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Our story begins on an airliner in the sky, with the Copilot concerned about flying over Los Perdidos, a city that has just been quarantined for the latest zombie outbreak. The Captain isn’t concerned, being so high up in the air, but he starts coughing. His complexion going pale, something crawling under his skin, he tries to land the plane, forcing the Copilot to shoot him due to the signs of infection.
March 23rd, 2021
Los Perdidos, California
Initial spotting of a singular zombie infection. 6 hours after the outbreak, 500 people were infected, downtown quarantined. 12 hours after the outbreak, the city was declared a disaster zone and evacuations began. 24 hours after the outbreak, targeted airstrikes commenced. 36 hours after the outbreak, the Army barricades all exits with shoot-to-kill orders. 48 hours after the outbreak, all emergency contact was lost within the city. 60 hours after the outbreak, rumors of survivors remain unconfirmed.
72 Hours Post Outbreak
At the edge of the city, at a quarantine zone, a young man dressed in a mechanic's overalls with the name NICK RAMOS on the chest, with a stylized number 12 tattooed under his right ear, is trying to find a way out of the city for himself and his friends. Heading into the tunnel, Nick grabs a flashlight, finding a lot of dead and undead bodies in holding pens. Getting past them, all Nick finds is a caved-in tunnel. Despondent that the only way out has been bombed shut, he returns to a diner others had made into a Safe House. Passing by the gated off zombies, they start banging on the grate, forcing themselves through to get to Nick. Getting outside didn’t change anything due to the zombies outside as well. With no other choice, Nick jumps off the bridge, landing on his side. Getting up, Nick spots the zombies, but he also spots an airliner heading towards him. The plane crashes just a few feet ahead of Nick, zombies crawling out of the burning wreckage. Disoriented, Nick rushes past the zombies as the wreckage starts to explode. Crawling through the airplane, Nick hops from car to car as survivors are ripped to shreds around him. Getting to the Dilly Diner, Nick is let in by boss and mother figure Rhonda, where Nick’s friend Dick shows off a sledgehammer he found. Nick chats with a girl named Annie, who he has a crush on, bonding with her over them being orphans. When Annie takes a shot of Zombrex, Rhonda doesn’t hide the fact she thinks little of Illegals, men and women who went on the run when the government ordered all infected get a Zombrex Chip, refusing on the grounds they have a GPS on them 24/7. When Dick leans against a jukebox, the music turns on and all the zombies start swarming. While comforting his elderly mother, Peter spots a zombie cop is shooting his gun, having some shred of his memory in how to shoot it. Disturbed at seeing a smart zombie, Peter’s mother runs outside and when Peter follows both are ripped to shreds. Dick vomits in disgust, but Rhonda gets them to calm down, saying they’ll head to her garage in Ingleton, where the walls are thick and the TV might work. Annie leaves by herself to meet with her group with nothing but a bat. Rhonda tells Nick to think, reminds him he’s a fixer, he can make anything into a weapon. Combining the Sledgehammer with a saw, he creates a Sledge Saw, giving them a weapon as they flee through the back door. Finding a still working SUV, they drive the rest of the way to Rhonda’s Garage. Here, Dick wonders if the whole country has fallen while Rhonda wonders where the police and army is. A zombie surprises them but Rhonda buries a crowbar into its head, but they spot its neck has a red flashing light under the skin, a sign they were chipped before they turned, but what worries them is the chips are supposed to automatically dose them with Zombrex. Rhonda turns on the TV to get some news, but all they get is static. Rhonda starts getting to work on the antenna, and tells Nick that it’ll be a couple hours. Checking the Zombie’s ZDC jacket, he finds a transceiver, and finds the man on the other side can only read his lips, but can’t hear anything. Nick wonders if he’s a cop, but the guy, Jamie Flynt, explains he’s a janitor locked in a security room and can only call Nick. Luckily, Jamie has a bag of chips and control of all monitors in the city. So Jamie offers to tell Nick if he spots any survivors who might need help. In exchange, Nick will check out the Ingleton Motel for some supplies the Illegals left.
