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I told him it would kill him

in his sleep.

I thought it would scare

the sh*t out of him,

but he got a sleeping bag

and he spent the whole night

right here.

Just to prove me wrong.

You know they're

into that kind of stuff too.

Who is?

His family?

Deep dark forest.

Creatures of the night.

Come on. Let's head back.

We really let him down,

didn't we?

Speak for yourself.

There's only person responsible

for Justin.

Here you go.

Your leader

must be an amazing guy

to have you so devoted to him.

I mean, he says jump.

You say how high?

He told you

about the cataclysm, right?

The revolution he's got planned.

The war where he comes out

on top and kills everyone else

that's unworthy of being

in his club.

"The unworthy will know,

unimaginable suffering

and there will be a blood bath

that will cleanse the earth."

You read this I assume.

Of course, you have.

Your boss wrote it, right.

What makes you one

of the worthy?

Has it ever occurred

to you that you may be part

of that family

because they're using you?

I mean revolutions

ain't cheap, buddy.

They know you're a rich kid.

They know your dad's

well connected.

When do you think

they're gonna cash in on that?

Look, I know

they made you feel special.

Accepted you...

But you're a smart kid.

I can tell you're smart.

Why can't you see

you're just a tool to them?

They prey on the weak,

that's their gig!

Hey, I'm talking to you...

F***!

What did you do?

Bite your f***ing tongue?

Here. We wouldn't want it

to get infected now, would we?

Open up your god damn mouth!

How about that?

There you go!

Now they'll know that at least

they gave you

a little first aid treatment

when you got injured.

Come here.

Let me clean you up.

There you go.

Yeah. There you go.

How could I ever

let this happen?

It's not your fault, Kath.

You always told me I babied

him too much.

I was too hard on him.

Justin's always

been the sensitive one.

I shouldn't have got so upset

with him when I found out that

he got her pregnant.

I should've just told him

to use rubbers years before.

Yeah as if it would've mattered.

I saw the pain attached

to his life.

He never recovered

from the divorce.

Yeah, I should've handled

that better too.

I'm the one that drove him

straight into their arms.

Andrew, I blame you for a lot

of things.

I don't blame you for this.

You're up, Samantha.

Leave the baby, just you.

- How's he doing?

- Look, there's a system to this.

We'll get through to him.

- You okay?

- Yeah, I'm just nervous.

There's nothing to be nervous

about, alright?

You're gonna go up there,

you're gonna talk to him

about the things we discussed.

Don't get too close to him.

There's some blood on his shirt,

but it's nothing.

- Okay, did he say anything or...

- No, so don't expect it.

- Okay.

- Just be strong.

Stick to what we talked about,

alright.

Okay.

Hey, Justin.

I wanted to apologize

for the last time I saw you.

I told you Zoey would be

better off without you but...

I didn't mean that.

I was just upset and I'm sorry.

Your parents have been

really great to us.

Me and Zoey, I don't...

I don't know what

I would have done without them.

And I know

that they freaked out at first,

but they love her so much.

You know we're... we're living

with your mom now.

She has plenty of room

and a nice house.

We really want you

to live with us too.

Zoey has your eyes.

He's lashing out due

to feelings of guilt.

Even fear of what the cult

itself might be thinking

about him right now.

It's a normal reaction.

He's torn

between two father figures.

Come on. This is all

just a waste of time.

So helping your brother

is just a waste of time?

Oh, you're gonna

psychoanalyze me

now Mr. tough love?

Cam, that's enough out of you.

I'm already fighting

with your brother.

I'm not gonna fight

with you too.

I need your help.

Okay.

- Someone's out there.

- What?

Where?

Where the swings at.

God dammit, Justin.

Why won't you talk to me?

Stop this, it's me. It's Sam.

You have to know

that I still love you.

Okay, all I care about

is our future.

- Together. You, me and Zoey.

- Where's the baby?

What?

Zoey's downstairs sleeping.

Not for long.

What?

Hey!

Why would you say that?

That's your baby.

Your little girl.

- Don't you care?

- Of course, I care.

My brothers and sisters,

we need all the babies

we can get.

They are the future after all.

You're on private property.

It's time to move on.

Did you hear what I said?

Hey!

F***.

What?

Justin,

why are you acting like this?

You're scaring me.

The hell are you doing?

What just happened?

Dad?

Kathy, I need you

to call the police.

Tell them to get up here

as fast as they can.

You're not going out there.

- I'm going with you.

- Campbell, no.

- What was that?

- The cars.

Let's go.

You lock this door behind me.

Okay.

Okay.

Jimmy.

Jimmy!

What do you want?

Now, let's go. Go. Go!

- Mom, open the door.

- Sh*t.

- Where's Jimmy?

- There are people out there.

What people?

- Oh, my god.

- They've come for me.

My brothers and sisters,

they've come for me.

Did you get through

to the police?

The phone's dead.

Someone cut the line.

Andrew, who the hell

is out there?

Justin's cult.

He said they've come

to take him back.

Oh, god.

Right, Kathy.

You make sure

the kitchen windows are locked,

alright.

- Campbell, get my tool box.

- Okay.

Samantha,

there's some kerosene lanterns

- in the hallway.

- Okay.

We need to gather

everything that we can

- that can be used as a weapon.

- Well, how many of them

are there out there?

- I don't know.

- Are there three of them?

- Are there 30 of them?

- I don't know.

- Can we try talking to them?

- We tried that, mom.

Okay, these are crazy people.

You've heard about what they do.

- They already got Jimmy.

- What?

What do you mean?

What happened?

We don't know.

Oh, my god.

Here.

Knives.

How far is the closest neighbor?

At least a mile away.

I need to change her diaper.

Okay.

I'll go with you.

- Okay.

- I'm gonna go

- check on Justin.

- Yeah.

Hey, son.

You okay?

Just wanted

to bring you some light.

Remember when I brought

that lava lamp in here

for you and your brother?

I thought that maybe

you might be scared of the dark.

Turned out that your brother

was scared of the lava lamp.

- Anything?

- No, nothing.

I think if these a**holes

were serious they would've done

something by now.

Well, they did

something to Jimmy, right.

Do you think...

It's Jimmy's tattoo.

What? No.

It's okay. It's okay.

Stay here.

Campbell.

- It's Jimmy.

- No, dad. Wait, wait.

It's Jimmy.

The door.

Let's get him to the bedroom.

Give me a towel.

Go check on the girls,

make sure they're safe.

And make sure the doors

are locked.

- Ahh, f***!

- Jimmy, what happened?

- I underestimated them.

- Okay, I'll get you

- to a hospital, Jimmy.

- There's no time.

There's too many of them.

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