‘Walking Dead: World Beyond’ has a Rick Grimes connection: The Three Rings – Inverse

Just like witches at black masses, war pigs are circling AMCs Walking Dead universe. We have a lot of questions about the mysterious three rings symbol and how it connects the original Walking Dead to the upcoming World Beyond spinoff.

On Sunday, AMC announced The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the third show in its Walking Dead universe. Taking place in the near future, the series follows the first generation of survivors born into the zombie apocalypse as they grow into adults in a dangerous but familiar world.

Looming over the show is a mysterious, militaristic organization. Without a name, they are only identified by their use of three interlocked rings as their symbol. What the rings actually stand for remains to be seen.

However, the Three Rings didnt come from out of nowhere. Below, we breakdown the Three Rings to figure out just what their deal is, and whether or not theyre hiding someone familiar.

As of now, there are no names we can give the Three Rings. They are, however, led by an individual Elizabeth, played by Emmy-winner Julia Ormond. What Elizabeths motives are and the true extent of her role is shrouded in mystery. But she is the only real figurehead weve seen thus far.

One thing that the Three Rings (?) is obsessed with: The future. Its a word used by Isabelle, a character introduced in Fear the Walking Dead keeps saying about the mysterious organizations goals.

Everything I do is to ensure theres more than stories left after I die, Isabelle says in her appearance. Its bigger than me, its bigger than you, its bigger than all of us. We are a force who are not living for ourselves or for now. We have the future.

The first time fans saw the Three Rings happened in Season 9, Episode 5 of The Walking Dead, the last to star Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. Presumed dead after falling over into a muddy riverbank, Rick is saved by Anne/Jadis, who had been involved with an unknown party in a human trafficking operation to recruit survivors, usually marked A or B. (And what happens to those, survivors, A or B, is totally a mystery.)

When Anne picks him up in a helicopter, its in an A helicopter. And the last time we saw Rick hes being carried in a helicopter, with Anne. {Hes getting a series of movies eventually.)

Rewinding back to Season 8, the character Georgie (Jayne Atkinson) appeared to broker some partnership with Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who at the time was running Hilltop. Due to her cleanliness, access to electricity, overall je nai-not phased by the apocalypse-sais quoi, and cryptic talk about rebuilding the future, there is healthy speculation that Georgie was, or is, involved with the Three Rings in some way.

All we know is that in Lauren Cohans goodbye letter to Hilltop (IRL, Cohan had signed up for a series regular role in the now-canceled ABC seriesWhiskey Cavalier), she was happy with her infant son Herschel with wherever it was Georgie took her.

Later in Fear the Walking Dead, the show introduces Isabelle, played by Sydney Lemmon in the episode The End of Everything. A soldier for this army (they may have the name CRM, based on documents seen in the episode), Isabelle warns that the group represents the future and that anyone who meets them should be very afraid. They also keep their identities hidden, which they consider operational security.

Based on their access to weapons, helicopters, radio equipment, and electricity again, supported by Georgie in The Walking Dead, who talked about having vinyl record players we can wager that the Three Rings have way more resources than any antagonistic group weve seen in the series.

The Three Rings, the Future, CRM, whatever their name is, will obviously have a major role in The Walking Dead: World Beyond. The other two shows have only planted the seeds. Now whats next is to see what those seeds will grow when World Beyond debuts in 2020.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond premieres Spring 2020.

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