Season 01, Episode 10: "Days Gone Bye"

*The scene opens showing Jace traveling on his own at night, trees all around him. We hear Marcus' voice ask, "What happened before? Before you joined us." We see Jace continuing on, looking at something in his hand, gripping it tight before putting it back in his pocket. We hear Jace say, "A lot happened. I don't like to talk about it." Jace is again at the forest, walking deeper into it as he looks around. There are very tall trees with very twisted branches all around. "Is there anything we can do to help?" asks Marcus. We see Jace going further into the forest as he stops, kneels down, and has a terrified look on his face. "No. There's nothing you can do. Just stop asking me about it." Jace stands up, as we get a shot from behind him, as he looks up to a tree. "Is it bad?" Marcus asks. We see legs dangling from the tree, as the view continues to slowly creep up. Jace drops his crossbow and covers his mouth. "I just don't like talking about it." We get a shot of Jace's face, his eyes opening wide, as the scene cuts out.*


"Live A Lie" by thenewno2 (Feat. Regina Spektor)

*We get a shot of Marcus and Julie walking up to Jace. Marcus picks Jace up and wakes him up. Jace looks around then grabs his crossbow. He points it at Marcus. Marcus puts his hands up as Julie looks on, frightened. Jace looks at Julie then realizes what's going on. He puts his crossbow down then picks up a few things. Marcus walks up to Jace. The two start to talk, but we cannot hear anything. Julie looks on.

Jace starts to walk away, but stumbles and nearly falls to the ground. Marcus catches him, helping him stay up. Jace breathing hard, pushes Marcus away. Julie walks up to Jace and puts a hand on his right arm. Jace shrugs it off and sees the little girl. She backs away and stands next to Marcus. Jace sighs and nods.

The scene changes to show the three, Marcus, Julie, and Jace traveling together, Jace following behind the two. Marcus looks back at Jace, then looks at Julie. Julie shrugs, slows down and keeps pace with Jace. Jace walks away from Julie, keeping his distance. Marcus slows down and wraps his arm around Julie, pulling her closer to him. She shrugs and continues on. All three keep the same pace, but Jace is noticeably distant and off to the right of the two.

They continue on, rummaging through abandoned cars, collecting supplies. Jace starts going through different cars, picking up supplies and putting them in his bag. Julie finds some food and gives some to Marcus. Marcus looks at Julie, then looks at Jace, motioning towards him. Julie smiles then walks up to Jace, offering him some of the food she has found. Jace looks at her, then turns his back to her, getting into another car, trying to start it up. Julie stands there, her facial expression changing as she lowers her hand with the offering down to her side. Marcus walks up to Julie again and pulls her away from Jace. Jace is trying to turn the car on, but is having no luck. He slams his fists against the steering wheel, leans against it, sighs, then gets out of the car, slamming the door. He then takes his crossbow and slams it into the windows; breaking both diver's side windows before slamming it into the windshield. Jace starts to walk along side the car when he notices that a message is scribbled on the back of the car, "Alexa, stay here." Jace reads it, then slams his crossbow into it, shattering the rear windshield, and removing the message. Marcus and Julie look on. Marcus pulls Julie away turning her around as they search through another car. Jace picks up his bag and starts to head on down the road ahead of the two. Marcus and Julie gather their things and start to catch up to Jace.

Jace then stops to drink some water from a bottle that he has in his bag. Marcus and Julie stop to wait for him. Jace looks at them and gives them a dirty look, taking his time. Marcus motions for the group to continue on but Jace shrugs them off. Marcus looks at Julie and decides to sit down for a while. Once Julie and Marcus sit down to rest Jace gets up and starts walking off. Marcus sighs and looks at Julie, who makes a face. They both get up and continue on down the road.

Jace reaches in his pocket as the group is walking. He pulls something out and looks at it again. Julie notices Jace doing this, and when Jace sees Julie looking at him he quickly tucks the item back in his pocket and picks up his speed, creating distance between the two.

