Season 3: Long Road Ahead

Season 3: Long Road Ahead of The Walking Dead.
==Plot==
===="Chapter 22"====
Lee, Sandy, and Kenny procure the last of the supplies from the town of Macon. Sandy declares that the town is just about tapped, and there is nothing left to get. While Sandy is exploring wreckage, Kenny asks Lee where he stands on leaving in the RV. Lee tells him that he'll feel guilty on just leaving everyone, but agrees that the motor inn has run its course. Kenny offers Lee to bring whoever else he wants with him. Before Lee answers, Kenny calls Sandy over and asks her if she thinks the motor inn is safe to stay in. "Well, with the attack from the bandits, and how we're running low on supplies, I say it would be best to just leave and find somewhere else where we aren't hassled by crazy forest people." Sandy tells him. "There you go. She agrees too." Kenny says to Lee. Sandy questions them on what he meant by that, and Kenny tells her that he was planning on taking the RV and leaving, and offers Sandy to go with him and his family, along with Lee and Clementine, adding that since she saved Duck once before on the street they're walking on, he feels that he and Katjaa owe Sandy that much. Sandy questions on the others like Doug and Ben. Kenny tells her that they can come along too, if they don't want to stay with Lilly. Sandy then agrees with leaving the RV. The trio approaches the drugstore, remarking on how the town was running out of supplies to scavenge. Kenny climbs up a big rig ladder to climb over a truck in their way as had become normal for their supply runs, when the ladder breaks. Lee and Sandy scour the area for a suitable way to climb the up the trailer to meet Kenny, eventually coming across a stationary military jeep with a metallic winch. As Lee pulls the winch to meet the wheels of the truck, Kenny offers his opinion on Lilly's state. Lee says that he is worried, but Kenny simply tells him that she needs to get over her father's death. Sandy curtly tells Kenny that losing a family member is hard and he should be patient with her. Lee activates the winch, pulling the jeep to meet the trailer. Kenny asks if Clementine was still upset with them for taking the supplies from the abandoned station wagon, but Lee is unsure. The jeep finally reaches the truck, affording Lee and Sandy a base to stand upon and allow Kenny to pull them up. Kenny tells Lee that his son had asked him about Shawn Greene and if he had made it, despite Kenny's beliefs that Duck really knew that Shawn was dead. Lee assures Kenny that his son will be fine after some time, then asks for a hand to climb up. Kenny reaches down and grabs Lee's hand, but drops him, clutching his side in pain. Unhurt, Lee stands up, and Sandy jokes about Kenny's "age" getting the best of him, and uses the truck to propel herself up. Before Lee can attempt to climb the truck a second time, the three suddenly hear a woman screaming.
Lee identifies several walkers encroaching on her position and insists that they help her, but before either can decide on a course of action, Sandy witnesses her get bitten on the leg. She says that they need to shoot her to keep her from suffering any further, but Kenny points out that if she continues screaming, she would draw all of the walkers in the area to her and keep them off of them while they raided the drugstore. Sandy says that it's a "fucked up" way to get what they need. Uncertain, Lee raises his rifle and aims at the screaming woman. Before Lee can do anything, she gets bitten a second time on her shoulder and runs off away from sight with the dead behind her. Kenny believes that it's for the best and assures Lee and Sandy that she'll be at peace soon, before getting off the truck and running into the alley. Lee, Sandy, and Kenny scour the pharmacy section of the drugstore for any remaining supplies, with the woman's screams stopping. After gathering enough supplies, they try to flee from the pharmacy, but Lee gets trapped underneath a fallen door with walkers pouring in. Sandy fires at them and tells Kenny to help Lee while she keeps them off. After freeing Lee from the door, the three of them escape through a hole in the wall.
===="Chapter 23"====
On the way back to the motor inn, Kenny brings up his wish to leave the motor inn now that he has gotten the RV working to Lee and Sandy. Back at the motor inn, the three bring the supplies inside, while Kenny distastefully noting that their current lookout was Ben again. Clementine approaches Lee, showcasing new stickers on her walkie-talkie. Lee tells her to wait while he, Sandy, and Kenny brief Lilly on their last supply run. The three of them enter Lilly's room, Kenny remarking that Ben being on watch is a death sentence for all of them as Lee exchanges his rifle for a handgun. Lilly asks what they have. Kenny hands over the backpack, stating perfunctorily that they were fine and sarcastically thanking her for asking. Lilly is relieved by the number of new rations they had received and believes they will survive the winter with it. Kenny angrily refutes the idea that they could last the winter in the motel with regular supply runs like this, complaining that they would freeze in the empty motel rooms. Lilly bitterly retorts that she did not want to get into an RV for an extended time with her father's murderers. Sandy tells Lilly that Lee and Kenny aren't murderers and they were only trying to protect everyone else from Larry's eventual reanimation. Lilly angrily retorts that she would think differently if it were Meg in that meat locker, slowly dying and not being saved, but murdered instead. Sandy tells Lilly not to bring Meg into this before Lee stops the two from arguing more.
