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Did Robert lie about the fall out?

posted 11 years ago by luigimario1993
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Okay, I do need to stress that while I may be former military, I am still NOT a nuclear expert by any means, so if I'm thinking in the wrong context of 'fallout', I apologize.

When Jake was learning about Robert's purpose for being in Jericho, he said it was "Outside the fallout zones".

Yet, he acted on the notion that fallout WAS approaching Jericho from Denver. I'm wondering if I'm thinking the use of 'fallout' is incorrect in what I think it is, or did he lie intentionally? I mean, with how secretive and cautious he is, I wouldn't rule it past him to say that lie to get everyone out of the open for him to hide the nuclear bomb he had. Only reason that confuses me is the Hazmat suit; If he knew there was no fallout, why would he use it? Only explanation I can think of is if anyone saw him, they wouldn't recognize him due to the Hazmat suit. And probably to save face, if he got caught (someone seeing him after the rain stopped), it'd be even more confusing why he wasn't wearing the suit, despite telling the townspeople that fallout could kill someone from direct exposure, as opposed to being caught in it.

If this has been brought up, I apologize -- This is just something I have been meaning to post on here for awhile. Wanting either opinions on the matter on what other people take it as, or if I'm thinking 'fallout' in the wrong context.

[–] jasongcroft 11 years ago

Interesting point, as you learn deeper into the show that Jericho is out of the fallout zone, yet clearly it was impacted from the storm that followed, as Stanley was treated for radiation poisoning. In thinking about it, perhaps it was only because a heavy rain storm came just after the device was detonated? So although it's out of the reach of the initial radiation fallout, a rainstorm right after the detonation could carry radiation. As later on in the seasons they never are concerned with storms again, yet the first storm forced them inside and it was mentioned that they'd have to power wash items and dig up a certain amount of topsoil to protect future crops.
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[–] bwayneross 11 years ago

The fallout map shown in AKA was an estimate and although it was probably based on weather trends and worst-case scenarios, storms are very unpredictable. Better safe than sorry as they say.

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[–] luigimario1993 11 years ago

If it were radioactive, yes. I didn't want to spoil anything in the other topic, but yeah -- Nuclear radiation and fallout does spread contamination, but as I said in the other topic, that gets addressed.

With how long Stanley was out there and how soaked he was... That was a clear indication it wasn't radioactive, though. ANYONE out for THAT long in a contaminated fallout-rainstorm would have been contaminated, no possible bypass on that. Robert's phrasing in the second episode of, "a direct concentrated dose straight down... Anyone exposed too long..." really made people think out of context. "Too long" is literally minutes, if not seconds, of being out in that type of a storm.

Again, though, this is common knowledge I've picked up from over the years; I could just as easily be wrong, but I'm at least somewhat certain about some of this stuff.

[–] mandycw 10 years ago

I had the same question. The only thing I can think of is that the writers had Robert wear the Hazmat suit for us, the viewers. Otherwise we would have known the rain wasn't hazardous and it would have ruined the several episodes arc.

Another thought I had....perhaps the hazmat suit was to protect him from the radiation of the bomb itself, but he didn't use a suit when walling it into his basement.

[–] Nixon_Carmichael 10 years ago

I thought that it was pretty clear that robert used the "fallout" as a hoax to get everyone away while he shuffled his bomb around. He knew that there was no fallout coming, but being the gman, he donned the the NBC suit as a precaution, just to be on the safe side. It was a ruse.

J.