Connecting The Walking Dead, Season Two: Blood And Lies

Major General Beale and Lieutenant Colonel Kublek started Project Votus EIGHT YEARS AGO.

While the fact that the CRM was killing whole communities wasn’t a revelation, the fact that Major General Beale and Lieutenant Colonel Kublek were the architects of this monstrous scheme was. Also, the fact that they conceived of it eight years ago in show time means by the time Rick’s group arrived in Alexandria, Beale and Kublek had decided that sacrificing other communities in pursuit of their scientific endeavors was acceptable.

In the last entry, I said that the murder of Dr. Abbott for being unwilling to go along with this plan was a display of how deep Beale, Kublek, and the CRM’s evil went, but scratch that, this is a true showing of just how evil they are. If we’re assuming they began operating on this (And not simply conceiving of it) eight years ago, that would mean that they’ve been either kidnapping people or wiping out whole communities to infect and experiment on them for nearly a decade.

And, if they’ve been kidnapping people all that time, it could mean that Jadis has been in on this project from the beginning, as we know that she was kidnapping people and shipping them off to the CRM even before Rick met her.

When I first started watching The Walking Dead, I figured you could never have a significant, ultimate villain pulling strings in the background because of the nature of the show. That was until I learned about this. While Beale, Kublek, and Jadis didn’t create the zombie virus, they have been exposing countless innocent people to it, which is the closest thing you could get. All of this in the hopes of curing zombification; of course, this is if you believe what they say.