Tracked

An unrelenting enemy refuses to give up the search for the survivors of the mall.

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## **Synopsis**

Angela Jaegar is the first to step into the coffee shop, followed by Ed Anderson and then Albert Hanson. Layton Zimmers and Jon Matthews come out of the back room, explaining that Darwin Thorne and Don Holloway were out hunting. Austin Kingston enters the shop last, sliding down against a wall and falling asleep. Ed suggests that they escort Jon, Albert, and Austin back to their group in exchange for helping them get some transportation. They agree to it. Ed wakes up Austin, and once he gets to his feet, the whole group leaves, save for Layton, who's staying behind for when Darwin and Don return.

At the hardware store, Randall Forster is mid-conversation with Rebecca Dawson, talking about their experiences since the beginning of the outbreak. Owen Gliefield chimes in, mentioning the fact that he'd have gone depressed if they stayed in that cabin any longer. Dean Howards glares at him, and Owen smiles when he notices his reaction. They still weren't getting along. Sitting nearby, Zac Barnes decides to taunt the whole group, laughing at the fact that they all act like strangers to each other since the mall fell. Tired of his arrogant and just plain rude attitude, Fraser Stiller stands up and yells at Zac, before storming off in anger. Dean goes to follow, but Marcus Downes stops him, offering to take both Fraser and Zac aside to hash out their differences and get back on the same team. After taking the two of them aside, Fraser and Zac manage to do just that, with Zac promising to take things more seriously.

As the other members of the group are discussing when Jacob Feldman, William Reynes, and Kate Bloodstone might be back, Kate bursts into the store in a hurry. Breathlessly, she explains the situation at the school, but more importantly, the fact that a truck patrolling the street was tailing her. Hearing this, Dean immediately thinks of Damerae Badrick. Moments later, three trucks are seen pulling outside of the building. Badrick jumps down from one of the trucks, and is handed an RPG by one of his men. The group inside scrambles to find cover as Badrick blows a hole in the wall. Rastas quickly pour inside. Owen takes a piece of shrapnel to his shoulder, wounding the old man. Fraser hurries over to see to his injury, but in the process he's shot in the torso by a Rasta. Zac runs over, pulling Fraser to cover while firing back at the Rastas. Aldus Paxton helps to drag the two wounded men further back where they'd be safe from any Rastas. Meanwhile, Dean gets into a scuffle with a Rasta that he hesitated to kill. He's saved by Kate, who shoots the Rasta dead, warning Dean not to hesitate again. As Marcus and Zac make a break for safety, Zac catches a bullet in the back. Marcus pulls him into cover before he can be hit again. During the chaos, Apollo leaps onto Badrick, chewing at his arm. Yelling in pain, he throws the dog off him and goes to shoot it, but Randall charges in to save Apollo. Curtis Van Horn pulls Randall back into safety before Badrick can kill him.

Outside the hardware store on a nearby hill, Angela and her group arrive. Seeing the ongoing battle, Jon and Albert instantly recognize the attackers as Rastas. Angela, hesitant to get involved in a battle, decides to stay back for the time being.

Back inside, the battle continues. With shelves in the store now beginning to collapse, the group begin escorting the wounded out of the building and into the safety outdoors. In the end, everybody manages to make it out-- all except three. Dean, Teddy Powell, and Jim Butterman sit trapped behind cover quickly running out of ammo. Seeing an opportunity, Badrick orders his Rastas to take the three of them alive. Surrounded by Rastas, Teddy and Jim surrender. Dean, however, puts up a fight, and is promptly knocked out cold.

After The Rastas leave the area, Angela and her group approach the hardware store, where they find the survivors hiding out in the woods behind the building. Curtis and Jon finally reunite, happy to see each other still alive. Angela and Ed introduce themselves, and Jon vouches for them that they can be trusted. Knowing that the coffee shop was closer than the high school, the group ultimately decide to go there in order to tend to their wounded and rest.

Further out in the woods, Marcus, Kate, and Aldus stop to recover their breath and briefly discuss where they should go next. Not knowing if anybody else made it out alive, they conclude that they must go back to the hardware store to check for survivors.

They return to the hardware store, finding it filled with corpses--none of them being any familiar faces. Believing that their group made it out safely, Marcus and Aldus wonder if they should try tracking the Rasta trucks back to wherever they're based at. Marcus observes fresh tire tracks in the snow. Kate on the other hand wants to find their group, but after some convincing by the other two, she agrees with them. Marcus then leads them out of the building, following the tire tracks.

