Quote Originally Posted by symon_r View Post
Do the zombies have a sense of self-preservation?

When CJ is cornered she takes a few of them down and they stop advancing on her. Now it’s perfectly possible that there was some non-verbal communication from a smart one but given the verbal command that came later I'm not sure about that.

So either the regular zombies made a value judgement that their life(?) was more important than a well-defended position (I'm not sure they knew she was alone?) or a smart one made a similar value judgement on their behalf. Their are interesting implications of both scenarios. Could it mean that a regular zombie wouldn’t follow an order blindly if they perceived it contrary to their best interest or why does a smart one care if a few of their less cranially endowed colleagues get slaughtered?
Brilliant! I like your way of thinking. I am going to put more stock in the latter notion; that a smart one made the call for them, although we can't be certain because, as you said, we didn't hear any verbal command. But who knows, the one leading them (I'm assuming it was Pinstripes) may have done something as simple as place a hand on the shoulder of the next one about to meet it's true death around that corner.

CJ lucked out though because although she dropped 4 or 5 zed heads, she would have eventually run out of full clips to load up.