Patrick Jane use to use his talents at reading people and hypnosis to con people out of money claiming he could talk to the dead.

Joe & Ellen Bunting have a rocky marriage and after the loss of their child Ellen has been taking pills in attempts to deal with it.

Roderick Blank is successful, attractive, and engaged.

Humans that have survived the onslaught of zombies now live in a barricaded city with many distractions from the evil outside the walls.