tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67653268736891520602024-03-13T13:23:25.452-07:00InsideAlcatraz - ALCATRAZ Theories and NewsJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-29637433294410993602012-03-30T15:42:00.004-07:002012-03-30T17:44:09.391-07:00ALCATRAZ, Episodes 1.12 ("Garrett Stillman") & 1.13 ("Tommy Madsen"): Thoughts & Theories<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A few housekeeping notes before we dig in. First of all, the writers revealed to TVGuide that the transfusion man tracking the colloidal silver-infused inmates is named Dr. K. Second, most of this was written on little sleep, on several planes and in various countries at all hours. So please excuse any omissions or errors! In addition, I was unable to take screen captures while abroad so there are not as many photos as I would have liked to include.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While it would be easy for me to gloat about the fact that several of my theories since the first episode are now coming true, that is not my style. I am honestly thrilled and very satisfied to be on the same wavelength with regard to any speculation. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Even though you’re in their world, you’re not of their world.” – Lucy </span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Herman Ames, inmate #2178</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pinky Ames, inmate #2177</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Lucille Sengupta/Lucy Banerjee</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sonny Burnett, inmate #2088</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Milton Beauregard </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mrs. Beauregard (questionable)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ernest Cobb, inmate #2047</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donovan, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guy Hastings, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warden Edwin James</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. K</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Joseph "Ghost" Limerick, inmate #?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Johnny McKee, inmate #2055</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Clarence Montgomery, inmate #2214</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paxton Petty, inmate #2223</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Webb Porter, inmate #2012</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Garrett Stillman, inmate #2109</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not all inmates among the 256 who disappeared on 3/21/63 were selected to receive a colloidal silver blood transfusion. The Warden clearly chose those he deemed worthy based on their skill sets (which would come in handy both during the escape and upon re-entry to society). The map in Dr. K’s lair illustrated the inmate numbers of those they were tracking, but the prisoners without colloidal silver must have simply rejoined modern day to wreck havoc on their own, sans programming. However, it is also possible that the Warden killed them, as ageless inmates (without missions/purpose/resources) reappearing would draw unnecessary attention. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>MIGHT AS WELL JUMP</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The jump was caused by a geothermal event, possibly tectonic plate slippage.” – Warren </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Doc had previously mentioned that was of his theories about 3/21/63 was a “quantum thing.” Hauser’s lead nerd herder Warren suggested that time dilation, quantum tunneling or cryogenics were also possibilities. I have explored a few of these theories in previous posts, but will now drill down further.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>CRYOGENICS</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I believe it is possible that the 302 who vanished in 1963 were cryogenically frozen in time. They were subjected to myriad chemicals during the process, which made a particular subset of inmates appealing to the Warden: the Korean War veterans. It is my theory that those prisoners were previously exposed to elements that prepared their systems for the cryogenic process. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Someone’s helping these guys, maybe unfreezing them.” – Doc Soto (“Paxton Petty”)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Comic book expert Doc knows that Captain America spent decades frozen in a block of ice, in a state of suspended animation. He was injected with a super soldier serum that replenished itself, a virus-like organism that altered his genetic and biochemical makeup. The 302, cryogenically stuck in time from 1963-2012, were likely injected with a serum designed to reanimate them on very specific dates in the future. And in addition to Dr. K, the Warden must have had an entire team dedicated to unfreezing both himself and his subjects. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When guard Guy Hastings remembered his last night on Alcatraz, he described a “fog that took all the stars away.” Vapors released from cryogenic liquids tend to condense the moisture in air, creating a visible FOG. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>EARTHQUAKES, QUANTUM TUNNELS (WORMHOLES) & TIME DILATION</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time dilation is a difference of elapsed time between two events; in this case, between 1963 Alcatraz and 2012 San Francisco. Applying the theory of time dilation, one can travel thousands of light-years and their lifespan will increase.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The quantum mechanics of the Casimir Effect can be used to produce a region of space-time, and that negative effect could then be used to stabilize a wormhole to allow faster-than-light travel. On 3/21/63, if Dr. K and the Warden were somehow able to use the Casimir Effect beneath Alcatraz – it may have resulted in a geothermal event, causing tectonic plate slippage. In other words, they created a wormhole that caused an earthquake…their great escape route. My theory is that they built a tunnel deep beneath Alcatraz after the quake and wormhole opened up that space, creating a massive location to store and transport 302 people…unbeknownst to anyone up above. [Side note: I believe this tunnel was located much lower than the one under the lighthouse that was constructed during the Civil War.]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The tunnel beneath Alcatraz may actually connect 1963 with 2012. On one end of the wormhole, an exit point from 1963. On the other end of the wormhole, a re-entry point to 2012. I am starting to believe that the 302 in 1963 were frozen in time right beneath the very location where they vanished; that the Warden’s hidden cryogenic lair, equipped with reanimation technology, has been dispersing inmates and guards one by one from below the Rock. Along that line of thinking, it is entirely possible that the Warden himself still resides/hides down there. At some point after the 302 vanished in 1963, he had someone seal off the dungeon door where the colloidal silver tracking map was located. But he needs to access it once again; thus, the programmed inmates seeking his 3 keys.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If we stop to think about how 302 people vanished without a trace, it sounds logical that they all traveled down the same rabbit hole after being knocked out by chemicals dispersed throughout the island.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>BLOOD MAKES NOISE</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Water: elixir of life!” – Dr. K</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blood consists of 92% water. Colloidal silver suspends silver in water. But it may have been mixed in the blood of some on Alcatraz in methods other than blood transfusions…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is possible that some of the inmates, guards and staff among the 302 who vanished in 1963 without previously receiving any blood transfusions were instead quietly dosed via their drinking water. Colloidal silver may have been added to the water filtration system on Alcatraz (electrolytically dissolved silver has been used as a water disinfecting agent in the past).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For what it’s worth, I think the concept of colloidal silver as a liquid GPS is quite clever. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>KOREAN WAR</u></b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I’ve had my eye on you since 1952.” - Mr. K</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You were in Korea too?” – Tommy Madsen </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I had pointed out in previous posts, several returning Alcatraz inmates (and one guard) had served in Korea: Guy Hastings, Tommy Madsen and Paxton Petty. Given the revelation about Dr. K’s interest in Madsen dating back to the 1950’s, I am now certain that the future 63s were “recruited” to serve time on Alcatraz based on their exposure to specific chemicals from biological attacks during the Korean War, in preparation for their abduction (and for the “fog” that likely knocked them out en masse on 3/21/63). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alcatraz inmate Garrett Stillman was a military strategist for the British SAS. In 1950, the British SAS deployed a squadron to the Korean War. In 1959, they deployed a regiment comprised of experts in escape and evasion. That Stillman wound up on Alcatraz is no surprise, and was very likely the Warden’s personal strategist for the great escape in 1963. After all, he “enjoyed moving pieces around” – 302 chess pieces, to be exact. Tommy Madsen had said to Stillman that, “you worry about the chess pieces, I’ll worry about the board.” In 1960, Stillman was playing chess when the Warden appeared and moved some pieces on the board. 2012, Madsen was trying to re-collect the pieces (inmates, guards) and reconfigure the Warden’s board/game. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is not a coincidence that Hauser is working with the military to help recapture the 63s…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of course Stillman’s stolen armored truck was numbered 481516 – the numbers are bad, after all. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>MUSIC</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“We want to move on, to move forward. But the trauma blocks us. So we repeat it, like a skipping record.” – Dr. Lucille Sengupta (“Clarence Montgomery”)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You’d be surprised how fast you adapt to what a record player and a phone looks like.” – Dr. Lucy Banerjee (“Garrett Stillman”)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have seen two record players in 2012, purposefully placed for Lucy (Dr. B’s infirmary in New Alcatraz, Lucy’s original hospital room), as well as one in 1960 at the Warden’s house during the dinner party she attended. Given her use of a record player as an example while describing her experience during the last 50 years, I am certain that music played a role in her reintegration process. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>EMERSON HAUSER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1960, young SFPD officer Hauser advised his paramour Dr. Lucille Sengupta to back off when she was inquiring about the blood letting on Alcatraz. So Hauser KNEW about the Warden’s experiments from someone other than Lucille. My two best guesses: his friend Deputy Warden Tiller, who may have been aware of but disapproved of said experiments, or young Alcatraz guard Ray Archer – who was trying to help his brother Tommy Madsen and may have also been friends with Hauser at that time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Does this mean the Warden is back?” – Secretary of Defense</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“That is the first question I’ll be asking Madsen after I catch him.” – Hauser</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Someone as high up as the Secretary of Defense knows about the 63’s, which helps explain why Hauser’s team is a) able to escape media and local authority questions and b) so well funded. I found it very interesting that the Secretary referred to Lucy as Lucille – which makes me question whether he used to work with Hauser in the 1960’s with the SFPD or as a guard on Alcatraz….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Paraguay is complicated for me, given the last time.” – Hauser</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We now know that at some point during the last 50 years, Hauser traveled to Paraguay. My theory is that the Warden chose to place his pet project Dr. Sengupta back in modern society in that location, where he thought she would be unable to communicate with or find anyone she knew/loved. Thus, Lucy’s referral to “some unmapped wireless Cambodian village.” But Hauser, with his military and financial resources, was actually able to locate his beloved. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>REBECCA MADSEN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Detective Madsen has proven her worth, just like I knew she would.” – Lucy</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Pilot, Lucy revealed that "she found us, and she won't stop until she finds him. We need her." But do they any more? I am a big fan of Sarah Jones and I love her in on this show, but I wondered if they possibly killed her character because Hauser and co. will use the relative of another former inmate next season to assist their search. That being said, Tommy Madsen is still out there and although it is VERY bold to off your lead after one season – I seriously doubt that Rebecca Madsen is actually dead. At least I hope so. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tommy Madsen pulled a John Locke, stabbing Rebecca in the same basic location as Jack Shephard. But while we won’t see Rebecca joining her BFF’s in a church next season, I believe that we will see her reanimated. Her grandfather specifically used a silver knife, which the camera lingered on, leading me to believe that he knew she’d live…and possibly activated colloidal silver in her blood. Of course we do not know how and when she received such a transfusion, but I have a suspicion that her parents were involved. Tommy had brought the death of her parents to Rebecca’s attention right before stabbing her…likely not a coincidence.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Throwing a serious wrench into that theory, however, is the fact that Harlan Simmons was paying Rebecca’s former partner to keep eyes on her. If she did indeed have colloidal silver in her blood, they could have been tracking her – and would not need a fellow detective to do so…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I appreciated the nod to and consistency with the Pilot – when Rebecca was chasing Tommy and he paused to eye her from above. They had the same shot in their chase scene together in the season finale. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Side note: watching Jack Bender direct the car chase scenes and homage to Bullit in the streets of San Francisco last month was an unbelievable experience. The only way to describe standing so close to speeding cars jumping hills right in front of me: kick-ass. Here is a video behind the scenes, taken on my iPhone. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>TOMMY MADSEN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“This is your future. You’re going to be our advance man.” – Dr. K</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As early as 1952, Madsen was on Dr. K’s radar. This was long before he was used as a guinea pig for the colloidal silver blood infusion on Alcatraz, so we have to ponder what made Madsen so special. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The silver emits a frequency. The problem is, I can’t separate it. The silver attaches itself to platelets and it becomes one and the same.” – Dr. B</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 2012, it certainly appears as if Madsen is no longer traceable. He somehow went rogue, off mission, escaping the clutches and programming of the Warden. I have a strong feeling that he is able to remove any traces of colloidal silver from his blood, using an antidote that he discovered upon his return in 2012. After all, there have been many technological medical advances in the 50 years since he vanished. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Give me the key and I’ll protect you from Harlan.” – Tommy Madsen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would not be at all surprised to see that Madsen is working with and for Harlan Simmons. Together they could be attempting to retrieve the keys to the tracking dungeon, united against the Warden’s maniacal end game.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Hauser and Lucy discovered Dr. K in 2012 behind the sealed dungeon door where he was tracking the inmates, his first word was “Madsen?” Dr. K was expecting Tommy Madsen to be the one who had all three keys…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Consider me a genie; the power to offer you one perfect day, right now. What do you want most in the world?” – Warden James</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Madsen chose family when offered the chance to make one wish. While he confessed to Ray that he had indeed killed his wife, I believe that he was lying and pushing his brother away – convincing him that Tommy’s son was much better off with Ray as his guardian. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>HARLAN SIMMONS</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They used to refer to a section of Alcatraz cells as Broadway – so it was a nice touch that Harlan’s company was called Broadway Mutual. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Mr. Simmons won’t be eligible for parole again until 1965 and I’d like him off my island before that time.” – Warden James</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Billionaire Simmons is likely the man who financed both the Warden’s 1963 vanishing act and 2012 reappearing act. That is why Warden James went out of his way to ensure parole for Simmons three years before the main event took place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Harlan broke a promise to Warden James.” – Tommy Madsen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Simmons has not been seen in public since the 1970’s. So perhaps Simmons became a recluse when he discovered that the Warden had re-appeared and was coming for him. [Side note: yes, I believe it is possible that the Warden re-integrated himself into society long before reactivating his inmates to do so...giving him ample time to set up his operation.]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although we did not witness Simmons’ infamous visit with the subterranean visitant (Dr. K) in 1960, it preceded the Warden’s decision to arrange for his parole. Whatever Dr. K said or did to Simmons, it resulted in the Warden’s trust. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It does not appear as if the Warden subjected any of the guards to colloidal silver transfusions, at least not at first glance of the tracking map with inmate numbers only. I find it fascinating that he did not feel the need to track the men who were likely smarter than the returning inmates and may have felt compelled to investigate their own disappearances...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>THE WARDENS</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“In any Faustian tale, a devil is often needed…however misunderstood.” – Warden James</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Upon their re-entry, Jack Sylvane, Cal Sweeney and Garrett Stillman were all programmed to retrieve the 3 keys to Dr. K’s Alcatraz dungeon. The Warden needed those keys in order to access the tracking equipment and monitor his subjects in their various locations around the country.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, Tommy Madsen was working with Stillman to retrieve the final key – so it is possible that his rogue mission involved finding the keys before the Warden did. Perhaps Madsen’s end game is to deactivate the tracking equipment so that the Warden will no longer be able to find his subjects and potentially reprogram them. Or Madsen himself may want to locate his fellow inmates to instruct them how to proceed in life under the radar/out of the reach of the Warden, or how to deactivate the colloidal silver. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Warden gave Harlan Simmons the phone number of “a friend; someone who will help you find your feet on the outside. He’ll know how to get us in touch when the time arrives.” Add this mysterious accomplice to the long list of Why Alcatraz Deserves a Second Season. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>E.B. TILLER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before Ernest Cobb shot HIS target, Lucy – Jack Sylvane had killed HIS target, E.B. Tiller. The Warden’s first order of business upon the 2012 reentry of his subjects was to kill his former right hand. The Warden needed to silence the two people who knew too much, starting with the skeptical and suspicious Tiller. </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warden James: To see him in 2012, as well as when/where he first re-entered modern day. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warden James’ Man on the Outside: To reveal who he is and if he’s still working with either the Warden or Harlan Simmons.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tiller & Hauser: To show how and when Deputy Warden E.B. Tiller and former SFPD officer Emerson Hauser became friends (in the 1960’s or 2000’s).</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rebecca Madsen: To reveal whether she lived or died, and also what really happened to her parents. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Re-entry & Reunion: To see when/where Lucy and Dr. B reappear, as well as when/where Lucille first sees with the aging Hauser again.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Medical Examiner Nikki: To see if she is indeed a plant, working with the Warden, conveniently assigned to any cases relating to the 63s. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New Alcatraz: To see the moment when the colloidal silver tracking map is reactivated; to see the look on the face of Doc and Rebecca, Tommy Madsen, Warden James or Harlan Simmons when all of the prisoners are traced to the same exact location and the map illustrates the inmate numbers crowded in one single area. That would be one hell of a way to discover/uncover New Alcatraz. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Harlan Simmons: To show not only his visit with subterranean visitant Dr. K in 1960, but also what the recluse looks like in 2012. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Doc Soto: To further explore his childhood trauma, and whether or not his abductor had either been incarcerated on Alcatraz or had connections to someone there. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alcatraz, 1961-1963: To witness the Warden’s further actions leading up to the 3/21/63 disappearance.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like you, I am really hoping that FOX renews ALACATRAZ and we are gifted with a second season. Expect an announcement from the network either way in the next few weeks, and definitely by May. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whether this will be my last post until the second season or the final post for a single season, I wanted to express my gratitude for your support . Without you, this would have been yet another site discussing a television show. Your interest and participation elevated and enhanced the experience for me, and for that I am grateful. The number of fans who visited this site over the last four months is double the number who visited my LOST site in the first two years it existed. That is an amazing and humbling statistic. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To thank you for your feedback and the word-of-mouth, I am giving away an autographed copy of <a href="https://twitter.com/Monterey_Mike" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Michael Esslinger</span></b></a>'s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alcatraz-Definitive-History-Penitentiary-Years/dp/0970461402/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333144546&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Alcatraz: A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years</span></b></a> and a limited edition Warden DING poster created by <a href="http://twitter.com/zort70" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@Zort70</span></b></a>! If you're interested in either, simply leave a comment below with your email or Twitter name - I will randomly draw two names by April 6 and announce the winners on Twitter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Regardless of what happens, it truly has been an honor and joy for me to cover ALCATRAZ so extensively. In addition to the many hours watching and writing about the show, I had the privilege of attending both the premiere on Alcatraz and the filming of the finale in San Francisco. I believe in and support the vision and direction of this series, in the creative minds who have planted seeds that I hope to see grow in future seasons. Should ALCATRAZ end after one season, I will continue to follow those both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, wherever they land. And so should you. Mark my words – Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt are the next Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As always, if you'd like to leave any feedback or comments, please do so in a constructive manner! Until we meet again...</span><br />
