Exercises
Scenes
Scene summaries may contain spoilers
1
The horde has eased a little bit, and Sam is delighted to be your radio operator again. You break into a shopping centre that had been sealed up for renovations just before the start of the apocalypse. The Spectrum Shopping Centre is huge and you'll be moving around a lot, so you should warm up first with some stretches. Try star jumps or jogging in place. Tinned food is the first thing on your list, but before you can get going, an alarm goes off. Sam disables it quickly, but the sound has attracted some zombies! Climb the spiral escalator up to the first floor while Sam gets the shutters down!
2
You reach the first floor. Take some time to catch your breath but keep moving so you don't cool down too much. Sam has dropped the shutters, but a lot of zombies managed to get in before that. You make it into the Staff Only section of the shopping centre, but you'll need to break down a door. It looks pretty rotten. Use the Air Punches you practised the other day. Protect your face with one arm while you punch with the other, making sure not to lock your elbow. You break through that door, and the second door, and reach the boiler room. Use your fancy footwork to avoid the rotten planks!
3
You head downstairs, but there are zombies in the stairwell, and zombies behind you. You're surrounded! Quick, climb up those shelves out of reach. The zombies start to shake the shelves, so you'll need to wedge yourself between the shelf and the ceiling. Get into your Plank position with your weight on your forearms and toes, and brace your back against the ceiling. Engage your core muscles and hold that for as long as you can. While you do that, Sam sets off a smoke alarm and that lures the zombies away. Hold the plank for as long as you can in case there are stragglers, then get moving down the corridor.
4
You head onto the outdoor fire escape and see a huge horde of zombies. You'll need to head up the stairs again. You reach the top, and head back inside. Sam tells you to head up the last stairs to reach the top floor of the shopping centre, while he checks out which shop would be best for you to hole up in for a while.
5
You reach the top floor and it looks like the Outdoor shop will be the best place to hole up for a while since they'll have camping equipment. You try to close the shutters on the store, but something shorts out, and the escalator has turned on! You'll need to bring the shutter down manually with the hand crank. It's like doing bicep curls! Get going before the zombies reach you! You manage to get the shutter down and it should keep the zombies at bay. Why don't you cool down now that you're safe?
6
Sam has got access to the shopping centre's cameras. The zombies aren't trying to get to you anymore, they're just milling around. When this is over, you should go camping for real around the back of Janine's farmhouse. But for now you should eat something nice and rest up. You'll be running for Abel again before you know it!
Credits
Cast listings may contain spoilers
Cast
Sam Yao
Philip Nightingale
Crew
Writer
Naomi Alderman
Director
Matt Wieteska
Sound Designer
Mark Pittam
Series Created By
Naomi Alderman