DOWNLOAD S1:E1 "Days Gone Bye" Episode Guide

                         RAR PASSWORD: DaysGoneBye

The show begins when Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and partner Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) are called to a high speed pursuit, where they face two armed men. The two men are shot, after which a third emerges from the vehicle and shoots Rick in the chest, leaving him seriously wounded and comatose. Rick eventually regains consciousness in a seemingly abandoned hospital. He walks down a hospital corridor to find a badly mangled woman in a pool of blood and encounters his first walkers - a group of zombies barricaded into a room—as well as rows of bodies in body bags. In a nearby park he encounters a severely deteriorated zombie with nothing left of her lower body but trailing bones and organs. Shaken, he returns to his home to look for his family. Unable to find any sign of them, he sits outside and is suddenly hit in the head with a shovel by a young man—Duane Jones (Adrian Kali Turner)—who initially mistakes him for a zombie.
Rick later wakes up tied to a bed. The young man's father, Morgan Jones (Lennie James), checks Rick for zombie bites or fever, either of which could indicate he is turning into a zombie himself. After deciding Rick is not a threat, Morgan frees him and shares what information he has regarding the zombie apocalypse (and the walkers, which are formally known as "walkers"). The following day, Rick tells Morgan that his wife and son are missing and they are most likely alive, since the family photos have been taken from the house. Morgan and Duane tell Rick they may have set off to Atlanta, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has set up a quarantine zone. Rick takes Morgan and his son to his former Sheriff's headquarters, where the trio use the emergency generator to power up the station. They take hot showers and clean out the armory's weapons stash. Rick heads to Atlanta, while Morgan and Duane stay behind. Rick gives Morgan a rifle and a walkie-talkie and promises to broadcast every morning at dawn. Before he leaves, Rick finds fellow police officer Leon Basset (Linds Edwards)—now a zombie—and dispatches him. Morgan goes to the top floor of his house, where he looks through old family photos before shooting several zombies. As he hoped, the noise attracts more walkers, including his dead wife, but Morgan finds himself unable to shoot her and breaks down in tears. Rick returns to the park where he encountered the badly decayed zombie, apologizes to it, and shoots it in the head.
En route to Atlanta, Rick sends out a broadcast via his radio. The transmissions are received by a camp located just outside the city, but they are unable to warn him of the situation in the city. Among the campers are Rick's partner Shane, his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), and his son Carl (Chandler Riggs). Rick's police cruiser later runs out of gasoline; he approaches an abandoned gas station, where he shoots a pre-adolescent female zombie. Unable to find gas, he abandons his car and continues on foot. He approaches a farmhouse, where the occupants died in an apparent murder-suicide. Rick finds a horse nearby and rides it to Atlanta, carrying a sack of guns from the police armory.
Rick arrives in Atlanta and finds the city looking like an abandoned war-zone. He searches the streets on horseback, finding a demolished military blockade. Rick hears a helicopter pass overhead and tries to follow it, but rides straight into a horde of walkers. The walkers swarm Rick's horse, toppling Rick and making him drop the sack of guns. While many of the zombies swarm around the horse, tearing it apart and eating it, Rick scrambles underneath an abandoned tank. With zombies crawling after him on both sides, Rick shoots several of them, then places the gun to his temple. Looking up, he sees an open hatch underneath the tank and crawls inside. The walkers surround the tank as Rick seals himself inside. Firing his revolver into the head of an undead tank crewman deafens him. He seals the Chieftain Mk 11 Tank (mocked up to look like an M1 Abrams tank) hatches, trapping himself inside. A voice comes over the radio sarcastically asking if he is cozy inside. The episode ends with zombies swarming around the tank and the fallen horse.