Chapter 1

Chapter 1 is the first episode and the season premiere of Season 1: A New Day of The Walking Dead.
==Plot==
History teacher Lee Everett is on his way to prison, having been convicted for killing a state senator that had an affair with his wife. He is transported by a police officer in the back of a cruiser, heading to prison.
While driving to prison, the police officer tries to engage Lee in conversation. He asks Lee why he isn't saying that he "didn't do it". The officer explains that, usually, he would have to suffer through a person saying that they didn't commit any crimes at the point they were at, and is surprised that Lee is not doing that. Lee tells the officer that he isn't the kind of guy to say something like that. The officer then tries to make small talk as he ignores the radio chatter from his police comm system that calls for assistance to a 10-34. A column of emergency response vehicles passes by on the other side of the road towards the city. As he tries to bring up another story that he believes to be more hilarious than depressing, he takes his eyes off of the road and crashes into a man (which is, in fact, a walker) that had wandered out onto the pavement and violently cuts off the road and into a roadside forest.
Meanwhile in the city, sisters Sandy and Meg are driving down the highway. Meg asks her what was next on their "big road trip". Sandy, irritated with her annoyance, tells her that she hasn't seen her in months and wanted to bring her on a trip to catch up. Meg rolls her eyes and tells her that she is glad to be on the trip with her, but is only upset about the timing. Sandy questions her how she's been doing since she quit her job, questioning if there was a more serious reason why she did it. Meg cuts her off and tells her that she's not doing drugs again, but just wanted to take some time off and relax. Sandy decides to change the subject before she notices a roadblock. An officer tells her to roll up the window, and he explains to her that a few people have been attacked and to remain seated until they solve it. Sandy and Meg make small talk regarding their trip before screams are heard. The girls notice a bunch of dead people walking towards them, eating people, and gunfire going off. Meg begins to panic, and Sandy puts the car in reverse and keeps going until they are t-boned by another car. Sandy notices the walkers coming closer, and grabs Meg to force her to open her door. Meg comes to and opens the door, helping Sandy out of the car as the two run away. Sandy notices a fire escape and helps Meg grab the ladder, who then helps Sandy up. The two climb to the roof of the building to see chaos erupting. Meg asks Sandy what she thinks is happening, but Sandy is unable to answer her. Meg begins panicking, saying the world is ending, but Sandy shakes her until she stops. Sandy tells her that if they keep their heads together and watch each others backs, they can survive.
Lee awakens after at least a day of unconsciousness in the back of a wrecked car with his handcuffs still on. He becomes aware of his surroundings and notes both his thirstiness and the pain in his right leg. He kicks out a window and drags himself out of the car, noticing that the officer was lying in a pool of blood a short distance away. His shotgun lies a few meters away from the body with a single shell on the ground. Lee limps over to the officer and removes the keys to the handcuffs from the corpse. After trying to unlatch the chamber from the pulley, Lee drops the keys in front of the officer's face. Lee quickly retrieves the keys again and then proceeds to remove the handcuffs from his wrists. A weak groan comes from the officer, prompting Lee to ask if he was alive. The officer then growls and claws at Lee. Lee crawls back to the car, grabs the cops shotgun, and shoots him in the head. He then notices a figure in the distance upon a hill. He yells out to it and asks for help. Shortly thereafter, a cluster of other people with rotted skin and what appear to be severely decomposed frames come out of the brush. Lee hastily stands up and- with his single good leg- limps away from the car wreck, noticing others trying to claw at him. With the figure gone, he climbs up the hill and climbs over a fence into a suburban backyard. Several thumps against the fence chase the wounded man as he crawls further away from the fence. He hits a wooden deck and watches the fence shudder until a quad of the gunshots sound out in the distance. The fence stops shaking after the final gunshot. Lee hesitantly pulls himself to his feet and calls out for anyone to reply. After finding no help, Lee decides to enter the house and finds the back door unlocked. He enters the house and quickly ascertains the disturbing quality of the downstairs section of the house as demolished as it is. Suddenly, a beeping noise comes from the living room. Lee investigates the sound and finds an answering machine of the house's phone displaying three new messages.
Lee presses a button on the answering machine and listens to the first of three messages. A woman who names herself Diana asks a woman named Elaine to look after a girl named Clementine for one more day, as she and her husband, Ed, had been attacked by "some crazy guy" and had to be taken to the emergency room. She promised that they would be back from Savannah before Elaine's spring break. The second message automatically plays and Diana details that she and Ed were under quarantine in the city and were not allowed to leave. She begged Elaine to take Clementine with her to Murietta before Diana had to leave for the hospital. The third message then plays and Lee hears Diana weeping. Diana tells her daughter (if she was indeed listening) to call the police. The crying woman repeats that she loves her daughter as the line cuts out. Lee picks up a photograph of a family of three next to the phone and hypothesizes that both Ed and Diana had perished due to the rotting people.
