The Other Tower

[Grognaurd]

Something that I remember from the show but not noticed on the forums. In Purgatory Part 1 ~12:50 Samantha said that her friends came for her and all ended up down in the center of the arena. So, although "The Other Tower" got hit pretty hard, their leader (cj? replacement, whomever) had the charisma to reorganize the survivors and initiate an assault on the arena. What interest me is their recovery, their loyalty and that they knew or had really strong suspiscion that some of their comrads were being held at the arena. They had to suspect that some of the missing were not zombies or zombie chow.

[COsurvivor]

nicely said... how could we have not seen this before let alone even talk it?

[Osiris]

This is disconcerting. KC needs to answer some questions in season 3.

[Wicked Sid]

This is disconcerting.

How so?

After the attack on the Other Tower there were most likely splinter groups, who were without direction and some people probably had strong emotional ties to Samantha and knew that they were being taken to the Arena, similar to Datu's situation. Maybe they were scouting and one person survived to find a group, assualted the Arena and were murdered. Its not that far of a stretch.

[Zombiehead]

Interesting. It's possible that smaller groups assaulted the Arena to find people but it doesn't really seem realistic. When the Tower was on fire, people were all gun-ho about jumping ship and leaving friends behind. I expect the same reaction out of an already demoralized group like ones left in the Other Tower. Datu's situation was unique because Angel and Riley knew he was alive and they were close enough to do something about it. They also were under the impression they'd just lost Michael so the idea of leaving Datu behind was out of the question at that point.

[Grognaurd]

... people were all gun-ho about jumping ship and leaving friends behind. I expect the same reaction out of an already demoralized group ...

That is my point. There is one thing that spreads faster than the zombie plague and that is panic. Samantha had lost it so bad she left without Hope. Kalani ran away from the protection of the group. He was either too new to know or too afraid to care about the one or more rally points. Samantha may or may not have made it to one or more of the rally points. Each was empty or overrun and she does not mention it to Datu. Sean/Hope/Was it James(?) would be wide open. Hope is the only survivor left and if she clocked the back of her head hard enough to lose most of her sight she would have a nasty concusion to boot.

There is a lot of bones of a story that can be pulled together from what we know to make a nice Spin Off or limited story arc.