Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars

Plot Synopsis
Tyreese and Rick Grimes come out of the RV complaining about sleeping there again.

Andrea, Tyreese and Rick lock themselves in the outer fence of the prison to clean out the zombies. At first the manage to clear it using only their melee weapons however more zombies come out of the prison and they need to defend themselves using their firearms. Andrea has to run back to Allen, who is outside the fence on watch on the roof of the RV, crying because the loss of his wife. Andrea reaches him and asks him to open the door. Inside the RV Chris and Julie are babysitting Carl Grimes, Sophia, Billy and Ben. Chris starts complaining using insults and is told by Carl he shouldn't curse because he is still not an adult, but Carl only receives a rude answer.

The trio manage to kill all of the zombies by having Andrea and Rick fire as Tyreese reloads.

That night Sophia complains she's still hungry but they don't have any food left, Rick says tomorrow they'll attempt to find the stockpile of canned food inside the prison, because if they are lucky it was overrun before it was looted, someone sarcastically points out that "Hopefully it's just full of flesh eating monsters and our baked beans are still intact in there."

The group is waked up by Lori Grimes running outside to throw up due to her morning sickness. The group is divided, Rick and Tyreese will Clear the prison while Lori, Andrea and Allen clear the bodies while Dale covers them and Julie and Chris must babysit again. While clearing the prison Rick and Tyeerese encounter a closed door to the cafeteria when they burst in they find the 4 other survivors, Dexter, Andrew, Axel and Thomas Richards.

The rest of the group gets inside the cafeteria where they eat for the first time in quite a while. But unlike what Rick thought, they are inmates not guards. Dexter, killed his ex-wife and her boyfriend; Andrew, was a drug dealer; Axel, armed robbery; Thomas Richards "Tax Evasion". It is also implied that Dexter and Andrew are in a homosexual relationship. The inmates then show them around the prison, they reveal they had to use the freezer as bathroom after the bucket were all filled with excrement.

The group open the door to the gym. They see its full of zombies they decide to "deal with it later". Then they go to the laundry room and find some vehicles in the garage. Rick proposes bringing the Greenes to live with them. Rick and Dale head to the farm in the RV. The group leave for the prison, except for Otis who stayed behind to watch over the farm.

The following night Chris and Julie are having sex then commit to shoot each other in a suicide pact. Rick runs to find Tyreese hugging his dead daughters body and Chris saying they were supposed to kill each other at the same time. Julie turns and attempts to bite Tyreese. Rick can't get a clean shot so Chris shoots her. Tyreese then beats Chris to death and then continues beat the animated corpse of Chris. The next day while discussing it they realize that they don't need to be bitten for them to turn.

Ricks returns to kill the animated Shane, but he doesn't rebury him.

Glenn and Maggie Greene find the barbershop in the prison where they have sex and cut their hair. Susie and Rachel go to check it out.

Tyreese, Andrea, Glenn and Arnold head inside the gym to clear it however Tyreese attacks the zombies suicidally and they are forced to leave him.

Hershel opens the barber shop and finds the heads of his twin daughters, Susie Greene and Rachel Greene. Glenn shoots their heads and Dexter is "arrested". When Rick comes back they go into the gym and find Tyreese sitting in the gym after killing them all.

While Andrea is in the laundry she gets attacked by Thomas, who is revealed to be the real killer. Rick begins hitting him to the point where he breaks his hand. Although Thomas didn't manage to kill her he did to cut her on the cheek. Rick introduces the new rule "You Kill You Die". They lock Thomas in the fridge because of the smell but then he is taken away after Rick tells them he'll suffocate. Later Patricia frees him but he attempts to kill her and is shot by Rick. Dexter then threatens Rick's group with a shotgun telling them to leave The Prison.

Deaths

 * Julie
 * Chris
 * Susie Greene
 * Rachel Greene
 * Thomas Richards