We see Marcus yell as a few walkers start to head toward the group. Marcus takes his baseball bat and swings away at one walker, knocking him down. Marcus tries to swing at the other walker but it lunges towards him. Julie starts to scream as Marcus wrestles with the walker. Jace continues to walk on down the road, ignoring the situation. Julie looks at Jace for help, but he ignores her. Marcus finally turns the walker over onto his back and smashes it's head in with the end of the baseball bat. Marcus gets up and looks over at Jace, who is still walking down the road. We see a walker start to get close to Jace, who then shoots it in the head with his crossbow. He pulls the arrow out, then keeps going. Marcus and Julie look at each other for a second with concerned looks on their faces, but then continue on down the road behind Jace.

Jace starts to wipe the blood from the cut on his face. Marcus and Julie catch up to him, as Marcus gets along side him, looking at him. Jace turns the other way and continues off. Marcus grabs him by the shoulder and turns him around. Jace kicks the baseball bat out of Marcus' hand, then hits Marcus in the chest with his crossbow, knocking him down. Julie runs to Marcus' side. Marcus looks up at Jace as Jace stands above him. Jace bites his bottom lip as his hand shakes, he starts to aim the crossbow, but then drops it, shrugs, and walks off.

Marcus gets up with Julie's help, then goes right back to getting in front of Jace.*



"What's your problem?" asks Marcus. "You really just gonna walk away. Be a man! You don't like it here with us? Then leave!"

"Get out of my face," says Jace.

"Or what? You gonna shoot me with an arrow? Do it! You are an ungrateful piece of shit."

At that very moment Jace hits Marcus again with his crossbow, this time in the face, knocking him back down, pointing the crossbow at his head. Marcus touches his face, a cut from the crossbow across the side of his face slowly starts to bleed. Jace looks on and cringes a bit, reaching up and touching his own cut. "I never asked for your help," Jace says, one eye open, aiming at Marcus.

"You needed it," Marcus says, looking up at Jace. Julie stands near by, crying. Jace sees her then lowers his weapon.

"I didn't need it from you."

"You needed it from someone. And you were lucky enough that we were passing by. That zombie would have bit you and you would have turned into one of them." Marcus starts to stand up, as Jace turns his back to him.

"You should have just let it."

"Are you serious? We helped you. And this is how you are going to repay us?"

"I don't need your help!" Jace yells as he starts to walk away.

Marcus starts walking up to Jace and yells, "Then why are you still here?!"

At that very moment a walker lunges out from the side of the road and attacks Julie. Julie screams. Jace turns around and realizes what is going on and runs up quickly and hits the walker in the head with his crossbow, then stabs it in the head. Julie runs up and hugs Marcus. Another walker comes out from the side of the road as Jace fights it off. More and more walkers start to appear, as Marcus runs up and hit them with his baseball bat, helping Jace.

"Let's get out of here!" Marcus yells, as the three start to run down the road avoiding a large group of the undead. "We need to leave, now!"

*The scene changes to show the three out of breath, near a residential area. Marcus walks up towards a house and breaks the door knob off after trying to open it manually.*



"We need to hold up for the night. This place will do," says Marcus.

*The scene changes to show Marcus and Julie by a fireplace, Jace off to the side of the room laying on a couch. Julie walks up to Jace and hands him some food.*

"You need it. Please, just take it," says Julie.

"Thanks." Jace says, sitting up, eating the can of beans that Julie just handed him. Julie walks back over to Marcus. Jace looks over to Marcus and Julie and nods. Marcus nods back and goes back to tending to the fire.

*We see Julie laying down on a couch, asleep, as Marcus covers her with a few blankets. Jace starts to pull cushions off of chairs and starts to make himself a little cot in the corner to sleep. Marcus goes over to the fire and tends to it before walking over to Jace.*

"You never did answer my question," says Marcus, handing Jace a few blankets.

"I don't know," replies Jace. "I don't know why I'm still here, I don't know why you two even tried to help me, and I don't know what to do now."

"What happened?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Jace quickly unfolds the blankets and sets them down on the cushions.

