Season 1 (WTS)

Season 1 is the debut season of Willing To Survive.

"Days Gone Bye"
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.

"Guts"
Rick is still heading towards Atlanta, when his car runs out of fuel, he does to a gas station to look for gas, when he sees his co-worker Leon and Paula, the woman that brought him to the hospital. He calls them out and the two turn around, revealing that they are both walkers. Rick pulls up his gun and shoots both of them in the head.

In the camp Amy is still trying to make the walkie talkie work, as this happens Shane goes to check on Lori and Carl's wellbeing, and tells Lori he was planning to teach Carl how to shoot, but Lori refuses.

Glenn comments on going to do laundry with Amy, Carol and Lori, Amy wants to show Sophia how to do laundry but Ed refuses, insisting Sophia wants to stay with her father, as they begin to argue, Shane bumps in the conversation and punches Ed in the face repeatedly, where Sophia enters her tent and begins to cry.

Rick finally makes it to Atlanta, when a large herd of walkers starts following them, they leave the car blocking the path and make it into a military tank, Rick enters and covers himself in the tank, as this happens he finds a dead lieutenant body's with a gun and Rick plans to shot himself, when a voice asks "Hey, you dumbass in the tank, are you cozy in there?" and Rick takes the walkie talkie.

In the distance, a group consisting of an african man named Theodore Douglas and a man with a crossbow named Daryl Dixon shoot at the walkers as they make their way to Rick and rescue him. They make their way to an alley which leads into a garage where they encounter two walkers. Then, three people, Merle Dixon, Jacqui and Jim, come out and Merle and Jim beat the two walkers to death. Rick, Daryl and T-Dog enter the building with Jacqui and Jim as Merle shuts the door and locks it.

The group questions Rick about what he was doing roaming around the streets of Atlanta aimlessly. He tries to explain he was trying to flag down a helicopter. Jacqui suggests that it was just a hallucination. "I saw it," Rick insists forcefully. T-Dog tries to make radio contact with another unknown group, but fails to get a signal, wondering if they might have better luck on higher ground. Then, they hear shattering noises coming from the glass doors, holding the walkers. The group grabs their bags and rushes from the rooftop toward the loading dock.

Outside the loading bay at the back entrance of the store, with the walkers lured away by Merle shooting a car and making a car alarm, Rick pulls the van up and the group piles in, catching their breath as they drive away from the city.

They make it to the Atlanta Camp, where a survivor named Jay alerts the others. Rick exits the truck and is greeted by his wife and son.

"Tell It to the Frogs"
They finally arrive at the Atlanta survivors camp, when everyone comes out Andrea and Amy hug, and Merle goes asking where his brother is, then he appears and Glenn tells Carol they found a "newbie" and orders Rick to come out, as Rick comes out, Lori and Carl watches paralyzed, Shane also looks paralyzed and the three goes to hug him and Shane introduces everyone to Rick, Andrea and Amy are the twins, Amy is married to Ed who have a daughter called Sophia, the bald black guy is T-Dog, the woman at his right is Jacqui, Dale is the owner of the RV, and the family of Michonne, Mike, Terry and Andre Anthony. Lori then asks how Rick ended up escaping the hospital and he answers that he found it destroyed, then found help of a family of two (Referring to Morgan and Duane Jones). Later in night all the group is around fire made with wood, everyone talks about their occupations prior to the outbreak, Dale was a pensioner, Jacqui and Carol were housewives, Amy and Andrea had no occupations and Ed neither, Rick and Shane recount their story as police deputies, while in the tent Sophia is still crying when Carl goes to console her asking if she's alright, she replies that she doesn't like to watch her dad fighting and Carl answers with "No one wants" then both hugs and goes to sleep.

Ed goes to his tent to sleep and Amy goes to use the RV's bathroom when he gets bitten on the arm by a walker. More walkers approach the camp and surround and kills everyone in the background, Dale asks Andrea, Shane, Lori, Glenn and Rick, but they refuse and start killing the walkers, Glenn and Rick make a team and starts killing walkers, Lori goes to Sophia's tent and protects both Carl and Sophia, Shane and Dale also kills walkers, while Andrea cries next to her sister's dying body, Jacqui protects both Andrea and Dale, T-Dog kills walkers, Ed opens his tent and walkers surround and kill him. Jay tries saving Ed, but is grabbed and pulled in several walkers as they tear him apart. T-Dog flees the camp after his gun runs out of ammo with a few walkers going after him. The camp survivors put down all the walkers and dumb their bodies in a ditch.

