The Walking Dead: Book Four, pages 1-30

Lori and Rick think about the arrival of the baby that is getting closer and closer, and Rick realizes he needs to build some kind of crib.

The doctor's assistant from Woodbury has cleaned up the prison infirmary quite a lot and it looks ready to use.  She feels that when the baby comes, she'll be ready.  Carol walks in and introduces herself, and she says they'll get along very well.

The wedding between Glenn and Maggie is going on, and Hershel is acting as the priest.  The wedding ends, and they both found it to be a nice ceremony considering the circumstances.

Tyreese is alone in his cell, sleeping, when Michonne walks in and lays with him, sobbing.

Everyone is playing a boys-vs-girls basketball game, and Andrea has even sewn shirts and shorts for everyone.  Carl asks why Rick isn't playing, but then he remembers his right hand is missing.

Rick, Tyreese, and Glenn are in the armory discussing what they should do when the Woodbury group attacks the prison.  Dale knows they definitely aren't prepared but suggests that they stop at the national guard station since it's nearby.  

The usual crew piles into the RV to go to the station, but this time, Rick stays behind.  He tells Lori how useless he feels with one hand, but Lori isn't listening.  She says she needs to talk to him about Shane.  Rick refuses to listen, and tells her he doesn't want to hear what she's going to say.

The group going to the station (Axel, Tyreese, Andrea, Michonne, Glenn, and Maggie) wakes up in the RV.  Tyreese and Andrea take a walk and see a zombie.  Tyreese wants to try to shoot it, but he misses and Andrea tells him they can't afford to waste bullets.  Tyreese is upset that he's so bad at shooting and asks Andrea to teach him.  

The Walking Dead: Book Three, pages 61-90

Rick, Michonne, and Glenn make it to Woodbury at last.  They look around and realize the place looks dead, like no one else is there.  There are several zombies nearby, and they wonder if their best bet is to use one of them to mask their own smell in order to get around.  Suddenly, bright spotlights shine on the ground and they hear a voice telling them to get on the ground.  The zombies are all shot, and the voice tells them to walk toward them and give up their weapons.  The man who takes their weapons explains that it's for their protection, and introduces himself as Martinez.  He begins taking them to "the big man," but he is already on his way.  His name is The Governor, and he begins giving Rick, Michonne, and Glenn the tour of Woodbury.  He says the town has 40 people and 4 blocks of fenced in land.  Rick wonders where he's taking them, and he simply says that there's a fight tonight.  They make it to a huge arena in which several zombies are chained to poles.  The Governor explains that they put live people in the arena as entertainment for the citizens of Woodbury.  He says they use strangers to feed the zombies in order to keep them docile.  He explains that the couple in the helicopter is getting chopped up to feed the zombies after the fight.  Michonne calls him sick, and he threatens to put a bullet in her.  He wraps up their conversation since the fight is about to start.  The Governor notices their weapons and suits and realizes they must have some camp nearby. As the fight continues, The Governor and his cronies hold down Rick, Michonne, and Glenn and threaten to do nasty things unless they give answers about their camp.  To make his point very clear, he swings his large knife onto Rick's wrist, cutting off his entire hand.  Michonne springs into action, pinning The Governor onto the table.  She leans into his face and bites off his ear.  The Governor holds back his assistants, telling her the only pain that will come upon her will be from himself.  The Governor takes Rick to his medic before he bleeds out.  He wants Rick alive at all costs so he can get the answers he needs.  The medic is obviously not a fan of The Governor and does not support what he did to Rick.

Michonne is chained against the wall, having a conversation with herself about how she's just not strong enough to break the chains.  The Governor walks in and orders his assistant, Bruce, to take Michonne's pants off and tie her legs to separate walls.  He orders Bruce to leave and tells Michonne he is going to try to humiliate her every day until she figures out a way to kill herself.

The Walking Dead: Book Three, pages 31-60

Rick, Michonne, and Glenn are driving in the direction of the helicopter, guided by the rising smoke.  Rick notices all the zombies that are walking toward the prison, and Glenn says he and Maggie can go out into the ever growing horde of zombies outside the fence and kill them while wearing the newfound suits.  The road they are driving on comes to a turn, and doesn't go in the direction they want.  Glenn takes it offroad to the dismay of Michonne, who hits her head on the ceiling on one of the bumps.  She tells him to slow down, but he gets stuck in the mud and they are forced to walk the rest of the way.

Andrea and Dale talk to Allen's kids, explaining that since their father is gone now, they will be taking care of them, and will even give them their own room.

Rick, Michonne, and Glenn are in the woods, still looking for the helicopter, and it's getting dark.  Michonne talks about her life before all this; she was a lawyer, and stole her katana sword from her neighbor's delinquent son.  She brings up Tyreese, and tells Rick he should talk to him sometime.  She says they used to be best friends, and it's weird how they aren't like that anymore.  Rick says he will the next day, maybe.