Katjaa and Doug come up to the four of them, the latter asking if there would be another argument. Kenny dryly tells Doug to be quiet and Doug leaves the room, but stays near the door so he can hear the conversation. Lilly tells him not to "boss people around", but Kenny relays that he feels that she should not be making decisions for the group in her current state. He bluntly states that somebody else needs to think about the food situation and the protection of the motel and what happens when the motel needs to be abandoned. Lee agrees that eventually, they have to leave the motor inn behind, leading to Kenny bringing up what Lee had done with regards to the screaming woman in Macon. Lilly and Katjaa are both upset with Lee for not being able to save her, but Sandy intervenes and said Lee raised his rifle at the woman before she ended up taking off in another direction. Kenny argues that Macon is not a salvageable place anymore; that he, Sandy, and Lee had been placing themselves in danger repeatedly to bring back what meager supplies they could find, and the people that were left in Macon were "dying and wandering out onto the streets". Lilly snaps at him, yelling that it would not be easier out on the road. She brings up her belief that someone had been stealing from the group's medicine supply, and mentions that her trust in the others is wearing thin, following which she orders everyone out of her room.
Sandy asks Kenny if he was happy for making her snap in front of the other adults, but he dismissively states that he is happy because his family is still alive. He complains that Lilly was making him out to be the villain in everything wrong with their group, storming off. Katjaa gives an apologetic look to both Lee and Sandy for Kenny's behavior and walks off. Sandy rolls her eyes, and walks over to Ben who is on watch. Sandy questions Ben if he would want her to take over for a bit so he could rest, but Ben insists that he can stay so that Sandy herself can rest. Doug comes up to Lee and advises him to talk to Lilly about what she said about stolen supplies, worried that she might be growing paranoid. Sandy walks over to the pair and agrees with Doug that Lilly is becoming unhinged and it's starting to look worrisome.
===="Chapter 24"====
Lee returns to Lilly's room, entering and taking a seat across from her after she apologizes for snapping at them. Lee assures her that she has nothing to apologize for, then asks about the stolen supplies she had mentioned. Lilly states that she believes that there was a traitor amongst the survivors who had been taking their supplies without the others' knowledge. Lee initially denies her claim, but she tells him that she had been keeping her own count on the medicine stockpile and that more than a few of the opiates had gone missing. She shows him a broken flashlight she had found discarded in the dumpster as evidence that someone had been sneaking the medicine out, as since none of them were supposed to trash broken equipment, someone must have been using it when they shouldn't have. Lee agrees that it seems a bit odd, and tells Lilly that he'll poke around and see if he can find anything out. Lilly thanks him. As soon as he exits Lilly's room, he discovers that Duck had been eavesdropping on their conversation. Excited at the proposition of a mystery, Duck offers his services to Lee. Initially reluctant to allow the child to help, he begrudgingly accepts Duck's assistance. Lee goes over to Sandy and asks her if she knows anything about the broken flashlight, to which she says she hasn't been using any equipment. Sandy questions Lee on why he's asking around about it and where he found it, and Lee fills her in on what Lilly told him, believing Sandy to be trustworthy. Sandy believes Lilly may be too paranoid about the situation and thinks Lee shouldn't encourage her paranoia but decides to help Lee poke around to find out if there is more going on. The two break off to question some of the others. Sandy approaches Ben and asks if he knows anything about a broken flashlight, to which he says he didn't know anything about it, further adding that he doesn't touch anything because of his fear of Lilly. Lee questions Kenny and Katjaa about the broken flashlight, but neither know of what happened to it, and Katjaa adds that she saw broken glass by the dumpster and meant to clean it up before the kids hurt themselves on it. Lee approaches the area described and sees Sandy already looking at it. She tells him that the glass pieces look like the bulb from the flashlight, and then they discover a pink, chalk-marked "X" on the wall facing away from the parking lot, to which Duck postulates that the pink marking could have been a sign. Lee goes to Clementine, asking if she had any pink chalk, but she says that she had lost it. Duck beckons him over to the garbage dumpsters they used as gates, revealing that he had found the chalk inside and a scuff of pink dust beneath the dumpster. Sandy walks over to the two and Lee orders Duck to remain inside the walls while he and Sandy go outside and search for further clues. Lee finds a small grate in the wall immediately outside of the walls. Looking inside of it, he encounters a concealed paper bag filled with a stash of opiates. Sandy is shocked by his find and asks him what they should do. Lee tells her to go back in and pretend she didn't see it, due to Lilly's paranoid nature he doesn't want Sandy to be suspected or for Lilly to distrust him for telling her.
Lee brings the bag back to Lilly in her room, reporting his findings of the chalk sign and where he had found the drugs. Lilly decides that she wants to line everyone up and demand to know who placed it there. She further says that one of them is slowly killing them because if Clementine or anyone else were to get sick, they wouldn't have the medicine they need to help them. Lilly looks past Lee out the window and jumps up. "What the hell?!" Lilly says, as she and Lee both hear loud voices erupting from outside.
