2.12 Better Angels

After giving Dale a funeral, the group begins patrolling the perimeter for more walkers. Carl comes to Shane with the information that he had been the one that had lead the walker to the farm. Shane tells Rick to talk to Carl. Rick puts aside the issue of freeing Randall and talks to his son; he tells Carl that it was not his fault that Dale died. Meanwhile, Shane frees Randall and leads him into the forest where he breaks his neck. He comes back to the farm where he tells everyone that Randall had overpowered him and stolen his weapon. Rick, Daryl and Glenn believe Shane's story and accompany him into the woods.Once in the woods, they split up into pairs.Glenn and Daryl follow Randall's trail while Shane and Rick head into a different direction.

A walker attacks Glenn and Daryl while they search. On closer examination, they discover that the walker is Randall. Things become even more perplexed they discover that Randall had been killed by a broken neck and not a walker bite. Meanwhile, Rick figures out that Shane's story was nothing than a way for him to lure Rick out into the open so Shane could kill him. Rick decides to give Shane his weapon as a gesture of good faith so that they would both put down their weapons. When Rick closes the distance between him and Shane, he quickly stabs him with with his knife. Carl is shocked by what he sees. He points his gun at Rick, but then shoots Shane who had become a walker. The gun sound alerts a horde of walkers nearby.