Note: This article contains spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead season 5 episode 1 'Here to Help'.

Rick Grimes departed from The Walking Dead in season 9, but a new theory suggests that Fear the Walking Dead characters including Alicia Clark may have cameoed during Andrew Lincoln's exit episode.

The speculation comes after a Rick Easter egg featured in Fear the Walking Dead's season 5 premiere.

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To briefly summarise the Easter egg in Fear the Walking Dead, Althea (Maggie Grace) discovered that a dead soldier was wearing a distinct symbol of three interlocking circles – the same symbol that featured on the helicopter seen in The Walking Dead season 9 episode 5, when Rick was whisked away.

This leads to the theory in question, shared by a ComicBook.com writer.

Before Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) saved Rick (Andrew Lincoln) in The Walking Dead season 9 episode 5, Jadis was listening to different frequencies on her radio.

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Below, Brandon Davis wonders if some of the voices – which reference Rick blowing up the bridge – actually belong to Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), Morgan (Lennie James), and Dwight (Austin Amelio).



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Fear the Walking Dead season 5 currently takes place before The Walking Dead season 9 has begun, so the timeline doesn't contradict the theory.

And a Rick spin-off movie starring Andrew Lincoln is in development...



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Elsewhere in the Fear the Walking Dead season premiere, Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades) made his first appearance since the season 3 finale, and it looks like he will be seeing Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) very soon...

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Fear the Walking Dead season 5 airs on AMC in the US and on AMC on BT TV in the UK.

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