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 GOAL
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Travel to Seon's Food & Stuff, kill Steven Chapman, and return the medicine to the Security Room. |
Case 2-3: Medicine Run is the seventh case Frank West receives in Dead Rising.
It is activated upon completing Case 2-2: Rescue the Professor, and is completed after Frank obtains the first aid kit and returns to talk with Jessie in the security room.
Summary[]
Frank heads to the pharmacy in Seon's Food & Stuff to retrieve medicine for Brad's gunshot wound. As he is about to open the doors to the pharmacy, he hears the sound of a shopping cart.
Frank decides to investigate the source of the sound and starts to walk around the store. As he sees that a can of food is rolled next to him, he turns around and comes face-to-face with Steven Chapman, the manager of the supermarket. He has gone psychotic and is protecting his store from anybody who tries to "vandalize" it.
He confronts Frank with a reinforced shopping cart that holds Isabela in it. Frank explains that someone's been hurt and he needs medicine, but Steven says that was what Isabela said when she came to "vandalize [his] store." He then declares that he doesn't allow "vandalism" in his store and attacks Frank.
After he is defeated, Steven drops the Pharmacy Key. Frank recognizes Steven's hostage as the woman he met in the Entrance Plaza, and helps her to her feet. Isabela recoils, saying that she doesn't need help from him and that his people ruined Santa Cabeza.
After retrieving the first aid kit and bringing it back to the security room, Jessie thanks him for bringing back the medicine.
Introduction dialogue[]
Introducing psychopath Steven
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Steven: THIS IS MY STOORE!  Steven: You came to vandalize my store, huh?
 Steven: NOT ON MY WAAATCH!!!
Steven: HURT!?
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Battle style[]
 Steven |
  Steven with Isabela in his cart The crazed manager of Seon's, Steven has a modified cart with Isabela Keyes unconscious inside. She is the woman Frank saw in the Entrance Plaza cutscene just before the undead hordes swarmed in. As soon as the cutscene ends, jump up on the aisle shelf to avoid Steven's cart.[2] Steven's four main attacks are:
Steven has a shotgun for when Frank is out of range. Fortunately, though, the store has plenty of cover with aisle shelves, as well as plenty of food to replenish health. Don't give Steven the opportunity to use his shotgun by lingering on top of the shelves for too long. Drop into the opposite aisle and make Steven move toward the checkout counters. The checkout counters offer Frank his best chance at survival. The counters act as barriers between Frank and Steven, allowing Frank to shoot Steven safely from the other side. Steven will just continue to try and ram Frank with the cart.[2]
Steven's shopping cart is very slow to turn, so start off by running down the aisle away from him, then duck to one side and stand a couple of aisles over with Frank's guns out, waiting for him to come out. Fire a few shots and then duck back down another aisle, then repeat. If Steven's cart is getting too close, Frank can also hop up onto the shelves and into an adjacent aisle; while it might be tempting to stay up there, Steven will just resort to his shotgun.
It is possible to get behind Steven to use melee weapons, either by outrunning him or using the shelves (he cannot turn around once he is down an aisle), but this is not recommended as the player's first course of action unless Frank has at least two katanas or the small chainsaw. Steven can be defeated with two or three quick swipes with the small chainsaw.[3]
If Frank did not bring any decent weapons with him to the grocery store, try to use the can drinks on the far aisle next to the bread. These cans work surprisingly well at damaging Steven if Frank hits him with several cans in a row.[3] |
Steven's death[]
Steven dies
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 Steven: My store... My...store! Who will run my store when I'm gone... My store... My food... My sales... My... Customers... Have a nice day...
 Steven: CLEAN UP... REGISTER 6!!!!
 Frank: Look, I, uh... I saw you at the entrance yesterday. You needed medicine too. Maybe we should work together.
 Isabela: I don't need any help! You people don't know a thing! You're the ones who caused this nightmare! You ruined Santa Cabeza and started all this!
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Getting the medicine[]
Isabela disappears after the cutscene. Frank receives the pharmacy key from Steven's corpse. He can now open the pharmacy door.[2] Like all psychopaths with unique weapons, Steven leaves the weapon cart for Frank. This weapon will now respawn every time Frank leaves the store and returns.[3]
Enter the doorway between the meat and seafood counters in the back. Follow the corridor all the way along.
The pharmacy key is automatically used when 
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is pressed.
Go into the pharmacy and pick up the first aid kit, which Frank needs to bring back to the Security Room. Exit the supermarket.[2]
Return to the security room to check on Jessie and Brad. As Jessie is sitting on the couch next to Brad, Frank can get the erotic photo for Kent Swanson's Photo Challenge.
Speak to Jessie in the Security Room to hand over the medicine. There is no ending cutscene for this case.
Trivia[]
- The song that plays during the battle with Steven is "Fly Routine" by Hostile Groove and is included on the Dead Rising Original Soundtrack.[1]
- The first aid kit is found on the floor in this case; in Overtime Mode, it is found on the shelf.
Gallery[]
- Further information: Case 2-3: Medicine Run/Gallery
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