I will create a starting scene for the good Signori by Monday 20:00 GMT. In the mean time may I remind you about your knowledge of Zombies, they are zero. You may know all about them your character does not. Marcello being confronted by people that are believed to be dead, bearing wounds that would be impossible to survive, or eating the living is utterly crazy. Everything has a rational explanation, so surely these 'infected' people are to be helped.
He will, of course, learn more in the course of time - if he survives.

Oh, by the way, please give your secretary/lover a name.