Zombies are real. And some of them were made via a mix of a tainted drug called utopium and a drink called Max Rager during a boat party. Enter Liv Moore, an aspiring cardiologist in the wrong place at the wrong time, now a zombie. She goes to work in a morgue with the dead instead of the living, stealing brains to survive without hurting anyone. Her colleague Ravi finds her out and becomes an ally, working to "cure" her infection/mutation and return her to human status. To do so, however, he needs more of the drugs that caused the outbreak.
When we first meet Drake, he’s still human and dying of a gunshot wound. Blaine, the local drug-and-brain dealer Liv enlisted to find more tainted utopium, tracked him down as the last person who might know where to find the remaining stash... and got him shot. Blaine brings him to Liv near death and she deems him too far gone for conventional medicine, meaning her only choice to save Drake and subsequently humanity is to scratch him and turn him into a zombie as well. Upon waking he tells them what he knows and gets the “welcome to team Z” speech from Blaine, which he takes extraordinarily well. “Tell me what I need to do to get these brains,” he says, as much like Liv he doesn’t want to hurt anyone to survive. From then on he’s dependent on Blaine, made to spy on Mr Boss (a local crime lord he's "working" for) in exchange for brains.
Drake gives Blaine the information he demands but unfortunately for him Blaine has a deal going with the district attorney’s office and feeds too much of Drake’s intel to the DA, endangering him since he’s the rat. Not wanting to deal with Blaine anymore, Drake goes to Liv to thank her for saving his life and ask if he can get brains from her at the morgue instead. She turns him down, saying she doesn’t know him yet to give him brains, but she’d like to.
They start seeing each other but Drake has to bail and bluff all the time to cover the fact that he’s not actually a bouncer... or a criminal. He's an undercover cop placed in Mr Boss’ organization. The cops want him to break up with Liv but he says she’s the only good thing in his life and he won’t give her up. Still, to protect them both Drake is increasingly cagey about his activities when they’re not together -- Liv decides to confront him but that night Drake is kidnapped by Max Rager's zombie-killer, who isn't actually killing the zombies on his list but freezing them until a cure is made. Drake wound up next on the list because he stood up to Blaine, who's choosing who gets "hit" after one of his customers trapped the hitman and... you know, it’s a long complicated explanation that doesn’t really concern Drake. Fast forward!
Drake spends awhile in the freezer until the Max Rager team (who knew they were partially responsible for the outbreak and consider the hit list cleaning up a potential PR mess) find out their hitman wasn’t killing the zombies on their list but sticking them in a freezer. Additionally, the CEO's daughter has been infected, causing their focus to shift from zombie genocide to medical experimentation. They rekidnap the kidnappees and lock them up in their secret underground lab to test potential cure formulas on. They only make it worse, as the first few subjects taken from the cell come back full Romero, a mindless version of zombie that cannot be cured. To protect the others and buy them more time to be rescued, Drake volunteers to go next, and also comes back a Romero. Mindless, empty, starving. The last thing he remembers from canon is getting the injection that doomed him.
CANON HISTORY
When we first meet Drake, he’s still human and dying of a gunshot wound. Blaine, the local drug-and-brain dealer Liv enlisted to find more tainted utopium, tracked him down as the last person who might know where to find the remaining stash... and got him shot. Blaine brings him to Liv near death and she deems him too far gone for conventional medicine, meaning her only choice to save Drake and subsequently humanity is to scratch him and turn him into a zombie as well. Upon waking he tells them what he knows and gets the “welcome to team Z” speech from Blaine, which he takes extraordinarily well. “Tell me what I need to do to get these brains,” he says, as much like Liv he doesn’t want to hurt anyone to survive. From then on he’s dependent on Blaine, made to spy on Mr Boss (a local crime lord he's "working" for) in exchange for brains.
Drake gives Blaine the information he demands but unfortunately for him Blaine has a deal going with the district attorney’s office and feeds too much of Drake’s intel to the DA, endangering him since he’s the rat. Not wanting to deal with Blaine anymore, Drake goes to Liv to thank her for saving his life and ask if he can get brains from her at the morgue instead. She turns him down, saying she doesn’t know him yet to give him brains, but she’d like to.
They start seeing each other but Drake has to bail and bluff all the time to cover the fact that he’s not actually a bouncer... or a criminal. He's an undercover cop placed in Mr Boss’ organization. The cops want him to break up with Liv but he says she’s the only good thing in his life and he won’t give her up. Still, to protect them both Drake is increasingly cagey about his activities when they’re not together -- Liv decides to confront him but that night Drake is kidnapped by Max Rager's zombie-killer, who isn't actually killing the zombies on his list but freezing them until a cure is made. Drake wound up next on the list because he stood up to Blaine, who's choosing who gets "hit" after one of his customers trapped the hitman and... you know, it’s a long complicated explanation that doesn’t really concern Drake. Fast forward!
Drake spends awhile in the freezer until the Max Rager team (who knew they were partially responsible for the outbreak and consider the hit list cleaning up a potential PR mess) find out their hitman wasn’t killing the zombies on their list but sticking them in a freezer. Additionally, the CEO's daughter has been infected, causing their focus to shift from zombie genocide to medical experimentation. They rekidnap the kidnappees and lock them up in their secret underground lab to test potential cure formulas on. They only make it worse, as the first few subjects taken from the cell come back full Romero, a mindless version of zombie that cannot be cured. To protect the others and buy them more time to be rescued, Drake volunteers to go next, and also comes back a Romero. Mindless, empty, starving. The last thing he remembers from canon is getting the injection that doomed him.