Gunpoint

Daniel is tasked with escorting Badrick to meet his Rastas. Benjamin's crew sets off towards the stadium. Jon puts his escape plan into motion.

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## **Synopsis**

In the foyer of Willamette High School, Clyde Rollins is learning how to swing a bat properly by Claire Noble. His first attempt is a miserable excuse for a bat swing, but he keeps practicing. While he's at this, Benjamin Taylor, Mike Simpson, and Edward Remar come strolling through. Edward watches Clyde practicing, while Benjamin and Mike unravel a map, checking the distance between them and the football stadium. Benjamin figures they have enough fuel to get there, but not enough to get back in case things go poor. As Edward and Benjamin are debating when they should leave for the stadium, Solomon Reed enters the room to tell them that Dean Howards is ready to talk properly.

Edward and Benjamin head into the library where Dean is reading a book. When he sees them, he puts the book down and immediately gets to speaking to them. First, he informs them about Jacob Feldman's death, which surprises Edward and Benjamin, but gives them another reason to hunt down Badrick. After Dean finishes telling them about the raid on the school, Edward questions whether he has any clue about where Badrick could have gone. And unfortunately, Dean doesn't know. Edward vows that he's going to find and make Badrick suffer, but Dean pleads with him not to go down the same vengeful path Jacob did. Edward ignores him, limping out of the room in haste. Dean looks to Benjamin hoping he'd be smarter than Edward, but Benjamin declares that Badrick will suffer for taking away his final moments with Sarah Taylor.

Randall Forster and Michael Hall climb out of the sewer and onto the streets of Willamette. Their goal is to make it back to the school, but first, they stop at a clinic to hopefully find something to treat Michael's wound.

In the clinic, Randall digs through the cabinets searching for anything, but comes up with nothing. As they explore the building, Randall asks about Michael's family. Michael discloses the fact that his wife died pre-apocalypse, and he's happy about that--so that she didn't have to see what became of their family. Michael regrets the decision he made to kill everyone on sight inside Willamette Mall, believing that his sons might still be alive today if they didn't. Randall nods in agreement, telling him that although it's hard to forgive what Michael did, there isn't any point in holding grudges. While searching, Randall luckily stumbles across some clean bandages, tossing them over to Michael.

At the stadium cells, William's group is talking about Badrick, and how terrible he looked. Jon Matthews thinks Badrick's days are numbered, but Alex Weiss isn't so sure. To get their minds off of Badrick, Jon discloses his plan that he was going to tell earlier. His idea is to get himself injured during yard-time so he's taken to the infirmary, where he'll improvise from there. Angela Jaegar doesn't like the sound of that, but Jon says it's the best plan he's got. He asks everyone else for their thoughts, and they all agree with the plan.

In the other large cell, Zac Barnes notices Daniel Rockwell approaching them. When he stops in front of their cell, Daniel says he's here to give them new jobs. A confused Zac points out that they were supposed to be shipped off, and Daniel's response is to admit that there's been delays. Moving on, he asks if any of them have medical or construction experience. From the corner of the cell, Fraser Stiller looks up. Marcus Downes explains that Fraser was a paramedic. Although Fraser is reluctant to leave the cell, a glance from Marcus tells him that he should take the opportunity, and so he agrees to take whatever medical job Daniel has. Satisfied, Daniel says he'll have Fraser taken to the infirmary to meet the doctor later on. Excited that something is finally going their way, Marcus tells Fraser that he can prove himself and help them escape.

In the infirmary, Badrick is getting his face rebandaged by Vivian Finkling, with Nick Parker watching them for protection. Badrick asks Nick to leave, but the man doesn't leave his post. After another coughing fit, Badrick asks Vivian what her name is, and she reluctantly tells him her first name. Nathaniel Shepard then comes into the room as Vivian finishes up and leaves. He sends Nick away, and gives Badrick the good news that his Rastas have been spotted and are arriving at the docks shortly. Badrick asks to meet them alone, but Nathaniel won't allow that; the most he'll allow is for Badrick to be escorted to the docs by some of his guys. After it's settled that Daniel will be the one to escort Badrick, Nathaniel walks out.

