28 Days Later script - Save the Cat beat sheet analysis

The film opens on a lab chimp test showing violence, establishing the viral threat.

Selena warns that infected must be killed within seconds, stating the survival rules.

You need to understand, if someone gets infected, you've got somewhere between ten and twenty seconds to kill...

Jim awakens to an empty London, meets Selena and Mark, and learns of the apocalypse.

I'm a bicycle courier. I was riding a package from Farringdon to Shaftesbury Avenue...

Selena and Mark rescue Jim from infected, thrusting him into the new world.

Jim hesitates about survival rules and fears he may be infected after kitchen attack.

Did any of the blood get in your mouth?

Jim and Selena decide to leave London tower block and seek other survivors.

Down the corridor! Flat 157!

Frank and his daughter Hannah join, introducing familial bonds and hope.

So... I'm Frank, anyway.

The group scavenges, jokes, camps, and bonds amid dark humor on the road.

I was wrong when I told you that staying alive is as good as it gets.

At the blockade the group discovers it's abandoned; Frank turns infected and dies—stakes peak.

Henry’s soldiers imprison them; Jim learns of their brutal plan and must escape.

Who have you killed?

Farrell is executed, and Jim narrowly escapes alone—darkest moment.

Jim flees through woods, feels isolated and uncertain until he spots a plane.

Selena manipulates soldiers to free Hannah, creating diversion for Jim’s plan.

You can't do this to her! She's only fourteen!

Jim infiltrates the mansion, fights soldiers and infected, rescues the girls, and escapes.

It's me and you, now. And I'm going to get you out of here, and then we're going...

The survivors signal a plane over the valley, offering hope at journey’s end.

Do you think he saw us this time?