Randy Wheeler

Randy Wheeler is a supporting character and a survivor of the outbreak in Route to Paradise. He is shown to be a hard-working, busy man, but someone who cared deeply for his family. During the onset of the apocalypse, he doesn't seem to find the situation that dire, believing that the military will save them in no time, but after getting attacked by Alex Weiss, he realizes the severity of the situation. While recovering from his injuries, he is murdered by Alex, who comes back to finish the job.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

A husband and father, Randy worked somewhere in Canada with a busy job. During one weekend where he was supposed to be free of work, Randy travelled down into Willamette, Colorado to do some shopping.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

### **Season 1**

#### **"Welcome to Paradise"**

Sitting on a bench in the Entrance Plaza of Willamette Parkview Mall, Randy is seen talking with somebody on the phone about him needing to return back to his hometown for business reasons. Angered, he hangs up and kicks a stand over, before apologizing to a man and quickly entering a nearby shoe store. Inside, he purchases a pair of boots all the while a man inside the store coughs up blood onto the floor. Randy leaves without thinking too much of it. Returning to the Entrance Plaza, Randy looks on in confusion as people are barricading the front doors with furniture and other large objects. He dons his new boots before stepping over to the doors and looking out into a horde of the undead banging on the windows on the other side. With all this happening, Randy sits back down and calls his employer to inform him that he won't be able to make it back. As his boss yells at him, Randy hangs up.

As the people inside the mall frantically go around looking for a way to go, Randy remains seated listening to music through his headphones. Eventually, Alex Weiss sits down next to the man and the two discuss music and introduce themselves. As the two are seated, Kate Bloodstone begins moving the furniture blocking the doors, and lets the horde of zombies into the mall. Randy slowly gets up as the undead swarm the plaza. Helen Cullen yells down from the second floor of the plaza for everyone to get into the security room. Randy, Alex, and many others rush up the stairs and make it to the security room.

Felix Quarterman curses at Helen for letting everyone into the security room, but he's told off. Randy steps away from the commotion and goes back to listening to his tunes, only commenting on the fact that the military will likely be dealing with this situation soon enough.

Randy would soon enough make his way into the one of the waiting rooms where he quickly falls asleep. After some time, he's awoken to the sound of knocking at the door. He opens it to find Alex on the other side. Alex comes inside and the two sit down in a couple of chairs, starting up a conversation. Alex explains to Randy that he's an author and has an idea for a new idea for a book: "The Willamette Apocalypse". Randy laughs and says he likes the name. As Alex explores the room, he discovers several cans of strong beer. The two share the drinks and after only a few cans, they're both drunk and tossing cans around the room. As they reach the final two cans of beer, Randy snatches them both and laughs, drinking one of them and tossing the other for Alex to catch. With the beer completely gone, Randy begins stumbling around the room, falling over multiple times, all the while they both laugh uncontrollably. The two drunks then stumble their way into the waiting room next door.

After going around and making a mess of the place, Randy would curse at Alex. Annoyed, Alex insults Randy back. Randy tries to punch him, but completely misses and falls forward. Alex finds a baseball bat nearby and picks it up, while Randy finds a couple more cans of beer. He chucks the cans at Alex, one of them missing, while the other hits Alex. Randy continues to laugh. Now seriously annoyed at his continued laughter, Alex smacks Randy with the bat. Alex demands an apology from Randy, but the drunk man doesn't see a reason why he has to. This leads to him getting hit with the bat again and again, both of them screaming at each other. Finally, the two are separated when Felix and William Reynes step in. However, the two sober men are quick to leave again, leaving Randy and Alex to go back to yelling. As both of them slowly start sobering up, their arguing turns into a fist fight, and then into a fight with weapons. Alex jams a knife into Randy's hand, and then into his shoulder, causing him substantial pain. The two continuing throwing punches at each other until Randy falls into the main hall.

There, Helen stops the fight temporarily by getting between the two, however, once Randy sees Alex with his guard down, he goes back in to fight. Eventually, Alex, with his knife hidden away, stabs Randy a third time in his stomach. Immediately, Alex shows remorse and profusely apologizes for what he did. The fight ends when Helen approaches and knocks Alex out with a good punch. Randy is rushed into the waiting room to be treated.

#### **"The Lost Companion"**

Randy is quickly treated for his stab wounds by Owen Gliefield, however, he goes unconscious. He wakes up some time later and looks around frantically, not remembering anything. Owen tries to calm Randy down. Nearby, Quentin Richards tells Randy that he was stabbed by somebody. When he asks who, neither Owen or Quentin tells him. Looking around some more, Randy deduces that he's not inside a hospital, and asks where he is. The two men explain to him about the sickness that's plagued the mall they're in. Randy tries to sit up, explaining to them that he has to get back to his family in Canada, however, he falls back into the bed, unable to move. As he lays in bed, William enters the room and goes to check on Randy's wounds. He informs Randy that he got off lucky for where he was stabbed and won't have too much issues in the future. Randy asks once more if they know who stabbed him. William perks his head up and says that it was Alex. Fuming with rage, he gets out of bed but only makes it a few feet before falling over. He is helped back up and placed into the bed, being told that he's in no shape to go anywhere. He puts his headphones back on and listens to some music, drifting off to sleep.

Randy wakes up sometime later alone in the room. After looking around, Randy hears a man call his name - Alex. Randy looks at him and curses him off. Alex slowly approaches him, a twisted look in his eyes, asking Randy if he wants to say that again. Entering the room, Owen tells Alex not to try anything. Alex reaches into his bag, bringing a knife out. Helen rushes inside the room looking for Alex. When she lays eyes on him, she yells at him to get back to his room. Alex refuses, grabbing Randy out of bed and holding the knife to his neck. Helpless, Randy shakes in fear for his life. Owen and Helen plead with Alex to no avail. Alex rams the knife into Randy's neck, blood gushing out instantly. As Helen tackles Alex, Owen does his best to keep Randy alive, putting pressure onto his fresh wound. Randy goes motionless, his face turning pale, and within just a few seconds, dies from his wound.

A few minutes after being killed, a low growl comes from Randy. Owen hurries over to check on him. Randy's growling intensifies as he slowly gets to his feet, a dead look in his eyes - he had turned into a zombie. Owen scurries backwards throwing objects at Randy, eventually knocking him to the floor. As Randy crawls towards the old man, he's stomped repeatedly on his head, until it's completely crushed, finally ending the man.

## **Death**

Killed by
* Alex Weiss

While Randy is recovering from his previous stab wounds from Alex, he is attacked by the man once again. This time, Alex kills Randy by jamming a knife into his neck.

* Owen Gliefield *(Zombified)*

Later, Randy reanimates as a zombie, but is put down by Owen, who stomps his head in.

## **Appearances**

Any episode with a checkmark over it signifies Randy Wheeler appearing in any way.