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it on to others. When he kisses her, her saliva infects him. He goes into convulsions, emerges a rabid Eurofanatic, and kills Alice. Let the re-infection begin.

The army's orders of engagement for responding to a deteriorating situation, are as follows:
1) kill infected (by sniper fire);
2) containment (machine gun fire of all within outbreak area);
3) extermination (destroy entire district, by firebombing and/or chemical weapons).

Step 3 is 'code red'.

Turning Point 2. Four + survivors are stranded in a warehouse near where the rooftop snipers' mission graduated to containment', among them the two children, a sniper with a conscience, Sergeant Doyle (Jeremy Renner), and a female military doctor, Scarlet (Rose Byrne), and others. They realize they can't turn themselves in because the army is now on code red, and will shoot-on-sight anyone from the infected area. They have to run, try to reach a park in another district where the sniper arranged with a helicopter pilot-buddy for an airlift out.

Act 3's Crisis Decision. They reach the park and wait for evac. Dr. Scarlet explains to Doyle that the children have an infection-resistant mother, and their DNA thus holds the clue for any eventual cure. Their mission, should they decide to accept it, is to get the children to safety. The infecteds, however, having fought their way out of the containment area, promptly make their way to the park, and do what they do best. The four set off again; and en route arrange by radio with the pilot for a new evac pickup point, at a stadium.

Climax. After fleeing the park, pursued by raving infected, they reach a car just as the smoke from chemical weapons comes billowing up the street. Infected British yobbos die like flies. The four shut themselves inside the car, but when it won't start, Doyle selflessly gets out to push, meaning certain death. He winds a towel around his face for protection (making him look like a noble Palestinian suicide bomber, which I assume was no semiotic coincidence). Scarlet takes over driving as US army mop-up crew proceed up the street using flame-throwers on walking wounded and dead-man-walking infected, presumably to prevent further infection (or maybe it's just b/c they're American?). Doyle is set on fire while pushing the car, and dies in agony as the car pulls away.

US helicopter gunships pursue the car, using strafing fire in their attempts to destroy it. Scarlet drives into a subway entrance, down the stairs and out into the ticketing area. They get

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