It was almost noon at the group's house, 2 days had passed since Alexandria's passing. Almost everyone was inside preparing for lunch but Beth was outside hunting. Ever since she got her crossbow from the attic she's been busy learning how to use it. She was getting deep in the woods behind the house when she came across a small clearing with a strange landmark in it... She walked up to get a closer look at it when she noticed that it was a large, deep, rectangular hole in the ground. It almost looked like a mass grave of sorts, but Beth noticed that even was even more similar to a mass grave from all the walkers that had built up in it. It was just deep enough that any walker that happened to fall in the hole was not going to get out. Beth began to investigate a large pile of leaves and sticks at the end of the hole right before the drop when she had to run back into the woods quickly and quietly due to the sound of footsteps coming from the woods. Beth watched from a thick bush and saw Jemima come out of the woods and look at the hole. There was no look of suprise or shock on her face. She looked like she was counting the walkers inside. After sitting there for minute and observing the walkers Jemima walked back into the woods towards the house. This made Beth very curious as to what exactly Jemima was doing with a pit of walkers in the yard (If that was really hers, but Beth couldn't see Jemima digging a pit that big out here without being noticed by the rest of the group). Beth decided that the safest and smartest way to approach this was to ask Jemima about the hole in front of the rest of the group. So Beth went back to the house and joined everybody else as they were eating lunch. When she walked in Jemima and Lynette were arguing, Lynette was claiming that food was missing from the pantry and she saw Jemima taking it. Jemima was denying everything Lynette was saying and seemed to get more offended with each word. Beth took it as the perfect opportunity to ask the question so she stood up and got everyone's attention. She immediately lost it again as the sound of a car pulling up the gravel driveway and Allan flew up the stairs to look through the peephole and see what was going on. Looking out the window Allan saw a pickup truck and a volkswagon both filled up with people pulling in. He let everyone else look at the window and Carlos told everyone to begin executing the intruder plan. The intruder plan was that everyone with guns would stay upstairs (Carlos, Allan, Anthony, and Beth even though she had a crossbow) with the rest of the group going downstairs and waiting. Carlos would yell to the intruders and tell them that the people occupying this house had lots of weapons and the intruders could either leave or die. If the intruders didn't immediately leave they would open fire. If the intruders did not back down or any member of the group in the house were killed then the remaining group would flee through the emergency escape hatch in the basement that had roughly been finished the day before. Everyone went to their places but Carlos barely managed to get through the first sentence of the warning he'd prepared before the group outside had begun shooting at him. It was on.
In the basement Noah was getting impatient. He didn't like sitting downstairs while other people were fighting his battle upstairs. The other members of the group advised against it but it didn't work, not too long after the gunfire had started Noah had grabbed his katana and headed upstairs. He peeked out one of the cracks in a boarded window and noticed a man and a woman flanking around the back of the house. Noah snuck out the back door and waited at the corner for them to come around. He saw the woman's arms gripping a pistol round the corner and he immediately cut them off and ran her through the abdomen. The man began to panic and fired frantically, Noah backed around the corner again and within moments the man had fired all his bullets into nothing and Noah came back around the corner and cut his head off. Knowing that more people would be coming because of the noise from the shots and the man's screaming Noah strategically placed himself below the steps so that he wouldn't be seen until he needed to strike again.
In the attic Allan was firing his AK and Beth was firing her crossbow and on the groundfloor was Anthony and Carlos with their pistols. They had killed several of their men and avoided being hit because of the heavy layerings of plywood that Lynette, Allan, and Carlos had put up. The only unprotected places were where they had to aim their guns out of. The lack of protection from the intruders meant that they had to fire without much aiming so they were getting slaughtered. Carlos thought it would only be a matter of time before they either retreated or had all been killed. Suddenly screaming came from the attic, Beth looked over and saw that Allan had been shot. It looked like he was hit in the heart. His chest was bleeding profusely but he picked up his gun and started to fire again. This was around the time Joyce had come up into the attic to see what had happened with her medkit. Seeing where Allan had been shot she pulled him away from the window so she could begin working on him before he would be shot again. Allan struggled and screamed saying that he was fine and needed to keep fighting but Joyce knew that it was only adrenaline keeping him going at this point, if he didn't stop struggling then the bleeding would only increase and Allan could kill himself trying to fight. Anthony took his AK downstairs so that he didn't have to keep using his pistol and so that Allan may be a little more compliant to be treated on but Allan kept struggling, he kept saying that he didn't want to see anymore of his group die. Joyce began to tie him to a chair so that she didn't have to see him die, but from what she could see whenever she could get him still it didn't look like the bullet was in a good spot...
