Infected - Episode Three:

Wrong Move

By

Sean Elwood

© 2006

seanel12@yahoo.com

INT. SHELTER – DAY

Everyone sits at the table, everyone’s plates clean except for Ben’s. He picks up his half eaten sandwich and throws it back down on his plate, spilling crumbs everywhere.

SHERRY
Ben, finish your sandwich.

BEN
I’m not hungry.

SHERRY
I don’t care, just finish it.

BEN
I don’t feel good. My stomach’s cramping.

JULIE
I have some Tylenol in my purse. I always carry it around...you know, just in case this kind of stuff happens.

GARY
I’m surprised you even had the courage to take your purse with you here.

DARREN
Hey can you all excuse me for a moment?

SHERRY
What’s wrong?

DARREN
I just need to get some fresh air.

GARY
Well be careful wherever you’re going.

HANNAH
Do you want anyone to come with you?

DARREN
No, thanks. I’d like to be alone for a while.

Darren walks away and Hannah slumps into her chair. Julie leans in towards Sherry.

JULIE
Is he okay?

SHERRY
Yeah don’t worry about it. He does this all the time. Sometimes he likes to be alone.

Darren walks up Lt. James.

DARREN
Excuse me, sir?

JAMES
Yes?

DARREN
Is there some place outside of the building I can go to? Just to get fresh air?

JAMES
I’m sorry, nobody can go outside by themselves.

DARREN
I’ll stick next to the door. If anything happens, I can get back inside quickly.

JAMES
Nobody is allowed outside and that’s final.

DARREN
I’ll only be out there for five minutes.

JAMES
I’m sorry, we just can’t afford to lose anymore people.

Lt. James walks away while talking to another officer. Darren sighs and closes his eyes, grabbing the bridge of his nose.

He walks back into the main room of the shelter and sees an emergency exit near the back of the room next to a closet. He walks over to the door slowly opens it. He takes a quick glance outside, making sure it’s clear, and slips through, hoping nobody saw him.

FLASHBACK

EXT. LAKE – DAY

It looks like a day everyone has dreamt of, the sunshine giving off light and heat, making the water sparkle like glitter and giving the trees and plants a neon green glow.

At the dock of the lake, a YOUNG DARREN (6) stands with an older man who appears to be his dad, WALTER CANTRELL (34). Walter has a mustache that grows down to his goatee and thick sideburns with five o’ clock shave that connects his sideburns to his goatee.

They’re fishing, and Walter continues to reel in his fishing line and flinging it back out, teaching Darren how to do it. Finally, Darren attempts to throw his line into the water and succeeds. He jumps for joy and his dad begins telling him what to do from there.

Sherry, much younger, steps out of the large cabin yards away from the lakeshore, shaded by the trees. The back of the cabin has a porch with a picnic table and grill. Smoke is coming out of the grill, indicating that they are having a barbeque.

She is carrying lemonade on a small tray with cookies and other snacks and walks towards the dock.

SHERRY
Look at my two very handsome men. Caught any fish for me yet?

YOUNG DARREN
Mom we can’t catch a fish that fast.

WALTER
Well we better hurry if we want to put some on the grill tonight.

SHERRY
I brought some lemonade and oatmeal cookies for you two.

YOUNG DARREN
Yuck, I hate oatmeal.

WALTER
Oh come on Darren, you don’t know what you’re missing out on. These are Mom’s special cookies. If you eat just one, it will give you amazing speed powers that can help you catch tons of fish for barbeques.

YOUNG DARREN
And the lemonade?

SHERRY
It’ll have Mommy let you stay up past 8:30 tonight.

YOUNG DARREN
Well why didn’t you say so? Give me some of those cookies!

WALTER
Thanks, honey.

He gives her a peck on the lips and Darren scrunches his face up while eating a cookie. Darren’s fishing line begins to wiggle and his pole falls to the ground.

All three look at it and Darren drops his cookie. He grabs his pole and begins reeling it in.

YOUNG DARREN
I got one, Daddy! I got one!

WALTER
Yeah! You did! Now don’t tug too hard now.

Sherry watches in excitement while Walter holds onto Darren’s pole, helping him reel it in. The fish becomes visible and Darren screams in excitement. Walter holds up the pole and takes the fish out of the water.

Darren gets the fishing net and Walter lowers the fish into it. He jumps up and down and runs over to Walter. Walter picks him up and spins him around, all three of them laughing together.

