The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
The Walking Dead premiered on October 31, 2010, on the cable television channel AMC in the United States. It premiered internationally during the first week of November 2010 on Fox International Channels. Based on its reception, AMC renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes, which premiered on October 16, 2011. Two episodes into the second season, AMC announced that the show would return for a third season of 16 episodes, which began airing on October 14, 2012. On December 21, 2012, AMC renewed The Walking Dead for a fourth season of 16 episodes, which premiered on October 13, 2013. On October 29, 2013, AMC renewed it for a fifth season.
The series has been well received and has received many award nominations including ones for the Writers Guild of America Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series (Drama). The series has also attained strong Nielsen ratings, surpassing various records for a cable series, including receiving 16.1 million viewers for its season four premiere to become the most-watched drama series telecast in basic cable history.
The Walking Dead: Season 4
The fourth season of AMC's television series The Walking Dead premiered on October 13, 2013, to consist of 16 episodes. The series is based on the series of comic books of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard; it was developed for television by Frank Darabont, and is executive produced by Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple, Greg Nicotero, and Gale Anne Hurd. Gimple assumed the role of showrunner after the departure of Glen Mazzara at the conclusion of the previous season. The season introduces the notable comic characters Abraham Ford, Eugene Porter, Rosita Espinosa, and Bob Stookey.
The fourth season features nine actors receiving opening credits billing, all returning from the previous season. Melissa McBride and Scott Wilson are added to the opening credits, after previously being credited as "also starring". Credited as "also starring" are Emily Kinney, Chad Coleman and Sonequa Martin-Green (who are promoted from recurring status) and Larry Gilliard, Jr., who joins the main cast.
A fourth season of the show, consisting of 16 episodes, was confirmed in December 2012. Production began in Senoia, Georgia on May 6, 2013. David S. Goyer is set to direct the penultimate episode of the season. Greg Nicotero, Tricia Brock, and Ernest Dickerson will direct multiple episodes, while Michelle MacLaren will return this season to direct the season finale, after previously directing episodes in season one and two. Comic book co-creator Robert Kirkman is also set to write at least two episodes of the season.
EPISODE 01: 30 days without an accident (10/13/2013)
After renouncing leadership and taking in the remaining Woodbury citizens, Rick has resigned into farming and taking care of pigs, one of which appears sick. Rick also refuses to carry guns, in hopes of being a better example to his son, Carl. The prison has become an ideal and peaceful location for the survivors, who manage to keep walkers from entering. Michonne continues to search for the Governor and plans to search for him next in Macon. While out in the woods to clear snares, Rick finds a tattered woman named Clara and becomes suspicious. Rick converses with her about her life and her husband. At her camp, Clara attempts and fails to kill Rick to feed her zombified husband and stabs herself to join him as a walker. Daryl leads a small group, including former army medic Bob Stookey and Beth's new boyfriend Zach, on a supply run to a retail store. When Bob causes an accident in the store, walkers pour in from the roof, and Zach is killed when he is bitten by walkers. When the group returns to the prison, Daryl informs Beth of Zach's demise; Beth does not display emotion, saying that she no longer cries and instead decides to be happy she got to know him. Patrick, Carl's friend who has become ill, collapses and dies in the shower rooms, and reanimates as a walker.
EPISODE 02: Infected (10/20/2013)
The reanimated Patrick proceeds to devour multiple people in his cell block, turning them into walkers as well. The walkers at the fences have multiplied after someone is revealed to have been feeding them with rats. The walkers inside the prison proliferate as the inhabitants evacuate the primary cell block, although the walkers, including Patrick, are quickly killed by the rest of the survivors. Carol takes care of a man, Ryan Samuels, whose children are Lizzie and Mika, and he realizes he has been bitten in the arm and neck. Ryan, coming to terms with his imminent death, asks Carol to take care of his children, while Carol decides to bring his children to him to say goodbye. She comforts the girls and encourages them to stay strong. Rick and Daryl discover that Patrick has been killed by an aggressive flu strain that causes the infected person to choke on his own blood. The survivors decide to quarantine those who might be infected to prevent the virus from spreading. The outer fence of the prison is about to give way to the walkers, and the group tries to hold off the undead, discovering the rats in the process. Rick drives out the walkers by reluctantly feeding them his pigs, which are deemed to be possible hosts for the new virus. As Rick scraps his pig pen, Carl discloses to his father that Carol has been teaching the children how to use weapons. Rick gives Carl back his gun, disappointed that his attempt to live a quiet life has failed. Tyreese visits his girlfriend, Karen, who had been infected; he is horrified when he discovers two burnt bodies, one of them Karen's.
