If you followed the film's viral campaign, you will know of the site that was called Tagruato, a Japanese company that was known for its deep-sea drilling operations and its subsidy company, Slusho!, their famous drink that has everyone going for it. Another website, called jamieandteddy.com, told the tale of a girl named Jamie making video blogs for her boyfriend, who went away to go work for Tagruato, much like Rob was going to do in the actual film. Now, there was also an eco-terrorist organization that called themselves T.I.D.O. Wave, and they were bent on brining down Tagruato and its CEO, Ganu Yoshida, who they claim is laying destruction to the ocean with their deep-sea drillings. They are blamed, but the organization denies it, of attacking a deep-see drilling location.
The dates would have helped me coincide with the film's time line and such, but now they are shut down, assuming to tie in with the film. But anywho, Tagruato has just opened up a new deep-sea drilling post in the Atlantic, not too far off the coast of Manhattan, called "Chuai Station". This was the station that was attacked. Actual "new coverage" of the event can be found on this
list of search results pertaining to it on YouTube. If you watch the English video, right at the beginning when the oil rig starts to go down, pay close attention to the bottom left pillar - the tail of the creature seems to wrap around it. Also, its familiar roar can be heard during the video showing the inside of the oil rig. Either its that, or its just the metal crumbling under pressure. And, for the end, when bit and pieces of the rig fly back up into the sky... c'mon. What else could have
possibly had launched those parts into the air? Also, in the Spanish news segment, extended video shows that there are Asian passengers on the helicopter, the one holding the briefcase shows it being attached to his wrist via handcuffs. What's in the Asian businessman's briefcase, and why is it handcuffed to him, and why is he over the site in a helicopter that a company owns both of that he most likely works for? More on that in the end. Each country's coverage of the incident reveals more and more of the oil rig's sinking, so check them all out of it you want. They each carry in them their own evidence. Tagruato claimed the sinking to have been done by T.I.D.O., and T.I.D.O. states that Tagruato blew up their own digging site for whatever reasons. Then Jamie gets a package from her boyfriend, which contained a tinfoil wrap up saying "Primary Evidence - Jamie, Don't Eat This" and a tape player of Terry going that Tagruato has captured him because he really knows what they're drilling for, and then the tape cuts off. Jamie tries calling the company, but they deny the existance of one Terry Hanson.
So... where does this all tie in with the creature? Jamie ignores Terry's warning, and takes a
very small dip of the substance he told her not to eat and eats it. Instantly, she feels a sudden trip, dizziness almost, and the video ends. My theory proposes that what Terry sent Jamie is either the blood or toxin from the monter or little monsters itself, and that Tagruato was actually drilling that substance from the creature itself. The girl who dies in the film from getting bit from the little monster helps this - she took a big bite, thus taking in a lot of venom, a deadly amount. Jamie just took a minute sampling, enough to cause the effects instantly but not enough to kill her. The blood or toxin taken from the creature is then put into Slusho, after it has been de-toxified, but still good enough for people to really enjoy it. All this was kept top secret, as seen in the news video with the Asian having the briefcase handcuffed to his hands. Tagurato wanted to keep their fine and real drilling operations a secret from the world, and from T.I.D.O., for they would have exposed them. As for the attack on that station, remember the crash in the ocean that people mentioned you can see in the film? Tagruato's website mentioned that a satellite of theirs had fallen to Earth - was this what we saw? I believe it was, and although I don't know how it could, I feel that this is what woke up the monster, and caused it to attack the drilling station, because, after all, it was probably in some sort of pain, given that Tagruato had been drilling into its skin, so it attacked out of anger. Either that, or it was a very large part of the oil rig suddenly re-surfacing.
Also, for those of you wondering why the monster attacked New York... I feel it's because of the oil liner that was torn up by the Statue of Liberty. For a very brief second, you can make out the Tagruato logo on the ship. Connection? I think so, although I'm not sure how. Did it somehow follow the ship, or was it because Tagruato's CEO himself was stated to come to America on a four day visit that would encompass him being in New York on January 18th. Obviously in the film, the events take place in May, so I feel that this was just a marketing scheme for the viral's to drool over, but still, a lot of people felt he was coming to New York to check out the monster wreaking havoc on it. For whatever reasons, the answers are all up in the air. Better pay close attention to
this Manga tie-in with the film to get more answers, or questions, of the mystery behind that of
Cloverfield. Also, when Yoshida was on his way here, or he may have already been here, I'm not too sure with the sites being down, he was attacked by T.I.D.O. agents, who were trying to pour a liquid over his head, but they failed and he fought them off with no damage. Was this liquid possibly the toxin taken from the creature?
I know my theory is long and may have some holes in it. I'm confused too - what happens to someone after they explode? Do they give birth to a new creature, like in
Alien, or is that the full extent of the toxin acting as a defense mechanism? At any rate, I think it's an interesting theory, and certainly not one that hasn't been mentioned already. If anyone has any more evidence pertaining to it, be sure to post - I'd like to read it.
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