Leon Basset (TV Series)

Maybe we can get on one of them "Worlds wildest police chases" what do you think? -Leon to his fellow officers.

Days Gone By Leon Basset was once a deputy of the King County Sheriff Department in King County, Georgia. He was seen first seen in The Walking Dead (TV Series) pilot episode, Days Gone Bye, and was later featured on AMC's website in a online game called The Walking Dead: Dead Reckoning; which explains the story behind how he was turned into a walker during the outbreak.

Days Gone Bye
Leon was a back-up officer with Lam Kendal assisting in the highway police chase that put Rick into a coma. He was seen carrying a pistol and seems to be distracted and unfocused at the job at hand, and even mentions that they should capture the footage of the police pursuit and submit it to Worlds Craziest Police Chases. Rick tells him to focus and arm himself just as the criminals arrive at the standoff. He, along with the Linden County Sheriff's Department officers, exchange gun fire with the criminals and eventually take down the suspects; however Rick is shot in the shoulder before the last is killed.

Bloodletting
He may have been seen with Lam when Shane goes to tell Lori that Rick has been shot.

The Walking Dead: Dead Reckoning
Leon appears as Shane's subordinate in this episode. He is first seen picking up an infected man named Robb Spanner at a bar who he thought was drunk. Leon took him back to the King County Sheriff's Department and placed him in a holding cell. Later, after Shane brings in a local civilian named Gary Taylor for domestic disturbance and possibly murder, Leon was bitten in the thumb by Gary and it is debated for a while by Shane whether he is infected or not. After the third police officer at the station, Don, is killed by a now-reanimated Robb who then attacks Gary, Leon helps Shane kill Robb. Shane has a conversation with Gary after beginning to believe that Gary was not a murderer and acted on self-defense. It is revealed that Gary isn't infected; meaning Leon isn't either. There is then a crash at the front desk, in which Leon goes out to investigate. He discovers that Gary's daughter, Patty Taylor, has become a walker due to an injury she received from her zombified boyfriend, Paul. Shane saves Leon and is forced to kill Patty. After this, Shane, Leon and Gary go outside and talk about what they will do about the chaos that's occurring everywhere. Shane decides to go to the hospital to get Rick and then take Rick's family to Atlanta. Leon, on the other hand, decides to stay in King County, where his guns are, and help the people there, like Gary. He and Shane shake hands before the latter departs, heading for the hospital. As Leon and Gary watch him drive away, a now-reanimated Don leaps out of the police station and attacks Leon as the screen abruptly goes black. It is likely implied that this how Leon became a infected and turned into a walker.

Days Gone Bye
Later, he is encountered by Rick, Morgan, and Duane as a walker when the trio are leaving the King County Sheriff's Department. He is missing his hat and his sidearm while his radio is dragging along the ground. Leon is on the opposite side of the station's perimeter, banging on a chain link fence. Rick calmly walks up to Leon and puts a bullet into his former colleague's head ending his suffering.

Killed Victims
This list shows the people Leon Basset has killed.
 * Unnamed Criminal 1 (alongside his fellow officers)
 * Unnamed Criminal 2 (alongside his fellow officers)

Killed By
Officer Don bit Leon and Leon turned, after a while Leon started to roam around the Cynthiana Police Station. As Rick, and  where leaving the police station that Rick worked at, Leon started to bash against the fence, Rick explained that Leon was careless and dumb, Rick walked up to Leon and shot him in the head.
 * Officer Don (Alive)
 * Rick Grimes (Zombified)

Trivia

 * In the comic, it is an ordinary zombie that is hitting the chain link fence, but Rick does not kill him because Morgan tells him to save his bullets. In the television series, this ordinary zombie is replaced with Leon.
 * Leon is also featured with fellow police officers Shane and Don in the Dead Reckoning Adventure Game.