You, um-- can you turn-- your light.
What? Oh, I'm such a moron.
How's the flick?
Oh, you know. Adam Sandler gets in a mess.
Wife gets pissed. Rinse and repeat.
Predictable. Formulaic. Fart jokes. You wouldn't like it.
How would you know what I like?
Ahem-- I wouldn't. I wouldn't know.
Well, maybe you should find out sometime.
Hi. Um, can I get some popcorn, please?
Oh shit!
What the...?
Hey, Hal?
What the hell?
Hal?
What the hell's going on?
Kim?
Hey. Hey! Hey, you!
Everyone's gone. They're all gone.
Got anyone in the theaters?
No, man. I haven't seen a soul.
Jesus. Same down in the food court.
- You know what happened? - We're on backup power.
Heading down to maintenance to find out more.
We're being punked, right?
Yeah, Alan Funt's gonna pop out any minute.
- Who? - Forget it.
What the hell is that?
What did you see?
Wait here.
- Who's there? - See something?
Huh?
Anybody here?
Hello?
Anyone here?
Where is everyone?
Anybody here?
Hey. Hello?
Help me, please.
I need help, please.
No.
Manny. Manny.
My baby. Manny!
Paige?
I waited for you.
You here? Paige?
Son of a--
What the hell is going on here?
23 goddamn flights.
Piece of junk.
Yo, Jesus, what's up with the--
This is yesterday's.
Paige?
Anyone?
Where are you?
Ah.
Damn it.
Hello?
Somebody there?
Shit.
Hey! Open the door!
Open up the fucking door, man!
Hey, man, I need-- I need a light.
They're all spent. Gimme one of your lights, man.
Open the door.
Gimme one of your lights. Please.
God damn!
♪ Hello little boy, don't you remember me? ♪
♪ Well, I'm the same one who brought you from Tennessee ♪
♪ Yes, you came to the city, got your wig real high ♪
♪ I said, you came to the city, got your wig real high ♪
♪ Now don't forget daddy, I'm the one who put you wise ♪
♪ Please don't high-jive me baby, I ain't the jiving kind ♪
♪ No, don't high-jive me daddy, I ain't the jiving kind ♪
♪ 'Cause you'll find I'm hip and you'll up and lose your mind ♪
♪ Down in Tennessee, you was ragged and beat ♪
♪ Walking round barefooted, drinking Sneaky Pete ♪
♪ Don't get me solemn, I know just what to do ♪
♪ If you make me mad, I'll tell the whole world about you... ♪
♪ Hello little boy, don't you remember me? ♪
♪ Hello little boy... ♪
Don't move!
Put the gun on the floor.
- It's a flashlight. - Just put it on the floor.
You mean this gun?
Put or drop?
Put the fucking gun on the ground!
Come on. The light too.
- You want me to turn it off? - The light too!
Now!
All right.
Okay. What now?
♪ Have you ever loved someone... ♪
Why don't you lower that barrel a little and we'll talk this shit out, huh?
Can I at least have my drink?
Is that permitted?
Hey! God damn it!
Come on! Shoot me!
Do it! Shoot me!
You're afraid to.
- No I'm not. - Yeah you are.
You shoot me, there's nobody left. Right?
Right.
What's your name?
James.
James...
like Jesse James, gun and all.
I'm Luke.
I've seen your face.
- Oh yeah? - TV.
That's right.
News 7. I'm the new field reporter.
You're always yelling at people with the microphone.
Look, James, here's the truth.
I'm just happy to see another face.
You know what I mean?
Why don't you put the gun down and we'll have ourselves a drink?
Come on, I'm buying.
It'll be my pleasure.
- Where'd you find this? - It's my Mom's.
She keeps it under the bar.
- Your mom owns this place? - Nah, bartender.
She around?
Up the street. Went to check the light in the church.
Light?
Yeah, a guy came by saying he saw light in that church.
A guy? How long ago?
He's gone now.
You got a nice generator down there.
How much gas you got left?
I don't know.
My mom told me to keep feeding it every few hours though.