When Rhonda repairs the TV, the survivors see a news report that the President, Sonya Paddock, was in Los Perdidos when the outbreak occurred and that there’s a search going on for her. Changing to a press conference held by Secretary of Defense, former General John Hemlock, who states that the cause of the outbreak has not been identified yet, but there is a strong possibility that it was started by an unchipped illegal infectant. Los Perdidos will be quarantined for the search of the President, but in six days when all survivors have been rescued, an incidiary bomb will be launched at Los Perdidos, destroying it and every zombie inside. All civilians are urged to report to any nearby military quarantine station. A list of names are produced, and Dick groans that there’s a quarantine station at Production Bridge, too far to get to by walking, and any car will be swarmed. But Nick takes a look at a steam roller and an SUV, and decides to combine them, making a Turret Rig. Driving past thousands of zombies on the bridge to a barricade that forces them to continue on foot. What they find is a bloodbath, the ZDC agents have been murdered, a gang of hoodlums dressed in leather and denim surround them as a biker gang rides in. Two of them take Rhonda away from Nick and Dick, who have to fight off the gang. Surviving the best they can, the two hooligans are kicked away by Rhonda. But that’s when the gang leader rolls in, dressed in a fur jacket, a mohawk, and the confederate flag painted on his face, Hunter, riding a motorcycle with a steam roller on the front. Running over his own men, Hunter gives a tirade to Nick about how happy he is that there is no military or police to interfere with his fun. Dodging Hunter’s attacks, Nick beats him with molotov cocktails and dodging out of the way of explosive crashes. Hunter ends up crashing into an oil truck, and with their leader dead the gang runs away. When Rhonda goes to thank Nick, he falls to his knees. Zombies make sense to kill, they’re already dead. But People? There had to have been something he could’ve done. Rhonda assures him he did the right thing. That gang was going to kill them, or worse. She tells Nick that they need to leave the city, it’s escape or die. Nick accepts this reasoning and heads back to the garage. Along the way, the trio are shot at by a stocky man in military camo. As they hide, Nick recognizes the man as his foster brother Diego. Relaxing when Nick tells him, “Yo soy Nick.” Diego goes to hug his amigo. Turns out Diego had been looking for the chop shop he works at. Nick wonders about the rest of the army, but Diego admits they were swarmed at the new museum the president was at, he only got away due to an act of cowardice. Now Diego is having a panic attack at possibly being AWOL. Diego also says that the quarantine has been upgraded to where nobody leaves, so he needs Nick’s help fixing an old military plane donated to the museum by a collector. It can fly after some repairs. Diego shows them the keys but he drops it, and when Nick goes to pick it up a zombie bites at his hand. While Dick is saying it was nice knowing Nick, Rhonda tells him to head for the Ingleton Crematorium to get their emergency Zombrex before it’s too late, while she and Dick will check out Diego’s plane at the shipping warehouse by the docks. But Diego warns that a number of the ways are cut off so the fastest way is through the sewers. Getting out into a cemetery, Nick arrives at the morgue where he spots a stocky guy in a red Hawaiian shirt with a baseball bat. The guy gets spooked when Nick comes up behind him, but seeing his bandaged hand, he warns Nick to lighten up. Nick wonders if he’s there for Zombrex, but the man, Gary, is just here for a job for the local kingpin. Despite not liking the thought of working with a crook, Nick teams up with Gary, especially after he shows him the trick of crushing wasps to kill a bunch of zombies, and they agree to help each other find what they need. Getting past the zombies, the pair get to the morgue and start looking for Gary’s woman, Nicole White, a possible alias. Nick panics that they’re taking too long to get Zombrex, but Gary assures that if anything happens he’s got a gun. They find the morgue slab with the name Nicole White, but there’s nobody inside. Getting to the crematorium, they find a coffin that was being put inside, so they open it. Nick is unnerved by how much the girl looks like Annie, but quickly demands to know where the Zombrex is since he’s finished helping Gary. Looking behind Nick, Gary laments that there isn’t any, the emergency shelf empty. Nick falls to his knees while Gary consoles him, before offering to put him out of his misery. Getting the approval, Gary prepares to shoot but trips over Nicole’s body and shoots her instead. Having wasted his last bullet, Nick helps Gary up, who spots the bite mark has healed. There’s barely even a scar! Gary has never seen this before, so it might be possible he might not need Zombrex. Relief comes over Gary, who didn’t want to shoot Nick. They take Nicole’s body to a black Hurtz, where Nick is told to drive the body to Gary’s boss at the Diamond Panty club in Ingleton. Gary has to stay, but Nick tells him about the plane that’ll need parts and was wondering if his boss might be able to help. Getting to the empty strip club, Nick turns on the TV to find a news report that claims that survivors are being chipped and evacuated through quarantine zones, with Secretary of Defense Former General Hemlock encouraging chipping. Unnerved by this, Gary takes a seat next to him and reveals that it’s the wrong girl. All they accomplished was getting Gary’s boss pissed. Nick asks Gary why either ones are determined to stay in a city that’ll be bombed, but Gary admits bitterly that he doesn’t really have much of a reason to live. Sipping at his flask, Gary asks Nick to check out the girl he mentioned before, Annie, and if she’s the girl his boss will get fuel, parts, whatever is needed. Struggling with this, Nick does agree to go looking for her, heading for his boss first to see if she knows where she went. Getting to the hangar, Rhonda’s relieved Nick got Zombrex (Hopefully). They’ve been needing his help calming down Diego, who is frantic about the president. Not helping matters is Dick telling him AWOL is punishable by death. When Nick tells him to knock it off, Dick notices they have the same tattoos. Diego has the number 49 tattooed under the right ear just like Nick. The mechanic shrugs that they’ve had it since they could remember. Checking out the plane, Rhonda notes she’s still looking up what parts are needed but is worried about the fuel. Nick tells her that there’s a guy looking for Annie, which everyone tells him to let it happen. Rhonda shows him a drawing of an unfinished circle with a horizontal line, a symbol of an Illegal Safe Haven. The biggest one is in Sunset Hills, a Communications Tower where he’s refused entry by the woman guarding the door, Lauren. Not trusting a guy looking for Annie, she tells Nick to collect two things she left at the abandoned outposts, her tattoo kit and wedding ring. Getting those, Nick goes deeper in, but the survivors inside panic and start shooting at him until he falls through a floorboard, with Annie and another man standing over the edge of the hole. They help him out of the hole, and Nick is a bad liar asking Annie if he’d like to go to Ingleton with him. Annie sees through it, and the other guy wants to slit his throat for being a rat. Annie tells the guy, Red, to ease off, which gives Nick the chance to apologize, and tell them about the plane and the repairs it’ll need. As the group take a shot of Zombrex after an alarm goes off, Red warns that as a realist, pointing to pictures taken of the evacuation centers, only there are execution squads there killing survivors, not saving. So Red gives Nick the job of taking out radios, cameras, and any other equipment. So Nick starts moving throughout the neighborhood, burning supplies, busting relays, and destroying cameras. Checking out the Almuda Farms Cold Storage for the last of the supplies, Nick gets injected in the neck by Albert Contiello, a greedy surgeon who is abducting people to harvest their organs to be sold on the black market. Despite being drugged, Nick fights the mad doctor through hallucinations, who ends up injected with his own drugs. Albert dies seeing zombies attacking him, when really he just put his own surgical saw to his own stomach, and it’s him pulling his intestines out. Nick also saves his next victim, Alejandra. Returning to the Illegal hideout, meeting up with Annie. Now having some quiet time, Nick wonders if she and Red are dating. But Red walks in before anything can be said, telling them that there’s a distress signal from Angel, who found computer recordings of attacks on civilians at the police station. That information can give them access to every camera in the city, but first they have to find Angel. Nick offers to go to the police station while they find her. The leader tells him to meet up at the Burgess-Dawson Hotel, Angel’s last location. At the police station, Nick witnesses the army, lead by Sergeant Hilde Schmittendorf, The Baroness of Hemlock’s soldiers, executing a pair of survivors while she hides the evidence in her cleavage as she laughs at them. Nick is so shocked he gives himself away, leading to a fight with the soldiers and a woman who constantly sexually harasses him in the fights. The fighting stops when Hilde fires an RPG that sends her and Nick out the window, Nick only surviving by landing on Hilde. Nick takes the flash drive and heads for the hotel, where Red and Annie are standing over Angel’s dead body. Red wonders if Nick’s a realist yet, and he admits to seeing Hemlock’s soldiers killing survivors that weren’t even bitten. With the flash drive, Annie hopes there will be justice, but Red wonders if justice will bring Angel back. But Annie counters that Angel was family, and she was taught to always fight for family. Calming down, Red apologizes to the mechanic for being a jerk earlier, not knowing who to trust. He agrees to get the fuel for the plane, but Nick’s gotta do something in return.
