Fear the Walking Dead ... flight 462 , part 2 to part 15.

These will be posted here as they become available. They usually play during a break on The Walking Dead.

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So we're up to episode 6 now and it looks like the guy who was sick in the restroom will be who becomes the Walker.  The Asian woman seems to know something that the other passengers don't but at less than 1 minute per episode it will take a while for things to become more clear, hopefully by ep 16 which is the last.

Part 6.

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We're up to part 7 now, when we hear the capt. saying that they must divert to LAX. We saw the plane passing over in one of the Fear The Walking Dead episodes. Now that the sick guy is dead they see the bite mark on his stomach and the Asian woman knows what that means and tells the others to get back. Why she in particular knows the truth we still don't know. I think there are 15 episodes in this series. Normally we see one during a break in The Walking Dead but since it's over for the mid-season and won't be back until next spring I assume they will keep putting new eps online.....I hope. Possibly they will coordinate the ending with the return of Fear The Walking Dead and the young guy on board will have survived and will relate his experiences to some of the characters in FTWD. This type of programming/episode relationships has never been done before so it will be interesting to see how they pull it off.

Part 8. So the sick guy dies, the flight attendant tries to revive him with the AED, the Asian woman tells her to stop, it's dangerous, the Air Marshall thinks she's interfering and tells her to go back to her seat......then....the dead guy's eyes open, we see he is a Walker......it's about to hit the fan !  

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We don't know when this "series" will continue, but it will probably be when The Walking Dead returns in Feb.    We assume that Jake Powell, the teenage boy will be the survivor that joins the cast of Fear The Walking Dead next season. But it's also possible that "Charlie" the Asian woman who knows what's happening will be the 'one'.

Season 2 of Fear The Walking Dead will premire later next year after TWD, so all 16 eps of Flight 462 should be wrapped up by then and the survivor from the plane will emerge to join the program.

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There is an app for Windows but you have to change to Windows 10 to get it and watch episode 9 now, which I'm not going to do. But we can see from the pic that the passenger who was bitten is now in full "Walker mode" in episode 9 and it's about to "hit the fan". We'll see what happens during one of the breaks on the premire of The Walking Dead.

You can watch eps 1-8 without interruption here, to refresh your memory. The fact that they had to divert from Phoenix to L.A. proves that the 'virus' has spread ...

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So we see Part 9 during last night's TWD.  The passenger turned Walker comes 'back to life' and starts attacking the group outside the restroom. The Air Marshal gets him in a full nelson and manages to shove him into the restroom and locked in. But two of the flight attendants suffer minor bites on their arms from the Walker during the struggle. Oh-oh.....that's all it takes....two more to die and 'change' shortly. 6 more episodes to go as they arrive to L.A. How many onboard will survive ? I assume the pilots would have to survive in order to land the plane in L.A. and the teenage boy who has been worried and baffled by all that's happened, and will be the one to join the others on Fear The Walking Dead, but how many of the rest of the crew/passngers will survive ? Few or none I predict...

Okay, now we can see how the season schedule plays out. Last night on ep 10 the Asian woman tells the Air Marshal to 'tie up' the flight attendant who had been bitten because "she's going to become like him"....the guy who had already become a Walker and had been locked in the bathroom.

So...remember that all the Flight 462 eps occur during one of the breaks in The Walking Dead eps.

Ep 11 -  Feb. 28
Ep 12 -  Mar. 6
Ep 13 -  Mar  13
Ep 14 -  Mar  20
Ep 15 -  Mar 27
Ep  16-  Apr. 3......this is also the season finale of The Walking Dead.

The season premire of Fear The Walking Dead occurs on Apr. 10. So we will see who survives from Ep 16 of Flight 462 and joins the group on FTWD, who will board the yacht during the first ep, but will not be out of danger judging by the previews. Fan opinion is pretty well set on the teenage boy as being a survivor, it is less certain that the Asian woman will also survive. But since she has somehow known what's going on, all along during the flt. 462 eps, it would seem odd if she didn't survive and add her 'knowledge' to the group on FTWD.

At any rate what other series has ever done this sort of 'crossover' eps, especially when one of the series has episodes only 30-45 seconds long ?  Genius producing and writing....


A good synopsis:

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In episode 11 last night no big reveals were made...the first thing was that the teenage boy asked the Asian woman...."How did you know"? She didn't answer him. Then we see the wife of the guy who turned Walker and is locked in the bathroom, sobbing and knocking on the door and telling him that she loves him. The Air Marshal prevents her from trying to open the door. The flight attendant that got bitten looks on with concern and bafflement. That's it for the episode.....

But with the repeats of season one of Fear the Walking Dead starting last night we get a slight hint of how all this will play out. In the early scene where Maddie and Travis' drug addict son runs out on the street and gets hit by the car...the camera shows him lying in the street and then slowly pans up showing a typical L.A. street scene, people walking, etc. In the distance we see an airliner on final approach to LAX. This is almost certainly flight 462.

