Sarah Bowman
Background
Sarah Cross/Bowman is a corporal in the Colorado National Guard. Her mother is Francine Bowman and her brother is Trevor Bowman. She was previously stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Sarah and Trevor had originally planned to open a bicycle shop.
During the events of Day of the Dead (2008) played by Mena Suvari
Sarah walks over to Mrs. Leitner and says hello and Mr. Leitner tells her that their son is really sick and she convinces him to drive his son to the local medical center. Salazer arrives with Bud Crain and Soldier to the roadblock. They introduce themselves to Sarah. Sarah puts Salazar and the other Soldier on guard duty, while she and Crain take a humvee to Francine's house. Crain calls Leadville a shithole and Sarah tells him that she grew up there. Sarah walks into the house and finds Trevor and Nina having sex. She goes upstairs and asks Francine how she is feeling. Nina tells Trevor that her father left her a dozen messages on her phone and he is at the hospital. She then tells Sarah that Kyle was really sick. Sarah and Crain drive to Kyle's house and find it a mess with blood everywhere. They find Kyle's parents' bodies, which appear to be eaten and when Sarah tries to make a phone call, the service is down. She uses her humvee radio to contact Captain Rhodes and he tells her that all the phone lines are being blocked. Crain asks Sarah why her pistol isn't loaded and then tells her that he is a vegetarian. They pick up Trevor, Nina and Francine and drive them to the hospital. Francine's nose starts to bleed and when Sarah and the others get to the hospital, it is full of sick people. Sarah goes up to the Receptionist and tells her that Francine needs a doctor and the Receptionist hands her a notepad and tells her to write her name on the list. Sarah pressures Young Punk, who is there with Young Punkgirl to give up his seat in the waiting room.
Salazar walks into the hospital and he tells Sarah that he came with Rhodes. Rhodes calls Sarah over and tells her Doctor Logan wants to talk with her about the bodies at Kyle's house. Doctor Logan asks Sarah questions about the bodies at Kyle's house and if they looked like they had been bitten. The sick people start changing into Wildfire Zombies and Rhodes is attacked by Zombies and partially eaten. Sarah and Crain use the air ducts to travel back to where Rhodes' body is in order to get the keys to his humvee. They find Salazar and Salazar takes Rhodes' pistol, while Sarah gets his keys. Rhodes reanimates and attacks Sarah, but she is able to get away. As Crain is putting the vent back, Rhodes Zombie bites him and Salazar shoots Rhodes Zombie. Salazar wants to shoot Crain, but Sarah convinces him not to. While they are running to the humvee, Doctor Logan leaves the others. Sarah. Crain and Salazar make it to the humvee and drive away. They go to the gun store and grab weapons and ammunition and Crain starts bleeding from his nose. Paul becomes a Zombie and Nina stabs him in the head with the letter opener. When Sarah and Salazar get back to the humvee, Crain has transformed into a Zombie. She hears Trevor asking for help. Trevor sees Francine and as Francine is about to attack him, Sarah runs her over with the humvee.
Everyone gets in the humvee and they drive to the roadblock. They are attacked by the Soldier and other Soldiers, who are now all Zombies. They drive away and as they are driving, Kyle Zombie jumps onto the humvee. Sarah crashes the humvee and then shoots Kyle Zombie dead. They decide to head towards the old Nike plant. A large group of Zombies enter the building and Sarah, Salazar, Trevor and Nina enter a secret underground facility, while Crain is surrounded by other Zombies. They go into an office and sees someone has started deleting files on Project Wildfire. They find Doctor Logan hiding and he tells them that there is no evidence the research he was involved with is what is responsible for the Zombies. Trevor finds a video and plays it and on the video Scientist says that the virus mutated and all the researchers became infected. During the video, the Scientist changes into a Zombie. Doctor Logan tells them that the virus was supposed to paralyze enemy troops and was intended to save lives. They hear a growl and the Scientist Zombie is standing in the hallway. They shoot at it, but it dodges the bullets and disappears. As they are trying to escape, Doctor Logan is grabbed by the Scientist Zombie and killed. Trevor thinks they should split up to find an exit and he goes with Nina, while Sarah goes with Salazar. Salazar finds the missile silo entrance, but is swarmed by Zombies and killed. Sarah escapes and is pulled into a room by Trevor and inside the room are a large amount of missile propulsion tanks. They decide to make a trap for the Zombies and Sarah acts as bait to get the Zombies to the room. The Scientist Zombie grabs her and Crain shoots at it. The Scientist Zombie then runs over and rips off Crain's head. The Zombies chase after Sarah and the trap goes off, killing all of the Zombies in the area including Scientist Zombie. Sarah, Trevor and Nina exit the facility and drive away in Doctor Logan's vehicle. On the radio, the disc jockey says that the flu-like virus in Leadville has been contained.
