Season 5

The fifth season of Route to Paradise premiered on July 13th, 2020, and concluded with a tenth episode on March 27th, 2022 after a nearly two year long break.

Seven weeks have passed since the events in Denver, and since then the group have traveled to the outskirts of Garden City, Kansas. But not all is well within the group, with William Reynes struggling to be a leader, and Jared Kellings being at odds with Daniel Rockwell and Lolida Windfield, who believe that he killed Isaac Moses. Meanwhile, a conflicted Edward Remar ultimately decides to leave the group after isolating himself from everyone for weeks. He quickly encounters another group of survivors led by the arrogant control freak Kurt Klein, whose ways of leading his group clash with Edward's opinions.

## **Air Dates**

 The Fanatic and the Freak | Feb 22, 26, Mar 26-27, 2022

## **Summaries**

### **"Day By Day"**

It's been seven weeks since Denver, and the group has since traveled into Kansas, eventually coming to a rest stop just outside of Garden City. During the time that's passed, Daniel Rockwell and Lolida Windfield have grown to believe that Jared Kellings had something to do with Isaac Moses' death, and during this day, Daniel has an outburst, calling everyone out for believing Jared's lies. William Reynes, who's developed a friendship with Jared, has to step in and force Daniel to calm down by pointing a gun at him.

Later that day, a team of 7 people are sent out to clear two houses on the outskirts of Garden City. Jon Matthews and William clear a smaller house, during which time Jon reassures William that he's been doing a good job at leading them ever since the stadium.

The rest of the group move into the two houses that night, enjoying some freshly cooked rabbit. During dinner, Kate Bloodstone speaks with Dean Howards, who's become tired of constantly moving around and is questioning whether or not they'll ever stay somewhere permanently. She tries to tell him that everything they're going through will be worth it in the end.

Meanwhile, Clyde Rollins goes to try and speak with Edward Remar, who has mostly been avoiding Clyde and the rest of the group since he confessed his feelings to him. In their conversation, Clyde learns that Edward no longer feels like he belongs in the group, and he feels that his time to thrive and make something of himself is now.

The next morning, a team led by Rebecca Dawson go out to search for a place where they might be able to stay. Eventually, they come across a motel filled with the undead. After they hear a single gunshot come from inside one of the rooms, Albert Hanson convinces everyone that they have to go and investigate to see if the person is okay. Slowly, the undead horde in the parking lot is completely cleared out, and the team discover Brenden Trevors sitting inside one of the rooms. Brenden tells them that they're welcome to stay.

### **"A Good Man"**

William and the rest of his group move into the motel, getting acquainted with Brenden, who informs them of a drive-in and a cereal factory that they could loot for supplies.

While plans are laid out, work on repairing and cleaning out the motel begins. When looting one of the rooms, Dean would discover a stash of alcohol, which he decides to start drinking -- before being caught by Kate. He apologizes, but says that he needed a drink after all of the stress. Kate promises that she won't tell anyone, remarking that if Austin Kingston was able to quit his drinking, then so can Dean.

Rebecca takes Lloyd Waller out to loot the drive-in. While here, Rebecca mentions Jacob Feldman, which, in turn, reminds Lloyd of Kyle Douglass and Bernie Ortan, and all of his guilt. He breaks down into tears while explaining that he feels like a bystander. Rebecca tells him that he needs to stop blaming himself for things - and that he'll be stronger if he can move on from all of their deaths.

Daniel, Lolida, Albert, Brenden, and Jared are sent out to loot the cereal factory. The entire way there, Daniel and Lolida bicker with Jared, threatening to shoot him if he tries anything. Upon arriving at the factory, they split up to clear the outside, before regrouping inside and clearing out a small horde of zombies. After getting the power on, they begin to fill up a few working trucks with cereal via a tube. As they're at it, Lolida and Brenden discover that on the factory floor next to them is a gigantic horde of hundreds of zombies. Daniel assures them they'll be fine as long as they stay here.

Back at the motel, Edward has decided that he's going to leave. He leaves a note for Clyde in his room, before outside into the night, intending to take a car and go. But as he's nearing a car, he is approached by Solomon Reed. Edward admits to Solomon that he's leaving - and to Edward's surprise, Solomon asks to go with him. After a quick thought, Edward agrees to let him, and the two men set off down the road in their car.

