The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1 Apr 2026

(sipping herbal tea) “The pig is ready. We cull her next week. That’s protein for two months.”

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.

“Ain’t nobody touched this? Smells like a trap.” The Walking Dead Season 4 - Episode 1

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

Rick stands at the memorial grove. He pulls out his old Python revolver from a box of mementos. He checks the cylinder. Six bullets. (sipping herbal tea) “The pig is ready

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

A wide crane shot of the prison at twilight. It looks safe. Warm. Lights flicker in the windows. But outside the fence, a single walker—the new kind—stumbles out of the woods. Its eyes glow faintly in the dark. It opens its mouth. Black fluid drips onto the dead leaves. But when a routine supply run reveals a

He screams.

No one argues. But no one looks happy either.

Hershel limps up behind him.