Zombie Run

Episode 1

Ethan isn't running south with the crowds. He's holed up in Atlanta with a zombie named Mike on a leash, and a bridge blocked by something he can't kill. Three weeks ago his family threw him out for blowing his grandfather's inheritance on a black-market evolution serum. Now he's the only man in the city who isn't screaming.

When a battered group stumbles onto his fishing spot, Mike makes short work of the trash. Ethan's calm about it: Mike doesn't bite unless told. Then he turns to the survivors and asks the only question that matters — what have they got that's worth his time?

Episode 2

The newcomer is Mara, a federal convoy sergeant escorting civilians to Stonewall. She's out of ammo, out of fuel, and three days from starving — but she's not here to fight. She's here to deal.

Ethan doesn't want bullets. He wants dead, evolved zombies, the weirder the better. Mara's convoy attracts them in droves, and she's been burning the corpses to cover her tracks anyway. He offers food and fuel for what she considers garbage. She thinks she's pulled a fast one. Ethan knows exactly what those corpses are for: feeding Mike and the boys until they're strong enough to crack that bridge.

Episode 3

The first delivery arrives — driven by a zombie who parallel parks better than most humans. The convoy guards nearly open fire before Mara waves them down. Rotten corpses in, real food out.

Ethan lays out the plan for Mike: two more shipments like this and they'll have the muscle to break the bridge open. Then it's Highway 85, straight north. There's someone in Stonewall City he needs to reach, and one question he needs to ask her. The army he's building isn't just for survival — it's for getting there.

Episode 4

Word of the trade reaches General Douglas, and he doesn't see a gold mine. He sees a man with enough power to take whatever he wants — who instead offers a deal so lopsided it's practically a gift. That's not a mark. That's someone preserving Mara's dignity.

Douglas orders a change in perspective: Ethan is an ally, not a business partner. He doubles the next corpse delivery and adds spare parts and tools as a thank-you. In a world of monsters, you don't haggle with the one man who still remembers how to be human.

Episode 5

The supplies land, and the convoy guards can barely process it — real bread, a full tank, another hundred miles easy. Mara admits she was so overwhelmed she never even said thank you.

The guilt sets in. Ethan dressed up his generosity as "research" so they wouldn't feel like beggars, and they walked away acting like they'd outsmarted him. The general was right about him. So Mara makes a call: tomorrow, after the last supplies are handed out, they go back — not for a trade, but to say thank you properly, as people who were starving and were fed.

Episode 6

Out in the ruins, a bandit scout team picks up heavy truck tracks leading straight from the military convoy's last position. Someone's been feeding the army — and that someone has to be loaded.

They find a lone fisherman by a truck and figure Christmas came early. It doesn't go their way. A grumpy "buddy" under the truck wakes up, and the scout team goes off the grid. Back at camp, the silence is noticed. Two men, a new pickup, and a silver-handled colt, all missing.

Episode 7

The bandit leader, Derek, is furious — not about his men, but about his truck and his favorite gun. Then he hears the detail that changes everything: the tracks lead away from the military convoy. Someone out there has enough supplies to spare for a whole army.

Forget the truck. Forget the gun. Find the supplier and they'll have a fleet. Derek rallies his crew: they're hunting the man who's been feeding the army — thank him for his generosity, then take everything he's got. In this world, what's his is Derek's for the taking.

Episode 8

Ethan's next project is a new recruit — a promising zombie he's feeding the good stuff, hoping she doesn't explode like the wild ones. Mike, meanwhile, misunderstands every instruction, and Ethan's patience frays.

Then a shot rings out. Someone's hunting the undead, and Ethan freezes at the voice. No way. It's someone from his past — someone who kicked him out and never expected to find him alive, let alone thriving. The reunion is anything but warm.

Episode 9

It's Derek — Ethan's cousin, the man who threw him out. Derek sneers at the "pathetic little cousin" playing with dead things, then spots the supplies and his tone shifts fast. Suddenly it's family, and Ethan owes a "contribution."

Ethan doesn't flinch. He reminds Derek of the outbreak, the news feeds from Asia, every warning dismissed as conspiracy. Derek called him a junkie and a fool. Now Derek's just a greedy man who got lucky. Derek orders his men to kill Ethan — and keep the merchandise intact.

Episode 10

Derek wants Ethan on his knees, begging, maybe watching while his men take the truck. Ethan's answer is simple: the one dying today is Derek. All of them.

Derek laughs it off and gives the order to kill him now. Then the shadows move. What the hell are those things? An army — and Ethan's the boss. Mike and the boys surge forward on his command. Derek spent years calling Ethan a fool. He's about to find out what the fool built.

Ethan's bridge is still out there, and so is the woman in Stonewall City. Start the run and see how far his undead legion can carry him.