Willamette Parkview Mall

**Willamette Parkview Mall**, or simply **Willamette Mall** is the main attraction for the town of Willamette, Colorado. It served as the central location for seasons one and two in Route to Paradise.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Willamette Parkview Mall is a large, two-story mall in the town of Willamette, Colorado. The mall is the main attraction of the otherwise uninteresting small American town. For at least six years prior to the beginning of the story, Helen Cullen and Felix Quarterman were two of the mall’s high-ranking management members.

During the onset of the apocalypse, the mall was bustling with traffic due to it being Black Friday.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

### **Season 1**

#### **Entrance Plaza Massacre & Early Conflicts**

In the early stages of the apocalypse, Willamette Mall becomes under siege from a large zombie horde that swarms the parking lot. In the Entrance Plaza, Jeffrey Cortez takes charge of the fifty or so survivors there, and begins boarding up the doors. However, an overconfident Kate Bloodstone would soon remove the furniture blocking the doors, and open them, allowing the zombie horde to funnel inside. Dozens of survivors are slaughtered by the horde. Jacob Feldman, William Reynes, Clayton Freeman, Owen Gliefield, Quentin Richards, Alex Weiss and Randy Wheeler are the only ones to make it into the Security room, where Helen Cullen and Felix Quarterman are at.

Soon, a small group heads out into the mall, where they come across Clyde Rollins, eventually taking him back to the security room. During this time, Felix is kidnapped by Skittles the Clown in retaliation for the man firing him prior to the outbreak. Meanwhile, Randy is killed by Alex in the security room. He manages to escape. Later, Randy reanimates as a zombie without having been bitten, proving that the virus is airborne.

Jacob and Clayton attempt to figure out where Felix was taken to, but they are attacked by Steven Philips, who shoots Clayton in the shoulder. After Jacob and Clayton become trapped in a store with another survivor, Erin Monroe, Quentin and William go out to save them, bringing along fellow survivor, Edward Remar. During the rescue mission, Edward’s leg is crushed by a shelf, and he requests to be left behind to fend for himself. Jacob and Clayton are saved, and Erin goes her own way.

After figuring out where Felix and other hostages are being held, a group goes out to rescue him. On their way there, they recruit Randall Forster, Clayton’s police partner, to their group. With their numbers, they manage to defeat Skittles the Clown, sending him retreating into hiding. They then save Felix, as well as Albert Hanson and Kate Bloodstone, two more of his hostages.

The now considerably large group goes into the previously unexplored North Plaza. There, they meet Leslie Staunton, who is the leader of a large amount of survivors in the plaza, including Jim Butterman, Teddy Powell and Jeffrey Cortez. Kate decides to stay in the North Plaza. While trying to make it to the plaza’s gun store, Jacob becomes separated from his group, but is saved by Erin Monroe. She leads him into Wonderland Plaza, encountering Edward, who is now using a cane to walk around.

#### **Taking Out Threats**

Jacob, Erin and Edward run into Steven Philips in Wonderland Plaza, and they soon become stuck in one of the rooms, forcing them to work together to face a zombie horde at their door. In the security room, Helen informs Quentin and Clayton about this, and the two men head out to save them. They first gather supplies in a nearby store, then use them to craft multiple bottle rockets that explode on impact. With these, they hurry into Wonderland Plaza, using the rockets to distract the zombies. After being saved, Erin leaves the group once again, but Jacob rushes after her, telling the others to get back to the security room when they have everyone.

After linking up with the other members of their group in the North Plaza, everyone begins to head back for the security room. To get there, they travel through Leisure Park, where three armed convicts are speeding around on a jeep. One intense fight later, all convicts are dead, thanks to Quentin’s bottle rocket.

In the Entrance Plaza, moments away from entering the security room, Quentin is sniped in the head by Michael Hall. A short gunfight ensues, leading to William taking a hit to the chest and the three snipers all escaping.

Knowing that the snipers would most likely return, Helen, Clyde and Albert leave to go search for guns. They encounter Robert Morgan along the way, who joins up with them.

Meanwhile, a trio of criminals (Quincy Atherton, Monica Reynolds and Curtis Van Horn} have broken into the mall and are planning on robbing the gun store for weapons. Jacob and Erin find out about this, and decide to go with them to get guns for their own group. Quincy ends up knocking out the gun store owner, Teddy, after he refuses to let the robbery take place. After gathering their weapons, the criminals leave, and Jacob leaves behind an apology note. Dean Howards, a drunk man who was with the criminals, is offered to come with Jacob and Erin, and he agrees.

