Who's the Rat V. 3.0: This time We're Alive and Serious

[nikvoodoo]

Hear ye hear ye!

It's been about a year since we last took a vote from the populace regarding who in the Johnny Walker Blue Blazes is the Rat of the Tower!!

We're all older, wiser, and we have a gigantic soup bone dangling in front of our faces at this particular moment. So.....let's hear it! Who's the Rat of the Tower?????

[Hellbringer]

I still go with Bill as the thief.

[nikvoodoo]

I still go with Bill as the thief.

But who's the rat? Or are they one in the same for you?

[Hellbringer]

But who's the rat? Or are they one in the same for you?

Yeah, I think I originally voted Bill as the rat, but I don't want any "cliffhangers" (reading that other thread) influence my decision making now. Therefore, I figure I'll come completely out of left field in the Soccer Stadium (for now) and say it's someone not mentioned yet. It goes against all conventional Hollywood drama series wisdom, meaning it has to be someone mentioned previously in the series, but I can't commit to it being someone we have heard from or about yet.

I'm now the guy Brian from Family Guy hates during voting season.

[7oddisdead]

so..i pulled this poll up this evening and all the sudden the sparrows that live in my beard started shouting kalani! kalani!..kalani the rat!

i said

" whoa there, true believers! thats what you've been lead to believe!...but lets examine things a lil closer, shall we??
who has always been somewhere close by when the perverbial shit has hit the fan?
who made friends with the hawiian bad boy early on in his tower time?
who has a mysterious brother, living somewhere in the states?
who has done worse things, so he claims...then throw dead bodies over a balcony?

thats right true believers, mighty king datu the fucking resourceful!!!
eck-cel-sior!!

the little sparrows just stared at me like i was a total idiot...

[Nathan.Luiz]

Steven has been a bit of an arse for the entire time we've known about him, so I think it might be him. In all honesty, I don't have a clue, there is so much conflicting evidence for everyone it might be.

[StepLaugh]

This is still sooo open, I have no idea, I know there's a red-haring, and I'm not falling for it!

[Grognaurd]

To begin, it is easiest to assume that the same person is all three. AS LONG As caveats are used to remind one of the assumption.

Second, I am going to start with the major characters becuase we know the most about their whereabouts in addition, it will be a better story if is a character of note that can be followed through the story. There would be a riot on the boards if we find out that it was really Col. Mustard in the Library with the Lead Pipe.

I am hard pressed to place most of the characters at the scene of each crime.

Michael-- I do not think he is a pulling an OJ "If I did it..." So, take him of the list. IN addtion, the Thief happens while he is on the water-mission.
Angel-- Not present for Theft. Nearly impossible to trip the alarm, shoot Pippen and meet Michael in the stairs
Burt, Away at Theft, away at Assassin
Saul -- Away at theft, away at Assassin
Kalani / Datu -- away at thetf, away at Assassin. I will ellaborate here a bit. My assumption is that the innocent one would not leave the tower with the alarm sounding. Even if Kalani and Datu left after the alarm started I find even less unlikely that when question about it would day, nope I did not hear an alarm.
Riley -- Away at theft.
Lizzy -- Away at Assassin
Victor / Tanya / Hope not present for Season 1
Tommy not present for season 2 or forward
Steven Not even a redshirt for Season 1. Not available for season 3 forward.
Pegs, Dun? She is not listed by Angel as not having an alibi. But it could be an oversight. She was not on guard duty, because she was doing something else.
Kelly -- dun, dun, dun

Both Pegs and Kelly return to the tower from the colony as did Michael's silent pistol
Both Pegs and Kelly are at the tower at the time of the theft
Latch and Scratch show up at the tower just after Pegs guard shift and durring Kelly's.
Last, Peg's is the one that pushes for the party instead of getting some more of Burts ammo etc.

More speculative
Tending the garden on the roof, she would probably have more interaction with Bill.
Bill appears to freely mix with tower's residence the day after the theft and one of the first things he does is hit on Pegs. I do not think it is coincidene. I think they were kinda chummy and Bill does the whole show up at the same party and leverage the advance with Alcohol.

Withered Cortex Failure...
Michael's arm gets pretty banged up again durring the war. One of the sparrows from 7odd's beard reminded me that Pegs says, there is some ice up in Bill's apartment. I'll go get some. or something like that. Is that the only place to have ice? Run up the 10+ flights of stairs. So, by her own words she says she knows that there is ice in Bill's apartment. I have to go back and relisten. I cannot remember if she goes or if she comes back.


Next time I will write as though all three events are not connected.

[Wicked Sid]

Still vote Saul.

No amount of logic will deter my current course of non-action. Even after the Rat is revealed, I will still vote Saul.

[Grognaurd]

Hmmm... Saul. The thing that has always bothered me is the first night. Why is he so slow to respond to Michaels call for help? I would have to go back and relisten, but I think I hear him call back to Michael, but is a no show until the threat is neutralized.