Albert Hanson

"*In truth, it's the people around me. I never got the chance to return home when the outbreak hit, never got a chance to see my family again. The people back at the motel, they're good people - they're my family nowadays. Without this group, I don't think I'd be able to go on. Once you get to know them - you'll feel the same.*"
—Albert to Brenden Trevors[src]

Albert Hanson is a main character and a survivor of the outbreak in Route to Paradise. Albert is generally a good guy. He's resourceful on the front lines, he keeps a cool head and can make proper rational decisions. He knows when to spare his resources, and he has proper context while out on the field. He's good at addressing problems and is generally a good helping hand, with an apparent care for the group, given that he puts himself forward for tasks that put his life in danger for others.

Early into the apocalypse, Albert found himself kidnapped by an insane clown inside Willamette Parkview Mall, where he is eventually rescued by a group of survivors in the mall. The group welcomes Albert in with open arms. Albert quickly becomes fond of the group, and helps them whenever he gets the chance. During one mission outside the mall with Robert Morgan, Albert would assist Marcus Downes with stealing back supplies from another group, which unintentionally leads to that group retaliating against the mall.

Weeks later, Albert continues to be a helping hand. He volunteers to join a dangerous train heist with his group, and during this, Albert would be shot in the thigh, putting him out of the game for days. When the mall is attacked by Damerae Badrick and his forces, Albert tries fighting them off with his group to no avail, and he is forced to abandon the mall.

Following the battle of Willamette Mall, Albert joins the survivors as they travel into the unknown. He is briefly separated from the group, during which he locates and brings back Austin Kingston. He then settles down into Willamette High School with his group. He helps out here and there, and after the school is attacked by Badrick, he is locked up inside a stadium with his group. During this time, while most others are at their lowest point, Albert keeps a positive attitude. Eventually, Albert is freed and helps to put an end to The Rastas. Before the group travel into Kansas, Albert's scolding of Austin unintentionally helps the man quit his drinking. Afterwards, they make up.

Now in Kansas, Albert continues his positive actions by convincing the group to help a man trapped inside a motel. After settling into the motel, Albert travels to a nearby cereal factory for an ordinary supply run. However, things go terribly wrong here, and during the chaos, Jared Kellings is caught by a zombie, and while the others he's with leaves him, Albert goes back for Jared. The two become stranded on a stack of crates, and with the crates about to topple over, Jared pushes Albert into a horde of zombies to his death in order to save himself.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Little is known about Albert's life before the apocalypse. It is, however, known that he worked as a video game store employee inside Willamette Parkview Mall.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

Albert, presumably working a shift at the video game store, was at Willamette Mall during the start of the outbreak. He'd be kidnapped by Skittles the Clown and tied up inside of Wonderland Plaza.

### **Season 1**

#### **"The Scary Thing About Clowns"**

Inside wonderland plaza, Albert awakes, bound to a chair in the corner of a room. With him, Felix Quarterman, Kate Bloodstone, and Sasha McMale. As Felix is explaining to Albert the situation, Skittles the Clown walks in and asks the group some questions. One of the questions, if the space rider should remain on, Albert doesn't answer, and so to make him talk, Skittles cuts his cheek. Albert finally answers. Skittles breaks into laughter before walking off. Albert questions why he's even here, since it appears Felix is the one Skittles detests. After a short chat with Sasha and an interruption from Skittles grabbing chainsaws, a group of survivors sprint into the plaza and engage in a fight with Skittles. Jacob Feldman retreats from the fight to untie the four survivors tied down. Skittles dashes away from the fight. Albert is invited to go with the group to their saferoom in the security room. He accepts.

While walking through the plaza, he's properly introduced to everyone. Without anyone noticing, Felix vanishes and reappears a few minutes later with a bunch of melee weapons. Everyone takes their pick, Albert grabs a wrench.

Walking into the north plaza, Albert and the group notice a supermarket that's boarded up from the inside. They decide to bang on the windows to get the attention of any possible survivors inside. A man responds from the inside. He opens his hatch and greets the group, explaining that this is his shop where he does all kinds of trades. He introduces himself as Jim Butterman. Felix tells the old man to open the door as they're vulnerable out in the open. Jim opens the door and lets them in.

While inside the market, Albert looks around before taking a seat. A while later, Albert leaves with the original group. In the north plaza, the group are attacked by a horde of zombies. Albert is separated from the group as the zombies surround him. He makes a dash away, escaping the horde.

#### **"An Unusual Team"**

Albert sprints through the food court and into one of the restrooms. He rests against the wall to catch his breath, when suddenly a zombie pushes open one of the stalls and steps out. It gargles and makes it's way towards Hanson. Albert lifts his wrench and beats the zombie's skull in until it's dead. He exits the restroom back into the food court. There, he stealthily takes down another zombie. He is going to leave, when he spots a security guard zombie limping around inside a taco store with a pistol in it's belt. He sighs and decides it's worth the risk. He leaps up over the counter and into the taco shop where he is attacked by other zombies. He kicks them off, grabs his wrench and whacks the security guard. Albert grabs the pistol, and looking down to see the security guard still alive, fires into it's head without thinking. Every zombie in the food court was alerted to his location. Albert jumps back over the counter and pushes past two more zombies before making a sprint for wonderland plaza.

After a solid sprint, Albert leans against a wall, taking a breather. He grips his wrench and turns the corner, hitting a zombie. He steps back and enters a sporting goods store. Inside, he finally feels safe until he hears a noise from inside. A large man steps out, a baseball bat in his hand. Albert slowly backs away and warns the man. He takes out his pistol and points it at the man. Still, the dude charges forward and Albert is forced to shoot and kill him. Traumatized, Albert picks up his belongings and leaves the store.

Back out in the plaza, Albert uses his gun to shoot more zombies, which only attracts even more. Eventually, Albert depletes all his ammo. Now completely surrounded, Albert holds his wrench preparing for a last stand. Suddenly, a bottle rocket flew into the air and explodes, sending nails flying everywhere. Two of them hits Albert in his ankle and shoulder. The rocket continues to fly sending firecrackers out before it eventually explodes. All the nearby zombies quickly travel to that area, leaving Albert. Quentin Richards and Clayton Freeman rush over to Albert, asking if he's okay. As Albert struggles to answer in pain, Quentin realizes he made a mistake, he needed to be somewhere else. He tells Albert to get somewhere safe before he runs off with Clayton. Albert heads back into the sporting goods store. He kneels down and loots the man's pockets, before apologizing and leaving once again.

Back out in wonderland plaza, Albert meets back up with Jacob, Edward, Clayton, Quentin, and William. He tags along with everyone but Jacob as they head to the north plaza to meet up with the others.

In the north plaza, Albert approaches Quentin and thanks him for saving his life. He then enters the supermarket with the rest of them. After the group reunites with some other survivors inside the market, they all meet Leslie Staunton. Following this, Albert goes with another small group to their security room.

In order to make it to the pharmacy quickly, they decide to go through leisure park - which has three armed convicts speeding around in a jeep in it. They attempt to sneak past, but its no use. They engage in combat with the convicts. Quentin, using his bottle rockets, explodes the jeep, killing all the convicts. The group cheers and celebrates their victory. After, the group move on through the park and into the entrance plaza.

Albert, like everyone else, was surprised that the plaza was completely clear of zombies; not one. Quentin opens his chocolate bar and takes a bite out of it. All of a sudden, a bullet pierces the back of Quentin's skull and blows his brains out; a sniper. Everyone dives for cover.

