Happening, The (2008) Movie Script

I forgot where I am.
You're at the place where
the killers meet...
to decide what to do
with the crippled girl.
That's right. That's right.
Did you hear that?
That's funny.
That's weird. Those people look
like they are clawing at themselves.
Is that blood?
Claire, are you seeing this?
Claire?
Claire? Claire!
What page was I on?
What page...?
So the little guy says:
"You have a girlfriend named
Wendy too?
Well, I saw your 'thing'
and it said W-Y."
The big guy says:
"No, man!
Mine says: Welcome to Jamaica,
have a nice day!"
Christ, Mckenzie fell.
Medic, we have a major accident
at the south side of the building.
We'll need an ambulance.
Jesus...
Give him some room.
- Hey!
- Somebody fell!
- Davis?
- Oh, my God, he fell!
Someone fell from the
building!
- Oh, my God!
- What...?
Get out of there!
- Hey, someone... Help!
- Look out!
God in heaven...
I don't know if you guys heard
about this article on New York Times...
about honeybees vanishing?
Apparently, honeybees are
disappearing all over the country.
Millions of them just disappearing.
There is no bodies, no sign of them,
they are just mysteriously gone.
This is scary, huh?
Let's hear some theories about
why this may be happening.
Nothing? Come on, guys.
- Laura.
- Diseases?
Right. Could be a virus
or infection.
But is all over the country,
a coordinate event in 24 states.
That's a little tricky.
- Pollution?
- Could be.
We're pumping so much junk
into the environment...
that it's just killing over?
But there are no bodies.
Keep guessing.
Dylan?
Global warming.
Temperature goes up a
fraction of a degree...
makes them desoriented.
Maybe.
Jake?
You don't have an opinion?
You are no interested in
what happened to the bees?
You should be more
interested in science, Jake.
You know why?
Because your face is perfect.
The problem is your face
is perfect at 15.
Now, if you were interested in science
you would know facts like...
the human nose and ears grow a
fraction of an inch each year.
So a perfect balance of
features now...
might not look so perfect
and might look down right
whack ten years from now.
Come on, buddy.
Take an interest in science.
What could the a the reason
bees have vanished?
An act of nature and we'll
never fully understand it.
Nice answer, Jake.
He's right.
Science will come up with some
reason to put in the books.
But in the end,
will be just a theory.
We will fail to acknowledge that
there are forces at work...
beyond our understanding.
To be a good scientist, you must have
a respectful awe for the laws of nature.
Jake?
How much does the human
nose grow each year?
It's miniscule, buddy. Okay?
Don't worry about it.
You're going to be a heartthrob your
whole life. I was just messing with you.
The dark lord.
Don't look into her eyes!
Vice-principal!
What can we do for you?
I'm afraid I have to interrupt
you for a second, Mr. Moore.
Okay, guys, calm down.
I'll be right back.
- What is it?
- I don't know.
- What is going on?
- I don't know.
You excused all the teachers?
The Administration makes us teach
with a foot of snow on the ground.
What is this?
All right.
There appears to be an event
happening.
Central Park was just hit by
what seems to be a terrorist attack.
Oh, no!
They are not clear on
the scale yet.
It's some kind of airborne
chemical toxin...
that's been released in
and around the park.
They said to watch for
warning signs.
The first stage is confused speech.
The second stage is physical
disorientation, loss of direction.
The third stage... is fatal.
Central Park?
That is kinda odd.
I spoke with the head of schools.
He said we should dismiss the students.
So, take your plans home so
we can get back when this is over.
All right?
Let's do our jobs.
You guys still got to do your
science project for next week.
What are the rules for
scientific investigation?
Identify variables,
design the experiment...
careful observation and
measurement...
interpretation of
experimental data.
Hey, guys...
Nothing.
My mother called my cell again.
She's hysterical.
I told her the probability of something
happening in Philadelphia is very low.
Nobody is telling us to
leave the city, right?
I threw her some figures.
It's good to be a math teacher.
People are comforted by percentages.
She still wants us to get of the city
and come out to her house.
She said for you and
Alma to come.
Let me think about that,
okay?
Did you hear about New York?
Are you okay?
