Chapter III - Zombies Rising (transcript)

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## ACT I

* *{BGM START: The Omen – 666}*
* ***[INT. HOSPITAL WARD, COLUMBIA KK HOSPITAL.]***
* *[We see Johnny unconscious on the hospital bed, the EEG machine beside him still beeping. The camera then zooms to his left eye, which opens. He then wakes up from his stretcher in a zombie-like fashion and removes the medical attachments before getting out from the bed.]*
* *{BGM START: Silent Hill – Don't Cry}*
* *[Johnny then enters Isabel's ward]*
* **JOHNNY**: It is time. Rise up.
* *[Isabel opens her eyes and wakes up in a zombie-like fashion.]*
* *[The scene then cuts to the other ward with the four girls: Yue Lin, May, Yun and Anne, each waking up and getting off their hospital beds, throwing down their attachments in the process. The camera then cuts to the corridor where the doors open and the six ZOMBIES come out of them. They leave the doors open and head towards the ward room containing Sheila.]*
* ***[INT. HOSPITAL WARD]***
* *[The door is kicked open by Johnny. The zombies approach Sheila who is lying on her hospital bed.]*
* **JOHNNY**: It is time. Rise up.
* *[No response from Sheila.]*
* **JOHNNY**: I SAID, RISE UP!!!
* *[Sheila opens her eyes and wakes up]*
* **SHEILA**: What?
* **JOHNNY**: Now let's go pick on somebody.
* **SHEILA**: For what?
* **JOHNNY**: Listen, everyone. We are now zombies. Our job is to pick on somebody.
* ***[INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR.]***
* *[The scene cuts to the hospital corridor, where the zombies encounter the same team of doctors: Dr. Raymond, David and Aisha. They are joined by another doctor, Livia.]*
* **ANNE**: What about them? Should we pick on them?
* **JOHNNY**: OK, We'll try.
* *[The camera then cuts to the hospital lobby we see the three doctors walking towards the exit. They happen to hear some footsteps]*
* **RAYMOND**: Did you hear anything?
* **DAVID**: Uh... No.
* **LIVIA**: I think I just heard something.
* *{BGM START: King Kong Coming}*
* **DAVID**: Who's out there? Show yourself.
* *[The zombies appear from behind them]*
* **AISHA**: *[trembling in fear]* David, behind you...
* **DAVID**: Huh?
* *[Johnny appears in front of the terrified doctors]*
* **JOHNNY**: Boo.
* **DAVID**: What is this madness? I thought you all were dead.
* **YUE LIN**: Yes. We are. But we're zombies now. We want your eyeballs!
* **DAVID**: Impossible.
* **AISHA**: No! Not our eyeballs!
* **JOHNNY**: Wait a minute. Yue, what do you mean by ripping out their eyeballs?
* **YUE LIN**: Well, that's what zombies do.
* **JOHNNY**: Uh... OK. Attack them now!
* **LIVIA**: We're doomed!
* **RAYMOND**: Run for it!
* *{BGM START: Dead Space – The Necromorphs Attack}*
* *[The four doctors flee towards the exit while being chased by the zombies Johnny, Isabel, Yue Lin and Sheila. As the doctors reach the exit, Johnny leaped towards them and catches Livia by the leg. Livia falls over and is held hostage by Johnny. Isabel grabs her other leg and Yue Lin grabs her arm.]*
* **JOHNNY**: Don't anybody move!
* *[David and Raymond pause for a moment and are shocked when seeing Johnny, Isabel and Yue Lin holding Livia captive while Sheila aims a syringe filled with an unknown substance at Livia's neck.]*
* **JOHNNY**: If one of you moves, we will stick her full with this!
* **DAVID**: Not the B-Virus! This is our first and only sample.
* ***[MEANWHILE... INT. HOSPITAL WARD.]***
* *[May, Yun and Anne look at the emaciated body of a female patient who had recently died. Strangely, she wasn't irradiated nor was she probably involved in the incident. May raises the cold hand of the corpse.]*
* **MAY**: Poor fellow. What should we do with her?
* **YUN**: Do you know her?
* **MAY**: I used to see her face at school.
* **ANNE**: I have a bold idea.
* *[Anne brings out a suitcase, slams it onto the medical table and opens it, revealing a set of syringes.]*
* **MAY**: Where did you get these?
* **ANNE**: Watch and learn. *[Takes a syringe from the suitcase and injects May's shoulder with it]*
* **MAY**: Hey! What are you doing to me?
* **ANNE**: *[fills the syringe with May's blood and removes the needle from May's shoulder]* Let us begin.
* *[Anne proceeds to inject the lifeless patient with May's blood.]*
* *{BGM START: Star Wars Episode III - The Death of Padmé}*
* **ANNE**: What's the patient's name?
* *[May reads the patient record left on the table.]*
* **MAY**: "Vaness".
* *[The EEG machine beside the hospital bed begins to beep.]*
* **ANNE**: VANESS, I COMMAND YOU TO RISE UP!!!
* *[The patient, Vaness, awakens in a zombie-like fashion.]*
* **VANESS**: *(yawns)* Where's my morphine pills?
* **ANNE**: You can get your pills once you do us a favor.
* **VANESS**: OK. What is thy bidding? *[gets off the hospital bed]*
* **ANNE**: You are a zombie now, just like us. Join us and do our bidding and you shall survive.
* ***[INT. HOSPITAL LOBBY.]***
* *[Anne, Yun and May walk back to the lobby. Johnny notices them.]*
* **JOHNNY**: What's taking you girls so long?
* **ANNE**: We just found a way to turn others into zombies.
* **JOHNNY**: Good. Now we will do this to the rest of KK. Show us how later.
* **ANNE**: Right.
* **JOHNNY**: FELLOW ZOMBIES! We now have a new mission. WE'LL TERRORIZE THE NEIGHBORHOOD!
* ***[EXT. COLUMBIA KK HOSPITAL, OUTSIDE THE MAIN ENTRANCE]***
* *{BGM START: Eva 3.0 - It Will Mean Victory}*
* *[The seven zombies walk in a zombie-like fashion out of the hospital entrance and take to the streets. They search everywhere for victims to pick on. However, they did not manage to find anyone outside.]*
* **ISABEL**: I don't see no one to pick on.
* **YUE LIN**: No eyeballs to pick either.
* **JOHNNY**: Then keep searching!
* **ANNE**: Let's march!
* *[The zombies continue to patrol the streets. The camera then pans into the sky and pans downwards as a transition to Act II]*

