Zombie Outbreak: 30 Days Locked Inside a School — Transcript

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1. 0:00Your detention just got longer. 30 days
2. 0:03longer. It's 3:40 and you're the last
3. 0:05student at Lincoln High. Mr. Hale went
4. 0:07to check on a scream in the gym. He took
5. 0:09your phone with him. Then the speaker
6. 0:11over the board clicks on. It's Mrs.
7. 0:13Reyes, the vice principal.
8. 0:15>> Stay in your rooms. Lock your doors. Do
9. 0:18not open them for anyone.
10. 0:20>> A long pause.
11. 0:22>> Even if you know them.
12. 0:24>> 10 minutes later, somebody knocks. Two
13. 0:26slow, one fast. Mr. Hale's knock. You
14. 0:29don't move. He knocks again. Same knock,
15. 0:32same speed. He doesn't say your name. He
16. 0:34doesn't say anything at all. First
17. 0:36problem, the door. It opens into the
18. 0:39room. So, anything out there only has to
19. 0:41push. You turn the lock. Then, you build
20. 0:44a wall. 32 desks. His desk goes last.
21. 0:47It's the first time you've ever tidied
22. 0:49this room. Then, you check your
23. 0:51supplies. Half a granola bar, one water
24. 0:53bottle, a math book. "Help is coming."
25. 0:56she said. She didn't say when. It's 30
26. 0:58days away.
27. 1:00At 3:10 in the morning, the speaker
28. 1:02clicks on again. Static. A breath. Then,
29. 1:04Mrs. Reyes in her cheerful morning
30. 1:06voice.
31. 1:07>> Good morning, Lincoln High. Today's
32. 1:09lunch is pizza. Have a wonderful day.
33. 1:12>> Click. Outside your window, every head
34. 1:15in the parking lot turns toward the
35. 1:16sound.
36. 1:18Second problem, water. The lights died
37. 1:21at noon. The tap still runs, but weaker
38. 1:24every hour. So, you fill everything.
39. 1:26Every bottle in the lost and found.
40. 1:28Every beaker in the science lab next
41. 1:30door. One person needs about a gallon a
42. 1:32day. You fill 19 gallons. That's 19
43. 1:36days, if nothing goes wrong. On the
44. 1:38second night, the announcements come
45. 1:40again. Then, something new.
46. 1:42>> If anybody can hear me, flash your
47. 1:44lights.
48. 1:45>> Your classroom has an emergency bucket.
49. 1:48Inside, there's a flashlight. You flash
50. 1:50it at the window. Three times. A minute
51. 1:52later.
52. 1:53>> I see you. Room 214. Stay in your room.
53. 1:56You're safe there.
54. 1:57>> It's the nicest thing a vice principal
55. 1:59has ever said to you.
56. 2:02On the third morning at 8:00, the bell
57. 2:05rings. The power is dead. The bell
58. 2:07isn't. It runs on a battery and nobody
59. 2:10told it school is canceled. Outside,
60. 2:12every one of them turns. Then, they walk
61. 2:14toward it. By noon, 200 of them are
62. 2:17pressed against the east fence, your
63. 2:19side of the building.
64. 2:20Third problem, the bell. It rings every
65. 2:2350 minutes all day long and every time
66. 2:26they crowd the east doors and stare up
67. 2:28at it. That's when you notice, while the
68. 2:30bell rings, nothing is watching the rest
69. 2:33of the building. Rule one, move when the
70. 2:35bell rings.
71. 2:36Fourth problem, food. The cafeteria is
72. 2:39downstairs in the west wing. At the
73. 2:4110:50 bell, you go down the west stairs,
74. 2:44past the trophy case, past the main
75. 2:46office. The blinds are down. A lamp is
76. 2:48on inside. You don't knock. She doesn't
77. 2:51open. The kitchen storeroom is a cave of
78. 2:54giant cans, peaches, beans, corn, 300
79. 2:58cartons of chocolate milk going warm.
80. 3:00You fill a mop bucket and sprint back up
81. 3:02before the bell stops. That night, the
82. 3:04speaker clicks on.
83. 3:06>> Today's lunch is peaches. Nice work,
84. 3:08room 214.
85. 3:10>> You never told her you went.
86. 3:13On day five, the tap goes dry, but a
87. 3:16water heater is a big tank of tap water.
88. 3:19The school's is in the boiler room. You
89. 3:20switch off its power. You open a hot tap
90. 3:23to let the air in. Then, you open the
91. 3:25drain at the bottom. Six buckets, enough
92. 3:27for a week. Every day at 3:40, Mr. Hale
93. 3:31knocks. Two slow, one fast. That's when
94. 3:34detention used to end. You start telling
95. 3:36the time by him.
96. 3:37On day seven, you go back for more food.
97. 3:40Same bell, same stairs, but the walk-in
98. 3:42freezer is open. Something inside is
99. 3:44still wearing a hairnet. It shuffles out
100. 3:47right between you and the door. Then,
101. 3:49the bell stops. When the bell stops,
102. 3:52they turn back. You have seconds. You
103. 3:54roll a can of peaches across the floor.
104. 3:56It clangs into the dish rack. The
105. 3:58hairnet turns toward the noise. You walk
106. 4:00past it with your heart in your ears.
107. 4:04On day nine, the gym doors burst open.
108. 4:07Any room built for more than 50 people
109. 4:09needs doors that swing outward so a
110. 4:11crowd can get out with one push, any
111. 4:13crowd. 60 of them pour into the halls.
