User blog comment:Mistertrouble189/DEAD RISING 2: CASE WEST/@comment-2216139-20100916013041/@comment-3056566-20100916031707

My guess: At the end of the first Dead Rising it is revealed that Carlito, (the bad guy) had infected 50 orphans with the virus and it was only a matter of time before they infect everyone. One was in every state so it managed to spread nation wide. After Case Zero the government shut down Vegas only for it to be rebuilt as Fortune City. Rumors spread that Fortune City is safe but this turns out to be false. Chuck finds this out to late and ends up getting blamed for starting the infection, at the end of DR2 he doesn't clear his name but in DR2: Case West he will hire Franky here to publish a story about how Chuck's innocent and it was Carlito's fault. ;)