Wade notices Clint has been scratched by Shelley and quarantines him meanwhile, Doug deduces that Clint is only experiencing symptoms of stomach flu as the virus does not affect adults like it does children. After escaping to the library and joined by uninfected student Calvin, the staff barricades themselves in the music room. Later, Clint, Lucy, Wade, and the other surviving staff members (consisting of Doug Davis, Tracy Lacey, and Rebekkah Halverson) are forced to flee the faculty lounge when attacked by Patriot. Peterson, Vice Principal Simms, and Sheriff Dave. Shelley ends up infecting Dink, who spreads it throughout the playground by scratching the majority of the children before they all proceed to kill several staff members including Mr. After Patriot is taken to the nurse's office, Patriot's friend Dink confronts Shelley while she attempts to dig her way out of the school. Meanwhile, an aspiring horror writer named Clint Hadson substitutes at Fort Chicken Elementary, where he is reunited with his former high school crush Lucy McCormick, whom he learned is dating the physical education teacher Wade Johnson.ĭuring Clint's class, a kid named Patriot is attacked by the blister-ridden and increasingly feral Shelley after he inadvertently pulls a pigtail out of her scalp, with Clint being scratched by her before she flees. A student, fourth-grader Shelley Linker, consumes one of the tainted black-dotted chicken nuggets. In Fort Chicken, Illinois, a batch of badly made chicken nuggets containing a mutant virus arrives at Fort Chicken Elementary.