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<br /></div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-78300913000888940622012-03-21T19:48:00.001-07:002012-03-22T07:23:35.054-07:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.11 ("Webb Porter"): Thoughts & Theories<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Get the bow going, let it scream to me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Violin” – Kate Bush</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Herman Ames, inmate # ?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pinky Ames, inmate #2177</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Lucille Sengupta/Lucy Banerjee</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sonny Burnett, inmate #2088</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Milton Beauregard </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mrs. Beauregard (questionable)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donovan, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guy Hastings, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ernest Cobb, inmate #2047</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Johnny McKee, inmate #2055</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paxton Petty, inmate #2223</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Webb Porter, inmate #2012</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>BLOOD MAKES NOISE</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blood makes noise,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's a ringing in my ear.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Blood Makes Noise” – Suzanne Vega</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For what it's worth, some people have claimed that colloidal silver cured their tinnitus. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now we know for sure that the Warden did not force Lucy to have her blood infused with colloidal silver before the great abduction and disappearance in 1963. He needed his inmates to have the healing powers upon their return to modern society, to fulfill his programmed missions, but the future of his doctors (I’m including Dr. B in this) and likely the guards - was not as vital. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>THE MATRIX</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The Matrix” – Morpheus</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Had young Officer Hauser been on Alcatraz earlier in the night on 3/21/63, he may have ingested a red pill of his own (dispersed discretely via “the fog”). Instead, he managed to avoid vanishing along with his beloved Lucille and 301 others that night, and has been chasing the 63ers down the rabbit hole for 49 years. Perhaps his “new” blue pill (courtesy of the Chinese herbalist) is a sign of resignation, of weakness, of exhaustion; his girl is slipping away, the criminals are getting more challenging to track and capture, and his massive efforts are seemingly futile. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Listen, take it in – each note, one after the other. Logical, reliable, a pattern. You can carry it with you in your head, even when it’s not playing.” – Dr. Sengupta</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That line is essential because I believe that the returning 63ers are indeed playing what’s in their head – the programming they were subjected to during the last 49 years plays over and over on a loop in their brainwashed minds. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have been asserting in almost every episode post that they have included record players and music on the show as part of a brainwashing technique – both in 1960’s Alcatraz and in 2012 reintegration. See my continued Crazy Theory of the Week below for additional thoughts. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I believe man can change, has the right to change.” – Dr. Lucille Sengupta</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have a feeling that after Lucy wakes from her coma in New Alcatraz, we will discover that she believes she’s still in 1963. The trauma will have affected her re-wiring in some way. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My guess is that the Warden had Cobb shoot her because she knew too much about how he was able to make 302 vanish in 1963. I’m quite sure that the Warden will be surprised to learn that Lucille survived the attempted murder. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The Warden’s got a new toy…I was talking about you.” – Dr. B</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1960, Dr. Sengupta started to figure out that the Warden’s initial plans for her were dishonest and altered once he started to see her psychological successes with the inmates. Oh how I wish we could see how their relationship changed between 1960 and 1963, how she managed to work on Alcatraz for that long and why, if she knew what was going to happen and if young Hauser was warned but did not believe her…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the 1960’s, Dr. B worked for the Warden on Alcatraz. In 2012, Dr. B is working for Emerson Hauser in New Alcatraz. At what point did his alliance change? Or has it? If the Warden was responsible for the allocation of re-entries into modern society, when did he re-insert the good doctor and where? I can’t imagine that Dr. B’s mission was to assist the man responsible for putting the prisoners back in jail. I hope that if we are lucky enough to see a second season, we get to see a flashback of Dr. B’s current day awakening – as well as how he came to work for Hauser. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is clear that Dr. B is working for Hauser in New Alcatraz, but with limited freedom. Although we only saw Mrs. B at the Warden’s dinner party, I am under the assumption that she is also a 63er and living at New Alcatraz with her husband under the same conditions. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“All that’s needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” – Young Emerson Hauser, misquoting Edmund Burke</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The kid went to Yale – he should get the quote right (even if distracted by the beauty of Dr. Sengupta). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Side note: on LOST they named Juliet’s douchey ex-husband Edmund Burke, and he met his demise in front of a bus. So of course I thought about that when Hauser dropped the line above. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hauser does not appear to be a target of the returning 63ers, which leads me to believe that he was never on the Warden’s radar. He may have only occasionally accompanied prisoner transfers to Alcatraz as part of the SFPD, and the Warden was also unlikely to care whom Dr. Sengupta was dating. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>REBECCA MADSEN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“It’s like I’m living someone else’s life. I just want to press stop, go back to the way it was.” – Rebecca Madsen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’m fairly certain that the guards and prisoners who have been forcibly returned to modern day would agree with that statement. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rebecca and Doc finally start asking questions about where Hauser takes the prisoners after they are captured, discover that Lucy isn’t in the hospital and that she was a 63er. I am hopeful that in the season finale, Rebecca and Doc force Hauser’s hand and get to see New Alcatraz…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DOC SOTO</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Update: ALCATRAZ co-creator/executive producer/writer Bryan Wynbrandt corrected my error. "Webb Porter didn't drown his victims in the past. He bludgeoned them one murderous night as the Warden said early on. I realize it was a quick line. But that's why Doc didn't know it was Porter."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I just have to point out that I found it odd that Doc did not connect the dots, given that he was familiar with Webb Porter’s trauma in the bathtub at the hands of his mother. Although recent events have proven his research and books to contain erroneous information, he nonetheless should have figured out that the man drowning his female victims in bathtubs was Porter. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While composer/songwriter Cole Porter was known primarily as a piano man, he did learn to play violin when he was six years old. I assume that they named Webb Porter after him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Porter re-entered modern society in 2012, and his colloidal silver-filled blood just happened to be a match with Dr. Sengupta/Dr. Banergee. Was it a coincidence that his inmate number was 2012? I think not. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guy Hastings and Donovan were nowhere to be found in New Alcatraz. I seriously doubt that Hauser has them killed, so the question remains – in what capacity are they being held in New Alcatraz, if not as guards again? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Warden is still alive as a 63er in 2012, and likely responsible for the missions that have been programmed into each inmate he has re-integrated back into society. The very first crime scene we witnessed (aside from Tommy Madsen’s rooftop assist) was that of E.B. Tiller (at the hands of Jack Sylvane). It seems likely that the Warden’s first priority was to take care of the man who questioned his methods all along; the man who was supposed to be his right hand but somehow managed to escape his duties on the Rock before the Warden orchestrated the vanishing act in 1963.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WHEN we see the Warden appear in 2012, I have a feeling we’ll discover that he also has colloidal silver in his blood – insurance against future harm that is likely headed his way…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>E.B. TILLER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After leaving Alcatraz, we were told that Tiller was a Fed. He probably worked alongside Hauser, which is where they became friends. My guess is that Tiller knew about the 63’s and was working with Hauser to prepare for their return; thus, Warden James had him killed right away. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>NEW ALCATRAZ</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I didn’t take note of exactly who we saw, aside from Jack Sylvane, Ernest Cobb, and Paxton Petty – but I don’t believe Cal Sweeney or Johnny McKee were there (both were injured by alive when we last saw them). I realize that it is a matter of actor availability, but I hope to see all re-captured inmates and guards together in New Alcatraz in the season finale! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. B had told Hauser that, “The 63’s you’ve been rounding up, they’re all in perfect health. And I mean straight from God’s own factory floor. Any ailments they used to have are now gone.” So does colloidal silver also have the power to reanimate? In addition to the missing returned guards, we still do not know the status of the deceased inmates: Kit Nelson, Clarence Montgomery, etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Add Porter to the list of skilled inmates that the Warden amassed to help pull off the events of 3/21/63. While I am unable to wrap my head entirely around the logistics of it, it is possible that Webb’s musical talents were put to use immediately preceding the chemicals that were dispersed (knocking out the 302). They have inserted music in very specific scenes thus far this season, many of which seem to indicate that the songs trigger memories or missions…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You can teach an old dog a new trick, but it’s still an old dog.” - E.B. Tiller</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Regardless of how the Warden (and his unknown crew) managed to knock out 302 people and relocate them without a trace, the fact remains that these were the worst criminals in the country; no matter what they were subjected to before and during the 50 years in limbo, the inmates were incapable of changing their very DNA and instincts. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Please excuse the brevity of this post, as well as the belated delivery. Life has been very hectic, and I will be out of town again for the season finale next week (last year when I booked this trip, I didn’t think the end of March would interfere with any of my shows!). Long story short – I won’t be able to watch Monday night’s 2-hour season finale, nor write about it, until Friday, March 30. Thank you in advance for your patience!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As always I appreciate your constructive comments and feedback! I owe you another apology for not having enough time to edit and post videos from the WonderCon pressroom yet, but I plan to – even if after the season finale. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yesterday I attended the official ALCATRAZ panel at WonderCon in Anaheim, and also had the opportunity to interview the cast and creative team. I am editing the videos and aim to post those later this week. Because this site is 100% spoiler-free, I will not be sharing any of the season finale hints and teasers that were unveiled, nor will I post any videos that might reveal any details you would consider spoiler-ish. Trust me - we're all in for one hell of an exciting ride with these last three episodes, and will enjoy it so much more without knowing any details in advance!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While we await tonight's new episode, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8867989@N08/sets/72157629256962194/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">here</span></b></a> are photos from the panel, autograph session and press room! They are in chronological order, and I recommend viewing them in Slideshow mode.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tonight: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Episode 1.11 "Webb Porter"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- My analysis will be posted tomorrow night</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">March 26 (2-hour Season Finale): </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Episode 1.12 "Garrett Stillman" & Episode 1.13 "Tommy Madsen"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- My analysis will be posted on Friday, March 30 (after I return from abroad)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Special thanks to Jeff, Noreen, Steven and Lindsay, Bryan and Katie, Kiran and Parminder, Jorge and Beth, Jonny, Sarah, Robert and everyone involved with the show for making yesterday such a memorable and entertaining experience!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Jo</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-18077079756132506212012-03-13T00:29:00.001-07:002012-03-13T00:35:46.684-07:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.08 ("Clarence Montgomery"): Thoughts & Theories<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Brainwashed” – The Kinks</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Please excuse any typos or errors in advance, as I stayed up very late to finish this rather than wait to post it on Tuesday. There are some episodes of television that stay with me; theories formulate and percolate and prevent my mind from shutting down for slumber. This was such an episode. So grab a Goldie's Carolina tea cake, tape your eyes open and allow me to subject you to some wild speculation...</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Herman Ames, inmate # ?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pinky Ames, inmate #2177</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Lucille Sengupta/Lucy Banerjee</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sonny Burnett, inmate #2088</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Milton Beauregard </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mrs. Beauregard (questionable)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donovan, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guy Hastings, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ernest Cobb, inmate #2047</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Johnny McKee, inmate #2055</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Clarence Montgomery, inmate #2214</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paxton Petty, inmate #2223</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Former inmate Emmett Little was told that Clarence Montgomery had died in Lompoc Prison in 1965 (which is located on the California coast; I actually know someone who works there). Someone took the time to create fake prison transfer and death certificates for 302 people well in advance of the 1963 abduction. This was a meticulously planned and executed undertaking, and there is no way that the Warden was the only one overseeing it all. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Keep in mind that this episode was originally supposed to air before the two last week, so Doc’s speculation about possible experiments on Alcatraz was a major clue to what was revealed in the next two episodes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the early 1960’s, ten Utah State Prison inmates were indeed subjected to radiation tests and blood samples were taken. That blood was then mixed with unknown elements and then re-injected. So the colloidal silver revealed in the last episode is a story not far from alleged reality. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I pointed out in previous posts, several returning Alcatraz inmates (and one guard thus far) had served in Korea: Guy Hastings, Tommy Madsen and Paxton Petty. I am convinced that many of the future 63s were brought to Alcatraz based on their exposure to certain chemicals from biological attacks during the Korean War, in preparation for their abduction (and for the “fog” that likely knocked them out en masse on 3/21/63). And now there is another influence from that war that we have to take into consideration: brainwashing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">During the Korean War, some believed that brainwashing was implemented to confuse captured soldiers so that they would resist escape, resulting in an unusually high number of soldiers deserting their country and joining the enemy after becoming prisoners-of-war.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As was the case with biological warfare, the US government and military still deny the use of brainwashing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While there have been very few LOST Easter Eggs on ALCATRAZ thus far, I’m going to assume that <a href="http://twitter.com/ldjackson" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Leigh Dana Jackson</span></b></a> (who wrote this episode) was a huge fan. Not only is this episode 108, the prison brainwashing room is a nod to Room 23 and the booking number on the rap sheet of the real criminal who killed Ellen Casey in 1958 is 48151623 – and he is from Tallahassee. Nicely played!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“We want to move on, to move forward. But the trauma blocks us. So we repeat it, like a skipping record.” – Dr. Sengupta</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have seen two record players in modern day (Dr. B’s infirmary in New Alcatraz, Lucy’s original hospital room) as well as music played from Hauser’s nerd herd experimental briefcase of tech gadgets in the abandoned cells of modern day – and one in 1960 (at the Warden’s house). From the get-go I have asserted that returning inmates had been brainwashed, and that music played a role in their reintegration process. It appears that I may be on to something. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It isn’t a spoiler to simply say that next week’s episode involves a musician – and I can’t wait to find out if the returnee relates to any of my left field musical conspiracy theories. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Parlay: a discussion or compromise between enemies over terms of truce.” – Warden James</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Warden’s interpretation of the word sheds new light on the scenario where young inmate Harlan was brought down to the dungeon because there was a “subterranean resident who desires to have a parlay.” Harlan’s enemy in 1960 was Cal Sweeney, whom he had elaborately bamboozled. But the look of sheer terror on Harlan’s face when the dungeon door opened seemed to indicate a far more nefarious enemy… </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Montgomery suffered from Wilson’s disease, a rare and inherited condition where too much copper in the body causes damage to the nerves and liver. While Wilson’s has been associated with violent behavior resulting from damage to the central nervous system, it seems quite cruel to have subjected the innocent Montgomery to brainwashing - as many of the resulting effects from that experiment are similar to the side effects of Wilson’s Disease: uncontrollable movement, limb tremors, weakness, personality and behavioral changes, dementia and delirium. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition, Montgomery was a chef but those with Wilson’s are supposed to avoid using copper cooking utensils and foods as diverse as nuts, shellfish, chocolate and mushrooms. And to add insult to injury, Montgomery had to drink tap water likely flowing through copper pipes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Cigarette Smoking Doc is subjecting prisoners to psychological experiments and removing pints of their blood to mix with colloidal silver, but has no idea why. We have to question whether he was and continues to be a passive order taker, or if he knows far more than his few scenes have indicated so far.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Emerson met with the Chief of Police, and it was not the first time. The Chief must be his main source for keeping the 63s investigations relatively unquestioned by other agencies like the SFPD, FBI, etc. Because Hauser himself is former SFPD, he has probably made connections over the last 50 years in preparation for his current assignment and obsession. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I know what happened in ’58. You never killed that girl. You were innocent.” – Emerson Hauser</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hauser obviously knew who killed 1958 victim Ellen Casey before Montgomery re-emerged in 2012. But he pretended to be surprised when Rebecca and Doc told him that Montgomery wasn’t her killer. Aside from the obvious surreptitious nature of Hauser’s secret spy operation, I can only assume that he has withheld certain leads until he could play those cards when necessary while capturing the 63s. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now Doc is spending all of his spare time and late nights in the Secret Spy Lair on Alcatraz. They really need to speed up his relationship with medical examiner Nikki, or reveal her complicit connection to the 63s…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In many earlier posts, I have overanalyzed the potential significance of each comic book tee that Nikki has sported, and in this episode she switches it up to Black Orchid. In what is likely the shape of things to come for Nikki’s true intentions, the Black Orchid was a master of disguise…often pretending to be someone’s girlfriend, for example. