CHATBOT: PAGE 30 OF 150 (REDUCED): EXT. GENEsis LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY THE STERILE CORRIDOR IS NOW A CACOPHONY OF TERROR. MARIA BEARS WITNESS TO ED'S TRANSFORMATION--SKIN DEATHLY PALE, VEINS BLACKENING. WITH THE SHADOW OF ZOMBIFICATION DRAWING NEAR, HE MAKES A DRASTIC CHOICE. ED (FIERCE, URGING) GO, MARIA... SAVE THE WORLD... OUR KIDS. WITH A MIX OF HORROR AND FIERCE RESOLVE, ED FLINGS HIMSELF THROUGH THE WINDOW, LANDING ON THE CONCRETE BELOW WITH AN UNNATURAL FEROCITY ONLY THE INFECTED POSSESS. MARIA WATCHES AS ED, NOW IMBUED WITH THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF THE UNDEAD BUT MERCIFULLY RETAINING HIS MIND, STAGGERS TO HIS FEET AND STORMS INTO THE CITY. CUT TO: EXT. CITY STREETS - CONTINUOUS WITH THE MIND OF A SCIENTIST BUT THE BODY OF A MONSTER, ED TRUDGES THROUGH THE CHAOTIC STREETS, AN INSATIABLE NEED TO PROTECT AND A RELENTLESS DRIVE TO FIND THEIR CHILDREN FUELLING HIS EVERY STEP. MARIA, ATOP THE HELIPAD, IS TORN BETWEEN FOLLOWING ED AND ESCAPING WITH THE CURE. TEARS STREAM DOWN HER FACE AS SHE CALLS OUT TO HIM, THOUGH HE CAN NO LONGER HEAR HER. MARIA (CRYING OUT WITH PAIN AND RESOLVE) I LOVE YOU... I'LL FIND THEM, ED. I PROMISE! WITH THE CRIES OF HER HUSBAND ECHOING IN HER EARS, MARIA VOWS TO CARRY ON THEIR FIGHT AND SAVE THE CITY THEY LOVE. SHE WATCHES ED DISAPPEAR INTO THE HORDE OF ZOMBIES, A LONE FIGURE OF TRAGEDY AMIDST THE DEVASTATION. THE HELICOPTER, HOVERING ANXIOUSLY, BECOMES HER ONLY REFUGE. SHE CLIMBS ABOARD, CLUTCHING THE POTENTIAL CURE TO HER CHEST AS THEY ASCEND INTO THE MAELSTROM. CUT TO BLACK. INT. GENEsis LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY FORCING HERSELF TO FOCUS, MARIA ENTERS THE LAB AGAIN. THE SCREEN FLICKERS TO LIFE, INTERFACING WITH HER FIERCE INTELLECT. SHE SYNTHESIZES, REFINES, AND TESTS WITH THE TENACITY OF A WOMAN REBORN FROM THE ASHES OF HER OLD LIFE. MARIA (WHISPERING FIERCELY) FOR ED, FOR OUR CHILDREN... FOR EVERYONE. HER HANDS NEVER WAVER, HER EYES NEVER STRAY. THE READOUTS WINK BACK AT HER WITH PROMISING DATA, AND THE COMPOUND FINALLY TAKES FORM--A VIAL SHINING WITH THE HOPE OF HUMANITY. MARIA (DECLARING AGAINST THE SOUNDS OF CHAOS) THIS IS THE BEGINNING. RUN ZOMBIE, RUN! END OF PAGE 30 OF 150

CHATBOT: PAGE 30 OF 150: EXT. GENEsis LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY The once sterile corridor is now an echoing MAELSTROM of terror. MARIA watches in heartbroken awe as ED, his skin ghastly PALE and veins sickeningly BLACKENING, makes a DECISIVE choice. ED (voice fierce, urging her) Go, Maria... SAVE the world... our KIDS. Infected but holding on to his HUMANITY, ED hurls himself through the glass, shattering the silent acceptance of his fate. He lands on the CONCRETE below, his body now a vessel of UNDEAD resilience. CUT TO: EXT. CITY STREETS - CONTINUOUS ED, his mind intact amidst the chaos of his new monstrous form, staggers through the streets. The scientist's intellect battles with the primal HUNGER, his every step DRIVEN by the need to PROTECT and find his children. Above, on the helipad, MARIA is TORN between FOLLOWING her heart and escaping with the potential CURE. Her tears are lost in the WIND as she screams a vow to the unhearing figure below. MARIA (tears mingled with fierce resolve) I LOVE you... I'll FIND them, Ed. My PROMISE! Her cries FADE as she watches Ed merge with the sprinkling HORDE, a poignant emblem of their tragedy amidst the RUINS. The helicopter, blades beat anxiously, awaits her. Climbing aboard, she holds the world's potential SALVATION close--soon, they rise into the