Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Too Good To Be True

Fear the Walking Dead

If someone’s offering exactly what you want, they are probably trying to manipulate you. 

During the Fear The Walking Dead season seven finale, we learned that Madison had been kidnapping children for P.A.D.R.E. because they had convinced her if she’d collected one, they’d help her find her children, Nick and Alicia. But one wasn’t enough. They needed another, and, after that, they told her that that wasn’t enough, and this just kept going until Madison had lost count of how many children she’d stolen. Only at that point did her handlers at P.A.D.R.E. relent and finally tell her that they’d actually help her find Nick and Alicia.

What scumbags.

You see what they were doing, right? P.A.D.R.E. had figured out what Madison wanted more than anything else, and they promised her if she did one thing for them, they’d help her get it. After that was done, they just kept dangling the carrot in front of her, getting her to keep doing a heinous thing which flew in the face of everything she believed in, in the vain hope that the next time would be the one where P.A.D.R.E. finally filled their end of the bargain.

You see, in a zombie apocalypse, if someone knows what you really want, and as long as you don’t know that they don’t have it or can’t get it, they could try to get you to do their bidding in exchange for whatever it is you’re looking for.  If you knew someone was holding a friend or loved one from you, you’d be focusing more on finding out where they were being held and freeing them or exacting revenge, rather than doing whatever you were assigned to do.

My point is: Be wary of anyone promising to give you the very thing you want the most because there is a good chance that they’re just using whatever it is to get you to do their bidding. Since that will probably involve taking things from or doing something to other people, they’re probably also arranging for you to catch the flak for the things they are coordinating.