The Regulator Rewrite Outline

The Regulator:

Prologue - Andrew meets a strange man as he leaves the city on a train.

Chapter I - Brad and Monica discuss the camps dire financial situation. Andrew confronts a bullying problem in his group. Nick beats Andrews group in a game of Dodgeball. Brad hears about riots on the news.

Chapter II - Brad heads into town to get answers and emergency supplies. Monica nervously checks news updates and listens to the radio. Andrew meets up with Anna on break, but returns to his group when a strange man wanders onto the camp grounds and try's to attack them. The strange man bites a young girl, Hallie.

Chapter III - Brad ends up having to fight for his life as a riot ensues. He is caught in the crossfire between Police, Citizens, and incredibly bloodthirsty and hostile citizens. Nick and Andrew see more strange people approaching, but are forced to listen to Monica's orders too keep all their campers in the main lodge. The strange people break in and begins biting and attacking multiple people, though most of the camp is unharmed. Both Brad and Andrew kill assailants in last ditch efforts of self defense.

Chapter IV - Brad returns to the camp as more of the strange people descend on it. Both he and Andrew are in shock over having killed people, and most of the camp is out of it. Brad regains enough composure to tell the staff that they have to do what is necessary to protect the campers. The camp staff thus go out and fight off the strange people.

Chapter V - Brad and Monica are continuing to get news updates in the main office. Andrew, Brandon, and Anna enter to find out whats going on, but Nick and Gavin barge in demanding answers. The whole group listens as it is revealed that the hostile people aren't sick, they are dead. Coprses brought back to life who can only be killed by damaging the brain, and that being bitten by one hastens one's death. The group argues, but Brad eventually decides to put all bitten individuals, Men, Women, and Children, in the camps Barn. Some parents arrive at the camp looking for their kids, this results in many different out comes with some parents leaving with the kids or staying with them.

Chapter VI - Andrew spends the night with his group. Brad and Monica debate what they are going to do the following morning.

Chapter VII - Brad instructs everyone at camp to carry on as if nothing has changed. Brad, Gavin, and Monica drive into town to get food for the whole camp, as well as weapons. He leaves Nick and Andrew in co-control of the camp, believing they can hold down the fort for a few hours. Though things initially play out semi-normal, a horde of undead descend on the camp. The camp personnel fight for their life, but Nick's camper Zach is bitten in the fight. Nick, Andrew, and Brad debate what to do with him, but after peeking into the barn and seeing the swarm of undead they've created, Andrew decides to ask Zach himself what he wants.

Chapter VIII - Andrew sinks into a reclusive depression over Zachs death and his guilty feelings about the people in the barn. Several of his friends try to talk him out of it for several days, but it is ultimately Brad and his camper, Seth, who get him out of it.

Chapter IX - Police Officers arrive at the camp and, seeing the carnage that has taken place, attempt to arrest the staff and several of the older campers. Working together with the younger campers, the fireside survivors manage to disable the officers, but also invite them to stay at the camp in exchange for their weapons.

Chapter X - Andrew volunteers to go on a trip with Brad to a more populated part of the county in order to see if there are any refugee camps or help there, as power and cable are knocked out at the camp and the radio's batteries have died. They find the town, Marcer, entirely overrun and abandoned. Andrew and Brad end up stuck in the center of the town, but through a combination of stealth and fighting, make their way out of the town.

Chapter XI - Andrew's campers make a plan to go find Andrew after he and Brad aren't home by sundown, they leave the camp, but are tailed by Ivan and Gabi, who are subsequently tailed by Brandon. Jaxon is kidnapped by the Madman, while the rest of the campers are safely returned to the camp.

Chapter XII - Andrew and Brad return to the camp. They get into an argument about Jaxon's kidnapping, with Brad telling Andrew he can't go after him, as they need him at Fireside. Andrew is confronted by the mysterious man from the train, who reveals himself to be The Bedlam, and encourages Andrew to go after Jaxon. Andrew sneaks off the campgrounds the following morning. Nick goes with him.

Chapter XIII - Brad angrily rants about Andrew's betrayl of his trust to Monica. Monica however supports Andrews decision, saying she finds it odd Brad wouldn't let him go after his own camper. Brad, angrily, storms away. Meanwhile, Brandon is watching over his, Andrew, and Nick's groups with some support when a strange man arrives at the camp asking for food and supplies. Brandon is complacent. But the man begins acting stranger, and causing more and more of a scene. Brad eventually gets involved as the man becomes violent, but is shot and killed when the man reveals a pistol he had hidden away.

Chapter XIV - Andrew and Nick track the Mad Man too an abandoned Mansion. Investigating the Mansion, and avoiding the Mad Man, it becomes clear that he had been a serial killer before the Undead began walking, and is now using the turmoil and collapsing of civilization to live out even sicker fantasies. Andrew and Nick discover his "Greatest Work", Belinda, sitting alone in one particular room. They eventually save Jaxon, and kill the Mad Man.

Chapter XV - Andrew and Nick return to the camp, where they learn of Brad's death. Both are infuriated, but Andrew is easily the more upset, partially because he feels guilty for leaving the camp. Andrew attempts to attack the killer, but is stopped by Brandon. Andrew, briefly, sounds Psychotically angry, but is calmed down by the efforts of his campers and Anna. The camp as a whole agrees to chain the killer up in the kitchen. Later, Monica talks to Andrew about Brad's plans to eliminate the zombies in the barn. Later, Andrew enters the barn, killing every single Zombie inside it. He then enters the kitchen, and wordlessly executes Brad's killer.

Epilogue - Andrew, now chained up and in the barn, surrounded by the rotten corpse of the undead he has recently murdered, is visited by The Bedlam who whispers "Hello, Regulator."