===="Chapter 25"====
The Save-Lots bandits have hopped the wall and have everyone at gunpoint in revenge for not receiving their drug shipment. Lilly grabs her rifle and orders Lee to go out and distract the invading bandits while she gets herself into a sniping position before climbing out the back window. Lee walks out of Lilly's room with his hands up and announces his presence to the bandits. Lee goes outside to negotiate with Jake, the leader of the Save-Lots bandits, who claims they stole from them, by taking the medicine behind the grate. Lee offers to split the supplies and spread them around, adding that if they kill them, who will go and get their other supplies. Jake puts down his gun and agrees to settle some terms. One bandit, Gary, believes it is a waste of time, but is shut down by Jake, who is then shot in the head by Lilly. Noticing that his gun is on the ground, Sandy picks it up and shoots Linda and Gary in the head then runs out of ammo, while Kenny, Katjaa, Clementine, Doug, Duck, and Ben scatter to hide behind something. Before Lee can kill the final bandit, he throws himself over the wall and whistles sharply. A large swarm of armed men come out of the woods, shooting at the survivors of the motel. Kenny runs outside from one of the rooms and hands Lee a rifle, telling him to keep everyone covered while he starts the RV. Lee kills three bandits who were sneaking up behind Sandy, Doug, and Ben, and they run into the RV while Sandy grabs her rifle from inside the RV. Katjaa calls for help, as she tries to protect Clementine and Duck from the gunfire. Walkers begin to come out from the forest and kills one of the bandits. Kenny rolls down the RV window and shoots two of the bandits, Bart and an accomplice, from attacking them. Sandy shoots two of the bandits before they reach the three. Clementine makes it to the RV safely, but Katjaa and Duck are suddenly attacked by a walker, knocking both of them to the ground and causing Katjaa to split her forehead open on the corner of a wooden crate. Lee dispatches the walker with a quick shot to the head. Kenny comes out of the RV and ushers his family into the vehicle. Lee calls for Lilly to get to the RV, but Kenny says that he does not care if she gets to the RV before he gets it working. Walkers begin coming through the open gates, forcing Lee and Sandy to fend them off as Kenny struggles with the ignition. Kenny finally manages to get it started, with Doug's aid, and calls Lee and Sandy to get in. He shouts for Lilly to get down there before they leave without her. She just barely manages to get inside the RV before Kenny smashes through the wall and drives them all away from the fight between the bandits and walkers.
===="Chapter 26"====
Hours later, the group is still shocked at having lost all of their supplies and their safety so quickly. Lilly tells Ben and Doug to be quiet and help her figure out how all of this had happened. Kenny tells Lilly that she's not making any sense when she states that someone in the RV had caused this, but Lilly brings up Lee's findings, something he confirms. Lilly then turns to Ben and menacingly asks if there was something he wanted to admit. Ben denies any prior involvement with the bandits, but Lilly ignores all protests and begins drawing her own conclusions based on her suspect's reaction. Doug tells her to give Ben some space and that everyone is on edge after what happened. Sandy gets involved and tells Lilly to calm down, but Lilly ultimately rejects anything other than a straight confession from the accused. Ben then says that he believes that there was nobody stealing anything, but Lilly only grows more suspicious of him. Katjaa asks everyone to calm down, but Lilly ignores her pleas. Lilly demands that Ben look her straight in the eyes and tell her he didn't do anything. Before Ben can look Lilly in her eyes and deny his involvement once again, Kenny crashes into a walker and pulls the RV to a halt. Lilly orders everyone out of the RV, demanding that they deal with the matter immediately.
