Ric SotoRoxann lashes out at Anna and Avery sticks up for her. Ric doesn't move - his eyes are trained on Roxann. She tells him that he sounds like he's got a plan and he squints his eyes before saying:
"I do have a plan. My plan is to survive and not do it alone." And he says it as if the first part if the most important one, while in fact, he cares more about the second part. He looks at Roxann, curious as to whether she'll have a witty retort to
that, since she can't possibly argue with wanting to survive.
Daryl suddenly steps forward and he addresses Roxann in a rather rude way. Not that she doesn't have it coming - she does. Avery agrees with Daryl but Ric stays silent because he thinks he's already made his point regarding the sticking-together issue.
And then something behind Roxann is moving and all of a sudden Avery pulls out her sword and she runs right at
them. Daryl comes into action soon after that and he tells them to have each other's backs and despite having lived in a zombie-filled world for a while, Ric still finds their appearances scary. He kicks into attack-mode soon enough though - he pushes the fear away. Fear's not gonna help him get anywhere. All he needs to do is think of how much and how deeply he despises them and from then on it gets easy because he
wants kill them.
He pulls out his pistol, makes sure it's loaded and points it at the zombies. He looks at Roxann for a second before moving forward.
"Cover me, will you?" He's not smiling like Daryl; there's nothing even remotely smile-worthy to this situation. Ric moves forward, his pistol fixed at one zombie in particular. He's not a very good shot, especially from a distance, so he tries to get as close as possible before pulling the trigger. At first, the bullet misses the zombie's head altogether. Second try: the bullet lodges itself in the zombie's eye. Third try: his forehead. Fourth try: head. Fifth try: head. The thing is still moving, despite being considerably slowed down and wounded.
"Avery!" Ric points at that particular zombie, so as to say 'finish it off, can you?', since she's the one with the sword and his pistol's not going to kill anything. He still thinks he needs to find himself one of those, but those swords probably don't drop from the sky.