

The third season episode "100" which centered around Daniel Salazar, received critical acclaim.