Gary

## Summary

Image of Gary

Gary is a main character of the Pivot Zombie Series and is introduced in the third episode along with Vince and the others in The Cabin. Along with Vince, Gary is ex-military; serving nine years as a scout, part of a sniper team and eventually joining Vince's squad. Throughout the five years Gary and Vince served together they became close friends and respected one another's skills; allowing them to combine them to perform effective military operations. On the first day of the outbreak, Vince and Gary saved Jane's life by breaking her out of her crashed car and killing the surrounded infected. Gary is liked by everyone in the group and has an unbreakable bond with Vince, which is made evident in Heroes (Episode 6) where Vince leads a rescue mission to save him from bandits.

## Full Character Story

Gary and Vince are military teammates and they worked together for 5 years in the Military. They arrived at the The Cabin in Vulnerable (Episode 3) and they planned to take control of the Winston Military Base at that time.

In Execution (Episode 4), Gary helped Vince scout about the situation inside the Winston Military Base. After he had told Vince there was a mutated zombie, he was caught later by the bandits. The Survivors lost track of the position of Gary and they were informed by the Bandit Leader in Complications (Episode 5) that Vince had to hand Rob and Craig to him so as to take Gary back to the team. Vince didn't accept the deal and he decided to rescue Gary with the rest of the team.

Attributed to the team's efforts, Gary was rescued in Rescue (Episode 7) and he left the bandit compound with the team. Gary approved of the decision of going to bunkers in Conflict (Episode 9). The team was forced to leave the base when the bandits destroyed the base by having a serious gun fight with them. Nevertheless, Gary was not fast enough to get on the truck and he was left behind when David was forced to drive off. He was then killed by the Bandit Leader which made Vince feel very distraught. This is because Vince had hoped that if Gary and him were to die in battle, it would be side by side.

Gary is also one of the people who showed up in Craig's dream sequence in Icarus (Episode 18).

Although Gary doesn't have many appearances in the series, he is still an influential person who united the team when he was captured by the bandits and also strengthened the power of the team because he was the only military sniper in the team.

## Personality

Gary was a survival-considerate person, he suggested to Vince to find a suitable place to live in instead of staying in the cabin which led to him discovering the Winston Military Base. Also, he is a responsible and brave person that cared about the safety of team and was the final person to try to get into the truck before his death in Conflict (Episode 9). He is cooperative and always follows the orders given by Vince.

Gary is a helpful person who saved Jane on the day of the outbreak with Vince.

## Appearance and Equipment

Gary is a dark green stickman. He wears a dark green T-shirt. His weapon was a Barrett M82 Sniper Rifle.

## Kills

* 3 Terrorist Soldiers (pre-apocalypse)
* Numerous amounts of soldiers (*pre-apocalypse, military career*)

## Relationships

### Vince

Gary and Vince are military teammates and they worked together for 5 years in the Military. They saved Jane on the day of outbreak and they found Mark after saving Jane's life. Gary and Vince then led Mark and Jane to a house owned by Zoey and Nick. Gary suggested to Vince to find a safe place because the house wasn't safe enough. He and Vince then found the Winston Military Base and led the team to get there. Gary was ordered by Vince to go to the hill for scouting the situation of the military base. Gary told Vince what was going on in the military base and Vince ordered the team to confront The Infected inside the military base. They took control of the military base successfully. Vince told Gary that they took control of the military base. When Gary was ready to head back to the military base, he was caught by The Bandits. Vince knew that after Craig told him Gary was missing. Vince then opted to rescue Gary and the rest of the group all volunteered to join him. They reached The Bandit Compound and attacked the bandits, they found Gary in the ground floor and saved Gary successfully.

Gary and Vince planned to defend the military base for the next few weeks. However, they changed their minds and wanted to go to the bunker by reading Rob's letter in the Conflict (Episode 9) . While they were ready to go to the bunker, the bandits suddenly attacked the military base. Gary was the last person to walk to the truck and his leg was shot by the bandit leader. Finally, Gary was executed by the bandit leader. Vince felt sad and repentant about the Gary's death.