STORM. CUT TO BLACK. INT. GENEsis LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY Maria returns to the lab, her fierce determination IGNITING the screens. Her intellect interfaces with the crisis at hand; she SYNTHESES, REFINES, and TESTS with a reborn zeal. MARIA (whispering fiercely) For Ed, our CHILDREN... for EVERYONE. Her hands work with precision, her gaze STEADFAST. Promising data FLICKERS across the screens until, finally, a vial emerges--the physical embodiment of HOPE. MARIA (her defiance cutting through CHAOS) The FIGHT begins. RUN, Zombie, RUN! END OF PAGE 30 OF 150

CHATBOT: PAGE 30 OF 150 (REDUCED): EXT. GENESIS LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY THE STERILE CORRIDOR IS NOW A CACOPHONY OF TERROR. MARIA BEARS WITNESS TO ED'S TRANSFORMATION--SKIN DEATHLY PALE, VEINS BLACKENING. WITH THE SHADOW OF ZOMBIFICATION DRAWING NEAR, HE MAKES A DRASTIC CHOICE. ED (FIERCE, URGING) GO, MARIA... SAVE THE WORLD... OUR KIDS. WITH A MIX OF HORROR AND FIERCE RESOLVE, ED FLINGS HIMSELF THROUGH THE WINDOW, LANDING ON THE CONCRETE BELOW WITH AN UNNATURAL FEROCITY ONLY THE INFECTED POSSESS. MARIA WATCHES AS ED, NOW IMBUED WITH THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF THE UNDEAD BUT MERCIFULLY RETAINING HIS MIND, STAGGERS TO HIS FEET AND STORMS INTO THE CITY. CUT TO: EXT. CITY STREETS - CONTINUOUS WITH THE MIND OF A SCIENTIST BUT THE BODY OF A MONSTER, ED TRUDGES THROUGH THE CHAOTIC STREETS, AN INSATIABLE NEED TO PROTECT AND A RELENTLESS DRIVE TO FIND THEIR CHILDREN FUELLING HIS EVERY STEP. MARIA, ATOP THE HELIPAD, IS TORN BETWEEN FOLLOWING ED AND ESCAPING WITH THE CURE. TEARS STREAM DOWN HER FACE AS SHE CALLS OUT TO HIM, THOUGH HE CAN NO LONGER HEAR HER. MARIA (CRYING OUT WITH PAIN AND RESOLVE) I LOVE YOU... I'LL FIND THEM, ED. I PROMISE! WITH THE CRIES OF HER HUSBAND ECHOING IN HER EARS, MARIA VOWS TO CARRY ON THEIR FIGHT AND SAVE THE CITY THEY LOVE. SHE WATCHES ED DISAPPEAR INTO THE HORDE OF ZOMBIES, A LONE FIGURE OF TRAGEDY AMIDST THE DEVASTATION. THE HELICOPTER, HOVERING ANXIOUSLY, BECOMES HER ONLY REFUGE. SHE CLIMBS ABOARD, CLUTCHING THE POTENTIAL CURE TO HER CHEST AS THEY ASCEND INTO THE MAELSTROM. CUT TO BLACK. INT. GENESIS LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY FORCING HERSELF TO FOCUS, MARIA ENTERS THE LAB AGAIN. THE SCREEN FLICKERS TO LIFE, INTERFACING WITH HER FIERCE INTELLECT. SHE SYNTHESIZES, REFINES, AND TESTS WITH THE TENACITY OF A WOMAN REBORN FROM THE ASHES OF HER OLD LIFE. MARIA (WHISPERING FIERCELY) FOR ED, FOR OUR CHILDREN... FOR EVERYONE. HER HANDS NEVER WAVER, HER EYES NEVER STRAY. THE READOUTS WINK BACK AT HER WITH PROMISING DATA, AND THE COMPOUND FINALLY TAKES FORM--A VIAL SHINING WITH THE HOPE OF HUMANITY. MARIA (DECLARING AGAINST THE SOUNDS OF CHAOS) THIS IS THE BEGINNING. RUN ZOMBIE, RUN! END OF PAGE 30 OF 150

CHATBOT: PAGE 30 OF 150 (REDUCED): INT. GENEsis LABORATORY - VAULT - DAY MARIA, hands STEADY despite the surrounding madness, retrieves the LAST remaining vial of the experimental CURE. The air is thick with the STENCH of antiseptics and DECAY. Outside, the SCREAMS of the living and the UNDEAD mingle in a hellish CHORUS. MARIA (to herself, fiercely) This ends TODAY. I won't let our DREAM become humanity's NIGHTMARE. Securing the cure in a protective case, she TURNS toward the exit, a fiery AVATAR of hope. CUT TO: EXT. SCIENCE CITY - ROOFTOP ACCESS - DAY MARIA emerges onto the rooftop, stepping into CHAOS from ABOVE. Gunfire and cries create a DISTANT but constant TUMULT. Beneath her, the city spreads out, a TERRIFIED organism, its streets CRAWLING