Chapter 5 starved for help part 3

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Lee and Danny return to the farm.
Danny: Man, that was a hell of a ride, huh?
Lee tosses his rifle to Danny.
Lee: What?
Danny: You were a madman back there!
Danny:Took that crazy bitch down!
Brenda stands up from her seat on the porch stairs.
Brenda: You're back!
Brenda:What happened?
Danny: Lee took care of it!
Danny walked inside the house.
Brenda: This isn't what Terry would've wanted.
Lee: Who's Terry?
Brenda: My husband.
Brenda:Miss him every day.
Kenny and Lilly are arguing in front of the gazebo.
Lilly: Then screw it up for everybody then, why don't you?
Kenny: Oh, calm down, princess.
Kenny:I'll do it myself.
Kenny walks off, and Lilly returns to the gazebo.
Lee: What's going on with them?
Brenda: Dunno.
Brenda:Squabblin', looks like.
Brenda:A lotta tension with y'all, huh?
Lee: They have different ideas about how we should run our group.
Lee:If they don't find any common ground, this whole thing's gonna fall apart.
Brenda: Nah, it's just tough times. Brenda:Everyone's hungry, and people get a little stir-crazy when their tummy's empty.
Brenda: And, Lee, don't worry your head about them bandits.
Brenda:I'm sorry you've seen more violence than I'd'a thought in your short time, but y'all are safe here. Brenda:Don't worry.
Lee: Think I'll go have a look around.
Brenda: Don't wander too far.
Brenda:Dinner will be ready before you know it.
Brenda:And thank your friend katjaa again for me.
Brenda:She and the kids are in the barn with the cow.
Brenda: That woman is a lifesaver!
Lee walks down the steps, and Clementine waves at him from the barn before closing the door. Lee examines her hat before putting it away again.

Lee enters the barn, where Katjaa, Duck,Clementine,Otis,Mark, and Andy gather near the cow.
Katjaa: It's okay, clementine, you can pet her.
Clementine looks to Lee.
Lee: It's okay, go ahead.
Clementine slowly approaches Maybelle and pets her.
Clementine: Whoa.
Clem: Katjaa says Maybelle could have her baby tonight!
Katjaa: We'll see, clementine.
Lee notices a salt lick nearby.
Lee: What's this thing?
Duck: They said it's called a salt lick.
Clementine: Yeah, but don't lick it.
Clem: It's gross.
Lee: Did you lick it?
Clementine: I don't know.
Otis: She did.
Clementine: Nu uh.
Lee walks up to Otis.
Lee: Hey.
Otis: Hi.
Lee: How are you doing?
Otis: Good, I think.
Otis: I'm just worried about carley.
Lee: Me too.
Lee leaves Otis and walks up to Mark.
Mark: Lee, you're back.
Lee: Indeed I am, mark.
Lee: How are you doing?
Mark: Great, I wish how carley is doing.
Lee leaves Mark and walks up to Clementine.
Lee: How do you like that cow, Clem?
Clementine: She's pretty.
Lee returns Clementine's hat.
Lee: Here, Clementine.
Clementine: My hat!
Clementine: You found it!
Clementine takes the hat and puts it on.
Clementine: I knew you'd find it!
Clem: You said you would!
Clementine: You knew I needed it! Lee: Well, you did tell me it was a birthday present from your dad.
Clementine: Thanks, Lee.
Lee: Listen, did you give your hat to anyone?
Clementine: No.
Lee: Did you see any strangers around the motor inn who might've taken it?
Clementine: No.
Clem: Why?
Lee: It's probably nothing.
Lee: Just let me know if you ever see anything like that.
Clementine: Okay, I will.
Clem:Hey, Lee.
Clem:Do you think you'll ever have kids?
Lee: I'd like to, someday.
Lee: Maybe a little girl like you.
Clementine: That's nice.
Clem: You'd be a good daddy.
Clementine: Well, thanks for finding my hat.
Lee: You're welcome, Clem.
Clementine: Do you wanna pet the cow with me?
Lee: Nah, but you go on ahead.
Lee checks out the door in the back of the barn, and Kenny walks up to him.
Kenny: You found it too, huh?
Kenny: Lee, they're hiding something. Kenny:Behind this door.
Kenny:I got a quick look.
Kenny:They got boxes of stuff.
Kenny:And something metal and sharp.
Lee: Don't get paranoid.
Kenny: It's my job to be paranoid, lee. Kenny:I got my whole family on this farm right now.
Kenny: How about you?
Kenny: What about clem?
Kenny: What about otis?
Lee: I'll protect them, no matter what.
Kenny: I know you will.
Kenny: Look, that guy with katjaa. Kenny:What's his name?
Kenny: He locked it up real tight the second we came in.
Kenny: I definitely heard a noise back there, lee.
Lee: What?
Kenny: My point is, we gotta know for sure.