## ACT II

* ***[EXT. KYLAR'S HOUSE]***
* *[We see Joshua and Kelvin come out of a police car which is parked near Kylar's house.]*
* **JOSHUA**: Ah. Finally here.
* **MATHURA**: *[Holds out a card with the letter M and her phone number written on it]* Joshua, call me if you need me.
* **JOSHUA**: Thanks.
* *[Joshua and Kelvin proceed towards Kylar's house. Joshua rings the doorbell.]*
* ***[INT. KYLAR'S HOUSE]***
* **MICHELLE**: I told you the cops would find us here.
* **KYLAR**: What's even wrong with that, Michelle? *[He proceeds to open the door, only to find Joshua and Kelvin outside.]* Good evening, Joshua.
* **JOSHUA**: Evening.
* **MICHELLE**: Hi Joshua! Didn't expect you to visit here. And who is this friend of yours here?
* **JOSHUA**: This is Inspector Kelvin of the Police Force.
* **KELVIN**: Good evening. I'm here to investigate something.
* **KYLAR**: Nice to meet you, Kelvin. I'm Kylar, and this is my girlfriend, Michelle.
* **MICHELLE**: You can come in.
* **KELVIN**: Thank you.
* *[Joshua and Kelvin enter Kylar's house and take their seats on the living room couch. Just as Joshua enters the living room, he is shocked to see Jo also inside the house, sitting on a sofa.]*
* **JOSHUA**: Jo! You just gave me a surprise.
* **JO**: I was here too. I might appear suddenly.
* **KYLAR**: Oh great! I forgot something. Joshua, Kelvin, Jo, I and Michelle are going out to get some drinks for you all.
* **JOSHUA**: OK. Be sure to be back before 8.
* **KYLAR**: OK.
* **MICHELLE**: See ya!
* *[Kylar and Michelle leave the house]*