112. 4:16The cafeteria is theirs now. That night,
113. 4:19they come up the east stairs. They hit
114. 4:21the stairwell door again and again. It
115. 4:24doesn't move. That door opens toward the
116. 4:26stairs. To get to you, they'd have to
117. 4:28pull and they don't pull. Rule two, they
118. 4:31push. They can't pull. So, your floor is
119. 4:34safe. Your food is not. You count what's
120. 4:37left, 11 cans, half a box of crackers,
121. 4:40nine days if you're careful. You are not
122. 4:42careful. You're 15.
123. 4:44Every night now, you press the call
124. 4:46button by the door and she answers. She
125. 4:48tells you about her cat, Biscuit. You
126. 4:51tell her how you got detention. She
127. 4:52laughs so hard she has to put the
128. 4:54microphone down. It's the first laugh
129. 4:56you've heard in 11 days.
130. 5:00In the middle of the afternoon, the
131. 5:01speaker clicks on.
132. 5:03>> Room 214, I need a favor.
133. 5:06>> Mrs. Reyes has a plan. To a pilot, a V
134. 5:09on the ground means we need help. An X
135. 5:11means we need a doctor. She wants a V on
136. 5:14the football field, 30 to 50 ft long,
137. 5:17big enough to see from the sky. She
138. 5:19can't leave the office. So, it's you.
139. 5:21The roof hatch is in the janitor's
140. 5:23closet. From the roof, a steel ladder
141. 5:25runs down the back wall to the field.
142. 5:27The line marker is in the equipment
143. 5:29shed. The only problem is the 200 people
144. 5:32at the fence.
145. 5:34At 11:00 at night, the east bell rings.
146. 5:37Mrs. Reyes, keeping her promise. Every
147. 5:40one of them turns away from the field.
148. 5:42You climb down. You push the line marker
149. 5:44in one straight stripe, 40 ft, turn, 40
150. 5:47ft back. Halfway down the second line,
151. 5:50the bell stops. In the silence, a man in
152. 5:52a tie is standing under the goalpost. He
153. 5:55knocks on it, two slow, one fast. You
154. 5:58stop breathing. He wanders off toward
155. 6:00the fence. You finish the V. Back in
156. 6:02your room, the speaker clicks on.
157. 6:04>> Thank you, room 214. You did so well.
158. 6:10>> On day 17,
159. 6:11>> [music]
160. 6:11>> a small plane flies over, low, slow. It
161. 6:14circles the V once, then it rocks its
162. 6:17wings, [music] left, right. To a pilot,
163. 6:20that means one thing, message received.
164. 6:22Somebody is coming. That night, [music]
165. 6:24Mrs. Reyes doesn't say a word.
166. 6:28Day 20, the food runs out. There's a
167. 6:31vending machine at the end of your hall,
168. 6:32glass front, loud glass. So, you wait
169. 6:35for the bell. Rule one, bell, swing,
170. 6:38bell, swing. By the third bell, you're
171. 6:41eating barbecue chips for breakfast. Day
172. 6:4323, no plane, no helicopter, just the
173. 6:47bell every 50 minutes, and Mr. Hale at
174. 6:503:40. You start talking to the goldfish
175. 6:52in the science lab. It's a good
176. 6:54listener. It never tells you to stay in
177. 6:56your room.
178. 6:57That's when you notice it. The bell only
179. 6:59rings on the east side, your side, never
180. 7:01in the west wing. You press the call
181. 7:03button. Why only our side? A long pause.
182. 7:07>> Old wiring, sweetheart. I can't change
183. 7:09it.
184. 7:11>> 2:00 in the morning, the bell rings on
185. 7:13your floor, right outside your door.
186. 7:16Every one of them in the building comes
187. 7:17up the stairs at once. They hit the
188. 7:19stairwell door, hundreds of them,
189. 7:22pushing all night. The door holds. It
190. 7:25opens the other way. By morning, it's
191. 7:27bent in the middle like a book. You call
192. 7:29the office. Why did it ring? Static.
193. 7:31Then, softly,
194. 7:33>> Stay in your room, room 214. You're
195. 7:36safest there.
196. 7:38>> 6:00 in the morning, the The rings, 2
197. 7:41hours early, on your side, every one of
198. 7:43them turns toward you. Then you hear it,
199. 7:46rotor blades.
200. 7:47You climb out onto the roof. A
201. 7:49helicopter is coming down on the field,
202. 7:51right onto your V. Below you, the west
203. 7:53doors swing open. A woman in a cardigan
204. 7:56walks out, purse, coffee mug. She
205. 7:58doesn't run. She doesn't have to.
206. 8:00There's nothing on her side. You wave
207. 8:02both arms. You shout. The bell is
208. 8:05louder. She climbs in without looking
209. 8:07back. The helicopter lifts. It doesn't
210. 8:10turn around.
211. 8:1130 days. The bell rang on your side. You
212. 8:14thought it was the wiring. On the second
213. 8:16night, she asked you to flash your
214. 8:17light. She wasn't checking that you were
215. 8:19alive. She was checking where you were.
216. 8:22Inventory: one flashlight, two cans of
217. 8:24peaches, three rules. Move when the bell
218. 8:27rings. They push. They can't pull. And
219. 8:30the new one, anyone who tells you to
220. 8:32stay put is leaving.
221. 8:34The speaker clicks on, a recording in
222. 8:36her morning voice.
223. 8:37>> Good morning, Lincoln High. Please stay
224. 8:40in your rooms.
225. 8:41>> Then, down the hall, the bell rings,
226. 8:44right on time.
227. 8:52>> [music]