<P> In "Dead Weight", Hershel and Michonne are discovered by The Governor, who has returned with people from Caesar Martinez's camp, to successfully take over the prison after the massacre from the previous season, which caused him to be fail and start over . In the mid-season finale "Too Far Gone", The Governor ambushes Hershel and Michonne, knocking Michonne unconscious, as he forces Hershel to drop his gun . While they are held hostage, The Governor explains that he intends to take the prison from Rick so that his new group can live there safely, and will be using Hershel and Michonne to get it . Hershel tries, but fails to persuade The Governor that they could all live together . When The Governor states that he will kill members of Rick's group if necessary, Hershel states that The Governor should realize that threatening to kill a man's children is wrong since he used to have a child himself, but The Governor has already made his decision . </P> <P> Once The Governor arrives at the Prison with his group and the two hostages, Hershel attempts to help Rick in reaching diplomacy . Rick spends several minutes pleading with The Governor, asking him to let Hershel and Michonne go and offering to let his group live in the Prison with the others . The Governor becomes irritated and holds Michonne's katana to Hershel's throat . Rick then looks down at Hershel and Hershel nods his head, as a sign of saying Rick has made the right choice . Rick frantically tries to reason, and reinstates Hershel's virtues of peace and that nobody is "too far gone", and that "we can all come back," leading Hershel to smile vaguely . The Governor begins to put down the sword, but then stops, muttering "liar". The Governor then swings the sword into Hershel's neck, partially decapitating him . This leads to the beginning of a massive gunfight, as Maggie and Beth watch their father's murder in horror from the prison gates, as they participate and then help the others escape as well as themselves . As Hershel bleeds out and desperately attempts to crawl away in the ensuing gunfight, The Governor catches up to him and repeatedly slashes at Hershel's neck with the sword until he decapitates him . In the episode "After", his reanimated head is discovered later by Michonne after the attack and she remorsefully stabs it with her Katana . </P> <P> In the season finale "A," Hershel appears several times throughout the episode in flashbacks . Hershel convinces Rick into pulling himself from the violence, and to gather animals to domesticate and grow crops in the plots of land . Rick later convinces his son Carl to do the same . His role in the episode is to show Rick's contrasting lifestyles of being a brutalized and uncompromising survivor and later returning to his previously relinquished leadership role between seasons three and four, much to the influence of Hershel . Hershel explains to Rick as they farm and laugh with Beth, as he jokingly refers to her as the new sheriff in the town that "it can be like this all the time". He is also shown hugging his daughter, Maggie and greeting Glenn after they return from a supply run . </P> <P> Hershel makes his first chronological appearance in the franchise in Episode 1: A New Day, which takes place before the events of Issue #10 in the comic book series . At the point where Lee Everett meets Hershel, Lee has just escaped from the nearby suburbs, together with Clementine, Shawn, who is still alive at this point, and depending on player actions, Shawn's friend Chet, or the police officer Andre Mitchell . Hershel tends to a leg injury Lee has sustained, and questions him about what he was doing immediately before and after the outbreak took place . The player can either choose to be honest as possible to him, making Lee lie by omission, or dodging and not giving straight answers to his questions . Shawn then brings up the necessity of fortifying the farm to keep the walkers out, which Hershel disagrees with, believing that the outbreak will pass quickly, but after prompting by Lee, he agrees to let Shawn do it . The next day Hershel questions Lee some more, and if Lee was at any point directly lying to him, he will have picked up on the contradictions in Lee's story, and confronts him about it, and no matter what he will underline the importance of honesty and trustworthiness in the trying times ahead . Their conversation is cut short when Shawn and Duck, the young son of a couple also staying on the farm, are attacked by walkers near the fence . Lee arrives at the scene first and can either choose to concentrate on helping Duck or Shawn, who is trapped under a tractor . Regardless of that, Shawn is killed by the walkers, and Duck is brought to safety by his father, Kenny . Hershel then arrives at the scene with his shotgun and shoots the three walkers attacking Shawn . If Lee concentrated on Shawn, he will stay alive long enough to tell Hershel that Lee at least tried to save him which will mitigate his next responses a bit, but Hershel will ultimately be grief - stricken and distressed about his son's death, and angrily tell Kenny and Lee to leave his farm and never come back . </P>

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