Investment

Season 2, Episode 11

## Cast Guide

Starring
Chyler Leigh as Harper Lodge
Finn Wittrock as Declan Lodge\*
Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Riley Lodge
Chris Hemsworth as Kari Andrews
Patrick Dempsey as Ben Monroe
Brett Dalton as Brandon
Ellen Pompeo as Alexa Reed
Nick Zano as Matt Archer\*

Also Starring
Ronen Rubinstein as Avery Stanson
Juliana Harkavy as Janine
Sarah Utterback as Amanda Riggs
Hayden Panettiere as Carley Jonas
Noah Centineo as David Welles
Jerrika Hinton as Leah Welles

**Investment** is the tenth episode of the second season of Coda.

## Plot

Someone follows up on a lead, as another survivor fights for their life.

## Episode Transcript

### Act One

Alexa flusters herself awake, her clothes dampened by the shore of the riverbank. She glances around the area in the dead of night, noticing her shoe missing.

She sighs.

She lifts herself up, only to fall, wincing in pain. She examines her ankle, noticing a slight twist.

“Dammit…” Alexa groans, and begins limping slowly toward the treeline, knife in hand.

### Act Two

“We’ve been searching this area forever, she’s long gone, guys.” Leah calls out to Riley, Ben, Amanda, and David as they search a small town for Tara’s location.

“You’re probably right…” Riley sighs, approaching Leah from behind, “If anything, she headed to the exhibit, where we should’ve been going this entire time.”

Riley glares at Ben, who scoffs, “Riley, I’ve been telling you, she could be in danger around here. If she’s at the exhibit she can wait for us.”

Riley rolls her eyes, entering a small pharmacy. She looks at a fallen shelf near the entrance, picking it up and grabbing an energy bar from under it, “Great.”

David enters, as well, grinning, “So, we gonna split that five ways, then?”

“No,” Riley mutters, “six ways.”

David rolls his eyes, and goes on his way to a hardware store next door, seeing Amanda inside, “She’s still thinking we’ll find Tara. It’s been two days, I really doubt it, to be honest.”

“Chin up, David,” Amanda smiles at him, “Don’t ever give up...you okay?”

David groans, reaching for his head, visibly dizzy, “Yeah, I just need to sit down a minute. Fresh out of a coma, remember?”

“Yeah.” Amanda nods, exiting the building, regrouping with the others outside. She watches as someone enters a gas station along the way.

“Hey! Who’s there?” Amanda is shocked as she comes face to face with a woman and a man, who both aim their guns at her.

“Well, well…” Jenn snickers, “I knew someone was here.”

The two lead Amanda outside, and toward the rest of the group.

“GUYS, RUN!” Amanda yells out, before being shoved to the ground by Steve. The others arrive, however, Steve and Jenn quickly aim their guns.

“Let’s not make any sudden movements…” Steve yells to them, “But you’re coming with us.”

### Act Three

Harper slowly makes her way to an old riverbank, scanning the area for any sign of Alexa. She grunts to herself, thinking out loud to herself, “If she fell in the water, she probably would’ve washed up here…but no sign of her anywhere.”

She examines a bundle of rocks, seeing a boot stuck between a few rocks, “Jackpot.”

It was Alexa’s boot. Harper groans as she struggles to pull it from the rocks, but succeeds.

“Let’s go see where you ended up, Alexa…” Harper heads toward the treeline, pistol in one hand, boot in the other.

### Act Four

“Where are you taking us?” Riley asks Jenn, as she stands side by side with Ben directly in front of Jenn, “And why did that guy take the others?”

“His name’s Steve. And I’m Jenn.” She responds coldly, as Riley rolls her eyes in response.

“Great, not what I asked, though.” Riley declares, as Ben smirks beside her. Riley feels the cold barrel of the rifle press up against her spine, as Jenn gains on them.

“Shut the hell up.” Jenn shouts, as Ben stops and turns around.

“Back off.” He insists, causing Jenn to raise an eyebrow and shift the gun’s focus from Riley to Ben.

“Well, if you wanna get theatrical,” Jenn shakes her head, “my friend wants the redhead.”

