Gerry and Fassbach fly to
Camp Humphreys,
a military base in South Korea, where they are attacked on arrival by
zombies. Turning to re-enter the aircraft, Fassbach slips, falls and
accidentally discharges his gun, killing himself. After being rescued by
the base's surviving personnel, led by Captain Speke, Gerry learns that
the infection was introduced to the base by its doctor, who was
ultimately incinerated by a soldier with a lame leg whom the infected
ignored. A former CIA operative, imprisoned at the base, tells Gerry to
go to
Jerusalem, where he says a safe zone has been maintained by the Israeli
Mossad
since before the outbreak's official acknowledgement. As Gerry and his
team bike back to their aircraft, zombies attack, kill several soldiers
and infect Captain Speke, who commits suicide to prevent himself from
turning. Gerry and his pilot escape.
In Jerusalem, Gerry meets Mossad chief Jurgen Warmbrunn, who explains
that months earlier, the Mossad had intercepted an Indian military
message claiming that Indian troops were fighting the
rakshasa,
or the "undead". Israel had thereupon quarantined Jerusalem, erecting
huge walls around it. Just as Jurgen shows Gerry that Israel is allowing
survivors to take refuge in the city, loud celebratory singing from
refugees prompts zombies to scale the walls and attack. Jurgen orders
some Israeli soldiers to escort Gerry back to his plane. On the way,
Gerry notices zombies ignoring a sick old man and an emaciated boy. Soon
after, one of Gerry's escorts, a soldier who identifies herself only as
"
Segen",
is bitten on the hand, which Gerry quickly amputates to stop her
turning. Gerry and Segen escape on a commercial airliner as Israel is
overrun.
Gerry contacts Thierry, and the airliner is diverted to a
World Health Organization
(WHO) facility in Wales. When a stowaway zombie attacks in mid-air,
Gerry uses a grenade to blow the infected out of the aircraft, but this
also causes the plane to crash. Gerry is injured, but both he and Segen
survive. They proceed to the WHO facility, where Gerry loses
consciousness for three days, then explains to the remaining WHO staff a
theory he has, based on the people he has seen the zombies ignore: the
infected do not bite the seriously injured or terminally ill, since they
would be unsuitable hosts for viral reproduction. He suggests that they
test this by deliberately infecting somebody with one of the facility's
pathogens, but these are in a wing already overrun by zombies. Gerry,
Segen and the lead WHO doctor go to get a pathogen, but are separated on
the way; Gerry continues to the pathogen vault while Segen and the
doctor return to the main building. A zombie corners Gerry inside the
vault, prompting him to inject himself with a deadly, but treatable,
virus and open the vault, thereby testing his theory. The zombie ignores
him, as do those he encounters while returning to the main wing.
Everybody rejoices at Gerry's success, and he is successfully inoculated
against the virus.
- Brad Pitt
as Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator who is coerced into
returning in order to investigate the pandemic that is spiraling out of
control across the globe.[7]
- Mireille Enos as Karin Lane, Gerry's wife and mother of their two children.[8]
- Fana Mokoena as Thierry Umutoni, the UN Deputy Secretary-General.
- Daniella Kertesz as an Israeli soldier known only as "Segen", who accompanies Gerry during their escape from Israel.
- James Badge Dale as Captain Speke, a U.S. Army Ranger stationed at Camp Humphreys, South Korea.[9]
- David Morse as a former CIA operative imprisoned at Camp Humphreys for selling weapons to North Korea.[10]
- Ludi Boeken as Jurgen Warmbrunn, the Director of Mossad; responsible for preparing Israel's pre-emptive defences.
- Matthew Fox as an Air Force Pararescue soldier sent by Thierry Umutoni to rescue the Lanes in Newark.[11]
- Abigail Hargrove as Rachel Lane, Gerry and Karin's elder daughter.[12]
- Sterling Jerins as Constance Lane, Gerry and Karin's younger daughter.
- Fabrizio Zacharee Guido as Tommy, a young boy who is rescued and adopted by the Lane family after his parents are infected.
- Nikola Đuričko as Captain of "Belarus Airways".