Is Nam-Ra Infected?
Eun-Ji is washing her hands when she sees a note left by Cheol-Soo on the roof. The note says that whoever finds Eun-Ji alive, please let them know that all of us are dead. Eun-Ji is hesitant to leave the bathroom, but decides to take the note with her. She knows that if she dies, she will die happy.
Ji-Min, a suicidal high school student, is saved by her classmates after she threatens to jump out of a window. Ji-Min is unsure how to continue on after what happened to her parents, and On-Jo takes her aside and talks to her about his own familial woes. ..
On-Jo doesn’t want to lose any more friends and she can empathize with Ji-Min’s feeling of loss. As they lean on the speaker, a high-pitched whine rings out through the school. This gives Nam-Ra an idea as she decides to use the sound as a distraction for the zombies to sneak out and escape to safety.
Su-Hyeok speaks up first and communicates with Cheong-San, telling him to hold tight. It’s not until On-Jo speaks and says the same thing that he actually listens. Unfortunately Gwi-Nam is also listening and with a knife in hand, he charges for the broadcasting room to catch them off-guard and kill Cheong-San.
As the zombies are distracted by the broadcasts, one lowly zombie happens to be stuck against the wall, right outside the broadcasting room. It constantly smacks its head while the entire group slowly creep past… before they blow their cover.
The chase is on and they make it to safety. However, Gwi-Nam realizes what the kids are up to, seeing their scribbled plan in the broadcasting room and continuing his chase. Unfortunately, this also sees him come face to face with Su-Hyeok. Nam-Ra tries to save him but winds up bitten for her troubles. Gwi-Nam is knocked out the window, allowing the pair to escape. ..
The rest of the gang manages to make it over to Cheong-San but in doing so, once again find themselves surrounded. Nam-Ra is obviously bitten and could well be infected.
The group of refugees are being kept in quarantine for at least four weeks. On-Jo’s father, Nam So-Ju, tries to find a way out sooner, which eventually leads to him choking out one of the guards and knocking out another.
On-Jo’s dad is determined to get back to his daughter and decides to leave, taking their uniform for himself. Posing as a guard, So-Ju sneaks off with U-Sin, one of the other office workers in disguise.
With no kids in school uniforms among those in the quarantine, On-Jo’s dad realizes he needs to leave.
Meanwhile, Cheong-San breaks the news to the others about Gwi-Nam being infected. As he’s basically infected but not a proper zombie, it’s unknown what the ramifications are for Nam-Ra now that she’s been bitten. ..
Su-Hyeok decides to take responsibility for her, choosing to stand by Nam-Ra’s side and stop the others from hurting her. Tensions soon grow between him and Cheong-San. ..
Nam-Ra insists that she is not infected, but On-Jo can’t help but be skeptical. He’s never seen her like this before. She keeps saying she’s just been through a tough experience and that she’ll be all right. But On-Jo can’t help but feel like he’s being played.
The group of people are hostile and threatening towards one another, which is causing them to be at risk of turning against one another. To prevent any potential problems, Su-Hyeok ties his hand to Nam-Ri’s hand in order to take full responsibility for anything that could happen to them.
Jae-Ik ventures out of the chicken shop momentarily, only to find another little girl outside. She rushes toward him, with hungry zombies behind her. Jae-Ik manages to save her though, as she points out her infected mother in the horde, banging on the windows.
So-Ju makes it to safety, but he’s not the only one. U-Jin helps him out and they make it to safety together.
As the broadcasting group, each of the kids use a handheld camera to send lasting messages with Dae-Su singing and On-Jo promising to do her best. So-Ju is chased by guards with embarrassingly bad aim. I mean literally he’s running in a straight line and he manages to evade every single bullet.
As he makes it underwater, it’s clear he’s been shot once while On-Jo gives an impassioned plea to her father.
The Episode Review
As the tension builds in the group, all of us are dead slams on the brakes as we begin to understand the new variations of this virus. We are all struggling to come to grips with what is happening and how it could potentially impact our lives.
It still doesn’t explain how Gwi-Nam survived or what’s happening with him and Eun-Ji, or the wider ramifications that this means for the zombie hierarchy. I understand that in episode 2 Byeong-Chan mentioned the serum turns fear to rage so I guess the idea here is that he and Eun-Ji are immune to that because they have no fear?
However, it’s not clear what Nam-Ra’s strange senses are going to be explored in more detail in the upcoming episodes. ..
The situation with So-Ju is certainly interesting, though it’s the most important subplot for fleshing out this world. It allows us to see behind the scenes on a separate mission, which is similar to the officer in Squid Game.
That is, until the end of the episode. The plot armor for some of these characters is off-the-wall bonkers, but for So-Ju it’s almost embarrassingly bad. How did all those officers fail to actually shoot him? That’s some Stormtrooper level of bad aiming and it’s a downer on a relatively subdued and slow-paced episode, as it is. ..
As we near the halfway point of this series, All of Us Are Dead is showing some big cracks. It’s still enjoyable, but given how LUCA ended up last year, this one is in danger of following suit.
