and apologizing that she didn't find any food that night park and justino talk about melanie and he tells her that the girl loves her meanwhile kieran is guarding the girl and she bonds with him as well the next morning they notice that more zombies have gathered in front of the hospital they have no way out but melanie comes up with an idea since the zombies won't attack her she convinces them to let her go outside and find a way to move the zombies away from the building caldwell doesn't like the plan but without an alternative plan the others agree before she leaves melanie asks to put on her new clothes she goes outside and passes the zombies without trouble suddenly she sees a cat hunts it down and eats it raw later she goes into a house and finds a little dog when she comes back she uses it as a decoy for the zombies getting them all away from the hospital parks puts the mask and the handcuffs back on and they continue the journey trough the abandoned city headed for beacon on their way they see something strange the fungus growing out of the bodies of the zombies something the doctor thinks is the next stage in the life cycle of the fungus she then tells melanie that in her case the fungus works more as a symbiote than a parasite like in the others going deeper in the city they find a huge mass of bodies growing into a massive fungus that caldwell suspects is the reason why no walking zombies are around when enough of them come together they transform into the mature stage of the fungus that can pollinate larger areas if not the entire world on their way they suddenly find a mobile laboratory they get inside the vehicle and start looking traffic park tries the engine first and then the radio no response kieran leaves on a supply run and melanie is getting uneasy like she's about to turn she tells them that she needs to eat too and they let her out to hunt she finds her food fast and tears right through it when she's done eating she hears a strange sound and follows it to a bookstore she peeps trough and sees a group of children communicating with grunts melanie understands that they are just like her when suddenly one of them comes inside and tells the others that he has smelled something they all follow him out back at the mobile lab caldwell is getting sicker and informs justina that she has sepsis then she starts talking about melanie again and how she needs her brain and spine to make the vaccine much to justino's displeasure suddenly melanie returns and tells them about the children she saw convinced that they will hunt for kieran he's seen walking down a street and suddenly finding an unopened can on the ground and then another one until he sees a store and crawls under the shutter to get in once inside he starts eating and looking trough dirty magazines a little girl appears behind him startling him she lures him between the rafters of the store and momentarily more children appear when their leader joins them they all attack kieran together meanwhile melanie is leading parks and justino to him she can smell him like the other kids did they finally arrive at the store go
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