TIMELINE: What happened when. Making sense of the order.
This is a rough outline with the events and dates from this thread:
http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/s...light=timeline
This is not exact, and is fan assembled. TRY and give ref to episode #-# when possible.
LEGEND:
GREEN: Exact Date Mentioned
YELLOW: Date Suggested/ Clues to event date.
RED: Wild Guess
May 8, 2009 - Mentioned in Episode 1-1 by Michael
Outbreak believed to begin
- Michael arrives at (fictional) Santa Roja College near Disneyland in Orange County, California.
- Hears explosion.
- Watches television broadcast that states:
- Men and women are attacking each other all around the Los Angeles area and downtown San Diego.
- Local law enforcement has not responded.
- The "rioting" people are attacking the police.
- Female student says that the riots shown are taking place about 20 miles from the college
- According to journals the following events take place:
- Around 10:00 a.m. Gardena is hit Tommy estimates this time in Episode 4-2
- Around 10:30 a.m. Santa Monica is hit Taken form Journal read by Saul in 4-3
- Around 10:30 a.m. Compton is hit Taken form Journal read by Saul in 4-3
- Michael receives a call from Lieutenant Angel telling him to join his unit at the Army Reserve Center in Bell, CA.
- After estimating his travel time to be 30 minutes, Michael begins his trip towards the Center along the 5 freeway.
- Stopped in traffic; Michael turns on his car radio and hears:
- The 101 Freeway was completely shut down
- The 5 Freeway was closed due to a massive accident out side of Bell in South Los Angeles
- Michael says that the closure is right before his exit.
- Riley and Pegs Saved
- Datu Found
- Zombie Cindy killed
- Tower Secured
- Bill found
- roughly 10:15 p.m. the lobby entrance is boarded up
- Michael on guard, feels vibrations or distant explosions?
May 9 (early a.m.) - Time approximate, Michael could not tell 12 minutes from 12 hours while guarding- Lizzy arrives
- Todd killed
- Lobby infiltrated
- Michael falls asleep for roughly 24 hours
- Saul takes guard duty
- Angel relieves him in the morning
May 10- - Michael awakes
- Apartments searched for supplies
- Riley's store established
- Lobby Re-Secured
- Mr. Whiskers Found
- Riley takes guard duty
May 11- - Plans made for Scavenging Mission
- Agreed that Michael runs the show
- Gun Training
- Pegs begins work on "We're Alive" survivor banner
- Pegs kisses Michael, awkward moment
- Jeff from CJ's group killed by Maller at convenience store - specified by Chinwe via her files in episode 26-3
- Saul modifies Humvee and assumes control of Motor Pool (parking garage)
- Michael takes guard duty
May 12- - Angel and Saul go on 1st Scavenging Mission
- Lizzie finds TiVo: Bill "Ink" Roberts and news broadcast
- Saul and Angel find raided convenience store with dead "Normals" (possibly from CJ's tower [26-3])
- The New Arrivals find Tower, including Kelly and Tommy
- Lizzie negotiates with Bill for Roof Accessed
- Pegs triggers "The Flower Pot Overrun"
- Saul finds and rescues Burt in raided Locked-n-Loaded gun store
- large generator and gun cache accessed
- Saul, Angel, and Burt camp out on top of gun store
- Michael and Lizzie set out to find Saul and Angel
- First "smart one" encountered.