Daniel comes walking through the cafeteria, stopping to chat with Grant Carver. In an unpleasant manner, Daniel tells him that people have been abandoning the stadium, and supplies were quickly dwindling. Both of them now agree that Nathaniel is delusional, and that there is no paradise waiting for them across the ocean. Before they can say anymore, Nathaniel strolls in to inform them that Badrick's Rastas had arrived. As Grant is complaining, Nathaniel takes Daniel into the hall, where he tries to convince him that everything is going right for them. Tired of all the lies, Daniel confronts him, calling him out for being so gullible and naive. In a serious tone, Nathaniel reveals that his real plan is to take the ship that the Rastas are arriving with. Daniel still doesn't agree with it, and starts doubting that the island of Banoi is not real. Shouting at the top of his lungs, Nathaniel says that it is real, and that he's seen it with his own eyes. Playing the sympathy card, Nathaniel brings up the fact that it was his deceased wife's goal to make Banoi safe. Sighing, Daniel asks Nathaniel what he needs him to do.

Back inside the cafeteria, Grant is trying to convince Lolida Windfield that Nathaniel can no longer be trusted, but Lolida isn't buying it--for now. Just then, Daniel walks in, telling them that they were going to be escorting Badrick to the docks. Daniel, not at all believing in Nathaniel's plan, says that they need to kill Badrick instead of taking him to the docks. Grant agrees, but Lolida thinks they're insane for even bringing up the idea. However, a scared Lolida goes along with them.

Daniel and his escort team walk over to the main entrance, where Badrick is waiting in the back seat of a car. Nathanial is waiting there to send them on their way, wishing them safe travels. As the escort group gets into the car, Badrick apologizes to Lolida, who he had strangled during his outburst the previous day. Lolida accepts the apology, and Daniel drives off.

Speeding down the rural roads, Lolida asks Badrick why he wanted those prisoners dead so badly anyway. Badrick is happy to answer, and he starts explaining how those prisoners, and another large group, were responsible for the destruction of Willamette and the killing of practically all of Badrick's Rastas. Grant calls his story out as bullshit, which Badrick doesn't take too kindly too. Grant and Lolida then get into a bickering contest, until Badrick gets them to stop by asking Lolida to tell him about himself. Lolida explains that humanity is something he's held onto closely since the start of the apocalypse, which Badrick says is admirable. Looking out the windows, Badrick doesn't find the area to be recognizable. When Daniel says that he's pulling over to take a leak, Badrick senses that something isn't right. Quickly, he knocks out Lolida by slamming his head into the window, before taking his knife and jamming it into Grant's throat. As Grant is sputtering up blood and choking to death, Daniel accidently swerves off the road whilst trying to wrestle the knife out of Badrick's hand. Spinning out of control, the car crashes by the side of the road.

Back at the school, the majority of the group are out in the courtyard. Wilbur Wright soon joins them, concluding that there was no supplies left in the school worth taking. As Benjamin is telling everyone what the fuel situation is, Clyde sees something in the distance--the skeletal remains of some corpse he doesn't recognize. After Dean is handed an Uzi from Solomon to protect himself, Dean turns to see what Clyde was looking at--and he breaks down recognizing the remains as Jim Butterman. When Edward hears Dean confirming that Jim's demise was Badrick's doing, it gives him another reason to want Badrick dead. A broken Dean, traumatized at the sight of seeing his good friend dead, and remembering how Badrick made him drive the truck, admits to Edward that he wants Badrick dead as well, forgetting all about Jacob and his path of vengeance. Wilbur and Solomon walk off to clear the gym building of the school, while Benjamin and Mike go sit down on a bench together. Edward, seeing them all go, reminds them all not to forget or lose hope in their ultimate goal to kill Badrick. Clyde, who's still there, warns Edward not to let that goal consume him, and Claire backs him up by recalling what she said earlier in that killing Badrick won't bring back anything they've lost. A bitter Edward storms off inside.

Solomon and Wilbur head inside the gym, seeing countless dead zombies on the ground. As they're walking around, scanning the bodies, Wilbur suddenly recognizes one of them. He crouches down in front of Da'Jonte Woodard's corpse; he'd been killed by zombies during the school attack. Wilbur doesn't feel any sort of sympathy for him, remembering how Da'Jonte had betrayed him and joined The Rastas. After clearing the rest of the building, the two head back outside.

Outside, Benjamin is clutching half of a necklace--where the other half belonged to his daughter, Sarah. Mike, seeing Benjamin in mourning, compares the half-necklace to himself, pointing out the fact that Benjamin recruited him when he was homeless and missing part of himself. Benjamin, nodding, thanks Mike for staying by his side throughout everything, and Mike says he would serve no other man but him. Benjamin tells Mike that he needs to kill Badrick so that he doesn't have the chance to inflict pain on anybody else. Mike, not wanting Benjamin to be consumed by vengeance like Edward, tells Benjamin to let Sarah be his guide--and to think about what she would want him to do. Standing up, Benjamin thanks Mike for his advice, but says that he needs to kill Badrick himself.

