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when you're in the barn the brothers are talking and one says that their mother told him to pick one of you to keep and kill the rest (presumably for food, and I guess clementine is the clear pick for survivor as she's easy to groom into not caring about eating people)
they were just juicing lee's group for help around the farm and with bandits until they had no option but to go mask off and turn them from labor to food because they found out, it was a prioritization of how to utilize them... they weren't going more than a couple more days until the family tried to set up a more advantageous situation to bushwhack them