Meteor (2021) Movie Script
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(water crashing)
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(water lapping)
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(gun clicking)
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- Charlotte.
Charlotte.
(man gasps)
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(gun clicks)
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(gun fires)
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Why were you running through my field?
I saw your footprints to the door.
Are you hurt?
I've got a first-aid kit.
Take what you need from it and then go.
Look at me, I said look at me.
What's your name?
- Hanna.
- Where are you hurt?
- I don't know.
- What were you running from?
- I need water.
- [Man] I asked you a question.
- A man, three of them, actually.
- Why?
- I don't know.
I think they maybe wanted to take me.
- These men follow you here?
These men know that you came to my house?
- I don't know.
Please you have to help me.
- I already offered you first-aid.
- Please, you have to hide me.
- Hide you?
That's out of the question.
It goes against my better
judgment to let you
stand there knowing that you
have three men after you.
It's the bandages and that's it.
Understood?
- Water.
- Water is hard to come by.
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(door knocks)
Five minutes, and don't
touch anything in there.
Go on.
Good luck to you.
I hope you find wherever
it is you need to be.
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All right.
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(helicopter chopping)
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(man whistles)
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(helicopter chopping)
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- Changed your mind?
- We can't be seen out
here in the open like this.
Let's go.
Let's go.
I need you to think real
hard before you answer me.
- Who were the men that were chasing you?
- I told you, I don't know.
- I saw the helicopter out there today.
Hell, I ain't seen one of
those since before the flood.
You show up, and the next thing I know
I got choppers flying all over my land.
Hell, I didn't even know
that you could find fuel
for that sort of thing anymore.
- I don't know anything
about any helicopters.
- No?
Well my guess is that
someone is looking for you.
Say the guys that chased you down?
- What do you want me to say?
- Well, at least tell me
what they looked like.
That's the least you can do.
- They were city guys.
Definitely not from around here.
- Were they wearing military clothes?
- No.
- Were they armed?
- I don't think so.
I mean, maybe?
I was running.
- [Man] Didn't you look backwards?
- I don't know.
- Look, I am trying to help you.
But you got to understand,
depending on who these men are
we could both be in a lot of danger.
- You live alone?
- What does that matter?
- Just making conversation.
- You're still not staying.
I got a friend in town that can help you
a lot more than I can.
I'll let you sleep here tonight,
and we'll head out in the morning.
As long as we don't see any
choppers between now and then.
- Why are you helping me?
- Take the bedroom.
The couch is better for me anyway.
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Sleep well?
- Is this your home?
- My wife and I lived here for 20 years.
- Where is she?
- She died.
- When the meteor hit?
- No.
Before all that, um, she fell ill.
- Why do you cut the crust off?
- Because that's the
way that she liked them.
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(engine rumbles)
- What is it?
- I don't know.
Go to the end of the hallway.
Lock yourself in the closet, do it now.
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Can I help you?
- I certainly hope so.
My name is Zephyr.
I'm looking for someone.
- No one here but me.
You'd have to be real
lonely for my company.
- You live all the way
out here by yourself?
Nifty little trick, don't you think?
To avoid attention all this time?
- Where'd you find it?
- The truck, the truck was easy.
Now the gas, the gas is the hard part.
The house is beautiful.
Did you build it?
- Restored her after the flood.
Still don't mean that I can help you much.
- All right, let me try this again.
The girl I'm looking for she's,
I don't know, about that tall.
She's my sister.
It would really be helping me
out if you said you saw her.
- Wish I could help, but like I said,
I ain't see anyone around
here in a long time.
- It's really important that I find her.
My sister.
- Best I can do is keep
an eye out for her.
- Much appreciated, old timer.
- How do I get ahold of
you if she comes around?
I tell you what, I'll just
pop in from time to time.
You never know.
- Hanna!
Those men are mercenaries.
Do you have any idea what that means?
- No.
- They've been hired to find food
for people who survived the meteor.
