The Walking Dead/Episode 1: Days Gone Bye

Synopsis
''Rick Grimes goes into a coma after being shot. When he awakes he finds himself in a new world that will change his life forever.''

Plot
Rick and his partner, Shane are sitting in their police cruiser eating burgers.

"Tell me something. What's the difference between men and women." Shane said with a smirk on his face.

Rick puts down his burger and looks at Shane with a surprised expression. "What? Is this a joke?"

"No, I'm completely serious."

Rick looks at Shane with a blank expression on his face. "Well, I'm pretty sure you should have learned this in school, but, we've got different parts than them."

Both Rick and Shane share a chuckle.

"Nah, man, I don't mean it like that. Let me give you an example. There was this one girl named Jane. You remember her right?" Shane says while taking a bite of his burger.

"No. One of the ones you boned?"

"You know me too well." Shane said with a smirk. "Anyways, Jane was an environmental type, always bitching at me about how I've got to protect the world. But the thing that made no sense to me is that this bitch would always keep the lights on."

Rick chuckles.

"I would come home after a long night at work and every single time, the kitchen light would be on. And in my mind, I'm thinking, what the fuck? This bitch was just yelling at me about how I needed to help out the world, but she won't turn off the lights at night. So on this night I had enough of it, keep in mind I was a few beers in. Anyways, I go upstairs and turn on the lights to wake her up. I tell her: you're always yelling at me about global warming, but you're always leaving the damned lights on. Maybe if you turned off the lights, we'd have less global warming."

Rick was somewhat surprised, but at the same time, he knew what kind of a guy Shane was. "You actually said that to her?"

"I ain't proud of it. Also, like I said, I was a few beers in."

"Alright, go on."

"Of course after telling her that, she began yelling at me, telling me that I sound just like her father." Shane had began to laugh. "So I tell her flat out: you mean to tell me that you've been hearing this from your father for your entire life and you're still too stupid to figure out how to turn off a light switch?" Shane looked over at Rick, awaiting his response.

"And you wonder why you can't keep a girl for longer than a couple weeks." Rick laughed.

Shane looked at Rick for a couple seconds before saying: "Well, I guess I just haven't found one that wasn't stupid yet."

Both Rick and Shane start laughing, but it is short lived. Suddenly, the police radio begins going off. Shane and Rick stop laughing and begin listening intently.

"Highway 18 south GTAAD W217 243. Proceed with extreme caution. Suspects are two male Caucasians."

Shane picks up the radio. "Roger that." Shane quickly collects all the garbage from their meal and throws it out. They drive off to the location.

Rick and Shane arrive to find Lambert and Leon taking cover behind their cars, and three other officers laying down roadspikes. Rick and Shane go over to Lambert and Leon.

"Hey guys." Lambert said with a smile.

Lambert was a nice, older man who Rick and Shane had known for several years now. Despite being hired as a sheriff's deputy over twenty years ago, he had never gotten a promotion. And he was okay with that. He enjoyed what he did and enjoyed working with everyone. He had a personality that everyone enjoyed.

"It sounds like they're chasing these criminals down towards this road. Get ready and stay focused." Lambert said.

"You guys think we'll get on one of those video shows, you know, like World's Craziest Police Chases?" Another county officer known as Leon said uneasily.

Leon was a newer guy who had only been on the police force for a year now. Rick never liked him. He always thought Leon was a dumbass. And he was right, he certainly wasn't the brightest bulb in the shed. It made Rick wonder how Leon even got the job in the first place. And after he made that comment about being on World's Craziest Police Chases, he disliked him even more.

Rick looked at him sternly. "What I think, Leon, is that you need to stay focused. You heard Lambert, these criminals are coming our way. Make sure you have a round in the chamber and your safety off." Rick wanted to say so much more to him, but held back. He didn't want to get into a fight right now.

Leon looked at him and smiled. "Still, you've got to admit, it would be pretty cool to be on one of those shows."

And just as Leon said that, the three criminals came racing down the street full speed. They end up hitting the roadspikes and end up flipping over multiple times.

Rick, Shane, Lambert and Leon all look shocked. Shane is the one to say what everyone else is thinking: "Holy shit..." They all aim their guns at the car.

One of the criminals comes out of the vehicle with a gun pointed at the officers.

Lambert shouts to alert the other officers. "Gun! Gun! Gun!"

"Put the gun down now! Put it down!" Rick says, boldly.

After Rick says this, the criminal shoots Rick in the chest. Rick falls down to the ground, yelling. The criminal is immediately shot dead by Shane.

Shane rushes over to Rick's aid.

Another criminal comes out of the vehicle, but he is shot dead by another officer, luckily not being able to wound anyone else.

Shane sounds concerned and frightened as he calls out for his friend. "Rick!"

"I'm alright, he only hit my vest." Rick said, winded.

"Geez, man, that scared the hell out of me." Shane said as he helped Rick to his feet.

"Me too... Shane, do not tell Lori that happened."

While Rick is talking to Shane, a third criminal emerges from the vehicle and shoots Rick in the side. Shane kills the criminal.

Rick goes down screaming, this is more painful than anything he has ever experienced before.

Shane rushes over to him in shock. He takes off his vest to find that Rick had been shot. "He's hit! Leon! You call for an ambulance, you tell them there's an officer down, you do it now!"

Shane felt like he was going to throw up. Seeing his best friend like this made him uneasy. But he would not do that. He couldn't leave his friend. He forced the thought of throwing up down and tried to calm Rick down. "Hey, stay with me, Rick. It's okay, Rick, stay with me, man. You're going to be alright."

That was the last thing Rick heard before going unconscious.

Cast
Main Cast
 * Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes
 * Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh
 * Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes
 * Jeffrey DeMunn as Dale Horvath
 * Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee (voice only)
 * Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes

Supporting Cast
 * Lennie James as Morgan Jones
 * Daniel Thomas May as Allen Samuels
 * Andrew Rothenberg as Jim
 * Emma Bell as Amy Harrison

Co-Cast
 * Adrian Kali Turner as Duane Jones
 * Juan Gabriel Pareja as Sebastian Morales
 * Linds Edwards as Leon Basset
 * Jim R. Coleman as Lambert Kendal
 * Keisha Tillis as Jenny Jones

Trivia
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