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Season 2 episode 1

After the events at the CDC, we see Rick's group on the highway. In Jacob's car, Wu is looking down sadly at the floor. Zach was asleep in the back seat. There were a few moments of silence before anyone spoke.

"Listen Wu," Jacob sighed. "I'm sorry for what I did at the CDC, holding a gun to your head. And, I know what happened with the Indominus wasn't entirely your fault. But, I just have to know. Why? Why did you make it? Wasn't bringing the already existing dinosaurs back from the dead enough?" He asked, looking over to Wu. Wu was silent for a minute before speaking up.

"When John Hammond died, I was lost for a long time. I had no…ambition, no drive. When Masrani took over InGen, and he offered me the job, I couldn't refuse. I worked my way up the ladder for over a decade. I made Jurassic World what it was. What it could have been. When Masrani came to me with the Indominus Project, I finally felt a sense of purpose again. I felt proud of my work again. But then, just like with Jurassic Park, it all came crashing down. I have thought about what you said. But even if I don't make the Indominus again, someone else will innovate," Wu said, staring out the window.

"That's what I'm afraid of," Jacob said. Wu paused for a moment.

"You know, she was supposed to have a sister. Another Indominus she would have learned social skills from. Companionship. Similar to Grady's Raptors. It would have made her far less aggressive than the end result," he explained. Jacob looked at Wu again.

"What happened to the sister?" He asked.

"She ate it. Before it even hatched," Wu said. Jacob had a look of shock on his face, but didn't say anything.

"Masrani wouldn't approve funding for a third. We had already sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into the project and he wasn't prepared to spend another cent. If he had, perhaps things would have turned out differently. Less death. Less carnage. My legacy would finally have been something other than destruction," Wu said, his voice quieting.

"When you said Masrani was pulling the strings, I wasn't sure what to believe. But now? I don't know. I always thought he was, well, the next John Hammond," Jacob said, focusing on the road.

"He wasn't even close," Wu said, almost sad. Nobody said anything else until Jacob hit a bump in the road.

"Ow! What was that?" Zach said.

"Just a bump. Nothing to worry about," Jacob said. As he drives over it, the camera pans to a huge dinosaur foot print in the road.

(Intro)

After driving for a little bit, the group comes to a traffic jammed highway.

"Oh jeez. Oh no," Dale said.

"See a way through?" Dale asked Daryl through the RV window. Daryl made a gesture forward.

"Uh, Maybe we should just go back,There's an interstate bypass,-" Glenn was cutoff.

"We can't spare the fuel," Dale said. All of the cars were driving through the car littered highway trying to find some way through the wreckage.

"This must be everyone that tried to get out of Atlanta," Wu said.

"Tried being the keyword," Jacob said darkly. Zach shuddered at the sight of a walker with half of its face blown off. Jacob noticed his reaction.

"Don't look Zach," Jacob said. They continued to push forward slowly, when suddenly an earpiercing sputtering sound came from the RV, as it suddenly shut down. All of the cars stopped.

"I said it. Didn't I say it? A thousand times. Dead in the water," Dale exclaimed, referring to the busted RV.

"If ya can't find a radiator hose here-" Shane trailed off.

"Whole buncha stuff we can find," Daryl said.

"I can siphon more fuel from these cars for a start," T-Dog volunteered.

"Maybe some water too," Jacob said. Zach nodded in agreement.

"Or food," Carol said.

"This is a graveyard," Lori said. The whole group fell silent and stared at her.

"I don't know how I feel about this," she said softly. They mostly ignored her and began to look around for supplies.

"Alright, come on y'all. Gather whatcha can," Shane said. Lori, Carol, Sophia, and Carl all went together to look for supplies, while Jacob, Wu and Zach went to scout while Dale and Glenn attempted to fix the RV. Looking into one of the cars, Jacob saw a newspaper clipping about the Lockwood Manor incident. The headline read: DINOSAURS ESCAPE MANSION IN RURAL CALIFORNIA.

He quickly moved away from the car and onto the next. He noticed Zach looking into a car farther off.

"Zach, stay in sight of me, Ok," Jacob commanded. Zach saw a walker body and quickly ran to his brother. Back with Shane and Glenn, Shane finds a truck filled with spring water and they dump it all over themselves, and try to bring back some to drink. Suddenly, Jacob feels a shaking on the ground and sees a mud puddle rippling slowly. Shane and Glenn stopped celebrating over the water.

"Anybody feel that?" Shane asked.