EPISODE 03: Isolation (10/27/2013)
The unknown virus continues to spread, killing more people and infecting others, including Sasha, Glenn and Lizzie. Tyreese is furious about Karen's death, and attacks Daryl and Rick in frustration, causing the latter to fight back. Hershel suggests that the group search a nearby veterinary college to find medication to help the infected. He also decides that the children, including Carl, must be separated from the other survivors, as they are more vulnerable to the disease. Hershel leaves to go into the woods to search for herbs and berries and runs into Carl, who insists he must accompany him. They encounter harmless walkers during their trip, so Carl decides to shoot them, but he is discouraged by Hershel. Maggie cries about Glenn's illness, but Beth reminds her that they all have jobs to do. Carol breaks down after offering condolences to Tyreese. Hershel decides to risk exposure by caring for the sick. He says that they are always risking their lives, and the only thing they could do now is to decide what they are risking it for. Daryl, Michonne, Bob and Tyreese decide to head to the college to retrieve the medication, but on their way, they hear a voice on their radio speaking about "sanctuary". They suddenly encounter a massive herd of walkers, forcing them to abandon their vehicle, although a bitter Tyreese stays in the car. When he decides to get out, he is surrounded by the undead, forcing the remaining three to leave him and head out into the woods. Tyreese miraculously survives the herd's attack and catches up with Daryl's group. After investigating the murder of Karen and David, Rick confronts Carol, who admits that she killed them.
EPISODE 04: Indifference (11/03/2013)
Daryl, Michonne, Bob, and Tyreese set off to find a new car. In the process of clearing brush away from the front door of an auto shop, Tyreese forcefully breaks open wires blocking the door and walkers attack the group through the brush. Tyreese intentionally lets himself be overtaken by a walker, but he is saved by Daryl and Bob. Rick takes Carol along on a supply run and they come upon a house where they discover two survivors, a couple named Sam and Ana. After Carol patches Sam's wounds, the two request to join them at the prison, despite the viral outbreak. Rick decides to let them join, telling them to stay put until Carol and he finish. When the two offer to help scrounge supplies, Carol suggests they do so against Rick's protests. Rick gives them both guns as well as his watch to know what time to meet back up. Daryl and the others get a car working and head off to the college again. Bob tells Daryl alone about his alcoholism and his fault behind Zach's earlier death in the store. At the college, Bob is almost killed trying to protect his bag which contains only alcohol that he found at the college and no medical supplies. Daryl almost beats Bob, but simply threatens him. Before leaving the college, Michonne tells Daryl that she finally agrees that the Governor's trail "had gone cold" and that she is no longer interested in looking for him. Carol and Rick find Ana's body being eaten by walkers. Sam never shows back up. When preparing to leave, Rick tells Carol that she cannot come back to the prison because Tyreese will kill her, the others will not agree with her decisions, and that she took matters into her own hands when she did not have the right to do so. Rick helps her pack some supplies into another car and sends Carol off on her own.
EPISODE 05: Internment (11/10/2013)
Rick returns to the prison and tells Maggie and Hershel that Carol killed Karen, and thus he sent her off. Meanwhile, in the quarantined cell block, Hershel continues to care for the sick, with Sasha and Glenn assisting him, as the conditions of the infected worsen, with many succumbing to the flu and reanimating as walkers. Despite their dire situation, he maintains optimism and comforts the other people in the quarantined area. The reanimated quickly increase and overrun the cell block, and Hershel, Glenn, Sasha and Lizzie fend for their lives. Hearing the gunshots inside the prison, Maggie rushes to the quarantined zone, while the exterior fence gives way to walkers, who are killed by Rick and Carl using automatic rifles. Maggie manages to enter the cell block by shooting the window, eliminates the remaining undead and rushes to her father's aid, while Hershel retrieves a breathing apparatus for Glenn, who is close to death. As Carl reassures his father, Daryl's group returns, and Bob administers medicine to the remaining infected survivors, including Glenn and Sasha. Hershel returns to his cell block and breaks down in tears. When Daryl approaches him about Carol, he only tells him that he should speak to Rick. The remaining survivors dispose of the walker corpses. As Rick and Carl continue to tend to their crops, the prison is revealed to be observed by the Governor.
