There’s no real food shortage, but the food hasn’t been fresh for six or seven years. Someone with connections apparently got tired of shelf meat.
We know that recently mutated Topsiders are given a “witness protection” treatment to conceal their former Topsiderness, such as Flask and Linda. Maybe there are former Topsiders concealed in the city’s planning agencies, who weren’t joking about wanting to eat mutants before they themselves were mutated. They may still consider themselves superior and more human than the “animals” who were mutants from the beginning of the End, and entitled to eat them. They may maintain contact with other former Topsiders as a secret society preying on the citizens, and maybe some form of contact with Topsiders outside Endtown.
Linda’s “nightmare” where she remained loyal to the Topsider commander indicates how willing she is to obey them. She could easily be in on such a conspiracy. That scene seemed to have no relevance to the other events at the time, but would make sense as a foreshadowing of a slaughter racket run by former Topsiders.
There’s no real food shortage, but the food hasn’t been fresh for six or seven years. Someone with connections apparently got tired of shelf meat.
We know that recently mutated Topsiders are given a “witness protection” treatment to conceal their former Topsiderness, such as Flask and Linda. Maybe there are former Topsiders concealed in the city’s planning agencies, who weren’t joking about wanting to eat mutants before they themselves were mutated. They may still consider themselves superior and more human than the “animals” who were mutants from the beginning of the End, and entitled to eat them. They may maintain contact with other former Topsiders as a secret society preying on the citizens, and maybe some form of contact with Topsiders outside Endtown.
Linda’s “nightmare” where she remained loyal to the Topsider commander indicates how willing she is to obey them. She could easily be in on such a conspiracy. That scene seemed to have no relevance to the other events at the time, but would make sense as a foreshadowing of a slaughter racket run by former Topsiders.