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According to the timeline shown after the opening scene in the village, this film takes place 28 weeks after the initial outbreak. So this film takes place roughly 24 weeks after the main events of the last film.

This being said, if 28 Months Later is indeed the next film, it would probably take place less than two years after this film as opposed to over two years.

See: this FAQ entry

Because, as Sergeant Farrell (Stuart McQuarrie) says in 28 Days Later..., the rumors of infection elsewhere were lies to keep the population controlled. If the people thought that the rest of the world was exactly the same as Britain, they wouldn't try to escape, thus preventing the mass panic and rioting at places like airports, docks and train stations that Mark encountered in the first film. Given that the infection becomes active in only a few seconds, the chances of infecting other areas of the globe are virtually non-existent.

On a more practical level, the reason for the ambiguity with the first film is that director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland changed their mind mid-shoot as regards the spread of the virus. Initially, they had planned for the virus to be a worldwide epidemic (hence Selena's comments), but they then decided to have it confined to just Britain (hence Farrell's theory).

See: this FAQ entry.

He was most likely infected with Rage. When the Infected storm the farmhouse, overwhelming the handful of survivors, Don (Robert Carlyle) and Alice (Catherine McCormack) make a final retreat upstairs and into one of the bedrooms at the end of the hallway. After Don abandons Alice and the little boy (Beans El-Balawi), we see Alice screaming at Don through the window as he flees the farm. Then, she is suddenly yanked back into the darkness of the room, presumably by an Infected. Now, later on in the film, after Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) discovers Alice in their old house in London, we see a flash cut of Alice running through a wooded area without the boy. We know she has been bitten by this point, although she is asymptomatic. As such, it is likely that the little boy was himself turned into an Infected by being bitten in the bedroom, and when Alice discovered that even after being bitten she herself was not infected, she simply fled without him.

Also in trailer, you see the boy infected for a short moment

Yes it did. There are two possible answers to this question.

1. As has been speculated by some fans, perhaps the Americans don't know the disease originated with apes, and therefore are unaware that it can in fact jump from species to species (a highly unlikely explanation).

2. More plausibly, when Stone (Idris Elba) says Rage can't jump between species, he is actually referring to Orders. Rage can infect all primates (including humans and apes), but it cannot infect, say, aquatic lifeforms or canines. As such, this makes Stone's claim a simple error of semantics as opposed to creating a major continuity error.

Initially, the soldiers don't know she is infected, so there would be no need to post guards. After Scarlett (Rose Byrne) discovers the bite mark on Alice's arm and tests her blood, it is discovered that she is infected (although asymptomatic) and, most importantly, capable of infecting others. At this time, Stone (Idris Elba) decides to have her killed. As such, there is no period of time when security would need to be posted. She is not considered to be a threat until after the blood tests, at which time, she is simply to be eliminated.

As Don (Robert Carlyle) explains to his children as they approach the hotel, "I run the place". He also shows Tammy (Imogen Poots) his access card and points out to her that he has access to "all areas", hence his ability to enter areas normally off-limits to civilians.

This is left somewhat ambiguous, but it's fair to surmise that Alice survived the farmhouse-attack due to being bitten and then making her way home, unmolested by the Infected due to being an infected but docile carrier (think about Alien³: somehow the alien in that film could sense that Ripley was carrying the alien queen in her body. Same sort of principle).

Don, after he is infected, has a personal reason to attack Alice as she is the focus of his "rage" due to his shame and guilt in abandoning her. Although she was Infected too (suggesting that he won't attack her), she is in the room with the person whose anger she is fuelling. As evidence of this, just before he attacks her in the medical lab, there is a flash cut to Don's last sight of Alice as he slams the door shut in the farmhouse, suggesting that he has retained part of his memory.

Writer/director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and writer/producer Enrique López Lavigne confirm this idea on the DVD commentary as they point out that the reason Don gouges out Alice's eyes is because he feels so much shame and guilt for abandoning her that he wants to take away her ability to look at him, hence metaphorically removing the shame she projects onto him.

As such, the fact that Don attacks Alice whereas other Infected leave her alone is not, as has been suggested, a plot hole, but is actually an indication of a personal component to Don's Rage.

There is no definitive answer to this question; some people say yes, some say no. Incidents cited in support of the theory that he represents a new type of Rage victim include the flash of memory seen before he kills Alice, hiding from Doyle (Jeremy Renner) and only revealing himself to Andy, hiding behind a wall from the explosions when London is fire-bombed, using the gun to beat Scarlet to death, the second memory flash as he attacks Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and, especially, his reaction when Tammy (Imogen Poots) calls him "dad". Some fans argue that all of these incidents point to Don being a more evolved form of Infected, retaining some basic memories and acting in a less frenzied manner than the normal Infected. If one subscribes to this argument, it could be hypothesized that the Rage virus itself possible underwent some kind of genetic modification in Alice's blood (and hence it would do the same in Andy's), and as such, anybody infected by Alice (or Andy) would exhibit the same characteristics as Don. This is pure speculation however, and in any case, not everyone agrees that Don does act any differently than the normal mindless Infected.

There are two schools of thought on this question.

Some some fans argue that both Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) most likely escape because they are carriers, and CWO Flynn (Harold Perrineau) is probably killed in the crash.

Another argument is that Andy (an asymptomatic carrier of Rage) infects Flynn, thus causing the crash, and then, either Flynn goes on to infect others, or Andy does so inadvertedly. This argument also suggests that Tammy too may have become infected, in contradistinction to the above theory. This is based on the notion that she is not a carrier, because she does not possess the genetic anomaly exhibited by her brother and mother; a theory which stems from the fact that she does not have the same eye discolourisation as them.

The song in the first half is "Want" by Witchman.

The song in the last half is "Shrinking Universe" by Muse.

"In the House - In a Heartbeat" by John Murphy. It was originally used in the climax of 28 Days Later....

On the 28 Weeks Later soundtrack however, it is call "Don Abandons Alice".

"Welcome to Britain" by John Murphy.

There are two deleted scenes on the DVD:

1. A scene in the canteen in the apartment complex, where Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) goes and sits down beside Sacrlet (Rose Byrne). Don (Robert Carlyle) and Tammy (Imogen Poots) arrive and they are all formally introduced. Scarlet tries to explain that the Rage virus is possibly still alive, but she concedes that it is 'probably' gone.

2. After Tammy (Imogen Poots) kills Don (Robert Carlyle), and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) runs away from her, down into the subway, there is a scene where he dreams of getting on a train. He sees his mother in another carriage and begins to run towards her. They meet one another and embrace, but then Andy realizes it is Tammy, not his mother, and they are still in the subway, not on a train.