Great stuff here, Red. I will echo what GamerGirl said above about the timing. Story time compression and not knowing how long it was between stuff going down initially, the explosion, and the phone call could be explained as tens of minutes instead of tens of seconds.

Anyway, mobilization in tens of minutes is still really damn fast regardless of the legal aspects.

I'm with Redshirt on not wanting to know if it's just artistic license to move the story. I can suspend my disbelief for that, no problem. But I'd rather that wait so this Family/Illuminati aspect can linger in the story for us....

I'm torn between wanting the Family to be involved in the global aspect of it and wanting it to be a more faceless aspect. If it is the family, who knew how much? Perhaps Angel knew something and was able to make the calls on his own accord. But what about Scratch? Durai?

And as I said over in the 42-2 thread, I'm convinced that Ink had foreknowledge of the coming event by, possibly, as much as a year.

Anyway, if the Family is involved, hearing Angel do a voice over because someone found his "Kalani style" other journal might be stretching things. Perhaps it would come as something told by Scratch on her death bed.....