About a half-hour of daylight left.
Guys, how's it going with these work lights?
We're gettin' 'em rigged up all right.
Yeah, check it out.
All right, all right. Save it, save it.
These batteries ain't topped up.
You turn the lights on, it's gonna drain 'em quick.
How quick?
- Five minutes, maybe ten. - Yeah, if that.
Okay, emergencies only.
If something gets in the store.
Holy Jesus, you scared the shit outta me.
Oh, Sally, I'm sorry, really.
I thought I'd come in and say hi and see how you were holding up.
- Hi. - Hi.
Barely. How about you?
I'm worried about my folks, I guess.
You know, they live up on Shorm Road.
That's less than five miles from here.
How 'bout yours?
Well, they're out of town right now.
They're at my aunt's in Boston, so...
That's lucky. That means they're okay.
I hope so.
So...
how soon you shipping out?
Uh, couple weeks.
Scared about going over there?
Yeah.
- Hey, Wayne? - Hmm?
How come you never asked me out?
We flirted all through high school. I know you like me.
So how come?
I'm stupid, I guess.
Oh, shit! I'm sorry.
Don't be. I just...
I just didn't really want it to happen like this, you know?
Some shitty locker room at work.
Can we just stay in here a while, then?
I mean, just... just you and me.
The parking lot lamps turned on.
They're on a timer.
Must be a different one that's live.
Maybe we could tie into them somehow,
get some electricity in here.
That'd mean walking out the door.
Gaaaahhhh! God!
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
David! David!
you sure?
Look!
My God.
Are those bugs?
Not like any I've ever seen.
"They came out of the smoke,
"locusts upon the earth,
"and unto them was given power
even as the scorpions of the earth have power. "
Wow.
Look at those stingers.
Dear God.
Holy shit!
Myron, get the ones in the back!
God, I think they're attracted to the light.
Look out, look out, look out!
The light! Douse the light!
Look out! Look out!
Move! Move!
Light, light, light, light, light!
"And there came a voice from the temple
"saying to the seven angels,
"'Go your ways
and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. "'
Ollie, the glass is gonna give!
Shit!
Oh, my God, they turned on all the lights!
Jim! Myron! Fire!
Fire! Lighter! Douse the lights!
Come on, come on!
Aah!
Whoa!
Aah!
Ugh!
Sally, look out!
No!
Ohh! Oohhhh!
Let me see, let me see. Let me see, sweetheart, let me see.
No, you're gonna be okay. You're gonna be okay.
Let me see. Let me see.
You're fine. You're gonna be okay. You're gonna be okay.
Give me the lighter! Put it on fire!
Come on!
Goddamn childproofing sons of bitches!
Aaahhhh!
Oh, shoot it! Shoot it!
Shoot it! Shoot it!
I can't! I'll smash the window!
God!
Oh, God! Ohh!
- Aaahhh! - Go! Go!
Get down!
Shit!
- Ollie, you want these lights on or off? - Leave 'em on.
Aah! Aaahhhh!
Oh, God!
Ohh! Ohhh! Kill it!
Aaaaahhhhhh!
Bring torches! Bring something to keep 'em out!
Come on.
Sally!
Where are the goddamn extinguishers?
Get it! Get it! Get it!
Bring torches. We need torches at the window!
Plug that hole!
Dad!
Down! Down! Lay down!
Ohh.
My life...
my life for you, your will be done.
Daddy!
Bugs! Daddy!
- Nooooo! Billy! - Daddy!
- Billy! - Daddy!
Billy!
Dad!
Billy, come back here.
- Dad! - Billy, please!
Billy!
Come on, let's move it!
Somebody please come over here and help.
Here's some tape!
I'm right here. I'm right here. Don't worry.
Hurry up with the blankets!
It hurts so bad! Please!
It hurts so bad!
Block it up here.
Get me some more bags!
Did we get 'em? Did we get 'em all?
She was right.
She said that it would happen like this.
She said that they would come at night.
She told us someone would die.
Mommy.