Lori is on a rampage about how Rick left her again to find "some stupid wrecked helicopter," and Carol tries to calm her down.  She tells her it can't be good for the baby, and sure enough, Lori feels pain in her stomach immediately.  She says it'll pass and tries to leave, but Carol says she needs to talk to her.  Carol says she wants to marry Lori and Rick.  She loves them both, and they can all raise Carl, Sophia, and the new baby together.  She says they could all be happy together, but Lori is not convinced.

When Rick, Michonne, and Glenn finally reach the helicopter, no one is in it.  They see several groups of footsteps and Rick thinks someone else must have taken them.  Rick and Michonne walk away, talking about who could have been there quicker than they were.  Glenn suddenly stands up, yelling to the others.

Lori and Carol are still discussing Carol's proposal.  Lori says even though they've seen each other every day for the last seven months, they don't know that much about each other.  Lori starts getting angry, asking what their children would think if they went through with it.  She asks if she's even thinking about Sophia anymore, and Carol is infuriated.

Rick, Michonne, and Glenn come up with a plan: they're going to try to find this other group of survivors who took the people who crashed in the helicopter.  They come across a road sign and see that a town called Woodbury is only a mile away.  They begin heading in that direction.

While everyone else has already gone to bed, Axel and Tyreese are waiting by the gate for Rick, Michonne, and Glenn to return so they can open the gates.

The Walking Dead: Book Three, pages 1-30

Rick and Dale are clearing one of the cell blocks of zombies to make it suitable for living.  They talk about how if they can all spread out throughout the prison, and better yet if they get the generator working, they could really make a life there.  Rick thinks about Morgan and his son, Duane, the people who had helped Rick when he first got out of the hospital, wonders if they're still alive and where they are.  They turn a corner and see something that they are about to shoot when they realize it's just Tyreese.  They fill him in on what they're doing, and they think they've killed all the zombies in the block.  Glenn and Maggie show up behind them, and Glenn is holding an armored chestplate he found among the riot gear.  He says there are at least ten more, and takes them to where he found them.  Once they finish checking out the gear, they head out.

Carol walks out of the prison carrying a huge handful of books, and Lori helps her carry them.  Carol says she read all the books at Hershel's farm several times, and she'll read those books in under two weeks.  Carol tries to take the books back from Lori; she is worried that Lori has been pushing herself too hard with the baby.  Lori changes the subject to ask how Carol is doing, and she is still very upset about the Tyreese incident.  Carol suddenly gets emotional, saying how much she loves Lori and Rick.  Lori is confused, but says they love her, too.  Carol hugs Lori, saying how much it means that they love her.  Lori is clearly concerned.  

Rick, Glenn, Dale, Maggie, and Tyreese decide to siphon some gas out of the cars in the parking lot for the generator, but before they do that, Rick stops at Allen's grave.  He appears to have been talking to him since he was buried.

Carl is arguing with Lori about helping out the group.  Carl wants to help them lure the zombies away so the others can siphon the gas, but Lori says it's too dangerous, and Rick agrees.

Otis, Hershel and Axel have joined the effort in distracting the zombies.  Rick comes up with a plan: Glenn and he will run out when the time is right, and the others will continue distracting the zombies.  Rick wonders where Glenn is, and when he finally shows up, he is wearing a full, very bulky riot suit and has another one for Rick.  Once Rick gets his suit on, he tells the others to open the gate.  Glenn and Rick sprint out, killing a few zombies on the way.  When they arrive in the parking lot, Glenn has luck with the first car; he gets out quite a lot of gas on his first try.  Suddenly, Glenn notices something.  Rick sees it too -- a helicopter.  It's very distant and isn't coming that way, so they need to find a way to get its attention.  The helicopter starts falling, with a trail of smoke in its path.  Glenn gets one of the cars started to chase the helicopter while Rick runs back to tell everyone what happened.  

As Rick is describing what he saw to Tyreese, Michonne walks out of the gate, saying she saw it.  She has her sword back, too, and goes with Rick into the car with Glenn.

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 240-270 (end)

Lori bursts down the stairs, asking what happened to Rick.  She tries to help him stand, but he collapses to the ground.  Andrea suddenly walks in, crying, and Lori asks about Carol.  Andrea tells them that Allen is dead.  Rick gets up slowly and tells them that he'll shoot Allen, knowing no one else would do it.

After Rick shoots Allen, Hershel tells him Carol will be fine, saying she didn't cut very deep and hardly lost any blood.  Michonne helped him patch her up because she was guilty that it might have been her fault that Carol did it.  Rick doesn't respond to any of it and keeps his head down.  Suddenly, Rick falls to the ground, passing out.  Rick wakes up to find Carol by the side of his bed.  She says he was out for 26 hours.  Carol suddenly kisses him, and Rick is very confused.  She explains that it meant a lot to her that Rick stood up for her to Tyreese.  When Rick tells her they can't be together, Carol is obviously hurt and she walks out of the cell.  Dale walks into the cell, telling Rick they need to talk.  He says that Rick is no longer the leader of the group, and that they have formed a decision-making committee consisting of Rick, Dale, Hershel, and Tyreese.  Rick wonders why there are no women, but Dale tells him the group voted this way, and this was how they wanted it.  When Rick asks Dale if everyone thinks he's crazy, Dale says some people definitely do.  They don't know what to think after Rick killed Dexter and cut off Allen's leg.  Dale helps Rick up so he can go talk to everyone.

