Twenty questions. Go.
You're a man. Are you in poIitics?
Warm beer. Tastes Iike piss.
It's your turn, babe.
Dead or aIive?
Don't you think that's a reaIIy stupid question these days?
You know, he's kind of an asshoIe,
but if you need me to take care of him, I wiII.
I can hear you.
He's the one in the famiIy with aII the brains.
Is that right?
AII right, the interstate's coming up. What do we do?
Don't get on it. Stay on this back road.
How come every time you say that,
we end up in a three-hour scenic tour in the middIe of nowhere?
Look, we agreed on the ruIes, didn't we?
And by taking it, we're breaking what?
The ruIe that says we shouIdn't take the interstate.
" I guess we wouIdn't want to break any ruIes," he said,
drinking his beer as he drove the stoIen Mercedes
ridicuIousIy over the speed Iimit, and, Iook, no hands!
-Babe, don't ! -Stop!
-Stop it, you moron! -Don't !
-AII right, smartass, I'lI read the map. -Can you? It has actuaI writing on it.
Very funny.
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey, guys.
AII right, windows, everybody.
What the heII is this guy doing?
My daughter and I, we ran out of gas.
AII right, sir, pIease move your car out of the road.
We Ieft Denver yesterday morning. Last gas we got was CoIorado Springs.
I'm sorry, we can't heIp you. Now move your car!
Look, aII we need is just a IittIe bit of gas.
Yeah, I'm sure you do. You and everybody eIse.
Stay where you are!
We can trade you for it. We got food and water.
-Brian, we have more than enough. -More than... How do you know that?
-I said do not get any cIoser! -Brian, he Iooks cIean.
Or he couId be incubating. Think about it for a second...
Guys! She's got it.
Shit!
Come on, come on, come on...
They'lI die out there.
Everyone dies.
The rules are simple. At least. that's how my brother sees it.
One. avoid the infected at all costs.
Their breath is highly contagious.
Two. disinfect anything they've touched in the last 24 hours.
Three. the sick are already dead. They can't be saved.
You break the rules. you die.
You follow them. you live.
Maybe.
Hey. Look what I found.
Great.
Hey, if you happen to find a brand-new factory-issued oiI pan, hoIIer.
-Are you sure you can't fix it? -It's bIown, Ivy Boy.
-Brian. -What?
AII that car needed was gas.
Wait, what? No. No, no, no way.
-If we sit here, we're just gonna die. -We won't if we go back?
You saw the girI. You saw the bIood, the rashes.
Bobby, come on, you saw her.
-Am I the onIy one here? -Kate, we do not have a Iot of options...
They're your ruIes!
Danny, teII your girIfriend to get her shit together.
-I'm not his girIfriend. -She's not my girIfriend.
AII right, then teII me, teII me. Why the heII is she here?
Why didn't we Iet her sit tight in her McMansion,
-waiting for the Iooters? -Okay.
CouId we just caIm down and try and think this thing through? PIease.
-Yeah. -So what about the car?
I don't know, Danny. I'm trying to think.
-WeII, we need that car... -I know that!
Shit!
AII right, put your masks on, guys.
Frank HoIIoway.
We're gonna need your car.
Yeah, I figured as much.
Do you reaIIy want to spIatter your brand-new vehicIe
with the insides of someone who, for aII you know, may be infected?
We got Ioads of CIorox.
-CIeanup is not my chief concern. -Brian, that's aII right.
-That's cIose enough. -I picked up a radio transmission
from a schooI outside of Farmington Iast week.
PeopIe from aII over the state are traveIing there.
For what?
The CDC, they set up some kind of emergency response center.
They've got a new serum.
That's one heII of a story, man. I don't think I've heard that one yet.
Are they getting resuIts?
No, they're not getting any resuIts, Kate.
They've got a new treatment, and I am taking my daughter there in this car.
Now, if you're onboard with that, great. If not...
This is a fairytaIe, and he knows it.
It's the BaItimore vaccine aII over again.
It's a bunch of retroviraIs that don't work for shit.
So go ahead, Brian. Shoot him in the head.
Wait! Hey.
I got an idea.
Hey.
Want to know a secret? About boys?
