A group of walkers were detained in the farm's warehouse. After much deliberation, Glenn revealed the warehouse's secret to his companions. Shocked by Glenn's words, everyone went outside the warehouse to check the situation. Shane, with his hot-tempered nature, was eager to open the door and kill all the walkers immediately, while Rick, calm by character, reminded Shane not to shoot the walkers in the warehouse without permission.
Hershel believed that the walkers were just living people afflicted with some strange disease. Rick returned to the house and persuaded Hershel to stop feeding the walkers, but Hershel remained stubborn and rejected Rick's proposal. Rick reminded Hershel that the farm was isolated from the outside world, leaving them uninformed of external news—many cities were being overrun by walkers, and humans and walkers had become irreconcilable enemies. Feeding the walkers, Rick argued, would undoubtedly lead Hershel to his own destruction.
No matter how earnestly Rick tried to persuade him, Hershel still refused to kill the walkers locked in the warehouse. Since Rick's group had learned the warehouse's secret, Hershel demanded that Rick take his companions and leave the farm. Rick refused Hershel's request because his wife Lori was already pregnant. Hershel grew anxious as Rick would not leave with his group, but Maggie was willing to take Rick's team in. Years earlier, Hershel had married a second wife, which had a negative impact on Maggie's upbringing. Maggie hoped her father Hershel would care for everyone with a grateful heart of redemption.
Glenn was given the cold shoulder by Maggie because he had revealed the warehouse's secret to the others—Maggie resented him for not keeping it to himself. Glenn wanted to have a proper talk with Maggie, and she told him to take off his hat. Glenn did as he was told, and Maggie cracked an egg, put it inside the hat, and quickly slammed the hat back onto Glenn's head. Embarrassed with the egg-stained hat on, Glenn could only watch as Maggie turned and walked away with a cold expression.
Lori was sitting under a tree chopping carrots when Shane came over to chat with her. During their conversation, Shane insisted that he was the biological father of the child in Lori's womb, but Lori bluntly denied his claim.
Rick followed Hershel to a swamp to capture walkers. In Hershel's eyes, the walkers were merely sick and might still be curable. Before Rick's group arrived at the farm, Hershel often led people to capture walkers around the farm and lock them in the warehouse.
Shane went to Dale, who was in charge of keeping the guns, to ask for weapons. With a large number of walkers detained on the farm, Shane decided to distribute guns to the team members to kill all the walkers.
The walkers locked in the farm's warehouse were released by Shane. Everyone opened fire and killed all the walkers, only to be shocked when Sophia emerged last. Sophia had already turned into a mindless walker. Rick, holding back his grief, shot Sophia dead with a single bullet.