The rest of the group is out in the field, planting the remaining seeds since it's almost summer.  Lori is still angry at Tyreese and barely speaks to him.  Rick and Dale eventually walk out to the group.  Rick explains that the committee is a good idea and that he, nor anyone else, is fit to be making all the decisions.  Tyreese interrupts him to say that he's gone off the deep end by killing Dexter.  Rick snaps instantly and can't believe they can't get over that.  Rick says times have changed, and that killing Dexter was justified since Dexter would have forced them into the outside world.  Rick's speech builds up until he is yelling, saying they will never be rescued and things will never be the same again.  He says this is all they will ever have, and it's pointless to imagine regular life.  Rick talks about the zombies, how they surround them.  When everyone gives up, they will become them, but the truth is, they are the walking dead.

END OF BOOK TWO

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 211-240

Out in the farm, Hershel and Axel have gotten past their differences and Hershel is teaching Axel how to farm.  Hershel tells him how much he appreciates his effort.  They talk about the zombies, what their lives must have been like, what their job was before they died.

Lori and Carl are eating breakfast in the cafeteria, and Michonne walks in.  Lori invites her to join them, since they haven't spoken since Michonne joined the group.  Lori asks if Michonne had kids.  She did, two girls.  She also had a boyfriend, parents, siblings, and everything else that used to be normal.  Rick walks in and asks them for a favor.  Ever since Carol and Tyreese broke up, Carol hasn't been acting like herself, and Rick thought they could try to talk her through it.  Michonne declines, saying she has to go, but Lori goes with Rick, leaving Glenn and Maggie to watch Carl.  When Rick and Lori get to Carol's cell, they are shocked by the sight before them: Carol is on the ground, her wrist bleeding.

Tyreese is moving his things into a new cell, and Michonne walks in.  She tells him he should let her know if he needs company, but Tyreese is angry with her.  He thought he and Carol had something special, but Michonne ruined it.  Michonne argues that he never put up a fight and kisses him.  As Rick is walking in the cell, about to tell Tyreese what happened, he notices them kissing.  He is instantly furious, and yells at Tyreese for it.  He says it's Tyreese's fault that Carol slit her wrists and that she is dying because of him.  Tyreese fights back, saying he didn't do it on purpose, and throws Rick to the ground.  Rick tells him that everyone is already ready to die, and the one thing they need to do it is an excuse.  He finally pushes Tyreese over the edge by saying if Carol dies, it would be his fault.  Tyreese punches Rick in the face.  He continues punching him and then turns away, crying, saying he didn't kill her.  Glenn and Maggie hear the arguing from another room and try to break it up, but they don't care.  Tyreese goes on to call Rick a murderer for killing Dexter and that he has a bloodlust for cutting off Allen's leg.  They continue fighting, throwing punches at each other's faces until Rick is sent over the railing by one final punch from Tyreese.  Tyreese jumps down to the floor to see if Rick is okay, but Rick kicks him in the face, saying Tyreese tried to kill him.  Tyreese explains he blacked out and fell over, but Rick doesn't believe him.

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 181-210

Allen is panicking on the floor, convinced that he’s dead, and tells Rick to take care of his boys.  Axel, Dale, Rick, and Tyreese carry him back to the cell block, and Allen says he feels the infection working up his legs.  Rick tells him that’s not how it works, and then he realizes that that, in fact, is not how it works.  When the realization hits him, he knows what he has to do.  He shouts to the group that they need to get him outside.  He orders Tyreese to rip off his pant leg, and Allen passes out.  Rick holds up an axe, saying he has to do something drastic.  Tyreese tries to convince him not to do it, but Rick says that the bite will only kill him, and that no matter how anyone dies, they will already turn into a zombie.  After several chops and terrified screams from Allen, his leg is off and he is quickly bleeding out.  Hershel walks over, startled, telling Rick he’s done it all wrong.  Hershel uses a knife to cut off some of Axel’s long hair to wrap around Allen’s leg to slow the bleeding.  They all pick Allen up and carry him inside to clean the wound to prevent infection.  

Tyreese heads to the gym to play basketball to blow off some steam.  Michonne walks in and is impressed that he plays basketball as well as football.  Tyreese talks to Michonne about how everything is going wrong, and she tells him she knows what she needs.  She crouches down in front of Tyreese and helps Tyreese “relax.”  Carol appears outside the window to the gym and sees everything, and starts to cry.

Later, Michonne is alone in her cell, talking to herself about her life at the prison.  Andrea walks in and asks who Michonne was talking to.  Michonne denies everything, and curses at Andrea after she leaves.

That night, Carol and Tyreese are in a bed next to Sophia’s.  Carol slips under the sheets and tries to imitate what she saw Michonne do.  She starts crying and says she can’t do it.  When Tyreese asks what’s wrong, she just tells him to hold her close, and to move all of his things into a different cell the next day.