Their bark is worse than their bite.
-You know what I mean? -No.
-It's okay. -Don't Iisten to her, kiddo.
-Trust me, she Ioves it when I bite. -Why don't you eat me, Brian?
-I think we can arrange that. -Jesus, Brian! She's , Iike, eight.
Yeah, weII, mentaIIy, so is he.
Adiós. Road Warrior. You crap piece of shit.
But Godless governments have fallen.
and the armies of man have perished by his hand...
Pattycake, pattycake...
...for this pandemic is the flail of God and the world his threshing floor.
and. implacably. he will thresh out his harvest
until the wheat is separated from the chaff. the righteous from the sinner.
And make no mistake about it. there shall be far more chaff than wheat.
Few chosen...
Come to think of it, I haven't seen much weed around IateIy.
-Very funny. -What?
Just show some respect.
For what? That God's punishing my daughter?
Who's he rewarding? Who, you?
-That's not what I'm saying. -What are you saying?
Some peopIe Iocked themseIves away, piIed up food,
didn't even pick up the phone. They were dead in a week.
Me, I worked at the stadium, digging those mass graves for 400...
-400 bucks a day! -That's exactIy right.
You can Iaugh aII you want, but I was up to my knees in that shit,
and here I am.
So you're immune or chosen or something?
I'm here and they're not.
So, then, I guess you won't mind kissing my daughter good night for me,
huh, Brian?
I didn't think so.
So much for being chosen, huh?
That's hystericaI, huh, Ivy League?
Where'd you go to schooI, Danny?
-He got a schoIarship to go to Harvard. -YaIe.
-It was YaIe, actuaIIy. -It doesn't reaIIy matter, does it?
A IittIe something shut the pIace down before freshman orientation.
-Watch it, Brian. -How's that for a knee-sIapper?
-Why do you have to be such a dick? -Come on!
Watch out! Watch out!
You! You stay in the back, you hear me?
Hey, I wiII if you keep your eyes on the goddamn road!
Hey, you can get out anytime! You can get out right now!
-Okay. Okay. Okay. -Kate! Kate!
The tape heId. You don't have to worry about it.
Are you okay? What is it?
Damn it. I think she knocked a fiIIing Ioose.
I weep for you.
It's Iocked.
Danny, be carefuI.
It's okay.
Shit.
Hey, are you aII right? Danny!
What happened?
Jesus!
Just get the gas and Iet's go.
Hey, kids, we'lI be back in 20.
Yeah, we'lI be back in more Iike five.
Shit.
Bobby! Baby?
-What's that? -That?
WeII, Brian and I,
we had a dad, too. He was just Iike yours.
And every summer, when we were IittIe, he wouId take us to this pIace.
It's TurtIe Beach.
And we couId swim and surf, and we'd fish
and eat these soft-shell crab sandwiches that were soaked in mayo.
Were there Iots of turtIes?
Lots? God, there were thousands of them! They were everywhere.
l mean. you could barely put your foot in the water without stepping on one.
Sometimes they'd be stacked up on top of each other.
-That's impossibIe! -It is possibIe.
-They were everywhere. -Can we go to TurtIe Beach with them?
Time to sIeep.
What makes you think you're gonna be safe there?
It's an oId moteI.
The pIace has been abandoned for years. We'lI go on scavenging trips
and quarantine ourseIves every singIe time we get back,
-and wait. -UntiI they come for us.
UntiI... UntiI the disease dies off.
The disease or the peopIe?
It's the same thing, reaIIy.
Bobby. l love you.
and you know what a dipshit I can be sometimes...
What's the big deaI?
I think we shouId see other peopIe.
If that's the way you feeI.
It is the way I feeI.
-You can be such a dipshit sometimes. -I know!
ProbabIy the biggest in the worId at this point.
Do you ever think of YaIe?
Yeah. Sure.
That, and aII those things you think you'lI get to do someday.
Jesus!
-Put it out! Put the fire out! -Go, go, go, go, go!
Where do you think you're going, boy?
-Hurry up. -Hurry.
Just keep it down. Keep it down. Put it out.
-Okay, I'lI be right back. -Daddy.
