And from somewhere deep in the ruined city, a projector flickers to life.
He taps the screen. A grainy, watermarked image flickers to life: The Walking Dead , Season 4, episode 3 — butchered, zoomed in, tagged with in neon green font across the bottom.
If they’re learning from the show, we can teach them. Feed them the wrong scenes. Loops. Final episodes where everyone dies. Confuse them into walking off cliffs.
On screen, Rick Grimes swings a machete. A Walker’s head rolls.
They step outside. In the distance, a herd shuffles in perfect, laggy synchronization — arms jerking like corrupted frames, heads turning left-right-left-right in a loop.
(whispering) It’s still on. The server farm two blocks down — diesel generator. Someone’s feeding it.