Yes, can we please all start typing identical theories? It's frustrating to have to see opposing view points and constant reminders that I'm just making stuff up on gut feel.
The Smallwood key card gains you access to the building and the elevator. I've looked, but am unable to confirm if it also opens the apartment doors like some other apartments in town. I'm not under the impression that LS was thinking logically enough to call HT to give her a heads up about needing let in (if home was even her intended destination). Smallwood also has an intercom along with literally hundreds of other residents. No idea what the norm could be in a situation where she was locked out, but there may have been other options.
Nothing really to debate here. Commenting on what she was did or didn't think about is total speculation. It is pretty common to not have people's numbers memorized though. As to the call patterns, I agree that they would be important to establish for this relationship. The calls that her phone DIDN'T receive may be just as important as the ones that it did.
Who she should be calling is relative to her purpose. If she was looking for her phone (as has been submitted), I agree that she may have thought to call her own as we tend to do if trying to locate it (I even brought this up about 25 threads ago). I've thought for awhile on if everything we've heard was true, why would she be calling these two people for her phone? Is there such a blackout period that she didn't recall having it with her after leaving Smallwood earlier in the night? Did she "lose" it early on in the night? The pairing of what we've heard of for the reasoning and the people she reportedly tried to call has definitely got me leaning further toward the side of her phone being intentionally kept away from her.
At this point, I agree, we are just running theories by. But, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to do. Out of the two broad theories, which I think are
circle of friends vs. stranger abduction, the friends theory holds the least horror and is the easiest because here are our POIs right in front of us and it makes sense. None of these kids are gonna talk until one does. They have already decided that talking will not bring their friend back. It's all about drugs and what this can do to their precious futures.
As with Brettly not driving Mickey home that night, we just can't believe that JR would not be chivalrous enough to walk Lauren home. But I work around these kids, and see this behavior all the time.
Again, back to the blackout state, definitely not to be confused with passed out state. We're talking almost 30 years ago but I went from a black out state in which I danced on top of a giant speaker at a club for an hour, picked someone up, brought them home in a cab, and woke up with this person the next day. I didn't know how I got there, who I was with, and didn't
remember the dancing on the speaker at all. Not even a whisper of a hint!
Apparently during all this, I had the wherewithal not to have sex. If I had walked out of that club into the night, I would have been easy prey. I know
exactly what I was imbibing, it was valium and vodka.
A black out state is usually something you wish would have been a passed out state. Despite all the bad things that have been happening, the kids love to talk about the crazy things they do, and often try to achieve this state.
Also, I have seen kids with injuries from blacked out states, and these are mainly scraped foreheads and twisted ankles.
You can be in this state and suddenly snap out of it without passing out. One other time years ago, again with the booze and valium, I disrupted a fund raiser I was co chairing! At the event, I guess I told off several people, but also had a great time for two hours misbehaving, etc then all the sudden we were leaving and I didn't know why, and my partner and friends are like, don't
even try it, you know what you did in there; but I didn't. And of course, my partner wasn't speaking to me, and was dropped off at a friends'. My friends were driving me home and saying, wow, you don't remember this, and you don't remember that? Do you remember telling off Susan? And I'm like, you
have got to be kidding me. After that I never mixed valium w. alcohol.
When you mix these boutique mood elevators with booze it's a total crap shoot. If someone hid her phone from her, they might have brought it back,
I've said before you can just place it over the fence, the beach part of Kilroys is outside, anyone could have tossed the phone and shoes back into Kilroys.