Season 3

The third season of Route to Paradise premiered on June 18th, 2019, and concluded with a tenth episode on September 21st, 2019.

The mall is destroyed, and those who survived the battle there are on the run, left in shambles. While Jacob and his group search for a new home at the Willamette High School, a different group of survivors led by the vengeful Edward Remar travel around Willamette hunting down the remnants of Damerae Badrick and his gang, The Rastas.

## **Summaries**

### **"Winter Wasteland"**

Two days after the fall of the mall, Edward Remar and Clyde Rollins arrive at a bus station, taking shelter inside to get out of a fierce blizzard. Inside, they meet Jared Kellings, who, like them, has been traveling around on his own since the destruction of the mall. Pretty soon, two more survivors show up at the bus station to seek shelter. One of them is a stranger, Solomon Reed, who's come to Willamette from out of state. The second man is Robin Clarke, Benjamin Taylor's former lieutenant. The newly formed group are able to get their hands on a bus, and start driving around town to look for other survivors from the mall.

Elsewhere, the majority of the mall survivors are at Jim Butterman's cabin. But knowing that they can't remain here forever, Jacob Feldman and a few others go out to scout a hardware store. Inside, they find a large group of zombies trapped in the corner of the store by a number of shelves. As they're looking around, they encounter Rebecca Dawson, who wants nothing to do with them at first, but she eventually strikes up a deal to help them find Randall Forster and Curtis Van Horn, who she'd run into earlier on, in exchange for a working car. Before the deal can go down, they are attacked by a horde of zombies. Albert Hanson and Jon Matthews are separated from everyone else and flee from the hardware store in different directions. Jacob, Rebecca, Kate Bloodstone and Marcus Downes become stuck upstairs in an office.

### **"Lost and Found"**

Jacob and the others work to kill the zombie horde in the hardware store, eventually clearing it out. Afterwards, Jacob goes with Rebecca to try and locate Randall and Curtis, while Kate and Marcus stay behind in case Jon and Albert return.

Shortly after Jacob and Rebecca leave, William Reynes and Aldus Paxton arrive at the hardware store, having grown worried because they'd been gone too long.

At a coffee shop in town, Jon wakes up, where he discovers that another small group of survivors had saved him. One of the survivors is Angela Jaegar, who Jon immediately takes a liking to. After getting introduced to everyone, Angela and Ed Anderson depart from the coffee shop to go scavenge a bus depot across town.

Jacob and Rebecca track Randall and Curtis to a scrapyard in town, rescuing them from a horde of zombies. Once they're safe, they return to the hardware store. Later that night, Jacob and Rebecca share their pasts with each other, the both of them having lost partners not too long ago. Rebecca decides that she'll join their group.

Everyone at the hardware store decide that they'll stay here for the time being. Before William goes back to the cabin to get the rest of their group, Jacob hands him the ring that he was planning to propose to Erin Monroe with, and tells him to get rid of them, as he can't bare to look at it anymore.

### **"On the Move"**

William arrives back at the cabin and retrieves the rest of the group, leading them to the hardware store.

Meanwhile, after the hardware store incident, Albert arrives at the bus depot, where he finds another familiar face, Austin Kingston, who is drunk as always. Shortly after this, Angela and Ed show up. When Albert learns that Jon is with them, he and Austin follow them back to the coffee shop.

Elsewhere in town, Edward and his group are driving around town when there bus suddenly runs out of gas on a residential street. Because of Robin's decision to shoot at a few zombies, it draws more zombies to the area. As the group is fighting them off, Benjamin opens the front door from a house nearby, yelling at them all to get in. They all hurry inside, and Mike Simpson boards up the door. Benjamin and Robin are immediately at odds for the latter having betrayed Benjamin. However, Benjamin is able to let it go since all of them have the same goal of killing Damerae Badrick.

After William and the others arrive at the hardware store, Jacob, William and Kate leave to go and scout the Willamette High School, Jacob and William's former workplace. A long walk later, the three of them arrive at the school and are pleasantly surprised to find that it's occupied by their colleagues Bruce Boseman and Martyn Ford, as well as several other students. One quick talk later, Bruce agrees to let the rest of Jacob's group stay here. Kate leaves to go and get them.

