# Fear the Walking Dead: 2.02 "We All Fall Down" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517 "2016-04-18T00:14:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517/21 "2016-04-20T00:41:33Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > The fence was actually very flimsy and the tourist area had hundreds of tourist zombies. Basically the only reason they were still alive was because the horde on the other side had not accidentally wandered over to them yet. Well, with the new visitors, organize a bottleneck of some kind and lure the tourists over in small numbers and cull them in steady methodical fashion. Then the island is cleared, but for the occasional shipwreck zombie. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517/22 "2016-04-20T00:52:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, with the new visitors, organize a bottleneck of some kind and lure the tourists over in small numbers and cull them in steady methodical fashion. Then the island is cleared, but for the occasional shipwreck zombie. I was going to post that earlier, but decided not to. Thanks for saying it. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517/23 "2016-04-20T01:22:50Z")
I don’t think any of them are at the point where they would feel comfortable taking on hundreds of zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517/24 "2016-04-20T01:49:28Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I don’t think any of them are at the point where they would feel comfortable taking on hundreds of zombies. They better \*get \*comfortable! Seriously, that island looked like a pretty good deal, and clearing the island can’t be that much of a problem - send somebody out on a boat to the other end of the island and let them park 100 feet offshore and make a lot of noise. Many of the tourist zombies will wander out into the water and get swept away by the currents. This ain’t rocket surgery, people. Chop-chop! ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517/25 "2016-04-20T02:06:44Z")
I don’t see it, it seemed like a pretty exposed place to me. I doubt you can grow much food in such a small island and there was no protection from any real threat, like the people going around sinking boats. The fences looked very flimsy, the place is just too wide open. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517/26 "2016-04-20T02:11:57Z")
On reflection, I see your point. In the _Walking Dead_ universe, the danger posed by the actual walking dead is fairly trivial. The inevitable encounters with the living who have gone completely psychotic for no apparent reason are the real threat. I’ll also try to keep in mind that simple culling and defensive strategies are impossible (or if discovered, nobody has sufficient long-term memory to keep using them beyond the span of one episode) because the laws of physics and biology are also different from our own, apparently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-02-we-all-fall-down-open-spoilers/752517.md?page=1)