Circle

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Hello?

Hello?

Stop.

Don't move.

They can see us.

What is this?

I don't know.

Where are we?

Where do you think?

Hello?

Oh, my God!

It's all right, okay?

It's all right. You're okay.

Help! Help!

Just calm down!

- John!

- You're fine.

Where are you?

Oh, sh*t.

Is she dead?

I think so.

Jesus Christ. What was that?

I don't know.

What was that?

Oh, sh*t.

What the f***?

- What?

- Everyone freeze!

- Oh, my God.

- They can see if we move.

Stand still, and we'll be fine.

Don't lift your feet

off the ground.

And don't touch anyone.

- What's that noise?

- Shh!

Oh, my God.

Where's that coming from?

Quiet!

Okay, now...

calm down. Calm down.

It's no use!

- Everybody calm down!

- No.

- We need to calm down.

- Everybody!

Calm the f*** down!

Just... just think! Breathe.

Here we go.

Everybody shut up

for one second!

Does anybody know

what the hell's going on?

They're killing us.

No, it's not them.

Are you guys seeing this?

The lights on the floor...

you see them move?

- No, I don't see anything.

- What lights?

What are you talking about?

Look at your hands.

When you move them,

it changes the floor.

Oh, sh*t.

Yeah.

I only see one.

Yeah, I only see mine.

I think you can only

see your own.

What did they do to us?

I think they messed

with our hands.

What does that mean?

- It's us.

- Us?

What do you mean?

We're choosing who dies.

- F***!

- What happened?!

Somebody did it.

Nobody f***ing do anything,

okay?

Well, it's not working,

you see?

We have to try something.

Nobody do it!!

Okay.

God damn it!

- What the hell?

- What is wrong with you people?

All of us, We're gonna die!

All of us, We're gonna die!

We're all f***ed!

Oh, my God.

This is unbelievable.

It's a vote.

What?

We're voting.

Look, they're killing

whoever gets the most votes.

How do you know that?

Because the chimes go off

when you close your hands.

And that's when you choose.

We should try not doing

it again.

Forget it.

Someone's gonna screw it up.

Wait.

What if we... what if we

vote for her again?

Yeah, let's try that. Okay.

Guys, that's not...

no, that's not gonna work.

We have to try something.

Yeah, everybody, let's vote

for the dead woman again.

- Really? Are you serious?

- Come on.

You guys picked

the wrong person.

- No, we didn't.

- Guys, it just doesn't work.

But why him?

Maybe he got

the second-most votes.

- Or the most so far?

- We have to try something.

No, I-it's not gonna work,

guys, okay?

There's nothing we can do.

We're all screwed.

- Let's try not voting again.

- Please.

- It's not gonna work.

- We need to try.

Okay, nobody vote.

Let's wait it out.

How do we know

that won't kill us all?

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5...

Is it over?

- Oh, my God.

- Okay, nobody move!

Just everybody let's ride

this out.

No!

If we don't choose,

it chooses on its own.

Somebody needs to do something!

This is not working, obviously.

- When you said that...

- Everybody quiet!

Now, there is no reason

for us all to just keep killing

each other off like this.

Well, what the hell else

are we gonna do, my man?

We don't have a choice.

What I mean is we can choose to

go about this in a certain way.

Look.

So There's about a minute

or two between each round.

That's not a lot of time.

Yeah, no sh*t.

Maybe if we spend

less time worrying

about who's gonna die next

and more time trying

to figure this thing out,

we'll get somewhere

and be able to stop this.

What do you suggest?

Okay, I've been

looking around the circle.

And I see five or six people

in their 70s and 80s.

If this is a vote,

I say they go first.

That'll buy us some time.

- Please.

- No, no, hell, no, man.

- Mnh-mnh.

- Are you serious?

Look, the way I see it,

they'd be the next people

to die in real life, right?

What's the difference?

He's right.

Old people first.

That's, uh, t-that's fair.

How is that fair?

They'd be the next

to die anyway.

Yeah, of natural causes,

not of us killing them.

- What's the difference?

- This is crazy.

- We have no choice.

- That's f***ed up, kid.

It's a f***ed up situation,

but we have to do something.

Which one first?

We'll start with him,

go clockwise after that.

1, 2, 3...

Now wait a minute.

4, 5, 6.

That should buy us 10 minutes.

No, no, no.

There has to be another way.

You have a better idea?

Anyone?

We're sorry.

It's the only way.

But I have just as much of

a right to live as any of you.

You've lived your life,

old man.

Please.

Please!

Okay.

I know that was hard,

but you all did the right thing.

We're gonna have to make

some difficult decisions.

Just shut up, all right?

We get it.

You wanted to buy some time,

and we did that.

Let's not waste it.

Let's figure out

what the hell this is.

Any ideas?

Come on! Somebody?

What about him?

- Who, me?

- Yeah, I mean, you ought to know

something about this.

I don't know anything.

- Oh, bullshit.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah,

you guys have to know.

Know about what?

Uh, how about... what about

a f***ing alien invasion?

- I don't know.

- What?

Look, I know

just as much as you do.

- Bullshit, man.

- I swear I don't know anything.

Well, does anybody remember

anything else?

I was in glendale.

Yeah, I do.

We were stuck in traffic

on the freeway.

- Me, too.

- So was I.

Right, uh, we were trying

to get out of the city,

but it was total log jam,

so I got out of the car

and... and started running.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everybody was running.

Yeah, and then

everything went dark.

That's what I remember.

So, what happened?

- I was pulled up.

- Into the ship?

I don't know.

Tractor beam?

F***.

- So are we in the ship now?

- Do you think there are

other people doing this?

Other circles?

They wouldn't go through

all of this for just 50 of us.

Why Would they do this?

I don't know, but the next time

that I could see,

I was in a small room,

and everything was red,

like, um, like a darkroom.

And there were a ton of bodies

piled up on one another.

I assumed that they were dead,

but I don't know.

They might have just been

unconscious.

Everybody but me

and one other guy.

- An alien?

- No. No, no, no, he was a human.

- Who? One of us?

- I don't know.

I don't see him in here.

Everything else is

kind of a blur.

I just remember waking up

right here, and there was...

Some kind of gas.

I think that we were

all drugged.

Does anybody

else remember anything?

Come on. Anybody!

Yeah! Yeah.

I do.

- You?

- Yeah.

I remember the... the red room.

And I-I saw him.

And I saw them.

Well, what did they look like?

Well, they were big

and black... dark green, maybe.

A-a-and wet.

And they spoke, too.

It sounded almost like Chinese.

Chinese?

Yeah, Chinese,

or Japanese, maybe.

Chinese aliens?

Bullshit. He's lying.

Yeah, he's next in line.

He's just trying

to buy some time.

No, II-I swear.

Uh, tell them.

Tell them you saw me.

You see? He's full of sh*t.

I swear I'm telling the truth.

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