"If their whole purpose was to try and prevent us from retrieving supplies," Furiosa says grimly. "That implies orders from someone or something higher up."

What does anyone have to gain by trapping them, making them desperate? Unless the whole point is just to sit back and watch everyone in the Nexus fight one another for survival.

"Well," she says with finality, after considering for a moment. "Chances are we'll see them again. I guess we'll learn plenty more about them before the season's out."