Road of the Dead 2/Dialogue

## Opening Crawl

(Day 1: Small isolated events of an unknown illness and violence are reported in and around Evans City.)

(Day 2: News reports of a man dying of an unknown illness who was rushed to Evans City hospital where bloody violence and chaos ensued.)

(Day 3: More reports of sick, seemingly dead people committing acts of random violence in the city. Cannibalism is also witnessed but grisly details are being withheld to reduce panic.)

(Day 4: The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) moves in, setting up makeshift to try to contain the unknown illness. It's reported that bites and deep scratches can transfer the disease.

(The infected victims are clinically dead but still move and attack violently, in larger and larger numbers.)

(Day 5: All news channels are forced off the air. Military forces move in and begin a quarantine of the entire city. NO ONE is permitted to ENTER or LEAVE the city. Military officials broadcast the rules of the quarantine: to keep calm and stay indoors.

(All outside news channels are reporting that there is a chemical leak and that it's being cleaned up. The truth of the mysterious illness is being withheld from the public under government order.)

(Day 6: Riots and panics break out as people try to leave the city, hundreds are arrested and put into makeshift camps in local schools and jails. The military and CDC set up quarantine checkpoints throughout Evans City to uphold the quarantine. Churches and police stations are set up to be last minute evacuation zones.

(More people become infected and lash out violently. THOUSANDS of people are being killed. Military open fire on anyone approaching checkpoints. The CDC begins burning large piles of bodies.)

(Day 7: The infected walking corpses start to outnumber living people in the city. Checkpoints are being overrun at a faster and faster rate. A central command and communications checkpoint is overrun by a panicked riot of hundreds of civilians followed by a horde of undead. A high security broadcast radio is stolen in the chaos. Communication breaks down throughout military channels as the military is thrown into disarray.)

## Introduction Cutscene

(A military jet flies over the city. Pan to an overturned military Humvee that's covered in blood and spewing smoke. A wounded, blood soaked soldier grunts with exertion as he tries to crawl out from behind it. A zombie grabs him and pulls him back behind it.)

Soldier: No! No! No!

(The zombie is heard eating him. The camera pans to a female soldier, Diane, grappling with a large zombie.)

Diane: (Grunts) Shit!

(The zombie pins her to the ground, rips off her helmet, and snarls as it tries to bite her. Panicking, Diane notices a nearby pistol. Holding the zombie back with both hands and one foot, she grabs the gun and shoots it three times in the head, killing it. She kicks the body off her and rises to her feet. Meanwhile, a Humvee is racing in her direction. Diane notices three zombies shambling towards her from behind.)

Diane: Shit! Fuck!

(She aims at the zombies. The driver of the Humvee, Cocheta, puts the pedal to the metal and rams into the three zombies, sending body parts flying everywhere. He gets out of the car. A wounded zombie that has lost the entire lower half of its body crawls towards him, hissing. Cocheta produces a pistol and shoots the zombie to death. He turns to Diane.)

Cocheta: Come on, let's go! Move it!

Diane: (Shocked) Ye... yeah!

(She runs up to him as the screen fades to black.)

## Cocheta Solomon Quotes

If Chosen to Drive

"I'm gonna drive for now!"

"I'll drive, you shoot!"

Picking up Citizen

"Get in the back!"

"You're safe now!"

"Come on, get in!"

Going through Alleyway

"I'm taking a shortcut!"

"Drive straight through!"

Hitting a Zombie

"Bam!"

"In your face!"

"Yeah!"

"Nice driving!"

Shooting a Zombie in Street

"Boo-yah!"

"Take that!"

Zombie on Hood

"Shoot! Shoot!"

"Kill it! *Now!*"

"Come on! Blast it off!"

"Oh, no!"

"Dammit!"

"You have *got* to be kidding me!"

"Got a clinger!"

"Watch out!"

Shooting a Zombie on Hood

"Thanks!"

"Don't let 'em on the hood!"

"This one got close!"

"Get off!"

"Get off the hood!"

