What if the bikers never came in "Dawn"?

[Brubaker]

If the biker gang had never come, these are the outcomes I think we would have seen. 1. Assuming they stick around in the mall, at least one of the members commits suicide within a few months out of sheer boredom or frustration. You imagine the prospect of spending the rest of your life rotting in a shopping mall with barely any human contact. Then consider having day after day to stew over this very thought because there is nothing else to do with your time. Most likely to pull the trigger? Fran, Peter, Stephen, in that order. 2. Perhaps the group sticks around in the mall for awhile and then they all decide it is time to leave. As they are out on their own again, either with the chopper or without, either Roger or Stephen (possibly both) do something stupid to put themselves or the entire group in peril. And that is the end of our "further" story or adventures of Peter, Roger and the gang.

[Neil]

Imagine if they held up for 2-3 years in that mall. Surely the dead would be incapicitated by then? ie: Rotten enough not to pose a threat, if indeed even exist? I think most people could face 2-3 years knowing the world would be a very different place by the end of it!

[Ragnarr]

Imagine if they held up for 2-3 years in that mall. Surely the dead would be incapicitated by then? ie: Rotten enough not to pose a threat, if indeed even exist? I think most people could face 2-3 years knowing the world would be a very different place by the end of it! I'm guessing that those doing a few years in prison would agree, but then again there's always a few that can't mentally survive even that long and choose to "opt out".