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Given that Rebecca’s grandfather has gone rogue and appears to be on his own mission, perhaps he somehow escaped the brainwashing that the other 301 who vanished in 63 were subjected to before returning. Almost every inmate and guard we’ve seen thus far in 2011-2012 seemed to be on a programmed mission, with memories in place and wires crossed. But Madsen is on an entirely different path…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Warden created a similar situation for Montgomery in prison that he faced in the real world. He was the first African American chef at an all-white country club, and then the Warden forced him to become the first African American prison chef to supervise and cook meals for white inmates. Without a doubt, I would consider that to be one of his many manipulative pre-brainwashing preparations; agitate and push buttons first, drug and mentally coerce second.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Montgomery knows that they did something to him in Alcatraz, but unlike previously returned inmates - he appears to be more traumatized by what happened to him. He immediately expressed remorse after murdering both inmate Gant and his female victims, which has not been the case with other prisoners in modern day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I got a bad feeling about this.” I am unable to think about anything other than <i>Star Wars</i> whenever any variation of this line is uttered. So if it was intentional – thank you, Leigh Dana Jackson. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another dead inmate put into Hauser’s SUV, another assumption that he brought the corpse to New Alcatraz for possible revival. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Random aside: Montgomery’s victim was Megan Palmer. A possible hat tip to <i>Twin Peaks</i> and Laura Palmer?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The gun-toting activist in the wheelchair was released from Alcatraz in 1961, before the abduction in 1963 (in case you didn’t catch it, he was the young inmate trying to convince Montgomery during his shave that the chef opportunity presented by the Warden was a good idea). In 2012, Emmett had no idea what Montgomery was referring to when he said they took his blood and messed with his head; he must have been one of the inmates that the Warden took less interest in, and thus allowed him to leave before the big event. He didn’t ‘qualify’ in the Warden’s mind…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So Montgomery killed the chatty cathy, last seen in the Ernest Cobb episode – and there go our chances of finding out what landed him on The Rock in the first place. Even now, it is not illegal to be annoying. I should know. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Mark the day, son. Your new future has begun.” – Warden James</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once again, the Warden played spiritual advisor to another of his incarcerated subjects. This week’s pet prisoner project was Montgomery, and the Warden’s seemingly self-programmed mission with him was “a chance for redemption.” </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“If we were in private, you’d see my true intentions with this bone.” Perhaps the best line yet from the strangely poetic Warden! Although, “bon appétit, you sons of bitches!” is a close second.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One thing is for certain – the Warden and the Deputy Warden were not on the same page regarding treatment of the prisoners. Like many of you, I strongly believe that the Warden was one of the 63s. Tiller’s clear disdain for his superior’s methods likely led to his banishment from Alcatraz – forced off by the Warden because he didn’t feel that Tiller was worthy of the great time traveling escape he’d been planning for years.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To add to the already mounting evidence that the “fog” Guy Hastings referred to as the last thing he remembered on 3/21/63 before vanishing was some type of dispersed chemical or aerosol cloud – I would offer that the “gas chamber” mess hall was a cover and practice space for Warden James. As seen in this episode, they sprayed fighting inmates with tear gas, but I believe that there were large quantities of hidden dispersion devices or small holes discretely installed throughout Alcatraz leading up to the abduction. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also – the MKULTRA 1950’s mind control experiment illegally administered by the CIA that Doc alluded to? They experimented with a pill that could be slipped into food and beverages, as well as into an aerosol - with the goal of causing amnesia. So far, no one remembers what happened to them after 3/21/63. Except, perhaps, Tommy Madsen….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You think you know who you are, but they push you, and they twist and something in you just snaps. I’m not the same. I’m not innocent, not no more.” – Montgomery </span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While my first inclination was to believe that Dr. Lucille Sengupta designed the brainwashing techniques applied to the inmates by Dr. B in the 1960’s (one of her “methods”), it seems counterintuitive to her memory removal emphasis; she was interested in removing rather than implanting specific visceral imagery that caused the prisoners to react violently. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Trauma is a roadblock inside our psyche. We want to move on, to move forward. But the trauma blocks us. So we repeat it, like a skipping record. Your record is stuck at the moment you killed Ellen Casey. If you let me in, I can help you. I can take that memory away. All those memories.” – Dr. Sengupta</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“It works in one direction; I don’t see why it can’t work in reverse.” – Dr. B</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There were two different types of experimental treatments being forcibly applied to the inmates in the 1960’s on Alcatraz: Lucy’s electroshock therapy and the Warden’s brainwashing. I would speculate that the Warden and Dr. B implemented option #2 without Lucy’s approval: implanting memories and images that would later influence their missions and behavior upon return to society. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You took her methods into madness.” – Warden James</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You asked if it could be done.” – Dr. B.</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. B, Deputy Warden Tiller and Lucy were probably unaware of the reasons WHY the Warden used such a technique, but none were in a position to question him. The location of the <i>Clockwork Orange</i>-inspired brainwashing chair appeared to be in a subterranean room, where Lucille was unlikely to wander or have access. In fact, it may be the horrible place that Tommy Madsen referred to beneath Solitary. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the 1960’s, Lucy tried to understand Montgomery’s motivations, while the Warden was fixated on reinforcing and reactivating them. Montgomery was key to the Warden’s future success – more than likely his first 'victory' in the big picture (brainwashing transformed Montgomery from an innocent man into a murderer at an alarmingly quick rate). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I can only be what they tell me to be.” - Montgomery</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While it may have been LSD, my best guess as to what type of liquid Dr. B used to accompany the brainwashing - one that contained strains of Nightshade. Some of the chemicals derived from those plants (found on Alcatraz) can be used as a sedative, and side effects include confusion, agitation, hallucinations, paranoid behaviors and delusion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As always, I am so grateful for your interest and appreciate all of your feedback! I love reading your comments, and ask that they simply be constructive in nature. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Last week I was lucky enough to watch an entire day of filming in San Francisco while they were in town for finale scenes. This is a spoiler-free site, so I will not be posting any photos or videos from that day until after the season finale airs on March 26! What I can tell you is that is was amazing to watch the action unfold live, and that it was an absolute pleasure to meet and speak with both Sarah Jones’ stunt double and David Hoflin (Tommy Madsen). It was also a huge thrill to see former LOST executive producer/director (and ALCATRAZ executive producer/director) Jack Bender directing the car chases in “my” city and before my very eyes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One last reminder: I am heading to Anaheim this weekend for the official <a href="http://insidealcatraz.blogspot.com/2012/02/alcatraz-panel-at-wondercon-2012.html" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">WonderCon ALCATRAZ panel and pressroom</span></b></a>. Look for live tweets and photos on Sunday, as well as interviews here on the site next week and beyond!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">* If you have any questions for the cast and creative, please either leave them in the comments below, or email/tweet them to me!</span><br />
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</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-43460122693747488592012-03-06T14:00:00.000-08:002012-03-11T13:36:53.299-07:00ALCATRAZ Episodes 1.09 ("The Ames Bros.") & 1.10 ("Sonny Burnett"): Thoughts & Theories<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Without hesitation, let us decant the vital fluid (in this case, wine please) and see which theories are worth their weight in confederate gold…</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Herman Ames, inmate # ?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pinky Ames, inmate #2177</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Lucille Sengupta/Lucy Banerjee</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sonny Burnett, inmate #2088</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Milton Beauregard </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mrs. Beauregard (questionable)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donovan, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guy Hastings, guard</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ernest Cobb, inmate #2047</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Johnny McKee, inmate #2055</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paxton Petty, inmate #2223</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to Dr. B, “there were 300 prisoners in Alcatraz.” If you count him (possibly his wife), guards Guy Hastings and Donovan – his math is either off or he is referring to some who did not vanish in 1963. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So if “not all of them were taken an interest in” – it could very well be that certain prisoners and guards were spared (a la Mrs. Hastings, who was purposefully kept off of the Rock on 3/21/63) or were disposed of after they disappeared… </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Rudyard Kipling</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deputy Warden Tiller speculated that Warden James used a Kipling quote when talking about the wolf pack (Kipling wrote <i>The Jungle Book</i>). Fun fact: the Boy Scouts’ Wolf Cubs (now known as Cub Scouts) were named from and influenced by Kipling’s work.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The Metamorphoses of Ovid </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Man has to adapt.” - E.B. Tiller</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“There’s no adaptation here. Only survival. Natural selection is pre-determined.” - Edwin James</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You’re either predator or prey. The sooner you accept that fact, the sooner you can make a choice. Which do you want to be? You have a fire in your belly, a fuel that’s driving you, motivating you to change. Most men don’t.” - Tiller, to Sonny Burnett</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Quite the transformation.” - James, after witnessing Burnett's mauling of a fellow inmate</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As seen in the previous episode (Dr. B provided it to Hauser to read to comatose Lucy), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The Metamorphoses</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is a 12,000-line poem about transformation. We’re starting to witness transformations from the 1960’s that directly affect 2012. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>BLOOD MAKES NOISE</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You remember when you brought in Mr. Cobb? The injury he sustained to his hand? An injury of that nature should take months to fully heal. Cobb’s took weeks. The 63’s you’ve been rounding up, they’re all in perfect health. And I mean straight from God’s own factory floor. Any ailments they used to have are now gone. In addition to plasma and platelets, their blood contains a third interloper: colloidal silver, which has been known to have healing properties going back to Hippocrates.” - Dr. B</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Is that what you were doing on Alcatraz?” - Emerson Hauser</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I merely decanted the vital fluid from the prisoners. What became of it after? God and the Warden only know. But here they are, with blood that seems to keep their murderous bodies in tip top shape; blood that could be transfused to a less-than-healthy body.” - Dr. B</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Colloidal silver consists of tiny particles suspended in liquid; it is a controversial element used to treat bacterial diseases and infections. There has never been scientific evidence to support the safety or effectiveness of colloidal silver, which is probably why the Warden experimented with it on the inmates.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The inmates infused with the decanted blood return in perfect health, likely because colloidal silver is antibacterial and antimicrobial - preventing germs and myriad other health risks from affecting their systems. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vampire films and shows have actually employed colloidal silver many times, from <i>Blade</i> (“atomized colloidal silver….it’s being pumped through the building's air conditioning system”) to <i>True Blood</i> (Pam sprayed bill with it in the face). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>CIVIL WAR</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Ames Brothers were seeking gold from the Civil War era. Why is that important? Because the matches used by Warden James were also from the Civil War era. And one Doc Soto has a PhD in civil war history. These are not mere coincidences. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alcatraz was created as a civil war fortress. Thus, the cannon in the dungeon along with the gold. The Rock had many cannons on the island when the American Civil war broke out. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I must admit that I also thought about the movie <i>Timecop</i>; a time traveler from the future hijacks confederate gold. Nerd alert!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DUNGEONS WITHOUT DRAGONS</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What’s behind Dungeon Door number 2? “None of your business,” according to the Warden. Although we see the Warden’s hidden stash of gold behind a locked door, there is more than one dungeon in the depths of Alcatraz.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When the Warden took inmate Harlan down to see the subterranean visitant a few episodes ago, it was seemingly located in a different area beneath the Rock. The keys that are being retrieved by returning prisoners in 2012 open that very dungeon door - a door that Hauser, Doc and Rebecca have yet to access.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>EAGLES AND LIONS AND WOLVES, OH MY!</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just an observation: in both episodes, there were several allegories and tales featuring various animals. From Hauser’s eagle that flew men to a moon of gold to Tiller’s lion, chicken and fox to the Warden’s wolf pack. Survival of the fittest, indeed! Or, Alcatraz was a version of Noah’s Ark and the Warden was the captain. Your choice. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Between the Hippocrates reference and Dr. B’s use of the term Elysium Fields, we can now add Greek to the ongoing list of influences on this show. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Elysium Fields is a concept of the afterlife, where mortals chosen by gods remain after death to live a happy life. Thus, Dr. B’s doubt that Sonny Burnett saw them when he briefly died. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hippocrates was an ancient Greek doctor who is credited with revolutionizing medicine. He served time in prison 20 years, and was the first to connect philosophy with medicine (as well as separate religion from medicine – which is quite illuminating when you consider the pious Warden and his maniacal blood-letting project). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>KEYS</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Emerson Hauser: “I know about the keys. What I didn’t know is that they belonged to the Warden.”</span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warden, to Pinky Ames: “You stole the wrong keys.”</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Different dungeons, different doors. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>LIAR IN THE HOLE!</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Ames Brothers indicated that Solitary was a better place to be than the Infirmary. Clearly the inmates knew that extraordinary amounts of blood were being taken from specific prisoners while in the Infirmary. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And yet…it is fascinating that new inmate arrivals are subjected to 30 days in the Hole. If we were to ponder this in alignment with my ongoing Crazy Theory about “the fog” that knocked the 302 out in order to make them disappear in 1963, I would suggest that there was a mandatory incubation period for new prisoners; that they were subjected to and prepped by chemicals being pumped into Solitary, unbeknownst to all who spent time in there. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>MAKE NEW FRIENDS, BUT KEEP THE OLD; ONE IS SILVER, THE OTHER GOLD</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Millions worth of “confederate gold” was unaccounted for after the civil war…and apparently some of it was secured and stored by Warden James. It may be that he discovered it upon his arrival, left over from the era when the Rock served as a Civil War fortress. But where is that gold now, in 2012? It isn’t stored beneath Alcatraz anymore, and likely did not vanish along with the 302 in 1963 (because thus far there is no indication that material items disappeared along with human beings). It could be that the Warden used the gold to acquire the (colloidal) silver…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>SAN FRANCISCO, AS VANCOUVER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’ve joked about many of the local cities and locations they’re using, as I do live in the Bay Area. However, you can’t get any closer to home for me than Danville. So although the real and lovely town Danville, CA is much more suburban than the lushly depicted…it was goosebump-inducing to watch a woman be buried alive, basically in my virtual backyard.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DR. LUCILLE SENGUPTA/LUCY BANERJEE</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is safe to assume that there was no colloidal silver in Lucy’s blood, nor was there any in Dr. B’s blood. As Dr. B said, “God and the Warden only know” what happened to the blood taken from specific inmates in the 1960’s on the Rock. So it appears that Lucy really was only brought on for psychological assistance to the Warden, and not to conspire together for the 1963 abduction of the 302…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DR. MILTON BEAUREGARD</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. B referred to “the 63’s that you’ve been rounding up” while talking to Hauser in New Alcatraz. He was one of the 63’s, but I wonder exactly what Dr. B remembers or if he is being employed at New Alcatraz against his will. If he was programmed before being returned to modern day, it is unlikely that his mission was to help the enemy re-incarcerate and re-animate the inmates. Or is it?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>EMERSON HAUSER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Why was everyone so interested in Tommy Madsen? The guard Ray Archer, what did he know?”</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My initial assessment of Hauser’s involvement with the 63’s has altered dramatically. He really has no idea about the how and why, which indicates how little his beloved ageless Lucy has shared with him. I’m thrilled to hear him ask the questions that many of the viewers are, and that they are heading down a path that will reveal answers to key mysteries while serving up additional head-scratchers. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Do you have confirmation Hauser’s human? I know a lot of humans. I gotta say, I don’t see it.” - Doc</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our favorite Stealthy Spy applied a mysterious solvent to his bullet wound that even the great Dr. Beauregard could not identify (and I love that his Practical Magic medical kit lives in his on-island Hogwarts trunk of secrets). So of course I firmly believe that said solvent was used to slow down the healing process and mask Hauser’s knowledge and use of blood filled with colloidal silver. OR it could be that he applied silver sulfadiazine, which can be used to treat burns - perhaps he was attempting to cauterize and close the wound. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Among other secrets he is keeping from Rebecca and Doc, Hauser was having his Think Tank nerd herd conduct “weird experiments” in the cellblock for weeks. I have no idea what type of technology they were using, but it resembled a futuristic <i>Ghostbusters</i> briefcase with a large glowing spyPod that played 1970’s disco. I’ve been fixated on their use of music all along, and do not believe it should be discounted that they were playing a song while conducting these experiments.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Pilot, Hauser told Jack Sylvane that E.B. Tiller was his friend. I really hope they begin to show us how and when young SFPD officer Hauser became friendly with the Deputy Warden of Alcatraz.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DOC SOTO</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“One day this is going to end. We (you, me, Emerson) are going to have to live with whatever we’ve done.”</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Between car chases and being knocked out by returned inmates, Doc has realized what he’s now involved with. But he appears to be at peace with it slowly and surely, and perhaps may be considering that this journey will lead him to resolve or confront his childhood trauma. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did you see the look of paralyzing fear on Doc’s face when Helen Campbell revealed that she’d been kidnapped as a young girl? Something tells me that we’re going to see a flashback and learn more about Doc’s traumatic incident…and that whoever took Doc as a boy is still alive, in the vicinity and related to one of the returning 63’s. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We never find out if Ponytail Dude (who met his demise via bolt cutters) is Dandruff Guy, Two Shirts, Glasses or The Whistler. Bummer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Former guard Donovan revealed that he’d returned to 2012 “less than a month” ago, which is quite telling. It was as if he was specifically placed back on a particular date to scout the Rock and get a job there ahead of time…in order to work with or for other returning prisoners (potentially not just the Ames Brothers). As Pinky said, “Being here in 2012, you think it’s just a coincidence we ran into him on a tour last month?” Herman responded with, “He was there for the same reasons we were; it’s not coincidence or karma.” </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Among the names of inmates that Doc asked the bank robbing Ames Brothers about (guessing who their accomplice may have been) - the only recognizable names were Cal Sweeney and Sonny Burnett. It makes sense, given that Sweeney was a bank robber and Burnett was an embezzler. We will likely meet other prisoners in the near future named Stroud and Nicky Morgan.