Mark (Video Game)

"Don't...eat....dinner..."

- Mark to Lee.

Mark is an original character in The Walking Dead Video Game. He is first introduced in Episode 2: Starved For Help.

Robins Air Force Base
Mark used to work at the US Air Force base before it was overrun, but Mark does not appear to know either Lilly or her father, Larry. During the period between Episode 1 and Episode 2, the group found him holed up there by himself. Since he had a stockpile of commissary provisions which would be enough food for everyone, Mark was allowed to join the group at the Motor Inn.

Episode 2: Starved For Help
Mark joined Lee's group in the 3 months between the events of Episode 1 and Episode 2. While hunting in the woods with Lee and Kenny, they encounter Ben Paul, Travis, and David Parker, the latter of who is caught in a bear trap. Depending on the player's choices, Mark carries a wounded David or Travis, back to the Motor Inn. At the motel, they are scolded for bringing back more mouths to feed. When Lee is put in charge of handing out food, Mark seems especially weak. If he is given an axe, or food, he well help save Katjaa and Lee from a now reanimated David/Travis.

Later, when helping out around the St. John Dairy, Mark is shot in the shoulder with an arrow by bandits. Lee and Mark return to the house and he is put in the care of Brenda St. John. Mark is not seen for some time after this. If Brenda is asked whether Mark can be checked on, she will just assure Lee that everything is all right.

At dinner, Mark is not present. When his absence is brought into question, Brenda says that she has already taken a plate upstairs to a still-recovering Mark. Lee, however, gets suspicious and, after coming up with an alibi, decides to investigate. Mark is soon found in a bathroom well-hidden behind a bookshelf. Sprawled across the floor and barely conscious, both his legs are revealed to have been cut off. Mark warns Lee that the St. John brothers did this to him and that the dinner should not be eaten; his legs are the main course. Lee rushes off to warn the group of this, leaving Mark to later drag himself out of the room and fall down the stairs, pleading for help. After the St. Johns expose their secret of cannibalism, Lee is knocked unconscious and the group is taken prisoner. It is never explicitly shown what happens to Mark during this time, but it's implied that the St. Johns have kept him alive. The reason for this, as it is later explained by Danny St. John, is that the family's victims are kept alive so the meat doesn't become "tainted." The evidence to support this comes from the assortment of medical instruments, found earlier in the dairy house, which are specifically designed to keep a person living for as long as possible.

During the climax, Brenda is encountered holding Katjaa hostage. As Lee confronts her, Mark makes his final appearance. He is back upstairs, reanimated, and is reaching through the balustrade on the second floor. Once the unknowing Brenda backs up the stairs enough, she is grabbed by Mark and killed. Katjaa and Lee escape, but Mark is left behind at the now-overrun Dairy. Since his brain is never shown to be destroyed, it is assumed that he will remain there as a walker.

Killed Victims
This list shows the victims Mark has killed:
 * Travis (Accidental, Caused) (If given axe) (If Doug is saved in Episode 1) (Determinant)
 * David Parker (Zombified) (If given axe) (If Doug is saved in Episode 1) (Determinant)
 * Brenda St. John (Infected)
 * Numerous counts of zombies.

Killed By
After Mark is shot in the shoulder, the St. Johns take him inside and cut off his legs for meat, fatally wounding him. They claim regardless Mark was going to die anyway, even though he was capable of movement after being shot.
 * Andrew St. John (Caused)
 * Danny St. John (Caused)
 * Brenda St. John (Caused)

Trivia

 * Among the survivors from Macon, Mark was the latest addition to the group. He was the first survivor to join the group off-screen, and the first whose arrival to the group wasn't explicitly explained.
 * Mark is one of the many amputees in The Walking Dead. For other victims, see Amputated Victims.
 * Mark managed to have his leg's cut off by the cannibalistic family, the St. John Family.
 * Mark, along with the majority of the members, mentioned to Lee about his slight dislike towards Larry. Like Doug, he participates little in the group's ensuing arguments, preferring to stay away from any political matters in the group.
 * Additionally, he was one of the better liked members among the survivors and would have contributed significantly to the storyline if it weren't for his untimely death under the hands of the St.Johns.
 * He was one of the few walkers that didn't act as an antagonist to the main group, but rather as an ally. Ironically enough, he is the one who inadvertently saved and protected the group.
 * If not given a share of the day's rations at the Motor Inn, coupled with the fact that he didn't take any bread in the basket at the Dairy which was meant for the other survivors, Mark would have been one of the only two possible members of the group who never had anything to eat in the entire episode. The only other possible member is Lee, if the choice is made to give the last share of the rations to somebody else.
 * Interestingly enough, however, a possible irony through the player's decisions would allow Mark to ultimately obtain — albeit subtly — what is arguably the most gratifying meal in the episode: a chunk from the neck belonging to the matriarch of the cannibalistic Saint John Family.
 * This can also count as retribution.
 * He could be a military pilot, since the jacket he wears says;"Fight or Flight"