All of Us Are Dead Ending Explained: Who Created The Virus? Who Survived At The End

All of Us Are Dead is a South Korean zombie-themed horror series that has just arrived on Netflix and is having a huge hit with subscribers. In the series, a deadly epidemic breaks out in a school. Cornered, the students only have one option: fight with all their strength to avoid becoming zombies. In this post, we are going to talk about the series finale that won over Netflix subscribers. Beware of spoilers.

All of Us Are Dead Ending Explained

At the beginning of the series, a student is being bullied on a roof and falls off the edge. The events that occur later are what give the story development. Lee Byeong Chan (Byeong Cheol Kim) is the student’s father and enters the ER to see him. He knows why his son survived a fall that should have killed him.

When his son starts to turn into a monster, he uses a Bible to “kill” him and uses a suitcase to transport the body. The next day at school, a student is bitten by a rat in the classroom of Byeong Chan, a science teacher, who kidnaps the student when he realizes she is infected. After a few days, she breaks free, alerts the students and the school nurse, and is taken to the ER. She becomes infected zero and starts the domino effect of spreading the virus at school.

Who Created The Virus?

Byeong is arrested by the police and reveals why he created the virus, which was to help his son. During interrogation, we learn that Lee Byeong Chan has a Ph.D. in cell biology from an American university and has returned to Korea to become a researcher at a pharmaceutical company.

In a video, the professor reveals why and how he created the virus, experimenting with cats and mice. A mouse would lose all inhibitions and react every now and then, leading to a spike in testosterone. He extracted the hormone and refined it to produce the virus. His goal was to turn fear into strength and apply the virus to his son so he could become a predator. Byeong Chan’s son suffers a lot of bullying and wanted to die and the virus would serve to save him. The virus in All of Us Are Dead has fatal consequences and those infected become zombies. As the series progresses, the virus starts to evolve and becomes more deadly.

New Zombie Form

School bully Yoon Gwi-nam (Yoo In-Soo) became one of the first infected by the mutated virus. After fighting Chung-san (Chan-Young Yoon), he is bitten by zombies but comes back to life fully conscious and can self-heal and is invisible to zombies. Nam-ra is also infected, but she can control her hunger and the effects of the virus.

In another video diary, Byeong chan realized the virus was evolving when it detected antibodies. Nam-ra and another student possess a mutated version of the virus, but at the end of All of Us Are Dead , when the students believed that Nam-ra died to save them, they found her alive months later.

She no longer has her mutated left eye or visible signs of infection and explains that there are others like her. Nam-ra has super strength, agility, sensitive hearing, and more. This could mean that the mutated version of the virus allows humans to look normal but retain all of a zombie’s powers. The government has yet to find a cure and it could mean that Nam-ra and the others could be the answer.

What About Nam-Ra? Is Nam-ra Kill All His Friends In Season 2?

In the final episode of the first season, Hyosan and his residents are decimated. Although martial law was enforced to contain the zombie epidemic, the barricades set up to contain the advance of the undead are not enough to contain the zombies arriving as far as Yangdong, a neighboring city. There remains only one drastic solution to put an end to the threat that could lead to the destruction of the whole of Korea: bomb Hyosan.

Of the 170,000 inhabitants of the city, only 110,000 survived the bombing. The Korean military, using drones that emit a sound frequency of 24 kilohertz, has lured the zombies to four places, the Hyosan intersection, the sports complex, Hyosan High School and Future College. The 60 thousand victims include 50 thousand infected with the virus and 10 thousand asymptomatic or, worse, not infected. Survivors of the bombing include Park Eun-Hee (Bae Hae-Sun), firefighter U-Sin (Woo Ji-Hyun), and detective Song Jae-ik (Kyoo-hyung Lee).

Cabinet Chief Seon-Mu (Kim Jong-Tae) takes full responsibility for the decision to bomb Hyosan, a desperate attempt to restore order through the application of martial law. Unable to live with that guilt, Seon-Moo commits suicide and his soldiers make sure to get the bombing survivors to safety. In the home of Byeong-chan where the army went to retrieve the documents of his research, the soldiers also find his wife and son. Both will be taken to headquarters for study and analysis.

Meanwhile, the students who survived are taken to the quarantine center. Not with them is Choi Nam-Ra (Cho Yi-Hyun), who has become a hybrid and would risk being killed by the army if identified. After being infected by Yoon Gwi-Nam (Yoo In-Soo), Nam-ra did not become a hungry zombie. On the contrary, the young woman managed to keep her humanity intact. The virus allowed her to acquire extraordinary abilities, including superhuman strength and impressive endurance. There are many people like Nam-ra who have become hybrids: half zombie and half human, these new creatures could constitute the new evolutionary stage of mankind.

As Nam-ra returns to the city of Hysoan, the survivors are taken to the quarantine camps to be monitored. The fear is that they can turn into zombies, it is not yet clear how long the incubation period of the virus lasts. Four months later, six survivors of Hyosan High School are still living in the harvest fields: Nam On-jo (Park Ji-Hu), Lee Su-Hyeok (Lomon), Yang Dae-su (Lim Jae-Hyuk), Jang Ha-Ri (Ha Seung-Ri), Park Mi-Jin (Lee Eun-Saem) and Seo Hyo-Ryung (Kim Bo-Yoon).

The six friends, alerted by a bonfire that they see going on at Hyosan high school. The six teens escape curfew to reach high school, where they reunite with Nam-ra one last time. Nam-ra before the zombie epidemic was alone and had no friends, while now she has a family made up of all hybrids who, like her, were infected but did not turn into zombies. Nam-ra now has a tribe to which she belongs: in the tragedy the young woman was able to find her fellow men, and although her life will be marked by flight, with the constant fear of being found by the military, she now knows that there are people like her.