Days Gone Bye (WTS)

"Days Gone Bye" is the first episode of season 1 of The Walking Dead: Willing To Survive, as well the first episode of the series in general.

Plot
The episode starts with Officer Rick Grimes and his partner Shane Walsh are eating hamburgers and fries inside their police cruiser. They joke about the differences between men and women. When the conversation turns to Rick's wife, Lori, he turns somber. He says that they've been fighting lately, and says that Lori accused him that morning of not caring about his family in front of their son, Carl. "The difference between men and women?... I would never say something that cruel to her, especially not in front of Carl," Rick muses. Suddenly, the cruiser's radio cracks to life reporting a high-speed pursuit in progress involving two armed suspects.

Rick and Shane dump their food and rush to the scene. When they arrive, they lay down a spike strip and meet up with their co-worker, Leon Basset. As they all wait for the car, Leon muses about their chances of getting on a police chase reality show. Rick tells him to focus, and worry about having a round in his gun chamber and the safety off. Leon sheepishly checks his gun while Shane suggests that it would be "kinda cool gettin' on one of them shows."

At that moment, the car approaches, pursued by two more cruisers containing the Linden County Sheriff's Department officers. The car, with the suspects inside, speeds over the spike strip, shredding the tires. The driver loses control of the wheel and the vehicle flips off the road, rolling several times before coming to a rough stop upside down in a field. "Holy shit," mutters Shane, cocking his shotgun as the officers descend on the vehicle.

Rick carefully approaches the overturned car. A criminal named Reggie emerges from the vehicle and immediately starts shooting at the officers. Rick yells at him to drop his pistol, but the man shoots directly at Rick and hits him in the chest. Shane shoots Reggie, killing him as Rick falls to the ground.

Shane and a passing by resident named Paula Sadler take and bring the wounded Rick to the hospital. A little later, Shane delivers flowers to Rick in the hospital, but Rick isn't fully conscious while Shane starts talking to him. At an unknown time later, Rick awakens and responds to Shane's presence. He discovers that Shane is no longer there. The flowers have wilted and died, the beeping of the machines have stopped as has the clock; the room is empty. Weak, dehydrated and alone, Rick pulls himself out of bed, flops onto the floor and calls out for a nurse to help, but no one comes.

After getting no response, he stumbles into the bathroom, guzzling water directly from the tap, while noticing a growing beard, before he heads for the door. He opens the door and notices a gurney is blocking the entrance to his room. He pushes it aside and continues walking in the dark and disheveled hallway.

The hallway's lights flicker and wires hang from the ceiling. He goes to the nurse's station and tries the phone, but it's dead. He finds a set of matches while also looking for anything else worth taking from behind the desk. Suddenly, a flickering light draws his attention, and through a doorway, Rick sees the ravaged body of a nurse missing most of her skin. His eyes can't believe what he's seeing and he backs away, confused and afraid. Continuing further down the hallway, he sees that the walls are covered in blood with numerous bullet holes. A double door leading into the cafeteria has been chained shut, a message scrawled across in black paint: "DON'T OPEN/DEAD INSIDE." A woman's hands, her fingernails dirty and broken, reach through the cracks and fiddle with the padlock and chains, moaning and groaning as more fingers start to reach through the cracks growling. Terrified, Rick stumbles backwards.

He tries the elevator but it's dead, so he exits through a heavy door into a dark stairwell that reeks of rotting flesh. He chokes on the smell as he lumbers down the stairs, lighting matches until he finds the exit. A door opens to the back of the hospital into the loading bay. When Rick's eyes adjust to the bright sunlight, he sees hundreds of decayed, fly-covered bodies wrapped in sheets and arranged in rows and piles. He leaves the hospital and stumbles up a hill. There's a military helicopter, sandbags and other signs of a military cordon, but everything has been abandoned.

He wanders down the road in his hospital gown, spotting an overturned bicycle in a park. As he reaches for it, the badly decayed body of a mutilated woman, her legs and lips missing, turns and reaches for him, pathetically moaning and growling in. Startled, Rick falls off the bicycle but regains himself a moment later, mounts the bike, and hastily rides away.

In a camp nearby to Atlanta a small group of survivors are living in normal life, between they are found Shane Walsh, the deputy officer, and Rick's wife and son Lori and Carl, an Asian boy, an old man, two blonde sisters, and a woman with her husband and daughter. A walkie talkie works and the girl with her daughter goes to check who is trying to contact.

It's seen in the other side Rick Grimes tries to contact via walkie-talkie, however Rick put his eyes out of road and crashes the car in the street he lives, he tries to reach his house, but gets shoved in the head, he wakes up again to see a little african kid and his father, they both question Rick if he was bitten to which he replies no, he later asks what's going on and they that the deads began to walk, Rick goes to check on his house to look if Lori and Carl were fine, finding nothing he decides to head towards Atlanta Outskirts to look out there for them, Morgan says that he's gonna stay in King County with his son, but helps Rick to get out of city in safety, Rick takes them to the King County police department, as they spot a walker Morgan teaches Rick about walkers: they are people who already died due to an infection and become killing monsters who only kill people by eating them, if one zombie bites you, you'll turn into one of them, unless you get shot on the head to destroy the brain, and Rick kills the walker, once in the departament, they take a bath and Duane thanks Rick for his hospitality, Rick takes a car and leaves Morgan and Duane in the departament.

Rick returns to the park where he found the legless walker. He follows a blood trail for quite a distance to find her again, crawling helplessly. She reaches for him futilely. "I'm sorry this happened to you," Rick says, shooting her in the head with his revolver and putting her out of her misery.

Main Cast
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 * Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes
 * Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh
 * Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes
 * Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes

Also Starring
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 * Lennie James as Morgan Jones
 * Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee
 * Laurie Holden as Andrea Harrison
 * Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier
 * Jeffrey DeMunn as Dale Horvath

Co-Stars
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 * Adrian Kali Turner as Duane Jones
 * Linds Edwards as Leon Basset
 * Kelley Davis as Paula Sadler
 * Emma Bell as Amy Harrison
 * Adam Minarovich as Ed Peletier
 * Madison Lintz as Sophia Peletier

Uncredited
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 * Tommie Mack Turvey as Reggie
 * Melissa Cowan as Bicycle Girl🇨🇴

Deaths

 * Reggie
 * Bicycle Girl (Alive, Confirmed Fate; Zombified)

Trivia

 * First appearance of Rick Grimes.
 * First appearance of Shane Walsh.
 * First appearance of Lori Grimes.
 * First appearance of Carl Grimes.
 * First appearance of Glenn Rhee.
 * First appearance of Dale Horvath.
 * First appearance of Andrea Harrison.
 * First appearance of Amy Harrison.
 * First appearance of Carol Peletier.
 * First appearance of Ed Peletier.
 * First appearance of Sophia Peletier.
 * First appearance of Morgan Jones.
 * First (and last) appearance of Reggie.
 * First (and last) appearance of Leon Basset. (Alive)
 * First (and last) appearance of Duane Jones. (Alive)
 * First (and last) appearance of Paula Sadler. (Alive)
 * First (and last) appearance of Bicycle Girl. (Zombified)
 * The title of the episode, "Days Gone Bye", refers to the fact that many days have passed since Rick has been in a coma and that the old days before the outbreak are gone forever.