"Is that an earthquake?" Glenn asked.

"That's no earthquake. It's an impact tremor," Wu said.

"Oh my God," Jacob said to himself.

"Wu, it's-" Jacob was cut off.

"A Tyrannosaur," Wu said staring off into the distance.

"A—A T-Rex?!" Zach worried. Jacob ignored him and tried to warn the others. Meanwhile with Dale and Rick on watch, they see hundreds of Walkers coming from the highway. Jacob went to warn the others.

"Everyone! It's a T-Rex! We need to-" Jacob was cut off by a sound shattering bellow coming very nearly from the woods opposite to them. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked off into the distance and saw birds flying out of the trees. Now, they had to worry about the T. rex and the walkers. Looking through his binoculars, Rick could see the advancing walkers.

"Oh Christ," Rick said. He ran back to warn everyone. Meanwhile, the Rex footsteps were getting louder. Jacob told them what to do about the Rex.

"Remember, it can only see you when you're moving! So for Christ's sake, Do. Not. Move. Whatever you do!" Jacob explained, and everyone that was around him heard it, including Rick's family, Wu, Zach, Carol and Sophia, Daryl and T dog. Andrea was in the RV, while Dale was covered in a blanket hidden from the approaching danger.

"Lori, under the cars! Carl, Sophia, get down now!" Rick commanded. They all went to hide under cars.

"Holy shit. Zach, under the car, now!" Jacob said, watching the coming walkers, and still worried about the Rex, as he and Wu both followed suit and got under the cars. The footsteps kept getting closer, and closer... And closer. Shane dragged Glenn under a car abruptly.

"Ow!" Glenn exclaimed. After everyone was under the cars, except Daryl and T Dog, the T. rex finally stepped out of the woods. Jacob looked on in terror as the massive creature slowly advanced to the position of the survivors, sniffing the air as it walked. Andrea was still inside the RV when she felt the ground shaking and saw the walkers, and started to panic as she saw the walkers and the massive dinosaur towering over the entire highway. Sophia started to cry when the Rex stepped not ten feet from the car she was hiding under. This made Carol cry, but Lori covered her mouth. Jacob just watched. Frozen from terror. Zach held onto his brother under the car when he saw the T. rex and began to cry.

"Shh, Shh! Zach it's ok, I'm here, just be quiet, quiet!" Jacob whispered. The T. rex must have heard Zach's whimpering because it walked only a few steps towards the car they were under. Jacob and Zach lie absolutely still as the Rex put its nostrils down towards them and blew a puff of smelly, hot breath on the two brothers. Its head was far too big to actually look under the car, however.

"Keep absolutely still," Jacob whispered to Lori and Carol in the car adjacent to them. The two terrified women nodded. Through all of this, the walkers were still passing them, as well as the T. rex. For some peculiar reason, the T. rex didn't once pay attention to the walkers. It's almost as if it doesn't realize they're there, even though they're clearly moving and even brushing up against the Rex. The walkers also payed no attention to the Rex! The Rex, realizing that if there are humans there, it can't get to them, so it moved on down the highway towards the RV. Meanwhile, T dog, noticing the walkers and seeing that he can move since the T. rex is facing the other way, looks for a hiding spot, but severely cuts his arm in the process. All of the sudden, he watches the Rex who is not more than 20 feet away, lift its nose into the air and sniff. It smells T Dog's Blood, and takes a few steps back towards him. T Dog and Daryl both quickly cover themselves in the bodies of walkers just in time before the Rex sniffs the pile of bodies T Dog is hiding under. Much to T Dog's disgust and terror, the Rex uses its long tongue to try and find the blood. When it fails to find the source, it roars in frustration and continues walking down the highway.

Back at the RV, Andrea watches in horror as she sees the Rex peek its eye in the window, and bellow loudly, causing Andrea to fall and back up into the bathroom. Before she can though, a walker wanders into the RV, which causes her to move even more frantically into the bathroom. There's no doubt that the Rex sees her, though it doesn't attack the RV aggressively. It simply nudges it, causing it to shake a bit.

