Ben Paul

Ben Paul is a main character who first appears in Season 2: Starved For Help of The Walking Dead. He is first seen in Chapter 11, with his classmate and teacher. Although kind and good-hearted, Ben often puts the group in danger by accidentally making poor or cowardly decisions
==Pre-Apocalypse==
===Rural, Georgia===
Ben was a high school student who played in the varsity band in his native town of Stone Mountain. He was traveling with the band on the way to the football playoffs when the outbreak occurred. They took shelter in the school gym for a while but departed after an undetermined period of time. It is presumed he stayed with the group until bandits (possibly from the Save Lots) raided their camp. He soon fled with Travis and David Parker into the woods. During a conversation, Ben revealed that he used to work on a goat farm during the summers.
==Post-Apocalypse==
===Season 2: Starved For Help===
===="Chapter 11"====
Along the way, they hear someone screaming and run to investigate. They find a group of people in desperate need of help; David Parker, who is caught in a bear trap and two teenagers struggling to get him out. Kenny arrives, and everyone frantically tries to decide what to do next. Soon enough, the walkers hear the screams, and the group is faced with the problem of how to free David. After checking the bear trap itself and finding out that it is been tampered with to not have a release latch, Lee takes the axe he has with him and tries to make a quick decision. After taking a couple of hacks at the chain, he realizes he will not be able to make it through the trap in time and tries to fall back on hacking off the leg; but Lee decides to make a hasty decision; cutting David's leg off. Ben Paul, one of the teenagers, freaks out and begs him not to do so, along with Travis and David himself. Mark fires at a few of the walkers to keep them back. Kenny tells Lee to hurry up and get it done. Lee picks up his axe and proceeds to cut David's leg off. He soon passes out from the pain and blood loss, and Mark picks him up and carries him, while Kenny fends off the walkers. During that, Ben follows them, while Travis is surprised by a walker, and is quickly devoured.
===="Chapter 12"====
After hearing noises coming across the street, Lilly is aiming around the area to see what is there. Suddenly, Lee appears from the bushes with Kenny, Ben, Mark, and David behind them. Lee orders Lilly to have them open the gate, saying they have wounded. "Shit! What the hell are they doing?" Lilly says. Larry opens the gate for them with crowded voices overlapping each other from the others. "Lee! What the hell? You can't just bring new people here! What were you thinking?" Lilly snaps at Lee. Kenny tells her to calm down, saying they had no choice. Kenny then asks Katjaa if she can fix David's leg up, but, she is unsure if she can. Clementine and Duck rush over to see, and Clementine questions Lee if he's okay. Kenny complains that Lilly is abusing her "de-facto" leader status and that they can make their own decisions. Larry interrupts saying that he agrees with Lilly, and Ben and David have to go. Mark tells Lilly that they should be allowed to stay, but Lilly reminds Mark that the only reason he was allowed to stay was that he had enough food for them. Sandy and Doug add in their two cents, saying that they should be given the chance to prove themselves before they decide to kick them out. Clementine drags Ben away from the chaos. Lee sides with Kenny on Lilly needing to give people a chance and to stop trying to tell everyone what to do all the time. After everything dies down, Lilly, fed up, brings Lee over to pick who to give the days rations to and walks away. Lee heads over to talk with Ben, who asks him how David is doing. Lee tells him that Katjaa will do everything she can for him, and questions his past. Ben reveals that he was at his high school for the most part of the outbreak, but it was overrun. Lee later goes to talk with Sandy, who is one of the people he gives some rations to. Sandy is reluctant on taking it, but, eventually accepts it. Lee then goes over to Clementine and also gives her some food too. Noticing her hat is missing, Lee asks her where it is, however, she does not remember and asks his help to find it, which he complies. Lee also feeds Duck, who is extremely ecstatic. He talks to Doug and offers him some food, but, he tells him to keep it for himself, adding that he can handle himself for the time being. He also adds it's another way to say thank you for saving him. Lee talks to many members of the group, giving his axe to Mark to help build the wall and fortify their position at the Travelier Motel. Sandy goes over to help Katjaa with the wounded leg on David, who says he's lost quite a lot of blood. Sandy believes that Lee and Kenny both did the right thing in bringing them back, and Katjaa agrees. Lee is shown talking to Kenny, who thinks they should leave the motor inn soon, and offers to let him and Clementine go with him and his family, saying that he's earned it. While there, Lee offers Kenny the last piece of rations for the day to him, which he accepts after learning that Duck had gotten to eat as well. After deciding where all the food is going to end up, Katjaa calls Lee and Kenny over. She tells them that that, unfortunately, David passed away from blood loss. Kenny angrily walks away to go work on the RV, leaving Lee talking with Katjaa about Ben. Before he can answer her question about him, David reanimates and attacks Katjaa. Lee saves Katjaa and then struggles with the zombie himself for a bit. Mark rushes over to kill David with the axe but misses and gets it stuck in the window of the truck. After a short struggle, Sandy shoots the zombified David in the head.
