Lee Henderson

**Lee Henderson** is the protagonist of Everything Dies. Convicted for the murder of a state senator who slept with his wife, Lee is freed from this fate by the apocalypse and encounters a 'young' boy named Sylvester. He took Sylvester under his care, and the two met up with a group of survivors. Lee rose up to protect them, becoming co-leader with Kenny and Lilly before becoming the sole leader of the group. He is consistently smart, independent and resourceful. Lee also cared deeply for Sylvester. It was because of Lee that Sylvester learned how to defend himself from both people and the undead in the apocalypse.

## Lee Henderson

### Cause of Death

Bitten on the arm by a Kamo'o'hali, Shot in the head by Kid Sylvester

## Overview

Prior to the outbreak, Lee was a professional surfer who taught lessons. He had a mother, father, and a brother living in their home of San Diego, California, looking after their family business. Lee felt neglected by his family after he killed a state senator who had an affair with his wife, severely hurting his relationship with his family. Later on, Lee finds out that he's lost his entire family, and takes it upon himself to kill his own reanimated brother, mortified at the loss of his family despite the walls that had come between them.

It's shown that he is smart, reasonable, independent, and generally kind. This is reinforced by Doug/Carley's statement that "everyone looks up to him," voicing their interest in having him be the leader of their group. Unfortunately, Lee is also easily agitated and highly protective, which is shown whenever his people, particularly Sylvester, are threatened, and it is clear that he would go very far to ensure their safety. This protectiveness also enables Lee act outwardly angry at Sylvester in certain situations where he puts himself or others at risk, displaying that Lee's temper sometimes gets the best of him. This history of periodic violence is reinforced by his backstory, as he presumably killed the senator in a fit of rage.

The characteristic Lee commonly displays throughout the series is the ability to be compassionate and altruistic, primarily portrayed in his relationship with Sylvester, devoting most of his actions, and eventually his life, to ensuring his safety. Lee can direct death threats toward anyone he believes is a danger to Sylvester and can be generally aggressive to most characters, such as violently shoving Kenny when he was in denial of his son's imminent death and physically pinning Vernon just for suggesting he take Sylvester, In addition to protecting Sylvester, Lee also ensured that he would be able to protect himself without him by cutting his hair and teaching him how to use a pistol.

Throughout the story, Lee displayed great physical strength on several occasions. He was able to pin Vernon and Lilly with no trouble and restrain an enraged Kenny with a little assistance from Vernon. He could also pry Lilly away from helping her father and a Kamo'o'hali from Katjaa with little effort. When strong armed by Andy, Lee was able to force him off and knock him to the ground. In his fight with Kenny, he was shown to be strong enough to pin him against a wall and choke him without causing any permanent injury, despite Kenny actively trying to harm him. Lee even managed to lift a door frame that collapsed on him with or without Kenny's help, despite several Kamo'o'hali being on top of it and trying to claw at him around it. He could also throw one off of him despite his leg being injured, pushed a Kamo'o'hali into a rebar by only striking its head with a rifle, throw another to the floor when it tried to attack Sylvester and shove off two Kamo'o'hali while trying to push through the herd after biting him. He could force two doors closed despite several Kamo'o'hali pushing against it, keep Omid from falling while he melted the cables to a tanker, pull Ben up when the he was dangling over a ledge, singlehandedly push a car to barricade the motel, lift Sylvester above his head on a few occasions, and free Doug from a group of Kamo'o'hali.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### San Diego, California

Lee was born in 1976 and comes from Malibu, California. His mother, father, and only brother worked at the family's pharmacy in San Diego. Lee had been a professional surfer and taught lessons for six years before the incident with the senator. He owned a pet fish, which he kept on his desk at work. His wife had a traveling job that kept her away for significant periods of time, something that had been difficult for their relationship since Lee wanted to have a family but her job prevented that. One day, he came home sick from work at the university and discovered his wife sleeping with a state senator. Angered, Lee killed him in a fight. For this, he was convicted of murder. Lee later claimed the two got into a fight and he killed him by accident. Near the start of the apocalypse, Lee was being transported by a police officer to the jail.