At the cereal factory, something catastrophic happens to one of the control panels. Daniel tries to fix it, but only makes things worse. Suddenly, the garage doors leading to the other factory floor open up, allowing hundreds of zombies to swarm inside. As the lights around the building flicker off, everyone climbs on top of the trucks, except for Brenden, who is the only one to escape out a back door.

Daniel, Lolida, Jared and Albert are forced to jump off the trucks, where they desperately fight through the zombie horde, trying to get to the closest door. While Daniel and Lolida make it to the door, Jared is snagged by a zombie. Albert rushes to save Jared, while Daniel and Lolida hurry through the door -- which leads to a small janitor's closet. Lolida manages to crawl up into a vent - but can't pull Daniel up. Daniel yells for Lolida to go, telling him that he'll be okay.

Albert and Jared battle through the endless swarm of zombies, before arriving at a stack of crates, climbing on top of them. Jared begins to panic as the horde surrounds them, shaking the crates. He looks over at Albert, telling him that he's a good man, before pushing him into the horde. Albert is instantly ripped apart, distracting most of the zombies, creating an opening for Jared to jump too. After landing, Jared sprints to the nearest exit door. Unbeknownst to him, everything he'd just done had been witnessed by Lolida from within the vent.

### **"Over and Over"**

Jared goes on the run, but not for long, as he's cut off by Lolida, who confronts him. Their arguing eventually leads into fighting - a fight that Lolida would lose after Jared stabs him in the knee and throws him into a large hole in the ground, filled with corpses.

Back inside the factory, Daniel struggles to stay alive inside the janitor's closet - but through the thoughts of saving Lolida and avenging Isaac, and by his pure strength, he fights his way out of the closet and out an exit door to freedom. Immediately, Daniel searches for Lolida, and finds him at the bottom of the hole. However, before he can think of a plan, he is ambushed by Jared, who runs up behind him and shoves him into the hole as well. Jared laughs at the injured men, before running off.

When Clyde discovers that Edward is gone, his first instinct is to go after him, an idea that Claire thinks is idiotic. Clyde remains adamant though, up until Layton Zimmers has a strange conversation with him, telling Clyde that maybe it's best he lets Edward leave on good terms. Having changed his mind about going after Edward, Clyde apologizes to Claire and accepts that Edward is gone.

Brenden is the first man from the cereal factory to make it back to the motel, and he quickly tells them everything he knows. With the information, a rescue team is assembled and sent out into the night to try and save the others.

Over the course of more than a couple hours, Daniel slowly but surely drags corpse after corpse until it creates a mountain that he and the gravely injured Lolida can scale. It's no easy task, but after multiple attempts, Daniel and Lolida successfully climb the mountain of corpses and escape out of the pit, where they limp off into the night.

Jared arrives back at the motel, and fabricates the story about what happened to Albert, but confirms that he is dead. With no reason to doubt Jared's story, William comforts him.

The rescue team arrive at the cereal factory, where they dress themselves in zombie blood and guts to camouflauge themselves. They then walk through the factory to search for any signs of their group, but come up with nothing, forcing them to return to the motel.

A funeral is held for Albert the next morning after the rescue team is back.

That day, William takes Jared out to walk along the road-- and during this walk, they unexpectedly run into Daniel and Lolida. The two men curse at William for standing by Jared's side, as they tell him the truth about what happened. Jared claims that everything they're saying is false -- but when William takes notice of how injured Daniel and Lolida are, especially Lolida's stabbed knee, he turns on Jared, beating him until he's unconscious.

Jared is taken back to the motel and locked up. Later that night, William asks Rebecca to bring Jared out into the parking lot. When Rebecca goes to get Jared, she manages to get him into confessing that he caused Albert's death, and that he left Isaac to die. Afterwards, Rebecca takes Jared into the parking lot as asked - where she finds that the entire group has been gathered. Jared is handed off to Jon, who stands Jared onto a stool and ties a noose around his neck, tying the rope to a tree. While Jared begs for forgiveness, William paces around, telling everyone that this needs to be done, remarking that Jared would have done the same thing that he did to Albert to anyone else. Kate tries to stop William at the last moment, but William kicks the stool from underneath Jared, and lets him hang to death.

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

In a series of flashbacks throughout the episode, we watch as officer Randall Forster works on a case in Willamette involving other corrupt officers. In the end, he exposes a drug epidemic in the community and arrests a corrupt police officer.