END OF FLASHBACK

INT. HOSPITAL – DAY

Drake sits on the floor leaning against the cabinets. He coughs, covering his mouth. A little bit of saliva drips from his lips, but he wipes it away.

Tucker sits on a bed for a patient, loading his gun. Dawn leans against the wall, arms folded. Drake coughs again, this time more violently.

TUCKER
(To Dawn)
Is he all right?

Dawn walks over to him and feels his head. She gets out a stethoscope and puts it on his chest.

DAWN
His forehead is cold, though he is sweating. With something like this, the only time you sweat is when you break out of a fever, and this guy’s way below normal body temperature.

She moves the stethoscope around his chest.

DAWN (CONT’D)
(To Drake)
Your heart rate’s slowing down.

DRAKE
Is that good?

Dawn looks at Tucker with a “are you kidding me?” look. Tucker kind of smirks.

TUCKER
He’s not exactly the smartest guy you’d meet.

DAWN
Well then, after what I saw, and I plan on not seeing it again, and considering the amount of people who were attacked and killed here, I’m afraid that you have a big chance of becoming one of...them.

DRAKE
What?

TUCKER
That’s probably how it spread so quickly. People panicked, got outside, and those things got them.

DAWN
Now if this stuff was only caused by tap water, I’m sure the bottled water is still safe. We have some in the hospital cafeteria along with food and other drinks.

TUCKER
We can stay there for the rest of the day. I’m sure it’s safer to go out at night when they can’t see us.

DRAKE
How long does it usually take for people to turn?

Tucker looks at Dawn. She shrugs.

TUCKER
We’ll just have to wait and see.

Tucker opens the door and stops, and Dawn, with Drake’s arm over her, looks over his shoulder.

DAWN
What is it?

TUCKER
Where the hell did Dr. Johnson’s body go?

In the hallway, in the spot where Dr. Johnson’s body was, lies only a puddle of blood. A long streak of blood leads down the hallway in zigzags.

INT. HALLWAY – DAY

Tucker steps out, holding his gun out in front of him. Dawn and Drake cautiously step out, looking both ways, watching everything like a hawk.

TUCKER
Where’s the cafeteria?

DAWN
Down there.

Dawn points in the direction the trail of blood leads to. Tucker becomes tense and Dawn follows closely behind.

TUCKER
Now if anything happens, I want you to take Drake to the nearest room and keep the door shut. Got it?

DAWN
Yeah. I got it.

DRAKE
(Pulling out pistol)
Here, Dawn. Take this.

DAWN
I...But...What for?

DRAKE
Well if we do end up in a room and Tucker is out there trying to save our asses, you’re going to need something for when I turn.

Dawn grabs the gun and stares at it, her eyes wide. They continue down the hallway, the blood leading to two large doors. The handles have a metal bar slipped through them, obviously keeping something in there.

Tucker shines the light of a flashlight on the metal bar and moves his hand towards it.

TUCKER
Dawn, what happened to everyone who was in here?

DAWN
I wouldn’t know, I’ve been stuck in that room for a while.

Tucker slips the metal bar out and pushes the doors open. They open up to the cafeteria, and it’s a grizzly sight. Corpses are everywhere, on the floor, spread out on tables, and slumped over chairs. All of them awake.

Millions of flies buzz through the room, maggots crawling on rotting lunchmeat and on the corpses, wriggling through empty eye sockets of the largely decayed zombies.

All of them look up simultaneously, and each let out their own moan, sending shivers down the three survivors’ spines.

TUCKER
Move.

DAWN
What?

TUCKER
Move!

One of the fresher zombies near the door pounces towards Tucker, letting out a ferocious growl. Tucker pulls the trigger of his gun and a bullet pierces the soft flesh of the zombie’s forehead. The other zombies begin moving towards three, some moving slower than others.

Dawn and Drake run to the room a few feet away from them while Tucker continues to shoot at the oncoming creatures. She slams the door shut.

INT. BUS – DAY

Dark clouds roll in, casting a large shadow over the city and thunder rolls through the streets.

Valerie looks at a photo taken by a professional with her, her husband, and her son. All three look very happy. Valerie sniffs and folds the photo, holding it up to her mouth while sitting down in one of the seats. Max looks out the windows.

MAX
I think it’s clear.

VALERIE
What?

MAX
I think we’re able to get off this bus. We can find your family now.

VALERIE
What’s the use?

MAX
Look don’t say that.