“Amanda? So he took her, no questions asked?” Ben responds, visibly confused.

“Not him,” Jenn tilts her head, “Another friend.’

### Act Five

On the outskirts of the town they’d recently departed from, Brandon, Avery, and Carley hole up in an old house. The atmosphere remains grim, with each person drowning in their own sorrows and misery.

“What next?” Carley asks, digging her face into her knees in the corner of the dusty living room.

“We…” Brandon groans, annoyed, “Head back to Savannah.”

“What? Why the hell would we do that with a giant herd strolling through like a damn parade?” Carley shoots back immediately. Brandon rocks his head back, rubbing his temples.

“He’s right…” Avery tells her, as she scoffs in response.

“Of course you’re siding with him.”

Brandon raises an eyebrow, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Carley paces herself with her words, trying not to provoke the two any more, “Nothing, just…”

“Nothing what?” Brandon fires back, clearly annoyed with the way Carley is speaking to them. The three are locked in a contest of wit, seemingly unable to agree on a set course of action.

“It’s just you two ‘’clearly’’ have something going on and I’m like, a third wheel or something.” She looks at Avery, who’s flushed. He quickly gets up and walks outside.

“Avery, wait.” Brandon goes after him, but not before shooting a glance at Carley. Carley shrugs, knowing she’s right.

Brandon catches up to Avery, putting a hand on his shoulder.

“Robbie’s body is barely cold.” Avery mutters under his breath, sensing Brandon standing just behind him, "He's probably walking around Savannah right now. Aimless. Nothing left of him except my memories and here I go, pissing on them. Fuck..."

“I know.” Brandon bows his head, ashamed. He hesitantly reaches to grab Avery's hand, but takes it back just before Avery can notice.

The two are interrupted as a voice echoes from outside, an unfamiliar woman, “Another friend.”

### Act Six

Alexa makes a turn across an old building, coming face to face with someone. Not someone dead, but a living person.

“Alexa!” Amanda shouts, embracing her quickly and in shock. Alexa glares at Amanda in surprise, as the two begin walking through the forest.

“I thought no one else made it…” Alexa rubs her head, “I was with Theo, and Harper, Matt, and Jason and Lindsay. And the baby.”

“Oh, thank God.” Amanda sighs, “We were worried the baby didn’t make it.”

“Who were you with?”

“I’ve been with Ben, Riley, Leah and David. This man and a woman took us, though. Leah and David were with me and the guy but I got away.”

Alexa shakes her head, annoyed with this development, “We have to get them back. Do you know where they were going?”

Amanda bows her head, “No idea. But we were heading that way.”

Amanda points toward a clearing in the direction she had just come from, however, they hear the sounds of leaves crunching quickly, as Alexa grabs Amanda’s arm, “We gotta go.”

### Act Seven

Harper reaches a small crossroad in the middle of the forest, leading to three different directions.

“Hmm…” She kneels down and notices footprints in the mud of the northern path, signifying someone had gone in that direction recently. Harper stands from her kneeling position, ready to head out, “So Alexa went this way…”

Harper mumbles discrepancies to herself as she begins following the trail. Sure enough, an isolated and ruined warehouse stood at the end of the trail. She withdraws her pistol, ready to enter the building, as she hears shifting and movement from inside.

As she enters the building, she turns to her right and sees two people tied to a pole. Leah and David!

“Oh, my God!” Harper quickly reaches them, untying them from the pole.

“What the hell? Where did you come from?!” Leah whispers, intent on keeping Harper’s arrival under the radar.

“I was following Alexa, she got separated from us...what happened here?” Harper looks as David and Leah stand up, rubbing their wrists.

“We were with Amanda, Riley, and Ben.” David reveals, as Harper smiles, relieved her sister-in-law was okay, “Riley’s fine, I think, but...these people came and took us. We got separated from Riley and Ben. Amanda was able to get away, and we haven’t seen her since.”

“And you never will.” Steve enters the warehouse, raising his rifle toward the three.

“Shit…” Harper mutters, getting in front of David and Leah.

### Act Eight

Carley exits the house, noticing Brandon and Avery creeping up onto a trail outside. Understanding their stealth, she withdraws her gun and joins them.