## ACT III

* ***[EXT: MEKD RESTAURANT]***
* **JOSHUA**: *(narrating)* MekD restaurant. Spelled M-E-K-D due to international copyright laws. It's the most popular fast food restaurant in KK which is open 24 hours a day. And every evening till night, it's always crowded.
* *{BGM START: Damien Omen II - All The Power}*
* *[We see the seven zombies approaching the restaurant]*
* **JOSHUA**: *(narrating)* But tonight isn't like any other night.
* ***[INT: MEKD RESTAURANT]***
* *[The restaurant's interior is chock full of diners, who are oblivious to the presence of the zombies entering the restaurant. One diner, Aida, notices them walking like zombies.]*
* **AIDA**: These dudes look... strange. Look at how they walk.
* **JOHNNY**: Strange, you say? *[He flings a machete at Aida's neck]*
* *[The entire crowd of diners are shocked. Most of them gasp at Johnny's sudden action. One is seen dropping his soft drink cup which spilled on the table]*
* **JOHNNY**: Listen up everyone! We are zombies! We want your heads mounted on our wall! Submit to us or she dies first!
* *[The entire crowd of diners scream in horror and begin to run out of the restaurant. Aida manages to break free from Johnny's hold.]*
* **AIDA**: Please save me! I don't want to lose my head!
* **YUE LIN**: Now that's how we like them. Scrambled. *[snickers]*
* ***[MEANWHILE, INT. KYLAR'S HOUSE]***
* [*Kelvin's walkie-talkie began to ring, transmitting a message from Mathura.]*
* **MATHURA**: *[through walkie-talkie]* Come in, Kelvin! Come in, Kelvin!
* **KELVIN**: Yes, officer.
* **MATHURA**: We had just received reports of an armed attack at the street near the MekD restaurant.
* **KELVIN**: OK. I'm on the way. *[Looks to Joshua]* I have to go. Officer M needs me on an urgent matter.
* **JOSHUA**: OK. Be safe.
* *[Kelvin goes out of the house and into the police car, and the car sped off into the background.]*
* **[EXT: MEKD RESTAURANT]**
* *[The police officers notice a crowd of people running out of the MekD restaurant towards their car.]*
* **KELVIN**: We're almost there.
* *[Aida runs towards the car window. Mathura presses the brakes.]*
* **AIDA**: They're coming! They're alive!
* **MATHURA**: Who?
* **AIDA**: Zombies! They want to kill us all!
* **MATHURA**: Zombies? Are you serious?
* **KELVIN**: Did you say zombies?
* **MATHURA**: Snap out of this, Kelvin.
* **AIDA**: Please listen to me! These zombies are real!
* **KELVIN**: Trust her. This is Operation Yuen Ling. Yuen Ling will be proud if her namesake operation succeeds.
* **MATHURA**: Uh, OK. We're going there immediately. Lady, there's no need to panic because we're always here to defend our town of KK.
* **AIDA**: Thanks, officer.
* *[The police car speeds towards the MekD restaurant.]*
* **MATHURA**: Zombies? All of you must be crazy. Maybe it's because they watch too much zombie films?
* **KELVIN**: Yes, I do. I loved "*Dawn of the Dead*". The OG version.
* *[The car eventually reaches the restaurant and parks near the drive-thru. The two officers get out of the car.]*
* **MATHURA**: *[notices the large "M" sign near the restaurant]* Hey! That's my nickname!
* **KELVIN**: My trusty radiation detector had just sensed unusual levels of radiation. It must be coming from inside the restaurant.
* **MATHURA**: So this might be why they're called "zombies" in the first place. It might be just me or everyone here believed in zombies.
* **KELVIN**: I guess everyone watched too much zombie films.
* **MATHURA**: Whatever. I'm going in. Check for more radiation signals.
* **KELVIN**: Roger.
* ***[INT: MEKD RESTAURANT]***
* *[Inside the restaurant, Johnny is seen threatening a cashier for not giving Yun a cheeseburger.]*
* **JOHNNY**: She needs her cheeseburger now!
* **SHEILA**: *[looks out at the glass door and sees the two police officers outside]* Oh, no. Cops.
* **JOHNNY**: *[distracted]* Cops? Where?
* *[The cashier can be seen running away from the restaurant while Mathura barges into the restaurant.]*
* **MATHURA**: Freeze! KK Police Force! Put your hands up where I can see them!
* **MAY**: Hey! I'm still eating my cheeseburger.
* **MATHURA**: You may look like regular diners, but we will be catching you all. Exactly how many of you are there?
* **MAY**: Seven?
* **MATHURA**: Yes, all seven of you. We suspect you for intentional violence, extortion and battery. If guilty, you'll be sentenced to three years of community service.
* **MAY**: No! Not community service!
* **YUE LIN:** Three years is too long.
* **ANNE**: But we did not do any battery. We swear.
* **MATHURA**: By looking and behaving like this, people would think you're real zombies!
* **MAY**: Yes, we are.
* **MATHURA**: If you all are, aren't you all supposed to be dead?
* **MAY**: Oh yeah. For like, half an hour.
* *[Isabel returns from the drive-thru, holding two bags filled with cheeseburgers.]*
* **ISABEL**: I'm back! *[sees Mathura]* Oh, my! Is that a cop?
* **MATHURA**: Let's see. There's one, two, three, four, five, six of you. Where's number seven? And is someone biting my hand? *[she holds up her hand to look at it]* Oh, yeah. Someone has bitten my hand. *[Screams in pain]*
* **YUN**: Sorry, I was so hungry.
* *{BGM START: Damien Omen II - All The Power}*
* *[Johnny turns to Mathura, who is holding her injured hand. He holds out a shotgun and proceeds to shoot the police officer on the knee. Mathura falls to the floor and the resulting shot splats the floor with her blood. Johnny fires another shot onto her other knee, rendering her unable to walk. The police officer moans in pain as the seven zombies surround her.]*
* **SHEILA:** Should we kill her? I'm starting to dislike cops.
* **JOHNNY:** No. Leave her. We do not deal with the weak for now.
* *[The zombies then leave the restaurant, abandoning Mathura to her fate. Later, Kelvin enters the restaurant and finds Mathura injured.]*
* **KELVIN:** Oh, no. Officer, are you OK? *[sees blood splatter on the floor]*
* **MATHURA:** Take me to the hospital now.
* **KELVIN:** Uh... OK.
* *[Kelvin suddenly sees Vaness walking on the street outside the restaurant.]*
* **KELVIN:** Is that Vaness? I thought she died yesterday of drug overdose.
* **MATHURA:** I'm taking back whatever I said. Zombies. Are. Real.
* **KELVIN:** I knew it.

