Typically, I'd believe there would be an obvious absence of communication. There were people who lived in the sky back home who had no way of knowing about the ground below. They sacrificed their people to find out. [Clarke had suggested that it may be the same thing here. But the advanced and evolving technology says something different.]

The suits we wear suggest that we're important. They evolve. Which means we can evolve. I don't want to be arrogant, but I do think we're important. We just may not be a lost set of leaders. Leaders are usually the ones who are sought after when they're lost, all in order to restore stability.

[And while Lexa is a leader—she believes she was born to be one—she doubts she has that stature among the people behind the A symbol.]