Come on, are you okay?
Yeah, me too.
Listen, I want to talk about it.
Julian's mom wants us to get out
of the city and stay with her.
What do you think?
I'll bring Jess and Evette and I'll
meet you at the station.
Listen, Julian, if Alma is acting weird,
just be cool about it, okay?
What's going on?
She's acting odd.
Just don't worry about it, okay?
- Odd?
- Look...
She's acting like she's distant
or something.
- Why?
- I can't say anymore.
- Is she leaving you?
- I didn't say that!
It's just talk.
Just relax, please?
Hey...
I'm gonna tell you something that
you never say to your best friend.
Why is everybody saying that?
- I saw her on your wedding day.
- Again with the wedding. What?
I walk into a room by mistake,
and she was crying.
She looked up,
I saw her face.
She wasn't ready to
jump in, Elliot.
She will never jump in when
you need her.
So do federal state and local officials
have a plan in place for this catastrofe...
- Are you packed?
- Yes.
- What are they saying?
- They're evacuating New York City!
Our brains come equipped with
a self-preservation mechanism...
to stop us from harmful actions.
This is controlled by a combination of
electrochemical signals in the brain.
The blocking of neurotransmitters
by certain toxins...
has been proven to cause hallucinations,
asphyxiation, and paralysis.
This new neurotoxin basically flips
the preservation switch...
blocking neurotransmitters
in a specific order...
causing specific self-damaging
and catastrophic affects.
Just how the toxin works...
It makes you kill yourself.
Just when you tought that couln'd be
any more evil that could be invented.
I'll be packed in two minutes.
Hello?
No need to rush.
Sir, let me check your...
Elliot! Elliot!
Elliot!
Autopsies on the first
victims confirm:
The toxin is a natural compound.
The attacks remain confined to the
New York metropolitan area.
Track three now boarding
for Harrisburg.
Hey, Jess. Where's Evette?
She was at a shop across town.
She's stuck in traffic.
She said she'd take the
next train.
We'll wait.
She wanted us to get on this train
with Jess. She'd feel safer.
- Where's Alma?
- Restroom.
Hey, Julian.
I bought them.
It was like getting one of those Cabage
Patch dolls when they first came out.
- I'm a madass. How are you?
- Good. You?
Good.
- Okay, good. Why don't we...?
- I'm really glad you chose to come.
Thanks. Hmm...
Elliot, can I talk to you for a second?
Yeah.
Show me your tickets,
ladies and gentleman.
- You told him about our fight?
- No.
- Why did he say that?
- He guessed!
I love you, Elliot. But I don't like to put
out my feelings for everyone to see it.
I'm not that type of person.
These are our problems.
I'm upset.
I'll cool off. By the time
we get there I'll be fine. Okay?
Fine.
I'm going to get in the train.
We're not going to get to
sit together anyway.
Okay.
- Hey, babe.
- Hi, aunt Alma.
- How are you doing?
- Hanging in there.
Me too.
- What's wrong with you?
- What?
You are wrong about her.
She just needs time to figger it out.
- Don't be all sensitive.
- Just give her a chance!
Okay, fine.
If you don't want my help...
- I don't want you help!
- Okay. I heard you.
Jess, can you ask your
dad for my ticket, please?
Thank you.
See you on the train, Jess.
Here we go.
Is mommy going to meet
us at grandma's?
Mommy is going to get
on the next train.
You know she's aways late.
Come on, come on.
I know. I know.
Chilly isn't it today, Sal?
Maybe a little.
Hey, it's me.
I'm on a train.
I just want to say something,
okay?
You have got to stop calling me.
You're acting like the
"Fatal Attraction" guy here.
I feel like I'm going to take
a shower...
and see your silhouette
on the shower curtain!
We ate Tiramissu together.
That is it.
I told you that it would be it.
You have got to chill out!
What? When?
In Philadelphia?
- What's the news?
- Philadelphia was just attacked!
Oh, my God. Evette!
Call mommy! Call mommy!
Honey?
Honey, where are you?
What?
What? I can't hear you.
I said I can't hear you.
Text me!
Text me!
Can't hear you!
They think it started in
Rittenhouse Square Park.
Another park?
