NARRATOR: Previously on Z Nation...
Welcome to Altura.
Or if George has anything to say about it, soon to be Newmerica.
GEORGE: This is Roman Estes.
He's the reason we have water and power.
DOC: She must really be something, that George.
I've laid down my life for her many times.
Are you gonna vote "yes" on the new constitution?
She says we should be one nation.
I vote Newmerica.
Yeah, well, what's the alternative?
Burn it all down.
Let's get her up here. George!
CROWD CHANTS: George!
Wish me luck.
EXPLOSION
HIGH-PITCHED RINGING
DISTANT SCREAMS AND SOBS
SCREAMS AND SOBS
COUGHING
SCREAMS AND CRIES
MAN CHOKES - DISTANT SCREAMS AND CRIES
SCREAMS AND SOBS
WARREN COUGHS
Doc!
SHE COUGHS
George!
HE COUGHS AND GASPS
DISTANT SOBS AND WAILS
DISTANT VOICE: Help me! Help me!
What... happened?
Are we dead?
DISTANT WAILS
Not everybody.
DISTANT CRIES AND GROANS
MAN SOBS Oh, shit.
Oh, jeez. Uh...
Hold still.
MAN YELLS - You know what? Help will be here soon!
You're gonna be fine. Alright?
DISTANT CRIES AND WAILS
WARREN: George! - SHE COUGHS
Doc!
George! SHE COUGHS
WOMAN COUGHS - George?!
GEORGE COUGHS
You OK?
What happened? - DOC: Explosions!
WARREN: Doc!
DISTANT COUGHS AND WAILS - The dockets...
Yeah.
THEY COUGH
HE COUGHS
We need bizkits stat.
Warren!
Citizen, what...? What happened?
I don't know. Some kind of explosion. - Where's Dante? Estes?
Haven't seen them.
GEORGE: Let's help these people.
Doc... - First responders are rushing in
to aid those injured in the blast.
Most of them delegates here for the vote.
PEOPLE MOAN AND WAIL
GEORGE: Come here... There you go.
OK, let's get you out of here.
WOMAN GROANS - Wait. OK?
Alright now. Just take it easy, man.
You know, death ain't what it used to be.
Little help here!
DISTANT SCREAMS WOMAN: Zombies!
PEOPLE SHOUT: Zombies! - DISTANT GROWLS
ZOMBIES GROWL
GUNSHOTS
GUNSHOT - ZOMBIE GROWLS
ZOMBIE SNARLS
Thanks. - You bet.
ZOMBIES GROWL
DOC: More Zs coming. - ZOMBIES GROWL
♪ Have mercy... ♪
GUNSHOTS
♪ Oh, have mercy. ♪
GUNSHOT
Where did all these Zs come from?
Zombies don't just walk into Altura.
They look like they were on vacation.
DOC: Little late in the season.
You never see so many this far north.
These Talkers are getting twitchy.
We need bizkits.
Where's Dante?
Mr. Stemple? Hey, Leroy. Can you hear me?
Bizkits are coming. Everything's cool. Warren, a little help.
HE GROWLS
I need bizkits!
HE GROWLS
Alright, Mr. Stemple, here we go. Come on.
That's it.
Wow, these really work.
Like insulin. - What happened?
THEY MOAN AND YELL
THEY SNARL AND GROWL
ZOMBIE GROWLS
We're gonna need more bizkits! - ZOMBIES GROWL
ZOMBIE SNARLS
GUNSHOT - 8,204.
Red? - 10K!
DISTANT GROWLS AND CRIES - What happened?
GUNSHOT - 8,205.
Explosion in the Congress Hall. They think a bomb.
Bomb?
GUNSHOT
Have you seen Red? - No. Did she find you?
Yes, but then I lost her again.
Where did all these zombies come from?
I was starting to like it here. - GUNSHOT
You alright?
Let me know if there's anything I can do for you, OK?
You got it.
Who would want to kill the delegates?
This was an assassination attempt.
Assassination?
Who? Estes? - Or you.
But... who?