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hey grandpa, stop creeping on your hot granddaughter while she’s sleeping. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rebecca mentioned that she and her former partner were chasing Tommy Madsen on the rooftops (in the Pilot) because of a routine breaking and entering. It was clearly a set up so that Tommy could lure his granddaughter into the tangled web of returning Alcatraz inmates and guards from 1963. Whether or not Tommy himself masterminded that mission, and why, remains to be seen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two important facts before we delve: a. Sonny Burnett was an alias used by James “Sonny” Crocket on <i>Miami Vice</i> (high five to the writers of ALCATRAZ for that nod) and b. Theo Rossi, who played Sonny Burnett with the same evil joy he infuses into his character on <i>Sons of Anarchy</i>, is the real life beau of Sarah Jones. I only wish that the ridiculously attractive and talented couple had a real scene together in this episode!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like Jack Sylvane, Sonny Burnett’s original crimes did not include murder. But Burnett’s wires were clearly tampered with before he was forced to re-enter current society (likely as a result of faulty dream removal experiments), and he was programmed to use extreme violence to complete his mission.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Timing wise, Burnett had re-entered current day earlier than previous inmates. He had time to rent or buy a car, as well as find housing. Either that, or his programmers set it all up in advance – along with providing the research and pertinent information about Helen Campbell (similar to the newspapers and bomb supplies that were left in the tomb for Paxton Petty). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It seems odd that Sonny did not have blood with colloidal silver, because he had died for 30 seconds back in 1960 – only to come back to life when he should have perished. The assumption is that he had been infused with the decanted, enhanced blood while he was under. But in 2012, Dr. B told Hauser that his blood did not contain the additional elements needed to help bring Lucy back to life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whether or not it was intentional, I interpreted the head that Burnett left in the horse stable as homage to <i>The Godfather</i>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Something to ponder, moving forward: Donovan was a guard on Alcatraz during the same time period as young Ray Archer and Guy Hastings. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Former guards Hastings and Donovan were both placed back specifically on Alcatraz in 2012. Unlike some of the other inmates who have resurfaced in other locations, the guards are being purposefully placed where they once worked and resided.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I’m in. Warden James, he invited me to his residence. I’m going to find out what they’re doing to you.” - Ray Archer, to brother Tommy Madsen</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Regarding returning guards, only Archer avoided vanishing on 3/21/63 - because he’d already left his post. We have to wonder if his suspicions about his brother Tommy played a role is his departure. Ray said he left the Rock to raise his family, and considering how significant the Madsens seem to be…perhaps that is why he was “allowed” to leave.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In case you’re wondering, “sally port” refers to a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of people at a time…which is exactly what was needed to stage the kidnapping of 302 people. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rebecca’s first clue that Donovan was a 63er: his condescending usage of the word “honey.” Oh to have lived or worked in a prison before the dawn of feminism. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At first I found it curious that there was no box of belongings for Donovan, given that he vanished in 1963 while his material possessions remained. But then I remembered that fellow guard Guy Hastings’ daughter had been given her father’s box from Alcatraz. So I assume that Donovan had family, and that if any were living with him in 1963 they were also purposefully sent off of the Rock on the day of the event. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The relationship between Warden James and Deputy Warden Tiller is becoming increasingly illuminated with each new episode. There is palpable contempt, jealousy, rivalry and even a sense of fear between the two. I can’t wait to find out the status of their relationship in 1963, when Tiller avoided being kidnapped off of the Rock but James’ whereabouts that night are still in question…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>EDWIN JAMES</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Warden James..has he come back? Is he the one that’s willing to kill for these keys?” - Emerson Hauser</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Pilot, Doc said that Warden Edwin James has been "long dead.” But we never saw an aged Warden, just an aged (and now deceased) Tiller. So it IS possible that Warden James was a 63er, and has either already returned or is about to! I have a suspicion that he’s already back in 2012, and that Hauser and Madsen are the primary roadblock to the re-acquisition of his keys. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of course Warden James delivers the homily in the prison chapel. As I’ve pointed out in previous posts, he figures himself to be some kind of pastor or priest, and plays God with his incarcerated subjects. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When the Warden asked Herman Ames where he had acquired the wine, he replied, “from God’s own table.” That can be interpreted two ways: 1. The sacramental/communion wine that may have been in the prison chapel, or 2. Wine stolen from the Warden’s table, which we know many inmates gain accessed to as selected food servers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition, Dr. B refers to the perfect health of the returned inmates, as if they were “straight from God’s own factory floor.” He also told Hauser that, “God and the Warden only know” about what happened to the blood taken from the inmates before the 1963 incident. It seems that Edwin James is either a Messiah or time traveling alien preacher. We can’t discount either, in all seriousness. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>NEW ALCATRAZ</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hauser interrogated Donovan after bringing him to New Alcatraz. I assume that he has also attempted to coerce information out of other living and breathing inmates he’d recently captured. It is possible that details provided by Sylvane and others may be the reason why Hauser is always one step ahead of Rebecca and Doc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So far, we’ve seen several returned inmates killed or at least what appears to be mortally wounded. Add the Ames Brothers to this collection. The obvious guess for their future is that Hauser brought them all to Dr. B at New Alcatraz in order for him to save or revive them…but how so? Using the blood with colloidal silver requires very specific matching blood types, and Lucy’s “methods” do not appear to be successful either. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hauser told Rebecca and Doc that, “From now on, I want all of them alive.” There appears to be a crack in the suave spy’s façade; he NEEDS all of the 63’s to be alive for his end game…which remains a giant mystery.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember the last post, when I mentioned that perhaps “they” combined the areas of expertise from among the 302 on Alcatraz to create the tools necessary to pull off the events of 3/21/63? We have 2 new names to add to the list: the Ames Brothers. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I’ve mentioned before, Dream is the name of the main character in The Sandman comics (which medical examiner Nikki is fond of donning on tees), a personification of all that is not real - and an escaped prisoner. Dream used a gas gun to compel his enemies to tell the truth and also to put them to sleep. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rebecca Madsen is dreaming about her grandfather, returned inmate Tommy Madsen. Given how important the Madsen clan seems to be to the overarching mythology and conspiracy, I believe that Rebecca has implanted memories. My speculation is that when she was very young, someone placed a chip or injected her with something (a la Cortexiphan on Fringe) without her knowledge, and that is was recently activated to correspond with the return of the 63’s. Or perhaps while she is sleeping, the DREAMy Tommy Madsen is pumping an odorless chemical into her room...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A few housekeeping notes: </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The episode "Clarence Montgomery" that was pre-empted by NASCAR last week will now air next week. The show's creative team have assured fans that they specifically chose to air these two together instead, and that airing one out of order does not effect the mythology. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Among other LOST items, I am giving away a limited edition ALCATRAZ mug from the premiere on Alcatraz via my charity fundraiser </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.cancergetslost.org/fight-on-my-inspiration/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Cancer Gets LOST</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> if you’re interested (and may be adding additional items acquired soon at WonderCon). </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will be attending the ALCATRAZ panel and in their press room at WonderCon on March 18, so stay tuned for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">live tweets</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and photos, as well as interviews!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While I will be out of the country on vacation when the ALCATRAZ season finale airs on March 26, I aim to download the episode and write about it that week. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you so much for taking the time to read though a double dose of analysis. As always, I encourage and appreciate feedback and constructive comments. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Jo</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-23684829076004103642012-02-21T19:20:00.000-08:002012-02-21T19:20:12.064-08:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.07 ("Johnny McKee"): Thoughts & Theories<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I guess you get what you deserve</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yeah you get what's comin' to you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- John Mellencamp, “Born Reckless”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let's hop on the train with our gas masks at hand, and make our way through the manufactured fog...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>The 302/63’s</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. Dr. Lucille Sengupta/Lucy Banerjee</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Dr. Milton Beauregard </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. Mrs. Beauregard (questionable)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. Guy Hastings, guard</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. Ernest Cobb, inmate #2047</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6. Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7. Johnny McKee, inmate #2055</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8. Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. Paxton Petty, inmate #2223</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10. Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11. Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>ALCATRAZ BOOK CLUB</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As was the case with LOST, one of my favorite aspects of contemporary television is the integration of literary references that encourage viewers to research and read actual books (versus gadgets). So I was thrilled to see so many books and hear related quotes in last night’s episode of ALCATRAZ. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The Carpetbaggers – Harold Robbins</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I do not see any real connection from to the show. As Dr. B said, it is pulp. At least compared to the others on display in the episode. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The Metamorphoses of Ovid</b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Metamorphoses is a 12,000-line poem, essentially about transformation. The book is far too dense for me to possibly attempt to explain in any brief manner, but I believe it was used in this episode for two specific reasons: 1. Lucille/Lucy has not appeared to change in any way from 1963 to present day (physically or mentally, pre-coma) and 2. Jack Sylvane told Hauser that he HAD changed (and could no longer dream). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The book is about adventures aboard the submarine Nautilus, which was built in secrecy and roamed the ocean without detection from land-based government. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The real USS Nautilus submarine launched on 1/21/54, and became the first commissioned nuclear power submarine in the US Navy. Johnny McKee said that the USS Nautilus passed through the SF Bay, but it didn’t depart Pearl Harbor toward the North Pole until 1958.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>JULES VERNE</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The man deserves his own section. Jules Verne also wrote an aptly titled book called "The Mysterious Island" and much of his work is very applicable to this show, thematically. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I nodded. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'And he's taking you with him?' </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I nodded again. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'Where?' she asked. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I pointed towards the centre of the earth. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perhaps the secret to the 63’s does lie in the hole beneath The Hole, in the subterranean area of Alcatraz (see crazy theory below)....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An apt way to describe the experiences of the returning inmates…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">McKee rigged sprinklers with Zyklon A, a liquid pesticide that releases hydrogen cyanide in a chemical reaction with water. Zyklon B is more commonly known, primarily because it was used in gas chambers during the Holocaust.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most nightshade plants have berries that contain poisonous solanine, causing convulsions and death. But there are other plants in the nightshade family with toxic berries that harm but do not kill (see crazy theory below). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>SAN FRANCISCO, AS VANCOUVER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I live here, and I have no complaints about what they’re using in Vancouver to stand in for locations in San Francisco. For legal/clearance reasons, they can’t use some of the real names, as is the case with most shows (thus, SFTA rather than BART for the trains). But it is a bit disconcerting when they show a crazy man gassing the “East Bay Tube,” as we take the train through that very Trans Bay Tunnel quite frequently. Speaking of clearances – I did laugh out loud that McKee gassed a train full of Golden State Warriors fans. Clearly it was a good deal cheaper to feature that fan gear than the Giants, A’s, Raiders or 49ers. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“I can help you with that memory; I can help it go away.” - Dr. Sengupta, to Johnny McKee</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We now know that her “methods” included electroshock therapy, traumatic memory therapy and acupuncture [auricular acupuncture has been known to treat inmates in prison psych wards; it was developed in 1957, which would have made it a relatively new and experimental method for Dr. Sengupta]. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The newly unfrozen-in-time Jack Sylvane said that he’s changed because “I don’t dream.” It seems that Dr. Sengupta’s efforts to remove painful memories resulted in the removal of dream capacity instead. That would make sense, considering how many of the returning 63ers seek to revenge or avenge loved ones, with memories more intact and missions activated. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Flashing back to 1960, Dr. Sengupta asked Johnny McKee if he dreamed about his victims. In 2012, we know that Lucy Banerjee is dreaming while in a coma. We have to ponder whether or not SHE is dreaming about her victims…possibly the 63’s.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DR. MILTON BEAUREGARD</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. B referred to current day in New Alcatraz as “our so-called reality.” Given that he is ageless, we must consider WHEN and HOW he re-entered, if he returned at the same time as Lucille/Lucy, if he was given a choice to go with the 63’s, if he knows how he lost 50 years and/or if he helped orchestrate the entire event. It was quite telling that Dr. B called the 1961 book The Carpetbaggers “a MODERN classic." It could very well be that he has no idea what year it is. Look at the man - he does not get out much.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now that Rebecca Madsen has heard the name Beauregard, I’m hoping she brings it up with Doc, who must have written about Dr. B in his books. If they figure out that he’s still alive, and one of the 63’s – they might finally start to put the puzzle pieces together and discover New Alcatraz.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You were in prison then, you’re in prison now. Take away the passing of 50 years – nothing’s changed for you.” – Emerson Hauser, to Jack Sylvane</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>TOMMY MADSEN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a shot in the dark, but I am starting to think that Rebecca’s grandfather is going to discover New Alcatraz; that he went off-mission to “rescue” his fellow inmates from their re-incarceration. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>JOHNNY MCKEE</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">McKee is the first returning inmate we’ve seen that sought out employment in order to continue their life of crime. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I believe that McKee specifically chose that train at that time to gas. He must have known that there was a Warriors game that night, and assumed that most of the fans would be male. Although much has changed since 1963, the section of passengers they chose to show did not seem to contain any female basketball fans. Score one for the psychopath. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once again, we do not see Hauser bring an inmate to New Alcatraz. Johnny McKee might have died, but so did Kit Nelson – and we have yet to see if Dr. B brought him back to life in New Alcatraz. So either the killed inmates are in cold storage, or they are in revitalization chambers. I prefer to think it is the latter. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>THE WARDENS</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donde esta Deputy Warden Tiller? His absence, two episodes in a row, is blowing a hole right through my agoraphobia/Isaac Asimov theory. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can someone please make an animated gif of Warden James saying Ding? Hilarious. But when I hear Ding, I see Fring. <i>Breaking Bad</i> fans will understand. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just as Warden James forced a confession out of Kit Nelson with his creepy match game, he assisted Dr. Sengupta to force a confession out of Johnny McKee. To me, it is almost as if the Warden makes it his personal mission to have each inmate confess to their sins before they qualify (in his mind) to be part of the future 63’s. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It might be possible that “they” combined the areas of expertise from among the 302 on Alcatraz to create the tools necessary to pull off the events of 3/21/63. So far, those that fit the task: Kit Nelson used to work for a company that built bomb shelters (the subterranean dungeon and/or wormhole), and Johnny McKee used to be an organic chemistry teacher (“the fog”). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition, I think it was a major clue that McKee “pulled garden duty a lot,” as Warden James himself seemed to be particularly fond of the prison gardens (noted in “Guy Hastings”). The phillumenist is also a horticulturist! The Warden may have been working with or forcing McKee to educate him about the uses of the nightshade plants. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>CRAZY THEORY OF THE WEEK, PT 2 – ENTER SANDMAN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In smaller dosages, some of the chemicals derived from the plants in the nightshade family can be used as a sedative or to treat motion sickness. Side effects from these drugs may include confusion, agitation, hallucinations, paranoid behaviors, and delusions. Thus…the “fog that took all the stars away” on 3/21/63. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the second episode in a row, the Medical Examiner (not coroner, as I've erroneously labeled her previously) Nikki has worn a Sandman comic tee. As I noted in last week’s post, the main character in The Sandman comics was an escaped prisoner named Dream. Obviously, dreams play a huge role in this episode and the entire series. But what is even more relevant (particularly for this theory) is that Dream used a gas gun to compel his enemies to tell the truth and also to put them to sleep. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nikki is not one of the 63’s, BUT…my conspiratorial instinct suspects that she is Dr. Beauregard’s granddaughter. Her profession, location and conveniently nerdy tees are pointing me in that direction. She is a plant, she knows SOMETHING and may just play a role in the re-entry process of returning 63ers. Who better to help revive those stuck in time than an M.E.? Especially if she was tasked with reviving some who may not have survived or were injured during the 20,000-league journey back from the center of the earth…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>CRAZY THEORY OF THE WEEK, PT 3 - TRANSPORTATION</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Johnny McKee was a huge Jules Verne fan, and noted that as early as the 1800’s - he wrote about “how we would travel underwater.” If those who vanished from Alcatraz in 1963 didn’t travel through a wormhole, perhaps the subterranean area beneath Solitary on Alcatraz was actually a carved out tunnel system for submarines. If you’re wondering how that many subs (enough to hold 302 people) were able to travel the Bay undetected, just remember that a) we are suspending our disbelief here, people and b) Verne's Nautilus utilized that very technology.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And…scene. Thank you for taking the time to read though my analysis and (hopefully) get a few laughs out of the crazy theories! As always, I encourage and appreciate feedback and constructive comments. Please note: due to travel, I will not be able to watch & write about next week’s episode until Friday, March 2. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">To start us off, in honor of Valentine’s Day - an appropriately titled song by an artist relevant to this episode: “Prisoner of Love” by Frank Sinatra.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Alone from night to night, you'll find me too weak to break the chains that bind me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">I need no shackles to remind me, I'm just a prisoner of love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">What's the good of my caring if someone is sharing those arms with me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Although she has another, I can't find another for I'm not free.