## Post Apocalypse

### A New Day

The episode begins with Lee Henderson, handcuffed, sitting in the back of a police car. The police officer is driving him to prison. After a while the officer begins chatting with Lee about whether or not he is innocent because, as the officer remarks, Lee hasn't given him the "I didn't do it" speech. He also tells him a story of a man who had professed his innocence and begun crying for his "mama", despite the fact the police caught him in the act of murdering his wife. Before long, the officer crashes his car into a Kamo'o'hali he hadn't seen and runs off the road into a ditch, knocking Lee unconscious. Lee awakens at least a day later and discovers that his leg is wounded. He breaks out of the wrecked cruiser and walks towards the apparently dead police officer as a result of self defense from the Kamo'o'hali. After Lee unlocks his cuffs with the keys he found on the dead policeman, the officer reanimates and attacks him, and Lee is forced to kill it with the shotgun that fell from the cruiser during the crash. The gunshot attracts several Kamo'o'hali to the site and Lee barely escapes them, managing to quickly limp up a hill and pull himself over the fence of a nearby house's yard. He decides to look for help inside, finding a pool of blood in the kitchen. He discovers a hand-held two-way radio in a kitchen drawer and is contacted by Sylvester, the young boy who lives in the house. He has been hiding. Sylvester suddenly screams and Lee is attacked by a zombified Sandra, Sylvester's babysitter. Lee is nearly bitten several times but eventually kills the Kamo'o'hali with a hammer with the help of Sylvester. Lee promises Sylvester that he'll look after him. Sylvester asks what they should do now, and Lee chooses to wait until night, Sylvester says that they could travel the streets until the sun went down. Once it was dark outside, the two walk into the street, where they are shot at by an unknown assailant. Lee and Sylvester take cover behind a car as a man announces that he is of a Georgia State Patrol searching the area. Sylvester is frightful that they were going to die, and Lee says that they were only there for him. Sylvester is confused by this, and asks why that was, but Lee ignores him and stands up with his arms raised in surrender. Two men walk around the car to meet them, and a police officer hastily puts his gun down upon realizing that they were not infected. The other man with him introduces himself as Justin and the cop as Andre Mitchell. Justin notes how Lee's leg is wounded and says that his father could help. He makes the offer to take Lee and Sylvester with him when a Kamo'o'hali stumbles around a fence and snarls at them. They all get into the car and drive away, swerving out of the way to avoid hitting the Kamo'o'hali. As Andre drives them to Justin's house, all of them are silent.

Chet/Andre leaves, and Justin introduces Lee and Sylvester to his father, William . William asks Sylvester if he knows Lee. He says yes and William takes care of Lee's leg. William questions Lee about his whereabouts and doings before the apocalypse. Lee tells the truth and William accepts. The next day, Lee is introduced to Dororo, Hyakkimaru, Kenny, and Katjaa, and helps around the house. William also tells him that trust and honesty are important when dealing with other people, especially with the trying times ahead.

As they talk, someone screams and they leave the house to investigate. William gets his gun while Lee runs to see what's going on. When Lee gets to the source of the noise, he sees Justin pinned under barbed wire. It appears Dororo, , inadvertently trapped Justin. There are three Kamo'o'hali near the tractor, two try to get to Justin and one tries to get Dororo.

Lee saved Dororo, but Justin dies (he would be the same Kamo'o'hali that bit Jay in the car). An angry and grieving William would tell Kenny and Lee to leave his house and never come back. As Kenny and his family prepare to leave, he encourages Lee and Sylvester to come with them.

When they arrive in San Diego, they run out of gas and stumble upon a group of Kamo'o'hali. They are saved by a group holed up in a pharmacy. A woman named Carley saves Dororo from a Kamo'o'hali and they run inside. There is an argument over how risky it was to save them and what to do with Dororo, as Larry, a member of the group in the pharmacy, suspects he was bitten. But Lee denies . Sylvester is attacked by a Kamo'o'hali who was locked in the bathroom and Lee saves him with help from Carley. Glenn then leaves on a supply run at a nearby motel to get food and gas.

