How It All Goes Down
- That night, everyone sits around the campfire and shares their life story. (Get the scoop on all the campers on their character pages.)
- When they're all done talking, Amy says, "I gotta pee" and gets up to go pee. Donna sneers at her. ("Ladies don't pee!")
- As she's about to go into the camper to pee, zombies attack. One of them bites her throat out. "Gar!" (597).
- It's chaos. Gunfire and screams.
- Lori, being completely useless, tries to shoot a zombie and just drops her gun.
- Thankfully her heavily armed seven-year-old steps in to save her.
- Jim goes a little nuts blowing a zombie to smithereens and screaming "My family! My family! You killed them!!!" (628-630). Three exclamation points let you know he's angry.
- When it's all over, Andrea shoots Amy through the head, saying "I can't let her come back like that" (637).
- Unfortunately, Jim's been bitten. He says it's "just a scratch" (643) even though it's a huge chunk out of his arm. ("It's just a flesh wound!")
- They bury Amy the next day under a little cross and all say a few nice words about her.
- Later, Donna's taking care of Jim, but his fever is super high. "If you need anything… just give us a yell," (663) she says.
- They're all worried about when Jim's going to turn. He says "no one's ever lasted more than a day" (660).
- Rick and Shane are out hunting, and Carl tags along. With the practicality of a seven-year-old, he says "We don't have to get as much as usual, Dad. Amy's dead… and Jim's too sick to eat" (675).
- This starts up another argument between Rick and Shane, who yells "It's not my f*****g fault!!" (677) for not moving the camp.
- He says he doesn't want to move the camp because he doesn't "want to risk being left behind" (680). It's a zombie apocalypse, dude, not the rapture.
- Carl runs off crying into the woods, a safe place for a kid to be alone.
- Dale tries to comfort Andrea, but she just sits on the bed in silence.
- Meanwhile, Jim tells Donna what he wants. He actually wants to become a zombie.
- They take him close to town and leave him there. "When I come back… Maybe I'll find—find my family" (694).