"Ah!" Andrea screamed quietly, as the RV tipped. Dale almost fell off, though The T. rex doesn't seem to notice him as he covers himself with a blanket. The walker in the RV is about to leave, but when it hears Andrea scream, it turns around to the source of the sound. The walker tries to break the bathroom door down, but Andrea pushes her feet against the door. At the same time, the Rex is circling the RV, looking for a way to get at Andrea. Dale hands her a screw driver through the vent of the RV, being very careful not to have the Rex notice him moving. Andrea manages to kill the walker and breaks down and cries, the rex still not seeing her. Eventually, the Rex gives up and roars thunderously, walking back into to woods it came from. Some of the walkers hear the roar and follow the source of the sound, but a majority of them remain on the highway. Jacob is extremely relieved when he watches the T. Rex stomp away. By this time, most of the walkers have moved on as well. Everybody stays still under the cars to be sure all of the walkers have moved on. Suddenly, Sophia starts to move out from under the car, but two stragglers from the big group of walkers, notice her trying to get out. She manages to crawl out just in time before a walker nearly grabs her, Carol crying, watching helplessly as the walkers advance on her daughter. Suddenly, Sophia makes a run for the woods and Rick follows her, with the walkers hot on her tail, and thankfully, no signs of dinosaurs.

"There's two walkers after my baby!" Carol cried. Rick kept running after Sophia. He finally catches up to her.

"Shh, Shh, Shh. It's ok, it's ok!" Rick said, trying to calm her down.

"Shoot them!" Cried Sophia, as she reached for Rick's gun.

"No! Those walkers on the road would hear it. So would the T. Rex! Then it wouldn't be just two walkers, it'd be hundreds," Rick explained.

"Come here, come on," Rick said, picking her up and running off to find her a hiding place. He then finds a stump that makes a natural cave.

"Sophia, you have to do exactly as I say. Hide in there, squeeze in tight. I'll draw them away from you," Rick said.

"No, no, no! Don't leave me!" Sophia pleaded.

"Listen listen listen listen. They don't get winded. I do. I can only deal with them one at a time. And if we came across any raptors, or other dinosaurs I wouldn't be able to outrun them or hide from them. I wouldn't be able to protect you! This is how we both survive. You understand? Okay? Go! Hide!" Rick explained. Sophia nodded reluctantly, and terrified, she crawled into the spot.

"If I don't make it back, run back to the highway, back to the others straight the way we came. Keep the sun on your left shoulder," Rick explained. Suddenly, the walkers came over the hill and Rick distracted them and drew them away from Sophia. Sophia watched in horror as Rick ran away, and she was left alone. After Rick left, she crawled out of the hiding spot and tried to make her way back to the others. Behind her in the hiding spot, was a nest filled with eggs...

About an hour and a half later

Rick, Daryl, Glenn, Shane and Jacob were out looking for Sophia in the woods, starting with her hiding spot.

"Sure this is the spot?" Daryl asked.

"I left her right here," Rick said.

"I drew the walkers way off in that direction up the creek," Rick said.

"Without a paddle-seems where we've leaded," Daryl said.

"She was gone by the time I got back here," Rick said. Rick then explained everything he told her to do.

"Kid's tired and scared man,"

"She had a close call with two walkers," Shane said.

"Doesn't look like that's all she had a close call with," Glenn said, pointing to some footprints in the dirt.

"What Dino would you say this is Jacob?" Shane asked. Jacob leaned in for a closer view and saw the prints.

"Well, hard to say. Could be an infant—no wait. These are too big for an infant but too small for a juvenile or adult," Jacob explained.

"Well, then what is it?" Asked Shane.

"Hmm. Compsognathus. About the size of a chicken, small serrated teeth, 8 inch long arms," Jacob said to the group, almost showing off.

"Are they, uh, dangerous?" Glenn asked.

"Not alone, but in a pack they can be deadly. We'd better find her soon before a bigger dinosaur does. I don't like roaming around here with that T. Rex on the other side of the highway," Jacob said.

"Neither do I. So let's hurry and find her," Rick said.

"Got clear prints right here," Daryl said.

"Dinosaur?" Jacob asked.

"Nah, shoe prints. Could be her, could be a walker," Daryl said. The group was deciding whether they should keep looking or head back to the highway to find her. Eventually, they came to a spot in the woods where there was a sign of struggle.

"She was doin' just fine 'till right here. All she had to do was keep going," Daryl said, crouching down near a rustled pile of dirt and leaves.

"Looks like she veered off that way," Jacob said.

"Why would she do that?" Glenn asked.

"Maybe she saw something that spooked her, made her run off," Shane said.

"A walker?" Glenn asked.

"Maybe a Dinosaur?" Jacob asked.

"I don't see any other footprints, just her's," Daryl said.

"Yeah you're right. Those compy prints trailed off a few feet back. Maybe something spooked them. Maybe something bigger," Jacob said worriedly.