===="Chapter 13"====
David Parker was swiftly killed by Sandy after reanimating and almost biting Lee and Katjaa. Ben is shocked and exclaims that he was not bitten before he died, showing that Ben is unaware that you change no matter what happens. Lee tells him that you change even if you do not receive a bite, which Ben is shocked by. Suddenly, Sandy yells "Back off!" to someone outside the fence, while aiming her gun at them. One man tries to calm her down and say that he and his brother just want gas and they'll be on their way. Lilly tells Sandy to disarm her weapon, and Lee tells the two men they don't want any trouble. The tall man replies that they don't want trouble either, just gas for their generators, and they reveal that they live on a dairy through the woods and up the pathway. The small one asks them how they're doing on food, and tells them they have plenty of food at the dairy. Kenny whispers to Lee and Lilly that it might be a good idea to give them some gas in exchange for some food. Both agree with him, and Lilly tells them they'll bring some gas with them to take to the dairy, and a small group to make sure they aren't lying. The man agrees and introduces himself as Andrew St. John, and his brother Danny St. John. Lee asks Clementine what she thinks they should do for a last vote, and she tells him that she's really hungry. Sandy volunteers to go with Lee to the dairy, saying she has his back if anything goes south. Doug also volunteers to go along, as well as Ben and Mark. Lee, Sandy, Doug, Mark, and Ben follow Andy and Danny to the dairy and share their stories while walking. The brothers reveal they run the St. John dairy along with their mother, and that it's only the three of them right now. Lee talks with Sandy about how she's been doing, which slightly annoys Sandy. She goes on by saying that every time someone asks her that, they have a look on their face like it means they want to know if she's suicidal. Sandy confirms that she's not, and is just grieving for her sister. Sandy tells Lee not to worry about her, and says she's getting better with the passing time, and that she has a purpose still. Lee says he wants her to know that everyone cares about her and is glad to hear that she's alright. Andy and Danny ask Lee where he is from, and how many people they have at the motor inn, and they all hear screaming and yelling coming from across the trees. Two men are arguing with each other. Ben reveals that those men are the same men who raided his camp. Andy reveals they're a bunch of bandits from "Save-Lots" a supermarket near the area. Sandy believes they could take them since there are only two of them, but Danny tells her that there are a lot more of them. The first bandit then savagely kills the second one and leaves. "World out here has gone to shit." Andy says, and they continue along the path.
===="Chapter 14"====
Meanwhile, Lee, Sandy, Doug, Mark, and Ben have arrived to the St. John dairy with Andy and Danny. Danny shows them the electric fence around the house to protect them against the walkers. At the dairy farm, the group meets Andrew and Danny's mother, Brenda St. John. She welcomes the group and gives them a basket of fresh biscuits. When hearing Brenda say the St. John's last cow isn't doing too well, Mark immediately says that they have a veterinarian within the group and that everyone is extremely hungry, and would be willing to help if they could bring their whole group out for the day. Brenda says they should bring the whole group over to the farm and have a big dinner. They agree, and Doug volunteers to head back to round everyone for the trip back. Mark suggests that he take Ben with him in case anything happens, and the two of them leave with the basket of food.
===="Chapter 20"====
After Lee leaves the barn, he searches around the area and sees Sandy trying to get around the house, she signals him to go through the front before disappearing. Lee is suddenly blinded by a laser pointer coming from Doug, trying to signal Lee. Ben moves into view by Doug and Lee tells them the situation and says they should sneak around the back of the house to find Sandy, while Lee takes the front. He then enters the house and finds Brenda holding Katjaa hostage. He asks her questions, why it came to eating other human beings to survive, what would her husband think, and she backs up pleading him to stop reminding her while holding the gun to Katjaa's head. Lee keeps walking slowly to her, seeing Mark, now a walker, upstairs, struggling with the railing. Brenda ends up walking back into Mark's outstretched arms, in which he pulls her towards him and takes a bite out of her shoulder. Katjaa quickly runs down the stairs and asks Lee if he's seen Duck, and suddenly hear Kenny shouting outside. Lee and Katjaa run outside to find Kenny, who is yelling at Andrew, who is holding Duck hostage. Kenny makes a move toward Andy and is suddenly shot in the side of his stomach by Andy. Doug distracts Andrew for a second by shining his laser pointer in his eyes, and he accidentally lets Duck go. Lee rushes in and grabs for the gun. They begin to fight and end up tumbling down the side of the hill into the wooden fence below. Andy gets up and kicks Lee in the face, and begins to drag him towards the electric fence. Sandy comes up from behind Doug and Ben, to try and help Kenny up with Katjaa. Lilly and Clementine exit the barn, and as Andy tries to shove Lee into the fence, he calls for Lilly's help, but, she does nothing to help. Sandy yells at Lilly to do something and seeing her hesitance rushes over to her to grab the rifle from her hands. Lilly tells her to let go, but Sandy pushes her away and shoots Andy's shoulder to save Lee. Lee begins to savagely beat Andrew repeatedly in the face. After several punches, Andrew's face becomes heavily bruised and disfigured. With Andrew detained, Lee starts walking away from the fight. Andrew, despite the harsh beating, forces himself to his feet and starts antagonizing Lee by saying that he "ain't shit", encouraging Lee to finish the fight. Lee screams "It's over!" to Andy, to which Andy tells him that as soon as his brother and mother come outside, they'll all be killed. Lee tells him that they're both dead, to which Andy sobs over this and urges Lee to finish him off, but Lee declines. Clementine alerts everyone that the walkers are getting in now, due to the generator not working. Lee begins walking toward the group and urges them to follow him back to the motor inn. As everyone begins to turn around and leave, Lilly notices Brenda, reanimated as a walker, exiting the house, before she turns around and leaves the farm to its fate.