"You okay, Diane?"

Repairing Tires

"Hey! I'm putting on new tires!"

Diane: "Sure! I'll keep 'em back!"

Repairing Bumper

"The armor is banged up! I'll put it back together!"

Diane: "Okay, I'm keeping watch!"

Zombie in Car

"Dammit!

"No! Dammit!"

"Shake it off!"

"Wanna dance, huh?!"

Carpet Bombing

"Bombing ahead!"

"Brace yourself!"

"Hang on! *Bombs!*"

"Shit!"

"Whoa!"

Reloading

"I'm reloading!"

"Changing mags!"

"Gotta reload!"

"Reloading!"

"Hold on, I'm reloading!"

Diane is Repairing

"Come on! We don't have all day!"

"Move it! We're sitting ducks here!"

Mutant

"*Mutant!*"

Wounding a Mutant

"It's not dead yet!

"Don't you come back!"

Diane is Dying

"Diane? Diane? Hold on!"

Diane Crashes

"Ah! Goddammit! Open your eyes!"

## Diane Roseworth Quotes

If Chosen to Drive

"I'm okay. I'll drive!"

Picking up Citizen

"Get in! Get in!"

"Get in the back!"

"We gotcha!"

Going through Alleyway

"Cocheta! The alleyway!"

"I'm going through the alleyway!

Hitting a Zombie

"Whoa!"

"That's gotta hurt!"

"Oh, yeah!"

"You deserved that!"

"That's how it's done!"

Shooting a Zombie in Street

"One more down!"

Zombie on Hood

"On the hood!"

"Shit!"

"Shoot it!"

"*Kill* this *thing*!"

"Shoot it off!"

Shooting a Zombie on Hood

"Avoid them if you can!"

"Bye bye!"

"That one's gone!"

"That was stupid."

Cocheta shoots Zombie

"Just in time!"

"That was a close one!"

"You're good at this!"

"Damn! Good shot!"

"You're good at this!"

Reloading

"I'm reloading!"

"Gotta reload!"

"Changing mags!"

Out of Ammo

"I'm out!"

Cocheta Crashes

"Dammit! Want me to drive?!"

Cocheta is Dying

"Cocheta! You OK?! Stay with me!"

Switching Driver

"I'll take the wheel now!"

Carpet Bombing

"Shit!"

"Oh, shit! Here it comes!"

"Brace yourself!"

"No way!"

"You have *got* to be kidding me!"

"Shit! Here it comes!"

"Watch out!"

Gathering Ammo

"Getting some ammo!"

"Time to restock and reload!"

Cocheta: "Okay! I'm covering you!"

OR

Cocheta: "Yeah! And I'll shoot these fools!"

Picking up Meds

"There are meds here! I'll get some."

Cocheta: "Yeah! And I'll shoot these fools!"

Repairing Bumper

"Our armor plating needs some work! I'm on it!"

Cocheta: "All right! I gotcha back!"

OR

Cocheta: "Okay! I'm covering you!

Repairing Engine

"Our engine is a mess! I'll fix it!"

Repairing Tires

"Swapping fresh tires!"

Cocheta is Repairing

"We're not safe here! Are you done?"

"Move it, Cocheta!"

"Hurry up! Get inside!"

Car is Full

"The back is full!"

Mutant

"Here comes the mutated ones!"

Zombie in Car

"Ah! Get *off* me!"

"Shit!"

"Fuck!"

"Fuck! Dammit!"

## Citizen Quotes

Getting Picked up

"Thanks. You're amazing!"

"Thank you so much!"

"You saved my life!"

"Good luck!"

"Can't thank you enough!"

"Thank you!"

"Oh, my God! Thank you!"

"You stopped! Oh, my God!"

"I can't feel my leg!"

"I'm saved!"

Being Dropped off

"Goodbye."

"Bless you!"

"You're a lifesaver!"

"Thank you again."

"Oh, I'm saved!"

"Please, stay safe!"

"Wish me luck!"

"Good luck!"

"You're good people!"