Food for the rich assholes
and their private jets and their mansions.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- They'll take you to some offshore island
and sell you off like cattle
to the highest bidder.
Do you have any idea how
powerful these people are?
Or the shit storm you
just rained down on us?
- Us?
- Yes, us!
- Then I'll leave.
I'll just go and you can
forget you ever saw me.
- It's too late for that.
Now they've already seen my face
and they know that I
lied to cover your ass.
Even worse, I knew it was
a bad idea to begin with.
We're going to leave in five minutes.
Anything you leave behind,
you'll never see it again.
Come on, let's go.
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- You know someone who lives here?
- If we're lucky.
(gun fires)
- Jesus, Liam.
- Didn't mean to startle you.
- A little late for that, don't you think?
Who's your friend?
You usually come alone.
- Stowaway.
- [Woman] Stowaway.
- Yep, she's the reason that I'm here.
- Step into my office.
Get out of this god-awful rain.
Manners?
- Right, sorry.
Hanna, this is my good
friend Doctor Tracey.
- Nice to see a new face.
- Are you a real doctor?
- Used to be.
This place was a hospital
before the flood.
Kind of hard to run a practice
when all your patients are dead.
Or worse.
- What's worse than death?
- Hanna, why don't you give us a minute.
I know what you're going to say.
- She's a little young, don't you think?
- I thought age only mattered
when it came to cheese.
- [Tracey] Still.
- It's not like that.
She showed up at the ranch
the other day unannounced.
- And you brought her here?
Why?
- Transport.
- Transport?
As in, she's a criminal?
- She's not a criminal.
At least I don't think she is.
- All right then, what is this?
Liam, how long have I
known you and Charlotte?
- Someone is after her.
And from what I can
tell, they've been hired.
This isn't a group of hungry go-getters
looking for a warm meal.
These are mercenaries, three of them.
They came up to the house looking for her.
- Jesus, Liam.
- I know you can get transport papers.
- Yeah, but good luck getting a girl
that age through population control.
Especially if she's wanted on the islands.
- Not if she has government papers.
- Even still, it's a risk.
If something even smells off
they will put her in chains
and torture her until
she gives them our names.
- [Liam] Not if the papers are legit.
- And then they will kill
both of us for trying to help.
And that's more of a risk
than I'm willing to take.
- What was it that you used to say?
Help people on the way up
in case you see them on the way down?
Look, I don't know why I
chose to help the girl.
Believe me.
But I did, and I can't help
but hear Char's voice in my head
telling me that it was
the right thing to do.
It was the exact same thing
that she would have done.
- Charlotte would do anything
to help someone in need.
I always thought that's what brought
the two of you together
in the first place.
But now life is like a
roll of toilet paper.
Long and useful but when
it runs out you are fucked.
- Can you do this for me or not?
- Stay the night.
Find yourself a hole somewhere.
I'll need to send word
to a couple of friends.
- Is she going to help us, your friend?
- Let's hope so.
We'll sit tight until we
know one way or the other.
- What does that mean?
- Well, she can get her hands
on some papers to get you out of state.
Anyone crossing the border
has to check through population control.
From there you're going to be on your own.
- What about you?
You don't want to leave?
- It's so easy to leave,
until you actually leave.
And then it's the hardest
god-damned thing in the world.
I do not envy you.
- Thank you.
- Don't thank me yet.
(booming)
Fragments, that's all.
Just small reminders.
That's all.
- [Hanna] Pretty good.
- My last loaf of bread.
My wife and we'd, I'd been planning
for this day long before
any meteor arrived.
Where are you from?
- Texarkana.
- That's a long ways from here.
- Every now and then I'd find a group.
Travel around with them.
Bastards caught up to me though.
I don't know how long I
ran, I just kept going.
- That's adrenaline.
Some people have it and some people don't.
Go ahead, finish it.
You're going to need your energy.
- I never liked the crust, either.
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- I need the girl alive.
All right, the buyers
don't like bruised fruit.
