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00:00In the Scottish Highlands, Jimmy is watching TV with his sisters and cousins. Suddenly a siren
00:05starts to ring outside and the aunt closes the door while telling the children not to move.
00:09The kids get scared because they can hear chaos around the house. Jimmy goes to the door and
00:13calls his father, only for the door to start shaking. At that moment the room is forcefully
00:17opened and zombie-like creatures known as the infected burst in. They attack the girls,
00:21quickly devouring them without noticing Jimmy behind the door. He uses the chance to run away
00:26and has to watch his mother being eaten in another room. As he runs around the house,
00:30he keeps seeing all his relatives slowly transforming into infected,
00:33but luckily he manages to leave the building. There are more infected outside so Jimmy hurries
00:37to the church to find his father and ask for his help. However the priest doesn't think the infected
00:41are a bad thing, in fact he thinks they've been saved because in his eyes, this is judgment day.
00:46He gives Jimmy his gold cross and asks him to have faith. At that moment the infected burst through
00:50the windows and Jimmy runs away, but his father stays back because he wants to be saved. The
00:55infected pile up on him and quickly bite him, causing him to become an infected too.
00:59All this chaos is caused by the rage virus. Continental Europe drives it away and contains
01:03it in the UK, which is cut off from the rest of the world. It becomes a wasteland where survivors
01:08must fend for themselves. Twenty-eight years after the initial outbreak, a community of survivors lives
01:13on Lindisfarne Island, a safe zone separated from the mainland by a tidal causeway. Today a child
01:18named Spike will be taught how to kill his first infected. His father Jamie prepares breakfast but
01:22interrupts it when he hears his sick wife Isla falling in the bedroom. The duo rushes to check
01:27on her and she freaks out when she hears Spike will be training today. An argument ensues but
01:31after a few words she just calms down. She's constantly suffering from memory loss and confusion,
01:36so half of the time she doesn't understand what's going on. Back in the kitchen, Spike finds Sam,
01:41who gifts him a brand new beau. On their way out of town, everyone cheers for Spike and wishes him
01:45good
01:46luck. At the town gate, Jenny reminds him of the rules. Every person who leaves is allowed to come back,
01:51but if someone doesn't return, nobody will go looking for them. Rescues have already cost them
01:55too many lives. Then the duo crosses the causeway to reach the mainland. Jamie shares many stories
02:01from the old days and Spike can't believe people could live far away from the sea. They cross a
02:05bridge to reach a forest, always keeping an ear out for potential enemies. Eventually they find a
02:10slow infected crawling on the ground with a bird on its back. When it stops to eat some worms, Spike
02:14gets
02:15his bow ready and shoots an arrow that hits the infected in the neck for a quick death. Another infected
02:19approaches them from behind so Jamie kills it with an arrow too. The noises attract more monsters and
02:24Jamie kills one more, but Spike asks him to let the last one go. Jamie is proud of his son
02:29however
02:29Spike feels weird about having to kill. The duo keeps moving through the forest and sees some beautiful
02:34animals. Eventually they find an abandoned house, where an infected is tied upside down with a bag
02:39covering his head and letters carved on his back. Jamie theorizes someone captured him as a human and
02:43left him as bait, so now he's an infected too. He wants Spike to kill it, but the infected keeps
02:48struggling and the kid is too scared. The infected manages to release himself and Spike is startled
02:53into shooting, so an arrow to the head kills the monster. Afterward they keep wandering and find a
02:57half-eaten animal on the ground. Spike looks up and finds its head and spine stuck on a tree. For
03:02the
03:02first time today Jamie worries because this could have only been done by an alpha infected. He makes his
03:07son move faster and not make any sounds as they keep going. When they reach an open field, they find
03:11a
03:12horde of infected in their alpha leader, so the duo rushes back to the forest as a chase ensues. The
03:16danger
03:17doesn't stop Jamie from still training Spike, telling him how to shoot on the move and go for
03:20the killing blows, which are the heart and the head. They go back to the abandoned house, shooting
03:25every infected that follows them while looking for a safe place to hide. Eventually they find the
03:29entrance to the attic and climb inside, closing it before the infected could see them. Hours pass and
03:34the duo keeps looking outside, but the alpha never leaves the area. Jamie explains to his son that alphas
03:39are bigger, smarter, and need too many arrows to be killed. They don't have arrows left so for now
03:44they'll have to wait. Spike feels guilty because he failed some shots and was too scared to shoot
03:48faster, but Jamie assures him he did amazing for his first time. In the middle of the night they
03:52see a person with a light and Jamie explains that's the quarantine patrol. On the opposite side they see
03:57a fire and Spike is curious about it, but Jamie quickly changes the subject. When Spike falls asleep,
04:03he has a very weird nightmare about his mother drowning and structures shaking. Jamie wakes him up because
04:07the house is the one shaking and they need to get out. The duo quickly rushes out and manages to
04:12escape
04:12right before the roof collapses. Knowing that the noise will attract the infected,
04:16Jamie and Spike start running home as fast as possible. The high tide has covered the causeway,
04:20but it's not very deep so they can still cross it. Suddenly a bunch of birds fly above them and
04:25the
04:25alpha appears on the causeway to chase after them. Spike slips on the water a few times but Jamie acts
04:30quickly to help him, and together they run fast enough to get back on land. Jamie then yells and blows
04:35a
04:35whistle to alert the guards at the gate. The group turns on the lights to locate the alpha and shoot
04:39him
04:39with arrows to make him fall. The creature recovers quickly, so the next arrow is set on fire before
04:44it's shot. This actually brings the alpha down and Jamie can drag his son to the gate. Jenny makes
04:49them wait for a few seconds until she's sure they're not infected before finally opening the
04:53gate to let them in. Later at a party, everyone celebrates Spike's return and first kill. Jamie tells
04:58the full story but Spike is uncomfortable with the celebration of so much killing. The crowd lifts Spike
05:03on a chair and he's allowed to drink. Eventually Spike is too overwhelmed and rushes outside to throw up.