===="Chapter 21"====
On the way back, everyone is mainly quiet after the onslaught of things that happened back at the farm. Doug explains to Lee that he knows leaving the motor inn unattended was a bad idea, but he was worried about them. Lee tells him that he helped me out and it was good he did. Kenny then wants a word in private with Lee. Kenny's relationship with Lee grows stronger and wants Lee and Clementine to come to the coast with him and his family and tells him that he has his back with Lilly, after what happened to Larry. Clementine asks Lee if what he did was right back at the dairy, to which Lee assures her. Sandy talks with Lee about the events that happened and worries that it may have had an effect on Clementine's well-being. Lee agrees with her and confides that he's worried about the state of the world and what it will do to her. Sandy tells him that she'll do her part in protecting Clementine, and believes everyone else feels the same way. Duck then hears a noise, to which Ben hopes isn't more strangers. Everyone creeps up on the noise and they discover an abandoned car. The car is full of food and supplies, to everyone's amazement. Clementine, Ben, and Lilly agree that the food is not theirs. Kenny argues that they're in dire need of the supplies. Sandy agrees and says that people aren't going to be handing out supplies anymore, and if it is someone's then they shouldn't have left it behind. After some thought, the majority is to take the supplies. Katjaa finds a red hoodie in the car that looks to be Clementine's size. Clementine declines to wear it, but Lee convinces her that they aren't like the bandits and it's okay to take the hoodie. Sandy finds batteries in one of the boxes and gives one pair to Clementine for her walkie-talkie and the other pair to Lee to use it with the camcorder that he had found at the bandit camp. After putting the batteries in, Sandy nervously watches what's on it and urges Lee to come look. The camcorder shows a video of Jolene filming the group's stay in the motor inn, particularly focusing on Clementine, saying that she needs a mother to look after her. It is assumed for this reason why she took Clementine's hat. Jolene then says that the real danger in this new world is the humans, not the walkers, stating that as long as they get food from the dairy (which is now overrun with walkers) Clementine will be safe. The bandits then find Jolene. She then addresses several of the bandits by name, cursing them and calling them, "rapist monsters", before the camera blacks out, ending the episode.
===Season 3: Long Road Ahead===
===="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.
===Season 4: Around Every Corner===
===="Chapter 33"====
Roughly three hours after the end of the last episode, Lee, Kenny, Sandy, Clementine, Ben, Charles, Christa and Omid finally reach the Atlantic city of Savannah. The next day, they start to walk through the town with Lee hanging on to Clementine's walkie-talkie in case the unnamed man tries to contact her again, despite Clementine's pleas for it back. After walking a while, Christa asks to let Omid rest for a bit, despite Omid's reluctance to rest. Lee asks Kenny how much further the coast is from their position and Kenny tells them it won't be much longer now. Sandy questions the idea of there being a boat by the coast, believing someone to have taken them, but Kenny tells her there will be boats. Not much time passes before the group nears a church and the bell begins to ring. Lee becomes suspicious of the bell ringing at an unusual time and notices a figure running across a roof. Lee calls up to the person, but they have disappeared. The rest of the group had not seen the figure, however. The unknown man speaks through the walkie-talkie warning the group to move out of the street. Christa immediately questions Lee on the walkie-talkie and its functionality. Kenny wonders if the person Lee saw in the bell tower is the one on the radio, to which Sandy questions why they would bother warning them. A large group of walkers begins to descend on the group. The group tries to run, but are forced to fight back, pushing their way through the streets. Chuck kills a few of them with his shovel, Christa shoots one while protecting Omid, and Sandy uses the end of her rifle to knock some of the walkers down to make room for Lee and Clementine. Kenny is tripped by a walker under a car and drops his gun, leading to Lee saving him. Kenny comments on the close call, but Lee's attention is drawn to Clementine and Ben being cornered by a group of zombies. Ben freezes in fear and abandons Clementine to save himself, forcing Lee to shoot the walkers around her, but a stray walker reaches Clementine. Just as it goes to attack, it is promptly knocked down by Chuck and his shovel. Clementine catches up with Lee and the others, but Chuck (wanting to ensure Lee saves Clementine) stays to fight off the other walkers on his own accord. He yells to the others to move on without him and that he will meet up with them later. Sandy directs the others to follow her lead down the street, but another group of walkers makes their way onto the street. Lee opens a gate near one of the houses and tells everyone to run in as they notice Chuck is nowhere in sight now.
===="Chapter 34"====
The group flees into the backyard of a mansion that has been thoroughly fortified. Omid trips on the way in, and Christa worries when she sees that his wound has opened up again. As Christa panics about the wound, Omid tells her she needs to work on her "bedside manner". Sandy attempts to open the back door, but it's locked tight. Lee comforts Clementine, who is afraid the dead may have seen them. Kenny believes getting inside the house is best instead of sitting outside in the backyard. Sandy discovers the pet door and realizes that it is also locked. Omid comments that the pet door is probably electronically locked, and responds to the electronic signal that comes from the animal's collar. Sandy then questions where they could find the dog. Christa looks over to a small grave by a dog house. While Sandy attempts to find a shovel, Lee confronts Ben on what happened in the street with Clementine, and mildly threatens him not to endanger Clementine again. Sandy finds a shovel beside the locked shed and Lee offers to dig up the grave. Once Lee digs up the dirt, he discovers a decomposing dog. Clementine comes over and is disgusted by the smell, and Christa politely tells Clementine to let Lee work. Lee tries to take the collar off the dead dog, but can't get it until the dog's head suddenly falls off its body. Christa vomits at the sight of its head falling off. Clementine asks if she is alright, and Christa assures her that it was just the smell that made her sick. Omid begins to question the honesty of her statement and that it might be something else, but she quickly rejects his theory. Now that Lee has the collar for the door, he unlocks it and says he can't see anything from the pet door (or get the main door open). Ben asks if he can give it a try, but before Lee can answer, Clementine quickly rushes in through the pet door. Everyone looks at the door in shock, and Lee immediately asks Clementine if she's okay. The door opens and Clementine excitedly exits. Lee praises Clementine for her idea, along with Kenny and Sandy, while Christa looks on in irritation. Sandy goes over to help Christa help Omid up to get him inside the house with the rest of the group.
