Shire Estate

**Shire Estate** is a large, walled housing estate fifty miles from Searchlight Ranch. It was introduced at the end of *Season 2* and serves as one of the two primary settings of *Season 3*, the other being Station Alpha.

## History

### Before the Outbreak

Nothing is yet known about the estate's history before the dollar pandemic.

### New Home

#### Discovery and Clearing

After spending the winter traveling around the area, Adam's Group still did not manage to find the estate and had no idea of its existence. Adam makes a hard decision; it's time to leave the area and try to find shelter elsewhere. The group stops on a highway where Elton and Bonnie keep watch whilst the group discuss where they are headed. They open a map and discuss how they have been moving in circles for months, trying to escape the Patriots and the Turned that attacked the ranch. Alycia and Lucas head out to gather some water, while Adam and George go hunting. While hunting, they walk down a railroad, and observe a walled-off housing estate full of Turned. Adam smiles at the sight.

Hiding their vehicles in some nearby trees, the group investigates the perimeter of the estate, searching for an opening, and comment on the fortified gate, suggesting that others may already be inside. They find a hastily-repaired hole in the wall and break through to get inside; once they are, Lucas uses his hammer to quickly bodge the repair back into place. They start to run trough the estate and discover several streets of seemingly empty houses. They fire several warning shots to attract anybody who may be living there, but the place appears deserted. Adam says that the estate could be a good place to stay, even if it is temporarily while they wait out the winter. They spend the night in the basement of an abandoned house. Unable to sleep, Cassie explores the house and discovers the hanging, rotting body of a woman in the upstairs bathroom, as well as a wedding ring and a suicide note on the cabinet in front of the body. Before Casssie can read the note, she is discovered by Adam, who pockets the note and comforts his sister before cutting down the body and burying it in the yard.

The next morning, Adam says that they not only need to open the estate's front gate to get their vehicles inside, but they need to check every single house on the estate for Turned as well as kill all those running through the streets. George, as the best marksmen, volunteers to clear the nearby streets with Lucas and Alycia, while Elton offers to head for the gate; still not trusting Elton fully, Adam says he will do it. Adam tells Glenn, Bonnie, Cassie, and Tyreese to distract and kill the Turned while Adam runs towards the gate's control mechanism. As the group enacts their plan, Adam heads towards the gate, using his hatchet to slice through slower Turned, while George and his team systematically check several houses and kill any hiding Turned; as they move through the streets, they notice that a few are completely blocked off with cars. Adam manages to restart the generator that powers the gate, finally opening it. Adam finally spots several hand-built wooden watchtowers along the wall, seemingly confirming that someone resides on the estate or at least did so until recently.

Having secured a few streets, the group sit down for a meal and, at Glenn's request, Alycia sings an old Gospel song from their church. Elton, keeping watch at the front gate, is greeted by Bonnie. The two talk about the events of the day, with Bonnie complimenting Elton on how much he has improved since the ranch. Elton then realizes that he never apologised for threatening her with a rake during the Turned attack on the ranch and does so, saying that sometimes he "sees red". She starts to jokingly flirt with him as they keep watch. After patrolling the fence, Adam makes plans to take the estate entirely, convincing the group that it would be safer if they controlled as much of the area as possible. Referring to the makeshift fortifications dotted around the estate, he tells them how anyone who used to live there would have stored food, weapons, and medicine in the houses, and that anyone who wanted to hurt them "wouldn't stand a chance".

The next day, Adam, Lucas, Tyreese, Bonnie, and Alycia work as a team to clear out three more closed-off streets while the rest serve as a distraction. Everything seems to be going well until they run into Turned wearing combat helmets and bulletproof vests. After a series of ineffective attacks by the group, they find a vulnerable spot by stabbing under their helmets. Quick work is made of the rest and the group finds that they have now secured seven blocks of houses. After searching the houses for supplies and finding large amounts of ammunition and medical supplies - as well as a makeshift clinic in the basement of one of the homes - they decide to divide themselves into houses: Adam, Abby and Cassie take the house that the group stayed in when they arrived; Alycia move across the street while Glenn moves into the clinic to begin preparing it for when Abby goes into labour; George and Bonnie take the house closest to the gate; Lucas and Elton move into a house with a well-stocked garage so they can begin planning repairs to the estate's fortifications; and Tyreese takes a house by himself near the streets that the group have not yet cleared.

Abby confides in Glenn that she fears the baby might be stillborn, that Adam and Cassie will hate her, and that she sometimes wishes she had died on the ranch. Glenn assures that it isn't true and that the baby will be fine, and even theorizes that it might be born immune to dollar rabies, just like Cassie. Nonetheless, Abby makes Glenn promise that, if the baby is stillborn or if she and the baby both die in childbirth, that the group will keep a watch on Adam, as she fears that, on top of everything else he has been through, such a loss might finally break him.

The group gather their weapons and suit up in combat gear to further explore the estate. Adam and Tyreese move further through the streets until they find a closed-off area absent of any Turned. As they investigate, they find a house where the lawn has been trimmed. With the door unlocked, the two head inside and are puzzled to find the house abandoned. Suddenly, they hear chatter and burst through a closed door, only to be met by a family of four sat around their kitchen table, happily eating breakfast. One of them, a man, puts his hands up and politely asks that he and his family not be harmed, to which Adam and Tyreese share a confused look.

## Inhabitants

### Martin Family

* Catherine Martin
* Emily Martin
* *Thomas Martin*
* *Jasmine Martin*

### Newcomers

* Adam Levitt - *de-facto* leader
* Cassie Levitt
* Glenn Reid - *de-facto* second-in-command
* Alycia Reid
* George
* Bonnie
* Lucas Mann
* Elton Blake
* Tyreese
* *Abby St. John*
* *Joseph Levitt, Jr*

### Formerly:

* Adrian Fox *(temporarily, spy for the Mallers)*

## Deaths

* Thomas Martin - devoured by Turned
* Jasmine Martin - bitten repeatedly by Turned and shot in the head by Catherine
* Abby St. John - internal bleeding due to being knocked down by Turned while pregnant, combined with shock from labour
* Joseph Levitt, Jr - blunt force trauma following Abby's fall