May 13- - Saul, Angel, and Burt meet up with Lizzie and Michael
- Tower Re-Secured
- Tommy sets up lobby camera
- Tower Rules established
- More department heads appointed:
- Riley in charge of food and supplies
- Lizzie in charge of water
- Datu in charge of Power
- Burt in charge of Armory
- Angel & Michael handle safety, personnel, and intel
May 14- - Jobs Implemented
- Bill gets an non-zombie type infection
- Tommy sets up external cameras
- mandatory journals implemented
Early June?-- CJ's large convoy gets ambushed
- CJ's small convoy disappears
- Shaun's team empty Reserve Base armory
- Kalani, Hannah, Pippin, and others crash land at LAX
- Kalani, Hannah, Pippin rescued by Latch and Scratch
- Kalani, Hannah, Pippin taken to Mallers Mall while it is still being fortified
- Scratch holds Hannah hostage
- Kalani returned to crash site
- Shaun takes Kalani back to CJ's tower
- CJ deploys tech team to Water Pumping Station, including Randy
- Kalani assists Duncan in fortifying CJ's tower
Early-Mid June? (three days later)- raining- CJ's Tower overrun
- Kalani captured
- Chinwe survives in bowels of her tower
- Pinstripes heard speaking
- Hope, Shaun, James escape to Colony
- Duncan's persona Skittles is born
Mid-June?-- Kalani wakes up
- Martin offers naive Kalani drugs
- Samantha captured and taken to Arena
- failed rescue attempt executed by Samantha's friends at the Arena
June 25-raining, Michael says "a few days later" after implementing the journals in episode 4-3, however the following events seem to take place roughly four days prior to Riley specifying June 29th as the day of the sweat bottle test [see June 29]- journals read by Angel, Saul, and Michael
- Power goes out permanently
- Fuel depot mission planned
- Saul, Lizzy, and Burt deployed for Fuel depot mission
- Kelly's failed "mutiny"
- Fuel depot team discovers convoy ambush
- Fuel depot team encounters Pinstripes and Runners
- Detour to Sauls to pick up Lady
- Eastern Bay drive-by
- Refueling Station Incident
June 26th- - Datu installs automatic gate - In Episode 8-2 Datu states that a week prior to leaving for the water works mission he installed automatic gates
- Burt and Lizzy save Saul and Ladyfrom the hybrid
- First encounter with Latch and Scratch
- Saul tails the Mallers and spends the night outside
- Burt and Lizzie return to the Tower
- Tommy sets up radio in Tower
- Bodies removed overnight
June 27th- - Scratch and Latch execute a Maller
- Saul attacked
- Generator up and running
- Saul Returns
- Angel forms "scent theory"
- Sweat Experiment planned
June 28th-- Exercise room created
- sweat collected in jars
- zip line set up
- Scent Theory confirmed
- Angel on Guard Duty
- Hive Theory formed
- Tagging Mission planned
June 29th- Riley provides the specific date in Episode 8-1 - morning spent filling sweat jars again
- Saul and a team scavenge for locators and radios
- mid afternoon tagging mission executed
- Lizzy knocked out
- Saul stays with Lizzy for a bit
- 10:00 p.m. Riley and Lizzie drink a bottle
- Kelly falls asleep on guard duty
- 11:00 p.m. Latch and Scratch arrive
- Angel uncharacteristically suggests killing them
- Scratch seems to recognize Angel
- Michael rejects Mallers offer to "unite"
- Michael and Riley take guard duty
- Riley tells Michael canned goods will only last 2 years (likely takes place after midnight)
June 30-- Water stops working
- Riley, Angel, Datu, and Michael leave for Scavenging/Locator Retrieval/Water Works Mission
- Zombie Cindy's body missing from grave
- Team encounters Behemoth at water pumping station
- Michael goes missing, but Team RAD continues on
- Tommy and Burt set up trip wire around tower - Burt states this in Episode 11-1, saying they did this after mission team left