#### **"Buddy"**

Hidden in cover, Albert takes a moment to pull himself together. The survivors discuss what to do as they continue to be shot at. Eventually, one of the bullets hits William in the abdomen sending him to the ground. Randall hands Albert some bullets and tells him to cover him as he goes out to get William. Albert loads the bullets in and then provides cover fire for Randall. Once he has William up, Albert goes with the survivors up the stairs and into the security room.

Finally in a safe spot, Albert relaxes and has a proper conversation with Edward, where Edward tells him that his first and foremost priority should be himself, not others. Edward then slips away with his cane. Helen Cullen and Clyde Rollins step out of one of the rooms and have an inaudible chat. When Clyde hops into a vent, Helen walks over and introduces herself. She says that they're heading out to get some guns so they can take on the sniper and he is welcome to tag along. Albert does.

Stepping out onto the roof, Albert takes in the fresh air and smiles. They take the elevator down into the storage room. There, they come across a survivor. The two sides exchange names; the survivor's name being Robert. He says that he's sick, not with the zombie virus, but something else. Helen explains that they're heading out to get guns to kill three snipers in the mall. Robert frowns and says that they killed his sister. The trio give their condolences and offer Robert to come with them. He agrees to. They all exit the storage room and into paradise plaza. Albert teaches Robert how to kill a zombie; it has to be their brain.

The group enter Colby's movieland where Clyde heads over to his locker, only to realize he's lost the key. Robert speaks up and says that he can open it. He takes out some supplies and gets to work. After a couple minutes, the lock falls and the locker opens, revealing pistols. After taking the pistols, they all leave, headed back for the security room. On the way back, Albert and Robert talk about their old jobs. After making it through the storage room and back across the roof, they enter the security room.

Inside one of the waiting rooms, Albert, Randall, and Helen all receive two pistols, as it's just them three going out to deal with the snipers. The three leave the security room back out into the mall.

Making it onto the first floor of the entrance plaza, the survivors get behind cover. However, Helen's exposed arm is immediately shot by one of the snipers. As Albert and Randall grip the pistols, ready to fight, Edward is heard yelling taunts at the snipers in the distance, along with the eruption of a shotgun blast. Erin Monroe and Jacob comes running down into the plaza with a bag of guns. Erin drops it down and Albert takes an assault rifle. Steven Philips comes running in as well to help out the group. He grabs a rifle and charges the snipers with no apparent care for his own safety. Two of the snipers flee, while one stays behind. While Randall and Erin escort Helen back to the security room, Albert stays behind to watch the fight between Steven and the sniper. Edward says his farewells for the time being to Albert and Jacob, before he limps off. Albert continues to watch the fight until Steven gets the upper hand and beats the sniper to death. Steven kicks the corpse off the second floor and onto the first, landing in front of Albert.

#### **"Guardian Angel"**

Early in the morning, on the roof, Albert sits on the ledge looking out into Willamette. After taking in the view, he gets up and heads back down into the security room. Inside the waiting room, the group discuss the situation with the north plaza survivors. They ultimately decide that returning the guns they stole is the right thing to do. After picking out Clyde to lead them to the north plaza, Albert chooses to go with him alongside others.

They climb through the vents, take the elevator down, pass through the storage room and then walk into paradise plaza. After a brief stop to speak with the roaming Edward, they head into the casino plaza. There, they sit down and wait for Dean Howards to get his liquor from one of the casinos. Robert coughs up blood, but continues to say it's just a bad flu. When Dean returns, they continue their journey into the north plaza where they expect to be a horde of zombies.

Instead, the plaza was completely cleared. They are greeted by the joyful Jim, and are asked why they're here. Teddy, the gun store owner, comes walking out. He asks for his weapons back. The group hand the guns over and make peace. Then, Leslie comes strolling over to all of them. She thanks them for making things right, but tells them not to steal again. Helen radios the group and after confirming with Clyde that everything went well, asks them to see if they can earn some guns. Randall calls on Albert and Dean to head over to the gun store.

After speaking over some options with Teddy, he explains how the supermarket has run out of liquor. Both Randall and Dean aren't willing to hand over the liquor they just acquired. Clyde comes walking in, and after realizing what's happening, tells the two liquor-hoarders to head back to the casino plaza and get the liquor.

They all head back out into the north plaza and are greeted by Jacob. Clyde speaks to Helen on the radio again, but she is suddenly cut off by banging at the door. Jacob grabs the radio and tries to get Helen to respond, but there wasn't an answer. Albert runs off with a group back to the security room.

The survivors make it through the north plaza and into wonderland plaza, but are then cut off by a sniper shot. They jump for cover. While in cover, Albert draws his two pistols and tosses one over to Robert. Robert is then shot in the chest by one of the snipers. He manages to slide the pistol back over to Albert while laying in the open. Albert takes it, peers around his corner, and decides to make a run for Robert. He grabs him, and drags him by the arms to cover. The group remain in cover until the snipers eventually withdraw from the fight. With Robert now unconscious and losing blood quickly, Albert and Randall carry him as the group proceeds towards the security room.

The group traverse through the food court, leisure park, then up the stairs in the entrance plaza before making it into the security room. Inside, he and Randall bring Robert into the waiting room and set him down. Albert then heads into the other waiting room, where he meets Owen Gliefield, the doctor of the group. He tells him about Robert and his current state. Albert then leaves the room.

#### **"The Last Laugh"**

Standing on the roof with the other survivors, Albert watches as Felix says a final goodbye to Helen. After William suggests that the most honourable thing to do is burn the body, Felix walks off and says he can do it. As William chops up a crate to get wood, the other discuss something different - a new leader. William suggests Felix, since he knows the mall in and out. The others agree - at least for the time being. After paying his respects, Albert heads back inside the security room.

Sometime later, while inspecting his two pistols in the waiting room, Robert, now better, tells him that Felix wants everyone in the main hall. Albert gets up and follows Robert out. In the hall, Felix explains to everyone that they need guns badly. He says that in the Yucatan casino, there's a mountain of guns just sitting there. Albert, along with Clayton and William, volunteer to check it out. They climb the vent.

After making it into paradise plaza, the trio take on some of the zombies. After killing a few, Albert says his wrench just isn't cutting it. William tosses him his old bat as a replacement. They take out a few more zombies before making it to the casino plaza. There, they take down more zombies before they arrive at the Yucatan casino.

Entering the casino, they immediately spot two other men behind a window and a horde of zombies. As the horde encloses them, the two men come out and open fire on the horde. Albert, William, and Clayton do what they can against the horde until it is diminished. Then, the two men point their guns at the trio and ask what they want. It turns out, the guns all belong to them. One of the men explain that they have an associate attempting to retrieve a briefcase from the basement, but he hasn't returned. They will hand over some of the guns if they can get the briefcase. William, Albert and Clayton agree to do it. The other man, Da'Jonte Woodard goes with them.

Fighting there way through some of the plaza's, they finally reach leisure park. There, they make their way over to the basement doors. Pulling them open, the group quickly enters. In the dark basement, they see the associate, Jon Matthews. He ushers the group to get to the side. Down there, a group of armed men hold the group off from moving forward. Jon doesn't allow any of the people new to him to use their guns. Jon then uses his rifle to take out all of the remaining enemies by himself. William explains who they are and what they're doing. Jon allows them to come with him to get the briefcase.

In the next room, a warehouse, Jon spots the briefcase on a man's corpse. As he goes to pick it up, a zombie tackles him into a shelf, causing it to collapse. This gets the attention of a horde of zombies inside the warehouse. Now with a time limit, they all rush forward, grab the briefcase, spin around and sprint back towards the door they entered from. They fight off a few zombies before they all make it safely.

