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in the water without stepping on one.

Sometimes they'd be stacked up

on top of each other.

-That's impossibIe!

-It is possibIe.

-They were everywhere.

-Can we go to TurtIe Beach with them?

Time to sIeep.

What makes you think

you're gonna be safe there?

It's an oId moteI.

The pIace has been abandoned

for years. We'lI go on scavenging trips

and quarantine ourseIves

every singIe time we get back,

-and wait.

-UntiI they come for us.

UntiI... UntiI the disease dies off.

The disease or the peopIe?

It's the same thing, reaIIy.

Bobby. l love you.

and you know

what a dipshit I can be sometimes...

What's the big deaI?

I think we shouId see other peopIe.

If that's the way you feeI.

It is the way I feeI.

-You can be such a dipshit sometimes.

-I know!

ProbabIy the biggest in the worId

at this point.

Do you ever think of YaIe?

Yeah. Sure.

That, and aII those things

you think you'lI get to do someday.

Jesus!

-Put it out! Put the fire out!

-Go, go, go, go, go!

Where do you think you're going, boy?

-Hurry up.

-Hurry.

Just keep it down. Keep it down.

Put it out.

-Okay, I'lI be right back.

-Daddy.

Honey, I'm just going in there

to make sure

there are no monsters under the bed.

If there are monsters, you shouIdn't go.

Okay, now Iisten to me.

There's no reason to worry. AII right?

I'lI be back before you can say

Captain Feathersword.

Captain Feathersword.

You're too smart for me, you know that?

I'lI stay with her.

Bobby.

Look, now is not the time, okay?

The girIs need some aIone time

to taIk about boys.

I am serious.

Do not get too cIose to her.

I'm serious. Just go. It's gonna be fine.

You know, you are aIways doing

whatever the heII you want.

That's why you Iove me!

HeIIo?

HeIIo?

Looks Iike your hospitaI

ran out of patients, Frank.

Come on. Let's get out of here.

Where's Kate?

-What is she doing?

-Kate?

-We have to go. There's nothing here.

-You don't know that.

Kate, they faiIed. Let's go.

There's a whoIe wing

we haven't checked yet.

You see? There are peopIe here.

Wait!

No way.

Oh, my God. They did it.

-Sir. Sir!

-Yes?

-Are you in charge here?

-No, you want Dr. Lindus.

His office is on the second fIoor

of the oId math buiIding.

But you won't find him there.

He died on Thursday.

Doctor, we've come aII the way

from CoIorado.

We heard that you had a serum here.

It's my daughter, she's ...

My daughter is very sick.

-How Iong?

-A IittIe over a week.

-Is she bIeeding from her ears yet?

-No.

WeII, bring her in.

Okay, kids, these nice peopIe

are gonna take you to your parents,

who are aII waiting outside.

So, as soon as we finish our medicine,

we'lI aII be right as rain.

What are you doing to these kids?

What's that? Where's the serum?

The serum? Yes, we had a serum.

For three days it stabiIized the patients.

A few actuaIIy improved.

Three days.

That's the best that we couId do,

or anyone eIse in the worId

as far as I know.

Staved off the virus for three days.

ProIonged sickness and pain

for 72 hours.

WeII, I'm not proIonging it anymore.

-What's in the punch?

-Potassium.

Lots and Iots of potassium.

Now, if you'lI excuse us.

No! No, stop! You can't do this!

Kate, they're sick. They're aIready dead.

Let's go.

-Brian, they are kids.

-Who's dead? My daughter's aIive!

She's not dead!

-There are other pIaces...

-Stop puIIing the goddamn curtain!

PIease! PIease.

-Give me your gun.

-Frank, stay where you are!

-Give me your gun, Brian.

-Frank, you know I can't do that.

Give me the gun!

Danny!

Stop. Stop! Stop, goddamn you!

Stop it! Now!

Put that down.

-Put it down!

-Look around you.

We Iost power two weeks ago.

We sucked the town dry of gas

just to run the generators.

There's nothing Ieft.

Don't . PIease don't .

Sometimes choosing Iife is just

choosing a more painfuI form of death.

You're teIIing me your favorite cartoon's

name is Mop-Face CircIe-Shirt?

-No!

-Brush-BiII Soup-Jeans?

No! SpongeBob SquarePants!

Spoon-Lips Boxer-Shorts!

Frank! Frank!

Okay. You're gonna be okay, just...

Okay, Iisten. Breathe sIow.

Okay, okay.

We're getting out of here.

What happened?

Nothing. She took it off.

She had probIems breathing, I think.

-Come here.

-Daddy? I have to go.

-Number one or number two?

-Number two.

Can you hoId it?

WeII, how about if I get you, Iike, a potty

or something, can you do it here then?

No.

AII right, now. I need you to be

a very big girI for me right now.

Okay? I need you to be reaIIy brave.

You see those IittIe bIue huts

over there?

I need you to go over there by yourseIf,

and I'lI be waiting

right here for you, okay?

-Can you try that for me?

-Okay.

-Good girI. You ready?

-Ready.

Come on.

I'lI be waiting right here for you, okay?

-Okay, honey. It's okay.

-Daddy.

-I'm sorry.

-No, I'm sorry.

You did great. I'm very proud of you.

Now Daddy wiII take you, okay?

You strike me as a good man, DanieI.

We'lI be back in a minute.

Come on, honey.

Get in.

-Get... Get in the car!

-We can't Ieave them here. Not here.

Look, we brought them here.

That was the deaI.

Now, it's time to drop the fairytaIes

and move on.

You heard what that doctor said.

There's nothing here. There's nothing!

You aIready put us in danger

once back there.

Bobby? Bobby, say something.

Hey, what was that song... What was

that song Miss Stevens taught you

-that you used to sing aII the time?

-ltsy Bitsy Spider.

The ltsy Bitsy Spider. yeah.

Do you remember how to sing that?

ltsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout

Down came the rain

and washed the spider out

Out came the sun

and dried up all the rain

And the itsy bitsy spider

went up the spout again

How Iong tiII the beach, Danny?

At Ieast two days. Why?

Anyone for 18 hoIes?

If we're gonna stop somewhere

for the night, might as weII be high-end.

Right?

-What do you say, Bobby?

-Do whatever you want, Brian.

HeIIo!

HeIIo!

The service here is for sh*t.

Hey.

Hey.

-You aII right?

-Yeah.

Hey.

Look, what happened back there...

I'm just trying

to get us to the beach aIive.

-You know that, right?

-Yeah, I know.

We aII agreed on the ruIes.

And the sick, they're dead.

There's nothing we can do for them.

Right.

-AII right, I shouId go check the back.

-Okay.

Okay. Knock it off, stupid, you're fine.

Hey, Danny! I found the pooI!

You want to pIay Marco PoIo?

-Sh*t!

-HeIp!

HeIp!

Oh, Jesus Christ! Danny!

Let's pIay some goIf.

Jesus! Yeah!

Hey, are you okay?

I thought goIf was for oId peopIe.

-F***.

-Jerk!

Come on down here, baby.

-What?

-HeIp me out of here.

Come on, it'lI be just Iike the time

we broke into Forest Oaks.

Remember how the groundskeeper

booted us out?

Yeah.

WeII, this time we're members.

They can't touch us.

It's nice and soft.

Just come out of there. Come on.

Just give me a hand.

-Come over here! Get over here!

-Brian! Stop it!

Come on! Don't !

What?

-I'm gonna get aII dirty!

-It's sand!

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