“What’s happening?” Carley whispers, catching the two’s attention.

“Riley. Ben.” Avery points to the two being held at gunpoint by Jenn as they are walked down the trail.

“Oh, God…” Carley replies, getting her gun ready, “Let’s help them.”

“Put that thing down.” Brandon tells her, lowering her gun, “We don’t know how many of them there are. We need to do this quietly.”

“Quiet is my middle name. Well, after Aniston, but that’s not the point.” Carley smirks, ready to help their companions. The three emerge from the bushes slowly, sneaking up on Jenn. Ben, still facing Jenn, takes note of them.

“Look, you can just let us go now and give us our friends.” Ben tells her, approaching her slowly.

“Why would I do that?” Jenn raises her gun, tilting her head in suspicion.

“Because…” Ben breathes rapidly and quietly, as Brandon gains closer and closer to Jenn, “If you don’t…”

Jenn begins chuckling, putting the gun up to Ben’s forehead, “If I don’t…?”

Brandon stands just behind Jenn now, raising his pistol in the air, as Ben smiles at Jenn, “This.”

Brandon strikes down on the back of Jenn’s head, knocking her out and onto the ground.

“Jesus!” Riley yells, quickly hugging Brandon, “Thank GOD.”

Avery grabs Jenn’s rifle, and signals the others to follow him away from there and down the trail, “Let’s go!”

“Wait, we’re just gonna leave her here to die?” Carley stops as the other three follow Avery.

“We have to.” Riley tells her, disappointed, “We don’t have a choice. She took Ben and I and her friend has Amanda, Leah, and David.”

Carley stands over Jenn, looking at the others going down the trail over her shoulder. She sighs, and follows them.

### Act Nine

Steve chuckles, remaining in his place, holding Harper, Leah, and David at gunpoint, “Y’know, I lost track of the redhead and decided to come back here. Lucky for me, I got three birds for the price of losing one.”

“If you’re gonna kill us, get on with it.” Harper tells him, as David and Leah move to stand by her sides.

“I have no intent on killing you. Whatever Jonathan has in store for you, it’s none of my business.” Steve tells them, smirking at Harper’s visual response of shock.

“...Jonathan?” She asks, before arching her brow and raising another, “Of course.”

“Yeah...we saw what was going on in that community of your’s and decided to pay a little visit to anyone who made it out.” He looks Harper up and down, “and, of course, get something from a friend of our’s.”

“Well, congratulations, you caught three out of tens of people. I hope you’re proud of yourself.”

“Three? There’s a lot more of you out there that we’ve got a chokehold on.”

“I wouldn’t be so sure about that.”

She looks behind Steve, causing him to quickly turn. Nothing behind him. Seizing the opportunity, Harper pushes forward, unsheathing her knife and cutting into Steve’s arm, and shoving him against the wall. He kicks Harper in the stomach, knocking her to the floor, as David runs in to help.

“Shit!” Steve yells, as David tackles him to the floor. The two wrestle for control over Steve’s rifle, accidentally firing off three rounds. David eventually is able to win due to Steve’s arm gushing blood, and dashes the gun over Steve’s head, knocking him out cold.

Harper and David stand over Steve, victorious, as Leah mumbles behind them, “Guys…?”

The two turn, as blood seeps through Leah’s thigh. She falls to the floor, clutching her leg.

“Oh, God!” David runs to help her, as Harper looks outside, noticing a pack of walkers that were attracted from the noise.

“We gotta go!” Harper tells them, as she and David help Leah up from the floor.

“He…” Leah groans, “He brought us in from the back entrance. We can get out through there.”

The three make their way outside through the back entrance, as Steve awakens, and fights for his life against the walkers with his sidearm.

### Act Ten

“He took them this way.” Amanda leads Alexa to the old warehouse, which the outside is riddled with the corpses of the undead.

“What the hell happened here?” Alexa mumbles, examining the carnage.

“Your little friends and their plus-one staged an escape.” Steve tells them, emerging in stumbles from the warehouse, pistol in hand, “But I’ve gotten really lucky today when it comes to finding you people.”