Ohh, shh, shh, shh. It's okay.
It's okay, it was just a dream.
It's just a bad dream.
I want my mommy.
I know.
I know. Of course you do.
- Shh. I wanna go home.
Just sleep.
Everything'll be better in the morning.
Think he likes you.
Well, I hate that I had to lie to him.
You have kids?
No.
I always wanted to, but...
things haven't been working out.
Right now I'm thinking maybe that's for the best.
I saw creatures fly into the store tonight that...
they shouldn't exist.
I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up in a rubber room.
You're not alone in that.
We're all right there with you.
This isn't gonna end, is it?
David.
It's Joe. He's getting worse.
Joe.
How you holdin' up, partner?
David... is that you?
Yeah, pal, how you doin'?
It's bad. He's bad.
Didn't know anything could hurt like this.
If you guys can't help me...
you... you gotta end it, okay?
Ollie's got that gun, right?
Right? - No. No way.
You can't fuck with me on this, bro.
Not with me like this.
I'll do it.
Just give me the gun.
Hey, hey. Shh.
- We're not there yet, okay? - Oh, please!
Joe, now, listen.
Pal...
we're gonna work something out.
I just need you to hang in a little longer, okay?
Can we do that?
Stay with him. I'll be back.
Hattie, I need to go to the bathroom. Will you watch Billy?
Hattie.
See anything?
The last of those bugs went away about four.
Dawn's coming.
What's on your mind?
It's Joe.
We don't get him on some serious antibiotics,
he's gonna die of infection.
Plus he needs painkillers in the worst way.
All... all... all we got here is liquor and aspirin.
You... you thinkin' about goin' to that pharmacy next door?
Irene Reppler says they've got Silvadene...
you know, the stuff they use in burn wards.
She knows where they keep it.
Slow down.
You can't actually be thinkin' of doin' this.
I'm also thinkin' beyond that.
We have to get out of here.
I mean permanently.
Why? We got plenty to eat!
What happens when one of those things decides to break through this window?
I'm talkin' one of the big ones, like the one that killed Norm.
Yeah, and that flaming torch idea didn't work so well, did it?
We almost burned the goddamn store down.
It's Hattie.
Here?
All right, gently, now. Gently.
One... two... three.
I don't know how long she was there like that,
lying there next to us.
I thought she was sleeping.
I got my 4-wheel drive.
It's out there.
Y- you're talking about leaving?
Well, we...
should hit the pharmacy first.
We gotta bring back supplies for the injured.
I mean, if we don't,
Joe Eagleton's gonna die, and we can't let that happen.
But after that...
look, my Land Cruiser can hold eight people.
I say we drive south as far as the fuel takes us
and try to get clear of this mist.
That's it?
That's the plan?
- That's what I got. - No, you can't mean it.
Not after what happened to Norton and his group.
No, no, no. Amanda, think.
Norton got over 200 feet from this store.
That's how much rope played out.
I'm parked half that distance from here.
But who knows how far this mist has spread?
It could be the entire eastern seaboard.
Yeah, it could be the whole world, for all we know.
Wouldn't make us any less dead, now, would it?
We have one gun.
- How many rounds? We got ten left.
Ten rounds. Jesus.
Okay, so ten.
Want another reason to get the hell out of here?
I'll give you the best one.
Her.
Mrs. Carmody.
She's our very own Jim Jones.
I'd like to leave before people start drinking the Kool-Aid.
He's right.
Flakier people get, the better she's gonna look.
No, I don't buy that. It's obvious she's nuts.
Look, a few people maybe, but...
No, I count four. She's preachin' to 'em right now.
By noon, she'll have four more.
By tomorrow night, when those things come back,
she'll have a congregation,
and then we can start worryin' about who she's gonna sacrifice
to make it all better.
Hmm?
You, Amanda?
My little boy?
He's right.
You don't have much faith in humanity, do you?
None whatsoever.
I can't accept that.
People are basically good, decent.
My God, David, we're a civilized society.
