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The Walking Dead: TS-19 (Season 1 - Episode 6) - Season Finale

2012-02-01T04:56:00.000-08:00

Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.

TS-19
The pre-credit sequence is a flashback to the hospital where Rick Grimes was convalescing in a coma after his gunshot wound. His partner Shane was trying to get him out when the outbreak hits the hospital. Shane observes military personnel executing the patients, medical staff and walkers roaming the halls. He initially tries to carry Rick out, but Rick is attached to life support equipment. A soldier opens the door to the room, but Shane hides, and the comatose Rick is left alone. When the hospital loses power due to an explosion, the life support goes off. Shane checks Rick's heartbeat. Distraught, he exits into the hall. With walkers coming in from one side, and soldiers executing people on the another, Shane closes Rick's door and blocks it with a bed before making his escape.

Following the credits, the survivors have just been let into the CDC headquarters. They are confronted by Dr. Jenner, armed with an automatic rifle, who asks if any of them are infected and insists on a blood test as the price of entry. The survivors revel in the luxury of bountiful food, wine, and hot showers. During dinner Dr. Jenner sits off by himself, but answers their questions. Many of the CDC staff left early in the outbreak to look for their families, and that later — after the military cordon had been overrun — most of the rest committed suicide, leaving Jenner as the only researcher in the entire facility. He controls the facility by voice command to a central computer. Shane, drunk, confronts Lori to explain his actions, professes his love for her, and begins to force himself on her before she scratches his neck. Lori again accuses him of telling her long ago that Rick, her husband, had died at the hospital. Shane whines that he thought Rick had died, and that it was so dangerous at the hospital he had no chance to rescue Rick.

The next morning, Jenner shows the group clinical results from test subject 19 (TS-19), a person who was bitten by a walker and volunteered to be observed for research purposes as the infection took over. The time-lapse MRI video shows the disease attacking the subject's brain in a meningitis-like fashion, ultimately killing the victim, and then restarting the brainstem a few hours later to reanimate the body, but controlled by only basic urges. Jenner explains that the brain stem reanimates anywhere from a few minutes to 9 hours after death. Jenner states that the "Person you knew, is gone. There is nothing left of them." The frontal cortex and all other parts of the brain that make a person who they are, are dead. This helps cement the knowledge that the walkers are indeed "The Walking Dead" and nothing that made up the individual before remains.

Jenner reveals that a similar fate probably met all the other research facilities in the world. "The French" had come the closest to finding a cure for the plague, before all communication was lost. No one knows what the plague really is. The others are shocked to learn that there is probably no civilization left anywhere in the world, and are devastated. Jenner then reveals that the facility will run out of power in about an hour, at which time automatic decontamination procedures will commence. The group confirms that the last gasoline tank is running dry, as the power begins to go off. Since the facility was designed to isolate unimaginably dangerous diseases, if it can't power itself it automatically destroys everything inside so that no diseases will get out. "The air will burn" and an incredibly powerful explosion will destroy everything. As they confront Jenner about their fate, Jenner seals them in the main room underground, and tells them that the decontamination procedure will mean the destruction of everything inside the facility — offering an instant and painless death to everyone inside. It also is revealed that TS-19 was his wife, the facility's head researcher, and a brilliant woman.

Rick and Lori plead for the doors to be opened; Daryl and Shane try to go after Jenner and force him to open the doors. He relents because they know if they kill him they will not get the combination to open the doors then all of them would indeed die. Finally, with less than five minutes remaining, Jenner opens the doors after Rick's pleading with him to let them at least "try" to overcome this tragedy and not be forced to die. Two of the survivors, Jacqui and Andrea, choose to stay behind, but Dale refuses to leave without Andrea. Before Grimes leaves, Jenner (who had already decided to stay behind) whispers something to him. The rest of the group heads for the exits, using a grenade (Rick had taken as an afterthought from the tank in Atlanta) to blow out one of the front windows, and fight their way to their vehicles through several walkers. Andrea and Dale emerge from the building moments before the building detonates; Jacqui stays inside with Dr. Jenner. As the episode ends, the survivors form a vehicular convoy and leave the area, heading to an army fort they hope will still be operational, while a massive column of smoke and flame marks the place where the CDC building had stood.

The Walking Dead: Wildfire (Season 1 - Episode 5)

2012-02-01T04:50:00.000-08:00

Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.

Wildfire
The survivors are dealing with the aftermath of the walker attack the night before. Rick Grimes tries to contact Morgan Jones on his walkie-talkie to let him know that Atlanta is not safe. Andrea is sitting vigil over her sister's body, as the others deal with the bodies of the walkers and the dead from the attack; the bodies of the walkers are hit in the head with a pickaxe to make sure the brain is destroyed, and then thrown into a pyre to burn. Rick approaches Andrea to let her know that Amy's body must be dealt with; she pulls a pistol and he backs away, apologizing. The rest of the group argues over how to deal with Andrea, and Glenn stops Daryl from throwing one of their dead into the pyre and insists that their own dead must be buried, not burned with the walkers. It is revealed that Jim was bitten in the attack; Daryl wants to kill him, but he is stopped by Rick and Shane.