## ACT IV

* ***[MEANWHILE, INT. KYLAR'S HOUSE]***
* *[A news program runs on TV, with the text HIGH SCHOOL CLOSED AFTER LAB ACCIDENT]*
* **JOEL:** KK High School has closed for two weeks due to a lab accident. The event is said to have been a science experiment gone wrong as seven students were rushed to the hospital after handling a mysterious radioactive substance. The students are said to be inexperienced when handling the substance...
* *[Joshua and Jo are watching the news program to kill time. Kylar and Michelle haven't returned although the clock showed 8.30 PM.]*
* **JOSHUA:** What's taking them so long? I thought they're supposed to come back at 8.
* **JO:** Uh... Maybe there's a long queue at the drink stall.
* **JOSHUA:** Maybe, or they couldn't find another one if it closed.
* *[Joshua and Jo hear the police siren. They rush out to see Kelvin coming out of the police car.]*
* *{BGM START: The Host - Prologue}*
* **JOSHUA:** Kelvin. Uh.. where's M?
* **KELVIN:** She's injured. I took her to the hospital.
* **JOSHUA:** What about Kylar and Michelle? Did you see them?
* **KELVIN:** I thought I saw them at the drink stall some time ago. And mind you, I saw zombies near MekD.
* **JOSHUA:** Zombies? Seriously?
* **JO:** Like for real?
* **KELVIN:** M said that the seven students who just died suddenly came back to life. All seven of them.
* **JO:** Those might be real, genuine zombies. I too believe they exist. So there must be some reason why they became zombies.
* **JOSHUA:** It must be the radiation. When I visited Anne, I noticed an imbalance in her radiation level. The same thing might have happened to the others.
* **KELVIN:** OK, noted. With all this zombie stuff going on around, how about we assemble a team? Like a zombie fighter team? I might guarantee a place for anyone in the Police Force.
* **JO:** That is an excellent idea.
* **KELVIN:** What do you think we should call our team?
* **JOSHUA:** How about the "Aranda Squad"? That's where I live.
* **KELVIN:** The Aranda Squad. No one heard about a team named like that. But anyway, we need more members. We three can't just survive a zombie attack by ourselves, unless we did survive. It's safety in numbers.
* **JOSHUA:** Where could we find new members?
* ***[INT. CLEAN STATION]***
* *{BGM START: Infinite Space - Mebius}*
* **JOSHUA:** *(narrating)* Clean Station. Our neighborhood laundry station.
* *[We see three girls at the laundry, named Minnie Q, Sue and Shika. Minnie loads a basket of clothes into the washing machine and starts the machine after putting in detergent. Sue approaches her.]*
* **SUE:** Minnie?
* **MINNIE:** Yes, Sue?
* **SUE:** Can I have one of your chocolate bars, please?
* **MINNIE:** I only had three. There's one for each of us.
* **SUE:** OK.
* **SHIKA:** How much more?
* **MINNIE:** One more.
* ***[MEANWHILE, EXT. CLEAN STATION]***
* **KELVIN:** OK. We'll go in and tell these girls.
* **JOSHUA:** Yes, Inspector.
* **JO:** Roger.
* ***[INT. CLEAN STATION]***
* **JOSHUA:** *[walks in]* Hi, girls.
* **GIRLS:** Hi.
* **JOSHUA:** What are you doing?
* **MINNIE:** Doing laundry.
* **JOSHUA:** Can I help? I'm really good at laundry.
* **MINNIE:** Sure. Anyway, what brings you here?
* **JOSHUA:** Have you heard about the high school incident?
* **MINNIE:** All of us do.
* **SUE:** We watched the news.
