Chapter 10

Chapter 10 is the tenth and final episode of Season 1: A New Day of The Walking Dead.
==Plot==
Clementine and Duck are playing with a soccer ball, and Duck questions Clementine if she's played soccer before, but she's unsure of how to actually play it. Duck says he's never played it either and wonders if the adults could teach them. Kenny walks over and tells Duck and Clementine that soccer can be a fun game to learn and he hopes to teach them soon. Sandy knocks on Meg's door to ask her if she's going to come out and eat, but Meg tells her not to bother her. Sandy asks her why she's being withdrawn and wonders if she's mad that she didn't invite her to go with her to the base yesterday. Meg tells her that she's not bothered by anything and just wants to be left alone. Inside, Meg is sitting on the floor taking more drugs and calmly smiling. Sandy leaves to go find Jackson to ask him if Meg has said anything to him while she was gone. Jackson tries to avoid making contact with Sandy while he helps work on Doug's alarm system, and says that Meg didn't really talk to him much about her decision to go yesterday without her and assures her not to be too worried. Doug looks between the two, not sure whether to say anything or not, then Sandy walks off. Jackson shrugs his shoulders to Doug, and asks what her deal was. Doug tells him that she's just looking out for her sister.
Lee, Larry, and Mark are clearing out one of the hotel rooms, bringing out a couch to make some space for Mark to use it as his bedroom. Larry complains about doing "most of the heavy lifting" while the two of them barely put any strength into it. Lee tells him that he's using more than he thinks, but Larry insists that he's lying, and hints that he lies about a lot of things. Mark questions Larry why he's being so hard on Lee, and Larry tells him that Lee is aware of why and storms off. Mark asks Lee about his history with Larry and what he had done to make Larry so angry. Lee, not wanting to tell him the truth, tells him that Larry just assumes the worst out of everyone, and not to think too much of it.
Clementine starts coloring on the sidewalk, and Lilly walks up to her to see how she's doing, and offers her some hair ties she found in her room, thinking Clementine would want to try them for sleeping. Clementine thanks her and says it was nice of Lilly to be thinking of her. Lilly smiles back and leaves her to coloring, and is soon stopped by Sandy. Sandy questions Lilly on Meg's behavior while she was gone. Lilly tells her that she wasn't paying much attention to Meg, but saw her go into Jackson's room and didn't come out for a few hours. She goes on by saying she assumed she and Jackson were spending time together, but didn't want to know what activities they were up to. Sandy continues to question if she's seen anything out of the ordinary with Meg or Jackson. Lilly says that she's noticed that Jackson has been acting a bit weird and spacey since they settled down at the motor inn. Despite being grouped together, Lilly claims that she doesn't know much about Jackson at all, aside from his former drug usage which Meg had revealed back at the drugstore. Sandy thanks her for the information and heads off to Jackson's room without him seeing her. Once inside, Sandy rummages through his belongings to search for anything and stumbles on his stash of drugs. Meg enters the room while Sandy has her back to the door, and angrily asks her what she's doing in Jackson's room. Sandy turns around and immediately questions her on why she's in his room. Meg hesitates to answer and affirms that she has no right to go through his things. Sandy holds the bag up and demands to know if she has been using again. Meg tells her she's crazy and storms out. Sandy runs behind her, grabs her arm, and forces Meg more into the light, where Meg's face is flushed. Sandy angrily yells out to Meg about why she's taking drugs again. Meg yells back to her and says she doesn't own her life and she can do whatever she wants, adding that the "world is over" and she could die by other means before the drugs could impact her. Everyone begins to take notice of their argument and uneasily listens. Jackson runs up to try to intervene and tells Sandy that he's to blame for it, and he showed Meg his stash, to begin with. Sandy suddenly punches Jackson in the face, and Meg forcefully pushes Sandy away, and tells her to leave her and Jackson alone. Meg tearfully yells at Sandy that she isn't their mother, nor is Sandy much older than her, and to quit treating her like a child, insisting that she's as much as an adult as she is. Meg runs back to her room and slams the door shut. Sandy walks back down the stairs with Jackson behind her, trying to explain to her once again what happened, but Sandy dismisses him and tells him to stay away from her and her sister. Katjaa tells both of them to stop, as they're both scaring the children, and demands that if they're going to argue more then to take it in one of the rooms and not in front of the kids. Sandy tells her she doesn't need to talk to him, and won't be doing so.