When Nick meets up with Annie and her friends a couple hours later, Gary surprises them with a gun. Annie is quick to accuse Nick, but Gary kicks him in the ablls and admits he followed Nick. He takes Annie, the woman his boss has been looking for. But a Special Ops raid knocks out Gary and forces the Illegals to run. Nick is hit with a flashbang and watches Annie be taken away. Nick is woken up by Red, who tells him that they made a prison camp out of a taxi dispatch in Ingleton, so hiding behind a billboard, Red notes that there’s gotta be a main detention area where their people are being held, but with electrical fences they gotta cut the power. With a generator in the back, this gives Nick two choices: Fight through armed soldiers or sneak around disguised as a soldier. Red runs off to look for an escape vehicle. Getting inside the base, Nick spots an elderly wheelchair woman with a scar on her face telling General Hemlock over video chat that he cannot destroy the city while she’s searching for “Him.”
She wants the six days she was promised, while the General tells her that was never the primary objective. A soldier drags into the room the president, who demands to be released. Hemlock mockingly tells her he’s glad she was found…They need a body after all. One of the soldiers takes out a foot long worm, the wasp parasite and shoves it down her throat, turning her into a zombie. Hemlock orders that she be set on a low ranking soldier and have it recorded for the media. The woman demands to see Diego, he was not at the museum when it was attacked. Hemlock tells the woman, Marian, that while he does enjoy indulging her, he can’t forever. She points out that deactivating Zombrex Chips in the city can not be repeated so easily since the radiation they used has mutated the chipped zombies. The General thinks it might be a blessing in disguise and actually has his men studying these mutants, specifically the strange oozing substance nicknamed Royal Jelly. He sees a possible weapon, but Marian calls him an imbecile. Demanding the illegals be checked for Illegals and kill them if he’s not among them, a soldier hands her a shot of Zombrex which she takes. When she leaves, Nick heads over to the generator where a soldier spots him. Fighting him off and destroying the generators, Nick frees Annie and her friends, and Gary but making it clear he’s not going anywhere near Annie. Outside, they spot Red who tells them to get to the van. They fight through, with Nick getting into a fight with the base leader, Commander Adam Kane, seemingly killing him. Annie and the illegals load up in the van, but Nick stops Gary from getting in. Gary admits he does owe Nick so he’ll let this slide. Nick meets up with Red, and tells him that Special Ops is looking for his friend. Red shows him a flier that shows a 5 million dollar bounty for anyone caucasian or latino with numbers tattooed on their necks. So now Nick is a wanted man. The two split up but agree to meet up at the Karaoke Bar in Sunset Hills and Red tells Nick the fuel is at Central Storage under the freeway. Getting there, Nick starts checking all the storage units, before coming across a zombie with wasp nests growing out of his body. Two soldiers arrive to take the monster, but it attracts the other zombies and when it’s shot at, it explodes in acidic bile, killing the soldiers. Getting into the fuel car, Nick drives off to meet with Rhonda. She hugs Nick, grateful he’s still alive, but she has bad news: Diego’s gone with the keys. Rhonda laments her mistakes she made with her life, like letting her marriage dissolve, but Nick assures her he’ll find Diego and they’ll escape. The radio starts blaring a public announcement that General Hemlock is continuing the six day quarantine before destroying Los Perdidos after video of the zombified President Paddock. Rhonda gives Nick a list of things they’ll still need, like a rudder arm, a flywheel, and an altimeter. While she tries to figure out where to find those items, she tells Nick that Diego ran off for the museum. Nick warns them that the governments are doing something bad, pointing out Paddock’s zombification. Commenting he sounds like Annie, Rhonda calls Nick a good guy for keeping her safe. At the space exhibit of the museum, Nick finds his foster brother in a mental breakdown, thinking he’s not a coward, not AWOL, but instead a brave astronaut. And Nick is an alien he has to fight. Diego’s knocked out, groaning out one word.
“Pachamama.”
