The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1 ●

They move like ghosts. Efficient. Silent.

“Violet. The pig. She won’t eat. Her eyes are weeping.”

They back away. But it’s too late. Zach, panicking, trips over a tray of syringes. A needle skids across the floor. It doesn’t pierce him, but his hand lands in the puddle of black vomit.

No one argues. But no one looks happy either. The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1

Rick turns. “What?”

Rick nods. “I’ll go.”

“And the fences? We lost three feet of the north perimeter yesterday. The mud is pushing them over.” They move like ghosts

Inside, the quarantine is immediate. The council locks down Cell Block A. Zach is already dead. He turned in the van. They had to put him down. Beth watches from a window, her song dead in her throat.

“Then we dig. We reinforce. We don’t panic.”

INT. COUNCIL MEETING - NIGHT Rick, Daryl, Carol, Hershel, and Glenn sit around a table. A chalkboard reads: “DAYS SINCE LAST DEATH: 30.” “Violet

(unsheathing her katana) “Or a tomb.”

Hershel glances at Rick’s hip. No gun. Just a gardening trowel.