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when my light starts dying.

And then someone

came out of the dark and hit me.

I was taken somewhere.

And then my light

came back on.

And I was outside. I don't even

know how I got there, but I...

I walked till I found

that bus shelter.

Taken?

Taken.

I don't know where.

I don't know where.

But there were these voices.

These whispers.

No bodies. No faces.

Souls.

Only shadows.

And I was drowning in them.

So I started screaming.

Started screaming.

But there was no sound.

There was no sound.

It was like I was fighting,

fighting for air.

Like I was fighting to exist.

Sounds like some kind

of fever dream.

No. Dreams are much more

broken apart, more obscure.

- I was taken some place for 3 days.

- I'm gonna keep you warm.

This was in real time.

So, did you get a look

at the guy that hit you?

I told you. I told you

it wasn't a person.

You saw it, too, didn't you?

I knew it.

When I was lying there,

waiting for the bus,

I had time and I went

through the list

of all the ways

everyone could just disappear.

Flesh eating bacterias.

Nanotech running amok.

A particle collider accident.

Parallel universes.

Neutron bombs.

Gamma ray bursts.

Alien abduction.

Singularities.

Wormholes. Black holes.

- Stop it!

- But the thing is

that the math doesn't add up.

The math does not add up.

My boy is missing.

His mother.

It just doesn't add up.

This is no accident.

There's a reason.

You're gonna lay

your Catholic guilt on us now?

Why are you here, Luke?

You know?

No idea.

And I don't care.

Well, you should.

We all... We all should.

Why didn't we go with everyone else?

- Because...

- Why?

Like, when you shut down

a movie projector,

it doesn't just stop on a dime.

It winds down.

We're the last spin on the reel

before it stops for good.

I know I've done things

in my life.

Awful things.

I've hurt people.

I've made mistakes.

We all have.

So what are you saying,

that this is punishment?

For what?

- That's between you and...

- And God?

Between me and God?

I don't know, I think God's

closed up shop,

- just like everybody else!

- Don't say that!

You're trying to tell me

- that he deserves this sh*t, huh?

- Leave him alone!

You know, I think that

you're just pissed off

- 'cause Jesus didn't beam you up!

- Stop it! No!

You know what? We don't need

some f***ing left behind sermon!

What we need to do is...

Oh, no!

Sweet Jesus. Sweet Jesus.

Lessen the load.

- What?

- The power load on the genny!

- You got to lessen it.

- Turn off anything we don't need.

James, get the games.

The jukebox.

Turn them off, turn them off.

Get the neon signs.

Strip the top off.

Looks like somebody rerouted it up

to the bar after the main grid died.

Yeah. My ma.

At least we got plenty of gas.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

The electric charge is fading,

anyway.

Like the batteries

and the flares...

And the cars

and everything.

It's just impossible.

But the bus shelter?

The one you were under?

Solar powered.

It's experimental, one off.

The city was thinking of going green

for a while. I did a piece on it.

Okay. So, solar is working.

Yeah. Too bad the sun's not.

James, where does this go?

Sonny says it's where we go

when the sh*t hits the fan.

Sonny had a point.

All right, rocket scientist.

How long?

- How long what?

- How long we got?

- How long until it dies?

- Yeah.

Couple hours, I don't know.

Couple minutes, I don't know.

I don't know. There are

no known laws of physics

operating here, okay?

I don't f***ing know.

I don't know!

Please, God.

Please, God. Please, God.

Hey, come on,

take it easy.

Okay, okay.

Please, God.

Please, God.

Please, God.

Please, God. Help us.

There's this island.

This island right off the Carolinas,

called Roanoke.

And in 1587 it was...

It was the first English colony.

and children were living there.

Then, one day a boat

comes from London with supplies.

But lo and behold,

there's nobody to supply,

'cause everybody's gone.

The whole entire colony

completely vanished.

Left everything behind.

Food, livestock, clothing.

They sent search parties

looking for everybody for days

and the only thing they find...

You know what they find? One word.

One word.

Just scratched...

Scratched on a fence post.

Croatoan.

Cro... What?

Croatoan.

What does it mean?

I don't know. Nobody knows.

It's just a big mystery.

Maybe it's a message

from the local Indians or...

Or a word or...

Or just a last word.

Nobody knows for sure.

But maybe it's...

Maybe it's a warning.

A warning, like an error warning

your computer gives you

right before it crashes.

A warning from who?

Does it really matter? Huh?

Someone just hit

the restart button and...

And the lost colony was just this

little warning right before the...

Right before this...

this big reboot.

- Whoa!

- Whoa!

Feels like a semi

smashed into my skull.

That's 'cause you think

too much.

James, wet the towel, sweetie.

There we go.

We need ice.

I'm just gonna raise

your head up.

Just breathe.

Breathe. Breathe.

Hello?

Anybody here?

Stephen?

Is somebody here?

Control.

...news.

Reporter Luke Ryder continues his

series on the storm of controversy

surrounding alleged

security lapses

at the West Haven

nuclear power plant.

Yeah, you definitely

don't want to miss that.

And speaking of storms, Paige.

Well, that's right,

Carolin and Stephen,

we're tracking a very large front

moving in our direction.

Kind of an unusual storm...

...the good news is

this low pressure system

is followed by a very nice

high pressure front, so things...

So things...

...defies any logical or

rational explanation.

Hey. Hey!

You can't say that it's evil.

You can't say that it's human

or not human.

But it is

the new law of nature.

And we have to adapt.

Last night after the blackout,

I heard my brother call out to me

from the darkness.

My brother died eight years ago

in an automobile accident.

It can trick you.

Stay near a light source.

But do not trust any light

other than the one

that you hold

in your own hand.

This is David Breadan,

at WDID in Chicago.

If you're receiving

this broadcast,

then your phone service

may still work.

Please, call or text me

at this number.

Damn it.

- Hello?

- Luke?

All right.

We need to get out of here.

Now.

He can't go anywhere.

Don't you get it?

Why we're here?

At this exact place?

All of us?

I'll tell you why.

The light.

The light's protecting us.

Protecting us?

Ever see moths

fly into a flame?

What are you trying

to say?

You trying to say

that this is a trap?

A trap!

A dead end.

But whatever's out there

is in here now.

Point is when that genny dies,

we die.

Maybe that's how it should be.

What?

All of us have seen it.

Those souls.

Out there in the dark.

How do we know

they're not the people

we've already lost

calling us over?

How do we know that

that's not heaven and this...

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