Episode 7.9: Whispers on the Road

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Whispers on the Road is the ninth episode of season seven of the Walking Dead the Survival. 
==Synnopsis==
Stray radio signals lead to more than urban legends, especially in world as strange as one with the walking dead. 
==Episode==
We open on a deserted stretch of road with an abandoned car. Whatever has occurred has only happened recently; the engine is still running and the lights are on.
Car Radio:.... R.... H.... Shadow.... Shadow....
The one word repeats over and over; the owner of the voice is eerily calm. The sound of frantic panting fills the air.
Woman: C' mon, come on.
A woman runs into view, dirty and exhausted with they keys in hand. In the background we can here a strange sound; foodsteps but, not quite. Whatever they are they don't sound human or walker.
Woman: Start dam you!.
The car finaly hums to life but, before the woman can sigh in relief or even shut the door a shadow decends on her terrified face and a scream echos through the night.
Adam: Bullshit!
We see him, Slade and Cage sitting in a viechle has they drive through the night.
Cage: Oh come one man it aint that bad of a ghost story. 
Slade: It aint a ghost story, I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy.
Adam: Wouldn't that make it an urban legend then?
Slade: Oh come on we live in the world where dead's just a word now so why is this so hard to believe?
The other two are quite.
Cage: Stories like that are a dime a dozen weather its a guy with a hook hand or hearing dead loved ones in the radio static... hell I heard more than a few stories working late on some sights.
Adam: Besides I think there is enough weird stuff out there that we dont need some killer cyber ghost.
Slade: I never said it was a ghost.
Scilence falls and Slade sighs before looking out into the black night.
Slade: Remind me again why are not doing this in the daytime.
Adam: Well after what we so on out last visit to one of the supply hubs and with what you guys picked up on your travels the best guess is the higher up are being cautious.
Cage: Or a bit paranoid.
Slade: Either way I don't like this... we might as well have a bullseye lit up in neon pin on the car. 
Adam: Hey its called being a distraction, we do this and the others can get what they need to get the parts for the new hub up and running.
Slade: So why the hell are you not with them I mean your a tech guy?
Adam is quite and continues to keep an eye on the road.
Cage: Adam...? 
Adam: What... it was my night off and I would preferd to hand with you guys than creep around a dark storeroom.
He sounds serious and eventually the other two have to relent.
Cage: Allright... just saying, you would be the first guy who got in trouble at work and the boss decided to punish you.
Adam: Fuck no, and besides if a tech head wanted to punish me they would do something a little more original.
Slade: Like what? There is no internet to spam you.
Adam chuckles 
Adam: Oh you have no idea...
He hits the breaks of the car hard.
Adam: Where the hell did that come from.
Its the car from earlier but moved into the middle of the road, the fuel being nearly gone leading to fading headlight meant it was nearly missed.
Cage: Careful
The man eyes the night looking for anything suspisious.
Adam: Here
He hands Cage the night vision googles from the back that illuminate the area in hues of green and black.
Slade: Anything?
Cage: Nothing... we can take a peak but Adam keep the car running... I don't fancy running into an ambush.
Slade: Or a shadow.
The two give him a look.
Slade: I mean it, its like in the story, car abandoned in the middle of the road like that...
Cage: Youve been listening to to many campfire stories... next you will be saying the Slenderman is a walker.
Adam: Don't give him ideas.
The two get out and approach the car, lights in hand they go over the car looking for obvious traps. Cage picks up a stone and lobs it at the viechle making a loud clang. Nothing happens; now trap is sprung or groan of a waiting walker.
Slade: Ill check to see if we have a jack in the box.
Cage nods and idicates he has his back while Slade goes to the boot of the car. He taps it and waits, again there is no groan and he takes out a knife to jimmy the lock. 
Slade: Open wide.
The boot pops and we see inside what you might expect for a standard boot of the old world. The only off thing in this day and age is its empty.
Slade: Empty which means someone was either an idiot, ran in hurry or.....
Cage: Was unlucky tonight.
The tone of his voice has Slade come over. 
Slade: What.... oh fuck.
We see the back seat is a mess of body parts, the head of a walker... the woman from the start snarls weakly back at the men.
Slade: Just like the....
Cage: Don't say it.....
The radio interrupts with the same static before we switch back to the car has the other two come back, quite and pale faced.
Adam: What, what was it.
Cage: Just drive.
Adam: Guys are we....
Slade: Trust me man there is nothing we can do and its better to leave a ghost lie.
Adam is quite but complies from the look on the men's faces.
Adam: You look like you saw a ghost.
Cage: No... we just missed one. 
Has they drive off we see them being watched from a hill by the same igure through the scope of a gun. They pull there gun up has the leave. In the low light we see the reason for the survivor's strange movements and sound; specialized prothetic legs and handmade armour.
Slade v.o: There are some ghosts even ina world of the dead and its best we let them be and they let us be.
End.