Sure, as long as the machines are workin'
and you can dial 9-1-1,
but you take those things away, you throw people in the dark,
you scare the shit out of them,
no more rules,
you'll see how primitive they get.
You scare people badly enough,
you can get 'em to do anything.
They'll turn to whoever promises a solution,
or whatever.
Ollie, please, back me up here.
I wish I could.
As a species, we're fundamentally insane.
Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides
and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another.
Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
Oh, Jesus, that's just...
wrong.
Look, nobody has to decide anything now, okay?
First things first...
the pharmacy.
That'll be our test run.
Okay?
It's all right, Big Bill.
I'm gonna bring you back some comic books.
I don't want them.
I want you to stay here.
I won't be gone long.
Just... just next door.
Hey, you'll be safe.
Daddy...
Daddy, there are things out there.
Things...
Yeah. There's a lot less of 'em in the daytime.
They'll wait.
They'll wait in the mist where you can't see 'em,
and then when you go and can't get back in...
they'll come and eat you up!
- Shh. - Daddy, don't go!
I'll be back.
Big Bill...
I promise.
I'll be back, and then I'm gonna take you home.
All right?
Together, we're going home.
If something happens, anything at all,
you cut and run.
You get your ass back in here, for your boy's sake.
If something happens to me, I want you to take care of Billy...
best as you can, and long as you can.
Land Cruiser's yours now.
You... you get him out of here.
You just keep drivin'.
Where do you think you're going, Mr. David Drayton?
Are you so anxious to make your boy an orphan?
My boy is no concern of yours.
Listen up.
We're going to the pharmacy.
We're gonna bring back some supplies.
Also, there may be people trapped over there who need help.
Listen, folks, listen!
We're not gonna take any chances.
If there's any trouble,
we'll come straight back here to the supermarket.
And bring the fiends of hell down on our heads, thank you.
She's right.
You'll make 'em notice us.
You'll make 'em come.
Why can't you just leave well enough alone?
Lady, this what you call 'well enough"?
You wanna stop us?
You better explain to Bobby here
why we're not bringin' painkillers and medicine back for his brother.
I'm goin', even if I have to go alone.
You'll die out there, young man.
You'll walk out that door and be torn to shreds,
and then your hell-bound pride will have them come get the rest of us.
Yes, they'll come back for all of us, just like this good lady said.
Do you want that to happen, people?
No! No! No! No!
Well, it is this kind of hubris
that brought the wrath of God in the first place.
This kind of pride and defiance of...
Shut up, you miserable buzzard!
You old bitch!
Stoning people who piss you off is perfectly okay.
They do it in the Bible, don't they?
And I got lots of peas.
David, please, if you want to go, now's the time.
How 'bout it, Army?
Any help from the armed forces?
I'll go.
Jim Grondin.
I had you in school, didn't I?
Yes'm, me and my sister Pauline.
Pair of underachievers.
After you, Jim.
Yes, ma'am.
Oh, shit.
That it? That's everybody?
Everybody that's goin'.
Yep. - Okay.
Single file, one by one, all right?
Let's get this thing over with.
Let's go.
After you. Yes.
Stay together.
MRS. CARMODY' You know what?
Mrs. Carmody, you're not helping.
Shut the hell up! - You shut up!
Save the batteries.
Shit.
They left the doors propped open.
Think something got in?
Let's just... get what we need,
get the hell outta here.
Yeah. Let's do that.
The meds are over at the end there,
in the cubicle.
Will you not do that?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Oh, God.
Where's that Silvadene?
It's over behind David.
In the fridge. Check there.
Silvadene. Got it.
- Good. - Ollie, what are we lookin' for?
Penicillin. Yeah.
Any strong antibiotics.
Yeah.
Pain meds like Vicodin or OxyContin.
Shh! - OxyContin!
Hydrochloride?
Penicillin.
Guys.
Hurry it up. I hear something.
What?
Somethin' fuckin' weird.
Oh, God.
Oh, God!
No. Oh, no.
Oh, nooooo.
Oh, fuck.
