Women And Children First

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In Chapter 31 of ZOMBIE & JULIET, commando Ginger Jones gets eaten by zombies while Rommy and Jool make a daring escape to the roof of the building next door, and then makes his way to a nearby university chemistry lab where he starts making the vaccine that will save them both ...


IN THE PANIC ROOM
The steel door BURSTS
off its hinges,
and the room quickly
fills with SCREAMING ZOMBIES.

ON THE ROOF
Ginger nods at Rommy.

GINGER
You go next.

ROMMY
You go.
Women and children first.

The trap door FLIES OFF.

A pair of RABID ZOMBIES FLY OUT
onto the roof and start
RUNNING at them.
Ginger pulls out her
semiautomatic weapon and starts
SHREDDING THEM TO RIBBONS.

GINGER
GO, GO, GO --
I don’t know how much longer
I can hold ‘em off.

ROMMY
(nods, freaked out)
Fuck this hero shit --

He takes Jool in his arms.
GRABS the handle and goes
SAILING down to the other side --

Just as a dozen zombies EXPLODE
through the door
and start EATING GINGER.

She SCREAMS as her body
is TORN APART.

ON THE OTHER SIDE
They all watch in horror.
Jool wakes up again.

JOOL
What’s -- going on?

ROMMY
(turns her head)
Don’t look.

NIN
That poor woman.

GAGA
She saved us.

ROMMY
And now it’s time
to save ourselves.
(to Nin)
Where can find a chemistry lab?
I need to whip up
a batch of the vaccine.

NIN
Hunter college.
It’s just a few blocks away.

ROMMY
Okay, great.
(to Jool)
Just hold on.
Okay?
You think you
can make it?

JOOL
Yeah.
(feels something)
Uh-oh --

And she VOMITS a
GREEN-BROWN SPEW.
Closes her eyes.

Rommy wipes her mouth
with his sleeve.
Picks her up.

ROMMY
Stay with me, Jool --
(beat)
Stay with me.

EXT. HUNTER COLLEGE BUILDING - NIGHT
Old. Stately. Carved in stone
above the door: SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.

The SWAT truck pulls up in front. Stops.

Gaga sits the behind the wheel.
Nin rides shotgun.

Rommy hops out.
Puts Jool over his shoulder.
SLAMS the door.

ROMMY
We won’t be long.
Just stay in the truck.
You’ll be safe.

Gaga and Nin nod.
Rommy races inside.

INT. HUNTER COLLEGE - CHEMISTRY LAB - NIGHT
A maze of beakers, test-tubes and
bubbling liquids have been set up
on a work table like
something out of Frankenstein.

Jool lies on top of another table,
fast asleep.

Rommy watches the chemicals working.
He’s exhausted. Spent. Eyes are slits.

Every muscle in his body is aching.
He looks at a tube that’s
dripping liquid into a beaker.

ROMMY
(reads the sheet of paper with the formula)
Then add five cc’s
of contaminated blood.
(grabs a syringe, unwraps it)
We’re almost there --

He JABS the needle in her arm.
Fills the syringe with blood.

SQUIRTS it into the beaker.
Stirs it with a glass rod.

A door BANGS OPEN behind him.
He turns and looks.

It’s a late-stage INFECTED PROFESSOR.
Just about to turn.

He starts walking toward them.
Points at Jool. Licks his lips.

LATE-STAGE INFECTED PROFESSOR
Hungry --

Rommy GRABS a length of steel tubing
off the table --

ROMMY
Stay away from my GIRLFRIEND.

And SHOVES it in his eye with a CRUNCH.
He COLLAPSES to the floor, THWUNK.

Rommy DASHES over to the work table.
Starts filling a pair of syringes
with the vaccine --