Fear the Walking Dead survival rule of the week: All need guidance

Fear the Walking Dead we all need someone to show us the way

Much of the midseason finale for this season of Fear The Walking Dead centered on Alicia hoping to be led to PADRE by Senator Elias Vasquez even though he was a walker.

She followed the senator’s walker across Texas, hoping beyond hope that some tiny sliver of his memory remained. She hoped that he could lead her to this sanctuary from which the government had planned to rebuild the nation. She followed him off cliffs, through lakes, and through the wasteland to ultimately wind up finding not PADRE but Strand’s tower.

Now, while that quest was futile, the senator did lead Alicia through the first step of her journey: Getting out of the Franklin Hotel’s bunker in the first place.

This entailed following the senator as he chased the rats that had infested the bunker back through the drainage tunnels and onto the surface. With the rats having some nest outside the bunker and the senator’s walker being better able to track them, he was the perfect bloodhound to lead Alicia out of her would-be prison.

In an apocalypse, there’s a  good chance that you’re going to places that you’ve never been. You can try to go there on your own, but you’re best bet is to have someone who knows the area guide you through.

I’m not just talking about going to a place on a map because God only knows what sort of chaos may happen once the apocalypse hits, and, with it, all kinds of changes to that place that a map won’t tell you. For all you know, a huge crowd may have tried to escape through part of the traditional route, leaving an impassable herd between you and your destination. Or maybe, a part of the road or one of the surrounding buildings may have collapsed, making the normal route completely impassable.

But, if you have someone who’s been through before to guide you, they can show you the way, helping you to avoid the certain death you would face by getting lost.

You can’t have it all the time, but, sometimes, to survive the zombie apocalypse, you literally need someone to show you the way.