She got on a bus going
to New Jersey.
- I want to talk to her.
- She got out.
She's headed to a town
of Princeton.
Let me talk to her.
- Are you okay?
- They said Boston got hit too!
- Where did you hear that?
- A friend from work.
- What about Evette?
- She made out on a bus.
What the hell is going on, Elliot?
I honestly don't know.
Now, what?
We just stopped.
I don't know.
Sir?
The train service has
been discountinued.
This will be the last stop
for all passengers.
Hey, what do you mean?
Where are we?
- Filbert, Pennsylvania.
- Filbert?
Does anybody know
where that is?
Why are you giving me one useless
piece of information at a time?
What's going on?
Hey, why would you just stop?
You can't just leave us here!
Sir, we lost contact.
With whom?
Everyone.
I'm scared.
I want mommy.
Don't be silly.
We are safe here.
Okay?
Sorry. She whispers
when she gets scared.
We are so much the same, Jess.
I don't like to show my emotions either.
She's shivering.
I know. She's never
right without her mom.
They are not saying anything.
We're stuck here.
Is Jess okay?
She's not talking.
We are in a small town, Jess.
Nothing will happen to us here.
Just stay here, all right?
I'm over there.
What? You want to come
with me? You can come with...
Go, go. I got it.
Go get the milk.
Yeah.
You know that everyone
gives off energy, right?
It's scientifically proven.
They got these cameras that
can record what color you are...
when you're feeling
different things.
People that are angry give off a different
color than people that are sad.
See this ring?
This ring can supposedly tell
you what you're feeling.
Let's see what you're
feeling right now.
Oh, yellow!
Well that's cool. That means
you're about to laugh.
I'm not making it up.
That's what yellow means.
You must be about to laugh
or something.
Something good's probably
about to come out.
We'll wait.
I got all day.
Oh, my God.
There it is. Cool!
That ring really works.
It's amazing.
Oh, my God!
Look at this.
My sister send it to me.
It was taken as hour ago
at the Philadelphia Zoo.
Mother of God!
What kind of terrorists are these?
They are not sure it's
terrorists now!
Moments ago, an official
statement from the Government...
moved away an official position
that this was a terrorist attack.
Authorities are now feeling, by
the number of incidents been reported...
that a terrorist responsibility
is becoming less and less likely.
The event appears to be
limited to the North East...
where smaller and smaller
towns are being attacked.
Where are we?
The affected area now is most
from Massachusetts to Maryland.
We are in the center.
Everything okay?
If we stay here,
we are going to die here.
Whatever this is...
it looks like is not occurring
about 90 miles from here.
Let's go.
Hey!
Excuse me, sir?
Sir, can we get a ride, please?
We don't have any transportation.
We're stuck here!
Sir, did you hear what I said?
We don't have any transportation.
We have a little girl with us. Please!
- Just go.
- Sir!
You are not just going to...
Can you believe how
crappy people are?
There is a car.
Hi.
I run a plant nursery
up the street.
We are picking a few thing
from home and heading...
wherever this isn't happening.
- We have room.
- We have two others.
That's okay.
Julian!
Is Julian okay?
We got a ride.
He can fit all of us.
Elliot, I can't get
Evette on the phone.
- How long?
- It's been about two hours.
She was on that bus
headed to Princeton.
This car is going to pick up
friends and family there.
They say they can
squeeze one more.
Gotta go!
Look, think real carefully
about this.
She was looking for a
birthday present for Jess.
Some kind of dollhouse.
That's why she wasn't with us.
I'm just going to get her, and bring
her back, and I'll find you guys.
I just... I need you to
take Jess. Okay?
She will be a lot safer with you.
Don't do this to me.
I'm doing my best not
to fall down.
The probability of Princeton
not been hit is good.
Yeah.
Do you want me to throw you some
figures and percentages...
- ...so we both feel better?
- Please!
- Go get her, Jules. Okay?
- That's just some weird event.
We'll be fine.
We'll find you guys real soon...
I have to go.
I got her, Julian...
Don't take my daughter's
hand unless you mean it!
I'm going to go get mommy.
Hold our picture.
Take a look around.
We'll be ready soon.
