Colored and Marked and Tattooed Ones Oh My!

[wh33t]

Ok so another thought I just had on top of my other thoughts.

What if "Ink" isn't a zombie? Apparently he's schizophrenic... What if he was a Scientist at one point or something and went crazy? Radiation experiment gone bad? I base this upon the fact that Michael is noted saying "they were not human anymore, not with those eyes". The zombies eyes are described as cloudy and lifeless from my memories and Inks eyes are described as green right? Dun dun dun. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The issue is that Pinstripes is the one that is covered from head to toe in tattoos, not the colored one by your assessment. And Skittles has changed his description to be The One With the Markings vs. the Colored One so we once again talk ourselves into a circle because nobody in the story can just use the same damn descriptive terms for this guy/guys.

Way back when, I did some math to figure out how fast The Man in the Pinstriped Suit escaped the tower using the distances Michael called out, and I figured he was capable of traveling 89 miles per hour. Kc, however, shot it down saying we were getting a little crazy but the math doesn't lie....unless of course Michael is that bad at figuring distances.

If *insert your preferred name here* can actually travel that fast, he'd be capable of beating the rescue team back to the Tower after the events of Purgatory. And can you just imagine it? Some dude in a pinstripe suit doing the sickest Parkour through L.A....that'd be awesome to see

Man that would be slick to see! The parkour that is.

In "Purgatory" there is a tattooed zombie in the center of the Ice Rink. First blush would be this is the same zombie as "Paul". But, it really comes down to timing. Is the smart zombie able to do whatever he needs to do there and then move up to The Tower in the window of time between when the rescue party leaves and arrives at the Ice Rink. Either is possible.

Now, on to the one who kills Paul. It is really obvious that he is a smart one. But, one thing that I have not seen (I may have missed it, I am new) is after this Smart One kills Paul, he takes Paul's clothes. Yup. The probability that this zombie and Paul were wearing very similar outfits is slim. As a matter of fact, it probably would have been mentioned from the Security Camera shots. It is not like the story said, Dude, Nice Zuit Suit. LOL. So, this Zombie kills Paul and then takes the Zuit Suit to better impersonate Paul. As Saul says, something like, that's Paul, he always dresses like that.

Onward. If the Paul impersonating Zombie was smart enough to change clothes, could Zombie Tommie be smart enough to do the same thing? The face was damaged to the point of being unrecognizable, but they do recognize the clothes he was wearing. The Zombie Tommie would be a nice twist.

Paul and Ink are both wearing suits at the same time during Inks appearance in the tower right? Doesn't that discredit that he took clothing from Paul and hint at something even more sinister? The fact that Ink has the intelligence to go out and find clothing that looks similar as someone he's trying to impersonate? That shit's terrifying.

she's alive and prego with one of the little one's...inks special forces

If Samantha was dragged and caught and kept for something other than food, perhaps breeding like you say why would they also capture Kalani. Perhaps Kalani is more than just a tasty morsel? I dunno... seems stretching this theory a bit.

I have a question maybe not thought of. What makes the Color one so special? I mean, is he more or less just a super doctor zombie? Like idk, beyond a I.Q. of over 200 to make him to retain a lot more of his human experience? Or could it be he was created as he seems special in that he is physcially different from other zombies in the way he looks.

Aye, I've had a theory that Raydon labs, Ink and perhaps also Durai are all linked through some kind of experimentation. Perhaps a behavioral drug or technique gone terribly wrong.

[wh33t]

And here it comes!!!



There's actually more evidence against it by the super human qualities he's exhibited. Specifically speed. If we believe the zombies can perform acts the regular survivors can't, then Ink definitely falls into at least your tweener category of not human/not zombie, or full fledged zombie.

Not to mention he got shot in the chest twice (I think it was twice) and got up and still jumped out a window and sprinted away. I'd vote for definitely not human.

I posted this in another thread but it's super relevant to this as well. Has anyone considered the significance of Michael saying that "Inks" eyes are green? He says that right? And in the beginning of the story Michael clearly states that he could tell the Zombies where not human by talking about their eyes but says nothing about the Zombies eyes being brilliantly green.

[Grognaurd]

Roberts / Ink / TOWTM and the pinstripe suit.

In court and sometimes in transportation, the subject of the trial is not forced the where the orange jump suit. At first I took his suit as the clothes of Paul. Sunsequently, I have change my position and think that Roberts / Ink were dressed up really nice for transport.

Green eyes -- I also noted this. Maybe green eyes are genitcally linked to "Special" zombies.

I will also note that by coincidence or design Lizzy has green eyes. In Chapter 1, they were called "blue" as part of being pretty. It was redacted to green. My belief is just about every thing is important or it will not be there.

Eyes,
Lizzy -- Dinner together Chapter 2 Blue Redacted to Green
Lizzy -- Chlorform Blood sweat and fears I think Saul says open those green eyes
Lizzy -- Furniture store Tar says pretty green eyes can not recall title or chapter. But, it is the chapter after about last night

Zombies cloudy eyes
Pegs, brown eyes Chapter 1 just after she jumps into the hummer
Edward scissor kitty, I mean Mr. Whiskers' are not cloudy. Chapter 1 part 3 or chapter 2 part one maybe
Pinstripe suit / talking zombie has green eyes. Confrontation in Tower July 3rd. Chapter 10 part 3 maybe?

