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    Written by Kc Wayland
    Transcription courtesy of Re1ndeer (Part 1)
    Edited by DemetriusH
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    MICHAEL (NARRATOR):
    Nothing used to scare me. I didn’t fear death, or what might be there on the other side if today was my day. That was then, and this is now. Four hours of going through the building left my legs aching. My eyesight blurred so bad that it took several attempts to bring down the one we found on the 9th floor. We were tired, but we kept moving forward. There would be time to rest later. Our searching was almost over. We were finally at the top floor.

    (The soldiers walk up the stairwell and ready their guns)

    ANGEL:
    You ready?

    MICHAEL:
    All set. Saul, you good?

    SAUL:
    (yawns) What-ev.

    MICHAEL:
    Hey. Keep your shit sharp. Only one more to go.

    SAUL:
    Man, ain’t no one up here.

    ANGEL:
    On 3. 1, 2, 3!

    (Angel opens the 14th floor stairwell door and gunshots come their way)

    MICHAEL:
    Fall back!

    BILL:
    Get back, motherfuckers!

    SAUL:
    Who the fuck is shootin’ at us?

    MICHAEL:
    (to Bill) Hold your fire, hold it! We’re not them, we’re normal!

    BILL:
    Why don’t you peek your head out around the corner and let me see?

    (Michael peeks his head out and Bill shoots and laughs)

    MICHAEL:
    Fuckin’ asshole! I’m not one of them!

    BILL:
    See? You fall for my tricks. But I’m not gonna fall for one of yours.

    MICHAEL:
    Datu, who the hell is this guy?

    DATU:
    It’s Bill! He owns the building; well, he inherited it. I didn’t know he was still here.

    SAUL:
    You want me to open up with the SAW? He’s only got a shotgun, if I blindfire around the corner, we’ll shred him!

    MICHAEL:
    Look, I may hate this fuck but we’re not gonna kill him.

    DATU:
    Why not?

    SAUL:
    See? Datu agrees with me!

    RILEY:
    Hey, Michael’s right. He’s only acting in self defense.

    PEGS:
    Maybe you should try reasoning with him?

    MICHAEL:
    What do you think we’ve been trying to do?

    RILEY:
    Bill, it’s alright. We’re here to help. How could I be talking to you right now if I was one of them?

    BILL:
    Maybe you’re different. Why should I take a chance if I don’t have to?

    RILEY:
    You just need to trust us.

    BILL:
    Sure, I’ll trust you. Why don’t I just put my shotgun down so you can come closer and tear my fucking face off like the others?

    MICHAEL:
    Saul, knife.

    (Saul’s knife is pulled out)

    RILEY:
    What are you doing? You’re not going to-

    MICHAEL:
    I’m just using it for its reflection. Hell if I’m sticking my head out again.

    MICHAEL:
    Alright. He’s created a barricade outside his apartment with furniture. Um, it’s just like the other floors, he’s halfway down the hall facing away. Argh, we don’t have a clear shot. Datu, is there any other way around?

    DATU:
    Yeah. You could take the elevator to the other side, but he has a clear shot of that too. His penthouse spans most of the floor, with a few rooms along the back. There’s no way around.

    MICHAEL:
    Well, at least we know he’s not one of them. Um, c’mon, we’re gonna head back down.

    (Stairwell door is shut)

    SAUL:
    We’re what?

    MICHAEL:
    Look, we can deal with him later. We’ll seal off this door. Datu, you have some nails and some wood?

    DATU:
    Yeah, I think so.

    MICHAEL:
    Yeah, alright. Let’s lock him in. I’m more worried about the lobby right now. Let this asshole sit it out.

    ANGEL:
    Alright. Datu and Riley, you seal off the door. Michael, Saul, and I will head downstairs to the lobby.

    MICHAEL:
    Riley, if he comes out at all, and you feel threatened, go ahead and take him out.

    RILEY:
    I am not doing that. It’s one thing to shoot one of them, but he’s still human.

    MICHAEL:
    Alright, Saul, you watch the door. Riley and Pegs, help us in the lobby. After that, we’ll call it a day.