The next day, Hershel unravels the bandages on Rick’s hand and it seems to have healed well.  But when he tries to make a fist, his fingers won’t curl all the way.  Hershel says it still needs to heal much more before he can fully use it.

Tyreese is moving his things out of his cell, and Carol tells Rick that they broke up.  Rick comforts her.

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 151-180

Suddenly, a bullet shoots through Dexter's head.  Rick is seen holding up a gun, and Patricia immediately falls to the ground at Dexter's side, crying her eyes out.  Rick tells her it must have been an accidental shot, but Tyreese saw Rick shoot him.  Andrew, one of the inmates, also cries over his friend's death and has no choice but to hand over the guns that they were planning to use to attack Rick's group.

The katana woman returns to Hershel, having saved his life, and when asked what he can do in return, she tells him she wants to get into the prison.  He agrees, and takes her.  When she meets Rick, he allows her to stay since she saved Hershel's life, but tells her she must hand over her weapon and get rid of her "pets" first.  Without a second thought, she swiftly slices off their heads and hands over her katana.  Suddenly, Andrew runs across the field, escaping the prison.  Rick considers going after him, but realizes it would be

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 121-150

Dale and Andrea sit in their cell wondering about the future.  Andrea thinks the prison is secure, but Dale suggests leaving, going out on their own. 

Rick and Hershel carry Thomas to a cell in which he would wait until they would carry him up to a watch tower where, Rick decided, they would hang him from. 

Thomas lies on the cell floor, alone, when Patricia suddenly walks into the cell.  She lifts him up and carries him away, saying that he just needs help - he's not crazy.  Within seconds, Thomas starts choking Patricia and throws her to the ground, but she claws his already severely damaged face and he falls to the floor.  Tyreese steps in, holding a gun to Thomas's head while Patricia cries and Thomas calls her a whore.  Suddenly, Maggie and Glenn appear behind Thomas, and Maggie fires several shots into Thomas as he falls to the ground, dead. 

The group carries Thomas's body outside to the gate and toss him out to the zombies. The zombies intercept him in midair and immediately begin tearing his body apart. 

Rick talks to Lori about the events, and Dexter suddenly appears behind them, holding up a large gun.  He forced Rick to drop his gun, threatening his and Carl's lives.  Dexter tells Rick to get out. 

A young black woman wearing a cloak appears among a horde of zombies, but is not being attacked.  She has 2 zombies connected to her with a chain; both zombies have no arms or teeth.  She suddenly reveals a large katana sword and used it to chop the heads off of the surrounding zombies.  She and her 2 zombie pets continue walking down the road. 

Dexter is becoming more hostile and insists that Rick and his group get into the RV and leave immediately.  Axel tries to stick up for them, and Dexter tells him that since he is taking their side, he can leave with them.  Suddenly, a massive horde of zombies stumbles out of one of the doors.  Rick reasons that Dexter can either shoot him or the zombies, and the whole group quickly starts taking down the zombies one by one.  

Hershel is on the other side of the fences alone, and he quickly has a horde of his own to deal with after they were attracted by the gunshots. He kills some of them but can't handle them all, and finally falls, overtaken.  The woman with the katana appears, slicing the heads off the remaining zombies and saving Hershel.  She tells him to get his guns while she holds them off.  The woman continues killing the zombies, but her katana gets lodged in the head of one of the zombies, leaving her weaponless. 

The group continues fighting off zombies, and one walks up behind Dexter.  Rick kills it, saving him, but Dexter says it doesn't change a thing.  

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 91-120

Dexter sits in his cell, furious.  He tells fellow inmate, Andrew, that Rick's group is not their friends, and that they're crazy.  Dexter tells Andrew that there is riot gear in A Block, and to be quiet about it, because that's what they'll use to get rid of Rick's group.

Dale, Glenn, and Axel are outside by the fences, trying to kill the zombies that are pressing against the fence.  Dale slides a knife through a hole into a zombies head, but can't manage to pull it out and it releases from his hand, falling with the zombie and mashing Dale's hand against the fence in the process.  Glenn comes up with the idea to put the knife at the end of a long stick so they have more length and control, and Dale agrees.

Carl and Sophia are playing outside under the watch of Allen, who they don't like anymore.  Carl decides that he's changed his mind, and says he'll be Sophia's boyfriend.  Sophia is delighted and kisses him on the cheek.

Suddenly, Andrea bursts out of the prison doors, Thomas chasing her down with a knife.  Andrea falls, but Rick manages to tackle Thomas down and starts yelling at him for killing the little girls.  he punches Thomas in the face ruthlessly, yelling all the while, until Tyreese finally pulls him back.  Rick's hand is beaten up, bloody, and broken, and Thomas's face is sunken in and heavily damaged, with teeth missing and some lodged in his face.  He is not yet dead, and the group tries to decide what to do with him.  Lori doesn't want to kill him, saying they need to change, but Andrea, who has a deep, long gash in her face, wants him out.  Rick comes up with the death penalty for killing anyone.  Patricia starts crying, saying how nice she thought Thomas was.  Lori disagrees with Rick's decision, calling him crazy for thinking this should be his punishment, and it escalates into a fight.  Lori walks away from him after he tells her to shut up.  Rick then fully establishes the rule to the group: you kill, you die.  He makes the decision to hang Thomas.

