Observation One: Season One Episode One Days Gone Bye

3:00 We see an unnamed Sheriffs Deputy coming up on a abandoned gas station. He searches
for gas seeming confused as to where everyone has gone. Instead he comes up upon a little girl
with the right side of her right jaw ripped off. The girl then attempts to charge at him as the
unnamed deputy pulls his handgun and shoots her in the head, killing her.
5:00/13:15- We learn the Deputys name is Rick Grimes. Rick and his fellow deputy Shane
Walsh are sitting in their police cruiser having a bite to eat and discussing the differences
between men and women. While this is going on we learn that Rick is having marriage problems
with his wife Lori, as they finish the conversation a call comes over the radio requesting their
support in a high pursuit chase. As Rick and Shane arrive at the scene they lay down a spike strip
and what for the criminals to approach. Once they do, the criminals hit the strip which causes the
criminals car to flip multiple times. As Rick and other deputies approach the vehicle Rick is shot
by one of the men. He fades out of consciousness as Shane calls for an ambulance.
16:00/25:00 As Rick wakes up from his coma he immediately notices that something is very
wrong. All of the electricity is out and there are no nurses tending to him. In fact, there isnt
anybody in the hospital at all. Rick stumbles around and finds bullet holes in the walls, blood
stains, and a door that reads Dont Open Dead Inside then we see a very pale, unclean, hand
reaching through the chained door. Rick finds his way outside only to be mortified that the entire
parking lot is full of military style vehicles (Huey 1 helicopters and Humvees 2) and dozens of
dead bodies in bags. Rick finds a bicycle and picks it up beside a half dismembered corpse. To
his horror the corpse turns around and hisses at him, clawing whiling chomping its teeth. Rick
flees from the scene in fear and returns to his house. He finds it is empty as his son and wife are
no where to be found. Rick questions his sanity by asking himself if he is really experiencing
this, or if it is all just a dream.
26:00/36:00- Rick is assaulted by a boy named Dwaine and his father Morgan. As Rick slips into
unconsciousness Morgan hold a gun to his head and demands to know if he is bit or not. Rick
wakes up tied to a bed and is immediately interrogated by Morgan asking him if he is bit yet
again. Rick denies this insisting that it is only a gunshot he caught while in the line of duty.
Morgan releases Rick but promises to kill him if he posses a threat to either Morgan or Dwaine.
While having dinner with the two of them, Morgan explains to Rick about the Walkers 3. The
people who the police, government, and military did not kill. While having a friendly
discussion and debate about how Rick was shot the three are startled when a walker runs into a
car, causing its alarm to trigger. Dwaine suddenly runs to the cot and begins to cry hysterically at
1 A type United States Army helicopter which has been in use since the Vietnam War.
2 United States Army Armored Personnel Carrier and general transport vehicle.
3 Term used to describe the undead. Reasoning behind this is because of how slow they move
compared to actual human.

the sight of a specific Walker. Morgan informs Rick that it is his wife whom had succumb to the
fever that apparently is the precursor to the reanimation.
38:00/44:00- The next day the group of three head back to Ricks house where he more clearly
interprets what had happened to his family while he was gone. Rick determines that they must
have fled the home when the Walkers first started to take over due to only a light number of
clothes missing, and theyre family photo albums. Rick then leads the group to the Kings County
Sheriffs Department where they indulge in a hot shower and begin to stock up on the remaining
weapons. As they are about to head out Rick gives Morgan a radio and promises to attempt to
call him everyday at sunrise until they can physically meet again. A fellow deputy turned Walker
stumbles into a fence that catches the groups attention. For pity of the deputy, Rick kills him and
heads off to Atlanta where he believes his family is in safe keeping (due to the rumors of military
personnel and the protection of the CDC).
45:00/48:00- Morgan appears to be grieving over the loss of his wife as he is going through the
many pictures she brought with them when they first evacuated. He then steadies his rifle as he
begins picking off other Walkers in an attempt to draw her out. After attempting to find the
courage to finally kill her twice, he fails. Morgan has not yet been able to emotionally leave his
wife, so drops the rifle and begins to sob hysterically.
50:00/54:00- While Rick is inbound to Atlanta on Highway 85, he keeps trying to reach any
survivors on his CB. A small group of survivors hear his radio transmissions but are unable to
communicate due to interference. We learn that this is the same group that Shane and Ricks wife
(Lori) as well as his son(Carl) have also joined. Lori argues that they need to put signs on 85 to
warn other survivors away from the city due to it being overrun. Shane dismisses the idea
because it will put theyre lives at an unnecessary risk. After Lori storms off in anger, Shane
confronts her only to tell her that he will not allow her to danger herself due to Carl already
being traumatized by the death of his father. We see here also, that Shane and Lori have
developed a romantic relationship in the time that Rick has been gone.
54:00/[Link]- Rick runs out of gas and attempts to borrow some from a farm house off of the
main road. When he looks in he finds that the inhabitants have taken their own life after having
written God Forgive Us on the wall in blood. Horrified and repulsed, Rick sits on the porch as
he thinks of his next course of actions. Rick then takes the familys horse and rides the rest of the
way to Atlanta with it. As he comes into the city he notices burn marks on all of the buildings
and no survivors to be found. Rick hears a helicopter and quickly rides in an attempt to flag it
down. In this confusion, Rick rides straight into a mass horde of Walkers. The Walkers then pull
Rick off of his horse and leave him no choice but to climb inside a U.S. Army tank.
[Link]/[Link]- After killing a Walker soldier and assessing the fact that he is surround, Rick
lowers his head as he sees no way out of the situation. All of a sudden a voice comes over the
tanks radio addressing Rick as the dumbass in the tank.