Quote Originally Posted by scbubba View Post
I gotta go re-listen to that too. Because I'm wondering if the team thought chloroform would work off the bat or thought it might not work. Chloroform/ether works by entering the lungs and then the bloodstream. From there it travels to other places and affects the creature. All of that requires respiration and a working bloodstream as well as a nervous system that works like a human's (or any mammal?).

Basically, because the chloroform worked, we had confirmation that the Zeds physiology was still a) working and b) mostly human. That was later confirmed by Tanya's autopsy of the Little One but does it matter that we knew that way back when?

Hmmmm......
Quote Originally Posted by fredrum View Post
Well, Saul and Angel did see them sleeping as early as chapter 3. I would assume that the need for sleep would imply that their bodies still work similarly to those of normal humans. I doubt that they were certain that the chloroform would work, but just from what they had already seen it was at least a pretty safe bet.
Also, in the very first chapter when Saul calls them zombies and Angel poo-poos this claim as the dead coming back to life, Saul counters with, "Who said they're dead?" Plus Michael HATED calling them zombies. I think it's safe to assume that they new they were working on living people.