You a strong kid, Jesse James?
- Strong enough. - Good.
Drink up. You're gonna need it.
Why?
Here. Batteries work.
You're gonna help us get us both out of here.
I'm not going nowhere. I've got to wait for my mom.
She just went up the street to the church.
She told me to stay right here.
We need to get out of this city. You understand?
I'm not going nowhere.
We're moving out when she comes back with some people.
What people? There are no people.
Don't matter. She told me she'd be back.
Have you taken a look outside lately, James?
It's like 11 :00 in the morning
and it's fucking pitch black!
I've been out there for the last three days.
And every day the sun comes up later
and goes down sooner. Every day, less daylight,
more people just gone!
You understand what I'm saying?
I don't think your mom's coming back.
- Yes she is! - No she's not.
I don't know what in Christ is going on here,
but I'm not hanging around in this dump to find out.
You want to just wait till the gas is up in that genny?
Knock yourself out. I'm out of here.
Fair exchange. Good luck.
I'm serious, all right? I'm going.
- I'm gone. - Then go, motherfucker! Go!
Where is he?
Manny, baby, it's Mama.
Randy! What'd he do with my Manny?
- Hey, lady-- - Please.
- You seen my Manny? - I don't know. I don't know.
- My baby. - I don't know.
- Randy, where you at? - Hey, lady, there's nobody else here.
Randy! Randy!
He took my baby.
I know he took my baby.
Look, I'm real sorry for your--
- Where's my baby?! - Whoa whoa whoa!
- Where is my baby?! - Don't you point that gun at me!
- Where's my baby?! - God damn it!
Help me. Help me.
So how'd you get this far without a light?
You didn't have one when you came in here.
- How old are you? - 12 and a half.
Manny's nine months today.
That's your boy?
Yes.
I'm James. That's Luke.
Rosemary.
You a doctor?
Dr. Williamson.
Dr. Williamson, please report to the E.R.
Gloria?
Manny? Manny!
Please, God.
Are you a doctor?
Ph-physical therapist.
Manny's dad comes here to drink, so I thought that--
I thought that he took our baby here.
I...
It's okay.
I do have light.
I got a lot of light.
The batteries kept dying on my flashlight.
These last.
Why does the power work here?
Backup generator.
Won't last though.
You're the first people I've seen in two days.
- Why? - Why what?
Why us?
Why are we the ones left behind?
Help!
Somebody help me!
Just stay close to the light.
Stay in the light, all right?
Help! Help!
Help!
Someone help me!
Sounds like he's hurt.
Bad luck for him.
What?
We can't just leave him.
Someone help me, please.
Go get him then.
- I'll go. - No.
No, you stay here. I'll go.
Give it to me. Move.
Lock the door.
Then open it when you hear me coming.
Fast!
Come on, let's get inside.
Hello!
- Help me. - Shh.
Help me.
- All right. Come on. - No! No!
You're coming with me. It's all right.
- No! - It's okay. Come on.
They're here. They're here.
- No. It's just me. - They're here.
- Oh shit! - They're here. They're here.
Come on, not now.
They're here.
They're out there.
- Here. - Don't leave me.
They're coming.
All right, come on. One more time.
James.
- James... - Mama.
What are you doing? No, James!
I got to find my mom. I got to go.
She's waiting for me!
We have to stay in the light.
I'm sorry.
He ain't coming back, is he?
We're almost there.
Come on!
Hey!
Open the door!
Come on! Hurry up!
Hey. Hey.
Hey.
What, am I in heaven?
Better--
a bar.
I gotta go. I gotta go.
- No, lie still. - I gotta go.
What's your name? Can you tell me your name?
My name is Paul. Paul.
- Paul, that's my name. - Good.
You have a concussion, so we need to keep talking.
- Okay? - Okay.
All right.
That light.
How'd you get there?
I...
I was working at the Fairlane Center
when the whole mall went dark.
All the people were all gone.
So I was on my way out of there
when my light starts dying.
And then someone came out of the dark and hit me.
I was taken somewhere.
And then my light came back on and I was outside.
