Stake Land

Call me Martin.

I've seen things

you wouldn't believe.

Things a boy shouldn't see.

But... I'm not a normal

boy anymore.

And it ain't a normal world.

Get used to it.

That's what Mister tells me.

We live by his rules

or we die.

Or worse.

We die and we come back.

But let's begin at the beginning.

I was like any other kid,

I had a family.

I went to school,

I didn't believe in the boogey man.

But then the world

woke up to a nightmare.

...Stay in your homes

and not to travel by night.

Route 22...

Maybe we should wait.

We'll take the back roads,

you'll be safer there.

No. Martin, come back!

Hey!

Martin!

Cooper!

Cooper!

Cooper...

Cooper...

Cooper!

Martin, run!

Mom!

Shh! Shh!

You wanna live boy,

you listen to me.

You scream,

I'll break your neck.

They're dead!

There's nothing to be done

about it but kill that thing.

Can you shoot?

You shoot me

I'll f***in' kill you!

...A 24 hour hotline

for missing persons

attributed to the outbreak

has been set up on

a county by county basis.

Phone lines in all areas

have been flooded in.

Officials ask for patients as

recovery teams are doing

all they can to maintain order

on the east coast...

...I repeat, do not venture outside

after sundown.

Stay in your homes and

lock the doors and windows...

Get a f***in' hammer!

I only got two hands, boy.

Do it!

Save him...

One day you'll learn

not to dream at all.

Get your sh*t.

Welcome to Stake Land, kid.

Months passed

in a blur of days and nights.

We traveled east and west,

but always north.

Away from death.

We avoided the cities.

Mister said they were the worst,

hit the hardest in the beginning.

As people flocked together

for safety,

the plague marched through

their locked gates

and they became death traps.

When Washington fell, it was over

for America as we knew her.

As government blew away,

our great leaders ran for it.

And hope was abandoned.

We were on our own now.

Me and Mister.

Traveling through a ruined land.

Pockets of civilization survived.

Towns locked down behind fences

and guns holding the night away.

Cults spread like wildfire

across the southern states.

Waitin' for the messiah,

but he never came.

Death came instead.

And it came with teeth.

Dumb f*** got himself trapped.

Burnt up in the sun.

Berserker.

It's the oldest of the vamps.

Can't stake 'em in the chest.

Got a breast bone like iron.

Gotta get 'em in the

base of the skull.

Vamps...

function from the reptile brain.

It's like pullin' the

plug on a computer.

We were all orphans.

Just lookin' for something

to hold on to.

He's a Mister.

Maybe that's why

he keeps me with him.

What's that?

Garlic oil.

Does that really work?

Don't hurt.

One strike boy.

Make it true.

Where you boys comin' from?

South.

Get outta the car.

Did you get any?

They alright boys, let 'em roll.

Another town,

another lockdown.

People just tryin' to go on.

Hopin' they'd wake up

and it would all be a bad dream.

They could go back to their lives,

families and careers.

He needs more fresh food.

And some vitamins,

if you can find them.

Where's his folks?

Dead.

He'd be better of here.

With people.

Other children.

What do I owe you?

I could use all of them.

Good.

Hey.

Got any liquor in this town?

Jake's.

Homemade, mostly.

We got some tap beer.

Little sour,

but it wont kill ya.

Boy needs a haircut.

Sheriff said take whatever you need.

It's on me.

Have you been through Haggerstown?

I had family there.

Vamped out,

everything south of here.

Rea?

He really kills 'em, huh?

You gotta get 'em in the heart.

Pierce the breast plate.

Guns hurt 'em but unless you

sever the spine they keep comin'.

You got any gum?

Yes.

Cool.

Ah, just...

So who are you?

His helper.

Where are you, uhh... where are

you guys headin'?

North.

Uh, Mister says less population,

less bloodsuckers.

Wait, wait, wait...

Not New Eden right?

We had a fella,

he came through here.

He said there's nothing there,

there's no food at all.

He said it's not the Vamps

ya need to worry about...

it's the cannibals.

Thanks.

Sometimes I think I could

stay in a place like this.

Make friends,

live in the daylight.

Just be a kid.

But the truth is

I don't feel safe around people.

They can think what they want

but New Eden was real.

It was the answer to all of this

and we were gonna find it.

Fight our way north,

make the open territories.

Like Mister says.

'Live free or die tryin'.

F*** the cannibals.

What's her name?

I didn't ask.

Why did this happen?

How can God let this happen?

How can this be his love...

Oh... oh, God!

Oh... oh, God!

It's okay, lady.

- No! No!

- Shh. Shh.

It's okay!

- No! No!

- It's alright!

No!

It's okay. It's okay.

it's okay, it's okay.

Mister,

where'd all that

hate come from?

I never asked.

Those men that...

They said they were Christians.

We don't do history.

Doesn't do anybody any good.

Grab them traps, boy.

Give me a finger.

Time to go fishin'.

Get the long pole.

Sister Agitha.

We thought she was dead.

She is.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna kill that thing.

Go with God.

Lock the door.

Newbie.

Shouldn't be too hard.

Too fat, I can't break the spine.

You missed the heart ya,

dumb sh*t.

F***in' vamps!

Stop it!

Mister dug a grave.

I think he felt bad

for the sister.

He did pull the fangs out, but...

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