Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Know Your Enemy

3) Learn How Your Enemies Think.

I can not overstate how much I loved discovering that Teddy was, in fact, the weirdo serial killer John referenced in passing to Rabbi Kessner back in “The Key”. It was great to see John Sr. not only lay out who Teddy was but why he’s been killing people and preaching about “The End Is The Beginning” since the 1970s. As it would turn out, this makes him of vital importance, because it means he knows Teddy and The Beginners better than anyone else. With The Beginners planning some kind of attack on as many people as they can, knowing how they think, how they might react, and why is crucial to trying to find a way to stop them.

Knowing how hostiles think is important to know how to deal with them because when you do, you understand what they might try to do, how they might try to do it, and why they might try to do it. If you know why your enemies do what they do, then you might just learn how to get at them, how to get under their skin, or maybe, even get them to stop. Furthermore, if you know how they think, then you might know what their next move might be, meaning that, instead of just reacting to your enemies, you can force reactions out of them.

Of course, John didn’t just come upon this information on his own some random day, he got it first by investigating Teddy for murder back in the 70s, then, by following the trail of his minions and their attacks on the communities across Texas and Oklahoma. Chances are that if you want to know how your enemies think in the zombie apocalypse, you will probably have to do something along those lines. You will probably have to watch potential hostiles, maybe follow them, maybe even try to infiltrate their base (If that’s plausible). The more you know about them, and the less they know about you in return, the better off you will be when the day comes that you have to confront them.