In the present, William makes peace with Daniel and Lolida, and secures an ally within Jon. Meanwhile, Dean has a series of conversations with Kate and Austin which help him to put aside his old drinking habits.

Randall and Marcus Downes journey into Garden City for a dangerous supply run to the police station. While looting, they are attacked by Adrian Mason. Both Randall and Marcus are beaten to near death, all while Adrian is questioning them on why they "did it". After Adrian finally leaves them for a moment, Randall picks himself up, and goes to find Adrian. When he does, he is able to calm him down, relating to him since both of them were police officers. Randall learns through Adrian's stuttering that he went crazy after the apocalypse, killing many of his fellow officers. Randall does everything he can to try and reason with Adrian, but when he lashes out again, Randall knows he can't be trusted, and kills him. After looting what's left in the building, Randall and Marcus head back home.

Far from Garden City, Edward and Solomon's car break down, leading to them walking onto a farm. While clearing the barn, Solomon is attacked by zombies and barely escapes with his life. When Edward goes to investigate, he is attacked by the same group of zombies, and decides to willing fight all of them. After killing every single zombie, Edward collapses, exhausted, before three figures slowly approach him: Kurt Klein, Molly Massey and Landon Kimber.

### **"His Resolve"**

The cold open to the episode follows a group of survivors led by Aidan Eldridge inside a cabin somewhere in the woods. During this night, a series of unfortunate events lead to the cabin being swarmed by zombies. Some people from their group are killed, while others are injured, but most of them manage to escape with nothing but the clothes on their back.

At the motel, Randall, still greatly injured, talks to Austin about how guilty he feels for killing Adrian, and how he just wants to help people. Randall then passes out, and is taken to a bed to rest. Meanwhile, Ed Anderson informs William about the concerningly situation around their supplies.

Edward wakes up with a new group of people. Bonnie Harrell shows him around the camp, before taking him to Solomon, who'd been rescued by them as well. While talking with Solomon, they are interrupted by Kurt, their leader, who's arrogance immediately gets on Edward's nerves.

Stanley Peck and Leonard Thorne take Edward out for a supply run later that day, under Kurt's orders. When they return, Edward has a chat with the group's inventory manager, Nancy Warner, who tells Edward about the "higher-ups" of the group, who are Kurt, Molly and Landon. Later, Kurt announces to everyone that they'll be packing up and traveling to a trailer park. After a half-day of traveling, the group make camp in the woods for the night. While here, Edward gets acquainted with Elliott Rowe and the elderly Calvin Schultz. In his conversation with Calvin, he's given some insight into the group, learning that the higher-ups think of Calvin as a burden, and would sooner leave him by the side of the road.

Back at the motel, Brenden and Lloyd are on watch when they see Aidan and his group approaching the motel. As people from the motel begin to gather around, Aidan and his people beg to be let in, explaining their situation. Feeling sympathetic for them, Kate and a few others agree to let them inside. However, as soon as William realizes what's happening, he orders Aidan and his people out, stating that they simply don't have enough supplies to go around. A heated argument breaks out between the group, with many people supporting Kate on letting Aidan's group inside. As William grows more angry, he eventually draws his pistol, pointing it not just at Aidan's people, but as well as Kate, threatening her. With the support of Jon and Daniel, William throws Aidan's group out of the motel. As everyone starts to walk off, Clyde says that he isn't going to let Aidan's people get themselves killed, and he's going to follow and keep an eye on them.

### **"The Right Thing"**

Clyde follows Aidan and his group into Garden City, watching as they enter an office building only to get trapped inside by the hundreds of zombies roaming the streets. With this information, he starts making his way back to the motel.

Meanwhile, William joins Rebecca, Ed and Lloyd as they travel out to a nearby village in search of supplies. While here, Rebecca tries to voice her concerns to William about the way he's been acting, but William remains firm on his decisions. While Ed and Lloyd are looting a store, they are attacked by a group of bandits and tied up. When Rebecca goes to try and save them, she would be hit over the head with a cinder block, putting her into a comatose state. Finally, when William arrives and realizes what's happened, he proceeds to beat every bandit to death.

Clyde returns to the motel, where he tells a group consisting of Kate, Marcus, Randall, Claire, Brenden and Dean about what's happened. Coming to the realization that Aidan's group will almost certainly die without their help, all of them decide to discreetly leave the motel to go rescue them. Randall, because of his injuries, stays behind.

