NBC Persons Unknown – Series Finale Reveal

Tonight was the series finale for NBC’s Summer drama series, Persons Unknown. As I was watching the pilot episode in early June, I formulated my theory on what I thought was happening to the 7 unknown persons. I immediately thought of the title of the series and how close it was to one of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone episodes titled Person Or Persons Unknown.

But there was much more in this pilot episode to look at. As the story unfolded, several Twilight Zone episodes came to mind. At the end of the pilot, I came up with this. Persons Unknown was a direct rip-off of the Twilight Zone created by Rod Serling that aired in the late 1950′s through the early 1960′s.

Three Twilight Zone episodes quickly came to mind. Person Or Persons Unknown just because of the similarity of title names plus Five Characters In Search Of An Exit and Shadow Play. Click the two links below to read the original updates for said episode.

Five Characters In Search Of An Exit
Clown. Hobo. Ballet Dancer. Bagpiper. And an Army Major. A collection of question marks. Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness. No logic, no reason, no explanation. Just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness, and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows. In a moment, we’ll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats, and the wheres. We will not end the nightmare, we’ll only explain it, because this is the Twilight Zone.

Shadow Play
Adam Grant, a nondescript kind of man found guilty of murder and sentenced to the electric chair. Like every other criminal caught in the wheels of justice he’s scared, right down to the marrow of his bones. But it isn’t prison that scares him, the long, silent nights of waiting, the slow walk to the little room, or even death itself. It’s something else that holds Adam Grant in the hot, sweaty grip of fear, something worse than any punishment this world has to offer, something found only in the Twilight Zone.

Unlike my ABC Lost theory, this time with Persons Unknown, I was correct. I stated that Joe knew more than he led on. I said Tori would be back, just as someone else. I said that no matter what they did, they wouldn’t be able to escape.

And guess what, if you combine the two Twilight Zone Episodes above, you have the exact series of Persons Unknown. The icing on the cake, Tori becoming the new night watchman, and everyone waking up back in the hotel room and beginning the nightmare all over again.

There you have it folks.

When does NBC’s THE EVENT begin?

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NBC Persons Unknown Theory – Episode 11

As I was surfing around the World Wide Web today, I found myself on NBC.com and reading about the Persons Unknown Summer mini-series. I was searching for the missing episode that was promised from NBC at the beginning of the season. Ten episodes have aired and the two-hour series finale is slated for this Saturday. So where is the missing elusive Episode 11?

For those not aware, NBC has episode 11 online right now on their website. Since the ratings are tanking, apparently NBC decided not to air it on television but make it available on the Internet.

So let’s get right to the update for episode 11 titled Seven Sacrifices. I will employ the standard (*) to flesh out my points.

* Janet and her daughter Megan attend a funeral. Janet’s funeral. Megan tells her goodbye. Janet is in the coffin, she can’t move, and cries out to Megan that she is still alive, and is coming back to her some day.

* Renbe, the news reporter, hides the severed thumbs in a box of chocolates in the airlines bathroom.

* Erika tries to entice Joe to kill Liam before he steals her from both of them.

* Charlie gets an old-fashioned shave.

* Kat and Renbe go through a tense moment at customs, but get arrested in the terminal.

* Renbe gets accused of murdering Janet. Kat is free to go.

* Moira and McNair get busy. Form an alliance.

* Joe attempts to talk to Janet, she wants nothing of it. Much to Liam’s wanting.

* Kat is fired from her job, her credit card is canceled, and her bank account is empty. She was also evicted from he apartment.

* Janet tries to play Liam, uses her feminine wry’s on him. Liam bites. (Not really, you know what I mean)

* Liam shows Janet the Inner Sanctum, the command center of the program.

* Liam: What you imagine to be free will is merely an illusion. The program has been studying people for 50 years now.

* Janet kisses Liam, studies his response.

* Bill tries to talk Charlie to accept the program and become part of it. Charlie smacks him in the face and tells him it’s all manipulation and he will never join.

* Erika tells Janet her secret.

* Janet tries to seduce Liam for more information. She makes him question his values, and the program.

* The box of thumbs are brought to the See You Next Tuesday lady in charge.

* Whats wrong with this picture? Only 6 thumbs. Where’s the 7th?

* Renbe hid it in the vodka bottle.

