It was Kelly AND Riley! They're lovers in cahoots! It all makes sense now.
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I'm not completely sure who it is, but my gut is telling me that Kelly is the one, even though I like her now.
And I still say Datu is the only one who had a motive and was the only person not heard from at the party.
I think if we haven't seen the reveal of the traitor by the end of Chapter 20, we should close this thread and take a re-vote on the topic now that everyone has made 11 pages worth of comments and arguments and see if anything has changed.
I continue to withhold my vote, could it be that Bill was the rat and someone else starting firing what sounded like a pistol, five rounds were fired one breaking a windshield.
Could Bill have stolen a weapon when he took all the supplies, thus planning to initiate the war with his new contacts?
Did Bill know about The Mallers from any previous briefings? It is obvious that he was at the stolen supplies meeting, he coughed during the dramatic tower meeting.
If we assume he know nothing of their existence and somehow happened across the CB channel one night then we are assuming far too much...
Could it be Paul?
Could it be a somehow captured and cooperating Saul?
Ch. 1 had Riley receiving a pistol and who knows what happened to it after that fact...
EDIT!!** She sleeps with it close by and even drunk is ready to use it.
Could she have??**
As much as I hate to say this, I think it may have been Burt. These are the reasons:
They stole his property and that really pissed him off.
He is a soldier to the core and probably feels the need to deal with his enemies through any means possible. In my experience, people who are willing to give their lives for their fellow citizen, don't care much for criminals.
He enjoys the fighting and things were getting a little mundane. Keep in mind Burt doesn't have a lot to lose (at least he thought he didn't).
I believe Bill took the items on his own because he has a solo survivalist mentality and was just making sure he wouldn't have to rely on anyone if things went seriously south. Burt was very proud of Bill's sacrifice during the war and may have thought Bill's (and Tommy's) death was his fault.
Bill may have tipped off the maller's before he knew of the party and the lack of ammo.
Manintrees: Those're all reasons that burt would've fired the first shot. That doesn't mean he informed the mallers about the party, among other things. In fact, while he often disagreed with decisions, I'm sure he preferred living with that over a war that he knew would be really really bad for them. He's smart enough to know the odds.
I suggested that he may have tipped off the mallers before he knew of the party. The last thing Burt would have wanted was his troops to be inebriated.
I have changed my mind about Burt being the rat. 1. I really like Burt and 2. After I made that post I remembered that there were shots fired from an unknown source. These shots kicked off the battle and did not come from Burt.
This is a complete aside, but I think Micheal fumbled the initial discussion with the mallers before the war started. The mallers could never have been trusted but Micheal could have been a little more diplomatic at the start as prisoners stereotypically have irrational respect issues.
If it was me, I would have totally said....actually I would have probably been hiding under a bed weeping with fear...forget it.
Okay, here's what I think. Saul has the most going against him. He has met the Mallers before and had the radio (or was that a different radio, I don't know) they could of told him in advance about that station.
However, I doubt this. He doesn't seem like the type to do this.
I think it's possible two people were working together. Datu is suspicious to me, he knew where the supplies were at, he claimed Bill put them there but what if he did? He doesn't have motive however.
Kelly has motive but for the sake of her survival doesn't seem like the type.
Honestly, almost everyone has something against them on this. So most are a possibility. I don't pine any of the soldiers as the type, they're all too intelligent or untrusting to do that. This includes Burt.
Kalani, Bill, Datu, Kelly, and Pegs are whom i suspect out of all the ones listed. We don't know much about Kalani at the time this started and Pegs seems too trusting of other people and may have found a way to contact them. They didn't recognize her voice, unless you believe that they did and just didn't claim so, to make her look like she wasn't the culprit. However, I doubt this, what reason would the Mallers keep the secret once they've gotten what they wanted?
I say the most likely is Datu. But something is off about this whole thing. If I suspect one person, each time, there's another reason to go against it. Either not knowing how to contact the Mallers, having no reason to trust them or anything.
Which is why I think it could have been more than one person.
But who? I can't make a choice. Most of them are too suspicious in my eyes.
This is, however, fiction. Logic doesn't really have to apply. They could make it Michael if they wanted to and think up some random reason for it that we never knew about or had any indication of.
However, this being said, it could be anyone. Some have motive, some had means of contact. I don't recall anyone who had motive AND means of contact.
Unless, of course, someone accidentally found them on the radio. But who knows. I'll hold out for the answer.
I was going to say Angel because there is a definite link between him and Scratch. He detests the mallers a little too much and is quite linked with them somehow