"Rick just..." "You've got to keep your strength up." "did you... it was..." "It was legendary." "Did you ever hear about the time Shane stole Kingsley's car?" "Yeah." "The Principal's car right out of the teacher's lot in the middle of a school day." "Shane steps out of lunch" "drives down Dylan Drive to that chicken farm out there." "right?" "So he pulls it into one of the big holding pens." "had the auto shop vacuum it out every week." "he parks it in this huge pen with a couple of hundred Rhode Island Reds." "and then starts sprinting back to school." "It's three miles away easy." "He's back in time to finish his sandwich before the bell." "And then the bell rings. your coupe's gone."." "like chicken coop." " I get it." "you do." "You've heard this story a thousand times." "you're right." "Shane's gonna make it back with what the doctor needs." "He'll make it back." "Hershel said you need to eat." "Carl's gonna be all right." "for me." "You've got to keep your strength up." "I need my clip now." "look for the girl." "too." "I'm going for a walk." "Shine some light in the forest." "give her something to look at." " You think that's a good idea right now?" " Dale. what's on the other side? then the athletic field." "We just need enough time." "We got to get up there." "We got to get 'em open and get out." "hey." "look at me." "You really think I can squeeze through one of them tiny windows?" "They'd be all over us." "we lay down some fire to get a head start." "draw them away." "That gives you the chance to get up the bleachers and out a window." "And where do you go?" "down those steps." "Looks like a good way to get trapped." "and more my size." "we meet up out on the field." "ain't you?" "Just trying to do right for that boy." "You take three shots and you go." "After that I fire." "I'll lay down a cover for you." " I'll get you a lead." " All right." "God... it looks like people live here." "aren't we?" "Having to be considerate." "Did you close the gate up the road when you drove in?" "we closed it." "Did the latch and everything." "nice to see you again." "We met before briefly." "we came to help." "There anything we can do?" "It's not a bite." "I cut myself pretty bad though." "We'll have it looked at." "I'll tell them you're here." "We have some painkillers and antibiotics." "I already gave him some." "If Carl needs any." "Come on inside." "I'll make you something to eat." "Hey." "Hey." "okay?" "Thank you." "Whatever you need." "we're gonna have a decision to make." "And that is?" "Whether to operate on your boy without the respirator." " You said that wouldn't work." " I know." "It's extremely unlikely." "But we can't wait much longer." "You really think we're gonna find Sophia?" "same as everybody else." "What the hell's wrong with you people?" "do you?" "It ain't the mountains of Tibet." "It's Georgia." "She could be holed up in a farmhouse somewhere." "People get lost and they survive." " It happens all the time." " She's only 12." "I was younger than her and I got lost." "wiping my ass with poison oak." "They found you?" "My old man was off on a bender with some waitress." "Merle was doing another stint in juvie." "Didn't even know I was gone." "I made my way back though." "Went straight into the kitchen and made myself a sandwich." "No worse for wear." "Except my ass itched something awful." "that is a terrible story." "Only difference is Sophia's got people looking for her." "I call that an advantage." "Maybe this isn't a world for children any more." "we have a child." "Carl is here in this world now." "Maybe he shouldn't be." "Maybe this is how it's supposed to be." "You can't mean that." "Okay." "All right." "I can understand that thought crossing your mind." "Rick." "I can't stop thinking it." "Why do we want Carl to live in this world?" "To have this life?" "So he can see more people torn apart in front of him?" "So that he can be hungry and scared for however long he has before he..." "So he can run and run and run and run and then even if he survives he ends up..." "He ends up just another animal who doesn't know anything except survival?" "If he... it ends for him." "Tell me why it would be better another way." "What changed?" "What?" "Jenner offered us a way out." "You asked him to let us keep trying." "You begged him." "you said." "What changed?" "There was a moment the other day..." "It was just a second but I forgot Jacqui was dead." "I wanted to tell her something." "I almost said her name." "It was just a second and then I remembered." "But then I realised she didn't have to see any of it." "Carl getting shot..." "She didn't..." "She doesn't have to be afraid any more." "Hungry." "Angry." "Rick." "It's like we live with a knife at our throats every second of every day." "But Jacqui doesn't." "Not any more." "And then..." "Maybe Jenner was right." "I don't accept that." "I can't accept that." "That man surrendered." "It doesn't... it doesn't matter what he said." "None of it." "You really think it would be better if Carl... if we just gave up?" "Tell me why it would be better the other way." "Please." "I thought I'd lost you." "That was my last riﬂe round." "too." