A New Day (Video Game)/Transcript

The following is a transcript of Episode 1: A New Day of The Walking Dead (Video Game).

A police officer is driving a police car down the road in the daytime. He adjusts the rearview mirror in his car to look at the passenger, a man handcuffed in the backseat.

Policeman: Well, I reckon you didn't do it, then.

Why do you say that?=

Man: Why do you say that?


 * -|You know what they say about reckoning.=

Man: You know what they say about reckoning.

Policeman: Ha, I don't but I reckon it's a lot like assumin'.

Man: Yeah, something like that.


 * -|Does it really matter?=

Man: Does it really matter?

Policeman: Nah, not much.



Policeman: Hmm. Nope, definitely not.

Policeman: Y'know, I've driven a buncha' fellas down to this prison. Lord knows how many. Usually is 'bout now I get the "I didn't do it."

And what do you say?=

Man: And what do you say?

Policeman: I say "Yep, I know ya didn't."


 * -|Not from me.=

Man: Not from me.

Policeman: 'Cause guys in your position already said it enough?


 * -|Every time?=

Man: Every time?

Policeman: EVERY time.



Policeman: Hmmm, but you don't talk too much, do ya?

Police Radio: We've got what looks like a 10-91E near Peachtree Exit. All cars asked to keep on the lookout for a 91V in the area.

The man looks at the rearview mirror.

Policeman: I followed your case a little bit, you being a Macon boy and all.

You're from Macon then.=

Man: You're from Macon then.

Policeman: Yep. Came up to Atlanta to be a city cop in the seventies. Always wanted to work a murder case, like that senatorial mess you got yourself mixed up in, with all due respect. A real shame, that is.

The man looks out the window as another police car speeds past in the opposite direction with its sirens on.

Policeman: Hell, the whole family used to be regulars at your folks' drugstore right in downtown. Still there?

Man: Sure is.

Policeman: Good.


 * -|So you've got an opinion.=

Man: You've got an opinion then?

Policeman: Wouldn't say that. I go in for that innocent 'til proven guilty thing.

The man looks out the window as another police car speeds past in the opposite direction with its sirens on.

Policeman: Even considering who they say you killed.


 * -|What'd you think?=

Man: What do you think?

Policeman: (shrugs) I'm just glad I chose law and not order. A big, messy trial like that.

The man looks out the window as another police car speeds past in the opposite direction with its sirens on.

Policeman: Even if you was innocent, a lot of what happened can't ever be undone.



Policeman: (shrugs) It's not every day a fella from Bibb County goes off and kills a state Senator, that's for sure.

The man looks out the window as another police car speeds past in the opposite direction with its sirens on.

Police Radio: Be advised of medical personnel on route to Hartsfield, various 10's and 20's coming in.

Optional interactions=

Look at rearview mirror

Looking at the mirror makes the policeman begin talking again, but he will also do so if the man does nothing for a few moments.

Look at radio

Man: Any of that seem important to you?

Policeman: All of it, but that box never shuts up. Sit in this seat and pay too much attention and you'll drive yourself crazy.

Policeman: I got a nephew up at UGA, you teach there long?

Man: Going on my sixth year.

Policeman: You meet your wife in Athens?

The man looks distressed and turns his face away, looking out the window.

Policeman: You wanna know how I see it?

Several more police cars pass by with their sirens on, along with a SWAT truck, all of them driving in the opposite direction.

Sure.=

Man: Sure.


 * -|Not really.=

Man: Not really.

He picked up on that.

Policeman: Well too bad, it's my car. You might have the right to remain silent, but it don't mean I gotta be.


 * -|I got much choice?=

Man: I got much choice?

He picked up on that.

Policeman: Sure don't.



The man says nothing.

The policeman opens his mouth, about to speak, but notices the man glaring at him and stays silent for a few moments.

Policeman: Regardless, could be you just married the wrong woman.

Could be I did.=

The man opens his mouth to speak, but decides not to, grunting dismissively.


 * -|Or she married the wrong guy.=

The man opens his mouth to speak, but decides not to, grunting dismissively.


 * -|Fuck you.=

The man opens his mouth to speak, but decides not to, grunting dismissively.



The man opens his mouth to speak, but decides not to, grunting dismissively.

Police Radio: Riot in progress. All officers available for incoming 217's. Rolling calls and dispatches to all locations.

A helicopter, two SWAT trucks, and several police cars pass by.

Policeman: I'm driving this man once, h—he was the worst one. He wouldn't stop going on about how he didn't do it.

TBC