05:08At that moment he sees Jamie sneaking around with another woman and is devastated to watch
05:12his father have an affair. Spike goes home, where Sam is watching over a sleeping Isla.
05:17After sharing details about his adventure, Spike asks Sam about the fire he saw. Sam thinks that
05:22was Dr. Kelson and says that Jamie refused to talk about him for a reason, but he doesn't explain further.
05:27The next morning, Isla wakes up with a terrible headache and asks for medicine,
05:31but Spike doesn't know where to find any. Then Jamie comes back and Spike can't stand looking at him,
05:36so he leaves the room. After a few minutes, Spike gathers the strength to ask Jamie why he hasn't
05:41told Kelson to check on Isla. Jamie explains that Kelson went insane a long time ago and shares the
05:46story of what happened the last time they tried to visit him 15 years ago. A group of foragers that
05:50included Jamie found thousands of bodies on the ground neatly arranged in lines around the big fire.
05:55Kelson appeared to take the bodies to the fire and even waved at the group, who ran away in horror.
05:59Spike
06:00insists that Isla needs help and calls out his dad for his affair, which ends with Jamie slapping him.
06:04He immediately regrets it but Spike runs upstairs to his mother's side. When Jamie tries to follow him,
06:10Spike takes out a knife and tells him to stay away from them. Jamie easily disarms him,
06:14but he doesn't want to make things worse, so he gives the knife back to Spike and leaves. Sometime
06:18later Spike lights a barn on fire, then he runs to warn the guards saying everyone in town needs help
06:23putting out the flames. He promises to keep watch while the adults are gone, but as soon as he's alone,
06:28Spike retrieves Isla and they leave through the gate to take the causeway to the mainland.
06:31Isla freaks out when she realizes where they are and keeps calling for Jamie and her father.
06:36Spike calms her down and convinces her that a doctor will help her. After walking all day,
06:40they find a building to spend the night in. Isla is bored of keeping watching and wakes up Spike to
06:45share stories from before the outbreak, saying that Spike looks a lot like her father. As the
06:49conversation continues, Isla starts calling Spike dad. He tells her to sleep while he keeps watch.
06:55Unfortunately Spike is tired and ends up falling asleep as well, so an infected manages to enter the
07:00building. It tries to eat Spike's shoelaces and spits them when it realizes they aren't worms.
07:04Then it gets close to Spike's face but when it's about to bite, someone pulls it back.
07:08At that moment Spike wakes up and thinks he dreamed the whole thing, but the dead body of the infected
07:13is nearby. Isla says she doesn't know what happened, but a flashback reveals she smashed the infected's
07:18head against a statue. Meanwhile a group of soldiers is being chased by a horde of infected. They try to
07:23shoot as many creatures as possible, but many of the soldiers are wounded and they don't have many bullets
07:27left. Soon the infected catch up to them and start biting them, causing them to transform too.
07:32The other soldiers are forced to shoot their teammates and only three manage to escape.
07:36They reach a tunnel and close the gate before opening fire to kill the infected that get too
07:40close. Afterward they explore the tunnel, only to be jumped on by an alpha. He captures a soldier
07:45and tears his head off with a spine, which he uses to knock down another man. The third soldier shoots
07:50at more infected at the door and runs from the tunnel. Back to Isla and Spike, they continue to travel
07:54while dealing with Isla's delusions. When they find an old statue, she talks to Spike for a while
07:59thinking he's her father. Her nose starts bleeding and the smell attracts an infected, but Spike quickly
08:04kills it with an arrow. Some of its blood drops on Isla's forehead so Spike rushes to clean it before
08:09she can touch it. Soon more infected arrive and the duo runs as fast as possible with Spike shooting
08:13arrows whenever an enemy gets too close. Eventually they make it to a gas station and struggle with the
08:18door until they manage to get inside. The room is filled with fumes that make it hard to breathe.