No, this referendum was gonna pass. This was gonna work.
Oh, thank God you're alright.
I'm OK. You?
I'm lucky. We lost so many good people today.
Gained so many Talkers.
Yes, yes, of course.
We're lucky we had enough bizkits on hand
or we might not have been able to stop this.
I'm sorry. This is a dark day.
I realize we're still tending to the wounded, but this can't wait.
George, my sources are reporting a Talker may be behind this.
A Talker? No, that doesn't make any sense.
They had the most to gain. Look for yourself.
I know, it was a landslide. The Talkers would have been full citizens in Newmerica.
This attack changes everything.
It's early in the investigation. Maybe Dante's heard something?
He wasn't among the wounded. I... don't know where he is.
HE WHISPERS: Something you've got to see.
Anybody else feeling a draft?
Quiet down and let the doctor work.
Well, that's a load off my mind.
What's wrong with you?
This blast is bad news.
On the bright side, we have fresh test subjects headed our--
Maybe it was a... gas leak.
Doesn't matter.
Once they call it a terrorist attack, someone's got to pay.
And how long before they start blaming the red guy, huh?
Murphy, I know you've been through a lot--
These people have given me the hairy eyeball ever since I got here.
You look like Satan.
Yeah, and I'm rocking it. But still, it's rude to stare.
ALARM WAILS
What the hell is that?
Lockdown sirens.
Lockdown siren? And that's my exit.
Murphy, no, wait... - Nope! Bad things happen to those who wait.
Good luck on your science experiment, Mr Wizard.
I hope you get an A+.
SHE SIGHS - ALARM WAILS
I feel like I'm having an out-of-body experience.
I want a complete perimeter sweep. Secure this fence.
Then locate and destroy every zombie that got through.
What did you find?
This is no accident. This is sabotage. An act of war.
ALARM WAILS
Where's Dante?
What are you asking me?
We have witnesses that Dante left the hall just seconds before the blast.
Nobody's been able to find him since.
We need to bring Dante in for questioning.
ALARM WAILS
We gotta find Dante before this goes public.
People are rattled. They could turn on the Talkers and you.
Not these people. I know them.
Dante's wife works in the lab. Maybe she'll know something.
RED: There she is.
Red! - 10K?
WOMAN: Keep moving. This way.
You're shaking. - WOMAN: Let's go.
I'm fine. Really.
You were there, and then...
Zombies. - But we need to talk, for real.
All citizens and militia are to report back to your posts for mandatory headcount.
Copy you. Give us a minute.
I have to go.
I'm supposed to report to Sun Mei's lab in an emergency.
Meet me there when you can. - I will.
I promise.
Does that rig of yours record?
Yeah, it backs up to a chip in the camera.
Oh, right.
The blast could be on here. - Right.
CAMERA BLARES
Oh, man, I hope I was turned the right way.
So, the bomb was under the podium.
DOC: How far back can you go?
Let me... let me rewind this a bit. Maybe the guy who planted it is on here.
Your camera survived? - Yeah, it did.
And I may have inadvertently captured the guy who planted the bomb.
I want to have every frame of that video analyzed.
I'm heading up the investigation, personally.
We'll need your camera, if that's OK?
Why don't you give him a minute? He might be able to solve it for you.
People are dead. There could be more attacks.
So I'm asking you again
if you will voluntarily give me that camera.
Y-Yes, of course.
I'll have it back to you as soon as possible. I promise.
Let's go.
When Murphy told me you were alive
I couldn't believe it. - It's so good to see you.
SUN MEI: Yes.
Where's Murphy? Didn't they bring him here for testing?
Yeah, but he got nervous and ran away when the lockdown sirens started.
And we should do the same.
Right now we're looking for Dante.
Have you seen him, Marjorie? - No.
Not since this morning. I'm worried.
He hasn't tried to contact you?
You know you can trust George and me, right?
Dante is not involved in any attack.
Newmerica was his dream, as much as yours.
As long as he's on the run, it doesn't look good for him
or for Talkers.
LOCK WHIRS - WOMAN: In here.
