World War Z Summary

World War Z is set in an apocalyptical time, when a disease causes people to turn, essentially, into zombies. The story starts out as the main character, Gerry Lane and his family are stuck in gridlocked traffic in Philadelphia. The zombies start to attack people while they are in the traffic. As they try to escape the chaos, they have their first encounter with a “zombie.” This zombie bit a guy in his car, and Gerry noticed that it took 12 seconds, for the man who was bit too, to also turn into a zombie. He then tries to attack others. Luckily, Gerry and his family escaped out of the city and into the countryside, where Gerry calls his friend in the UN, who he use to work with.

Gerry, before the apocalypse, was a UN Investigator and he worked

under his friend, Fana Mokoena. Fana Mokoena tells Gerry that he will send people to get them out of that area, but they have to survive until the morning. Gerry and his family decided to spend the night at a apartment building, but it soon became overrun with zombies. Luckily, there was another family living in the apartment building that gave them shelter. The parents do not speak english, but their son Tommy does. In the morning, Gerry asks the family to come with them because people were coming to save them, but they refused. Eventually they sent their son Tommy with them. As they were trying to get to the roof where the helicopter was coming to pick them up, more of the zombies started to chase them through the building. During that encounter, Gerry learns that a person cannot turn by accidentally swallowing bodily fluids of the zombies. Soonthereafter they are picked up by the helicopter sent by Fana.
The family is taken to a Navy off the coast of the United States, where majority of the world’s best analyst and scientist, along with the military. There the family is sheltered from the zombie apocalypse. Gerry also meets Dr. Fissbach, who is said to be the world’s best hope. Dr. Fissbach things the problems are caused by virus, and wants to find its source. The military then plans to send Dr. Fissbach to a base in South Korea because it was the first instance of the zombies being mentioned. They decide to send Gerry with him, because of his expertise, along with military personnel.
When they land at the base, they are attacked by more zombies, and a few members of the team die.

This includes Dr. Fissbach, who accidentally kills himself with his gun running away from the zombies. They finally get into the base, where a conversation with one of the soldiers tells Gerry that the zombies are attracted to sound. Later on, another conversation with a inmate, former CIA agent arrested for selling weapons, tells Gerry that Israel had closed up Jerusalem, creating a safe zone, before the outbreak had been announced. Gerry next decides to go to Israel to figure out how they had prior knowledge about the apocalypse. On their way back to the plane, a few of the soldiers are killed by zombies, but the pilot and Gerry are able to make it out of the base on the

plane.
When Gerry reaches Jerusalem, he finds the Mossad leader, Jurgen Warmbrunn, where he asks him, how Israel knew this was going to happen. He told them that they had intercepted military radio communications in India that had said that some of the soldiers were fighting zombies. Israel, using its 10th man policy to prevent itself from being caught off guard, started to quarantine and lock itself down. Outside, the people are throwing a festival with loud speakers, singing because they were safe. Because of how loud the music was, the zombies in the surrounding areas started to surge towards the walls piling themselves on each other to climb the wall. They finally reached over the wall, and all havoc begun. Gerry and the soldiers protecting him start to run back to the airport where they face many zombies. On their way there, one of the soldiers, Segen, is bitten on the hand. Thinking fast, Gerry cuts it off, saving her life. During all this chaos, Gerry notices a sickly older man, ignored by the zombies. Later he sees a young boy, also sick with some disease, completely ignored by the zombies. At the airport, Gerry’s pilot assumes Gerry is dead, and flies off, just in time for Gerry to see him leave. The soldiers then flag down another plane and Gerry and Segen board it.
While on the plane, Gerry calls Fana, and the UN instructs the pilots to fly to the Wales where there is a UN research facility. Gerry wants to go there because he has a theory about the zombies and their apparent dislike of people with diseases. Later a zombie that was hiding in the bathroom gets out and starts to bite people. Soon most of the people in the plane turn, so Gerry decides to throw a grenade to get rid of the zombies. This rips a hole in the plane, and causes it to crash. The only people to survive the crash was Segen and Gerry, but Gerry is injured. They are close enough to the research facility that they decide to walk there. When they finally reach it, Gerry passes out and the workers at the facility let them in. Gerry is out for a few days, and after an awkward conversation with the “boss” at the facility, and having the UN director talk to him, they talk about Gerry’s theory. Gerry’s theory is that the disease within the zombies need a healthy body to survive in. That is why they avoided people who had terminal diseases. So Gerry asks for a curable terminal disease to test the theory. The scientist agree with the logic of the idea, but there is a problem. The research facility is broken into two parts, the A wing, and the B wing, connected by a skybridge. B wing was infected by the disease because one of the scientist accidentally pricked himself with a needle containing the disease inside the zombies. All of their samples of diseases was stored in a safe in B wing, so to test Gerry’s theory, they needed to go into B wing.
Gerry, Segen, and one of the scientist, decided to go into the B wing to get the samples.

After battling with zombies, Gerry makes it to the safe, and Segen and the scientist go back to A wing. Gerry, now stuck in the safe because of a zombie outside the door, decides to infect himself with one of the disease, to try pass by the zombies. Gerry grabs a box full of other diseases and opens the safe door. It turns out that his camouflage theory was correct because the zombie walks right by him. When Gerry gets back to A wing, he is treated, and leaves with

Segen.
Gerry is then reunited with his family, along with Segen in Nova Scotia safe zone. WHO creates thousands of camouflage vaccines that they disperse worldwide. This causes humans to take an offensive against the zombies. Which is where the movie ends.