The Happening: The Hard Cut Page #3

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and then two pennies on the second,

and then four pennies on the third...

and then it just kept doubling

and it did this for a month.

How much money would you

have at the end of the month?

- Ten dollars?

- Higher.

Just keep looking at me.

Just keep looking at me.

- Twenty dollars?

- No. Keep going. Keep going.

Thirty. It's thirty dollars.

I'll tell you the answer.

It's over ten million dollars.

You'd have over ten million

dollars at the end of the month.

Want to hear another one?

Water contamination

is one of the many theories...

been taken seriously as the cause

of the events in the North East.

We have to go through this

little community of homes.

A small town called Holcomb.

Then we get the highway from there

within 30 miles from the state line.

Are those dead animais

up ahead?

Stop the car!

- You don't think it's...?

- I don't know.

You have binoculus in the back.

From when you were

spying on your neighbors.

- Can I have a map?

- Elliot...

Don't cause a panic, okay?

Jess can hear you.

It's bodies, isn't it?

I knew it would be bodies.

- How could it not be bodies?

- Please, give me the map.

We have to turn around.

There is a turn about a

quarter of a mile back.

We are just going to take a

different route, honey. Okay?

It's the army. We're safe!

My name is Private Auster.

I'm stationed at Westover

Military Base about ten miles back.

I think they've been affected

by whatever's happening.

I lost communication with them.

When I approached the base,

I saw military personnel in...

the barbed wire in... the fence.

So I suggest no one take

that road.

There's a town about eight

miles behind us.

There were bodies on the

road into town.

Cheese and crackers.

That still leaves us two directions.

Stop!

Stop the vehicle!

I'll talk to them.

Hello. Please, stop.

Excuse me...

Who's Joey?

No one.

Any luck?

I can't get Julian on

his cell phone.

I'm sure he'll be alright.

They'll be okay.

Maybe he knows something.

What are you talking about?

I don't know.

Why it started in parks?

It's the same story.

About nine miles back.

They say there is a bus

on a lake...

Five miles back.

There were dozens of bodies.

Okay.

Nobody's going anywhere.

We're going to stay right

here for a while.

This woman's talking to

her daughter.

She's talking to her daughter

in Princeton.

Isn't that where your

friend went?

Come on!

It's okay, honey, honey,

it's okay.

She's so scared...

You just stay in that room,

you don't open the door for nothing.

Just keep watching out the

window with the tree, baby.

Someone will come and

get you soon.

Tell her not to go near the window

with the tree, just tell her!

Baby, don't go near the

window with the tree!

Ask her if Princeton's been

affected.

Honey, someone wants to know if

Princeton's had any problems.

She says everyone's dead

outside.

You just stay in your room...

Honey, honey you're talking funny,

what's wrong with you?

What do you mean?

Everyone's dead?!

What? Stacy, you're

scaring me.

I don't understand what

you're saying.

What, baby? She's just

not making any sense.

Calculus.

I see... in calculus.

Calculus. Calculus.

Stacy?

Stacy Ann!

Oh, my God...

I hear the wind from outside.

No, no, no, no, no...

Stacy! Stacy! Stacy...

We are going to get back

to the car, okay, Jess?

Come here.

Elliot's resilient, isn't he?

Yeah, he never gives up.

You know plants have the

ability to target specific threats.

Tobacco plants when attacked

by heliothis caterpillars...

will send out a chemical attracting

wasps to kill just those caterpillars.

We don't know how plants

obtain these abilities.

They just evolve very rapidly.

Which species is doing it if

you think it's true?

Plants have the ability to communicate

with other species of plants.

Trees can communicate with bushes,

and bushes with grass...

and everything in between.

The radio says this attacks

started happening in the cities...

and went to the towns,

and now the roads.

That's right.

Whatever is happening, is happening

to smaller and smaller populations.

We shouldn't be on the

roads then.

The terrorists or whatever

could be watching the roads.

I don't have any reason to

disagree right now.

We are in the area of attack.

If you can't find a way through

the area of attack...

we are told to find a safe zone

within the area being attacked.

They're attacking populations.

We need to go were there

aren't many people.

Where people don't travel.

This is Mr. Collins,

he's a realtor that works in this area.

If we go West, we'll hit

a county called Arundell.

Is not on that map,

only on local maps.

Dirt roads.

Hardly anybody leaves out there.

There's no significant population there.

That's our safe zone.

We'll wait out there until

it's over.

Is everyone in agreement?

We should go into two groups.

Those that are ready to

go right now...

and those that need to get

things from their cars.

We need to stay in groups!

Stay together!

We'll go soon, honey,

we'll go soon.

Maybe we should wait for

the rest of them...

and stay in a big group

like the private said.

Your phone is out too?

What's wrong?

Okay, I was going to tell you,

okay?

There was this guy, Joey.

His name is Joey, he's at work.

We went out and we had dessert.

I went out and had dessert with

him when I told you I worked late...

and I didn't work late and I'm feeling

really guilty in case we're gonna die.

I just wanted you to know that.

You lied to me?

My firearm is my friend!

It will not leave my side!

Private Auster?

My firearm is my friend!

Jesus!

- Oh no...

- What "oh no"?

The toxin?

The toxin's affecting them?

Are those people killing

themselves?!

You were with the Private,

what do we do?

- We need to do something!

- Just let me think...

- They're dying!

- I need a second...

They released it?

We're not near the roads!

We can't just stand here

as uninvolved observers!

I need a second okay?

Just give me a second!

We're not gonna be one of those

a**holes on the news...

who watches a crime happen

and not do something!

- We're not a**holes!

- Just a second!

- There were children in that group!

- Elliot please tell us what to do!

I need a second okay? Why can't

anybody give me a goddamn second?!

All right, be scientific,

douchebag.

Identify the... rules...

design the experiment...

careful observation, measurements,

that's what I'm trying to do...

interpret the experimental

pattern, interpret...

What if it is the plants?

That group was larger than ours.

This thing's been escalating all day.

Smaller and smaller populations

have been setting this off.

They react to human stimulus.

Maybe people are setting

off the plants?

What are you saying? That guy

was crazy! We have to save them!

They're already dead!

What if they're targeting

us as threats?

This part of the field may

not have been set off.

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