Is This The End?

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Daryl swings the knife at Rick and misses wildly. Rick punches Daryl in the gut while Shane grabs him behind and puts him in a choke hold "Okay. Okay" Shane said Rick takes the knife away from Daryl as Shane forces him to the ground "You'd best let me go!" Daryl said "Nah, I think it's better if I don't" Shane said "Choke holds illegal" Daryl said "You can file a complaint. Come on, man. We'll keep this up all day" Shane said Rick kneels down to be face to face with Daryl and looks him in the eye "I'd like to have a calm discussion on this topic. Do you think we can manage that? Do you think we can manage that?" Rick said "Hmm? Mmm. Yeah" Daryl said Shane lets go of Daryl "What I did was not on a whim. Your brother does not work and play well with others" Rick said "It's not Rick's fault. I had the key. I dropped it" T-Dog said "You couldn't pick it up?" Daryl said "Well, I dropped it in a drain" T-Dog said Daryl chokes up but pulls himself together "If it's supposed to make me feel better, it doesn't" Daryl said "Well, maybe this will. Look, I chained the door to the roof so the geeks couldn't get at him—with a padlock" T-Dog said "It's gotta count for something" Rick said Daryl wipes more tears out of his eyes "Hell with all y'all! Just tell me where he is so I can go get him" Daryl said "He'll show you. Isn't that right?" Lori said "I'm going back" Rick said Lori, angry, goes into the camper Rick sighs.

Minutes later Rick comes out of his tent buttoning up his uniform "So that's it, huh? You're just gonna walk off? Just to hell with everybody else?" Shane said "I'm not saying to hell with anybody. Not you, Shane. Lori least of all" Rick said Rick walks up the hill to the van "Tell her that" Shane said Rick turns back to Shane "She knows" Rick said Rick continues on up the hill, Shane following after "Well, look, I—I don't, okay, Rick? So could you just—could you throw me a bone here, man? Could you just tell me why? Why would you risk your life for a douche bag like Merle Dixon?" Shane said They've walked up to the cooking fire where Daryl is "Hey, choose your words more carefully" Daryl said "Oh no, I did. Douche bag's what I mean. Merle Dixon—the guy wouldn't give you a glass of water if you were dying of thirst" Shane said "What he would or wouldn't do doesn't interest me. I can't let a man die of thirst—me. Thirst and exposure. We left him like an animal caught in a trap. That's no way for anything to die, let alone a human being" Rick said "So you and Daryl, that's your big plan?" Lori said Rick turns and looks at Glenn "Oh, come on" Glenn said "You know the way. You've been there before. In and out, no problem. You said so yourself. It's not fair of me to ask, I know that, but I'd feel a lot better with you along. I know she would too" Rick said Glenn looks at Lori, Masie and Carl "That's just great. Now you're gonna risk three men, huh?" Shane said "Four" T-Dog said "It's not just four. You're putting every single one of us at risk. Just know that, Rick. Come on, you saw that walker. It was here. It was in camp. They're moving out of the cities. They come back, we need every able body we've got. We need 'em here. We need 'em to protect camp" Shane said "It seems to me what you really need most here are more guns" Rick said "Right, the guns" Glenn said "Wait, what guns?" Shane said "Six shotguns, two high-powered rifles, over a dozen handguns. I cleaned out the cage back at the station before I left. I dropped the bag in Atlanta when I got swarmed. It's just sitting there on the street, waiting to be picked up" Rick said Lori starts to see that Rick's trip is more than just a rescue mission "Ammo" Shane said "700 rounds, assorted" Rick said "You went through Hell to find us. You just got here and you're gonna turn around and leave?" Lori said "Dad, I don't want you to go" Masie said standing next to Carl Rick is moved by Masie's plea "To Hell with the guns, Shane is right. Merle Dixon? He's not worth one of your lives, even with guns thrown in. Tell me. Make me understand" Lori said "I owe a debt to a man I met and his little boy. Lori, if they hadn't taken me in, I'd have died. It's because of them that I made it back to you at all. They said they'd follow me to Atlanta. They'll walk into the same trap I did if I don't warn him" Rick "What's stopping you?" Lori asked "The walkie-talkie, the one in the bag I dropped. He's got the other one. Our plan was to connect when they got closer" Rick said "These are our walkies?" Shane asked "Yeah" Rick said "So use the C.B., what's wrong with that?" Andrea said "The C.B.'s fine. It's the walkies that suck to crap. Date back to the seventies, don't match any other bandwidth, not even the scanners in our cars" Shane said "I need that bag" Rick said Lori doesn't like it but she can't refuse him. Rick goes over to Carl "Okay?" Rick said Masie and Carl nods yes "All right" Rick said

Rick and T-Dog walk over to Dale and Jim who are near the RV "Rumor is you have bolt cutters" Rick said "Maybe" Dale said "Yeah, we get to that roof, though; we'll need to cut that chain and the handcuffs" T-Dog said "I never like lending tools. The last time I did—and yes, I am talking about you—let's just say your bag of guns wasn't the only bag that was dropped. My tools got left behind with Merle" Dale said Daryl paces back and forth in the back of the box truck impatiently. Glenn is in the driver's seat "We'll bring your tools back too. Think of the bolt cutters as an investment" Rick said "Sounds like more of a gamble" Dale said he opens the tool box and gets the bolt cutters. T-Dog reaches for them but Dale doesn't give them to him "What do I get in return?" Dale asked, "What do you want?" Rick said "How about one of those guns you bring back? My pick" Dale said "Done" Rick said "Dale, let's sweeten the deal a bit. Now that cube van of yours..." Jim said "What about it?" Rick said "The R.V.'s radiator hose is shot. That's a problem if we need to get somewhere and wanna get very far. And the hose on that van is just about a perfect match. Well, enough that I can make it fit" Jim "I'll tell you what—we get back, you can strip that van down to the bare metal" Rick said Dale hands the bolt cutters to Rick Daryl is using is foot to honk the horn of the cube van while Glenn is in the driver's seat "Come on, let's go!" Daryl said "Thank you" Rick said "Hey, Rick, got any rounds in the python?" Shane asked "No" Rick said "Last time we were on the gun range, I'm sure I wound up with a few loose rounds of yours" Shane said "You and that bag—like the bottom of an old lady's purse" Rick said "I hate that you're doing this, man. I think that it's foolish and reckless but if you're gonna go, you're taking bullets" Shane said "I'm not sure I'd want to fire a shot in the city. Not after what happened last time" Rick said "That's up to you. Well...four men for four rounds. What are the odds, huh? Well, let's just hope that—let's just hope four is your lucky number, okay?" Shane said "Thank you" Rick said "All right" SHane said Rick gets into the passenger seat. He loads his weapon. Daryl closes the sliding door and Glenn starts the truck. Shane watches them drive off. Lori finds Carl and Masie lying on their bed. She's trying not to cry "Hey you know, I bet they'll be just fine" Lori said "I'm not worried. Are you?" Carl asked "Yeah, a little" Lori said "Don't be" Masie said "Why?" Lori said confused "Think about it, Mom. Everything that's happened to him so far; nothing's killed him yet" Masie said Lori almost stops crying. She takes Carl's and Masie's hand but Masie pulls away from her "Masie" Lori starts "Don't" Masie said Lori sighs and leaves the two kids in the tent alone.