Are there any performance enhancing drugs available which let you jump out of the third floor without harm and run like crazy that someone with a rifle has only little chances to shoot him? Do drugs like these allow you to snatch an arrow out of mid-air that was shot at you from a range of a few yards with a professional bow? Do performance drugs allow you to bare-handedly kill a person by ripping a head apart (Paul)?
What I am saying here is this: At least at the point when Ink entered the Tower he was turned. That does not necessarily mean he was turned down in the van at the court. True.
My catch though is a simple one: He "kicked open the door." That's the way Michael describes it in #40-2. Doors of cars and vans are not simply kicked open. This is especially true for prisoner-transport-vehicles, because these usually have reinforced doors, windows and chassis. So "kicking open" a door is kind of a feat. And I have serious doubts that "only" performance enhancing drugs allow someone to achieve this: "kicking open doors". This may be different if the doors are heavily damaged. But if this is true in this particular case, then automatically two questions pop up:
a) why did them zombs stop their attack, when they were so close to reaching "food"?
b) More importantly: Why did Ink not leave the van earlier?
Ok, about a) you could say: Them zombs just wanted to make it easy for their natural born leader to get out of the van; they recognized him as such and so let go of him. (This theory I wouldn't want to support right now; I might, though, if Ink infact has started turning and "smelled" like the zombie-lord so early already ...).
But then b) raises doubts: If Ink already was the zombie-lord at that time, why did he wait to get out of the van so late and not much earlier?
Too bad we have some facts, and yet too little information to make a final estimate. Any theory so far mentioned seems to be solid and still has some "lackings" as well. The theory I enjoy so much is the one telling "us" that Ink was wounded by the three biters, then he mutated within 30 minutes to become strong enough to blast open the van. Too bad we don't know what has happened between 10:42 and 11:12 - so in the 30-minute gap. Did Ink attempt to pry open the door several times? Were there other zombs at the van and die they "try" anything??? This would help "us" understand the situation a lot better, I guess ...
Best wishes!
Liam
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