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My guesses for this week: Dyno Staats: Something in the top of the first machine reaches down and grabs the bill and hides it in the top. If you go frame by frame, which I screenshotted here, you can easily see it. Something in the jar comes down and grabs the bill. The flash, sparks, and smoke are all there to hide it. The exact same thing happens in reverse on the other jar; the bill can easily be seen dropping down, seen here. The producers try to hide it with camera cuts in to a closer view at the exact moment it is happening, but they missed three frames where something can be seen moving in the jar before the cut. Again, the sparking is used as a distraction. With those albums, it's easiest to see if you open every image and flick between them. How he reassembled the bill I don't know, but that's a trick I've seen many times so I'm sure there's an explanation for it. Aiden Sinclair: The ring on his right hand is magnetic, and the white pearl has something metal in it. The first three people who grab an item from the bag reach in while the bag is in his right hand. It is only until the fourth person that he lets go of the bag and lets the person hold it; this is so they don't feel the pearl being held down. It's a basic force: the fourth person always gets the pearl. From there, it's just mechanical parts to make the head turn and a magnet to make the thing on the box flip over. His hands are in his pockets for the entire duration the spooky things are happening, so it's probably just remote controlled. The other two I don't know!

Did I miss something? The thread title is E09, but according to Spike this was E08. Anyway this show is stupid and I hate it. We're back to the mall and the food situation again, which still doesn't make any sense. It is totally illogical that the mall would be out of food at this point. Vic's story is totally nonsensical. He says he "just left the mall" and has knowledge of their social structure falling apart which... as far as I can tell doesn't make any sense. He left when the mall was relatively okay socially, so how does he know they're falling apart? And hasn't it been like three days since he got thrown out? Totally lost with that. I have no words over the reveal that Adrian is a psychopath and everything that happened in that scene. The entire time I was watching that story unfold with a slack jaw and a total disbelief at what I was seeing. He's the rapist? Really? That's the reveal? At this point I'm just watching to see how disastrous this plot gets.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who was wondering how the hell the mall ran out of food already. I mean, we aren't even talking about "food is getting low, oh no" levels either; we have people who are getting so hungry that it's causing fights and theft, which is just bizarre considering how short of a time its been. It's an entire mall! While there's a good number of people holed up inside it isn't a tremendous number, and I just can't see how they've already eaten through every restaurant in the food court, the hiking supply store (which would have tons of preserved/dehydrated foods), and all the snack foods that line pretty much every cash register. The deduction that Eve's group must have tons of food because they "asked for board games" was just absurd. Like, really? That's your best guess? Yeah, okay. If anything, running low on food would make them want the board games more so they could attempt to keep morale up and stave off the constant "I'm hungry" thoughts. This is especially annoying because the church and hospital are having no issues with food, despite the fact that neither would have a lot; certainly not as much as the mall would. Sure, you could argue that the hospital cafeteria was there, but we already know huge parts of the hospital are cut off, and you could argue that the church has a food bank, which is fair, but I still don't see how the mall has run out of food like this. The rapid detox was absolutely absurd. A quick google search shows a lot of evidence that rapid detox is on shaky ground at best, with many clinics and doctors refusing to do the procedure due because it just plain sucks and is debatable whether it actually works or not. It still requires one to two days of detoxing, even though the worst is over, and still requires follow-up medications for several weeks to really make it stick... so the show's silly little one hour of thrashing about is definitely not going to save her from her addiction. Jonah's story... I don't even know what to say. Just... what. Sure. Suddenly now he's been tortured by some military group or something. k. It has just gotten so dumb that I can't make myself care anymore.