The team soon arrive in Garden City, where they battle their way into the office building. Quickly, they meet up with Aidan's group, explaining that they're here to make up for what happened at the motel.

Back at the motel, Jon and Austin, unsettled by the silence around the motel, question Randall about where everybody is. It doesn't take long for Randall to admit where everyone went, as an angered Jon considers their options of what to do now.

In Garden City, things quickly spiral out of control when the undead hordes on the street break into the office building. Chaos ensues, in which every member of Aidan's group, including the man himself, is slaughtered by the zombies one by one. Claire, Clyde and Marcus end up trapped in an office room, while Dean's status remains unknown when he disappears into the horde. Brenden is bit in the hand by a zombie, but with the assistance of Kate, the two of them are the only ones who make it out onto the street. As they hobble down the road, Jon suddenly comes speeding up to them in a car, ushering them inside. As they speed away, Kate performs an emergency amputation of Brenden's hand to stop the infection from spreading, all the while Jon is unknowingly leading the horde of the zombies back to the motel.

### **"It All Comes Crashing Down"**

When they return to the motel, Brenden is rushed into a room, where his stump is bandaged and cleaned as best as possible. Afterwards, as everyone else around the motel begin to learn about what happened, Daniel immediately starts berating Kate for her stupidity, going as far as to say that he hopes the deaths of Aidan's people haunt her forever. When people finally start to calm down, the horde that had followed Jon from Garden City surrounds the motel, trapping everyone inside.

At the village, Ed and Lloyd bandage Rebecca's head and pack up some supplies into the car, while William deals with the possibility that Rebecca might not ever wake up. Once everything is ready, they begin driving back to the motel.

In Garden City, after much debate, Clyde, Claire and Marcus fight their way out onto the street and across the road to a fire station, where they steal a fire truck, using it to drive back to the motel.

Edward has nightmares about Damerae Badrick, before he awakes inside of a trailer. He goes out to chat with Nancy, but are interrupted when Molly returns from a looting trip with a bunch of poisons. While Molly is there, she notices that one of the group's guns are missing, as the only people allowed to carry one are herself, Kurt and Landon. When Nancy fails to locate where the gun vanished to, Molly reports this to Kurt.

Nancy is scolded by Kurt, while Edward goes to talk with Calvin, where he learns more about Kurt, finding out that Kurt's girlfriend had been killed way back, and is now something Kurt uses as a sympathy card. Later, Kurt announces to the group that they're leaving and heading to an amusement park. But to get there, they're going to cross a zombie-infested bridge, something Elliott insists they don't do. Before leaving, Kurt, who believes that somebody in his group is carrying the missing gun, gives them one chance to give themselves up - but nobody does.

Kurt's group travel to the infested bridge, which they slowly begin clearing and moving across. Everybody manages to make it across - except for Calvin, who's horse kicks him off in fright and runs away, as zombies begin to surround Calvin. Everybody rushes to Calvin's aid - except for Kurt, Molly, Landon and Leonard. However, Calvin then pulls out a pistol, shooting the zombies one by one around him until they're all dead. A furious Kurt storms over to Calvin, cursing at and rebuking him for stealing the gun. Edward stands up for Calvin, which only worsens tensions between him and Kurt.

Back at the motel, the zombies break through the fences, beginning a long battle against the undead. After countless minutes of fighting, the survivors inside the motel are saved when a fire truck comes driving along with its sirens on, distracting most of the zombies. Taking advantage of the distraction, the survivors are all able to escape the motel uninjured. In the woods, they regroup with Marcus, Claire and Clyde, who ditched the firetruck some ways down the road. An argument breaks out, this time between Daniel and Marcus, until they notice William, Lloyd, Ed and an unconscious Rebecca approaching. When William learns about what had happened, he yells and curses at Kate's team for being idiotic. However, everyone from Kate's team stand by what they did. Another argument begins to break out, until William tells everyone to shut up, declaring that *he* is the leader, and nothing is to go through without his approval from here on out.

### **"Little Man"**

While traveling to the amusement park, Kurt's group are blocked by a fallen tree. As work to clear it begins, Kurt takes Edward into the woods for a "walk". During this walk, Kurt lets Edward know that this is *his* group, not Edward's. When the two of them return to the group, Edward, beginning to become infuriated by everyone under Kurt's leadership letting themselves be controlled, talks with Calvin. Through some persuasion, Calvin gets Edward to reveal some more about himself, and Calvin tells him that if Edward truly wants to lead this group some day, he needs to continue treating everyone as people of his own.

