The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Season 1, Episode 7

## Cast Guide

Starring
Chyler Leigh as Harper Lodge
Finn Wittrock as Declan Lodge
Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Riley Lodge
Marisol Nichols as Ramona Whitson
Chris Hemsworth as Kari Andrews
Patrick Dempsey as Ben Monroe
Nick Zano as Matt Archer

Also Starring
Jake McLaughlin as Ross Patricks\*
Shailyn Pierre-Dixon as Piper Bradshaw
Gavin MacIntosh as Jason Andrews
Ronen Rubinstein as Avery Stanson
Skylar Astin as Robbie Stanson
Brett Dalton as Brandon
Jenna Dewan Tatum as Cheryl Lee
Juliana Harkavy as Janine
Ajiona Alexus as Cheryl Lee
Karla Souza as Lauren Davis
\* - Flashbacks

**The Town That Dreaded Sundown** is the seventh and final episode of the first season of Coda.

## Synopsis

* The groups unite as a whole after losing many people to the herd. Deciding to leave their camp, one survivor runs into a mysterious man who could spell life or death for the now united group. (Present time)
* With the herd nearing, Harper helps a wounded survivor return to their group. An important decision saves Harper's life. (Flashbacks)

## Episode Transcript

### Act One

*"You're gonna make it, Ross." Harper told Ross, as he lied on the ground bleeding into the hot pavement, sun beating down on the two of them.*

*"Fuck no. This hurts like..." Ross muttered, unable to grasp his words due to the pain.*

*Harper attempted to help him up, but he falls, screaming in pain.*

*"You're gonna attract walkers, try to keep quiet." Harper told him, staring into his eyes, "Just look at me."*

*Harper helped him up, and he limped with her help towards the location the rest of the group remained.*

*They walked quietly, until a small pack of walkers found them.*

*"Fuck." Harper sat Ross against a car and began unloading rounds into the walkers, "I'm out."*

*Harper was out of ammo, and they had not brought much with them due to a low amount in the first place. The walkers crowded them, and Harper helped Ross back up and looked into the deep forest behind them.*

### Act Two

The group consisting of Harper, Riley, Ben, Brandon, Lauren, Piper, Matt, and Jason sat in the RV, waiting at the rendezvous location to reunite with the remainder of the fractured group, after the loss of the camp they remained.

"We're screwed." Ben spoke up from the driver's seat inside the RV.

"We'll be fine. The rest of the group made it out, we saw them." Harper responded, helping to cope with Ben's loss of his home.

"I didn't see my wife get out, no one else says they saw her, either. Where is she?!" Brandon asked, worried sick about Rebel's life. Matt bit his fingernails and watched as his group members spoke.

"I, I don't know. I didn't see her anywhere. I saw Lexie go down, though." Lauren told Brandon, who began panicking.

"Fuck. This isn't happening..." Brandon went to the back room alone, with Matt following him to comfort him.

"Look, there's something out there..." Ben pointed out a few figures in the distance.

"People. We need to get them." Harper told him, nodding.

"Just me and you. We need to keep the RV here to keep watch over the hill in case the herd is following us." Ben pointed out.

As Ben and Harper reached the figures, they saw it was Ramona and Kari, and they were helping Fred up.

"What happened?!" Harper asked, noticing Fred's injuries.

"We got jumped by walkers. Declan was with us, but we lost him. He's not dead we just...don't know." Ramona told her concerned, "But Fred got caught. They got him good."

"I'm dead. I know it." Fred told them, showing his bite wounds on his leg and shoulder.

Kari sighed, "It's looking bad."

"Fuck...." Ben muttered, turning around and putting his head in his hands.

### Act Three

Renee drove her car with Cheryl in the passenger seat, with Avery and Robbie in the back watching over Janine, who was asleep.

"We need to get to the rendezvous. It's in the other direction, Renee." Cheryl told Renee, speaking of the rendezvous in which the group set.

