The Tattooed Zombie

[RamblinMike]

To me what's most remarkable about his plea of insanity is that it was accepted. The insanity defense is one of the hardest to pull off because you have to establish that at the time you commit your crimes you didn't know right from wrong and establishing one's mental state at a specific time in the past is truly impossible. It's whomever's lawyer can afford the best expert witness to convince a jury. So "Ink" must have really had something wrong with him to enter that plea and have it accepted. However, the insanity defense can be used for stabbings and shootings not just weirdly heinous crimes.

I hadn't considered it, but if he had been a zombie before hand and his crimes were committed a year before the story begins the outbreak would have happened a lot sooner. Not saying there's no merit in the theory, it just requires another extra step in the pathology of the virus (if that's what this truly is) and that the virus laid dormant for a year as it spread world wide. If it did lay dormant, that could explain why it unleashed on a global scale all at one time. It might have looked like a flu virus or something innocent like that until everyone's eyes turned glassy...

I didn't mean that one can't enter an insanity plea on a normal murder; I meant what you said - that actually getting away with a plea of insanity is really something. I expect the crimes would have to be pretty heinous and downright weird for the plea to hold water at all. It works all the time in Star Trek, though.

This is just me thinking out loud, but I don't think it would have to lay dormant. Maybe he just didn't infect anybody else? I don't know, there's more to it than this. But as for the people he murdered, they wouldn't have a chance of zombification since (in my theory) he ate them.

[nikvoodoo]

It's not impossible, the brain is capable of great things. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean there isn't someone who can.

Oh, and was that really Ink? Hmm, was it?

The brain may be capable, but the body has physical limitations it can't surpass.

And maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. I understand it would be a stretch for "It's Paul" and the One with the Markings to be one and the same. I'll be honest it's the only piece of conjecture I am willing to go into on here without having facts to back it up.

[Wicked Sid]

The body can surpass certain limitations when in times of great distress when willed by the primal parts of the brain but that's not really important. Just wanted to alert you.

[nikvoodoo]

The body can surpass certain limitations when in times of great distress when willed by the primal parts of the brain but that's not really important. Just wanted to alert you.

I will relent. Yes, you are correct human beings can exert super human abilities in times of stress.

[Chelsea C.]

I don't even REMEMBER them talking about a mental patient... especially not one with tattoos. How do we know that he was a schizophrenic? Where was I! Obviously, I've missed some crucial stuff. O.o

[Ra1th]

I don't even REMEMBER them talking about a mental patient... especially not one with tattoos. How do we know that he was a schizophrenic? Where was I! Obviously, I've missed some crucial stuff. O.o

oh yeah it's really hard to find, unless you know exactly what you're looking for and where to look. During chapter 2, i think it's 2-3, Lizzie goes around for information that might have been caught on a tivo, and there is a news report about zombie outbreaks happening all around the world. but before that there is a small news report about a mental patient, serial killer, covered in tattoos nicknamed INK, being transferred to a mental asylum, and he's who we believe to be the tatoo'd zombie

[nikvoodoo]

I don't even REMEMBER them talking about a mental patient... especially not one with tattoos. How do we know that he was a schizophrenic? Where was I! Obviously, I've missed some crucial stuff. O.o

relisten to chapter 2-3. your answer is in there.

[Chelsea C.]

oh yeah it's really hard to find, unless you know exactly what you're looking for and where to look. During chapter 2, i think it's 2-3, Lizzie goes around for information that might have been caught on a tivo, and there is a news report about zombie outbreaks happening all around the world. but before that there is a small news report about a mental patient, serial killer, covered in tattoos nicknamed INK, being transferred to a mental asylum, and he's who we believe to be the tatoo'd zombie

Thanks for filling me in. I had no clue. Not sure why I didn't hear it :/

[Wicked Sid]

Thanks for filling me in. I had no clue. Not sure why I didn't hear it :/

Most people didn't until Kc told us to look for it. Good times were had by all.

[cPT.cAPSLOCK]

It didn't seem important at first, but then suddenly it appears to be another piece in the puzzle. One of the many things keeping me - and others - hooked on the show