Larry starts to have a heart attack and his daughter, Lilly, explains they have run out of pills for his condition and have been attempting to get into the storeroom since they got to the pharmacy. Lee goes looking for the keys to the Pharmacy and he learns that his family is dead. Lee helps out around the store and Carley reveals she is a reporter and knows who he is and what he did. Lee trusts her, and tells Sylvester what he did.

Afterwards, Glenn calls on the walkie-talkie and says he is trapped at the motel. Carley and Lee go out to get Glenn and learn that there is a woman trapped in a nearby room, and decide to save her by taking out a group of Kamo'o'hali one by one. After saving her, they discover she was bitten and Lee must choose whether or not to give her the gun so she can commit suicide. Regardless of his decision, she will get the gun and kill herself.

After the motel incident they return to the pharmacy with the gas and Lee and Doug go out to the gate to look around. They find a trapped Kamo'o'hali beneath a fallen pole, who Lee quietly realizes is his brother. Lee says he might have the keys and shows Doug a picture of him and Lee's parents that Lee recovered from the office. Lee uses a remote control that he found in the pharmacy office on the TV's in the store across the street, breaks the lock on the gates with the axe he found at the motel (because no one knows the combination), and hurls a brick at the storefront to shatter the window and allow the TV noise to attract the Kamo'o'hali away from Lee's brother's corpse. Lee puts down his undead brother, grabs the keys, and runs back in to the pharmacy.

With keys in hand, Lee and Lilly enter the medical section of the store but trip an alarm, attracting the attention of all the Kamo'o'hali in the area, and now need to hold out until Kenny can fill his truck with the gas Glenn retrieved from the motel and bring it around to rescue them. After locking the entrance doors, Lee must choose to save Carley or Doug. After the survivor not chosen dies, Lee saves Sylvester from a Kamo'o'haloi. On their way out, Lee is blocked by Larry, who socks the former, knocking him to the floor just as a horde of Kamo'o'hali closes in on him. Just before Lee is attacked by a Kamo'o'hali, Kenny comes to his rescue, killing the Kamo'o'hali with his axe and helping Lee to his feet. Lee takes one last look at the building once owned by his parents, now flooding with Kamo'o'hali, then shuts the door and flees.

The survivors relocate to the motel where they intend to set up a base. Glenn tells Lee that he has to leave to find his friends in Long Beach with or without his and the group's blessing. Larry reveals that he also knows about Lee's past, and will not hesitate to use it against him if ever steps out of line. Just when things seem calm and for the most part peaceful, the street lights begin shutting off one by one until all the power goes out.

### Starved for Help

Three months later (as revealed by a timecard and the differing colors of leaves) Lee is seen hunting in the forest with Mark, a new member of the group. They talk about Kenny and Lilly and the arguments they have as Lilly is rationing food and Kenny is trying to feed his family. They are interrupted when they hear screaming and find three survivors: Ben Paul, his friend Travis, and their teacher, David Parker. David's leg is caught in a bear trap, one which is revealed to have been altered without a release latch, and Lee saves David. Regardless both will die. David is freed (by cutting off his leg) Travis is distracted before the Kamo'o'hali attack him and they eat him alive.

After taking David back to the motor inn with Kenny and Mark, Lilly chastises them for bringing back more mouths to feed. She decides that Lee should take charge of rationing, and gives him the group's food for the day.. Depending on who is handed food, Lee improves his relationships with other members of the group. After dividing the third ration he eats. Afterwards, Lee is informed by Katjaa that the wounded David has died. Only to find that he has now reanimated as a Kamo'o'hali and try to attack Katjaa. Larry saves Lee after he saves Katjaa from the Kamo'o'hali.

They confront Ben (now the only surviving member of his group) and ask him why they didn't tell them his friend was bitten. Ben swears that the recently deceased was not bitten, and he explains to them that everyone is infected anyhow and when they die they will come back unless the brain is destroyed. Carley or Doug (depending on who Lee saved in the last episode) can be heard shouting at some survivors outside the Motel. They introduce themselves as Andrew and Danny . They offer a deal; they need gas for their generator and Lee's group needs food. Lee, Carley, Doug, Mark and Ben go with them. During this time they witness two bandits arguing in the woods. The heated argument ends when one shoots the other repeatedly, brutally killing him.

