Once Lee made sure everyone was safe and sound at the classroom, he decided to go help Carlos with the medicine since he had nothing else to do. Molly still hadn't returned, and this annoyed him slightly. When he walked to the nurse's station again, he noticed that Carlos wasn't standing in front of the door. Hopefully that meant that he got the door open.
Lee walked into the office, and made sure the door was shut securely behind him. After all, they didn't want any walkers sneaking in on them. "Find anything?" he asked as he saw Carlos rooting around in one of the many drawers in the office.
Carlos stood up and looked at Lee. "I've searched most of the drawers, but I think the stuff we actually need might be locked away in that cabinet." He pointed to it over in the corner. "And I can't get it open," he added.
"There's gotta be some way we can decipher the combination," Lee pointed out.
"We should look around," Carlos answered. "Maybe there's something in here that can still be useful."
"Yeah, you're right," Lee agreed. For a couple of minutes, they looked around with no such luck, until Lee came across a file folder, and opened it up. Inside was the file report of a girl named Anna Correa, along with a video tape.
He turned around and noticed a video camera by the bed, and wondered if it still worked.
"Maybe this can answer what we need to find," Lee said to himself. He picked up the tape and placed it into the camera. "Carlos, come look at this."
Carlos obliged and came to look at the camera with Lee. The video began playing, and showed a blonde woman, who they assumed was Anna, sitting on the bed in the nurse's station. "This is day 82 since the outbreak..." a man's voice spoke off camera. "This is Doctor Logan with patient Anna Correa." The doctor finally walked in view of the camera and Lee swore that the man looked familiar.
"Why are you recording this?" Anna asked.
"Regulations," the doctor replied, "Oberson has ordered me to keep records of all medical examinations and consultations," he continued. "And I need you to brace yourself Anna, the sonogram has confirmed that you are pregnant."
"The sonogram was on the floor..." Carlos mumbled to Lee as the continued to watch the tape.
Anna put her head in her hands, "Oh God, oh God, oh God..."
"As you know, the rules are very clear," Doctor Logan informed her. "The termination is mandatory."
"You don't have to tell them," Anna begged. "Tell them it was just nausea, and that you gave me something for it, and it went away. This is my problem, not yours!"
"If Oberson finds out that I concealed evidence of a pregnancy...I'm sorry, but these are the rules." Doctor Logan walked over to the medicine safe. "I'm going to give you a sedative. It'll make the procedure easier on you."
"I don't want the procedure! I want my baby!" Anna yelled, beginning to cry. "I can't do this! I can't do this!"
"Anna, you don't have a choice. Now if you like you can take some time with this, but I need you to come back no later than tomorrow. Or I'll have no choice but to tell Oberson myself. I'm sorry."
Angrily, Anna stood up from the bed and ran out of the nurse's station, slamming the door behind her.
"Damn it, we almost had it," Carlos grumbled. "What the hell kind of place was this?"
"Like Molly said," Lee answered, "the worst kind. And I think I recognize that doctor; he was one of the walkers in the alley."
"Maybe you should search him, perhaps he has another tape."
"I'll look," Lee nodded.
Back at the house, Sarah and Clementine had turned in for the night in a room with two single beds, but Sarah was tossing and turning in her bed. Her dad had never been gone for so long and so late before, and she was worried. Clementine, however, was already sleeping, so she was probably used to Lee being gone by this point. Sarah sat up and put on her glasses, deciding to go to another room for now to try and calm her nerves.
She looked around at the closed doors and decided to enter a study. What she didn't expect to find, however, was Lilly, sitting on the loveseat with her head in her hands.
Sarah jumped back with a slight gasp. "Um, sorry, I-I didn't know you were in here," she stuttered. "Sorry. I'll go away, if you want."
Lilly looked up, her dark eyes meeting Sarah's. "You can stay," the older woman offered, feeling bad for snapping at the young girl earlier when she had wanted to be alone.
Sarah was hesitant. "Are you sure?"
Lilly nodded, so Sarah obliged and closed the door behind her before walking over to the loveseat and having a seat beside the older woman. There was silence between the two of them, until Lilly decided to speak. "Can't sleep?" she asked, voice sounding extremely tired.
