Headscratchers / BrainDead

• Why is it called the Sumatran Rat Monkey if it lives on Skull Island?
  • Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) remake stated that Skull Island is located near Sumatra.
  • The monkeys that the rats "raped" to create the species probably migrated from Sumatra to Skull Island before it became its own landmass.
• After the lawn mower scene, the remains of the zombies finally stop moving. But wasn't it shown earlier that even the organs of zombies can move on their own? And some of the body parts that remained, such as the arms, looked like they'd still be big enough that they could keep attacking....
• I would have thought for certain that the WLWL chairwoman's husband would have become a zombie from ingesting the zombie virus-infected pus that Lionel's mother squirted in his custard bowl, but maybe we just didn't hear about it, or this is one case where it's only the bite that transmits the disease.
  • Probably the latter, considering both Lionel and Paquita clearly get zombie blood in their mouths later on without any indication of infection.
• Also, I'm not entirely sure if it was the stimulant or what that caused Lionel's mother to balloon up into a giant bloated zombie monster.
  • She was the only one to be bitten directly, but all the zombies were given the stimulant. Presumably being patient 0 was the root of it, though the stimulant might have influenced it.
• Why were there no consequences for Lionel's mum crushing the Rat Monkey's head? It was a rare animal, probably counted as endangered (and I mean legal consequences, not her zombification).
  • She did it in self defense. The rat was biting her.
  • The zoo probably wanted to avoid their own legal trouble since a patron was attacked by one of their animals due to it being kept without proper safety precautions.
• Why did Vera hide the bodies of Lional's father and his mistress in a trunk in the attic and leave it instead of burying it or fitting them with cement shoes and dumping them in the river? Yes, the chest was certainly well-built enough to contain any liquid matter, but would it really have been airtight enough to conceal the smell of two rotting corpses?
• If Lionel was there to witness his mother drowning his father, how was she able to convince him he drowned at sea while rescuing him?

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