Fear The Walking Dead: The beginning of the end

3) A Sudden Spike In Police Activity

To be honest, I was initially going to ignore all the sirens you hear in the background of the pilot episode of Fear The Walking Dead. The Way I saw it, it was L.A.: L.A.’s a huge city, and, to be blunt, shit happens in L.A., so, hearing sirens seemed like par for the course for the city.

That was, until, I got to the scene after Travis and Madison inspect the church, where they get stuck in traffic on the off ramp. I know, I know, traffic is something that happens in L.A., too, but, in this scene, Travis famously spots a helicopter flying overhead, and nearly gets clipped by a passing California Highway Patrol officer, and…that’s when I decided I couldn’t ignore it anymore.

You see, at this particular incident, the police and the helicopter are coming in to see what will, ultimately, become an infected attack, and, that got me wondering: Were all the sirens we heard in this episode indicators of an infected attack?

I went back and counted at least six sirens and one helicopter incident before this scene: When Nick gets hit by the car at the beginning, as Travis calls Liza at the hospital, when Travis first visits the church to check Nick’s story, as Alicia and Matt are sitting up at the stadium lights at the school, when Madison and Travis ask the nurse where Nick went after he fled the hospital, and when Madison and Travis leave the church (This is also where the helicopter can be heard). All of them are scenes where you hear sirens. Is it just random street crime, ordinary medical emergencies, fender benders…or something worse?

Considering what’s going on in L.A. at this point, I don’t think we can just rule out something worse.