Dale cleans up the gash on Andrea's face, assuring her that she will still be beautiful after he cleans it up.  Rick walks in, asking Dale to fix up his very broken and cut hand from beating up Thomas.

Rick releases Dexter from his cell, then takes Hershel to Thomas.  Hershel seems ready for what he is about to do.

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 61-90

Finally, Rick arrives at his destination: Shane's grave.  He speaks to Shane a bit until after a few moments, Shane's zombie arises from within the grave.  Rick realizes that now, anyone can come back after death as a zombie, even if they were not bitten.  Rick goes to talk to Shane, saying how Rick was a good man, but Shane wasn't, and that he had to do the right thing.  Rick shoots Shane's zombie in the head, refuses to rebury him, and takes his leave.

Back at the prison, Hershel is looking for Rachel and Susie, who had gone to the barber area to get their hair cut.  He figures they're hiding, and doesn't appreciate the practical joke.  When he finally finds the barber room, he prepares a lecture, only to find the decapitated bodies of Rachel and Susie on the floor.  Maggie makes her way to the room and finds Hershel knelt down near the girls' bodies, and as she arrives, the girls start to make groaning sounds; they have become zombies, too.

Andrea and Glenn try to fight off the zombies that have horded around Tyreese, but it's too late.  They have him surrounded and it's no use.  They head back to the group to inform them of what happened.

After everyone has found out about the beheading of Rachel and Susie, they immediately blame the inmates who they are living with.  Lori takes the most severe action, yelling at the prisoners and locking them up in cells.  Dexter seems unaware of what happened, but Lori doesn't believe him.

Rick arrives at the prison and is informed of the deaths of Rachel, Susie, and Tyreese.  He is in denial of Tyreese's death since no one had confirmation that he is actually dead, so he decides that they should go back to the area to see if he is.  Everyone is surprised by a very improbably sight: Tyreese is sitting in the corner of the room, alive and covered with blood.

The next morning, Andrea is doing some laundry, when Thomas, the prisoner arrested for tax fraud, walks in.  She explains she's drying some clothes, and asks if he wants to help.  He declines, and when she asks why he went there, he says, "So I could cut off your head."  Andrea slaps him in the face and tries to escape, but he pushes her to the ground and whacks her in the face with her own gun.  He throws it away and stands over her, getting prepared to cut off her head.

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 31-60

Dexter, one of the prisoners the group encountered at the prison, continues giving Rick and Dale the tour of the prison.  They come across C block, which has plenty of cells in which the group can sleep.

Lori and Carol hear Rick and Tyreese arguing outside their cell later that day.  Rick has decided that it would be a good idea to invite Hershel and his group to live at the prison with them.  He reasons that since Hershel is a farmer, they can start growing food inside the gates of the prison, but Lori and Tyreese both think he's insane.  However, Rick manages to convince them, and he and Dale head out in the RV.

When they arrive at Hershel's farm, Rick decides to go in alone, but he immediately sees smoke coming from the field.  He runs over to find Hershel standing over a burning pile of bodies and holding a torch.  Glenn tells Rick that they had been getting attacked a lot more recently and that it's getting worse.  Rick explains the prison situation, and Hershel accepts the invitation to live there.  Rick and Dale head back to camp.

Back at the prison, Lori immediately complains to Rick about the inmates, and how she is constantly paranoid about living with criminals.  Rick talks some sense into her, and she starts bawling -- hormones.

That night in one of the cells, Chris and Julie are sitting on the floor naked, having just had sex, and they both hold up guns.  Julie says she is ready, and a gunshot can be heard all throughout the prison.  Rick charges out of bed to investigate, and finds Tyreese on the floor holding Julie, crying.  She is dead, shot by Chris.  Chris is crying too, saying it wasn't supposed to be like this.  They were going to fire at the same time, but he had fired too early, and was unhurt.  Tyreese is screaming at Julie to come back, begging her to turn, but Rick tells him that since he wasn't bit, there's no way for her to come back.  Immediately after, Julie stirs and moans.  She bites at Tyreese but he stops her.  He tries to comfort her, but she continues attacking.  He thinks if he talks to her she'll understand.  Chris finally shoots Julie in the head, and Tyreese loses it.  He lunges on Chris and starts choking him until he stops breathing.  Tyreese waits for Chris to come back, sitting on the floor, talking about how he's going to kill him again when he comes back.

The next day, early in the morning, Rick leaves on a motorcycle, not saying where he was going, just that he had a realization.  After he leaves, Patricia meets one of the inmates, Thomas, who was arrested for fraud.  Thomas starts getting quite friendly.  Meanwhile, Glenn and Maggie find a barber room within the prison and they each get very short haircuts.  The two little girls, Rachel and Susie, say they also want to cut their hair, and Maggie takes them to the barber.

