"What I figure is other people will probably get the same idea as us, right? To be pirates? Except they'll probably steal from innocent people. So we'll pirate the pirates. We can steal their ill-gotten gains, keep what we need to survive, and give some of it to innocent people that need supplies, in exchange for teaching us any skills they've got that are good for survival."

You will take his pirate plan from his cold, dead fingers, Grif. If the apocalypse happens, he's going to wear that flowy shirt and you can't stop him.

They make a quick turn, then another, and then it's just a dead sprint towards the end of a barricaded street.

This part of things is the most dangerous, because the street widens, making the line of zombies they have to defend against wider. Rich stops to do one wide, sustained blast to thin the herd and knock the crowd back and then he bolts.