Michelle Ang Didn't Know She Was Joining The Walking Dead Universe In Flight 462

This post contains spoilers for "Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462."

Early in its eight-season run, AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead" crossed over into a 16-part web series, "Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462," which followed the breakout of the zombie apocalypse aboard a commercial flight bound for Phoenix, Arizona. In the series, Michelle Ang's character, Alex, is always one step ahead of the other passengers when it comes to dealing with "walkers." She can recognize the signs that a person is infected, knows when to tie them up or lock them in the restroom, and knows where to aim a gun or knitting needle in order to put one down.

In real life, however, Ang was much more in the dark than her character when it came to her place in the "Walking Dead" universe. "Flight 462" premiered in October 2015, the same day that "Fear the Walking Dead" wrapped up its first season. It was the spin-off of a spin-off and would conclude in March 2016 after observing its own mid-season break, by which time "Fear the Walking Dead" would be preparing to return for its second season.

Alex and other "Flight 462" survivors, including Jake Powell (Brendan Meyer), returned on a life raft in "Fear the Walking Dead" season 2, episode 3, "Ouroboros," after their plane went down off the coast. This gave Ang the chance to appear on the aftershow, "Talking Dead," where she revealed how she auditioned for "Flight 462" without any knowledge of its connection to "The Walking Dead."

On "Talking Dead," Michelle Ang told host Chris Hardwick that she only knew "Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462" by its code name at first. Ang said her audition was "super secret," and it inserted her in a zombie-free scenario:

"It was totally shrouded in mystery because 'Flight 462' was its own standalone piece, and when my team got the audition, the project name was hidden. It was, like, 'Rhino.' It was super secret. And I was, like, 'Rhino?' Yeah. 'Rhino' web series? Sounds cool. Actually, the audition sides weren't even, sit on a plane, and didn't have anything to do with any infected people.

"My character was sitting in a train station, being bothered by an annoying young boy, who, she's just like, 'Please shut up. No, please. Can you shut up?' She was just basically a really staunch, grumpy, badass woman waiting for a train."

This sounds more like the beginning of "Train to Busan" than "Zombies on a Plane." It would be easy enough on the page, perhaps, to transpose Jake and Alex's "Flight 462" dialogue with that of the "annoying young boy" and "badass woman waiting for a train."

In the end, Alex gets the last available Flight 462 seat, while Jake is left to phone his mother and panic as he hears screams in the background and the lights eventually go out on the ground below. Later, Alex takes to stabbing zombies in the head and caring for the burned Jake after their plane crashes in the ocean.