The Walking Dead Episode 1

Rick Grimes, a chief of police deputy has been shot and placed in the hospital after chasing a crazy old man on the highway. After months of being in a coma, Rick wakes up and finds nobody around him. The walls are torn, blood spatters are on the walls, and the place looks like it's been ransacked. After further venturing down the hallway, Rick opens a door and a large room full of dead corpses greet him. One of the dead try to tackle him, pushing him down the stairs. Rick flees just by an inch before being caught, and arrives in the courtyard, rows of dead bodies lined up (probably placed by the military). Not a long ways from home, Rick struggles to get back to his house. One the way there, he finds a dead corpse that is still moving, totally obliterated and burned into the soil. He passes it up, a tear running down his face. Once he arrives at his home, Rick finds the home raided and no trace of his family. After his minor breakout and trying to face reality, he steps outside to see if he's still "sleeping".  Then, *SMACK*! Rick is hit by something hard in the back of the head. When he wakes up a few hours later, he is strapped down in a bed, face to face with an African American man named Morgan. His son, Duane, knocked him out with a shovel (thinking Rick was a zombie). Morgan questions Rick's injury, fearing it is some kind of bite. "Why would you say that?" Rick replies. "Did you get bit. Maybe even scratched, blood in your mouth, anything physical?" Rick has no idea what the man is talking about. "The monsters out there?" Rick guesses. "Where have you been?" Rick explains his injury, then Morgan explains to Rick how the walkers out in the street came to be. "They called the people to go to the city for shelter, food, protection. We figured it'd be safer out here. This seems like a safe neighborhood." Rick figures that his family may have gone to Atlanta for the protection of the military, and sets out to look for his family. While on his way, he breaks into a house looking for gas (he arrived in a car). When looking inside, he finds the family inside dead. When going around the back, however, he finds a horse... And rides with it into Atlanta. THAT'S THE LAST MISTAKE OF HIS LIFE.

JK.

Rick gets surrounded by an undead army of corpses, where they attack his horse and eat it, attracting lots of more zombies. Rick crawls out, barely alive. Somebody grabs his back -- Glenn, an Asian who was scouting the city for supplies... For his group. Rick follows him out of the city, and then finds his family. Carl, his son, probably 8 years old, and his wife Lori. His best friend, Shane, has been protecting them. However, the longer Rick stays with the group, he uncovers that his friend Shane has slept with his wife, who both thought Rick was dead. Shane cannot hold back his affection for Lori after Rick comes back, and tries to kill Rick in the woods. Carl ends up shooting Shane... And that is the end of the book. The group would like to move elsewhere safer, being that close to the army of undead and all.


This is probably one of the most intense parts of the season, and the plot/setting just keeps pulling you in.