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">She's in my dreams awake or sleeping, upon my knees to her I'm creeping,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">My very life is in her keeping, I'm just a prisoner of love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">1. Dr. Lucille Sangupta/Lucy Banerjee</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">6. Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">7. Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">8. Paxton Petty, inmate #2223</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">9. Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">10. Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b><u>DATE DISCREPANCY <span style="color: red;">UPDATE</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">* I have confirmed that the inmate mugshots and dates on the mugshots are NOT canon, and therefore there are no date discrepancies with regard to Petty's Alcatraz mugshot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Paxton Petty’s Alcatraz mug shot indicates his arrival date there as 2/8/60. I’m not sure if that is a continuity/prop error or misleading clue, but it certainly does not match up with other significant dates…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Paxton Petty arrested: 9/3/59</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Bombs set off: 2/20/60, 3/6/60, 3/15/60</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Paxton Petty transferred to Alcatraz: 9/3/60</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">In addition, the newspaper in the tomb had a headline about the Zodiac killer, and his crimes took place between 1968-1969. Why on earth would the person responsible for providing Petty with his weapon of choice upon his re-entry also leave a newspaper from a year during which he was frozen in time? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Young SF police officer Hauser was a rookie around 1960, judging by what was likely his initial bout of nausea upon arrival to Alcatraz with prisoner Petty. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">We have to ponder whether or not Dr. Lucille Sangupta specifically targeted young officer Hauser back in 1960. She was unusually aggressive for a woman of her standing in that era, and he was clearly vulnerable and seemingly very sweet and innocent. Lucille/Lucy is ageless and vanished along with 301 others from Alcatraz in 1963. If she was aware of or responsible for what was going to happen, she may have either warned or tried to recruit Hauser. Did he CHOOSE to stay? Did Lucille give him a pass or enough information to prepare for her return (along with the others) in the future? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Hauser’s old SFPD uniform is stored in a locked trunk on Alcatraz in current day, along with old photos of him with Dr. Sangupta and his Ben Linus-inspired cache of foreign cash and passports. All signs point to the fact that Hauser must actually live in or near the Batcave...and that he is a frequent international flyer. It is possible that during the years when his beloved Lucille was "missing," he was traversing the globe in search of her. Or simply recruiting a top team of nerds for his secret lair.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">- Coldplay, “Fix You”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The real question is this: WHEN did Dr. Lucille Sangupta make her re-entry into modern society, and begin her life anew as Lucy Banerjee? I have a suspicion that the season finale will shed light on this very question, hopefully highlighting: how she and Emerson Hauser found one another again, his reaction to her agelessness, and how they teamed up and combined resources to start hunting down the other 301 people who vanished in 1963. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Dr. Sangupta used an anesthetic pill that resembled a mint to sedate inmates, and also appeared to give young Hauser one of the same “mints” for nausea upon his arrival when they first met. That he may have been pre-selected for a specific purpose is becoming more and more likely. It is unclear what effect, if any, the mint had on Hauser. But s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">he definitely needed an outside source, off of the Rock, to help complete her mission or assignment. And, sadly, Hauser's love for Lucille/Lucy may have been and remains unrequited.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Can Lucy die? Can any of the returned 63’s die? Hauser himself may not know, which is why he asked Dr. B to work on Kit Nelson in 2012 New Alcatraz after apparently killing him. We have not seen the status of Nelson since, but perhaps he was revived – which is why Hauser then brought Lucy to Dr. B to "fix her." </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">It seems Warden James hired Dr. Sangupta, but perhaps did so off the record - indicating his intentions for her assistance with his 1963 project (insert, as they say in <i>The Muppets</i>, a maniacal laugh here). After all, Doc Soto, the Alcatraz expert, knew nothing about a female doctor stationed on Alcatraz. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">“I wrote a book about Alcatraz, and pretty much everything was wrong.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">I can’t wait for the sequel to his Inmates of Alcatraz book: <i>Lack of Conviction – Inmates Inaccurate</i>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Nikki the coroner was sporting a tee of The Sandman, and The Sandman himself (Wesley Dodds) had a girlfriend who was aware of his dual identity. Perhaps we have now been introduced to comic book shop owner by day/civilian investigator by night Soto’s new love interest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">It was a surprise to learn that Dr. Sangupta was unaware of the blood being taken by Dr. B in the Alcatraz infirmary. She obviously had a strong interest in Tommy Madsen, for reasons that have yet to be unveiled. And she trusted him enough to play Petty’s torture tape, to gauge his recognition of the lullaby Petty mumbled after undergoing her “talking cure.” </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Tommy knows about the horrible place beneath Solitary, and I wonder if he will continue to meet with Dr. Sangupta and perhaps reveal what he knows. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">It crossed my mind that the recently returned and off-the-grid Tommy Madsen may have paid a visit to Lucy before she was shot. Whether or not he was programmed to do so or not is unclear, but these two may have more of a history than we've seen. Yet.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">“I want to know what happened to me. A week ago I went to sleep a stone’s throw from where we’re standing now. Next thing I know, it’s 2012. And I wake up lying on the floor of a tomb. Tell me how that’s possible.” - Paxton Petty</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Guy Hastings remembered specific details about his last night on the Rock before vanishing, but Petty only recalled going to sleep. I have speculated that the “fog” released on Alcatraz that night (see previous post) may have been a type of biochemical agent, and perhaps Hastings simply remembered more because he was awake. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Once again, we did not see Hauser bring a returned 63er to New Alcatraz. But we did witness him shooting Petty, without the intent to kill. We should just assume at this point that all who have returned and are captured are then taken to New Alcatraz. Is Hauser purposefully wounding each returning inmate and guard - making them bleed - so that Dr. B has a fresh source and reason to collect samples for testing in New Alcatraz?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">This might be a stretch, but…is it mere coincidence that coroner Nikki was sporting a tee featuring The Sandman in the very episode where sand played a major role in the location of Petty’s final landmine? Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream, indeed. Wait...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Dream is the main character in The Sandman comics, a personification of all that is not real...and an escaped prisoner. The comic book series also features flashbacks and immortal characters. Long story short, ALCATRAZ co-creators/executive producers Bryan Wynbrandt and Steven Lilien and their writing staff are very clearly fans of the comic book and graphic novel genre, and are infusing their show with geeky hints and nods. I strongly approve. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Alcatraz guard Guy Hastings served in the Navy in Korea. Inmate Tommy Madsen served in the Korean War. Inmate Paxton Petty was part of the 45th Infantry Division in the Korean War. Following the line of thinking that the 302 who vanished in 1963 were cryogenically frozen in time (see previous entry: <a href="http://insidealcatraz.blogspot.com/2012/02/alcatraz-episode-105-guy-hastings.html" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Crazy Theory of the Week</span></b></a>)… </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">In the early 1950’s, North Korea was convinced that outbreaks of disease there were due to biological attacks by the United States. American prisoners confirmed the use of biological weapons by the U.S., but the government denied it and were supported by scientists.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The U.S. soldiers used Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra lyrics to communicate the location of landmines, which is not surprising because both artists frequently performed for the troops as part of the USO. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Yet another record plays! We have now seen two record players in 2012 (Dr. B’s infirmary in New Alcatraz, Lucy’s hospital room) and one in 1960 (at the Warden’s house). I originally offered that the returning inmates had been brainwashed, and that music played a role in their reintegration process. I’m not entirely convinced that I’m wrong. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">When he was about to “work” on Kit Nelson in New Alcatraz after Hauser killed him, Dr. B put on a record. In this episode, Hauser put on a record in Lucy’s hospital room – and although it did not revive her, we must consider that there is <i>something</i> about the music. Also, young Hauser was listening to the same song on the radio in 1960 that Hauser played in 2012 in Lucy’s room (if I’m not mistaken). </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Again, I could be wrong, but I believe the song they used was “These Foolish Things” by Billie Holiday. Lyrically speaking, it plays like a love letter from Hauser to Lucy. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">That told you what my heart meant</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">You came, you saw, you conquered me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">When you did that to me</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">I knew somehow this had to be</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">The winds of March that made my heart a dancer</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">A telephone that rings but who's to answer?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Oh, how the ghost of you clings</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">These foolish things remind me of you</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Although Dr. Sangupta’s “talking cure” was not as successful with Petty, I have a feeling that we will witness other inmates that fold under such electricity. It is fascinating to note that Petty referred to his experience as “the royal treatment.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">“Someone’s helping these guys, maybe unfreezing them.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">– Doc Soto</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Soto would be the first to tell you that Captain America fell from a plane into the ocean and spent decades frozen in a block of ice, in a state of suspended animation. Captain America was injected with a super soldier serum that replenished itself, a virus-like organism that altered his genetic and biochemical makeup.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Cryogenically preserved tissue and cells have been successfully thawed and used, but not actual bodies or brains…perhaps until now. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b><u>NEW CRAZY THEORY OF THE WEEK: QUANTUM LEAP</u></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Among Doc Soto’s 50 or so theories about how the 63’s vanished and are reappearing, he mentioned “a quantum thing” to Petty. I am not a time travel expert, but his description reminded me of a theory I offered about LOST before time travel was officially addressed:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">In the Dharma Orchid video, Dr. Pierre Chang referred to exotic matter (hypothetical particles) embedded beneath the island. If you combined that exotic matter with negative energy density, you could stabilize a wormhole. The Casimir Effect can produce a mass-negative region of space-time, which is used to stabilize a wormhole and allow faster than light travel. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Applying this scientific mumbo jumbo to ALCATRAZ…it might be possible that there is similar matter beneath Alcatraz – put in place by Dr. B, the Warden and/or Dr. Sangupta – that created such a wormhole. Thus, the seismic activity that Hauser was anticipating. And what I believe to be located behind the triple locked door to the mysterious dungeon, as well as the horrible place below Solitary that Tommy Madsen referred to. If you stop to think about how 302 people vanished with no trace of foul play, it might make an ounce of sense that they all traveled down the same rabbit hole after being knocked out by chemicals dispersed throughout the island…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">My sincere hope is that you're all enjoying the show and speculation as much as I do. In this day and age of DVRs and online streaming, many viewers are choosing to wait rather than watch ALCATRAZ live on Monday nights. As you might suspect, that is having a negative effect on the ratings. While I personally believe that FOX is going to renew the show, all of us - the vast community of fans with many social networks - need to continue spreading the good word if we want ALCATRAZ to see another season. Save. Our. Show. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">As always, I appreciate and encourage comments and constructive feedback, and look forward to reading your thoughts and theories about this episode!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> -Jo</span></div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-44617465486127623432012-02-07T20:04:00.000-08:002012-02-07T20:04:45.205-08:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.05 ("Guy Hastings"): Thoughts & Theories<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Go grab your secret stash from the wall and get comfortable, because we are about to take a few virtual jumps between decades in an attempt to figure out what lies beneath. Lairs and nerd herds and dungeons, oh my!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>The 302/63’s</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. Lucy Banerjee</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Dr. Beauregard </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. Mrs. Beauregard (questionable)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. Guy Hastings, guard</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. Ernest Cobb, inmate #2047</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6. Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7. Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8. Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to Alcatraz expert and author <a href="http://www.AlcatrazHistory.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Michael Esslinger</span></b></a>, there were about 300 civilians living on Alcatraz at any given time. It is possible that those responsible for the abduction on 3/21/63 took the time to safely evacuate all of the guards’ wives and children, given how Hastings’ family was separated from him before he disappeared. But if you stop to ponder the logistics involved with making sure that 300 or so family members were taken into SF by ferry on a particular day, it really does prove how pre-meditated and extremely organized the entire event was. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whatever the reason was behind the disappearance of the 302, ensuring future generations was not on the agenda. Purposefully relocating the wives from the big picture removed any opportunities for additional offspring, leaving only the inmates, guards and prison staff to be suspended in time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thus far, we have only witnessed Jack Sylvane and Guy Hastings’ re-entry into current day take place on Alcatraz. We initially saw Ernest Cobb on a picnic, Kit Nelson kidnapping a boy and Cal Sweeney robbing a bank – but not the exact moment when each first appeared to “wake up” disoriented and out place/time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cobb’s programmed mission included taking out Dr. Lucy Banerjee/Lucille Sangupta. Madsen’s programmed mission clearly involved leading his granddaughter Rebecca on to the scent of the returning 63’s. I would not be at all surprised if a future returning inmate goes after Doc, if indeed his parents have ties to a former prisoner or the person responsible for their son’s childhood trauma. And at some point, ex-SFPD officer Hauser is also a likely target. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DOUBLE-UPS ARE KEY</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I realize that it may have only been a throwaway comment made by Doc in the Pilot, but his statement about double-ups continues to ring true on many levels. Hastings told young guard Ray Archer, “On Alcatraz, no man can do it alone.” And a second cracked framed photo featuring a significant pair of characters (first the older Wardens James and Tiller, and now younger brothers Ray Archer and Tommy Madsen) played a role yet again in the search for the returning 63’s. It takes two, baby. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE UNDER MY FEET</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was surprising to hear Hauser ask about seismic activity on the day that Guy Hastings returned. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seismic waves are generated by earthquakes or explosions, and I have to wonder if Hauser tipped his hat with that inquiry. Perhaps there is an atmospheric or subterranean disruption at the moment that inmates and guards re-enter, or he is expecting one to occur soon... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">{Side note: we live alarmingly close to the Hayward Fault, so now when we experience frequent tremors - I'll keep an eye out for nefarious criminals with Richard Alpert syndrome}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>EMERSON HAUSER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We know that young Hauser was a police officer in San Francisco in 1963, and presumably for a few years before that. My guess is that he had encountered or arrested young Tommy Madsen and also knew his brother Ray Archer. We don’t know if Ray’s first job was as a prison guard – it is possible that he applied for the SFPD or even worked with Hauser there before transitioning into a prison guard…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thinking back to the Pilot episode, when Hauser informed Jack Sylvane that E.B. Tiller “was my friend” – I have to wonder when they become acquainted and how. In 1963, young Hauser was an SF police officer that assisted with prisoner transfers. EB Tiller was a socially awkward Deputy Warden who appeared to suffer from agoraphobia and likely rarely left the Rock. I assume that they formed a friendship BEFORE the 1963 abduction; when Tiller relocated from the Rock to become a Fed. While both men were not present during the events on 3/21/63, we must consider that they were somehow complicit in what happened.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Hauser picked up the red phone in the secret lair beneath Alcatraz, he simply said, “I need to see you.” He wasn’t addressing the geek squad of scientists behind closed doors – it was a direct line to someone not on the premises. My money is on Dr. B at New Alcatraz. Time for Hauser to call in that favor and have Dr. B save and/or wake up Lucy from the coma so that she can continue assisting his search and recovery of the 63’s. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Was Hauser holding rosary beads at the end of this episode, and if so – why?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ray said that he didn’t think Tommy had killed his wife, but “then I did.” I look forward to more details emerging about the relationship between the two brothers on the Rock, as well as how and why Tommy killed his spouse.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After beating him with a tray in the mess hall, Tommy told his brother Ray that “you shouldn’t have come here.” That warning, coupled with Tommy’s knowledge about what takes place beneath solitary and his frequent visits to the infirmary for blood withdrawal – makes a strong case that he knew what was going to happen on 3/21/63…ahead of time. Tommy Madsen was very important to those who orchestrated the abduction and also to Hauser in current day. I would venture to guess that he was the first to be experimented on before the other inmates and guards were subjected to tests, both with and without their knowledge. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Additionally, Tommy may have been sending himself to both solitary confinement and the infirmary on purpose, to either get information or treatments…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It could be that Guy Hastings’ mission was to find the evasive Tommy Madsen, who is currently “unaccounted for” or “lost.” He may have gone rogue from his programmed agenda after re-entry into modern society, and perhaps Hastings’ programmers figured that it was better to send a guard (one of the ‘good guys’) after Tommy than a fellow inmate. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The personal items of the inmates were left as-is when they vanished in 1963, and then boxed up and stored later beneath Alcatraz. And yet Annie Hastings received a box of her father’s items from the prison. Taking the time to provide guards’ family members with their personal affects was a very thoughtful and time-consuming process for those who meticulously masterminded the disappearance of 302 people. Someone was responsible for making sure that these items were delivered – someone local and not wherever/whenever the 302 were taken. Hauser referred to Hastings as a “casualty in this.” Clearly, all 46 guards and/or prison staff were casualties that someone or something was willing to sacrifice for their greater purpose…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>RAY ARCHER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Pilot episode, Ray told Rebecca to “let it go” and walk away from the Sylvane case. In this episode, Ray told her that – regarding Tommy’s crime, “I just had to let it go.” While an obvious comparison to Christian Shephard on LOST might be screaming at you in neon lights, I've moved on (which I highly recommend you can do too, without actually letting go). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You and me are in this together.” - Guard Ray to Inmate Tommy</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ray signed up to be an Alcatraz guard knowing full well that his brother was an inmate there (thus, the smile on his face when he saw Tommy – who greeted him with a horrified look and beating). He must have known the risks involved, if anyone found out that he was related to a prisoner. Rebecca surmised that Ray was not surprised by the ageless, returning inmates because Hauser had tried to recruit him, but it is also possible that Ray was warned by Tommy and thus left his position on the Rock before 3/21/63. Ray “left to raise his son” after all… </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sixteen banners united over the field, where the good shepherd grieves. Desperate men, desperate women divided, spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves. - Bob Dylan, "<i>Changing of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Guard</span></i>"</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hauser offered Ray Archer a job 16 years ago. Just something to keep in mind...