In the RV, Amy reanimates and tries to bite Andrea, Andrea with tears in her eyes says that she would like to saved Amy, Shane and Dale who drives the RV, thinks she's talking to some member of the group but notices everyone except Andrea are sleeping, Andrea then proceeds to shot her in the head, with Carol hacking Ed's corpse in the head to prevent reanimation as well. Merle finds the zombified Jay, with his flesh spilled out and his legs and left arm torn off, and Daryl fires an arrow straight through Jay's forehead.

Later at night, Lori is sleeping with Rick, but then notices that Carl isn't there in the tent, she goes to loom on the Peletier's bed and finds Sophia and Carl sleeping together as she looks with a smile on her face.

T-Dog is still getting chased by a few walkers and is cornered in an alleyway when two men, Jorge and Felipe, jump out and kill the walkers. T-Dog thanks the two men as Jorge and Felipe tell T-Dog to come as they lead him to nursing home. T-Dog meets the leader of the group, Guillermo, who introduces himself and the other occupants, including Felipe's cousin Miguel and his grandmother Fernanda, and a nurse named Hector.

"Vatos"
Nearby, Daryl swings at dead walkers' heads with a pickaxe as Glenn and Merle throw bodies in a fire.

Rick, Lori, and Shane discuss how to handle Andrea, who hasn't moved from Amy's side all night. Amy needs to be dealt with, Shane says — "the same as the others." Rick tries to approach Andrea to "tell her how it is," but she pulls a gun on him. "I know how the safety works," she says flatly, referencing Rick's advice to her when they first met. Rick backs off, apologizing. Daryl tells Rick that he needs to deal with Amy, calling her a "time bomb," as she could turn at any moment, but Lori insists they leave Andrea alone.

Jacqui and Jim pile up bodies. She notices blood on his shirt. He tries to convince her he just got some blood on him by moving bodies but she manages to see that he has been bit. "Please don't tell," he begs her, but Jacqui's too terrified to stay silent. "A walker bit Jim," she announces, as Jim insists that he's fine, but he grabs a shovel to press the group away from him as they demand to see his stomach. Merle runs up behind him and grabs his arms as Daryl runs in and lifts his shirt, revealing a bite wound on his abdomen. "I'm okay," Jim says, with far less conviction.

Daryl heads toward Jim with his pick axe and tries to take a swing, but Rick points his gun at Daryl's head. "We don't kill the living," Rick says, but Daryl snaps back, saying, "Funny, coming from a guy who just put a gun to my head." Shane steps between Daryl and Jim, agreeing with Rick, and Daryl throws down his pick axe. Rick moves Jim inside the bedroom of the RV.

Dale sits beside Andrea to pay his respects for Amy's death. He tells her about his wife's battle with cancer, how he dragged her to every specialist even though she'd accepted her fate. Her death left him feeling angry and cheated. "Since she passed," he says, "You girls were the first people that I cared anything for."

Rick and Shane dig graves near the campsite. "If you'd been here looking after your own," Shane accuses Rick, "our losses might not have been so great." Rick counters that without the guns he brought back, the losses would have been a lot worse, maybe the entire camp.

Daryl believes they should burn all the bodies, but Lori insists that they need time to mourn and bury their dead. "It's what people do," she says.

Jim is hallucinating inside the RV, his bite bleeding as he sees terrifying visions of the dead. The survivors stage a funeral, and Andrea resists Dale's attempts to help her drag Amy's body into one of the graves. "Are we safe now, Dad?" Carl asks Rick afterward, but he can't say that they are. "I won't leave again," he promises.

Privately, Rick asks Lori if she blames him for not being there when the camp was attacked, and to support his decision to head for the CDC. She doesn't blame him exactly — not like Shane does — but she doesn't know if she can follow him to the CDC on blind faith. "We're all terrified. Tell me something with certainty," Lori says. "I love you. That's all I got," he tells her. It's all he can promise.

