Chapter 2

Chapter 2 is the second episode of Season 1: A New Day of The Walking Dead.
==Plot==
Sandy and Meg sneak through a back alley, nearing a gun store. Sandy wants to arm herself against the walkers, noticing how the police officers were killing them by shooting them in the head. Meg, however, doesn't feel comfortable using a gun and instead wants to find a knife to use instead. Sandy urges her to reconsider in case something happens. Upon entering the gun store, and browsing around to find a lot of things left untouched. Meg wonders why no one has looted the store since most of the stores they passed by were almost completely destroyed and looted. Sandy looks uneasy as her words sink in, just as a man barges through the door with a shotgun. He tells the two to get out of his store before he kills them. Sandy attempts to calm him down and asks him personal questions about himself, noticing he is unhinged. As she lowers his guard slightly, she rushes him to grab the shotgun. The man manages to overpower Sandy and throw her to the ground, aiming the shotgun at her. Before he can shoot, Meg rams into him, knocking the shotgun out of his hands, but she is also quickly overpowered and the man begins to strangle Meg. Sandy grabs a gun from the case and shoots the man in the head. Shocked by her actions, Sandy drops the gun and attempts to calm herself by saying she had to do it. Meg gets up and affirms to her that she did the right thing, and he was trying to kill them. Sandy picks the gun back up, and tells Meg to grab some ammo. Before Meg walks away, she notices the display case with several knives. Meg smiles and says she's found her weapon, before breaking the glass with the butt of the man's shotgun.
Lee is awoken by a man telling him lightheartedly to "get up". Lee yawns and stands up as the stranger jokes to Clementine that she might have spiders in her hair, but her "daddy" scared them off. Lee explains that he is not truly her father and introduces himself. The man greets Lee and tells them that he is Kenny. Suddenly, a very loud boy appears at the doors of the barn and calls for his dad to join him before scampering off. Kenny tells Lee that the boy was his son, "Ken Jr.", but he tends to call him "Duck" because he tends to quack like one. Kenny then brings Lee and Clementine over to meet his family. He introduces them after asking whether or not Lee wanted a ride to Macon. Kenny's wife, Katjaa, quickly compliments Clementine and she warms up to the older woman. Shawn comes over and informs them that he needed to reinforce the fence on the west side of the farm. Duck volunteers his help, and Shawn gives him the "position" of foreman. They break off to the other side of the house and work on the fence. Lee formally talks with Katjaa about herself, her job as a veterinarian, and how they got there. He offers his apologies to Katjaa when asking her how she was coping and her distress, but she forgives him easily. Lee goes to talk to Kenny, who is working on his truck, and offers help but Kenny politely declines. Lee asks Kenny what his plan was. Kenny then says that he believes the National Guard will solve the situation and that they should just try to weather the storm. In the event that the National Guard would be unable to fix the problem soon, he would just return to his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and get on his boat until the situation was resolved. Lee goes over to help Shawn with the fence, and he tells Lee that Hershel wanted to speak to him. Lee finds Hershel in the barn as he is raking along a bale of hay to one of his horses. Hershel looks up and asks him how he got out of the city, to which Lee can be honest or dishonest about. Lee compliments his farm, and Hershel turns the conversation around to Lee's family. Lee explains that his parents are in Macon with his brother. Suddenly, Shawn screams out from the fence. Hershel orders him to go help while he gets his gun. Lee rushes around the house and finds Shawn's legs pinned beneath a tractor while a pair of zombies try to break through the unfinished fence. Duck is stupefied upon the tractor at having run Shawn over, and a third zombie reaches over the fence and grabs him. Lee and Kenny rush over to try to save Duck, while the zombies break through and kill Shawn. Hershel then arrives at the horrifying sight of his son's corpse being devoured. Hershel promptly shoots all three walkers in the head and rushes to his dead son's side. Everyone gathers around Hershel as he stands up. He tells them all to leave the farm. Kenny tries to apologize, but Hershel rejects it. He then turns his attention to Lee, who he accuses of not trying to help. Lee uncomfortably tries to come up with an excuse, but Hershel accepts nothing from him. Hershel orders them all to leave again as he tends to his son's corpse. Kenny somberly approaches Lee and tells him he and Clementine could tag along with them to Macon if he wanted to. He then takes his family to the truck as Lee pulls Clementine away.
In Macon, Sandy and Meg sneak around the outside attempting to collect items for survival when they see a drugstore. A zombie stands in the way of the alley they are hiding behind and Meg tells Sandy to try shooting it, but Sandy tells her that the noise seems to attract more, and instead pulls out her knife to dispatch the zombie. As they draw closer to the drugstore, they see a figure inside quickly duck down. Sandy whispers to Meg that they should go around and try to sneak in. Once the two enter the back door, they see two people at the front by the window whispering to each other. Sandy pulls out her gun to prepare herself, when a woman reveals herself from the shadows with a gun herself. She tells Sandy to drop the gun, which she does. Meg pleads with the woman that they aren't bad people, but just looking for supplies to survive and they already had been assaulted by another person earlier. A gruff looking man, tells the woman, Lilly, that they're lying and to shoot them. But another woman tells him off, and asks Lilly to lower her gun to hear them out. Another man asks the same, and Lilly decides to lower her gun. Lilly introduces herself, her dad Larry, the woman as Carley, the man as Doug, and a third man as Jackson. Jackson's eyes widen as he looks at Meg and calls her name. Meg smiles and runs to him to embrace him in a hug. Sandy questions Meg on how she knows him, and Meg explains that she and Jackson are old friends who met on the street back when she was doing drugs. Jackson tells her that he got himself sobered up right as everything bad happened, which she reveals she has also cleaned herself up. Sandy introduces herself to everyone. Lilly tells Sandy that she and her dad came across the three of them trying to get into the drugstore like her and Meg, and apologizes to her for threatening them, adding they can't afford to take very many chances. Larry bellows that he still doesn't trust the two girls, and they should throw them out. Jackson speaks up and tells Larry that he knows Meg very well, and if she and her sister are who they say they are. Sandy looks out the window and asks just how bad everything has gotten. Lilly tells her that the army hasn't rolled in yet, but discusses the dropping population in town and the increase in the "walkers". Meg likes the name for them, and says her name for them wasn't as good.
==Credits==
*Lee Everett
*Sandy Warren
*Meg Warren
*Clementine
*Kenny Jones
*Katjaa Jones
*Kenny Jr. Jones
*Lilly
*Carley
*Doug
*Larry
*Jackson
*Hershel Greene
*Shawn Greene
*Paul
==Deaths==
*Paul
*Shawn Greene
==Trivia==
*First appearance of Lilly.
*First appearance of Carley.
*First appearance of Doug.
*First appearance of Larry.
*First appearance of Jackson.
*Last appearance of Hershel Greene.
*Last appearance of Shawn Greene.