Richard Thompson

"My name is Richard Zacarias Thompson. I was a commander for the U.S military." ―Richard Thompson Richard Thompson was portrayed by Euan Lawlor.

Special Forces Commander Richard Zacarias Thompson is one of the main protagonists of the first chapter of the chronicles. He is welcomed to the survivor group and introduced to general Jake Gunn by Zak only one day after the initial outbreak of the Huntsman virus.

During his stay he awakens in the night to find a zombie in the base and shoots it twice. Thompson then drags the body outside, believing it to be dead and returns inside. The general and Zak descend the stairs in the main room of the house and Gunn confronts him about the break-in. Richard then escorts Gunn outside and shows him the body. The zombie wakes up and attacks Gunn but is promptly shot and in the face and killed. Gunn later talks with Thompson about the break-in under the watch of one of the guards.A few days later another break-in occurs, leaving only Thompson, Gunn and Ross alive. The three begin exterminating all infected left in the base. During the extermination process, Richard comes across Jeremy Stevenson, a lone survivor, who helps him kill a zombie near the door. Thompson introduces Stevenson to Gunn, who is suspicious of him at first, believing him to be a spy for another group when he warns of an incoming horde of zombies coming from the south, but soon accepts him into the small remaining group. Gunn holds a meeting with the two of them while Ross is upstairs dealing with the last of the infected. The three survivors prepare to head out for the last stand while Ross remains at the base. Richard sets himself up in a tree, picking off zombies that came down by the river near Gunn. He is killed when Gunn accidentally drops a live grenade and kills them both.