Look. There's another one.
Oh, my God. No, no, no.
Oh, no, no.
Guys, let's get out of here now.
- Aaaahhhhhh! Holy shit!
Shit! Shit! Oh, shit!
M. P '... I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Help me!
Good Lord! Help him!
Son of a bitch!
This stuff ain't comin' off!
Oh, man! He's glued to this fuckin' post!
It's our fault.
It's all our fault.
It's really stuck.
M. P '... God, I can feel 'em!
I can feel 'em!
Oh, my God! Jesus!
Oh, my God.
Ohh! I...
Aaahhhh!
Aah! Aaaaahhhhhh!
There's more!
Ohh!
Aah! Aah!
There's another one! Hit it!
- Aah! - What the hell is that stuff?
Ollie! One over there!
Ollie, there!
Got it!
There, there, there! Shoot! Shoot!
Shit!
See 'em?
- Aah! Aaaahhhhh! - Bobby!
Bobby!
- Aaahhhh! - Hold on, man! Hold on!
- Hold on, man! - Cut the strand!
Help me!
Let's get out of here!
- A belt! Who's got a belt? - I got a belt!
Aaaaahhhhhh!
I got him, I got him. Hold on.
Pull it tight!
Look! Look!
Aaahhh! Aaaaahhhhhh!
Ohhhhhh!
Gaaahhhh!
Light!
God!
We gotta get outta here! Come on!
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go!
Watch it, watch it, watch it!
Let's get out of here!
All right, go, go, go, go, go, go! Come on!
Oh, my God!
Ollie! Ollie!
Kill it! Kill it!
Fuckers!
Oh, no! Oh, God, he's dead!
He's dead! Get out of here! Let's go, let's go!
Drayton, come on, come on, come on!
Come on, Drayton, he's dead!
Come on!
Open the door!
Where's Bobby?
Daddy!
Close up the doors!
Hurry up!
What happened?
They're dead! They're all dead!
...expiation, because we have seen
the earth scourged with whips and scorpions.
We have seen the earth vomit forth from her lips
obscenities and profanities
of such nightmare proportions.
And for these evil, lurking spirits,
and for these evil people...
How long was I out?
Most of the day.
You just came over here to lay down and went to sleep.
Just passed out, is more like it.
What will stop this Great Whore?
Just shut down for a while.
Sorry.
MRS. CARMODY' How will it end?
Expiation!
Do you remember yesterday when...
How's Joe?
Dead. Joe died of his burns while you were asleep.
We were just too late.
I told you this would come!
Oh, God, I thought I was dreaming her voice.
No dream.
She's getting people whipped up.
That poor girl is dead,
and that boy is burnt in the back room!
She's got 'em believing she's a psychic,
she has a direct line with God.
Why wouldn't they? Woman never shuts up.
Like those speeches Castro used to make.
Ollie says you're thinking of leaving.
I'm in.
No. Sorry.
I mean, come on, you saw what happened to Bobby... Mike...
I won't...
do that again. I won't be responsible.
You might want to reconsider that.
What will... what will keep these evil,
these abominations at bay?
What will keep them away?
"The rock will not hide them. The dead tree gives no shelter. "
What will end it? Let me hear it.
- Expiation! - What are we talking about?
- Expiation! - Say it again like you mean it!
Expiation!
Welcome to Sesame Street. Today's word is "expiation. "
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
That boy hasn't been right since the pharmacy.
His mind's just snapped. Gone.
Hasn't even been two days.
Not even two days.
I'm not spendin' the rest of my life here, I'll tell you what.
I can quietly gather up some bags of groceries
and hide them up at one of the check stands by the door.
It was your idea. It's your vehicle.
It'll be your call.
I'd rather die out there trying than in here waiting.
Who will save them? No one.
The rocks will not hide them.
I want some idea of what we're up against.
I want to know what this mist is.
I want to talk to the soldiers.
Soldiers? What's that gonna do?
You heard what that M.P. said at the pharmacy.
David, I'm not even sure I knew he was talking.