Driving a Car

"Shit! Shit! Get out of the way!"

"Move! *Move!*"

"This is crazy!"

"I'm getting the hell out of here!"

"I can't stop!"

"It is a nightmare!"(crying mess or what)

In Street

"(Manic laughter)"

"The world is ending!"

"(Screaming)"

"They're trying to kill me!"

"Jesus, why?!"

"Please stop, help me!"

"Where are my car keys?!"

"What's happening?!"

"My babies! My babies!"

"Stop! Help me!"

"It's the end of the world!"

"God help us!"

## General Sherman Quotes

Cocheta is Reloading

"Take this extra ammo!"

## Evans City

**Diane**: Thank you! We crashed our Humvee. I was with a Kilo-5 patrol unit. We got surrounded so fast, they... they all died. What's your name?

**Cocheta**: Cocheta Solomon, Delta-2 unit. And you?

**Diane**: I'm Diane, Diane Roseworth.

**Cocheta**: Are you okay?

**Diane**: Yeah, I'm better. Whee are we going, what's going on?

**Cocheta**: We're losing control. Gotta get out of the city.

**Diane**: No, we have to regroup with the other units!

**Cocheta**: What other units? look around you! No, we keep driving west to the edge of the city.

**Diane**: Okay, we do it your way.

(First zombie killed by shooting.)

**Diane**: Don't they die from bullets to the head?

**Cocheta**: Yeah, but I heard you have to hit specific parts of their brain to flip their switch off.

**Diane**: Damn!

## Thornhill Road

**Diane**: Cocheta, your radio.

**Cocheta**: It's busted.

**Diane**: Would be good to have contact with our people. Can we fix it?

**Cocheta**: I think so.

* If Cocheta is the driver
* If Diane is the driver

**Cocheta**: I'm on it!

(Cocheta fixes the radio.)

**Cocheta**: It works but it has a limited frequency range. We won't get everything.

**Diane**: I'm fixing it!

(Diane fixes the radio.)

**Diane**: Alright, got it. The frequency range is narrow though. We'll only get some of the comms.

(The radio buzzes. It begins to broadcast a message.)

**Unit 11**: Unit 11 to Base! Brighton Bridge is completely overrun. We need a new fallback position, now!

**HQ Commander**: Uh, set a defense, at the... Chinatown Plaza!

**Unit 11**: Sir? We just came from there.

**HQ Commander**: Uh... God damn it! Just move north! Just move freaking north!

**Unit 11**: Yes... sir!

(The broadcast ends.)

**Cocheta**: Told ya. We lost control.

**Diane**: So what do we do, do we go north?

**Cocheta**: Are you crazy? They're panicked. They're saying anything.

**Diane**: Maybe you're right. But it's dangerous to stay on our own.

**Cocheta**: You heard them! Entire regiments got overrun. We're better off in small numbers.

**Diane**: Yeah.

(The radio broadcasts again.)

**Unit 8**: Unit 8 to Base! We need artillery fire on Northside Park, now!

**HQ**: Negative, Unit 8. Artillery has been proven ineffective against the undead. Maintain current strategy.

## Woodmere

**Diane**: Were you part of the flatline operation? We've been fighting these things for almost a week!

**Cocheta**: No, I came in two days ago. It was pretty bad already.

**Diane**: But it seemed like we were still in control, even this morning. Still got coherent orders and all.

**Cocheta**: That's what HQ wanted you to think. This is way over their head.

**Diane**: It doesn't make sense. Never thought we'd be overwhelmed like this.

**Cocheta**: We've never fought a battle like this.

**Diane**: It's crazy.

(After a while, the radio broadcasts again.)

**Unit 17**: This is Unit 17! The zeds are spilling through the barricades! Our position is completely compromised! Over!

**HQ Commander**: Pull back to Section 11. And *hold* position, Unit 17.

**Unit 17**: Orders received! We are pulling back!

## North Logan

**Diane**: Listen, I know you think we're better off by ourselves, but I'm gonna contact HQ to get a clear picture.

**Cocheta**: Suit yourself.

(Diane turns on the radio.)