Tyreese, Andrea, and Glenn head into the prison to clear out the gym area, which is overrun with zombies.  They begin killing them, but Tyreese, having just lost his daughter, must have had a fit of rage, because he runs right into the horde of zombies and is quickly surrounded by them.

The Walking Dead: Book Two pages 1-30

The RV drives through the gates of the newfound prison.  They scope out the area and realize they will have lots of cleaning up to do.  Rick and Tyreese decide to do the zombie killing while the rest of the group watches the perimeter.  Andrea steps in, saying that since she has the best shot, she should go with Rick and Tyreese.  Rick agrees, and they walk through the next gate.  Rick and Tyreese kill several zombies with their axe and hammer, and soon, the area is cleared out.  Well, at least, that's what they think.  They hear a very loud sound coming from inside one of the doors, and soon enough, countless zombies come piling out.  There are too many of them, so Rick, Tyreese, and Andrea need to use their guns to kill them.  They quickly run out of ammo and Andrea makes a run to the RV to get more bullets.

Meanwhile, Chris and Julie are in the RV, watching over Sophia and Carl.  Chris is disappointed in the role he is serving, and thinks he deserves to be out there defending the group, too.  Sophia asks Carl to be her boyfriend, and Carl quickly rejects her.

That night, after Rick, Tyreese, and Andrea have cleared out most of the zombies, they burn all the corpses.  Having not cleared out the inside of the prison, they all sleep in the RV once again.

The next morning, after Lori has a fit of hormones and morning sickness, Rick assigns everyone their roles for the day.  This time, Rick and Tyreese go alone to clear out a cell block inside the prison.  After a few scares with some straggler zombies, they come across a cafeteria with a blocked off door.  They enter, only to find four prisoners who offer them meatloaf.  They explain that they have plenty of food to share with Rick and Tyreese, and dozens more people if they needed to.  Some time later, when Rick has brought the rest of the group inside the cafeteria, the group sits down to eat some meatloaf.  The inmates explain that they have been cut off from the world since the outbreak, and they have no idea how bad it has gotten.  When asked about what they did to serve time in prison, one man said for armed robbery, one for tax fraud, one for possession and selling of drugs, and the last for the murder of his wife and her boyfriend.  Needless to say, Lori does not trust them and wants Carl to keep his distance.

The Walking Dead: Book One pages 241 - End

After the horde of zombies was dealt with by the group, the casualties were buried, and Hershel finally came to his senses.  He apologized to Rick, saying he was right.

Later, Hershel releases his rage on Maggie and Glenn after he found them in bed together.  Maggie yelled at him that she's 19 and that she can do whatever she wants, and Hershel stormed out of the room.

That day, Allen and Rick were cleaning out the barn for their group to live in, but it was taking too long and it was frustrating.  Rick finally snapped and argued that since Hershel just lost two of his kids, he should have plenty of room to fit Rick's group.  He left the barn to look for Hershel.  He finds Hershel grooming a horse.  Rick starts his speech about how he should be able to live in the house, but he is cut off immediately.  Hershel says no, and that as soon as Carl heals from the gun shot, Rick's group would have to leave.

Later, a furious Lori yells at Hershel, asking why he was kicking them out.  He said that he never promised them a home, and that healing Carl was enough.  The fighting continues until Hershel finally has enough and gets ready to slap Lori in the face.  Rick breaks them up in time, but Lori is even more angry now.  Hershel tells Rick and Lori that he doesn't owe them anything, and that he must keep his kids before everyone else, no matter what.  Hershel puts a gun to Rick's head, and officially kicks him out.

Some time after, Otis is looking for Hershel in the house and finally finds him sitting in the corner of a room.  He is obviously regretting what he did, and he thinks he has gone mad.

Meanwhile, as Rick's group is getting ready to leave, Rick asks Glenn if he has said goodbye to his new girlfriend, Maggie.  He says no, and that he is going to stay at the farm with her.  He says that he has to stay so that he won't feel alone anymore.  Glenn doesn't say goodbye to anyone, and the group is soon back on the road once again.

Many days later, after being on the road for quite a while, the group stumbles upon a huge prison, guarded by several gates and fences, but is overrun by zombies.  Rick tells everyone that if they clear the place of zombies, they could start a new life there.

TO BE CONTINUED...

The Walking Dead: Book One pages 211-240

Andrea tries to go talk to Allen, whose wife has just been killed, but he has completely shut down on everyone, including his children, and snaps on Andrea.  He yells at her, telling her she doesn't understand, and Andrea storms away, furious.

Later, Hershel wakes up Rick and Lori to tell them that Carl is awake.  He says that his shoulder still hurts, but Hershel tells them that he will be fine.  Sophia comes in to visit Carl, too, and kisses him on the cheek.

After dinner, Glenn talks to one of Hershel's daughters, Maggie.  Glenn talks about how he is feeling lonely since everyone in his group seems to be pairing up with each other, and Maggie offers to "help him out."

Tyreese confronts his daughter, Julia, and her boyfriend, Chris, for what happened at the house in Wiltshire Estates.  He tells them how dangerous it would be for Julia to get pregnant, and warns them to keep their hands to themselves.

