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The Walking Dead episode | |
Beth meets Officer Dawn Lerner after waking up in the hospital.
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Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 4 |
Directed by | Michael E. Satrazemis |
Written by | Matthew Negrete Channing Powell |
Featured music | "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" by Blind Willie Johnson |
Original air date | November 2, 2014 |
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"Slabtown" is the fourth episode of the fifth season and 55th episode overall of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on November 2, 2014. The episode was written by Matthew Negrete and Channing Powell, and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis, who is the series' director of photography. In the episode, Beth Greene (Emily Kinney) finds herself in an operational hospital in Atlanta after being abducted in the previous season. Beth discovers that the hospital is ruled by a brutally enforced system and slowly plans her escape. Emily Kinney and Melissa McBride are the only regulars to appear in this episode, though McBride only appears in the final scene, whereas Kinney appears throughout the episode.
Beth Greene (Emily Kinney) awakens in Grady Memorial Hospital and is greeted by two survivors, Lt. Dawn Lerner (Christine Woods) and Dr. Steven Edwards (Erik Jensen). Dawn explains that her officers found Beth unconscious on the side of a road, surrounded by "rotters", and they saved her life. Dawn tells Beth that as a rule of the hospital, she must repay them with labor, and Beth is assigned to Dr. Edwards as a nurse. She and Dr. Edwards are called to tend to a new patient, Gavin Trevitt. Dr. Edwards immediately writes Gavin off as a lost cause, but Dawn insists Dr. Edwards try to save him. After Edwards is unable to save Gavin, Dawn becomes infuriated, and slaps Beth across the face, causing her previous injuries to bleed again.