In the woods, Angela is leading the bulk of the group back towards the coffee shop. While walking, Curtis and Jon wonder if Wilbur Wright is still alive, with Jon believing that he'll show up eventually. Rebecca, meanwhile, questions everybody on who the gang was that attacked them. Owen and Randall explain who The Rastas are to her. After a while of walking, a blizzard was beginning to form, but luckily they were nearly at the coffee shop. Jon walks ahead with Angela, flirting with her, which everybody else notices. With the blizzard around them picking up fiercely and blocking their vision, the group run into a moving horde of zombies. Angela trips, injuring her leg. Jon picks her up and rushes off, losing everybody but Curtis in the blizzard. Curtis runs after him, while the rest of the group sticks together, pushing through the horde.

Da'Jonte Woodard walks through the ruins of Willamette Mall, avoiding a zombie crawling towards him. Suddenly, Jon, carrying Angela, and Curtis come sprinting inside. Da'Jonte turns to run, but Curtis grabs him, explaining that they weren't holding a grudge against him. Curtis lets go and falls onto a bench, resting. Still skeptical, Jon questions whether Da'Jonte is really done with The Rastas or not. Da'Jonte swears he is. As Jon stands there, he notices something laying on the ground in the distance: Monica Reynolds's corpse. Jon approaches and shuts her eyes, explaining to a confused Da'Jonte that The Rastas attacked the mall and killed both Monica and Quincy Atherton. Curtis asks Da'Jonte if he'd want to join their group now, and he says he'd like to.

An hour later, Curtis finishes digging a large grave. He places both Monica and Quincy's corpse, which they'd found, inside. After paying their respects, Jon fills up the hole. After the burial, Angela calls Jon over. She tells him that she's appreciative of having him around. Jon smiles, telling her that she was growing on him. "Don't get your hopes up," she tells him, before walking away.

The rest of the group arrives at the coffee shop, where Layton introduces himself. While treating Zac and Fraser, Owen goes along with Layton's theory that the apocalypse was created by the government. Layton then goes into the back to make Owen an iced coffee. Everybody else takes a seat and relaxes, waiting for the storm to pass before they head for the high school.

Teddy awakes in a dark room, tied up on the floor. Next to him is Dean, who's still out cold. After calling out to him, Dean wakes up, dazed and confused. Teddy immediately tries breaking free from his ropes, while Dean grabs at his head, trying to remember what happened. A door suddenly swings wide open, and Jim is launched into the room, having given Badrick no useful information. Jim, beaten and bloody, tells the others that there is no point in trying to escape; their best bet was to stay strong and not break when being interrogated. Teddy, however, insists that they try to break out. The door to the room suddenly opens up again, and Badrick is there to take another one of them for questioning. This time, it's Teddy who's hauled out of the room, leaving only Dean and Jim behind. Jim is confident that Teddy won't break under pressure, and that they'll be alright. Dean worries that Badrick is going to kill them, but Jim assures him otherwise. Jim then passes out from his injuries.

Down the hall, Teddy is interrogated by Badrick in another room. He questions where Edward Remar and Clyde Rollins are, and Teddy lies by saying they're dead. Badrick is able to see right through his lies. Laughing, Teddy tells Badrick that he can't wait for his group to go hungry and crumble from the inside, provoking Badrick to slam his head into the table, breaking his nose. Teddy is then escorted by a Rasta back into the cell. When he gets there, the Rasta goes forward to grab Dean. Teddy takes the chance to bring his arms up over his head and wrap them around the Rasta's neck, strangling him to death. He steals a knife off his corpse and cuts himself, Dean, and Jim free from their bounds. Jim wakes up, and the three of them begin moving through the building looking for a way out. They manage to get themselves out into a courtyard and up to a fence. Jim climbs over first, and as he does, a zombie comes shambling up. Teddy tosses the knife over and Jim stabs it in the head; his second ever zombie kill. As Teddy is applauding Jim for doing a good job, a bullet rings out, and Teddy's corpse falls forward into the fence. Rastas come running out of the building, quickly surrounding Dean. A horrified Jim turns and runs away. Badrick screams for his Rastas not to let Jim get away. He then stands over Dean and knocks him unconscious.

## **Cast**

#### **Starring**

* Kate Bloodstone
* Marcus Downes
* Aldus Paxton
* Dean Howards
* Jon Matthews
* Randall Forster
* Albert Hanson
* Damerae Badrick

#### **Also Starring**

* Angela Jaegar
* Fraser Stiller
* Zachariah "Zac" Barnes
* Jim Butterman
* Austin Kingston
* Owen Gliefield
* Theodore "Teddy" Powell

#### **Guest Starring**

* Rebecca Dawson
* Layton Zimmers
* Curtis Van Horn
* Ed Anderson

#### **Co-Starring**

* Apollo
* Da'Jonte Woodard
* Quincy Atherton *(Corpse)*
* Monica Reynolds *(Corpse)*

## **Deaths**

* Theodore "Teddy" Powell
* Several Rastas'