Fear the Walking Dead 506 ‘The Little Prince’ theme: Trust

Our survivors must learn to trust each other in Fear the Walking Dead: “The Little Prince”. Will they be able to? Or will a lack of trust cause problems?

If I had a nickel for every time trust has been an issue that an episode of The Walking Dead or Fear the Walking Dead is framed around, I’d not be writing here, or anywhere. I’d be spending it on colorful drinks on some island somewhere.

Alas, trust is a theme that comes up again and again in this world. Any time the group we’re watching meets someone new, for example. Indeed, this theme was touched upon in the previous episode, when Al encountered Isabelle.

But it became a theme of “The Little Prince” for several reasons. The most obvious use of trust as a theme involved the kids from the camp. Annie, their leader, doesn’t trust Alicia and Morgan. She doesn’t trust them even after finding out they’re not involved with the helicopter people. For a minute, it appears she might come around after Alicia’s speech, but nope, it’s splitsville. She takes the kids and a car and takes off.

Speaking of taking off, our crew can’t quite get airborne, and while Al is working on it, June senses that Al isn’t telling all about what happened while she was separated from the group. June doesn’t pry – she merely tells Al she’ll listen when Al is ready to talk – but clearly she’s lending a trusting ear.

Then we have John and Dwight. The two seem to trust each other pretty quickly after meeting just recently. But now John has, for the moment at least, lied to Dwight to spare his feelings, since Sherry doesn’t want Dwight to die looking for her (a quick aside – I really hope we encounter Sherry soon. And I hope she’s neither a walker nor about to die, as that would be too predictable. Then again, a cross-country search in the apocalypse ending in a happy manner would be very odds-defying indeed).

So yeah, trust is at the center of this one. Characters are asked to trust each other, with varying results, and of course, our gang has trust that they can get the airplane off the ground again.

Trust will always be necessary for survival when faced with long odds. It would just be nice if it wasn’t always such an obvious theme among these two shows.