00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're mapping out the timeline of 28 days later and 28 weeks later,
00:11leading into 28 years later. Major spoilers for those first two films.
00:18The world was changed one fateful day when a group of the Animal Freedom Front broke into a Cambridge laboratory
00:24where chimpanzees were being experimented on.
00:30As barbaric as these conditions appeared, the chimps were in captivity for a reason.
00:34They were all infected with the newly created rage virus.
00:37The chimps are infected. They're highly contagious.
00:41Even after a scientist relays this information, the activists unleash a chimp along with this highly contagious disease.
00:48Within seconds of being attacked, one of the activists is sent into a mindless rage.
00:52Simply being exposed to a carrier's blood or saliva is enough for the virus to take its toll.
01:00It isn't long until everyone else in the lab is infected, with the virus spreading across Great Britain in under 28 days.
01:12The eighth day officially saw the infection spawn an epidemic.
01:16It started as rioting, and right from the beginning you knew this was different.
01:20Then Prime Minister Tony Blair would declare a state of emergency, while the military was given the order of shoot to kill.
01:26On day 15, a mass evacuation from mainland Britain was ordered, although panic was about as easily contained as the virus.
01:33As government checkpoints were overrun, roads were gridlocked, and chaos broke out at London airports.
01:39A refugee crisis loomed with the United Nations building giant camps.
01:43Before TV and radio broadcasts ceased, reports suggested that Paris and New York had also been affected.
01:48The UK remained the hot zone, however.
01:57London fell by day 20, with millions infected, countless missing, and those who survived resorting to desperate measures.
02:04Looking down, you couldn't tell which faces were infected and which weren't.
02:08Among those desperate survivors was Donald Harris.
02:10As the outbreak commenced, Don and his wife Alice hunkered down in a house around London's borders.
02:15Don and Alice take solace in knowing that their two children are safe, having been out of the country when all hell broke loose.
02:21Our children are safe, aren't they?
02:23Totally, yeah.
02:25Alice can't help but take pity on a child who shows up on their doorstep.
02:28Although the young boy doesn't have the rage virus, he inadvertently leads the infected to the house.
02:34The boarded-up windows can't keep the infected out, pursuing everyone inside.
02:38While Alice isn't willing to abandon the boy, Don is another story.
02:42Running for the hills and fleeing on a boat, Don leaves his wife and others he had broken bread with to perish.
02:49Meanwhile, in central London, bicycle courier Jim awakens from a coma at St. Thomas' Hospital.
02:59Jim can't find a doctor, nurse, or fellow patient in sight.
03:03Exiting the hospital, Jim discovers the city to be equally isolated, although not completely abandoned.
03:09The infected run rampant, but Jim encounters two survivors, Selina and Mark.
03:14She's completely humorous.
03:16I think she should get on like a house on fire.
03:19The three make their way to Detford, where Jim learns that his parents took their lives rather than allow the virus to change them.
03:25Selina doesn't take any chances when Mark is attacked later that night, beating him to death right then and there.
03:32Considering how quickly the virus takes its toll, there's no time to second-guess killing allies who have potentially been infected.
03:38We have to leave now. More infected will be coming.
03:43Heading to Balfron Tower, they meet Cabbie Frank and his daughter Hannah.
03:46This is my daughter Hannah. Come on, sweetheart, say hello.
03:50Based on a military radio broadcast, it appears safety and maybe even a cure await near Manchester.
03:56Alas, this turns out to be a red herring.
03:58Speaking of red, a single drop of the infected's blood seals Frank's fate before he's gunned down.
04:03Stay away from him!
04:05Although soldiers come to their rescue, they prove just as dangerous.
04:10The two-faced Major Henry West seeks to turn Selina and Hannah into sex slaves for his men as part of a depraved plot to repopulate a dying planet.
04:19I moved us from the blockade. I set the radio broadcasting and I promised them women.
04:23Because women mean a future.
04:31The world isn't over yet, though, as evidenced by a jet that Jim spots from down below.
04:36Returning to save Selina and Hannah, Jim turns an infected soldier against the others.
04:40Before the three can make a getaway, West puts a bullet in Jim's gut.
