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The high school is a typical school where adolescents go for the purpose of gaining an education. Its extracurricular activities include sports such as soccer, and its team name appears to be the "Broncos".
Madison Clark arrives at the school to start the day, where she is informed by the principal, Art Costa that there have been several absences from the school due to the strange new illness going around which is making parents pull their kids out of school. One of the students, Tobias triggers the metal detector on the front door, prompting Madison to take him to a private room where she confiscated a knife from him. She threatens him with expulsion, but Tobias begs not to since it is going to be safer in numbers. Tobias explains that the new illness going around is different from other illnesses, and that those infected have been attacking and eating other people. Madison tells him not to believe everything he reads on the Internet and dismissed him, promising not to expel him but she keeps the knife.
The next day, more absences have occurred from both students and staff, which results in the school day becoming a half day. Several of the staff and students are watching leaked footage from the night before of a man who had supposedly died in a car crash, but has woken up and began attacking first responders and resisted several rounds of gunfire from the police until he was killed by a headshot. Madison watches this video and begins to wonder about what Tobias said to her the day before.
At night, Art Costa patrols the school, talking another staff member over a walkie talkie. At some point, Art is bitten by a walker, dies and reanimates into a walker that roams the school's hallways.
In an effort to help her son to safely detox, Madison returns to the now abandoned school in a search for the confiscated stash of drugs. As Madison retrieves the drugs, she is surprised by Tobias, who is raiding the school for supplies. He asks for his knife back. Madison leads Tobias to her office and returns his knife before accompanying him to the cafeteria where Tobias gathers food to last him for awhile with all of the chaos that's going on.
Discussing the situation, Madison returns the keys that she took to Art's office before she and Tobias hear the noise of a walker over the PA system in Art's backroom followed by the sound of an alarm going off. Madison and Tobias race through the school, but encounter the zombified Art in a hallway at the top of a staircase. Not recognizing the danger, Madison tries to reason with her friend as Tobias attempts to warn her. Tobias attacks Art with his knife ineffectually and the two roll down the staircase together, still struggling. As Art tries to bite Tobias, Madison grabs a nearby fire extinguisher, knocks Art off Tobias and bashes his head in, putting him down. Madison and Tobias then leave the school together.
In the pilot, the school scenes were filmed inside an actual L.A. high school, Woodrow Wilson High, but for the rest of the season, production shifted to Vancouver, in Killarney Secondary School.[1]
The name of the school in series is named by an actual architect Paul Revere Williams who designed Woodrow Wilson High school in real life.
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