“Shit.” Amanda mutters, “Let her go. I’m the one you want, right?”

“True. Which means I don’t need *her* alive.” Steve points his gun toward Alexa’s head.

“You don’t have to do this. Just let her go. You have no reason to kill or take her.”

“Except I do. One less of you is one less problem to worry about.” Steve prepares to fire…

“NO!” Amanda shouts, running toward Steve, and attempting to wrestle the gun from him, “Alexa, RUN!”

Alexa looks around, seeing a pole lying on the ground about twenty feet away. She runs toward it, looking over her shoulder to see Steve, shoving Amanda to the ground.

“NO, PLEASE!” Amanda shouts, as Steve aims the gun at her. He fires three rounds into her chest, and then one more into her head, killing her.

“OH MY GOD!” Alexa sprints toward the pole, grabbing it, and running it to the forest as gunshots fly toward her. She sobs to herself as the bullets riddle the trees near her and zoom past her.

Amanda’s body lied among the bodies of walkers. Among the dead.

### Act Eleven

“Do you need a minute to rest, babe?” David asks Leah, helping her limp along the trail. She nods, as he sets her down against a fall log.

“We don’t have much time before he realizes we went out the back trail. We should keep moving.” Harper tells them, examining the treeline.

“Just a few minutes, please.” David glares at Harper, who nods, walking away.

“She’s right, David…” Leah groans, looking in his eyes, “We do have to keep moving.”

David nods, helping Leah up.

“Alright, let’s go.” Harper tells them, as from behind, a pack of walkers emerges quickly from the treeline.

“Shit.” David mumbles, as Harper helps David lead Leah away. Harper looks down at herself, noticing blood seething from Leah’s wound. She looks at Leah, who understands the severity. She shares the concern.

### Act Twelve

Riley points toward one of the paths at the trail crossroad, “They took the others that way.”

Ben nods in agreement, as Carley looks toward the path, “If they went this way, they might’ve headed toward the old RedBull warehouse.”

“Huh?” Ben asks, “A RedBull warehouse?”

“Yeah, I reported a story in this area once. Far away from Atlanta, yeah, but it was a big murder case. Body was found out in these woods.”

“Well, way to make this even more creepy, Carley.” Avery asks, suspiciously looking around. Carley chuckles, as they continue on the path.

“Great. Moodkillers.” Carley grunts, pointing toward Steve and Jenn as they arrive at the warehouse. The two stand over someone’s body.

“That girl? How did she get here so fast?” Brandon asks, confused.

“After we went back to that house to get your stuff, I’m guessing she woke up and went this way thinking we did, too.” Riley squints, looking for any more people.

“Well, let’s handle this, then.” Carley withdraws her gun, ready to take them on.

“Wait, stop.” Ben pulls her back, “Guys, HIDE.” He demands, jumping into the treeline.

“What the hell was that about?” Brandon asks, lying behind a fallen tree and looking over. He sees four more armed people exiting the warehouse, joining Jenn and Steve.

“Shit.” Riley whispers.

### Act Thirteen

“No, stop...” Leah groans, clutching her leg once again, as the pack of walkers behind them nears even closer.

“What? What’s wrong?” David asks, grasping her shoulders and standing in front of her. Harper gets behind them, ready to fight.

“I can’t…” Leah rips open her pant leg even more, her impromptu bandage completely falling from the blood, “You have to go.”

“Hell, no.” Harper responds, not turning her back to face them.

“Yeah, we can’t leave you!” David insists. Leah looks up at him, kissing him slowly.

“You have to.” She falls to the ground, groaning and crying, “I can’t go on anymore. I’ll slow you down. I can’t let you two die with me.”

“NO.” David attempts to pick her up, but due to shock and pain, Leah is limp and unable to get up, “HELP!”

Harper stands over David, trying his best to help Leah up, “David…”

He cries to himself as Leah grabs her pistol, "I'll cover you guys....as long as I can."

“We have to go. Now!” Harper pulls him up, as he kisses Leah on the forehead. The two begin running as David cries, and Leah turns to the walkers diverging upon her, raising her gun.

