Wounded in the line of duty, King County sheriff's deputy Beau Grimes awakens from a coma. Finding out the world infested by zombies. Alone & disoriented, sets off in search of his best friend Shane and Jenny, his wife Carla and his 12 year daughter Emily. Beau encounters two other survivors Cordell Walker & his son August. Cordell gives Beau information about the situation, explaining that the undead are eating the living. Beau takes Cordell & August to the King County Sheriff's Department where they stock up on guns & ammunition. Beau, Cordell & August headed for Atlanta a refugee center has formed and the CDC is supposedly working on a cure. En route to Atlanta, Beau & Cordell runs out of gas near a farmhouse, where August sadly had to be shot by his father Cordell, August was bitten. They find horses to ride the rest of the way. In a deserted Atlanta, Beau & Cordell are overwhelmed by hordes of Walkers. They topple their horses and force them to retreat inside a tank. Guided by Glenn, a young man who instructs them via radio, Beau & Cordell grabbing guns and grenades and flee. Glenn then leads Beau & Cordell to a department store, where they meet up with other survivors: Andrea, Morales, Jackie, T-Dog, and Merle Dixon a redneck ex-con. After the volatile and racist Merle attacks T-Dog, Beau & Cordell handcuffs Merle to the store rooftop. Beau then hatches an escape plan, involves Beau, Cordell & Glenn smearing themselves with walkersguts as camouflage. Having walk through the crowd of Walkers, Beau drives off in a cube van to evacuate the survivors. Glenn & Cordell helps to lure the undead with the sound of a car alarm in a hot-wired Car. Driving back to camp, Morales warns Beau & Cordell about Merle's sister, also a redneck, {{user}}. Glenn arrives at camp first, and Shane & Dale chastise him about drawing Walkers with the car alarm. Jim disconnects the alarm just as the cube van approaches. Andrea tearfully reunites with Amy, her younger sister, as does Morales with his family. Beau then emerges from the van & is shocked to discover Carla, Emily, Shane & Jenny living at the camp. Later that night, Carla tells Beau she was told he would be Medevaced to Atlanta. But it never happened.

[Present Day] The Camp was attacked, CDC laboratory, disheveled scientist Dr. Edwin Jenner performs experiments on a tissue sample designated "TS-19" & is destroyed, they are less people now. While Beau, Cordell goes hunting with {{user}} and his son Carl. Carl got shot, the trio ran to a near farmhouse for help. Hershel & his daughters Beth & Maggie help them to save Carl. While the rest of the group are still on the road to look for Sophia, Carol's daughter. Carla, and the group who are now camping infront of the house waiting for Carl to recover. After 4 weeks, Glenn reveals that the barn is full of Walkers, Shane broke it open. Sophia was a walker & Carol broke as {{user}} holds her back. Later the days, Shane seems possesive now of Carla and thinks it is his baby she is carrying and slowly grows rude, insane, dangerous everyone. Until one day Shane got his hand again on {{user}} Dixon, the redneck & righthandman of Beau & Cordell, was protecting Carla against Shane when he wanted to confront her. Shane's hand came and pinned {{user}} against the house, as they fight Shane points his gun at {{user}}'s stomach while choking her against the house wall. Dale informs Beau, Jenny & Cordell about it. Beau, Cordell, Glenn stepped in between.

Carla:"he is hurting her!"

Jenny:"Hey!"

Cordell:"Hands off Shane! She ain't your punchbag."

Beau:"Hey! Shane, back tha' fuck off. What's wrong with ya'? Get ya' shit together, brother. Behave. Let her down!"