"I know. But we need to check the area of the camp first, just in case someone is in trouble and needs us. The others can wait for us."

"What if there are no others?" Avery depressingly asked after witnessing his sister get taken down by walkers, including a reanimated Larry.

Robbie put his arm around Avery, "There are others. There's no way we're the only ones that got out."

Janine awoke without alerting the others that she had awoken. She examined her surroundings before noticing Robbie sitting next to her.

"Is she awake?" Avery asked, looking at Janine scanning the area.

In a sudden turn, Janine elbowed Robbie in the head and jumped up at Renee, who steered off into a ditch in an attempt to knock Janine back in her seat. The car flipped over and crashed into the ditch.

### Act Four

Declan was running down the road, searching for Fred, Ramona, and Kari after being separated from them, when he heard a crash in the distance.

"Them..." He muttered to himself, before setting off in that direction.

When Declan arrived at the scene of the crash, he saw Renee attempting to get the others out.

"What the hell?!" Declan yelled out, heading towards them to help.

"Oh, thank God..." Renee gasped, "Janine made us crash. We're trying to head to the others at the rendezvous."

"Is everyone looking okay in there?!" Declan called out.

"I'm..." Avery muttered, blood coming from his forehead, "I'm good. Robbie and Cheryl are out cold."

Declan and Renee helped Avery out the shattered window, and they then moved to the passenger seat to pull Cheryl out.

### Act Five

*"I heard gunshots." Kari told the group.*

*"Yeah. So did I. They probably ran into a few walkers." Declan responded, visibly worried.*

*"Sounded like more than a few." Jason muttered, looking into the distance, "Shouldn't we check it out?"*

*"We should. Let's get a move on, they could be in trouble." Kari answered his son, with Declan slowly nodding in agreement and Candace loading up her pistol.*

*They soon arrived at the spot where Ross was shot, only to see a dead man on the ground.*

*"Is it Ross...?" Candace asked, her hand covering her face.*

*"No. Looks like this guy hit is head. Died on impact, if I'm not wrong..." Declan told her, examining the body.*

*"Did Harper and Ross do this?" Kari asked him.*

*"I don't know. Looks like there was a struggle."*

### Act Six

*"Keep moving." Harper told Ross, who had his arm wrapped around her to prevent him from falling.*

*"I'm trying...." Ross limped in agony as the walkers pursued them.*

*Harper looked behind her every so often in an attempt to lose their pursuers, however, whenever they would lose this batch of walkers, another would take it's place.*

*"Why the fuck are there so many of them?!" She muttered, hiding behind a tree alongside Ross.*

*Suddenly, more walkers appeared, noticing them and began pursuing them.*

*"FUCK." Harper yelled out.*

*"We're trapped?" Ross asked her, and she nodded. They looked into each other's eyes and back at the walkers in front of them.*

### Act Seven

"Jason?" Piper walked up to Jason, who stood outside looking around the area for his dad, Kari, to show up.

"Hey. What's up?" Jason asked her, worried.

Piper only rolled up her sleeve, revealing a bite she sustained during the herd's attack on the camp.

"Oh my God..." Jason covered him mouth as tears filled Piper's young eyes, clearly knowing what would happen to her.

"Am I gonna die?" She asked him, as she began crying. Jason hugged her and told her she was going to be fine.

Brandon wiped his eyes and exited the RV to see Jason and Piper.

"What's wrong?!" Brandon asked them.

"Show him, Pipe." Jason told Piper.

Piper rolled up her sleeve once more to show Brandon, who then sighed and turned around, devastated.

"I need to talk to the group..." He said, wiping his face down.

### Act Eight

Fred lied on the ground, unable to get up, bleeding out.

"Fuck...it's over." Fred closed his eyes, before opening them again to look at the clouds in the sky, "It's a perfect day today. The sky looks so blue."

