How It All Goes Down
- That night, while Shane keeps watch, Rick climbs atop the RV to talk to him about moving camp.
- Shane thinks that's a stupid idea, but he agrees that everyone should at least have a gun.
- Rick asks Glenn/Ballcap if he'd ever seen a gun store. He hasn't, but he says Jim has.
- Jim takes a break from shoveling pork 'n' beans out of a can to give them an address for a gun shop.
- Lori wishes that Rick weren't going back into the city, but he assures her that he'll be fine.
- On the way to Atlanta, Glenn tells Rick that Jim's whole family was devoured in front of him. That's why he's quiet and anti-social.
- Glenn checks the map and sees that the gun store is waaay into the zombie territory (near the Aberzombie and Fitch). They'll never get there alive.
- That gives Rick an idea: they'll make it in there smelling like death.
- Rick dismembers nerd zombie, and they rub his guts and gore all over themselves. Eau de Zombi.
- Sure enough, the trick works, and they shamble to the gun shop Shaun of the Dead-style.
- Glenn says that he's never been that far into the city, and it's "worse than we thought" (463).
- There are hundreds of zombies, corpses in full riot gear, and even an abandoned tank.
- Rick uses a hatchet to break into the gun shop, and they fill a shopping cart with guns and ammo. It's like any other shopping day in Georgia.
- It starts raining (Glenn should have checked the weather report before leaving the camp) and washes all the stink off.
- The zombies give chase, and the shopping cart flips over. Rick blows away approaching zombies as Glenn tries to refill the cart in what feels like the most violent incident involving a shopping cart ever since James collided with Kaisee in the salami aisle on Supermarket Sweep.
- A zombie chomps down on Rick's shoulder, but he manages to cleave his head in two with an axe.
- Glenn gets the cart upright and they make a break for it.
- As soon as they get out of the city, Rick strips his jacket off so he can participate in the Mr. Atlanta wet t-shirt contest… and to see if the zombie bit him. It didn't. His leather jacket protected him.