Connecting The Walking Dead: ‘Brave’

The Other Helicopters

When we’re first introduced to the Civic Republic Military, Hope notices a convoy of helicopters fly by, with only the single small chopper breaking off, while four cargo helicopters carried on east(?) in formation, each carrying a shipping container.

Initially, I simply brushed this off as the CRM bringing stuff to one of their supply dumps (Something we saw in season five of Fear The Walking Dead), and paid it no mind, but then, I was reminded of another possibility: What if those containers were carrying…people?

Think about it: Back in season eight of The Walking Dead, when Anne (A.K.A. Jadis) captured Rick, she placed him in a shipping container. Now, at first glance, this might not mean much, the Scavengers (Anne’s group), used old shipping containers as tunnels all over the junkyard they inhabited, and Terminus (Being in a trainyard) used them as prisons back in season five, so The Scavengers stuffing Rick into one is not anything particularly unusual.

However, the more you think about it, the more sense this makes.

If you’re the CRM, and use “recruiters” like Anne to kidnap people and ship them off to you, would you want them riding with you in a small helicopter, where they could get a general idea of where your hidden base is located, try to escape, and cause chaos inside your chopper, or, would you rather have them tucked away safely inside a shipping container, where they can’t see anything, and their chances causing a disruption are far smaller? Obviously, for “operational security” you’d prefer the latter.

What I’m suggesting is that, while the CRM makes nice with its allies, it is also still conducting, let’s just call them “personnel transfers”, having people like Anne snatch up other survivors they believe could be helpful to the Civic Republic, stuffing them in shipping crates, and flying them off to New York or wherever the hell the Civic Republic is based out of.

I have the oddest feeling we haven’t seen the last of this…