Chapter 2 I think Saul says Burt is not dead. He is still one of us. Look at his eyes. We do not know the color, but we know Burt does not have cataracks (spelling?)

I do not recall any other connection to eyes

Wow, maybe I have listened to this a few too many times. NAH! Season 3 psyche!

[Anhysbys]

It's obviously Aliens.

It seems that most of the smart zombies are based off of intelligence gathered, I know for a fact that IQ has nothing to do with intelligence. Firsthand *cough* I'm stupid *cough*.

"I have a question maybe not thought of. What makes the Color one so special? I mean, is he more or less just a super doctor zombie? Like idk, beyond a I.Q. of over 200 to make him to retain a lot more of his human experience? Or could it be he was created as he seems special in that he is physcially different from other zombies in the way he looks."

Ignore the below fancy, fancy nerd talk if you don't want to be bored.
The high IQ idea seems plausible however, since it tends to go hand in hand with smarts. Although I have to be my regular smartypants self and say that an IQ even close to 200 is improbable, dang near impossible (a probability of .0000000000131549262) meaning if we take the world population and multiply it just by the probablility there would be .0899864651 people currently alive with an IQ atleast 200 (figuratively). This is going off a mean IQ of 100 and the Standard Deviation of 15, which sadly is generous. Average IQ is steadily declining and around year 2000 was an average of 89.2

Either way I think of Ink/Pinstripe as Case: Zero allowing for the most time as a zombie, thus leading to a belief that he had more time to "evolve". The most likely reason that Ink ran approximately 89 mph away from the tower is mostly just to prevent Burt from being able to make the shot. Since if Ink/Pinstripe was running at a plausible speed Burt should be able to hit him. A minor plothole just used to drive the story. He was suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia maybe owing to that he could've been suffering from Z1N1 before then.

[headlessstew]

Does anyone else remember the news broadcast early on in the tivo? the one that mentioned a tattooed criminal
being put on trial? i think that he's the marked one, but a zombie now. If anyone has anything else, post it below

[headlessstew]

i mean Ink when I say the marked one

[nikvoodoo]

Nah. We didn't forget. We have a whole thread dedicated to him and his potential origins....actually a few. Imma merge this to its rightful home

[Eviebae]

I'm personally pretty decided that there's only one Pinstripe/Paul/Markings zombie. He's been a bit of a standout all along. He's always shown to be smarter, stronger and more of a leader/instigator throughout the whole series. There are other howlers, but their calls are distinctive. I really like that different people used different words to describe him because it adds a touch of realism.

I do, however, suspect there's another person/persons behind the scenes.

Given that:

• Zombies mutate into specific types--and there's always more than one of behemoths, jumpers, howlers etc.
• Ink seems to be one of a specific type of zombie--a howler/leader/strategist who might be unique somehow.
• Zombies were supposedly in Hawaii--and there's no TV, internet or radio--which implies this is a world wide phenomenon.

What happens when different überalphazombie leaders from various places meet up?

[IamPaul]

Just thought of this reading chapter 2 threads. Bill pleaded insanity. I think it is clear he is the colored Z. Maybe he was going off on raydon labs, about tests they were doing and eventually went crazy. Because no one believed him. Or maybe he was a "weapon x" gone wrong. Maybe he was already turned before the mass infection. He was tattoed head to toe and was able to fool numerous survivors and can talk and reason, so why couldn't he fool everyone before it began. Also he was transported the same day it began. discuss!

[Grognaurd]

It's obviously Aliens.

Ignore the below fancy, fancy nerd talk if you don't want to be bored.
The high IQ idea seems plausible however, since it tends to go hand in hand with smarts. Although I have to be my regular smartypants self and say that an IQ even close to 200 is improbable, dang near impossible (a probability of .0000000000131549262) meaning if we take the world population and multiply it just by the probablility there would be .0899864651 people currently alive with an IQ atleast 200 (figuratively). This is going off a mean IQ of 100 and the Standard Deviation of 15, which sadly is generous. Average IQ is steadily declining and around year 2000 was an average of 89.2 before then.

Interesting thoughts, but the trick is not to set baseline IQ and then look at probabilities. I guess my IQ is not high enough to actually know anything about it. A mean of 100 and SD of 15 would put about 5% of the population at 55. At what level does one become classified as instituionalized because they are unable to care for themselves (Not, criminally insane). I wouldguess we distribution would have bell-like qualities, but have steeper curve lowside and an extended tail highside.

Anyway, back to We're Alive Mythos, Burt's smart in life smart in death idea may have merit, but What about "eyeQ" 8P ties to eye color and clairity? TOWTM that confront Michael, Saul and Burt had clear green eyes while multiple times we hear that the unwashed masses are foggy-eyed. I toyed with the idea of TOWTM not being a zombie, just fitting in well. But, catching an unexpected arrow in mid flight aint going to happen. The only way it works as a parlor trick is that the person catching the arrow controls both the distance and the timing of release. Not to mention Bow, arrow, the actual shooter. If you want to do a controled experiment where the "superhuman" is not calling the shots it just aint going to happen.