The Early Fall of The Prison Explored | The Walking Dead Universe Lore

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Hmmm I think a prison break did happen maybe a prisoner had connections from outside who tried to blast the walls of the prison bit when it attracted walkers that started the riot and guards shooting at prisoners. Since the guards wouldn’t be able to tell who’s infected or not since it was their first encounter with the walkers. Then I can see the same people who are trying to break out/ break in get to that prison bus but either the guard shot at the tire or someone on the bus got infected and took a chuck out of the driver which resulted in the bus flipping

That was a fun season

Oh yea the prison ❤️‍🔥

How did the hotel got overrun again or fell after madison and Victor strand left the hotel in fear?

A solid attempt at breaking down what happened at the Prison, but you forgot the scene where Rick's group took the surviving inmates to be detained in another wing of the prison; where we see that the previous inmates had had their arms had been handcuffed behind them, bags placed over their heads, and looked to have all been shot in back of the head in front of their cells. That scene changes the context of what might have happened.

My theory is that, after realizing that the dead are coming back to life to eat the living and that the government wasn't coming to save them, some of the guards decided to purge the prison of its inmates so they could use the prison as a wasteland fortress to ride out the apocalypse. Only problem was that not all guards and staff agreed with that plan. There's no telling if they ever debated on what to do, but what is sure is that the murderous guards started putting down inmates before all hell broke out. Either the honorable guards started to let some of the inmates loose to combat the murderous guards, or the inmates just caught on what the guards were doing and rioted like their lives depended on it. Shoots were fired, people died, reanimated, got back up, and the prison turned into a burned out blood bath we all know and love.

As to why the bus was flipped? I imagine it was a way to prevent staff that wanted to leave from beating down the gate with their cars or something. People were in the dark about what was happening on the outside of the prison. You don't want useful people getting themselves killed over something as silly as "Looking for their loved ones".

But that's just my two cents.

there is no way all the prisoners stayed there to die there must be some still out there

I’ve been waiting for this one

What happened to the Vatos in season 1

You forgot to add when Rick group the escorted the two prisoners to their cell block you can see prisoners zip tie behind their backs lined up and executed

The prison was my favorite home featured in the show. Idk why, but I loved that they were able to call the place home and even made it more of a home by season 4 with the eating area, the water system, and the chalk drawings on the wall

It's strange revisiting this show. I gave up when most did, during the crap Negan era. Seeing how great this show once was is a little sad.

Thank you for making these videos as they are very entertaining and this in particular has been/is an enjoyable series, so good job on these videos 👍🏻

The bus always confused me because of its placing, its on its side but if you tipped it up it would hit the fence so it couldn't have been tipped from a standing position without damaging the gates

I can’t image anything other than Diddy it would make sense because the warden shot himself in the head from almost being diddled

I remember seeing a part when Rick and the others went into a different cell block and saw multiple inmates lying face down on the floor hands tied and a bullet hole to the head. They executed all of the inmates in that cell block.

I inspired this video btw

Bro left out the detail of inmates that were bound, drug out of their cells and killed

I would love to see this in tale of the walking dead

Man, I miss the prison days in TWD.

My personal opinion is that instead of a riot it started off as the cops knew what was happening and certain cells started getting infected so they tried to keep it under wraps while executing them, which is why somewhere zip tied, but then there was a riot Because the prisoners didn’t know what was happening in, assume they were just killing I mean, it would make sense because cops would have walkie-talkies to other cops outside of the prison as well as communications to different government agencies that are in tandem with the prison

Hey man great video, i really loved what you did here and i've also noticed that you've done other videos on things that me and others have recommended, so i wanna give you another one, how about the supermarket they visit in the premier of S4, when Beth's boyfriend dies, it's pretty interesting if you ask me!

I worked as a Swat Officer in a prison in Indiana... (still in corrections now, just juvenile on a county level vs adult on a state level.) and a couple of things I noticed.... 1... there should have been wayyyyy more officers in Riot gear. 2. there are Civilian workers in a prison... definitely if the fall happened during the day. 3. there was wayyyy less staff (officers) in the walkers/bodies than there should have been as they would have been mandated to work during the sickness before the fall.

“It’s your lucky day fellas, you’ve been pardoned by the state of Georgia, you’re free to go.” -Daryl Dixon

I don’t see the guards giving Thomas and the other prisoners a weapon and locking them in the kitchen, I think Thomas got the pistol from him and blew his head off, that guard with the gunshot was that guard.
The others didn’t snitch on him for fear of being killed.

They left so many supplies in the prison after the war, i always think about all the guns that were probably abandoned in the prison, I know some of the survivors took some weapons when fighting the Governor and his army, but we saw on rick's side that most of them are civilians and already fled to the bus. The only character that i saw fighting (that are not part of the main cast) is Julio, the guy using a sniper rifle and uses the bench as a shield. He also got killed when attempting to run alongside with Maggie and the others. Yes, Lizzie and Mika both have guns, but it was nothing compared to the stockpile that they've left.

Your videos are great!

My guess is that the events leading to the fall of the prison started not on Monument Day but on August 25th, when the CDC declared the virus a global pandemic. Prison officials all over the USA may have been ordered to lockdown their prisoners to "prevent transmission" of Wildfire, not knowing that everyone was infected.