"I'm worried about my dad," Sarah replied.
"He'll be okay," Lilly tried to assure the young girl.
"What about you?" Sarah questioned, changing the subject. "You can't sleep either?"
Lilly shook her head. "I just can't stop thinking about all the stuff I should have said to my dad before he died, you know? And now it's too late..." she trailed off, tears welling in her eyes for the umpteenth time today. She didn't want to start crying again, hell, it felt like she had cried more today than she had in her entire life. She didn't like feeling this way.
"He knows," Sarah replied. Although Larry wasn't exactly nice to her, she knew that he was capable of feeling love. "Your dad loved you more than anything else in the whole world. And he still does, wherever he is now. He's still with you, Lilly. Even if you can't see him."
Lilly was able to curve her mouth upwards just a little bit, allowing a barely noticeable smile to escape. "Thanks," she sighed. The smile left as quickly as it had come.
She placed her head in her hands once again. "I shouldn't have to burden a kid with my problems. It's just...I just wish I could have done something. If only I'd turned to look at him one second earlier..." She couldn't go on.
Sarah would have wrapped her arms around Lilly to comfort her, but decided that it was probably best to keep her hands to herself for the time being. "It wasn't your fault," she said. "You didn't know it would happen."
"Let's just try and get some sleep, okay?" Lilly changed the subject. "You want to bunk with me tonight since your dad isn't here?" she asked.
Sarah nodded. "That sounds nice." So they went to one of the bedrooms that had a full sized bed, and got comfortable. Sarah couldn't really explain why, but she felt oddly safe with Lilly. "Goodnight, Lilly," she whispered.
"Night, Sarah," Lilly replied in a whisper, and just before Sarah closed her eyes, she could feel Lilly's hands running through her short hair. Her dad would do that sometimes when she had nightmares, and it was a nice feeling.
Meanwhile, back at Crawford, Lee had managed to find the other tape on the doctor out in the alley, and in the doctor's locker. Hopefully they would be able to get the safe combination from this one, because Lee wanted to get back to the house as soon as possible, for Omid's sake, but also for Clementine's sake. Sarah was probably worried about her father as well.
"I found two more tapes," Lee informed Carlos as he walked back into the room. "One of them is dated October 10th."
"That's the date after the first one we watched," Carlos noted.
Lee put in the second tape, which consisted of Anna once again trying to persuade Doctor Logan into reconsidering the abortion. The two men watched as carefully as possible as the doctor punched in the code, when Anna suddenly stabbed him around the kidney area and took his gun, leaving him to double over in agony. This probably explained how he died.
"I think we know what happened to Crawford," Lee pointed out.
Carlos paused. "At least we have the combination," he said. He walked over and punched in the correct numbers, taking out everything the group needed and possibly more. "I'm going back to the classroom. Are you coming, Lee?"
"I think I should see what's on this last tape," Lee replied.
"Alright. Try not to be too long." And with that, Carlos saw himself out.
When he was gone, Lee placed the final tape in, and to his surprise, it was Molly, wearing a black leather jacket, with Doctor Logan. What was going on here?
"Listen, as fun as this was, I have to put a stop to this little arrangement," Doctor Logan said. "This is the last I can give you."
"Why?" Molly asked as the doctor got some medicine out of the cabinet.
"Oberson had someone down here yesterday taking inventory, he's really cracking down. And I just can't risk it," the doctor added.
"We had a deal!" Molly yelled.
The doctor handed her something. "Yes, we HAD a deal. We don't anymore."
"My sister needs this medicine, without it, she'll die, or she'll start showing symptoms and they'll take her away. I can't let that happen," Molly said. So that was how she knew so much about Crawford.
"I'm sorry Molly, I've done all I can, but I have to look out for myself here," Doctor Logan replied.
"Yeah, that's the Crawford way, isn't it?" Molly scoffed before bumping into the doctor and making her way out of the nurse's station. The video then clicked off, and to say the least, Lee was a little shocked.
