After exiting the drugstore, the threesome, Carley, Lee and Dallas, made their way over to the motor inn, hoping to find Glenn and get out of there as soon as they could. It took them a while to get to their destination, but before long, they saw a big neon sign glowing brightly in the darkness, reading 'Travelier Motel' in big letters. Moving closer, the small group could see there were a few of those things roaming around the parking lot of the motel. They slowly moved up to a nearby wall, just as one of those things began turning towards them.
"Get down," Dallas whispered, making his companions duck behind the wall quickly. It soon walked away, and the threesome sighed in relief, and were able to get moving again, easily vaulting over the low wall. Right after Carley hit the ground, a nearby ice fridge door began to rattle. Lee motioned for Carley to get her gun out, while he and Dallas moved towards it. The two boys stood on either side of the doors, as Carley waited for the signal from Lee to get ready to shoot. Before any of them could do anything however, the door was thrown open and Glenn stuck his head out, smiling at them.
"Thank god you guys are here," he exclaimed, jumping out of the freezer. The group moved back over to the wall and jumped over, ducking low and turning to face each other.
"Now that we found you, can we please get going back to the drugstore before one of those things see us?" Carley asked, started to move away.
"Wait, we can't leave yet. There's someone trapped up there," Glenn told them, pointing up to the second story of the motel.
"You can't be serious," Dallas said, glancing at the large amount of those things dragging their feet on the asphalt.
"Dallas is right. We have to leave. Now," Carley warned, grabbing Glenn by the sleeve of this shirt. He pulled away from her and shook his head, pointing back up to the second story.
"We have to help her. I was trying to do it myself before. You know, by talking to her and saying that I would be able to get her to safety, but she got frightened. When I tried opening her door, she started screaming, telling me I was bitten or something. I was trying to convince her I wasn't, but those things you see over there came out of nowhere and interrupted me. I barely escaped from one of them by hiding in the freezer," he told them.
"Lucky you. Now let's get out of here before we get seen," Carley advised, going to grab Glenn's sleeve again.
"We can't just leave her here to die," Glenn snapped, moving his arm away before she could grab it.
"Damn right we can't," Lee said, moving away from us to go to the edge of the wall. Dallas quickly followed behind him, and Glenn wasn't far behind.
"You guys are suicidal, over one girl," Carley growled, shuffling after them.
"Well we're saving her, with or without your help," Glenn told her, kneeling beside Lee. Carley looked to Dallas for support, but all he could do was shrug. She groaned and moved over to kneel beside Glenn, keeping her gun at the ready. Lee quickly moved over to the next wall, and the rest of the group quickly followed, just making it to the other side before one of those things turned around.
"Ok guys, here's the plan. We have no idea how hard it is going to be to get up there to save that girl, so we have no choice but to kill all of those things before we can help," Lee told them quietly. Dallas peeked over the wall again, counting at least six or seven of those things roaming around. He heard Carley load her gun nervously, and he came back down, shaking his head at her.
"We can't use a gun, or we will attract all of them to us in seconds. We'll need to figure out a way to get rid of them quietly," Dallas told her. She nodded her head, but still kept her gun in hand. Lee looked around the area himself, trying to figure what their next course of action should be. Once he had had his own thorough scan of the area, he came back down and looked at each of his companions in turn.
"Glenn and Dallas, you two go and see if there are any more of those things behind the RV over there, and pick up anything that may be useful. Carley, you and I will go and check out that truck over there," Lee told them, taking command of the situation. His three friends nodded when they were each given their order, moving off to do their assigned jobs. Glenn and Dallas moved over to the far side of the wall and peeked around the edge, seeing what was waiting for them. Dallas noticed a pillow case nearby and picked it up, an idea beginning to formulate in his head.
"Great, you can smother them to death," Glenn sarcastically, running over to the RV, with Dallas close behind. They looked around the side of the RV and spotted another one of those things just standing there, staring into space. The two of them quickly made their way back over to the wall, and began making their way towards Carley and Lee, who looked like they were discussing something. Once Dallas was close enough, he pulled out the pillow case, holding it up for the group to see.
"I have an idea. Carley, come with me," he said, turning around and going back the way he had come, this time with Carley in tow. They over to one of those things who was sitting sown and leaning against a car. Dallas quickly pushed the pillow case over its face, gesturing for Carley to shoot it. It finally dawned on her what he was doing, and he shot the thing through the pillow case, muffling the sound.
"Good thinking Dallas," he heard Lee say behind him, as he and Glenn came over to join Dallas and Carley by the car.
"Thanks." Dallas moved over to the car door and quietly pulled it open, looking inside to see what he could find. He noticed something sitting on the seat and picked up, examining it closely.
"That's a sparkplug. You should keep it, it might come in handy," Glenn pointed out. Dallas pocketed the spark plug and continued searching the car, but came up empty. He looked out the back window and saw that one of those things was directly in the path of the car. He looked around to find something in the car and spotted it, shifting the gear handle. He got out of the car and closed the door, standing up to grip the car. Lee noticed what he was doing and moved to the front, helping to push the car. They quickly moved back over to the pickup truck, before the car collided with the thing that they were aiming for.
"There's something we can use in the truck, but the door is locked. We need to try and smash it without making too much noise," Lee told Dallas, moving closer to the window.
"It's my idea for an idea. Dallas, can I see that sparkplug quickly?" Glenn asked. Dallas nodded his head, pulling out the sparkplug and handed it to Glenn . He fiddled around with it and suddenly dropped it to the floor, smashing it underneath his foot.
