Connecting The Walking Dead: ‘The Tyger And The Lamb’

2) Elizabeth’s “Threat Assessment”

Something else we learned from this week’s episode of World Beyond is that, if nothing else, not everyone in the Civic Republic Military is a heartless sociopath who will wipe out an innocent community because a few teenagers hear that things in the Civic Republic aren’t quite as nice as they’d like people to think without at least some regret.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like any of those people outrank Lieutenant Elizabeth Kublek, so…it doesn’t matter.

As she sat in her apartment somewhere within the Civic Republic, Lieutenant Kublek was confronted by one of her guards, Sergeant Barca, who proceeded to question her about the decision to massacre the people of Campus Colony.

Honestly, she seemed to take her subordinate questioning her orders in stride, all things considered. She didn’t yell or scream or get angry, instead, she just had Barca say aloud what they did.

“We eliminated a threat.”

While Barca didn’t really buy this, that’s not what’s important, what is is who this schtick reminds one of: The Governor.

Why The Governor? Well, if you recall, way back in season three of The Walking Dead, The Governor, seemingly obsessed with eliminating anyone he saw as a threat to his authority over his community, needed an excuse to convince the people of Woodbury to go to war with Rick’s group at the prison. The one he went with was a simple one, namely, that, after Rick led a team on a raid to retrieve Glenn, Maggie, and then, Daryl and Merle, they were clearly a “threat” to the safety of Woodbury, and needed to be eliminated.

It strikes me as significant that, to justify her slaughter of Campus Colony, Lieutenant Kublek would use the same excuse The Governor did to attack the prison. The only difference is, she had the means at her disposal to succeed. This level of rationalization for such wanton destruction marks her as an extremely dangerous individual, one who will go to any lengths to destroy even the most minor of threats, like someone who would use a grenade to destroy a mosquito.

Now, I’ll give her credit: Kublek did seem to have remorse, though, it’s unclear if that remorse was for Campus Colony, or just for Barca, who sounded like he got his brains scrambled by some CRM goons for disagreeing with her decision.

Regardless of her remorse for her heinous actions, it didn’t prevent Kublek from ordering them done in the first place, so, I can only expect worse from her in the future, because, like a good fanatic, she believes she’s justified in her actions…