Nick apologizes for what he did and helps him up. Picking up on Pachamama, Diego explains it’s something his mom used to tell him, and the only thing he can remember as a kid. Nick is disturbed, feeling like he heard it before. Diego takes him deeper into the museum to show what made him freak out so badly. It’s an exhibit on the history of zombies in America. Everything about Willamette, Las Vegas, Still Creek, and Fortune City, even heroes like Frank West and Chuck Greene, and villains like Carlito and Isabella Keyes. Diego points to one small exhibit, with a recording that Nick plays. It tells them that this is the Smithville Outbreak in 2007, the first outbreak after Willamette. Special mention goes to Patient Zero, which got photographed. The AWOL soldier points to the neck…There’s a number 4 tattoo under the ear. Nick backs away in terror. The mechanic wants to know what that means, but Diego doesn’t know. Nick decides to focus on the problem one at a time, so they need the keys to the plane. Unfortunately, Diego was mugged by the biker gang, but Nick is distracted from listening by where Diego is scratching on his face, there’s something moving under his skin. Diego continues that he heard some of them mention they were heading to the mansions to loot. Passing by Sunset Hills to find it barricaded with the streets littered with dead bodies. The bandits had taken over the whole neighborhood, and they’ll fight to keep it that way. Taking them out and getting the plane keys back, they return to Rhonda, who is putting the finishing touches to the now pink plane. She talks with Nick in private, admitting she thought he would be dead, but watching him scratch at his leg in a frenzy, Rhonda wonders if he’s really alright. The radio announces the death of the president, and General Hemlock that martial law has been issued to the entire eastern seaboard to prevent the spread of the virus while personally touring the borders of Los Perdidos. Flabbergasted by what she’s hearing, Rhonda asks for a few hours while she tries to figure out where to find the parts. Eventually, Rhonda gets some good news thanks to a rich plane collector in Sunset Hills having the parts, so while she and an itchy Diego fuel the plane, Nick will collect the parts. But getting there sets off a security lockdown, trapping him in a birthday party full of zombies. Fighting through all the zombies Nick rips apart the alarm system, ending the lockdown, giving him a chance to get the rotor arm, antimeter, and the receipt for the flywheel to a courier in Ingleton. Getting the flywheel is easy, so when Nick returns to the others, Rhonda is ready to put the last parts in. As Nick gets ready to get Annie and the others, Rhonda starts walking in a duffel bag, admitting she’s gonna stay and try to find her ex-husband and get back together with him. She’s gonna stop at her garage first to figure out the next move. Nick gives the woman closest to being his mom a hug goodbye. Ignoring Dick comment on her crazy suicide mission, Nick tells him and Diego to get moving for the karaoke bar and get everyone out. Before leaving, Diego gives Nick the keys to the plane, not trusting himself anymore.
…As soon as they leave, a flashbang goes off at their feet and the army kidnaps them. When Nick comes to, he and Diego are strapped to operating chairs with Mallon greeting the orphans from an observation room. They’re disturbed that she knows that. Diego has a panic attack, repeating Pachamama. Mallon points at him, telling her men to start the test on the pathetic one. Several surgeons point a massive laser at Diego, who is begging for Nick and help, before all of a sudden his face is ripped apart from the inside by parasite worms and wasps, which attack the surgeons and soldiers in the room. Mallon demands a quarantine and to keep Nick alive as the last chance. But the mechanic rips his straps off and fights off the newly turned zombies. As he leaves, a middle aged Spanish woman with a scar on her face in the same place as Mallon’s, dressed in a lab coat greets him as Number Twelve. Nick is confused, but turns furious when she says her name is Isabela Keyes. Nick starts to strangle her, blaming her for everything that’s happened since Willamette, as well as the death of Diego. But she defends herself, swearing she isn’t a terrorist, that the world’s been lied to about her for so many years. She’ll change that with his help. Nick demands an explanation, but all Isabela can say is that he won’t end up like Diego, the worms can’t live inside of him. Mallon closes the doors on the elevator, leaving Nick trapped inside, but he tells Isabela to go to the port warehouse. He’s attacked by the robotic loader arms as he escapes through the stairs as the loaders set the building on fire. Mallon is saved from the fire by Hemlock, while Nick grips the keys and swears he’s getting the hell out of the city with his friends. But getting into the subway he gets trapped by the bikers as revenge for killing Hunter. But escaping all the way to the bar he finds Gary has locked up Annie inside, waiting for his boss. Nick tries to point out to him that they’ve gotta get out because a bomb will go off any day, lives are at stake. This infuriates the thug, since he points out if he doesn’t bring in the girl his boss will probably kill him. Downing his flask, he laments how his life has turned out. He used to be a wrestler, with a big house, and he used to be Happily Married to a mechanic named Rhonda. Realizing that neither one of them had mentioned their exes names, Nick laughs at the Dramatic Irony that he’s been with both of them this whole time. Gary charges at the pipsqueak, who promises he can get Rhonda. Gary lets him go, swearing he’ll only let him in if he can either get past him or give him a reason to live. Returning to Rhonda’s garage, Nick finds her on the ground, missing her left arm. She explains she was tortured by the spec ops and points him to a first aid kit to stop the bleeding at Roy’s Mart. Fighting off the spec ops, Nick saves her life, and tells her he found Gary. Grateful to him, Rhonda however refuses to go in with a missing arm. She wants to make a good first impression. Together they built a new mechanical arm with a flamethrower. Nick helps husband and wife reunite, with Gary teasing that now his wife is hotter. They head off, with Nick being told to tell the boss to go screw himself. Freeing Annie, Nick wonders where Red is, to which she admits that he was a no-show. Figuring he went to the plane, they start heading out but Annie tells him that she did date Red, but they broke up. So on the way to the plane, Nick asks her out on a date. Getting to the hangar, they find Dick, Red and Isabela, but since there’s supposed to be more people, Red heads out to find the others. Isabela tries to make Nick leave early, but Annie recognizes her. Stopping an argument with a simple question, Nick wants to know the truth. Isabela explains how the government built the Santa Cabeza Lab, designed to produce fatter cattle, and they came with soldiers, who were all too willing to have their way with the local women. And then Dr. Barnaby discovered the wasps, and how the whole village was destroyed. The only survivors were the Keyes siblings and 50 babies born from the rapist soldiers. So while Carlito was planning the Willamette outbreak, he had all 50 children infected with the parasites along with a dose of the prototype Zombrex, creating timebombs all over the country. Diego and Nick were two of them. However, evern Carlito knew the risk of something like that going worldwide, so he managed to create an immune child, one to be able to create a cure if the outbreaks ever got too out of control, and that is Nick. This makes everyone ecstatic because that means no more zombies. But Isabela warns Marion is still looking for Nick so they have to leave now. Red calls for them to come out into the harbor, but Nick gets separated from the others by the cargo containers. Spec Ops trap everyone else in a container while Red laughs at Nick. Confused at the betrayal, Red explains that with a number 12 tattoo on the neck, that means he’s worth 5 million dollars. Nick is furious at what a Hypocrite he is, preaching about family but turning on them. Red explains that as a realist, he’s tired of living as a pariah, so he wants a trade between Nick and his friends.