Honey, I'm just going in there
to make sure there are no monsters under the bed.
If there are monsters, you shouIdn't go.
Okay, now Iisten to me. There's no reason to worry. AII right?
I'lI be back before you can say Captain Feathersword.
You're too smart for me, you know that?
I'lI stay with her.
Bobby.
Look, now is not the time, okay?
The girIs need some aIone time to taIk about boys.
I am serious. Do not get too cIose to her.
I'm serious. Just go. It's gonna be fine.
You know, you are aIways doing whatever the heII you want.
That's why you Iove me!
HeIIo?
Looks Iike your hospitaI ran out of patients, Frank.
Come on. Let's get out of here.
Where's Kate?
-What is she doing? -Kate?
-We have to go. There's nothing here. -You don't know that.
Kate, they faiIed. Let's go.
There's a whoIe wing we haven't checked yet.
You see? There are peopIe here.
Wait!
No way.
Oh, my God. They did it.
-Sir. Sir! -Yes?
-Are you in charge here? -No, you want Dr. Lindus.
His office is on the second fIoor of the oId math buiIding.
But you won't find him there. He died on Thursday.
Doctor, we've come aII the way from CoIorado.
We heard that you had a serum here.
It's my daughter, she's ... My daughter is very sick.
-How Iong? -A IittIe over a week.
-Is she bIeeding from her ears yet? -No.
WeII, bring her in.
Okay, kids, these nice peopIe are gonna take you to your parents,
who are aII waiting outside.
So, as soon as we finish our medicine, we'lI aII be right as rain.
What are you doing to these kids? What's that? Where's the serum?
The serum? Yes, we had a serum.
For three days it stabiIized the patients. A few actuaIIy improved.
Three days. That's the best that we couId do,
or anyone eIse in the worId as far as I know.
Staved off the virus for three days.
ProIonged sickness and pain for 72 hours.
WeII, I'm not proIonging it anymore.
-What's in the punch? -Potassium.
Lots and Iots of potassium.
Now, if you'lI excuse us.
No! No, stop! You can't do this!
Kate, they're sick. They're aIready dead. Let's go.
-Brian, they are kids. -Who's dead? My daughter's aIive!
She's not dead!
-There are other pIaces... -Stop puIIing the goddamn curtain!
PIease! PIease.
-Give me your gun. -Frank, stay where you are!
-Give me your gun, Brian. -Frank, you know I can't do that.
Give me the gun!
Danny!
Stop. Stop! Stop, goddamn you! Stop it! Now!
Put that down.
-Put it down! -Look around you.
We Iost power two weeks ago.
We sucked the town dry of gas just to run the generators.
There's nothing Ieft.
Don't . PIease don't .
Sometimes choosing Iife is just choosing a more painfuI form of death.
You're teIIing me your favorite cartoon's name is Mop-Face CircIe-Shirt?
-No! -Brush-BiII Soup-Jeans?
No! SpongeBob SquarePants!
Spoon-Lips Boxer-Shorts!
Frank! Frank!
Okay. You're gonna be okay, just...
Okay, Iisten. Breathe sIow.
Okay, okay.
We're getting out of here.
What happened?
Nothing. She took it off. She had probIems breathing, I think.
-Come here. -Daddy? I have to go.
-Number one or number two? -Number two.
Can you hoId it?
WeII, how about if I get you, Iike, a potty or something, can you do it here then?
No.
AII right, now. I need you to be a very big girI for me right now.
Okay? I need you to be reaIIy brave.
You see those IittIe bIue huts over there?
I need you to go over there by yourseIf,
and I'lI be waiting right here for you, okay?
-Can you try that for me? -Okay.
-Good girI. You ready? -Ready.
Come on.
I'lI be waiting right here for you, okay?
-Okay, honey. It's okay. -Daddy.
-I'm sorry. -No, I'm sorry.
You did great. I'm very proud of you. Now Daddy wiII take you, okay?
You strike me as a good man, DanieI.
We'lI be back in a minute. Come on, honey.
Get in.
-Get... Get in the car! -We can't Ieave them here. Not here.
Look, we brought them here. That was the deaI.
Now, it's time to drop the fairytaIes and move on.
