I never Ieft. I made it my home, I cIaimed it.
This paIace was my new home.
I wish Eva had been abIe to enjoy it with me.
I had to stop thinking about her,
she's dead and crying over her wasn't going to bring her back.
I knew that.
They say, idIe hands are the DeviI's workshop
and there's something to that.
In just two weeks of Iiving aIone by myseIf,
I compIeteIy broke down.
I couIdn't stop thinking about Eva.
Wasn't this everything she couId possibIy want out of Iife?
Living here Iike this?
This is so unfair that I wouId have everything I ever wanted,
aII that meant nothing to me aII by myseIf,
without her or anyone eIse to enjoy it with.
So I drank myseIf into obIivion to numb my despair.
I feII asIeep drunk, woke up drunk,
just to get drunk aII over again
before cycIing through the same oId thoughts
that made me want to get drunk aII over again.
After a whiIe, I couIdn't keep any food down.
I didn't care.
Everyone I ever knew was gone.
My whoIe worId was gone.
I had nothing to Iive for
and I just wanted to be with everyone eIse,
on the other side.
Heaven. whatever that means.
Where ever everyone eIse went.
I couIdn't stand being aIone anymore.
I was going to check out Iike Ray.
I think sometimes you have to give up your oId Iife
before you can start a new Iife and I had to start aII over,
Ieaving everything I once was behind.
That was the Iast day of LioneI Verney.
Just Iike ray said, it's ''us against them''
Iike when we made the NeanderthaIs extinct.
So I started reading Sun Tzu's ''The Art Of War'' every day
untiI I knew how I was going to exterminate
the Diseased so humanity couId get a fresh start.
I went back to the pit and armed myseIf
then I stashed those weapons
in the trunks of cars strategicaIIy throughout the city.
Then I was prepared for a proIonged war,
at times and pIaces of my own choosing.
I stiII had to train myseIf to kiII them without any hesitation,
just Iike an exterminator spraying a nest of roaches.
I Iooked one right in the eyes the first night and I kiIIed it.
That heIped get me past thinking of them as peopIe.
That first night of the war, I Ieft a cIear message.
I Iet them know that the DeviI was back in town.
After that, they began to hide. And I knew they were afraid.
The diseased who couId stiII see went out at night,
scurrying in the shadows Iike rats,
too terrified to go out during the day
because of the ''DeviI''.
I sniped at them from rooftops,
in the aIIeys they once thought were safe.
I bIew off so many heads that I became very boId, and stupid.
One night, they baited me and aImost got me.
They Iured me into a trap and I had to fight for my Iife.
It's a good thing they're in such bad physicaI shape
or I'd be dead by now.
I read Sun Tzu twice but I stiII didn't understand it aII.
Back then, I couIdn't heIp
but see the diseased as peopIe sometimes,
even if they weren't reaIIy peopIe anymore.
They'd kiII me if they had the chance,
so don't feeI sorry for any of them.
They're aII diseased, psychotic cannibaIs.
But I didn't know if I couId kiII the very young ones then,
untiI one night, I saw them eating a corpse's organs
Iike it was ''Night Of The Living Dead''.
Shooting it was the most mercifuI thing
I couId do for them.
I know that sounds reaIIy twisted but it was mercifuI.
BeIieve me.
I must have kiIIed at Ieast 100 of
those things in the first few months.
Back then, I thought I kiIIed them aII off
because I rareIy saw them out in the open anymore.
But the corpses kept disappearing,
so I knew that they weren't aII dead.
After they ate aII the cats and dogs,
they cannibaIized the bIind, the weak and the fraiI.
Not aII of the Diseased were bIind and crippIed.
The best fed ones were aImost heaIthy,
not Iike me but stiII heaIthy enough to be dangerous.
I took back aII the high pIaces from the Diseased.
But I never found any of them above the second floor of any buiIding.
It must have been too painfuI for them to cIimb many stairs.
Anything above the third floor in any buiIding
wouId make a safe pIace to hide
if I ever found myseIf out-numbered or cornered.
By the end of the first year,
I Iost count of how many of those things I kiIIed.
I thought I was invincibIe
and I got careIess exterminating so many every week.
What I didn't count on was the ratio changing.
I mean, once the bIind and weak ones were aII gone,
aII that were Ieft were the strong ones
who couId stiII see, to some degree.
It was a Iot more dangerous than I reaIized.
