Human Test
As a huge fan of Watchmen and the Watchmen TV show, I am suspecting that Lindeloff has a secret plot in this story. Shocking, right?!?!?
One of my very early theories is that Zoe Macon was sent to test if Jon Stewart was human.
In the first episode, Stewart talks about how aliens have pretty sophisticated methods for fooling medical and other machines, biometrics, and in many cases interrogation (not in this episode though).
But there is one fool proof way to tell if he is human…sex. Not only is human sexuality unique to humans but also they could have used the interaction to gather DNA from Stewart.
How likely is it that a 55+ woman in Oklahoma who is married to a militia head going to have sex with a young guy after speaking with him for what, 5 minutes?
And William Macon clearly knew about it (another man’s grill). It seems like a test they devised to see if Stewart was human. Would even a deep cover alien sleep with a human when they didn’t know they were being tested?
Also, and I am not sure what, but there is something to Stewart being vegan. Maybe as a red flag for the Macon’s?
My guess is that Hal is an alien (he sure reacted to the ‘hail’) and that the militia devised a plan to remove him in order to place a human in the lanterns.