Scars

[Duffusmonkey]

I think the reason Michael slept so long is that after the long day of clearing the tower of Zombies he tried to sleep the first night with his back to the stairwell door and didn't really sleep the first night.

Lizzy and Todd came to the tower a day later so they had one less night of sleep

Kalani was waiting for death and fearful of what horrible things would happen to his daughter because he failed, as a parent the Depression would be overwhelming. I normally sleep 6 hours or less a night but if I have a bout with depression I can sleep 18 hours a day if my wife doesn't force me to get active.

Burt's place is a little farther from the water works than the tower so it might have lost water pressure, BUT your toilet has a gallon or two of clean water in the tank, and some more in the bowl if you get desperate.



I love to play Devil's advocate but I STILL think you have a stong case for the idea that fighting off an airborn attack of the virus/bateria/nanobots/microscopic maggots causes someone to have to crash for 2 to 3 days.

Hmm.... I just thought of microscopic maggots .... need to start a new thread

[Grognaurd]

The best guess timeline has the outbreak on Wednesday AM. Lizzy shows up early Thursday AM. Michael sleeps to Friday AM. One long day and one restless night does not justify 24 hours of not sleep, but out cold unconscious, there was no wakin' you Sarge. This just screams there is more here. Matrixing can totally be my bad, but it is also good writing to hide plot aspects in plain sight with a mild misdirection. It's magic

[Duffusmonkey]

When you wound a wild animal it tends to crawl into a hole and go into something like a healing coma, Like I said I like your theory

[scbubba]

Hey Arthur LaMarche - more sleeping theory fodder in Episode 37-1!

Michael and Burt again. But enough of a reasonable doubt (like all the others) to say "maybe not"!

I'm totally intrigued by your theory on this. I'd like to sign up for your newsletter!

[Grognaurd]

Possibly, there were many other people in tha room and we know the place is light on drugs and yet they have slept right through it so far. I am not stomping my feet and saying get within a foot of them and it is sleeping beauty, but the behavior is odd and repeatable.

A similar example i never included was being close to Fernando. OMG, WE ARE SURROUNDED. Let's take a nap

[Grognaurd]

Oh, it is in the other thead, but not here. Datu and Riley in the Arena.

[Witch_Doctor]

In Chapter 2 we find single zombies throughout the tower. They may have been exposed and retreated home, but I believe there is an airborne means of transmition in addition to the classic blood-based. This is not a classic reanimator. The zombies are alive and thus the double entendre of the title.
I do not think there is any way for a blood-based pathogen to purge greater than >99.99% of LA. Second, although a few thousand zombies coming to eat you is horrific, LA should produce millions and we just do not see that. Most people just Die.

A likely scenario could be that a zombie chased and infected someone returning home for shelter.

I was thinking something along these lines re-listening to Season 1 recently. Most of the people in the Tower before it all started were out at work/school/errands/whatever but some folks were at home, I'm sure. So either, there was some initial thing that happened that caused spontaneous "turning" of people throughout LA (probably not given the heat map Micahel & Co produced to ID Ground Zero) or some outside Zeds came into the Tower (for food, etc) and killed/turned the population that were there.
That doesn't disprove an airborne vector but it probably restricts it.
And as to the number of Zeds vs the number of dead, I'm not sure we have any info on why someone gets turned instead of getting eaten in the course of Zed vs human interaction.

The Zombie/Human, Living/Dead ratios could be factored by:
1) How many humans are attacked and killed/eaten.
2) How many humans are attacked and turned.
3) How many humans are attacked and turned but later die from their injuries.

[Witch_Doctor]

Ooooohhhh, we've moved quite a ways from scars and scratches, but one more. Michael also fell asleep after arriving in the dormitory at Fort Irwin. I'm guessing his Necro-Narcalepsy is just an adrenaline crash. A sort of 'OK, someone else is looking after things now' induced relaxation.

[LiamKerrington]

Ooooohhhh, we've moved quite a ways from scars and scratches, but one more. Michael also fell asleep after arriving in the dormitory at Fort Irwin. I'm guessing his Necro-Narcalepsy is just an adrenaline crash. A sort of 'OK, someone else is looking after things now' induced relaxation.

Yep. Me thinkse so ase well ...

[Duffusmonkey]

My dad always told me that the one thing you learn in the army is the ability to sleep at any time under any conditions, because it might be a long time until you get sleep again.
He also told me he learned to never volunteer for anything and that the Army lied or told half truths alot.... You can sign up to be a tank driver! "Small print IF there are any positions open, otherwise you will be a mobile latrine specialist"

And Michael never went to sleep on the trip to Fort Irwin. Datu only got a little sleep but I didn't see anythign refering to him sleeping for an extra logn time.... then again Americans are soft and lazy