Lynette and Jemima were the only 2 still in the basement and Lynette was wondering whether or not she should go see if Joyce needed help. She started to walk upstairs when her and Jemima heard Noah scream from the backyard. They both ran outside with their weapons but didn't see Noah anywhere, Beth then came outside with them and said that they might need assist fire if any of the intruders were out back. Jemima said she was going to go into the woods to look for Noah and Beth noticed that she started to walk towards where the pit was. Beth then volunteered to go with her and Jemima allowed it with no hesistation, but Beth couldn't help but wonder if she noticed a twitch in Jemima's lips when she agreed. Lynette stayed behind in case Noah or any intruders ran back into the yard. What was Jemima planning?
In the living room Carlos and Anthony were laying down as much fire as possible, but ammo was running low and the remaining shooters had found good cover. Their aim started to get better and Carlos decided that it may be time to head out the escape hatch when he saw a bullet fly right past anthony's hear into the lamp behind him. It could've take his head off.
Carlos came flying up in the attic to tell Beth and Allan that they needed to go through the escape hatch and was frustrated to see that Beth was gone and Allan was injured. Joyce then told him that Noah had also left the basement and Carlos knew that there was no way to get everyone through the escape hatch at this point so he stayed up in the attic to provide fire from the roof again. It was win or die now. Joyce was trying to work on Allan in spite of the struggle but it wasn't working. She still couldn't fully see where the bullet was through all the shaking and if it was in the right part of his heart than he could already be a dead-man-walking due to blood loss. Allan's eyes closed and his shaking began to slow, he may dead in a few moments.
In the woods Beth and Jemima continued moving closer to the pit. Beth's mind raced with what Jemima may be up to right now, they were alone, could Jemima be planning to kill her? Had she already killed Noah? Beth positioned her arms in the right place so that in the blink of an eye she could turn and have an arrow pointed right at Jemima's throat. She was sure she would have to do it. She was so jumpy at this point that any sudden movements from Jemima may set her off. Beth was ready to fight for her life. Then there was screaming from the back yard again. Jemima and Beth both booked it back to the house (Beth making sure that Jemima was slightly ahead of her. They broke through the woods to see Noah standing over Lynette's body. Noah had run through Lynette's head. Immediately after seeing this Beth raised her crossbow to shoot Noah dead but Jemima yelled at Beth to lower it. Upon further inspection Beth saw that Noah was standing on a walker's head. It was the woman he ran through, he never made sure that she wouldn't turn. Beth saw a bite on Lynette's leg and realized that Noah was making sure that Lynette wouldn't turn, correcting his past mistakes. Through the shock of what Beth was seeing she could've sworn that the gunfire had stopped, and then Jemima commented that the gunfire really HAD stopped. They went in the house into the living room and noticed the front door was open, Carlos and Anthony were outside making sure that none of the bodies would turn. Carlos said that they had almost taken out half of them when they started to retreat, the exit fire Carlos and Anthony laid down made sure that less than half of them made it out. Beth went upstairs to check on Allan and Joyce said that after Allan's adrenaline had worn off and he had passed out that she got to look at the bullet wound more closely and discovered that it had passed centimeters above his heart and went straight through so she wouldn't have to pull the bullet out. Joyce said it was the best case scenario for a bullet wound and that if Allan had given his struggling a rest for a couple minutes that Joyce might've let him get up and start firing again. When the group all got together Jemima informed them all how Lynette died. But Beth knew that Lynette hadn't died, she was murdered. But not by Jemima whom she thought was the murderer. Beth knew now that Noah was the murderer, and she intended to do something about it...