===="Chapter 35"====
Once they are all inside, Christa lays Omid down on the couch in the living room to rest on which he thanks her. Afterward, she starts to berate Lee for not telling them that Clementine's walkie-talkie works and that there is someone on the other end of it. Sandy wonders if the one on the radio is the one that rang the bells and drew the walkers toward them. She quickly debases it saying it makes no sense to lure someone into a trap and warn them about it. Kenny believes that that is one reason why they should hurry up and get a boat before something happens, which Christa argues saying she isn't going anywhere until Omid is feeling better. Lee brings up Chuck adding that they should go out looking for him, which Sandy says is too dangerous right now, since the walkers that chased them are still outside, and believes that he made it out alright. Kenny and Ben decide to search the second floor of the house and have Lee and Sandy search the first floor for any dangers. The house is picked clean, save for two bottles of whiskey and a large bag of dog food. Lee talks with Clementine, and praises her work on getting them inside, but, to be more careful next time, saying that acting too quickly can lead to danger. Christa comes over and asks Clementine who the man on the radio was, and says she should stop talking to him. Sandy agrees with Christa and tells her that the man she's talking to may not even have her parents with him, and could be just trying to lure her there, saying that there are crazy people out there. Clementine claims that he's "nice" and just wants to help, but Christa doesn't believe that to be true of his nature. Ben calls for Sandy and Lee while running downstairs, saying that Kenny went up into the attic and won't come back down. Sandy, irritated by Ben's actions earlier and his cowardice attitude, berates him on why he didn't go up there himself to check on him and follows Lee up into the attic. Once reaching the attic, Lee and Sandy find Kenny hunched over and looking over at a zombified child. Kenny theorizes that he ran out of food and starved to death. Kenny also adds how he looks just like Duck. Sandy reveals that she saw a photo downstairs that had the name "Fivel" written on it, adding that that must be the kid's name. Kenny tells them he can't do it. Lee tells him he doesn't have to and walks forward to the zombified child and crushes his head with his foot. "We should bury him." Kenny says to them. Lee picks up the body and takes him downstairs.
===="Chapter 36"====
After his Fivel's death, Lee buries him next to his dog and fills up the grave while Clementine watches sadly until Christa brings her back inside. Lee suddenly sees that someone is watching him from beyond the fence but they run off before he can get a good look at them. Sandy, Christa, and Ben rush outside to investigate Lee's threats against the man. Sandy questions him if it was a man or a woman, with Ben asking why it matters knowing. Sandy clarifies that it could be the same man talking to Clementine on the walkie-talkie. Kenny comes outside asking what's going on. After informing him of the situation, Kenny is deadset on finding a boat and Lee decides to go with him. Sandy also volunteers to go to watch their backs. Clementine asks to go, but Lee tells her to wait there to help keep an eye on Omid. After they leave, Clementine goes to sit on the chair by Omid, who is drinking some water. Omid assures her they'll be alright before he attempts to lay back down. As the three walks down River Street, a bell tolls from a different location somewhere in the city distracting the walkers in the area. When they reach the river there are no boats except one that has sunk halfway into the water, which Kenny tries in vain to salvage. Kenny tells Lee and Sandy to check out the coastline for anymore working boats using a telescope. Lee looks through it but realizes that he needs a quarter to activate it. Sandy searches around and makes a gruesome discovery, a barrier made up of body parts, and several live walkers impaled on spikes, serving as a warning. Lee finds strange markings on the boarded-up doors. Lee pokes around some more, finding cars that have been stripped clean in the process and eventually finds and bashes open a newspaper dispenser, giving him a single quarter. Looking through the telescope reveals nothing useful, and Kenny walks over to him explaining the hull of the boat is beyond repair. Sandy sarcastically expresses shock, which irritates Kenny. Before Kenny continues, he notices the pile of walkers and questions what it is. A tiny gasp is heard, which is revealed to be Clementine, who snuck out of the house without anyone knowing. Lee is shocked by her being there and tells her that she should have stayed at the house. Clementine says that he said they were a team and that's why she left to join them. Soon after, another bell goes off, which draws the walkers from before to the docks. Sandy leads the group into the alley and has Lee give her a boost to climb on the fire escape and lift them up. After Sandy gets Clementine and Kenny up, Kenny attempts to grab Lee to pull him up, but accidentally drops him. Walkers begin to swarm the alley until Lee finds a manhole cover, and escapes down into the sewers.
===="Chapter 37"====
In the sewers below Savannah, Lee uses some misdirection to avoid walkers. Along the way, Lee discovers the remains of Chuck, with an empty revolver nearby, implying that Chuck had used the last bullet on himself before being devoured. Lee says to his dead body that he deserved better. Lee eventually makes his way into a fortified basement area of what seems to be a morgue, which appears to be well-stocked with supplies. Unfortunately, the place is also home to a small group of rather paranoid and hostile survivors, who assume Lee is from Crawford, and therefore dangerous. Back on the streets, Sandy, Clementine, and Kenny are trying to make their way back to the house they're holed up in, except there is a small horde of walkers in the way. Kenny suggests trying to sneak around to the front, so they won't attract them back to the house, but Sandy disagrees, adding that they will see them anyway and says they'll have to fight through them. Sandy grabs a pipe off of the group and gives it to Kenny, saying he should kill them with that, instead of firing a gun at them, since it could attract more to the area. She tells Clementine to stay back and not to get near them, and she and Kenny go out to take out the group of walkers near the area. They manage to successfully take out the horde and run back to the house. Upon entering the house, no one is seen downstairs. Sandy calls out for anyone and Ben comes down the stairs, asking what had happened. Sandy asks where Christa and Omid are, and Christa comes down the stairs after, saying that they were helping Omid into the bed upstairs. Omid shouts from upstairs what was going on, and Christa tells him that the others just came back and it was nothing. Omid lays his head back down. Sandy asks Christa if Lee has come back at all, but Christa is unaware Lee wasn't even with them and asks where he went. Kenny tells them about Lee entering the sewers to get away from a group of walkers. Clementine is worried about Lee and asks Sandy if she thinks he's okay. Sandy tells her that Lee is strong and she believes he's alright and trying to get back there now. Back in the sewer, an older member of the group, Vernon, interrogates Lee at gunpoint, growing evermore twitchy as the conversation continues, and a younger women, Brie, urges him to shoot, again claiming Lee must be from Crawford. Lee confides in him that he has no idea what Crawford is and he was just separated from his group. Vernon tells him that Crawford is the group of people that put the pile of bodies up to mark their territory. Lee promises that he isn't them and Lee slowly and calmly disarms Vernon, promising him that he's not a bad guy. Everyone drops their guard as they realize Lee is telling the truth. The group is the last of a cancer support group that fled to the sewers once Crawford's rules began being enforced by Oberson, including the murder of five of the group's members before they could escape. Vernon tells Lee that their setup is hidden very well and their bell system keeps them protected. Lee questions him on his "bell system" and Vernon tells him that one of his own, Clive, goes out and rings the bells around Savannah to attract the hordes. Lee asks Clive if he had seen him and his group on the streets when he rang the bell. Clive says he heard voices and heard someone call out to him but didn't get a good look at anyone and apologizes if anyone in his group was hurt. After talking more, Lee asks Vernon if he could help him find his way out of the sewers and back to his people. Brie tells Vernon that he can't go, since he's the only doctor they have, but Vernon decides to assist Lee.