After moving on they arrive at the Family Dairy that Mark instantly takes liking to. Lee is slightly suspicious and tells Mark to keep an eye open. After being introduced to Brenda they offer to help clear up the electric fence of 'fried' Kamo'o'hali. Andy has turned off the electrical fence at this time Mark and Lee are removing the Kamo'o'hali who have "fried". After fixing one of the posts, the electricity comes back on, and Lee is enraged by Andrew's carelessness; but they are suddenly attacked by bandits. Mark is shot in the shoulder with an arrow and they both make their way back to the gate via hiding behind a tractor. The bandits withdraw after they reach the gate. At this point Carley has informed the others, about the barn and have now arrived at the farm. They are shocked to see Mark has been shot and is immediately taken in by Brenda and Katjaa. Lee learns that Ben and Carley have chosen to stay at the Motor Inn until they come back.

At this time, Danny asks Lee if he would like to go to the bandits' camp to get some payback. Lee decides to go after checking up on everyone. When he arrives at the bandit camp he discovers a camcorder and then Sylvester's hat which he had recently lost. Jolene, a lone crazy woman, shows up threatening them with a crossbow, Lee can choose to kill her immediately, or try to reason with her. If he chooses not to kill her she will tell him that she had a little girl whom the bandits abused (probably raped) and perhaps killed. She begins to tell Danny she knows what he is and knows what he does to those "people". Danny quickly shoots her in the forehead, instantly killing her. Regardless of Lee's actions, she will die no matter what.

After returning, Kenny seems somewhat suspicious about the Dairy. Lilly is still angry about the idea of leaving the Motor Inn and wants to go back but Larry advises her not to, saying that they should stay for dinner at least. Lee goes into the barn where he finds Duck and Clem. Kenny is there with Katjaa and Andy. They find a locked door and Kenny begins to get increasingly suspicious. As a method to distract Andy to peek inside Lee tampers with one of the generators, thus luring Andy away. After removing the lock on the barn door Lee is told that dinner is ready. Kenny and Sylvester leave with Dororo and Katjaa but Lee stays behind and continues to investigate. Upon opening the door he discovers what a slaughter room with bloodstains. Andy appears suddenly and explains that they still hunt for animals to keep themselves fed but Mama (Brenda) hates a mess so they do it in the barn. Lee is disturbed but goes along with his story.

Lee later joins them at dinner. He requests to go to the bathroom to investigate, still suspicious. Upon discovering a hidden room, he finds a legless Mark. Mark is barely conscious and warns him about the brothers, telling him not to eat dinner revealing that they are cannibals. Lee then has to rush downstairs and warn Sylvester not to eat the dinner- however Lee has to get him there and shout on time. Lee tells everyone about the food, and the brothers retaliate threatening them at gunpoint. Brenda reveals that they were taught never to waste food, as their reasoning for eating humans, and said that Mark was going to die anyway. Mark is heard falling down the stairs where he is seen crawling around calling for help. Filling the group with horror, Danny uses the distraction and knocks Lee unconscious.

He next wakes up in a meat locker with Larry, Sylvester, Hyakkimaru, Kenny, and Lilly. Kenny reveals that they have Katjaa and Dororo, and then Larry unexpectedly has a heart attack (due to his medical condition). He stops breathing and Kenny assumes that he is dead and wants to destroy his brain, but Lilly insists that he isn't and they need to resuscitate him. Lee must chooses to side with Kenny. Larry dies. Larry is killed by Lee and Kenny, who crushe his head with a salt block. Lilly is extremely upset with Lee. Sylvester is able to crawl out of the meat locker via air vents and unlocks the door, and Kenny goes to find his family while Lilly is mourning Larry. Lee tells Sylvester to watch over Lilly and leaves to find Kenny.

Both are then confronted by Danny who is unexpectedly taken out by Kenny. Lee spare's Danny's life, and this decision is noted by Sylvester. After Lee goes to find Kenny and the others, he meets Carley with Ben. Lee explains the situation and tells them to go round the back, as using the gate would be too dangerous. Lee returns to the house where he finds Brenda holding Katjaa hostage, and carefully walks forward, trying to negotiate while driving her towards an undead Mark at the top of the stairs.

