In the Flesh

After a zombie uprising, the zombies - now known as PDS Sufferers (Partially Deceased Syndrome) - were eventually kept in vast holding centres where they are treated prior to their rehabilitation back into society. Kieren Walker is one such PDS Sufferer. He died and now has to return to both the family he left behind, and to his rural, conservative village of Roarton in Lancashire.

Following the fate of a Partially Deceased neighbour Steve hides Kieren but the boy escapes and goes to the cemetery where he was buried, meeting Amy Dyer, who is in the same position as himself but fun-loving and determined not to let it get her down. Macy's soldier son Rick, with whom Kieren was very close, returns from Afghanistan. He too is a 'rotter' but, as Macy's boy, has some protection.

Kieren returns to the supermarket where he and Amy killed Lisa and he recalls how Jem spared him when she could have shot him. Sister and brother consequently reconcile and together visit Lisa's parents who have her down as missing but they do not have the heart to tell them their daughter is dead. Meanwhile, Bill Macy orders Rick to kill Kieren but the boy refuses and pays the price.