"Episode 1" is the series premiere of the Disney+ streaming television miniseries Marvel Zombies. It was released on September 24, 2025, alongside the rest of the series.
Lone survivors face an unforgiving world of horrors.
Plot[]
Five years after a zombie virus devastates Earth, Kate Bishop, Riri Williams, and Kamala Khan survive together in New York. When they find a shrunken device inside a zombie S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, they travel to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base in Ohio to activate it. En route, they unknowingly enter the fighting between Ikaris and a zombie Carol Danvers. Kate is killed in the chaos, while Kamala and Riri are attacked by a zombie horde. Riri and her artificial intelligence F.R.I.D.A.Y. sacrifice themselves to take Kamala away from the battlefield, where she is saved by Blade Knight, who takes her to Ohio. Upon arriving, they encounter Melina Vostokoff, Alexei Shostakov, and Yelena Belova, who have taken refuge and are guarded by Melina's controlled zombies. They determine that the device is a transmitter that must be used in outer space to broadcast a signal to the Nova Corps. The base is attacked by a zombie horde led by Okoye, who serves the Red Queen, Wanda Maximoff. The horde, which includes the zombies Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Ava Starr, and Emil Blonsky, storms and overwhelm the base's defenses. Though Alexei kills Rogers and Blade Knight kills Starr, Melina sacrifices herself to allow the others to escape. Blade Knight reveals that he knows of a ship capable of reaching space.