- The old man?
- Either way.
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- [Radio] Zephyr, come in,
we have a visual of the girl.
Over.
- Boss.
Radio.
- The chopper got a lead on the girl.
We're heading into town.
(gun clicking)
- What happened to your wife?
- I told you, she fell ill.
- I know that, but what happened to her?
- She's dead and I don't
want to talk about it.
- Okay.
Then what do you want to talk about?
Listen, I can't sit here like this.
I hate uncomfortable silences.
- Okay.
You want to talk, let's talk.
No bullshit.
You knew those guys back
at my ranch, didn't you?
What happened, I thought
you wanted to talk?
- I met them out East.
I was holed up at a camp there.
After my parents died I
tried looking for my brother,
but I never found him.
Anyway, I heard people say it was best
to get above sea level,
you know, wait things out.
It took so long and we all
started to go hungry out there.
Those guys, they seemed legit.
They had another place they said,
could be a safe haven for
us if we could get there.
- An island.
- That's right.
- Yeah.
They baited you.
You were being trafficked.
- The more they talked about it,
the more it sounded like
I didn't have a choice.
I told them I wasn't going with them
and they tried to kidnap me.
I got away on foot and
the rest is history.
Look, I know it was
naive of me to trust them
but it was a fucked up
time back then, you know.
They were nice to me.
- You lied to me.
- I didn't know you that well.
- Well enough to ask me to
risk my ass to hide you.
They would have eaten you.
You know that, right?
Instead, they're going to
sell you to someone else
who's most likely going
to do the same thing.
(radio staticing)
- Jessie, I--
(suspenseful music)
- Not Jessie.
- Look, I don't know who
you are or what you want.
But you should know I don't
have anything of any value.
- Have a seat for me, please.
Please?
Value is in the eye of
the beholder, Doctor.
Is that what you used to be?
Before the space rocks, and
floods, and all that shit?
Yeah.
I know you.
I know all the little naughty
things you do around here.
Transport papers.
You're a forger.
- What do you want?
- The girl.
- What girl?
(finger snaps)
- I implore you not to test me.
Please.
The little girl, the old man.
I know they were here.
- They were.
They left.
They wanted me to get them transpo papers.
I told them it was too
dangerous because of her age.
- That's smart.
It's very smart.
They never would get
on one of those trains.
The people we work for,
they pay top dollar for skin that fair.
- I know.
I told them that, and they left.
Probably back to wherever they came from.
- I doubt that.
- What are you going to do to me?
- I'm going to kill you.
That is if you can tell me
where I can find the girl.
- Why would I do that?
If you're just going to kill me anyway.
If you don't tell us,
we're going to have a
little fun with you, first.
And then we're going
to have a light snack.
And then I'll kill you.
Okay so, the other way just
saves us a ton of energy.
- Where were you when the meteor hit?
- I was home, sitting on the
porch, drinking a cold beer.
First thing I remember was
how bright everything got.
The reflection off the water.
Power went off about an hour later.
And it all happened so fast.
By the time we lost radio signal,
three quarters of the Eastern
seaboard was under water.
The rich fled.
They survived, like roaches.
Ironic, isn't it?
- I was seven years old,
crazy that it's been a decade.
- They disappear like sinking ships.
- [Hanna] What does?
- The decades.
The years are free, but priceless.
Time just passes us by
and sooner or later we're all
making excuses of why
we waste so much of it.
Now there's no good reason
to even keep track of it.
Or how much we have left.
- Do you have children?
You and your wife?
- No.
She couldn't.
We'd been to the doctor, but nothing took.
- I remember when I was a
little girl going to church.
In Sunday school they told us the story
about Noah and The Flood.
- What about it?
- Well, the rainbow was a promise.
A sign from God that
he'd never flood the earth again, right?
So, I mean, what happened?
- You were too young to see
what we had done to this place.
- [Hanna] What place?
- The planet.
Such a small stage in
this vast cosmic arena.
And what did we do to it?
