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Batch 47
Season 2, Episode 4
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Air date October 2, 2015
Written by Michael Cassutt
Directed by Alexander Yellen
U.S. Viewers 0.90 million
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"Batch 47" is the fourth episode of Season 2 of Z Nation and the seventeenth episode of the series overall. It first aired in the United States on October 2, 2015.


Plot Synopsis[]

On the hunt for more Z Weed, Murphy and Cassandra (sans Wrecking Ball, for some unknown reason) have come to a Minnesota lab, where they find a group of survivors desperate to get their hands on Batch 47, a supposed herbal vaccine against the zombie virus. Unfortunately, the greenhouse wherein this Batch 47 resides is overrun with zombies actually, even worse, phytozombies: half-plant, half zombie hybrids. Murphy finds the guy in charge, Odegard, just as the lab workers are about to send more harvester-types into the greenhouse to collect this mysterious Batch 47. And then Dr. Walter Kurian shows up, the bad guy from the Season 1 finale that created the ZN1 virus, and who might be responsible for the outbreak of the zombie virus in the first place. He is badly burned on the side of his face.

Meanwhile, Operation Bitemark, in pursuit of Murphy, has rolled up to the lab and started to snoop around. They come upon a blonde woman with a little girl, and she turns out to be their kind of people: a woman raising a kid she's not related to because her real mom is dead. The problem is the little girl is very sick and she keeps asking the blonde woman to not let her turn into a zombie.

Murphy can feel the pain of the plant zombies, a psychic connection that seems to work both ways. He manages to get a sample of Batch 47 for the good lab doctor and they try it out on some zombies who are just heads in jars. All this while Addy makes contact with Citizen Z, who gives her the new coordinates for the CDC in California. The number she writes down was also seen by Dr. Kurian.

The team gets roped into helping harvest the rest of the seedpods in order to make more of the herbal zombie vaccine. They trade in their guns for garden tools as defence for the phytos and head into the greenhouse, where they encounter the terrifying phytozombie leader, all green, shaggy, covered in vines and powerfully psychically connected to Murphy. Murphy flees and runs into Dr. Kurian, who tells him that the only hope the world has left is people like Murphy: half human/half zombies.

Escorpion is in charge of a cartel known as the Zeroes (which explains the 'Z' tattoo on his hand). They handle the distribution of the Z-weed. When the lab doctor protests the order to shut down all Batch 47 experiments, Hector suddenly insists on human trials, the trial subject being a reluctant Odegard who turns, and shoots the resulting "alive zombie" in the face. When Murphy tries to free all the phytozombies in the Giant Shop of Horrors, they suddenly come after him and the team has to fight for their lives. When they end up killing the phytozombie leader, Murphy is bereft. Finally, Doc finds the little girl and her not-mother in the barn and hands over the Batch 47 leaves, which the little girl chews on before she dies.

The episode ends when Serena, the pregnant lady wandering around looking for Murphy, encounters the group.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Starring[]

Co-Stars[]

  • Sara Coates as Serena
  • Jessica Bork as Mariah
  • Noelle Fries as Harper
  • Rob Grabow as Harvester #1
  • Robert Agostenelli as Harvester #2
  • Cameron Gordon as Guard One
  • Simone Leorin as Skull Zero
  • Robert Fuentes as Goggle Zero
  • Thomas Olson as Onlooker
  • Sergi Cervera as Mexican radio voice
  • Peter Vives as Mexican radio voice #2
  • Alex Terzieff as Big Phyto
  • Wizard as Pup

Deaths[]

Memorable Quotes[]

"Giant Shop of Horrors" — Doc


Trivia[]

the 3 zombies which batch 47 is tested on, are references to [1]The Three Stooges.

in order the Zombie heads represent Moe,Larry,Curly

Notes[]

  • First (and last) appearance of Odegard.
  • First (and last) appearance of Mariah.
  • First (and last) appearance of Harper.
  • First (and last) appearance of Guard One.
  • First mention of La Reina.
  • The 'Giant Shop of Horrors' quip by Doc is a reference to 'Little Shop of Horrors'.

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References[]

Episodes of Z Nation
Season 1 "Puppies and Kittens" • "Fracking Zombies" • "Philly Feast" • "Full Metal Zombie" • "Home Sweet Zombie" • "Resurrection Z" • "Welcome to FU-Bar" • "Zunami" • "Die Zombie Die ... Again" • "Going Nuclear" • "Sisters of Mercy" • "Murphy's Law" • "Doctor of the Dead"
Season 2 "The Murphy" • "White Light" • "Zombie Road" • "Batch 47" • "Zombaby!" • "Zombie Baby Daddy" • "Down the Mississippi" • "The Collector" • "RoZwell" • "We Were Nowhere Near the Grand Canyon" • "Corporate Retreat" • "Party With the Zeros" • "Adiós, Muchachos" • "Day One" • "All Good Things Must Come to an End"
Season 3 "No Mercy" • "A New Mission" • "Murphy's Miracle" • "Escorpion and the Red Hand" • "Little Red and the WolfZ" • "Doc Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" • "Welcome to Murphytown" • "Election Day" • "Heart of Darkness" • "They Grow Up So Quickly" • "Doc's Angels" • "The Siege of Murphytown" • "Duel" • "Everybody Dies in the End"
Season 4 "Warren's Dream" • "Escape from Zona" • "The Vanishing" • "Keep Moving" • "Fear of the Unknown" • "Back from the Undead" • "A Nice Day for a Warren's Wedding" • "Crisis of Faith" • "We Interrupt This Program" • "Frenemies" • "Return to Mercy Labs"• "Mt. Weather"• "The Black Rainbow"
Season 5 "Welcome to the Newpocalypse" • "A New Life" • "Escape from Altura" • "Pacifica" • "Killing All The Books" • "Limbo" • "Doc's Stoned History" • "Heartland" • "Water Keepers" • "State of Mine" • "Hackerville" • "At All Cost" • "The End of Everything"
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