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Z Nation: Season 4

13 episodes Premiered Sep 29, 2017
Previously on Z Nation

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Z Nation Season 3.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (10): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

Warren's Dream

Sep 29, 2017

Warren's apocalyptic dream of a Black Rainbow sends the group on a mysterious new mission while fighting for their lives against unkillable MAD-Z's.

S4·E2 Core

Escape from Zona

Oct 6, 2017

Driven by Warren's dream of a black rainbow, Warren and Murphy make their way back to the mainland.

S4·E3 Core

The Vanishing

Oct 13, 2017

When Sun Mei and Red vanish, 10K and the group must decide whether to keep looking for them, or give up and press on to Newmerica.

S4·E4 Core

A New Mission: Keep Moving

Oct 20, 2017

Following Warren's dream, the team doesn't stop while crossing The Great Pile, a seemingly endless landscape of rubble and destruction.

S4·E5 Core

The Unknowns

Oct 27, 2017

The team is captured by an Unseen Force and enslaved in an elaborate underground facility, forced by their mysterious captors to perform a series of bizarre, dangerous tasks.

S4·E6 Core

Back From the Undead

Nov 3, 2017

Lucy fights to save Murphy's life; Warren and the others battle a biologically modified Franken-Zombie guarding a clue to Warren's dream.

S4·E7 Core

Warren's Wedding

Nov 10, 2017

Shaken by the death of one of the team, something snaps in Murphy, and Warren is unable to stop him and the others from committing an atrocity as misplaced revenge.

S4·E8 Core

Crisis of Faith

Nov 17, 2017

Warren and the others encounter a mysterious stranger who they think is a grave robber, but they're something much more.

S4·E9 Core

We Interrupt This Program

Nov 24, 2017

The group explores an abandoned TV news station and encounters news crew zombies triggering haunting flashbacks from day one.

S4·E10 Core

Frenemies

Dec 1, 2017

Doc and our heroes are reunited with Sketchy and Skeezy when they take refuge in a working barber shop full of mysterious characters, one of whom Doc knows but can't remember from

S4·E11 Core

Return to Mercy Labs

Dec 8, 2017

Warren's dream leads our heroes back to Mercy Labs. Images in her dream drive her to search for the destroyed complex and find a mysterious cylinder of gas which she compelled to b

S4·E12 Mytharc

Mt. Weather

Dec 15, 2017

Warren and our heroes must stop Zona from launching operation "Black Rainbow".

S4·E13 Mytharc

The Black Rainbow

Dec 15, 2017

The secret of Warren's dream is unlocked when they reach their final destination, the "Black Rainbow" facility.