Another guest, the Cindy Sheehan-like mother of a dead soldier Janet Hofstader (Beverly Breuer), demands to know what her son died for.

The Karl Rove-like Kurt Rand (Dante regular Robert Picardo) interrupts their tryst, calling to let Murch know that the president plans to make his line part of his stump speech.

The spin machine goes into overdrive, but the dead are determined to make their voice heard, even going as far as one soldier killing Kurt Rand by acting out the Lucio Fulci zombie stereotype (gouging his eye and slamming his head into the table) when Rand tried to force him to sign an unwanted document by threatening the soldier's mother.

He believed that his brother Philip was murdered in the Vietnam War, only to discover that it was he who unintentionally killed him long ago with a gun in a game of "friend or foe".

Now one of the zombies, Murch announces that he will show anyone who sends their brothers and sisters to die for a lie the true face of hell.

During the scene where the dead rise from their graves, the gravestones are marked with the names of Jacques Tourneur, George A. Romero, Jean Yarbrough, Lucio Fulci, Del Tenney, Gordon Douglas, John Gilling, Victor Halperin and Steve Sekely, who are other zombie film directors.