The situation was insane.
He said he was sorry.
Wasn't that the word he used... "sorry"?
That's right. He said it was their fault, right?
What did he mean by that?
That's what we're gonna find out.
Irene, stay with Billy, please.
MRS. CARMODY' Verse 17!
"... poured out his vial into the air,
"and there came a great voice
"out of the temple of heaven from the throne, saying,
"'It is done! It is done! '
"And there were voices and lightning,
and thunders, and a great earthquake. "
MRS. CARMODY' Yes! Come to me!
What?
- Where's your friends? - I ain't seen 'em.
Not that big a store. It's kinda hard to lose.
I ain't seen 'em, I said. I look like their keeper?
- What do you want from me? - What do you know about this mist?
I don't know nothin'. I got nothin' to do with it.
That's not what the M.P. said in the pharmacy
before the spiders came out of his skin.
They're not in the store.
The only place we haven't looked is the loading dock.
...because you know.
You saw the good face of God tonight.
Yes? Tell us.
Here is an old man who has seen!
Yes, he has seen!
Amen.
MRS. CARMODY' And I want to say,
do I want to walk with you
into my Father's hands?
Morales.
Donaldson.
Guys...
It's the only place they can be.
What?
Couldn't just disappear.
Look, I told you, okay, I don't know where they are...
I didn't think they'd do it.
They said they would do it, and I just...
I told them what the M.P. said at the pharmacy,
and they swore they'd do it.
I just... I didn't think they would.
Jesus.
It's the Arrowhead Project, isn't it?
This mist, it's some kind of, what, military fuckup?
What were you guys messin' with up there, huh?
We got you now, you sorry son of a bitch!
Get in there!
It was them! It was them what done it to us!
It was them what brung down the final wrath upon us!
Those two peckerwoods that he's been with this whole time,
they hung themselves in the back because they knew!
They knew it all along!
- He's crazy. He doesn't know... - Get on your knees!
Stay out of it, Drayton!
They heard it too, didn't you? All of ya!
All about the Arrowhead Project
and all that secret shit up on the mountain.
That's what brung it down on us.
That's what brung down the wrath of God!
Oh!
Private Jessup.
It wasn't me.
I'm just... I'm stationed up there.
I'm not responsible...
- Bullshit! - Hell, I'm a local!
Most of you people know me.
You stop your chicken shit whining
or I will cut your puling tongue out.
Now you tell us!
Tell us.
Look, look. Okay, okay.
I heard stuff.
Stuff?
Yes, we all heard stuff.
Like how they, um,
how they thought that there were other dimensions,
you know, other... other worlds all around us,
and how they wanted to try and make, um,
a window...
you know, so they could look through and see what's on the other side.
Well, maybe your window turned out to be a door. Didn't it?
Not mine! Those scientists'!
Oh, the scientists! Yes, the scientists!
They must have ripped a hole open by accident.
This other world came spilling through to ours.
That's what Donaldson was saying to me right before he killed himself.
I didn't understand the half of it.
It ain't my fault!
Oh.
Ain't. His. Fault.
No, no, no.
Ain't nothin'
ever anybody's fault.
But he denies it.
He points the finger,
this Judas in our midst.
Judas!
David!
You! You!
Don't you know by now?
Don't you know the truth?
We are being punished.
For what? For going against the will of God!
For going against his forbidden rules of old!
Walking on the moon!
Yes! Yes!
- Or... or splitting his atoms! Amen!
Or... or... or stem cells
and abortions!
And destroying the secrets of life
that only God above has any right to!
Amen! Amen!
Yes, I know! It is true!
And now we are being punished.
The judgment is being brought down upon us.
The fiends of hell, you see they are let loose,
and star Wormwood blazes!
And it is his fault!
No! No! It is not my fault! No!
They did it! They spit in the eye of the Almighty!
No!
Get over there!
No!
Judas!
Jim!
Kill him! String him up!
Stand up, you coward!
Unkh!
Jesus!
No!
Aaaahhhh!
Expiation!