What do you want?!
Seizing your Talkers. We have orders to take them to quarantine.
I'm in the middle of a test cycle.
My orders are to detain all Talkers. All of them.
Immediately.
On whose authority?
CEO Estes. I'm gonna have to ask you to step aside.
Get out of my lab.
I have my orders, ma'am. Now please step aside.
Sun Mei, do what she says.
She's right. We'll talk to Estes. We'll get you out of there.
Find Dante.
We will.
WOMAN: We'll be back for your guinea pigs.
I thought they'd never leave.
God...
MAN: Hold it. Don't move.
You're... red.
And?
I'm gonna need a pulse.
Yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
One red hot pulse coming up...
That alive enough for you, punk?
Citizen Z here. Live casting from Congress Hall
the site of today's terror attack on the center of our new democracy.
CITIZEN Z ON LOUDSPEAKER: Altura CEO, Roman Estes
has asked me to update citizens on the status of the investigation.
But first
a moment of silence for all those who lost their lives
or turned today.
HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
Good evening
fellow citizens of Altura and throughout
all the outposts.
Today was to have been a day of joy, unity, and progress
not a day of death, fear, and pain.
I confess this tragedy is my fault.
Like many of us, I was taken by the momentum of change.
We failed you, but we won't let our guard down again.
As such, I've ordered a full lockdown of Altura until further notice.
We ask for your patience
in restoring order.
Information has come to light during our investigation
that has resulted in us identifying a person of interest
who we wish to speak to in connection with today's explosion.
SHE WHISPERS Don't rush to judgment, Estes.
Altura authorities are asking
Joseph Dante
to turn himself in for questioning.
If you know the whereabouts of Dante
do not contact him yourself but contact authorities immediately.
Until the bombers are brought to justice
I am calling for the quarantine of all Talkers inside
the gates of Altura.
CROWD MURMURS
I know that sounds cruel.
These are our family. Our friends.
This is for their safety
and for the safety of all Altura citizens.
And there it is.
God. What is he doing?
We've had to make difficult choices before. That's how we survived.
Thank you for your cooperation during this difficult time.
We will restore security.
Without that, democracy is meaningless.
I need to talk to him.
Hey, hey. Not now. Let's get out of here first. Come on.
GROUP MURMURS
MAN: Ridiculous... Crazy.
Where would Dante go? We need to know what he knows.
This is a waking nightmare.
And it's not over yet.
MAN: Hey! Stop that van!
MUFFLED SOUNDS
VAN SCREECHES
MAN: Someone's coming!
He's not stopping! - He's gonna crash the gate.
Open it! Open the gate! - 10K, go! Now!
Open fire! - GUNFIRE
It's jammed! - Forget it!
GUNFIRE
GUNSHOTS
Dante? Wait! Stop!
Why would he run?
And what the hell is Murphy doing?
Defend the gate until someone gets here to fix it.
GUNFIRE
VAN SCREECHES
Thanks for the lift.
GUNFIRE
PANDORA: Do you hear that?
There's hate in the air, and it makes me feel so...
Alive isn't the right word.
Aroused.
PANDORA: Ugh, humans.
Why are the living so damn predictable?
Estes will listen to me.
He'll see this quarantine isn't gonna make us safer.
It's gonna drive the Talkers underground and cut them off from their bizkits.
OK... - GEORGE: Hey!
I'm gonna kick your...
GEORGE: Go on. Get out of here. Leroy, are you alright?
Doesn't hurt. I can't feel anything. Not used to that yet.
Hang in there. This mess will be over soon.
This is all your fault.
You said they were just like us, only dead.
Now they want our brains?
Well, just let them try.
I'll kill them all. I swear I will.
I don't want your brains.
Somebody gonna get an ass whoopin' if you don't stop talking.
No, no, no. Let him go.
What?
Let him go.
Go home. Get out of here. Your family needs you.
Why'd we let him go?
I recognized him.
His brother was one of the delegates killed today.
WARREN SIGHS Damn.
CROWD MURMURS - MAN: Come on!