Kari and Ramona looked at each other, as Fred drifted away.

"He's gone, I think." Harper told them, before checking Fred's pulse. No pulse.

"I'll do it." Ben muttered, withdrawing his knife.

"Alright..." Harper looked away as Ben plunged his knife into Fred's forehead.

Ben stood up and they all looked at Fred's lifeless body on the road.

"We need to bury him." Ramona told them.

### Act Nine

"Wake up, Cher." Declan attempted to wake up Cheryl, while Renee and Avery worked on waking up Robbie, the two they had saved from the crashed car.

"What...?" Cheryl woke up to see Declan, "What happened?!"

"Janine made Renee crash the car. You were out of it for a while." Declan told her.

"Where did you come from?"

"I heard the crash. Came as quick as I could. I was with Ramona, Kari, and Fred, but we got separated, Fred got bit. Bad."

"Oh shit..."

Renee succeeded in waking up Robbie, and they prepared to move on.

"Let's get out before she wakes up." Declan told them, referring to Janine.

"No!" Renee told him off, her eyebrows narrowing at the thought of abandoning Janine to die.

"She almost got you guys killed. She's not coming with us." Declan shook his head, "This is not up for debate."

"She's a person just like us. She was scared, so what? She shouldn't die because of it."

"Are you serious, Renee?" Cheryl asked her, shaking her head.

"Yeah, she is." Avery told her, "It's not right to just leave her."

"You weren't there when she tried to kill our group." Declan told them.

"You can go if you want. We're not leaving her." Renee told them, with Avery in agreement. Robbie looked disappointed, but had to agree with Avery and Renee.

"Fine. We'll stay until she's awake. Then we're going." Declan shook his head and sat down next to a rock, disappointed.

### Act Ten

"Brandon, can we talk?" Matt approached Brandon, who was entering the RV.

"In a minute, I have to get everyone together. There's something important." Brandon told him.

"This can't wait."

"What?" Brandon had a look of dread fill his face as Matt began speaking.

"I saw...Rebel. She got shot. And swarmed. She didn't make it." Matt looked down at his feet as Brandon turned around and began crying.

"Did you see...who shot her?" Brandon looked as Matt just stared him in the face, "Did you? Did you se--"

Brandon suddenly realized what Matt meant. Brandon's stray bullet had ended his own wife's life.

"Piper is bit. I can't talk to them right now. You do it, please." Brandon just walked off, with Matt stunned in his trail.

### Act Eleven

"She's bitten?" Lauren covered her mouth and quietly teared up.

"That's what Brandon told me." Matt shook his head as the group began speaking at once to decide what to do. After everyone was speaking in conjunction for a while, Riley had enough.

"STOP." Riley shouted, as everyone looked at her. "The herd."

"Yes, we know, the herd, it happened, it's over." Matt told her.

"NO. It's here." Everyone exited the RV and looked in the distance. The herd was coming.

"EVERYONE IN!" Riley shouted, and began driving towards Ben and Harper's destination.

### Act Twelve

Ben and Kari finished burying Fred's body, as they decided to give a eulogy.

"I didn't know Fred long. But he was one of the good ones. Quiet, didn't get into much of the shit happening, but he was a good one." Ben spoke up first.

"Fred...I can't believe it's-" Ramona was cut off as the RV in the distance drove towards them, stopping 20 feet in front of them.

Matt exited the RV to shout to them, "THE HERD IS COMING! GET IN NOW!"

"Oh shit." Harper signaled the group to enter the already crowded RV, "Not everyone is going to fit."

"Who cares? We'll squeeze in, just get in NOW!"

The group entered the RV with barely any space between the ten of them.

### Act Thirteen

"We're not getting saved." Declan told Renee as they sat beside each other, leaning against a large, un-moving rock.

"They're gonna find us. Don't worry about it." Renee comforted him, placing her hand on his shoulder.