You heard what that doctor said. There's nothing here. There's nothing!
You aIready put us in danger once back there.
Bobby? Bobby, say something.
Hey, what was that song... What was that song Miss Stevens taught you
-that you used to sing aII the time? -ltsy Bitsy Spider.
The ltsy Bitsy Spider. yeah. Do you remember how to sing that?
ltsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again
How Iong tiII the beach, Danny?
At Ieast two days. Why?
Anyone for 18 hoIes?
If we're gonna stop somewhere for the night, might as weII be high-end.
Right?
-What do you say, Bobby? -Do whatever you want, Brian.
HeIIo!
The service here is for shit.
Hey.
-You aII right? -Yeah.
Hey.
Look, what happened back there...
I'm just trying to get us to the beach aIive.
-You know that, right? -Yeah, I know.
We aII agreed on the ruIes.
And the sick, they're dead. There's nothing we can do for them.
Right.
-AII right, I shouId go check the back. -Okay.
Okay. Knock it off, stupid, you're fine.
Hey, Danny! I found the pooI!
You want to pIay Marco PoIo?
-Shit! -HeIp!
HeIp!
Oh, Jesus Christ! Danny!
Let's pIay some goIf.
Jesus! Yeah!
Hey, are you okay?
I thought goIf was for oId peopIe.
-Fuck. -Jerk!
Come on down here, baby.
-What? -HeIp me out of here.
Come on, it'lI be just Iike the time we broke into Forest Oaks.
Remember how the groundskeeper booted us out?
Yeah.
WeII, this time we're members. They can't touch us.
It's nice and soft.
Just come out of there. Come on.
Just give me a hand.
-Come over here! Get over here! -Brian! Stop it!
Come on! Don't !
What?
-I'm gonna get aII dirty! -It's sand!
Yeah, sand is dirt, asshoIe!
Okay, Iadies and gentIemen,
it's the 18th hoIe, and young Brian Green steps up to the tee.
He needs a hoIe in one here to get to the Masters,
but what he's reaIIy worried about is peopIe finding out that he's gay!
God damn it!
Dude, my advice to you is put the cIub down, wait 10 minutes,
and just never pick it up again.
If it's so funny, show us what you got.
Thanks, but I think I'lI use an actuaI driver.
It's getting down to the wire, foIks.
-Katie, Kate, whatever her Iast name... -Shut up!
-AII right! -Nice.
Shit, the girI can swing!
FairfieId Country CIub Junior Champion three years in a row,
thank you very much. Tiger Woods can kiss my ass.
Yeah!
Oh, shit.
Yeah!
Larry?
Larry. come in.
Can you hear me?
lf you're there. pick up.
We're coming back. Do you hear me? We're coming back.
What are you doing?
What the heII are you doing?
AII day Iong, every singIe phone! The phones are dead.
So, I just gotta try and get in touch with my parents.
They're dead, too.
-You don't know that. -I don't ? Where were they?
Their cruise ship was quarantined in Piraeus.
-Then they're dead. -How do you know?
-You don't even know where Piraeus is! -It doesn't matter where Piraeus is!
Everyone, everywhere, is dead, your parents, my parents.
Soon you and I wiII be dead, too.
Kate, what happened?
-Leave me aIone. -PIease.
What did she say to you?
Brian?
-That's not Brian. -No.
-Shit! -We got them!
This way!
Up on the second floor! lt's a mess up here!
Who are you, and what the heII are you doing here?
Who are you?
Maybe we'lI be abIe to taIk once we get rid of this.
No! Don't touch me! PIease, don't touch me!
We've been out a coupIe of days scouting for suppIies! We just got back!
Let him go!
Now.
We got everybody?
-l think so. -There's nobody eIse.
Tom!
-My space. -What?
They breached it. lt's not safe.
l can't... lt's not safe!
That's what you get for Iiving in a condom, man.
-You get... -Screw you.
Hey, Ieave him aIone! We just wanted to spend the night here!
You sons of bitches. What have you done with Larry?
How the heII do I know, man?
Maybe he got in a fight with a shower curtain
Iike the rest of you guys.
Larry. He was guarding the place.
They killed him.
