Zombie Outbreak: 30 Days Locked Inside a Supermarket — Transcript

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1. 0:00Automatic doors open for anything that
2. 0:02walks up to them. They do not check for
3. 0:04a pulse.
4. 0:06It is 2:14 in the morning. You are
5. 0:08stacking cans in aisle seven, and the
6. 0:11front doors have just slid open. The man
7. 0:14in the doorway comes in every night at
8. 0:162:00. Milk and cigarettes.
9. 0:19Tonight, he just stands [music] there.
10. 0:21The doors try to close on him and open
11. 0:24and close.
12. 0:26Dana, the night manager, shoves him back
13. 0:28outside with a shopping cart and locks
14. 0:30the doors.
15. 0:31>> [music]
16. 0:31>> He walks into the glass, backs up, does
17. 0:35it again.
18. 0:36In the office, there are 16 security
19. 0:38cameras. On every screen, somebody is
20. 0:41running.
21. 0:43Dana grabs her car keys. Her kids are
22. 0:45across town. "One hour," she says. "Lock
23. 0:48it behind me."
24. 0:49It is the last voice you will hear for
25. 0:5114 days.
26. 0:53So, now it is just you, 40,000 products,
27. 0:58and a front wall made of glass.
28. 1:00First problem, the glass.
29. 1:03There is a steel shutter. It is
30. 1:05electric.
31. 1:06>> [music]
32. 1:06>> This store never closes, so it comes
33. 1:09down once a year on Christmas Day.
34. 1:11If the power dies first, you lower it by
35. 1:14hand, one crank at a time, with an
36. 1:17audience.
37. 1:18So, you bring it down now. It takes 40
38. 1:20seconds, and it sounds like a freight
39. 1:23train.
40. 1:24New store policy, nobody gets in.
41. 1:27Then you do what you do every night. You
42. 1:29count stock.
43. 1:31Aisle seven, 9,000 cans. At four a day,
44. 1:35that is six years from one aisle.
45. 1:39There is enough food in this building to
46. 1:41last a lifetime.
47. 1:42Reaching day 30 is going to be the hard
48. 1:44part
49. 1:45because food is not the problem.
50. 1:48At 4:51, the power dies. The freezers
51. 1:52stop humming.
52. 1:53And at the back of the store, something
53. 1:55goes clunk. The fire exit is held shut
54. 1:59by a magnet and a magnet needs power.
55. 2:02>> [music]
56. 2:03>> You run the whole length of the store.
57. 2:05The fire exit is already drifting open.
58. 2:08You pull it shut.
59. 2:09>> [music]
60. 2:09>> It will not stay shut. So, you fetch the
61. 2:12pallet jack. A pallet of cat litter
62. 2:15weighs almost a ton. You park three of
63. 2:18them against the door.
64. 2:19Next, the staff [music] entrance. Six
65. 2:22people have a key to it. You put yours
66. 2:24in the lock and you snap it off. Now,
67. 2:27nobody has one. If Dana comes back, she
68. 2:30can knock.
69. 2:32Emergency lights are built to last 90
70. 2:34minutes. Long enough for everybody to
71. 2:37leave. Nobody planned for somebody
72. 2:39staying.
73. 2:41When they fade, you learn something
74. 2:43about supermarkets.
75. 2:44>> [music]
76. 2:44>> They have no windows. With the shutter
77. 2:47down, you have built a cave.
78. 2:49Isle 12, flashlights, [music]
79. 2:52batteries. You count those, too.
80. 2:55Second problem, the rot. [music]
81. 2:57Without power, a fridge keeps food safe
82. 3:00for about 4 hours. A full freezer, about
83. 3:032 [music] days.
84. 3:04After that, you are sealed inside a
85. 3:06building with 4 tons of meat, milk, and
86. 3:09fish.
87. 3:10But, there is a walk-in freezer. A steel
88. 3:13room with a rubber seal built so that no
89. 3:16air gets in.
90. 3:17It works just as well the other way.