- Riley obtains a bow and arrows
- Angel finds a shotgun
- Skittles encountered for the 1st time
- Skittles warns Team RAD about the Arena and The Colored One
- Datu captured. Thrown in "prison" with Samantha and Kalani
- Angel and Riley hold out for the night in a meat freezer
July 1st- Angel and Riley use wine to mask thier scent
- location of zombie corpses determined; the Arena
- Angel and Riley fail to save a zombie victim's life and enter the arena
- Angel and Riley hide in a pile of human remains
- Samantha reads some of Datu's journal
July 2nd?-- Samantha discusses the other tower
- Datu uses chair leg to begin tunneling an escape
- Samantha kisses Datu
- late afternoon? Datu sees the one with Markings
- Zombies take Samantha to be killed
- Angel and Riley come out of hiding, wash up & clean weapons
July 3rd-- early a.m.? Angel and Riley resume search of Datu
- dawn Datu and Kalani are rescued by Angel and Riley
- Riley's shop at Tower is robbed - Pegs states this occured the morning Michaels rescue team left in Episode 11-1
- Riley tags a behemoth in the eye with an arrow
- Saul, Burt, and newly returned Michael save the team
- Michael has a broken arm
- Samantha's final notes read; her daughter named, Hope
- Paul found dead
- Pinstripes encountered
- Armory discovered robbed
- Kalani tells his back story, mentions ground zero, CJ, and other tower
- Angel show Kalani how to perform guard duty
- Armory padlocked
- Tommy accused of being shop thief
- Michael (gets schooled by a florist), he and Pegs plan a day off
- Tower votes for 4th of July Party
- Kalani gathers intel/discovers Bill with stolen goods
- Kalani blackmails Bill into providing him with a gun
- Kalani relieves Kelly of Guard Duty/contacts Mallers
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- The events of July 1- 3 are somewhat confused. Datu obviously is captured the evening of June 30 (This date follows the dating set by Riley's journal in 8-1). Therefore, the events of Angel and Riley entering the Arena and looking for him take place on July 1. However, It is revealed by Pegs in 11-3 that they spend July 3 searching the apartments for the stolen goods and interviewing Kalani. This causes a bit of a continuity issue. Either Angel and Riley's search for Datu took far longer than it seemed, or we simply had a day disappear.
July 4- Pegs mentions this date as a reason to celebrate in 11-3 - Kalani on Guard Duty
- Burt takes guard for the Party
- Bill fully recovered from infection, joins party
- Burt joins the party
- Tommy takes guard duty
July 5th-Burt mentions July 5th as the aftermath of the war in Episode 14-1- party continues
- Kelly and Kalani dance
- Pegs confesses she likes Michael
- Mallers arrive, including leader Durai
- traitor is confirmed
- Kalani fires the shots that jump start The War
- Tower members throw furniture
- Ryan killed?
- Parking garage gate defended
- furniture set ablaze, defending North Side
- Mallers briefly infiltrate using ladders
- Bill joins the fight
- 1st pipe bomb used
- Bill killed in explosion, Tommy wounded
- Mallers invade 2nd floor en mass
- Michael knocked out by pipe bomb explosion
- Pegs shoots and kills Latch
- Mallers intend to employ fire engine
- Michael orders use of sweat jars
- Zombie horde approaches
- Scratch uses Molotov inside Tower
- Michael and Pegs separated from others by fire
- 2nd floor sealed off to suffocate fire
- Jumper infiltrates tower
- Michael and Pegs use elevator shaft to reach others
- Tommy turns
- Burt shoots Z-Tommy, hits Saul
- Z-Tommy destroys stairwell door, fire spreads
- Burt plans to go alone
- Michael and Lizzie hold off fire with Reserve water
- Burt and Datu find stolen ammo in Bill's apt.