“I’m gonna kill you with my bare fucking hands, you son of a bitch!” Nick shouts. The two fight throughout the harbor, until a freed Annie drops one of the containers on top of Red. When they meet up one of the Spec Ops soldier’s radio blares out Hemlocks voice, demanding the orphan, which Nick buys time. But after Nick and Annie kiss, a very familiar voice asks for his daughter Katie.
“Dad?” Annie gasps in surprise. He’s dressed in black leather, and has a mutton chop beard, but it is the hero, the survivor, Chuck Greene. Annie’s full name is Katie Ann Greene, and she ran away from home due to how her dad had to keep cutting corners to get her her medicine. Both apologize to each other for pushing each other apart. But Chuck has never once blamed her, he’s the one who did the things he’s not proud of. Nick is furious when he realizes that he’s the one who sicked Gary on her, but Chuck explains he’s been looking for her for two years. Annie breaks them up by wondering how they found them. The answer is Gary and Rhonda getting freaky in the back of the van. Isabela greets Chuck, who is disturbed she’s here, but is curious about the new scar. She explains that Marion is a very jealous woman. She tells everyone Nick is the cure so they all prepare to head out. But checking out the planet, Chuck notes the plane won’t fit everyone, so Rhonda and Gary choose to stay to find other survivors. Nick hugs his new family goodbye and both depart. But as the plane is being flown out the radio blares the spec ops commencing a collection, while Hemlock brags they’re about to have the most destructive weapon of mass destruction ever. Nick stops the plane to figure out what they’re getting. Isabela explains that the mutated zombies, called King Zombies, produce a bile known as royal jelly. Chuck points out they already have started collecting with a helicopter flying in. Everyone realizes that a cure won’t matter if Hemlock has something so dangerous, a new variant of the virus able to be spread worldwide. Nick, Chuck, and Dick step out of the plane to stop Hemlock. Driving there with Annie manning the radio on the crane, Chuck is reminded of Stacey Forsythe, who sadly broke up with him after he screwed up. Getting to the roof of the theater, they spot Hemlock and Marian on the next rooftop. Hemlock is boasting to his squeeze how they’ll make outbreaks wherever they want. Killing the kings it’ll wipe out the population but leave the infrastructure. It’s the neutron bomb he always dreamed of. Marian points out that it’s useless without a cure, but the former general calls the cure a bullshit lie made up by the Keyes family. Marian calls him pathetic when he tries to be affectionate, but the taller, stronger, and not crippled man just grabs her by the throat and drops her to her death. Drones begin flying around Los Perdidos to abduct the King Zombies. The heroes set out to destroy all 60 harvester drones before it’s too late. As they drive around, Nick and Chuck talk about many things, one of which is being surprised Isabela is still alive. Chuck never thought he’d run into her again after the harvesting plant outbreak he and Frank West were at. He also notes that Frank always trusted her, but he never did. Eventually, they take out enough of the drones, but Nick needs to get on the helicopter. So he jumps onto one of the drones to get inside. Sneaking into the cockpit, he surprises Hemlock and knocks out the pilot, crashing into the Museum of the Americans, where the outbreak first began. Hemlock is bloodied, and his hat and jacket has been torn off, but the soldier keeps on fighting. Eventually, Nick gets the upper hand, and tells him Marian was right about one thing, he is the cure, the one Carlito made immune. Hemlock mocks him for thinking he knows everything. Nick tells there is no cure for what’s next, and kicks the mad general into the helicopter blades. The crisis finally over Nick takes a seat on the ground as Annie and the others arrive in the plane to pick him up, along with Isabela who ran off to get something at the lab.
After the credits, we see Isabela back in the lab, where she finds a laptop. Inspecting it she finds a recording of her having a meeting with Marian, who calls Isabela insane. ‘’Isabela’’ started the outbreak to find Nick. But Isabela brushes off the lives lost as inconsequential compared to the cure. It’s why she’s ‘’stayed’’ with Marian voluntarily. She figures that when the immune would realize what he is he’d come forward, even Hemlock would find the idea tantalizing. Marian brushes her off as jealous of the Phenotrans legacy, so desperate to leave her mark.
- Isabela Keyes: You think you’ll walk again? You think you’ll be cured?