After going to bed last night and mulling over the meaning of all that, (as a Powerful and Influential Member of the Viewer Class it is my responsibility to make these things clear to the Great Unwashed Viewing Masses, you can thank me later.. ) I realized that my previous thought that only the teenage boy and maybe the Asian woman would be the survivors from flt. 462 was probably wrong, because....if the plane landed at LAX and the terminal was still operating normally, the passengers, pilots, and remaining crew would deplane and go on about their business in L.A. , with only the Walker in the bathroom and the flight attendant who may or may not have died and became a Walker by then pose a threat. The Air Marshal would be tasked to deal with those threats, but the bottom line is that there wouldn't be mass deaths and Walker transformation among the passengers.

The other scenario is that "civilization" would have already broken down in the terminal and the ground crew guidance guy wasn't there to guide the plane to its proper deplaning ramp, and the doors of the ramp were not unlocked, both situations resulting in the plane sitting out on the ramp with only the emergency slides as a way to disembark. If they are used then the previous situation with the Walker in the bathroom and the infected flight attendant still apply but now the passengers are left to wander the ramp and try to get out of the airport and to their destinations on their own efforts.

In both scenarios we already know from having seen the complete season one earlier , that the teenage boy doesn't make contact with the Clark family until sometime later than season one, by unknown means. We will see this in season two possibly as early as episode one, but I think it might be a little later in the season. The fate of the Asian woman is a complete unknown at this point.

Merging these timelines in the writing will be a genius accomplishment of TV viewing in the 21st Century...

Episode 12 moved things along. The wife of the Walker locked in the bathroom thought he had 'died', and before the Asian woman could stop her she opened the door. Of course her 'husband'...burst out and bit her. The Air Marshal shot him 8 times in the body which of course has no effect.  The Walker jumped on him, trying to bite him. The Asian woman yelled, "shoot him in the head !".  But the Marshal had run out of bullets and the Walker was very nearly biting him when the episode ended. So now we have three Walkers, one actual, two in the making, the flight attendant and the wife, and probably a forth, the Air Marshal. But it's possible that the Asian woman might get a knife from the galley and stab the Walker in the back of the head which would 'kill' him. But do airline galleys even have knives these days ?....security reasons and all that  ? And of course we still have no idea why she has such knowledge of Walkers, how to 'kill' them, etc. , this early in the apocalypse.

4 more episodes to see how this plays out....

Episode 13 resolved one 'problem' and opened two more potential ones.

So the Walker from the bathroom didn't quite manage to bite the Air Marshal before the Asian woman stepped up and dragged him/it off the Marshal.  The Walker then turned and started for her. She was sitting on the floor at that point and scooting backward toward the flight deck door with no apparent way to ward off the Walker. The teenage boy who was standing next to the first forward passenger seat while all this was going on, saw a bag of knitting supplies hanging next to the passenger seat. He grabbed one of the large knitting needles in the bag and tossed it to the Asian woman, remembering that she had said that only 'head shots' would 'kill' a Walker. The Asian woman stabbed the Walker in the head/neck 'killing' it and ending that threat. She then looked over at the Flight Attendant who had been bitten, knowing that she would probably have to do the same to her shortly after she died and 'changed'. The Flight Attendant looked back with a concerned/ puzzled look.

Then there is a cracking sound and we see that the one shot that went wild when the Marshal was shooting at the Walker, had hit a forward cabin window and was in danger of blowing out. How serious this would be would depend on how high the aircraft is at the time. Contrary to popular belief there is no danger of being 'sucked out', the volume of air in the cabin and the time it would take to flow out is not sufficient for that to happen. Of course at high altitude even if everyone put on the oxygen masks that drop down, there is a danger of the 'bends', if the plane doesn't descend to a lower altitude quickly enough because the internal cabin pressure would drop to the outside pressure within 10-15 seconds, the exact time depending on the differential pressures between internal and external. Since we don't know how high the plane is there is no way to judge subsequent events. We'll have to wait until ep 14, at least.  

Meanwhile in ep 3 of S1 of the Fear the Walking Dead repeat which aired last night, there was a scene that leads me to believe that I was wrong about the airliner seen on approach to LAX in ep 1. In ep 3 near the end we see another airliner on approach to LAX and it banks to the right momentarily before straightening up. This is very likely flight 462 and such a banking was probably in response to what is happening onboard, either the window blowing out or the pilots finally getting involved with what has been happening in the passenger cabin.....more mystery....

Episode 14 introduced an event sooner than expected. The wife of the Walker who was bitten by him before he was 'killed', is now showing signs of dying from the bite. The Flight Attendant who was bitten slightly earlier in the struggle with the Walker shows no such signs, yet, but she is upset and crying at the condition of the wife.

The Asian woman, knowing the incipient outcome of the wife's condition, takes the knitting needle that she used to 'kill' the Walker husband and dispatches the wife. The Flight Attendant, the Air Marshal, and the teenage boy look on in horror. "You killed her !" , the Flight Attendant says. "No, I saved her", the Asian woman replies. A second later the cracked cabin window blows out.

Two more eps to go. We can't wait to see how they wrap this up.