Quote Originally Posted by Cabbage Patch View Post
Here's my "Kalani is the Rat" scenario.
• Kalani lands a planeload of survivors from Hawaii, including "his Hannah" at LAX.
• They are captured by the Mallers.
• Recognizing the special relationship between Kalani and Hannah, the Mallers force Kalani to work for them, planting him as a spy in the "Other Tower", using Hannah as a hostage to guarantee his behavior. Somewhere in here one of the Mallers comments that Hannah is the last redhead left in LA.
• Kalani gets captured by the zombies when the Other Tower falls, and is rescued from the Arena by our Tower.
• Kalani uses the CB to get back in contact with the Mallers. He tells them the names of the leaders and lets them know about the party, which provides the perfect cover for the Mallers' attack.
• After the attack Kalani has second thoughts about helping the Mallers and stops communicating with them. Maybe something Scratch says helps; I can imagine her playing head games with Kalani and telling him that Hannah was already dead.
• Kalani recognizes Pippin as one of the Mallers and kills him. Before he leaves for LAX he writes a confessional message that he hides in Bill's desk.
• On the helicopter trip back to the Tower Saul and Michael mention the death of the redheaded woman at the golf course, and Kalani realizes that it had to be Hannah.
• Kalani uses the helicopter to stop the Mallers' attack, explaining on the radio about Hannah and telling Angel where to find his confession.
It's not an ideal scenario, and I hate the thought of Kalani being the rat, but I think it matches the facts in evidence.
I agree with you on most of it. But I think being the last redhead is a bit silly. I think it makes more sense that the team from the golf course told him about it, and Kalani might have assumed it was her, because he knew the consequences of not helping the tower, and probably realised that the mallers werent getting any use out of him/her.

Also, I think that Kalani likely changed his mind about being the rat when Angel didn't leave him to get eaten by the Big one, which could explain why he apologised for the tyre to an extent.

Quote Originally Posted by beezball View Post
For the record. I was just re-listening to chapter 7 where they do the sweat tests. During the scene where the zombies come up the adjacent tower that they ziplined down to, they cut the return zipline back to the tower because a zombie got on it. Anyway, angel says something to the effect that they should just starting dropping zombies three stories because it seems to kill themzombie as well asmaybe bullets. So we can assume the adjacent tower is 3 stories. So burt fell roughly 30-40 feet. Not as devastating as all that really. I'd say it would definitely be survivable.
I think the calculations might be a little off.
The zipline went from the roof (~15th floor) to the adjacent roof. Then it went back down to the 3rd floor. Assuming the same angle slope on the 2 ziplwires, the adjacent tower is probably about 9 stories tall. The zombie you mentioned probably fell about 3 stories because it was close to the tower. Burt was close but probably just a bit higher than the roof of the other tower. This means that Burt probably fell around 10 floors. Not to mention that the burning tanker was beneath him. I'm not sure that he would have necessarily hit that, but its an extra reason why he might not have made it.