We're packing hot dogs
for the road.
You know, hot dogs
get a bad rep.
They gotta cool shape,
they got protein.
You like hot dogs, right?
By the way, I think I know
what's causing this.
- You do?
- It's the plants.
They can release chemicals.
You like hot dogs,
don't you?
Okay, babies.
We are going to be going...
but we will be back soon,
okay?
Plants react to human stimulus,
they've proved it in tests.
You get the mustard?
Don't look outside.
Stop it!
Stop it! Just look at me.
Just keep looking at me.
Close the vents.
I'm going to give you
a math riddle, okay?
And you're going to
tell me the answer.
What?
How much would you have if I said
I would pay you a penny on the first day...
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
assholes on the news...
who watches a crime happen
and not do something!
- We're not assholes!
- 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.
Something in this field could be
releasing the chemical into the air...
when there's too many of
us together.
Let's just stay ahead of the wind!
Let's break up into groups!
Here it comes!
Don't you let go of my hand!
Nothing happened.
Is the size of the groups.
Can this really be happening?
What are your names?
- Jared.
- Josh.
Wait, wait!
I'm going to go see if
that truck has a map.
You guys wait here.
Why aren't they looking into
nuclear power plants?
There are fifteen or more
in the North East alone!
More than anywhere else in
the United States.
There's probably been some
leak or something.
Probably poisoning the air.
There's a house over there.
Come on!
It could have been some terrorist
booby trap someone stepped on it...
- out in the field.
- A field in Bubble Town, Pennsylvania?
I don't know.
A toxin dissipates quickly in the air,
it has to be close to the field, not in it!
Here's one.
Plants have the chemistry
to do this.
They release cotransporters
into the air.
- You think it could be plants?
- I don't know.
But if it is, and people
are setting it off in groups...
we need to go to the least
populated place to be safe.
We can't walk to the boarders when
this is happening, Alma. It's too far.
Whatever it is... terrorists,
a nuclear leak, plants...
it's probably safe to get
away from people right now.
This must be Arundell.
It's 10 miles from here.
Okay, this place must have
a bathroom.
I'm going to take Jess and
we can leave.
Hurry.
Hello.
My name is Elliot Moore.
I'm just going to talk in a very positive
manner, giving off good vibes.
We're just here to use the bathroom,
and we're just going to leave.
I hope that's okay.
Plastic.
I'm talking to a plastic plant.
I'm still doing it.
You guys are ready to leave?
This people must have left in a hurry,
leaving the front door unlocked.
Hey, everything's fake!
- Why is this happening?
- I don't know for sure, Josh.
But I read this article about
the coast of Australia.
They said they found large
quantities of a primordial bacteria...
and hadn't been around for billions
of years, they just appeared in the water.
It's toxic to humans, fishermen
that are in contact with it are dying...
It feels kind of similar to that.
With the bees disappearing,
I don't know, feels like a pattern.
Nature events like the one in
Australia crested and stop.
We just have to be alive
when it's over.
I don't believe it's nature.
May not be. It could be
some other explanation.
Let's go.
There are people coming!
We can't stay here.
It's close to the roads.
More and more people
will come here.
Is two groups coming together.
There's too many of them
together!
Run!
- Is she your kid?
- No.
- Got kids?
- No.
How come?
You got... a problem?
- No. She wanted to wait.
- Really? For what?
For me to grow up.
Why are we talking about this?
I used to love this.
Can I see it?
You need to take a personal
responsibility in a relationship.
- That will make a difference.
- Okay, thank you!
Hey, that's not a toy.
It got meaning to me.
Elliot, look!
Come on!
Emergency broadcast:
All those who are still inside
the affected area of the North East...
are asked to procede to the
police borders.
Come on!
This is an emergency broadcast.
...inside the affected area...
Jess needs a ten minutes
rest and some food.
Are you sure?
We should keep going.
I know, but she's only eight.
What?
If we're going to die,
I want you to know something.
I was in the pharmacy
a while ago.
There was a really good-looking
pharmacist behind the counter.
Really good-looking.
I went up and asked her
where the cough syrup was.
I didn't even have a cough,
and I almost bought it.
