Luke Butler

Luke Butler is a minor character and a survivor of the outbreak in Route to Paradise. He's seen as a pessimistic, but courageous young man apart of a small group of survivors. When his group are attacked by zombies, Luke jumps into action to help, leading his group upstairs to escape out of a window. He and his group later take shelter at an office building in Garden City. During the escape, when Marcus Downes is attacked by a zombie, Luke saves him, but gets killed in the process.

## **Pre-Apocalypse**

Nothing is known about Luke prior to the apocalypse.

## **Post-Apocalypse**

When the outbreak struck, Luke was at a movie theatre, watching 'Taser Force', a movie starring Clyde Rollins.

### **Season 5**

#### "**His Resolve**"

Luke, inside of a cabin, stands near a corner, air-boxing, just trying to pass the time. The rest of his group sits around the house, while waiting for dinner to be cooked. Growing restless, Luke decides to step outside.

Aidan Eldridge, group leader, walks outside after him not five minutes later, to tell him dinner is ready. Luke, sitting on the front steps, complains to Aidan that he's not doing enough as leader, throwing out the idea that they move out of this cabin to find a better place where they'd be closer to supplies. He stands up, brushes himself off, and goes inside.

At dinner, Luke reluctantly holds hands with the people beside him while Marisa Pena says a prayer, before he digs into his meal. Not long later, Luke and the others are startled by screams coming from outside. When he sees a man outside, yelling for help, Luke unbolts the door and opens it, allowing the terrified man, Herman Meyers, indoors. He quickly shuts and bolts the door shut again, while the rest of Luke's group questions Herman, wondering why he was yelling for help. During so, Luke offhandedly comments that Herman is just another mouth to feed, and they don't need him. Soon, a horde of the undead show up outside of the house, and Luke realizes that it was Herman's fault for leading them here. The zombies begin to bash the windows, and start beating down the door until it's broken open. Herman is devoured by the zombies, and that's when the severity of the situation kicks in for Luke. He grabs fellow group member Randy Dasling, dragging him out of his chair and forcing him upstairs. The rest of Luke's group follows up the stairs after him and Randy, and when they're at the top, Luke tries to slow down the pursuing zombies by throwing small objects down the steps -- but it's practically useless. Thinking quick, Luke hurries into one of the bedrooms and smashes the window open with his cricket bat, yelling for everyone to climb out. Luke hops out first, and waits at the bottom to catch the crippled Wesley Randolph. As the rest of the group climb out one by one, Luke, with Wesley in his arms, hurries to a small fence behind the cabin, climbing over.

Some hours later, after walking through the entire night, Luke and his group stumble across a motel by the road, occupied by another larger group of survivors. After Aidan speaks with some of the motel survivors, they agree to allow them inside. Luke and the others briefly introduce themselves - but before they have any time to settle in, William Reynes, leader of this group, comes storming over, demanding Luke's group to leave immediately. When things continue to escalate, Luke urges Aidan that they should just leave, telling him that these people are insane. At first Aidan resists, but when William fires a shot near them, Aidan listens to Luke, and they all back out of the motel, going back on the road to fend for themselves.

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

After the incident at the motel, Luke and his group venture into Garden City, hoping to find some shelter. They do - at the top of an office building that's surrounded by the undead. With no way out, they sit at the top floor, while Luke is shown to have little to no hope that they're getting out of this alive. But just then, Kate Bloodstone and a few others reveal themselves, stepping into the room. Luke recognizes them as some of the people from the motel -- the people who are arguing for them to stay. Kate says that they've come to rescue them, and they're sorry for what happened, but Luke doesn't fully buy into it. He says that they can talk apologizes once they get out of this mess. Claire Noble points out that they risked their lives getting into this building in the first place, and Luke should show a little gratitude. Irritated, Luke turns away to look out the window.

While awaiting Marcus Downes and Dean Howards, two of Kate's companions, Luke is approached by Clyde Rollins, where he makes it abundantly clear that he's still got little hope that he will make it out of the building alive, which Clyde doesn't have a response too. He then briefly chats with Clyde about how he was actually watching one of his movies when the outbreak first struck - a movie called Taser Force.

A little while on, still waiting for Marcus and Dean, Brenden Trevors walks up to Luke, the two young men talking about what the likelihood of them escaping is. Brenden tells Luke that he and his people will protect them, and Luke just needs to have some hope. But Luke, however, even after hearing this, remains firm on the idea that he's already a dead man.

When the time comes to finally try and escape, Luke goes to help Marcus deal with the zombies, who've piled up at a staircase door. He thinks that it'll hold for a little while - but not long. Luke then asks Marcus what the plan is to escape, and he says that they're going to layer themselves in zombie blood in order to walk right through the horde outside. Luke is uncomfortable about the idea, but is willing to do it. But in order to do that, they need one zombie, which they'll need to get from behind the stairwell door. Luke positions himself in front of the door, shoulder pressed against it. The plan is to open it slightly, allowing just one zombie through, before Luke closes the door. When both men are ready, Luke twists the door handle and opens it - but the immense force of the zombies on the other side is something Luke can't handle. Luke is thrown backwards, the door swinging open, hordes of zombies piling inside. When he sees a zombie nearing Marcus, Luke gets to his feet quickly, batting the zombie down with his cricket bat. But a second zombie immediately grabs onto Luke, biting into his throat. In just a few seconds, Luke is completely swarmed by zombies and ripped to pieces, while Marcus flees.

## **Death**

Killed By
* Zombies

When a horde of zombies swarms the office building, Luke saves Marcus by knocking down a zombie in front of him. But Luke is quickly grabbed by other zombies, who promptly tear him apart, killing him in seconds.

## **Appearances**

Any episode with a checkmark over it signifies Luke Butler appearing in any way.