The action of the film occurs over a five-day period, from a Friday through a Tuesday morning.[Friday]The story officially begins in downtown San Francisco with a view of a cable car, as an attractive, elegantly-dressed (obviously rich) and coiffed, high-heeled blonde woman with a black suit crosses the street at Union Square.No sign of an enemy...They""re dead." As he returns to the body of the Sergeant, he explains to Lieutenant Dufour (James Burke) how he found the two bodies: "Up here is a young man who died peacefully.As he walked off, he killed the three chained-up ""working"" zombies.In another area of the island, Muldoon was overseeing the capture and imprisonment of zombies (now called "dumb-f--ks") in stalls within a horse barn, supervised by his hired ranch hand Chuck (Joris Jarsky).A vote was to be held for or against a proposed Military Creation Act - it would create a standing army to protect the Republic and combat the group of Separatists.