As expected, the snipers return to the Entrance Plaza, but this time, Helen and the others, having successfully gotten the guns they were looking for, are able to fight back. Jacob, Erin, Dean, as well as Edward and Steven come rushing in to fight off the snipers as well. In the end, Dexter Hall, one of the snipers, is beaten to death by Steven.

After the fight, the security room survivors decide that they should return the stolen guns to Teddy. Being led by Clyde, a group goes over to the North Plaza and gives the guns back. In exchange for keeping some of the guns, the group gives the North Plaza a few cases of liquor.

After their trade with the North Plaza, Helen radios Clyde and the others to tell them something, but is interrupted by loud banging, and the radio cuts off. Worried, Jacob and the others rush back towards the security room, with Clyde the only one opting to stay behind.

In the security room, Skittles the Clown breaks into the office and attacks Helen, killing her with his chainsaw. He is chased out of the security room by Felix, and then shot by Edward, barely managing to escape.

Meanwhile, Jacob and the others are cut off by the remaining two snipers. They battle it out until the snipers run out of ammo and retreat. The group then makes a run for the security room, only to find out that they’re too late. With many wounded, Owen, a former medical assistant, gets to work.

To gather more guns, William, Albert and Clayton make a run into the Yucatan Casino, encountering Wilbur Wright and Da'Jonte Woodard. Wilbur makes them an offer: to go find out what happened to Jon Matthews in the basement, and get guns in return. They agree to do it. After fighting their way to the basement, they find Jon fighting off bandits. After killing them, the four men retrieve a briefcase and head back to Wilbur and Da’Jonte. Wilbur keeps his promise, and gives them a few weapons.

Jacob and Erin take a walk through the mall, and run into Edward, who’s currently searching for Skittles the Clown. However, the three of them soon come under fire from the two snipers once again. This time, Edward isn’t going to let them escape. He takes Roger Hall hostage, and stabs him. Believing his last son to be dead, Michael Hall flees. However, Roger is still alive. Edward hogties Roger to the ceiling and then feeds him to a horde of zombies below.

After their run-in with Edward and the snipers, Jacob gets kidnapped by Skittles, likely being taken into Wonderland Plaza. Erin rushes back to the security room to inform everyone.

In the Entrance Plaza, Randall, Clayton and Albert are attacked by five hooded men. They manage to kill all the hooded men, but aren’t sure who they were. When Erin returns to the security room and tells them all about what happened, everyone arms up and heads towards Wonderland Plaza. There, they have a showdown with Skittles the Clown. Ultimately, Skittles is Killed by Felix, who gets revenge for Helen.

Clyde, who’d been at the North Plaza for a while, returns to the security room survivors. He lures them into a trap in the basement, where more hooded men ambush them. However, the ambush fails, and Clyde is locked up. When interrogated, Clyde spills the truth and admits that this was all Leslie’s plan to wipe out the security room survivors and take control of the mall. With this knowledge, Jacob and the others gather their weapons are prepare to storm the North Plaza.

During the raid against the North Plaza survivors, Jeffrey is shot and killed by Dean. While many more North Plaza survivors are killed, many are also spared, including Teddy, Jim and Kate. In the end, Leslie comes face to face with Jacob after fleeing to the roof. There, she rants about how Jacob ruined everything, before she tries to kill him and fails. Jacob shoots her in the head.

#### **Aftermath of the North Plaza Fight**

After Leslie and the other mall threats have been dealt with, the group begins to clean up the mall, picking off all of the remaining zombies and working to defend the mall. Edward leaves Willamette to go and look for his family. It’s during this period that Albert and Robert leave the mall for the first time. Upon returning, Albert informs them about a trio of survivors they met, as well as another large group across town that they stole supplies from. As Felix and the others are discussing this, a rocket hits the side of the building, sending them to the floor.

The survivors rush to the roof, where they glimpse a convoy of vehicles speeding away. Realizing that they would probably attack again, the survivors get to work on building defenses. In order to have more people helping defend the mall, the locked up North Plaza survivors are all released. Not long later, Benjamin Taylor’s forces attack the mall from two sides. Shane Haywood leads the attack on the front, while Robin Clarke handles the back entrance. In the front, Shane and his men are easily able to storm the Entrance Plaza due to most of the mall survivors defending the back entrance. Even with the heavy amount of defenders being at the back, Robin and his soldiers are able to push through, killing many unnamed survivors and wounding many more. Back in the front, Steven Philips puts up a last stand against Shane’s men, managing to take down quite a few before being killed. With most of his men dead, Shane makes the order to leave the mall. Meanwhile, Robin’s forces continue chasing after the mall survivors all the way to the food court, where they are eventually pushed back by the defenders. Robin, like Shane, orders his remaining forces to retreat.