In Garden City, a disheveled and dehydrated Dean is nearly killed while desperately trying to recover a canteen from a zombie, but he's saved by a mysterious, mask-wearing man. Dean passes out, and when he wakes up later that night, he speaks with the masked man, who's name is Waylon. After patching Dean up and giving him some water, Waylon says his farewells, telling Dean that he doesn't want to join his group, and only wanted to help him.

Morale is low after the loss of the motel, and William's group is now residing at a church in the woods. William isolates himself from most people, deciding to stay by Rebecca's side, who still hasn't woken up. Daniel, who's still incensed about what happened, continues to berate Kate, which leads to a fight breaking out between him and Marcus. When the two of them are finally done, Daniel provokes Kate one more time, finally causing her to snap and punch him until he's knocked out.

Kurt's group make camp in the woods for the night. Late that evening, Molly is snuck up on and bit by a snake, and she impulsively takes out her gun and shoots at it. A nearby traveling herd of zombies makes their way into camp. Everyone is awoken, and gather up some weapons to fight back against the zombies. During the fighting, Kurt purposefully shoves several zombies Edward's way, almost ending in him being bit. When the herd has finally been dealt with, it's revealed that Calvin had been bit by a zombie. In his dying moments, he tells Elliott, his closest friend, not to let Kurt bully him around anymore, and tells Edward that he has so much potential, and that people are underestimating him. When Calvin dies, Edward stabs him in the head to ensure he doesn't reanimate.

Dean finds the group at the church, thanks to several notes being left behind in the woods surrounding the motel. As he's reunited with everyone, they are unknowingly being watched through a pair of binoculars Genevieve Brohem.

### **"Pipe Dream"**

After two days of travel, Kurt and his group arrive at the amusement park, where they quickly discover a group of seven people already held up there. Kurt speaks one-on-one with their leader, Shaun Fisher, and offers him and his people a place inside his group. Shaun politely refuses, stating that he is on a mission to find his family, and that they only came to the amusement park because their bus broke down on the highway and became surrounded by zombies.

At the church, Kate has nightmares about what happened in Garden City, as she struggles to deal with all of it, resorting to smoking to ease the stress. Meanwhile, Lolida speaks with Daniel, expressing his concern about the way he's been acting, especially to Kate. "We don't need another Jared." He tells him, leaving Daniel speechless and in deep thought.

While Jon and Lloyd are out talking, they suddenly encounter a pair of sisters, Genna and Mackenzie Brohem, who claim that they've come from another community and wish to talk to the group. After ensuring that they are unarmed, Jon informs William, and everyone gathers in the main hall to listen to the sisters. Genna and Mackenzie tell everyone about their community, Worthwood, which supposedly has working electricity and water, with high walls that are guarded 24/7. Various questions are asked, and some suspicions are raised, but by the end of it all, most of everyone agrees that they want to give it a shot. Some people opt to remain neutral, like Jon and Austin, while only one man doesn't think it's a good idea to go - and that man is William, who's paranoia gets to him. He tells the sisters that they won't be going, which causes another heated argument to break out. In the end, William resorts back to threatening the sisters to leave with his gun, which works. Immediately afterwards, Jon follows William into the office, where he tells him that he's had his back throughout everything, but that what he did just now was unnecessary.

Back at the amusement park, Edward creates a pact with Elliott (alongside Solomon), who's still upset over Calvin's death and Kurt's disregard of what happened to him. Edward then goes to speak with Shaun, where he tells the man that Kurt is unstable and cannot be trusted. Unbeknownst to him, Leonard was secretly listening to their conversation, and when Leonard informs Kurt, he is outraged. Deciding that enough is enough, Kurt orders Molly to break Edward's legs, and for Landon to kill Jose Trivoli, an elderly sick man from Shaun's group that is nothing but a burden to them. While all this happens, Kurt himself goes out with Shaun and Robert Nicholas to get Shaun's bus back.

After William's outburst, Daniel, who's been pondering on Lolida's words, goes to see Kate, where he makes an awkward apology to her. A couple of hours later, Ed tells William some concerning news. He says that Aldus Paxton had left with Lloyd and Brenden some time ago to loot a warehouse, and that they hadn't returned yet. Worried about them, especially Lloyd, William grabs Austin and the two men head out in search of them.