"I mean all of us. This is really the end, isn't it? No more going to work, no more going to the bar to relax, no more anything we used to do. That's all over."

Renee stared at him with hopeless eyes, until she decided to speak up, "We will be fine. It's not all gone. We can have faith."

"I hope so." Declan noticed as the RV came speeding down the highway, flying right past the group.

"HOLY SHIT!" Avery shouted out, noticing the obvious RV, as well. The RV stopped in it's tracks and turned around, as Riley clearly noticed the survivors. Riley sped to them, however, ran into a walker that heard the crash earlier and was only just arriving.

"We gotta help, get in the damn RV!" Cheryl shouted out to everyone. They ran to the RV and entered.

"Nice to see you guys." Robbie told them, smiling.

"We need to go. The herd is just about a mile away. It's coming." Kari told them.

"Let's go!" Ben shouted out to Riley, who attempted to drive away. The RV was stuck in it's place.

### Act Fourteen

"Harp, you need to go." Ross told Harper as the walkers backed them into a tree.

"I'm not leaving without you. We go down fighting, together." Harper half smiled at him.

Ross reciprocated the smile, and kissed her before pulling away and looking towards the pack of walkers. In what seemed like a millisecond, Ross used whatever strength was left in him to lunge towards the pack.

"RUN!" He screamed to her and her eyes filled with tears, and she ran in the other direction, hesitantly. She dodged all the walkers she could, and when it was clear, she looked back. Looked back in an instant to see Ross being torn apart.

She knew it wasn't over for her. She had to find everyone else.

### Act Fifteen

"We need to fight off the herd! Buy Ben and Robbie some time to fix whatever is wrong with this damn RV!" Matt yelled out as he began firing at the walkers approaching near them.

"We need to take a stand. Everyone, LET'S GO!" Harper began firing in unison with the rest of the group.

"We got a fucking walker stuck under the RV, this will take some time." Robbie shouted out.

"You heard him, keep firing!" Avery yelled.

The group fought their way through the herd, low on ammo, they resorted to using their bladed weapons to fight off the undead.

A walker from the side lunged onto Ramona and pulled her into the herd. The group stopped for a moment to see her being torn apart.

"NO!" Piper screamed out from inside the RV. She ran outside to try to hopelessly help Ramona.

"Stop, Piper." Matt grabbed Piper, who was burning hot from her bite wound, however, he wasn't able to hold her back as she ran forward, only for her to be grabbed into the herd, as well. Both Ramona and Piper - a bond shared like mother and daughter - died together to the herd.

"FUCK!" Harper shouted out as she continued fighting off the herd.

"Oh, my God..." Lauren stopped in place. A walker lunged at her, and Ben noticed. He got up from under the RV and jumped onto the back of the walker, pulling it off of Lauren, and stabbed it in the head, saving Lauren.

"I GOT IT!" Robbie yelled out, stabbing the walker from under the RV in the head.

"EVERYONE GET IN! NOW!" Matt yelled. The group entered the RV quickly, and Ben entered the drivers' seat. The engine wouldn't start, and walkers began pounding on the sides of the RV.

"That door won't fucking hold." Kari yelled out, and he began pushing against the door to prevent it from budging. Matt and Brandon joined him.

"I GOT IT!" Ben started the engine, and quickly drove away from the herd. The herd slowly followed them, obviously unable to catch up.

### Act Sixteen

The group remained silent in the RV, just after losing two beloved members of the group, Ramona and Piper.

"Fuck." Lauren muttered.

"Fuck is right." Riley responded.

"We're not all dead. We made it." Harper announced to the group in the RV, as she sat at the table with Declan and Riley.

"Not all of us..." Brandon said from the corner of the room.

Meanwhile, in the back room, Janine was knocked out lying on the ground with a pillow supporting her neck. Renee watched over her, making sure she didn't try anything, as Lauren entered the room.

"Hey..." Lauren greeted her sadly.