In the aftermath of the fight, the wounded are treated and the survivors wonder what’ll happen next.

### **Season 2**

#### **The Calm Before**

Things quiet down in Willamette for the next two weeks. One day, Erin approaches Albert, wondering where the trio of survivors he and Robert met had gone to. When Albert doesn’t know, they both agree to go out into town and have a look for them. Dean joins them before leaving.

Meanwhile, while going for a walk through Leisure Park, William finds Alex Weiss sitting on a bench. Although hostile at first, William eventually cools down and gets to asking Alex why he killed Randy, a question Alex does not have a solid answer for. In the end, William takes Alex back to the security room, where he’s then taken into a store in the Entrance Plaza and locked up.
Erin, Albert and Dean return to the mall with Marcus Downes, Zac Barnes, Fraser Stiller and Aldus Paxton, all four of whom are new additions to the group. Erin then heads upstairs, where she tells Jacob and the others that Edward is back in town-- and he’s some kind of apprentice for Damerae Badrick.

#### **War With The Rastas**

Sometime later, the mall survivors come into contact with Wilbur Wright and his crew and organize a raid against one of Badrick’s outposts. Meanwhile, Kate lets Alex out of his store, believing him to be trustworthy. However, Alex proves that he cannot be trusted after he steals Clayton’s gun, and so he’s locked back up.

Over the last couple of weeks, Felix Quarterman turns to alcohol, mainly because he can’t get over Helen’s death, and during one group meeting, he goes on a rant, making himself look deranged. However, after a conversation with William and Kate, he begins to improve himself.

William tries having a chat with Alex where he’s being locked up, but during their talk, Alex reveals that he drugged William with sleeping pills, which only pushes Alex further from being trusted. Meanwhile, Austin Kingston, another drunk, joins the mall group.

Mickey Fahey, a deranged and idiotic man, attacks the mall. He is shot by Albert and bleeds out. Quincy Atherton and Monica Reynolds, two members from Wilbur’s crew, permanently join the mall group.

In an effort to save his daughter’s life, Benjamin Taylor and his right-hand man Shane Haywood, go to the mall group and propose that he destroys one of their plazas to make it look like he’s killed all of them, in order for Badrick to let his daughter go. The survivors rightly refuse this offer, especially after his attack on their mall in “Adaptation”. However, after leaving the mall angrily, Benjamin decides to blow up the entrance to the mall, allowing a horde of zombies to funnel inside.

In the aftermath of this attack, the mall survivors are forced into defense, fending themselves off from the horde of zombies. Eventually, they manage to clear the horde and begin work on repairing the Entrance Plaza.

Erin and Marcus, having been missing from the mall for a few hours, return with news: one of Badrick’s trains is coming into town, and they want to attack and stop it before it reaches town.

The train heist is a failure, and the survivors scramble back to the mall, where a small funeral is held for Clayton, who was killed during the heist.

As an all out war breaks out between Benjamin and Badrick, the mall survivors can do nothing but watch from the rooftop of the mall. Zac bullies Dean for being a useless member of the group, leading to a small altercation. Afterwards, Jim sits and talks with Dean. Elsewhere in the mall, Kate gives Alex one more chance to be trusted, letting him out of his store, where he’s allowed to freely roam around, much to the dismay of some members. Meanwhile, Felix has a chat with Derek Monroe about the possibility of them working together to defeat The Rastas.

On the roof of the mall, Austin and Quincy have an altercation after the former curses at Monica for making fun of him. As Austin leaves in anger, he stops to let in Wilbur, Jon, and Curtis, who have come to the mall after their warehouse was destroyed, though Wilbur is quick to leave the mall after stating that he wanted no part in being in this war.

Jacob leads a team out of the mall to attack one of the Rasta outposts, and comes back with Jackson Foxx as a hostage and one of Teddy’s hands missing.

Jon beats Jackson until he reveals where Badrick is staying. With this information, Jacob leads a large group over to an office block to try and finish off Badrick.

#### **The Defense of Willamette Mall**

After the attack at the office block goes horribly wrong, ending with the death of Erin, the mall survivors prepare for retaliation from Badrick. The retaliation in question comes sooner than anticipated, and Robert is sniped in the head before the battle even begins.

Felix quickly takes charge of the situation, sending off two different groups to defend the front and back entrance.