"Could be," Daryl said.

"So what do we do? All of us press on?" Shane asked.

"No, better if you, Jacob and Glenn get back up to the highway," Rick said.

"People are gonna start panicking. Let them know we're on her trail doing everything we can. But most of all, keep everybody calm," Rick instructed.

"I'll keep 'em busy scavenging cars. Think up a few other chores, I'll keep 'em occupied," Shane said.

"I'll have somebody on Dinosaur watch," Jacob said. Rick nodded in gratitude.

"Rick, one more thing: Raptors tend to attack from the side, so keep your wits about you. I doubt they'll be too many around here with the Rex around, but just be careful," Jacob said. Rick nodded again in acknowledgement.

"Let's go," Shane said to Jacob and Glenn. The three men headed back to the highway as Daryl and Rick went to search some more. Back on the highway, Shane, Andrea, Dale and Wu were moving cars, while Jacob was on Watch of the woods. Carol was looking out at the forest sadly. Suddenly, she came over to Dale.

"Why aren't we all out there looking? Why are we moving cars?" Carol asked, sounding frustrated.

"We have to clear enough room so I can get the R.V. turned around as soon as it's running. Now that we have fuel we can double back to a bypass that Glenn flagged on the map," Dale explained.

"Going back's going to be easier than trying to get through this mess," Shane said.

"We're not going anywhere until we find my daughter," Carol said, worriedly irritated.

"Hey, That goes without saying," Lori said, comforting her.

"Rick and Daryl, They're on it. Just a matter of time," Shane said.

"Not soon enough for me. I'm still freaked out about that herd that passed us by. Not to mention that Tryanisuar or what ever you call it almost eating me," Andrea said.

"You mean Tyrannosaur?" Dale said.

"Whatever Dale," Andrea said.

"Yeah, what was that? All of them just marching along like that?" Glenn asked.

"A herd. That sounds about right. It's like the night camp got attacked. Some wandering pack, only fewer," Shane said.

"Okay. Come on, people, We still got a lot to do. Let's stay on it. Let's go, come on." Shane instructed. Jacob was on watch, since nobody else had volunteered to, looking for dinosaurs and walkers. Wu was standing below him on the opposite side.

"See anything?" Wu asked.

"Nothing so far. Keep your eyes peeled though. One thing that's hard to comprehend, is that I haven't seen a single Herbivore anywhere. You think maybe that's why they're hunting us? They can't find a natural food source maybe," Jacob asked.

"It's entirely possible. They could be hiding out in the woods. The herbivores tend to keep to themselves." Wu said. Jacob shrugged and looked back through his binoculars. Meanwhile, Rick and Daryl continued to search for Sophia in the woods, while Carl found some tools. Lori and Shane argued some more about Rick's family being around Shane, and Shane talks about leaving the group for good. The Radio in the Car starts to broadcast the emergency alert system. Shane shuts off the radio.

"Asshole," he said to the Radio.

"Alright. Back to work," Shane said. The group continued their duties. Jacob was still looking through his binoculars.

"Hmm. Still nothing. Maybe the Tyrannosaur scared any other dinos off," Jacob said. Wu nodded and went back to searching on the other side of the RV. Meanwhile, Rick and Daryl continued searching for Sophia in the woods. They hear something in the rustle. Fearing it could be a raptor, they quickly duck for cover. They soon find out that it's only a walker. Rick distracts it while Daryl shoots it in the head with his crossbow.

"Sophia!" Daryl called.

"What are you Looking for?" Daryl asked as Rick was examining the walker.

"Skin under the fingernails," Rick said. Rick turned the walker on its back.

"It fed recently. There's flesh caught in its teeth," Rick said, opening the walker's mouth(with gloves on).

"Yeah, what kinda flesh? Dino?" Daryl asked.

"I don't think it'd be dino. The T. rex on the highway didn't seem to take any interest in the walkers. Only one way to know for sure what it really is," Rick said. He took out his knife and was about to pierce its stomach, but Daryl stopped him, saying that he should do it since his knife was sharper. So, Daryl cut open the stomach of the walker, as Rick looked on squeemishly.

"Now comes the bad part," Daryl said, as he began to root around in the stomach of the walker.

"Yeah. He had big meal not long ago. I feel it in there," He said, still rooting around.

"Here's the gut bag," he said pulling it out of the abdomen of the walker.

"I got this," Rick said, cutting open the stomach. Daryl pulled out a head with large buck teeth on it.

