FearTWD, Survival Rule Of The Week: Pay attention to the little things

1) Keep Your Ears Open

One of the more interesting things I learned re-watching the first two episodes of Fear The Walking Dead was that Nick Clark overheard the staff at Temple Community Hospital in Los Angeles essentially saying that they knew that when people died, they turned into zombies. For me, this is a huge revelation.

Another thing I learned from my re-watching was that, if you listen carefully just before Travis Manawa looks up at a helicopter flying overhead while he and Nick’s mother, Madison, are stuck in traffic, you can hear a man screaming in pain faintly in the background (Presumably, this is the paramedic later seen in the episode being bitten by a man he was trying to treat on the highway after a car accident). Neither Travis nor Madison seem to notice.

Why am I saying all of this? Well, these two things made me realize something: Before a zombie outbreak begins, you should listen carefully to the things going on and being said around you, it can reveal more about the situation you find yourself in than you may realize.

For example, there may be people talking about incidents with zombies they themselves may have heard about or seen. If you happen to hear someone talking about things like someone getting shot and just shrugging it off, or trying to bite someone, that’s your first clue that something very wrong is going on, and it’s a sign you should start preparing for the apocalypse.

Additionally, if you randomly hear someone screaming in pain (Particularly if you’ve already heard stories about someone trying to bite people), that is something you should take special notice of, too, as that may mean your window to prepare for the worst may be rapidly closing.

Your ears are your early warning system…if you’re willing to listen.