Who set that goddamn fire?

Post by **War Chief** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:16 pm

As I watched the movie last night I suddenly wondered, who set the fire that led The Warriors to The Orphans, since it wasn't them as they didn't know how important The Warriors were or anything about the big meeting.

Or did The Orphans know? Since they rumbled to The Riffs anyway, and the Orphan leader seemed to think that it was a big meeting, and that they should have been invited. I think that one of The Orphans on the roof has a very suspect smile when The Warriors are checking out numbers.

Post by **SoldierHeavyMuscle** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:47 pm

War Chief wrote:As it watched the movie last night I suddenly wondered, who set the fire that led The Warriors to The Orphans, since it wasn't them as they didn't know how important The Warriors were or anything about the big meeting.

Or did The Orphans know? Since they rumbled to The Riffs anyway, and the Orphan leader seemed to think that it was a big meeting, and that they should have been invited. I think that one of The Orphans on the roof has a very suspect smile when The Warriors are checking out numbers.

i think it was definately the orphans!! they already knew about the meeting i think, but were embarassed about not being invited!! so they acted like they didn't know anything about it! and maybe they figured getiing the warriors, might just put them in the the riffs network, or "the show"!!

E-Man · Post by **E-Man** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:11 pm

yeah, it must've been them. If the skin heads got back in there bus and drove al lteh way there to start a fire, and not fight them again...well that's just pointless

so yeah, one of them orphans probably did it. Not unless swan was practicing how to throw a moltolv cocktail...

LizzyBorden · Post by **LizzyBorden** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:15 pm

Did the Orphans set the fire...I say no. The Riffs did not respect them enough to be part of their network so why would they trust them to set a fire. Could it of been one of their affiliates?..or could it of been a freak accident?..

Post by **War Chief** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:55 pm

The only thing that suggests to me that they didn't know was the fact that The Orphans leader was going to let them pass (until Mercy showed up).

Post by **The Fox** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:03 pm

Good question.

Can't believe we haven't asked that one before

I thought it was the Riffs sent the word and another gang in that area set it to slow them down. They had to clear off when all the fire trucks and police turned up?

Hippy · Post by **Hippy** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:08 pm

Well in the list there is a gnag called the Fyretasters.

Post by **The Fox** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:10 pm

A gang is also called the meatpackers and i hope they don't live upto the name :doubt:

Post by **SoldierHeavyMuscle** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:14 pm

War Chief wrote:The only thing that suggests to me that they didn't know was the fact that The Orphans leader was going to let them pass (until Mercy showed up).

oohhhh, you're right! weenie boy, crook-eye, was gonna let em walk!! good point, w.c.!

Hippy · Post by **Hippy** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:19 pm

The Fox wrote:A gang is also called the meatpackers and i hope they don't live upto the name :doubt:

Post by **War Chief** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:26 pm

Maybe some gang set the fire, saw the Warriors, then got scared and ran away!

Coney Island Baby · Post by **Coney Island Baby** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:34 pm

After Fox says: 'Maybe we oughta worry about who set that goddamn fire', it cuts straight to the Rogues, maybe they did it. They were shadowing the Warriors all night, and they wanted them almost as badly as the Riffs did. They could of set the fire to stall them and stop them getting home, so that another gang could get them before they talked. Just a theory.

Post by **GonzoNYC** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:04 pm

Of course it could have been bad luck. Lots of subway track fires in the 70s. To me if a gang set the fire they would be waiting around the station for The Warriors to show up, not a couple of blocks away like The Orphans. By The Orphans behavior and words I do not think they set that fire. A Riffs affilaite seems to make more sense if the ACs got word to the Riffs that The Warriors just got on that subway line. Great question.

warriorchick · Post by **warriorchick** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:18 pm

i think the fire was coincidence. if a gang went through the trouble, they surely would have been waiting somewhere near by to jump the warriors when they got off the train. wasn't the orphans, because they were just clueless. luther was too busy talking on the phone. no, i think if someone set the fire, there would have been another fight scene before the warriors reached the orphan's block.

Ranchgal · Post by **Ranchgal** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:34 pm

this is partly why I love this forum. After reading Warriorchicks coincidence theory--I like it better than my own posted below. It makes sense to me, but I will leave my first thoughts on here just for discussion. LOL

I always seriously believed that it was the Turnbulls---who got ahead of the train, after the WArriors made them look stupid, and made fun of them--and that with all the confusion surrounding the rescue vehicles etc, they never made the right platform to encounter the WArriors again---but those guys just don't impress me as being a bunch that would stop hunting once someone ticked them off! I think the ACs were looking for one more shot! any way they could get it.

Sorry, but I will probably never buy into the "orphan theory" first--they didn't have clue--no idea what was going on anywhere outside their own street.
they didn't have the organization, and they were scared to death of one M cocktail----there wasn't one of them smart enough to set a fire that would stop a train--sorry!! No way.

Rouges, possible, but truthfully, they didn't have a clue as to route or where the Warriors would appear---that is why they went to Coney and just waited them out, and when/if they made it back--they wanted to kill off the survivors. They really weren't looking for a confrontation until they absolutely knew the odds favored them and they could escape relatively unharmed. cowards--or maybe just very poor leadership! So I might buy into that one alittle-

but I still say it was a gang on route someplace that wanted their crack at pleasing the Riffs and "wasting some heads along the way". So my choice is still the Turnbull ACs, or a gang affiliated with them.

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