Marian Malon: Shut up. You’re lucky I didn’t take your legs as well. If they hadn’t stopped me…
Isabela Keyes: I will be the one who goes down in history as the creator of the cure. Me, and me alone. Not you. I don’t care what I have to do to find it.
Marian Malon: Why are you doing this? Is it for the money?
Isabela Keyes: I don’t give a shit about the money. I’m going to make up for what my brother did and restore the good name of our family. Be a hero for once, and for all time. Not that Frank West. Not this Chuck Greene…He left me to die once. They will all pale in my shadow. And I will find the cure.
Marian Malon: And no one will know you’re a mass murderer. Interesting. I think I might finally be starting to like you after all.
Back in the present, Isabela has gotten all proof of her crimes on the laptop, and destroys it, becoming the biggest Karma Houdini of the series.
Seven Deadly Psychopaths:
- The first Psychopath Nick encounters in the Zen Gardens of Ingleton is Harry “Zhi” Wong, a wrathful man dressed like a buddhist monk with a naginata who is attacking anyone who disturbs his peace. When Nick calls him out for killing innocent people, they fight. After beating him, Nick listens as he welches about how he got fired, his wife left him, his kids disrespect him, and now a zombie apocalypse. He spitefully decapitates himself. Beating him, Nick gets the keys to the Happy Good Mart.
- At the Big Buck Construction Site in Almuda, Nick will meet a survivor named Kenny, a fat, bespectacled unassuming guy who is beating himself up for not being strong. Nick fights some zombies barehanded to encourage the man, even teaching him some combo weapons to make. But much later, Nick finds Kenny on a crashed yacht dressed in the same clothes, and ties up a woman to act out the Heroic Wannabe fantasies a nerd who lives in his mother’s basement like him has always wanted to live out. When Nick fights off a zombie from hurting her, the envious man attacks Nick with combo weapons. The injured Kenny is surrounded by zombies, and begs for Nick’s help, swearing he’ll be his sidekick. Taking pity on him, Nick saves him and Regina, with Kenny apologizing for being such a jerk.
- At Uncle Billy’s Buffet, Nick and another survivor find food that other survivors could need. But they’re kept back by Darlene Fleischermacher, an obese woman confined to a mobility chair whose gluttony has earned her medals as a competitive eater, who refuses to share the food, even stabbing the other survivor to death. Nick accidentally insults her weight so she attacks with kitchenware and her own vomit. But this is her undoing when her cart spins out of control from the slippery floor and is pinned to the ground by her own weight, choking to death on her own vomit.
- At Annie’s Old Fashioned XXX Supply in Almuda, Nick finds a man and woman tied to chairs with tape over their mouths. When he trips on a pipe, a southern drawl chuckles at Nick for “Presenting.” This is Dylan Fuentes, a Lustful man who is using the outbreak to finally vent his sexual frustrations, and clearly swings both ways. Dressed in a cowboy hat and boots, underwear and assless chaps, and a zipped open gimp mask to show his shark like teeth. When Nick is creeped out, Dylan pulls out a crotch mounted flamethrower that looks phallic, the Lust Cannon. After Nick fights him off, Dylan laughs that Nick gave him blue balls before collapsing dead, the Lust Cannon fizzing out the last bit of gas like cum. Nick frees the prisoners, Eric and Julia.
- While helping out a police officer named Dwayne get some supplies, he and Nick come across the police station's armory is locked up. Dwayne realizes that the mayor’s son took the key to the Mayor’s Mansion in Sunset Hills. Nick heads that way and finds Teddy Lagerfield, a Slothful man who refuses to get out of his recliner and quit his video games. He didn’t even know there was a zombie outbreak and thought Nick was the help. When Nick demands for the armory keys since survivors will need it, Teddy sends helicopter drones after Nick, who has to disable the security to get to Teddy’s room. When Nick gets there, Teddy is begging for his life in a puddle of his own waste before dying of a heart attack.
- At the Yoh-Gah fitness studio, Nick bumps into who he thought was a male bodybuilder, but ‘’she’’ corrects that she’s Jherii Gallo, an androgynous looking woman who is proud of her large muscles. Nick apologizes for his mistake and tells him she’s not leaving till she gets the first place trophy for Miss Gigantic California. When Nick makes the mistake of calling her Sir, Jherii lunges at him with a barbell. Forced to fight her off, our hero watches as she lumbers over to a trophy case and knocks it on top of herself, crushed under the trophies she prided herself on.
The Smartglass
Throughout the story, Jamie will work with Nick on a number of jobs. Eliminating poison, delivering Zombrex, and deleting files from the LPPD database. During this time, Jamie will tell Nick about how his brother was infected in Fortune City and was loaded up into a helicopter for chipping and was never seen again. Eventually, Jamie will reveal the location of the ZDC agent who was peddling poisoned Zombrex is now at the train station. Nick finds the man, Brad Park, dying from a busted Zombrex chip on a mattress. Nick accuses him of his crimes, but Brad denies it, confused. Deciding to see who is lying, Nick gives Brad the supposedly poisoned Zombrex. Injecting himself and returning to health, Nick can’t believe Jamie lied to him. Recognizing the name, Brad points out Jamie Flynt is black market Zombrex dealer that he had arrested years ago. After leaving, Jamie calls to yell at Nick, saying he just killed his brother. Nick points out the contradictions, so he hangs up, ending their partnership.
Dead Rising 3: Untold Stories of Los Perdidos
- Jamie Flynt: Yeah, the outbreak of Los Perdidos. You think you know what happened. You watched the news, you listened to the speeches, and saw the videos. What you don’t know is, all of it got recorded. Every hero. Every coward. Every goodbye. And a handful of people with one last chance for Revenge. Justice. Duty. Redemption. I know, because I watched it all. These are the untold stories of Los Perdidos.