The front entrance is where the majority of the fighting takes place. Dozens of Rastas come charging into the Entrance Plaza, and people are wounded on both sides. Soon, Shane Haywood, Robin Clarke and all of their forces come rushing in behind the Rastas, creating a three-way battle for the mall. In the heat of the battle, Monica is hit by a barrage of bullets, killing her in seconds. As the battle rages on, Badrick uses a grenade launcher to slaughter some of Shane’s forces. Robin, injured from the blast, retreats out of the mall. When it becomes clear that they won’t be able to hold the Entrance Plaza, the mall defenders retreat. Quincy, distraught over Monica’s death, stays behind, killing several of Shane’s soldiers, before he himself is killed.

Elsewhere in the mall, Jacob and a few others are ambushed by Badrick, Jackson and a group of Rastas. They manage to fight them off, and Jacob executes Jackson. Those who were defending the front entrance begin making their way to the back entrance to meet up with the others. Randall and Curtis stay behind to fend off the advancing soldiers, and give their companions the chance to escape.

At this point in the battle, zombies have begun to swarm the mall. Dozens of Rastas and Soldiers lay dead, and the mall survivors know that their home is lost. They all withdraw to the roof. While trying to get to the roof, Austin becomes trapped by a group of zombies, as he desperately tries to fight his way out.

On the roof, the survivors begin to climb the ladder down, when they suddenly are attacked by Badrick and the remaining Rastas. Edward takes a hit to the chest and falls into a dumpster below. Clyde hurries down to help him. Meanwhile, Felix provides covering fire while everyone else climbs off the roof one by one. When Felix is the last man on the roof, he runs into the open, shooting Badrick, before being lit up with bullets. Badrick, bleeding out, is helped up by his men, and he orders them to get him out of here.

Down in the mall, Shane, stumbling along with two bullet wounds, is found by Benjamin, the man whose group he took over. He begs Benjamin to mercy kill him, but Benjamin refuses, allowing Shane to be devoured by a horde of zombies.

Just outside the mall, the survivors of the mall limp away into the woods, as smoke billows up from their former home.

### **Season 3**

After getting separated from their group, Jon, Curtis and Angela Jaegar come running into the ruins of Willamette Mall for shelter. There, they find Da'Jonte Woodard.

Unbeknownst to them, Dean, who's now a captive of Badrick, leads Badrick to Willamette Mall, not thinking that any of his group would be there. However, when Badrick arrives, he shoots and kills Curtis. Jon and Angela fight back, killing several of Badrick's final few Rastas, before Badrick flees with Dean still his captive.

Jon buries Curtis, as well as Quincy and Monica all next to each other in Leisure Park.

Later on, Kate, Marcus and Aldus would come to the mall, and take Jon, Angela and Da'Jonte back with them.

### **Season 4**

The mall is seen a final time in "The Road Ahead" as the group drives by, leaving the town of Willamette behind.

## **Inhabitants**

### **Survivors**

* Helen Cullen
* Clayton Freeman
* Erin Monroe
* Felix Quarterman
* Robert Morgan
* Monica Reynolds
* Quincy Atherton
* Quentin Richards
* Steven Philips
* Randy Wheeler
* Sasha McMale
* Numerous counts of unnamed survivors

### **Former Inhabitants**

* Randall Forster
* Alex Weiss
* Owen Gliefield
* William Reynes
* Jacob Feldman
* Kate Bloodstone
* Edward Remar
* Clyde Rollins
* Albert Hanson
* Jim Butterman
* Teddy Powell
* Dean Howards
* Curtis Van Horn
* Jon Matthews
* Jared Kellings
* Fraser Stiller
* Marcus Downes
* Zac Barnes
* Apollo
* Austin Kingston
* Aldus Paxton

### **Antagonists Within the Mall**

* Jeffrey Cortez
* Skittles the Clown
* Leslie Staunton
* Michael Hall *(Formerly)*
* Roger Hall
* Dexter Hall

## **Deaths**

* Randy Wheeler
* Quentin Richards
* Dexter Hall
* Helen Cullen
* Roger Hall
* Skittles the Clown
* Jeffrey Cortez
* Leslie Staunton
* Steven Philips
* Mickey Fahey
* Robert Morgan
* Monica Reynolds
* Quincy Atherton
* Jackson Foxx
* Shane Haywood
* Felix Quarterman
* Curtis Van Horn
* Charlie
* 53 of Benjamin Taylor’s unnamed soldiers
* 54 unnamed Rastas
* 3 unnamed convicts
* 8 unnamed bandits
* Numerous counts of unnamed survivors