Is the CRM the reason for The Walking Dead spinoffs?

Despite what many might think, The Walking Dead goes well beyond a group trying to survive walkers (zombies) and dangerous people and communities. Society itself is trying to rebuild and somehow thrive with or without the presence of walkers.

We’ve seen countless characters from the likes of Hershel, Milton, and more recently Dr. Everett trying to understand why and how this happened. Some were even hopeful there was a way to reverse the symptoms.

We’ve learned over the course of the AMC series, that everyone will turn when they die. There has yet to be a cure.

In The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the two-season series revealed how the CRM in particular heavily invests in the brilliant and scientific minds to better understand this process. Can the turning process be slowed down or stopped?

How deeply involved is the CRM in The Walking Dead Universe?

If anything, the TWD spinoff proved to viewers that the CRM are from friendly. There are a military-based organization, with total disregard to human life if it means they can find the answers they seek.

They were the means behind Anne AKA: Jadis’s survival and yes, they technically saved Rick Grimes’ life. But they are still far from the good guys, and we have yet to see or hear of them on The Walking Dead.

The closest thing we’ve seen to the grandeur of the CRM, whose main base of operations is in New York, is The Commonwealth. The Commonwealth has yet to address or hint towards a knowledge of the CRM although Lance Hornsby claims to have connections.

Does he mean the CRM or the people inside The Commonwealth that he thinks will bail him out?

As season 11 will be the final season of the influential and iconic series, several more spinoffs were announced. All three are due to arrive to AMC next year but we have yet to understand why these spinoffs are happening.

Our theory is that the CRM will be the reason for the three future spinoffs occurring: Dead City, Daryl Dixon, and Rick & Michonne. Knowing what we do currently, Negan and Maggie have made amends.

He is working with her and the rest of the group against Lance Hornsby for the sake of their survival. From the little clues we’ve seen of Dead City, as the spinoff wraps up filming, the two are fighting once more.

They are working together, we assume, but it seems we are back to square one. Seriously, what happened?

We have not seen Maggie’s son Hershel Jr. nor Negan’s wife Annie in the spinoff, yet. Is it possible the CRM separates Maggie and Negan from their families?

Is it possible they set the two of them up to fight over misunderstandings? Although we’re not surprised Maggie will be tempted to kill Negan, again and instead spare him because she needs him, again.

How about the Daryl Dixon series? Daryl is literally in France where, conveniently it was suggested this is where the apocalypse started.

We know there is something going on with rebel groups and the doctors as shown in World Beyond’s series finale. But how does Daryl somehow end up in France?

Was he kidnapped? Was he taken there by the CRM?

News recently spread that Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) has been spotted in France where the spinoff supposedly has begun filming. Is he paying Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon) a visit or is he involved in that spinoff too as he was last seen getting rescued by the CRM?

Lastly, Rick & Michonne’s spinoff seems to hint that the two will reunite but under what circumstances? There are so many theories as to what happened to Rick after he was rescued.

Is he purposely working with the CRM to protect his loved ones from being discovered? Did he suffer amnesia and therefore has no relocation of his past and reminds faithful to the CRM?

Michonne has been searching for him since Virgil provided her first clue in years of his whereabouts. Before that she, like many, assumed he was dead.

Why do we feel that the CRM is going to return just as the final episodes airs and changes the whole game for everyone involved? Even TWD’s showrunners have remained awfully quite about them.

But we want to know, what you think.

What do you think causes the chain of events leading to The Walking Dead spinoffs? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below!

The Walking Dead season 11 episode 20 airs on AMC Sunday, October 23.