**Diane**: HQ! This is Kilo-5 reporting. Do you copy?

(The radio is silent.)

**Diane**: HQ! This is Kilo-5 reporting! Do you copy?!

**HQ**: Kilo-5, uh... go ahead.

**Diane**: My squad is dead. I got a pickup. We need orders. We're near, uh... Burlington and Lake. Over.

**HQ**: Um, move north to regroup. Over.

**Diane**: Regroup where? Where to?

(The radio is silent.)

**Diane**: Kilo-5 to HQ*,* regroup where?

(The radio remains silent.)

**Diane**: HQ, do you copy?!

(Still no response.)

**Diane**: Dammit!

**Cocheta**: Satisfied? Wanna go north?

**Diane**: I don't know!

**Cocheta**: Then we don't!

(After a while, the radio broadcasts.)

**Unit 12**: We need backup! This is Unit 12 on Burgony Street! Our Humvee turned over to our- we're surrounded! Agh! Shit!

**HQ**: Please repeat that, Unit 12! What is your position?

**Unit 12**: *(Zombies groaning)* Oh my god! Ah, shit! They're attracted out on me-! *(Radio cuts off)*

**HQ**: Unit 12! *Unit 12! Please respond!*

## Meridian Avenue

**Diane**: Cocheta! You know most of the city has been covered with spike strips and mines three days ago, right?

**Cocheta**: Yeah. It was in the briefing. This is gonna be a problem.

**Diane**: Yeah, gotta be real careful.

## Greater Renton

(The radio broadcasts.)

**Checkpoint 6**: Checkpoint to Base! We're in trouble here! We need orders!

**Dispatch**: Maintain current strategy.

**Checkpoint 6**: We're about to be overrun. Current strategy is *shit!*

**Dispatch**: I repeat, maintain current strategy.

**Checkpoint 6**: What?! *What the hell is going on?!*

(The broadcast ends.)

**Diane**: This is insane!

**Cocheta**: We thought we could be arrogant. Turn this planet into a dump and not pay-

**Diane**: Don't give me that nature-loving bullshit, Cocheta! This is not karma, or whatever you want to call it! Let's just focus on getting the hell out of here, all right?

(The radio broadcasts again.)

**Unit 10**: Unit 10 to Base! We're surrounded on the East Site factory! Requesting airlift out! Over!

**HQ Commander**: Denied. Secure position, and await orders.

**Unit 10**: REQUESTING AIRLIFT, ASAP! THEY'RE GETTING IN WE- *(Radio cuts off)*

## Bonaventure Plaza

**Cocheta**: Did we just go through Greater Renton?

**Diane**: Yeah, I think so. Why?

**Cocheta**: I had a buddy from P-Squad who told me they were neutralizing the civilians beyond this area with motion detection mines.

**Diane**: What?!

**Cocheta**: It blows up when you get close. A last ditch effort to keep people from moving all around the city. Stop traffic and all that.

**Diane**: Damn...

(The radio broadcasts.)

**Soldier**: Central Plaza is completely overrun! We need to pull back everybody! Pull back from Central, now!

**HQ Commander**: Denied! You are to hold position!

**Soldier**: They're killing everyone! *It's all over!* We've lost Central, *I repeat,* *we have lost Central!*

## Burnaby Street

(The radio broadcasts.)

**Sherman**: Attention, all troops. This is General Sherman. I am taking command of this operation. We're facing an enemy like we've never seen before. But keep your heads cool, and we're gonna get through this. Now follow my orders carefully. All ground personnel are to converge to a defensive line along the Iache River. Our backs to the water, we'll make a final stand, one single direction. We also have reports that some zombies have mutated. Be aware they are very strong and should be avoided at all costs.

(The broadcasts ends.)