91. 3:19>> [music]
92. 3:20>> It takes you 11 hours with one cart. You
93. 3:23keep back the bread and the fruit. For 1
94. 3:26week, you eat like a king.
95. 3:28Then, you tape the seams and you write
96. 3:30on the door,
97. 3:31"New store policy. Nobody opens this.
98. 3:35Ever."
99. 3:37On the third morning, you climb to the
100. 3:39roof.
101. 3:40Two nights ago, the parking lot was
102. 3:42empty. Now, there are 200 people in it.
103. 3:46Standing, facing the doors.
104. 3:48>> [music]
105. 3:48>> They are not hunting you. They do not
106. 3:51know you are here.
107. 3:52It is Saturday morning. They have come
108. 3:54to do their shopping.
109. 3:56Here is the thing nobody tells you about
110. 3:59the dead.
111. 4:00They don't hunt. They repeat.
112. 4:03They arrive around 8:00. They lean on
113. 4:05the shutter all day.
114. 4:07Around 10:00 at night, they wander off.
115. 4:10They shop when they always shopped.
116. 4:12Nights are quiet.
117. 4:14>> [music]
118. 4:14>> Nights were always quiet.
119. 4:16That is why you took this job.
120. 4:18New policy. You work nights.
121. 4:21At night, the roof is yours. You cook up
122. 4:24there on a camping stove from aisle 19.
123. 4:27Never indoors. In a sealed building, a
124. 4:30charcoal grill will kill you more
125. 4:32quietly than they will.
126. 4:35On day five, the faucets run dry. No
127. 4:39power, no pumps. Drinking is easy. You
128. 4:42have six pallets of bottled water.
129. 4:44>> [music]
130. 4:45>> The toilets are the problem.
131. 4:47So, one bucket, one trash bag, and aisle
132. 4:5114, cat litter. You already knew it was
133. 4:54useful.
134. 4:57On day six, a car pulls into the staff
135. 4:59parking.
136. 5:01It stops perfectly between the lines.
137. 5:03It is Dana's.
138. 5:05She sits behind the wheel with the
139. 5:06engine running until the tank is empty.
140. 5:09She does not get out.
141. 5:11>> [music]
142. 5:11>> On day nine, the driver's door is open
143. 5:14and the seat [clears throat] is empty.
144. 5:17On day 10, you are asleep on a pile of
145. 5:20dog beds when the ceiling turns white.
146. 5:23Every light, every freezer, and from
147. 5:26every speaker in the building, the store
148. 5:28playlist at full volume.
149. 5:31The power is back.
150. 5:33Outside, 300 heads turn [music] at once.
151. 5:37The main breaker is in the back office.
152. 5:39Gray box, red handle, 90 yards away. You
153. 5:43have never run this fast in your [music]
154. 5:45life. 40 seconds. Then dark.
155. 5:49Then silence.
156. 5:51But for 40 seconds, you were the
157. 5:53brightest, loudest building in the city.
158. 5:56New policy, the breaker stays off.
159. 5:59Too late. They are not leaning now. They
160. 6:02are pushing.
161. 6:04Third problem, the shutter.
162. 6:06>> [music]
163. 6:06>> It was built to stop one man with a
164. 6:08crowbar, not 300 people.
165. 6:11By midnight, [music] the steel has
166. 6:13started to bow.
167. 6:14So, you build a second wall. Pallets of
168. 6:17bottled water, a ton each, parked
169. 6:20against the steel.
170. 6:21Then shopping carts, nested, chained, 40
171. 6:25to a row.
172. 6:26One row weighs as much as a small car.
173. 6:29But a wall only buys time. You need them
174. 6:32to leave.
175. 6:34Isle 12 sells alarm clocks, the loud
176. 6:37kind, with two bells.
177. 6:39You set one for noon. Then, in the dark,
178. 6:42you throw it off the back of the roof as
179. 6:44far as you can.
180. 6:46At noon, it rings, and 300 heads turn
181. 6:49the other way.
182. 6:52It works for 3 days. Then, on the 14th
183. 6:55night, somebody knocks on the fire exit.
184. 6:58Three knocks.