Lilly is the first one out of the RV, scouring the environment and finding a walker trapped beneath the vehicle and caught up in its frame. Ben, Sandy, Lee, and Doug step out of the vehicle and join Lilly on the side of the road as Kenny goes to work on dealing with the trapped walker. Lilly then points to Ben and threatens to kick him out of the group, then asks for the others' opinions on what to do with him. Sandy grows frustrated with Lilly's rather cruel way of treating Ben and refuses to cooperate in the discussion on what to do with him. Lee begs Lilly once again to stop pointing fingers and to calm down, but she berates him and reminds him of what he found. Lilly demands Kenny's opinion, saying that he would be voting on behalf of Katjaa as well as himself, but Kenny tells her to let him finish the walker off first before getting involved. Ben begins to panic, pleading with Lilly to just trust him. He offers to do anything to stay with the group, but Lilly just sees this as a sign that he is guilty. Doug speaks up, calling for Lilly to stop threatening Ben, yet Lilly curtly tells him to shut up. When Kenny fails to offer his opinion again, Lilly demands Ben to confess his crime. Lee interrupts everyone and tells Lilly that he was the one who stole the supplies, but Lilly refuses to believe him, saying he wouldn't do it with Clementine in his life. Kenny finally manages to remove the walker from under the RV, crushing its head with his boot. Ben begs for Lilly to just let him back on the RV and end this discussion, but she denies him entry. Kenny comes over and asks what the problem was. "Ben!" Clementine screams as Lilly aims her gun at Ben. Doug quickly grabs Ben and pulls him away from Lilly, and a gunshot silences everyone. Doug falls to the ground, dead, horrifying everyone including Lilly. Breaking out of his stupor, Lee grabs Lilly and pins her to the wall of the RV, forcing her to drop her gun. Katjaa screams for Kenny, asking what had just happened. Kenny simply tells her to keep Duck away from the windows and orders Lee, Sandy, and Ben inside so they could leave her behind. Lilly asks for Lee's forgiveness and display remorse over Doug's death, claiming that it wasn't supposed to be him. Ben, huddled over the fresh corpse of his former friend, asks what they would do with Lilly. Kenny curtly says that they would leave her for the walkers. Sandy chimes in and agrees that Lilly should take her chances on the road for what she did. Lee softly begs for Lilly to tell him why she had just killed one of their own, and decides to let Lilly back on the RV, stating they would figure out what to do with her. Sandy believes it's a bad idea, calling Lilly a murderer in the process. Lilly also calls Lee a murderer, which provokes confusion from Kenny and Sandy. Lilly tells everyone about Lee's past and how he lied to them about it. Sandy is uncertain what to think or say, while Kenny is upset with Lee for not saying anything before. Regardless, Kenny wants to drop the conversation and move on. The survivors board the vehicle and leave the corpse behind. Lee ties Lilly's hands behind her back and entrusts Ben with Lilly's gun to watch her with.
Katjaa calls Lee up to the cabin of the RV, asking for a quiet conversation. Lee asks Kenny and Katjaa what was wrong, only for them to hesitantly glance at one another. Lee notices that Duck was entirely unconscious despite the loud argument and gunshot from before, and he asks if the boy was okay. Katjaa lifts his shirt ever so slightly to reveal a bite mark, Kenny explaining that it happened during the raid. Kenny insists that the plan does not change because of Duck's condition, finding strength in the hope that perhaps somebody in Savannah had already found a cure. Katjaa agrees, asking what else they could do otherwise. She asks Lee to explain what had happened to Clementine for them. Leaving the two parents alone, Lee sits down on a couch with Clementine, slowly embracing her. Lee solemnly informs her that Duck had been bitten by a walker while escaping the motel. Lee says he's glad he has Clementine with him, in an attempt to comfort her. Later, Lee suddenly turns his attention to a leaking sink faucet in the RV, it being the only noise in an otherwise quiet vehicle. Clementine softly groans beside him, only to spring to her feet and lunge at him with her teeth bared. Lee, shocked, barely manages to fend off her attack but eventually succumbs to her relentless strength. Just before she could bite him, he wakes up with a start. He looks at Clementine, who is asleep next to him. Lee sighs with relief and attempts to go back to sleep.
===="Chapter 27"====
Sandy wakes up with a start and looks over at Ben, who is passed out. Sandy gets up and wakes him up, telling him to go sit on the couch and she'll watch Lilly, who is also asleep. Ben asks Sandy what she thinks they'll end up doing with Lilly, but Sandy tells him to just go back to sleep. Lee awakens and stands up when Kenny quietly announces that there was an obstacle in their way; a derailed train. Kenny calls for everyone (except Lilly) to get off of the RV so that they could let the engine cool down. Katjaa takes a visibly depressed Duck over to a fallen log and sits him down in her lap to keep him close. She asks Lee and Sandy if they could search for anything on the train to drink for her son, but Kenny identifies the train as a freight train rather than a commercial train. He warns Lee, Sandy, and Ben to be careful as they check out the train. When the three of them check the boxcar, they discover a modified set-up to accommodate someone living in the boxcar. Ben shares his concern, hoping that the owner was gone, but Sandy notes that the boxcar looked recently used. Lee finds a half-full bottle of water and a map of the train's routes that he gives to Katjaa and Kenny respectively. When Lee checks the second door compartment on the engine car, he finds a spanner, a rusty monkey wrench, and a track key remover. He takes the spanner and leaves the others in the compartment. When Sandy and Ben search the engine car, they find a dead body slumped in a chair. Sandy takes out her knife and slowly opens the door to the engine car. She stabs the body in the head and confirms that it is not a walker, she pulls the body out of the chair, discovering a blinking button. Ben tells Sandy to push the button, to which she declares a sketchy idea. Ben decides to push it and a loud hissing noise from the train announces that the brakes have been disabled.
Kenny boards the train, excited that the train could still be functional. He sends Ben out to watch over his family and Clementine while he tries to teach himself the controls, then asks Lee to see if he can get the train moving. Lee finds a notepad that used to contain the instructions on how to start the train, but the page with the control directions had been torn off, nowhere to be found. At Clementine's suggestion, Lee searches the RV for a pencil he could use to outline the indentations on the notepad. He finds a pencil by the console, only to discover Lilly - having freed herself from her bonds - ready to take the vehicle and leave. Lilly tells him that she could have killed him, and reveals that part of her understands why she and Kenny killed her father, but the other part wanted to still kill him. She grabs him and throws him out of the RV. Lilly ends up starting the engine and Sandy alerts Kenny that she's taking the RV. Lilly drives away in the direction they had come from, despite Kenny's shouts for her to stop. When the RV is out of sight, he decides to return his attention to the train, seeing it as their only way to reach the coast in time for Duck to get help.