**Diane**: Mutated? What is he talking about?

**Cocheta**: I don't know! The Iache River is on the other side of the city.

**Diane**: Do we turn back?

**Cocheta**: No way. We'd never make it alive.

**Diane**: Oh, what do we do?

**Cocheta**: We keep going west. It's our best bet. We're not that far.

## Clifton Square

**Diane**: Hey, I think we're in Clifton Square. Isn't that where they tried to make a stand yesterday?

**Cocheta**: Yeah, you're right! Look at this place. It was a massacre!

Diane: What were they thinking, doing this here? We lost so many people!

Cocheta: It's staff people deciding for field units. No wonder we're this deep in shit!

(After a while, the radio broadcasts.)

**Pilot**: Initiating carpet bombing on all designated targets, over.

**Dispatch**: Acknowledged.

## Juneau Street

(Five bomber jets fly past the duo just as the radio broadcasts.)

**Dispatch**: Dispatch to Air Squadron, we need a carpet bombing west of Juneau Street.

**Pilot**. Affirmative. We're on our way!

**Diane**: Whoa, shit! That's right on us!

**Cocheta**: Call it off!

(Diane turns on the radio.)

**Diane**: Kilo-5 to Dispatch, we're near Juneau Street! Call off the carpet bombing!

(The radio is silent.)

**Diane**: Dispatch! Call off the Juneau Street bombing!

(The radio remains silent as the bomber jets begin their carpet bombing.)

**Cocheta**: Fuck! Here they come! Brace yourself!

## West Middletown

(The duo hears a helicopter approaching.)

**Diane**: Cocheta! A chopper!

(A chopper arrives.)

**Hellfire 26**: Hellfire 26 to Humvee, do you copy?

**Diane**: Yes, we copy! This is Kilo-5. Can you help us?

**Hellfire 26**: What the hell are you doing out here?! You're supposed to regroup at the Iache River!

**Cocheta**: We're going west! Can you help us or not?

**Hellfire 26**: West side is completely overrun! Going further is suicide. There's a transport operation on Highway 65 right now. Can you make it there?

**Diane**: We'll try.

**Cocheta**: There's a highway ramp a couple kilometers ahead. Can you give us air support?

**Hellfire 26**: Only for a little while. I gotta rendezvous with the highway troops ASAP.

**Diane**: Thank you so much!

**Hellfire**: Hold on tight. It's gonna be rough. You're going straight through a hot zone. I'll help you as much as I can.

(Hellfire 26 begins to help clear a path for the duo until they reach Madera District.)

## Madera District

**Hellfire 26**: That's all I can do right now. Get to the highway as fast as you can. Most transports are en route, or on their way back already. Good luck, over.

(Hellfire 26 flies off.)

**Cocheta**: The ramp should be close by now!

(They spot the ramp that leads on to the highway.)

**Diane**: There! The ramp!

(A brief cutscene plays of Diane and Cocheta driving the Humvee up the ramp and on to the highway.)

## Down Town

**Cocheta**: All right, let's find us a transport out of here!

(Meanwhile, John Creasman, in his modified mustang. Speeds past the duo.)

**Creasman**: Yee-ha! Smile, baby!

**Diane**: Whoa, check out this jacked-up car!

**Cocheta**: Ha! He's crazy!

**Diane**: But he's still alive!

## Chinatown

**Diane**: Where are the damn transports?!

(After a while, Diane turns on the radio.)

**Diane**: Kilo-5 to Hellfire 26, do you copy?!

**Hellfire** **26**: Kilo-5, please tell me you're on a transport.

**Cocheta**: There was no transport, *you asshole!*

**Hellfire 26**: You were too late! We're all en route to Iache River! I'm very sorry...

**Diane**: "Sorry" ain't gonna help us!

**Hellfire 26**: I'm... I can't help you. Good luck. Stay alive. Over.

(The radio turns off.)

**Diane**: Cocheta! What do we do?

**Cocheta**: There's a tunnel at the end of this highway. It's probably what our jackass was going for.

**Diane**: Okay, let's do it.

## Brighton Square

(The radio broadcasts.)