185. 6:59>> [music]
186. 6:59>> A pause.
187. 7:01Three more.
188. 7:02The dead do not knock.
189. 7:05There are five of them. A pickup truck,
190. 7:08a tow chain, and a very simple plan.
191. 7:11They saw the lights on day 10. They know
192. 7:14somebody is inside, and they know what
193. 7:17is in here with you.
194. 7:19Fourth problem, the living.
195. 7:21>> [music]
196. 7:21>> You cannot fight five people.
197. 7:24But you understand something they don't.
198. 7:27If they rip that shutter off, 300 dead
199. 7:30walk in right behind them.
200. 7:32And then, nobody has a supermarket.
201. 7:34So, you don't open the door. You open
202. 7:37the store.
203. 7:38One rope, one bucket, lowered off the
204. 7:41back of the roof at 2:00 in the morning.
205. 7:44The first 20 cans are free. After that,
206. 7:46you trade.
207. 7:47>> [music]
208. 7:48>> Batteries, fuel, medicine, news.
209. 7:52You have worked retail for 6 years. You
210. 7:54know how to handle difficult [music]
211. 7:56customers.
212. 7:57Policy one, amended. Nobody gets in, but
213. 8:01the roof is open.
214. 8:03By day 18, there is a line. A woman with
215. 8:06a baby, two old men with a wheelbarrow,
216. 8:10and a girl on a bike who only ever asks
217. 8:12for cat food.
218. 8:15On the 19th night at 10:00, something
219. 8:18scratches [music] at the staff entrance.
220. 8:20Metal on metal.
221. 8:22Somebody is trying to fit a key into the
222. 8:24lock.
223. 8:25It is Dana. She is starting her shift,
224. 8:28but the lock is full of your key.
225. 8:31She tries for an hour.
226. 8:33The next night, she is back. She is
227. 8:36never late.
228. 8:38On day 22, the bucket comes back up with
229. 8:41a note in it. Pencil, a kid's
230. 8:44handwriting.
231. 8:45The men with the truck are done trading.
232. 8:48They are coming tonight. They want all
233. 8:50of it. Please let us in.
234. 8:53>> [music]
235. 8:53>> Policy one says nobody gets in.
236. 8:56Policy one was written by somebody who
237. 8:58thought the problem was the door.
238. 9:01Isle 20, ladders.
239. 9:03You lower one off the roof. The girl
240. 9:06climbs up. In her backpack, one very
241. 9:09large orange cat.
242. 9:11Then you get ready for the truck. You
243. 9:13cannot stop five people. But you know
244. 9:16what can?
245. 9:17Isle 12, 40 alarm clocks. Winding them
246. 9:21takes one person 40 minutes. It takes
247. 9:24two people 20. You are starting to see
248. 9:27the point of other people.
249. 9:29At 3:00, the truck backs up to the
250. 9:31shutter. While they drag out the chain,
251. 9:33you lower the bucket one last time,
252. 9:36straight into the bed of their truck. 40
253. 9:39clocks, all set for 3:10.
254. 9:42It is the loudest thing this city has
255. 9:44heard in a month.
256. 9:45Every dead thing for a mile turns toward
257. 9:48it. Toward the truck.
258. 9:50The men do the smart thing. They drop
259. 9:53the chain and they drive. And the noise
260. 9:56goes with them. So does the crowd.
261. 9:58>> [music]
262. 9:58>> By sunrise, the parking lot is empty.
263. 10:03Day 30.
264. 10:04>> [music]
265. 10:04>> Inventory.
266. 10:06People, two. Cats, one. Cans, plenty.
267. 10:11Customers, 31 a night.
268. 10:13>> [music]
269. 10:14>> There is enough food in this building to
270. 10:15last a lifetime.
271. 10:17Alone, you would not have seen day 23.
272. 10:21You know that now.
273. 10:22And every night at 10:00, a key
274. 10:25scratches at the staff entrance.
275. 10:27Dana is starting her shift. She has
276. 10:29never missed one.
277. 10:31Neither have you.
278. 10:34>> [music]