In the courtyard, Dean is hard at work digging a grave for Jim, refusing any help from Clyde. When Dean keeps digging, ignoring everyone else, Claire walks up to him, telling him the story about how she killed her boyfriend's killer--but it didn't satisfy her at all, and Dean will feel the same way if he lets vengeance take him over to kill Badrick. Finally stopping the digging, Dean confesses that he's conflicted between wanting to kill Badrick and keeping calm and peaceful like Jim was. After he goes back to digging, Claire sees a couple of figures approaching them from the street. Looking over, Dean instantly recognizes one of them as Randall. He hurries over, and Randall hugs Dean, happy to see him again. Their joyful reunion, however, turns upside down when Dean informs them about Jim's fate, something Michael overhears as he approaches. Clyde recognizes Michael from when he was escaping The Rastas, but Randall is quick to let him know that Michael has changed since then. Clyde accepts the new Michael, but when Edward lays eyes on him, he yells at his group for not killing him on the spot. Clyde is able to calm the situation by having everyone agree to talk over things inside once Michael gets his wound patched up again.

Everyone heads inside, and Mike starts tending to Michael's wound, while Randall catches up with everyone else. Randall is quick to join them and their goal of killing Badrick, especially after hearing what happened at the school. With not everyone being in a condition to travel to the stadium, Benjamin says he'll go with Mike, Edward, and Solomon to investigate it, while the others stay behind at the school. With no objections, Benjamin and the team he's created prepare to leave.

Back at the stadium, Jon, Angela, and Aldus are doing their yard-time on the pitch. Using the axe he was provided with to chop wood, Jon slices his arm to get the guards' attention. Nick and Isaac Moses hurry over, seeing his bleeding arm. Nick curses at Jon, while Isaac looks over his wound and requests that he be taken to the infirmary pronto. Sighing, Nick leads Jon towards the infirmary, leaving Isaac to watch over the other two. As Angela is getting ready to get back to work, she suddenly sees a couple of guards escorting Ed Anderson across the field. She drops her work and runs over, pushing past a guard and ignoring their commands to stop. As Ed is rushed off around the corner and out of sight, Angela wrestles with another guard. As Nick is returning from the infirmary and sees the commotion, he and another guard restrain Angela. He declares that this is not acceptable, and that she was being taken to "the dark room". As Angela is being dragged off, she yells at Aldus to let the others know that everything is okay.

Inside the infirmary, Jon is led into one of the rooms by Vivian. There, waiting, is Fraser. He and Jon instantly recognize each other, but don't say anything while Vivian is in the room. Vivian begins treating Jon's arm with Fraser assisting her by handing over the needed equipment. Vivian notices how Jon and Fraser keep looking at each other, and suspects that they know one another, but Jon denies that they do. After Vivian leaves the room, Jon and Fraser let each other know that their respective cellmates are still alive. Fraser gives Jon a scalpel for later use, and Jon thanks him.

Angela wakes up in the dark room--which as the name suggests, is very dark. There, with her, is Ed. After finally reuniting with him, Ed sadly tells her that he never found their other two group members, Darwin Thorne and Don Holloway. After Ed explains that he ended up in the dark room for almost escaping, Angela tells him that they have a plan in motion, and soon they'll be out.

While traveling to the stadium, Benjamin and the three men he's with see a crashed car by the side of the road. They pull over to investigate, and find Daniel and Lloyd, who has a terrible head injury, sitting on Grant's corpse, mourning. When they see Benjamin's group approaching, a startled Daniel says they don't want any trouble. After Benjamin lets out the fact that they're heading for the stadium, Daniel admits that they were from there--and that their group takes people against their will. Explaining the car crash, he tells them about how a "psychopath" killed Grant and was likely heading to the docks following the crash. Solomon asks for this name of who the psychopath was, and Daniel, not caring, says it was Badrick. Edward, realizing that this car crash was recent and Badrick was likely at the nearby docks, urges Benjamin to go back to the school, pick up everyone, and come back to finish Badrick off once and for all. Benjamin thinks for a moment before agreeing with Edward's plan. He asks Daniel and Lolida if they want to come, but with Lolida's head injury, they're in no state to go anywhere. Benjamin and the others hop back into the truck and head off towards the school.