The group walk back through leisure park, through the plazas and into the Yucatan casino. After returning to Wilbur, the man from before, they receive what they were promised; some guns. The two groups then go their separate ways. Albert, William and Clayton return back to the security room. After a moment to rest, Albert's day is interrupted when Randall frantically enters the security room saying that they have an urgent problem. Albert grabs the shotgun and scurries out the saferoom into the entrance plaza. Randall looks all around the plaza, but doesn't see anything. Everyone is confused until suddenly five hooded figures appear. They tackle Albert, Randall and Clayton down before they can shoot. Albert is punched hard and knocked out.

An unknown amount of time later, Albert awakes in the waiting room of the security room. He gets up and stumbles around looking for anybody, but no one was around.

#### **"Life and Death"**

Albert steps out of the security room's restroom when he hears voices in the main hall. Randall is explaining to Jacob, Felix and Erin what happened with the hooded figures. Albert passively listens as Felix speaks up about a mysterious wooden crate sat right in the middle of paradise plaza. It could be a trap, but they decide it's worth the risk, if it's full of supplies then they could stop relying on the north plaza survivors. Albert says he's going with them to check it out.

While making their way through the entrance plaza, the group see a zombie pushed out of a book store up ahead. Albert and Clayton go ahead to check it out. When the pair enter the store, they see someone in the back beating open a cash register. When they approach him, guns drawn, he introduces himself as JK HD. Albert and Clayton put away their guns and introduce themselves. Jacob and Erin enter the store and ask if the dude is friendly, and if he is, he better decide if he's coming along or not. Jared goes with them.

The five of them make their way to the first floor of the entrance plaza where Jacob suggests they could go over to Leslie after and see if she'd come together and unite against the hooded people. Albert thinks it's a good idea. In paradise plaza, the group come to a halt - the crate was no longer there. Everyone starts looking around the area for the crate until Jacob does a whistle, signaling everyone to duck down. Albert gets down into cover and looks over to the direction Jacob was pointing. Five people going through the crate. They lay in cover, chatting about what the best decision is. Jared suddenly decides to get up and 'impress' Albert and crew. He strolls over to the five survivors at the crate and pretends to have a chest injury. As the people step out to check Jared, one of them spots Erin sticking out of cover. He throws a knife which plunges into Erin's chest. Albert takes out his pistols and immediately opens fire. A battle ensues in which the group kill all five of the survivors. Albert goes over and loots the corpses of those dead. With Jacob having already escorted Erin away, the group get all the supplies from the crate and head back to the entrance plaza. Albert helps William and Clayton lift the crates up the steps an into the security room.

Once the supplies are safe and sound in the saferoom, Albert refills his ammo before snoozing off. A while later, Albert is awoken by a knock at the door. He gets up and opens it - Clyde. Clyde is here with a trade proposal from the north plaza survivors. Leslie understands that they need guns, and so she is offering them a hefty amount of weapons and ammunition if they go with Clyde into the basement to retrieve a bag of supplies. Albert decides to sit this mission out and catch a break. Instead, he has to babysit Jared and make sure he doesn't do anything ridiculous.

A couple hours go by before the group, now full of rage, come back. Jacob waits until everyone is in the room until he tells everyone that the hooded people were sent by Leslie - she wants full control of the mall, and that means eliminating the very people in the room. They need to take Leslie out before she attacks first. Albert grabs a rifle and says he's in.

A large group of the security room survivors march through the casino plaza weapons ready. They charge into the north plaza and a fight between the north plaza and security room survivors begins. Albert pops in and out of cover, doing the best he can do. They eventually push their way into the supermarket where they are faced with more of Leslie's people. Albert continues to push, shooting people as he went, and manages to make it out of the battle alive.

#### **"Eagle Eye"**

In the security room, Albert hums a song. After a while, he gets up and enters the waiting room. He takes a seat and leans back. Edward Remar goes to leave the waiting room, but this time, he didn't plan to come back; he was leaving the mall. Albert respects his decision to go out to look for the people he loves. He says farewell and watches as Edward leaves. After some more chatter, Albert is invited by Jacob to go with Robert out into the town streets to obtain some of his supplies along with a little puppy he left in his van. Albert accepts and exits the security room to catch up with Robert.

When he does reach him, Robert insists that he doesn't need Albert to go with him. But after some critical thinking, he actually ends up on allowing Albert to go with him for safety.

The two men make their way through the parking lot, taking out a couple of zombies along the way. After making it out onto the streets, Albert and Robert notice a man being attacked by a zombie. They rush over and save the man, taking down the zombie. Albert and Robert introduce themselves as survivors of the mall. The man, Fraser Stiller, a paramedic, explains to them that his ambulance got rammed off the road and his group got split up. He says that the people who rammed them off the road took all their supplies in exchange for their lives. However, Fraser and his group saw where they were held up - a museum in town. Albert and Robert sigh and agree to go with Fraser back to his crashed ambulance to meet with his friend.

A short walk later, they arrive at the ambulance and meet Marcus Downes. They get off on the wrong hand as Robert coughs, and believing he's infected with the virus, Marcus points his revolver, but Albert gets him to put it down. They then come to good terms and Albert goes with Robert and Marcus to search for their other friend, Zachariah Barnes. Fraser stays behind.

While the three of them wander down the street, Albert tells Marcus about the mall and their larger group. Suddenly, Marcus halts and beckons the others to get down. It was a trail of blood, fresh blood. It lead into a bakery. Albert draws both of his pistols and hands one of them to Robert. They then head inside the bakery. The bakery was empty, the trail continued through a door and into an alley. They follow it. In the alley, they see a couple of zombies feasting on a corpse. Marcus gasps, rushing over and taking out all the zombies. He then sighs in relief; it wasn't Zac. They continue on down the alley while Robert talks to Marcus about the events at the mall. At last, Marcus looks over at something - his friend, Zac. They get Zac up and escort him back to the Ambulance. Fraser sees them and cheers them on, until a zombie appears seemingly out of nowhere and stumbles at him. Fraser freaks out and runs, hiding behind the group. Robert takes care of it. Albert calls Fraser an "Actemedic". Marcus drops Zac off with Fraser to be treated while he goes back out with Albert and Robert to find the van.

On the way to the van, they discuss what the infected are called, Albert calls them zombies, while Robert calls them zombies, and Marcus; biters. They make it to the van where Robert's dog, Apollo, is found safe and sound. Before they can head back to the mall, Marcus says that he's going to the museum to get his supplies back. Albert highly suggests he doesn't, but Robert insists that Albert go with him. Albert sighs and says fine. Robert hands him his pistol back and then jogs off with Apollo and his electrical supplies back to the mall.

Outside of the museum, Albert hides behind a truck. Guarding the door were two soldiers. Marcus and Albert move up and silently take them down with a knife. They then slowly push into the building and head up the steps. Albert waits outside of the back room as Marcus goes in and takes one of the men hostage. Albert sees a guard approach. He mutters to himself, getting behind a pillar. As soon as the soldier enters the room, Albert leaps forward and pushes his dagger into their back. Marcus hands Albert a case of supplies. Marcus lets the hostage go and then leaves the museum with Albert. Once outside, Marcus says he's going to go get Fraser and Zac, then head to the mall. Albert heads directly to the mall with the case.