Meanwhile, Rick and Hershel are having a chat about the farm, and Rick mentions that there is nowhere near enough space in the RV for all of his group to sleep, and asks Hershel if they could stay in his barn.  Hershel warns Rick not to go in there, saying that that's where they keep their "dead ones."  Rick thinks this is crazy, but Hershel insists that they need to keep them in there until they figure out how to help them.  When Rick tells Hershel that he'd just been killing them, Hershel has a fit.  Rick tries to explain that those things want to kill them, but Hershel doesn't listen.  Hershel has his son and countless other family members in there, and Rick's idea of shooting all of the zombies in the barn is not welcomed by Hershel.

The next day, Rick is giving the whole group another shooting lesson.  Rick spots a zombie in the distance, and just as he is about to shoot it, Hershel stops him.  He walks over and brings the zombie to the barn.  As he unlatches the door, all of the zombies stampede out.  Lacey and Arnold, Hershel's son and daughter, are bitten in their efforts to save him, and in the chaos Hershel finally realizes what has happened and kills all the zombies that had come out of the barn.

The Walking Dead: Book One pages 181-210

The next day, Rick and the group go out to explore the town in a search for any supplies.  Chris and Julie, the dating teenagers, decide to stay in the house because they're scared.  Tyreese, Donna, and Allen form a group, and Donna decides to peek inside one of the houses.  Just as she is making fun of her husband, Allen, for worrying about her too much, a zombie comes from behind her and bites her in the face.  Allen, in a panic, fires his gun randomly and this catches the attention of all the zombies in the entire town.  Everyone runs to the RV to make an escape, and Tyreese hurriedly looks for Julie and Chris.  He finds them in a room upstairs, naked.  He angrily helps them out the window. The RV, driven by Dale, pulls over to where they are standing on a roof, just a few feet above the dozens of zombies.  They jump onto the roof of the RV and drive away from Wiltshire Estates.

Some time later, Allen immediately shuts down and refuses to talk to anyone, angry about his wife's death.  The group is nearly out of food, so Tyreese, Rick, and Carl head out to hunt.  Suddenly, as they hear something moving up ahead, Carl is shot, and he falls to the ground, unconscious.  The shooter comes out of hiding, apologizing, but Rick doesn't listen; he immediately starts beating up the attacker.  Just as Rick is about to kill the man, Tyreese yells for him to stop, and that Carl is breathing.  The shooter tells them about the farm he lives on, and that the owner of the place could patch Carl up.  Rick and the shooter make their way to the farm as Tyreese tells the rest of his group what happened.  They all get back into the RV and make their way to the farm, too.

Rick arrives at the farm and the owner immediately takes Carl inside and starts working on him.  After Lori and the rest of the group arrive, the man comes out saying that he'd patched Carl up, and that he is lucky to be alive.  He introduces himself as Hershel Greene.  He also introduces his daughters, Maggie Lacey, his sons, Arnold and Billy, and the youngest girls, Rachel and Susie.  Otis is the one who shot Carl, and his girlfriend's name is Patricia.  Hershel tells Rick that his group is welcome to stay at his farm while Carl heals.

The Walking Dead: Book One pages 151-180

The night after the group leaves their camp, they are sitting around a fire and Lori suddenly walks away.  Rick follows her, asking if everything is okay.  She says it isn't, and that she's pregnant.  They go back to the group and tell the rest of them; Lori wanted Rick to be the first to know.  The group worries about how she will deliver the baby without a doctor, but decide they will worry about that when the time comes.  Dale pulls Rick aside and tries to convince him that it's not his baby -- that it's probably Shane's.  Rick doesn't want to hear any of it, and goes to bed.

The next day, as the RV drives along, the group encounters a neighborhood called Wiltshire Estates.  It appears to be in good condition, and Lori even thinks it might be a place to start a new life.  The group goes into one of the houses and everyone tries to get settled in.  The women find lots of good canned food in the cupboards.  Everyone decides to go to bed, and as Donna is passing around extra blankets that she found, she stumbles upon Dale and Andrea's room, where she finds them both naked, the old man taking off Andrea's clothes.  She doesn't interrupt and goes back to her room.  Rick and Lori watch Carl as he sleeps well for the first time in weeks, but worry about him not being able to have a normal childhood.

In the morning, Tyreese finds himself unknowingly cuddled next to Carol.  He apologizes, but she tells him that she likes it.

The Walking Dead: Book One pages 121-150

The next day, after the group has left Jim behind, Shane and Rick decide to go hunting.  Carl asks if he can come along, but Rick says they need to talk.  Out of nowhere, Shane punches Rick in the face, saying it wasn't his fault, and Lori scratches him across the face to protect her husband.  Shane runs off into the forest hysterically, and Rick runs after him.  When Rick catches up, Shane has his gun pointed toward Rick, and he is screaming at him about how Rick has ruined his life and that he has nothing anymore.  Shane tells him everything was perfect until Rick came back, and prepares to shoot Rick, when suddenly a bullet shoots through Shane's neck.  Carl is seen holding up a gun, crying, yelling "Don't hurt my daddy again!"  Shane falls down, dead.