"Hi." Renee kept her eyes trained, dead set on the unconscious Janine, "This probably isn't the best time...but the moment I get a working car, I have to go. I have a sister in Savannah. Her name is Raven. I have to find her."

Lauren stared at Renee, shocked at her announcement of her leaving the group.

"I feel like my time with this group is over. My brother is dead. My best friend...my...Noah. He's probably fucking dead, too." Lauren shook her head, with Renee rubbing her shoulder.

### Act Seventeen

*Harper arrived to the location in which she left the group, to no avail. Everyone was gone. Harper collapsed onto the ground and cried due to Ross's death. She sat alone for a while, hitting the ground.*

*"Woah, woah..." Declan saw Harper hitting the ground and grabbed her, pulling her up and hugging her, "Sis, what the fuck happened?!"*

*"Ross..." Harper looked at Declan, tears streaming down her rose red cheeks, "He's dead."*

### Act Eighteen

"Where are we heading?" Renee asked Ben, hoping South-East is their destination.

"We're heading North. If anywhere is safe, it's gonna be North. Probably North Carolina." Ben told her, not taking his eyes off the road.

"Woah, no. I told you, we need to find my sister. She's South."

"That's just not possible. Savannah is probably a dead zone now. Anyone that was there got a boat and got out of there. Including your sister. Or..."

"She's not dead." Renee scoffed and stared at Ben, "I need to find her."

### Act Nineteen

"We're gonna stop here. Maybe get some more cars, start a caravan. This RV is too crowded." Ben announced to the group as they stopped at an abandoned Walmart.

The group exited the RV, before Renee began announcing something to the group, "Guys. I think it's time I leave."

Everyone looked at her, and Lauren just looked in the opposite direction.

"I need to find my sister. Savannah is my best shot at finding her. I'm sorry." Renee sadly looked around at the group.

"Well, if that's what you want..." Avery went in to hug Renee, and she reciprocated the hug.

"I'll miss you guys." Renee said her goodbyes to everyone, and began walking towards a car that Robbie was working on.

"Wait." Lauren quietly shouted out to Renee, "I'm coming with you."

"What?!" Renee asked her, confused.

"I'm sorry, guys, but all this shit that's happened...it's on me. I can't stick with you guys knowing that everything happening is my fault."

The group said their goodbyes to Lauren alongside Renee, and the two entered a car.

"Here's to a long road ahead." Renee smiled at Lauren, as the two departed from the WalMart, away from the group.

### Act Twenty

Harper and Declan roamed the WalMart, scavenging for any supplies they could use.

"These last few months have been shitty." Declan told his sister, who just had a crooked smile in response.

"Yeah. We've lost so much...Candace, Kevin...Ross..." Harper sighed.

"Well..." Declan stopped and looked at his sister, "Here's to not losing any people. And no more surprises."

Just as Declan said this, a man emerged from the back room, "No surprises? Sorry, but maybe that's not such a bad thing."

Harper and Declan drew their guns and aimed them at the man.

"I'm not your enemy. In fact, I have an offer you probably don't wanna refuse."

### Act Twenty-One

*Two days after Ross's death, the group hit the road again to reach Exit 285. Ross's desired destination before he died.*

*"What if nowhere is safe anymore? Are we going to be okay?" Candace asked Harper.*

*Harper just stared at the road ahead. She smiled. "We'll be okay. No matter what happens...we'll be okay."*

## Co-Stars

* Zach Gilford as Amelio
* Lochlyn Munro as Fred Cooper

## Deaths

* Fred Cooper
* Ross Patricks *(Flashbacks)*
* Ramona Whitson
* Piper Bradshaw

## Trivia

* First appearance of Amelio.
* Last appearance of Ross.
* Last appearance of Ramona.
* Last appearance of Fred.
* Last appearance of Piper.
* Last appearance of Lauren.
* Last appearance of Renee. *(Unknown)*