I don't even know how I got there, but I--
I walked till I found that bus shelter.
Taken?
Taken.
I don't know where.
I don't know where
but there were these voices.
These whispers.
No bodies. No faces.
- Souls. - Only shadows.
And I was drowning in them.
So I started screaming.
Started screaming.
But there was no sound.
There was no sound.
It was like I was fighting, fighting for air.
Like I was fighting to exist.
Sounds like some kind of fever dream.
No. Dreams are much more
broken apart, more obscure.
I was taken someplace for three days.
We need to keep you warm.
This was in real time.
So did you get a look at the guy that hit you?
I told you-- I told you it wasn't a person.
You saw it too, didn't you?
I knew it.
When I was lying there,
waiting for the bus,
I had time and I went through the list--
of all the ways everyone could just disappear--
flesh-eating bacterias,
nanotech run amok,
a particle collider accident,
parallel universes, neutron bombs,
- gamma ray bursts... - Alien abduction.
...singularities, wormholes, black holes--
- Stop it! - the thing is, the math doesn't add up.
The math does not add up.
My boy is missing.
His mother...
It just doesn't add up.
This is no accident. There's a reason.
You gonna lay your Catholic guilt on us now?
So why are you here, Luke?
You know?
No idea. And I don't care.
Well, you should.
We all-- we all should.
Why didn't we go with everyone else?
- Because... - Why?
Like when you shut down a movie projector,
it doesn't just stop on a dime. It winds down.
We're the last spin on the reel before it stops for good.
I know I've done things in my life--
awful things. I've hurt people.
I've made mistakes.
We all have.
So what are you saying, that this is punishment?
For what?
- That's between you and... - And God?
Between me and God? I think God's closed up shop
- just like everybody else. - Don't say that!
You trying to tell me that he deserves this shit?
- Leave him alone! - I think you're just pissed off
- 'cause Jesus didn't beam you up. - Stop it! No!
We don't need some fucking left-behind sermon.
What we need to do is-- oh no, no.
Sweet Jesus. Sweet Jesus.
- Lessen the load. - What?
The power load on the genny, you got to lessen it.
Turn off anything we don't need.
James, get the games. The jukebox.
Turn 'em off! Turn 'em off!
Get the neon signs!
Strip the top off!
- Ah! - Looks like somebody rerouted it
up to the bar after the main grid died.
Yeah, my mom.
At least we got plenty of gas.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
The electric charge is fading anyway.
Like the batteries and the flares...
And the cars and everything.
It's just impossible.
But the bus shelter, the one you were under...?
Solar-powered-- an experimental one-off.
The city was thinking of going green for a while.
- I did a piece on it. - Okay, so solar's working.
Yeah. Too bad the sun's not.
James, where's this go?
Sonny says it's where we go when the shit hits the fan.
Sonny had a point.
All right, rocket scientist, how long?
- How long what? - How long we got?
- How long till it dies? - Yeah.
Couple hours. I don't know. Couple minutes.
There are no known laws of physics operating here, okay?
I don't fucking know! I don't know! I don't know!
- Hey! Whoa whoa! - What are you doing?
I don't know!
Please, God, please, God, save us.
Come on, take it easy.
Okay. Okay.
Please, God...
please, God, please, God, please, God.
Please, God. Please, God, help us.
There's this island--
this island right off the Carolinas
called Roanoke.
In 1587 it was--
it was the first English colony.
117 men, women and children
are living there.
And one day a boat comes from London with supplies.
But lo and behold, there's nobody to supply,
'cause everybody's gone.
The whole entire colony completely vanished.
Left everything behind-- food, livestock, clothing.
They sent search parties looking for everybody for days
and the only thing they find--
you know what they find? One word.
Just scratched--
scratched on a fencepost--
"Croatoan."
Croa-what?
Croatoan.
What does it-- what does it mean?
I don't know. Nobody knows.
It's just a big mystery.
Maybe it's a message from the local lndians or--
or a word, or...
just a last word.
Nobody knows for sure.
But maybe it's--
maybe it's a warning.
