TS-19

Shane opens the door to Rick's room and looks out to see a group of men in military gear are running past him and up the hallway.

Shane: Hey hey. Whoa whoa

Shane tries to get anyone's attention but they keep running past. He grabs a nurse by the arm.

Shane: Ma'am. Ma'am,please. Please,can you help me?

Nurse: No no!

She breaks free and runs along with the others. Shane looks back the way they came.

Man: Check them all. Check them all

Shane runs down the hall where all the people had just run.

Just as he grabs a gurney he looks down around the corner and he sees men in full camouflage gear with gas masks shooting doctors and nurses.

After they all have been shot one of the soldiers puts a bullet in each person's head. Behind one of the soldiers a double door opens. A walker comes through and grabs him. Startled he starts firing off rounds into the ceiling. More walkers come through and the group of soldiers is overwhelmed. Shane grabs the gurney and runs back to Rick's room.

Shane is panting.

Shane leaves the gurney outside and goes into the room where Rick lays lifelessly.

Shane: Okay. I'm gonna get you out of here,bud

Shane grunts.

Shane tries but can't quite pick Rick up.

Shane looks at the monitor with Rick's vitals.

Shane: Okay. Okay

Shane squats down on the far side of Rick's bed. He looks at the monitor and back at Rick.

Shane: What do I do?

Shane ducks down. A soldier in riot gear looks into the room. He doesn't see Shane and he hesitates when he sees Rick lying lifeless in the bed. Behind him comes more of his troop.

Man: Come on,corporal. Move out!

The soldier backs out the door and follows command.

Shane: Listen to me. If you're gonna wake up, I need you to do it ''now. Okay? Now. ''Please, man, you just show me a sign, anything. Please Rick

Man: The place is coming down! Fall back! All units fall back

Shane puts his head to Rick's chest but cannot hear any sounds.

Shane: (crying) I'm...I'm okay

Shane goes out the door, his gun out and ready.

The soldiers have passed Rick's room and but they are continuing to shoot every one they see.

Shane looks behind him and sees walkers coming up the hallway toward him. Gunfire ahead of him, walkers behind him, Shane opens the door to Rick's room. Rick is still lying there as if he were dead. Shane points his gun at the walkers but doesn't fire. He covers his mouth with a towel, pulls the door closed and pushes the gurney up against Rick's door. He backs away from the walkers, pointing but not shooting his gun, turns and runs.

[theme music playing]

The group is just outside the C.D.C. still standing in the light from the open doorway.

Shane: Daryl,you cover the back

Rick: Hello? Hello?

Dale: Close those doors. Watch for walkers

The group enters and looks around at the lobby. It's completely empty.

Rick: Hello?

Jenner is standing in a doorway, a rifle in his hands.

Jenner: Anybody infected?

Rick: One of our group was. He didn't make it

Jenner: Why are you here? What do you want?

Rick: A chance

Jenner: That's asking an awful lot these days

Rick: I know

Jenner looks at every one.

Jenner: You all submit to a blood test. That's the price of admission

Rick: We can do that

Jenner lowers his weapon.

Jenner: You got stuff to bring in, you do it now. Once this door closes it stays closed

They all run through the doors and follow Jenner into an elevator.

Jenner: Vi,seal the main entrance. Kill the power up here

Rick: Rick Grimes

They all run through the doors and follow Jenner into an elevator.

Edwin: Dr.Edwin Jenner

Daryl: Doctors always go around packing heat like that?

Edwin: There were plenty left lying around. I familiarized myself. But you look harmless enough. [ To Carl ] Except you, I'll have to keep my eye on you

Carl smiles back at the doctor.

Edwin chuckles.

When he looks away the smile on his face dies.

Out of the elevator Edwin leads them down a hallway.

Carol: Are we underground?

Edwin: Are you claustrophobic?

Carol: A little

Edwin: Try not to think about it

They enter the large darkened space Edwin had been in before.

Edwin: Vi,bring up the lights in the big room. Welcome to zone 5

Rick: Where is everybody? The other doctors,the staff?

Edwin: I'm it. It's just me here

Lori: What about the person you were speaking with? Vi?

Edwin: Vi,say hello to our guests. Tell them...welcome

Computer: Hello,guests. Welcome

Edwin: I'm all that's left. I'm sorry

Edwin takes Andrea's blood for a sample. Everyone else is done.