Rick argues that the group should head to the CDC facility in Druid Hills, Georgia, in the hopes of finding safety and possibly even a cure. Andrea sits with her dead sister until she awakens as a walker, before apologizing for not spending more time with her and shooting her in the head. Shane urges Lori to talk Rick out of going to the CDC, but she backs her husband; while doing a sweep in the woods, Shane considers shooting Rick, and is caught by Dale with Rick in his sights. After they return to camp, Shane says he has changed his mind and will support going to the CDC. One family elects instead to go to Birmingham where they have family; Rick gives them a revolver and ammunition and they part ways. Dale's RV breaks down on the road, and while it is being fixed Jim, whose condition has been steadily worsening, asks to be left behind to "be with his family" (all of whom were killed by walkers). The group leaves him under a tree on the side of the highway and continues on their way.

The episode then switches to a video transmission made by a man named Jenner, apparently with the CDC (whose logo appears on his coffee mug and HAZMAT suit). He says it is 194 days since "Wildfire" was declared, with no clinical progress. The man is shown, in a biohazard protection suit, doing experiments on tissue; after a spill, he goes through decontamination, but an automated equipment decontamination process leaves his samples destroyed. He continues his transmission, lamenting the loss of his best specimens and contemplating suicide. Meanwhile, Rick's group has reached the CDC campus, which is surrounded by a military checkpoint filled with corpses, both military and civilian. They are unable to gain entry into the CDC building, and with darkness coming, walkers are beginning to arrive. As the group despairingly starts to move back towards the RV, Rick sees one of the surveillance cameras move. He bangs on the door, pleading for entry for his group. Jenner sees them on the surveillance feed and, reluctantly, opens one of the doors for them. It opens with a blinding white light beckoning them to enter.

The Walking Dead: Vatos (Season 1 - Episode 4)

2012-02-01T04:41:00.000-08:00

Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.

Vatos
In the opening segment, sisters Andrea and Amy are fishing in a boat. They discuss their childhoods—the two were twelve years apart—and express hope that maybe Florida, where their parents live, was not hit as hard by the epidemic. Back at the camp, Dale is keeping watch on top of his RV, and notices Jim in the distance, digging large holes on a hill.

The episode opens with Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, Glenn, and T-Dog on the roof of the department store where they had left Merle Dixon handcuffed to a pipe. They found only Merle's severed hand and a blood trail. Daryl retrieves his brother's hand and turns his crossbow on T-Dog, but Rick puts his revolver to Daryl's head and bloodshed is averted. They track Merle's trail through the building, finding two walkers that he had dispatched single-handedly and a gas stove where he had cauterized the stump of his hand. Back at the camp, Shane and the others confront Jim about his obsessive digging; Shane is forced to restrain Jim. While lying in the dirt, Jim breaks down and reveals that his family had been attacked by a band of walkers, and the only reason he was alive was that the walkers were too busy eating his wife and two children to chase him. In the camp, Glenn comes up with a plan to retrieve the bag of guns—he will retrieve the bag while Daryl waits for him in one alley, and Rick and T-Dog wait in another alley in case he has to flee in another direction.

While Glenn is getting the bag, Daryl is approached by a young living Latino man, who calls repeatedly for help. As Glenn returns with the guns, two other Latino men appear and attack Daryl. Rick and T-Dog return, and the men grab Glenn and flee into a waiting car, leaving the first man behind. The group begins to interrogate their hostage. Daryl retrieves his brothers severed hand and throws onto the young Latino's lap and tell him this is what they do to people. The young man's will breaks and they learn that the Latino men were after the same bag of guns. They go to meet the men for a prisoner exchange, but are rebuffed—the group's leader, Guillermo, tells them to come back either ready to hand over the guns, or locked and loaded for a fight.

They return, armed and ready, but a shootout is averted when an elderly woman emerges looking for her grandson, Felipe. It turns out that the men are guarding a hidden nursing home, its elderly residents having been abandoned by most of the staff except for Felipe and Guillermo. Rick leaves some of the guns and ammunition, and then his group heads back for camp. When they reach the location where they left their vehicle, they find it gone and conclude that it must have been stolen by Merle, who may be planning vengeance against the camp. Meanwhile at camp, everybody is getting ready for dinner. Carol and Sophia are at their tent where Ed is brutally bruised up. Carol asks Ed if he wants to come join the group for some fish, but he refuses. Ed then asks Sophia if she could keep him company, but Carol says "she wants to join the group" and they walk away. Later, their dinner gets interrupted when a horde of walkers invade the campsite. Several of the survivors are bitten and severely wounded, including Ed and Amy. Rick quickly fends off the campsite, and kills the remaining walkers. In the aftermath, Amy dies in Andrea's arms as she sobs away while everybody watches in terror. Jim then remembers what his dream was about and why he was digging the holes.