Hypothetical Discussion: Your Vision On 'The Levels'

i hope they do continue.

the levels would have been amazing.

Maybe a level could have been in a plane or underground...

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Interesting discussion! It would be interesting to see the other levels, but we'd have to consider the overall theme the levels are trying to portray. I think the theme is the obvious lack of control with the illusion of freedom. So keeping this in mind, I can see the levels like this:

Level 1-The town.

As seen on tv.


Level 2-The ship.

As seen on tv.


Level 3-The cargo plane.

Maybe the participants would try to stow themselves in the cargo boxes, then get loaded onto a plane that takes off and lands on the freighter? Thinking they've escaped, the participants could be disappointed to learn they're stuck on a plane with no way of getting to the cockpit. So they'd have to wait and see where it lands. In the mean time they have to keep from going crazy. I can see how weapons (and or) life supports would be left in each person's box. Therefore it's kill if you have a weapon so that you can get a life support (like the gas mask scenario) or be killed if you're one of the few without a weapon but with a life jacket.


Level 4- The Desert.

So the participants on the plane finally land (or crash). They think they're supposed to be over water. So those with vests think they're saved, while those with weapons panic. Then when they walk out, they'll find themselves in the desert.

They wont be able to go far, so they'll be stuck at the plane's wreckage site. Those with vests and those with weapons can realize what a mind game it all was, and could start to take shelter on the plane. When scouting the cockpit, they don't find any pilots or bodies, just a computer that's been flying the plane all along.

The participants would argue between leaving the site and looking for help, or staying, opening the cargo boxes and finding a way to survive.



Level 5- The Maze.

After letting them bake in the wreckage for a couple of months, the program can send a van/bus to pick them up. Of course it can be driven by a paid local who doesn't speak English. He can take them to a slum town (not the pretty one like they had in level one), which can be constructed like a maze. Except there's people here, but unfortunately nobody speaks English. In fact, the language spoken, is unlike any the participants have ever heard.

When the participants stock up on supplies and try to leave the town, they follow the dirt roads that only seem to intersect along the buildings. Trapping them in a maze like slum.


Level 6- The Gas station.

I think here the participants would try to find the highest points of elevation and find a way out of the slum city. But they can no longer see the desert, it's just a maze of slum everywhere they look. To add fire to the timer, they'd have to figure a way out very fast because a team of mercenaries (guys in blue) is after them.

Eventually, Blackham or whoever had the right supplies from the cargo plane could use some C4 to blast their way out of the city's maze onto a roadway. Once out of the city, they could wander the desert road to an abandoned Gas station.

The station has no gas, but it has a car which needs fixing. The participants could try and fix it, while getting their minds tested within the actual station.


Level 7- The Hospital.

Once they fix the car and take off, the darn thing can fall apart before it takes them anywhere. Angry, they can end up back at the gas station and bicker until the heat stroke gets to them.

Once they pass out they can wake up in a hospital. Janet, especially, can think she's back in the program run hospital. But she'll quickly realize this is no ordinary hospital (it's the place where Joe was reprogrammed) A fresh nurse uniform is at her bedside and a card saying welcome to level 7 can have a key inside.

Each participant will be on a different floor of the hospital. So Janet's a nurse and she'll have to try and free dying participants (from other groups) while they're connected to two IV's, one filled with poison and one filled with medication. She has the power to speed up their deaths but if she tries to free them, the medication will drip slower, prolonging their pain and eventual death.

The other floors can each have different specialties where each participant is put into a different position and is tested. So Blackham can be a janitor, who's got to search through bloody clothes in order to find a key out. Moira, could be in the psych ward where the patients are trying to kill her. McNair can be stuck in a security booth, maybe he can guide his friends to safety? While trying to stay alive in his own level.



Level 8- The Library.

When they all get out of their hospital floors and meet up in the main level, they can lock themselves in a library. Unable to get out, because the crazed patients are on the other side, they can each swap what they've learned about the program, from the hospital.

Then, they'll try and get out of the library by going through the vent system, or trying to leave some other way. In the meantime, the library has rows of books dedicated to each participant. These books can reveal things about them, or give suggestions for getting out faster.

Of course the library has archiving rooms, binderies, preservation houses, all places where participants can get trapped, tested or driven insane.



Level 9- The school.

Oh the horror!

When they eventually get out of the library (by way of escape or drugging) they can be positioned in a school. They need to either pass certain "Classes", or they'll use tools from the gym, science lab, etc to get out.



Level 10- The Capitol.

This is the sleeper agent level. Using all the skills they've acquired through training, the participants will be positioned within government and will be asked to either assassinate important people, or sway the government to favor the program.

Or an even bigger mind game would be if everyone in government acted like the participant was the president. Each participant was given power and was asked to make some tough calls in regards to the other participants?




Of course I left out Joe and Renbe, because that one level would need it's own direction/plan. But I'd imagine that somewhere in level five, he and Renbe would put the clues together faster and eventually catch up to Janet and crew.

Also, I think somewhere in this process one of the participants (if not more) can be deemed passable and will enter a "hotel manager" training camp.

I'm pretty sure the writers had no idea what they were doing with future levels, and that is a shame.

But writing this was really fun. Let me know what you guys think!



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unlike a lot of people here, I don't think all the levels are the same. Even in level 1 the corporation was testing people to do their bidding. Obviously if Joe could reach level 10 he isn't there yet. and since Joe is in the town as a double agent, I think that is a level. his friend the waiter seems to be a lower level. so it could be level 1 is the town, 2 is the freighter but it tests their loyalty in a new way, weeding out week ones. 3 or 4 test your devotion further. 5 could the bellhop, 6 is the waiter who tests them from the control room. 6 is undercover like joe. 10 could be the senator. adittionally, i think there are higher levels, just because joe had potential to be a level 10 doesnt mean 10 is the end.

After watching the show, I always thought that Level 3, 4, or even 5 would have been something on the lines of what Joe was doing in The Town; directing the Level 1 participates in The Town. Since the Madame Director said Joe had potential to reach Level 10, I figured him working The Town and Level 1 participates was a level itself. It would make some sense since there is more than one town all over the globe; meaning more than participate like Joe in them.

I think this type of level would be well suited for 4 or 5. Mostly because it would be a group thing where you're the mole so to speak. I would imagine that the levels after 5 would be far more complex to the mind and the participates' dedication to finishing than what I could ever come up with.

For this level, who knows how many times you gotta go through the same thing over and over again with each different set of participates. That would drive me crazy.

The only thing I can see that would either be a plot hole or make my theory wrong is Tori becoming The Manager of (one of at least) The Town practically overnight and with some potentially serious brainwashing.

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