- Plan to use fire truck enacted by Riley, Angel, and Burt
- water hose used to put out fire
- special zombie seen commanding horde
- zombie's retreat
- Tommy's remains found
- Michael cracks to pressure of leadership
- Burt assumes leadership
- Tower secured and fortified again
- Kelly and a team head to the hardware store for supplies
- bullet extracted from Saul
- funeral held for Bill Norris, Ryan Brown, Tommy Pick, Samantha, Paul Baily, Todd Fischer, and Cindy Benson
Between July 5th and July 19th- Pegs plagued with nightmares, Saul given antibiotics but remains sick,
Carley fails to go it alone and is killed
July 21st- Riley and a team attempt to brave the hospital but find it too dangerous - Kalani mentions this occurs two days prior from the assumed date of July 24th in episode 15-1
July 24-in Episode 16-1 Kelly states the date July 25th, the following events take place the day before that- early a.m., Simon Killed
- dawn, Pegs declares the garden a lost cause
- Plan to find Saul a doctor proposed
- Michael reveals his arm to be in bad shape
- early afternoon, MPK head south
- Angel and Saul brainstorm MRE mission
- sunset, MPK rest in a beach house
- evening, Michael and Pegs "define" thier relationship
Kelly Mentions Two Weeks Later
July 25-Kelly mentions this date in 16-1- Kelly radios Burt
- teams are using bird based related call signs
- Pegs has another nightmare
- Pegs radios Angel, asks him to return Latch's body to Mallers
- MPK bathe on the beach
- Micahael and Pegs board yacht, braodcast on Coast Guard channels, get swarmed by Zombies, crash yacht
- Pegs gets owie on her foot
- MPK flee south in car, stop to grab clothes
- MPK meet Victor far to the South
- large zombie wave passes by while they hide
- same wave attacks Shaun's group, assumed none survive
July 26th- - 7:00 a.m., MPK wake up in Victor's safe house (outpost 1)
- MPK led by Victor arrive at colony a couple of hours later and encounter Gatekeeper
- PETE INTRODUCED
- Hope, Samantha's daughter, introduced
- Dr. Tanya stitches Pegs foot and resets Michael's broken arm
- Victor shows Kelly and Pegs their house
- Hope warns Pegs and Kelly the Colony is sinister
Between July 26th and July 29th- Angel retrieves Latch's body from burned corpses, Lizzy and Riley find a bottled water truck for the Tower, and Burt's Locked-n-Loaded safe is emptied
July 29th-date assumed from Angel saying he had just returned from a dangerous mission in Episode 20-1- morning, Angel and Kalani set out on MRE mission
- team AK detours to fueld depot to deliver Latch's body
- noon, Kalani and Angel arrive at Reserve Base
- nearly dead Behemoth encountered and finished off
- AK load up MREs
- armory found empty
- Little Ones encountered
- another Behemoth arrives
- truck gets flat tire
- Skittles arrives, helps team AK hide in water tower
- Skittles offers information about Zombie types
- after AK wake from a nap, they successfully carry out a plan to crush a Behemoth under restaurant
- Angel cut up jumping through window
- Skittles fixes truck tire
- AK escape from "Arrowhead" Behemoth with MREs in truck
July 30th-Date assumed from Tanya stating in Episode 19-1 that Michael was out for four days after his surgery (see June 26th)
Events At Tower:- early a.m., Parking garage attacked by biters
- Lizzie asleep on guard duty
- Burt reprimands Lizzie, Steven incites mutiny
- Lizzie voluntarily leaves, pretends it was Burt's order
- mid-afternoon, Burt sets out looking for Lizzy - mentioned by Burt in Episode 20-1
Events At Colony:- Michael wakes up with a pink cast on his arm
- Hope tells her story
- Marcus interviews Michael and offers #2 position
- Michael meets Pegs at Liberty Park
- Bixby cattle prods Pegs
- Michael takes a shovel to Bixby's face
- Michael meets Victor at the Broken Arrow
- Gatekeeper and Michael exchange words
- Victor and Michael make a broadcast in the Tower's Direction
- Bixby a.k.a. Shovel Face escorts Michael and Victor to Marcus
- Markus jails Michael for making broadcast
- evening, Pegs over hears Gatekeeper and Bixby plotting coup to over throw Marcus