* **JOSHUA:** Yes. And we need to be prepared for a zombie invasion.
* **MINNIE:** Zombies? Are you kidding me?
* **SUE:** In our neighborhood?
* **JOSHUA:** Yes. Zombies. They're real. You'll need to ask my friend Kelvin.
* **KELVIN:** *[walks in]* Seriously, ladies. Our town is under threat and the zombies are real. They were once the victims of that incident. And now they're out for blood. We need to stick together in order to survive. We are forming an anti-zombie squad and we need more members. I'll explain that to you later.
* *{BGM START: Infinite Space - Mebius}*
* **MINNIE:** I'm in.
* **KELVIN:** I know you can count on us.
* **SUE:** Me too. Shika, are you joining us?
* **SHIKA:** What's this all about?
* **KELVIN:** This is a serious matter.
* **SHIKA:** If those so-called zombies are real, what do you think they're like?
* **JOSHUA:** Did anyone of you believe in zombies?
* **MINNIE:** I do.
* **KELVIN:** They're not like ordinary zombies. They're more like real people, only their mindset has changed to be zombie-like.
* **JOSHUA:** We'll try to give everyone anti-zombie equipment.
* **SHIKA:** Let us introduce ourselves first. I'm Shika.
* **SUE:** Call me Sue.
* **MINNIE:** Minnie. Minnie Q. My mom gave me the initial because it sounds "cute".
* **SHIKA:** We are members of the KK Youth Development Center.
* **MINNIE:** We were once school dropouts. I dropped out of school since the first form.
* **JOSHUA:** OK. We've got a bunch of 17-year-olds joining us.
* **KELVIN:** Are you really 17?
* **SUE:** I am only 16+. My birthday's coming next month.
* **KELVIN:** You all are in as members of our new group.
* **SUE:** Yippy!!!
* **KELVIN:** As this group is for ages 15 and above.
* **JOSHUA:** Alright! Let's go find some more. You can suggest your friends to join too, girls.
* **SHIKA:** Hold on a sec. How did the zombies come to be?
* **JOSHUA:** That's a long story.
* *[The group discuss the issue while waiting for the laundry to finish washing. The camera pans from outside the Clean Station to the night sky, and then pans down to view... the KK Columbia Hospital.]*
* *{BGM START: The Host - Prologue}*
* ***[INT. KK COLUMBIA HOSPITAL, OPERATING THEATER]***
* **KYLAR:** Uh.. Michelle?
* **MICHELLE:** Yes?
* **KYLAR:** Where are we?
* **MICHELLE:** Strapped to the stretcher. And we couldn't get off. What are these strange dudes going to do to us then?
* **KYLAR:** I'm having a bad feeling about this. More to say, we're in the operating theater, and we're the patients waiting to be "treated surgically".
* **MICHELLE:** *[panics]* Let us out! We've been kidnapped! Anyone here?
* *{BGM START: Damien Omen II - All The Power}*
* *[The theater's door opens, and the seven zombies enter.]*
* **JOHNNY:** Zombies! Forward!
* **MICHELLE:** Did he just say "zombies?"
* **JOHNNY:** You two should be honored to be our first test subjects. You'll be dissected alive and converted into one of us.
* **KYLAR:** We're doomed.
* **JOHNNY:** Ready the tools.
* *{BGM START: Psycho - The Murder}*
* **KYLAR:** Oh no! I got a girlfriend! Dissect her first!
* **MICHELLE:** I've got an important exam to attend! We're innocent!
* [The screen cuts to black. Kylar and Michelle's screams are heard, and later sounds of flesh cutting.]
* **JOHNNY:** *[voice]* Ready the syringes.

**END OF CHAPTER**

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