VALERIE
You’ve seen how many there are out there. The whole city could be gone and we could be the only ones left.

MAX
We can just try and find them and on our way we can pick up supplies and other things we need.

It becomes silent in the bus. Valerie takes in a deep breath and lightning flashes. Thunder rolls in almost immediately and she stands up.

VALERIE
Okay, we’ll go.

MAX
All right. Just find a weapon or something you can use to keep those things away from you.

Valerie grabs a crowbar and grips it tightly while Max grabs a metal pipe outside of the bus door.

MAX
Ready?

VALERIE
Trying to be.

EXT. BUS – DAY

Just as they step out, it begins pouring down raining. Max and Valerie’s hair gets wet and matted, their clothes sagging down from them and their shoes squishing and squeaking beneath them.

Thunder startles Valerie as they walk down a long, littered street.

EXT. STREET – DAY

They come to an intersection, the street lights still working, but they are all flashing at the red light.

MAX
What neighborhood do you live in?

VALERIE
Crystal Mountain. But how do we know they’re there?

MAX
It’s the first place we should look for.

Max looks at the three streets in front of him.

MAX
Which way is Crystal Mountain?

VALERIE
(Pointing left)
That way.

They turn the corner that leads left but Max quickly stops Valerie. She gasps when she sees a lone zombie walking down the street. They quickly get behind the building they’re next to.

MAX
Okay, it’s okay, I don’t think it saw us.

VALERIE
Are you sure?

MAX
Just in case it did, it’s just one of them, easy kill isn’t it?

Valerie looks at her crowbar, and then back up at Max. She nods and he nods back.

MAX
Don’t worry, I won’t let anything get in the way. Okay we’ll just run up to it, kill it, and hurry up and get to Crystal Mountain. That’s what we’re going to do.

He quickly walks around the building and is greeted by the zombie. It’s shirt completely torn off and is so decayed its bones are protruding through its skin. It jumps out at Max and he screams and backs up, tripping over himself and falling into a large puddle.

Valerie screams and backs away, not knowing what to do. She turns around and sees dozens of more zombies coming towards her.

Max grabs his metal pole and impales the zombie in the stomach. Blood pours out of the zombie’s mouth and it drips on his face. He throws the zombie off of him and slides the metal pole out of his stomach.

VALERIE
Max!

Max slides the metal pole through the zombie’s back. The zombie slides down the pole, but pushes itself back up onto its feet.

VALERIE
Max what are we going to do?

Max ignores Valerie and kicks the pole out of the zombie, knocking the zombie onto its back.

Valerie freaks out and turns around. One of the zombies grabs her and begins shaking her violently. She tries her best to keep its mouth away from her neck. More zombies begin surrounding her, grabbing at her and ripping at her clothes.

VALERIE
Help me!

She falls to the ground, helpless. The zombies crowd around her and bend down, trying to rip her apart. She kicks and screams, pushing some of them back. Just as she thinks she dead, Max comes to the rescue, smacking every zombie in the head with the metal pole like a baseball bat.

He grabs Valerie and pulls her away from the zombie horde. He picks her up and they stumble away from the oncoming zombie crowd.

MAX
Come on!

They run down the street while the zombies slowly follow.

INT. HALLWAY – DAY

Tucker begins shooting all oncoming zombies coming out of the cafeteria. He runs up to the doors and tries closing them, but too many zombies are holding it open.

He shoots many of them in the head, and others in the chest and shoulders. He pulls the trigger once more, but all he hears is a loud “click”. He tries pulling it again, but it’s the same clicking sound. He throws the pistol at one of the zombies, doing no damage.

Without any ammo or guns left, he searches for something new as the walking corpses near him. He sees a fire extinguisher next to him and gets an idea.

Breaking the glass, he takes the fire extinguisher and pulls it out, knocking large and sharp pieces of glass on the floor. He begins smashing the extinguisher into the zombies’ faces, crushing their skulls and killing a few.

A police officer zombie pushes him to the floor beneath the fire extinguisher case. Tucker finds one of the sharp pieces of glass and grabs it, holding it firmly but making sure that it won’t cut his hand.

He stabs the officer in the eye, the piece of glass getting stuck. He quickly grabs the officer’s pistol out of the officer’s belt and begins nailing each zombie in the forehead.

INT. ROOM – DAY

Dawn slams a wooden chair beneath the doorknob of the door, pushing herself against the door as a few zombies try and break the door down. Drake almost passes out on the check-up counter, coughing more violently than last time.

