Call to Arms (Episode)

**"Call to Arms"** is the seventh and final episode of *Season 5: Remake* of *Strain Zero*, the remake of *The Walking Dead by EDStudios*. It is the thirty-second episode of the series overall.

## Plot

*The storm arrives, bringing with it chaos and uncertainty, as Mike and the others rush home and the communities prepare for bloodshed.*

## Synopsis

Henry, Gideon and Katrina are retrieved from their cell and marched into Prescott's courtyard, where a hastily-built gallows awaits them. They are bound and placed in nooses while Albert reads out their charges, including insurrection, before sentencing them to death before the horrified crowd. Henry is allowed some last words and uses them to rally the crowd, only to be gagged by Albert before he pulls the lever to drop Gideon, killing him. As Albert pulls Katrina's lever, however, Samuel and Ashleigh appear with Cara and the other freed prisoners, all armed, just as Achilles crashes through the gate. Samuel calls for the crowd to rebel and seize the soldiers' weapons; soon the courtyard becomes a battlefield, with a stray bullet freeing Henry from his rope that allows him to save Katrina before she suffocates. The soldiers are quickly subdued and Albert, unable to reach Delta Force command, escapes on a bike. Henry forces a soldier to divulge the location of a radar tower, which Albert will use to summon reinforcements, and Henry gives chase in a truck.

At Graystone, the Delta Force soldiers begin randomly firing upon the residents in revenge for Robbins' sudden execution. Under Holly's command, the residents prepare their barricades and seal the town's centre off from the soldiers that surround them. Maldoon agrees to stand down if the town hands over David; despite David's willingness to surrender, the residents prevent him from leaving.

Henry finally catches up to Albert but struggles to apprehend him due to the terrible state of the roads. Despite bursting a tire he manages to keep pace, but Albert arrives as the radar tower and enters before Henry can stop him. With no other option, Henry hits the gas and crashes the truck through the wall of the station. He survives, dazed and confused, and exits the truck to find Albert pinned against the station console by the truck. Albert asks if Henry knows what he has started; Henry replies that he knows what he has finished, and executes Albert with a gunshot to the head. He uses the still-working radio to contact Ben and initiate the sabotage; Kieron hears Henry's order and sends troops from Greencole to the dam.

In the dam's boiler room, Ben's hallucinations worsen and he begins convulsing, signs that death is near; despite this, he continues working and redirects the steam back into the boilers. The turbines now spinning, the boilers begin to overheat. He radios the soldiers to tell them they should leave and follows them to the surface; he enters his death throes as the boilers overheat and violently explode, triggering a series of ruptures that blow open the front wall of the dam, causing water from Wolf Lake and burst through and surge the waters. Ben collapses as the top of the dam breaks apart and the entire structure collapses, draining the lake as the water rushes downriver. Kieron watches in horror from Greencole while Henry rests at the radar station, mourning the loss of his friend.

At the oil field, the Crew remain pinned down by the sniper. With no cover between them and the shack, Emma decides to use her explosive arrows to ignite the oil wells and hide behind the smoke, while the others lay down covering fire.

## Deaths

* Albert - crushed by a truck and shot in the head by Henry
* Ben Appleby - succumbed to his infection and committed suicide by destroying Wolf Dam

 **Season 5: Remake** | "Blood" • "Rules" • "Dissent" • "The Game" • "The Coming Storm" • "Brotherhood" • "**Call to Arms**"