- No! Stab him!
- Aaahhhh! - Expiation!
Feed him to the beast!
Expiation!
Let the abominations smell his blood!
No, no! No!
Aaaaahhhhh!
- Jesus! Wait! - No, David!
Aaahhhh!
Aah! Aaahhh!
Aaahhhh!
Aaahhh! Aah!
Please.
The beast will leave us alone tonight.
Tomorrow...
tomorrow, we'll just have to wait and see.
Daddy.
Sorry I left you, pal.
I'll never leave you again.
Promise?
But you have to give me your best promise, okay?
Your very best promise, and can never break it.
Tell me.
Promise you won't let the monsters get me.
Ever. No matter what.
I promise.
I love you, Daddy.
I love you, Billy.
More than anything.
It's dawn.
Hey, pal, you ready to go home?
Come on.
Okay, I got the groceries hidden at check stand number two.
Five bags. We can grab 'em and get out the door.
Okay.
My car's parked in the center lane of the parking lot, far end.
Whoever gets there first, open up both doors,
and we'll all pile in as fast as we can, okay?
Let's go.
Stealing food now?
Going out now, Mrs. Carmody.
Please stand aside.
You can't go out. I won't allow it.
Won't allow it?
It's against God's will.
Don't you know that by now?
Haven't I proven myself again and again and again?
Haven't I shown that I am his vessel?
What's the matter with you?
Don't you believe in God?
No one's interfered with you.
All we're asking for is the same privilege.
You heard him.
It is these people who brought this upon us.
They...
people who refused to bend to the will of God,
and claim it privilege.
Sinners in pride.
Yes, haughty.
Privileged!
They mock us. They mock our... our God, our faith,
our values, our very lifestyle.
They mock our humility
and our piousness.
They piss on us and laugh.
It's from them
the blood of human sacrifice must come.
From them...
- Come on. ... the blood of expiation.
Come on.
You try it.
Fuckin' try it!
Come on!
Get 'em! - We want the boy.
- We want the boy! - You get back!
- Yeah! - You get back!
The boy!
Grab that boy! Grab him!
Grab him!
And get the whore too!
Grab her!
Kill 'em! Kill 'em all!
Stay down! Stay down! Stay down!
I... I killed her.
Thank you, Ollie.
Let's go.
Get that ice machine out of the way, please.
You killed her!
You murdered her!
I wouldn't have shot her, Dave,
not if there'd been any other way.
That's why I said thank you.
Okay.
Okay, then... let's go!
Get up, Myron!
Come on! We gotta go!
My ankle!
Okay. All the way down!
Where are they?
Bud! Myron!
Ambrose!
I think I broke it!
Come on! Come on!
We gotta go! Come on, come on!
They're lost!
- Oh, Jesus. - Ollie!
Ollie!
Aaahhhh!
Aaaaahhhhhh!
- Oh! - Aaahhh!
Ohh!
Aaah! Aaaahhhh!
Aaah! Aaaaahhhhh!
All that screaming!
Are they out there? Can they see us?
Let me... let me in! Let me in!
Are we going?
- No. - Yeah.
- No! No! - Yeah!
- Daddy. - David.
- David, no. - Daddy, no.
- David! - Daddy!
Get back in the car!
- Daddy! - David!
Oh, my God!
Aaahhh!
Oh, my God!
We gotta go.
I told her I'd fix it.
Frontwindow...
broken open.
Tree.
My...
grandfather's tree.
I'm sorry, David, I'm just so sorry.
Let's, uh...
see how far this...
fuel takes us, huh?
Maybe we'll get clear of the mist.
Well...
we gave it a good shot.
Nobody can say we didn't.
Nope.
Nobody can say that.
Well...
We got, uh...
four.
Four bullets.
But there's five of us.
I'll figure something out.
Aaaaahhhhh!
Aaahhh!
Come on!
Come on. Come on.
Come on.
Come on, come on!
Come on! Come on!
They're... they're dead.
For what?
Aah!
Aaaaahhhhhh!