A warning like an error warning your computer gives you
right before it crashes.
A warning from who?
Does it really matter? Huh?
Someone just hit the restart button
and the lost colony was just this little warning right before the--
right before this-- this-- this big reboot.
- Whoa! - Paul!
Feels like a semi smashed into my skull.
That's because you think too much.
James, wet the towel, sweetie.
There we go.
We need ice.
I'm just gonna raise your head up.
Just breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
Keep breathing. That's it.
Slow down. Slow down.
Hello?
Anybody here?
Stephen?
Somebody here?
Control room.
...reporter Luke Ryder continues his series
on a storm of controversy surrounding alleged security lapses
at the West Haven nuclear power plant.
Yeah, you definitely don't want to miss that.
And speaking of storms, Paige...
Well that's right, Carolyn and Stephen.
We're tracking a very large front moving in our direction.
Kind of an unusual storm...
...the good news is this low pressure system
is followed by a very nice high pressure front, so things...
...so things...
It defies any logical
or rational explanation.
Hey! Hey!
You can't say that it's evil.
You can't say that it's human or not human.
But it is...
the new law of nature,
and we have to adapt.
Last night after the blackout
I heard my brother call out to me from the darkness.
My brother died eight years ago
in an automobile accident.
It can trick you. Stay near a light source.
But do not trust any light
other than the one that you hold
in your own hand.
This is David Breardan, at WDlD in Chicago.
If you're receiving this broadcast, then your phone circuit may still work.
Please, call or text me at this number--
312-555-83--
Damn it.
Hello?
Luke.
All right.
We need to get out of here-- now.
He can't go anywhere.
Don't you get it? Why we're here?
At this exact place? All of us?
I'll tell you why.
The light.
The light's protecting us.
Protecting us? Ever see moths fly into a flame?
What are you trying to say? You trying to say this is a trap?
A trap, a dead end.
But whatever's out there is in here now.
Point is when that genny dies, we die.
Maybe that's how it should be.
What?
All of us have seen them--
those souls
out there in the dark.
How do we know they're not the people
we've already lost calling us over?
How do we know that that's not heaven
and this is...
If my boy's with them, then that's where I'm meant to be.
And if he's not...
then I ain't going nowhere till I find him.
Look. There's a truck,
I don't know, maybe five, eight blocks away.
The power's drained, but it's not dead.
Now if we can get it started,
we all have a chance of getting out of here...
maybe get you to a hospital.
Oh yeah? A hospital where, man?
- Where? - Chicago.
The morning after it happened, I caught a satellite feed.
There are survivors out there like us.
So where are the rescue parties, huh?
It's been three days. I don't see any search parties.
I don't know, all right?
All I know is I'm gonna roll that truck to this genny.
I'm gonna string some jumper cables from the genny to the truck's battery.
I'm gonna start that truck
and I'm gonna get outta here with or without any of you.
How you gonna roll it? You can barely walk.
Then a little help would be nice.
James, we have a vehicle.
All right, we can cover more ground,
you know, maybe look for your mom.
Your son.
We can wait till morning.
You sure there's one coming?
The first couple days,
you know, I kept asking myself, "Why am I still here?
Why me?"
You know, just talking to myself,
running from place to place shouting my name like an idiot,
anything to remind me that I exist.
I'm here
because I will myself to exist.
You know what? Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe this is just a passing storm.
Maybe it ends tomorrow.
You said it yourself, Paul--
a big reboot.
Which means that this could all be a new beginning, right?
Not an end.
But we can't wait around here to find out.
Those rations downstairs, put as many as you can
into these garbage bags, all right? We'll need to bring them with us.
And keep an eye on that generator.
It goes black, you take this and get out of here.
What about Paul? I'm supposed to watch him.
Hey, you heard what I said.
Here.
Take this, all right?
It's good luck.
I'll bring us back a real one.
God, you're beautiful.
Let me tell you something. You were born for the movies.
I think you missed your calling.
Yeah, king of missed opportunities, that's me.
But I never missed a reel change.
Never. Okay, once.