Albert knocks on the door to the security room. Felix opens it and asks what the case is for. Albert tells him what it is and where he got it. Felix nods and tells Albert to head into the waiting room to inform everyone. He enters and tells everyone inside about Marcus and his friends, along with the group at the museum. After explaining everything, Albert sits down after a long day. Out of nowhere, a sudden loud explosion rocks the entire mall, sending Albert to the floor.

#### **"Adaptation"**

Albert gets back to his feet as the others quickly exit the waiting room headed for the roof. He takes out his weapons and follows them. On the roof, Albert stands with the others as they watch a convoy of vehicles speed away from the mall. Albert reckons it could be the people from the museum. Jacob, expecting them to come back, sends Albert, Clayton, Randall, Owen and Dean to the north plaza to watch the back entrance. Before they make it down the ventilation shaft, Randall asks about the people from the north plaza locked in the basement. "Let 'em die." Albert says.

On the way to the north plaza through leisure park, they run into Jacob, who tells them to follow him to the basement to collect the prisoners. Albert and the group follow him. In the basement, Albert stand by while Jacob releases Jim, Teddy and Clyde to help them. After Jacob says he can handle the prisoners, Albert rushes off to the north plaza to see how it's going with Randall.

Arriving in the north plaza, Albert informs a frightened Kate about what's happening. Shortly after, Jacob, along with the north plaza survivors and other members from the security room show up. Jim says he has spare metal shelves inside his supermarket. Albert and Randall head inside to help push them out. After pushing a shelf out, Albert grabs an assault rifle from Teddy's weapon supply. He gets behind cover and has his weapon pointed towards the barricade, ready to fight. After a few minutes of waiting in suspense, the group hear gunshots coming from the front entrance of the mall. Then, a huge explosion destroys the barricade at the back entrance, sending debris everywhere. A horde of zombies then comes pouring in through the hole. Gunshots are fired at the survivors from behind the wall of zombies. Albert uses his rifle to take out some of the zombies. The horde begins to push in on the survivors. To make thing even worse, fifteen armed soldiers then enter behind the horde and spray they rifles at the survivors. As bullets fly everywhere and smoke fills the room, Albert runs from cover to cover, blindly firing at the soldiers, trying to take them down. With both Randall and Jim wounded, Albert retreats with the group into wonderland plaza.

In wonderland plaza, they have a brief run-in with an upset Felix. Kate eventually steps forward and whacks Felix in the head, rendering him unconscious. The group then make their way into the food court. In the food court, the remaining survivors manage to hold off the army of soldiers, taking out a few more until the last of them retreat back into wonderland plaza. Albert follows them. He sprays his weapon at the soldiers until they were out of sight, gone from the mall. Having survived another fight, Albert takes a quick rest while the other survivors regroup. Albert heads off to the roof to take watch in case the rebels decide to return.

### **Season 2**

#### **"The Mentor"**

The elevator doors open to the storage room and Albert steps out. He walks through the storage room and pushes the door open into paradise plaza. Stepping out, he spots Felix collapsed on the floor, an open bottle of whiskey beside him. Albert saunters over and looks down. "Seems like you had a fun night." Albert says, to which Felix says it's never fun. Albert frowns as Felix gets onto his feet and walks away. Albert shrugs and continues walking to the north plaza. He enters the supermarket and picks up a bottle of soda. He drinks some of it before stepping out of the store where he's then stopped by Erin. She asks him where Marcus and his pals are - it's been two weeks and they still haven't showed up. Albert doesn't have a clue where they could be. Erin suggests they could go out and look for them. Albert agrees. He waits while Erin goes in to chat with Jim for a second. When she walks back out, she says that Jim needs some solar panels, so they'll be taking the truck. They walk off to the security room.

At the security room, Erin gets Dean to go with them on the trip. They head down through the entrance plaza and out into the parking lot. Albert hops into the truck and says he can give directions to where the crashed ambulance was.

The truck slows down. Erin steps out, followed by Albert and Dean. A zombie immediately lunges at Dean from the side, pushing him down. Erin runs over and kicks it aside as Albert steps over. He helps Dean up and Erin finishes off the zombie. Suddenly, the roar of an engine is heard coming down the road. They all look over to see a truck speeding towards them. At the last moment, the truck slams on the brakes and avoids hitting them. Albert draws his pistol and points it at the two men inside the truck. Erin and Dean do the same and demand they exit the truck. They eventually both step out of the truck. One of the men claim they saw their truck on the side of the road and wanted to help. Erin says they don't need help. All of a sudden, a gunshot echoes from down the street. Erin turns and immediately starts running towards the sound. Confused, both Albert and Dean bolt after her, leaving the two men.

Albert follows Erin until they come across a construction site. They notice four men trapped on the scaffolding with a horde of walking reaching up at them below. Albert recognizes them right away, it was Marcus, Fraser, Zac and another man. Dean starts to ramble on about this being a bad idea, but it was too late. Some of the horde was already approaching the three. They take out their melee weapons and start attacking the zombies. As they take on the horde, they witness the scaffolding start to shake. Fraser slips and dangles on a piece of the scaffolding. As the horde begins to thin out, Erin pulls out his pistol and uses it, taking out the stragglers. Once the horde is finally cleared, they approach Marcus and them. They introduce their other friend, Aldus Paxton, and apologize for their delay. Albert says it's alright and then heads back out onto the streets with everyone.

On the streets, Albert is chosen to take Marcus and his friends back to the mall while Dean and Erin head off to get the solar panels for Jim. Albert leads them to the mall.

After a while of walking, they make it into the parking lot. Before they can make it into the mall though, Erin and Dean come rolling up in the truck. They tell Albert that their old friend from the mall, Edward Remar, has been taken under the wing of some psychopath in town. Albert frowns at the news, but he doesn't know what he can do. Teddy comes walking out of the front doors and helps them carry the solar panels inside. Albert stays out while Dean talks about Clyde Rollins, the famous actor who was in their group. Albert says that he was a coward. The group then head inside the mall.

When inside, Albert tells them that they're free to explore and have fun. He then heads up onto the roof. While sitting down, Aldus comes onto the roof. He properly introduces himself to Albert and their have a friendly chat. Erin, Teddy and Jim come up onto the roof. Jim smiles and says hello to Albert. He waves back.

#### **"A Common Enemy"**

In one of the waiting rooms, Albert awakes from a nightmare. He sighs in relief, resting back down. A nearby Clayton asks Albert if he's okay. He says he's fine. Albert looks over at a comic that Clayton is reading and asks about it. Clayton says its a Marvel comic. Albert thinks back to when he used to read comics all day at his workplace. He then gets up and walks off.

Downstairs in the entrance plaza, Albert sees Kate and a group heading out. He asks where they're going, and Kate tells him that Felix is missing. Albert then walks away.

Several hours later, a larger group that went out returns with a wounded Aldus. He says that it would be best if they went up to Owen and Fraser quickly.

#### **"The Calm Before"**

Waking up to Fraser's prattling , Albert yawns. A moment later, William enters the room and says that Jim is hosting a group meeting in the food court. Albert gets up and goes with them to the food court.

In the food court, Albert takes a seat and leans back, waiting for the meeting to start. Before Jim arrives, Jacob and Erin have something to say; Erin is pregnant. Albert chuckles at Randall's comment. When Jim finally shows up, he starts off by saying that it would be nice if for breakfast and dinner the whole group showed up to the food court. Everyone likes the idea. Teddy then stands up and proposes his idea of setting up traps at both of the entrances in case of another attack on the mall. The meeting is interrupted when Felix stumbles in drunk out of his mind. Alex Weiss, now apparently a better man, stands up and laughs at Felix. Felix doesn't take too kindly to this, and asks if Alex is going to stab him like he did to Randy Wheeler. Zac and William break the two up after a knife is drawn. Albert gets involved too, asking everyone to calm down. The meeting comes to an abrupt end when Felix is dragged off by William. Albert frowns and walks off.