### **"Tracked"**

Angela and Ed arrive back at the coffee shop with Albert and Austin. Now that Jon is ready to leave, Angela and Ed agree to help the three men get back to their group at the hardware store. Layton Zimmers stays behind in the coffee shop.

Kate sprints into the hardware store, out of breath, telling everyone that they need to pack up and leave, as she was being followed by several different trucks. She believes that she lost them, but that proves to be false when the trucks pull up outside of the hardware store -- and it's the Rastas, who are back for revenge. Badrick leads the attack, blowing a hole in the wall with an RPG. Fraser Stiller and Zac Barnes are both wounded in the battle that takes place. Kate, Marcus and Aldus end up separated from everyone else. Most of the others manage to escape together as a group -- but three of them aren't so lucky. Dean Howards, Teddy Powell and Jim are captured by Badrick.

Moments after the fighting ends, Angela and her group arrive, finding the majority of the survivors hidden in the trees around the back. Not knowing where to go, Angela offers them all to come back to the coffee shop, and they agree.

After Angela and the others have already gone, Kate, Marcus and Aldus return to the now deserted hardware store. They decide to follow the snowy tire tracks to find out where they lead.

While traveling back to the coffee shop, another blizzard comes out of nowhere -- alongside a zombie horde. In the chaos, Jon, Angela and Curtis are separated from everyone else. The three of them flee through the woods, ending up at the ruins of Willamette Parkview Mall. Here, Curtis and Jon bury their fallen friends, Quincy Atherton and Monica Reynolds.

At a small warehouse across town, Dean, Teddy and Jim are questioned individually by Badrick. However, as Teddy is being walked back to the room they're locked up in, he chokes out the Rasta guard, freeing himself, Dean and Jim. The three of them sneak out of the building and are moments away from escaping until they are caught. Teddy is shot and killed, Jim manages to escape, and Dean is recaptured.

### **"The Golden Goose"**

Dean is relentlessly beaten by Badrick and Derrick Williams until he gives them the false information that his group is still at the mall, hiding in the basement. Meanwhile, Kate, Marcus and Aldus show up at the warehouse just seconds after Badrick and most of his Rastas leave with Dean to go and check out the mall. Here, the three of them discover Teddy's corpse.

Benjamin and his team are in need of fuel so that they can get back out on the road, and so they go out to a nearby gas station, getting what they need before heading back to the house.

At the school, Jacob and William find out the food situation there is dire, and a supply run is needed. Bruce begins to plan one out. When Lloyd Waller, a young student, hears about this, he asks to go along with them. Bruce, respecting Lloyd's honestly, allows him. Meanwhile, William begins to worry for his best friend, who's still grieving Erin, and is unable to forget about what happened. He tells William that he won't be happy until Badrick is dead.

Badrick and his Rastas arrive at the mall -- where they discover Jon, Curtis and Angela still there. Dean, who hadn't expected anyone to be here, is forced to watch as Badrick guns down Curtis, killing him, leaving Dean with a tremendous amount of guilt. While Jon and Angela are able to fight off and kill most of the Rastas, Badrick and Derrick still manage to escape, dragging Dean along with them. Afterwards, Jon buries Curtis beside Quincy and Monica.

### **"State of Mind"**

After fleeing the warehouse, Jim is rescued by Michael Hall, who kills a Rasta chasing after him and brings him inside to safety. Michael admits to Jim that he used to work for the Rastas, but that he's a different person now.

While preparing for the supply run, Lloyd searches through a box of weapons, discovering a grenade at the bottom. He secretly takes it for later use, even though his friend Kyle Douglass advises against it.

Badrick makes contact with Manji Fayard, a Rasta lieutenant from New York City, via radio, and instructs him to have a shipment of Rastas sent over to Willamette. Expecting it to take at least a week for them to arrive, Badrick, Derrick and Dean head towards the docks to settle in and wait.

At the mall, Kate, Marcus and Aldus show up, finding Jon and Angela. They pick them up and Angela directs them to the coffee shop.

Across town, Benjamin is persuaded by Edward into confessing some shocking news about himself. He reveals that he had a direct part in creating the zombie virus. He explains that he had been tricked into funding Cornelius Dance and Anton Lesser with his company's funds, since they had claimed they were close to creating a cure for cancer with evidence to prove it, which would have saved Sarah Taylor's life. However, they instead used the money to create the virus. While Edward and the others are left shocked, Benjamin says that his ultimate goal after they kill Badrick is to find Cornelius and Anton and make them pay.

