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As implied by the title, the story of '''''28 Weeks Later''''' -- the sequel to the 2002 horror film ''[[
▲{{quote| '''DLR Soldier:''' "''We are headed for the green-zone, our area of security and reconstruction, designated as District One. District One is located on the Isle of Dogs. Although the Isle of Dogs is completely safe, the surrounding area of London is not.....''" }}
▲As implied by the title, the story of '''''28 Weeks Later''''' -- the sequel to the 2002 horror film ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Days Later]]'' -- begins twenty-eight weeks after the events of the first film, where a literal [[Hate Plague]] ravaged Britain: a U.S.-led NATO force has established a foothold in the Isle of Dogs, where it's started the process of repatriating the countless English citizens left stranded after leaving their country during the Rage virus outbreak. Those who return end up quarantined in "District One" under heavy surveillance by US soldiers; Don Harris (played by [[Robert Carlyle]]), one of the quarantined, became one of the few people trapped in London who managed to survive the outbreak. Haunted by the memory of being forced to abandon his wife during an attack by a horde of infected Rage carriers, Don ends up reunited with his two children, Tammy and Andy, when they become new residents of District One.
Since the Infected starved to death weeks ago and no evidence suggests the plague crossed over into other species, the survivors begin the process of trying to rebuild their former lives while the NATO forces begin an extensive effort to clean up further areas of London to prepare for rehabitation. When Tammy and Andy sneak out of District 1 in order to visit their former home, however, the survivors -- and the soldiers protecting them -- soon discover lingering traces of the Rage virus, which kicks off a frantic fight to keep the plague from spreading once more.
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* [[After the End]]: The premise of the sequel involved attempts by the U.S. Military to recolonize Britain after all the Infected were apparently cleared out.
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* {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist]]: Robert Carlyle's character who we start the movie following is either this or a [[Sacrificial Lion]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]: A [[Bittersweet Ending]] for Andy and Tammy (they survived, but their parents are dead and Andy is a carrier), this trope for everything else. London has been decimated once again by the virus and the subsequent firebombing, all of the thousands of London settlers have been horribly killed, and the Infected have reached France, meaning all of Europe is basically ''screwed.''}}
** Not sure about that. Consider that there was only a fairly small contingent of U.S./NATO troops present as security for the repatriation effort. If the infection were to reach the mainland, the governments of Europe would likely bring their full military force to bear against the hordes. Also, the virus has a miniscule incubation period and is transmitted by bodily fluids, meaning that it's pretty damn easy to identify an infected individual. See, modern militaries have these awesome things that can hover around and rain death upon ground forces from a safe distance in the air - they're called helicopter gunships. We also have things like Gatling guns, explosives, and weapons of mass destruction. And since the infected are still
** {{spoiler|And even Andy and Tammy's [[Bittersweet Ending]] is highly questionable, since the presence of the Infected in France strongly implies that Andy somehow infected Tammy, whose first act as an infected would probably be to kill her brother.}}
* [[Eiffel Tower Effect]]: Invoked quite literally in the final scene.
* [[Eye Scream]]: This sequel plays this trope horrifyingly straight. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121115101135/http://vimeo.com/17083028 After reuniting with his wife], {{spoiler|Don gets infected by the virus and kills Alice ''by gouging her eyes out.'' This is a direct comparison to the first movie's hero, who does the same to a soldier ''without'' being infected.}}
** Although she might have rather
* [[Harbinger of Impending Doom]]: When a frantic child is allowed into the barricaded home that Don, Alice, and a group of other survivors are holed up in just weeks after the infection began, his arrival portends the events to come.
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'''Don''': "How many others?"
'''Child''': "... ''Loads''." }}
* [[Fake American]]: Australian Rose Byrne and, somewhat oddly, British Idris Elba as American Soldiers.
* [[Helicopter Blender]]: As graphic and wonderful and horrifying as much of the film.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Doyle}} pushes off the others to safety before getting torched by one of the extermination squads. Possibly foreshadowed with this line:
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Looks like [[The Hurt Locker|Sergeant James']] 2nd tour didn't end well.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Quite apart from the above example, if either the Chief Medical Officer or Sgt Doyle had bothered to explain why the children were so important, even to the children, someone might have been more careful and we might just have avoided {{spoiler|the infection of France and the breach of the sea border which was holding back the infection.}}
** The lack of the most basic security measures in District One. No effective barrier on bridges and few guards. It's about as easy as sneaking out of high school campus during lunch break.
*** Easier, actually -- have you seen the security in American schools these days?
** On the children's part, they decided to {{spoiler|sneak out of District One even after the military told them explicitly not to do so and why.}} As poor as the security is on the military's part, they may not have been expecting someone to do something as stupid as what Tammy and Andy did.
** Don holds the biggest one of all. {{spoiler|He pretty much single-handedly caused the second outbreak.}}
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*** See the [[It Can Think]] entry below for why this is actually plausible.
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|The infection has reached France}} by the end.
** {{spoiler|And assuming Andy's the one who spread it there -- and he probably is -- he and Tammy are likely dead.}}
* [[It Can Think]]: The Infected in this movie seem to have a bit more going on upstairs than the ones in ''[[
** [[All There in the Manual]]. A line in ''28 Days Later: The Aftermath'' indicates that while the Rage virus causes the higher brain functions to atrophy after a few days, victims still retain a lot of their reasoning skills until then. Presumably as recent infectees, Don and the others in ''28 Weeks Later'' hadn't yet reached that stage.
* [[It Got Worse]]: [[The Movie]]!
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* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|The virus spreads to France}}.
* [[Synthetic Plague]]
* [[Technically Living Zombie]]: The Infected, [[
* [[This Loser Is You]]: Within the first ten minutes of the film, during the welcome back speech, the woman says "As you can see, District 1 is currently under the protection of the U.S. Army." This may have been replaced with "Look around. You're ''screwed''.", which is clearly proven in the next ten minutes.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: [[The Virus]] wiped out the entire population of Britain in under a ''month'', but apparently despite the fact that the Virus was only contained due Britain being an island, the U.S. Military deemed a mere ''six months'' to be enough time to adequately classify it as ''safe''. Realistically, Britain would have been under a UN Quarantine for ''decades'' if not ''centuries'' to eliminate any lingering trace of [[The Virus]] before any attempt at recolonisation were attempted.
** Despite
** There are multiple instances throughout this movie where the virus would have been stopped if only the US military has placed guards
* [[Typhoid Mary]]: Alice is an asymptomatic Rage carrier, and it's implied at the end that {{spoiler|Andy}} may have become one as well.
* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: About 15 minutes after the opening we're treated to a flashback to it.
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