### Craig

Gary met Craig in the vulnerable (Episode 3) . He and Vince welcomed Craig and Rob to join the group. Although Craig and Gary has a low conversation, Craig thought Gary was an useful and helpful person and believed Vince and him can led the group undoubtedly. When Craig knew the bandit leader caught Gary in the Complications (Episode 5). He told Vince that he knew where Gary was. Vince then led the team to rescue Gary and finally it was successful. Craig and Gary didn't have much conversation before Gary's death. It is because Craig needed to help Rob to find his family and Gary was planning to defend the military base with Vince. Craig found the letter inside Rob's house and gave the letter to Vince and Gary. After Gary read the letter and suggested to go to the bunker. Nevertheless, Gary was killed by the bandit leader unexpectedly.

### Jane

Gary and Vince saved Jane's life on the day of the outbreak. Vince thought Jane had a great potential to be his assistant and asked Gary to let her and Mark follow them. Gary agreed what Vince said and welcomed Jane and Mark to join him and Vince. Jane thought Gary had a higher contribution because Gary and Vince found the Winston Military Base and led her and the rest of the team to the military base effectively, so sometimes Jane admired what Gary did. However, their communication wasn't long after Gary was executed by the bandit leader in the Conflict (Episode 9).

### David

Gary met David in the Rescue (Episode 7) when the team was ready to back to the military base. After Gary backed to the military base, he thanked all of the people who used to save him. David told him everyone volunteered to save him, including himself. David asked Gary what he and Vince worked, Gary told David that he and Vince serviced the military for 9 years and 11 years. However, they didn't get along for a long time since Gary was executed by the bandit leader in Conflict (Episode 9). David chose to leave Gary behind because he and Mark were in a dangerous circumstance. It caused Vince blamed David in the future.

### Bandit Leader

Gary was caught by the bandits in Execution (Episode 4). He then met the bandit leader and Gary was threatened by the bandit leader to give him some information about the survivors. The bandit leader then knew some of the names of the survivors including Vince. It also caused the bandit leader directly to know Rob and Craig were in the military base, so he decided not kill Gary and he intended to make a bargain with Vince. However, the bandit leader didn't expect that Vince would lead the team to save Gary and he felt angry about what Vince did. The bandit leader led the bandits to reach to the military base and he met Gary once again. Gary felt annoyed to the bandit leader and wanted to kill the bandit leader for the revenge of Danny's death. Nevertheless, Gary couldn't kill the bandit leader and when he was walking to the truck, the bandit leader suddenly appeared and shot Gary's leg. Gary felt hurt and the bandit leader felt furious because he couldn't kill all of the survivors. He executed Gary and Vince shot the bandit leader. The bandit leader finally was bleeding.

## Death

After Vince discovered that the Bandit Leader had arrived at the base, he told everyone to obey the Bandit Leader and the survivors had the conversation with the bandit leader. Rob then disturbed the bandits by surprise by opening fire with an RPG. The team then ran back to the truck fought the bandits. Gary asked Mark to give him his weapon and he wanted to cover the rest of the team on their approach to the truck . After the rest of the team climbed inside the truck, Vince asked Gary to hurry and he arrived in the truck, Gary was ready to go the truck and while he was walking to the truck, the bandit leader shot his legs, making him drop to the floor and before Gary could react the bandit leader followed up with another shot to the head. Gary died immediately.

Gary survived for 14 days in the apocalypse and was in the series for 6 episodes (He doesn't appear in Complications (Episode 5) and his appearance in the dream sequence is not counted)

## Notable Quotes

* "A search and rescue mission just like the old days Vince." - *Gary responds to the group in Rescue (Episode 7), telling them that the rescue made him recall a lot of old memories with Vince when they were doing rescue missions in the military.*

## Trivia

* He is one of three main characters (Vince, himself and Will) to have served in the army before the apocalypse.
* He is the one of characters to have kills only in flashback sequence.
* He was one of the characters to show up in Vince's dream sequence in Stricken (Episode 10), the other being the Bandit Leader.
* Although Gary appears in Craig's dream sequence in Icarus (Episode 18), he is the only person who does not have any dialogue in Craig's dream.
* He never met Will at British Army as he retired at 2003 and Gary started serving at 2005.
* He is the second main character with which Vince served in The British Army. (First being Will)
* He is the second main character to use sniper rifle. (First being Frank)
* He is born in 1970.
* He is one of the main characters who has less lines or dialogue such as Frank and Zoey compared with other main characters but he is still important to the development of story.
* He and Danny were the only members of the survivors to die in the Winston Military Base attack.