TALKER GROWLS
Marjorie! - MARJORIE: Sun Mei.
SUN MEI: Marjorie! Thank God you're here.
This is the fourth detention area that I've checked.
They couldn't tell me where you were. Are you OK?
I'm fine.
Do you need anything?
We need bizkits. They aren't feeding us.
TALKERS GROWL
Why aren't you feeding the Talkers?
No bizkits. They're all gone.
TALKERS GROWL
These bucketheads don't know anything.
I need to find Estes.
We need to find bizkits. These Talkers are going to turn.
We'll be back soon, OK?
Alright, right there, where it was prepared.
Got it.
Somebody's coming... LOUDLY: Stop right there!
What's going on? Why aren't you at your post?
We caught them at the fence.
Get away from there. I told you it needed--
Was that necessary?
Probably.
Doc and CZ, we're taking George to Pacifica.
10K, you and Sarge find Sun Mei and Red
and you join us as soon as you can. We're gonna need you.
Here, take this.
Ready?
THEY CHEER
TWIG SNAPS
MAN: Here, Talker Talker.
Here we go, boys.
Free lunch.
MAN: Hey, Talkers.
That's close enough.
Your life depends on the next decision you make.
WARREN WHISTLES
Ah, crap.
WARREN: We'll take those weapons.
Hey, guys. Don't leave us out here like this.
Be thankful we don't mercy you.
We'll leave these just up the road.
And just to prove we're not all bad
here's a sock for each of you. Catch.
WARREN: Let's go!
MURPHY: Shit...
HE YELLS
HE GROANS
What do you want?!
Stop! I mean it!
Who are you?!
Wesson?
HE LAUGHS Is that really you?
It's been a long time since Murphytown, sir.
What the hell is wrong with you?!
You scared the life out of me!
HE LAUGHS Good one. We missed you, sir.
We? - Yeah.
We're a dozen blends strong, sir.
We've been waiting for your return.
HE LAUGHS
Somebody's taken all the bizkits.
Marjorie keeps a stash somewhere.
TALKER: Hi, Red. Where's Margie? What are you guys--
Where does Marjorie keep bizkits?
Underneath the microscopes behind me.
HE WHISPERS: I have one in my pocket, too.
Thanks.
That should hold you over till we get back.
Delicious. I really love those. You can taste the brains in every bite.
Stay here. - Okee dokee.
Warren says we have to get out of Altura. - Like five minutes ago.
I have a detention pen full of Talkers who will melt down without these bizkits.
I'll go with Sun Mei. We'll meet at the cut in the fence.
Hi.
So, you gonna introduce me to your friend?
Let's go someplace we can talk. Alone.
I can take a hint.
Dante has escaped with two, possibly three Talkers.
He was driving the van that crashed the gate.
I assumed as much.
We sent a patrol after them.
And the Talkers?
Almost fully contained. Just tracking down the last few.
ROMAN: And George?
She appears to have left Altura with a group of new arrivals.
Well, keep trying to locate them.
They may be headed back to Pacifica.
If they are, we will find them.
PANDORA: You can leave finding Dante to me.
He couldn't have gotten that far.
HE MOANS You make me feel so alive.
When I saw you in Altura, I knew that was you.
We've been really busy in your absence, sir, and I think you'll be pleased.
Yes, well, let's not get carried away... yet.
ENGINE ROARS
Car!
MURPHY: Get down, get down!
ENGINE STOPS
WESSON LAUGHS
What are you...? What are you doing? - Don't be afraid, sir.
What is this?
THEY APPLAUD - You're all blends?
Carpool.
Carpool? - Yeah.
We all work together.
Work?
Where?
Limbo.
Limbo? - Yes, sir.
And I think you'll like it there, too.
RED: I can't believe this is happening.
Nothing good lasts.
I hope you're wrong about that.
I didn't know if you were dead or turned or what happened.
You were just gone.
I didn't know if I'd ever see you again.
I checked every truckload of new arrivals.
I was so afraid I'd... lost you forever.
I never stopped thinking about you.