In the RV, Rick tells a feverish Jim they're going to get him help as Jim starts to cough blood in to a bucket. Jim is delirious and asks Rick to watch the boat, insisting Amy is there and that Rick "said he would." Rick begins to wonder if saving Jim will be possible as he promises to watch the boat while Jim nods gratefully.

Outside, Shane asks Lori to convince Rick that the CDC is a bad decision, cautioning her about choosing her marriage over peoples' safety. "I think folks around here can make up their minds without bringing my marriage into it," Lori says. "It's a habit you need to break." Shane tells her that he'll add it to the list of habits he needs to break as Rick emerges from the RV.

Shane tries backtracking, and Lori abruptly announces that they should follow Rick's plan. Shane's reaction seems to confirm to Rick that something went on between his wife and best friend while he was gone.

Rick, Shane, and Dale depart to sweep the forest for walkers. Alone, Shane tries to convince Rick to change his mind about the CDC. "I've gotta do what's best for my family. If it was your family, you'd feel differently," Rick says. This offends Shane. "I kept them safe," he snaps at Rick. "Looked out for them like they were my own." Rick tries to calm him down. "You're hearing it wrong," he says, as they're interrupted by a sound in the bush and draw their guns and separate to investigate.

As they each scan with their guns raised, Shane's aim lands on Rick. He holds it there for just a few seconds, glaring, his breath heavy, but he hears a sound and his focus breaks. He lowers the gun and then notices Dale's been watching him. "Jesus," whispers Dale. Shane shrugs it off, musing that they need to get reflective vests for the woods. Back at camp, Shane announces that he thinks they should trust Rick's instincts, and those that agree will be leaving to the CDC in the morning.

At the nursing home, T-Dog asks Guillermo about what happened to the nursing home. G says that the staff fled the nursing home and abandoned the patients, Guillermo explains, leaving only himself (the building custodian) and Felipe (a nurse) behind. People will trickle in to check on their grandparents, and suddenly he's the leader of a group of young men, women, and the elderly.

Then, a survivor with a shotgun breaks in the nursing home and points gun at the occupants. "Where is Danilo?!" the man screams in anger at Guillermo. T-Dog turns is head at G and asks him about who Danilo is. G says that he was a former member of the nursing home until he was killed by walkers.

G tells the man that Danilo is dead. The man tears up as Jorge tries to disarm the man, but the man fights back and shoots Jorge in the chest. The man points his gun at G until Hector pushes G out the way and takes the bullet to the side. Felipe and Miguel tackle the man to the ground.

T-Dog grabs a baseball bat and hits the man's head repeatedly, killing him instantly. As Miguel and Felipe move the corpse out the way, Jorge and Hector rise back up, now reanimated and attack the survivors. However, Felipe puts down the zombified Jorge and G puts down Hector.

Guillermo then tells T-Dog that he has to get out of here, saying that the nursing home isn't going to be safe for much longer. T-Dog reluctantly accepts and leaves.

"Wildfire"
On their way to the CDC, the RV's radiator hose bursts. While Shane and Merle drive ahead to find replacement parts, Rick checks on Jim, who is in agony. "My bones are like glass. Every little bump - this ride's killing me. Leave me here," Jim says. "I'm done." Rick suggests he's delirious, but Jim insists his head is clear: "I want to be with my family," he says.

Outside, Dale advocates respecting Jim's wishes. Lori agrees, and the group carries Jim to a nearby tree. Jacqui gives him a soft kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for fightin' for us," Dale tells Jim as the group departs, tearfully leaving him behind.

Elsewhere, a video monitor crackles to life. An unshaven man, Dr. Edwin Jenner, speaks in to the camera. "It's day 194 since Wildfire was declared," he says. "And 63 days since the disease abruptly went global. There is no clinical progress to report." He states that he has finally figured out how to shut down the scrubbers in the east sector of the building to save power, and he admits he's been feeling off-kilter lately, thanks to living underground and sleeping odd hours.

In a bio-hazard suit and with classical music playing, Jenner passes through an airlock into a laboratory. He opens a tissue sample labeled TS-19 and begins an experiment. He takes a nap inside his safety suit while he waits for the sample to be ready for examination.