Some time later, Albert reenters the food court after hearing a commotion. Clayton tells him that Alex locked himself into the taco store. Albert sighs and goes to sit down.

#### **"On the Clock"**

During breakfast, Fraser walks up to Albert and asks him what he'd like. Before he can get out an answer, a loud crash is heard. Albert draws his pistol, and so do others. A man came running into the food court, blood trickling down his cheeks. He runs right into Marcus, who has a revolver pointed at his forehead. The crazy man does the stupid thing - fight them and try to escape. Albert chases him down and shoots him twice before letting him limp away.

Albert returns and sits back down in the corner of the food court, chowing down on breakfast.

Later in the day, Albert returns to the video game store he worked at. He frowns, thinking about his family and life before the outbreak.

A quick walk over to the entrance plaza, Albert sees and hears an argument going on. He approaches and sees two men speaking to the group. He passively listens as the two men plead with the group to let them destroy a couple of their plazas to make it look like his group killed them. He wants this so that he can get his daughter back from Damerae Badrick. The group aren't up for a couple of their plazas being obliterated, so they refuse them. The two men turn around and leave the mall in a haste. A few moments later, an explosion shakes the mall. Albert stumbles over. When he make sit back to his feet, he realizes the food court was about to crumble. He makes a mad dash out of the food court and into the storage room.

#### **"Partners in Crime"**

Inside the storage room, Albert sits with Austin Kingston, one of the men he found out on the road earlier who now has linked up with the group. They share their names and then talk about what just happened. They move onto talking about the group from the museum, and then onto The Rastas, a dangerous gang led by Damerae Badrick. Austin talks about his friend, Logan Carlson, the man he was with on the road, and how he hasn't showed up to the mall like he promised he would. Both of them then hear bangs on the door. Expecting it to be one zombie, Albert walks over with his knife. He swings open the door - three zombies lunged at him. Albert quickly stabs one in the head, but he collapses backwards, the knife stuck in it's head. Austin uses his shotgun to kill one of the zombies before Albert kills the last. Then, they get up and leave the room.

They walk from paradise plaza into the entrance plaza. Albert looks at the damage caused from the explosion. After taking it in, he heads off.

A while later, he walks back into the entrance plaza with Dean. He listens to Erin as she talks about Edward, who's running an outpost for The Rastas, but has agreed to work with the mall survivors. She goes on to say that a train belonging to The Rastas is coming into town today. Albert asks what's on the train. Marcus says that it's full of supplies and a chunk of Badrick's men. Albert is in for the heist. He heads outside into one of the trucks.

On the way to the train, the group stop at a warehouse to meet a local gang of criminals who've been helping out. There, Albert recognizes a man from before, Wilbur Wright. Curtis Van Horn and Jon Matthews join the group in their heist. Albert hops into a car with Jon and off they were.

The vehicles waiting in the fields beside the train track. Albert sat in the passenger seat counting and loading his bullets into his two pistols. The train was to arrive any minute. Then, the train was seen. Jon starts up the car and starts driving alongside the train. When Jon got close enough, Albert pushed open the car door and took a giant jump onto the train. He landed safely. Once most of the group was on the train, The Rastas had finally found out what was happening. They opened fire. Albert dove for cover behind a crate. He slid one of his pistols to Dean. Albert popped in and out of cover, killing a few Rastas. He continues pushing up the train with the group. As they keep pushing, eventually a Rasta convoy rolls up alongside the train and Rastas begin jumping onto the train. One of the men who jumped on - Michael Hall, the third and final sniper from the mall who had escaped. Albert watches as Michael aims his sniper at Randall. Clayton jumps in and pushes Randall aside. Michael fires, hitting Clayton in the head and killing him instantly. Albert looks in horror, but there's no time for paying respects. Albert kills two more Rastas and keeps pushing forward. The train eventually rolled up to the train station.

As the train comes to a stop, Albert is left sitting in cover. He pokes his head out and catches a glimpse of Benjamin Taylor with his army. Benjamin orders everyone on the train to get off. When they take too long, Robin Clarke orders the army to fire. Albert dives off the train.

#### **"Promise"**

Albert stumbles through an alleyway, a gunshot to his thigh, with dozens of zombies chasing him. He makes his way into the bakery. He enters and slams the door behind him. He panted, blood covered his body, he was dizzy. He coughs before stumbling out the front entrance as the zombies banged on the back door behind him. Now walking down the street, Albert sees a figure up ahead. As he gets closer, the person recognizes him, but he is unable to recognize them. When the person sets Albert down in a parking lot, he finally realizes it's William. After he takes care a few zombies, William helps him up and takes Albert to the mall.

William takes him to the roof, where Owen immediately starts treatment. Albert passes out, but William slaps him, waking him. William helps out Owen as they continue to treat his gunshot wound. Eventually, Owen manages to pry out the bullet and clean up the wound. Albert leans back and tries to relax, but the pain was immense.

#### **"Fractured Beyond Repair"**

A couple days later, Albert wakes up in the waiting room. He gets up, coughs, and limps across the room, still hurt from the gunshot wound. He thinks about leaving - but ultimately decides against it. He goes back to resting until he's feeling better.

Later, Robert comes frantically rushing into the room. He tells everyone to get up onto the roof; there was a giant horde outside. Aldus helps Albert up the vent and onto the roof. On the roof, Albert finds a spot and lays down. After listening to their conversation about them needing to attack a hotel, Albert slowly gets to his feet and asks to go. He continues to cough, and eventually falls back over. Albert wasn't going on this mission. While most of the group head off, Albert leans up against a vent and relaxes.

#### **"Family Business"**

While sitting on the roof, Jim looks over and says he hopes that they're okay. Albert hopes the same. A little while later, Jim points the group out, they had returned. Albert gets onto his feet and limps all the way downstairs. At the front entrance, Jacob tells Albert to let them in; Teddy's hand had been shot off. Albert quickly lets them in and gets out of their way. He looks at Teddy's blown off hand in terror. Albert follows the group up into the security room. In the security room, Quincy Atherton and Monica Reynolds come strolling in to tell the group that they found out where one of Badrick's lieutenants were; the office block in town. Albert frowns as he watches a majority of the group leave to go take out some Rastas. He was left out of another mission to heal.

#### **"Home"**

On the roof, Albert quietly stands with the group, paying their respects to Erin, who died while out on the mission. On top of that, Jacob had run off. Zac blurts out that more of them will become like Erin if they don't get out of this mess soon. Albert tells him not to think like that. The group's discussion turns to whether they should stay and fight The Rastas or evacuate the mall. It eventually leads into a major argument between Zac and Fraser. A minute later, every looks over at Jacob as he steps onto the roof carrying a large bag. He then opens it and dumps out the limbs of Derek Monroe. Everyone looks on in disgust and asks Jacob what he did. Jacob says that Derek wanted to align with The Rastas. After Jacob goes on to say how he was going to propose to Erin, he asks someone to burn the body. Aldus does it. Everyone's attention then turns to Robert as he steps up onto the ledge with a remote. He looks down at all of his electric defenses below. Everyone else looks on in suspense. Robert clicks the remote and all of the defenses turn on. Everyone smiles as the defenses all turn on. The moment of happiness is broken when Robert is suddenly shot in the head, his brains flying out everywhere. "SNIPER!" Felix yells, beckoning everyone to get down. Albert falls to the ground behind cover. In cover, Randall orders everyone who is able to fight to the two different entrances. Albert stays on the roof with some of the others.