Destroy it, that's what.
The only world that can harbor life
and we're stuck on it
with nothing better to do
but figure out ways to suck it dry
of every natural resource
we can get our hands on.
It stopped being about every man's need
and became about every man's greed.
You want to know why God
took us out the way He did,
it's cause He was sick of our shit.
We took His crown jewel and
cleaved it clean to the bone.
That meteor was His reset button.
Last one out, turn off the lights.
(gun fires)
- What is it?
- We have to go.
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Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Get up here.
Stay low, stay low, stay there.
- What are you going to do?
- I'm going to do something
stupid to buy us some more time.
(suspenseful music)
- We're going to search every square inch
of this fucking place.
You, go that way.
Apollo, come with me.
- Forgive me Father.
(gun fires)
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- He's gone.
- Get down, get down!
- Motherfucker!
(gun firing)
- Go!
Go, go, go!
Back up, back up, back up.
(gun firing)
- What do you want to do?
- Put him in the fucking truck.
You fucked up, old man!
I know you're in there!
Have no fear, I'll be back real soon.
(dramatic music)
- What?
- Where are we going?
- We're going to get back to the ranch.
I have more guns there.
We're going to need more
firepower to fight these guys off.
- I don't know how to
shoot one of those things.
- Take it, go on, take it.
It will make you feel better.
Let me have that.
- [Hanna] What's that?
- That's my livelihood.
That's everything we've got.
I had a couple shotguns,
but the rust got to them.
This should be enough.
Come on, follow me, we
don't have a lot of time.
- Where are you going?
- To teach you how to shoot
one of these damned things.
All right, here we go.
Put that right up to your shoulder.
You want to get that scope
about two inches from your eye.
When you look through there,
you'll see the cross hairs,
and you want to get that jar right
in the middle of the cross hairs.
Do you see it?
- Got it.
- Okay.
Now then, you want to relax.
Your arms, your legs, your
breathing, everything.
Just let it go.
Concentrate on that target.
Now, imagine what it
is you're shooting at.
- A jar.
- I know it's a jar.
Nothing is impossible to kill.
It's just that sometimes
after you've killed something,
you have to keep shooting
it until it stops moving.
(gun fires)
Tell me about your brother.
- What about him?
- Well you said that you went
looking for him after the flood.
- He was three years older than me.
Studying to be a pediatrician before.
Anyway, he didn't talk much.
But he was my older brother, you know.
He made me feel safe.
After my parents died I didn't really
have anywhere else to turn.
- Any idea where he might have gone?
- I heard a train goes up
the Colorado mountains.
They say there was a colony
up there, and he was smart.
If he's alive, that's where he'll be.
- Again.
(gun fires)
- Fuck me.
- It's called The Covenant.
I've heard of it, too.
- Is it real?
- Well, it's hard to know for sure.
My doctor friend was trying
to get you some papers that
would get you into New Mexico,
and there's supposed to be
some border towns there that
talk of a train coming through
in the middle of the night.
- You don't think it's real.
- What gave me away?
- Why don't you tell me
what happened to your wife?
- Well, I still see her sometimes.
Only she's not old, like me.
She's always the same as
she was when it happened.
You, you can't protect yourself from death
without protecting
yourself from happiness.
I, I told you she was ill.
She suffered from anxiety attacks.
Mostly about the end of the world.
Bi-polar.
You name it.
She wasn't always that way.
The night before she died
she came in and sat
down at the dinner table
and she asked me,
she said why do people
have to be this lonely?
What's the point of it all?
Millions of people, all of them yearning.
Looking for others to satisfy themselves
yet isolating themselves.
Why?
Was the earth just put here
to nourish human loneliness?
I never could answer that for her.
The next day she went out to the barn
and hung herself with
a two and a half inch thick field rope.
I found her after lunch in the barn.
Her feet hanging there like mirror dice.
A few nights ago I took a pistol
and I put it under my chin,
and I pulled the trigger.