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>GUY HASTINGS</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whoever programmed Guy Hastings hid the gun in the wall as part of his assignment, but also the family photos. But Hastings’ wiring was very off because he wasn’t aware that his daughter was still alive when he returned. Unlike Jack Sylvane, who was hell-bent on finding his brother because he’d married Jack’s wife – Hastings’ implanted or restored memories were blurry at best.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did Hastings leave two gun clips in the hidden wall space because he didn’t intend to harm Ray or Tommy, or because it was another instance of faulty wiring?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They mentioned that Hastings was in the Navy and in Korea before becoming a guard on Alcatraz in 1957. We do not know in what capacity he served, but perhaps it was at Portsmouth Naval Prison – otherwise known as the Alcatraz of the East. The brig at Portsmouth was modeled after Alcatraz, and used throughout the Korean War. Another interesting fact gleaned from Soto's book above - Tommy Madsen also served in the Korean War from 1952-1953. I would not be at all surprised to learn that he and Hastings were well acquainted long before both arrived on the Rock in very different capacities...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So Warden James has a “little one.” I can’t wait to meet the Mrs. Shall we add her to the list of the 302, or did he arrange for his wife and child to leave the Rock along with the guards’ families?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deputy Warden Tiller was rather adamant about getting rid of Ray Archer, as if he already knew that Archer’s brother was Tommy Madsen. Once again, Warden James took a decision out of his hands and assigned authority to someone other than his Deputy. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to official (fabricated) records, Hastings and 8 either guards died after a chemical spill in 1963. Before he was abducted and suspended in time, Hastings recalled being told that there was an “accident” that killed their families, and that the guards were sick and contaminated. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have already speculated about the possibility of cryogenics as an explanation for the frozen-in-time, ageless 302. When Hastings remembered his last night on Alcatraz, he described a “fog that took all the stars away.” Vapors released from cryogenic liquids tend to condense the moisture in air, creating a visible FOG…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another possible hint was the way that Hastings expressed regret to Ray Archer in current day, about missing all of the years from 1963 to present: “I haven’t been anywhere. You got to…live.” The re-animated Hastings may not have known what happened to him, but he knows that he was robbed of his family and life – and the look on his face spoke volumes; he really is a casualty once this mission is over, and any life he might have now will not be his own. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Jo</span><br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-75736256075182422582012-02-03T19:24:00.000-08:002012-02-03T20:53:49.115-08:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.04 ("Cal Sweeney"): Thoughts & Theories<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My apologies for the delay of episode analysis - I was out of town and unable to dedicate the amount of time necessary to complete this!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Without further delay, let's gather 'round the dinner table and attempt to re-wire our memories while dining by the candlelight of a demented phillumenist...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By my count, we have now been introduced to 8 of the 302 who vanished from Alcatraz on 3/21/63: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lucy Banerjee</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr. Beauregard </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mrs. Beauregard (presumably, since she lived on the Rock with him)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ernest Cobb, inmate #2047</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tommy Madsen, inmate #2002</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kit Nelson, inmate #2046 </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cal Sweeney, inmate #2112</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DOC SOTO</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We know that Doc endured a traumatic experience as a young boy, that his parents are professors, that he earned several PhDs to appease them and that their relationship is “complicated.” My guess is that the trauma involved a former Alcatraz inmate or guard (but not one of the 63’s, given Doc’s age), and that the person responsible for whatever happened to Doc either knew or was related to his parents. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Soto referred to the secret spy lair beneath Alcatraz as the Bat Cave and published a major breakthrough in crime prevention using a statistical model based on Gotham City. So it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that, like Bruce Wayne - he was present when his parents were mugged and killed (which would make him adopted, providing a potentially “complicated” relationship with the folks who raised him). Like Bruce Wayne, Soto’s super power is the use of his intellect; he studied criminology and criminal psychology (one of his degrees is in Criminal Justice) – resulting in his Alcatraz obsession and expertise.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the car, Hauser made a comment that the last time Doc drove a car – he was 11 years old (the same age of the trauma). Taking Dr. Lucy Banerjee’s comments about removing traumatic memories into consideration, they are strongly hinting that Lucy and Hauser know exactly what happened to Doc and may have even played a role. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Doc is an Alcatraz expert and knows more about the prisoners than anyone, and yet he was unaware of Sweeney’s background - about the fire that took his family. Oversight or clue? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Pilot, Doc said that “you have to double up; double-ups are KEY.” Thinking about the double locks that the Warden had to use in order to access the final lock on the dungeon door, Doc’s comment suddenly takes on an entirely new light…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>REBECCA MADSEN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have watched a good deal of sci-fi and primetime television in my life. So I just have to point out how nice it is to see a female lead actually eat. Often. That Detective Madsen is particularly fond of dim sum is rather appropriate, given that the show is set in San Francisco. I live here and can vouch for the amazing variety of delicious dim sum in the Bay Area. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want Madsen and Soto to be more curious, to be asking WHERE the returned and recently captured inmates go after Hauser allegedly gives them new identities and removes them from society. They are both very intelligent, intuitive characters and it stands to reason that they would be suspicious of Hauser’s methods and the whereabouts of the prisoners. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>THE PRISONERS</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All four returning prisoners spent time in solitary in 1960. This is not a coincidental fact. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><b>CAL SWEENEY</b></u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just as Jack Sylvane was not a murderer in his previous incarnation as a less-than-model-citizen, Cal Sweeney had simply robbed safe deposit boxes - unaccompanied by a trail of blood. This further solidifies my theory that the returning inmates have been programmed. And like Sylvane, Cobb and Nelson before him, Sweeney was provided very specific instructions for his mission. He purposefully hit a few banks and miscellaneous safe deposit boxes (likely to convince authorities that the pattern was random) before getting to his primary target – box 1869. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was not entirely clear why Sweeney was so interested in the story behind the sapphire necklace, given the ages of the couple he targeted. While the show has already established sibling issues with previous prisoners, I think it might be too soon to have another motivated-by-guilt-from-wronging-a-family-member episode. Then again, it may not be coincidental that this episode also featured the introduction of Deputy Warden Tiller’s sister.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In my estimation, Sweeney would have been an infant around the time that the red headed Mrs. Victim was also an infant. He visually reacted primarily to the victim’s comment that the sapphire was his wife’s birthstone. We know that Sweeney was targeting 45-50 year old female bank tellers (including one red head), so my best guess is that Sweeney’s mother was a red head with a birthday in September. Mommy issues, party of one.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While negotiating with Deputy Warden Tiller during his shave in 1960 on Alcatraz, Sweeney referred to the inmates as 300 “nosebleeds.” In 1963, there were only 256 prisoners when they all vanished. So over the next three years, 44 inmates were killed or released. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sweeney was not very bright – he did not question why young Harlan was already working as a steward at the Warden’s house, a “top shelf employment” opportunity for select inmates. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tiller could have killed Sweeney in the bathroom at the Warden’s house, but chose to only stab him. They may have needed the inmates to remain alive in preparation for the 1963 event – or at least prisoners like Sweeney, who drew the attention of the Wardens and may have been designated for experimentation from the get-go. Of course the leg wound provided an opportunity for Sweeney to visit the infirmary, where they could start taking/testing his blood…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>HARLAN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now that young Harlan has entered the dungeon, it is unclear whether we will see him again either in 1960 or current day. I certainly hope we are privy to what he experienced and how it affects his returning mission. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>THE WARDENS</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>E.B. TILLER</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The Warden tends to look the other way when it comes to the smaller vices and minor infractions. If it were up to me, I’d run this place on the up and up. But it ain’t. So in the meantime, you’re getting squeezed.”</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deputy Warden Tiller definitely aspired to take over for Warden James, but was clearly fearful of the man. We now know that both of them relocated to other positions off of Alcatraz before 1963 and the abduction (likely because they were warned or involved), so Tiller never got the opportunity to run the prison.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tiller’s demeanor in front of the inmates and in front of his boss was vastly, visually different. He appeared to be much more comfortable in the power position at the prison, and visibly nervous in a social setting at the Warden’s house. If Elijah Bailey Tiller was indeed named after the Asimov character (see paragraph in earlier post called <a href="http://insidealcatraz.blogspot.com/2012/01/alcatraz-episode-101-pilot-102-ernest.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>Isaac Asimov’s Robot Series</b></span></a>), his agoraphobia is appropriately attributed and illustrated. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Sylvane perused the Alcatraz book on the ferry that featured the photo of the Wardens, the book noted that there were two attempts on Tiller’s life. Was Sweeney’s attack in the bathroom one of them? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Warden James gave Tiller a pen for his birthday, his reaction was classic <i>Say Anything </i>exasperation: “I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>EDWIN JAMES</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The wealthy Warden used inmates as dinner stewards at his home, which seemed risky but was yet another indication of his demented sense of entertainment. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It seems the Warden specifically hired Lucy in 1960 to create or oversee the preparation of the occupants on the Rock for the event in 1963. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>THE DOCTORS</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DR. AND MRS. BEAUREGARD</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the last episode, they specifically showed us that Dr. B was wearing a wedding ring while working in New Alcatraz. I am adding Mrs. Beauregard to the list of those who vanished in 1963, and have a strong suspicion that we will see an ageless version of Mrs. B very soon. Once again, we have to remember that family members lived with the prison staff while employed on Alcatraz. There will be more of them among the 302. We were deliberately misled to believe that the 302 consisted of 256 prisoners and 46 guards only…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. B is threatened by and has open disdain for Lucy, so it will be interesting to watch how he reacts when Hauser brings her to New Alcatraz (calling upon that favor he mentioned, for a friend). I wouldn’t be surprised to see her there after she either wakes up from the coma or Hauser somehow arranges a transfer in her current condition. After all, the magical Dr. B may have access to medical equipment designed to revive…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>LUCY BANERJEE</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Inner feelings are of secondary importance to me. When it comes to deviant behavior, their wiring lies in their memories. Specifically, traumatic memories that give rise to these instincts and impulses. If I can remove the traumatic memories and leave a more soothing one in its place, we might be able to correct or adjust their behavior. In essence, we re-wire them.”</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For several reasons, this may be the most significant and telling quote of the season thus far. If in fact the returning inmates have been programmed for one purpose and mission only, it seems that their wiring has deviated from the plan. It is quite clear that the traumatic memories of those we’ve seen thus far were not removed at all, and that their behaviors have been anything but adjusted. Sylvane and Sweeney each retrieved one of the mysterious Alcatraz dungeon keys, but had absolutely no idea why they were doing so. And every prisoner that has returned so far has directly reacted to former flames and family members by seeking out those who have harmed them or reminded them of their pasts. System failure!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I believe that Lucy failed her original task, and that she has returned from 1963 to correct her mistakes, make adjustments and try again. Thus…New Alcatraz. I have changed my opinion about Hauser’s knowledge of Lucy since the Pilot – and believe that they are working together to capture the 302. Hauser’s funding and technology, coupled with Lucy’s experience as a time traveling scientist and familiarity with the prisoners - makes for quite a dangerous and powerful team.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The nerd herd working behind closed doors on Alcatraz was likely the responsibility of Lucy, but now that she is in a coma – they must work with and for Hauser. I will be curious to find out if we will get to know anyone else on their team, or if any of them withhold information they discover until Lucy is able to return.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>NEW ALCATRAZ</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This was the first time we did not get to see Hauser bring a returning inmate to New Alcatraz. We last saw Sweeney in the police car after Madsen crashed - and it seems like a deliberate choice to keep his New Alcatraz entry from us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The obvious guess is that Tiller’s sister Geri was locked up below Alcatraz in the dungeon. While Tiller likely resided on the Rock along with the other staff, I would be very surprised to find out that they kept her there caged like an animal. Even for those in charge with a clear lack of humanity, it seems far too monstrous and cruel. I would suggest that there was not be a person per se down there, but rather a machine or system designed and/or overseen by Lucy. Geri was not the only guest at the Warden’s table for Tiller’s party, and Harlan could have caught the eye of another “subterranean resident who desires to have a parlay.” The mysteriously silent Mrs. Beauregard could be considered as another option for who was behind 3-lock door number one…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though we don’t know yet whether Deputy Warden Tiller was aware of or used the dungeon like Warden James, I believe that Lucy did. She may have programmed Sylvane and Sweeney to retrieve two of the three keys upon their return – but her end-game and purpose is murky at this point. We have to ponder whether or not she herself placed the keys with Barclay Flynn and the safe deposit box, why she did so, and where the third and final key is (as well as which inmate or guard will be programmed to obtain it). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If we are to assume that the dungeon is the place beneath Solitary where horrible things happen (which inmate Tommy Madsen referred to while in the infirmary) – it is safe to also assume that Madsen had been taken there. He lived to tell the tale, so perhaps Harlan will as well. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have now seen record players both in 2011 (Dr. B’s infirmary in New Alcatraz) and 1960 (at the Warden’s house). If the returning inmates have been brainwashed, perhaps music is used as part of the reintegration process. Dr. B put on a record as he was about to revive Nelson…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The show has not outright mentioned time travel, although most viewers and fans seem to have concluded as much. So I was pleasantly surprised to hear Hauser mention that he needs to find out “how the prisoners jumped.” To be honest, I’m hoping that they take a more complicated, less obvious route. I’d much prefer to watch them unravel the mystery of suspension in time and cryogenics.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I also noticed that both Dr. B (at Tiller’s dinner) and Sweeney (meeting with Tiller at the prison) made casual mentions of nosebleeds in two separate contexts. Anyone who watched <i>LOST</i> probably also thought about the nosebleeds that resulted from time jumps… </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forget <i>Spinal Tap</i>. The writers on this show know something more about the number 11 than we do. Soto last drove when he was 11, the same age he was when the trauma occurred. Inmate Kit Nelson went after 11-year old boys. And so on. If we want to delve into super nerdy territory, there are 11 space time dimensions in M-theory. String theories, gravity and quantum physics may certainly be considered as we contemplate exactly how the 63’s are reappearing…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One of the prisoners is named Pinkner - a nice shout-out to Bad Robot and <i>Fringe </i>executive producer Jeff Pinkner.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The inclusion of a mystery box (Sweeney's tin) is no surprise to fans of shows produced by Bad Robot. If you have not already watched the incredibly illuminating video <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">J.J. Abrams' Mystery Box</span></b></a>, I highly recommend it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With Dr. B (Leon Rippy) and Geri Tiller (Geri Jewell) at the same table in this episode, it was a mini <i>Deadwood</i> reunion. ALCATRAZ co-creator and former executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff was a story editor and producer on <i>Deadwood</i>, my second favorite show of all time (after <i>LOST</i>, of course). Fun side note: on <i>Deadwood</i>, Geri Jewell played Jewel and on ALCATRAZ , she’s playing Geri. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With inmate Kit Nelson, Warden James utilized matches to force a confession out of him. The Warden then left the remaining matches with Nelson in Solitary, and we saw him with the same matches after he’d returned to contemporary society. Inmate Cal Sweeney’s sole possession was a scorched tin box, the only item from his family and past that remained after a fire took everything. A fire, I might add, that Alcatraz expert Doc Soto had no knowledge of. I would further offer that the tin was a tobacco box, another item collected by phillumenists like Warden James...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To me, it seems feasible that the Warden was responsible for the fire that robbed Sweeney of his entire life. Perhaps Doc was unaware of Sweeney’s past because the crime was undocumented. Someone in a position of great power, like the Warden overseeing the worst criminals in America, may have had the reach to cover up certain details when necessary. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition, although laser cutting was not available until after 1965 (keeping in mind that this is a sci-fi show where suspension of disbelief is always mandatory) - the lover of light himself may have also had a hand in the creation of the system that carved the keys to the dungeon and quite possibly related to HOW they suspended the 302 in time. Lasers are wireless transfers of electromagnetic energy and radiation, emitting light through optical amplification. I am not a scientist, but somehow it seems possible that this is all related…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To reward your patience for my delayed posts and for spreading the word about this site, I am going to give away two copies of the book “Letters from Alcatraz” by <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Monterey_Mike" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Michael Esslinger</span></a>. If you’d like to be entered to win one (your choice: book or Kindle version), simply re-tweet the link to this post or leave a comment below! I will randomly select the winners and announce them in next week’s post.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once again I thank you for the comments and feedback, because without you - I am yet another voice in the very crowded television analysis blogosphere. I appreciate your interest and the word-of-mouth, and look forward to your thoughts about this episode! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Jo (<a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@InsideAlcatraz</span></b></a>)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-77612383708963819052012-01-31T12:24:00.000-08:002012-01-31T12:24:07.574-08:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.04 ("Cal Sweeney") Analysis Delayed<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My apologies - I am out of town and have not been able to watch this week's episode of ALCATRAZ yet. I will be posting my in-depth analysis on Friday (2/3). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you for your patience!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Jo</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-78689638875137871382012-01-24T18:40:00.000-08:002012-01-24T18:40:08.752-08:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.03 ("Kit Nelson"): Thoughts & Theories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you for your patience! As a reminder, this site is spoiler-free, my emphasis is on elaborate speculation rather than episode recap, and all comments will be moderated.