Andy Harris was the youngest child of Don and Alice Harris, and younger brother of Tammy. He and his sister, having escaped the Original Outbreak of the Rage Virus by being abroad when it happened, were among the British refugees whom were repatriated to London during Operation Rising Dawn, being the first and only two minors to be repatriated before the Second Wave of Infection, triggered by their own parents, began. Andy was the second known Carrier after his mother.
Film canon
Pre-repatriation
Andy and his sister Tammy were abroad on a school trip to Spain when the Original Outbreak of the Rage Virus occurred, sparing them from the Infection in Britain while their parents remained trapped and cut off from them in the infected British mainland. They were later relocated to a refugee camp where they stayed until they were allowed to leave.
28 Weeks Later
Twenty-eight weeks after the initial outbreak, during the repatriation of London by a US-led NATO force, Tammy and Andy were the first minors to be sent to the Green Zone, District One, on the Isle of Dogs. There, they met Major Scarlet Levy during medical inspection, and Scarlet took notice of Andy's unique eye color, which Andy explained he had inherited from his mother.
The two continued to District One by train, and reunited with Don on arrival. After Don took Tammy and Andy to his penthouse, the latter inquired about what had happened to Alice. Don told Tammy and Andy that he saw the Infected kill Alice when they were trying to escape, and that there was nothing he could have done to save her. The following night, Andy had a nightmare about his mother (watching her pull the skin from her face) and confessed to Tammy that he feared that he would forget Alice's face, despite Tammy assurances that he wouldn't. Tammy devised a plan to get them outside of the safe zone and to their house the next morning; Andy was hesitant but followed his sister.
Andy and Tammy subsequently travelled across London to their house, on a motorcycle taken from an abandoned pizza shop. Almost immediately, Tammy acquired a picture of Alice with Andy for the latter, but the two lingered to gather other personal belongings. Andy played outside on the trampoline, calling for his sister. When she didn't respond, he ventured back into the house thinking Tammy was playing games with him. Instead of his sister, he found his mother hiding in a bedroom. Relieved to find her alive, Andy embraced her, but she started to unintentionally hurt him and he fled from her embrace, frightened. The military then arrived and detained Tammy and Andy, separating them from their mother who was sent to decontamination
When Don came to the detainment room to pick Andy and Tammy up, the two were furious with him for lying to them about their mother's fate, and Andy demanded to see Alice. Andy and Tammy remained in the detainment room, when a Second Outbreak occurred and Code Red was executed. The infected Weise tried to break into the detainment room until Scarlet arrived and killed him. Scarlet then took Tammy and Andy with her and tried to get them out of the building and to safety as top priority figures.
Andy got separated from Scarlet and Tammy by the panicked crowd and locked inside a safe room with them. He waited to be released along with the rest of the populace, when his infected father broke in.
A shocked and horrified Andy escaped into a ventilation shaft while the Rage Virus rapidly spread through the crowds, and found his way through the air shafts out into the streets amidst the chaos of civilians and Infected alike being killed by the rooftop snipers. Andy was nearly attacked by an Infected, who was gunned down by Sergeant Doyle, giving Andy time to escape into a nearby warehouse where several other uninfected civilians, including Tammy and Scarlet, were hiding. He reunited with Tammy and sadly told her that their father had become one of the Infected.
Along with his sister and the others, Andy followed Sergeant Doyle through the streets in Doyle's attempt to escort them out of District One. Andy at one point ran out into the open to draw the fire of a panicked sniper, giving Doyle the chance to kill him; Andy then caught a glimpse of his infected father watching him from across the street, before Doyle stepped into his line of sight. The group then narrowly escaped into the ruined London as District One was firebombed, and travelled across the ruined city to Regent's Park as dawn came.
As the group rested at the park, Andy wondered aloud if Alice was still alive, to which Tammy responded in the negative.
Flynn and a horde of Infected arrived at Regent's Park shortly after, and Flynn killed most of the Infected with his chopper blades, giving Andy and the others time to escape into the city. They climbed into an abandoned vehicle to avoid the chemical gas and the Infected, the latter being killed shortly thereafter by the gas. Doyle sacrificed himself to get Andy and Tammy out of danger, and Scarlet drove into the London Underground to avoid a helicopter attack. In the dark Underground, Andy was separated from Scarlet and Tammy when he and Tammy fell down escalator stairs, and became lost.
Andy wandered the dark Underground, until he came across the infected Don on a platform. Andy's infected father attacked and bit him, before Tammy arrived and killed Don. Despite being bitten, Tammy refused to leave her brother, who fled into a tunnel. When Andy wasn't taken over by the Rage Virus as he had inherited Alice's immunity and become a Carrier, Tammy noticed one of his eyes becoming bloodshot (a symptom of Rage), and simply told him that he was not one of the Infected. The two then left the Underground and headed for Wembley Stadium together, where a reluctant Flynn, after briefly threatening them and demanding to know what had happened to Doyle, took them in his helicopter across the English Channel.
Twenty-eight days later, the helicopter was lying disheveled and abandoned in a field while its radio picked up a French distress call, at the same time that Infected were running through Paris due to the Rage Virus having spread to mainland northwestern Europe. The fates of Andy, Tammy and Flynn are unknown.
Other media
28 Days Later (comic series)
A helicopter, heavily implied to be Flynn's carrying himself, Andy and Tammy, was reported crashing in or near Paris two days after the second outbreak in London, and Infected appeared on the city's ground at the same time.
Personality
Andy, like his sister, was adventurous, rebellious and initially reckless, disregarding rules to a fault, which played a crucial role in both him accidentally reuniting with Alice and indirectly triggering the Second Wave of the Rage Virus. Andy was already close to Tammy before they were caught up in the Second Wave of Infection, following his sister's lead. He also had a close relationship with his mother. He notably feared forgetting his mother's face after believing she'd died months prior. Despite his young age, Andy exhibited extreme bravery for his age and an inherently-selfless side during the Second Wave; using himself as bait for a sniper against his sister's protests to save the rest of the group from certain death, and fleeing in a panic to try and spare his sister after he received an infectious bite.
Gallery
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Trivia
- After Andy was infected by his father, Don, he became a Carrier of the Rage Virus and thus his left eye's sclera turned partially red. However, in a shot when Tammy and Andy confront Flynn in Wembley Stadium, Andy's left eye appears to be normal.
- In issue #22 of the 28 Days Later comic series, Tammy and Andy were briefly seen by Selena when they were travelling across London by motorcycle to their old home.
- Though Andy and Alice are the only two known Carriers, in the 28 Days Later comic series, Dr. Billingsworth was aware of the existence of Carriers (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), suggesting that there are other Carriers besides Alice and Andy.
- In an earlier script for 28 Weeks Later, Andy is named "Danny", and is fifteen years old.
- Another script version prior to release envisioned a scene of Andy trying to get through an Underground train to his mother, with the camera eventually revealing Andy has imagined all this and become fully one of the Infected instead.
- When Andy was exploring the London underground tunnel, he calls out for Tammy and Scarlet despite the fact she is dead. He also calls for Scarlet yet she is gone.