While outside Kenny is confronting Andy who is holding Dororo hostage. Kenny is shot and Lee attacks and fights Andy, and he eventually gets the upper hand, and Lee chooses to savagely beats Andy and leaves him for the Kamo'o'hali who are now overtaking the dairy.

After, Lee discovers a car which is seemingly abandoned. The group considers emptying it, but Sylvester objects. Lee chooses to take Sylvester's side, in which case Kenny and Katjaa loot the car. And finds a hoodie which he gives to Sylvester, and he can persuade him taking the stuff is okay or not. No matter what, Carley comes to him and explain that they found batteries for the camcorder he found earlier at the bandit camp. They turn it on and discover Jolene watching them at the motor inn. It is revealed that she knew the several of the bandits by name, calling them "rapists monsters", and that she took a liking to Sylvester, seeing him as a replacement for her daughter.

### Long Road Ahead

Lee and the group are walking down the streets of San Diego. Suddenly a bell of a nearby bell tower starts ringing. The noise attracts Kamo'o'hali towards the group. In the midst of chaos, Lee spots Sylvester and Ben pinned up against a wall. Lee tells Ben to help Sylvester, but he runs away in panic. Despite his efforts, Lee is unable to help Sylvester with his gun but fortunately, Chuck comes to Sylvester's rescue and attracts the Kamo'o'hali around him to chase him instead. Chuck then tells the rest of the group to run as he draws the Kamo'o'hali to aside. This is also the last time he is seen alive.

The survivors arrive at an abandoned house. After scavenging for supplies, Lee finds Kenny in the attic, staring at a reanimated child. Apparently, the boy had starved in his hiding and Kenny marks the Kamo'o'hali's strong resemblance to Dororo. Lee can either kill the boy himself or state it would be for the best if Kenny did it. If neither of the men did the deed, Christa will eventually kill the boy. Regardless, Lee ends up burying the child's body and sees the stranger, who has been observing him, for the first time.

Later Kenny leaves with Lee to find a boat. This is when Lee encounters Molly. The two fight for a short moment, the fight ending in either Molly about to kill Lee, or Lee about to shoot Molly. Suddenly Sylvester appears, having followed Lee, and tells the two to stop fighting. Molly realizes Lee isn't a threat but Kenny, unaware of this, appears with his weapon drawn from ambush. Molly tackles him and Kenny accidentally pulls the trigger. She then explains Kenny and Lee everything about Crawford, the survivalist community of San Diego, and reveals herself to be the one ringing church bells around the city.

Kenny's gunshot was heard by the nearby Kamo'o'hali and they corner the group. While Molly, Kenny, and Sylvester manage to escape, Lee is separated from them and flees into the sewers, where he finds Chuck's disemboweled corpse. He then stumbles on the hideout of Brie, Vernon, Clive, Boyd and Joyce. Vernon points his gun at him as he enters but Lee is able to talk him out of shooting him, much to the dismay of Brie who thinks Lee is from Crawford and that they will be attacked by his group when they find out their location. Vernon guides Lee back to the house where he reunites with his group and Molly, and Vernon, being a doctor, was able to check Omid's injury. It turns out there was a boat in the shed of the house all the time but it lacks a battery. The group decides to sneak into Crawford to find the missing battery, gas and medical supplies for Omid's infected leg. Vernon joins the group with Brie.

Lee can leave Sylvester at the house with or without a gun to take care of Omid; however, he insists to be taken with the group in which Lee can also agree on. Lee and others arrive at the school building in the center of Crawford. Apparently, it has been used as the main storeroom for all their supplies. It is soon revealed that Crawford had fallen in front of the Kamo'o'hali. While the group separates to find supplies, Lee goes looking for the battery for the boat with Molly. With she nowhere to be seen, Lee heads for the next door garage. Then, suddenly, a Kamo'o'hali wearing a doctor's robe, falls from a roof of a building. Molly reappears and begins to impale the Kamo'o'hali out of pure anger.