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So without further delay, let’s light a bonus match and uncover the truth about Kit Nelson…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>302/THE 63’s</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By my count, we have now been introduced to 6 of the 302 who vanished from Alcatraz on 3/21/63: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lucy Banerjee</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jack Sylvane, inmate #2024</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Regardless of the fact that Emerson Hauser’s opening narration of the show states that 302 men vanished, Lucy is proof that at least one woman was among them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>THE CHRYSANTHEMUM</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the U.S., a chrysanthemum represents positive reinforcement – primarily given in bunches as get-well or house-warming flowers. However, in many countries such as Austria and Belgium, the chrysanthemum is used as a gravestone memorial and is widely considered to be the flower of death. Kit Nelson clearly chose a more European style; he left chrysanthemums on the beds of his kidnapping victims.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>COMIC BOOK NERD ALERT</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If I’m not mistaken, Dylan was reading the Justice Society of America Volume 3 #41…which I believe features a visit to Alcatraz. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What? I’m a Comic-Con and Wonder-Con girl, and geek at heart.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>DOC SOTO & REBECCA MADSEN</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are bound to see a Doc Soto-penned comic book become available to us at some point, but it remains to be seen whether or not the new crime scenes that Doc is drawing will come into play after Hauser has captured more inmates. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The working relationship and friendship between Doc and Madsen is progressing quite nicely, and I do like how she stands up to Hauser with regard to her partnership with Doc. I must note that I was very impressed and touched by Jorge Garcia’s performance in this episode, and I look forward to more reveals about his character. For a show focused on hard criminals and those in pursuit, it is essential to establish a heart and soul of the series - and they have. His name is Diego Soto.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although exact details were not shared (yet), we now know that Doc was kidnapped when he was 11 years old. Hauser refers to a state of arrested development brought on by a trauma, and obviously knows exactly what happened to Doc. He also likely knew that Madsen would find him and that they’d team up for his purposes. While I hesitate to call Madsen and Doc mere pawns in Hauser’s game, it seems to me that both of them have joined a team that was pre-determined and meticulously designed… </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whether it was a purposeful editorial decision or not, something interesting caught my eye during the scenes from “previously on ALCATRAZ.” I noticed that they first showed Emerson patting Lucy’s hand as he instructed her to “watch them” (when he asked her to go with Rebecca and Doc as they looked for Ernest Cobb), and then cut to her being shot by Cobb in the window. It was as if they wanted us to believe that Emerson was complicit in her shooting…as if he knew if was going to happen or even may have been behind it. In “Kit Nelson,” however, Emerson was unusually demonstrative with his distress about Lucy’s current condition.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With every new episode, we are left to ponder if Lucy chose to come back or was forced to return. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They seem to be hinting that the relationship between Emerson and Lucy used to be of a romantic nature. The question remains whether or not they dated when he was a young SF police officer and she was a doctor on Alcatraz back in the early 1960’s, or whether it was more recent – upon her “return” to contemporary society. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now that Lucy is in a coma, where is the key that Sylvane stole from Flynn? I believe she was the last person to possess it. If it were in fact the key to operate the elevator for access beneath the Secret Spy Lair on Alcatraz…I’d like to think that Hauser knows about it and would be using it already. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am particularly amused by the locations they are using on ALCATRAZ, even though I realize that they are filming up in Vancouver. For example, Kit Nelson kidnapped Dylan from a house in Walnut Creek and they went fishing on the Lafayette Reservoir – both of which are quite close to where we actually live. I’m not one to nitpick and compare real locations with where they are filming, but so far none of the Bay Area towns and settings featured on ALCATRAZ have been too far off in terms of realistic surroundings.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>NEW ALCATRAZ</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The big question at hand is this – does Emerson Hauser NEED the returning 302 to be alive? Does their viability determine or affect his end game? He made the choice to “kill” Nelson rather than merely put a carefully placed, non-lethal bullet in him, as he did with both Sylvane and Cobb. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Given the very hi-tech equipment installed at New Alcatraz, we can’t rule out the possibility that Hauser and his team have a type of revival/restoration system in place. Not only did Hauser bring Dr. Beauregard the dead body of Kit Nelson, he mentioned that he might need him to help a friend. The obvious guess is that Hauser would like the dancing doctor to save Lucy’s life, and that he has some way of bringing Nelson back as well. Perhaps my <a href="http://insidealcatraz.blogspot.com/2012/01/alcatraz-episode-101-pilot-102-ernest.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>Crazy Theory of the Week in the last post</b></span></a> isn’t too far off.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Speaking of modern technology...I have to also wonder if New Alcatraz is where the returning prisoners are actually being dispersed from. Hauser is working beneath old Alcatraz and New Alcatraz is clearly within driving distance of San Francisco (my guess: Marin County). We have only seen one or two levels of and rooms in the facility - the inmate cells, Dr. Beauregard's infirmary and the lie detector room. It is entirely possible that there is yet another Secret Spy Lair, and that the re-animation process takes place there below New Alcatraz.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">IF in fact Hauser is actually responsible for what is happening and is bringing the inmates back to life in New Alcatraz, then I would suggest that the mysterious key (retrieved courtesy of Jack Sylvane) will play a role in uncovering/thwarting Hauser's plans in future episodes. Logistically speaking, the newly revived inmates may not recognize New Alcatraz when they are captured and brought back there because they might have been brainwashed. Or their implanted chips were swiped clean of any memories from their time in suspension, from 1963-2011...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whomever/whatever is assigning the returning inmates their mission is dooming them to repeat the past and get captured. They MUST be aware of Hauser’s efforts and New Alcatraz by now, or at least that he has assembled a team to secure the collective evil before they destroy more lives across a wider swath than just the Bay Area.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One commonality among the first three prisoners we’ve seen thus far is that all of them were put in solitary confinement. Yes, that was a frequent action on Alcatraz and prisons everywhere – but we must consider if it is also a hint or a pattern that relates to their future disappearance. For all we know, there are brainwashing messages and/or chemical releases being dispersed secretly within those cells. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A few days before this episode, I was tinkering around with anagrams using episode titles (as I did often when I covered LOST), discovered one for Kit Nelson that seemed apt and turned out to be spot on (Stolen Kin), and then posted it on <a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Twitter</span></b></a>. Keep an eye on inmate and other character names in future episodes…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don’t know about you, but I laughed when Dylan’s little brother said that Nelson had given him ROCK candy. Nice touch.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It struck me as odd that Warden James left the remaining matches with Nelson in solitary, and it would be very interesting to learn that the matches Nelson had when he returned were the very same. Were they frozen in time along with Nelson, or were they placed in his coat pocket as part of his mission and memory retrieval upon re-entry? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have now seen Rebecca’s grandfather getting blood taken in the Alcatraz infirmary twice in 1960. He must have been of particular interest to whomever was running those tests. To me, the same party responsible for taking extraordinarily large amounts of blood from the inmates was also responsible for the abduction in 1963. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When Madsen told Nelson that, “they didn’t beat you for what you did, they beat you for what you are,” it offered up a potentially fascinating take on the morality of those who managed to make 302 people disappear. The inmates may have been chosen for experimentation because of their horrible dispositions and disposability, but what about the guards and medical staff who vanished alongside of them? Either they were collateral damage or each had a dark past that we’ve yet to witness...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Both Warden James and Deputy Warden Tiller conveniently left their posts on Alcatraz before the 302 vanished on 3/21/63. If they were warned, we have to question by whom and why. They were both aware of the blood being taken from the inmates in their infirmary, and also took great pleasure in the mental and physical anguish of the inmates….</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So Warden James was a phillumenist! Seriously, I love that the man responsible for overseeing the worst criminals on earth collected matchboxes and matchbooks for fun. Was he a pyromaniac, or just a fan of incendiary products? The phillumenist, the lover of light, was certainly working in the darkest of offices…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warden James is fast becoming one of the most interesting and compelling characters on ALCATRAZ, and Jonny Coyne is delivering the perfect mixture of mystery and maliciousness. Mark my words - Coyne is poised to become the breakout star of this show, and he deserves the accolades. Although I must admit that I am far more creeped out by Deputy Warden Tiller, and love how Jason Butler Harner is playing him with a seemingly deliberate stillness and control (despite what lies beneath).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was not able to capture the brand of matches that James used with Nelson, but I did catch that they were from the civil war area. That only caught my attention because we know that Doc has a PhD in civil war history...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>AN OBSERVATION</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Almost all of the returning 63’s appear to be motivated by the resolution of family matters, from the guilt of lost spouses, siblings and opportunities. Sylvane: ex-wife and brother. Cobb: half-sister. Nelson: brother. It is possible that Lucy Banerjee returned for Emerson Hauser. And don’t forget that the ageless Dr. Beauregard is wearing a wedding ring in New Alcatraz, so don’t be surprised to see his origin story emerge as one of love lost…or found. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition, Warden James was hell bent on making sure that Nelson both faced his father and confessed to killing his brother – so it appears he may have a very strong interest or stake in the families of the inmates. At times, James comes across like a pastor or priest, yet far too interested in their criminal techniques. Perhaps James is taking it upon himself to play God with his incarcerated subjects, with Tiller as his Right Hand. Under that context, consider when Nelson’s father said, “I thank God for Alcatraz.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overall, I felt that there was a strong <i>X-Files</i> and <i>Fringe</i> vibe to this episode of ALCATRAZ, which is fantastic. Once again, I am thrilled that I was not at all reminded me of LOST (and no, the bomb shelter was not a hatch). The criminals are appropriately frightening, the wardens are deliciously suspicious, the three leads are intelligent and resourceful, the story and overarching mythology are accelerating, and the cast chemistry is building at just the right pace.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fun side note: Hauser said that it takes about 10,000 hours for someone to become an expert on a subject, so I calculated the amount of time I spent over 6 years watching, re-watching and writing about LOST…and estimated about 30,000 hours. Do with that what you will. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alas, I will be out of town next Monday and unable to watch or write about ALCATRAZ until Friday of next week (2/3/12). Thank you in advance for your patience…again!</span><br />
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-Jo</div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-56675534394400884642012-01-23T16:39:00.000-08:002012-01-23T16:42:07.029-08:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.03 ("Kit Nelson") Analysis Delayed<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">I am sorry to report that I am under the weather and therefore unable to post episode analysis tonight after "Kit Nelson" airs. My plan is to post </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">my thoughts and theories late tomorrow night (Tuesday) instead.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> In the meantime, I will be avoiding Twitter, Facebook and Alcatraz sites and podcasts to avoid spoilers and until after I have the opportunity to share my own analysis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">-Jo</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-9149480260744743982012-01-16T22:01:00.000-08:002012-01-22T18:42:48.030-08:00ALCATRAZ Episode 1.01 ("Pilot") & 1.02 ("Ernest Cobb"): Thoughts & Theories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Welcome to ALCATRAZ! This is the very first installment of my weekly episode analysis, where I plan to kick open doors that the writers have pushed ajar, with the power of crazy theories and conspiratorial speculation. Because I had the opportunity to view both episodes, I also had the luxury of time to create a lengthy article in advance. Normally, my post-episode thoughts will appear in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, and may not be as long. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before we begin, a few important housekeeping items...</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are many sites that offer episode recaps; this is not one of them. My emphasis will always be in-depth analysis. You've seen the show, so rather than read a play-by-play, my hope is that you'll return here after each episode to engage in further thought and conversation. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By no means am I an expert or authority on television analysis or Alcatraz itself; my specialty is elaborate speculation. I have been a freelance writer for several years, and have access to screeners of episodes in advance on occasion. But I know as much as you do about ALCATRAZ, and prefer it that way. Living a spoiler-free life makes television a much more enjoyable experience.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I truly appreciate feedback, and encourage you to leave Comments below (which will be moderated, as my policy is to provide a space for constructive criticism and discussion rather than personal attacks on me or other readers). </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because this site is 100% spoiler-free, I will not post any information about future episodes, nor will I publish any comments that do. The same is true for my <a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz" target="_blank"><b>InsideAlcatraz Twitter</b></a> account.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Future episode posts will hopefully include official photos from FOX and screen captures, but right now I don't have many to offer. However I will include photos taken when I visited Alcatraz while they were filming the Pilot last March.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Due to the fact that they aired two episodes in a row, this particular post will include analysis of both, combined. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Keep in mind that I am human - there will be mistakes and/or discrepancies every once in a while! Also, as was the case with LOST, the majority of my theories will be debunked within a few episodes. The fun is in the reach and stretch to explore possibilities! </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So grab your scratchy prison-issue blanket and settle in for a while; this is going to be a long yet entertaining read and ride...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>SO. NOT. LOST.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let's address the elephant on the island right away, shall we? I have seen every episode of LOST at least 4 times, and wrote about the show extensively for years. So I am more than qualified to assert that ALCATRAZ is in no way trying to be the next LOST. While there are visual J.J. Abrams tinges to the series, this is a <i>very</i> different island with an entirely new story, set of characters and mysteries. Personally, I was thrilled and somewhat relieved that I did not think about comparisons to LOST at all while watching the first two episodes of ALCATRAZ. The only true commonalities are former LOST cast and crew, including Abrams, series co-creator Elizabeth Sarnoff (who has departed the show), director/executive producer Jack Bender, actor Jorge Garcia, composer Michael Giacchino and production designer Zack Grobler. That being said, of course watching and analyzing six years of LOST will come into play while watching any new show in the same genre. Particular numbers, names and key words will always remind us of elements from LOST. In the case of ALCATRAZ, however, I honestly believe that they are coincidental rather than homage. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Side note: Giacchino was the composer of note for the first episode of ALCATRAZ, but Andrea Datzman took over starting with episode 1.02 and will be the series composer. She is also the orchestrator for the upcoming <i>John Carter</i>, as she was on <i>Cars 2</i>, <i>Super 8 </i>and<i> Let Me In </i>(among many others). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>MARCH 21, 1963</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"On March 21, 1963, Alcatraz officially closed due to rising costs and decrepit facilities. All prisoners were transferred off the island...only that's not what happened. Not at all."</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Alcatraz Federal Prison did actually close on March 21, 1963, after 29 years and not a single successful prisoner escape. The order was placed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and prisoners were relocated to other prisons. What an incredible premise to work from and with...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When the 302 prisoners and guards (referred to as the 63's) disappeared from Alcatraz on 3/21/63, all of their clothing and personal items were left behind. Everyone literally vanished, and clearly they had no warning or time to prepare. They were taken from exactly where they were situated at that very moment. Whatever, or whomever, took them - it was a surprise and it happened in an instant. The abductors had no interest in who the 302 <i>were</i> (thus, leaving all inmate files and information) - only who they <i>COULD become</i>. If we stop to ponder the sheer number of men and power it would take to snatch up and corral hundreds of the world's most dangerous criminals...the possibilities are mind-boggling. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Logistically speaking, such a bold takeover of the Rock would have required more than a few subs or boats to transfer 302 people. But the 302 were taken without detection of any kind, and the conspiracy to cover up their disappearance reached far and wide. Documents were fabricated and wardens from other prisons like San Quentin were in on it (as noted by Detective Rebecca Madsen while looking at former inmate Jack Sylvane's paperwork). </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I find it very interesting that they named Deputy Warden E.B. Tiller after a character in Asimov's Robot novels - Elijah Bailey. In Asimov's world, E.B. is a homicide detective in the future, heavily featured in flashbacks (as E.B. will be on ALCATRAZ, now that we've seen his present day murder). What is even more fascinating is that Asimov's E.B. suffered from a serious case of agoraphobia. Given that the E.B. we've met on ALCATRAZ works in a very confined and private environment on the Rock - it is quite fitting. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ladies and gentleman, the KEY to this series. Dr. Lucille Sengupta was the same age in 1960 on Alcatraz that Lucy Banerjee is in current day San Francisco. We are told that 302 MEN disappeared from the Rock on 3/21/63, but no women. Those men (at least the three we've seen so far that have returned) have not aged. Neither has Lucy. So either the former Dr. Sengupta was on Alcatraz when they vanished, or she worked with whomever was responsible for making them disappear. In New Alcatraz, she did have the key that Sylvane retrieved from Flynn, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that she herself programmed his mission and needs that key for something that will be revealed in an upcoming episode.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But IF Lucy somehow escaped from wherever the 63's were being held, that could explain why Cobb was programmed to kill her. The attack on her seemed much more personal than his other seemingly random shootings, and the only pending murder with a warning: the "I can see you" sign and target on the window. It was as if Cobb knew he shouldn't kill her, or didn't want to, but the mission was programmed in and the last sliver of humanity left in his cold heart wanted to warn her. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hauser whispered to Lucy that "this is a mistake" after they gassed Madsen and Soto, so perhaps we are to believe that it was not <i>his</i> idea to involve her. Lucy responded with, "she found us, and she won't stop until she finds him. We need her." Whoever THEY are, they also need Madsen, and led her to Hauser and Banerjee. At this point it really is not clear if the vague THEY and HIM are indeed a different group that Hauser's. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They wanted us to know that Doc's parents are not only still alive, but they live in the Bay Area. So of course I assume that they too are somehow connected to Alcatraz or its former occupants., and that we will meet them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The friendship that is forming between Soto and Madsen is a highlight for me; I like that she chose him as her partner for the mysterious road ahead. This unlikely duo may just prove to outwit and outsmart Hauser and Banerjee.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is is safe to assume that the Dr. Beauregard that Hauser referred to in New Alcatraz (to scare Sylvane) is the same prison doctor who took his blood back in 1960? If so, add prison medical staff to the list of those who vanished from Alcatraz on 3/21/63...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Right now, Barclay Flynn is just collateral damage - a chess piece that someone needed Sylvane to play and then discard. We don't know who he was, why he had that key or why the person who programmed Sylvane wanted him dead. As Emerson Hauser so kindly points out for us, "even if Jack Sylvane didn't know Flynn, it doesn't mean there weren't people who wanted him dead." Hauser also instructed Madsen to "forget about Barclay Flynn; we need to worry about our next victim."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the book about Alcatraz Inmates on the ferry, Jack Sylvane looked up his former Wardens, Tiller and James. He discovered that E.B. Tiller received a Medal of Valor (which I hope they explore/show in a future episode). The book also notes that two attempts were made on Tiller's life. Whether they took place on Alcatraz or during his stint later as a Fed - I have a strong feeling that we'll witness both. