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Z Nation
Season 1: Recap
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Going Nuclear: Season 1, Episode 10

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Curious about the antics of the undead and those that hate them which occured in Season One of Z Nation? Click through this gallery to get a quick recap.

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The first season started amidst the zombie apocalypse, where prisoners were being experimented on in hopes of finding a zombie virus cure. One of them, Murphy, is bitten by zombies that raided the facility.

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One year later and Murphy, guided by Lt. Mark Hammond (played by Harold Perrineau from Lost), come upon a survivor's camp in upstate NY. Hammond reveals to the small group there that Murphy survived being bit by zombies - thus he is the key to a cure.

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Charles Garnett and Roberta Warren, two ex-military badasses in the group, agree to help Hammond transport Murphy to a lab in California that can harvest the cure.

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Just as they are leaving, the camp is overrun by zombies. Three other survivors - Addy, her boyfriend Mack and an older dude named Doc - join the journey to bring Murphy to CA.

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Along the way they encountered a teenager calling himself "10K" - a moniker he adopted because of his intention to kill 10,000 zombies.

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The gang soon encountered another survivor, Cassandra, who they helped free from a bunch of psycho cannibals (#zombieapocalypseprobems). 

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Through all this, the group was aided by a military official calling himself "Citizen Z." The sole survivor of a Northern Canadian outpost, Citizen Z still had access to computer networks and communication devices that were still working. He'd intermittently connect with the survivors to help guide them to California. 

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As the group made its way cross country, Murphy started to discover that a) he was decaying more, like a zombie and b) he had weird mind control powers that let him control zombies.

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When the gang upon a group of survivors that didn't allow men amongst them (led by Kelly McGillis), Addy decided to stay with them.

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When the survivors reached Colorado, they encountered Dr. Kurian, a total psycho that actually started the zombie virus. He was VERY interested in Murphy.

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Cassandra, who had been mortally wounded in an earlier scuffle, was about to die. Murphy did a quasi charitable thing and bit her, infecting her with the zombie virus.

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Introducing zombie Cassandra! She was now super strong, kinda crazy and totally under Murphy's control. 

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The scuffle with Dr. Kurian happened at a military base, and the outfall was that a bunch of nukes got launched. Nuts, right?

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The nukes made their way up to Citizen Z's base where he realized he was probably gonna kick the bucket.

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The survivors, with very little time before a nuke dropped on their heads, tried to figure out how the hell they were going to not get blown up. Only Season Two holds the answer.

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