The Walking Dead

Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln)
finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic.  The
Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. Based on
Robert Kirkman’s hugely successful and popular comic book series, AMC’s The Walking Dead is an
epic, edge-of-your-seat drama where personal struggles are magnified against a backdrop of
moment-to-moment survival. A survivalist story at its core, the series explores how the living are
changed by the overwhelming realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than
the mindless walkers roaming the earth. They themselves have become the walking dead.

Escaping the blazing inferno that was the CDC, the group heads out for the nearest military base
only to be waylaid by a sea of abandoned cars on the Interstate. When walkers attack, Carol’s
daughter Sophia runs into the forest. While the group searches for Sophia, Carl is shot by a hunter
named Otis. Luckily, Otis’s boss is a veterinarian, Hershel. The group moves to Hershel’s farm and
continues to search for Sophia, led by an impassioned Daryl Dixon.
Tensions between Rick’s group and the people living on the farm grow, as Hershel does not want
them staying there. Lori finds out she’s pregnant, but is unsure if the father is Rick or Shane. Her
pregnancy increases Rick’s desire to stay on the farm. It all comes to a head when Glenn (who
helped Rick escape Atlanta) finds that the barn is full of walkers. After a heated debate between
Shane and Hershel, Shane releases the walkers from the barn to be put down. It’s here that the
group finds Sophia, now a walker herself. Rick does what he has to, and shoots her in the head.
A distraught Hershel (a recovering alcoholic) heads to an abandoned tavern to drink. Glenn (now in
a relationship with Hershel’s daughter Maggie) and Rick go to retrieve him. It’s here they run into an
untrustworthy group of scavengers. After a shoot out, they bring a wounded scavenger, Randall,
with them back to the farm. As he heals, Dale is attacked by a walker. Daryl is forced to kill him. The
group wonders how they can ever trust Randall enough to let him go. Shane settles the issue by
taking him into the field and breaking his neck. He hides this fact, and uses Randall’s disappearance
as a lure to get Rick alone and away from the farm. In the ensuing confrontation Rick stabs Shane
to death. When Shane’s corpse reanimates, Carl shoots him down.
The gunshot draws in all surrounding walkers, who swarm the farm. The group barely escapes,
getting separated from Andrea, who has been with the group since Atlanta. As Andrea struggles to
survive on her own, she’s rescued by a woman with a samurai sword and two unarmed (literally)
walkers on chains. As Rick’s group makes camp, Rick reveals that he learned at the CDC that
everyone is infected by the virus, they will all become walkers when they die. As the camera pans
out, we see a large prison in the distance.

Rick Grimes is a former Sheriff's deputy who has been in a coma for several months after
being shot while on duty. When he wakes, he discovers that the world has been taken over
by zombies, and that he seems to be the only person still alive. After returning home to
discover his wife and son missing, he heads for Atlanta to search for his family. Narrowly
escaping death at the hands of the zombies on arrival in Atlanta, he is aided by another
survivor,Glenn,who takes Rick to a camp outside the town. There, Rick finds his wife Lori
and his son,Carl, along with his partner/best friend Shane and a small group of survivors
who struggle to fend off the zombie hordes; as well as competing with other survivor groups
who are prepared to do whatever it takes to survive. 

“A bad man, someone truly evil, they’re light as a feather. They don’t feel a thing.”