The two eventually find the battery and Molly takes it. She takes off to her own business, leaving Lee back at the school building. Lee finds Christa and Vernon in the clinic, trying to bust open a locked cabinet of medical supplies. After finding several tapes, the code for the lock of the cabinet is seen on these. The tapes also explain the reasons behind fall of Crawford as also Molly's history with the community.

Molly returns soon after, and Lee can confront her about her involvement of Crawford. Then when walking to the classroom, Ben scares Lee and Molly with a hatchet. When Lee and Molly figure out that it was the hatchet holding the door from Kamo'o'hali, a horde of Kamo'o'hali enter inside and Molly kills some of them. Suddenly, one grabs a hold of her and enters a struggle, at which Lee will have to shoot the Kamo'o'hali. If Lee misses a shot at the zombie, he is forced to leave Molly behind; however, if Sylvester was brought along he will shoot the Kamo'o'hali and thus saves Molly. Everyone retreats back into a classroom leading to Crawford's armory. At the classroom, Ben realizes he accidentally let the Kamo'o'hali into the school and has a break down. He decides he has to tell Kenny that he is responsible for Katjaa's death. Vernon and Lee restrain Kenny from attacking the boy. A quick voting takes place on whether the group should or should not leave Ben behind. Lee can choose his opinion. Sylvester is tagged along, Lee can change his opinion on the second time around. The Kamo'o'hali push in the classroom and devour Brie.

Lee and the group bust open the armory door leading to a bell tower. Lee is then seen running up the bell tower, fighting off several Kamo'o'hali, throwing some off the stairs and shooting others. At the top, Ben is then attacked by a Kamo'o'hali, which Lee can or cannot shoot. Regardless Ben is pulled over the ledge and Lee grabs him if the Kamo'o'hali was shot. He now has the choice to let him fall to his death or pull him up. Sylvester will be very upset with the decision if he chooses to let him die, having lost a friend. The group escapes from the tower on the roof of the building.

Lee and the group arrive back at the house, to find Omid alive and Vernon treats him with the antibiotics. Sylvester was left at the house, he has also managed to trap or kill a Kamo'o'hali, depending on whether Lee left a gun with her. Later Vernon suggests Lee leave Sylvester with his group. Lee can agree or loudly disagree on this.

Sylvester will ask Lee if they will look for her parents before they depart with the boat. Lee can lie to her and say that they will, or be honest and say that it will likely not happen.

Lee wakes up the next day to discover that Sylvester is no longer in the house. He walks outside when he finds Sylvester's discarded hat. Lee climbs over the fence and finds Sylvester's walkie-talkie and picks it up but is attacked by Kamo'o'hali. Lee realizes the Kamo'o'hali managed to bite him. Omid, Christa, Kenny and Ben come looking for Lee, telling him that Sylvester is nowhere to be found. Lee then reveals that he was bitten. Lee states Vernon has kidnapped her and insists on going after them. Afterwards he either asks his companions for help finding Sylvester or tells them to wait at the boat while he looks for him.

After making it back to their hideout it is revealed that Vernon and the rest of his group had left, leaving the place abandoned. Lee then looks up outside the window to see a large herd of Kamo'o'hali passing by. Coming to realize that the large number of Kamo'o'hali attracted by the noise the train made traveling there had caught up with them once again leading them to wander into and infest all of San Diego so informs Lee he has Sylvester and tells Lee to choose his next words more carefully, to which Lee starts to respond, but is at a loss for words in shock.

### Fish to Blood

Lee's words to the man on the radio remaining the same as chosen in the former episode. Realizing Sylvester is elsewhere in the city and not in the hospital morgue, he and the group that came with him look for a way out, as the herd of Kamo'o'hali seen in "Long Road Ahead" arrives in San Diego. Lee manages to open a nearby elevator door but passes out after opening it from exertion and his bite. Depending on who was brought with him, he can wake up among them or on his own and ends up choosing whether to saw his arm off with a bone-saw in order to potentially save himself from the bite's infection or to at least buy him some time.

Regardless, Lee and any others begin climbing the elevator shaft of the hospital, which is seen to be overrun by hordes of Kamo'o'hali on the inside and out. The group, or Lee, arrives on the roof and sees the streets crowded with thousands of Kamo'o'hali. However, using Molly's strategy , Lee manages to reach a bell tower next to the roof. Ringing it, he draws the hordes to the tower, thinning the streets and allowing the group to push on back to the manor.