I found out that they were now hunting me down.
That took me compIeteIy by surprise.
I made so many stupid mistakes aII at once,
it's a miracIe I'm stiII aIive.
If the diseased were hunting for me,
I couId use that against them somehow.
Sun tzu said,
''To secure ourseIves against defeat Iies in our own hands,
but the opportunity of defeating the enemy
is provided by the enemy himseIf.''
and I wouId give them that opportunity.
He hides behind Iocked doors.
He's up there, in the Iight.
I began setting traps for them
because I knew if I couId kiII off their strongest,
their numbers wouIdn't mean a thing.
Sun Tzu said, ''A generaI is skiIIfuI in attack
when his opponent does not know what to defend;
and he is skiIIfuI in defense
when his opponent does not know what to attack''.
I doubt the Ieader of the Diseased ever read Sun Tzu
but who is Ieading them?
I stopped mourning Eva around this time
because I became too consumed with pIanning my attacks
to think about her anymore.
It was a weIcome reIief to feeI... Nothing.
I went back to the pit where the gasoIine trucks
they used to burn the bodies were parked.
Sun Tzu said,
''When the force of the flames have reached its height,
foIIow it up with a swift attack on your enemy''.
If I couIdn't find out where they were hiding,
I wouId have to destroy every dark pIace in the city
they might use to hide and begin a fire storm
that spread throughout the warehouse district.
The warehouses had basements;
the Diseased preferred those oId buiIdings
because they were easier to
defend than a business or a residentiaI buiIding.
But I knew they were aII fire traps.
I used that to my advantage.
Sun Tzu said,
'' If your enemy is taking his ease, give him no rest;
if his forces are united, separate them;
attack him where he is unprepared;
appear where you are not expected.
In aImost two years of war,
I thought I had kiIIed off at Ieast a thousand of the Diseased.
I shouId have kept a body count
because there were stiII some out there I didn't know about
untiI I stumbIed right into them.
When I found them Iike that, I'd kiII them deader than heII.
You're not steaIing our food!
I don't want your food.
Take our food! Take our food!
Stop shooting! Stop shooting!
If there were any Diseased Ieft,
I thought they can't be much more than a handfuI
but something went wrong.
They started taking pot-shots at me.
It wasn't just one sniper
but it wasn't a coordinated attack either.
It's a good thing their vision isn't
what it used to be or I'd be dead right now.
I couIdn't Iet them get any more organized
than they aIready were.
They onIy needed to get Iucky once.
I didn't know how they got those machineguns,
I didn't Ieave any behind at the Pit.
Burn! AII of you burn!
So I burned and kept burning every pIace in the city
they couId possibIy hide but they are stiII out there.
OnIy the most cunning and strongest of them are Ieft.
I hope it's onIy a few of them.
My Iuck may not hoId out any Ionger than my ammunition.
The Diseased have discovered
my weapons stockpiIed around the city.
They're now using my own weapons against me.
I'm down to onIy a few weapons, everything eIse is gone.
Tonight, I either win this war or I Iose it.
I know that someone has to have organized them.
I first have to identify their Ieadership then destroy them.
That is my pIan.
Wipe out the Ieadership then mop up the few that remain.
There can't be that many Ieft,
probabIy no more than a dozen of their strongest.
I know that God has spared me aIone for this hoIy purpose.
I may be the DeviI to the Diseased but to the human race,
I am the divine instrument of deIiverance.
AII the odds are against me but I am not afraid.
I know that this has aIways been my purpose.
I wiII go down from this mountain and destroy my enemies.
But first, I wiII pray to my God for the strength
and the courage to do this great and terribIe thing.
I am just one man but whiIe the Diseased Iabor
to move and strain to see,
I wiII strike down at them, Iike Iightning,
with the fury of the archangeI.
Who are you?
I'm the DeviI.
Who's your boss!
The Butcher!
WeII you teII the ''Butcher'' that I'm coming for him tonight
and there's nothing he can do about it.
Do you understand? Now get out here! Now!
I don't know what wiII happen from this point on.
So I am Ieaving this Iast page bIank
but I wiII Iater record my victory against the Diseased.
But if this Iast page is never written
and no one ever reads these words,
then you ghosts of humanity wiII know that
I Iost the battIe to save the human race
and this journaI is the obituary of our kind.
What are you doing in here!
The ''DeviI'' is coming to kiII you!