with the resurrected DEAD. MARIA (voice breaking with steely resolve) Hold on, Science City. The cure is COMING. CUT TO: INT. HELICOPTER - HOVERING ABOVE CITY - DAY The helicopter pilots fight to maintain CONTROL in the turbulent air, the city an apocalyptic vision below them. PILOT #1 (yelling over rotor noise) We're almost out of TIME, Dr. Kaynes! PILOT #2 (anxious, glancing at fuel gauge) We can't stay AIRBORNE much longer! CUT TO: EXT. SCIENCE CITY - MASS EVACUATION POINT - DAY Below, survivors SCRAMBLE onto EVACUATION transports, the military attempting to enforce order amidst FEAR and DESPERATION. MARIA, through the chopper's window, eyes the scene determinedly. Her hand tightens around the vial. The scale of the TRAGEDY is vast, but so too is her COURAGE. CUT TO BLACK. MARIA (defiantly) For every SOUL we still can save, for the light we WILL reclaim. We RISE. CUT TO: EXT. SCIENCE CITY - RESIDENTIAL ZONE - DAY Amidst the horror, a small BAND of survivors led by MARIA faces the UNDEAD. Together, with the antiviral serum in hand, they stand ready to reclaim their city, their FUTURE. The resolve in Maria's eyes burns BRIGHTER than the chaos that envelops them. MARIA (rousing the survivors) We HOLD the line, united by hope! A glimmer of dawn breaks the horizon, a METAPHOR for the dawn of their NEW BEGINNING, the end of the outbreak finally within REACH. FADE OUT. END OF PAGE 30 OF 150

CHATBOT: EXT. GENESIS LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY The sterile corridor is now a CACOPHONY of TERROR. MARIA bears witness to ED'S transformation--skin DEATHLY PALE, veins BLACKENING. With the shadow of ZOMBIFICATION drawing near, he makes a drastic choice. ED (fierce, urging) Go, Maria... SAVE the world... our kids. With a mix of HORROR and fierce resolve, ED flings himself through the window, landing on the concrete below with an UNNATURAL FEROCITY only the infected possess. Maria watches as Ed, now imbued with the strength and RESILIENCE of the undead but mercifully retaining his mind, staggers to his feet and storms into the city. CUT TO: EXT. CITY STREETS - CONTINUOUS With the mind of a scientist but the body of a MONSTER, ED trudges through the chaotic streets, an INSATIABLE need to protect and a relentless drive to find their children FUELLING his every step. MARIA, atop the HELIPAD, is torn between following ED and escaping with the CURE. Tears stream down her face as she calls out to him, though he can no longer hear her. MARIA (crying out with pain and resolve) I love you... I'll FIND them, Ed. I PROMISE! With the cries of her husband ECHOING in her ears, Maria vows to carry on their FIGHT and SAVE the city they LOVE. She watches Ed disappear into the horde of zombies, a LONE figure of tragedy amidst the DEVASTATION. The HELICOPTER, hovering anxiously, becomes her only refuge. She climbs aboard, clutching the potential CURE to her CHEST as they ascend into the MAELSTROM. CUT TO BLACK. INT. GENESIS LABORATORY - SECURE RESEARCH FACILITY - DAY Forcing herself to FOCUS, Maria enters the lab again. The screen FLICKERS to life, INTERFACING with her fierce intellect. She SYNTHESIZES, refines, and tests with the TENACITY of a woman reborn from the ashes of her old life. MARIA (whispering fiercely) For Ed, for our children... for EVERYONE. Her hands never waver, her eyes never STRAY. The readouts WINK back at her with PROMISING data, and the COMPOUND finally takes form--a vial shining with the HOPE of HUMANITY. MARIA (declaring against the sounds of CHAOS) This is the BEGINNING. Run Zombie, RUN! END OF PAGE 30 OF 150