    SAUL:
    God, what time is it anyway?

    ANGEL:
    Quarter past 10.

    MICHAEL:
    Once he’s sealed off, meet us downstairs.

    (The lobby crew head downstairs to get to work)

    MICHAEL (NARRATOR):
    Roof access was gonna be a problem, but we could deal with it later. A man with a twitchy trigger finger was the least of my worries. It’s amazing what you’re able to do past the point of utter exhaustion. Everyone could barely find their feet, but they knew what was at stake. We each pulled our part, putting furniture and doors from upstairs apartments over panes of glass windows. We worked as quietly as we could. Each strike of a nail could be heard by one of those things beyond the darkness. We were lucky that night. If just one of those had seen us, it might’ve all been over.

    (Nail tapping)

    PEGS:
    (sigh) That’s the last one.

    DATU:
    Good. We’re almost out of nails.

    MICHAEL:
    Alright. Nice work. We’ll get some more when we start doing supply runs.

    PEGS:
    Supply runs?

    MICHAEL:
    Well, not everything we need is gonna be in this building, but uh, we’ll worry about that later.

    ANGEL:
    Alright. Everyone take a room, on the second floor. There’s no need to spread out in case something happens.

    MICHAEL:
    Yep, good call.

    SAUL:
    Shiiit. Don’t have to tell me twice.

    (Everyone starts walking up the stairs)

    MICHAEL:
    Keep your doors open, so I can call to you if something happens.

    ANGEL:
    Hey, Datu, the water heater still work here?

    DATU:
    Yeah, I’m pretty sure.

    ANGEL:
    Good. ‘Cause I smell like a fish.

    RILEY:
    Ah, well, I know what apartment I want. Pegs, you coming?

    PEGS:
    Yeah, um, just a second. (to Michael) Aren’t you coming up too?

    MICHAEL:
    Ah no, someone needs to watch the stairwell. Make sure no one gets in while y’all are up there.

    PEGS:
    But, you’re exhausted! Can’t we just like, block it or something?

    MICHAEL:
    Well by the time you’d know something was wrong it’d be too late. It’s alright. I’ll sit in the stairwell with my back against the door. I’m sure I’ll wake up if something tries to get in.

    PEGS:
    Um, OK. Um, goodnight.

    MICHAEL:
    Night Pegs.

    PEGS:
    Oh, and um, thank you too. I, I appreciate what you’ve been doing.

    MICHAEL:
    (grins) It’s what I’m here for.

    PEGS:
    Yeah. Well, night.

    (Pegs shuts the door)

    MICHAEL:
    Ay, keep it open!

    PEGS:
    Sorry! I forgot…

    MICHAEL:
    (sighs) Oh man this is gonna be a long night.

    MICHAEL (NARRATOR):
    I remember not being able to sleep the entire night. Just kept feeling small vibrations against the door. Maybe they were explosions far off in the distance, or just someone moving around upstairs. It all blurred together as the stairwell gave no sense of time. No light or darkness from the outside. It might’ve been 12 minutes or 12 hours when I heard the pounding.

    (Someone starts pounding on the main lobby entrance door)

    MICHAEL:
    Saul, Angel, get down here!

    SAUL:
    What? Shit! What time is it?

    ANGEL:
    Uh, comin’!

    MICHAEL:
    We got something.

    ANGEL:
    Is it in the lobby?

    MICHAEL:
    I don’t know, c’mon.

    ANGEL:
    Aren’t we gonna wait for-

    MICHAEL:
    No no no, no time, c’mon!

    TODD:
    Please, please just let us in!

    LIZZY:
    Oh God, let us in, please hurry!

    MICHAEL:
    Front door, c’mon, where’s the key?

    ANGEL:
    Oh fuck! It’s, it’s upstairs in my uniform!

    MICHAEL:
    Go get it.

    LIZZY:
    (pounds on door) Oh God!

    MICHAEL:
    Getting the key. Hold on, how many are you?

    TODD:
    There’s just two of us, man. (zombie noises from outside) Please, please let us in! (zombie call) Oh, oh shit, there they are!