Episode 1: Operation Broken Eagle
Commander Adam Kane, Special Operations, a man who believed in honor, duty, and respecting rank. His orders, told by Phoenix to be directly from General Hemlock, is to set up a base camp and fight back all unlawful combatants, including the President. Adam silences the dissidents in his group by pointing out that with the president going soft on the infected, General Hemlock is the commander in chief now. However, the helicopter crashes after an RPG sent by a biker gang hits. Adam and his squad parachute out of the helicopter before it’s too late. Separated from his men, Adam gets orders from Phoenix to return to the helicopter and recover the Black Box that contains his orders. Along the way, he’s given orders to find the rest of his squad, collect their dog tags if KIA. Adam starts getting shot at by the military as he makes his way to Ingleton, where the helicopter was shot down. He collects the Black Box and a parasite larva, which he’s ordered to start releasing into a Safehouse for Illegals. Afterwards, Adam is ordered to head to the Ingleton Taxi Company to set up a base camp, eliminating all zombies in the area. Setting off a flare, the Bravo company moves in to set up base camp. Given new orders to save Charlie company from Illegals in Almuda, Adam finds the company either dead or undead. Taking the APC back to Bravo company, Adam’s next order is the museum in Central City, where the President was last located. Believing the President is the enemy of the country, Adam is more than willing to kidnap her. Fighting through the last of her forces, Adam finds a GPS tracker leading up north to Sunset Hills, all the way to the Mayor’s mansion. Fighting through the last of the Secret Service, Adam manages to capture President Paddock. Back at base camp, unaware that Nick is sneaking through, Phoenix orders Adam to destroy the Black Box, who appears to follow the order, before shooting the now zombified president. Now realizing that the General has gone too far, Adam lies about destroying the Black Box, and for the first, and last time, Adam Kane did not follow orders.
Episode 2: Fallen Angels
The Illegals, those infected that refused to be chipped by the government and so are constantly on the run, among them Angel Quijano, are holed up with barely enough Zombrex and food. Falling asleep drunk, Angel’s friend Doug wakes her up, wanting her to compose herself for the sake of the group. Doug tells her a yacht crashed in Central, through the seawall. Doug wants Angel to investigate for survivors or even much needed supplies. On the burning boat, Angel doesn’t find anyone alive, so all Angel can find is medical supplies. After finding some supplies, Doug radios that a crew in South Almuda has gone silent. Scarred by having lost people in the past, Angel is rushing over there, despite the military shooting at her. To get around them and the zombies, Angel starts taking out security cameras. When she gets there it’s a massacre, all of her friends dead. All of them were shot dead, something zombies can’t do. Out of the window she spots a girl named Winnie running away in a panic. Angel chases her all the way to a dead end, and it’s only then Winnie recognizes who is chasing her. Covered in blood, Winnie explains that the Spec Ops had stormed the hideout, grabbed some people, and killed the others, even mentioning the school. Doug panics since that’s where the Illegals are camped out at Sunset High. Winnie stays behind to recover, but tells Angel that her only way back would be the riverbed since Spec Ops is blocking off the roads, forcing her to go through the Los Perdidos River to get back. But getting through the sewers she hears Doug giving out orders as they’re being attacked. Angel gets there just in time to help out Doug fight them off and save their people. But Doug notes they have to find a new place to stay, thinking of the old tower in Sunset. At the Communications Tower, Angel and Doug kill all the zombies inside and move their people inside. Unfortunately, the tower has nothing foodwise in it, so Angel heads out to steal a food truck at the Hamburger Fiefdom, and on her way she steals a weapons cache. Getting the food truck to the Illegals, Angel meets up with Doug for a fight with some Spec Ops at the courthouse in central. Taking one of the soldiers hostage with a knife to his throat, he reveals the Illegals are being taken to Central Storage for experiments. Leaving him to be devoured by the zombies, the pair head that way. Heading deep inside, Doug splits off since he got a radio call that Annie’s returned to safety. Rescuing the survivors, Angel tells them to head for the Comms Tower, but Doug shouts that more are coming. Running through the storage space, Angel spots a security camera, and lies that the safehouse is the hotel, tricking the Spec Ops to the wrong place. Angel smashes her transceiver to Doug’s pleas, finally not calling him Dougie like he wanted her to. Waiting for a last stand at the Burgess-Dawson hotel, Angel takes one last swig of her vodka as Spec Ops storms in, with her going down shooting, like an angel earning her wings.
Episode 3: Chaos Rising
Hunter of the Kings of Chaos biker gang, was framed by a rival and stuck in a jail cell when the outbreak occurred. Using himself as bait for a zombified cop, Hunter disembowels the zombie with his bare hands, taking the keys to get out of the jail cell. Overhearing on a radio that his gang is raising hell, Hunter steals a cop car and starts driving to Production Bridge to find his old mentor Torque. But another member, Spider, had kicked Torque out and had taken over the Kings of Chaos. If Hunter wants back in, he’ll have to bring Spider special reserve whisky. After collecting the whisky, Spider sicks three gang members onto Hunter. After surviving, the double cross is complete with Spider shooting Hunter. Waking up in a dumpster, Hunter notes that with the setting sun, Spider and the gang must be at Ironside Bikes. Getting there, the only person at the bar is Torque, who agrees Spider needs to go. For this plan, they’ll need a couple of bikes. With a warning about Spider’s lackeys patrolling the city, Hunter leaves to collect the bikes. Wandering the city, Hunter finds the three bikes, with the older biker telling him to get a custom bike from Central Storage. Stealing the bike from Spider’s lackeys, Hunter brings the custom bike to the bar. Eventually, Torque constructs a custom motorcycle, the Thrasher, that shoots saw blades and has spiked wheels. Using the bike, Hunter goes through the city, killing Spider’s three lieutenants and collecting their gang rings as proof of the kills. Returning to the bar, Hunter finds the bar burning and Torque bleeding out. Before dying, Torque reveals he left something behind at Shavey’s Garage in Ingleton. Ditching the prison suit and donning his leather jacket and jeans, Hunter heads that way and finds Torque’s pride and joy, the Rollerhawg. Riding in his iconic hawg, Hunter returns to Production Bridge. Surrounded by a ring of fire started by the Kings of Chaos’ molotov cocktails, Hunter and Spider fight, but Hunter proves to have the strength to beat the traitor. Spider pulls a knife, but Hunter just breaks his arm and rams the knife up his jaw, killing him. The Kings of Chaos elect Hunter as their leader, but one of the gang members spots Nick and Rhonda approaching. The gang rolls out, unknowingly for the last time.