At said warehouse, Aldus, Lloyd and Brenden arrive and begin looting, only to be trapped inside with dozens of zombies. At one point, Lloyd trips off of a catwalk, but grabs onto the ledge, keeping himself from falling into the hungry zombies below -- but he's losing his grip, and can't hang on much longer.

Kurt follows Shaun and Kurt along a highway towards their bus. Along the way, Kurt asks Shaun if he's reconsidered joining his group, but Shaun is adamant on his decision. Eventually, they make it to the bus and clear the zombies, before Kurt asks Shaun one more time if he's *absolutely* sure he doesn't wanna join his group. When Shaun says no, Kurt suddenly shoots Robert dead, before snapping Shaun's neck, planning to take over what's left of his group now that their leader is dead.

Back at the amusement park, Elliott finds Edward looking around the under construction aquapark - but suddenly, they are walked up on by Molly, who immediately tells Edward what she's here to do. Without hesitation, Molly charges at Edward, the two of them beginning to brawl, while Elliott watches helplessly, unsure of what to do. The noise would eventually alert two zombies towards Elliott, and in a fright, Elliott flees into a small crane nearby - which is coincidently the crane that's holding a giant dolphin statue on its hook. When Molly decides that she's going to kill Edward, Edward shouts for Elliott to drop the statue - and without thinking, Elliott does so, crushing Molly beneath it.

### **"The Fanatic and the Freak"**

The episode opens with a flashback, where Brenden and Lloyd are walking towards the warehouse, talking about the sister recruiters, and how they wish William had taken the opportunity. When the episode jumps back to the present, Lloyd, moments from falling, is saved by Genna, who pulls him back onto the catwalk. To distract the zombies below, Genna and Mackenzie fire a flare into the corner, allowing Aldus and Brenden to join them. When the flare dies down, the zombie horde begins making their way back over to all of them.

As this is happening, William and Austin arrive, where William is helped onto the roof by Austin, before breaking a window to climb in. When William sees what is happening, he begins fighting off the undead, giving everyone else time to climb up and escape out of the window. But when he's the last man, he can't find a break to turn around and escape. Knowing that William will likely die without help, Brenden jumps back down, pushing the zombies back and giving William time to escape -- while being bitten several times by zombies.

When Brenden climbs out, William and Lloyd walk into the woods with him, as Brenden is dying from his multiple zombie bites. After wishing Lloyd farewell, Brenden tells William that he's a good guy deep down - and his dying wish is that he accept Genna and Mackenzie's offer and go to Worthwood with them. When Brenden is ready, William then shoots him in the head to keep him from turning into a zombie.

Elsewhere, Kurt returns to the amusement park, lying about how Shaun and Robert died, before telling the rest of Shaun's group that he'll happily let them join his group. Soon, though, Kurt and Landon discover the gruesome scene where Molly was killed. Furious, Kurt and Landon come up with a plan to lure Edward out onto the highway where they'll finally kill him. As all this is happening, Edward is making plans of his own, digging through the group's supplies while Nancy watches curiously.

William and the others return to the church, where William honours Brenden's wish and says that they'll be going with the sisters to Worthwood. Before doing so, a small team goes out to find some cars, and then a small funeral is held for Brenden. After that, the group packs up and begins their journey towards Worthwood.

After a day or so of traveling, the group stop to rescue Sebastian Dominguez and Tyson Lysaght, two supply runners from Worthwood. When they get back on the road, Kate takes the time to sit and talk with William, the two of them finally making peace, and agreeing that they should co-lead the group in whatever comes next for them.

When Kurt finds Edward sitting by himself in the park, he asks him to come along to search for Molly on the highway. At first, Edward refuses, but after Edward has his water bottle taken from him, which is promptly chugged down by Kurt, Edward suddenly agrees to go with him.

Later that evening, after they've left, Solomon is out walking through the park by himself when he is ambushed by Leonard, who was ordered by Kurt to kill him. Solomon tries telling Leonard that he's being manipulated and used by Kurt, but Leonard isn't listening to him, and opts to try and kill Solomon instead. Ultimately, Solomon wins the duel, and Leonard dies.

Out on the road, Kurt and Landon stop to "search" a gas station while Edward waits outside. After a while, the two of them decide that it's time, and they confront Edward, taking his weapons away. As Kurt begins to monologue to Edward, he is broken up by sudden coughs. Coughs eventually turn into vomiting, as Kurt struggles to hold himself up. Landon looks over at Kurt with concern, allowing Edward to grab his revolver and shoot Landon dead. Edward, finally with the upper hand, begins to gloat to a dying Kurt, revealing that the water he drunk was laced with poison. Grinning, Edward executes Kurt with his revolver.