===="Chapter 28"====
After Lilly fled with the RV, Lee, Sandy, and Kenny return to the train to continue learning how to use it. Lee returns to the engine car and scribbles on the notepad to find its indentations. Finally able to read the instructions, he powers on the dashboard by flipping several switches in an indicated pattern. Much to Kenny's delight, Lee activates the controls on in front of the engineer's chair. Lee then goes back to the engine car's compartments and brings the train back to life. Kenny is overjoyed, though Sandy is concerned over the noise of the train. The three return to the engine cabin and test out the thruster, but the train abruptly stops after a quick jerk forward. Kenny realizes that the boxcar was still attached to the derailed caboose, and sends Lee back there to uncouple the pilot pin. Behind the boxcar, Lee is able to use the tool he took from the second engine car compartment to pry the coupling pilot pin from the derailed section of the train. He gets back into the boxcar to get back to Kenny, taking another look at the setup inside to gauge how long it had been abandoned. A voice asking if Lee had touched any of his stuff startles him. He turns around to see an unkempt man in the boxcar with him. Lee tells the man that he took the map of the train routes but nothing else. The man says he's memorized the map and that he could keep them. The man introduces himself as Chuck - or Charles if preferred formality. Chuck tells Lee that he had met everyone else in the group already, guiding Lee back over there to authenticate his statement. Clementine excitedly tells Lee that Chuck had given her, Duck and Ben candy. Sandy jumps off the train to investigate Chuck, having not met him herself. Everyone vouches for him and Sandy lowers her guard. Lee welcomes him to the group, and Chuck offers them whatever he had. Kenny is skeptical of the man at first, but Katjaa asks him to stay with them. He sits down next to Clementine and begins strumming a guitar. Kenny asks Lee if there was anything else keeping them from leaving. Lee says that the train was ready to move. Kenny calls for everyone to gather whatever they had left and get on the train. Chuck accepts Kenny's offer to go with them, and gets into the boxcar with Ben. Clementine tries to bring up Duck's condition, but Kenny harshly orders her to get on the train at the first mention of Duck's condition. Katjaa carries Duck over to the boxcar, asking if they could discuss what to do about their son. Kenny refuses to do anything other than get to the coast as fast as possible. He goes to the engine train and waits for Lee to come in and start it. Lee turns on the thruster, and the train slowly accelerates down the tracks. The two men share a smile, but Kenny's quickly falters. Sandy sets a pillow by the open side of the boxcar and tells Clementine she could rest on it if she wanted to, and Clementine soberly thanks her before sitting down. Sandy looks over at Duck, who is lying weakly in Katjaa's arms. Sandy crosses her arms and leans against the wall, deep in thought as the train continues down its path.
===="Chapter 29"====
A few hours later, each of the survivors (minus Kenny) are in the boxcar, waiting for the train to arrive in Savannah. Chuck asks Lee how they had survived as four adults taking care of three kids (including Ben), which irritates Ben. Lee tells him that there had used to be more of them, to which Chuck asks if the "dead [got] them". Lee admits that the walkers had not killed them, leading to Chuck concluding that the living had killed them. Sandy tells Chuck of one of their own being killed by another, and Katjaa suddenly calls for help, as Duck begins to cough up blood. Sandy rushes over and Katjaa asks her to clean up some coughed-up blood on Duck's cheek. She takes a rag on the ground and wipes Duck's face. "He's out of time. We need to stop the train." Katjaa says to her. Sandy looks over at Lee and asks him to let Kenny know what's going on and to stop the train.
In the engine car, Lee immediately orders Kenny to stop the train. Kenny simply ignores him, but Lee presses the man until he listens. Lee passively states facts and tries to sympathize with Kenny's plight to get him to stop the train. Kenny, however, refuses to believe Duck will die, stating the Duck is not like the others who died. Lee asks him once more to stop the train, but Kenny frustrated that nobody could offer him any hope, adopts a preparatory posture and glares at Lee. Lee avoids the confrontation, asking Kenny to see reason. Lee realizes that part of Kenny's denial has to do with his own failures and feelings, notably his guilt for the death of Hershel's son. Kenny, perhaps beginning to realize his guilt himself, initially denies Lee's assertion that Kenny did not kill Shawn. Kenny asks how the world could let his son live when he had helped put someone else's son in the ground. Lee calmly reassures him, places a compassionate hand on Kenny's shoulder, then finally convinces Kenny to pull on the train's brakes.