"Well, shit," he said to himself before leaving the nurse's station as well. He began walking back to the classroom, and that's when Molly magically appeared again. "Jesus Christ! You scared the shit out of me. Where the fuck have you been?" he questioned.
"Sightseeing," Molly answered sarcastically.
Lee only gave her a dubious look. "I'll take that battery now.
"Oh, yeah...about that," Molly began. But when Lee had a look of near shock on his face, Molly continued. "I'm just kidding." She turned around and began searching through her backpack until she finally retrieved it. "Here you go."
Lee took the battery and was somehow able to fit it into his back pocket, before noticing the photo in Molly's hand. "What's that?"
"Oh, nothing," the woman lied.
It was time to confront her. "You can quit with the act, Molly. I know you're from Crawford."
"What? Who told you that?" Molly inquired, not even bothering to hide it.
"I saw you on a security tape. Why'd you lie to me?"
"I said there were stories about Crawford, I never said that's how I knew about it. I never lied to you, and even if I did, so what? I don't owe you anything!"
"You saved my life twice, but you can't tell the truth?"
"Are we really going to do this now?" she questioned him angrily.
"I guess that's up to you," Lee replied.
Molly sighed. "I used to live here with my sister, she was fourteen years old. When the dead started walking, and Crawford shut itself in, it seemed like a pretty good deal at first. We were safe, and we had everything we needed to survive. Then the rules started coming down. No one who couldn't justify their place, earn their keep, no one who required special care. My sister was diabetic, and by Crawford's rules, that made her a liability..." she revealed. "I kept it a secret for as long as I could, but in the end, I couldn't protect her, that's why I got out. Crawford always talked about how their system worked, how anything was better than becoming one of the dead...but I saw what they had already become. I just wish I could have seen it before it was too late, before they came and took my sister away."
"I'm sorry..." Lee said as Molly wiped a tear from her face.
"This is all I have left of her," she said, holding up the picture.
"It's okay, Molly, I understand," Lee gave his condolences. "She's pretty."
Just then, the bells started ringing. "What the hell?" Molly questioned.
"I think that's our cue to get the hell out of here," Lee concluded. The two of them began making their way back to the classroom. They heard a creaking noise that stopped them dead in their tracks, but only for a minute.
Ben suddenly came, holding up a rather familiar-looking hatchet.
"Jesus!" Molly cried.
"Shit! Ben!" Lee nearly yelled.
"Sorry, sorry! I just got spooked by these bells, and then I heard someone coming," the teenager replied.
"What the fuck are you doing out here?" Lee asked.
"I came out here to find something to get that armory door open, and I found this," Ben answered, holding up the hatchet.
"Uh, Ben? Where did you get that?"
"I just found it. It was stuck in the door handle in the hallway back there."
"Oh, no..."
As if on cue, a bunch of walkers came pouring through the door in which they were originally locked out from. Molly and Lee got into position, ready to fight as many as they possibly could.
Molly began killing the walkers with her ice pick, and Lee covered her by shooting his handgun. When all looked clear, the three of them ran back into the classroom and shut the door. "What the fuck is going on?" Kenny questioned.
"They're coming!" Lee answered.
"Oh shit..." Kenny trailed off.
"Now how do we get out?" Christa questioned. "We got to get these supplies back to Omid!"
"Through the armory!" Kenny said. "If we can just get this damn door open." He began ramming the door with his shoulder.
Ben remorsefully held the hatchet out to Lee, who angrily snatched it up. It was his fault, and he knew it, but he decided to keep his mouth shut for the time being. He backed away slightly, a bit frightened.
"Come on, damn you!" Kenny cursed as he slammed his body into the door. It took a few more times before he was finally able to kick it open, right when the walkers finally entered the room, breaking through the locked door. "Everybody come on! Hurry the fuck up!"
They entered a bell tower with many flights of stairs. Lee tried to hold the door closed, but to no avail.
"How much ammunition do we have?" Carlos inquired.
Christa checked the guns. "A few rounds, that's it."
"You didn't close the damn door?" Kenny asked of Lee.
"I couldn't, the lock was busted!" Lee shot back.
"Great, just fucking great...come on, there's gotta be a way out down here!"