"Gross bastard had a wood chuck for lunch," Daryl said.

"At least we know," Rick said.

"At least we know," Daryl also said. Back on the highway, the sun was starting to set and Carol was looking out at the forest.

"It's late. Gonna be dark soon," she said to Andrea who was next to her, trying to keep a level head.

"They'll find her," Andrea said. Carol said nothing. Andrea walked over to Dale.

"Where's my gun?" she asked him.

"You have no right to take it," she said.

"You don't need that just now, do you?" Dale said.

"My father gave it to me. It's mine!" she sassed. Jacob overheard this on top of the RV. and chuckled a bit, but not so loud that Andrea could hear it

"I can hold onto it for you," Dale said, still refusing to give it to her.

"Or you can give it back to me," she sassed again. Shane walked over.

"Everything cool?" Shane asked.

"No! I want my gun back!" She said.

"I don't think it's a good idea right now," Dale said.

"Why not?" Shane asked.

"I'm not comfortable with it," Dale said slightly under his breath. Andrea scoffed at this.

"The truth is, the less guns we have floatin' around camp, the better," Shane said.

"Yeah," Jacob said.

"You turning over your weapon?" she asked Shane.

"No," Shane chuckled.

"But I'm trained, in its use," Shane said.

"What about him? Is he trained with a gun?" Andrea asked, referring to Jacob.

"I'm on dinosaur duty. Unless you want me to let you get eaten by a raptor, T. Rex, or whatever else is out there," Jacob retorted smugly. Andrea scoffed at him in anger, and Jacob gave her a sour look.

"Hey, there's no need a' that. We're all just a little on edge after this whole Sophia thing. The fact a' the matter is, that the rest y'all need some proper training, but until then, I think it's best if Dale keeps 'em all accounted for," Shane said.

"Uh-Huh," Andrea said, scoffing. Feeling defeated, she walks away. Jacob has a slight smirk on his face.

"Mind telling me what that's about?" Shane asked Dale. Before he could say anything, Daryl and Rick came out of the woods.

"My God. They're back!" Glenn said. Carol started to cry slightly and panic.

"You didn't find her?" she asked worriedly.

"The trail went cold. We'll pick it up again at first light," Rick said.

"You can't leave my daughter out there on her own," Carol pleaded. Everyone Gathered around, even Jacob who got down from the RV.

"Out in the Dark's no good," Daryl said.

"He's right. It'll be hard to look for anything in the dark," Jacob said.

"A lot of the dinosaurs are nocturnal. It would be unwise to continue the search at this hour," Wu added.

"We'd just be trippin' over ourselves. More people get lost," Daryl said.

"But she's 12! She can't be out there on her own!" Carol said, starting to cry.

"I know this hard, but I'm asking you not to panic," Rick said, trying to calm her down.

"We know she was out there," Rick said. "And we tracked her for a while," Daryl added.

"Daryl knows these woods better than anybody. I've asked him to oversee this," Rick said.

"And when a pack of raptors runs out of the woods? You're just gonna oversee that?!" Carol cried.

"That's why we've got two of the best dinosaur experts on lookout," Rick said, pointing to Wu and Jacob. Carol noticed a bit of blood on Daryl's shirt.

"Is that blood?" she asked, starting to panic.

"We took down a walker," Daryl explained.

"A walker? Oh God," Carol panicked again.

"There was no sign that it was anywhere near her," Rick said.

"How can you be sure?" Wu asked.

"We cut the son of a bitch open, just to be sure," Daryl said.

"Nasty," Jacob thought.

"Any dinosaurs?" Jacob asked.

"Saw a few tracks. They were pretty small though. They went in the opposite direction of Sophia," Daryl said.

"Must have been compys. They get spooked pretty easily, though. Walker might have scared 'em off," Jacob said. He noticed a look of worry on Carol's face.

"I'm sure she'll be fine. Compy's scare easy. All she'd have to do is stomp at them and they'd run away," Jacob said. Carol's expression didn't seem to change.

''Oh God," Carol said sitting on the guard rail. Carol's worry started to become anger.

"How could you just leave her out there to begin with? How could you just leave her?!" she asked.

"Those two walkers were on us. I had to draw them off. It was her best chance," Rick explained.

"How's she supposed find her way back on her own? She's just a child!" Carol cried, her anger turning back into sadness. Rick got on his hands and knees and nearly begged to Carol.

"It was my only option. The only choice I could make," he explained.

"I'm sure nobody doubts that," Shane said.