I'm talking about a completely
superfluous bottle of cough syrup...
which costs like six bucks.
Are you joking?
Thank you.
- Maybe that's not a good idea.
- I told her just for a minute.
Mr. Moore, I think I can
open this door.
Wait, we're a gang now?
We'll take whatever we want?
Come on, guys.
Nobody's home. We're just going
to take some food for Jess.
It looks like nobody lives
here for a long time, anyway.
It's all boarded up.
Maybe we could leave
some money.
What kind of tree is this?
I think it's a mapple.
Not so high.
Okay, Josh. Open the door.
Wait!
I see something.
- There's somebody in there!
- Are you sure?
Yeah, I saw a move.
I see him!
Let's stop.
Could we get some food?
We have a little girl.
We just want to get her some food.
Best leave now.
You ain't going to bring
that poison gas with it.
Sir, it's not poison gas.
It's not out here.
They said to stay inside.
We're fine right now.
Nothing happened out here yet.
You can see that.
Just listen to our voices.
We're perfectly normal.
Old black water,
keep on rollin
Mississippi moon,
wont you keep on shinin on me
See? We're normal.
You ain't from around here.
You best leave now.
Okay. It's not worted.
Open the door, bitch!
Hey, Josh, don't do that.
He didn't mean that.
- There's more than one in there.
- Jess!
Jess, come here.
Stop it! Listen, we just want some
food for a little girl, you pussies!
- Jess, come here.
- Josh, stop it.
Don't let that gas in here!
Sir, the air is fine out here right now,
you don't need to worry.
You could be with the terrorists!
I don't think it's terrorists, sir!
Josh, stop it!
They're being crazy, Mr. Morre.
Show your faces!
You won't let the gas in!
No!
Jared!
We are going to get out
of this nightmare.
Elliot...
We have to go!
We have to protect Jess!
You've got until three to
get out of our porch!
No new people have crossed
over the border for a few hours.
It appears those residents that are still
in the affected area of the North East...
are trying to wait it out.
We have Professor Kendel Wallace,
from Carnegie Mellon with us.
Professor,
what can you tell us?
Calculating by the rise
and intensity...
of reports of incidents within
the affected area...
on a timetable, the incident
is rising in sensitivity.
Fewer and fewer people
can provoque the attacks.
The event should be at it's most
sensitive tomorrow morning.
Typically, this type of slopes
drop precipitasly after cresting...
meaning it can end suddenly
at any moment.
Of course, this are only
probabilities.
There are rumblings that the
Government may be involved...
in the tragic event played
in the North East.
Now, this rumors has been fueled by the
statement of a confidential informant...
who claims that the CIA
has facilities in the North East...
where they were testing drugs
with some similar psychotrope properties...
as a defence against
chemical weapons.
CIA and White House officials have
declined to respond to this accusations.
Perimeters have been set
all along the East Coast...
from Maryland, all the way
to Massachusetts.
This house has no power
going to it.
Nobody has driven on this
driveway for a long time either.
Let me go.
You guys stay right here.
That's for Clement.
He's a retriever.
You lost?
You must be. There ain't
nothing around here for miles.
Why are you eyeing my
lemon drink?
I suppose the kind thing for me
to do is to offer you supper.
I ain't going to ask you again!
I hope the meal was sufficient.
I wasn't expecting guests.
This is a beautiful place.
There's a spring house
in the back.
They used to hide people
from slave chasers back there.
It has a speaking tube running
under the ground to the main house.
You can hear each other like
you were in the same room.
So, what's with you two?
Who's chasing who?
I'm sorry?
Ain't no time two people staring
at each other, or standing still...
loving both with their
eyes are equal.
Truth is, someone is chasing someone.
That's the way we's built.
So, who's chasing?
I knew that. I knew that!
You don't touch things
that aren't yours.
- Do you have a radio, Mrs. Jones?
- No.
I got enough to fill my time
right here.
I mend my own things.
I grow my own food.
Although I ain't got the touch.
Gardens don't grow the way
they should. Never have.
How do you stay in contact
with others?
I don't.
How would you know if something
would happened, like a world event?
Mrs. Jones, um, something's
happened along the east coast.
