Chapter 29

Chapter 29 is the eighth episode of Season 3: Long Road Ahead of The Walking Dead.
==Plot==
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.
==Credits==
*Lee Everett
*Sandy Warren
*Clementine
*Kenny Jones
*Katjaa Jones
*Kenny Jr. Jones
*Ben Paul
*Charles
==Deaths==
*Katjaa Jones
*Kenny Jr. Jones
==Trivia==
*Last appearance of Katjaa Jones (Alive).
*Last appearance of Kenny Jr. Jones (Alive).
*This episode marks the 25th appearances of Katjaa Jones and Kenny Jr. Jones.