Episode 12 is the twelfth and final episode of the first season of All of Us Are Dead.
Synopsis[]
The students make it to the quarantine camp, each of them weighed down by tragic loss. Months later, they hang on to hope for a survivor.
Plot[]
After the bombing of Hyosan, the streets are quiet and empty. Ash falls like snow. Se-bin sits crying in her quarantine cell, calling out for her mother. Park Eun-hee rips up the resignation letter her party leader wanted her to sign as the others in the quarantine camp stare out the windows.
Jeon Ho-chul asks Song Jae-ik if his house - where his wife and son live - is in the direction of the bombings. Jae-ik says no, but asks Ho-chul if they taught him about ethical horrors like this at Seoul University. Ho-chul says they didn't, and he's not sure which department would cover that.
The surviving students spend the night in the forest. In the morning, Nam On-jo returns to the construction site with Choi Nam-ra and Lee Su-hyeok, hoping to find Cheong-san alive. On-jo calls out to him, berating him for leaving her behind, but they are unable to find anyone, living or dead. Nam-ra says she can't smell anyone nearby, and that they should say goodbye to Cheong-san. She hugs On-jo as the other girl starts to cry.
The army begins to go through Hyosan, clearing out any remaining zombies and marking cleared areas as safe zones.
The group begins the hike up towards the mountain. Nam-ra suggests that the soldiers wanted them to die because they think all the students are halfbies like her. She says it's not safe for her to stay with them, but On-jo tells her she's still their friend and she's not going to turn. Nam-ra says the night on the rooftop was her first time sitting around a fire with friends, and On-jo suggests they do it again that night. The group becomes lost, but Jang Wu-jin spots a series of yellow ribbons. On-jo finds her father's flashlight and realizes he was the one who left the ribbons for them. She crouches down, clutching the flashlight and crying. The group begins to hike towards a nearby town, following the ribbons.
The scene cuts to Lee Byeong-chan's wife and son. Contrary to his last video, but was unable to go through with burning their zombified bodies after dousing them both with gasoline. The NIS agent orders the zombies to be preserved and transported for study.
The students reach a city that seems to be abandoned, but Nam-ra senses a horde of zombies heading their way. The group tries to run but are slowed down by Yang Dae-su, whose leg was injured in the Hyosan blast. Dae-su tells the others to leave him but they refuse. In the fight that ensues, Nam-ra kills several zombies with her bare hands, and Wu-jin gets bitten to save his sister. He tells her he knows she never made it to nationals and asks why she didn't just go home instead of coming back to school. He makes her promise to continue archery and to not give up before he turns. He-ri begs the others not to kill him, but as he runs to attack Ha-ri, Nam-ra steps forward and snaps his neck.
Nam-ra senses more zombies approaching. Ha-ri moves to try and attack them, but Nam-ra tells her not to die for no reason; if they run now, they should make it. As the group runs, her impulse to eat them grows stronger. When biting her wrist doesn't work, she runs away from them. On-jo and Su-hyeok notice her absence, but when they go to search for her, they find her eating a corpse. Nam-ra screams at them to stay away from her before lunging at On-jo and pushing her to the ground. Su-hyeok tries to protect On-jo, but cannot bring himself to hurt Nam-ra, who manages to overcome the instinct to bite On-jo and runs away again. This time, when On-jo and Su-hyeok look for her, they are unable to find her.
The remaining survivors reminisce over the people who sacrificed themselves for them as they follow a set of railroad tracks and pass through a military checkpoint. Kim U-sin sees On-jo in the quarantine facility and asks about her father. On-jo says nothing, but U-sin sees the flashlight and knows So-ju is dead. The students are taken into quarantine, but most of them refuse to give witness statements to help the military. An angry and disheartened Su-hyeok asks why they abandoned them on purpose last minute, and a grieving On-jo flatly refuses to cooperate with adults ever again due to the number of loved ones they lost along the way.
Outside there is a memorial fence, where survivors in the camps have left notes and ribbons for their lost loved ones. The medical cells have been emptied and cleaned out, suggesting that Min Eun-ji and Lee Jae-jun have both been killed.
Four months later, martial law was lifted, but the Hyosan survivors are still in quarantine pending a definitive virus test. A government investigation into the bombings has also been postponed until a test is produced. The Red Cross have set up tents and sourced donations for the community of survivors in the old prison.
On-jo sneaks out of the camp to visit a shrine she has built on the mountain to remember the students who died. On her way back, she spots a small campfire in the wreckage of the school. The next day she meets up with Su-hyeok, and confesses that she has been avoiding the other students so as not to be reminded of what happened. She then tells him about the campfire, remembering that Nam-ra had wanted to have another campfire on the roof before she went missing. On-jo tells Su-hyeok to meet her that night, and Su-hyeok apologizes for not being able to defend her from Nam-ra. On-jo forgives him, but tells him not to bring the others as it might be dangerous.
That night, when On-jo arrives at the camp wall, the other students are all waiting for her. Each student jokes that they told the next one not to tell anyone, and Mi-jin says she's happy to break the camp laws, since the military refuses to let her go to college. Ha-ri tells On-jo that they're all hurting, and it won't hurt less for being alone. The group climb over the wall and leave offerings for their friends at the shrine before heading to the burnt-out school together.
On the roof they find the campfire, though it initially appears abandoned. The group speculate on who might have left it, and On-jo is convinced Nam-ra lit it because she missed them. Nam-ra then appears. She looks healthy, with no visible zombie symptoms. Dae-su refers to her as their class president, and she asks if she still counts as that before saying it's nice to hear it. Su-hyeok asks how she's doing, and Nam-ra looks around at the others and says that she's missed them. On-jo offers to take her back to the camp with them, but Nam-ra says she still has things to do, and that they're still friends even if they're apart. Su-hyeok agrees and says they'll be friends wherever they are.
Nam-ra says she can hear the other halfbies. She says goodbye to her friends and leaps off the side of the roof to go and find the others. The surviving students stare after her into the night.
Cast[]
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Zombie Infected[]
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Goofs[]
- When the students arrive at quarantine camp, they are shown to have a lot more blood on them despite that blood not being there after their most recent fight. Specifically On-jo, when shes talking with U-sin she has more blood on her, and her hair is slightly messy.
Deaths[]
- Jang Wu-jin (Alive; Zombified)
Trivia[]
- In the webtoon rather than the military being the ones who wanted witness statements, it was journalists.
- It's implied that the parents of all the surviving students are dead, after officer Lee failed to reach them.
- Rather than protesting for admission into college, Mi-jin began studying for her college admission exams.
- Rather than reuniting at night on the roof of the destroyed Hyosan High School while the city was still quarantined, the group and Nam-ra reunited while they returned to the abandoned high school.