Alice Harris was the wife of Donald Harris and mother of Andy and Tammy Harris. She was markedly the first known Carrier of the Rage Virus, and the unwitting source of the Second Outbreak in London's repatriated zone.
Biography[]
Alice and Don originally lived in a house in metropolitan London with their children, Tammy and Andy. Don and Alice sent their children on a school trip to Spain, and shortly after, while they were away, the Rage Virus broke out in Britain, leaving the family separated when the country was quarantined. At some point, Don and Alice found refuge with Geoff and Sally in their countryside cottage with them and three other survivors.
28 Weeks Later[]
One day during the outbreak, Alice, Don and the other survivors were preparing dinner at the cottage when a young boy from Sandford arrived, and Alice convinced Don to let the child in. Shortly afterwards, the cottage came under attack by a large horde of Infected, and Alice and the young boy were separated from the others.
Alice and the boy fled upstairs into a bedroom from the Infected, followed by Don. The child disappeared from Alice's sight and she searched frantically for him. Don begged Alice to escape with him and leave the boy, but Alice refused. When she then found the child hiding inside the bedroom closet, the Infected entered the room, cutting off her escape.
Frightened, Alice called for help from Don, but he abandoned her and the boy in a panic and left them for dead. Alice and the boy barricaded themselves inside another room from the Infected, and Alice shouted at Don from the room's window to come back as Don escaped. The Infected then broke into the room and apparently bit and infected Alice, but due to her natural immunity, Alice became a Carrier and did not suffer any symptoms (apart from her left eye partially turning red).
Alice subsequently fled the cottage and returned to the Harrises' deserted house in London, where she spent the next twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak hiding in the attic. Twenty-eight weeks after the initial outbreak of the Rage Virus, Andy found Alice in the attic of the house; but before Alice could properly reunite with her children, military forces arrived at the house and took them back to District One. There, Alice was put through decontamination and placed in quarantine. When Major Scarlet Levy noticed an old bite wound from an Infected on Alice's arm, she took a blood sample and then left Alice alone in isolation. Scarlet believed that a vaccine or treatment to the Rage Virus could be conceived through studying Alice's immunity, but her superior, General Stone had refused and planned for Alice to be executed.
Later, Don sneaked past security and entered reunited with Alice, apologizing for abandoning her and begging for forgiveness. Alice appeared to forgive Don and they kissed. However, She accidentally infected Don through the kiss, and Alice then watched in horror as Don began succumbing to the infection. Alice, helpless due to still being restrained on the gurney, was killed by the Infected Don. Later on as the fire-bombing started, her body got caught in the fire, burning her to ash.
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Personality[]
Alice was shown to be kind with a strong maternal instinct, to a fault: being the first and only survivor who insisted on letting the Sandford boy into the cottage the second she realized it was a child in distress outside, and going out of her way to repeatedly try and save him when the Infected started invading the cottage. This trait unfortunately led Alice to repeatedly forego her own survival and ignore her husband's pragmatism and stronger survival instincts, getting herself and the boy cornered by Infected and forcing her husband at that point to abandon them saving himself.
After roughly twenty-eight or more weeks of subsequently living completely on her own in an abandoned Britain while the Infected died off within the first couple of months, Alice, who'd made her way back to her family's old house in London, was reduced to a largely feral, disheveled, semi-catatonic and borderline-mute state. Her sole request after being apprehended by District One was to be allowed to see her children, having briefly reunited with Andy in this state. When she saw Don again, she appeared to be accepting of his expressed regret for abandoning her, simply telling him that she loved him and allowing a kiss.
Trivia[]
- Though Alice and Andy are the only two known Carriers, in the 28 Days Later comic series, Dr. Billingsworth was aware of the existence of Carriers a significant length of time before Alice's discovery by District One (as according to him, the black operation he was part of had found evidence that some people were naturally immune to the symptoms of Infection), indicating there are other Carriers besides Alice and Andy.
- Although Alice was immune as a Carrier, it is still unknown how she got away from the Infected at the cottage attack without being killed by them.
- It is possible, however, that the Infected probably got distracted by Don and Jacob attempting to flee to the docks and escape on their motorboat, giving Alice enough time to flee from the Infected.
- In an earlier script for 28 Weeks Later, Alice is revealed to have been dead six months prior to the film's events.
- This element appears to have been carried over, in some respect, into the final film, as, during Scarlet Levy's argument to the higher-ups, Chediak states that the last infected human had died six months prior to the film's events.