[This is all pretend, so all he really has to do is rattle off some names, right? He thinks to list a few of his classmates, or maybe his roommate, but...he doesn't really know them all that well. That would probably be a little weird.

[Then again, he could just say...]

I'm the lead medic at the camp down there by the end of the river. That's probably where you were headed, right?

[It's one of the only known friendly stops for at least thirty miles, and that's a long way when most people don't use cars anymore.

[Or, so the script says.]