Tell me, as a woman--
as a beautiful woman-- what do you think?
You think I might have a chance?
I mean, I'm talking hypothetically.
Not with you, but just in general, you think I'm...
you know, you think I'm--
God, I'm so fucking stupid,
going on and on and on.
Hey, we gotta go.
No no, hey!
Come back.
We will.
Don't let him fall asleep, okay?
Be brave.
Come on.
Come on! It's dead.
I just put batteries in four minutes ago.
This'll do it. It's right over here. Come on.
I must've checked 500 cars since this happened.
God damn, if this isn't the only one with a battery that still works.
Why does this one work
and all the others don't?
It's a Chevy.
There is no reason. All right?
It's random, you know. Toss of a coin.
Why I'm still here and the sucker who was driving this boat isn't,
I don't know. I had a light. He didn't--
Just tell me what I have to do.
Push! Keep pushing!
You're fine.
You got a girl?
A what?
Not a what, a girl--
a main squeeze.
I got a ma.
You got a ma.
Of course you got a ma. Everybody's got a ma.
We all got a ma, but...
"Umbrellas of Cherbourg."
That's the movie that I'm gonna screen for her.
1964.
Catherine Deneuve.
The music, the colors--
she's gonna love it.
Paul?
Paul. Paul!
Paul, wake up!
Go put on a song.
A what?
Go put a song on for me.
- But Luke says-- - I don't care what Luke says.
Just give me one more song. Go ahead.
See if they got "Forever" by the Marvelettes.
They got it.
Play it.
♪ Darling, forever ♪
♪ Forever ♪
♪ You can break my heart... ♪
♪ I'll play the part... ♪
♪ ...Of a fool ♪
♪ Just to be with you... ♪
♪ Forever ♪
♪ Darling, forever ♪
♪ Forever ♪
♪ You can call me names ♪
♪ Take my love for granted ♪
♪ But I'll always be just a fool ♪
♪ If I-- if I could be with you ♪
♪ I'll be your slave ♪
♪ For the rest of-- of my days ♪
♪ Love you more ♪
♪ In so, so many ways ♪
♪ Just to be with you ♪
♪ Thrills me through and through ♪
♪ And darling, forever ♪
♪ Forever... ♪
James! James!
James!
Paul! Come on.
Come on, wake up!
Hold up! Hold up!
It's just a few more blocks.
No, I've got to stop for a second.
My ankle. I just need a minute.
James...?
James!
James...!
They're all dead.
Your son. Does he talk yet?
Manny, right?
Does he talk?
He kind of makes funny sounds.
He can nearly say "Mama."
And sometimes he'll--
he'll point at a light
and he says "Ly-yy."
"Ly-yy, Mama."
It's almost "light," but not really.
What's in Chicago?
Anna, my wife.
We're separated, actually.
I left for my career and she stayed for hers.
She's still there, Luke.
Funny thing is, I don't think she'd want to see me...
even now.
You'll be together again.
You will.
I just put fresh batteries in.
- They just keep dying. - Oh my God.
Look. Hey!
- Come here. - Hey there.
- It's okay. Come here. - Come here. It's all right.
Don't be afraid. Come here.
- Shit! - Wait! No!
Come back!
Luke!
Luke, get up!
Hit the lights!
Hit the headlights!
Come on, hit the lights! Hit the headlights!
Get out of there!
James?
Oh no. James!
- James! - ♪ Your good, good thing ♪
♪ Is about to come to an end... ♪
None of them work.
Doesn't work.
This is the only one that works.
Shit! Come on!
It doesn't work.
What are we gonna do?
Luke, they're here.
Where are you going?
Luke, they're here.
They're dimming.
Okay. Yeah.
James?
Paul.
- That's better. - Hold this steady.
- All right? - That's good. Give me your lighter.
Come on. Come on. Give me your lighter.
- It's in the bar. - What?
It's in the bar!
Where are you going? Rosemary.
Whoa! Hey, what are you doing?
- Stay close. - It's not enough light.
Come on!
Paul...
We can-- we can make it.