- Pegs asks Amy to taker her to Marcus
- Amy locks up Pegs
- Kelly and Victor go looking for Pegs
- After freeing Pegs, the coup begins, and the three raid the weapons cache
- Pegs, Kelly, and Victor free Michael, pick up Tanya, and Hope
- The entire group escapes the Colony
July 31st-- early a.m., Michael, Pegs, Kelly, Victor, Tanya, and Hope arrive back at the Tower
- Datu meets Hope
- Angel informs Michael Lizzie was kicked out
- Michael reads Datu's log
- Burt returns
- Michael re-assumes command
- Lizzie starts audio journal
- team of unknowns sent out to look for Lizzie
- Lizzy captured by Tardust and Bricks (Mallers)
- Burt and Angel debrief Michael
- Saul reveals Tanya is his mother and a Veterinarian
- Tanya administers meds and sets up picc line on Saul
- Tardust attempts to rape Lizzy at furniture store
- Scratch arrives, orders Tardust and Bricks to take Lizzy to rendezvous point
- Saul finds out Lizzy is missing
- Michael and Angel brainstorm getting to Ft. Irwin
- Michael okays Burt and Saul to go look for Lizzy
- Scratch drops Pippin off near Tower
- Saul and Burt pick up Lizzy's trail at furniture store
- Tower group learns Mallers vacated the strip mall
- Maller convoy to Arena gets attacked
- Little Ones encountered, tattooed arm studied
- Michael and Kalani discuss using helicopters to get to Ft. Irwin
- Pippin arrives
- Maller convoy bombs Arena
- Burt and Saul arrive at LAX and find Jolly Green Giant
- Datu sets up audio on security surveillance
- Pippin interrogated
- Michael pulls guard duty
- Burt and Saul sleep in a plane
- Kelly relieves Michael on Guard duty
August 1st-- Angel and Hope relieve Kelly from Guard Duty
- Jacob and James continue search for another Helicopter
- Burt tests remote explosive
- Tanya scanning journals
- Kalani cuts Armory alarm
- Kalani murders Pippin
- Michael and Angel decide to have Lewis take the blame
- Datu and Kalani arrive at LAX
- Kalani writes his final journal entries
- Pegs revealed as other helicopter pilot
- Victor and Pegs pass near Ground Zero
- Kalani trains Pegs
- Jacob and John find other helicopter at Hospital
- Saul goes AWOL, arrives at arena wreckage and listens to Lizzy's audio journal
- Kalani, Angel, Riley, and Burt head to the Hospital
- Michael and Tanya discuss zombies and journals
- Tanya attacked by zombies, led by Z-Randy
- Hospital overrun
- Angel and Burt trapped
- Kalani and Riley find Pinstripes workshop in hospital bowels
- Pinstripes encountered by Kalani and Riley
- Angel and Burt rescued
- Angel, Kalani, Burt, and Riley reach helicopter atop hospital and escape
August 2nd-
beginning of new day assumed as Steven says no zombies seen that morning, and Angel says he "didn't get a chance to talk to Micahel this morning" in Chapter 24,
date confirmed by Michael in 25-2- Saul checks Eastern Bay, contacts Mallers for Pegs/Lizzie exchange
- Angel dropped off at Tower
- Burt, Riley, and Kalani head back to LAX
- Saul arrives at LAX
- Kalani and Pegs test fly Bell Helicopter
- Saul, Burt, Riley, Michael, and Victor head to golf course
- Tower siege begins
- Golf course FUBAR
- Michael, Burt and Riley join Kalani, Saul and Victor continue on in Hummer
- Scratch offers deal to swap her two prisoners for Pegs
- Kalani and crew arrive at Tower in Bell Helicopter
- Kalani kamikazes into Maller tanker
- Scratch threatens to blow up Tower's tanker
- Saul and Victor arrive and unleash .50 cal Hell
- Burt kills RPG'er just as he nails the Hummer with rocket
- Tower's red shirts get over run trying to escape through parking garage
- Pegs arrives in Jolly Green Giant
- Angel grabs Kalani's journal, Lady, and Hope
- all except Burt and Angel make it to the helicopter via zip-line
- zip-line snaps on Burt
- Helicopter crew attempt to pick up Angel from Tower rooftop
- RPG fired at roof
- THE TOWER FALLS
- Saul and Victor take refuge in a nearby store
- Michael, Pegs, Riley, Datu, Kelly, Tanya, Lady, and Hope depart in helicopter
- Saul and Victor take .50 cal and retreat from pursuing Behemoth
