The trio of "hipsters from Cleveland" were the main characters in another zombie movie. That's the way I understood it, anyway. In another film, we'd be following those three young people in their struggle, getting lost in the strange, secluded backwater during a zombie apocalypse. Their quick entrance and exit was the director lampooning that a bit.
You missed a bit with Mallory, but not a lot else.
Mallory had died prior to the film's onset. The cops complain about Mallory's not being picked up properly. It's hinted that this is because things are already going a bit awry. Essentially, services were going bunk. The new coroner (Tilda Swinton) wasn't doing anything with the body (she was backed up at the morgue) and so they were forced to keep Mallory in the cells.
Zelda does, indeed, get snatched up by aliens. That was unexpected. It's a lampshaded joke with Ronnie's fourth wall busting script stuff.
Mindy does just jump out of the car. I didn't like this. They played it like she just snapped under the pressure, but up until that point in the script, she was played as being so terrified of the zombies that it was hard to believe that's how she'd snap. It seems more likely (to me) that she'd either remain cowering in the back of the cruiser, or else eat her shotgun to end it fast. If you want it just over and done with, why not go quick instead of being eaten?
I'm not sure what was going on with the young offenders. They're used early on to talk intellectually about the environmental plight and scoff at the government, then they escape with the "I know where we can hide" thing, and...that's it. Given the heavy-handed messaging in the movie, I'd suspect that it's supposed to be the very young people that the government doesn't trust are our hope in the future? They're the ones that can reverse all this frakking stuff? Maybe...?
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