Centaur

Pam was seriously psychotic for 3/4 of the season. She was salivating at the thought of the next reckoning. She wanted to be sheriff so she could do some reckoning herself. Within a few days she became a fluffy care bear.

Suffering through 44 minutes of comical plot and terrible acting was almost worth it to see Amy in her hot nurse's outfit. Ben shouldn't write this new reboot off until he at least spends some time getting to know her. As Megan suggested.

You can see him clearly put the bottle in his back pocket.

Serious question. Did anyone else think that Matt Dillon may have been high when they shot this episode? His eyes appeared glazed over a few times and one of them appeared to be wandering. A few of his lines made no contextual sense and it's like they just didn't bother editing them out. He genuinely seemed to be dropping into his There's Something About Mary character a few times - I kept expecting him to refer to Pilcher as 'that goofy bastard'. Also he stole a bottle of something form the clinic in the bunker when Pam was sewing up his Abby bite and seems to have forgotten about it. I hope that guy Teresa gave the house to is ok. Also I hope some kindly neighbour is cutting the grass at Kate's place. People are picking on Pilcher unreasonable. God drowned virtually all life on Earth because people disobeyed him, and David is only letting the Abbie's eat like one tiny town.

My guess is that Plot 33 is some kind of underground shelter which will conveniently allow Ethan and whoever else ends up on his good side to hide in while maraduing abbies take care of anyone else that is excess to narrative needs.

'What happened to your arm'? 'Oh you probably won't believe this honey but all the cities have been destroyed, the world is full of monsters and we've been in suspneded animation for 2,000 yrs'. Really? That's his way of breaking the news to her. Ditto with Kate. And Kate thinks that maybe she's part of some scenario where another agent is sent in to 'test' her but it might take 12 years? After her creepy, intimidating old boss tells her that people get killed for snooping around, Teresa just goes straight back to tell him she found something weird in Plot 33 anyway? And what was the point of the plot to assasinate Ethan exactly? Especially before the bomb was going on the wall - guaranteeing that the Pilcher crew would then be hyper vigilant. Even the relationships between the characters seemed bizarrely different to the previous episode, as if they were part of two different versions of the show spliced together. Including the reuse of the first half of the Kate at Plot 33 scene.

Woah. That episode was a stinker.

It's almost as if Pilcher's narrative is an allegory for each member of the Burke family's lives. Ethan is protecting the town from bombers? One of whom is the woman who almost wrecked his family? That seems too coincidental. Ben still has an absent father, but now he is protecting the family from 'the truth'. Theresa is now doing investigative work that she gave up for her family.

I'm not sure the sandbox scenario works. There are scenes, albeit brief, from the POV of basically every character. If it is a sandbox then almost all of what Ethan sees must be 'real'. The ruins of Boise for example.

When Pam sewed up Ethan's arm and she left the aid room, he checked that she was gone then took a blue bottle from a trolley and put it in his back pocket. Just opportunist or does he already have a plan?

I'm still uncertain about lts of things from the first two episodes: 1. Why was Beverly reckoned? Surely not because she just said she had a daughter. 2. Why did Kate push the issue of Beverly having a daughter during dinner? 3. Why were the bodies left in the house after execution? 4. Why rely so heavily on electronic surveillance? Surely 10 or so of the back office staff posing as townsfolk would be able to keep tabs on almost everything? 5. Where is Ethan's Secret Service boss? 6. The lights don't flicker. Is there a nuclear reactor under the mountain? 7. What did Ethan put in his back pocket when coming out of the clinic when Pam stitched up his Abbie wounds in Zeppelin 6? 8. Pilcher didn't think to store a few drones for over the wall surveillance in 2014? 9. Why hasn't Ethan killed Pam yet? 10. Was Kate a volunteer who was the bait to lure more SS people to a Wayward Pines and if so is she now some sort of plant or traitor?

Given that the realty contracts state that they are authorise by the 'David Pilcher Act', I'm betting that Pilcher is the supreme authority and that his word is law. But to maintain his authority would require a monopoly on violence and the habitual obedience of the citizens of Wayward Pines. As soon as any dissent gets aired, he obviously has it wiped out. His closest underlings would all need to be fanatics. So he might have made a mistake with Ethan.

Did anyone notice that the realty contract referred to the David Pilcher Act? This community is pretty clearly something he rules if he is the source of the law. Which explains why he attacts no uses psychopaths like Pam as his lieutenants. The Reckonings are just like how executions were conducted before the Industrial Revolution. Public and gory. Not so much a punishment of an individual, but a demonstration of th mower of the sovereign. In this case Pilcher by the look of it.

That's pretty cool with the numbers Sonafabiscuit. The fact that they can be made to fit as dates which could be consistent with different abductions is hard to ignore. But it would be a fairly lame attempt at encryption (if it is an attempt to disguise dates). They'd surely know a trained Secret Service agent would work it out quickly. But maybe that's why they'd do it that way. To let him slowly piece together the truth rather than overwhelming him. It also struck me how easily and blatantly the people he talked to about their life before just fell into the conversation despite the apparent severe rules against it.

What bugs me the most is why the most powerful or influential people we've seen so far all seem to be psychopaths. Pope, Pam the psychiartist, the teacher. Whereas Ethan clealry isn't. Is that why he's apparently been ermarked for a position of authority? If this is really some sort of planned community, whoever planned it doesn't seem to have picked very stable people to be leaders. Evan Ethan seemed a bit damaged in the Pilot. So far it looks most to me like the Maybury Potemkin Village act is for the benefit of the kids. The adults all seem to be coerced into living there and anyone with memories of 'the past' or of a 'previous life' will eventually be dead. Also - were the kids who told Ben and his mom about the car accident near Wayward Pines when they were at the gas station, the same kids we see riding bikes all the time and who said hi to Ben outside their new house? If so then that might mean they bring kids in to the community as well. Haven't seen any evidence of babies or kids produced by relationships within the town yet. Maybe they have all been sterilised?