Depending on who came with Lee and/or was left behind with the boat, the result on arrival can differ. If anyone stayed behind, Lee finds the shed doors held closed by a shovel. Lee opens the door and finds his companions inside. They reveal shown that they were ambushed by Vernon's group, which horribly beat them then stole the group's boat. If everyone accompanied Lee, the boat is seen missing and a note left by Vernon is found explaining that it was he and his group who taken the boat and apologize to Lee and the group for stealing it. Lee, however, still focuses on finding Sylvester, and insists on going to the Marsh House. However, the herd catches up with them and invades the manor. The group puts up a vicious stand but is forced into the attic where they are trapped. A squabble between Kenny, who is paranoid of Lee's bite and him turning, even if his arm was removed, and Lee began, culminating in Lee throwing a stone bust head at Kenny, however, if Lee didn't throw the bust in time, Kenny will instead. Regardless, the bust will be thrown at the wall. The wall is shown to be weak and decaying and leading to the house next to it. The group breaks through it and ends up in a sealed room where a couple committed a double-suicide, locking their room off from the Kamo'o'hali infesting the house.

Lee finds a balcony where it is possible to cross to the next roof, and the group follows. If Ben is still alive, the balcony will collapse and fall as he begins to jump. If Ben is not alive, Kenny will not fall in the jump but will be separated from the group in a later event. Regardless, Lee will run down in an attempt to save the both of them. If Ben fell, however, it is shown that a balcony railing stabbed him in the stomach. His yells of pain attract Kamo'o'hali, and Kenny forces Lee to leave, telling him to go on and find Sylvester. Kenny uses the last bullet in his pistol to mercy kill Ben, and is separated from the rest of the group.

As Lee, Christa and Omid finally reach the waterfront just across from the Marsh House, they are forced to climb over a large Maccabe Imports sign to get to the next rooftop, as Kamo'o'hali crowd the street below. As either Lee or Omid and Christa climb over, *(Determinant)* the sign collapses. Armed with a cleaver he found earlier, and a shard of glass if his arm was not amputated, he orders Christa and Omid to go on and meet him later, and to take care of Sylvester when he is "gone". *(Determinant)* Lee descends into the streets and fights his way through the massive horde of Kamo'o'hali between him and the hotel.

He arrives at the Marsh House and searches several rooms until he finds one with a bedroom and closet door roped together. He walks in curiously, only to have a man appear behind him with a pistol drawn. Though Sylvester calls out, thinking he hears Lee, his abductor points the gun at Lee *(Determinant)*, forcing him to be quiet and abandon his possessions, to which Lee can either lie that he doesn't have any or surrender his possessions. In a psychotic but calm state, he sits down with Lee and has a discussion with him, revealing the station wagon from "Starved For Help" belonged to him and his family. The Stranger then asks him if he had ever "hurt anyone". After Lee's response and a short talk, it is revealed his son went missing on a hunting trip. When he returned to the station wagon where his family stated, he and his wife went back out but failed to find his son still. They returned, and Lee's group had stolen his supplies, effectively ruining his life as some of Lee's group had stated. His wife took their daughter and left, and he remorsefully reports that "they didn't get far" before being killed. After concluding his monologue, he asks Lee whether he now sees him as a monster.

Regardless of Lee's answer, he still says that he is not like Lee. He begins by questioning decisions that Lee made in previous episodes, such as lying to Sylvester about his past *(Determinant)*, failing to stop him from eating human meat *(Determinant)*, abandoning Lilly after the motel was attacked *(Determinant)*, and bringing Sylvester to Crawford where he easily could have died. *(Determinant)* Lee asks how he could have known about all of that. Smiling, he reveals the walkie-talkie that he had been using to communicate with Sylvester, smug that Sylvester had been willing to share so much of Lee's faults with a stranger.

In the end, the man tells Lee that he will take Sylvester and "hurt [Lee], so bad." Before he does, however, he asks that Lee see reason and allow him to raise Sylvester as his own son, saying that he knew "how to be a dad." Lee aggressively rebukes him, but the man, still holding the gun, begins talking to his wife's severed and reanimated head, which he keeps in a bowling bag.