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Where are we?" "little man." "That's Hershel." "We're in his house." "You had an accident." "a lot." "I know." "I know." " You should have seen it." " What?" "The deer." "Mom." "It was so close." "I..." "I've never been..." "Carl?" "What is happening?" "Don't." "It's a seizure." "you could hurt him." " You can't stop it?" " He has to just go through it." "His brain isn't getting enough blood." "His pressure is bottoming." "He needs another transfusion." "I'm ready." " If I take any more out of you your body could shut down." "You could go into a coma." " Or cardiac arrest." " You're wasting time." "baby... man." "We need a way out." " Just let me catch my breath." " Come on." "Can't sleep?" "I'm gonna wait for them to come back." "You can go down and sleep if you want to." "we can keep watch together." "Which way did they go?" " What the hell?" "Got bit." "Fever hit." "World gone to shit." "Might as well quit." "Dumbass didn't know enough to shoot himself in the head." "Turned himself into a big swinging piece of bait." "And a mess." " You all right?" " Trying not to puke." "I'm fine." "Let's just talk about something else for a minute." " How'd you learn to shoot?" " Gotta eat." "That's one thing these walkers and us have in common." "I guess it's the closest he's been to food since he turned. hanging up there like a big piñata." "The other geeks came and ate all the flesh off his legs." "I thought we were changing the subject." "Call that payback for laughing about my itchy ass." "There wasn't a lot that came up." "Let's head back." "Aren't you gonna..." "No." "He ain't hurting nobody." "Ain't gonna waste an arrow either." "He made his choice." "Opted out." "Let him hang. or not?" "It's just a question." "An answer for an arrow." "Fair?" "Mmm-hmm. or if it's just a habit." "Not much of an answer." "Waste of an arrow." "You don't need to worry." "She's with Daryl." "he can protect her." "You hear what I'm saying?" "all I heard was "if something happens." "You mind keeping watch?" " I don't know how to use that." " I won't be gone long." "call out." "I'm not going far." "I'll hear you." "You got here right in time." "This couldn't go untreated much longer." "Merle Dixon." "ma'am." "his brother." " Not sure I'd call him a friend." " He is today." "This doxycycline might have just saved your life." "You know what Merle was taking it for?" "The clap." "Um..." "Venereal disease." "That's what Daryl said." "I'd say Merle Dixon's clap was the best thing to ever happen to you." "I'm really trying not to think about that." "Are you praying?" "Why do you sneak up on people so much?" "You're easy to sneak up on." "I was praying" "I was trying to." "You religious?" "You pray a lot?" "this is my first try." "Ever?" "Wow." "Sorry." "I didn't mean to wreck your first time." "God probably got the gist." " Praying for what?" " My friends." "Looks like they could all use a little help right now." "You think..." "You think God exists?" "I always took it on faith." "Lately I've wondered. there must have been a lot of praying going on." "And it seems quite a few went unanswered." "Thanks." "This is really helping." "Sorry." "Go ahead." "Really." "You gonna watch?" "I'll get you a refill instead. but the thing is no matter what happens. we were standing there in the woods and this deer just crossed right in front of us. it just planted itself there and looked Carl right in the eye." "And I looked at Carl and that deer looking right back at Carl." "And that moment 'gust slipped away." "It slipped away. not about getting shot or what happened at the church." "something living." "a place maybe like this." "It isn't all death out there." "It can't be." "We just have to be strong enough to still believe that." "Why is it better for Carl to live even in this world?" "Lori." "He talked about the deer." "Shit. double back to the truck." "okay?" "get up." "You're gonna take these bags and you're gonna go." "I ain't leaving you behind." "Okay." "How many rounds you got left?" "Four." "You?" "Five and one in the pipe." "He's still losing blood faster than we can replace it." "we can't wait any longer or he's just going to slip away. because I think your boy is out of time." "You have to make a choice." " A choice?" " A choice." "You have to tell me what it is." "We do it." "get the corner of that bed." "Let's get the sheets down." "get the IV bag on the sheet." "Okay." "On three." "three." "you may want to step out." "God." "You stay here with him." "Carl?" "There's still a chance." "Otis?" "No." "We say nothing to Patricia." "Not till after." "I need her." "They kept blocking us at every turn." "We had nothing left." "We were down to 10 rounds." "Then he said..." "He said he'd cover me and that I should keep going." "So that's what I did." "I just..." "I kept going." "But I..." "I looked back and he just..." "I tried." "He wanted to make it right." "Andrea." "Dale?" "To give you this." "so I made a choice for you..." "Choices. but this is not my gun." "And the choices that I made for you were not mine to make. and this is not to make you guilty please." "Don't make me regret this." "I'll take watch." "So do you forgive me for..." "Do you forgive me?" "I'm trying." "I've known Otis since I was a kid." "He's run this farm since before my mother died." "Who else?" "Who'd you lose?" "You told me I had to make it okay somehow." "right?" "Which ones?" "Stepmother." "Stepbrother." "He seems to have stabilised." "God." "I don't have words." "I don't either." "Wish I did." "How do I tell Patricia about Otis?" "You go to Carl." "I'll go with Hershel." "Sta)'" "The bathroom's upstairs." "I brought you some clothes." "Thank you." "They won't fit well." "They were Otis'." "How many rounds you got left?" "Four." "You?" "SHANE'." "Five and one in the pipe." "Come on!" "too." "I'm sorry." "Will you give it..." "Give it!" "Let go of me!" "Let go!"