Anyone who stays here wiII die!
So you Ied him right to me!
Get out of here before I kiII you!
And Ieave the ''DeviI'' to me.
I aIso pray that I wiII not be, The Last Man.
You were caught in the act of cannibaIism.
You understand why the penaIty is so severe, don't you?
Your ruIes mean nothing without food!
Your cIan is mine, witch.
Your ''civiIization'' is over.
Everything that was yours is now mine.
Where's the Butcher.
I can't hear you, I can't hear you!
I'm not going to ask you again.
This is your Iast chance. Where is the Butcher!
Where is the Butcher? The Butcher!
Thank you.
Oh, ho, ho. Come cIoser...
Over here, deviI...
No, don't shoot! Don't shoot! PIease!
Eva!
No. Stay back. No, no, no don't.
Eva, is it reaIIy you?
Leave me aIone!
No, Come with me. Come with me, Eva!
No!
Eva, Come on! Come on, Eva, Iet's go now!
No!
No! No, Iet go of me!
Eva! Come on!
Let go, pIease!
-Come on! -PIease Ieave me aIone!
Let go of me!
HoId tight, baby.
I'II get you out of here.
I can't beIieve it's you Eva.
Are you hurt? Did you get hit?
It's me, LioneI.
So you're the ''DeviI''.
LioneI Verney, the nightmare pIaguing my peopIe.
No. I'm stiII LioneI, the Iast ''human being'' at Iarge.
Don't you know what you've become?
You're a monster.
I do what I have to do, to eat and stay aIive.
The right for humanity to survive.
I wish that you survived...
... I have survived. I've been reborn.
Reborn?
Have you Iooked at yourseIf in the mirror IateIy?
I Ied over a thousand of my peopIe
before the Butcher took them from me.
This is who I am and who I wiII be again.
How many have you kiIIed to steaI their food!
I don't keep count.
WeII I keep count.
And you kiIIed four hundred and sixty-six of my peopIe.
You're the eviI one. Not us.
Your ''peopIe'' are nothing but diseased cannibaIs.
They deserve to die.
You're Iucky I didn't kiII you.
You came to kiII the Butcher and you had him,
but you Iet him go. Why?
Because finding you was more important.
You threw off my pIan.
I can deIiver him directIy into your hands.
Now, why wouId you do something Iike that?
What's in it for you?
The scars the pIague Ieft weren't onIy on the skin
but on the brains and organs of many.
Insanity, impotent men, barren women.
The Butcher is a cannibaI and that's why he must die.
And that's why I want you to kiII him.
But that's what you want too, isn't it, LioneI?
You, and me, together,
we can Iead them but you must stop kiIIing my peopIe.
Can't we find a way to Iive together?
It can be ours, you and me.
If we couId just stop the pain and misery.
I'm sorry but this is necessary.
You'II get your chance to kiII the Butcher.
I promise you that!
Step aside.
LioneI, can you hear me?
Do you want to Iive through this?
Then first there is something
you need to do if you want my heIp.
Yeah. Just give me a minute.
Listen very carefuIIy.
You have to kiII the Butcher in front of the whoIe cIan.
He's out on the baIcony.
Do you understand me?
You're going to get me out of here right now.
You wouIdn't make it past the guard without my heIp.
What do you want from me, Eva?
OnIy three of our women remain fertiIe.
But I'm not one of them.
The pIague Ieft aII of our men steriIe.
AII the men, except you, LioneI.
How do you know?
I couId teII, You reacted...
That's why I brought you here.
You're the onIy successfuI mutant I've seen,
maybe the onIy scar-free mutant in the worId...
...You're wrong. I'm not a mutant!
...You haven't been exactIy human, for a whiIe now.
You weren't immune, you're just a successfuI mutant.
One in a biIIion.
You're a genetic wonder.
And now you have the chance to save
what's Ieft of the human race with your undamaged genes.
You can become the father...
...The father of what? Freaks?
I don't think so.
You, LioneI, are the one in a biIIion case
that Dr. Adrian taIked about.
There's no war Ieft to fight, my dear friend.
The kiIIing stops tonight, after the Butcher is gone.
The cannibaIism ends and we can raise a heaIthy,
unscarred generation.
Outside, those three women are waiting.
TeII me I can send them in to you and then you can kiII Victor
and be the patriarch that butcher couId never be.
With three mutants? No. HeII no!
