Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: What to do next

5) Make Sure You Know The Best Place To Hide In Or Escape To

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot since I re-watched the first two episodes of Fear The Walking Dead has, somewhat surprisingly, been something I didn’t re-watch: Flight 462.

I was specifically thinking about Jake Powell, one of the webisode’s protagonists’, mother, who was calling him from LAX, telling him that, if need be, she’d drive to Phoenix, Arizona, when suddenly, a woman can be heard screaming somewhere in the airport just before the call cuts out.

It got me thinking about what the hell you would do if you were in an airport when a zombie outbreak begins. Most major airports are terribly crowded, often huge, loaded large, wide open areas that don’t provide much cover, and (Especially if you don’t go to them very often) confusing to navigate. If you were in one and suddenly realize there’s zombies inside…where would you go?

Frankly, you could apply this question to just about any place you go: Schools, skyscrapers, government offices, stadiums, campuses, hospitals, you name it, it could become a nightmare if you’re coexisting with zombies in it.

If you’ve started believing there may be zombies lurking around, you need to seriously start considering where to go, wherever you go, if things were to go south on you.

Think back to Chris at the protest, one of the first things he should have done is get to the back of the crowd, as soon as he could. Yeah, it’s not a “place”, per se, but, it is a position, specifically, one far from the infected, and one that could give him the clearest path to safety if the crowd started panicking.

As far as LAX is concerned, never having been there, I don’t know what its layout is like, but, it’s an airport, it has to have bathrooms somewhere, right? Or a janitor’s closet? If you don’t know where the least used exit is, or even the nearest exit, either one of those has got to be better than just hanging out in the open where any zombie (Or herd of zombies) can see you, doesn’t it?

Situations like these are why you need know the best places to escape to or hide in, because that knowledge can mean the difference between getting out of sight of the dead, and running into a hundred zombies as you turn the next corner, because you don’t know where to go.

If knowledge is power, than knowing where to run in a zombie apocalypse makes you close to a god.