The train rolls to a full stop, prompting the group to disembark. Kenny and Lee find Katjaa tending to a barely conscious and extremely pale Duck. She solemnly announces that they are out of time. Kenny curtly tells Chuck and Ben that Duck had been bit, but neither one meets Kenny's eyes in acknowledgment. Kenny is uncertain of what to do, but Katjaa resolves for him that they could not allow Duck to turn. Kenny, numbed, pleads that they did not need to shoot their son, asking if there was any way they could prevent Duck from turning otherwise. Katjaa declares that they both know that the only way to prevent reanimation is to destroy the brain. Distressed, Kenny volunteers to be the one to shoot Duck, but Katjaa argues that such a thing was beyond Kenny's ability. Katjaa herself decides to be the one to do it, asking Kenny to remain there and to remember Duck for who he used to be and hold onto that. Sandy speaks up and asks Katjaa if she's sure, and if she wants her or Lee to be the one to shoot Duck, but Katjaa remains firm about herself being the one to do it, but thanks Sandy for offering to do it. Katjaa takes Duck away from the boxcar and into the woods so that Clementine does not have to see the shooting. Clementine asks Lee what was happening, to which he tells her that Katjaa is putting him out of his misery so he will not suffer any more pain. A gunshot is heard, and Kenny begins to weep. Everyone stands in silence, and Kenny tells everyone he's going to get Katjaa, saying she's probably a wreck. Kenny walks in a daze toward where he had last seen his wife go as Lee slowly trails behind him until they stumble upon a small clearing to discover that Katjaa had shot herself rather than Duck. Traumatized, Kenny fails to characterize why she had done it and softly shuts her eyes as tears stream down his face. Glancing at Duck, he takes Katjaa's gun and stands in front of Duck. Lee joins him, pushing aside his shock so that they could deal with Duck. Kenny, in a single moment of surreal clarity mixed with dullness, asks Lee what they should do. Lee takes the gun from Kenny, wanting to spare him from the pain of having to put down his son. Dismayed at what he is about to do, Lee raises the gun on Duck and quickly pulls the trigger, preventing the boy from reanimating, much to the grief of Kenny. The two men depart from the clearing, leaving the two corpses as they were.
===="Chapter 30"====
Nearly two hours later, the train is moving but has yet to reach Savannah. Lee enters the boxcar to find Clementine alone, sitting along the edge of the doorway and watching the surrounding forest zip by. Lee joins her, asking if she was alright and if she understood what had happened when Chuck had told her. She says that she understood, but was still upset because Chuck had warned her that what had happened to Duck would happen to her as well. Angered, Lee leaves the boxcar and goes to the outside railing of the engine car. Lee challenges Chuck's assertion and demands he explain himself for telling a little girl such a thing as that. Chuck, calm, tells Lee that he had a purpose in telling her such a thing: she would die if Lee continued to treat her like a little girl. Chuck then brings up the group's lack of a tangible plan and tells Lee that he should involve Clementine in his decisions. He asks that Lee think of an appropriate plan and share it with Clementine and then teach her how to use a weapon should anything happen to him. He also implores Lee to take some scissors from his pack and cut her hair, as it would only give walkers and other people something to grab onto when they attacked her. Although Lee expresses reluctance to expose Clementine to the harsh realities of the world, Chuck convinces him that as long as she was alive, none of the previous applications about her size, strength or gender would no longer matter. Chuck then admits to Lee that his reasoning for asking this of Lee was because he had already seen too many people die and he had no desire to watch another little girl die.
Lee thanks Chuck for the advice and leaves him to go back to Clementine. He finds Kenny sitting alone in the engine car and offers some quiet reassurance. Kenny, cold to any sort of sympathy, ignores all of Lee's attempts to discuss their current predicament. Lee mentions to him that he wanted to apologize for not telling him about his past, but Kenny dismisses it and tells him that he did a lot for him and his family, and he believes Katjaa would be okay with him. Lee leaves him to his own thoughts and goes back to the boxcar for Clementine. He tells her about what Chuck had told him and gently insists that the two of them are a team, and that every team needs a plan. He displays his pistol and tells her that she needs to know how to defend herself. He teaches her the basic knowledge of how to aim and shoot, also offering her some token words on how specifically she could improve her shooting. Lee finds a few glass bottles from Chuck's gatherings and sets them up on top of a cardboard box. Lee helps Clementine correct her stance and aim with two bottles before she is able to hit a third by herself with no assistance. Proud of her, Lee assures Clementine that one day, she would be able to shoot walkers too if needed. Afterward, Lee takes the scissors from Chuck's supplies and informs Clementine of the practicality of shortening her hair. She is hesitant to part with her hair, but Lee makes the final decision to cut it. She questions him on his actions before the outbreak and whether or not killing was bad at this point as he cuts