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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
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- ChangeAmy got older
In the book, Amy is six when Wolgast picks her up at the convent. On the show she's older and played by Saniyya Sidney, which changes how the two talk to each other.
source ↗ - ChangeBabcock became a woman
In the book, Babcock is a man on death row and the villain of the story's second half. The show swapped him for Shauna Babcock, played by Brianne Howey.
source ↗ - ChangeThe show stops before the jump
The book leaps 93 years ahead and follows the people of the First Colony. S1 stays in the early days of the outbreak and shows the future only in its last scene, set in 2116.
source ↗ - ChangeA different ending for Wolgast
In the book, Wolgast dies on the mountain of radiation sickness after a nuclear blast. On the show he ends S1 alive: he gets bitten, and Amy gives him the last dose of the serum.
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- Behind the scenesBack to outbreak day
The book opens by going back to the start of the epidemic with new faces, like Danny, a school bus driver making one last run through the chaos.
source ↗ - ReferenceLila, ahead of time on TV
Lila Kyle, Wolgast's ex-wife, gets a big role in this book. The 2019 show had already brought Lila into S1, played by Emmanuelle Chriqui.
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- Behind the scenesA thousand years in one page
The story spans about 900 years, and the epilogue jumps a thousand more. It closes Cronin's trilogy, four years after The Twelve.
source ↗ - ReferenceZero gets a face
Long flashbacks reveal who Zero was before the virus: Tim Fanning, a college friend of Jonas Lear. The 2019 show put Fanning on screen from the pilot, played by Jamie McShane.
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