Martyn Ford

Martyn Ford is a supporting character and a survivor of the outbreak in Route to Paradise. He's a wheelchair-bound middle aged man that was a history teacher at Willamette High School. Martyn is a selfless and humble man, always looking out for others. During the outbreak, Martyn decided to stay at the school along with principal Bruce Boseman and four students. Eventually they are joined by Jacob Feldman and his group, who stay there for a while. But after a short time, the school is attacked by a horde of zombies that Damerae Badrick led there, and during the battle, Martyn sacrifices himself to allow the rest of his group to escape.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Martyn was a teacher a history teacher at Willamette High School.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

Martyn remained at his workplace at Willamette High School following the outbreak. He stayed there with Bruce Boseman, Lloyd Waller, Kyle Douglass, Bernie Ortan and Tony Marston.

### **Season 3**

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

Waiting inside of Bruce Boseman, Martyn looks up at the door, seeing Bruce enter with Jacob Feldman and William Reynes. Martyn smiles, and expresses how happy he is to see him again. He then falls silent, as he listens to Bruce speak with Jacob, with Bruce agreeing to let the rest of Jacob's group stay here.

#### "**The Golden Goose**"

Martyn is in Bruce's office, speaking to William and Bruce, when Jacob enters. The men get to talking, and Bruce admits to them that they are scarily low on food - which means a supply run. Martyn suggests building a garden in the back, but Bruce says that the soil is infertile. "Give me a day and I'll fix that," Martyn replies, nodding. After some more talk, the rest of Jacob's group is mentioned - which gets Martyn to thinking. He asks if there are any sexual predators within Jacob's group that they should know about -- but Bruce assures Martyn that Jacob and William are good people, and they wouldn't harbor anyone like that.

#### "**Reunion**"

Martyn is present during Jacob's funeral in the school's cafeteria, after he had died during a supply run.

#### "**The Mist**"

In Bruce's office, Martyn is sitting in his wheelchair, simply thinking, while staring at the desk. Bruce is there too, and so is William, who is looking stressed, tired, and unwell. He asks William how he's doing - and William replies that he's feeling terrible. Martyn frowns and goes quiet, listening to Bruce and William chat about The Rastas. Martyn eventually chimes in and says that he could help fight against the Rastas, to which Bruce replies pointing out that he is wheelchair bound, and is the last line of defense in case everything goes wrong. Frowning, Martyn slowly nods. After another little while of talking, Martyn asks William if he's **sure** that he saw Damerae Badrick die. "He's dead," William states. "Alright..." Martyn responds, clearly having doubts.

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

In the cafeteria, Martyn is sitting at a table with Aldus Paxton, Albert Hanson and Austin Kingston. The men are talking about Dean Howards, who mysteriously vanished a couple of nights earlier. Aldus thinks that Dean was taken, which Austin agrees with. But Albert doesn't think so, and Martyn **knows** that he wasn't. He believes that Dean simply wandered off and get lost, or maybe he just gave up hope and left. Albert says that Dean seemed fine, to which Martyn answers, "They seem fine on the outside, but how was he on the inside?" Even with that said, Martyn assures the men that he'll speak with Bruce at some point and get a team out there to look for Dean. Apollo then comes waddling in, and Martyn whistles, calling the dog over. He pets him, smiling.

Later, Martyn is outside in his wheelchair, listening in as Jon Matthews goes over his idea of how to protect the school, which involves digging a moat around the courtyard. Martyn likes the idea, and he'd like to pitch and help in whatever way he can.

When Badrick arrives at the school with Dean as a hostage, Martyn looks on with the others, horrified at what had been done to Dean. He's even more horrified when the mangled corpse of Jim Butterman is revealed. When a giant horde of zombies is seen approaching the school behind Badrick, he gets back into the truck and speeds away. The zombies begin to swarm the school's courtyard, piling up along the fences. Bruce takes charge of the situation, and tells Martyn to get back inside and get all the kids to the cafeteria. Martyn gets right to it, rolling quickly back into the school.

In the cafeteria, Martyn is hard at work doing whatever he can to help set up a defense, which mainly involves flipping over tables to use as barricades. Lloyd Waller, Bernie Ortan and Tony Marston are helping. But Martyn, when he hears an explosion outside, begins to fear for the kids safety, and wonders if they should get them to a safer room. William, however, says that they're alright for now. Hesitantly, Martyn listens to him. As more and more gunshots start to ring out from in the courtyard, Martyn says that he should get out there and help, worrying about Bruce. But again it's William who tells him to stay put, and says that he'll be of the most use in here keeping an eye on the children. When William hurries off, Martyn looks over at Lloyd and the other kids and tells them that if things go wrong, he'll buy them some time to escape out of a nearby window. "We can't just leave you," Lloyd says, but Martyn tells him that it's not up for discussion.

Eventually, William and a few of the other adults come rushing into the cafeteria, zombies stumbling after them. They slam the doors, but know that they'll only hold for so long. Martyn readies his pistol, and tells William that it's been an honour shooting with him. Then, the doors to the cafeteria break open, and zombies flood in. The survivors let loose a barrage of gunfire, taking down many of the undead monsters, but it's not enough. Martyn, realizing that they'll never be able to kill all of them, yells out to Lloyd and the kids to get to the window now. As they're escaping out of the window, Martyn covers them with his pistol, ensuring no zombies get anywhere near them. The kids safely escape, but soon after the window becomes overrun with zombies, and it's not longer an option to escape out of. Martyn and the others are forced to fall backwards until their backs are against the wall. Martyn comes to a decision - and he looks over at Bruce. "Take care of them," he says, before Martyn wheels himself towards the zombies, throwing his now empty pistol at them. He yells, distracting most of the zombies, who start to tear Martyn apart. But the distraction creates an opening that allows the others to escape. Martyn screams as the zombies rip him apart.

## **Death**

Killed By
* Zombies

When the school comes under attack from the horde of zombies, Martyn and the others are backed into a corner. Martyn knows that he'll be useless outside of the school anyways, and so he sacrifices himself by charging into the zombies and distracting them long enough for his friends to escape.

## **Appearances**

Any episode with a checkmark over it signifies Martyn Ford appearing in any way.