her hair. Lee tells her that killing isn't good, but necessary to protect people he cares about. When her hair gets short enough to his liking, Lee ties them back and tells her she looks cute and a lot safer now. Lee leaves Clementine to go search for a map as Chuck suggested. He passes Ben, who is deep in thought and oblivious to Lee's presence. Sandy is leaning against the railing watching the train pass the area and asks Lee if he's doing alright after what he had to do with Duck. Lee assures her that he's alright and asks her if she's doing alright, saying he hasn't had time to talk to her about everything with how fast it all unfolded. Sandy tells him that she's coming to terms with what has happened in the span of 14 hours (to her knowledge) and wishes things had worked out differently. After a moment of silence between the two, Lee brings up his past to Sandy, wanting to explain to her what happened. Sandy mentions to him that Meg told her that she recognized Lee when they all first met, and she originally thought Meg meant Lee was famous for something, but understands now why Meg thought he looked familiar. She goes on by saying that his actions for the group and for Clementine have shown her who he truly is and believes that whoever Lee killed must have deserved it for him to kill him. Sandy tells him to let the past stay in the past, adding that it doesn't define him. Lee thanks her and asks if she's seen any maps laying around. Sandy tells him that she grabbed a map from the map bin in the engine car and hands it to him. Lee thanks her and leaves to return to Clementine. Before entering the boxcar, Ben stops him with the sudden revelation that he had been the one supplying the bandits with the supplies. Shocked, Lee asks why he had done it, and Ben tries to excuse his actions by explaining that the bandits had threatened to kill his friend, but Ben had been unable to break off the deal when he discovered that his friend had never been with them. Apologetic, Ben returns to his silence and offers no further comment without Lee asking for one. Lee goes back to Clementine with the map and gives his position on what to do upon their arrival, and the plan to continue searching for a boat. However, Clementine only wants to look for her parents, Lee eventually agrees to look for them. The two decide to look near the Marsh House, where she last knew her parents were staying. At the conclusion of Lee's preparations to make Clementine safer, Kenny suddenly shouts from the engine compartment for everybody to brace themselves as the brakes are engaged.
Once the train comes to a complete stop, Kenny watches dumbly at an overpass in front of them with a petroleum tanker hanging from the bridge that is blocking the train's path. The whole group dismounts from the train, Kenny loudly announcing his displeasure with a series of curses. Ben suggests leaving the train behind and walking, but Kenny immediately shoots the idea down. Sandy suggests driving through it since they have more firepower with the train to move it. Kenny curtly tells her that the tanker is filled with gasoline, not milk. Irritated by the response, Sandy tells him he needs to get himself together and focus on the group and Clementine. Kenny angrily tells her she doesn't understand his grief at losing Katjaa and Duck so recently. Sandy reminds Kenny about her sister's death, saying she knows something about the grieving process. She tells him she's just trying to help, calling him an asshole. Kenny once again responds by noting his wife and son have just died. Now agitated as well, Sandy reminds him about her sister's death, Doug's death, Mark's death, her parents' probable death and tells him that the group's all been dealing with the same losses. Before Sandy and Kenny's argument escalates further, they are interrupted by a voice. "Yo! If you keep screaming like that, you're gonna get your face chewed off." A man exclaims. A woman asks them if they're trouble or not, otherwise, they're gonna keep walking. Lee tells them they're friendly. The man asks if they needed help, citing the wreck in front of the train. They request for Lee to meet them upon the bridge by climbing a ladder against the bridge's column. Lee introduces himself, learning their names as Christa and Omid. Omid points out Clementine, who had followed Lee up the ladder without his knowledge and gets excited that they had "a kid" with them. Christa notices that Lee was not Clementine's father and asks what their story was. Lee gives his own story and that of their previous day with Duck and Katjaa and how they had lost the motel. Christa offers to help them move the train, but warns him that she and Omid would leave at the first sign of trouble with them.
===="Chapter 31"====
Lee, Clementine, Christa, and Omid return to the train and introduced the latter of the two to the group and lay out the plan to get the train moving. Kenny points out a train station on the other side of the bridge that someone should check for supplies or anything that could help with the tanker while he teaches Omid the controls to the train and Christa decides to talks to Clementine. Ben stands on watch and Chuck keeps to himself as the newcomers become acquainted. Sandy talks with Christa about her past and traveling with Omid, while Lee talks with Ben about walkers in general. In the engine car, Kenny instructs Omid on how the controls work, with Omid asking if he'll get to drive it himself. Kenny reminds him that he can drive only if Kenny was unable to. Omid suggests they could drive in shifts, so he can rest.
