During the very first storyline, Chasing Leon, Deacon and Boozer are tasked with hunting down Leon on behalf of Ada Tucker, the leader of the Hot Springs survivor encampment. According to Tucker, Leon and another drifter named Alvarez teamed up to rob her of a large portion of drugs. Deacon and Boozer begin tracking the pair and eventually locate a mortally wounded Alvarez, who has been brutally beaten by Leon with a crowbar. The pair manage to locate Leon and pursue him into Pioneer Cemetery, where he is wounded by a gunshot to the stomach. Deacon manages to convince Leon to hand over a map indicating where he stashed the drugs. He then shoots Leon in the head in order to spare him from being painfully mauled to death by Freakers. Boozer collects Leon's blood-stained baseball cap as proof of his death.