There is a flash back to when the group is just outside of Atlanta, and Shane is comforting Lori.  They both think that Rick is dead, and they eventually have sex near the cars.

Lori is at Shane's grave.  She stays there until everyone else leaves, then spits on the grave.  Dale and Rick are discussing the death of Shane, and Dale explains to Rick that what they need is a leader, and that Rick is the best option.  Immediately after, Rick decides that as leader, he would make the group leave their camp in favor of a safer place.  The next day, after packing up the RV, the group sets out.  That night, their RV gets stuck in the road, and as they are trying to push it out of the way, they encounter a man and two teenagers.  The man introduces himself as Tyreese.  His daughter is Julie, and her boyfriend is Chris.  Rick decides the trio should tag along with their group at least for the night.  Lori chastises him for being so trusting.

The next day, Tyreese has a conversation with Rick about how he feels very guilty for killing a man who tried to rape his daughter.  They spot a few zombies in the distance, and Rick and Tyreese quickly kill them.

The Walking Dead: Book One pages 91-120

A few weeks later, Rick is teaching the group how to shoot, and most of his "students," especially Andrea, are getting very accurate.  Rick brings Carl, his son, to target practice, against Lori's dislike of the idea.  Carl, too, is a good shot, and Rick decides it's time for him to be able to carry around a gun like everyone else.  Lori loathes the idea of her seven-year-old son carrying around a gun, but Rick assures her that if Carl misuses it, it will be taken away.  The shooting group heads back to camp.

Rick, Dale, and Shane head out to split some wood, where they complain about Donna's behavior.  It is snowing, and Rick mentions something about it being cold, and Shane snaps.  He yells at him that everything will be fine, and goes back to camp alone.

Later that night, the group is sitting around a fire discussing what everyone did before the zombie breakout happened.  Dale says that he and his wife had been on the road for two years.  Amy was in college for physical education, and Andrea was a clerk at a law firm.  Glenn was a pizza boy who had lots of debt; he is somewhat relieved that he no longer has to pay for anything.  Allen was a shoe salesman and Jim was a mechanic.  Carol was a tupperware salesman.  Her husband died, and she and her daughter, Sophia, tried to go to Atlanta but fortunately never made it.

Amy gets up to go to the bathroom, and while she is asking if anyone needs something from the RV, a zombie comes from behind her and bites her in the neck.  Quickly, shots are fired and a horde gathers.  A struggle breaks out between the group and the zombies, and after everything clears, Andrea shoots Amy, saving her from becoming a zombie herself.  The group notices Jim sopping with blood, and he has a huge wound in his arm -- he was bit.

The next day, the group buries Andrea and holds a memorial for her.  Jim is in the RV, resting, where he is burning up and getting worse from his bite.  Meanwhile, Shane, Rick, and Carl are hunting and manage to shoot a rabbit.  Somehow, Rick and Shane get into another huge argument, blaming the whole thing on each other, and they scare Carl away.

Back in the RV, Jim has realized that what he wants is for the group to leave him behind.  Donna tries to resist his decision, but it's too late; they leave him behind forever.

The Walking Dead: Book One pages 61-90

Just when the group thought Dale had killed the zombie by chopping its head off, its decapitated head moves and makes noises; it is still alive.

Rick and Shane decide the deer being eaten by a zombie would not be worth eating themselves, because there is the possibility of disease in the deer.  They hear the gunshot from camp, and rush back.  Rick comforts Lori, and Shane shows obvious disgust while watching them.  

During the night, Shane is keeping watch on top of the RV and Rick climbs up to chat with him.  Rick argues that their camp is not safe, and that the fact that winter is coming only makes it worse.  Shane snaps, saying that being close to the city is their best chance at being rescued; the only thing is, they don't know when (or if) they will get rescued.

In the morning, Rick decides the group needs guns to defend themselves against zombies, and with the guidance of Jim, who knew the location of a gun store, Rick and Glenn set out to Atlanta once more.  Glenn checks the map to find the place Jim talked about, but notices it's 5 blocks from where Glenn and Rick met.  Glenn had never been that far into the city before, and it was surely infested with zombies.  Rick has an idea to solve this problem.  He explains that the zombies never attack each other, and reasons that the reason for this must be the smell.  He hacks off a nearby zombie's hand and instructs Glenn to rub it all over his clothes.  Rick does the same with some of the zombie's guts, and after a Glenn throws up a few times, they make their way to the city.

When they arrive, they test their new scent on a sitting zombie.  It doesn't notice at all, and lets them continue walking.  They make their way further into the city where they see a gun store and a huge horde of zombies.  They break in, take lots of guns and ammo, and put it into a shopping cart.  When they walk outside again, they notice it has just begun to rain.  Soon enough, it is a downpour, and their scent has started wearing off.  The zombies notice them now, and have started chasing them down.  They run out of the city and through a fence and arrive safely in a field.

Lori is at the camp, worrying about Rick and talking to Shane about it.  Shane tries to comfort her, but she turns him away.  Shane mentions "that night," but Lori only says that what happened was a mistake.