Alice Dempsey was the former and third Runner 5, before the player arrived at Abel Township.
History[]
Pre-apocalypse[]
Alice was a management consultant before the apocalypse.[1]
Early Apocalypse[]
Alice lost contact with her younger sister, Frances, just after the first outbreak in London. After ROFFLENet was launched, Alice used it to try and find anyone who might know where Frances was. She also visited other settlements that she couldn't contact via ROFFLENet. While she didn't find Frances, Alice did take notes regarding her search, which she kept in her wallet.[2]
Shortly before the first winter post-apocalypse, Alice and a group of eleven others were refused shelter in Abel over the winter; by the spring, only Alice and her friend Ruby Holt were alive. That spring, Alice and Ruby infiltrate the shipwrecked Valmont Ark in order to recover Ruby's research into biofuel seeds from a Xia-Hifa Biologics facility onboard. There, they are cornered by zombies and rescued by Jody Marsh and Alice's predecessor Runner Five, but not before Ruby is bitten. Suspicious of Abel's intentions after their previous actions, Alice takes Jody and Five prisoner. They manage to recover Ruby's research before she reveals she has been bitten and requests that Alice euthanize her. Unable to do it, Alice gives her gun to Jody to do it instead. Now on her own, Alice agrees to cooperate with the Abel runners to recover the fuel they originally sought aboard the Ark. Upon completion of the mission, Alice returns to Abel Township along with Ruby's research.[3]
Some time after the mission aboard the Ark, the second Runner Five is implied to have died and their designation is passed on to Alice.[4]
Alice, Sara Smith, and Kytan were often sent out together on scouting runs in search of new locations for Abel Township in case they needed to move.[5]
Alice would sometimes join Jody Marsh during her runner training in order to keep her company.[6]
The Way of All Flesh[]
Alice is in the comms shack with Sam when Chris McShell and Jody are cut off from Abel Township by a horde of zombies. Alice directs them to Gadsen Manor, where they should be safe until help arrives.[7]
Alice and Sam listen to Chris and Jody's broadcasts of the incidents that occur in the manor. Alice cries at a few key moments, but when Sam relays this to Chris and Jody, Alice tries to deny it.[8]
Season 1[]
Alice is sent to Robinson Hospital to retrieve an important CDC file for Doctor Myers. Before she can find it, she is caught by a horde of zombies and bitten, soon becoming a zombie herself.
Not long after that, the person who will become the new Runner Five runs through that same hospital and manages to find the file. As the new Five is heading towards Abel, zombie Alice chases after them. Just outside the gates of Abel, zombie Alice is shot and killed by the snipers as Sam watches.[9]
5K Training[]
Sam gives Alice's backpack to the new Runner Five, telling them to collect good supplies with it - like sports bras. Alice always told him how important a good sports bra was.[10]
Sam manages to find Alice's wallet just outside of Abel, near where she was killed. The wallet contains pictures of Alice's family and information about her sister.[11]
Sam reads through Alice's notes about her search for Frances. He recruits Runner Five to help him contact the remaining settlements that Alice had wanted to check.[2]
After learning that Frances is on an island in the Hebrides, Sam and Runner Five manage to send all of Alice's pictures, letters, and diaries to her via a helicopter from Bert Airfield.[12]
Season 2[]
Alice is memorialized in the Forest of Fallen Runners.[13]
Supply Missions[]
Ammo[]
Sam mentioned that she trained several in the use of firearms. She took Sam and others to a dog park for practise.
Personality[]
Relationships[]
Frances Dempsey[]
Alice dedicated much of her free time post-apocalypse to tracking down her younger sister, Frances.
Sam Yao[]
Alice and Sam had a very close relationship. They seemed to have a mutual romantic interest in each other, although they never acted on it. Sam was devastated by her death and it took him several weeks to recover from the grief. Alice's younger sister Frances later implies that Alice did indeed have feelings for Sam, after reading about him in the letters that Alice wrote.
Appearances[]
- S1M1 Jolly Alpha Five Niner (zombie)
Virtual Races[]
- VR14 Death Wish
- VR15 Cape Wrath
- VR17 Running on Fumes
Trivia[]
- Alice's stats from The Runner's Guide are as follows:
- Number: 5
- Name: Alice Dempsey
- Missions: 23
- Kills: 57
- Status:
ActiveMIA - Notes: (Gryphon Tower?)
- Alternate universe versions of Alice appear in several Virtual Races.
- Alice seeks to wish away the apocalypse in Death Wish.
- Alice leads an extraction team in search of her sister Frances in Cape Wrath.
Gallery[]
(VR14: Death Wish)
References[]
- ↑ 5K Training: Week 8 Workout 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 5K Training: Week 4 Workout 2
- ↑ Running on Fumes Race
- ↑ A Voice in the Dark
- ↑ Season 1 Mission 16: Scouting Mission
- ↑ 5K Training: Week 4 Workout 1
- ↑ The Way of All Flesh Episode 1
- ↑ The Way of All Flesh Episode 6
- ↑ Season 1 Mission 1: Jolly Alpha Five Niner
- ↑ 5K Training: Week 1 Workout 2
- ↑ 5K Training: Week 2 Workout 2
- ↑ 5K Training: Week 8 Workout 3
- ↑ Season 2 Mission 25: Con Te Partiro