===="Chapter 38"====
On the return to the mansion, Lee and Vernon enter the house where Sandy is looking through some of the cabinets in the kitchen. Lee introduces Vernon to Sandy, and she is a bit skeptical of Vernon's intentions but decides to play them off anyway. Christa runs down the stairs to inform Lee that Omid's condition has gotten worse. Lee tells her that Vernon is a doctor, much to her excitement. Christa begs Vernon to help her, which he accepts. The four of them go upstairs to an unconscious Omid. Vernon asks for some space so Lee goes downstairs to find an intoxicated Kenny, who happily greets Lee. Sandy walks over and tells Lee that he's been getting wasted ever since they got back. Ben speaks up and says he asked Kenny not to go overboard but he didn't listen. Kenny gets up and drunkenly tells off Sandy and Lee, further adding they are "fucked." Kenny continues to drink the whiskey and says their plans are gone since there is no boat left in Savannah. Lee asks where Clementine is, which no one else knows. Lee asks Ben why Clementine showed up on River Street looking for her, and Ben tells him that Christa needed his help with Omid and that she had snuck out during that time. Frustrated, Lee walks off to try to find her. Sandy stops him and says she thought she heard someone go outside into the backyard before they got back. Lee goes outside to look around and hears a noise inside the storage shed. Once he attempts to open it, Clementine pops out and hugs him. Clementine excitedly tells him to look what she had discovered; a fully intact boat. Kenny comes outside and drops the whiskey bottle, with a newfound purpose. Hours later, while Kenny and Ben inspect the boat, Vernon finishes his work with Omid and reports to the mansion's sitting room. Annoyed, Sandy asks Lee to stop pacing so much, adding it's making everyone nervous. Christa questions the idea on if the boat is even in working condition or not. Kenny returns and says that he has bad news; the boat was missing a battery and gas, but is in otherwise good condition. The group discusses Crawford as the only place that could possibly have what they need, but Vernon staunchly rejects the plan to ask them for help, instead proposing that they use the sewers as a way to get into the community silently and steal what they need. He volunteers to lead them through the sewers so long as they steal medicine as well for his people as well as for Omid. The group agrees to sneak in under the cover of night. Vernon departs to rejoin his people and share with them the plan. Lee finds Clementine listening in on the group's plan to sneak into Crawford. She asks if he thinks it will be dangerous, to which Lee says that it will be. Clementine says that she does not want anyone else to die, but accepts Lee's assurance that nobody would die. She says that she needs to get ready, explaining that she wants to go with Lee in case her parents were in Crawford. Lee tries to dismiss the possibility that her parents are there, but she still wants to go with him to see for herself. Lee tells her that she could come with them, but only if she promises to stay quiet and do exactly as told. Clementine eagerly agrees and goes to arrange her belongings. Lee watches her leave with a regretful expression on his face. The group gathers in the backyard, assembling their weapons and awaiting Vernon's return. Kenny announces that he found some tools in the shed, offering them to the others. He then quietly pulls Lee aside, informing him that the boat was only thirty feet long and not big enough for all seven of them. Before Kenny could offer anything further, Vernon enters the backyard through the gate, escorting Brie. Kenny demands to know who she is, and she explains that she was once a student in the school where Crawford kept its supplies and that she knows the layout. The group offers no objection to her joining them, and follows Vernon out of the gate. Lee tells them to wait a moment and faces Clementine, he asks her if she remembers what to do. Vernon is outraged that Lee had decided to bring Clementine with them, but Lee denies any attempts to get him to change his mind. Sandy offers her disagreement, but Lee closes the discussion on the matter. Kenny resignedly allows Lee to take her and urges the group to get going.
===="Chapter 39"====
Under the sewers, Lee prepares the group on what to do if things get ugly, telling Sandy to find a vantage point and be ready to start sniping once guns start firing. He tells Clementine to stay close to him. Kenny opens the manhole and the group climbs up. Christa, noticing that the area is clear from guards, questions Vernon about it. He tells her that there should be guards around, since they're always patrolling. Sandy spots one by the front. Lee tells Sandy and Kenny to get their rifles ready and fire when he gives the signal. Lee sneaks up to the guard, but, it is shown that he has reanimated and tries to attack Lee, until Lee stabs it in the head with a hatchet. Soon after, walkers from around the area see them. The group quickly realizes that the whole place is infested by walkers and retreat to the elementary school where supplies are kept. Lee comforts the group by saying they were fast enough to avoid them from noticing them. Brie says that she may know where to start looking for supplies and starts walking down the hall. The group finds the "control room", and a door labeled "Armory". Brie takes note of a map on the wall and informs the group of what Crawford used each building for. Ben sets to work on the Armory door, Kenny and Brie go to get gasoline from the storage shed outside, Christa and Vernon go to the nurse's station to collect medication, leaving Lee and Sandy to go find a battery for the boat in the workshop. Clementine questions Lee on what she should be doing and he tells her to stay there and watch over their 'command center'. She initially thinks she is just being left with Ben, but Lee assures her that he is actually leaving Ben with her, pleasing Clementine. Sandy moves on ahead of Lee to the alley out back, which is where Brie said they would find the battery.
