

After the battle, Vick reveals to Frank that she salvaged the camera's SD card containing the disk's data and they reconcile, agreeing to share the credits for the story. Frank runs after her all the way to the shopping mall where they are intercepted by Calder, who destroys the camera, and the two work together to kill him.

After rescuing several survivors from a group of psychotic survivalists, Frank pursues Calder down to the sewers where he steals the hard disk and transfers the data to his camera, but Vick appears with a gun, forces Frank to give her his camera, and flees after destroying the disk. Their confrontation is interrupted by Calder, who kills Fontana. Fontana reveals that their group was not responsible for the outbreak, but was hired by an unknown client to obtain Calder's data, seeking to use the research on intelligent zombies to make cheap labor for factories and plantations in developing countries. Frank finds himself having to confront him in order to retrieve it.įrank later invades the base of Obscuris and faces, Fontana, the leader of the organization and the one responsible for bringing down the helicopter carrying him and Brad. Russell Barnaby, the main scientist behind the zombie outbreak in Santa Cabeza, Mexico, Frank learns that during his last days, Barnaby was developing ways to make zombies with their human intelligence intact, and that Calder was a human soldier enhanced with a military exoskeleton, who was transformed by accident, but not before downloading Barnaby's data on a hard disk that he always carries with himself. Frank manages to approach an Obscuris truck carrying Calder, but it soon drives off, leaving him to confront an Obscuris lieutenant. Frank eventually discovers that an elusive organization called Obscuris is in the city looking for a monstrous creature called "Calder" and reunites with Vick on a few occasions, but their opposing views prevent them from working together. Upon confronting the zombies, they discover that they are infected with a new, more aggressive strain of the virus that previous treatments like Zombrex are ineffective against. Just as they arrive at Willamette, Frank and Brad's helicopter is hit by a missile, forcing them to make a crash land in the middle of a shopping mall.

Around January of 2022, Frank is found by Brad Park, an agent of the ZDC, who convinces him to help investigate a new zombie outbreak that started in Willamette during the Black Friday sales, in exchange for the means to clear his name and having exclusive rights to the story, revealing that Vick has already left for there to investigate the matter herself. Once inside, they discover that the place is being used for zombie research, but are discovered and forced to flee, with Frank labelled a fugitive after he is falsely accused of terrorism by the government. On September 4, 2021, a few months after the zombie outbreak in Los Perdidos, California, Frank West, a former photojournalist now working as a college teacher, is approached by one of his students, Vicky "Vick" Chu, who convinces him to help her investigate a military compound, situated on the outskirts of Willamette, Colorado - the site of the first zombie outbreak.