Fast forward to sometime during or after Monument Day (I think it happened after), the prison may have been ordered by surviving officials to 'liquidate' the prisoners so that their manpower could instead be used to keep things in control in places like Atlanta where the regular PD was overwhelmed. This would explain why you see prisoner remains handcuffed after being 'liquidated'. Once some of the prisoners began realizing what was happening, they began a deadly and violent riot in a desperate attempt to save themselves, and in the process people on both sides get taken out, inmates use the riot to settle rivalries, and a building getting heavily damaged, attracting extra walkers to the scene on top of the ones turning inside the prison itself.

With the situation going out of control, some of the COs decide to abandon the prison, some try to fight back with little to no success, and some decide to do a Dr. Jenner. I think that the majority of the guards that wanted to escape did manage to do so, given that the vast majority of walkers seen in the prison are inmates or civilians who snuck in via the breach, though their fate is unknown.

From there, like Ty said, The surviving inmates likely tried to use the bus to escape. However, I think it rolled over as the inmate driver instinctively swerved trying to avoid walkers in the yard. (Like how one may swerve a car when at risk of getting into an accident). I think this is the case because it would not make sense for them to use it as a sort of high ground or hiding spot instead of just aiming to smash the fences and ride off into the sunset. From there, with no way out, they would try to fight back but without any weapons, would meet the same fate.

Can you talk about the army base where Otis and Shane get the supplies for Carl? (Season 2). Idk if there Is any lore showed at all, im not sure at all

Do you do these type of videos on the spin offs?

The bus is too strategically placed to have simply been tipped over, so my guess it was used as a barricade. As for why Glen was able to tank it in the armour and the Guards couldn't, they weren't named whereas Glen was, so Glen got plot armour whilst Nameless Guards didn't.

The way the cleared the second layer the next day was so dumb they could of just lured a bunch of them to the fence and poked them through the fence

Thats a cool story 🔥 loving these recently

Big flaw with your idea about the riot starting because a guard shot an infected prisoner in his cell: prison guards don't carry guns inside. They would have only brought them in after everything went to shit.

I think you missed out that one cell block that clearly has prisoners executed by guards as they are tied up and have gun shots in their heads. Showing darker side of the guards trying to contain the outbreak without fully understanding it

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Idea for Walker Variant - The Primate Walker ( Zombie Monkeys, Chimps, Gorillas and etc ) - Primates share 92% to 98% common DNA with humans and humans and primates share common diseases like monkeypox and AIDS, so what if the Wild Fire Virus infected wild primates like monkeys and chimps but instead of slow walkers we get fast, aggressive zombie primates that act like and move like the Infected chimps / humans in 28 Days Later. They can climb and scale walls and sneak up on survivors, these Primate zombies would come be encountered near Zoo's or in countries where primates are more common / have large numbers.

You forgot the corpsies that were shot by guards in block D
My theory is the prison did fall after monument day but in the same week probably, some guards leaving going to home for rest but never coming back (being victims of walkers on outside the world) making the security of the prison be cutten in half.

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I figured that the Prison was doomed to fail because Rick and co did still have Michonne hunting for the Governor, but she seemed to have given up at some point, meaning that his still being out there left a huge threat that could potentially come back and destroy them. If the Governor had been killed and Martinez's group had arrived with Martinez still in charge, the prison might have actually become secured as Martinez's army could have been included into the prison's defenses, meaning that the manpower problem would have been less of an issue. Also, the prison's layout, though quite impressive, was spread out too far for the Survivors to properly defend it, especially when minimal defensive improvements, such as some chevaux-de-frise at the main gate, were suitable for individual or small groups of walkers but not for other hostile groups that could have circumnavigated them or large herds that could have used their weight en masse to break through the fencing surrounding the prison (which is what occurs in Season 4). Rather, an effective wall around the main prison building itself like the one from Hilltop or those of the Commonwealth would have made a suitable inner bastion to protect the occupants of the prison community. Furthermore, even though Rick and co were trying to institute genuine agricultural techniques to provide a long-lasting food supply, they needed to also have a secure clean water source that would be impossible for attackers to seize and cut off, which from the show did not seem to exist at the prison. Finally, as with the outbreak at the prison, if the prison had been truly kept sanitary and proper searches of locations with medicine had been done, the population could have weathered out many outbreaks, saving them from suffering great losses and potential walker infestations.

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I think one way the riot gear guards were killed was that they were probably choked out by inmates due to how exposed the neck area was (given how Maggie was able to attack that same spot)

Just my thoughts

The fall of the high school in season 2 where Otis dies

I believe they were shot by the police because we do see that originally the police would kill all civilians to stop the spread

I always figured the Riot Walkers died from the smoke while trying to establish some semblance of order or were strangled by the inmates teaming up on them

As for the prison itself, even after going through a literal apocalypse it was still in good enough shape for Rick & Co to decide to take it over and turn it into a home. I honestly think if things hadnt spiraled out of control so fast that maybe the guards might have been able to contain the spread better or at least have a better chance ar getting out.

Hopefully if we ever get another shot at a TWD prequel show/Video game we can see how things happened at the prison or follow an inmate/guard that was barely able to escape

I love these videos!!

I think that bus had something to do with it maybe it had Zombie kids in it and they turned the driver into one of them and it crashed and then they effected everyone except those five prisoners

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Hey folks! It’s been brought to my attention a scene was missed in this analysis,

When Axel and Oscar are escorted to another cell block we see fallen prisoners that had been zip tied and executed,

It’s been suggested this could have been an attempt by the guards to contain the spread of the virus as the prisoners began to turn but let me know what you think!