===="Chapter 40"====
Sandy walks outside towards the back alley to the auto-shop, with Lee behind her. Sandy asks Lee to give her a boost so she can climb over to unlock the gate. As she unlocks the gate, a walker falls from the roof, and cracks its head open on the pavement. The two jump in surprise and look over the walker to find a name tag; "Dr. Logan Ashe". Sandy feels in his pockets and finds a piece of paper that looks to be a combination of something. She gives it to Lee in case he finds out what its for and the two attempt to open the window to the auto-shop. After finding a battery from a car in the workshop, the car alarm goes off, alerting several walkers into the area. Sandy grabs the battery from Lee and places it in the backpack as she and Lee make their way on top of the SUV in the shop. Lee points out the glass window above their heads and shoots it out. He gives Sandy a boost up and she reaches down to grab him. After they make it out, and a roof-to-roof jump, the two make their way back to the main area of the school. Lee and Sandy then continue down the hall back towards the classroom to check up on Clementine and Ben, only to be interrupted as they pass the front door, where Kenny and Brie rush in, racing to escape the group of walkers that were following them. Fortunately, Lee manages to insert the hatchet the group found in a toolbox back at the house into the door handles, preventing the walkers from busting in. Everyone heads back to the classroom where Clementine greets everyone and excitedly examines the battery and gas cans each group collected. Kenny goes over to help Ben, who is having trouble unlocking the door to the armory. While everyone rests up, Sandy goes to the nurse's office to check on Christa and Vernon, only to find a group of walkers banging on the door. After shooting all of them, Sandy makes her way inside to find Christa and Vernon ready to fire. The two lower their guns once they realize it's only Sandy, and the three begin to search for a way to open the safe where the medical supplies were being kept. A bit of investigating leads to Sandy finding a tape and a camcorder in the room, containing footage of a pregnant woman named Anna Correa and Dr. Logan discussing what to do about the former's pregnancy, as per Crawford's policy on no hindrances. Sandy instantly recognizes the Doctor as the same walker that fell from the rooftop in the alley. Sandy leaves the infirmary back to the classroom to ask Lee for the paper of the combination she found, which he gives her. Upon further inspection of the paper, she realizes the combination is to a safe instead of the medicine cabinet, but also notices Dr. Logan's locker by the door to the infirmary and uses the code to open it, discovering another tape. Arriving back inside the nurse's office, the tape found in the locker is played, showing the events the day after, as well as explaining why Crawford fell. Christa begins to cry after witnessing the tape, and refuses to explain further. Vernon manages to unlock the safe with the combination from the tape, and heads back to the classroom with Sandy and Christa.
===="Chapter 41"====
As Sandy walks back to the classroom, she hears a sound coming from around the corner and readies her knife. Ben jumps from the side with a hatchet, startling Sandy. Ben apologizes for scaring her and says he thought he heard a noise, explaining that Kenny wanted him to find something to help open the armory door. Sandy asks him where he found the hatchet, and Ben tells her he found it stuck in the door. Walkers soon begin to pile into the hallway from the now open door. Sandy kills a few walkers and urges Ben to run back into the classroom, following behind. Upon getting inside the classroom, Brie holds the door shut and stands by it to make sure no walkers get in while Kenny is just about finished opening the armory door by force. Sandy explains to Lee and Vernon of the situation, while Christa prepares Clementine for their escape. A now-regretful Ben finally decides to come clean about his dealings with the bandits to Kenny, much to Lee's disagreement. Kenny, upon hearing what Ben says after bashing the door open, becomes furious and attacks Ben, only to be held back by Vernon and Lee. A short argument ensues, and eventually, Kenny reveals to everyone that not everyone can fit on the boat and someone is going to get left behind. Everyone begins to vote for Ben to stay behind, until Clementine speaks up and tells them they can't leave him behind. Christa decides to abstain from the vote, while Lee and Sandy vote for Ben to stay with them. Brie questions whether she and Vernon get a vote or not, only to be interrupted as three walkers break through the door, and bite her to death through disembowelment. As Vernon watches in horror, Lee orders everyone to run into the bell tower, dragging Vernon with them. With the armory door being unable to shut due to Kenny's force beforehand, the group runs down the stairs, only to find the room to be infested with walkers, now attentive on them. Kenny hands Lee a shotgun that was in the hands of a fallen guard as the group begins to head up the stairs, and after shooting and fighting his way up the stairs, the group makes it to the top of the tower. As the group begins to pile out the window, Vernon notices the train, and asks where the group came to Savannah from. Upon every one (except Ben and Lee) vacating, the bell rings, to which Ben covers his ears. A walker that had been hanging from the bell eventually grabs hold of Ben, at which point Lee shoots it off of him. Lee manages to save Ben from certain death, but the tenanted falls on to the ledge, losing his grip just as Lee catches him. Lee asserts he will save him but Ben urges Lee to let him go, as a way to punish himself for his screw-ups. Despite his pleas, Lee pulls Ben up and the two escape. When the group finally arrives at home, they find a motionless Omid. Christa begins to cry over him, until he awakens and groggily greets the group. He is given medicine by Vernon, who then takes Lee out into the hallway to talk with him in private. Vernon commends Lee on saving Ben, and says he is a good man for keeping his group together and saving people when they need it, however, Vernon expresses his concerns over Clementine's wellbeing. It is at that point that Vernon offers to take Clementine with him back to the Crawford Sewer group, to which Lee says he'll have to think over everything he said. Vernon tells him to take his time and politely leaves. Lee then goes into the study, where Clementine watches Kenny through the window as he works on the boat. It is then that she begins to ask Lee if they'll have time to look for her parents before they leave on the boat. Lee tells her that with everything going on, there might not be enough time to look for them now, and she begins to cry herself to sleep, and Lee places the walkie-talkie on the arm of the couch and sits down. He soon falls asleep.