Moving across town, Bernie Ortan wakes up and strolls downstairs to see Lloyd Waller awake and keeping watch outside. After letting Bernie know about some cereal he could eat for breakfast, Lloyd heads upstairs to wake up Kyle Douglass. After Kyle clambers out of bed, Lloyd stops him from going downstairs so that they can talk. Lloyd admits that he doesn't have a plan for the three of them, and worries about the future. Kyle assures Lloyd that it's not his fault--as he's just a kid, like him and Bernie. Still, Lloyd wants to make sure that they can survive, and so he tells Kyle that he'll need to learn to defend himself if they want to go looking for the survivors of the school. In order to do so, Lloyd wants to teach Kyle some of the basics. Understanding him, Kyle gives Lloyd permission to do whatever necessary, including hitting Kyle, to make sure he stays in line and learns what to do. Joking about it, the two of them head downstairs to get breakfast.

After breakfast, Lloyd takes Kyle and Bernie into the garage, where he had managed to find a baseball bat and a hatchet overnight. With Bernie the only one with a knife as a weapon, Lloyd takes the bat, while Kyle is given the hatchet. Once they're geared up with their weapons, Lloyd says they're going to head out in search of supplies, and to hopefully find the survivors of the school.

The kids march down the neighbourhood street, with Kyle already getting freaked out by the dreadful atmosphere. Soon, they're confronted with two zombies. A terrified Kyle backs away, while Lloyd and Bernie take on one zombie each. Although a struggle, they manage to defeat them. Kyle is disgusted at the blood, but it's something he'll need to get used to, as Lloyd points out. As they continue down the street, Lloyd starts remembering Jacob--and how he still believes his death was his fault for handing him the grenade. Kyle, going serious, tells Lloyd that it really is not his fault. "I just wish I could've saved him," Lloyd says, walking ahead.

Eventually, the trio of kids find a convenience store that seems worth looting. Lloyd briefs his two friends, warning them to stick together. Before heading inside, Lloyd shows Kyle exactly how to swing his hatchet in case they were to bump into any zombies. The three of them then carefully climb through a smashed window and start going through the store. Eventually, Lloyd and Kyle hear a zombie shuffling around. Lloyd signals to Bernie to stay on high alert as they locate the sound of the shuffling. When they do, Lloyd brings it down and kills it with his bat. However, as they're sighing in relief, Lloyd sees a large horde of thirty or forty zombies passing by outside. Doing his best to ignore the horde outside, Kyle starts scrummaging through some shelves, unaware that right behind him, a zombie was waking up and inching towards him. By the time Kyle turns around, it's right in his face. Kyle screams for help as the zombie pushes Kyle into a shelf, knocking it over, which creates a domino effect of all the other shelves collapsing. Lloyd manages to deal with the zombie on Kyle--but by then, the horde of zombies outside were already making their way towards them. Kyle begins hyperventilating, apologizing profusely. Lloyd grabs him, doing his very best to calm Kyle down. Seeing the zombies quickly approaching the front of the building, Lloyd gets Kyle and Bernie to follow him back out the window they came in through. When they make it outside, Lloyd beats down a zombie in their way and runs ahead with Bernie, unaware that Kyle was standing frozen looking a zombie dead in its eyes. His face full of pure fear, Kyle turns and runs away--in the opposite direction of Lloyd and Bernie. Lloyd notices Kyle missing, but by then he and Bernie had cornered themselves in a nearby alleyway. Using a dumpster, the two of them climb over a fence, escaping the grasp of the horde.

## **Cast**

#### **Starring**

* Jon Matthews
* William Reynes
* Edward Remar
* Clyde Rollins
* Randall Forster
* Kate Bloodstone
* Marcus Downes
* Benjamin Taylor
* Austin Kingston
* Aldus Paxton
* Albert Hanson
* Dean Howards
* Damerae Badrick

#### **Also Starring**

* Daniel Rockwell
* Jared Kellings
* Solomon Reed
* Rebecca Dawson
* Lloyd Waller
* Claire Noble
* Angela Jaegar
* Fraser Stiller
* Zachariah "Zac" Barnes
* Nathaniel Shepard

#### **Guest Starring**

* Isaac Moses
* Layton Zimmers
* Lolida Windfield
* Alex Weiss
* Ed Anderson
* Vivian Finkling
* Kyle Douglass
* Bernie Ortan
* Nick Parker
* Michael Hall
* Wilbur Wright
* Mike Simpson

#### **Co-Starring**

* Grant Carver
* Jim Butterman *(Corpse)*
* Da'Jonte Woodard *(Corpse)*

## **Deaths**

* Grant Carver
* Da'Jonte Woodard *(Confirmed Fate)*