Whatever it is that you think is so
important that you need to tell me...
don't.
Just keep it to yourself.
The world don't care about me.
I don't care about it.
I suppose I have to let
you spend the night.
Guest rooms are up, on the left.
Mind the steps.
- I'm scared, Elliot.
- It's okay.
I'm sorry about everything.
That Joey thing, I was being stupid.
You've been great,
taking care of Jess.
I don't like this woman.
There's something "exorcisty"
about her.
How could she hit Jess like that?
We need to stay in this house.
You wanted me to protect you.
This is how we have to do it.
Just deal with her.
I hear you whispering.
Planning on stealing something?
No, we're not!
Plan on murdering me
in my sleep?
What? No!
Mrs. Jones?
Mrs. Jones?
Crazy lady...
You're trying to steal my things!
No, no, Mrs. Jones. I actually
wanted to talk with you.
You are all going to leave
right now!
You don't understand.
There's something happening in a few
states. In this region, it's not safe!
Leave, now!
Mrs. Jones, can we talk
calmly for a second?
Just hear me out.
See, I'm a teacher...
Mrs. Jones?
Oh, my God!
Alma, shut the windows
and the doors!
Alma?
Alma!
Alma? Jess?
How old do you think he is?
Is he a baby? I think he's a baby.
He's so tiny!
Isn't this a cool house?
If we had this house we
could make it look so pretty.
Get him again. Get him again.
- Hey, frogie...
- Alma?
Good morning, Elliot.
It sounds like you're right here.
Close the windows and the
doors, Alma.
- Why?
- Mrs. Jones just died.
Close the windows!
Close the door, Jess!
- Is everything closed?
- Yes.
- I'm sorry, Alma.
- What's going on, Elliot?
It's happening here.
It could be the grass and the
trees that are doing this now.
She was alone when it happened.
Seems like it become more
sensitive.
It's too dangerous to go
outside, isn't it?
Yes.
This is the end, isn't it?
I wish you were here.
Me too.
Do you remember our
first date?
- You were so quiet.
- You bought me the mood ring.
It turned purple when
you wore it.
Then you said
"that means you're in love".
Got you to talk, didn't it?
But then we checked the
little paper chart...
and it turned out that it meant
that I was horny.
- You loved that.
- I had no idea.
Yours was blue.
Peaceful, right?
Right.
What color was love?
- I don't remember.
- Me neither.
- Elliot...
- Yeah?
I was just making sure
you're there.
Is not right for it to end like this.
If we are going to die,
I want to be with you.
I want to be with you,
and I'm going to come be with you.
Elliot, don't!
The event must've ended
before we went out today.
I found the hair clip!
You don't want to be late for
the first day schools are open.
Oh, wait.
I'm just going to put this
right here.
Okay?
- Are you okay?
- Yes, aunt Alma.
I love you.
I love you, too.
All right. I'll pick you up
after you done with school, okay?
Bye.
As everyone knows by now,
traces of the neurotoxin...
had been found is some
plants and trees.
Most environmentalists feel disadvantages
like the red tide in the ocean.
But instead of algea killing fish,
this happened on land.
Plants and trees just can't pick up a move
when they feel threaten like other species.
They have only one option:
to rapidly evolve their chemestry.
Kay from Mississippi wants to know
why it started so suddenly...
on a Tuesday at 8:33 and ended
so suddenly at 9:27 the next morning?
Well Kay, to be perfectly honest...
this was an act of nature
and we'll never fully understand it.
And doctor, there's been a lot of
speculation as why this happened...
in the North East only.
- How do you explain that?
- I believe, and this is just my opinion...
that this was a prelude, a warning
like the first spot of a rash.
We have become a threat
to this planet!
I don't think anybody would
argue with that!
- And this is a warning.
- A warning?
I think the skeptics would believe
that is it occurred anywhere else.
That's way most people believe
it was the Government.
If it had happened in one
other place, anywhere else...
we could all believe what
you're saying.
I should drop my bicycle off at the
apartment before I go to work.
Can you make Nadia's
party tonight?
I should drop my bicycle off at the
apartment before I go to work.
That frightened me.
- I should drop my bicycle off.
- What?
My God...
My bicycle...