Lee then hears a child's voice come from the kitchen. He returns to the kitchen and finds nobody there. Suspicious, Lee checks each of the cupboards and drawers and finds a walkie-talkie. The child on the other end of the signal tells him that he is being too loud and has to be quiet. He asks her a series of questions while trying to locate her downstairs, in which he discovers her name to be Clementine, her age to be eight, and her parents to be in Savannah. He asks her if she is safe while searching for her in the kitchen. She explains that she is hiding in her treehouse. Lee sees her outside and waves at her in the treehouse. She suddenly yelps and disappears into her treehouse. Startled, Lee turns around and sees another person lunging for him. He throws his hands up defensively and pushes her off him. The woman's decayed skin gave him all of the understanding he needed, and he turned and ran from her, but slipped in the blood on the floor. He drags himself away towards the back door as a small child opens it with a hammer encumbering her small hands. Lee kicks the attacking woman back and grabs the hammer from the frightened child. He bashes the rotting skull in and kills the woman.
Panting from the struggle, Lee drops the hammer and formally greets the young girl. She asks if he had killed the woman, and he says that something else did. Lee asks her if she had been alone since Elaine (the woman who had been attacking him) had died. She answers yes and that she is waiting for her parents to return. Lee says that they may not come back for a while and promises to look after her until everything gets fixed. Lee then decides that they have to leave the house since the neighborhood was not safe. Lee tells Clementine that they need to leave immediately in order to find help. They exit the house through the back door and out through the gate. They see a pair of men trying to push a car out of the middle of the road. Lee greets them, and they both cry out in shock, afraid that Lee and Clementine were about to eat them. They introduce themselves and explain that they were trying to move a car so they could drive away to one of their dad's farm a few miles away from Atlanta. One of them, Shawn Greene, asks for Lee's help in moving the car in exchange for passage to the farm. Lee, before he thinks about it, blurts out that Clementine is not his daughter and says that he is just some guy who found her. The other man, Chet, raises the alarm that "more monsters" were coming. Lee and Shawn quickly hop over to the obstacle and push the car out of the road. Shawn calls for everyone to enter his pickup truck. Lee, Clementine, and Chet safely in the truck, Shawn drives away from the rotting people and onward to his father's farm. Upon his arrival several hours later, Chet gets into his own car that was at the farm and leaves for his mother's house.
After the departure of the Chet, Shawn's father exits the house, expressing relief at seeing his son alive and well. Shawn hugs his father and delivers news of Chet's fate. Both men discuss the situation in the city before turning their attention to Lee and Clementine. Shawn's father mistakenly believes that Lee was Clementine's father, but Shawn corrects him and explains that Lee is just a man who found her by herself. He asks Clementine to verify Lee's identity, and she does so while hiding behind Lee's back. Shawn's father notices Lee's leg injury and tells him to sit on the porch so he could treat it after asking his son to check on Shawn's sister inside the house. Lee sits on a bench and Shawn's father checks out the wound. He asks Lee for his name and then introduces himself as Hershel Greene. As he bandages Lee's wound, he tells Lee that he and Clementine could sleep in the barn with "another displaced family of three". Shawn returns and suggests that he fortify the fence in the morning. Lee agrees with Shawn, which Hershel complies with and says they can start tomorrow.
Lee and Clementine bed down in the barn with a pair of small sleeping bags. Clementine quietly comments on the smell, where Lee finishes her sentence about what the smell was like. Clementine says that she misses her parents and asks how far Savannah is from where they are. Lee says that it is very far away, and Clementine dozes off. Guilty about not being able to provide her more comfort, Lee slips into a nightmare about his ex-wife and the man she had slept with to end their marriage. He dreams about how he had killed the man and abruptly wakes up. Realizing that Clementine was still next to him and sleeping comfortably, Lee falls back asleep.
==Credits==
*Lee Everett
*Sandy Warren
*Meg Warren
*Clementine
*Kenny Jones
*Katjaa Jones
*Kenny Jr. Jones
*Hershel Greene
*Shawn Greene
*Chet
*Police Officer
*Diana (Photograph)
*Ed (Photograph)
*Elaine (Zombified)
==Deaths==
*Police Officer
*Elaine (Zombified)
*Several unnamed people
==Trivia==
*First appearance of Lee Everett.
*First appearance of Sandy Warren.
*First appearance of Meg Warren.
*First appearance of Clementine.
*First appearance of Kenny Jones.
*First appearance of Katjaa Jones.
*First appearance of Kenny Jr. Jones.
*First appearance of Hershel Greene.
*First appearance of Shawn Greene.
*First appearance of Diana. (Photograph)
*First appearance of Ed. (Photograph)
*The codes heard by the police scanner call in order for an animal bite, an advisory for a vicious animal, and numerous counts of assault with intent to murder after the operator announces the riot.