"Come get me, you fuckers."

### Act Fourteen

Brandon walks side by side with Avery as they, alongside with Riley, Ben, and Carley, escape from the carnage of before. Finally reaching solid road toward the boating exhibit, Jenn and Steve’s group are miles behind them.

“So what now?” Avery asks, nudging Brandon.

“Well, we find the rest of the group, and we get the hell out of Savannah.” Brandon tells him, smiling.

“I didn’t mean...that.” Avery responds, rubbing his neck nervously.

“You meant…?” Brandon stops, grabbing Avery’s wrist as the others walk ahead of them.

“Yeah.” Avery gives a half smile, clearly confused.

“That’s up to you.” Brandon tells him, nodding. Before Avery can respond, Brandon thinks to himself how Avery needs a little time, so he walks ahead to catch up to the others.

“Everything okay with you guys?” Riley asks Brandon as the latter walks alongside her, “I could kind of hear that.”

“Uh...yeah.” Brandon chuckles, “I hope so.”

“So when did…*that* happen?” She asks, curious.

“I couldn’t tell you. I spent time with him at Crawford, but after we were lost in the forest together...I don’t know.”

"Yeah. Back at Crawford, things were rough with him and Robbie, it wasn't exactly the most subtle thing. Me and Avery didn't get along well at Ben's old camp, but it was nice to see him have someone who had his back in Crawford. I just didn't think it'd...escalate, like that. I didn't even know you...?"

"Mhm. Me and Rebel's brother were kind of...um."

"You're lying!" Riley laughs, squeezing his arm, "You're insane."

Brandon and Riley laugh together over the past, with Brandon shrugging, "It was before I met her. But that made for a VERY interesting Thanksgiving the next year."

"I bet it did." Riley sighed, noticing something up ahead in the gas station. Brandon took notice, and the two revealed their weapons, "Guys, heads up."

Riley joins Ben and Carley as they approach, as the person inside pops out.

“Janine?!” Ben shouts, hugging her, “What the hell!?”

“What the hell!” Janine laughs, “Oh, my God, I’m so happy to see you guys.”

“Janine…” Brandon approaches, rubbing his head, “I’m so sorry. We saw you get taken, but there was nothing we could do…”

“It’s okay. I’m with Declan and Kari now, we’ve been hiding out nearby. I just went out to find some water.” Janine smiles, hugging Brandon and Avery.

“Thank God you guys made it…” Avery bows his head, as the now six head toward Declan and Kari, reunited.

### Act Fifteen

David walks behind Harper toward the boating exhibit, eyes swelled with tears. Harper remains quiet, not wanting to provoke or disturb him at the moment.

“Who is Jonathan?” David asks coldly, causing Harper to stop in place.

“Jonathan was…” Harper sighs, “He was in Crawford. Not long before you got there.”

“Why wasn’t he there when I got there?”

“Because…” Harper turns to face David, “He tried to kill Amanda. And he killed the leader months ago, before my group even showed up. The ‘counselors’, as they call themselves, as you know, covered it up. So they could take the power for themselves.”

“How do you know?”

“Because Amelio told me. Right before he died.”

“So everything that happened, everything that Leah told me about that led up to Crawford falling, was all because of this Jonathan guy? Even...Leah? Those were his friends?” David asks, enraged.

“Yeah. I don’t know where he met those guys, but yeah.” Harper groans, “We should’ve killed him when they had the chance.”

“*They* should’ve.” David seethes with anger, thirsty for blood.

“But no better time like the present, right?” Harper gives a half smile, putting a hand on David’s shoulder. David nods, and the two set off once more for the exhibit.

## Co-Stars

* Jessy Hartel as Jenn Russo
* Cress Williams as Steve Latvi

## Deaths

* Amanda Riggs
* Leah Welles

## Trivia

* Last appearance of Amanda Riggs.
* Last appearance of Leah Welles.
* The groups as of this episode:
	+ Group A: Declan, Riley, Brandon, Ben, Janine, Avery, Kari, and Carley.
	+ Group B: Harper, Matt, Jason, Theo, David, Lindsay, and Izzie.
	+ Alexa is currently alone.