What did Alan know?
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tron_yoriWhatever Alan knows, it was not enough for him to put all the clues together and rescue Flynn. Obviously he would have wanted to. But movie evidence says that no one touched the Grid computer since Flynn last activated the laser.
No matter what Flynn has or hasn’t told Alan, it seems very unlikely that Alan would miss the probability that Lora’s digitization laser was involved in a disappearance with no evidence. He had to be aware of Flynn's interest in it.
So the question is, how much does Alan know about the programs' world?
Scenario 1: Alan guessed what happened, but not where.
If Flynn didn't say much of anything useful, Alan should still have a pretty good idea about what happened to a vanished programmer interested in digitization.
Suspecting Flynn was trapped in a computer, Alan began searching computer systems connected to Encom, but didn’t expect the Grid to be completely isolated. (Perhaps he’s even been searching from inside, digitized, since his wife did create the laser. In company with his own upgraded copy of Tron, and the Encom copy of Yori? Maybe a backup of Ram? Lora watching his back from outside, or maybe taking turns going into the system? I kind of think canon will eventually contradict this, but someone should totally write the story anyway.)
Scenario 2: Alan knew where, but not what happened.
If Flynn knew how touchy things were getting in the Grid--and he did know an Iso leader had been murdered--he might have explained just a little before going in. He'd have visited Alan, talking about work that could change the world and possible problems and the chance he might have to spend a while away, and asked Alan to please make sure no one bothered the Arcade, because any disruption might ruin things, but to come as soon as Flynn paged him...
Alan's been waiting for that page a really long time.
Problem being, of course, that you would expect even Alan to run out of patience after a couple years of raising Sam without his dad.
Scenario 3: Alan knew where and thought he knew what happened.
Alan received some kind of message, apparently from Flynn but actually from Clu, asking him to protect the Arcade building and not touch the computer until further notice, for some plausible-but-fake reason that meant Flynn couldn't leave and couldn’t be helped from outside.
Clu intended to use Alan as an escape route, but wanted to have everything under control and Flynn's disk in hand first. Flynn's inaction eventually pushed him into sending the page to get things moving.
I hate this one, to be honest, but it feels frighteningly right for Clu. The remaining question for this one is how Clu managed to contact Alan and why he didn’t do more with that avenue of communication.
...Unless he did. Calling in Flynn Lives as part of Clu’s master plan? Except if Clu had gotten online in any useful way, you'd expect more significant impact than communication with a fringe group. Widescale invasions of security systems, for example.
But wild speculation makes my head hurt after a while. What do you think?
No matter what Flynn has or hasn’t told Alan, it seems very unlikely that Alan would miss the probability that Lora’s digitization laser was involved in a disappearance with no evidence. He had to be aware of Flynn's interest in it.
So the question is, how much does Alan know about the programs' world?
Scenario 1: Alan guessed what happened, but not where.
If Flynn didn't say much of anything useful, Alan should still have a pretty good idea about what happened to a vanished programmer interested in digitization.
Suspecting Flynn was trapped in a computer, Alan began searching computer systems connected to Encom, but didn’t expect the Grid to be completely isolated. (Perhaps he’s even been searching from inside, digitized, since his wife did create the laser. In company with his own upgraded copy of Tron, and the Encom copy of Yori? Maybe a backup of Ram? Lora watching his back from outside, or maybe taking turns going into the system? I kind of think canon will eventually contradict this, but someone should totally write the story anyway.)
Scenario 2: Alan knew where, but not what happened.
If Flynn knew how touchy things were getting in the Grid--and he did know an Iso leader had been murdered--he might have explained just a little before going in. He'd have visited Alan, talking about work that could change the world and possible problems and the chance he might have to spend a while away, and asked Alan to please make sure no one bothered the Arcade, because any disruption might ruin things, but to come as soon as Flynn paged him...
Alan's been waiting for that page a really long time.
Problem being, of course, that you would expect even Alan to run out of patience after a couple years of raising Sam without his dad.
Scenario 3: Alan knew where and thought he knew what happened.
Alan received some kind of message, apparently from Flynn but actually from Clu, asking him to protect the Arcade building and not touch the computer until further notice, for some plausible-but-fake reason that meant Flynn couldn't leave and couldn’t be helped from outside.
Clu intended to use Alan as an escape route, but wanted to have everything under control and Flynn's disk in hand first. Flynn's inaction eventually pushed him into sending the page to get things moving.
I hate this one, to be honest, but it feels frighteningly right for Clu. The remaining question for this one is how Clu managed to contact Alan and why he didn’t do more with that avenue of communication.
...Unless he did. Calling in Flynn Lives as part of Clu’s master plan? Except if Clu had gotten online in any useful way, you'd expect more significant impact than communication with a fringe group. Widescale invasions of security systems, for example.
But wild speculation makes my head hurt after a while. What do you think?