It's really close.
James?
Almost there.
This is it!
- James? - Paul.
James. I'm coming.
James?
Here!
Paul!
James.
No!
No! No!
Who's there?
Stay away. Stay away!
Stay away from me! No!
No.
I exist.
I exist. I exist. I exist.
James...? I exist. I exist.
I exist. James! I exist!
I exist.
Paul...?
Paul!
♪ ...'Cause somebody else will ♪
♪ You don't have to love me when I want it... ♪
Hold this.
Oh.
How'd you know those matches were there?
I used to bum cigarettes off the duty nurse.
You worked here?
No.
Manny saved my life.
Made me want to clean up...
made me want to live.
I can't lose him, Luke.
I can't.
This torch won't last.
We gotta go, Rosemary. Come on.
There's a storage room in the back.
There's alcohol
for the needles.
Rubbing alcohol.
For the torch. Fuel, right?
Yeah, let's go.
No, you rest your ankle.
You wait here. I'll go.
Manny?
- Rosemary? - My baby.
My--
No. No.
Rosemary.
I exist.
James.
James...
James!
Hey.
Where's Paul?
He's gone. He's gone. Rosemary?
Hey.
Hey, we're gonna make it. All right?
Hey, we're gonna make it, all right? But I need your help.
- Okay? - Okay.
Come on, give me more slack.
There.
All right.
I gotta go down and prime that thing.
You're gonna have to turn the ignition on your own, all right?
I can't be alone, man!
- Listen, you're not alone. - Don't go, don't go!
- You're gonna leave too. - It's me and you now, buddy. All right?
- Don't go, man. - Hey, listen to me, okay?
We're gonna see morning, I promise.
A storm passing, right?
- That's right. - Right?
That's right, a storm passing.
All right, when I say now, turn the ignition.
Okay.
Now!
- Come on! - Now!
Come on!
Now!
Come on! Shit.
I've gotta shut the hood.
You gotta keep your foot on the gas
otherwise we're gonna lose power, yeah?
- Yeah. - Don't take it off.
Okay. Okay.
- You did good back there. - So did you.
- You ready? - Yeah.
Go!
Mama.
James, the gas. Hey. James! Hey!
What are you doing? Hey! Shit!
James!
James, get back here!
Shit shit shit!
Fuck it.
James.
Mom.
Mom, it's me.
Get in the truck!
- I saw my mom. - Get in the fucking truck.
James, no!
James!
Mom?
James! James, no!
Anna.
Anna...
Luke!
My name is James Leary.
I exist.
I exist!
I exist.
That's my bed.
You don't have to go.
Don't go.
I'm Briana.
I'm James.
It works?
It won't go out
as long as there's day.
What's that?
Look.
I exist. I exist.
- I exist. - I exist.
♪ I don't have to beg you to hold me ♪
♪ 'Cause somebody else will ♪
♪ You don't have to love me when I want it ♪
♪ 'Cause somebody else will ♪
♪ Your so-called friends say you don't need it ♪
♪ When all the time they're trying to get it ♪
♪ Look out-- your good thing ♪
♪ Is about to come to an end ♪
♪ Your real good thing ♪
♪ Is about to come to an end ♪
♪ All those nights I watched the four walls ♪
♪ I did not have to watch them all alone ♪
♪ When other men said they wanted me ♪
♪ I didn't have to tell them I was your very own ♪
♪ You have all the love I've got ♪
♪ Even ice melts to water and gets hot ♪
♪ Look out-- your good thing ♪
♪ Is about to come to an end ♪
♪ Your real good thing ♪
♪ Is about to end ♪
♪ Getting myself back together ♪
♪ Is gonna be a big problem, I know ♪
♪ But when the right man says he wants me ♪
♪ You can bet I won't say no ♪
♪ 'Cause your real good thing ♪
♪ Is about to end ♪
♪ Your real-- your good thing ♪
♪ Your good thing, baby ♪
♪ Your good thing, your good thing ♪
♪ Is about to come to an end ♪
♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, your good thing ♪
♪ Your good thing. ♪