Rick has been capturing people to be bitten and killed for the past seven years. My A/B Theory.

We know that A/B are classifications of people. The only examples of these classifications were with Gabriel, Negan, and twice with Rick.

Anne thought Gabriel was a B, but seemed to change her mind and then made him an A. He was to be bitten before presumably being shipped off via helicopter.

Negan was also to be bitten. Implying he to was supposed to be an A.

Rick was in a crate marked A before he was intended to have been bitten.

In Rick's last episode, Anne claimed to the helicopter people he was a B.

Anne clearly wanted to live among the people of the helicopter. This is implied from her telling Gabriel that their land was like something he couldn't even imagine. And she clearly had to capture an A in order to be picked up by the helicopter. She didn't of course, but they presumably let her come with them despite having found a B instead.

Now, an A is clearly someone that is very much desired by the helicopter people. I mean, they literally fly all the way to the dump and chase down Anne for an A. Seeing as an A seems to be a person who has been bitten by a zombie prior to the helicopter arriving, we can assume the helicopter people want someone who has been bitten for a some sort of test. If they just wanted an ordinary zombie, they could find one. Instead, they actively pursue humans who have just been bitten. They don't want someone who has just turned or who is already turned...they want someone who's brain is in the active process of turning.

But why?

Well, think about how you might conduct a vaccine trial to cure a virus that will inevitably turn all humans who die into zombies. You would give a vaccine to two classes of people who differ only by one variation...those are actively turning, and those aren't. A "B" is someone who will not turn until they die. An "A" is someone who will turn very soon. But they vaccine trial must be administered to the A's quickly. That's why the experimenters must quickly find an A, give them the drug, and wait to see if they continue to die (and thus turn.) The B people are also given the drug, but they must die naturally. However, these people presumably get to wait before they die and see if the drug given to them actually works. That's unlikely, considering everyone has the virus in their brains already. More likely, the helicopter people keep experimenting on "A's" until a vaccine trial proves successful. Only then will they give all the "B" people the drug and thus save humanity. Getting to be a B in this mysterious community is an obvious privilege: you get to live a wonderful lifestyle (according to Anne) and you potentially have the ability to die and not turn, unlike virtually very other person in the entire world.

The only catch to being a "B" is that you must do something pretty inhumane. You have to actively capture living humans who are to be bitten and likely killed in order to find the vaccine and save humanity. This is oblivious a task that someone like Rick will not want to readily do. But if he's been treated (upon almost dying in S9E5) and given the fortunate opportunity of being a B, he will be told that the only plausible way he can remain alive is if he does his duty and searches for human experiments. Who knows why he can't escape. Maybe he's always with a group of people. Maybe he has a tracking device on him, maybe he's threatened with immediate death if he tries anything stupid. Who knows, maybe he's tried to escape and failed. Regardless, he figured out some way to contact Alexandria and Michonne about his new lifestyle. He likely gave Virgil (maybe some random person he found or an escaped member of the helicopter group) his boots and directions to Alexandria. He's shady but I think if he truly does not know who Rick is, he managed to get to Alexandria on purpose.

The idea of Rick doing something almost as gruesome and evil (albeit necessary) in order to survive and have a chance at seeing his family again would be an amazing premise for the first movie. At that point, he doing something way worse than what Negan or Gareth ever did, and arguably much more selfish. But it's something Rick would do, and we all know it.

Submitted June 16, 2020 at 07:01PM by Spangled_Metaphysics https://ift.tt/3d7vIFb