Upon Kenny's suggestion, Sandy decides to go check out the train station for supplies. Lee notices Sandy heading over and decides to follow her in case she needs help. Clementine stops him and asks if he would let her go with him. Lee agrees to let her come with him, then announces his intentions to the group before walking away from the train. At the station, Sandy infers that it had been abandoned for a long time due to the plea painted in white on top of the building. As Lee and Sandy look around, Clementine finds the entrance locked before she could go inside without anyone, something he gently warns her about. With no means to force the door open, Lee puts her on his shoulders to give her a glimpse into a window above the door, but he is mildly surprised when Clementine manages to unlock the door without going through the window. He sets her down and the three enter the station, finding the building too dark to reliably search. Lee is forced to use his spanner to prop the door open so they could see with sunlight, though Lee wishes he could keep it in case of danger. Sandy finds a blowtorch, but a locked gate separates her from the object. Lee lifts Clementine up to squeeze through a gap between the ceiling and metal bars, but she stops short before going to get the keys to open it with. Clementine alerts Lee and Sandy to a couple of walkers that have entered the building. The walkers cause Lee to drop his pistol on the other side of the gate and out of his reach. Sandy grabs her knife and dispatches the two walkers trying to corner her. Lee backs away to the door and retrieves his manual weapon, turning forth to kill the two walkers in quick succession. When all of them hit the floor, Lee sees Clementine shakily holding his pistol on the corpses. He reassures her that everything was fine, but the three of them notice another walker on Clementine's side of the gate. At Lee's instruction, Clementine rushes to get the keys, give them to him so he could unlock the gate, and hands him the gun so that he could shoot the walker in the head. Christa enters the station to investigate the gunshot. Christa notes the walkers and their proximity to one another with obvious displeasure, then criticizes Lee for taking them head-on with an eight-year-old by his side. Sandy coldly gives her own version on what had happened, irking Christa with Lee's lack of response. She goes to check for any walkers drawn by the noise, but pauses briefly to tell Lee that she hopes he knew what he was doing with Clementine. Sandy rolls her eyes and tells Lee that she's gonna go scope the area as well. Ignoring Christa's terse message, he grabs the blowtorch and asks Clementine what they had learned from this experience. She demurely states that she was not ready for a gun, but he corrects her and says that they learned not to be afraid. They walk out of the station and head back to the train.
===="Chapter 32"====
Back on the bridge, Lee starts cutting the coupling to the tanker with the blowtorch, but runs into complications as it slides out of his reach. Instead, he opts to dangle Omid over the gap to finish the job, much to the latter's discomfort.
Ben spots a massive zombie herd heading toward the group, and they must leave, as Omid finally cuts the coupling. The truck damages the ladder leading to the bridge and Omid and Lee cannot get down. Clementine, Sandy, Charles, and Christa manage to make it on the train as Kenny starts it. Lee kicks the lit blowtorch onto the spilling gas from the tanker, making a small barrier of fire to buy time. They move to the other side and jump onto the train, with Omid having a bad landing and falling off, badly injuring his leg. Lee gets on the train and Christa gets off to help Omid. Lee grabs Omid first and pulls him on the train, earning backlash from the man as he goes to say something only for Christa to make it aboard. Clementine comes in to check on everyone, and Christa assures her that everyone is alright.
A few hours pass and Omid makes conversation with some of the others. After questioning Charles on things he has seen in his past, he questions Sandy on how she got the "sick scar" on her face. Christa chastises him and apologizes to Sandy in case she dislikes people referring to her scar, but Sandy thinks nothing of it and tells Omid the story of the insane woman who attacked her with a knife and cut her face in the process, but killed her before she did any more damage. Omid praises her actions and says its a badass story. Kenny lays down, getting some rest in the boxcar. Christa looks over at him and asks Sandy if he's doing alright, mentioning the previous fight they overheard. Sandy tells them that Kenny is in a really bad place right now and he needs time to himself. She gets up to go check on Lee and Clementine in the engine car. Lee is driving the train, with Clementine sleeping next to him. He notices a drawing Clementine drew. Sandy enters the car, checking on Lee and Clementine. Lee talks with her about Christa and Omid and Kenny comes in, appearing a bit more stable, and talks with the two on what to do when they reach Savannah, when Clementine's walkie-talkie, which she had always said was broken, comes on. A man's voice is heard, telling Clementine that he's happy she's coming to Savannah, and that he has her parents, Ed and Diana. The voice then instructs Clementine to find him whether Lee approves or not. The three of them, who both believed the walkie-talkie was broken, are stunned and wonder who it could be as the train pulls into Savannah.
==Episodes==
#"Chapter 22"
#"Chapter 23"
#"Chapter 24"
#"Chapter 25"
#"Chapter 26"
#"Chapter 27"
#"Chapter 28"
#"Chapter 29"
#"Chapter 30"
#"Chapter 31"
#"Chapter 32"
==Characters==
===Main===
*Lee Everett (11/11)
*Sandy Warren (11/11)
*Clementine (10/11)
*Kenny Jones (11/11)
*Katjaa Jones (7/11)
*Kenny Jr. Jones (7/11)
*Lilly (5/11)
*Doug (4/11)
*Ben Paul (10/11)
===Recurring===
*Beatrice (1/11)
*Jake (1/11)
*Linda (1/11)
*Gary (1/11)
*Bart (1/11)
*Charles (5/11)
*Christa (3/11)
*Omid (3/11)
==Deaths==
*Beatrice
*Jake
*Linda
*Gary
*Bart
*Doug
*Katjaa Jones
*Kenny Jr. Jones
*Several unnamed Save-Lots bandits
*5 unnamed FRS agents (Zombified)
==Trivia==
*The group changes their dynamics this season.
*A week has passed since the end of Season 2: Starved For Help.