**Sherman**: Dispatch! Send all transport choppers to the Iache River bank. We're evacuating the area!

**Dispatch**: Yes, sir.

**Sherman**: Phantom Eagle! What is your position?

**Phantom Eagle**: Phantom Eagle to Base, I'm currently at 64.7 and 32.4, heading to 79, over.

**Sherman**: Roger that! Maintain current order. Over.

(The broadcast ends.)

**Cocheta**: *Shit!* You know what that means?!

**Diane**: What?

**Cocheta**: They're gonna nuke the city!

**Diane**: No way...

**Cocheta**: We probably don't have much time. Twenty minutes, tops. At this speed, we're not gonna make it to the tunnel. We're not gonna make it anywhere!

**Diane**: Then what, huh? What?!

**Cocheta**: I don't know!

(They pause for a couple of seconds.)

**Diane**: If you didn't insist on going west, we'd be above ground right now!

**Cocheta**: Maybe...

**Diane**: We could've went north like everyone else! We could have gotten a transport in time!

**Cocheta**: For all we know, they're all dead.

**Diane**: And we're gonna *fry!* That's *much* better!

(After a while, Cocheta turns on the radio.)

**Cocheta**: Delta-2 to Hellfire 26, do you copy?

**Diane**: He can't help us.

**Cocheta**: Delta-2 to Hellfire 26, come in!

**Diane:** What are you doing? He's gone!

**Cocheta**: Delta-2 to HQ! Come in!

**Diane**: We're way too deep in enemy territory!

**Cocheta**: Let's get out of the highway!

**Diane**: Why?

**Cocheta**: Delta-2 to HQ! COME IN!

**Diane**: Why, Cocheta?

**Cocheta**: Cause we're going east to Northside Park! We'll find another transport! There *has* to be a chopper in range!

(They spot a sign leading to a ramp exiting the highway.)

Diane: There's an exit right there!

(A short cutscene plays of Diane and Cocheta driving the Humvee down the ramp and off the highway.

## Sylmar Avenue

**Cocheta**: HQ, answer goddammit!

**HQ (Female voice)**: What?! Who's this?!

**Cocheta**: Delta-2! We need a pickup near Northside Park!

**HQ (Female voice)**: What do you want *me* to do?!

**Cocheta**: *Send a pickup, you moron!*

**HQ (Female voice)**: Please hold...

**Cocheta**: No! *Fuck!*

## Northside Park

(The radio turns on.)

**HQ (Male voice)**: This is HQ. Hello?

**Diane**: Send us a pickup! *Please!*

**Cocheta**: We're in Northside Park!

**HQ (Male voice)**: I... I don't think I can help you.

**Cocheta**: *Then get somebody who can!*

## Candor Hill

**Diane**: We're not gonna make it!

**Cocheta**: You don't know that, Diane!

## Northside Cemetery

(The radio turns on.)

**HQ (Female voice)**: This is HQ, you need a pickup near Northside Park?

**Diane**: Yes! Goddammit!

**Cocheta**: We're *in* Northside Park now!

**HQ (Female voice)**: Please hold.

**Cocheta**: No! Wait!... *You fucking bitch!*

## East Entrance

(The radio turns on.)

**HQ (Female voice)**: The closest chopper we've got is twenty miles away! What are you gonna-

**Cocheta**: Patch me through, now!

**HQ (Female voice)**: Uh... yes, sir.

**Diane**: Oh, thank God...

**Cocheta**: God has nothing to do with this.

(After a while, the radio turns back on.)

**Sherman**: This is Flyboy 1, do you copy?

**Cocheta**: We need pickup immediately! We're in Northside Park!

**Sherman**: We're currently flying away from your location, but hold your ground for thirty minutes, soldier. Our transport will rendezvous with-

**Cocheta**: Don't give me your bullshit routine! *Who is this?!*

**Sherman**: This is General Sherman, what's your name?

**Cocheta**: Fuck you! That's my name! You're gonna nuke the city, you son of a bitch!

**Diane**: Cocheta, no!

**Sherman**: *Yes I am, Cocheta*. We lost control of the city and we don't have a choi-

**Cocheta**: *We're* here! We're *alive! Get us out of here!*

(Sherman pauses.)

