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In a flashback, a bride and groom dance at their wedding reception in the banquet hall of the Rosarito Beach Hotel. The mother of the bride informs the hotel manager, Elena, that she and her guests will be departing promptly due to reports of the spreading sickness. As Elena assures her guests that there’s nothing to worry about, the father of the bride collapses on the dance floor and devours his daughter. As panic erupts, Elena flees and locks the party guests inside the banquet hall.
Travis limps down a Mexican road with Chris. They find a car in a nearby town. Chris insists on searching for supplies at a restaurant while Travis hotwires the car. At the restaurant, Chris hears voices in a back room. He stuffs a can of beans into his backpack then kills off incoming Infected, saving one of the armed men that emerge from the kitchen. After seeing the men, Chris flees back to the car. Chris orders Travis to drive. A man from the restaurant sees them race off. Travis drives through the night. He lets Chris drive for the first time when his injured foot worsens.
Alicia hides from the Infected roaming the hallways of the Rosarito Beach Hotel. She prepares to leave the room but stops when an Infected lunges at the door.
On their journey, Travis assures Chris the world will return to normal some day, but Chris is skeptical. When the car runs out of gas, Travis and Chris start a campfire near the road. Travis suggests they find a house in an elevated location that would offer a good vantage point. A truck parks on the road: It’s the men from the restaurant. Travis and Chris hide. Chris tells Travis that he stole food from the men at the restaurant. The men find their campsite and shout promises not to hurt whoever is hiding in the bushes. Travis and Chris come out of hiding. The men – Brandon, Derek and Baby James – invite Travis and Chris to eat with them.
Alicia ventures outside the room and gets cornered by Infected. She’s able to escape only by leaping into an elevator shaft and shimmying up the cable to a higher floor, just out of the reach of the Infected. Elena rescues her but threatens her with an axe. “Where is he?” Elena demands.
Travis informs Brandon’s group that San Diego, their hometown, is destroyed. Brandon offers Travis and Chris a ride to the U.S. Travis declines but accepts a ride to the next town.
Alicia asks Elena to help lure the Infected out of the stairwell so that she can get downstairs and find Madison. Elena explains that the wedding party guests took her nephew Hector hostage because they want her keys, which provide access to every hall and building in the hotel. Alicia offers to help Elena find Hector in exchange for Elena’s help getting downstairs.
Chris tells Travis they should join Brandon’s group but Travis worries the men are too dangerous to be trusted. “Maybe that’s what it takes,” replies Chris.
At the hotel, Alicia lures the Infected from the stairwell into a room. Elena shuts the door behind them. Trapped, Alicia runs to the balcony and closes the sliding door. From an adjacent balcony, Elena appears and helps Alicia scale across her way across to safety. Alicia and Elena make their way to the banquet hall. Elena admits that she locked all the party guests inside to contain the illness. “Now they hate me,” she says. Alicia says her group has done worse and vows to keep Elena safe.
Travis and Chris ride with Brandon’s group. Chris sits in the cab with Derek and Baby James, laughing at their cocky banter. He spots a farm in the distance. Brandon’s group drives to the farm to look for food and supplies. Travis pulls Chris aside and suggests they stay at the farm when Brandon’s group moves on. Chris refuses, saying they need to stay with people. He follows Brandon to check out the barn. Brandon’s group finds chickens inside the barn. Overjoyed, they begin chasing down the chickens, hoping for an easy meal. Meanwhile, Travis notices several marked graves outside the house and races to the barn.
Alicia and Elena find the doors to the hotel bar barricaded. Inside the bar, a herd of Infected pounds on the doors. A small group of wedding party guests approaches them in the lobby, holding Elena’s nephew, Hector hostage. Elena gives them her keys in exchange for Hector. Alicia flings open the bar doors, allowing the herd to swarm the party guests.
Travis runs to the barn and warns the group that whoever buried the people in the graves is still at the farm. The farm owner walks in with a rifle. Travis insists they leave and let the man keep his farm.
Alicia looks for Madison in the bar. She sees a clearly Infected woman in a flannel shirt and assumes the worst, but the Infected only looks like Madison and Alicia finds no other trace of her mother. She flees through an underground tunnel with Elena and Hector. They pound on a locked door as Infected close in around them.
With guns drawn on him, the farm owner shoots James in the leg after he snaps a chicken’s neck. Chris shoots the man, killing him.
Madison opens the locked door and lets Alicia, Elena and Hector through. She hugs Alicia.
Travis stares at Chris as the farm owner dies. Chris holds out his hand to Travis. Travis turns away.
New characters
- Elena
- Brandon
- Derek
- Baby James
- Hector
- A small group of wedding party guests (from the flashback at the beginning)
- Farm owner
Characters that died
- Farm owner
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