===="Chapter 42"====
Lee wakes up to find Clementine is nowhere to be found. He goes out into the back yard to find her abandoned hat. Seeing the walkie-talkie abandoned next to a garbage can outside the yard, he hops over the fence and goes to investigate Lee kneels down to pick up the walkie-talkie and a walker suddenly emerges from behind the trash cans and attacks Lee. He kills it but quickly realizes he was bitten on his wrist (his blood having splattered on Clementine's hat) at which point the group, consisting of Sandy, Kenny, Ben, Christa, and Omid come outside and head around the back to where Lee is standing, questioning him why he's out there, where Clementine has gone, and the blood on her hat. "It's mine." Lee softly says and shows everyone his bite mark, the group is shocked and despaired by the sight of it, though he asserts Clementine is more important right now. Sandy asks him what he needs from them, and Lee tells her that he needs to go find Clementine, but can't ask anyone to go with him, knowing it will be dangerous. Kenny asks him who would have taken Clementine, and Lee mentions to him about Vernon's offer from last night. Kenny immediately assumes Vernon is the culprit. Christa speaks up and says that they're all responsible for Clementine and she needs more than Lee to save her. Omid optimistically agrees, adding that they're not gonna let Lee go alone. Sandy looks at Lee and smiles warmly, saying that he's a good friend and she's not going to stay behind when he needs help getting Clementine back. Sandy stands firm by saying she'll do everything she can to help get her back. Kenny agrees with Sandy's statement, and tells Lee that he's grateful for everything he did for him and his family and what he couldn't do, and says he's with him till the end. Lee then offers Ben to come along, much to Kenny's annoyance, but Ben says it might be best for him to stay behind, due to his past mistakes. Lee tells him he shouldn't think about that and think about what he feels like he should do. Ben agrees to go, adding that Lee has been nice to him. After the conversation, the group heads out to Vernon's hideout, leaving the boat safely behind in the tool shed. The group finally make it to the hideout, only to find it completely abandoned. Lee calls out to no avail, and begins to stress himself. Suddenly, a horde of walkers is seen shuffling in the streets. Then the walkie-talkie comes on and Clementine's voice is heard calling Lee. However, it quickly turns to the unnamed man's voice, saying he has Clementine that she is "fine", and confirms that he isn't Vernon, but warns that Lee should choose his next words wisely.
===="Chapter 43"====
The stranger, the man who kidnapped Clementine, contacts Lee through Clementine's radio saying that Clementine is "fine", and that Lee should choose his words very carefully. Lee realizes that she is somewhere else in the city and begs for the man not to hurt her. The man tells him that he is not the one who "hurts people." Christa assures Lee that they'll find her. Sandy questions where this man would have taken Clementine in such a short time, also taking note of the walkers outside. Kenny notices a few walkers coming in from the hole in the sewer and closes the door, saying they should all try to hurry up. Lee continues to search the morgue and looks for some tools and finds a rib spreader. After attempting to open the elevator with it, Lee passes out from the bite's infection. Sandy runs over to Lee to try to help him. Kenny questions her if he's dead, but she says he's alive and asks for Omid and Ben to help her get him on the table. Ben frantically asks everyone what they can do, and Christa grabs a hacksaw on the shelf and wonders if they might be able to save Lee if they cut off his arm. Lee jumps up, out of breath. Christa tells him what happened and about the idea they had. Lee considers cutting his arm off, but decides against it. Omid tells him he'll die, to which Lee acknowledges but adds that he won't die in the morgue. Sandy goes up to the elevator Lee was working on and manages to get it open with the rib spreader and calls for everyone. Kenny and Omid help Lee up and over to the elevator. Once inside the elevator shaft, they begin to climb up the ladder. Upon reaching the rooftop, they look over the streets at the thousands of walkers on the streets. Sandy believes that it might be the same herd at the railroad station and that they followed the sound of the train. Ben questions how they can get down if the streets are infested with the undead, and Lee remembers what Clive did to gather the herds of walkers and points out the bell tower close to the rooftop. Kenny grabs a ladder by the door and believes he can use it to get across to the tower. Sandy tells him that she'll be the one to go, adding that she's younger in years and is faster. As Sandy climbs across the ladder, the lock breaks and begins to slip, but Sandy manages to reach the bell tower in time. After ringing the bells, Sandy makes a large jump back to the hospital roof and the group quickly run to the fire escape to make their way back to the mansion.