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The worst criminals this country has ever known are coming back and no one's going to be able to find them, because they don't exist."</span></blockquote>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Setting aside the logistics of the who and how behind the event on 3/21/63 (and Doc's "wormhole" theories), I can't help but wonder about the possibility of cryonics - a technique intended to extend one's lifespan. Those who took the 302 may have had a successful formula for the use of cryonics, and stopped their physical decay by cooling and then preserving them in liquid nitrogen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perhaps the "bad guys" starting resuscitating the 302 in 2011, restoring them to good health in preparation for their assignments, meticulously returning each on a specific date with their missions programmed and pockets full. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The oldest cryonics society still in existence is, conveniently, the Bay Area Cryonics Society (BACS). Dr. Paul Segall developed blood substitutes for use in cryonic suspension. Why is this significant? Think about the pints of blood that the prison doctor took from Sylvane in 1960, which we can assume was done to all prisoners. Perhaps it was preparation for the 1963 abduction, or perhaps it was to run tests on the blood of those who would likely undergo a cryonic procedure - suspending them in time until their services were needed again. </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I appreciated some of the smaller, more subtle details in the first two episodes, including Cobb's use of the same style checkered picnic table cloth that Warden James dined on. In addition, Cobb repeated "47 slots in picket fence" before shooting his victims, which I interpreted as a nod to the Star Trek franchise. <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> and the other spin-offs frequently incorporated the use of 47, and it has also been used in similar fashion in J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot film, as well as on <i>Alias </i>and <i>Fringe</i>. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I strongly believe that ALCATRAZ has the potential to be a hit and success for the long run. I didn't have to like it, and my opinion wasn't predetermined just because of Abrams and Bad Robot - but truth be told, I love it. Emotional resonance with the lead characters has been established and the primary mystery at hand is tremendously intriguing. Any show that I actually think about for hours and days after it has aired earns my respect and interest for the duration. In my eyes, this is the first series since LOST to fit that description, and I must reiterate how much I appreciate the fact that ALCATRAZ is refreshingly different from LOST. I realize how many of you will disagree and point out nods and Easter Eggs, but I am not going to focus on comparisons to any other show. ALCATRAZ deserves time to develop on its own, and the patience of both the network and fans to do so.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you SO much for taking the time to scroll through this very long list of thoughts and theories! I am genuinely grateful for your interest and really look forward to both your comments and feedback. And if you do like what you've read so far, feel free to spread the word in your social networks - share a link on Twitter, FB, through email, etc. I will respond to your comments and will meet you back here next week!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Jo</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-88008794220334231712012-01-12T20:44:00.000-08:002012-01-12T20:44:35.258-08:00ALCATRAZ Premiere on Alcatraz: The Recap!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Robert Forster (Ray Archer)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jorge Garcia (Diego "Doc" Soto)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jason Butler Harner (Deputy Warden Tiller)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sarah Jones (Detective Rebecca Madsen)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Parminder Nagra (Lucy Banerjee)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sam Neill (Emerson Hauser)</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Danny Cannon: Director</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andrea Datzman & Michael Giacchino: Series Composers</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leigh Dana Jackson: Writer</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jennifer Johnson & Daniel Pyne: Executive Producers</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Steven Lilien & Bryan Wyndbrandt: Co-creators/Executive Producers/Writers</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Over the years I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to interview and get to know the actors and creative teams from various shows, and I am very happy to report that everyone involved with ALCATRAZ is tremendously kind and sincere. Believe me - that is not always the case! But the people both in front of the camera and behind the scenes of this series are quite talented and very fan-friendly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Click <a href="http://youtu.be/K1J1Y9CSVNc" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">here</span></b></a> to watch the video that FOX put together from their footage of the evening. And yes, at around the 1 minute mark - you'll catch a brief glimpse of me with Sarah Jones!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Below are a few of my photos from the premiere, in chronological order. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Approaching Alcatraz. It was surreal and a quite treat to have taken the ferry to the Rock with the cast and crew. Standing out on the front of the boat for most of the ride with Jorge, Jeffrey, Robert and the writers was a true highlight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The cast and crew in the Alcatraz Mess Hall. This was the very first time I'd met Jack Bender, even though we'd been at many of the same events during the years I covered LOST. I'd met Jason at SDCC last summer and really enjoyed chatting with Jonny and Sam last night as well!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Watching the premiere of ALCATRAZ, on Alcatraz, for Inside Alcatraz...it does not get any more meta than that! It was particularly creepy and goose bump-inducing to watch scenes from the Pilot episode that were filmed in the very location where we were seated.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With Sarah Jones, who is as sweet and beautiful as she looks! I *might* have geeked out a bit when we chatted, as I'd just marathoned through the first 4 seasons of Sons of Anarchy (she appeared on the show and her boyfriend Theo Rossi is a series regular).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They were taking our mugshots. I might have to make this my new avatar.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you're new to this site (and me in general), I recently posted a few paragraphs about <a href="http://insidealcatraz.blogspot.com/2012/01/behind-scenes-of-insidealcatraz.html" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">what to expect</span></b></a> here once ALCATRAZ finally debuts. Because I have already seen both the Pilot and second episode ("Ernest Cobb"), I actually have time to write up my notes rather than stay up all night doing so (thank you, FOX!). My first ALCATRAZ Thoughts & Theories article will be posted here at 10pm PST on Monday, January 16, after the premiere has aired on the West Coast (apologies to my friends in Hawaii - click and read at your own risk!). I really look forward to your comments and feedback.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As always, you can find the latest ALCATRAZ news and updates on Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@insidealcatraz</span></b></a>), as well as my other pop culture ramblings (<a href="http://twitter.com/jopinionated" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@jopinionated</span></b></a>). I'll see you back here after the premiere on Monday night!</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-65762893436904921612012-01-06T12:14:00.000-08:002012-01-06T12:18:56.361-08:00Behind the Scenes of InsideAlcatraz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would like to officially welcome both new and existing fans to InsideAlcatraz! Many of you are already familiar with me from my LOST coverage, and I truly appreciate that you're still following along.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For those who are new to my style, I wanted to let you know how this site will work during the regular television season (in this case, for ALCATRAZ from January - May). Just as I did for years on my <a href="http://jopinionated.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">LOST blog</span></b></a>, I will be posting episode analysis following each new episode of ALCATRAZ. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition, I will leave Twitter and Facebook beginning at 5pm EST every Monday to avoid ALCATRAZ spoilers, and not return until after I've posted here that night. It is also my personal policy to never visit message boards or other blogs, because I prefer to offer up my own fresh analysis as soon as possible after each episode without the influence of anyone else's thoughts. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although I will be able to follow this process on a regular weekly basis, there will be occasions when life intervenes and my ALCATRAZ posts may not appear exactly when planned. For example, I will be out of town the week of January 30 and unable to post my episode analysis until the following weekend. So I appreciate your patience in advance!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the end, all I ask you to keep in mind is that this site will feature one person's perspective among the hundreds that are likely to emerge after ALCATRAZ debuts. Offering weekly in-depth analysis is a labor of love for me that requires a tremendous level of dedication and time, and I am thrilled to have a new series to focus on. My intention is to make you think about a scene or character long after the episode has ended. And laugh. And share your thoughts both on this site and with your friends. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am a huge fan of television as a medium, and am particularly fond of a series that feels like an experience rather than a regular TV show. ALCATRAZ is such a series, and I am honored to have the opportunity to write about it from the very beginning. My theories will be purely speculative, and range from thought-provoking to outrageous. So bundle up for the virtual ferry, and join me for an entertaining journey inside ALCATRAZ!</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">LOST</i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> fans are likely familiar with Jorge Garcia's previous podcast (Geronimo Jack's Beard) with his girlfriend, author</span><a href="http://twitter.com/bethanyshady" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" target="_blank"> <b style="color: red;">Beth Shady</b></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">. And now they have created a brand new </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ALCATRAZ </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">podcast called</span><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <a href="http://diegossoulpatch.blogspot.com/" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Diego's Soul Patch</a></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">. Follow the blog and subscribe to the podcast to enjoy their banter and occasional episode analysis!</span><br />
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Their first full-length podcast will be available (on iTunes) on January 17 - the day after the season premiere of ALCATRAZ. </div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-12241443518618898682011-12-28T09:40:00.000-08:002011-12-28T09:40:28.762-08:00New ALCATRAZ Promo w/Cast Interviews<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">January 16th, my friends. Get ready for a brand new dark, exciting and mysterious adventure. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition, <a href="http://twitter.com/chevronone" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@chevronone</span></a> posted new <a href="http://chevronone.com/tv/alcatraz-cast-promotional-pictures/" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">ALCATRAZ cast photos</span></b></a>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Follow me on Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@InsideAlcatraz</span></a>) for more frequent updates!</span><br />
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</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-18357744707481691862011-12-01T12:48:00.000-08:002011-12-01T12:48:42.394-08:00ALCATRAZ Premiere Date Revealed<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">FOX officially announced today that ALCATRAZ will debut on Monday, January 16 with a 2-hour premiere. The series will then air one-hour episodes on Mondays at 8pm. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I recently met the writing staff and show runners in LA, and believe me when I say that you are going to love what they have planned for ALCATRAZ. They are an extremely enthusiastic and very creative group of people, and I look forward to over-analyzing their every word starting next month!</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Are you ready? Excited? Let me know in the comments below. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">-Jo</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-55428741821987624292011-08-05T14:45:00.000-07:002011-08-05T15:00:10.869-07:00Alcatraz Panel at Comic-Con: Video, Photos & More<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sGO_i37AdlQ/TjxghiIKC8I/AAAAAAAAGdI/iF02sGYQ8Cc/s1600/alcatraz1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sGO_i37AdlQ/TjxghiIKC8I/AAAAAAAAGdI/iF02sGYQ8Cc/s400/alcatraz1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">[photo courtesy of Ian Knight]</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Greetings, patient friends. Apologies for the delay. It is a very long story, but I was unable to attend the ALCATRAZ panel or be in the ALCATRAZ press room due to conflicting press obligations. Thankfully, a few fantastic friends came through with video and photos. And, although we might have to wait a few months, I can promise an interview of two here on the site before the show airs in January! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I did, however, have the opportunity to speak with the showrunner and cast of ALCATRAZ at an industry party the night before the panel. It is always a pleasure catching up with Jorge and Liz Sarnoff, both whom I had interviewed previously in Hawaii for LOST. And I was introduced to Parminder Nagra and Jason Harner Butler, who are very sweet. Jason was in the pilot episode of FRINGE, and is still very friendly with the cast (Jasika Nicole, John Noble and Anna Torv were at this party as well). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Click <a href="http://zort.co.uk/photos/album/collection.asp?action=page&pos=60&shortcode=US11CC"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">here</span></b></a> to view some very hi-res photos of the panel from Ian (<a href="http://twitter.com/zort70"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@Zort70</span></b></a>), who flew in with his lovely wife from the UK to attend SDCC. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A very special shout-out to <a href="http://twitter.com/stardotgeek"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@stardotgeek</span></b></a> for volunteering to tape the panel for me when I discovered that I was unable to attend - this is her footage:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you would like a custom Inside Alcatraz magnet, simply email me your shipping address (jo at jopinionated dot com). And yes, I will send them internationally. And no, there is no cost!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For other videos from SDCC, including interviews with the cast and Sarnoff/Bender, make sure to "like" the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/AlcatrazonFOX"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">official ALCATRAZ Facebook page</span></b></a> and follow <a href="http://twitter.com/alcatrazonFOX"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@AlcatrazonFOX</span></b></a> via Twitter as well. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The responses to the screenings of the ALCATRAZ pilot at SDCC ranged from very high praise to cautious optimism. Because this site is strictly spoiler-free, and almost all published reviews contain far too much information about the first episode, I have chosen not to link to them here. However, a simple Google search will lead you in the right direction if you are so inclined.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As expected, many were quick to compare ALCATRAZ to LOST (and Hurley to Doc Soto, etc.), but they are two very different shows, aside from a few obvious J.J. Abrams touches. ALCATRAZ deserves your time and patience to establish its distinctive identity and develop into its own unique series, and I strongly believe that it will.</span><br />
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</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-39921026967616701162011-07-18T11:45:00.000-07:002011-07-18T11:45:17.208-07:00ALCATRAZ at SDCC 2011: Complete Schedule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5ow6c6stnOE/TiR7lROCnNI/AAAAAAAAGc8/coK-6ZA66Gg/s1600/AlcatrazKEY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5ow6c6stnOE/TiR7lROCnNI/AAAAAAAAGc8/coK-6ZA66Gg/s1600/AlcatrazKEY.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In addition to the pilot screening and official panel, there are other opportunities for fans to potentially meet some of the cast and crew of ALCATRAZ this week at San Diego Comic-Con. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The photo above is of a limited edition SDCC 2011 hotel room key that WB has distributed to many of the participating local hotels hosting attendees. In addition to ALCATRAZ, other WB-produced shows are represented on these keys. If you do not receive one at your hotel, perhaps you should barter or bribe fellow nerds in line!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will be at SDCC representing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://tvovermind.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">TVOvermind</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> once again, and will have the opportunity to speak with the cast and creative team from ALCATRAZ. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Look for a full report after the Con, as well as quick updates and photos via Twitter this week, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@InsideAlcatraz</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://twitter.com/jopinionated"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">@jopinionated</span></a>.</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-64407253603030225112011-06-21T20:44:00.000-07:002011-07-05T21:25:04.754-07:00ALCATRAZ at San Diego Comic Con 2011: Updated Panel & Screening Details!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LI_WXHH2wUc/TgFjt6MI2BI/AAAAAAAAGco/MBpvI5w_LlY/s1600/JorgeSDCC09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LI_WXHH2wUc/TgFjt6MI2BI/AAAAAAAAGco/MBpvI5w_LlY/s320/JorgeSDCC09.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Jorge Garcia at a SDCC 2009 press table after the LOST panel]</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Warner Brothers Television Group released details today about the shows that they will be bringing to Comic-Con this year, and we now have confirmation about both an ALCATRAZ panel and screening!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>UPDATE</b>: Executive producer/writer Elizabeth Sarnoff and director Jack Bender, along with actors Jorge Garcia, Sarah Jones, Parminder Nagra and Jason Butler Harner will be appearing on the official ALCATRAZ panel, which will take place on Saturday, July 23 at 5pm in Ballroom 20. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">* They will be screening the pilot episode of ALCATRAZ <u>twice</u>; first on Wednesday, July 20 in Ballroom 20 between 6pm-9pm (along with other pilots, including Michael Emerson's new series, Person of Interest), and also at the official panel on Saturday!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you are attending SDCC, I strongly recommend getting in line at least 2-3 hours early for the Saturday panel. Given that the FRINGE panel is immediately before the ALCATRAZ panel, I have a feeling that you might need to line up even earlier to get a seat for both. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will be there representing <a href="http://tvovermind.com/">TVOvermind</a> once again, and look forward to bringing you reports from the press room and behind the scenes. Of course you can also follow all of my Comic-Con adventures via Twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/insidealcatraz">@InsideAlcatraz</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/jopinionated">@jopinionated</a>!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Will you be there as well? Let me know!</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-59536710513454745612011-06-16T13:36:00.000-07:002011-06-21T21:36:57.461-07:00ALCATRAZ on Twitter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4VSnQFM1OzA/TfphjjdGVEI/AAAAAAAAGck/EvvINXQjQv4/s1600/SN+alcatraz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4VSnQFM1OzA/TfphjjdGVEI/AAAAAAAAGck/EvvINXQjQv4/s320/SN+alcatraz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For those who have inquired, the following cast and creative from ALCATRAZ have official Twitter accounts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ul><li>Jorge Garcia (is not on Twitter; his girlfriend, author Bethany Shady, is - and frequently tweets about him and the show): <a href="http://twitter.com/bethanyshady">@BethanyShady</a></li>
</ul><ul><li>Cole Herbert (writer): <a href="http://twitter.com/coleherbert">@ColeHerbert</a></li>
</ul><ul><li>Leigh Dana Jackson (writer): <a href="http://twitter.com/LDJackson">@LDJackson</a></li>
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</ul><ul><li>Sam Neill: <a href="http://twitter.com/twopaddocks">@TwoPaddocks</a></li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The official FOX Twitter account for the show is: <a href="http://twitter.com/alcatrazonfox">@alcatrazonfox</a>.</div></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As others involved with the series join Twitter, I will keep you posted!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673632031827389282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6765326873689152060.post-55248652590586064942011-05-16T15:01:00.000-07:002011-05-16T15:04:17.731-07:001st Official ALCATRAZ Footage & Series Debut News!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yj4kwLtoYUs/TdGfSpariOI/AAAAAAAAGcU/eLdxTfMdYSs/s1600/JorgeSarah+Alcatraz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yj4kwLtoYUs/TdGfSpariOI/AAAAAAAAGcU/eLdxTfMdYSs/s320/JorgeSarah+Alcatraz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(photo courtesy of FOX)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This trailer was just officially released by FOX, who also announced that ALCATRAZ will debut mid-season (likely be January 2012). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can now "like" </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/AlcatrazonFOX"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alcatraz on Facebook</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and follow </span><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/alcatrazonfox"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">@AlcatrazOnFOX</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> on Twitter. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Based on this initial footage, what do you think? The look and feel certainly match up to my expectations, and I am VERY excited to see more. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If I had to guess, they will screen either the entire pilot or at least 15 minutes of it at San Diego Comic-Con in July. I will be at the panel and in the press room, so stay tuned for reports from behind the scenes!</span><br />
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