"My little girl got left alone in the woods," Carol cried. Everyone fell silent. Lori and Andrea went to comfort her. Rick walked away, feeling as if he failed somehow.

Later that night...

Jacob laid in the car looking up at the celling trying to forget everything that had just happened. Zach had already fallen asleep. The day must have taken a lot out of him too. Jacob could still hear the bellow of the T-Rex in his mind; could still feel the earth-shattering footsteps growing closer to him as he laid under the car. At that moment, he only wanted to get himself out of there. He wasn't thinking about anyone else but himself at that moment. Not even his own brother. He knew it was selfish, but he didn't want to die. Not by a T-rex, a raptor, or a walker, or anything. He just wanted to live. Jacob finally fell asleep, feeling ashamed of himself for his selfish thoughts. He hoped he could cleanse the selfish thoughts by helping to find Sophia.

The next morning, the group prepared to look for Sophia again and plan for the day.

"Everybody takes a weapon," Rick said, pulling out the arsenal of sharp tools.

"These aren't the kind of weapons we need. What about guns?" Andrea complained.

"We went over that. Daryl, Rick and I are carryin'. Jacob because he's on dino watch," Shane said.

"We can't have people popping off rounds every time a tree rustles," Shane also said.

"It's not the trees I'm worried about," Andrea said.

"What aren't you worried about," Jacob thought.

"Say somebody fires at the wrong moment, a herd happens to be passing by.

See, then it's game over for all of us," Shane said.

"And if the T-rex is still out there, It hears that gunshot, it's double game over," Jacob said.

"So you need to get over it," Shane said. Over the next half hour or so, the group discussed the game plan in looking for Sophia.

"Alright everybody, assemble your packs," Shane said.

"Dale, we need to get this R.V. ready to move as soon as possible, so keep on those repairs," Rick said.

"We won't stay here a minute longer than we have to. Good luck out there," Dale said.

"Keep an eye on Carl while we're gone?" Rick asked.

"I'm going with you," Carl said. Rick gave him a concerned look.

"You need people right? To cover as much ground as possible," Carl asked. Rick looked at Lori.

"Your call. I can't always be the bad guy," Lori said.

"Well, he has you all to look after him. I'd say he's in good hands," Dale said.

"Okay. But always in our sight. No exceptions," Rick said. Carl nodded and the Grimes Family prepared to look for Sophia. Meanwhile, Andrea tried yet again to get her gun back from Dale.

"Andrea, I'm begging you; don't put me in that position," Dale said. Yet again, Andrea and Dale argued about the gun, and yet again, Dale wouldn't give it to her. Everyone looked on as they argued. Jacob was about to say something, but Wu stopped him.

"I'm not your little girl, I'm not your wife, and I'm sure as hell not your problem," Andrea said angrily and walking away. Jacob looked down sadly at Dale with a look of defeat and sadness in his eyes. Jacob was about to head out into the woods before Zach stopped him.

"Can I come too Jacob?" Zach asked.

"Of course you can Zach. Sophia needs everyone's help to find her, and that includes you," Jacob said. Zach was almost shocked at the quick answer. He hadn't expected his brother to let him come.

"But that means you have to stay within the group's sight no matter what, Okay?" Jacob said. Zach nodded and walked beside Jacob as everyone headed for the last place they saw traces of Sophia in the woods. T-Dog, Wu and Dale stayed behind.

"Hey Jacob? Do you think Sophia will be okay?" Zach asked.

"I don't know Zach. I imagine It would be pretty hard surviving on your own out here. But she's a tough little girl, so yeah she's probably fine," Jacob said. He almost felt like he was lying to Zach and himself. If we were to be brutally honest, he would have told Zach that he didn't think anyone could survive out here alone for more than an hour, whether it be from dinosaurs or walkers. He noticed Zach sulk a little bit, as if he hadn't believed what Jacob had told him.

"Come on buddy, gotta keep up," Jacob said. Zach nodded and walked closer to his brother. Suddenly, the group came to a tent.

"She could be in there," Shane said.

"Could be a whole bunch of things in there," Daryl said.

"No kidding," Jacob said. The group cautiously moved towards the tent with Daryl leading with his knife out.

"Carol. Call out softly. If she's in there, yours is the first voice she should hear," Rick said. Carol nodded and went over to the tent.

"Sophia, sweetie, are you in there? Sophia, it's mommy. we're all here, baby," Carol called. There was no answer. Rick and Shane walked over with Daryl to the tent. Daryl slowly unzipped it, in case something were to come out. Suddenly, one compy ran out of the tent, spooked, and into the woods opposite them. It made Jacob jump a bit.