===="Chapter 44"====
Once the group finally returns to the mansion, it is revealed that the boat has been stolen. Shocked by its disappearance, Lee immediately suggests that Vernon took it. Sandy believes it couldn't be Vernon since he and his cancer patients wouldn't be able to move that boat out of there. Omid finds a note left by Vernon, saying that he feels really bad about taking the boat. The note also mentions feeling guilt over leaving Clementine behind as well. Omid goes around the back way to open the shed for everyone, while Lee and Sandy talk with Christa about getting away from cities and heading for the countryside instead. Kenny gets frustrated with Ben once again. After angrily stating that he should've been left to die in Crawford, an enraged Ben fires back at Kenny. The teen exclaims that he is sorry for what he has caused, but also says that Kenny was lucky that he had his family to lose, and was able to say goodbye. Ben reveals that he never had the chance to know what happened to his own, and tells Kenny to stop wishing him dead. Before Kenny can respond, Sandy alerts everyone to a herd of walkers forming outside the house, invading the manor. After making it inside, everyone scopes the area to make sure its safe, before Omid notices the front door is open. Everyone quickly runs to the front door to close it, while Lee attempts to find something to help them. Lee runs up to the door to chop the walkers' hands off with a cleaver and helps them close the door. However, walkers begin to crawl in through the windows. While the group attempts to run upstairs and fend them off, a zombified Brie appears and tries to attack Lee, but, she is shot in the head by Omid. Sandy and Christa help him fend them off by shooting some of them, while Lee and Kenny move a cabinet by the hallway to keep them back. The group takes a stand, and with only a few bullets left, they try to fight back against the undead. However, they run out of ammo before they make a dent. Sandy pulls the rope leading to the attic, and the group flee into the attic. The group realizes that they are stuck with no way out and Lee ends up fainting, until Clementine's voice is heard on the walkie-talkie. She frantically tells Lee that she's at the Marsh House, the hotel she and her parents often went to. A squabble between Kenny, who is paranoid of Lee's bite and him turning, and Lee begins, culminating in Lee hesitating to throw a stone bust head at Kenny, throwing it the wall instead. The wall is shown to be weak and decaying and leading to the house next to it. While Kenny is trying to break through the wall. Lee, Sandy, Christa, and Omid talk with each other about what happened outside with Ben. Lee and Sandy tell Christa and Omid about what happened to Katjaa and Duck, and that it was partially Ben's fault. Christa questions Sandy on who Meg was, saying she had heard her mention that Omid's humor was similar to hers, and Sandy tells them of her sister and what happened to her. Christa apologizes, not meaning to bring up a bad subject, but Sandy tells her that she's had time to grieve and wants to focus on everything happening now. Kenny switches with Omid, and Kenny tells Christa about how he, Sandy, and Lee escaped from a meat locker when Larry, who he mentioned to both Christa and Omid earlier, had died. She complies that it sounded like they went through a lot before she and Omid had joined. Lee tells them that Ben wanted to die back at Crawford, asking him to drop him, expressing guilt from Kenny over his interactions with Ben. Omid finally manages to break through the wall and calls everyone over.
===="Chapter 45"====
Upon entering the next mansion that was touching against theirs, the group finds a dead couple that had committed suicide, presumably at the start of the outbreak. Kenny begins to remember Katjaa, and says he forgives her for doing it, but, it didn't make it right to do that. Sandy believes that it's a choice someone makes to stop the pain they're feeling, and in the world they live in now, she doesn't find it a bad thing and believes the couple did the right thing for them. Kenny retrieves the couple's pistol, remarking that only one bullet is left. While everyone searches around the room, Lee finds a balcony where it is possible to cross to the next roof, and the group follows. Omid questions if he thinks it might be safe enough to use, and Christa says it's their only option regardless. Lee goes first, then Sandy, then Omid, then Christa, and Kenny last. Once Ben begins to try and jump, the balcony collapses and he falls. In an attempt to save Ben, Lee and Kenny run down to go and see if he's okay. After removing a bunch of bags off him, it is shown that Ben has been impaled on the railing. As Kenny begins to yank him off, Ben shouts in pain, attracting walkers into the alleyway. As the walkers close in, Kenny demands Lee to go and find Clementine. Lee refuses to leave Kenny behind, and Kenny pushes him past the gate and locks it. He apologizes to Lee for any pain he has caused Lee in the past, and that this is his chance to redeem himself. As the walkers overrun the alley, Kenny uses his last bullet to shoot Ben, preventing him from being devoured. Kenny is not shown to die or escape, but, the alley is soon overrun. Sandy runs to Lee who rejoins them on the roof and asks him what had happened. Lee grieves for Kenny and Ben, along with Sandy, Christa, and Omid, and continue on to save Clementine.
==Death==
;Killed By
*Walkers (Caused)
*Stranger (Indirectly Caused)
*Lee Everett (Indirectly Caused, Accidental)
*Sandy Warren (Indirectly Caused, Accidental)
*Omid (Indirectly Caused, Accidental)
*Christa (Indirectly Caused, Accidental)
*Kenny Jones (Indirectly Caused, Accidental; Out of Mercy)
After Ben falls off a loose balcony in an alleyway in Savannah. Lee and Kenny try to help Ben, they discover that the rung of the balcony has impaled his stomach. Ben's screams attract walkers and they get trapped. Kenny saves Lee by locking him behind a gate and then uses his last round to shoot Ben in the head out of mercy, as it was Ben's worst fear to be torn apart by walkers. Kenny couldn't leave him which implies that he had finally forgiven him for his actions.
==Killed Victims==
This list shows the victims Ben has killed:
*Elizabeth (Indirectly Caused)
*Tess (Indirectly Caused, Alive)
*Doug (Indirectly Caused)
*Katjaa Jones (Indirectly Caused)
*Kenny Jr. Jones (Indirectly Caused)
*Charles (Indirectly Caused)
*Brie (Indirectly Caused, Alive)
*Numerous counts of walkers
==Appearances==
==Relationships==
===Allies===
*Travis † - Friend
*David Parker † - Teacher and Friend
*Motel Survivors
**Lee Everett † - Friend
**Kenny Jones - Former Enemy
**Clementine - Friend
**Sandy Warren
**Katjaa Jones † - Indirect Victim
**Kenny Jr. Jones † - Indirect Victim
**Doug † - Indirect Victim
**Mark †
**Charles † - Indirect Victim
**Christa †
**Omid
*Cancer Support Group
**Brie † - Indirect Victim
===Enemies===
*Motel Survivors
**Lilly - Former Ally and Attempted Killer
**Larry †
*St. John's Dairy Farm
**Andrew St. John
**Danny St. John †
**Brenda St. John †
*Save-Lots Bandits
**Jake † - Attempted Killer and Thief
**Linda † - Attempted Killer
**Gary † - Attempted Killer
**Bart † - Attempted Killer
*Cancer Support Group
**Vernon - Former Ally and Thief
*Stranger † - Indirect Killer
==Trivia==
*Ben is considered to be an inept combatant.
*Ben is shown to be quite cowardly.
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