Andrea: What's the point? If we were infected,we'd all be running a fever

Edwin:  I've already broken every rule in the book letting you in here. Let me just at least be thorough. All done

Andrea: Ooh

As she stands Andrea starts to black out. Jacqui catches her.

Edwin: Are you okay?

Andrea: Mmm

Jacqui: She hasn't eaten in days. None of us have

Everyone, including Edwin, is seated at a large round table eating pasta and drinking wine.

Lori: Fine

Dale: You know, in Italy, children have a little bit of wine with dinner. And in France

Lori: Well, when Carl is in Italy or France, he can have some then

Rick: What's it gonna hurt? Come on. Come on

Carl: What?

Dale hands Carl a glass with half an inch of wine in it.

Dale: There you are,young lad

Everyone watches.

Carl: Eww

Lori: That's my boy. That's my boy. Good boy

She pours his wine into her glass.

Carl: Yuck. That tastes nasty

Shane: Well,just stick to soda pop there,bud

Daryl: Not you,Glenn

Glenn: What?

Daryl: Keep drinking, little man. I want to see how red your face can get

Rick sees that Edwin isn't enjoying the party. He takes his fork and taps his glass.

Rick: It seems to me we haven't thanked our host properly

T-Dog: He is more than just our host

Dale: Hear hear!

Daryl: Here's to you,Doc. Booyah!

Dale: Booyah!

Rick: Thank you. Thank you,doctor

T-Dog: Booyah!

Shane: So when are you gonna tell us what the Hell happened here, Doc? All the—the other doctors that were supposed to be figuring out what happened, where are they?

Rick: We're celebrating, Shane. Don't need to do this now

Shane: Whoa, wait a second. This is why we're here, right? This was your move—supposed to find all the answers. Instead we—(chuckles) we found him. Found one man, why?

Edwin: Well, when things got bad, a lot of people just left, went off to be with their families. And when things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted

Shane: Every last one?

Edwin: No, many couldn't face walking out the door. They... opted out. There was a rash of suicides. That was a bad time

Andrea: You didn't leave. Why?

Edwin: I just kept working,hoping to do some good

Glenn: (to Shane) Dude,you are such a buzzkill,man

Edwin shows them the rest of the living area.

Edwin: Most of the facility is powered down including housing so you'll have to make do here. The couches are comfortable, but there are cots in storage if you like. There's a rec room down the hall that you kids might enjoy. Just don't plug in the video games, okay? Or anything that draws power. The same applies—if you shower, go easy on the hot water

Glenn: Hot water?

T-Dog: That's what the man said

Lori stands under the running water, ecstatic.T-Dog lets the water run over his head in his shower... (Laughing) And Glenn does the same.

Glenn: Ah!

Rick joins Lori while in his shower, he kisses her romantically. In his shower Shane drinks straight from a whiskey bottle. Andrea sits in hers and cries.

Dressed, Rick walks down the hallway, drinking from a bottle of wine. He smiles as he passes Dale.

Dale: Hey

Dale turns to enter a shower but he stops when he hears Andrea inside the one across the hall.

Dale: Andrea?

Dale goes in and sees her at the toilet being sick.

Dale: That's it. That's it. Get it out. There you go

Andrea: Oh...god

She backs away from Dale, not wanting comfort.

Andrea: Oh. Everything's gone

Dale: It's always better going down than coming up, huh?

Andrea: I don't mean the wine, Dale. You know, it's over. There's nothing left. Don't you see that?

Dale: Oh, I—I see a—a chance to make a new start

Andrea: (laughs) Oh my God, Dale. Dale, didn't you see the look on Jenner's face? Hear what I'm saying. There's nothing left

Rick and his bottle of wine join Jenner in the big room.

Rick: How's the blood?

Edwin: No surprises

Rick: I came to thank you

Edwin: You did

Rick tries to lean against a console but instead he falls to the floor in a sitting position.

Edwin: You all--you all right?

Rick: You don't know what it's like. (Laughs) You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do, but you don't. We'd have died out there. It was only a matter of time. There's too many of those things. My—My boy...My—My wife, I never—I never told 'em what I really thought. I never even hinted, just—just kept it in. kept it in and kept us moving, you know. Just kept it in. Kept us...