Sylvester escapes from the adjoining room and, using one of several objects Lee laid on a table at her captor's order *(Determinant)*, sneaks up and attacks him just as he says "he wouldn't hurt a fly."

Lee and the stranger begin a fierce brawl, each trying to get the gun which is knocked around the room. When Lee corners him in the closet and begins strangling him with his one good arm, Lee can either kill or spare his opponent, and if he kills him, has a choice of shooting him in the head to prevent reanimation or not. If he spares him, the man attacks Lee again only to be shot in the head by Sylvester.

Lee and Sylvester reunite, and just as they leave, a Kamo'o'hali appears at the door. However, as it sniffs Lee, it ignores him, going for Sylvester, though Lee stops it. Realizing from a comment by Sylvester about the "muck", spilled on him as he fought the herd, Lee understands that the Kamo'o'hali was confused by his scent, he takes an organ from the Kamo'o'hali and rubs it on Sylvester in order to mask his scent as well.

The two initially manage to wade through the Kamo'o'hali outside on the street. Saddened and terrified, Lee tries to calm him but passes out once more. Waking up in a store, Sylvester reveals that he had taken Lee there for safety. Lee then shows Sylvester that he was bitten, tells her why he amputated his arm. He begins to limp over to where the exit is, but slumps to the ground and cannot move. Sylvester begs him to get up. He tries twice but fails both times. Lee's voice begins to grow very hoarse and he starts becoming extremely tired. Depending on the next few actions, Lee, on the brink of death from the bite, whether he amputated his arm or not, can choose to tell her to restrain him to a nearby radiator in order to keep him from attacking her. They find a zombified security guard trapped in an office where an emergency exit lays, Sylvester can pick up handcuffs on the ground to attach the Kamo'o'hali's left hand (on his side) to a bar to the Kamo'o'hali's right. When Sylvester attempts to take either his gun or keys based on Lee's decision, the Kamo'o'hali attacks him, if the Kamo'o'hali was handcuffed, his cuffed arm will snap in two and the Kamo'o'hali will proceed to attack. He ends up killing it with Lee's help, and with the gun and in tears, he desperately begs Lee not to reanimate, and he states he does not think he can bring herself to kill him. Lee gives Sylvester a piece of advice for survival, which he will remember in the future.

After telling him he will miss him, that he should remain strong, they give their final goodbyes. Lee closes his eyes, and Sylvester, in a nearly, if not already, broken-down state, will shoot him with the gun he obtained from the zombified security guard and leave to go out on his own, with a goal given by Lee's advice.

### Broken Toy's

Sylvester has a dream of being with Lee in the train from "Long Road Ahead". Lee asks why Sylvester has chosen the train to talk and Sylvester notes that the train is where Lee cut his hair and taught him how to shoot, starting his progression as a survivor. Sylvester vents to Lee about his worries for the boarding school group regarding his mission to rescue the kidnapped members. Lee reassures him that he'll succeed, remarking how when Lee was the leader of his group he was only making things up as he went along while Sylvester is a natural survivor, and s=he'll get through it. After their talk, he proceeds to tell him how much he misses him, wishing he was really with him, Lee says that while he misses him too they would have to make do with pretending (*Determinant).* Lastly, Lee asks Sylvester about his (Sylvester's) son Rocky Jr. Lee acknowledges how hard it must be for Sylvester to both be parent as well as a survivalist mentor, admitting that it was easier for him since the world was just starting to change while Sylvester is in one that's changed completely. As a goodbye, Sylvester hugs Lee, who remarks the last lesson he taught him before his death. Lee bids Sylvester farewell, reminding him that there are people who need him, and leaves.

## Death

### Killed By

* Kamo'o'hali *(Caused)*
* Stranger *(Indirectly Caused)*
* Kid Sylvester *(Indirectly Caused; Out of Mercy, Before Reanimation, Determinant)*

Lee is bitten on the arm by a Kamo'o'hali is is put down by a grieving Kid Sylvester to prevent reanimation.