    LIZZY:
    God! They’re coming, please, let us in!

    MICHAEL:
    Step away from the door.

    (Michael shoots the lock)

    MICHAEL:
    Get inside!

    (Zombie runs over to the building)

    MICHAEL:
    Get over here!

    (Zombies jump on Todd)

    LIZZY:
    Todd! No! We need to get him!

    MICHAEL:
    Ah, shit. (another zombie call) Get in the stairwell!

    (Zombies run up just as they shut the stairwell door)

    (Zombies pound on the door as Angel hurries down the stairs)

    ANGEL:
    They’re inside?

    MICHAEL:
    It’s too late.

    ANGEL:
    What the fuck happened?

    MICHAEL:
    I had to shoot the lock.

    ANGEL:
    You what?

    LIZZY:
    I have to go out there, please! Todd is still out there, please!

    MICHAEL:
    Get over here, I can’t hold this door on my own!

    SAUL:
    Hey, you guys need help?

    MICHAEL:
    Where the fuck have you been?

    SAUL:
    I- was, I- was upstairs-

    MICHAEL:
    Just get Datu! Find whatever you can to board up this door. They keep pounding like this and the hinges are gonna go!

    SAUL:
    OK, I’m on it.

    LIZZY:
    Please! Please, you need to do something-

    ANGEL:
    Hey look! We can’t. Don’t you understand what just happened?

    LIZZY:
    Todd, he can’t be dead! He just can’t be dead…

    RILEY:
    Wait, what happened?

    LIZZY:
    (cries) Todd!

    MICHAEL:
    Riley, take her upstairs.

    LIZZY:
    No! No, I don’t wanna go!

    RILEY:
    C’mon, come with me.

    LIZZY:
    We have to go back!

    RILEY:
    I know… c’mon, there we go. It’s, it’s alright.

    LIZZY:
    But Todd is all I have left… he is all I have left…

    MICHAEL:
    (to Angel) Poor girl.

    ANGEL:
    Who cares?

    MICHAEL:
    Excuse me? You of all people should have some sympathy!

    ANGEL:
    You jeopardized everyone’s life by letting them in. You could not have made it to this door in time and everyone upstairs would be dead, or worse by now. Sympathy aside, this is an entirely different situation.

    MICHAEL:
    Well maybe I did make a bad choice but we saved one more person. It could’ve ended badly, but it didn’t.

    ANGEL:
    Some use that girl’s going to be, she’s a mess! What good will come of this?

    MICHAEL:
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    What good is she to us? You need to shut your fuckin’ mouth before I shut it for you. I don’t care what bars are on your shoulder.
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    What good is she to us? You need to shut your fuckin’ mouth before I shut it for you. I don’t care what bars are on your shoulder!
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    ANGEL:
    Look. You might not like it, but I’m right. I need to focus on the mission and the safety of everyone as a whole. I need to make the call when it comes to someone living or dying. Is one person out there really worth all of the lives of the people upstairs?

    (Zombie noises are heard beyond the door)

    MICHAEL:
    Shh. Listen to that. I think they’re leaving.

    (Someone comes walking down the stairs)

    DATU:
    Here. These should hold it. (drops wood planks)

    ANGEL:
    Do it. We’ll keep holding the door.

    (Datu picks up a piece of wood and nails it in)

    MICHAEL:
    Just keep doin’ it. Make it go all the way across so we can remove it when we need to.

    (Datu finishes hammering in the defences)

    ANGEL:
    Alright, that should do it.

    DATU:
    One more for me.

    (Datu nails in a final piece)

    ANGEL:
    Saul!

    SAUL:
    Right here.

    ANGEL:
    Watch the door. Michael needs a break.

    SAUL:
    Hey, hey, I’m sorry that I took so-

    ANGEL:
    Hey, don’t be sorry, just do it.

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    (Everyone settles down on the 2nd floor)

    MICHAEL:
    (about Lizzy) Where is she?

    DATU:
    Riley took her into their room. She was pretty shook up.

    ANGEL:
    Don’t worry about her.

