The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1 Link

“New variant. Airborne? Fluid-borne? We don’t touch anything.”

EXT. FOREST - DAY The supply team: Rick, Daryl, Michonne (who still says little, but now carries a lollipop for Judith), and a young, cocky survivor named ZACH (Beth’s new boyfriend).

(unsheathing her katana) “Or a tomb.”

They find the source. In the basement, a locked steel door. Behind it, the sound of wet, rhythmic slamming. Rick peers through a small window. His face goes white.

Inside, a walker is chained to a radiator. But it’s not dead. It’s sick . Its eyes are milky, but it’s crying. Black, tarry blood oozes from its eyes and mouth. It sees them. It doesn’t snarl. It speaks —a wet, gurgling whisper: “Don’t… let me… turn…”

INT. COUNCIL MEETING - NIGHT Rick, Daryl, Carol, Hershel, and Glenn sit around a table. A chalkboard reads: “DAYS SINCE LAST DEATH: 30.”

“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 .”