Adrian Mason

Adrian Mason is a supporting character, a survivor of the outbreak and the main antagonist of "Before it Gets Better" in Route to Paradise. A once normal man who worked for the Garden City Police Department, Adrian lost his mind sometime after the outbreak, and turned into a vicious killer, murdering at least a dozen police officers in the department. Ever since this event, Adrian has survived inside of the department, having come to the belief that somebody else was responsible for their deaths.

When Randall Forster and Marcus Downes break into the police station looking for supplies, Adrian beats the two men to near death while trying to get them to confess to the murders he committed. In the end, Randall gets through to Adrian by relating to him, both men being former police officers. Realizing that he is the one who killed all of his friends, Adrian says that Randall can leave -- but upon lashing out again, Randall decides that he has to kill Adrian to prevent him from harming anyone else.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Adrian was a police officer for the Garden City Police Department.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

When the outbreak struck, Adrian lost his mind, perhaps due a tragic event of some kind. What is known is that Adrian killed many of his fellow police officers, and possibly others.

### **Season 5**

#### "**Before it Gets Better**"

Adrian ambushes Randall Forster and Marcus Downes as they are climbing up the stairs of the Garden City Police Department. He slashes Randall's throat with a knife, then charges down the stairs at Marcus, pounding the man's head into the ground, knocking him out. While Randall tumbles to the bottom of the stairs, unconscious, Adrian drags Marcus upstairs.

Later, when Marcus awakes, tied to a chair, Adrian interrogates him. He begins to question Marcus on the why he "did it", repeating this over and over. Marcus doesn't have a clue what Adrian is talking about, upsetting Adrian. He punches Marcus, dislocating his jaw, before rambling on about his former colleagues when he was a police officer, and how he believes that it was Marcus and Randall who killed them. When Marcus denies having done so, Adrian calls him out as a liar, and goes to get a metal pipe, prepared to use it on Marcus if he has to. Marcus tries to reason with the deranged Adrian, but all Adrian wants is for Marcus to admit that he did it, and apologize. When Marcus refuses to do so, Adrian lashes out, beginning to beat the man with the pipe. He keeps hitting him, while screaming and asking him to just apologize. And then, after beating Marcus to near death, Adrian slams the pipe to the floor, and screams, before going completely silent.

Adrian leaves the room for a while, but when he sees Randall walking around the halls, he follows him back into the room with Marcus, grazing the back of his neck with a knife, and stabbing him in his side. With Randall now down on the ground, dying, Adrian once again yells and complains about how this was all their fault. When Randall fights back, Adrian grows furious, stabbing Randall again, this time in the shoulder. He continues to beat down Randall until he's back on the floor, yelling in pain. Adrian, still not finished, then tries to disembowel Randall, but fails, his hands too weak and injured to do the job. Randall battles back, biting onto Adrian's arm and tearing out a chunk of flesh. Now fuming with rage, Adrian kicks Randall, and shuffles away, screaming at Randall. He grabs onto his arm in pain, while lowering his voice and seemingly speaking to himself, about how he "didn't want to do this". He looks back over at Randall again, quietly asking him to just say sorry - but Randall doesn't know what he's apologizing for. Sighing to himself, Adrian says that he'll be back, before he leaves the room.

Not long later, Adrian is seen downstairs in the lobby, kneeling over one of the many decayed corpses within the room. He's heard mumbling to himself about not being able to finish it, and complaining about how all Marcus and Randall have done is lie. Suddenly there's a noise behind him, and Adrian is instantly on his feet, spinning around to see the source of the noise -- it's Randall. Adrian's first instinct is to attack him, but Randall puts up a hand and asks him to stop for a moment, saying that he understands now. He deduces that Adrian thinks that it was them who killed his friends, the corpses in the room. When Randall says that he's a police officer too, Adrian lowers his guard, smiling. As Randall speaks, Adrian begins to break down, as everything comes flooding back to him. He remembers now that it was him who killed his friends, his fellow officers. He realizes that Randall and Marcus are innocent, and he begins telling Randall that he's sorry for everything, and they can go. When Randall steps forward, offering a hand to Adrian, he suddenly loses his mind, slamming his hand down on a desk, sliding everything off of it. He roars like a feral animal, eyes flicking around -- before he recoils backward into a corner, hyperventilating. Tears stream from his eyes, as he repeatedly says that he doesn't want to hurt Randall, but he can't stop himself. He slowly gets back up, asking Randall if he forgives him. Muttering quietly, Randall says that he does, and offers him a hand again. Smiling once more, Adrian takes his hand, and thanks him. The next moment, Adrian is on the floor, having been shot in the head and killed by Randall.

## **Death**

Killed By
* Randall Forster

When Randall realizes that Adrian is too mentally unstable and cannot be trusted, he lures Adrian into a false sense of security, before drawing a gun and shooting him in the head.

## **Killed Victims**

* At least a dozen officers of the Garden City Police Department
* Likely numerous counts of zombies

## **Appearances**

Any episode with a checkmark over it signifies Adrian Mason appearing in any way.