**Sherman**: Where are you exactly?

**Diane**: We just got out of Northside Park by the east gate!

**Sherman**: I don't think we can reach you in time *and* land in a hot zone!

**Cocheta**: *Yes, you can!* We drive to you! You fly to us! We meet in the middle! Fairview Mall's main parking lot! COME ON! Are your medals and pins worth *anything,* sir?! OR ARE YOU THE BIGGEST COWARD I'VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE?!

**Sherman**: ...You've got heart, son, I'll give you that. Okay. All right. Let's do it! But we're not gonna wait for you! If you're not there in five minutes, we're flying out!

**Cocheta**: We'll be there and you better be too! Over!

## Clearwater

**Diane**: We have to take as many shortcuts as we can, or we're not gonna make it.

**Cocheta**: We'll make it, Diane!

## East Finchley

(The radio turns on.)

**Sherman**: Sherman to Cocheta, we've landed and- *(Gunfire)* We're not alone! Are you done cruising around? Get your ass over here!

Diane: We're almost there! wait for us, sir!

Sherman: Goddammit! *(Gunfire)* We'll wait as long as we can! Hurry up! Over!

(The duo arrives at Fairview Wall. They spot the helicopter at the parking lot.)

Diane: Look! The chopper's there!

Cocheta: We've done it!

## Fairview Mall

(A cutscene plays of Diane and Cocheta pulling up next to the chopper. They run out of the car and run up to the chopper door. General Sherman pulls it open.)

Sherman: You made it! Step in and cover the west side!

## Flyboy One

(Diane and Cocheta look out of the chopper over the ruined mall parking lot. A timer appears on the screen, counting down two minutes. The chopper is not moving, and zombies are approaching)

**Sherman**: What's the problem?

**Baliski**: Something's wrong with the-

**Sherman**: Talk and move at the same time, son!

**Baliski**: It's the hydraulics system, sir! Gotta check the pressure relief valves!

**Cocheta**: What's going on?

**Sherman**: We're stuck on the ground.

(Zombies make their way towards the chopper. Diane and Cocheta shoot them down.)

**Sherman**: Baliski! Give me an ETA.

**Baliski**: Five minutes, sir!

**Sherman**: You have two. They have the green light to drop the bomb! It's gonna blow whether we're here or not!

(The assault continues. Diane and Cocheta keep shooting.)

**Cocheta**: Come on! We've gotta go!

**Sherman**: We're working on it! You two just keep covering your side!

(The zombies continue the assault.)

**Sherman**: Baliski!

**Baliski**: I've got it, sir! Just gotta tighten this one up and reset-

**Sherman**: *Just do it!*

(The size of the horde begins to swell.)

Diane: Leaving now would be a great idea!

Sherman: *Baliski! Come on!*

(Time is almost out.)

Baliski: It's working, sir! We're taking off!

## Ending Cutscene

(The helicopter is shown flying away from the zombie horde.)

**Sherman**: Go go go! Head north, away from the impact point!

(The helicopter is flying north. Cut to the view from Diane and Cocheta's abandoned Humvee. Suddenly, in a flash of light and an enormous mushroom cloud, the bomb detonates, destroying the city, the Humvee, and countless other zombies in the blink of an eye.)

(Cut to the inside of the chopper, shaking heavily. A red warning light flashes as an alarm pings repeatedly. Sherman is wearing his headphones, looking distressed.)

**Sherman**: Brace yourselves!

(The helicopter flies away from the mushroom cloud, escaping it by mere inches. Cut back to the inside as the massive explosion's shock wave rocks their helicopter. Diane grunts heavily as she and Cocheta struggle to stay on their feet, Sherman jostles in his seat.)

(The helicopter outlasts the fire and smoke. Steadying itself and flying away through a gray, cloudy sky. Cut to inside the chopper. The radio turns on.)

