Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27929993-20160318180646

So i'm going to start this thread with this question that hit me one of these days, and now i've decided to share it with you so that i can read your thoughts and see if you actually have the same doubt and any interesting theories.

When Lexa died we all saw Titus, The Flamekeeper, removing the AI chip from the back of her neck and put it into a box to pass it on to the next Commander. Up to this point all's good.

My question is: if this is how they pass "the spirit of the Commander" when they die, how did they do it when Anya died, to pass it on to Lexa?! When Anya died she was with Clarke, she was killed by Skykru people, and Trikru never had the chance to see or touch her body.

The only 2 possibilities i see are:

1. They have more than one AI chip, which i don't think so,  it wouldn't make any sense 'cause then it wouldn't be "the spirit of the Commander", but 'the spirits of the Commanders". And above all because we've seen that there was only one chip when Becca came down to Earth and it was implanted on her.

2. Titus went back to look for her body and remove the chip to pass it on to Lexa, and this was an off screen part of the story that never was shown. Maybe there will be a flashback in future episodes later on this season or in the next one.

I guess for me this second option makes more sense and i don't know if they will address this matter later on this season or maybe in Season 4, as i said before, now we've seen how it works. Anyway i think this is a pretty risky procedure 'cause there's no way for them to be sure they will always be able to get to the Commander's dead body to remove the AI chip. It just actually takes something as simple as a fire, explosion or even an animal attack for the chip to be lost for good. I actually have the perfect example to support what i just said: if Lexa had been killed by that mutant gorilla back in season 2, the chip would have been lost for good, they wouldn't be able to retrieve it.

Looking forward to see what you think and read your theories. 