Episode 4: The Last Agent
Having just been bitten by a zombie, ZDC agent Brad Park is at death’s door, but he’s found by Nick, who has been led to believe Brad is killing the Illegals. But despite this, Nick gives Brad some much needed Zombrex. After Nick leaves, Brad sets out to clear the name of the ZDC. On his radio, a doctor named Cora calls out to Brad. Brad was on his way to getting Zombrex to a hospital, so he commanderes a Collins Chemicals Van to get the hospital the supplies it needs. Sneaking past the military, and saving a few survivors along the way, Brad successfully gets the van to Cora, who is running a hospital surrounded by a fiery barricade. Reunited, Brad admits that he almost turned despite having a Zombrex chip, meaning there’s a malfunction. Cora understands, having seen that among her patients, but she needs more Zombrex chips to understand what’s happening. Pointed to the mutated zombies, Brad traverses the city with a ZDC weapon called the Pacifier he collects on the Metro Track, he seeks out twenty mutant zombies for their chips. Returning to the hospital with the malfunctioning chips, Cora tells Brad that if he finds more they can help expedite the process. An explosion in the distance grabs their attention, with Brad volunteering to investigate. There, he finds remnants of the Kings of Chaos throwing molotov cocktails, antagonizing a group of survivors. Saving them, one of the survivors warns that there are others driving around the city attacking whoever they can find. So Brad prepares to take out the last of that gang and save people at once, but has to return to the hospital after they attack the van which still has Zombrex. Brad rushes over and saves the hospital, but the ambulance is destroyed. Knowing that there’s a black market Zombrex operation in Ingleton due to his job at the ZDC, Brad heads there. Along the way, he has to fight the army who are killing survivors instead of evacuating like they’re supposed to do. Returning the bootleg zombrex, Cora explains to Brad that the time devices on the Zombrex chips were turned off remotely somehow. Cora tells him to find a man named Nelson, a man who left the hospital a few days ago rambling about the chips being fishy for the Sunset Dance Studio. Getting there, he finds Nelson, an hacker with a serious distrust of the ZDC due to being an Illegal, so Brad has to prove himself. Luckily he has some Zombrex on him as proof. Brad tells him to track the signals that are canceling the Zombrex Chips, but Nelson will need some supplies. Heading to a crashed helicopter, Brad and Nelson find a Spectrum Analyzer, next they head to U Break Wi Fix for Computer Parts. With the parts collected, Nelson takes Brad to Annie’s Triple X Shop to build a tracker, and while Nelson does that Brad goes to use a firestarter to kill some zombies. Meeting with Nelson after a while, who confirms that the signal is a military frequency from a Sunset Hills mansion. Along the way, Nelson points out that Zombrex chips have GPS, making Brad realize he’s being tracked. At the mansion, Brad fights against the army while he looks for some sort of evidence. Finding a map to a lab in the South Almuda Trainyards run by General Hemlock and Marion Mallon, a woman who should be in prison. All Brad finds is a squad of army soldiers cleaning up a pile of dead bodies, even coming across Diego’s body still strapped to the operating chair. Under a zombie, he finds a briefcase that shows him a prison camp at the taxi company. Checking his neck he spots the flashing light of the Zombrex chip, which he cuts out along with ditching his ZDC jacket. At the prison camp, Brad plants his Zombrex chip so that several dozen army soldiers will charge him. Taking position on a billboard, Brad watches as the soldiers leave the prison camp. Inside, Brad finds the carnage from Nick’s assault on the camp. The only one to stay behind is a crawling Adam Kane, still holding onto the black box. Telling Brad to make things right, explaining that Hemlock killed the president and hands the black box to him that it’s proof of Hemlock’s crime, Adam shows his bitten arm, clearly about to turn, so Brad hands him a handgun. On the radio Cora calls for Brad, ready to head out, with a survivor bringing a truck they could use. Getting to the truck, Cora says there are other survivors at the Comms Tower in Sunset Hills, and then picks up Nelson. Driving the ZDC control truck, they pick up the Illegals at the Comms Tower, with Rhonda and Gary among them, Brad manages to get Nelson in the nick of time. Heading to the Dilly Diner in Ingleton, where all this madness began for Rhonda, Brad calls the ZDC to send a rescue chopper, while being chased by all that remains of Hemlock’s men. As the sun rises, the survivors make it to the helicopter safely, but on the ride home, Brad looks at his ZDC badge, and realizes that blindly following the rules resulted in all of this, and that to be a good person, you have to ask questions. In disgust, he tosses his ZDC badge out the window.
After all of this, Jamie, having seen everything that happened in Los Perdidos, burns the monitor room down and escapes since he’s wanted by the ZDC, leaving the stories of the dead untold.
