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

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

1. Congrats to all those who said the Mallers kept slaves. They obviously did do so, which I'm pretty sure goes to my point that they aren't the nicest people ever. Anyone that got shacked up with them at the mall on accident fell into the hierarchy of the prisoners.

2. Another huge strategic mistake by the Tower for using the radio still. And because the Mallers had technology that the Tower doesn't have, I betcha the only people up North that heard Michael's "We found help down south" message were the Mallers.

3. (MY BIG ASSUMPTION OF THE DAY) what do you think is going to happen when the Mallers make it down South to the Colony? Apparently Scratch and "Gatekeeper" are friendly now...that might be some big trouble (for the Tower and for Colony residents).

4. Big ups to Lizzy for realizing they were walking into a trap. Damn shame no one listened.

5.does the chapter artwork look like an arena on fire to anyone else but me?

The art looks EXACTLY like an "Arena" on fire... *clears throat* I wonder.... hm...hmmm...

Wait! Nik you said "apparently Scratch and the Gatekeeper are friendly now?" HUH? did I miss something?

Ok. so I can apologize to KC for all my bitch'n about people traveling willy nilly around LA without fear (even though dude said he wasn't scared of the normal ones). They can only travel around HALF willy nilly. LOL!

My one question is... well maybe two questions: Is this story real time or prior to Lizzie's 'Noooo.." from the last chapter????
If it's real time, then what happened between 20 and 21??

[ObamaCat]

The art looks EXACTLY like an "Arena" on fire... *clears throat* I wonder.... hm...hmmm...

Wait! Nik you said "apparently Scratch and the Gatekeeper are friendly now?" HUH? did I miss something?

Ok. so I can apologize to KC for all my bitch'n about people traveling willy nilly around LA without fear (even though dude said he wasn't scared of the normal ones). They can only travel around HALF willy nilly. LOL!

My one question is... well maybe two questions: Is this story real time or prior to Lizzie's 'Noooo.." from the last chapter????
If it's real time, then what happened between 20 and 21??

Check KC's post above.

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

Confirmed.

Well damn! Never mind my comment then! LOL.

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

Cat,

I hadn't gotten that far in the thread yet. LOL.. I got antsy.
Anyone pay attention to the part about raiding police stations? Those guys have seriously been proactive about arming up!

[Meeks]

Wait, wait, wait. If she said she's going to "drop him off", perhaps the Mallers are planting him in the Tower?

My thoughts exactly

[Cutting-T]

I don't know why, but I think that the arm of the 'Little One' in the truck may do something....
Pippin also appears to have an awsome voice, wether he's good or bad though is still to be seen.
I'm pretty sure now though that Bricks will end up a good-guy, considering how hesitant he was to leave the slaves to die at the Zombies' hands.

[Th3_T3ch]

The artwork is probably the Mall after the Mallers ditched it. Pippin is a spy, in 20-3 Scratch said they hadn't heard from the other person in quite a while. I'm assuming she was talking about the rat and that she wanted a second person in there to get more information on the tower. I am happy Ink made a reappearance, I was missing the zombie action, and my theory on Kalani might have just gotten a giant hole in it.

[Adventureless_Hero]

I think that Scratch was planting another mole. In the last episode she said she was going to drop Pippin off. I wonder if she beat the crap out of him to make it look like he had been surviving on his own. I'm anxious to see what Pippin will do in the next chapter; will he be a spy for the Mallers, or will he fess up and tell Michael, "Scratch is a crazy bitch. She wanted me to rat you guys out, but now that I'm here, I just want to chill with you guys." Either way, he is not to be trusted. I'm hoping that when he interacts with the rest of the Tower we see an awkward moment between him and Kelly, revealing her as the original mole!

That's pretty awesome that Ink was commanding the hordes in the ambush. Now I'm starting to think that he could possibly be the same one that was in the arena. Not sure yet.

So what's going on with Scratch? I'm going to have to listen again because there was so much going on, but did they imply that Scratch's "friends" might be the people at the colony? I guess Durai is dead or was dethroned by the Big Boss Lady.

[EDIT] My bad. Upon relistening I realize that when Bricks says, "You think it's her friends" he wasn't referring to Scratch being friends with the Colony but rather Lizzie's friends, the folks from the tower. Still, it seems like Scratch may have been leading the convoy to the colony. The map shows that they are to take 110. That freeway leads south towards the beach house, then you head east and you are at the colony.

Maybe Lizzie's "Oh no." from the previous episode was the moment she realized they were driving away from the location of the mall, heading south rather than North? They were heading south on 110, right? Or were they headed east on 10? Ah, heck, I'm off to relisten to 20-3 and 21-1.

[nikvoodoo]

The artwork is probably the Mall after the Mallers ditched it.

The Mallers Mall is a strip mall. That looks like a structurally enclosed place. And it's on fire. That would be a rather important thing to know since Burt and Saul are in the mall right now searching for clues.

So what's going on with Scratch? I'm going to have to listen again because there was so much going on, but did they imply that Scratch's "friends" might be the people at the colony? I guess Durai is dead or was dethroned by the Big Boss Lady.

It could be the Colony (as I threw out earlier in my first post labeled "Big Assumption of the Day") but there's nothing to prove that yet.

Wait! Nik you said "apparently Scratch and the Gatekeeper are friendly now?" HUH? did I miss something?

See above. My stating the Colony/Mallers contact was my big assumption of the day.

[WestonWisdom]

I had an admiral ackar moment when he said the road was supposed to be clear, but I had only just re-listened to Chapter 6.

I think the artwork looks like the Arena on fire, Durai did have big plans for those tankers after all, that's a lot of fuel presuming they managed to fill all the ones in their territory, but I think the idea of it being the mall are probably correct, it did sound like a convoy.