"You know, sometimes things just happen. You just gotta go with it. Take Julie...her parents were killed, by those, those things. I found her in a tree house, all alone. I didn't have to stick with her, or take care of her, but I felt like I had to. She's been with me now for weeks. I can't imagine leaving her. I found her for a reason. To have purpose. Then we found you. Sometimes you just find things when you aren't even looking for them."

"Well, I'm looking."

"For what?"

"I don't want to talk about it," Jace says, as he starts to load up his crossbow.

"Can we help at all? Or are you just going to leave?"

"Look, Marcus, I don't know. I have something to do tonight. I'll be back, but if I'm not, don't wait up. I should be back by morning."

"Why would you make yourself a place to sleep if you are just going to be gone all night?"

"That's for you. Now don't go saying that I'm ungrateful." Jace says, looking at Marcus. Marcus sighs and nods.

"Thank you, Jace. I hope you find what you are looking for."

*Jace gathers his things and walks out the front door. He looks back at Julie sleeping, then at Marcus. He nods then closes the door behind him. Marcus stands up and looks out the window at Jace until he wanders off out of view.*



*The scene changes to show Jace walking down a deserted road at night. He starts to walk into a forest. There is dense fog that is about waist high, and crows flying through the trees as the wind rustles leaves on the ground. Jace holds his crossbow close, going further and further into the forest. Jace walks past a sign that has been knocked down and broken in half, reading "Play your hand at your own risk." Jace continues walking deeper into the forest. Jace starts to move between the trees, hiding from walkers that are passing by. He shoots one in the head and retrieves his arrow quickly. He continues on, looking around.

Jace notices spray paint on the trees. There are arrows, and symbols, aces, and eights. Jace smiles and continues on, following the arrows. He holds his crossbow close, looking around, scoping anything he can. Jace finds an old shack, and secures the perimeter. Jace kicks the door in and aims his crossbow. He finds a walker, half-eaten, wearing an Aces & Eights vest. He shoots the walker in the head and pulls the arrow out. Jace sighs then leaves the shack.

Jace continues on his search in the forest. He hears a girl scream. Jace starts to run as fast as he can through the forest to the sound of the screams. Jace trips up, falls, and gets right back up, picking up his crossbow and running. Jace swings his crossbow and takes out a walker on his path and continues on. Jace stops for a second, hears the screams again, and continues on through the forest. Jace reaches a bit of a clearing in the forest, and walks through. We get a side shot of Jace, his hands on his knees as he slows down to catch his breath. As he starts to stand up we notice feet and legs dangling from the trees. Jace looks up as his eyes widen. We hear the scream again as we see a little girl with a branch through her torso hanging high in one of the trees, a walker feeding on her legs. Jace looks around and sees more and more bodies in the trees, hanging by ropes, stabbed with branches through their bodies, chained up, etc. The walker turns around and snarls at Jace. Jace pulls his crossbow out and shoots the walker through the head. The walker drops to the floor. Jace looks up at the tree, and drops to his knees. He covers his mouth as the angle changes behind him, the view going up, to see that the person handing from the tree is Ben. Jace yells, "NO!" Suddenly crows start to fly out of the trees as the bodies start to move, waking up. We realize that all the bodies in the trees have become walkers, including Ben. They all start to snarl and growl at Jace as the crows feed on them.*


"Losing Sleep (Acoustic)" by Charlotte Sometimes

*The scene changes suddenly as Jace wakes up in a cold sweat, breathing heavily. Jace starts to tear up a bit, looking around the room. He gets up and scoots his things closer to Marcus and Julie, and looks at them as they sleep. We notice that they are in a different house than they were before, Jace and Marcus have noticeably grown more facial hair, and Jace's cut on his face is healing up. Jace lays back and tries his hardest to sleep. He tosses and turns for a bit before reaching into his pocket. He pulls something out, but we can't make it out. He cups his hands and holds the item in front of his face. He puts the item close to his forehead as he starts to cry. The scene starts to pull away from the house, out of the window, as it focuses on the full moon, and fades to black.*

Music From This Episode:

"Live A Lie"

thenewno2 (Feat. Regina Spektor)

EP002 EP

"Losing Sleep (Acoustic)"

Charlotte Sometimes

Waves And The Both Of Us (Bonus Track Version)