Jacob, William, Bruce and Lloyd leave the school for their supply run, intending to scavenge a ship at the docks. However, shortly after they arrive, Badrick is seen pulling up to the docks in a truck. A shootout takes place over the next several minutes. While William and Bruce manage to escape the ship, Jacob is unable to control his anger, and stays behind to attack Badrick. During their bloody fist fight, Lloyd gives Jacob the grenade, before the boy is chased off by Derrick. After Jacob is stabbed in the gut by Badrick, he decides to pull the pin to the grenade, intending to kill himself and Badrick. Both men are blown up in the explosion. While Jacob is killed instantly, Badrick instead has half of his face burnt off, as he sinks into the water, screaming. In the aftermath, Jacob's mangled body floats to the shore, and Dean is finally free, while Derrick remains MIA.

### **"Reunion"**

After a day of rest, Jim says his farewells to Michael and leaves to go search for his group.

Kate and the others from the mall finally make it back to the coffee shop, where the news about Teddy and Curtis is shared. Here, Angela is told by Layton that Ed had left earlier to go and search for two other members from their group who had left days earlier and haven't returned. Everyone then packs up and heads for the school, except for Jon, Angela and Randall, who decide to go and look for Ed.

A funeral is held for Jacob at the school, where William says that what Jacob did was stupid, but that he doesn't blame him. Afterwards, William has a talk with Lloyd, who's overwhelmed with guilt since it was him who gave Jacob the grenade. Soon after, Kate and the others finally make it to the school, learning of Jacob's demise.

Jon, Angela and Randall have no luck finding Ed, but they eventually do run into Jim. However, their reunion is cut short when a zombie horde shows up. Jon and Angela are separated together from the other two men, and forced to flee. Randall and Jim are nearly killed themselves, but are saved by a sniper - who turns out to be Michael. After getting to safety, Randall immediately starts to strangle Michael for killing Clayton back on the train. Jim, however, pleads with Randall to stop, telling him that Michael had changed. For the sake of Jim, Randall lets Michael go, but says that he'll never forgive Michael.

Benjamin's group are preparing to leave the house, when suddenly Robin has some shooting practice in the backyard, shooting at glass bottles. This would lead to a whole bunch of zombies surrounding the house. Clyde is nearly killed, but Edward saves him and everyone manages to escape from the house alive, getting on the bus and driving off. After a while, they stop at a brewery to have a drink and sleep for the night.

Back at the school, Dean is struggling with the guilt of Curtis, and talks it out with Kate in the courtyard, who assures Dean that what he did wasn't his fault. He thanks her, before Kate walks back inside, leaving Dean outside by himself. Suddenly, he is hit over the head with a shovel -- and when he looks up, he sees Badrick. As Dean is panicking and processing everything, Badrick hits him again, knocking him out.

### **"The Mist"**

Benjamin and his group leave the brewery, and start driving around town -- when suddenly a blizzard appears out of nowhere. When Robin continues to drive recklessly, Edward tries to intervene, leading to Robin purposefully driving into a building, causing the bus to break down. As Edward yells at Robin, zombies begin to wander out of the blizzard around them, surrounding the bus.

After kidnapping Dean and leaving him with Derrick, Badrick goes to have a chat with Nathaniel Shepard. It's revealed here that Derrick had saved Badrick from drowning, and brought him to Nathaniel's community, where Badrick was saved. Now, Badrick and Nathaniel work out an agreement where Badrick says he'll provide Nathaniel with his Rastas in return for him being allowed a free pass to the island of Banoi, which Nathaniel claims is a paradise safe from the undead.

At the school, Kate and the others speculate on where Dean could have gone. Jon and Angela arrive at the school the next morning.

