<em>Fear the Walking Dead</em> showrunners answer season premiere burning questions

(Ouch!) We then learned they have been having trouble finding people that even wanted their help, which extended to a trio of youngsters they met post-crash in the premiere.Not only that, but before the hour was complete, Althea appeared to be abducted, and it turns out the entire supply run was a ruse sent out by Polar Bear’s former partner Logan (Matt Frewer) to get them out of their factory home base of operations, which he then proceeded to take back over. ANDREW CHAMBLISS: We talked a lot about how we wanted to open the season and what led us to the decision to open kind of mid-mission a few months into what our characters had been doing was that we really wanted to achieve a couple of things. That was achieved in a big way with Alicia’s first moment when she steps out of the smoke from the burning plane and then takes out one of the walkers.It was really about creating the sense that our group has been doing this mission, has been successful at this mission, and it was all about creating a little bit of a mislead so that when we find out that they actually have been having a really hard time finding people who are alive, people who trust them, people who want help, that would come as a little bit of a gut punch to the audience.And then I think the other thing is we have an amazing crew and we know that they’re capable of some pretty spectacular things, so we wanted to open in a really kind of big way. ANDREW CHAMBLISS: You probably won’t be surprised that I’m not going to say a lot about the group that put them there, but I think it’s pretty clear that there is a warning and that there perhaps is something beyond those heads and the walkers that are strung up across the road with their own intestines — that whoever is putting those up does not want our characters to see. When people show up saying they want to help, that is an anomaly and that’s not something that people necessarily actually believe.Well, can we assume that these zombie heads we see hanging are connected to the group that appears to have abducted Althea?