Nothing happened.
Failure to fire they call it.
The next day you showed up.
About as subtle as that bullet.
There are two types of
people in the world.
Those who prefer to be sad amongst others,
and those who prefer to be sad alone.
- Which are you?
- I lived alone for ten years in that home
until you showed up there at the ranch.
Again.
(gun fires)
(glass shatters)
(both chuckling)
- I'm sorry.
- You didn't kill her, sweetheart.
- No, I mean, I know you didn't
ask for this, to help me.
- Part of being human
is just helping others.
- You could die.
- There's worse things than death.
- What are we going to do about those men?
(dramatic music)
- We're going to kill them.
(dramatic music)
(engine rumbles)
(suspenseful music)
- Apollo, come here.
All right, the buyers
they still want the girl.
All right, hey Apollo, the old man.
- On it.
(suspenseful music)
- Forgive me.
(guns firing)
- You fucked up, old man!
Now I'm going to have to kill you!
(suspenseful music)
I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal!
You give up now, I'll make it painless!
(gun firing)
(suspenseful music)
Lucy!
I'm home!
Come out, come out wherever you are.
No one's going to hurt you, old man.
We just want the girl.
We got anything you want.
Tobacco, whiskey.
Fuck, even women!
I'm not a bad guy, once
you get to know me.
(suspenseful music)
All I want to do is talk.
(suspenseful music)
Shit!
(suspenseful music)
Fuck.
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(guns firing)
- Drop it!
I said drop it!
- You heard what she said, drop the gun!
- Ah, you fucking people.
- The next one is above the neck.
- Do you really think you're
going to get away with this?
They'll find you.
They're going to eat the girl.
Then they're going to make an
example out of you, old man.
- I'll tell you what,
why don' you just reach into your pocket
and give me your transport papers.
Hanna!
He does anything, anything
at all, you pull the trigger.
Do not hesitate.
If I'm in the way, you shoot.
Understand?
- You don't have to yell.
- Not these!
I want the government papers,
I want the interstate papers.
I want the ones that you use
to go back and forth to the
island and your rich friends.
- The interstate?
Are you going to catch a train?
Huh?
Let me tell you something.
The Covenant, newsflash, old man.
It ain't fucking real.
(man laughs)
- Papers!
- Got to dig deep.
(Liam cries out)
- No!
- Shh, shh.
(man mock laughing)
(gun fires)
- You're hurt really bad.
Do you have anything inside?
We can stitch this up.
Tell me what to do.
(dramatic music)
- It's okay.
I'm all right, I need to get,
get the papers out of his back pocket,
and get to the border
and find The Covenant.
Find it if you can.
- We can go together, you and me.
(dramatic music)
- We can't.
No, no.
You go, find your, find your.
(Liam chocking)
Your brother and find him if, if you can.
- Please don't go.
Please.
I can't do this alone.
(dramatic music)
- I'm on my way down.
(dramatic music)
- Are you ready?
- You have no idea.
(dramatic music)
(rope creaking)
(dramatic music)
(Hanna crying)
- [Man] Hello.
- Hold it.
Take another step and
it will be your last.
- Sorry, I didn't mean to
sneak up on you like that.
I saw what happened up there.
Your friend.
- [Hanna] And you didn't help?
- I'm unarmed.
Still, I saw what you did.
- Then you know I'm a
good shot now, don't you?
- I don't intend to find out.
- Then what's your business here?
- The Covenant.
- [Hanna] I heard the train is a myth.
- It's not a myth.
- Last time I trusted someone like you,
they tried to sell me
for food to the rich.
- It's real.
I know, I've been on it.
I've seen where it takes
people like you and me.
- Really, and what people is that?
- Survivors.
Every couple of months,
we spread out and try to
find people who can help us
might want to join us.
- Join you in what?
- Starting over.
We've got safe places
to stay, food, water.
- Does the train go up
to Colorado Springs?
- Yeah.
- Ever heard of a Doug up there?