    (Angel leads everyone else into his room)

    ANGEL:
    Here we are. Saul and I stayed in uh, here last night.

    RILEY:
    (about Michael) What’s wrong with him? Is he OK?

    ANGEL:
    Uh, he’s just exhausted.

    MICHAEL:
    How’s the girl doing?

    RILEY:
    Oh, Lizzy, she’ll be alright. I found some meds in a cabinet that should calm her down.

    MICHAEL:
    Thanks.

    ANGEL:
    Quit stalling and move it already.

    (Michael falls fast asleep)

    MICHAEL (NARRATOR):
    There wasn’t much I remembered after that. Seconds after hitting the mattress my whole world went black. When I woke, it was already morning. Someone had taken off my shoes and pants, but I wasn’t about to ask who. For a minute, I had forgotten what happened to the world. The morning sunlight burned my eye, the place seemed so different with the lights on. The smell was different too. Pancakes.

    SAUL:
    Ohhh shit! Look who’s up already!

    MICHAEL:
    How long was I out?

    SAUL:
    It’s Friday.

    MICHAEL:
    Whoa-wha- I slept 24 hours?

    SAUL:
    There was no waking you up, Sarge.

    MICHAEL:
    Wait, where is everyone, what’s goin’ on?

    SAUL:
    Relax, relax. Nothing's happened. They stopped pounding on the door about an hour after we boarded it up and, well we haven’t heard anything since. Angel’s watching it right now.

    MICHAEL:
    And the others?

    SAUL:
    Oh. They’re gathering supplies from the other apartments. Man, you should’ve seen them speed off after that. Somethin’ about raiding about people’s shit just lit ‘em up.

    MICHAEL:
    You make some of those for me?

    SAUL:
    (chuckle) Like I’m not gonna take care of my Sarge. ‘Sides, gotta use up the eggs before they go bad. The girls are gathering up everything that expired throughout the building. We’re gonna have some feast tonight!

    MICHAEL:
    Man, you have no idea how good those smell right now.

    (Michael starts eating the pancakes)

    SAUL:
    When was the last time you ate?

    MICHAEL:
    Mmmmm.

    SAUL:
    Heh, when my cooking smells good you know something is seriously wrong with you.

    MICHAEL:
    Oh God, these are great Saul. You havin’ some?

    SAUL:
    Hehe, already had a full stack, no nuts.

    (Michael laughs)

    SAUL:
    Hey. I overheard what Angel said to you in the stairwell.

    MICHAEL:
    Oh you did? Oh, yeah, well-

    SAUL:
    Man, he’s an ass, don’t listen to him. You did what you had to do.

    MICHAEL:
    Yeah, but um, he was right in a way. I coulda done some damage.

    SAUL:
    You know what? You did a Hail Mary pass, and that shit wasn’t intercepted, so, it’s alright. Everyone just appreciates the win! (Michael puts away the breakfast dishes) Especially me.

    MICHAEL:
    What does that mean?

    SAUL:
    Oh, you know what I mean.

    MICHAEL:
    Uh uh. Out with it.

    SAUL:
    Lizzy, man! That’s one fine piece of ass. I mean, we gotta start repopulatin’, right? (Michael laughs) Think about it.

    MICHAEL:
    Hey, hey. Her boyfriend was killed by those things like a day ago. I don’t think you have much of a chance. Wait, what happened to your girl, the one you keep on trying to call?

    SAUL:
    Look, I’m sure she’s not gonna mind. But Lizzy! I may not have a chance right now, but give it some time… I mean, we’re gonna be stuck here for a while and, well, let’s face it; look at our other options. Pegs? Sure she’s cute and all, but pretty fuckin’ uptight if you ask me. She won’t even touch a gun! What the hell’s up with that?

    MICHAEL:
    Well, have you even talked to her? I wouldn’t go judging before you get to know her. Not everyone grew up with guns like you did, OK? I- I didn’t until the military. Maybe she may be really afraid of ‘em. I don’t know, maybe something could’ve happened to her and maybe someone she cared about got hurt.

    SAUL:
    (chuckles) So I guess you thought about this a lot, huh?

