Quote Originally Posted by whenallisdark View Post
As they are watching the news report about Bill Roberts, they watch it at normal speed. The news reporter says he is being transferred to a mental health facility. a few seconds later they start to skip through the report to get to the bambies (that's what my 5 year old daughter used to call zombies).

Just as they stop fast forwarding, the reporter says again "he is currently being transferred to a mental health facility"

It would be a bit odd for the news reporter to say the same thing twice for the one story.

Was there someone else involved with Bill Roberts or someone else who was being transferred to the same hospital?

Any thoughts?
You could be on to something... but here's my take. I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a few a lot of assumptions:

  • Bill Roberts AKA "Ink" is TOWTM.
  • He began his experiments pre-outbreak, targeting specific "types" of people.
  • Disappearances of similar people gets the attention of law enforcement.
  • News goes public, LA and the greater Metro LA region stricken with fear.
  • Highly publicized manhunt and capture.
  • "Ink" trial was a massive media circus.
  • "The families were devastated" alludes to the disappointment of the victim's families in the trial verdict. Probably the avoiding of the death penalty.
  • Probably due to his and the case's high profile nature, his transfer was also big news getting covered live.
  • The first mention of transfer was earlier in the day, the second was live during the transfer.

Some of these assumptions I make in the light of the recent James "Whitey" Bulger trial in Boston. A LOT of that was covered live... even the transfers. I think to show the public that yes, we did get the bastard.


About Glen... when we meet him in Ch. 19 2/3 we learn what types of radios he has and has been monitoring "since he got this place up and running:"
SINGARS, ham, A/N PRC-148, CB, PR1500, Police/Fire, Shortwave and a SatPhone. Silence. Nothing at all. Nothing that Glen could identify.

Victor tells Michael that he saved Glen, dragging him out of a ditch with a broken leg after having been abandoned by the group he was with. I think that in the chaos of Z-Day, he was probably not at a radio, he was running like others. At some point we also learn that Glen was a station engineer, it stands to reason that since it was his profession, radio may not have also been his hobby... I think he's clean.

Also, from Kimmet's briefing in Ch. 29 2/3 we learn that the East Coast when quiet about a week after it all started. Probably well before Glen made it to the Colony and got his radio room started. Something I'd like to point out from Ch. 34 1/3:

"There was a time in the beginning of of this when we lost entire cities. So before we lost communication with other bases, it was decided we would have something in place in case a position got overrun."

The nuclear fail-safe. In the meantime since Z-Day +7, it is probable all the other bases fell and triggered their fail-safes. There is nothing left out there to listen to... probably hasn't been for while. Our survivors are as alone in a dead and quiet world as Earth seems to be in listening to the vast universe.