Shaun of the Dead Liz, then wait out the crisis in the Winchester. They escape in Pete's car, and pick up Barbara and Philip, who has been bitten, then Liz and her friends Dianne and David. Philip makes peace with Shaun before turning into a zombie. The group abandons the vehicle and continues on foot, evading zombies. They seek refuge inside the Winchester, where Shaun discovers that the Winchester rifle above the bar is functional. Barbara reveals she has been bitten and turns undead after giving Liz and Shaun her blessing. Shaun, distraught, is forced to shoot Barbara. Zombies break into the pub. David
The quick and the dead (idiom) Book of Mormon (first published in 1830), refers to "...the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead". The use of the word "quick" in this context is an archaic one. Here, the word specifically means "living" or "alive" (a meaning still retained in the "quick" of the fingernails, and in the idiom quickening, as the moment in pregnancy when fetal movements are first felt). Another common phrase, "cut to the quick", literally means cut through the dead, unfeeling layers of the skin to the living, sensitive tissues below. Quicksilver, an old name for the liquid metal mercury, refers to the