Quote Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero View Post
Bah, I have to spread the Rep before I can hook you up again, but agreed! I think it must have been a difficult position Kalani was in. Knowing what we know about the tower members, it is easy to say K-man should have told Michael about Hannah and his relation to the Mallers. Shit, Michael's smart, they could have used K-man as a double agent! But unfortunately for everyone, Kalani didn't know much about Michael and the Tower. The Tower was in a shite situation at the time Kalani showed up, so he saw them bickering with each other and stealing from each other. Not a good impression. So, he felt the best thing he could do, the only thing he could do to get his daughter back safely, was to play ball with the Mallers.

After the war, he saw the aftermath and probably shoulded a lot of guilt, especially after seeing Tommy's corpse and realizing that his daughter was only a few years older than the young man. Letting the Mallers think he was dead would have bought him some time to come up with some kind of plan. Hell, in the number of times I have listened to We're Alive, I came across a point where I sometimes felt Kalani wanted to tell the truth, but just couldn't. I feel bad for the guy, but it was a shitty situation all around.

Want to blame someone, blame Scratch! Fucking Pippin volunteered for the position of rat!
Your point about Kalani after the War is a good one. He does take note of Tommy's age and I am sure that would put a real face to all the damage he had caused.

I still do not understand why he did not try and get some confirmation from the Mallers about Hannah's well being...however, I suppose that can be attributed to fear.

Some interesting ideas about Datu, perhaps he was "in" on the killing of Pippin, though I think if he were, then Kalani would have said so in his journal. More than likely he was just being careless (or a bit stupid) with his vouching for Kalani. And I do think it says something about Michael's sharpness that he was not able to notice the inconsistency in Datu's story with his own personal experience.