"Why'd you do that?" Dallas scolded, looking down at the wrecked remains of the spark plug.
"The porcelain in these things turns car windows into tissue paper," Glenn told him, picking up a small piece of the wreckage and handing it to him. Wondering how something so small could do any damage, Dallas stood up, brought his arm back and ditched the porcelain at the window, easily smashing it while making barely any sound. He reached into the truck and picked up what kind of had the shape of a screwdriver, and came back out, holding his new weapon in front of him.
"That could do some damage," Glenn grinned. They all ran back over to the other wall from before and move down to the far side. Dallas quickly ran over to the RV and put his back up against it, breathing with the anticipation of what he was about to do. Seeing a stone near his foot, he picked it up and dropped it next to him as heavily as he could, grabbing the attention of the thing nearby. He could hear it start shuffling towards him, moving closer and closer, until it was right next to him. When it looked like it was about to reach out and grab him, Dallas lunged forward, weapon in hand, and plunged it into the thing's head, stabbing it multiple times. It fell to the ground in a heap, now a non-moving, lifeless mass. Before Dallas had a chance to catch his breath, he heard a piece of wood smash something, and turned around to see Glenn fighting off another one of those things. Dallas quickly moved over to them and stabbed the thing right through the eye, killing it instantly.
"Thanks for watching my back," Dallas said, waiting for his heart rate to slow down.
"No problem." The group moved towards the car that they had pushed before, and see that the thing they had trapped before was still there, trying to squirm its way free. Right next to it, Dallas notices a fire axe, which Lee makes a grab for, before the thing tried to grab out at Lee, blocking the axe. Dallas strides over to the thing stuck against the wall, and stabs it right in the eye, lodging his weapon right into its head.
"That was so cool," Glenn praised, patting Dallas on the back. Lee picked up the fire axe and began walking to the nearby set of stairs, turning back to face the group.
"Wait down here, I'm going up to finish off those things," he told them, turning back around and heading up the stairs. Dallas slowly followed behind him, Carley and Glenn mirroring his steps, just in case something went wrong. When they made it to the top of the stairs, they saw Lee already swinging the axe into the side of the closet one of those things, already moving onto the next one. It lunged right at him, its snarling echoing across the empty parking lot, but Lee sidestepped it, causing it to fall over. He brought the axe above his and swung it down, like an executioner killing his criminal. Dallas, Glenn and Carley all quickly moved over to Lee, joining him by the door as he started knocking.
"Please just go away!" Dallas heard a woman cry from the other side of the door.
"We just want to help you," he called through the door, trying to reassure her. When no reply came after a few seconds, Carley turned around in a huff, moving towards the stairs.
"Wait," Lee said, making Carley turn back around to stare at him. Dallas tried knocking on the door himself, trying to get the woman to answer.
"If you open up, we can get you out of here, to someplace safe. We have our own group back in town, we could take you there, get you some help," he tried. The woman began to whimper, repeatedly saying 'no' over and over again.
"Miss, we're coming in," Le called, getting his axe ready. He hefted it over his head and easily split the plank over the door in two, allowing easier access to the room. Next, he goes to try and kick the door down, but stops when he sees the door has opened a crack.
"Stop. Please, just stop. I'm coming out," she said, barely above a whisper. She swung the door open and exited her room, looking at each of them in turn. Dallas looked at her himself, and noticed that her side was bleeding out, the blood looking fresh.
"You're hurt," Dallas said, moving towards her.
"I told you to stay away," she snapped, backing away from him.
"We need to go and get you help," Glenn exclaimed, trying himself to get closer to her.
"I don't want any help. It's too late for me," she said, sounding defeated.
"Guys, she's been bitten," Carly said, pointing towards the woman's open wound. Upon closer inspection, Dallas realise with horror that Carley is right.
"I told you to go away. I'm bit. But you just wouldn't listen," she sobbed, putting her head in her hands.
"Let's all just calm down, you could be fine, you don't know," Lee assured her, leaning the axe against the wall.
"No, I won't be fine. The same thing happened to my boyfriend. You get sick, then you die, then you come back as one of those things and then you kill anything in sight," she explained, dread filling her voice by the second. "Please just leave, just go away."
"We will leave you in peace. Let's go guys," Lee said, picking his axe back up and gesturing to the stairs. Before the group got very far however, they hear the soft thud of footsteps following them.
"You have a gun?" The woman seemed to have noticed Carley's gun, now staring at it longingly.
"Yeah, so what?" Carley inquired, backing away towards the steps.
"Can I borrow it? I just want to end this quickly, so I don't hurt anyone. So may I?" the woman asked, taking a step towards Carley.
"Hold on a minute-" Lee began to say, before the woman stamped her foot on the ground.
"Please! I just want to end it okay? I can't be one of them. They'reā¦satanic." No one seemed sure what they should do. Dallas looked around at the faces of all of his new friends, all of them coming up blank. Knowing that something had to be done, he stepped up to Carley.
"I'll do it," he said, bringing all attention to him.
"Are you sure?" Carley asked, as Dallas took the gun from her hands.
"I'm sure. You guys get going, I'll catch up with you," he said, moving towards the woman. Everyone looked at each other before walking away, making their way down the stairs.
"Thank you so much," the woman said, closing her eyes as Dallas brought the gun to be level with her head.
"God bless," he said, closing his own eyes.
I always found this part in the episode to be the most confronting, so I hope it sounds okay.
Anyway, hopefully this was a good episode, next up, the climax of the episode D:
Hope y'all are ready for some action and tough choices, because that is where we will be, the next time I see you.
Until then fellow fanfickers :D