Overcome with emotion Rick stammers into silence.

Edwin: It'll all be okay. It'll be okay

Carl, Carol and Sophia are in the rec room. The kids are playing checkers and Carol is reading a book. Lori comes in, smiling, a glass of wine in her hand. They look relaxed and happy. They smile when Lori walks in.

Lori: (chuckling) Any good books?

Carol: Uh-huh. (Book closes) Enough to keep us busy for years. All right. Come on, kids, it's bed time

Lori: Baby,go say your prayers. I'm gonna browse a bit

Carol: Come on. [ To Lori ] This is the first night we might actually get some real sleep

Lori: Hmm

Carol: It's a miracle,isn't it?

Carol taps Sophia on the nose then leads them out into the hall that leads to their bedrooms.

From a different doorway Shane peers in, watching Lori. He doesn't look sober. She's reading the dust jacket of a book and doesn't see him. Watching for her reaction he pulls the door knob.

Lori looks around, startled. She sees Shane and she's not happy.

Lori: (sighs) Jesus,you scared me

Shane: I'm gonna tell you a few things and you're gonna listen to me

Lori: Now is not the time

She tries to ignore Shane by reading the cover of the book in her hand.

Shane: (chuckles) Come on. When is it ever the time?

Shane still has the whiskey bottle. Lori gives up trying to ignore in and instead goes to leave.

Shane: How can you treat me like this?

He blocks Lori's way to the door.

Lori: You're kidding,right?

Shane: No. Huh-uh

Lori: Because you told me my husband was dead

She walks around him.

Shane: Jesus, Lori. I didn't lie to you, all right? I didn't. Do you know what it was like there? Huh?

As he talks he walks past Lori. Before she can walk out the open door he pulls it closed and stands in front of it.

Shane: Stop. Things were falling apart. They were slaughtering people in the hallways. It was a massacre. There were walkers everywhere

Lori: So you left him?

Shane: Everybody else ran. There were no doctors there. It was just me. He was hooked up to machines and I did not know what to do. I even took my ear and I put it on his chest and I listened for a heartbeat and I did not hear one. And I-I-I-I—I don't know why. Maybe it was gunfire. I don't know what it was, but there was no way he could've survived that. No way

Shane bangs the door in frustration.

Lori: He did

Shane: Yeah, but then I had y'all to think about, didn't I?

He takes Lori by the shoulders. She backs away from him until she's backed up to a table.

Shane:  I had you and Carl, and I needed to think about—

Lori: Okay. No no

Shane: I had to get you guys safe to Atlanta. That's what I had to do. Just stop

Lori tries to get up but he pushes her back again.

Shane: If you thought for one second that he was still alive, would you have come? So I saved your life—you and your little boy's. That's what I did. Right?

Lori, speechless, shakes her head.

Shane: And if I could've traded places with him, I would have. I would trade places with him right now because—

Lori: No no no. No

Shane: No no no,you--I love you. Shh shh

Lori: No. No,you're drunk

Shane: I love you

Lori: No,you're drunk

Shane: And I know there were some things that say that you love me, too. Because there's no way that you could've been with me the way that you were

Shane keeps pushing in closer and closer. He holds her chin with his hand to keep her from looking away. Lori keeps trying to fight him off.

Lori: Shane. Shane. Shane!

Shane: Just—Okay, Stop. Listen. You love me

Lori: Get your hands off me. Get your hands off me

He reaches down between her legs.

Shane: I love you. There's nobody here

Lori: Please! No!

Shane: Stop, Lori. It's all right. Just—

Lori grabs Shane's neck and pulls back her hand, scratching him.

He stops, stares at Lori. He puts his hand to his mouth. Lori stares at him, terrified. Shane turns away, opens the door, (Pounds wall) and walks out. Shaking, Lori stands by the table and tries to pull herself together.

The door to Rick and Lori's room opens. A very tipsy Rick tries to sneak in quietly. He gently closes the door.

Carl is asleep on the couch. Lori lies quietly on the cot. Rick falls onto the bed with her. He puts his arm on Lori and pulls her to him.

He strokes her hair and reassures her.

Rick: (whispering) We don't have to be afraid anymore. We're safe here. All right?

Holding her face he kisses Lori. She tries to smile but when she turns over so they can spoon she's still crying.