Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
I think Pinstripe is the main leader who was in the middle of ground zero when everything went down and Randy was just close enough (or even just trapped soon there after) to be turned. Or I think Randy was Pinstripe's first experiment to make a "smart one" but it was not taken far enough, which left Randy a sliver of his humanity. This sliver has him rebelling against Pinstripe trying to actually help people but balance his primal urges.

I think Randy saved Michael when Michael got his arm broken, and I think he was trying to take Tanya to help him knowing she somehow has an immunity to the virus and knowing she has some type of medical background.
I could see how some/most of this could be the case.

I hold that Randy was part of CJ's crew and was un-turned until the waterworks went down. Whether he holds some of his humanity or not is a good point. We don't have a lot of info on him just 1 positive ID when he tried to snatch Tanya. We have a ton of speculation in Chapters 35 and 36 about one of the Zeds being Randy, but no positive ID by anyone in the show on that....

Which ever way it goes, we aren't done with Randy yet, I don't think. Too much mystery surrounding Michael at the waterworks (How the heck did he make it out alive?) and too much emphasis put on the the Bearded One in Chapter 35 for him to just fade away.... But, I have been known to be wrong (I might have been right once, too!)