DAWN
Drake I need your help!

Drake tries to get back up, but collapses on the floor, saliva pouring out of his mouth.

DAWN
Drake! Please!

A hand bursts through the door, startling Dawn and making her gun drop to the floor. She hits the hand, trying to get it back out. The hand grabs her hair and begins pulling her head towards the hole where many other hands try and fit their way through.

Drake grabs the gun and pulls himself up towards the door using the chair jammed underneath the doorknob. He sticks the pistol through the hole and shoots aimlessly outside of the door.

One of the hands slips out of the hole where another takes place. Drake shoots again, and another hand slips out of the hole, the zombie letting out a loud screech before falling to the ground.

Dawn screams in fear and pain as the hand continues to rip the hair out of her scalp. She finally gets her hair free, the hand pulling her has a handful of her hair.

Suddenly, all goes silent. All the hands from the hole are gone, and there is no sign of movement outside of the door. Drake continues to cough more and more, blood beginning to pour out of his mouth.

Dawn quickly bends down next to Drake and tries to hold his head back. Blood continues to pour out of his mouth, her white nurses outfit getting stained with the thick, red liquid.

DAWN
Drake, Drake stay with me. Drake don’t leave!

Drake begins going into convulsions, his arms thrashing everywhere.

DAWN
Damn it, Drake!

Drake becomes motionless. Dawn shakes him once. Twice. She sits still for a while and finally throws him on the ground, grabbing his gun magazine from his belt and pushing it into her pistol.

She points the pistol at his body, waiting...waiting.

INT. HALLWAY – DAY

Tucker continues to shoot at the zombies, bringing each one down. But there are too many of them! He becomes trapped at a dead end with two elevators.

He pushes the up button continuously while shooting at the oncoming zombies. The officer’s gun runs out of bullets and this time Tucker tucks it in his gun holder.

The zombies crawl towards him, their arms outstretched in front of them, ready to feast. Both elevators arrive at the same time, both indicating that they’re going up.

The doors open at the same time, and in the elevator closest to him are another dozen of zombies, all in doctors and nurses uniforms.

They jump out of the elevator but Tucker dodges them. He runs into the empty elevator and begins pressing the “close door” button. The doors finally close just as the zombies reach the elevator.

INT. ROOM – DAY

Dawn continues to wait. Nothing moves. Water drips from the sink next to her, creating the only noise that drowns out the silence.

Drake’s hand twitches. Dawn stands up, the pistol still out in front of her. Nothing else moves again. She lowers the pistol down to his head, watching carefully.

DAWN
Okay...Okay Dawn, no worries. I might be wrong about him coming back. It’s probably just the nerves reacting to his body.

Drake’s whole body jerks.

DAWN
Shit! Oh God, Tucker where are you!?

She sees a walkie-talkie on Drake’s belt. She considers about what she can do with it, maybe contact Tucker if his radio is on.

She watches Drake’s body for a moment longer, but he remains still. She carefully walks over to him, setting the pistol down on the counter. She bends down next to his body, reaching towards his walkie-talkie.

Without any problems, she is able to slip it out of his belt. She quickly scurries back to the other end of the room, immediately speaking into the walkie-talkie.

She turns around, her back towards Drake’s still dead body, and he continues to stay still.

DAWN
Tucker?! Tucker are you there? Tucker please answer your walkie-talkie...

INT. ELEVATOR – DAY

Tucker hears Dawn’s voice on the radio.

TUCKER
Who is this?

DAWN (O.S.)
(Filtered)
It’s Dawn. You have to get me out of here.

TUCKER
Why what’s wrong? Where’s Drake?

DAWN (O.S.)
(Filtered)
Drake’s dead. He died a few minutes ago and I don’t know if he’s going to change or not.

TUCKER
You said he would.

DAWN (O.S.)
(Filtered)
I said he might.

Dawn lets out a slight scream, but muffles it. Tucker reacts to it, panicked.

TUCKER
Dawn, are you okay?

INT. ROOM – DAY

Dawn is beginning to tear up.

DAWN
No I’m not okay. I’m trapped in a room with a dead man and those things out there with no way out! Please come and get me.

TUCKER (O.S.)
(Filtered)
Okay, I’m coming to get you. It might take a while, though.

DAWN
Hurry. Please.

She steps to her right and reveals Drake standing behind her in the spot where he had died. His face is gray, eyes sunken in, and dry blood is pasted around his mouth. His eyes show no life whatsoever and his teeth already have a yellow coating over them.