* See You Next Tuesday lady implements a town flush. For town 27! The second one this week. There must be plenty of them around.

What does all this mean. Let me point out the obvious. I’m good at that. One rule of the program, you can never leave the program. Once you are in, you are in for life, or death.

The See You Next Tuesday lady is portrayed as Satan. She is heartless, relishes to inflict pain and suffering, and her followers, or minions, are all scarred and terrified of her.

Perhaps they are all in Hell and they captive 7 will be tortured for eternity. Just when they think they have a chance, given a glimmer of hope, it is brutally taken away. Sort of what Hell could be like.

Saturday is the series finale. Make sure you tune in.

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NBC Persons Unknown Theory – Episode Ten

Back from a one week hiatus, NBC Persons Unknown was back on the air Saturday for the 10th installment of the Summer series. Next Saturday the 28th is the two hour series finale where all will be revealed. before we get there, let’s look at what was revealed on Saturday.

* Tonight, we bring back the (*) to skim through the bullet points of Saturdays show.

* The new night watchman, Liam, takes over and sets the captive 7 up for a fall. He is as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

* Liam pampers the guests with a unique gift for each. The gifts are very personal and move the guests emotionally. Later the guests are drugged and sedated.

* We are made aware that there are multiple towns, splitting images of each other where similar experiments are performed on 7 other unlucky people.

* When the captive 7 awake from their drug induced sleep, their personalities have been tweaked. They all seem to get along better.

* The men in the blue jump suits are working over time. They are all over the place.

* News Flash: The men in blue are terrible shots. They had dead aim on the Jeep as it was driving away. Three targets, no windows, open air Jeep, and all 7 of the men couldn’t hit a tire, gas tank, one of the passengers in the Jeep. These guys need fired.

So what does the Grassy Knoll Institute think…..
Last week I announced that the captive 7 were in a virtual reality laboratory. All the participants are interconnected to one another sharing each others thoughts, memories, and feelings. While in this virtual reality laboratory, a battery of physical and mental experiments are performed on them. And who is running these experiments? A New World Order government consortium in partner with a superior race of aliens.

Tonight, let me throw out yet another theory. Perhaps they are in Purgatory, a weigh station to heaven or hell, where the men in blue are angels or demons, depending on your interpretation, to keep the damned in line. Case in point, Liam and Janet are talking at the end of the show. Liam tells her, I think you know why you are here. Because you’re dead Janet. Damn it Janet.

Next Saturday all will be revealed in the two hour series finale. I suspect NBC was hoping for a mega-type hit as Lost was for ABC. Alas, the numbers are way down, Internet buzz barely visible, and water cooler banter non-existent. Let us hope next Saturday brings us some nice surprises.

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NBC Persons Unknown Theory – Episode Nine

So tonight Joe gets inserted back into the group with his memory wiped. The night watch man gets his clock cleaned and one of the “Programs” higher ups is regulated to replace him. And oh yea, the director of the Program, she’s a first class “See You Next Tuesday” type of gal. (For those that don’t know LOTGK speak, chalk that up to just another mystery that needs to be solved.)

Last week I revealed my theory and I’m sticking to it this week. To refresh, my theory is….
The 7 eclectic unknown persons are in a virtual reality laboratory. All the participants are interconnected to one another sharing each others thoughts, memories, and feelings. While in this virtual reality laboratory, a battery of physical and mental experiments are performed on them. And who is running these experiments? A New World Order government consortium in partner with a superior race of aliens.

Here is my proof. Joe, a known employee of the Program, is found out, then removed from the experiment. He is then reprogrammed and re-inserted back. He has no memory of the other members and he has become very aggressive. he pretty much tears up the night manager throwing him through a plate glass window.

The Program doesn’t want anyone to know they are conducting experiments. They use their “Men in Blue” to contain information leaked out about the Program. When damaging information is about to be leaked, the men in blue eliminate the leak.

Joe was touted as the best chance for a 10th level candidate by the Program director. She wanted everything to go smooth as he was re-introduced to the town.

Notice everyone in the Program was afraid of the director and I has the feeling that everyone wished they had never heard of the Program.

So what are the odds that Tom, who was killed last week, finds his way back into the town and Program, just as Tori reentered the Program in a different capacity.

Four more episodes left.

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