When Edward returns to the park, he gathers everyone around, telling them all about what happened to Kurt and his goons, as well as the truth about Shaun and Robert's deaths. He tells everyone that he's taking over as leader, and he's going to show them respect as long as they show it back.

William's group arrive at the community of Worthwood - and as promised by the recruiters, the place is surrounded by high walls that have people guarding them. Once inside, William, Kate and Jon meet police chief Paul Baird, and are patted down for any weapons by his two officers. The three of them, claiming to be the group's representatives, are then taken to Worthwood Castle in order to meet with the community's leader. However, the leader requests to speak with only one person - and so William is chosen to go in. Inside, William meets Gerald Roland, the leader. William remains mostly quiet as Gerald speeches about how good his community is, and how it all came to be. He takes William onto a balcony overlooking all of Worthwood, as he tells William to prepare for a brighter future.

## **Cast**

* Starring
* Also Starring
* Guest Starring
* Co-Starring

* William Reynes (10/10)
* Kate Bloodstone (10/10)
* Randall Forster (10/10
* Jon Matthews (10/10)
* Marcus Downes (10/10)
* Rebecca Dawson (10/10)
* Clyde Rollins (9/10)
* Dean Howards (9/10)
* Austin Kingston (9/10)
* Lloyd Waller (9/10)
* Edward Remar (8/10)
* Aldus Paxton (7/10)
* Jared Kellings (3/10)
* Albert Hanson (2/10)

- Ed Anderson (9/10)

- Claire Noble (9/10)

- Daniel Rockwell (9/10)

- Solomon Reed (8/10)

- Lolida Windfield (8/10)

- Kurt Klein (6/10)

- Brenden Trevors (9/10)

- Layton Zimmers (7/10)

- Alex Weiss (6/10)

- Landon Kimber (6/10)

- Molly Massey (6/10)

- Bonnie Harrell (5/10)

- Elliott Rowe (5/10)

- Carson Burke (5/10)

- Stanley Peck (5/10)

- "Leonard Thorne" (5/10)

- Nancy Warner (5/10)

- Calvin Schultz (3/10)

- Genna Brohem (3/10)

- Aidan Eldridge (2/10)

- Adrian Mason (1/10)

- Leslie Staunton (1/10)

- Clayton Freeman (1/10)

- Damerae Badrick (1/10)

- Shaun Fisher (1/10)

- Gerald Roland (1/10)

- Abigail Brooks (2/10)

- Jesse Garnett (2/10)

- Luke Butler (2/10)

- Wesley Randolph (2/10)

- Jeanne Randolph (2/10)

- Scott Wilson (2/10)

- Mackenzie Brohem (2/10)

- Evelyn Nelson (2/10)

- Waita Mathani (2/10)

- Seth Haynes (2/10)

- Kyori Hyoteki (2/10)

- Jose Trivoli (2/10)

- Roger Hall (1/10)

- Robin Clarke (1/10)

- James Graves (1/10)

- Scotty Boyle (1/10)

- Nicholas Burnett (1/10)

- Melody Neal (1/10)

- Marisa Pena (1/10)

- Randy Dasling (1/10)

- Herman Meyers (1/10)

- Waylon (1/10)

- Robert Nicholas (1/10)

- Sebastian Dominguez (1/10)

- Tyson Lysaght (1/10)

- Morris Finkle (1/10)

- Neil Oconnell (1/10)

- Paul Baird (1/10)

- Cody Wakefield (1/10)

- Kevin Norton (1/10)

- Heather Solis (1/10)

- Roman Stroud (1/10)

## **Deaths**

* Albert Hanson
* Jared Kellings
* Adrian Mason
* Herman Meyers
* Marisa Pena
* Randy Dasling
* Scott Wilson
* Luke Butler
* Wesley Randolph
* Jeanne Randolph
* Abigail Brooks
* Aidan Eldridge
* Jesse Garnett
* Calvin Schultz
* Jose Trivoli *(Alive and zombified)*
* Robert Nicholas
* Shaun Fisher
* Molly Massey
* Brenden Trevors
* "Leonard Thorne"
* Landon Kimber
* Kurt Klein
* 4 unnamed bandits