Dawn sets the walkie-talkie on the counter next to the pistol and runs her fingers through her hair, sniffing. She lifts her head up, her eyes wide, knowing that there is now another presence in there with her.

She turns around cautiously, but is unable to move when she sees Drake standing, looking at her, focused on her like an owl whose eyes are fixed on a small field mouse.

He rotates his head, letting out one loud pop. Looking as though he is relieved, he looks back up at Dawn and seems to let out a little smile, and hunger sets in.

Dawn, scared stiff, runs her fingers along the counter, touching the walkie-talkie, but ignoring it. She searches for the pistol but can’t seem to find it. She is afraid to take her eyes of Drake.

Just as she touches the pistol, Drake reacts, jumping towards her. She screams and holds the pistol out in front of her, pulling the trigger, unable to stop shooting. Drake flies back at every hit taken in the chest and stomach.

He falls on the bed and lies there. Dawn stops shooting and stares at Drake. He slowly lifts back up, more blood pouring out of his mouth. She raises the gun, aims, and nails him in the left eye.

Blood sprays on the white wall behind him and he falls back down on the bed. Dawn collapses on the ground, burying her face into her hands. She drops the pistol on the ground and it slides away from her.

TUCKER (O.S.)
(Filtered)
Dawn, I heard gunshots. Was that you...?...Dawn?

EXT. SCHOOL – DAY

BEGIN DREAM SEQUENCE

Darren, Hannah, Sherry, Ben, and Carl are running towards the school entrance. Carl is carrying Ben in his arms and a group of zombies follow them.

CUT TO:

They get to the entrance and open the doors, the zombies closing in on them.

INT. SCHOOL – DAY

It’s a little darker outside, and the zombies are pounding on the glass doors, trying to get in. Darren tries and keeps the door shut, but he doesn’t seem to be succeeding.

CUT TO:

Sherry runs up to Darren.

SHERRY
(Echoed)
I’ll take this! Darren stay with your brother!

DARREN
(Echoed)
Mom, wait——

Carl runs up to the door and tries to keep them shut.

CARL
(Echoed)
Just go up there, Darren!

CUT TO:

A hallway splattered with blood. Ripped clothes lie on the ground, along with bits and pieces of flesh, muscle, and bone.

CUT TO:

DARREN’S POV

He is holding up a golden heart necklace. It is stained with blood.

DARREN
(Echoed)
Oh God no...

END DREAM SEQUENCE

EXT. SHELTER – DAY

Darren is sitting down on the ground, sitting against the building. He hugs his legs with one arm, throwing gravel at the crumbling picked fence in front of him.

The door next to him opens and Darren quickly gets up, brushing himself up. Hannah walks out of the door and shuts it softly. Seeing Hannah brings the weights off of Darren’s shoulders. He sighs and sits back down on the ground and Hannah stands next to him.

DARREN
I thought you were one of the officers or someone.

HANNAH
I came to check up on you. I saw you come out here a few minutes ago.

DARREN
They wouldn’t let me outside. I had to make sure nobody saw me. Apparently someone did.

He looks up at Hannah, but immediately recognizes a golden heart necklace around her neck.

FLASHBACK

INT. SCHOOL – DAY

DARREN’S POV

He is holding a golden heart necklace that is stained with blood.

END FLASHBACK

EXT. SHELTER – DAY

Hannah kneels down next to him.

HANNAH
Now, I know your mom said that you always like to be alone for a while, and I respect that. But I just want to know why you like to be alone?

DARREN
It’s nothing, really.

HANNAH
It’s something if you do it every day.

DARREN
(Sighing)
I just never thought something like this would happen. I mean, the end of the world or something.

HANNAH
It’s not the end of the world.

DARREN
How do you know?

HANNAH
Because we would have been hearing reports about this all over the world by now.

DARREN
Hannah, we barely heard any reports on this just here in this city.

It becomes quiet. Darren sighs again.

DARREN
I just really miss my dad. We used to do fun things together. I just thought nothing like that would happen. After he left, my life became Hell.

HANNAH
That wasn’t Hell, Darren. That was just your way to it. This right here, this is Hell.

DARREN
I’m really sorry. I sometimes focus on me and me only. I just sometimes think that we’re not going to make it out of here or survive this thing or whatever.

HANNAH
Well, none of us can predict the future.

Darren looks up at Hannah after she says this, and she looks back at him. Darren remembers his dream and he looks back at her golden necklace.