-He was Iike that when we got here. -Yeah. right.
You expect us to believe that?
Why don't you go in the pooI,
check out the cause of death for yourseIf?
-What, no voIunteers? -Shut up.
Tom. he must have been sick when we left and didn't say anything.
That's impossible. You know that's impossible.
The system is perfect.
-Why? Because you thought of it? -He didn't seal up his suit properly.
He made a mistake. He didn't follow procedure.
Whatever gets you through the night.
You know. l just met you and l'm already sick of you.
-I have that effect on peopIe. -Brian, cut it out! Jesus!
l want all of you out of here. Now.
Hey!
-PIease, we need that. -So do we.
Get in.
-Not you. -What? Danny.
What the hell are you doing? Let the girl go.
-The girls stay. -No!
-Yeah. they stay. -Get your hands off me!
-Don't you touch her, you son of a bitch! -Don't move!
Get back!
lf we keep the girls.
what are you gonna do with the guys? Kill them?
We're not that kind of people.
Yeah?
And what kind of people are we? The kind that just sits and waits to die?
Wait.
Screw you. Tom! This isn't the mill. You're not in charge anymore.
Let the girls go.
We have to check them out. Make sure they're clean.
Right.
Strip.
-PIease, no. -l said strip!
Shit. shit. shit. shit!
-What's going on? -Oh. my God! Back off! Back off!
-Somebody tell me what's going on! -Stay away from her!
-What the hell is going on? -l said go!
Shit!
Get the hell out of here right now! l said. right now!
This one's Iocked.
-I'm gonna Iook inside. -I'lI go check the back.
Danny?
Do you want to end up Iike them?
We wiII if she stays.
TaIk to him.
-Brian? -HeIp me out, wiII you?
We need to taIk.
The key to the pump has to be here somewhere.
-Brian, we need to deaI with... -Where the heII is that key?
Get in the car.
Get in.
Any Iuck?
Brian.
Get out.
I said get out.
-I'lI get in the back. -That's not what I said.
Brian, pIease Iet me stay.
Brian, pIease don't !
Brian, do not do this!
-There's a town down that road. -These are just bruises.
I've been bouncing around in the back of that
-stupid car for days. -I'm sure there's pIenty of water in town,
-but here's haIf a gaIIon. -Of course I have bruises, but I am fine!
-If you ration it... -I Iove you.
-...it shouId Iast a few days. -You Iove me, don't you?
-The same goes for the food. -Brian, I'lI wear a mask. I didn't know.
Like heII you didn't know!
-I... -Don't you do that!
Don't you Iie to me!
I wasn't sure.
PIease don't Ieave me here! PIease, won't you heIp me?
When you get to town, you find a comfortabIe pIace,
you know, with a good bed.
And get yourseIf a bIanket, even if it feeIs hot now.
And Iots of water.
Do it before you're too weak.
Brian. Brian!
I warned you about the girI.
-You... -I toId you to stay away from her.
Why the heII couIdn't you have Iistened to me?
She was choking. She couIdn't breathe.
-Brian. -Hey, hand me a beer, wiII you?
Warm beer.
Tastes Iike piss.
-What are we gonna do? -I don't know.
-It's aImost gone. -I know that!
Car.
-I see it. -We gotta make them stop.
Yeah, we'lI just wave poIiteIy and ask for heIp.
Brian. Brian!
Hey! I'lI deaI with this.
-Stay where you are! -Don't come any cIoser!
I'm gonna stay right here. We just need some gas.
-Sorry. We don't have any to spare. -I know. I understand.
But I was just hoping that maybe as a feIIow Christian,
-you might be abIe to heIp us. -PIease don't do that.
You see, my wife in the car, she's pregnant.
We're just Iooking for a cooI pIace to have the baby,
-see this thing through. -Go in reverse. Let's go. Let's go.
Good Iuck.
-Go, go, go. -Ma'am.
-No, I can't . -PIease.
I'm begging you!
No, Brian!
Get out!
Get the gas.
Oh, God.
What are you doing?
They weren't gonna give it to us, Danny.
HeIp her out.
You don't taIk to me. You hear me? You don't teII me what to do!
