Carley

**Carley** is a main character and a survivor of Telltale Games' *The Walking Dead*. Carley is a quick-thinking regional news reporter from Atlanta. She's a skilled shooter and serves as one of the main defenders of the group.

## History

### Season 1

#### "A New Day"

Carley is first seen when she saved Duck from nearly being bitten by a walker. Carley and Glenn brought Lee and the rest of the group into the drugstore to hide as more walkers approached them. The pair were blamed for saving the group, to which Carley defended their actions by saying that they can't let people die off. However, Lilly felt that the pharmacy group needed to be protected by not taking any extra risks. Things get worse as Larry joins in the argument, which causes a commotion between Kenny, Lee, and himself. Unbeknownst to the group, a walker that was hidden inside the bathroom of the drugstore nearly killed Clementine and Lee if it weren't for the timely intervention of Carley's gun. Unfortunately, her gunshot alerted the rest of the walkers outside the drugstore. This forced the group to hide and remain silent until the walkers' attention subsided thanks to heavy gunfire outside.

Just as things were starting to calm down, Larry is struck by his heart disease and Lee is tasked with finding the keys to the drugstore in order to obtain his medications. Glenn eventually leaves the drugstore to search for gasoline. Lee then talks to Carley and she reveals to him that she is actually a reporter working for the WABE in Atlanta. She is complemented by Lee on her dead-eye accuracy, to which she replies nobody messes with a reporter who's three days from coffee. She also tells him that Doug was the one who saved her, and because of that expresses interest in him. She tries to fix the store's radio but she is unable to do so, until Lee finds out that there are no batteries in it. After he finds some batteries and gives them to her, she tells him that the thing is still not working. Lee then sees that she put the batteries in the wrong way, and the radio starts working after he turns it on. The two listen to a news station where they hear Carley's co-workers being attacked. Lee asks her if she's alright, to which she replies that she is. Later, when Lee picks up his family photo from the office, Carley reveals to Lee that she knows of his past, with him trusting her to keep it a secret. Later on, she tags along with Lee when Glenn gets trapped in the motor inn and calls back for help. After overcoming the obstacles at the inn, the group is introduced to Irene, a survivor who had been hiding out in the motel after being bitten by her boyfriend. However, the moment is short-lived when she decided to take her own life using Carley's gun, causing the group to escape back to the drugstore before more walkers approached them.

Having found the keys to the drugstore, Lee and Lilly break in to get the medications that they need, unintentionally setting off the alarm and alerting the entire group of walkers within the area. While Kenny rounds up the rest for the survivors to escape; Lee, Doug, Clementine and Carley were left to hold the walkers back. She takes on a broken window with her gun while Doug takes another, leaving Lee to hold the door on his own. At this point, Carley runs out of ammo and is attacked by a pair of walkers while Doug is grabbed by a pair of walkers and left defenseless.

Thinking quickly, Lee saves Carley and gives her ammo and she kills the walkers, but, they fail to save Doug who is devoured. Later on at the motor inn, she thanks Lee for saving her and does not blame him for not being able to rescue Doug, although she is clearly disappointed and wished that the both of them could have made it, with her telling him that she thinks she liked Doug. She then asks Lee why did he choose to save her, to which he replies that he didn't, with her understanding this. With Glenn gone and Doug dead, the rest of the group are left to fend for their own. Just as things were starting to seem better, the power at the inn shuts off.

#### "Starved For Help"

Three months down the road, she is one of the survivors from Macon that holds out in the motor inn. It is revealed that along with the rest of the survivors, she had been placed under intensive firearm training by Lilly and served as one of the team's watchmen (where she had performed most of the work). When Lilly tasks Lee with handing out the day's rations to everyone, he attempts to give the beef jerky to Carley, but she tells him to keep it for himself and Clementine if they'd need it. She also advises him to feed Kenny and his family, and if he wants to make peace with Lilly, Larry. Later on, relying on her trusty Glock, she rescued Lee and Katjaa from the reanimated David Parker by shooting him in the head. When Andrew and Danny St. John approach the group for gasoline with food in return, she voluntarily tags along with Lee, Mark, and Ben Paul to the dairy to provide cover.

On the walk to the dairy, she is horrified by the fatal confrontation between two bandits in the woods.

