The news was broken to him by Max Schumacher who was president of the News Division at UBS.The two old friends got properly pissed -In the middle of a drinking marathon on a nighttime street in Manhattan, Beale""s boss and old friend and admirer Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of the network news, speak ogether about their maverick days in the early 50s in the radio news business when television was just beginning.They left, as Janet was left to watch her zombie sister suddenly bite into the horse""s neck - proof that zombies could indeed be trained to eat non-human flesh.As he rested in jail, Tommy watched the next morning as various friends (all camp counselors) arrived:Sheriff Garris"" blonde daughter Megan (Jennifer Cooke)black girlfriend Sissy Baker (Renee Jones)Lizabeth""s sister Paula (Kerry Noonan)torn jeans-wearing Cort (Tom Fridley)Megan asked that her father go looking for the two missing head counselors (Darren and Lizabeth), as she suspected they had car trouble.After they were seated in the windowless, locked metal room, they viewed the Silver Shamrock television commercial that was to air that night (Halloween) throughout the country:(Announcer) "It""s time.