Bradbury's

**Bradbury's** is a location in Season 1 of *The Walking Dead* which was featured in the episodes "City of the Damned".

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Atlanta, Georgia

Before the outbreak, Bradbury's sold clothes, jewelry and accessories, and household products. In the basement of the store was access to the city's sewer and maintenance tunnels for storm drains which helped prevent the building from flooding. There was also a shipping and receiving dock along the side of the building which allowed the delivery of products. When the apocalypse began and people where fleeing to the city for protection, the store was shut down and secured until the crisis passed. The store's second floor had offices and a kitchen.

## Post-Apocalypse

Glenn visited the store on several scavenging runs on his own for the Atlanta Survivor Camp without incident.

### Season 1

#### "City of the Damned"

After rescuing Rick Grimes, Glenn leads him to the store where T-Dog, Andrea, Morales, Jacqui, and Merle Dixon were on a supply run when Rick got trapped. Morales and T-Dog take out two roamers in the alley outside, but Rick's noisy arrival drew hundreds of walkers to the store and it is surrounded with no way out.

In an attempt to find a way out, Glenn and T-Dog search the drainage tunnels for a way into the sewers, but find a roamer a grate that they have no way of cutting through. With the walkers starting to break through the front doors, Rick comes up with a plan for the use of sound distract the roamers and to sneak into a nearby construction site to steal a vehicle. While the plan initially works, a cloudburst washes off the guts and Rick and Glenn barely manage to escape in a cube van.

Glenn provides a distraction using a Ford Mustang to draw off the walkers outside the loading docks. As the roamers outside the front doors of the store finally break in, Rick is able to back the cube van up to the store's roll-up doors and pick up Andrea, Morales, Jacqui and T-Dog and escape.

During the crisis, Merle's antics cause Rick to handcuff him to a pipe on the store roof. As the group escapes, T-Dog attempts to free Merle, only to drop the handcuff keys down a drainpipe. Unable to free Merle, T-Dog leaves him on the roof when the group leaves, but chains and padlocks the roof door shut to protect Merle from the roamers. When everyone escapes, Merle is left screaming on the roof.

#### "Our Horrific Adventures"

In the roof of the department store, a handcuffed and delirious Merle Dixon sits alone, talking to himself about a violent incident from his past. Suddenly, he snaps back to reality and begins panicking as some roamers start to clamor at the padlocked stairwell door. Merle becomes hysterical, desperately trying to break free. He prays to God for forgiveness and then spots a hacksaw from the overturned tool box and his resolve suddenly strengthens. Taking off his belt, he repeatedly tosses the buckle end to try to reel in the hacksaw, lying just out of reach.

The next day, Rick, Glenn, and T-Dog return to the store, along with Daryl Dixon, where they break the padlock on the door, only to find Merle gone, and his amputated hand left behind.

#### "Inner City Blues"

Daryl is seen still freaking out over the discovery of his brother's amputated hand, but calms down enough to continue the search for him. The four follow his blood path to a kitchen in the building, only to find it likely he cauterized his stump. In an abandoned office above the department store in Atlanta, Glenn outlines a plan to retrieve Rick's bag of guns on an old whiteboard. The four return after retrieving the bag, and attempt to leave only to see their van being stolen. Rick drags back a Roamer Daryl killed earlier, and hacks at it, smearing him and Glenn in guts, before the four exit the building.

## Appearances

### The Walking Dead

#### Season 1

* "City of the Damned"
* "Our Horrific Adventures"
* "Inner City Blues"