The only deal available to him is that he gets to spend a long life sentence in a special prison setup for all the members of the conspiracy, instead of a much shorter life sentence in GenPop.
Downtime "between 5am pst and 6pm pst."
Is that right? 13 hours?
5am to 6am would sound more reasonable. I assume they'd already have most of the new wiring ran, just needing to make the final connections. A server farm should never need that much downtime.
More likely the Clock is nonsense.
Q encodes no more useful information by timing posts in such ways. And they would definitely never telegraph their moves, no matter how cryptically.
Just put them in GenPop.
Look what I found, more of our favorite redhead. From the series "Tanya" by Anna Bunski.
We are here for parallel construction.
Q has everything. But they can't give it to the DOJ if they can't give a legal reason for how they came to know it. So They give us clues that we can research, make connections, and write up a dossier on the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory. Then someone wonders into the DOJ and says, "Hey, look at this neat thing I found on the Internet. Ya'think there is enough here to launch an investigation?"
And Boom.