(Everyone is laughing as the adults; minus me due to my Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and Melanie
due to her pregnancy and sickness; are drinking, is Dale is handing it out.)
Lori: (to someone) fine.
Dale: You know in italy, children (looks at Carl) have a little wine with dinner, and in France.
Lori: (to him) Well, when Carl is in Italy Or France, he can have some then.
Rick: (to her) What's it gonna hurt? Come on. (Lori looks at him) come on (Lori gives in)
Dale: (hands Carl a cup of wine) Here you go, young Lad.
(Carl takes a sip as Rick chuckles)
Me: (to Carl) Hey Carl! How's it taste?
Carl: Eww!!!! (Everyone starts laughing)
Lori: (to him) That's my boy, that's my boy. Good boy, good boy.
Carl: (to her) Yuck, that tastes nasty (laughing continues)
Shane: (to him) Well just stick to soda pop there bud.
Daryl: (to Glenn) Not you Glenn.
Glenn: (to him) What?
Daryl: (to him) Keep drinking little man, I wanna see how red your face can get! (Men laugh)
And you to Janie.
Me: (to him) I can't drink.
Shane: (to me) And why not? Under age drinking doesn't apply now.
Me: (to him and rolls my eyes) Because of my Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (he gets annoyed and
keeps drinking his wine as I stick my tongue out at him) (to Mel) I don't understand why Rick is
friends with him, Aunt Mel. He's very rude.
Melanie: (to me; weakly) I agree Angel.
Rick: (looks over at Jenner and gets up clinking his glass as everyone got quiet) It seems to me
we haven't thanked our host properly.
T­Dog: (to everyone) He is more than just our host.
Dale: (to everyone) Hear hear!
Daryl: (to Jenner) Hears to you doc, booyah!
Men (except Rick and Tom): Booyah!
Rick and Tom: (to Jenner) Thank you doc, Thank you.
Melanie: (to Jenner, smiles; weakly) Yes, thank you. Thank you for everything (I nod in
agreement and he nods to us and Rick)
T­Dog: Booyah!
Shane: (to Jenner) So when are you gonna us what the hell happened here doc? All the­­the
other doctors that were supposed to be figuring out what happened. Where are they?
Rick: (to Shane) We're celebrating Shane, don't need to do this now.
Shane: (to him) Whoa, wait a second, this is why we're here, right? This is your move­­
supposed to find all the answers. Instead we ­­­(chuckles) we find him (points at Jenner) found
one man. Why?
Jenner: (to us) All when things got bad, a lot of people just left, went off to be with their families,
and when things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest just bolted.
Shane: (to him) Every last one?
Jenner: (to us) No, many couldn't face walking out the door. They....opted out. There was a
rash of suicides. That was a bad time.
Andrea: (to him) You didn't leave. Why?
Jenner: (to her) I just kept working. Hoping to do some good.
(Everyone goes quiet)
Glenn: (to Shane) Dude you're such a buzz kill man.
Me: (to Melanie and Tom; whispering) Finally someone agrees! (They chuckle)