Time goes by, and all Albert can do is listen to the gunfire and explosions going on below him. Felix, Clyde, and a now returned Edward, decide it's time for them to get off the roof. Albert follows behind. The four of them make it down into the food court where they fight off a few Rastas. It's also there where they witness Jacob brutally murder Jackson Foxx, his girlfriend's killer. The four of them then go with Jacob back up to the roof.

On the roof, all of the remaining survivors of the battle meet together. Quincy and Monica were dead, Randall and Curtis stayed behind to fight, and a bunch of others were missing. Jim tells the survivors that he has a cabin in the woods not far from the mall. Before they can climb down off the roof, a grenade is thrown up. Everyone jumps for cover. The Rastas come pouring out onto the roof, opening fire on the survivors. Albert along with everyone else, fire back. Edward, having a strong hatred for Badrick, gets out of cover with his shotgun to shoot at Badrick, but he is immediately shot in the chest. Edward falls off the roof, landing in a dumpster below - but he was still alive. Albert and the survivors one by one start climbing down the ladder off the roof. Albert makes it down safely. Everyone makes it down the ladder, all but Felix, who is killed by The Rastas.

In the forest, Albert limps with the remaining group members. He stops to take one last look at the smoke clouds rising from the mall. He frowns, turning and continuing on forward.

### **Season 3**

#### **"Winter Wasteland"**

Albert kneels down beside a small table, going through all of their remaining supplies. Jim comes in with some coffee. He hands Albert a cup first. Albert thanks him. Next, Albert unfolded a map onto the table. Kate looks over as asks what he's doing. Albert responds by saying he's looking for any places left in town that they could loot for supplies. Sighing, Albert closes the map and goes back to sipping at his coffee. The back door to the cabin suddenly opens and Marcus, Fraser and Zac enter with news. Marcus tells them about a hardware store on the edge of town that wasn't destroyed from the war. The only problem being it's across a large frozen lake. Albert suggests that they cross it one by one, making sure they're spread out. Everyone agrees it's the best option they have. Albert, now healed from his gunshot wound, volunteers to be apart of the group to check it out. When everyone who's going is ready, they head out.

The group travel through the snowy forest until they reach the lake. At the lake, Albert examines the lake and says that it looks sturdy enough. He then goes over to the left side and begins slowly crossing. Up ahead, they see a zombie roaming onto the lake by itself. Albert thinks he can get it from here with his pistol, but Jacob says it'll only attract more, and so he goes on ahead to take it out with a melee weapon. When he does, the zombie ends up falling back and going right through the ice. Jacob stumbles back, but stays on his feet. Albert tells him to be calm and don't move fast. They all keep moving and make it across the lake safely.

They arrive at the hardware store and notice that the parking lot is filled with zombies roaming from car to car. They all walk forward and begin taking them down. Albert feels that it's too quiet, it wasn't right. His suspicion deemed correct when Jacob finds a freshly killed zombie in the parking lot. Inside the store it's even more sketchy as they find recently moved shelves - shelves which were blocking off a large group of zombies. Somebody was collecting these things. Marcus then points up at the office, he saw a light flicker. As everyone has their attention to the officer, someone sneaks up behind Jacob, putting a knife to his neck. She demands everyone put their weapons on the ground. Albert drops his knife and one of his pistols, keeping the other one hidden away in his waistband. The woman asks them where they're from. They respond with the truth; the mall. The woman then says that she ran into two other people who also said they were from the mall - Randall and Curtis. She lets go of Jacob and puts away her knife. The group tell them that they're held up in a cabin and she is welcome to join them. The woman tells them that if they can get her a car running, she'll point them in the direction of Randall and Curtis. zombies begin to enter through the side of the hardware store. It's nothing at first, but then the shelves start to collapse in a domino effect until the shelves keeping the zombies enclosed fall. Albert quickly grabs his weapons off the floor. He begins firing into the horde, managing to take down a few zombies. He runs out of ammo fast though, and switches over to his knife. Everyone makes it out of the horde and up the stairs towards the office - all but Albert and Jon. The two of them get surrounded by zombies. Eventually, Albert sees an opening. Jon tells him to just go, and Albert does, but not before saying sorry to Jon.

#### **"On the Move"**

Hours following his escape from the horde, Albert stumbles across an old friend from the mall - Austin Kingston. He finds him drunk at a bus depot taking on zombies. The two catch up with each other and Albert tells him everything that happened. The two of them go on to take on a couple of zombies. Austin stumbles while fighting one of the zombies and ends up on the ground with it on top of him. Albert rushes over to save him by killing it. After all that chaos, Albert and Austin are approached by two strangers. Albert pulls out his empty pistols and aims them to try and seem dangerous. However, he quickly lowers them after realizing they're friendly people. Albert says that he was separated from his group, Jon, Kate and Jacob. One of the strangers then say that they have someone named Jon and they're willing to take them back to him. The other stranger then starts leading them back to their base at a coffee shop.

#### **"Tracked"**

At the coffee shop, Albert is relieved when he sees Jon alive. Jon asks if he's been back to hardware store, but of course Albert hasn't. The coffee shop survivors are more than welcome to help bring Jon, Albert and Austin back to their group in return for some kind of transportation. They agree and head off with the only person staying behind being Layton Zimmers, the funny conspiracy man.

After some walking, the group make it to the hardware store. They notice that the group inside are fighting off Rastas and zombies. Instead of interfering, they wait until the survivors have all left the store before they follow them. Out behind the store, it isn't long until they catch up to the group. There, they reunite and introduce the rest of the group to Angela and Ed, a couple of the coffee shop people. Knowing that they can't stay out in the cold, they agree to go back with the new people to the coffee shop.

Whiling traversing through the woods, the group see Willamette Mall in the distance. Suddenly, a horde cuts the group off. The group once again get split up. Jon helps up an injured Angela and runs off with her. Curtis goes after the two. Albert and the rest of the group follow Ed.

Safe inside the coffee shop, Albert asks a general question if they would be going to Willamette High School after the storm passed, to which Randall says it's really their only choice.

#### **"Reunion"**

At the coffee shop, Albert loads his pistols full of ammo and then stands up. He goes with everyone else as they make their way to the high school to meet up with Jacob and William.

#### **"Red Asphalt"**

In the foyer of the school, Albert sits down and has a conversation with Austin, Aldus and Martyn Ford. Their discussion is about Dean's disappearance. Austin and Aldus believe that Dean was taken by The Rastas, while Albert and Martyn both say that Dean probably just wandered off - he got tired of the group and just wanted to go. Austin does bring up some good points, but Albert sticks by Martyn's theory stated previously.

Later that day, out in the courtyard, Albert listens to Jon's idea of a moat going all around the high school. He speaks up and says that they would need at least a person or two watching over the workers 24/7.

A little later, Albert walks back into the courtyard hearing something going on. He steps over to the fence and looks out onto the street in horror. Jim's corpse was chained to the back of a truck and Damerae Badrick and forcing Dean to stare at it. Albert draws his pistols, but doesn't aim them yet. Dean is then thrown to the ground by Badrick and he gets back into the truck, speeding away. A horde of zombies that had been lead by the truck were now surrounding the school. Albert slowly steps back before turning and running back inside.