EPISODE 06: Live Bait (17/11/2013)
In an extended flashback, the Governor is traumatized from massacring the entire Woodbury army, and his henchmen Martinez and Shumpert secretly leave him while he is asleep. When the Governor returns to Woodbury, the town is abandoned and overrun with walkers, leading him to burn the town. Months later, the Governor is in isolation when he encounters two sisters, Lilly and Tara Chambler, their father, David, and Lilly's young daughter Meghan. He adopts a false identity and fabricates a story involving him escaping his town because of the leader's insanity. The family is waiting for the National Guard and Tara threatens him if he harms them, but they slowly warm up to him when he opens up to them. The Governor retrieves a backgammon set for Meghan and David, but as he leaves, Lilly asks him to retrieve oxygen tanks for her father, who has stage four lung cancer. He starts to bond with Meghan, however he is forced to kill David in front of the family when he dies and reanimates. After burying David, burning his old family photo and comforting Meghan, the Governor proceeds to leave until the rest of the family decides to go with him. During their journey, Lilly and the Governor begin a sexual relationship. They encounter a horde of walkers and quickly flee on foot. Meghan and the Governor fall into a trench filled with walkers, who are all killed by the Governor with his bare hands. As he assures Meghan that he will protect her, the Governor sees a shocked Martinez standing on top of the trench.EPISODE 07: Dead Weight (24/11/2013)
The Governor and Meghan are rescued from the pit by Martinez, who realizes that the Governor has assumed a new identity. Lilly and Tara rejoin the two. The four join a large group of survivors led by Martinez. After reassuring Meghan of her safety, the Governor joins Martinez and his right-hand men, brothers Mitch and Pete, on a supply run to a survivalist cabin, finding decapitated bodies along the way. After leaving the cabin, Martinez tells that he rescued the Governor because he was with Meghan, indicating that he has changed from his cruel ways. The next day, he invites the Governor to play golf on top of a camper, where he tells the Governor that Shumpert was killed in the preceding months, and says there are some things that they could not return from. When he proposes a shared leadership between them, an enraged Governor beats him up and throws him into a pit of walkers to be eaten. Mitch holds a meeting where they disclose Martinez's death, and Pete declares temporary leadership. The Governor goes on another supply run with Mitch and Pete, and discover a camp of survivors. The brothers debate on whether they should take the people in or rob them, but the survivors are eliminated and looted a few moments later. After failing to escape the group with the Chalmer family, the Governor kills Pete and forms an alliance with Mitch, who wanted to loot the aforementioned camp, and he becomes the leader of the survivors. The Governor keeps a zombified Pete chained in the bottom of a pond. Despite the camp's new defenses, Meghan and Tara are attacked by a walker that is killed by the Governor. The Governor concludes that the prison is a safer place for the family, and proceeds to scout the prison. After observing Rick and Carl, he sees Hershel and Michonne in the woods burning walker corpses, and points his gun on them.
EPISODE 08: Too far gone (01/12/2013)
The Governor rallies his group for an assault on the prison, claiming they can take it without killing anybody. He reveals that he's captured Michonne and Hershel and that he'll use them as leverage. Hershel attempts to barter with the Governor, saying their groups can live together in the prison peacefully, but the Governor isn't interested. Back at the prison, Daryl and Rick clash over Rick's banishment of Carol. Tyreese believes that there's still a murderer in the prison, but before Rick can tell him about Carol, the Governor's group attacks the prison, holding Hershel and Michonne hostage. The Governor demands that Rick's group leave, but they refuse, instead offering to let the Governor's group live in one of the prison's cell blocks. The Governor appears to consider this, but instead takes Michonne's sword and decapitates Hershel, provoking a firefight between the two groups as the Governor orders his group to "kill them all". Meanwhile, Meghan is bit by a walker in a nearby location. As the battle continues, Michonne slips away. Mitch drives over the prison fence in his tank, effectively rendering the prison useless as a stronghold from walkers. Lilly brings Meghan's body to the battle site, further infuriating the Governor, who "executes" her body to prevent her from turning. He then gets into a fight with Rick and gains the upper hand. Meanwhile, the prison group begins to split up as some members escape in the prison bus and others retreat on their own. The Governor is about to kill Rick, but Michonne stabs him in the back with her sword. Rick then returns to the prison, looking for Carl, whom he finds. They then search for Judith, only to find a bloody, empty baby carrier. Devastated, Rick and Carl retreat from the prison on their own. Meanwhile, Lilly finds the wounded Governor lying on the ground outside the prison and kills him by shooting him in the head.
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