[3] Luis Acocella and Charlie Ratajkowski, medical examiners in San Diego, perform the autopsy of a John Doe who suddenly comes back from the dead.

Despite opposition from other staff at his news station, Baseman recruits longtime anchor Chuck Corso to reveal the truth.

Baseman's studio intern also patches a White House live feed to Chuck's broadcast confirming that the dead are attacking.

An unhinged chaplain commandeers the ship for his own perverse benefit, aiming to make a new society in his warped religious perspective.

Navy officer Karl Nishimura, who hopes to reach his family in Buffalo, works together with tormented fighter pilot Jenny to escape the chaplain's followers and the undead.

Meanwhile, Baseman and Corso's news studio is infiltrated by a group of deranged survivors, whose actions lead to the station being overrun by the undead.

She has altered government websites to reflect her landline contact information, throughout which she learns and takes down stories from survivors of the zombie plague.

Prior to the 10/23 outbreak, Muse was a famous guitarist, discovered when he used a guitar as a weapon on a violent man attempting to attack a woman.

Eventually he stops using his name and goes by "the Face" in an ironic twist of what he once was as a polished TV host to a majorly disfigured survivor, as he moves north to Canada.

As years pass in the apocalypse, some zombies are captured for sport by deranged societies, with Annie being upfit with weapons for battles and blades for running.

Etta Hoffman's efforts to record the history of the zombie plague are noticed by a faction from Toronto, seemingly led by a woman named "Snoop."

Fort York is vegetarian and non-violent, and relies in part on enslaved zombie for manual labor to survive, such as plowing fields.

Older decaying enslaved zombies are allowed to live in peace in a fortified section of the city across from Fort York, called Slowtown.

Due to a recent theft and assault of staff and items at Fort York's supply cache, Lindhof advocates for a harsher existence, threatening the years old democracy formed by survivors.

Muse is weakened and assures Greer that the zombies are now growing more peaceful and have been working for the earth to rid the planet of humanity's evil, similar to the "golems" mentioned by the Navy ship's Chaplain many years ago to Karl, but instead in a "cleansing" sense, rather than an army.

Ultimately, Lindhof successfully inspires Fort York mobs to bypass a vote and to violently storm the jail and execute the brickhouse 4 in horrifying manner.