Kenny: So go find a hammer or something, and I'll have this thing off in a second.
Kenny:You back me up in case them farmers come running.
Lee: Hang on, man.
Lee:Think this through.
Lee:You smash the lock.
Lee:Then what if it turns out you're wrong?
Lee:You just fucked your chance to get a good meal in those kids you're trying to protect.
Lee: Use your head, kenny.
Kenny: Alright, professor.
Kenny: What'd you have in mind?
Lee: Let me have a look at what we're dealing with first.
Lee looks at one of the screws.
Kenny: Hey, lee.
Kenny:You know how to pick a lock, right?
Lee: No!
Lee:Why would you say that?
Kenny: Well, you're you know, urban?
Lee: Oh, you are not saying what I think you're saying.
Kenny: Jesus, man!
Kenny: I'm from Florida!
Kenny:Crazy shit just comes out of my mouth sometimes.
Kenny: Sorry.
Lee: Hmm.
Kenny: What?
Lee: See those screws?
Lee: Instead of breaking the padlock, we can just take off the assembly, have a peek inside, and then replace it all again, like nothing ever happened.
Kenny: Alright.
Kenny:Sounds like you have a plan. Kenny: I'll hang around and keep an eye on that guy with the cow.
Lee: Andy.
Kenny: Shit.
Kenny:I thought that was Danny. Kenny:Whatever.
Andy approaches them.
Andy: Can I help you boys find something?
Lee: Just checking out the barn here. Lee:Never been to a dairy farm before.
Andy: Just don't roam around without me or danny.
Andy:The farm can be a dangerous place.
Andy:You know, the bandits and all. Andy: Sorry about your friend.
Andy: Hey, uh, do me a favor.
Andy: Don't fuck around with this door, okay?
Andy: Just, you know, mama gets nervous.
Katjaa: Andrew, I need your help again.
Andy: No problem!
Andy: Right away, doc!
Andy returns to his position and Kenny leans against one of the stalls.
Lee searches the barn, then outside, finds multi-tool, then walks up to the generator.
He crouches down and turns the power switch on the generator off.
Lee uses the multitool to unscrew the panel.
Lee: There ya go.
He opens the panel.
Lee: Looks like that belt's driving the uh whatchamacallit.
Lee:Hmm?
Lee uses the multitool to remove the belt.
Lee: There.
Lee:That should do it.
Lee gets back up and moves a short distance away while Andy goes outside to examine the generator.
Andy: Fuckin' danny.
Andy:Where did he find this piece of shit?
He opens the access panel.
Andy: Aw, fucking thing threw a belt! Andy:Damn it to all son of a fuck! Andy:This'll take forever.
Lee re-enters the barn, prepared to open the door with Kenny. Just then, the dinner bell rings.
Mark: Dinner time!
He runs off.
Otis: Someone's excited for food.
Duck: Mom, Dad, dinner time!
Duck:It's dinner time!
Katjaa: Okay, honey, let's get back.
Duck runs up to Kenny.
Duck: Dad!
Duck:Dad, c'mon!
Duck:Let's eat!
Katjaa: Kenny, come along, honey. Katjaa: Kenny, c'mon, don't make the children wait!
Kenny: I'll make an excuse for you! Kenny: Get that thing off!
Everyone leaves the barn except for Lee.
Lee unscrews each screw with the multitool. The lock falls off, and he opens the doors. Inside are various sharp tools, including buzzsaws and bear traps. There is blood smeared all over the room and bathtub.
Andy: Boy, didn't you hear the bell? Andy: Dinner time.
Lee: Look.
Lee: I just came in and found the door open like that.
Andy: Probably my idiot brother.
Andy:Hey, was anyone with you just now?
Lee: No.
Andy: Not the doc?
Lee: No.
Lee:She went into the house.
Andy: Oh, good, yeah.
Andy: Good.
Lee and Andy walk back to the house.
Larry: Brenda, you are an angel!
Duck: Biscuits, wow!
As Lee and Andy enter the house, Lilly walks into the dining room.
Duck: Oh, boy!
Andy: Excuse the mess.
Andy:We had to block the back door after a walker got upstairs.
Andy: Don't worry, that was a while ago, and they ain't been back inside since.
They enter the dining room. Everyone except Brenda is already sitting down. Andy takes a seat.
Brenda: Everybody sit down and I'll go get the meal!
Brenda:Ooh, this is a delight!
Kenny: I could eat a horse.
Lee: Where's carley?
Brenda: Now, don't you worry about her.
Brenda: I've already brought some food up.
Brenda: You just let her rest.
Lee: Mind if I wash my hands first?
Brenda: Bathroom's right outside in the hall.
Brenda:And be sure to get under your nails,you've been muckin' around in the dirt all day.
Lee nods and enters the hallway.
Lee sneaks upstairs and opens the bedroom door.
