Z for Zachariah

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Find.

Faro. Find.

Shh.

Whoo! Whoo!

Whoo!

Man :
Whoo!

Whoo! Whoo!

Woman:

Hey, get out of there.

Get out of there quick!

Come on, you need to--

You need to get out of there.

Okay, okay, I'm good.

- I'm good-- Let me get--

- Get down, get down.

- Hey, get down.

- Who are you?

- Hey

- Who are you?

- Whoa, no, no, no--

- Where are the others?

There-- Who?

- Sh*t.

- Where are the others?

- Where are they?

- There aren't any others.

I don't know what to say.

It's just me.

You just need to get

out of the water, please.

Please, it's just-- The water

comes from outside the valley.

You just need to get

out of the water, please.

No!

Are you all right?

Can you do this?

Can you do this?

I can't do it.

Can you help me?

What is it?

I'm not gonna hurt you.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

Come on, I need your help.

Take it.

I don't know how to do this.

Uh...

Yeah, I need it once a day.

And this one, Prussian Blue.

I'm not gonna make it anyway.

- Stupid. Stupid!

- We, uh...

I can take your wagon thing

up to the house.

We have food.

We have food up there.

Burn my clothes.

And my body too if I die.

What's your name?

Ann.

I'm John.

I'm real sorry.

Okay.

Doing good.

- Doing good.

- Oh...

That's it.

One more, one more.

That's it.

Okay. It's okay.

Shh.

Ann:
Dear Lord, please bless this man.

He's very sick

and he needs your help.

I know you must have a plan for us,

but he's sick from a mistake

and I think probably a good person.

I will serve you

however you see fit.

I'm not saying you don't

know better or whatever, but...

I would feel so blessed if he...

could stay here... and healthy.

I need that, please.

Ann:
My dad said to us, you know,

"Keep the farm running, and..."

Okay.

"We've been blessed with this valley. "

Yeah.

And, uh, as long as we stay here,

we'd be protected.

Got to be an explanation.

I don't know, something to do with...

with the weather patterns or, uh,

maybe the ridge created a...

just a natural buffer zone.

L mean!!!

It's just crazy this is still here.

Nah.

Nothing crazy about it.

Why'd they leave the valley?

Why'd they leave

you here by yourself?

They had to go find survivors.

- They, they--

- Survivors?

They said that was our duty, so...

David was-- Well, I mean,

my brother was

supposed to stay here,

but he, um, he snuck away

to look for them

two weeks after they left.

That's him, there.

How old was he?

Thirteen.

Well, he's 14 now, I guess, but...

he'd been talking about

going to go find them for days,

and he was really upset.

L-I didn't know

how to calm him down.

I'm sorry.

I'm gonna go get your bed ready.

You need anything? Water?

I'm good.

Okay, well...

Good night.

Good night.

Ann:
Hey!

I really think

you need some more rest.

Maybe, but I couldnt just

sit up in that window,

watch you do

all the work by yourself.

Oh, yeah, come on, you can't--

- You can't do work like this, not yet.

- I know, I know, I know.

I just meant I wanted to come

down here and watch you do it.

Oh.

What is all this anyway?

Uh, it's gonna be soybeans,

but I got to get the rocks out first, so--

Why you doing the work

by hand, though?

- You can't drive this?

- I grew up on a farm.

I know how better than you.

Ran out of gas.

I used it up last year. It just--

What about that country store?

Isn't that a gas station

or just a store?

Well, yeah, but pumps

don't run without electricity.

No, no, no, you can use--

you can get it to work manually.

Hey!

It worked!

Ann:

Hey, hey!

It worked! It worked!

Could you see me

down at the gas pumps?

I was jumping all over the place.

I was so excited.

Felt weird pointing a rifle at you

even if it weren't loaded.

Oh, I always keep it loaded.

It's got a great scope

on it, doesn't it?

This looks good.

Well...

there's a lot to be thankful for.

Mmm.

You were-- You were up north

when it started?

Yeah.

I was, um, about a mile underground

in a government facility--

a bunker.

I'm a research engineer.

Well, I was.

I mean, like a...

Does that mean

you're a scientist

- or something?

- Yeah.

Oh, really?

Well--well, I was.

That's cool.

I was on the design team

for that suit I was wearing.

But it's the only reason I was able

to survive as long as I did.

They weren't supposed

to be used long-term, though.

It's beat up now. It's damaged.

So why'd you leave the bunker?

Just wasn't safe there anymore?

Well, I was a mile

underground, you know.

There was no...

There was no sun.

There was no rain.

There was no sky.

There was nothing.

You understand me?

What I wanted from life...

wasn't there.

Sol left.

Went to go find your wife.

My wife?

Well, um--

I was just--

When I was going

through your wagon

the other day for--

I was getting your medicine.

I accidentally came across

some photos of your wife.

She's not my wife.

I was...

That was just a girl

from a long time ago, really.

You know, the reason I left...

Honestly, what I think

I was looking for

was a place like this...

without ever believing for a second

that it could exist.

John:
I never thought

I'd eat fresh fish again.

Ann:
Oh, the pond is full of them.

We used to get yellow bullhead

from the creek,

but obviously, they died out.

But this pond comes from

the same water as the well does.

Dad says it comes from

an underground pocket of water.

Reckons it's a big part of

what kept this place from dying out.

An aquifer.

Yeah.

Makes a lot of sense.

He's a smart man.

Oh, I could eat this every--

every day of the week.

We can eat it as much

as you want

till the pond freezes over.

What happened last winter?

It snow a lot?

Yeah.

L...l stayed in the house mostly,

bundled up with Faro.

I mean, I saved food,

but we went through most of it.

Truth is, uh...

I almost-- I almost

froze and starved.

It--it was bad.

Well, that's a good reason

to plant the entire field.

Yeah, I mean even

if we could just get

the freezers up and running,

we could stock up on fish.

I just wish the generator

hadn't broken, you know?

Wait.

You got a generator?

Engine's fried.

It's my fault. lt's--

When it stopped working,

I was goofing around.

I was just-- I was--

I was playing a DVD.

Damn it.

I just wanted to hear people talk.

Well, don't beat yourself up.

This thing's old.

Looks like it's been repaired

a couple of times already.

It was liable

to blow no matter what.

Well, it's too bad we can't just do,

like a science fair thing

and just run all our clocks

and everything off a potato.

That's a good idea. Come on.

Yeah, that's a good flow of water.

We need to build a race

at the top, but...

it's enough to spin a generator.

John:
As long as there's enough

cable to reach the house,

we have power.

The lights might flicker,

but we could

get the freezer going.

Wait, it doesn't--

It doesn't matter

that the water's radioactive?

Not at all.

Water's just got to flow downhill.

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