Reaching for a beaker, he accidentally knocks a graduated cylinder of corrosive fluid on the tissue sample inside a petri dish. An alarm sounds as a voice over a loudspeaker alerts Jenner to toxic quality air, and he runs to a decontamination chamber and disrobes. From the safety of the airlock, Jenner watches helplessly as the voice announces "Full decontamination in effect." as the lab, and all of the remaining TS-19 samples, are engulfed in flames — an automatic safety protocol.

Later, a drunken Jenner speaks into the monitor: "The TS-19 samples are gone. The tragedy of their loss cannot be overstated," he laments, musing that he's sure there's no one listening on the other end of his transmission anymore, which saves him any embarrassment because he might kill himself in the morning.

Rick's caravan approaches the CDC with the sun setting, where hundreds of bodies lay dead on the ground. Another U.S. Military cordon was overrun. The group quietly approaches the building, which is locked and shuttered. Inside, the proximity alarm alerts Jenner. Stunned, he watches the group's approach via security monitor.

Outside, walkers begin to take notice of the survivors. Panicking, Shane suggests they can still turn around and head for Fort Benning. Andrea then points out that they're out of gas and they have no food, and would never make it. Lori demands a plan and Rick insists they'll figure something out as the sun sets. Jenner, quietly mumbles to himself telling them to leave.

Rick catches sight of the security camera's movement and slams his fists against the metal shutters, screaming, "If you don't let us in, you're killing us!" The group yells at Rick saying that there is nobody there, with people crying as he continues to scream. More walkers are appearing. Shane drags Rick away as he continues to scream, "You're killing us!". Suddenly a shuttered door opens, drowning the survivors in light.

A flashback starts this episode at the onset of the Wildfire Global Outbreak. Shane is visiting Rick in the King County hospital, wearing his Sheriff's Deputy's uniform. Army personnel are evacuating hospital staff and executing the infected. Shane begs a nurse for help, but she runs past him screaming.

He draws his gun and heads to the door. He watches fearfully as the military execute terrified people in the hallways. He tries to lift his comatose partner, but hesitates because of all the tubes and wires attached to the machines that are keeping him alive. Shane asks him desperately to tell him what to do, but Rick is unresponsive.

He ducks behind Rick's bed just as two army personnel arrive to sweep the room. When they leave, he begs his best friend to wake up, but the power goes out and Rick's monitors die. Fearing the worst, Shane puts his ear to Rick's chest. After hearing no heartbeat, Shane reluctantly leaves Rick in the room. However, he barricades the door with a hospital gurney before he flees.

Meanwhile; back in the present, T-Dog returns back at the camp and finds everyone gone. He goes to look for his friends until a car pulls up to him. Out steps a man and a woman who introduce themselves as Paul and Karina. T-Dog also introduces himself to them and Paul and Karina promise T-Dog to find his friends. They enter the car and drive off.

Episodes

 * 1) "Days Gone Bye"
 * 2) "Guts"
 * 3) "Tell It to the Frogs"
 * 4) "Vatos"
 * 5) "Wildfire"
 * 6) "TS-19"

Main
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 * Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes (6/6)
 * Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh (6/6)
 * Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes (6/6)
 * Jeffrey DeMunn as Dale Horvath (6/6)
 * Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee (6/6)
 * Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes (6/6)
 * Laurie Holden as Andrea Harrison

Also Starring
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Recurring Guests
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Deaths

 * Reggie
 * Bicycle Girl (Alive, Confirmed Fate; Zombified)
 * Leon Basset (Alive, Confirmed Fate; Zombified)
 * Paula Sadler (Alive, Confirmed Fate; Zombified)
 * Amy Harrison (Alive and Zombified)
 * Ed Peletier
 * Jay (Alive and Zombified)
 * Jim's Wife (Confirmed Fate)
 * Jim's Two Sons (Confirmed Fate)
 * Danilo (Confirmed Fate)
 * Invading Survivor
 * Jorge (Alive and Zombified)
 * Hector (Alive and Zombified)
 * Jim (Alive)
 * At least 13 unnamed Atlanta camp survivors
 * Numerous patients and hospital staff (Flashback)
 * Several U.S. military soldiers (Flashback)

Trivia

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