DARREN
Well, sometimes I think I can. I just wish I couldn’t.

INT. SHELTER – DAY

Sherry walks around the shelter, looking everywhere around the large room.

SHERRY
Darren? Darren?

She walks up to Ben.

SHERRY
Ben have you seen Darren?

BEN
Should I be glad that I haven’t?

SHERRY
Excuse me?

BEN
(Quickly)
No I haven’t! I haven’t seen that Hannah girl either. Maybe he’s with her.

Sherry walks up to Gary and Julie.

SHERRY
Gary, have you seen Hannah?

GARY
She was here a few minutes ago. I don’t know where she went.

EXT. SHELTER – DAY

Darren is still sitting against the wall, and now Hannah is sitting Indian style in front of him.

DARREN
How can you be like this?

HANNAH
Be like what?

DARREN
You’re so happy, so calm, like this isn’t even happening.

HANNAH
Darren I already told you this: First of all we’re being protected by dozens of officers here who have more guns than a Quentin Tarantino movie. Second, as long as I am with my family, I feel even safer and more protected.

DARREN
I just wish I could feel the same.

HANNAH
I know how I can make you feel the same...

DARREN
How?

HANNAH
This.

She leans in and gives Darren a nice, gentle kiss on the lips. They lock lips for a moment, and Hannah leans back slowly, both opening their eyes. Darren smiles.

HANNAH
See, I told you I could make you feel better.

DARREN
Yeah, but I don’t know which is better. That kiss or that that moment was really cliché.

They laugh, but soon their laughs die out. They look back at each other for a moment, and move in for another kiss, this time more passionately.

As they continue to kiss, a shadowy figure comes from behind the shelter towards them. Hannah opens her eyes as they’re still kissing and gasps. She falls back and Darren spins around.

In front of them: a zombie. It’s a woman, most of her hair has fallen out, and the rest of it is wiry and full of dirt and gruel. She has scratch marks on her face and neck and there are holes in her pants, exposing bloody knees wore down to the bone.

Darren and Hannah are unable to move.

EXT. STREET – DAY

Max and Valerie run up to a residential neighborhood. In front of them is a large sign that says “Crystal Mountain”.

VALERIE
This is it.

MAX
The place looks deserted.

VALERIE
I don’t care. I’m getting my son and husband and I’m getting out of here.

They walk in, weapons ready. A large gust of wind blows through the neighborhood, and next to the “Crystal Mountain” sign, a small tree is blown sideways, revealing another sign that says “All Dead. Do Not Enter”.

INT. ROOM – DAY

Dawn picks up the walkie-talkie and tries contacting Tucker. He finally answers. She is examining Drake’s body. He picks up his arm and drops it. It lands back on the bed next to his side, floppy.

DAWN
This is weird.

TUCKER (O.S.)
(Filtered)
What?

INT. TOP FLOOR HALLWAY – DAY

Tucker is looking out the window.

DAWN (O.S.)
(Filtered)
After fifteen...twenty minutes someone or something has died, the body goes into a stage——

INT. ROOM – DAY

DAWN
——To where it becomes stiff, called Rigor Mortis. Drake’s been dead longer than that, and yet his body feels like Jell-o.

TUCKER (O.S.)
(Filtered)
Is that a problem?

DAWN
No it’s not a problem, it’s just not normal. Everyone’s body goes through this unless something has stopped it from going through its process.

TUCKER (O.S.)
(Filtered)
What do you think it could have been?

DAWN
I’m not sure.

She covers Drakes body with a bed sheet.

DAWN (CONT’D)
Maybe the virus or infection or whatever was in the water caused a minor mutation. Besides killing them, it kept it from the body going through Rigor Mortis.

INT. TOP FLOOR HALLWAY – DAY

TUCKER
So that person could begin feeding immediately, like this virus makes these things feed on us on instinct.

DAWN (O.S.)
(Filtered)
Exactly.

INT. SHELTER – DAY

An officer runs up to Lt. James.

OFFICER
Sir, you need to come see this.

JAMES
What is it?

OFFICER
They’re everywhere.

They briskly walk outdoors and are greeted by a huge horde of the living dead, trying to break through the barricade the officers have set up. Lt. James’s bottom lip quivers and his eyes being watering up.

JAMES
What in God’s name are these things?

Hundreds of zombies begin gathering up at the barricade, trying to break through.

It stops raining.

It stops raining...

FADE TO BLACK