- Michael and crew are grounded temporarily
- Riley wakes up and is informed of assumed casualties
- Scratch recovers "what [she] is looking for"
- Victor and Saul take refuge in an office building
- Riley storms off
August 3rd- Riley noticed missing
- Flesh biters arrive at field
- Riley found and group flees on helicopter
- Victor and Saul search tower remains
- Mr. Whiskers found
- fresh tire tracks and signs of a survivor found
- Michel and crew arrive at Ft. Irwin
- Cpl. Puck and Pvt. Carl Thomas introduced
- Riley taken to base hospital
- group taken to barracks
- Michael falls asleep
- Saul and Victor arrive at secret garden
- Saul intentionally sets off the alarm
- several hours later, someone arrives and resets alarm
- after a scuffle, Chinwe is subdued
- Chinwe takes Saul and Victor to her tower, keeps location secret
- Chinwe shares her files, file on Kalani is among them
- Saul relates what he knows about Kalani
- Chinwe relates what she knows about Kalani
- Chinwe shows picture revealing Pinstripes is responsible for her tower being over run
- Saul and Victor watch CJ's recording of the attack on her tower
- Saul relates what he knows about zombies
- Victor and Saul negotiate to stay at CJ's tower
- CJ stipulates that Saul and Victor must explore Ground Zero
August 4th-Saul states the Ground Zero mission takes place the following morning in 28-2- CJ wakes up early and gathers supplies for Ground Zero recon mission
- CJ drops Saul and Victor off far outside Inglewood with equipment
- Saul and Victor explore Ground Zero; discover a Haze and large, deep cracks in the ground
- Victor's air tank runs empty
- Saul discovered to be able to breathe near Ground Zero
August 5th-Pegs says it has been two days since they arrived in Episode 27-1- Riley still in custody of Ft. Irwin military
- Pegs tries to discuss relationship issues with Michael
- Tanya finds Kalani's journal
- Michael and crew read Kalani's journal
- around 1:00 Tanya refuses to take physical, is taken to the WEED, and sedated
- Michael leaves barracks to check on Tanya and is stopped by Cpl. Puck, Pvt. Carl, just as Colonel Kimmet arrives
- Kimmet assigns Michael to command staff, with Puck assigned directly under Michael
- Michael informs the group of his orders
- Michael goes through his physical check-up
- Michael and Puck chit chat on the way to check in with Kimmet
- Michael meets with Kimmet and reluctantly signs his reinstatement papers
- Kimmet briefs Michael on the current known situation regarding the outbreak
- Various units are running special missions outside Ft. Irwin
- Civilians are moved to Boulder Colorado (current pop. 150,000)
- Civilians may be trained as soldiers and flown back to post
- all branches of military are working together (save Air Force which was not mentioned)
- other bases fell out of contact as they chose not to euthanize infected
- Boulder and Ft. Irwin seem to be the only known Safe Zones in the continental U.S.
- lost contact with the East coast about a week after the Western coast outbreak
- Japan, China, and the Philippines are believed to have thier own "hotspot" of the outbreak
- Kimmet explains that Michael's group either ships out or signs up
- Michael attempts to convince his people to stay but only persuades Riley (newly released from observation)
- Datu mentions a possibility of surgeons at Boulder possibly helping Hope with her eyesight
- Later, in private, Michael pleads with Pegs to stay. She refuses, and in a manner, dumps Michael
August 6th- Puck states in 29-2 that the flight to Boulder leaves the following day at 11 a.m.- Michael and Riley say goodbye to the group, and Datu gives Michael his journal
- Puck receives a radio transmission stating that Tanya has been discovered to have been bitten
Problems include-
Timing of the rescue attempt of Datu at the Arena
CJ's tower attack is a rough estimation.
The events of Lizzy being captured by the Mallers and our Tower searching for her are estimated.
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