Zombies

Zombies is the first episode and the season premiere of the third season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on September 28th, 2010 and was directed by Douglas Segal. This episode is the first to include a recurring storyarc, that involves around a private security firm, known as The Enigma Corporation, which handles mysterious cases that is managed by Elise Mooney and Noel Connor.

## Plot

In Winter (February) 2010, during Mardi Gras, Josephine LeDieux was murdered by Malcolm Clement, a man who she had been housing in one of New Orleans Haitian communities.

Because of unique and strange circumstances surrounding the murder, New Orleans police hired the Enigma Corporation, a private security firm, to find and arrest Clement. During their briefing, Agent Noel Connor reveals that Clement apparently died eight years ago in Haiti. Accompanied by tactical specialist Elise Mooney and rookie agent Tanner Noble, he goes to the boarding house where they believe Ledieux's other boarders may be harboring him, a building which has been condemned since Hurricane Katrina. They enter the house but find nothing other than a mess. While searching the house, Mooney hears growls from the upper level of the house and demands that anyone who is hiding show themselves and surrender.

They enter a room where they discover a voodoo shrine to Ledieux, along with tetrodotoxin, a powerful and lethal neurotoxin. Downstairs, Connor discovers dismembered human remains and notifies the other agents that they may need to use deadly force. A motion sensor that Tanner is carrying with him suddenly picks up movement just outside the building and he leaves to investigate it while Connor moves upstairs. While Mooney continues examining the shrine, she suddenly sees a man who is acting strangely approaching her, brandishing a wooden board like a club.

Mooney kicks him out into the hall right as Connor arrives, and he attacks the man as well, causing him to fall from the second floor to his apparent death. Meanwhile, Tanner is securing the perimeter outside when he is suddenly approached and attacked by a girl, who is acting similarly to the man who attacked Mooney. Connor tells him to apprehend her and be extremely careful over the radio, but she suddenly attacks and bites him and their struggle moves off-screen. Connor, disturbed by the feel of the boarding house, suggests that they simply find Clement and leave. He and Mooney begin to leave, but are suddenly attacked by the man from before, who is still 'alive.' Connor manages to wrestle him to the ground and hold him down, and they question how the man was able to recover from a seemingly fatal fall. Outside, it is revealed that Tanner is still alive and well, and has apprehended the girl, who he takes to the Enigma Corporation's van.

During a brief conversation over the radio, Connor tells Tanner to keep the engine running in case they need to escape quickly and be prepared to call for backup. Suddenly, the man Connor has subdued wakes up and begins snarling as he tries to attack Connor yet again, and refuses to give up even after he is tased. Clement suddenly approaches Mooney from behind, and he refuses to stop even after Mooney shoots him at point blank range. The noise of the struggle has attracted the attention of the other residents of the boarding house, who are all zombies. Connor and Mooney barricade themselves in the shrine room and restrain Clement while trying to hail Tanner on the radio who, unbeknownst to them, has passed out and is being eaten by the girl in the van.

Mooney suggests simply leaving Clement behind and torching the building in order to keep whatever is causing the residents to act strangely from spreading, but Connor insists that they do the job they were hired to do as the other residents try to break into the room. Suddenly, the girl that Tanner arrested returns through the balcony window, but Mooney and Connor shoot and subdue her as they escape through the window, tossing Clement to the ground below. Even after such a fall, Clement is still active and growling at them.

They run back towards the van, only to see that the other residents have caught up to them. As they approach the van, they see Tanner emerge. However, he is acting strangely, too, and suddenly attacks them. Early in the morning following the events surrounding Clement's arrest, the boarding house was demolished, and it is not known if the residents were inside when it was destroyed or if they are roaming the streets of New Orleans. A statement was made that the demolition had been ordered long ago, and that a full report would be released, which never happened. Tanner was given a quiet funeral in his home town of Laredo, Texas, with Connor and Mooney in attendance.