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( snarling )

- ( groans )

- ( screams ) Sh*t!

Sh*t! Come on!

Come on!

( snarling )

Come on! Run!

( grunts )

Come on, man.

Come on.

( alarm blaring )

( growling )

Come on!

Give me your hand.

Give me your hand.

Come on. Come on.

( growling )

The Dumpster.

The Dumpster.

I got it.

I got it.

( shouting )

Go. Go.

( alarms ringing )

Hold it.

Clay:

I know her.

- Okay, what floor?

- Two.

Okay, go. Go.

- ( dog barking )

- Sh*t, hurry up!

Hurry up.

Yeah, dead.

( cat meows )

Think it's safe to text?

I'm out of juice.

I've got to text my family,

see if they're okay.

Can I borrow

your phone, please?

( beeps )

( chimes )

It's all jumbled up.

Scrambled.

Why don't you stick

my phone in the freezer?

It makes the battery

last longer.

Probably need it

to check the signal.

If we don't make any calls,

it should last for a few days.

You draw all these?

- ( water running )

- Yeah.

My graphic novel.

Tom:

I was thinking about

that poor kid

down in the tunnel.

DJ...

Liquid?

God damn.

You know,

if we're going to survive

this, whatever it is,

people are gonna

have to put aside

their finer sensibilities.

If they can't,

they're gonna die.

( pounding on door )

Woman:

Hello?

- She sound normal?

- Hello?

- Please, someone be there.

- Are you normal?

What do you think?

Open the damn door.

( panting )

- Okay.

- I live upstairs.

Yeah, I've seen you before.

I'm Clay.

- Tom.

- I'm Alice.

I think you guys

should close the blinds.

I don't think that's smart.

You guys should

close the blinds.

I don't think it's gonna

be good if somebody sees

us in here.

He's gonna close them.

Tom, you close them.

See, he's closing them.

- Are you hurt?

- What do you mean,

am I hurt?

Are you physically injured?

Can I help you?

( crying )

I killed my mom.

I killed my mom.

I want to get out

of this dress because

it really smells.

Like blood and sweat

and my mom's perfume.

My girlfriend

might have left some jeans.

I think they'd

just about fit you.

And I have pajamas.

I have plenty of pajamas.

Okay?

Yeah, I'm just tired.

Here, do you want

to maybe...

There's still

some hot water if you

want to take a shower.

Uh-huh, okay.

Thank you.

( thunder rumbles )

( purring )

Clay:

Listen, Tom,

I'm gonna head north

to Kent Pond in the morning

as soon as it gets light.

I think you and Alice should

probably come with me.

Clay, I'm really sorry

about your family.

Don't be sorry

because there's nothing

to be sorry about yet.

My kid had a cell phone,

but he never made calls.

He just texted, you know?

Liked games.

But my wife,

she had one and I called her

right before it happened.

When I met you.

So I don't know

if she was on it.

I just want you

to know I'm real glad

I ran into you today, Tom.

( door opens )

You okay?

Oh, um, I found

these in your pocket.

Hope you don't mind.

No, no, no, no.

Here, maybe

drink something.

- No.

- Do you want

something to eat?

No.

If you guys go somewhere,

can I come with you?

Hoping you'd say that.

Clay:

Definitely.

Yeah.

I'm gonna try

and get some rest now.

Yeah, we'll be here.

Yeah.

So...

some kind

of terrorist attack

or some sh*t,

do you think?

I don't know, man.

Well, whoever it was,

us three are like bugs

who had the dumb luck

to avoid the stomp

of the giant's foot.

( phone ringing )

( ringing stops )

( snarling )

( shouting )

They're like birds.

They're acting like

a flock of birds.

Tom:

Well, I don't like it.

I don't like this flocking

thing at all.

I mean, whatever it is,

I've just got to get

to Kent Pond

and find out

about my wife and son.

If you guys

don't want to come,

I totally get it.

( growling )

- ( snarling )

- ( Alice gasps )

( dog barking )

Hold up.

Hold up.

- Oh, sh*t.

- What?

- I don't know.

- Should we go back?

- ( tires squeal )

- ( roaring )

Woman:

Oh, my God!

Help me!

Help me!

- ( man groaning )

- Oh, Jesus.

- ( cracking, tearing )

- ( man screaming ) Oh, God!

- Should we help them?

- No, no, no, no.

- Nothing we can do.

- We go back or we go

right now.

No, go, go, go.

They're not looking.

- They're not looking.

Go, go.

- Go.

Tom:

Where they all go?

Clay:

Maybe we got lucky

and they all dropped off,

you know,

when they lost the signal

like at the train station.

Tom. Tom.

Always considered

myself a pacifist,

but I wouldn't mind

having a pistol right now.

Um, guys.

I don't think

that's a good idea.

Clay:

I go in with

my hands raised

and just say

I want to talk.

Maybe ring the doorbell.

What's the worst that

can happen?

I'm a black man

with a crowbar.

I'm not walking

over there.

Okay, how about

that one?

Oh, that makes

all the difference

in the world.

( clatters )

Oh, my God.

Oh, my.

Why don't you

take care of Alice?

I'll get what we came for.

( flies buzzing )

Here, take this.

Uh-uh.

( c*cks gun )

- What?

- Look at you.

Yeah, basic training.

You never forget.

Grab some ammo.

Clay:

How do you load

these things?

You guys,

there's someone

out here.

What?

He's by himself.

Close 'em.

Close the drapes.

( swing squeaking )

Hey, are you okay?

Hello.

Hello.

Kid.

- ( barking )

- ( snarling )

Clay:

Oh, sh*t.

( swing squeaking )

I guess they don't

all travel in flock--

( growling, snarling )

( gunshot )

( panting )

( panting )

( cracks )

F*** this.

( gunshots )

Let's go.

Let's go.

( clicking, screeching )

( whispers )

What the hell?

Tom:

Well, it looks like

when the sun goes down

they're programmed

to pack it in.

It was like they all

did it together.

Like it was an automated

response or something.

You know what I don't get

is how they all knew

exactly where

we were that fast.

I mean, it's not like they

were watching us or anything.

Not with their own

eyes anyway.

Not with their own--

so you're saying

when that kid saw us,

they all saw us?

How else do you

explain it?

- So now they're psychic?

- Telepathic.

Like maybe the pulse

flows through them

like they're this big,

organic, you know, network.

Alice:

Like a hive mind.

( chuckles )

Yeah.

Clay:

You got anything better?

( geese honking )

Tom:

What makes you think

they're still there?

I mean, no matter what

or how it went down,

don't you think

they might have bailed?

Clay:

If they're safe, they would

have left a message.

Lost most of my money

in the great collapse

of '08.

And I lost my emotional

stability in the great

divorce of '09.

( chuckles )

You know, at the time,

I thought that was

the end of the world.

- Whoa, what is that?

- ( music playing )

- You hear that?

- Yeah.

It's music.

Greetings, gentlemen.

Miss.

Welcome to Gaiten Academy.

If you folks need a place

to stay for the night,

we have plenty of rooms.

The boys who didn't have

cell phones have all run off.

The ones

who did have them--

Oh, we know about that.

I'm Jordan.

I'm a scholarship boy.

- I lived in Holloway.

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