"Jesus!" Jacob said quietly. All that was in the tent was a rotting body that appeared to have shot itself. The compies had clearly been picking at it for a while.

"Daryl?" Carol called from outside the tent. Daryl grabbed the gun out of the hand of the walker.

"It ain't her," Daryl said.

"What's in there?" Jacob asked.

"Some guy. Did what Jenner said: opted out," Daryl said. Suddenly, the group heard church bells ringing and everyone ran for them.

"Sound is coming from that direction. I'm pretty sure," Rick said, pointing northward.

"So damn hard to tell out here," Shane said.

"Maybe if we heard them, Sophia did too," Carol said hopefully.

"She could be ringing them herself. Come on," Rick said. The group then ran for the direction of the bells.

RV

"Ain't you supposed to be fixin' that radiator? What if they come back and Rick wants to move on right away?" T-Dog asked Dale, who was on top of the R.V.

"I had it fixed yesterday," Dale said.

"What?" asked T.

"So what was all that sanding and rubbing for yesterday? Just a distraction?" Wu asked.

"That's one way to put it," Dale said.

"Another way to put it would be just for show. No one else needs to know that," Dale said to Wu and T.

"If the others know we're mobile, they'll wanna move on," Dale said.

"What? You don't think they'll find Sophia? Wu asked.

"Just guarding against the worst. Sooner or later, if she's not found, people will start doing math. I want to hold off the needs-of-the-many- versus-the-needs-of-the-few arguments as long as I can." Dale said. Wu and T both nodded.

"That is one Tricky hose huh?" T-Dog said. Wu chuckled.

"Very," Dale said.

Church

After hearing the ringing bells, the group finally comes to the church where they heard the bells coming from.

"That can't be it. Got no steeple, no bells," Shane said. Rick ignored him and went for the church.

"Rick," Shane called softly. Rick burst into a run, and everyone else ran with him. Everyone with weapons pulled them out, ready for what ever was behind the door. Rick had his python out while Daryl carried his crossbow, and Shane with a shotgun. Jacob held out a survival knife he found back on the highway while everyone else with weapons readied them. When they opened the door, 3 walkers were sitting in the pews. They almost instantly noticed the humans and went for them. To avoid any noise, those with melee weapons attacked the walkers. Rick, Shane and Daryl killed the three walkers. Suddenly, out of the closet nearest Jacob, a raptor pounced. Without even thinking, Daryl shot an arrow through its head killing it instantly.

"That was close. Thanks," Jacob said. Daryl nodded and collected his arrow from the dead raptor.

"Sophia!" Daryl called out. There was no answer.

"Yo, J.C., you takin' any requests?" Daryl asked the statue of Jesus in a sense of dark humor.

"Rick, I'm tellin' you man, this is the wrong church. Ain't got no steeple," Shane said, short of breath from killing the walker. Before Rick could say anything, they heard the bells ring again, as if they were almost above them. Everyone ran outside to see where the source of the sound was coming from. When they found the ringing sound, they discovered it was coming from a speaker near the roof of the building. Glenn quickly pulled the plug of the speaker to avoid alerting more walkers or dinosaurs.

"A timer. It's on a timer," Daryl said.

"Well, at least we know it's Sunday," Jacob said. Carol looked worse than she had ever been.

"I'm gonna go back in for a bit," she said with tears in her eyes. After most of the group had gone back inside, Lori and Shane discussed Shane leaving again. Back inside the church, Carol was praying in a depressed state.

"Father, forgive me. I don't deserve your mercy. I prayed for safe passage from Atlanta and you provided. I prayed for Ed to be punished for laying his hands on me and for looking at his own daughter with whatever sickness was growing in his soul. I prayed you'd put a stop to it, give me a chance to raise her right, help her not make my mistakes. She's so fearful. She's so young in her way," Everyone looked on silently and sadly as Carol prayed, Rick even bowing his head. Carol continued.

"She hasn't had a chance. Praying for Ed's death was a sin. Please, don't let this be my punishment. Let her be safe, alive and safe. Please, lord. Punish me however you want, but show mercy on her," Carol went to sit with Lori as they looked at the statue of Jesus. Shane and Andrea were still outside. Andrea had overheard Shane and Lori talk about him leaving and she wanted in. Rick and Shane talked again.

"We gotta move here man. These people are spent. Not a lotta daylight left. We still got a long way back," Shane said.