Back out in the blizzard, Edward and his group escape the bus, but Jared and Mike get lost in the blizzard. Benjamin and Solomon are briefly separated from Edward, Clyde and Robin. During this brief separation, Edward and Clyde are attacked by zombies, and Robin doesn't even bother to help them until they've already dealt with the zombies themselves. Then, out of nowhere, Clyde is taken hostage by Badrick. Edward argues and negotiates with Badrick, until Benjamin and Solomon are seen approaching. When Badrick is distracted by the quickly approaching Benjamin, Robin draws his gun and takes a shot at Badrick, missing. In retaliation, Badrick jams a knife into Clyde's eye, before running away. Edward rushes to Clyde's aid, deciding to let Badrick get away. He begs Benjamin to help him get Clyde to safety, and Benjamin reluctantly does, allowing Badrick to escape.

While the group of them carry Clyde down the street, a back door to a bowling alley swings open, as Wilbur Wright steps out, yelling at them to get in. Once they're all in, Wilbur grabs a medkit and starts to work on Clyde. Meanwhile, while Robin has his guard down, Edward grabs a gun and shoots him in the chest, before proceeding to strangle him to death.

Badrick goes back to Dean, bringing him and Derrick along to a quarry outside of town - where a giant horde of zombies has been gathered. Badrick tells Dean that they're going to lead the zombies to the high school - and Dean is going to drive. As Dean is begging him not to, Randall, Jim and Michael crouch down in the woods nearby, seeing what's happening. Michael tries to find a shot, but Badrick spots him. Derrick chases after the three of them, as they flee into the woods.

### **"Red Asphalt"**

At the school, things are finally beginning to look up for them. People are happy, and plans are being made to set up defenses to fortify the place. Meanwhile, Marcus, having grown close to Kate over their time spent together, starts a relationship with her. But things aren't all great, as William and Lloyd both struggle with Jacob's death, and there are still several members from their group that are missing.

In the woods, Derrick shoots Michael in the arm, and runs down Jim, shooting him in the leg and capturing him. Michael, now out of ammo, is forced to flee with Randall.

Derrick returns to the quarry with Jim. He and Badrick prepare the horde. While they're at it, Jim and Dean are able to have a talk, where Jim assures Dean that they'll be okay, and Badrick is only playing mind tricks. Eventually, Badrick returns with Derrick. Badrick walks up to Dean, and demands that he say the people at the school deserve this. When Dean refuses, Badrick simply says that Dean will regret that. Dean is then forced into the drivers seat of a truck, seated beside Derrick, while Jim is placed in the flatbed. Before they leave, Badrick says that he has one last thing to attend to.

At the bowling alley, Wilbur tells Edward's group that he's been working with Claire Noble, and is currently awaiting her to return from a scavenging trip. Meanwhile, Mike has made it to the bowling alley safely, while Jared is still missing.

After a long, slow drive leading the zombie horde, Dean and the others arrive at the school. Here, Dean is thrown out of the truck and used a human shield by Badrick. As the people inside the school begin to step into the courtyard, staring in disbelief that Badrick is alive, Badrick shows Dean the mangled, bloody corpse of Jim, who had been chained to the back of the track and was dragged along the road the entire way. As Dean breaks down, Badrick and Derrick jump in the truck and speed off while being shot at.

Things immediately go to hell when the zombie horde shows up, beginning to surround the courtyard. Bruce takes charge, directing everyone on where to go. When nobody goes out to save Dean, Owen risks his life, jumping over the fence and rushing to Dean's aid. As he's running, the courtyard gate is suddenly blown open with an RPG by Derrick. When Owen notices Derrick shooting and wounding Dean, he charges over, shooting Derrick in the head moments before he was about to execute Dean. However, Owen is then bit by a zombie. Knowing what awaits him, Owen sacrifices himself to the zombies so that Dean can escape into an office nearby.

Zombies flood the school as the front doors and windows and broken down. In the chaos that ensues, Kate, Marcus, Fraser and Zac end up cornered, and are forced to escape out of a window, running off into the woods.

The survivors put up a last stand inside the cafeteria. Here, the four students, Lloyd, Kyle, Bernie Ortan and Tony Marston are able to escape, but the window they escape from is overrun with zombies before anyone else can make it out. Martyn, realizing that they're all going to die if nobody does anything, charges into the horde. While Martyn is ripped apart, a small opening is formed within the horde, allowing everybody else to escape the school. Only one person stays behind -- and that's Bruce, who continues to fight off the zombies, not wanting to leave his school.