    MICHAEL:
    Eh, I’m, I’m just tryna figure everyone out. It’s that intel side of me. The more I know, the better I can deal.

    SAUL:
    Whatever. As I was saying. Now Riley’s on the other side of the coin. I don’t mind a bit of her spunk but, I like to be the one in charge of a relationship. OK, she’s like a wo-man, if you know what I mean.

    MICHAEL:
    Hm, seems like you’ve been thinking about this a lot.

    SAUL:
    Yeah, well it beats thinking about whatever else is out there. Gives me hope, and something to look forward to. I mean, it’s a pretty small pond now. I might have a chance.

    MICHAEL:
    Wow. (laughs)

    (Someone knocks at the apartment door)

    SAUL:
    Who is it?

    RILEY:
    It’s Riley.

    SAUL:
    (whisper)
    Shit. You think she heard us?

    MICHAEL:
    Come in.

    RILEY:
    Hey! We were going through upstairs, and we found this! (revolver click) Looks like a Colt 45.

    MICHAEL:
    Wow. You know your guns, any ammunition?

    RILEY:
    Just a box, here. (bullets ratting)

    MICHAEL:
    You find anything else interesting?

    PEGS:
    Yeah! Lizzy’s upstairs gathering medicine from everyone’s cabinets and bringing it down here.

    SAUL:
    Why here?

    RILEY:
    See, that’s why I wanted to talk to you. I was thinking, maybe we should have a little store or something that we keep everything valuable. That way, we know what we have, and what we need. If someone gets hurt, and needs antibiotics, we wouldn’t go looking through everyone to find it.

    MICHAEL:
    That’s a good idea. You run it by Angel, he’s the officer.

    RILEY:
    I thought I could run it by you and maybe you could mention it to him?

    SAUL:
    Oh, why don’t you just do it? Why are you asking us in the first place?

    PEGS:
    Well, ‘cause you’re in charge, not Angel, right?

    SAUL:
    What?

    MICHAEL:
    Pegs, technically Angel is an officer, so he’s higher up than me.

    RILEY:
    But you have more experience, right? You actually know what you’re doing.

    MICHAEL:
    Knew this might come up. Um, look. Angel is an officer, which means he’s trained to look at the big picture, to look at the overall mission. Sometimes I need to be reminded of that. I’m supposed to look after how we get the mission done, and to look after all of you. That’s just how it works.

    RILEY:
    Still, I feel better talking to you. Would you mind talking to him about it?

    MICHAEL:
    Well, I will do that, but, you can go ahead and get started on the shop.

    RILEY:
    Thanks Michael.

    MICHAEL:
    Wait. Where you settin’ up?

    RILEY:
    There was a large three-bedroom at the end of the hall, it’s big enough.

    MICHAEL:
    Mm. And your idea? It’s very clever. Nice work.

    PEGS:
    Thanks.

    RILEY:
    Pegs, why don’t you go find Lizzy and help her out? I’ll catch right up.

    PEGS:
    You sure? I mean, I can wait for you, and, and-

    RILEY:
    No no no, it’s alright, just go, go, OK?

    PEGS:
    Oh… ok…

    RILEY:
    Pleaseeee… would one of you give her something to do? She hasn’t left me alone for more than 2 seconds.

    MICHAEL:
    W-well I’m not sure what we can do about that right now. The garden on the roof is a great idea, but until we clear out Bill she needs to do something else.

    RILEY:
    Argh, but she’s driving me crazy! Ever since I took her to the roof of the flower shop, she hasn’t left my side.

    MICHAEL:
    Well, you found your niche, the store. Why don’t you put her in charge of something so she has a niche as well?

    SAUL:
    What about the power? O-or the water? Well what if we run out? Uh, m-maybe have her fill up all the bathtubs in the building. No matter when it goes, we’ll have a decent supply.

    RILEY:
    Mm, I like that. It’s great! Uh, I’ll go and let her know.

    MICHAEL:
    Where’s Datu?

    RILEY:
    He’s with Angel, why?

    MICHAEL:
    Saul, you give me an idea.
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