While talking with Lee, Carley expresses her interest in having Lee as the leader in the group, stating that the group looks up to him. She also questioned him about his past and displayed her loyalty towards him by placing her faith and support in him. When Brenda provides the group with food, she goes back with Ben to round up the rest, taking Mark's rifle along; leaving Lee and Mark alone with the brothers. Having eaten some of Brenda's pastries on the way back, she and Ben stayed back to watch the inn while the rest of the group proceeded towards the dairy.

The St. Johns are later discovered to be cannibals and lock most of the group away in the barn while Katjaa and Duck are held hostage. After sensing something gone wrong, Carley and Ben decided to head back to the dairy to check on the group and arrived just in time to help the team rescue Kenny's family. During the ensuing fight between Lee and Andy, Carley attempted to shoot Andy in the head but missed and hit him in the ear instead. She later leaves the dairy with the group. In the woods she asks Lee if the farmers were really cannibals, which he confirms, while also telling her that he can't leave Clementine alone in this world. She then hands him the camera that he had found earlier in the woods, having received it from Katjaa who found it in the farmhouse after their stuff were stolen. They soon find a huge amount of rations in an abandoned car, which the group takes. Having found some batteries for Lee's camcorder and Clementine's walkie-talkie, she plays Lee's new camcorder, but not before Lee jokes about her lack of skilly with batteries. The pair watches in horror as a video of Jolene spying on Clementine is played, with the bandit stating that as long as the Save-Lots Bandits are bussy with the dairy farm, the motel survivors have nothing to worry about.

#### "Long Road Ahead"

Carley defends Lee and Kenny when Lilly goes on an angry rant. When Lilly mentions about some of their group not being above murder, Carley glares at Lee after Kenny reveals what Lee did to the screaming woman in Macon, as she is still the only person in the group who knows about Lee's past (except for Larry, Lilly and Clementine, who knew a small part). Shortly after, she tries to convince Lee to speak to Lilly in order to calm her down about the traitor situation. Carley also suggests that Lee should reveal his past to some of the survivors in order to gain their trust or at least ensure that they hear it from him and not someone else. She warns Lee to be careful about who he tells, as some of the group may react differently to the others. He doesn't understand but agrees when he knows Carley cares about him and is right. She kisses him on the cheek and goes on with her day. During this conversation, Lee tells her that he thinks about her, meaning that they are starting a relationship. This is further backed up by a conversation that Lee has with Katjaa at the train when he tells her that a proper romance wouldn't be possible in the apocalypse, but he did have feelings for her.

After Lee finishes investigating the possible traitor in the group, Carley is rounded up with the others (except Lee and Lilly) by the bandits when they invade the camp after they don't get their promised supplies but escapes when Lilly shoots one. Lee rescues her and Ben first when the first wave of bandits breaches the wall. She then helps Lee defend the RV against the invading walkers. After escaping on the RV. Lilly cracks under the emotional pressure and violently questions her and Ben with threats, believing one of them is the traitor. Lilly at first thinks its Carley, but then goes after Ben when he starts to panic at the thought of being thrown out of the group. She defends Ben, and is happy when Lee defends her. Carley insults Lilly, telling her that she is acting like a "paranoid, scared, little girl", which leads Lilly to believe that Carley is the traitor, and she shoots Carley in the face when she turns to face Lilly after watching Kenny kill the walker trapped under the RV. Following this, an enraged Lee decides to leave Lilly behind and keeps Carley's gun as a memento of her. He later told Katjaa that he had feelings for her and was enraged when he found out that Ben was the one indirectly responsible for her death.

### "400 Days"

184 days into the apocalypse, Russell lies next to Carley's rotten body when he hides from Nate. Nate proceeds to tease Russell about his "girlfriend", implying that he was touching her corpse. Russell blows him off. Curiously her body has been moved, and the zombie parted in two by Kenny is not present. Her eyes are now slightly open, her mouth is slightly open exposing her rotting tongue and teeth.

## Death

Killed by:

* Lilly

While arguing about who was the person that betrayed the group to the bandits, Carley insults Lilly after she keeps pointing fingers at everyone. She is then shot in the head and killed by her.

## Killed victims

* Linda
* Gary
* Numerous counts of walkers, including:
	+ Zombified David Parker

## Appearances

**Season 1:**

* "A New Day"
* "Starved For Help"
* "Long Road Ahead"

**"400 Days"** (Corpse)