The majority of the survivors who escaped thanks to Martyn's sacrifice then escape the school premises inside of a cement mixer that Layton had gone and found during the attack.

Sometime after everything, Badrick enters the school, making his way onto a stage where Bruce is. The two of them duke it out, until Badrick pulls out a knife, stabbing Bruce in the gut. As Badrick slips away, Bruce stumbles into the principal's office, where he dies at his desk.

### **"What Comes After"**

In the aftermath of the school attack, the group has been separated. Lloyd and the other students end up fleeing into the woods, however, are followed by a portion of the zombie horde. Tony would end up being killed by the horde, while Lloyd, Kyle and Bernie flee further into town.

Kate, Marcus, Fraser and Zac end up at the neighbourhood - where they are ambushed by Nathaniel and a group of armed men, who try to convince them to come with him. However, after Kate and the others refuse, Nathaniel's men rush at them, knocking them unconscious. Later on when they wake up, they are locked inside of a cell.

William and the majority of the group eventually stop the cement truck and get out to regroup their thoughts. During this, Jared comes stumbling up to them, having wandered over here after the blizzard. However, they soon encounter a group of four men led by Daniel Rockwell. Daniel says that they're from a community, and invites them to come back. While remaining wary, William agrees to it.

At the bowling alley, Claire returns from her scavenging mission, reporting to Wilbur and the others about a community at a football stadium far out of town. Edward convinces Benjamin to go and give the community a shot, persuading him to abandon his goal of tracking down Cornelius and Anton, as it's pointless.

Edward and his group, including Clyde, who now wears a bandage to cover his missing eye, start traveling towards the football stadium but stop at the high school after seeing that it had been recently attacked. As they explore the school, they discover Dean inside, crying, who tells them that Badrick did this.

William and the others arrive at Daniel's community, which turns out to be a football stadium. As they're led inside, they meet the community's leader -- Nathaniel Shepard. Just as William's suspicions start to grow, Nathaniel has his people surround William's group, taking their belongings, and marching them to a large makeshift cell. After they're thrown inside and locked up, the group notice a familiar person sitting in the corner of the cell with them: Alex Weiss.

## **Cast**

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

* Kate Bloodstone (10/10)
* Marcus Downes (10/10)
* Aldus Paxton (10/10)
* William Reynes (9/10)
* Dean Howards (9/10)
* Jon Matthews (9/10)
* Edward Remar (8/10)
* Clyde Rollins (8/10)
* Benjamin Taylor (7/10)
* Jacob Feldman (6/10)
* Randall Forster (6/10)
* Albert Hanson (6/10)
* Damerae Badrick (6/10)

- Angela Jaegar (9/10)

- Fraser Stiller (8/10)

- Zac Barnes (8/10)

- Jim Butterman (7/10)

- Robin Clarke (7/10)

- Austin Kingston (6/10)

- Owen Gliefield (5/10)

- Teddy Powell (4/10)

- Solomon Reed (8/10)

- Rebecca Dawson (8/10)

- Mike Simpson (7/10)

- Lloyd Waller (6/10)

- Bruce Boseman (6/10)

- Jared Kellings (5/10)

- Layton Zimmers (5/10)

- Kyle Douglass (5/10)

- Martyn Ford (5/10)

- Michael Hall (4/10)

- Curtis Van Horn (4/10)

- Derrick Williams (4/10)

- Wilbur Wright (3/10)

- Ed Anderson (3/10)

- Nathaniel Shepard (2/10)

- Alex Weiss (1/10)

- Claire Noble (1/10)

- Daniel Rockwell (1/10)

- Apollo (6/10)

- Bernie Ortan (4/10)

- Tony Marston (4/10)

- Da'Jonte Woodard (3/10)

- Quincy Atherton (1/10)

- Monica Reynolds (1/10)

- Darwin Thorne (1/10)

- Don Holloway (1/10)

- Nick Parker (1/10)

- Grant Carver (1/10)

- Lolida Windfield (1/10)

## **Deaths**

* Teddy Powell
* Curtis Van Horn
* Jacob Feldman
* Robin Clarke
* Jim Butterman
* Apollo
* Derrick Williams
* Owen Gliefield
* Martyn Ford
* Bruce Boseman
* Tony Marston
* 22 Rastas