Lia Rousseau
Background
Lia Rousseau is a television investigative journalist. She spent a year living with a native tribe in Papua New Guinea. Lia killed a man who tried to rape her.
During the events of Hell of the Living Dead (1980) played by Margie Newton
Lia, Hell, Josie, Josie's Husband and their child are parked at a housing project in Lia and Max's Land Rover in Papua New Guinea. Josie's Husband blames Josie for their son being bitten. Lia tells Josie's Husband to settle down and he accuses her of chasing fame by bringing violence and bloodshed to her viewers. Lia and Max get out to look for water and Josie gets out of the vehicle to get some air. As Lia is getting water from a pool, an Operation Sweet Death Zombie jumps out of the water. Lia and Max see a group of Zombies walking their way. London and his team arrive in the village as Lia and Max run to them and ask for help. London sends Zantoro and Osborne to investigate and Max starts to vomit when he looks inside the vehicle and sees Josie's Husband eaten by his son. London pulls out the boy from the vehicle and it starts to attack him. Lia goes looking for Josie and comes across a Zombie Priest after finding Josie dead. The Zombie Priest attacks Lia, but she is saved by London and his team and Zantoro shoots it in the head. They arrive outside of a village and stop when they hear drumbeats. Lia tells London and his team that she should go first and alone to meet the villagers and she gets naked and paints her face and body. She then goes into the village and tells the team to wait an hour. Lia watches as a burial ceremony happens. A medicine man shakes a brush at Lia and then hands her his ceremonial helmet. Lia tells London the whole village is contaminated with many dead and the village believes they are there to help them. London, Zantoro, Osborne, Lia and Max then watch a celebration put on by the village. Lia goes to talk with Vincent, who is guarding the vehicles. She tells him she wishes she knew what is happening and wonders if it is connected to why Vincent and his team are there. Suddenly a body rises and attacks them and a large group of dead start to rise. London and his team and Lia and Max then drive out of the village. The jeep breaks down and London tells his men to move their gear to Lia and Max's Land Rover and then tells Lia and Max to get their stuff out of it. Max refuses and when he swings at London, London knocks him to the ground. Lia steals London's gun and accuses him and his team of trying to pull a cover up of what is happening. London manages to grab his gun back and Vincent suggests they dump Lia and Max at the first village. At night, Vincent tells Lia she will have to put her cigarette out and offers her chewing tobacco. He then asks her not to hold his job against him. London catches Vincent flirting with Lia and punches him for not paying attention while on guard duty. London and Zantoro go to see if they can find any water while the others wait. They come across Operation Sweet Death Zombies and they run back and tell the others a large group is coming towards them. Max takes his camera and runs towards the Zombies and Lia runs to him to try and convince him to come back. Vincent and London then runs towards Lia and Max and start shooting at the Zombies. London, his team, Lia and Max go inside of a house to check it out. Lia is grabbed by Zombies as she rests against a wall. London saves Lia and Max holds the door to the cellar closed as the Zombies try to break into the house from the cellar. Zantoro lights a torch and toys with the Zombies while, London, Vincent, Lia and Max get into their vehicle. Zantoro lights a Zombie on fire and then gets into the vehicle and they drive away. They make it to the river and get into an inflatable boat. They make it to the Hope Center, but find it abandoned. Zantoro and Max go to look for a freight elevator and when they find it, Max goes back to get the others. The freight elevator opens and Max is pulled inside and eaten by Zombies. The Zombies then grab Zantoro and kill and eat him. A Zombie jumps on London and bites him in the neck. London, Vincent and Lia continue on and London listens to the recording made by Professor Barrett. Vincent and Lia walk away and Lia figures out what the Hope Centers are meant to for, chemical research facilities tasked with figuring out a solution to the overpopulation of the world, specifically the Third World. A group of Zombies, including London and Zantoro then surround Vincent and Lia and kill them.
