Chapter 21 - "Mark of the Beast" - Part 1

Rock Daddy:

Wow man. My thoughts...
1) That IS art of the arena burning! wtf? I think the Mallers are trying to eliminate the zombie nest??? But don't forget the zombies lit fires in there. It could have been an accident...
I agree that it is the Arena, though I don't think the fire is an accident. I don't think something like that would be album cover worthy.
2) I guess Lizzy's "no" was to Tardust driving in the opposite direction, or meeting up with all the packed up tankers. KC confirmed that it was Lizzy saying no because she saw the Mallers had abandoned the strip mall.
3) I think Kalani's trainee pilot for the second helicopter will be Pegs. (Her father was a pilot) Really? Crap, I missed that detail. If that's true, then I agree Pegs will be the most likely canidate.
4) Lizzy is sick because of the zombies. (Don't know why, but... maybe they are secreting their own pheramones like an insect hive) But why just her and not Tardust & Bricks? Nah, she's pregnant...or just really gets disugsted by being raped.
5) The Mallers are keeping slaves to clear the roads and do their dirty work. Lazy bastards. But it has been suggested that they are sacrificing them to Ink for some sort of truce. I don't think so. I think they are just keeping slaves for fodder, grunt work, and maybe, maybe to trade with the colony.
6)Pippen got the shit beaten out of him obviously... I think he is either a scientist from the labs that knows about the virus that the mallers imprisoned, or a dirty traitor maller that is going to try to play our tower team for fools. Pippen seems to me to be a mole, but I did also suspect that he was a scientist, though I have no real evidence to back that up. The only reason I suspected so was because his acent reminded me of the scientist from Planet Terror (the dude with a white coat, Jerry-curls, and got his head blown up).
7) I just don't know where the mallers are planning on settling! I want to say the colony because they were evesdropping on all of the towers conversations. But imagine if they all tried going for Fort Erwin and there was a Giant Final War? NEXT EPISODE PLEEEASE!!!!!
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Zombies don't work with humans... ever. End of story, it's just not something that seems plausible in the We're Alive universe

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Originally Posted by Rock Daddy

I agree with you PlutoniumX. Angel & Scratch prob have a criminal past and Angel doesn't want it to harm his reputation as a "leader" in the tower. Also, I think it was... Yarri maybe... (Don't kill me if I'm wrong) that suggested maybe Angel was on the jury that convicted her. (Which would explain why she knows his face, but didn't know his name) If that's the case, when she realizes it... she WILL BE PISSED!!!! :)

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Maybe I'm going crazy-- I DO remember there being a point where Angel recommended the prison as a place to stay at because he as well as Michael knew how they worked.

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Originally Posted by yarri

I would trust Bricks before Pippen.

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Yes YOU would. But if the tower finds out he's an Maller spy, then Lizzie shows up with one. its gonna be WAR against Bricks no matter how nice he is.

I just had a thought- maybe Pippin has something to do with the small zomibes? Pippin was the name of a hobbit in Lord of the Rings, so maybe that was the reason why KC picked that name? Probably thinking about this way too much lol...

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Originally Posted by AdrianHD

Maybe I'm going crazy-- I DO remember there being a point where Angel recommended the prison as a place to stay at because he as well as Michael knew how they worked.

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Angel recommended it because its the only thing equivalent to a fortress or castle in modern society. Prisons are safe from external attacks. </devilsadvocate>

But I agree that it could be interpreted this way. He also said he knew he could survive in a cell. But I'm sure my military brethren on this forum can set the record straight. If he had done any time, could he have been in the Officer school?

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Originally Posted by nikvoodoo

Angel recommended it because its the only thing equivalent to a fortress or castle in modern society. Prisons are safe from external attacks. </devilsadvocate>

But I agree that it could be interpreted this way. He also said he knew he could survive in a cell. But I'm sure my military brethren on this forum can set the record straight. If he had done any time, could he have been in the Officer school?

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If he signed up at roughly the same time as Saul, perhaps his previous record wouldn't have mattered.

My friend pointed out that Tardust expressed concerns that they were pulling off the directions provided on the map. Scratch said they were taking a "detour". Later we hear that they are going through a park. Using Google maps I saw that Elysian Park is right off of 110. If 110 was blocked with debris, this could be the park that Ink led them into to spring the ambush.

I wish we could have heard Tardust's complete story about the encounter at the Police Dept. Interesting. What do you think they were doing there? Looking for ammo, or something more?

Yeah I don't think they're in the same bed with the zombies, but they did talk about knowing which roads were clear. That tells me they have been doing some extensive travelling. I could for sure see them blowing up the arena. The less amount of zombies the easier it might be to take the tower, not for save haven but for what 20-30 new slaves. Maybe they have a deal with the colony but in order to get entrance they have a couple missions, blow up the arena and bring Micheal back to the colony! Pegs is their way of luring out Micheal. Micheal being a marked target of the mallers and Ink trying to put a kabosh on both the maller's and the Tower's plans.