On Sunday night (September 20), approximately halfway through "Fear The Walking Dead"'s freshman, 6-episode run, the series turned itself completely on its head by dropping its main characters into a military-enforced quarantine zone. A quarantine zone that, in the episode "Not Fade Away," sure looked more like a "we're going to take you into a back alley and shoot you if you misbehave" type of deal than anything concerned with the safety of its citizens.

And based on our chat with Mercedes Mason, who plays Ofelia Salazar on the series, we're going to go ahead and assume that in this case, appearances were not deceiving.

"Everything's changed at this point," Mason said, after revealing that her character would be "singularly focused" on getting her mother back after she was taken by the military at the end of the episode. "Everything gets questioned, because once you separate a group, everything starts changing. This is the beginning of a huge change in the show."

Also, Mason revealed that we shouldn't exactly count on a Glenn and Maggie-style romance for Ofelia and her new beau, Corporal Adams (Shawn Hatosy) -- mostly because his people literally stole her mother, which is not exactly the best way to start a new relationship off on the right foot.

"We're in the apocalypse," she said. "The military is very set off from the rest of us. I don't know if they're going to become sort of a Romeo and Juliet, but I think they're going to have some obstacles. Especially with Ofelia, she gets put between a rock and a hard place, and Cpl. Adams is going to get caught in the crossfires... she's always very much attached to her father, and I think she's desperate to get her mother back."

But at the end of the day, even if Cpl. Adams ends up becoming an adversary or a giant piece of zombie-bait, Mason says that at least we'll get to learn more about her character.

"Ofelia's romance really starts showing you into her psyche," she explained. "Before that, she'd never really dated. She comes from very strict parents; it was all school; studies. She's very much a studious daddy's girl. I think this is her spreading her wings and seeing what she's capable of."