What happens at the end of Zombieland 2? Don't switch off before Bill Murray
Ruben Fleischer's sequel arrived on 18 October 2019, ten years after the original. The main plot wraps up at a pacifist commune called Babylon. The scene most people are actually asking about comes after that, during the credits.
All four leads survive. Little Rock shoots the last two zombies off Tallahassee's leg with the Colt .45 he gave her at Christmas, Wichita accepts Columbus's proposal, Tallahassee pairs off with Nevada, and Madison stays at Babylon with Berkeley. Then the credits start and Bill Murray turns up.
How the Babylon fight works
Babylon has two rules — no guns, no group sex — and every weapon handed in at the gate has been melted down into peace-sign necklaces. The commune's fireworks pull in a horde of T-800s, the group's name for the faster, tougher breed of zombie. Tallahassee, already driving away alone, spots them and turns back.
- The oil trap — biodiesel and fireworks burn most of the horde. Not all of it.
- The monster truck — Nevada (Rosario Dawson) arrives in Albuquerque's truck, ploughs through the rest, and crashes it.
- The tower — the residents up top drop everything they own onto the zombies to clear a path to the base.
- The crane — Tallahassee hangs off a hook as bait and the zombies leap after him, straight off the roof.
- The Colt .45 — Little Rock had smuggled Elvis's pistol in past the no-guns rule.
The mid-credits scene
Columbus's narration apologises for shooting Bill Murray in the first film, and the picture cuts back to Day Zero, 2009. Murray is stuck at a press junket for a fictional Garfield 3: Flabby Tabby, comparing the job to doing The Godfather for the money. Al Roker, playing himself, starts vomiting mid-interview and turns. Murray fights his way out of the room with a tea tray. Josh Horowitz, Lili Estefan, and Grace Randolph also appear as themselves.
The Garfield running gag came from Murray. Asked in 2009 what he regretted as he bled out, he improvised the answer. Writer Rhett Reese told GameSpot in 2019:
"We never would have had the guts to make fun of Garfield."
Is there a second scene after that?
There is — a much shorter stinger at the very end, apparently an unused take from the same junket sequence.
Is there a Zombieland 3?
Not yet. Fleischer told Deadline in November 2025 he's aiming at 2029 to keep the ten-year gap. No script has been greenlit as of August 2026, and Jesse Eisenberg said in July 2026 that the timing depends on Emma Stone's schedule.