Annihilation Page #3

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Oh, sh*t! Get back.

Sheppard! Sheppard, watch out!

-Holy f***!

Whoa.

It's exactly the same as the flowers.

Look at the teeth.

Concentric rows.

Something here is making giant waves

in the gene pool.

Sharks have teeth like that, don't they?

Do you think it's a crossbreed?

You can't crossbreed

between different species.

Lena, this is getting heavy.

The mutations were subtle at first.

More extreme as we grew closer

to the lighthouse.

Corruptions of form.

Duplicates of form.

Duplicates?

Echoes.

Is it possible these were hallucinations?

I wondered that myself.

But they were shared among all of us.

It was dreamlike.

Nightmarish.

Not always.

Sometimes it was beautiful.

Ow.

You hurt?

It's just a bruise.

Must have gotten that from the gator.

Yeah.

So, where'd you learn to shoot?

I was in the military

before I was an academic.

Marines?

Army. Seven years.

Feels like a lifetime ago now.

Yeah.

All other lives feel like a lifetime ago.

We were kids, I was married.

Which do you carry around your neck?

A husband or a child?

Husband.

He was in the army, too. That's...

That's how we met.

"Was" in the army

KIA.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Guess there had to be something.

What do you mean?

Volunteering for... this.

It's not exactly something you do

if your life is in... perfect harmony.

We're all damaged goods here.

Anya is sober...

therefore an addict.

Josie wears long sleeves

'cause she doesn't want you

to see the scars on her forearms.

She's tried to kill herself?

No, I think the opposite,

trying to feel alive.

Ventress?

Yeah. As far as anyone knows...

no friends, no family,

no partner, no children.

No concession in her at all.

-I also lost someone.

Not a husband, though, um...

A daughter. Leukemia.

God, I'm sorry.

In a way, it's two bereavements.

My... beautiful girl...

and the person I once was.

Hey, hey!

We got something here.

This used to be the headquarters

of the Southern Reach.

Before the Shimmer swallowed it.

More mutations.

They're everywhere.

Malignant.

Like tumors.

Is that the old mess hall?

Yeah.

Let's billet there. Come on.

There's beds and bags.

You think people are here?

Were here.

Yeah, I'm gonna go with the past tense.

Damn.

Oh.

Oh, sh*t.

This sh*t is heavy. Can't carry this.

Lena, what you got going on?

Guys, check this out.

"Peyton, Mayer...

Kane, Shelley."

Those were the soldiers

on the last expedition.

Looks like they were using this room

as their base of operations.

Why are some of the names crossed out?

Let's not jump to conclusions.

-I don't know, maybe we should.

-Yeah.

Yep. This is the mess hall.

Yep.

I think that the times by the names

are a guard rota, so...

if they were guarding the perimeter,

we should.

Copy that.

Yep.

This might be able to tell us something.

"For those that follow."

I believe that means us.

Memory card.

I should be able to play this.

It's working.

All right?

-Okay.

Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay.

Yeah?

Okay.

Sh*t.

What is he doing?

Stop. Stop. Stop, stop, stop.

Hold him. Hold him down.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

There. There.

Okay, so we know what happened

to the last group. They went insane.

-Was something alive inside that man.

-No.

-That was a trick of the light.

What?

I've been a paramedic for 10 years.

I've scraped people off the road.

You see some weird sh*t.

That was a trick of the light.

His insides were moving.

No, it was shock.

-That was a shock response.

Watch it again.

No, I'm not gonna watch it again!

That was not intestines.

It was a worm--

Okay, then you watch it, Sheppard!

Where are you going?

-Just ahead.

What is it?

I don't know.

-I don't want to stay here tonight.

-We don't have a choice.

Please.

-Come on.

It's too late in the day

for us to move on.

Come on, let's go outside.

Oh, that's nice of you.

Why aren't you here?

I gotta leave a day early.

What?

Wait, today?

-Right now.

-Oh, sh*t.

But we had a whole day planned.

-We were gonna drive to the country--

-No, we can't.

-We can't.

Now means right now.

Yeah.

What is it?

I do...

love you...

Lena.

I love you, too.

Hey.

The mystery unraveling?

Something's unraveling.

I think you're doing okay.

It's good Josie's getting some rest.

Yeah.

With the help of a little sedative.

How about you

Some.

I'm at least as freaked as Josie.

I'm just hiding it better.

I should check on Ventress.

Yep.

What're you doing up?

Not supposed to relieve me until 3:00.

I'm done sleeping for the night.

Okay.

Come look at this.

Okay, this is where we are...

and that's the lighthouse.

Southwest is Ville Perdu.

It's a small community we evacuated

two years ago.

I think we should head there tomorrow,

and then head out for the coast

the following morning.

Good.

You okay?

I was gonna say, when...

you didn't tell the team

about your connection to Kane,

I wasn't sure if that was a good idea.

But after seeing that footage...

yeah.

I'm not sure how they would have reacted

to you.

Why did my husband volunteer

for a suicide mission?

Is that what you think we're doing?

-You must have profiled him,

you must have assessed him.

He must have said something.

So you're asking me as a psychologist.

Yeah.

Then, as a psychologist...

I'd say you're confusing suicide

with self-destruction.

Almost none of us commit suicide...

and almost all of us self-destruct.

In some way, in some part of our lives.

We drink, or we smoke.

We destabilize the good job.

Or the happy marriage.

These aren't decisions, they're...

They're impulses.

In fact, you're probably better equipped

to explain this than I am.

You're a biologist.

Isn't self

Programmed into each cell?

What was that?

-Don't know.

Josie, wake up.

Wake up, Josie, come on.

Wake up. Something's happening.

-No.

What happened? I heard a noise.

Oh.

What?

Something's come through the fence.

-It's ripped open like a f***ing zipper.

Can't see.

-Yeah, neither can I.

Sheppard!

Sheppard!

-F***!

Sheppard was next to me.

Something took her.

-Oh, f***! Oh, f***! Sheppard!

Oh, sh*t!

Help! Help me!

Shepp... Sheppard!

Sheppard!

We have to go back.

-We have to go back now.

She's right.

Right

We've been attacked twice.

We lost one of our own.

We have evidence the previous team

went nuts and chopped each other up.

I really don't know how much more right

she has to be.

We haven't reached the lighthouse.

We still don't understand the cause

or the nature of the Shimmer.

We have data, observations, photographs.

She has hella footage.

All of which makes the phenomenon

less explicable, not more.

I'm gonna get to the lighthouse,

and I'm fine going on my own.

You just need to decide...

whether you're coming with me or not.

It's like she hasn't noticed

that Sheppard is dead.

She's crazy.

She's a crazy old b*tch.

You know,

and thanks for the f***ing backup, Lena.

-I didn't realize there were sides.

Yeah.

Yeah, there are sides.

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