04:48You killed all my boys.
04:49The disgraced soldier underestimates Hannah's driving skills as she sends him to his doom.
04:54Another 28 days later, Jim finds himself back where he started, awakening in bed following a crash.
05:00Selina and Hannah are with him in Cumbria, having located a remote house.
05:04The seemingly unstoppable infected have finally shown weakness, unable to thrive without fresh bodies to feast upon.
05:10The jet that Jim saw earlier wasn't a hallucination either, suggesting that salvation might be on the horizon.
05:16Thank you so much this time.
05:18Over the following weeks, more infected die of starvation, while American-led NATO forces arrive in London.
05:24Mainland Britain is declared infection-free, with reconstruction beginning.
05:28Unfortunately, this would not be the last outbreak.
05:31After 28 weeks, Tammy Harris and her younger brother Andy return to Britain, where refugees are gradually being reintroduced.
05:38Survivors are restricted to District 1 on the Isle of Dogs, as the rest of London is still overrun with bodies.
05:45Although the Isle of Dogs is completely safe, the surrounding area of London is not.
05:50There are also wild animals, although research suggests that the virus only affects primates.
05:56Tammy and Andy are reunited with their dad, Don, who struggles to tell them how cowardly he behaved during their mother's final moments.
06:03I tried to go back.
06:07She was already gone.
06:08Well, turns out that Alice isn't quite dead yet.
06:12Sneaking to their old home, Andy and Tammy find their mother alive.
06:15Major Scarlett Levy determines that Alice is asymptomatic, perhaps providing a key to a cure.
06:21That said, Alice isn't immune.
06:23She's still infected and contagious.
06:25Technically, she's not immune.
06:28She's a carrier.
06:29In what's probably this franchise's dumbest decision, aside from, you know, creating the virus, Don kisses his not very well-guarded wife.
06:36The rage instantly kicks in, driving Don to kill Alice as another outbreak commences.
06:45Scarlett saves Andy and Tammy, hoping they may also be asymptomatic like their mother.
06:50With the spread growing beyond control, General Stone deems everyone a target.
06:54Disregarding this order, Delta Force sniper Doyle decides to aid Scarlett and the kids, along with a man named Sam Conway.
07:00As the Air Force bombs District 1, they flee to London with Don not far behind.
07:05Along the way, Sam is infected while trying to escape.
07:08Doyle is burned to death rescuing the others, and Scarlett dies at Don's hands.
07:17Don also bites Andy before Tammy puts their dad down for good.
07:21As Scarlett suspected, Andy is asymptomatic.
07:38The kids rendezvous with Doyle's contact Flynn, who agrees to fly them from a decaying London to France.
07:45What happens between then and the next 28 days is a little hazy.
07:48Although, Flynn's helicopter is last seen abandoned as someone on the radio calls out for help.
07:55As an infected horde rushes toward the Eiffel Tower, it's confirmed that the virus has made it to Paris, with the rest of Europe vulnerable as well.
08:02It's unclear what happened to Tammy or Andy, although it's safe to assume they couldn't produce a cure.
08:08Otherwise, rage wouldn't still be plaguing Europe 28 years later.
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08:28Although the virus still rages on after 10,228 days, people continue to adapt.
08:34One group of survivors established a community on Lindisfarne, an island in Northumberland.
08:39Between this haven and the mainland is a lengthy causeway.
08:42Occasionally, small teams are required to leave the island.
08:45You know, I feel he's a bit young.
08:46He's ready, Jenny.
08:47If anything goes wrong, don't expect a rescue party.
08:50Infected are not the only threat, as the virus has also given birth to a cult that likes to decorate with bones.
08:56The virus has evolved as well.
08:58There are many kinds of death.
09:00The infected not only appear stronger, but smarter.
09:04Able to hide and creep up on victims.
09:06And no, that's not Jim.
09:08Will this epidemic ever end, or will we still be talking about the rage virus 28 decades later?
09:13Only time will tell.
09:15This is a glorious day.
09:17A day of judgment.
09:19What's your favorite moment from the 28 Days Later series?
09:22Let us know in the comments.
09:24There were so many dead.
09:25There were so many dead.
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