In the foyer, most of the survivors gather together, waiting. Then, the horde break through the doors. They all open fire on the horde. Albert uses up almost all of his ammo before he retreats into the cafeteria with everyone else. There, he counts out his remaining bullets - which isn't a lot. Everyone prepares once more as the horde busts into the cafeteria. They all shoot at the horde, killing zombie after zombie. Albert finally runs out of ammo. He runs over to Austin, who had been stumbling around the entire time, completely drunk and useless. Albert takes his shotgun and begins to use it. When that too is out of ammo, he turns to Austin and shakes him, asking for more. Austin reaches into his pocket and takes out a few shells. Albert loads them in and continues shooting at the horde. When he runs out of ammo for good, he goes over to Austin and helps him to his feet. The two make their way across the cafeteria to an open window. He helps Austin out first all the while he hears Martyn being torn apart by zombies. When Austin is out, he follows.

Out in the front, Albert and Austin regroup with everyone else right as Layton pulls up in a cement truck. Albert signs and gets in.

#### **"What Comes After"**

After a long, bumpy ride, Albert gets out of the cement mixer and stretches. Angela asks where they go next, and she brings up the school. Albert says that they can't go back, there's nothing left for them. Aldus then suggests the best thing; find the rest of their lost group, kill Badrick, and then get the hell out of town. Albert is all in for that plan. As they stand on the streets, they suddenly see something in the distance - Jared Kellings, the lost man from the mall. Jared tells them all where he's been. He confirms that Edward, Clyde and Benjamin are all still alive. A few moments later, a truck with bright headlights comes driving up to them all. Four people stepped out, all armed with powerful rifles. They start off by saying that they're friendly and mean no harm. They go on to explain how they come from a large group that moved from Denver to Willamette after the city fell. They say that they need people to join their group. To make things seem friendlier, they introduce themselves as Daniel, Nick, Lolida, and Grant. Albert and everyone then share their names back. Soon after, a small horde of zombies, supposedly coming from the school, approach all of them. Everyone helps take on the zombies, and together, they kill them all. After dealing with that, everyone gets into one of the two vehicles to be taken back to their base.

Albert steps out of the vehicle at their base - a football stadium. He follows Daniel alongside the group until they meet the leader, Nathaniel Shepard. Quickly, things escalate as the guards draw their weapons and point it at the group. They were lead into a trap. The guards all move in and snatch their weapons before pushing them forward to a cell block. Albert is pushed into the cell with everyone else where they are greeted with a familiar face... Alex Weiss.

### **Season 4**

#### **"The Greater Good"**

In the cell block, William and Jared get into an argument, to which Albert tells them both to calm down.

#### **"The Promiseland"**

The next day, Albert wakes up in the cell to Nathaniel on the intercom. He sighs, extremely tired. He then stops another argument between Jared and Aldus this time. A hot minute later, Daniel comes strolling over to them with a set of keys. He unlocks the cell and points to Albert, William, Rebecca and Austin, and tell them it's their time to go out into the yard. Albert gets in the line and is escorted out by some guards.

In the yard, Albert chops wood with the other three while being watched by guards.

When they arrive back at the cell, it isn't long before Damerae Badrick comes walking down the hallway speaking to Nathaniel. When Badrick gets eyes on them, he demands Nathaniel to kill them. He reaches for his own gun, but is then restrained by the guards. Albert continues to watch as Badrick tells Nathaniel all about the survivors, before he is dragged off by the guards.

#### **"Gunpoint"**

Albert sits inside the cell as the others talk of possible escape plans. They come up with the idea of Jon getting himself injured so he can get to the infirmary.

#### **"All the King's Men"**

A day or so later, Albert is standing with others and listening to Daniel tell them that Nathaniel has lost his mind and he's on their side. He then digs out his set of keys and is about to let them out when suddenly, Nick Parker comes walking in to check on the prisoners. When he sees what's happening, he grabs the first person he sees with Daniel - Fraser. He points a gun to Frasers head and demands the keys from Daniel. After a brief argument between the two as Albert watches, Jon comes up behind Nick and pushes a scalpel into his neck, killing him. Daniel lets Albert and other others out. They all then hear gunfire out on the pitch. Daniel quickly leads them to the armoury.

In the armoury, Albert grabs his two pistols and does a quick flip. He then exits the room and follows the pack out to the entrance of the stadium. From there, he looks out the window at the dozens upon dozens of Rastas waiting outside. "This'll be one hell of a fight." Albert says, drawing his weapons. As half of the group head to the back entrance to make sure it's covered, Albert stays at the front. A moment later, The Rastas open fire at the windows. Albert dives for cover. He crawls over to one of the windows and takes a few pop shots down at The Rastas, but it's unlikely that he's hitting anything. A grenade is suddenly thrown up at the survivors. Everyone disperses quickly as the room explodes. Everyone makes their way down onto the pitch.

On the pitch, Albert sits behind cover with everyone else, occasionally peaking over to fire a few shots. Rebecca is shot in the chest, Albert looks over and mutters a curse. He continues shooting at the Rastas until they're shot at by snipers. One of the snipers lands a shot on Angela, killing her in the blink of an eye. Jon - completely out of it now, stops shooting at The Rastas. William tells Albert and Austin to keep Jon covered. Albert nods and goes back to shooting.

Following the battle, Albert stands on the pitch looking up into the sky. He lets out a big large sigh.

#### **"Moment of Silence"**

On the pitch, Albert stands with the survivors of the battle, talking about how he never thought Badrick would die. A little while later, he's pays his respects to the fallen.

#### **"Revelations"**

Albert is among everyone else in the group listening to William explain how Benjamin Taylor had a big part in creating the virus.

In the parking lot, Albert approaches the RV and steps inside. Inside, Austin smashes a bottle off the floor. He was hungover. He then says that he was just cleaning up. Albert goes on a rant to Austin, telling him that he's worthless, no use to the group. He then leaves the RV in anger.

#### **"The Road Ahead"**

Now on the road headed to Denver, Albert sits in the RV talking to Dean. Dean talks about his Harry Potter book that he found. The conversation moves to the two of them sharing their full names with each other, since they only knew each others first. The two then begin reading the Harry Potter book together.

When a landslide comes down onto the traveling survivors, Albert helps them push some of the rocks off the road. While working, Austin walks up to him. He sincerely apologizes for the state that Albert found him in and promises not to touch another bottle. Albert accepts his apology and then apologizes himself for getting so angry. Randall strolls up to the two and says that Jon went off into the woods, likely to the nearby bar. Austin volunteers to go get him. Both Randall and Albert are surprised and tell each other that this is different of Austin.

#### **"The Beginning"**

Using a gas station just outside of downtown Denver as their base for now, Albert goes with seven other into downtown in order to reach Benjamin Taylor's building. They walk through the streets all the while Benjamin explains more about his part in creating the virus. Once they reach and enter the Taylor & Co building, a voice on the intercom stops them all in their tracks. The voice tells them all to drop their weapons. Albert follows the orders. The voice then dares one of them to walk forward. William is the one to do so - and a giant log comes swinging down from the ceiling. Marcus dives and saves William. Albert suggests that they just leave the building now, but they don't. Benjamin says he knows where they can find the main behind the voice. zombies begin to flood into the room. Albert picks up his pistols and opens fire on the zombies, taking down a few. Albert is backed into a section of the room with Marcus, Kate and Aldus. The four of them push their way into another room safe of zombies.

While hidden in the room, they discuss what they should do. Albert is insistent that there's not way they can make it up to where the rest of the group is - he suggests they leave and come back with more people. However, Marcus has a different plan.

Albert, Marcus, Kate and Aldus are next seen driving a car down the street. They had escaped through the window and lured the horde outside away with a car. They then pick up the rest of the group who had now escaped the Taylor building.

