While Scott assembles a team made up of old friends and useful accessories, his estranged daughter Kate ( Ella Purnell) works as a volunteer in the quarantine zone outside Vegas’ wall.
Retired soldier Scott Ward ( Dave Bautista), who was one of those who fought his way out of Vegas, now spends his days flipping burgers until wealthy casino owner Bly Tanaka ( Hiroyuki Sanada) comes in with an offer: assemble a team, crack the vault in Tanaka’s Vegas casino, smuggle out $200 million in cash, and Scott can divvy up $50 million of it among his crew anyway he pleases. Las Vegas is then overrun with the undead, but a handful of soldiers are able to evacuate some citizens while the government uses shipping containers to construct a wall around the city.
A military convoy suffers a traffic accident near Las Vegas that unleashes an alpha zombie into its populace.