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In The Movie[]
During the undead apocalypse, Tomboy, Kenny, Francisco and Nicotine Crockett desert their posts. The four fugitive soldiers ambush the protagonists of Diary of the Dead in the night, stealing all their supplies save their weapons, and three weeks later, they are joined by a teenager named Boy. Crockett and the group also meet some fellow zombie-killers, but are forced to kill them when they try to kill the group. Through an Internet video from Patrick O'Flynn, they learn of Plum Island, and decide to head there.While they are boarding a ferry on the docks of Delaware, they are attacked by zombies and the O'Flynns, but escape to Plum Island with Patrick. When Crockett, his group and Patrick arrive on the island, they find that the Muldoons have placed their zombified former friends and neighbours in imitations of their former lives. As the rogue soldiers take refuge from the Muldoons, After the O'Flynns and Muldoons have a vicious standoff, the group become so disgusted and fed up with all the death on Plum Island, they immediately leave on the ferry.
In Real Life[]
Plum Island is an island in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. The Island is situated in Gardiners Bay, east of Orient Point, off the eastern end of the North Fork coast of Long Island. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1-mile (1.6 km) wide at its widest point.The Island is the site of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) which was established by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1954. The Island is also the site of the former U.S. military installation Fort Terry (c. 1897), and the historic Plum Island Light (c. 1827), and its automated replacement. Plum Island is owned in its entirety by the United States Government, which was considering sale of the Island as part of a debt-reduction package, but suspended the plan in February 2012. Access to the island is controlled by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On August 29, 2013, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) and United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final "Record of Decision (ROD): Public Sale of Plum Island, New York".