### **Season 5**

#### **"Day By Day"**

Sitting on a bench with Dean, the two of them talk about how long it's been since they've seen another person. Dean goes on to talk about how scared he is at night - but he shouldn't be. He then says that drawing helps him forget about the past and put him in a good mood. Albert tells him to keep doing it. When a commotion between Daniel and Jared interrupts their chat, Dean hands him a dream catcher and says it's for good luck. Albert thanks him for it.

Out on the road, Albert travels with a small group looking for a temporary place to stay. They come upon a motel filled with zombies, and they hear a single gunshot come from one of the rooms. Everyone except Albert says it's best that they just go, but Albert says otherwise. He convinces them to stay and at least go and check on the person in the room - whether they're dead or alive. Austin and Aldus distract the horde, while the others take out the stragglers and make their way towards the room. Albert, Jon and Rebecca all eventually make it to the room.

#### **"A Good Man"**

With all of the group now settled into the motel, Albert sits on a bed listening to Brenden Trevors, the man who fired off the gunshot inside the room. Brenden says that he and his band got separated while looting a nearby factory. Brenden then says that he can point out where the factory is on a map so they can head over their and clear it themselves.

Later on, Albert sits with Brenden outside. Albert asks Brenden if he really thinks his bandmates are alive. Brenden hopes that they are. A few minutes later, Albert walks up to William to tell him Daniel, Lolida and Jared are all planning to go to the factory as well - which isn't a good match. William says he'll handle it.

Before Albert heads out to look the factory, Daniel hands everyone one pistol with limited ammo and says it should only be used as a last resort. Then, Albert heads out with a small group.

A while later, Albert and the group arrive at the cereal factory. Daniel turns to everyone and assigns them to two teams. Albert and Brenden are the first team, assigned to clear one of the factory, while the other three clear the other side. After checking to make sure his gun is loaded, Albert heads out with Brenden. On the walk there, Albert notices Brenden's twitchy hands. Brenden tells him that he doesn't want to find his friends dead, he doesn't want to face them. Albert tries to keep his positivity up by saying that they could be alive. When Brenden asks Albert about what keeps him going, Albert replies by saying that the group he's with is what keeps him going, they're his family in this post-apocalypse world. He hopes that he'll be able to go back to Willamette and see his real family one day though. The two of them then climb through a whole in the fence. Albert points out two zombies and tells Brenden to take them out, while he deals with the rest. As Albert is killing the zombies on his side, he notices Brenden on the ground, frozen in fear, as a third zombie stumbles towards him. Albert sprints over as fast as he can, saving Brenden and killing the zombie. After Albert deals with the final two zombies, Brenden reveals that the zombie Albert saved hin from was one of his friends. Albert frowns and gives his condolences to the kid. After a minute, Brenden gets up and the two head inside to meet up with the others.

The two find Daniel, Lolida, and Jared inside the factory. They group up, and Brenden tells them about his friend. Daniel hands out flashlights to everyone and heads toward the door that leads into the main factory floor. He bangs on the door and holds it open, a funnel of zombies eventually comes through the door. Albert and the others take on the zombies one at a time until it's clear. Albert follows Daniel through the door into the factory floor, shining around his flashlight. Daniel turns back to everyone again and gives them all tasks to do. Albert is to head down to the basement to check for a generator. He heads off immediately to do that.

After some time, returns up from the basement, telling everyone that the generator was on. As Albert gets closer, he overhears Brenden and Lolida explaining to Daniel that there's thousands of zombies in the room next door. Daniel goes to look, while Albert stays behind with Jared. Jared is tired of Daniel, and thinks that them staying here with a horde of zombies right next to them is ridiculous. Albert somewhat agrees, but says that they'll be out of here quickly once they fill the trucks wil cereal. Daniel returns shortly after, and it's clear he did see a horde, but he's still unwilling to leave. He orders Albert to connect the tube to the truck to start pouring Cereal into it. Albert does so, and the waiting game begins.

Some 45 minutes later, the group are getting tired of waiting. As they sit there, the banging from the room next door gets louder and louder. Suddenly, the machine that's operating the cereal suddenly crackles and breaks. Albert rushes over to disconnect the tube from the truck, but the tube bursts open before he can get there, sending cereal flying everywhere. Everyone is just as confused as the other, trying to figure out what happened. Daniel rushes up to the control panel, and while he's at it, the garage doors keeping the horde inside their room open. Horrified, Albert turns and makes a dash for the trucks, jumping into the back, the others doing the same. Brenden is the only one to escape without being seen by the horde. With the trucks quickly being surrounded by the horde, everyone makes a desperate climb onto the roofs of the trucks. With nowhere else to go, they jump into a clearing and begin fighting their way through to a door. They all manage to make it to the door - except for Albert. Daniel urges Albert to leave him behind, but Albert can't. He runs for Jared and saves his life. The two of them, no longer able to make it to where Daniel and Lolida had went, push their way towards a stack of crates to climb on. During the process, Albert loses his knife and flashlight, leaving him with a pistol with two rounds. Albert climbs onto the crates and helps Jared up. Now, stuck on the crates, and with them shaking a lot, Albert frantically looks for a way to escape. Jared begins panicking, but quickly calms down. All out of ideas, and with some crates already beginning to topple over, Jared approaches Albert. "You're a good man, Albert." He tells him, before pushing Albert into the horde. Albert is ripped apart by the horde in seconds, all the while Jared escapes while the zombies feast on Albert.

## **Death**

Killed By
* Jared Kellings *(Caused)*

With both of their deaths imminent, Jared does the only thing he can think of: to push Albert into the horde of zombies below, hoping the horde would be distracted enough to allow him to escape.

* Zombies

Upon being pushed into the horde, the zombies quickly tear Albert apart and feast on his remains.

## **Killed Victims**

* Nine unnamed gang members apart of The Rastas
* Four unnamed soldiers from Benjamin Taylor's army
* Two unnamed survivors from the North Plaza
* Two unnamed bandits in Willamette Mall
* Unnamed hostile survivor in Willamette Mall
* Numerous counts of zombies

## **Quotes**

The following is a list of Albert Hanson's notable quotes

Season 4

"**Albert**: What is wrong with you? Are you trying to get yourself killed, others killed? Because that almost happened today from what I heard. You’re just a fucking alcoholic, Austin. Worthless, I tell you. You’re worthless. But, oh, you can’t live without a bottle, can you? Fuckin’ worthless…"- Albert to Austin Kingston in 4x08

Season 5

"**Albert**: What if they didn’t - what if someone is actually alive in there? We need to at least find that out.**Jon**: There isn’t much we can do for them, and on top of that, it could be some hostile asshole. **Albert**: No, no-- you don’t know that. This is the first sign of another person since Denver. We can’t just walk away."- Albert speaking with Jon in 5x01

"**Albert**: In truth, it's the people around me. I never got the chance to return home when the outbreak hit, never got a chance to see my family again. The people back at the motel, they're good people - they're my family nowadays. Without this group, I don't think I'd be able to go on. Once you get to know them - you'll feel the same.- Albert to Brenden in 5x02

"**Jared**: Thank you. Really. Thank you. If it wasn’t for you, I would’ve been killed back there.**Albert**: Don’t thank me, Jared. I wouldn’t leave you - even if I don’t agree with everything you say.- Some of Albert's last words with Jared, moments before being betrayed in 5x02

## **Appearances**

Any episode with a checkmark over it signifies Albert Hanson appearing in any way.