Nothing Left (Dawn of Light)

Nothing Left is the sixth episode of Dawn of Light of season 1.

Plot
It starts off with the survivors eating dinner and everyone is happy to finally feel safe. Rick (Andrew Lincoln) makes a toast to Dr. Jenner for giving them a new home and they all say thank you. Dr. Jenner (Noah Emmerich) excuses himself from the table and leaves to cry. He then flips on a switch and you see everyone who worked at the CDC are walkers. He stares through the glass and turns off the switch which closes the door. Everyone then goes to sleep and Rick tells Jenner that he wants to thank him for everything. Rick tells him that he is glad someone still has hope of fixing things how they use to be and Jenner smiles.

Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) hears Andrea (Laurie Holden) in the bathroom throwing up and goes to comfort her. Andrea tells him that there is everything is gone and Dale says that they have an opportunity to make a fresh start but Andrea says "There's nothing left." Glenn (Steven Yeun) goes to his bed and lays down but Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) comes in and kisses him. Charlie says that she is glad she met him and likes him a lot. Glenn tells her that he likes her too and they continue making out. Glenn flips her over and they have sex for the night.

Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) comes in and asks Carol (Melissa McBride) if she found any good books to read. Carol tells her that she could read them all and tells Carl (Chandler Riggs) and Sophia (Madison Lintz) it's time for bed. They go to bed while Lori looks at books and Shane (Jon Bernthal) enters the room. Shane tells her that he thought Rick was dead when he left him and would've brought him back himself if he was still alive. Lori says that you shouldn't tell someone their family is dead and let them find out that they're alive. Shane apologizes and says he loves her. He forces himself onto her but she scratches his face and throat. She is horrified by his behavior and he leaves while Lori sobs.

The next morning, everyone eats breakfast and Rick asks Shane why he has scratches but Shane tells him that he must've done it in his sleep while he looks at Lori and looks away. When Jenner arrives in the kitchen, Miles (Billy Burke) asks Jenner if their is a cure and Jenner says that they should eat first. Rachel and Andrea says that they want answers and he tells them to follow me. They follow him but Carl and Sophia see a door and run to it.

Jenner explains to them that his wife was infected and allowed the process to be recorded. He explains how the walker virus works and tells them how it started. They then see a bullet file through his wife's head in the video playback and Andrea remembers putting down her own sister. He admits he doesn't know what the disease is or how to treat it, and that he's lost contact with other research facilities. Dale interrupts the stunned silence to ask Jenner about a clock on the far wall, which is counting down from an hour. At that point, Jenner says, "the basement generators, they run out of fuel." At zero, Vi explains, plant-wide decontamination will occur. Lori and Carol notice that Carl and Sophia are gone. Carl and Sophia flip the switch and scream while looking at the walkers. The others run to them and find the walkers in another room. Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) asks who the walkers are and Jenner tells them that they all worked here.

Rick, Miles, Shane, T-Dog (IronE Singleton) and Glenn head to inspect the generators. While they're in the basement, the building's emergency lighting switches on, bathing the foursome in darkness. Upstairs, Lori and Carl are in their room when the building's air cuts off. In his office, Jenner stares at a photograph of a woman, asking her to understand that he did the best he could in the time that he had, and he says he hopes she'd be proud of him. With the lights now shutting themselves off inside the panicked survivors' rooms, they confront Jenner in the hallway, who explains that the building is shutting itself down.

Rick, Miles, Shane, Glenn and T-Dog return from the basement and Jenner says the system is designed to keep the computers running until the last possible second. "It was the French," Jenner says. They stuck it out the longest before they too ran out of power, he says, but the building would decontaminate in thirty minutes, and it was too late to stop it without any fuel, he assures them.

Rick yells at the group to grab their things and run as the emergency alarms start blaring, but Jenner locks them inside the control center. There's no point in struggling, Jenner explains. Everything topside is automatically locked down. "When that door closes, it wouldn't open again - you heard me say that," he points out as Rick tries to demand he open the door. "It's better this way," Jenner says. When Rick presses him about what happens when the clock gets to zero, Jenner reminds the survivors where they are. To prevent strains of disease from getting out if the building's security was ever compromised, HITs would deploy, setting the air on fire. It would decimate the building and everything inside. Death would be instant, and painless, Jenner points out as he tries to convince Rick to accept his fate. "There's no hope. Last night you said you knew it was just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead," Jenner argues. He calls the Outbreak humanity's "extinction event."

Rick's family and friends look on fearfully. Miles and Shane attempt to break through the door with axes and guns. Rick, T-Dog, Charlie and Dale throw Miles (who is holding an axe) off Jenner then Rick talks down Shane as he points an automatic in Jenner's defeated, unaffected face. "If you kill him, we'll never get out of here," Rick reasons with his partner. Jenner agrees to open the door, but maintains they still won't be able to get past the lockdown upstairs. The group rushes, panicked, to the open door. Before Rick leaves Jenner whispers something in Rick's ear which frightens him and the group head for the exit but Andrea, Jacqui (Jeryl Prescott) and Rachel decide to stay. Rachel tells Miles to take care of Charlie and Danny (Graham Rogers) but Charlie says "You are not staying here. You are coming with us. I need you. We need you. Please, I don't want to lose you too." Rachel then hugs Charlie and tells her "Let's get the hell out of here."

Dale tells the others to go along and they do. Dale tries to talk Andrea out of it but she made her choice and wants to stay. In the basement, a resigned Dale sits in front of Andrea. "If you're staying, I stay too," he tells her. She's furious, but he continues tearfully as Jenner and Jacqui look on in silence. "You don't get to do that. Come into somebody's life, make them care, and then just check out."

In the CDC lobby, the group finds the doors locked and they pound helplessly on the windows. Shane shoots a rifle at the glass, to no avail. "I think I have something that might help," Carol says, fumbling in her purse while Shane cracks, "I don't think a nail file's gonna do it." Carol ignores him. "Your first morning at camp," she tells Rick. "When I washed your uniform? I found this in your pocket." She pulls the hand grenade that Rick found in the tank from her bag. Nervously, Rick detonates the grenade, blasting out one of the windows with mere minutes to spare.

The survivors run to the cars while Rick, Miles, Charlie, Nora (Daniella Alonso), Rachel and Shane are shooting walkers as they go. The survivors run to the cars, shooting at walkers as they go. They pile into their cars and are getting ready to drive away when, from inside the RV, Lori sees Dale and Andrea emerge from the building. Just ten seconds left, Jenner and Jacqui hold hands, smiling hopefully, resigned, as they watch the survivors evacuate on the security monitor. The CDC erupts in a fiery explosion, and Dale and Andrea take cover behind a military blockade. Andrea looks numb, but follows easily as Glenn desperately beckons them to the RV. Shaken, Rick starts the engine, and the caravan drives away from the smoldering rubble, thick black smoke rising up behind them.