Lee: Carley?
The bedroom is empty.
Lee: Brenda said she'd be up here.
Lee walks out of the bedroom and walks up to a closed closet.
He opens the closet and sees medical stuff, and he also sees a cord.
Lee: Huh?
Lee:Where's that cord going?
Lee turns on the power cord and notices that it goes through a hole in the back of the closet and lights the room beyond.
Lee: What the hell?
Lee walks back into the bedroom and notices that the area behind the bookshelf is lit up, Lee pushes the bookshelf out of the way to reveal a door. He opens it to discover Carley lying on the floor of the bathroom, bleeding everywhere, with both her legs severed above the knee.
Carley: Lee.
Lee: Carley!
Lee:What the hell happened?
Lee kneels next to Carley.
Carley: Brothers.
Lee: What the hell happened to your legs, girl?
Carley: Tell everyone about your past and don't eat dinner.
Lee gets up, horrified at realizing what everyone will eat for dinner.
Brenda: Lee, did ya fall in?
Brenda:Dinner's on the table, and everyone's havin' at!
Duck: Barbecue!
Duck:Wow.
Larry: How on Earth did y'all get barbecue meat?
Lee: Clementine!
Lee runs downstairs and bursts into the dining room.
Clementine is about to take a bite of dinner.
Lee: Don't eat that!
Clementine stops, startled.
Lilly: Wha?
Larry: Huh?
Kenny: Huh?
Otis: I wasn't hungry anyway.
Mark: Huh?
Clementine sets down her fork.
Kenny: Lee, jesus, man!
Kenny:Did you find something?
Otis: He probably did.
Mark: Really like what?
Larry: Sit your ass down, Lee.
Larry:This lady has made you a meal.
Lilly: Yeah, Lee, what's gotten into you?
Brenda: He just had a start.
Larry: He could use some goddamn manners.
Danny: It didn't have to be this way.
Lee: Carley is upstairs with her fucking legs cut off!
Lee: You're eating her!
Lilly: That's crazy!
Kenny: What the hell?
Brenda: Now, now.
Kenny: You're scaring the kids, Lee.
Lilly: Lee, what the hell is wrong with you?!
Larry: Don't indulge him, Lilly.
Larry: It's always something with this guy.
Otis: Shut up, larry!
Duck takes a bite of food; Katjaa snatches the plate from him and sets it aside.
Duck: Mom, I was eating that!
Katjaa: Quiet, honey.
Lilly: What is going on?!
Mark: I don't know.
Lee: Go upstairs and look!
Lee:You'll find a girl with both of her legs hacked off!
Lee:This is a dairy, not a ranch!
Lee:Think about it!
Everyone exchanges shocked glances, but Otis.
Brenda: It's true.
Otis: Haha, take that car.
Otis:Oh wait.
Danny: Everything coulda turned out okay for you folks.
Andy: She woulda died anyway!
Andy:We gotta think about livin'!
Brenda: Settle down, honey.
Brenda:Growin' up in rural Georgia, you're taught not to waste.
Brenda:It's how I was raised and how I raised my boys.
Brenda:Now, you got monsters roamin' around that do nothin' but eat people.
Brenda:And for what?
Brenda:To continue to rot 'til they eat some more.
Brenda:We think we can put that meat to better use.
Larry and Lilly push their plates away.
Lilly: Ugh, I'm gonna puke.
Mark: Me too.
Lee: You're all sick in the head!
Brenda: Lee, that's not a very nice thing to imply.
Brenda: Andy is right.
Brenda:We go after folks who were gonna die anyways, one way or another.
Danny: Like, y'all.
Lee: Kenny, get your gun!
Katjaa: Kenny, no!
Kenny stands up.
Andy: Nobody's going anywhere!
Andy draws his pistol and stands up. Danny gets up as well and draws his rifle.
Danny: We got lots of use for y'all right here.
Andy points his gun at Kenny and he returns to his seat.
Larry: What the?
Larry:What the fucking?
Larry:What the fuck!
Lilly: Put your guns down!
Lilly:We're walking out of here!
Kenny: You don't go near my fucking family!
Duck: I don't wanna die!
Duck:Mommy, what did I eat?
Lee: Everyone, everything will be okay!
Otis: You jinxed us!
Mark: I can't believe I ate carley's leg.
Clementine: Lee!
Clem:Lee!
Clementine yelps as Andy grabs her hair and yanks her backwards to stand beside him, pointing his gun at Lee.
Lee: I'll kill you!
Lee charges forward but stops and takes a step back after Danny puts his rifle at Lee's neck. Noises are heard in the hallway, and everyone turns to see Carley dragging herself along the ground.
Carley: Please, someone!
Everyone gasps in shock and horror. Lee then turns to Clementine.
Lee: Clementi--
Danny whacks Lee with the end of his rifle, and he blacks out.

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