A House Divided Goof
Now i know this isn't a major continuity error and it doesn't affect the storyline either way but i haven't seen anyone mention it so I'm wondering if anyone else noticed.
When Carver enters the cabin he tells Clem that he's looking for 7 people (2 farm boys etc), except 8 people escaped from howes hardware : Luke, Carlos, Sarah, Rebecca, Alvin, Pete, Nick and Nick's mother. Nick tells Clem how she got attacked by the bitten stranger and had to put her down. This happened after they escaped, so how did Carver know he was looking for 7 people instead of 8?
Lazy writing or genuine error?
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Could be an error. Later on you find out Pete died from a bullet wound so someone found him before he died from the bite. May be that was Carver.
Carver did say "seven to be exact". That could be because he knew exactly what happened to Pete.
I see where you're coming from there...but doesn't he describe Pete as 1 of the 7 he's looking for and not Nick's mum.
I agree, I think Pete's death has something more to do with Christa, with all the little clues you find hinting that she's still alive.
It could be a genuine error.
Yeah it probably is just an error then. Can't believe no-one noticed it yet.
Don't get me started on Christa, we know what happened to 2 of the 3 men that surrounded her (Winston bit whilst chasing Clem, Victor close to death on the riverbed by the backpack) what about the 3rd Ralph? Did he shoot Pete? Guess we'll never know.
I remember this being brought up before, actually, and it seemed like the conclusion at the time was just "maybe Nick's mother died back at the camp before they left". I can't actually remember if they ever said where Nick's mother died. We all assumed it was at the cabin, but I don't think it was ever outright stated. If they have said that she was out there with them, then it's definitely an error. If not, then it's probably still an error, lol, but one that can be somewhat explained.
I also started a topic on the subject of Pete's "second" death scene and how it was treated like a mystery but never really got resolved. Some people said that we were meant to assume it was Carver's group that gunned down the walkers and put Pete down, which I didn't agree with because it was never even suggested by any of the characters (who would know the capabilities of Carver and his group's firepower) and it was just left open with Clem saying "Who did this?" with no reply; on top of which, the fact that Carver asks about Pete shows that he has no idea Pete is dead, so he couldn't have killed him back at that van.
It's quite possible that it was one of his group he brought along while he was out scouting, I suppose, but it would have been nice to get some actual closure on that, since as it is, we can only assume that was the case. That people have had to ask about it at all shows it really wasn't clear.
I suppose Johnny or Troy could have shot Pete while Carver was in the cabin interrogating Clem. But wouldn't they have recognised Pete and informed Carver, i dunno.
As for Nick's mum it states on Wiki(yeah i know) that she escaped with the others so Carver couldn't have known she died could he?
Guess it's just one of those tiny continuity errors
It could be an error, but Carver has been looking for the group for some time. Maybe while he was tracking them he came across Nick's mother's corpse. It's most likely an error, but not impossible for Carver to have become aware of her death, even by chance.
That's actually what I was about to say.
Maybe it happened before Howe's or at Howe's. Luke never mentions that the group "recently" took care of someone who got bit.
It's just another oversight by the writers. TBH the cabin group's uber-paranoid behavior makes a lot more sense if they had all seen one of their own get bitten.
Maybe she died at Parker's Run and Carver found the body, who knows. Telltale doesn't care lol.
Maybe she died before reaching Carver's camp?
I think when Nick explains his mother's death, I think he mentions that it was after they escaped Carver's. Or at least gives the impression that it happened after they left. at some point they mention that nicks mother left with them
Did someone say that happened after they escaped? I didn't hear anyone mention when it happened. Could have easily been before they went to Carver's camp.
It could have happened before they went to Carver's camp.