🔴Yes, The Walking Dead Really Was Setting Up The CRM Since 2010🔴
0The sixth spin-off in AMC's post-apocalyptic zombie franchise, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live sees Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) going up against the Civic Republic Military (CRM) — the army that protects (and runs) the Pennsylvania-based Civic Republic. Although the group takes center stage in The Ones Who Live, the CRM was actually set up in The Walking Dead season 1. While the group is led by Major General Beale (Terry O'Quinn), the series drops clues that Rick will take over the CRM at some point during the spin-off's run.
With The Ones Who Live focusing on Rick, the franchise's long-time protagonist, and Michonne (Danai Gurira), it would only make sense to tie together threads, like the CRM, from the shows' pasts. The premiere episode of the spin-off chronicles what happened to Andrew Lincoln's character since he exited The Walking Dead in season 9. Captured by the CRM, Rick is forced to embark on dangerous missions in order to access the supposed utopian community as a full-fledged citizen. Of course, Rick wants no part in the hidden city or the CRM, so he's continually plotting escape plans.
Although Michonne kills The Walking Dead's Lieutenant Colonel Okafor (Craig Tate) in "Years," the antagonistic CRM officer still plays a crucial role in The Walking Dead at large. In fact, in The Walking Dead season 2, episode 5, "Chupacabra," viewers then-unknowingly glimpsed the first signs of Okafor's handiwork. The opening scene flashback depicts Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), Rick's ex-wife, and Shane (Jon Bernthal), Rick's former best friend, escaping to a refugee center. During the chaos of the epidemic's onset, the couple watch as military helicopters fly over Atlanta and drop napalm on the city.
A former pilot for the U.S. Air Force, Okafor was married to a Marine named Estelle. Okafor and Estelle were both part of the U.S. military's Operation Cobalt — a contingency plan the military enacted after losing control of the viral outbreak. As a pilot, Okafor napalmed Los Angeles and Atlanta, while Estelle and her fellow Marines "liquidated" the survivors of the bombings. When they were ordered to bomb Philadelphia, Estelle encouraged Okafor to attack the Marines' holding area instead. While Estelle and 4,000 Marines were killed, Okafor's actions gave rise to the Civic Republic of Philadelphia.
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