The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1 ✨ 🆕

Months after the fall of Woodbury, Rick Grimes has traded his gun for a hoe, striving to cultivate peace within the prison walls. But when a routine supply run reveals a terrifying new strain of the virus and a mysterious downed helicopter, the fragile utopia begins to rot from the inside.

INT. COUNCIL MEETING - NIGHT Rick, Daryl, Carol, Hershel, and Glenn sit around a table. A chalkboard reads: “DAYS SINCE LAST DEATH: 30.”

Rick turns. “What?”

Inside, a walker is chained to a radiator. But it’s not dead. It’s sick . Its eyes are milky, but it’s crying. Black, tarry blood oozes from its eyes and mouth. It sees them. It doesn’t snarl. It speaks —a wet, gurgling whisper: “Don’t… let me… turn…”

“There’s a veterinary college twenty miles west. Abandoned. We hit it at dawn.” The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1

“Violet. The pig. She won’t eat. Her eyes are weeping.”

They find the source. In the basement, a locked steel door. Behind it, the sound of wet, rhythmic slamming. Rick peers through a small window. His face goes white. Months after the fall of Woodbury, Rick Grimes

A wide crane shot of the prison at twilight. It looks safe. Warm. Lights flicker in the windows. But outside the fence, a single walker—the new kind—stumbles out of the woods. Its eyes glow faintly in the dark. It opens its mouth. Black fluid drips onto the dead leaves.

Rick’s eyes. The calm is gone. The survivalist is back. But now, he’s terrified not of the dead—but of the living he must protect from the poison inside his own walls. COUNCIL MEETING - NIGHT Rick, Daryl, Carol, Hershel,

(sipping herbal tea) “The pig is ready. We cull her next week. That’s protein for two months.”

He screams.