- There's so many of us
now I can't really recall,
but come with me and we
can look for him together.
You'll be safe with the others.
- I have transport papers.
- You won't need those where we're going.
So, this Doug from Colorado, who was he?
- He was my brother.
Can you help me find him?
(dramatic music)
(water crashing)
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(water lapping)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
(gun clicking)
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(suspenseful music)
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- Charlotte.
Charlotte.
(man gasps)
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(gun clicks)
(gun clicking)
(gun fires)
(suspenseful music)
Why were you running through my field?
I saw your footprints to the door.
Are you hurt?
I've got a first-aid kit.
Take what you need from it and then go.
Look at me, I said look at me.
What's your name?
- Hanna.
- Where are you hurt?
- I don't know.
- What were you running from?
- I need water.
- [Man] I asked you a question.
- A man, three of them, actually.
- Why?
- I don't know.
I think they maybe wanted to take me.
- These men follow you here?
These men know that you came to my house?
- I don't know.
Please you have to help me.
- I already offered you first-aid.
- Please, you have to hide me.
- Hide you?
That's out of the question.
It goes against my better
judgment to let you
stand there knowing that you
have three men after you.
It's the bandages and that's it.
Understood?
- Water.
- Water is hard to come by.
(suspenseful music)
(door knocks)
Five minutes, and don't
touch anything in there.
Go on.
Good luck to you.
I hope you find wherever
it is you need to be.
(dramatic music)
All right.
(dramatic music)
(helicopter chopping)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
(man whistles)
(dramatic music)
(helicopter chopping)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
- Changed your mind?
- We can't be seen out
here in the open like this.
Let's go.
Let's go.
I need you to think real
hard before you answer me.
- Who were the men that were chasing you?
- I told you, I don't know.
- I saw the helicopter out there today.
Hell, I ain't seen one of
those since before the flood.
You show up, and the next thing I know
I got choppers flying all over my land.
Hell, I didn't even know
that you could find fuel
for that sort of thing anymore.
- I don't know anything
about any helicopters.
- No?
Well my guess is that
someone is looking for you.
Say the guys that chased you down?
- What do you want me to say?
- Well, at least tell me
what they looked like.
That's the least you can do.
- They were city guys.
Definitely not from around here.
- Were they wearing military clothes?
- No.
- Were they armed?
- I don't think so.
I mean, maybe?
I was running.
- [Man] Didn't you look backwards?
- I don't know.
- Look, I am trying to help you.
But you got to understand,
depending on who these men are
we could both be in a lot of danger.
- You live alone?
- What does that matter?
- Just making conversation.
- You're still not staying.
I got a friend in town that can help you
a lot more than I can.
I'll let you sleep here tonight,
and we'll head out in the morning.
As long as we don't see any
choppers between now and then.
- Why are you helping me?
- Take the bedroom.
The couch is better for me anyway.
(dramatic music)
Sleep well?
- Is this your home?
- My wife and I lived here for 20 years.
- Where is she?
- She died.
- When the meteor hit?
- No.
Before all that, um, she fell ill.
- Why do you cut the crust off?
- Because that's the
way that she liked them.
(suspenseful music)
(engine rumbles)
- What is it?
- I don't know.
Go to the end of the hallway.
Lock yourself in the closet, do it now.
(suspenseful music)
Can I help you?
- I certainly hope so.
My name is Zephyr.
I'm looking for someone.
- No one here but me.
You'd have to be real
lonely for my company.
- You live all the way
out here by yourself?
Nifty little trick, don't you think?
To avoid attention all this time?
- Where'd you find it?
- The truck, the truck was easy.
Now the gas, the gas is the hard part.
The house is beautiful.
Did you build it?
- Restored her after the flood.
Still don't mean that I can help you much.
- All right, let me try this again.
The girl I'm looking for she's,
I don't know, about that tall.
She's my sister.
It would really be helping me
out if you said you saw her.
- Wish I could help, but like I said,
I ain't see anyone around
here in a long time.
