about the revolution and books on technical subjects, like how
to repair a lawn mower. There’s also a kind of bathroom, with a primitive
shower. This water’s always clean, says the black guy. A stream of crystal-clear
water falls continually from a hole in the ceiling. We all build our places with
whatever we can find, he explains. Then he picks up an iron bar and says that
they can rest; he’ll go out and keep watch.
It’s always night in the sewers, but that night, the last night of
peace, is particularly strange. The boy falls asleep in a shabby armchair after
making love with Julie. The black guy falls asleep too, mumbling
incomprehensibly. The girl is the only one who doesn’t feel sleepy, and she goes
into other rooms, because her appetite has begun to rage again. But with a
difference: now Julie knows that self-inflicted pain can be a substitute for
food. So we see her sticking needles in her face and piercing her nipples with
wires.
At this point the Mexicans reappear and easily overpower first
the black guy, then the son of Colonel Reynolds. They look for the girl. They
shout threats. If she doesn’t come out of her hiding place, they’ll kill the
black guy and her boyfriend. Then a door opens and Julie appears. She has
changed a lot. She has become the indisputable queen of piercing. The leader of
the Mexicans (the biggest guy) finds her attractive. The sick Mexican is lying
on the ground, begging them to take him to a hospital. The Mexican girl is
comforting him, but her eyes are fixed on the new Julie. The other Mexican is
holding the colonel’s son, who is screaming like a man possessed; the
possibility (or the strong probability) that Julie will be raped is more than he
can bear. The black guy is lying unconscious on the ground.
Julie and the Mexican go into in a room and shut the door. No,
Julie, no, no, no, sobs young Reynolds. The Mexican’s voice can be heard through
the door: That’s it, baby. C’mon, let’s get that off. Holy shit! You really do
like those hooks, don’t you? Kneel down baby, yeah, that’s it, that’s it. Lift
up your ass, perfect, oh yeah. And more stuff like that until suddenly he starts
yelling, and there are blows, as if someone was getting kicked, or thrown
against a wall, then picked up and thrown against the opposite wall, and then
the yelling stops and there’s only the sound of biting and chewing, until the
door opens and Julie appears again with her lips (and in fact the whole of her
face) smeared with blood, holding the Mexican’s head in one hand.
Which makes the other Mexican go crazy; he pulls out a pistol, goes up
to Julie and empties it into her, but of course the bullets don’t harm her at
all, and she laughs contentedly before grabbing the guy’s shirt, pulling him
toward her and tearing his throat open with a single bite. Young Reynolds and
the black guy, who has recovered consciousness, are gaping at the scene. The
Mexican girl, however, has the presence of mind to try to escape, but Julie
catches her as she’s climbing a metal stairway that leads to the mouth of the
upper sewer. The girl kicks and curses furiously, but then, yielding to Julie’s
greater strength, she lets go and falls. Don’t do it, Julie, the colonel’s son
has just enough time to say, before his sweetheart’s teeth destroy the face of
the Mexican girl. Then Julie extracts her victim’s heart and eats it.
At this point, a voice says: So you think you’ve won, you whore.
Julie turns around and what we see is the last Mexican, now fully transformed
into a zombie. The two of them begin to fight. Julie is helped by the black guy
and her boyfriend and for a few seconds it looks like she’s going to win. But
Julie’s victims pick themselves up and join in the fight, and zombies, it seems,
are ten times stronger than normal humans, which means that the fight inevitably
begins to go the Mexicans’ way. So our three heroes flee. The black guy takes
them to a room. They