**Phantom Eagle**: Detonation confirmed.

**Sherman**: What's the status on the undead activity?

**Phantom Eagle**: Radiations are still too high, sir. Status ETA: ten seconds.

**Sherman**: Let's pray to whoever's still up there that we did the right thing.

(Cocheta takes off his helmet. Ten seconds tick by.)

**Phantom Eagle**: *No!* Sir, we see a lot of undead movement! *Shit!* It didn't work! *It didn't work!*

**Sherman**: Then we failed, son. To all military personnel, this is General Sherman. We're transferring all our communications to secure channels. Complete your current orders, and report directly to your superiors. Follow the chain of command and we will prevail. Godspeed. Sherman out.

**Diane**: Prevail?! What the *fuck* are you talking about?!

**Sherman**: Hope is the best I can give them right now.

(Cocheta, enraged, tries to attack Sherman. Two other soldiers whom are also in the helicopter, hold him back.)

**Cocheta**: You son of a bitch! (He grunts, trying to push past the soldiers.) Let go! Fine.

(Sherman turns on his radio.)

**Sherman**: Sherman to Prescott! Do you copy?... Prescott! Come in!

(No response.)

**Sherman**: Sherman to HQ!

(A soldier on the other side responds. We hear gunfire and a large crowd of zombies growling)

**HQ Soldier**: Sir! We're being overrun! Mitch! Hold that door! We're not gonna last much- *Hold that door!* *MITCH! FUCK!* (He groans and shouts as he struggles to fight the undead. Sherman closes his eyes as if in pain himself.)

**Sherman**: Sherman to Transport Unit 1! What is your position?

(No response.)

**Sherman**: Sherman to any transport! Come in!

**Cocheta**: You really think they had time?! You sacrificed them all for nothing!

**Sherman**: Sherman to Powell! Do you copy?!

(There is still no response.)

**Sherman**: Damn! Can't reach any of the other cities!

**Diane**: This is happening in other cities?!

**Sherman**: Sherman to Caspar! Come in!

(Caspar responds. We hear more gunfire and another loud crowd of zombies growling)

**Caspar**: General! *(Gunfire)* I lost contact with most of my men. We have a downtown crowd coming east, and an army coming west from Sinoveo, and massive fires raging through the city. JACKSON! FIVEHEADS! NINE O'CLOCK! Seems like a great time to get the hell out of here, sir! What are your orders?

**Sherman**: Full retreat! Save your men, *now!*

**Caspar**: Yes, sir! Come on! Come on! We're moving out!

**Sherman**: Outbreaks started all over the country. Cities were cut off. Media blackouts put in place. It hit us so fast in so many places, we spread too thin. It was all on a need-to-know basis. Now HQ's gone. We're scattered. Baliski! How much fuel we got?

**Baliski**: About four-fifty miles, sir!

**Diane**: Can't you contact more people?!

**Sherman**: I had my people down the chain of command, HQ had theirs. We're cut off now. Caspar's my only remaining unit. I wanna fly north, meet with them outside of Alliance, a small town we can scout, take back if need be, fortify, and defend. What do you say, boys?

**Soldiers**: Yes, sir!

**Sherman**: Is it a good plan, ma'am?

**Diane**: I... I think so. Yeah.

**Sherman**: Cocheta. You're with me?

**Cocheta**: ...Yeah.

**Sherman**: Caspar! Get out of the city and head north! Get your men to the outskirts of Alliance. We're flying to you!

**Caspar**: Yes, sir. We'll be there.

**Sherman**: It's not over, people!

(The helicopter flies on. The credits roll.)

(In a post-credits scene, Cut outside of the tunnel exiting the highway and the city. John Creasman watches outside of his mustang as the nuclear explosion engulfs and destroys Evans City. Looking determined, he gets back inside his car, starts the engine, takes a deep breath, and drives off to an unknown location. Possibly Alliance. Meanwhile, three mutants exit the tunnel and runs after Creasman. With one attacking the screen.)

**TO BE CONTINUED**