I have to ask you...
about you... and Sarge.
Yeah?
You seem so...
connected.
Yeah.
But I mean it's different. It's not like it is with you.
Is that how she feels?
I've known Dante since the Black Rain.
He'd risk his post-life for any of us.
Dante will go to Pacifica. He'll have an explanation.
Estes and his Talker round-up is only making things worse.
Estes is trying to protect everyone, but it's so wrong-headed.
It's not like him.
Is that Dante's van?
Nobody's home.
What's that smell?
GEORGE: Over here.
SHE WHISPERS: Oh, my God.
This is just getting started.
We don't deserve a planet.
Is Dante here?
No. He must have escaped.
Or been taken prisoner.
TALKER GASPS - DOC: We got a live one here!
WARREN: There we go.
Who did this to you?
GEORGE: Carlos...
Carlos? Carlos, is Dante here?
Blink once for yes or twice for no.
Were you headed to Pacifica?
Did Altura Militia do this?
They were tortured. Whoever did this wanted information.
TALKER GASPS
I don't understand, Carlos. I'm sorry.
Let me.
Mercy.
I give you mercy.
GUNSHOT
TALKERS GROWL
SUN MEI WHISPERS: Marjorie!
Marjorie. Marjorie!
SHE WHISPERS: Come here.
SHE WHISPERS: Come on. Come on.
Here, here. This is for you. Here.
Feel any better? - Mm...
TALKERS SNARL
You there! Get away from him!
They're starving! Can't you see they need bizkits?
You're making them crazy! - Hands off her, soldier!
WOMAN: Let him go!
TALKERS GROWL - Hey!
HE YELLS - TALKERS GROWL
HE SCREAMS: No!
Go, go on!
GUNSHOT
Get out of here. Find Dante.
TALKERS GROWL
Almost there.
What about Sarge and Sun Mei?
HE LAUGHS You worry about Sarge a lot.
See? It's all good.
DISTANT SCREAMS
Go on. I'll be right there.
WOMAN SCREAMS - ZOMBIES SNARL
Hey!
Get out of here! - ZOMBIES GROWL
ZOMBIES GROWL
I'm not going.
Sun Mei... - My work is too important.
I'm so close to a breakthrough. I need the lab.
MUFFLED GUNSHOTS
BOTH: 10K.
ZOMBIES GROWL
Help 10K. I'll get the Zs.
10K! - ZOMBIES GROWL
ZOMBIES SNARL
MUFFLED SOUNDS
ZOMBIES GROWL
RED SCREAMS: Help! Sarge!
ZOMBIES GROWL
RED: Behind you!
I got it! Help 10K!
MUFFLED SOUNDS
SILENCE
MUFFLED SOUNDS
MUFFLED GROWLS
ZOMBIES SNARL
SARGE YELLS
ZOMBIES GROWL
10K! Go!
ZOMBIES SNARL - SARGE SCREAMS
HE SCREAMS: Sarge! No!
SARGE SCREAMS
SARGE SOBS
MUFFLED SOUNDS
MUFFLED YELLS
MUFFLED EXPLOSION
MUFFLED SOUNDS
RED, MUFFLED: I'm sorry, 10K.
MUFFLED: There was no other way.
MUFFLED: I couldn't lose you like that.
MUFFLED: I had to do it.
MUFFLED: There was... there was no other way.
MUFFLED: Sarge is a hero.
MUFFLED: She saved both of your lives.
MUFFLED: I'll be right back.
The cut was clean
but we need to keep a close eye on him.
What do I say to him?
You saved his life.
I'll be right back.
RED SOBS
Who would do something so terrible?
I've met a few humans.
And Talkers are just human enough.
Did Dante escape, or was he taken prisoner, or...?
What if Estes was right?
What if Dante was somehow behind the blast?
What if he changed? Became more zombie...
And I missed it?
No, no. Your belief in him came from your gut, not your head.
Always go with your gut.
We were so close to having this whole thing come together.
So close.
There's still time to put it all together.
But there's not that much time left.
Puppies and kittens.