Pilot

**Pilot** is the first episode, and premiere, of season 1 and the first episode of the series overall.

## Plot

*With the world around him in ruins, Blake Floyd tries to pick up the pieces.*

## Synopsis

### Part One

The episode opens with Blake waking up from a car crash. His head is hurt and his nose has been bleeding. He looks to the driver's side, only to find his dad being eaten by an infected reaching in through the window. Blake, eyes wide, leaves the car without taking his eyes off his dad. Someone bumps into him, knocking him from his stance and it is revealed that Blake is in a small town that is now being overrun with the dead.

After the title sequence, Blake is running down the street, doing his best to avoid any of the dead. This is until he spots Charlie and tries to get an explanation out of him. Charlie simply states that "one minute everything was fine, the next, everything's gone to shit". Charlie is covered in blood and holding a battered baseball bat. He explains that he had to kill one of them, mentioning that they "didn't react to anything until I hit them in the head". Because of the close proximity of their houses, the two decide to stick together and find their remaining parents. When they get to their street, the two decide to split up and do to their houses. If anything were to go wrong, they would meet up at the end of the street as it looks "less like a shit-show than the rest of it". Blake tuns to his house, only to find the front door open and a bloody handprint on the side. Blake enters slowly, grabbing a knife from one of the drawers and quietly calling out his mother's name only to find her being devoured by one of the dead. Blake breaks down crying, alerting the infected. Blake takes it down by repeatedly stabbing it in the face, all the while weeping. At the same time, Charlie is seen cradling his mother's body. She has a bite on her arm and her face is bloody, implying that Charlie found her as one of the dead and put her down. Blake pushes a lock of his mother's hair away and her eyes start to open slowly. Blake stands up, knowing what she has become, but she has been eaten so badly that she cannot stand up, she just reaches out to her son. Blake, teary-eyed, then puts her down.

### Part Two

At the school's canteen, Joely and Frank are seen barricading the doors and windows and it is revealed that there are a few survivors holed up. Claire is tending to a year seven boy who is bleeding from a bite on his arm, he is crying that he wants his mother and cannot be consoled. Cain expresses his annoyance at the boy's whining but is scolded by Claire. Joely peeks out of the canteen, watching the dead walk by and remarking that "it's only a matter of time until they find us".

Later that night, Charlie and Blake have decided to stay at Blake's house. His mother has been moved and a blanket placed over her body. The windows have been covered with curtains and they have left the lights off. The two sit in silence for a moment before Charlie asks what their next step is, to which Blake has no idea. Charlie starts talking about how they need to get somewhere safe, stating that "we could be surrounded by those things right now and not even know it." Blake suddenly remembers the school, remembering how it has fences which could be used as a defence. Charlie agrees with him, saying that "I'll go where you go". The two are then seen gathering their things as the sun rises. Blake grabs a metal pipe and Charlie swaps his beaten baseball bat for a metal one. They head out early that morning, in search of the school.

### Part Three

In the canteen, the year seven boy begins to turn. Claire screams, but Chloe covers her mouth to stop the nearby infected from hearing her. Cain then quickly kills the boy by bashing his head against the ground. The group then argue, figuring out that the bites are responsible for making new infected. Cain suggests trying to escape the school, but Frank quickly shoots the idea down, saying that "there are too many of them, we'd never make it". Cain stays quiet but remains restless.

Chloe consoles Claire as she cries as quiet as possible. Claire states that she knew the boy as a friend of her sister. Frank moves the boy's body into the back of the canteen before being cornered by Joely, who tells him that, while not liking him, she agrees with Cain that they should try to get out of the school. Frank disagrees and suggests that "it might just be a whole lot worse out there".

Blake and Charlie finally reach the school, finding the gates open, but containing quite a lot of the dead. They nod to each other and pass through one of the gates.

### Part Four

Blake and Charlie head into the reception quietly, killing two infected that are inside. Charlie recognises one of them as the Principal and says that he "never liked him, anyway". Blake scolds him for saying that, but they move on nevertheless. They find one of the remaining computers and Blake turns it on, hoping to shut the gates. Just then, a few of the infected start banging on one of the windows. Charlie tells him to hurry up, and Blake becomes more agitated, trying to find the right option to shut the gates. More infected begin piling against the window but eventually, Blake manages to shut the gates, this is heard by those in the Canteen. Cain begins to rant that they "should have left while we had the chance" as they realise what happened. They then hear the sound of glass smashing. The windows of the reception have given in and infected start to pour into the room. Blake and Charlie back out into another room, only to find it filled with the dead. They run back into the reception, cornered. Just then, the window closest to them smashes and Blake looks out to see Frank and Joely beckoning for them to climb out of the window. The two obey and climb out, only for Charlie's leg to be cut by a stray shard of glass. With help from Frank, he and Blake drag Charlie back to the canteen and re-barricade the door, the dead close behind them. When Blake turns to look at the rest of the group, Cain says "you son of a bitch, you've just killed us all!" just as the dead start banging against the doors.

## Deaths

* Year Seven Boy
* Maria Floyd
* Brian Floyd
* Principal Haye
* Numerous infected

## Trivia

* First appearance of Blake
* First appearance of Charlie Ipkiss
* First appearance of Joely Brown
* First appearance of Frank Bowers
* First appearance of Claire Rogers
* First appearance of Cain Fletcher
* First appearance of Chloe Redfield
* First (and last) appearance of Year Seven Boy
* First (and last) appearance of Maria Floyd
* First (and last) appearance of Brian Floyd
* First (and last) appearance of Principal Haye