Chapter 40-2 Monsters

[LiamKerrington]

middle.
they would not leave ink in the van for an extended period of time. I cant think of scenario where that would happen, more times than not the courthouse/county sheriffs dept/police are less concerned about the prisoners safety and more concerned with their own in a situation like that. avoiding issues across the board to simply get there and get him inside

Yes, they wouldn't have left Ink for an extended period of time on purpose.
But I could imagine the one driver gets out of the car to smoke a cigarette (or is this forbidden in LA?) or go to the water-closet, while the other dude enters the building to do some paperwork, which usually takes only a few minutes. So here we have no extended period of time.
Then news reports are all over the place - in TeeVo as well as radio broadcasting that riots are all over the place. This draws attention - even from guys who normally tightly stick to their schedule. This might have extended the leaving of the van for another few minutes.
Then you have like screams and turmoil near the Court. The two van-drivers are simply caught in the panick-frenzy that sweeps over the whole area. Maybe they also saw a regular attacking someone and they tried to interfere with the action or something ... So in the end they simply "forgot" about Ink.

Best wishes!
Liam

[Storm]

STORY TIME!

I remembered one of the other things I thought of.
"what if"

bill Roberts is paranoid schizophrenic. while this typically does not manifest itself with visual hallucinations, what if at the moment of turning(or NOT turning) he had his entire mental state snap? by this I mean the biters attacking him became normal people rescuing him? all the normal people fleeing the scene became biters fleeing the scene? what if by creating the "little ones" and behemoths he is simply trying to gain an advantage over the enemy/ us as biters he believes we are? what if all the crazy ass symbols he draws/ tattoos are what he interprets as the language he and his "normal people" speak? his master call that he sends out is simply his normal voice(to his ears at least)and the scary part is...what if hes right?? the entire idea is far too interesting (and far too plausible) to rule out. the scene with the two biters at the end of this episode made me start to question just what is in fact real and what isn't. itll be interesting to see where this goes from here.

Questioning reality is always fun...
You wouldn't really be able to tell if what you experience is real... You might be living in The Matrix...
There's no spoon...

[7oddisdead]

Liam.

I think we have the language thing kicking in again. I'm saying basically what your saying, but for different reasons. With exception to ink outside in the van. He would not be left alone...at all. And the original point of that was, they would not arrive "that" early(9am-ish) and sit outside for hours..i cannot believe that would happen at least. Prisoner(insane or not) should not have that much time outside of confined space (criminal or clinical)

and with the" removing Inglewood" thing. I said what you said. Draw a circle around Inglewood...a BIG circle....measure rate of spread from that point, not Inglewood itself.

[LiamKerrington]

7odd:
Yeah, the language thing ... *g*

[Footbutt]

i'm still holding on to the idea that Ink's tatoos are the reason his turners stopped and payed attention/followed him afterward.
like others said too, he was doped up on anti-psychotics too... which could be reason why he was at Cain Mental? in order to keep him sustained, he still needs his meds! after he exhausted the Hospital's supply, perhaps he moved on?

and when was the last time anyone actually saw TOWTM? during the battle at the Colony?
i find that a bit suspicious.... i think we're going to see another appearance soon!

[Grognaurd]

Yea, I do not know enough about transport of prisoners. Maybe he could not move to the other side of the van. Maybe he is chained to the seat. I do not know. Would be considered too dangerous? If there was an accident and a fire, the person in custody might not be able to get out unassisted.

I am a proponent that some of the first changes are cognitive. It is possible it heightens primitive language skills. Body language and inflection rather than the abstract syllables. Shakespeare? No, but more than enough to convey, over here, attack, retreat, etc. The humans might even mistake it for crows. hey, I did not hear any in this episode and I figure you all need a crow fix hors d'oeuvres before Thanksgiving.

[tonyhind86]

and when was the last time anyone actually saw TOWTM? during the battle at the Colony?
i find that a bit suspicious.... i think we're going to see another appearance soon!

I was expecting a reaction from him after Raydon Labs was burned down, seeing as that was his source of the follistatin supplies that he sent Randy out for. Who knows, perhaps at the end of this chapter, we may get an appearance - and another major cliffhanger to ponder...

[Jeebogs]

I'm still saying Randy is a 'good' guy.
Just because it seems he works for Ink doesn't mean he's not trying to lead Michael to the truth. We've seen this Ep that the numbered ones don't play nice with normal zeds, maybe Randy fears for his (undead) life.
Randy is the Zombie resistance.

I'm moving more and more into the camp that Ink knew something was coming and was preparing for it. His not crying out/screaming or otherwise acting terrified that monsters were attacking him adds to that thought. The symbols of his tats or something injected into his system (or a combination of things) some how made him turn differently. My thinking at this point is that it has something to do with chemicals and Roberts' work at Raydon. The ink pens used for the tats had some Roberts special cocktail in them. The tattooing led the cops to kick off another investigation at Raydon, thus the new (and still up) police tape on the office.

I'm thinking that what was in the ink could be the case. What symbols could/would random strangers (albeit turned zombies) recognise? I'm more interested in the idea that Ink had his own cocktail of 'Ink' tattoo'd into him, some kind of pheromone etc that protected him.

"At one point, it looked as if they'd got his arm."

Quite right.
I don't understand why there is a jump to the conclusion that Ink has been turned? Yeah, he seems stronger than any normal man but, um, haven't we been talking (ad nauseam) about performance enhancing drugs and Bill's former workplace?

Also, has anyone thought/suggested that he may be on a course of strong antibiotics (coincidentally the same as the Tinks) - forced on him while in custody - to try and preemptively halt any infection caused by the prison tats? I'm sure the authorities would go out of their way to prevent a killer dying of septicemia before he could be incarcerated.

[UndeadSweeper]

So where is Ink?

He need an area as big as the Sport Arena and a Cain Hospital, what else in LA is that big? I going to laugh if he end up in his own tower.

[tonyhind86]

So where is Ink?

He need an area as big as the Sport Arena and a Cain Hospital, what else in LA is that big? I going to laugh if he end up in his own tower.

He might just be finalising a few feng-shui ideas.

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