Timeline

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:
  

1. Men and women are attacking each other all around the Los Angeles area and downtown San Diego.
   
2. Local law enforcement has not responded.
   
3. 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:
  

1. Around 10:00 a.m. Gardena is hit Tommy estimates this time in Episode 4-2
   
2. Around 10:30 a.m. Santa Monica is hit Taken form Journal read by Saul in 4-3
   
3. Around 10:30 a.m. Compton is hit Taken form Journal read by Saul in 4-3
   

• Michael receives 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 Training center along the 5 freeway.
  
• 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:
  

1. Riley in charge of food and supplies
   
2. Lizzie in charge of water
   
3. Datu in charge of Power
   
4. Burt in charge of Armory
   
5. 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
  

• • • • • • • 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
  
• Tanya refuses to take physical and is taken to the WEED
  

Problems include-
Datu, Angel, and Riley spent an extra day out of the tower.
The other towers attack is a rough estimation.
The events of Lizzy being captured by the Mallers and our Tower searching for her are not exact.