Later on, Sandy sits against the curb lost in thought as everyone sits by the RV, eating their rations. Lee gets up and asks Sandy if she wanted to come sit with them and eat, but she declines and says she's not hungry. Lee sits next to her and asks her how she's doing, and Sandy confides in him that she's scared and angry. She goes on by telling him her story of her involvement with Meg's drug abuse in the past, and how she pulled her out of it by helping her get clean and getting a job. Sandy believes her parents are probably dead, and Meg is the only family she has left, and is scared of what might happen to her if she got as bad as she did before she intervened. Lee offers a comforting hand and tells her that she's not alone in anything anymore, and they'll help protect Meg along with her. Mark comes over with a bottle of water, and offers it to Sandy. He further adds that it's the least he could do for what she did for his friend when he couldn't. Sandy takes the bottle and thanks him, and then Lee for his words.
In Jackson's room, he lays on his bed looking up at the ceiling with a shot of heroin in his hand. He injects himself as he watches the ceiling. A noise shuffles and it is revealed to be Meg, sneaking in through his window. Jackson tells her she shouldn't be in his room, or around him, after what happened. "Fuck that. And fuck Sandy. What we're doing isn't hurting anyone. We're letting off steam." Meg says to him. Meg grabs the cocaine from his desk and begins snorting it. Meg lays beside him on the bed and asks him if he thinks everything will ever go back to being normal. Jackson remains silent for a few minutes and says he's not sure. Meg looks over and sees the heroin, she attempts to grab one of them but Jackson grabs her hand. He tells her that he can't let her do it, and he feels guilty about all of it. Meg berates him and says she knows what she's doing. Meg grabs one of the heroin shots, wraps her arm, and injects herself. A few minutes go by, and Meg tells Jackson about how she wanted to be a movie star when she was younger. She goes on with details of what she wanted in life, and what life was like with Sandy. Meg smiles as she reminisces and leans into Jackson's shoulder, adding that she feels happy.
The next morning, everyone begins waking up and walking about the motor inn. Sandy leaves her bedroom and sees Lee and Lilly talking to each other. She walks up to greet them and asks if they've seen Meg yet, hoping to apologize for the things she said yesterday. Lilly says she was probably still asleep or just sitting in her room. Sandy goes to Meg's room and finds no one inside. Suspicious, she goes upstairs to Jackson's room. Sandy knocks on the door, hoping someone will answer, but she hears nothing. Sandy opens the door and her eyes widen in horror. Jackson is laying on the floor, dead and being devoured by a now zombified Meg. Sandy places her hand over her mouth and begins to cry. Lee notices Sandy's reaction from below and goes up to find out what happened. Lee's expression goes from worried to completely shocked as he witnesses what Sandy does. The zombified Meg looks up at them and begins walking towards them. Sandy cries as she begs for this to all be a nightmare. Lee calls Sandy's name, to try to snap her out of it. Meg shambles closer to the door, growling. Lee reaches for his gun in his pocket, but suddenly Sandy stands up and shoots Meg in the head. Everyone else takes notice of the shot. Kenny tells Katjaa to keep the kids back and runs upstairs with Lilly behind him. Both are shocked and Kenny immediately asks what happened. Through her tears, Sandy tells him that Meg had turned and killed Jackson. Lilly is confused and asks Sandy if she knew how Meg got bitten. Lee looks over Meg's body and tells them that Meg doesn't have any bite marks and from what he could tell, she died from an overdose. Realization begins to come over them, as they realize that Meg turned simply from dying, and not being bitten, meaning that if you die and the brain isn't destroyed, you come back as a walker. Kenny walks over to Sandy and helps her up, comfortingly telling her to follow him downstairs. Lee and Lilly look into the room to examine Jackson's body. "He's going to come back too. We have to take care of him." Lilly somberly says. Lee agrees and says he'll do it. Lee grabs a knife from Jackson's nightstand and stabs him in the head.
Outside the motor inn, Lee, Kenny, and Mark finish digging graves for Meg and Jackson. Everyone stands by the graves to pay their respects as Sandy sits next to Meg's grave, grieving.
==Credits==
*Lee Everett
*Sandy Warren
*Meg Warren
*Clementine
*Kenny Jones
*Katjaa Jones
*Kenny Jr. Jones
*Lilly
*Doug
*Larry
*Jackson
*Mark
==Deaths==
*Jackson
*Meg Warren (Alive and Zombified)
==Trivia==
*Last appearance of Meg Warren. (Alive)
*Last appearance of Jackson.
*The group learns that no matter how you die, you will come back as a walker.
*This episode features the most deaths of main characters in a single episode.
**The death count being two.