INT. COUNCIL MEETING - NIGHT Rick, Daryl, Carol, Hershel, and Glenn sit around a table. A chalkboard reads: “DAYS SINCE LAST DEATH: 30.”
“Violet. The pig. She won’t eat. Her eyes are weeping.”
EXT. FOREST - DAY The supply team: Rick, Daryl, Michonne (who still says little, but now carries a lollipop for Judith), and a young, cocky survivor named ZACH (Beth’s new boyfriend). The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1
Rick looks down at his own hands. The same hands that pushed the seed into the soil. He notices a small, red blister between his knuckles. He covers it with his other palm.
Rick’s eyes. The calm is gone. The survivalist is back. But now, he’s terrified not of the dead—but of the living he must protect from the poison inside his own walls. The pig
“The pig is sick.”
Inside, a walker is chained to a radiator. But it’s not dead. It’s sick . Its eyes are milky, but it’s crying. Black, tarry blood oozes from its eyes and mouth. It sees them. It doesn’t snarl. It speaks —a wet, gurgling whisper: “Don’t… let me… turn…” FOREST - DAY The supply team: Rick, Daryl,
Rick stands at the memorial grove. He pulls out his old Python revolver from a box of mementos. He checks the cylinder. Six bullets.