08:22The infected follow them inside and the duo has to keep running. Spike grabs some objects and throws
08:27them at the creatures to slow them down. There are too many monsters and they surround them at a dead
08:31end, but at that moment a ceiling hatch opens and soldier Eric tells the duo to hide. Then he opens
08:36fire at the infected, and the contact with the fumes causes a big explosion. The flames burn all the
08:41creatures, who desperately try to escape but fall dead before they can leave. Isla and Spike have hidden
08:46well and don't get hurt. As soon as there's an opening, they leave the building. While Isla throws up and
08:51deals with a headache, Eric approaches them to ask for guidance and freaks out when Spike has no answer
08:55to give him. In the end, Eric decides to go with them and even volunteers to carry Isla while they
09:00travel. After a few hours, they stop to take a break and eat some apples. Eric tries his phone but
09:05he has
09:06no signal and little battery life left. Spike never saw a phone before, so Eric teaches him how it works
09:11and shows him a picture of his girlfriend. Since Spike never saw plastic surgery either, he thinks the
09:16woman looks weird. At that moment the battery runs out and Eric throws the phone away. Then the group
09:21gets going and Isla leaves the guys behind when she hears a noise. She follows it to an abandoned
09:25train full of rats, and inside she's shocked to find a pregnant infected woman. At first the infected is
09:30aggressive, but Isla shows that she means no harm and helps her give birth. When the boys arrive, Isla
09:36makes Spike cut the cord and cleans the baby with water. When the infected roars and moves forward, Eric
09:41immediately shoots her dead. Eric wants to kill the baby too, however Spike and Isla have taken a
09:46closer look and concluded the child is human. When Eric is about to shoot anyway, an infected hand
09:50reaches through the ceiling and pulls him out. Then the infected jumps inside, revealing that he's an
09:55alpha and that he has Eric's head. When he notices the dead infected, he gets furious and starts chasing
10:00after the humans. As they run, Spike keeps shooting arrows, which don't cause much damage but at least
10:05slow the alpha down. Soon Spike, Isla, and the baby manage to get off the train and the alpha does
10:10the same
10:10to continue the chase. However Dr. Kelson arrives and knocks him out with a sedative dart. Afterward
10:15Kelson introduces himself, explaining he keeps his body covered in iodine because it protects him from
10:20the virus. He takes Eric's head as he calls the alpha Samson, and says he's lived in the area for
10:25three years, but usually Kelson keeps his distance. Spike asks the doctor to help his mom and Kelson agrees
10:30to take them to his bone temple, which is a shrine-like place that he's created to remember the dead.
10:35Thousands of bones have been tied into pillars and skulls have been piled to make a tower.
10:38Kelson has used both humans and infected because he thinks they're very similar. Eric's head is thrown
10:43in the fire and once all the flesh has been burned off, Kelson washes the skull and asks Spike to
10:47add
10:47it to the tower. Afterward Kelson hears the story of the baby and concludes the placenta protected her
10:52from the infection. He runs a variety of tests on Isla and determines that she has terminal cancer.
10:57While Isla cries, Spike freaks out because he doesn't understand that he can't just steal some medicine
11:01to cure her. Isla comforts her son and admits she had been suspicious of cancer for a while,
11:06but she hadn't been sure. Keeping Spike's eyes away, Isla makes a gesture for Kelson to show
11:11her consent for mercy. Kelson teaches him about the concepts of memento mori and memento amoris,
11:15which means everyone must remember to die in love at the right time. Isla puts the baby in Spike's
11:20arms before following Kelson to the forest where he puts her out of her misery. Spike thinks about all
11:24the happy memories with his mother until Kelson comes back with Isla's clean skull. After handing the
11:29baby to the doctor, Spike climbs up the tower and puts Isla's skull at the very top as the sun
11:34rises.
11:34In the morning, Samson appears running on the field, so Kelson pushes the kids into a secret
11:39pit he's built for protection. Samson finds them and roars at them as he tries to remove the lid,
11:44but he can't and gives up. The group thinks they're safe, however Samson comes back by breaking
11:48through the wood and grabs Kelson, shaking him around before starting to choke him. Spike gets
11:53one of the doctor's sedative needles and injects Samson's arm, which instantly puts him to sleep and
11:57saves Kelson. Afterward Spike makes his way back to town with the baby in a basket. He names her Isla
12:02and
12:02leaves her with a note outside the gate for Jenny to find. The note is taken to Jamie, who reads
12:07it
12:07to learn that Spike is gone and doesn't want to be found. The letter also clarifies that Kelson isn't
12:11crazy and the baby is clean. A desperate Jamie runs out of town to find his son, however the tide
12:16is too high and he can't go far. 28 days later, Spike is wandering around the mainland and surviving
12:21on the animals he hunts. When an infected tries to approach him, he easily kills it with one shot.
12:26There are more creatures coming, so Spike has to run away. The road is blocked by a big rock wall
12:32but luckily only one infected finds him there and Spike kills it too. Suddenly someone makes a noise
12:36of surprise and Spike turns around to discover an older Jimmy, who is still wearing his father's
12:40cross. Jimmy is impressed by Spike's skill and reveals he has his own team. There are more infected
12:46coming, so the group jumps off the wall and fights together to bring down all the creatures in
12:49a matter of minutes. They laugh while doing it because they enjoy brutally killing like this. Jimmy
12:54celebrates the victory with a cheer and tells Spike that they should be friends.
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