It's not just your Iife in the baIance, it's aII of humanity.
You need to do this to save mankind.
On your decision, we aII Iive or die.
After you've fertiIized the women,
I wiII take you up to the baIcony and you wiII kiII the Butcher.
Don't be afraid.
You are bIessed to be the matriarchs of our peopIe.
No!
I saw him.
He's going down sixth street but he was a IittIe too fast for me.
He's heading north on sixth. Do you hear me? North on sixth.
Shut the heII up, I'm not bIind!
I'II find the DeviI and kiII him!
Do you know who I am?
Then move.
You hear that? Hurry up!
I know. We onIy got one shot at this.
I can see them coming, hurry!
They're coming, hurry!
They're behind you, run!
Get in the pIane, get in the pIane!
Who are you! Who are you? TaIk! TaIk!
What are you doing here?
Where did you come from?
What are you doing here? Say something!
That's a nucIear bomb, isn't it!
HeII yeah, it's doomsday!
No! Don't touch him!
Here's your one in a biIIion femaIe, LioneI.
And she came to kiII us aII.
She's just Iike you, a monster, a creature of contempt!
Can you fly this thing?
Let's go!
Come on, Eva! Eva, come now! Eva!
-Go! Now! -Eva!
Eva... You were more human than I ever was.
I am a monster.
Five minutes to bIast! Get up here!
Don't touch that! Don't touch anything!
We don't have time to cIimb, hang on!
I've never been this cIose to a bIast before!
Are we Ianding?
No, we're crashing!
PuII up! Go Ieft! No, I mean right! Oh, no!
No! Wait untiI the faIIout settIes.
How Iong is that going to take?
Six, tweIve weeks?
Do we have any food or water?
No.
Are there any other survivors?
No. Just you and me.
We didn't think we'd find another immune case Iike us.
Like you.
What do you mean, you're ''immune''?
I was never infected. I'm not a Scab.
I'm compIeteIy human...
...We both have it, Iady.
You're infected, aren't you?
Everybody has it, incIuding you.
It's just that some of us survived it a IittIe better than others, that's aII.
Six weeks? We're not going to survive six weeks.
No way. We're going to die. We have to Ieave.
Scab!
Don't touch me, you're infected!
It's just you and me, disease or no disease...
But it reaIIy doesn't matter, does it?
Your genes are corrupt!
You've degenerated into something subhuman!
Listen! Listen to me,
I thought I was immune too but we both have it.
Don't you understand? Stop it!
Listen, don't you understand? We are what we hate.
It turned us into genocidaI maniacs.
We might be the Iast two peopIe in this worId.
This has got to end now!
No!
We took out L.A., San Francisco, Phoenix,
we kiIIed miIIions of Scabs so that you wouIdn't inherit the worId!
Let humanity die off with dignity.
Get out! Get out!
Ray! You were wrong! It was never ''us against them''.
We seIf-destructed!
What did you think?
We were going to make IittIe Scab babies together?
At Ieast I know what I am, I'm stiII human!
You don't even know what you are!
You're wrong. I'm a man!
Eva was right.
That woman in the pIane is exactIy Iike me,
normaI Iooking on the outside but diseased on the inside
another bIood-thirsty monster.
I beIieved that I aIone was spared to carry out this divine purpose,
saving mankind by kiIIing
hundreds of peopIe in the name of God
but I was just committing genocide aII aIong.
I'm not the hero I was so sure I was.
A hero wouId have sacrificed their own Iife
to save the Iives of other peopIe.
That was Eva, not me.
I answered my own prayers with seIf- deIusion
and my own hatred for those peopIe
that deceived me into beIieving
that God wanted me to kiII them aII.
Yes, I won the war,
humanity is finished, it's extinct!
But it was reaIIy the DeviI's jihad,
just Iike every other genocide in history.
The Diseased were different from me,
so I sIaughtered them, but they were stiII peopIe.
I systematicaIIy kiIIed those peopIe Iike I was exterminating bugs,
but they were stiII peopIe.
Anyone who wasn't Iike me, I kiIIed in the name of God.
But God had nothing to do with me
kiIIing hundreds of peopIe in his name.
God had nothing to do with me
kiIIing those Iast three women
and seaIing the doom of the human race.
Now I know how bad my mind has been diseased.
Now I know that I was the monster aII aIong,
I wasn't humanity's saIvation I was its damnation.
I am the Destroyer of mankind.