By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:37:00 +0000

I don’t think the whole cannibal storyline will be played out on the show, at least not now with Terminus. When those rumors first started appearing last year at the end of Season 4, I was on the “Termites=Hunters” bandwagon. However, after watching the trailer for Season 5 and reading some of the different, more recent theories on Terminus, I started to doubt the producers were taking the show in that direction.
Speculation has been made that Terminus and the hospital where Beth is being held are somehow related, possibly working together to develop a cure or vaccine against the virus. Terminus attracts survivors with promises of safety and protection, then separates and holds groups of people, some of whom will be selected to be shipped off to the hospital for testing or something sort of work. The A train car our group is being held captive in stands for arrivals, and the D car stands for departures. The people of Terminus and their interest in developing a cure may be related to that memorial room we saw during the Season 4 finale. Maybe they have the same beliefs that Hershel did when we first met him early in Season 2 – that the walkers are merely sick people, capable of being treated for the “illness” and returned back to normal. Hershel kept his loved ones who had turned locked up in his barn, hoping that he would be able to help them get better and come back. I think the memorial room at Terminus is dedicated to their fallen loved ones, and they keep those loved ones (now walkers) alive, chained up in a room. They keep them alive by feeding them fresh meat; possibly arrivals who fight back or cause trouble (like Rick’s group). The offenders are taken to an execution room, where they are lined up, executed, and butchered up to be fed to those walkers. «We see this in the S5 trailer when Rick, Daryl, Glenn, and the other men are taken from the train car by Termites in gas masks to a room where they are tied up and prepared for execution, kneeling before Gareth. At one point we can catch a glimpse of what looks like a human body on a table with someone standing above them holding a saw or some sort of tool (sounds of sawing or blade sharpening are heard). Bob pleads with Gareth, explaining they have a man who knows a cure but needs to get to Washington DC to reach his government contacts.» The trailer seems to indicate that Gareth pardons Rick and the others, under the conditions that they “Join us, and go to Washington, and cure this thing”. Gareth releases them because he is committed to finding the cure; he hopes to travel along to DC and return to Terminus with the cure to bring back his loved ones. This is my own personal speculation.

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