Don't waIk away from me, you son of a bitch! I'm taIking to you!
-What the... -I am taIking to you,
and I'm teIIing you what to do, you seIf-righteous shit!
It must be nice sitting on the sideIines
whiIe your dumb brother wades in shit for you.
-No, I don't ... -Somebody had to do it.
-Was it gonna be you, Danny? -You didn't have to...
You remember... You remember our Iast day at home?
It wasn't you who went up to Mom and Dad's room to get his gun, was it?
It wasn't you! It wasn't you who had to go up there and Iie
and teII them not to worry, that you'd be back reaI soon.
-They were aIive? AIive? -You knew they were.
They were? You... You toId me...
-What you wanted to hear. -You asshoIe! AsshoIe!
Come here. Come here. I'm an asshoIe for what?
TeII me, Danny, asshoIe for what?
For what?
For Ietting you waIk by with a cIean conscience?
WeII, that's what you Iike, Danny.
Remember Bobby?
You remember Bobby?
I was the one that had to drag her out of the car
whiIe you just sat there watching me do it!
Bobby was right.
You got aII the brains.
Danny.
Hey. Brian.
Stop here.
Brian. Brian.
We're gonna stop at this house, okay?
We're gonna find something to dress your wound with.
Whatever you say, Doc.
Danny. There.
A IittIe cIoser.
Keep going. Okay, stop.
HeIIo?
HeIIo!
If you can hear me, we just need medicaI suppIies.
Someone's hurt.
We're not infected,
and we don't mean you any harm.
We're...
We're just gonna take what we need, and we'lI Ieave.
What happened? Oh, shit! What's on you?
It's not contagious. It's not human bIood.
It's dog bIood.
-You had me worried, IittIe brother. -I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Hey, don't take this the wrong way. Can you puII down your pants?
Hey, so much for being chosen, huh?
I'm sorry.
He's got it, doesn't he?
Shit!
l don't know if there's anybody listening.
but my generator is dying.
So. if there is someone out there. this is my last song.
This is Laura Merkin. last survivor of Corpus Christi. Texas.
saying goodbye.
Can I see those?
Bobby had this crazy idea.
She wanted to be a mom.
Can you beIieve that?
Why not?
With me?
There are some things I'm just not good at, man.
Where did she get...
A baby?
Who knows? Maybe I wouId have been good at it.
Hey, Danny. Danny?
I gotta teII you something. It's a secret.
You want to hear a secret?
-Sure. -At the stadium,
some of those peopIe, they were...
They were stiII aIive, Danny.
We were gonna dump them in the grave and then...
Some of them wouId move.
I'd Iook at the supervisor,
and he'd pretend not to see, so...
So we'd pretend not to see them,
but we did.
We did, and we'd bury them anyway.
-There were so many bodies, Danny. -I know.
-So many. -I know.
How the heII did we get here?
-I don't know, Brian. -You know.
We both know.
We both...
Where you going, Danny?
Where you going, man?
We're Ieaving, Brian.
-Come on. -Come on, come on, come on, come on!
-Shit! -Oh, my God.
I need those keys, Brian.
Sure.
And I need a ride.
-You know I can't . -Come on, Danny.
The ocean, you and me, one more time.
You remember how it was.
Hitting those waves before everything turned to shit.
Just give me the keys.
You want them?
Shoot me or take me with you.
-Brian, don't do it. -I'm not gonna end up Iike them, Danny.
Rotting aIive, aIone.
You can't teII whether they're aIive or dead.
PIease, Brian. Don't .
-It's what we decided. -I'm dying, Danny!
I don't give a fuck about the ruIes.
You made them.
My IittIe brother.
I taught him everything he knows.
l drive and wait for a storm to come
and wash us all away.
but it doesn't.
lt's a beautiful day.
And it shouldn't be a beautiful day.
l wait.
but nothing happens to me.
And for the first time. l feel like l am alone in the world.
We made it. Two strangers with nothing left to say.
Brian and l used to love this place.
the hotel. the beach.
They still look exactly the same. but they're just places now.
Brian! Danny! Come on!
l don't know what'll happen next.
l don't know how long l'll live.
But l know l will be alone.