The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1 < 2025-2026 >

Then it vomits a torrent of black sludge onto the floor.

EXT. PRISON - DUSK The supply team returns—but Zach is gone. Rick’s face is stone. Daryl is furious. Michonne carries only the antibiotics.

“Violet. The pig. She won’t eat. Her eyes are weeping.” The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1

Rick’s eyes. The calm is gone. The survivalist is back. But now, he’s terrified not of the dead—but of the living he must protect from the poison inside his own walls.

“The water table. The rain. The walker blood seeps into the ground. It’s in the soil, Rick. It’s in the vegetables. It’s in us .” Then it vomits a torrent of black sludge onto the floor

No one argues. But no one looks happy either.

They find the veterinary college. It’s pristine—almost too clean. No walkers. No looters. The shelves are full. Daryl is suspicious. Rick’s face is stone

(whispering) “No. No, that’s not possible.”

Months after the fall of Woodbury, Rick Grimes has traded his gun for a hoe, striving to cultivate peace within the prison walls. But when a routine supply run reveals a terrifying new strain of the virus and a mysterious downed helicopter, the fragile utopia begins to rot from the inside.

“And the fences? We lost three feet of the north perimeter yesterday. The mud is pushing them over.”

They move like ghosts. Efficient. Silent.