Christopher Manawa

Christopher Manawa
Personal Details
Status	Alive
Age	16
Gender	Male
Actor	Lorenzo James Henrie
Appearances
Seasons	1 2
First Seen	"Pilot"
Biography
Occupation	Student
Physical Attributes
Ethnicity	Latino/Maori
Hair	Dark brown/black
Family
Travis Manawa - father Liza Ortiz - mother

Christopher Manawa is the teenage son of Travis and Liza.

Biography

Background

Chris is Travis and Liza's smart and rebellious teenage son. He didn't really accept that his parents weren't together anymore.

He went to St. George's Christian Academy and had a girlfriend Maria Santos before The Fall who was from Pomona. Chris often (in Season 2) wears a hoodies with "POMONA" on the back.

He has both his father’s do-good attitude and his mother’s edge. In Season 1 Chris often felt that he and his mother were neglected by his father. He resented his father’s insistence on bringing the two families closer and wanted Travis to break away from the Clark family so that he and his mother Liza would be his father’s sole priority.

Season 1

"Pilot"

We only get a brief glimpse of Chris in "Pilot". He is working at the table at the Ortiz home where he lives with his mother Liza. Liza is on the phone to Chris' father, Travis, and passes the phone to Chris. Travis tries to persuade Chris to stay with him this weekend at the Clark home where he now lives with his fiance Madison Clark and her two children, Alicia and Nick. Chris is less than delighted and the conversation doesn't go well, Travis eventually gives up and the arrangement for Chris to spend that weekend with him and the Clarks is shelved. "Keep him." Travis tells Liza, and hangs up.

"So Close, Yet So Far"

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After witnessing the start of the riot in LA, Chris takes shelter with his parents in the barber's shop Salazar's Cuts.

"The Dog"

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Chris escapes through the riot to Travis' truck and back to the Clark's house. He witnesses Daniel putting down Peter Dawson and the Guardsman putting down Susan Tran.

"Not Fade Away"

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Chris sees the flashes from across the valley and realises that there are still people alive outside the Safe Zone.

"Cobalt"

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After an argument with his father Chris goes off exploring with Alicia and sees the start of the soldier's looting.

"The Good Man"

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Chris and Alicia go with the main party to retrieve Nick, Griselda and Liza. While waiting for the main party to return, both Chris and Alicia are cornered and threatened by the fleeing soldiers. In exchange for the soldiers not hurting Alicia, Chris gives them the key to the car they used to hide. After the soldiers leave, they hide until the main party returns and witness Adams' shooting of Ofelia and then Travis' subsequent attack on Adams. When they get to Strand's house they hear the shot.

Season 2

"Captive"

While Chris watches in a cabin on The Abigail, Daniel treats the wound that Reed sustained from the crowbar. Reed tells Daniel that his brother, Connor, has a dozen men and five boats and will come looking for him. Daniel leaves Reed tied up in a chair.

Chris insists on guarding Reed. Daniel agrees to let him stand outside Reed’s door.

Reed talks to Chris and riles him up. Nick shuts the door to tune Reed out. Chris blames himself for allowing Reed’s group onto the boat but Nick assures him it’s not his fault.

After a shot is heard on The Abigail, Chris walks down the hall with a gun and tells Ofelia that Reed was about to turn. The group finds Reed dead in the cabin with his face blown off.

Madison comforts Chris. They overhear Luis complain that the trade is now dead. Chris realizes, mistakenly it turns out, that he has just destroyed any hopes of getting Travis back peacefully.

"Sicut Cervus"

Travis confronts Chris on what Madison told him about Reed but Chris defends his story that Reed was about to turn. Later, the group is attacked outside of the same church by the zombified congregation that Thomas Abigail had previously encountered. Madison is attacked by a walker and Chris stands and watches until Alicia kills the walker.

Back in Baja, Alicia confronts Chris over trying to get her mother killed but Chris proclaims that she is his mother too and he would never do that and simply froze and threatens Alicia not to tell anyone about what happened when she sees the BS in Chris' story. At night, Chris sneaks into Alicia's room to find her and Madison cuddling. Chris picks up a knife Madison had left by her bed and looks at it in wonder. At that moment, both Alicia and Madison are woken up by the sound of Strand shooting Thomas to prevent reanimation. The two women see Chris and yell at him to leave.

"Grotesque"

Chris does not appear in this episode.

"Los Muertos"

Chris does not appear in this episode.

Appearances

Season 1 appearances
Pilot	So Close, Yet So Far	The Dog	Not Fade Away	Cobalt	The Good Man

Season 2 appearances
Monster	We All Fall Down	Ouroboros	Blood in the Streets	Captive
Sicut Cervus	Shiva	Grotesque	Los Muertos	Do Not Disturb
Pablo & Jessica	Pillar of Salt	Date of Death	Wrath	North

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Season 2