Connecting The Walking Dead: ‘In This Life’

1) Lieutenant Colonel Kublek Is More Like The Governor Than We Thought.

Lieutenant Colonel Kublek is easily one of the Walking Dead universe’s more sinister villains, not because she’s an explosively violent psychopath, like Simon, or a warped sociopath, like Alpha, but, rather, because she believes in what she’s doing, and more importantly for this comparison, very deceptive about the necessity of the evil she commits.

Back at the beginning of season three of The Walking Dead, we got our first real taste of just how evil The Governor was, as he approached an otherwise innocent band of National Guardsmen in the wilderness surrounding Woodbury under a white flag, with a friendly smile on his face, before shooting one Guardsman in the chest, and leading his men on a massacre, killing the rest of the squad in short order.

When he and his men returned with the Guardsmen’s equipment and supplies in tow, he casually lied to his entire community, telling them that biters had gotten to them before he and his men could, and that they simply scavenged the supplies of men who weren’t going to need them anymore.

Then, as tensions between Woodbury and Rick Grimes’ group mounted, he ratcheted up hostilities by continually lying to his people about how dangerous Rick’s group was, convincing them that the only way to protect themselves was by destroying Rick’s group before they destroyed Woodbury.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because that seems to be what Lieutenant Colonel Kublek has been doing in regards to Campus Colony, clearly convincing her subordinates that the community constituted a threat to the Civic Republic, in spite of the fact that was not even remotely true.

When Sergeant Barca, one of her bodyguards, questioned her story, Kublek had him sent to the CRM “Health and Welfare Complex” (Doesn’t sound ominous at all, does it?), not unlike The Governor trying to have Michonne killed for questioning his story about how he got the Guardsmen’s equipment and supplies.

Apparently, just like The Governor lied to Andrea (Whom he was in a relationship with), the lieutenant colonel has no compunctions about lying to those she supposedly cares about, as even her own daughter, Huck, was being left in the dark about what her mother had done to Campus Colony, with Kublek only giving her daughter the vaguest of answers.

With all her massacring innocent people on the auspices of them being “a threat”, and then lying about it, all Lieutenant Colonel Kublek needs is an eyepatch, and she’d make for a damn good facsimile of The Governor.