"I can't stop yet," Rick said. Shane persisted to argue with Rick.

"We still got a lot of ground to cover, whole other side of the Creek Bed. So we search that on the way back," Shane said.

"She would have heard those church bells. She could be nearby," Rick said, trying to ignore Shane.

"She could be a lot of things," Shane said.

"I can't go back. Her being out here is my fault in the first place," Rick said.

"That's great. Now they got you doubting yourself, huh?" Shane said.

"What about you? You doubt me?" Rick asked.

"Hey, we can assign all kinds of blame," Shane said.

"This means something, finding her!" Rick said, starting to get irritated.

"It would be the miracle we need. We can't give up," Rick said. Eventually, Shane could see that there was no reasoning with Rick and gave up trying to convince him otherwise. Shane gathered the whole group outside the church in front of the grave yard.

"Y'all gonna follow the Creek Bed back, okay? Daryl, you're in charge. Me and Rick, we're just gonna hang back, search this area another hour or so just to be thorough," Shane said. Everyone was a bit skeptical of his plan.

"You sure you wanna split us up?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah, we'll catch up to you," Shane said.

"I wanna stay too. I'm her friend," Carl said.

"Just be careful okay?" Lori said.

"I will," he said in acknowledgement.

"When did you start growing up?" Lori said, pulling her son in for a hug. Rick gave Lori a hug, and the bigger group headed out.

"Good luck guys," Zach said. Shane and Rick smiled at him as the bigger group headed towards the creek. Before they left, Daryl gave Lori a spare gun, and they finally headed out.

"Give me a minute?" Rick asked Shane as he headed for the Church.

"Yeah," Shane said. Rick went into the church to pray. Rick came out of the church after he had finished praying.

"Get what you needed?" Shane asked.

"Guess we'll find out," Rick said.

Forest

"So this is it? This the whole plan?" Carol asked.

"I guess the plan is to whittle us down into smaller and smaller groups," Daryl said.

"Carrying knives and pointy sticks," Andrea said.

"I see you have a gun," Andrea said sarcastically to Lori.

"Why, you want it? Here, take it. I'm sick of the looks you're giving me. All of you," Lori said. Everyone was shocked to hear this from her, even though Andrea still took the gun. She continued.

"Honey, I can't imagine what you're going through. And I would do anything to stop it. But you have got to stop blaming Rick. It is in your face every time you look at him," She said to Carol. Lori continued again.

"I don't know that any of us would have gone after her the way he did or made the hard decisions that he had to make or that anybody could have done it any differently. Anybody?" Lori said.

"She's right. She's right," Jacob said.

"Y'all look to him and then you blame him when he's not perfect. If you think you can do this without him, go right ahead, nobody is stopping you!" Lori continued again. Andrea walked over to Lori and gave her the gun back.

"We should get moving," Andrea said. And with that, the larger group continued to look for Sophia.

Church Outskirts

As the three continued in the forest, Rick heard branches snapping and stopped them. Rick could see something through the bushes. It was a group of Parasaurolophus! Rick froze with a look of awe and amazement. They were a little cautious at first, not knowing what kind of dinosaurs these were, but when the parasaurs just looked at the group and continued grazing, they all relaxed a bit and Shane lowered his gun. One of the Parasaurs came out of the brush it was standing in and out into the clearing where Rick, Carl and Shane were. Shane jokingly lined up his gun at the parasaur and Rick stopped him as Carl slowly moved closer to the solemn dinosaur. It let out a calm bellow and the three others in the group followed suit. Carl smiled as he watched it eat leaves from the ground and shake bugs off of itself with an annoyed grunt. As he crept closer, it looked him right in the eye. Everyone looked on with cautious happiness. Suddenly, the utter silence was shattered by a gunshot, and the Parasaur falling dead to the ground. The three other Parasaurolophus quickly scattered. But the Parasaurolophus wasn't the only thing that fell. Rick and Shane watched in horror as Carl fell to the ground.

"Oh no. No, no, no, no, no!" Carl had been shot…

Hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed the first reworked chapter of season 2! I took some advice from previous reviews on the old iteration regarding following TWD story too closely, which is why I swapped the scene with Carl looking at the deer, to him looking at a parasaurolophus. Also, for those who may be wondering, there is a reason why Wu has not mentioned the Indoraptor. I have some pretty big plans for it down the line, but I don't want to spoil anything yet. Let me know what you think, and as always, thanks for reading!

~JPfan