- It's really important that I find her.
My sister.
- Best I can do is keep
an eye out for her.
- Much appreciated, old timer.
- How do I get ahold of
you if she comes around?
I tell you what, I'll just
pop in from time to time.
You never know.
- Hanna!
Those men are mercenaries.
Do you have any idea what that means?
- No.
- They've been hired to find food
for people who survived the meteor.
Food for the rich assholes
and their private jets and their mansions.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- They'll take you to some offshore island
and sell you off like cattle
to the highest bidder.
Do you have any idea how
powerful these people are?
Or the shit storm you
just rained down on us?
- Us?
- Yes, us!
- Then I'll leave.
I'll just go and you can
forget you ever saw me.
- It's too late for that.
Now they've already seen my face
and they know that I
lied to cover your ass.
Even worse, I knew it was
a bad idea to begin with.
We're going to leave in five minutes.
Anything you leave behind,
you'll never see it again.
Come on, let's go.
(dramatic music)
- You know someone who lives here?
- If we're lucky.
(gun fires)
- Jesus, Liam.
- Didn't mean to startle you.
- A little late for that, don't you think?
Who's your friend?
You usually come alone.
- Stowaway.
- [Woman] Stowaway.
- Yep, she's the reason that I'm here.
- Step into my office.
Get out of this god-awful rain.
Manners?
- Right, sorry.
Hanna, this is my good
friend Doctor Tracey.
- Nice to see a new face.
- Are you a real doctor?
- Used to be.
This place was a hospital
before the flood.
Kind of hard to run a practice
when all your patients are dead.
Or worse.
- What's worse than death?
- Hanna, why don't you give us a minute.
I know what you're going to say.
- She's a little young, don't you think?
- I thought age only mattered
when it came to cheese.
- [Tracey] Still.
- It's not like that.
She showed up at the ranch
the other day unannounced.
- And you brought her here?
Why?
- Transport.
- Transport?
As in, she's a criminal?
- She's not a criminal.
At least I don't think she is.
- All right then, what is this?
Liam, how long have I
known you and Charlotte?
- Someone is after her.
And from what I can
tell, they've been hired.
This isn't a group of hungry go-getters
looking for a warm meal.
These are mercenaries, three of them.
They came up to the house looking for her.
- Jesus, Liam.
- I know you can get transport papers.
- Yeah, but good luck getting a girl
that age through population control.
Especially if she's wanted on the islands.
- Not if she has government papers.
- Even still, it's a risk.
If something even smells off
they will put her in chains
and torture her until
she gives them our names.
- [Liam] Not if the papers are legit.
- And then they will kill
both of us for trying to help.
And that's more of a risk
than I'm willing to take.
- What was it that you used to say?
Help people on the way up
in case you see them on the way down?
Look, I don't know why I
chose to help the girl.
Believe me.
But I did, and I can't help
but hear Char's voice in my head
telling me that it was
the right thing to do.
It was the exact same thing
that she would have done.
- Charlotte would do anything
to help someone in need.
I always thought that's what brought
the two of you together
in the first place.
But now life is like a
roll of toilet paper.
Long and useful but when
it runs out you are fucked.
- Can you do this for me or not?
- Stay the night.
Find yourself a hole somewhere.
I'll need to send word
to a couple of friends.
- Is she going to help us, your friend?
- Let's hope so.
We'll sit tight until we
know one way or the other.
- What does that mean?
- Well, she can get her hands
on some papers to get you out of state.
Anyone crossing the border
has to check through population control.
From there you're going to be on your own.
- What about you?
You don't want to leave?
- It's so easy to leave,
until you actually leave.
And then it's the hardest
god-damned thing in the world.
I do not envy you.
- Thank you.
- Don't thank me yet.
(booming)
Fragments, that's all.
Just small reminders.
That's all.
- [Hanna] Pretty good.
- My last loaf of bread.
My wife and we'd, I'd been planning
for this day long before
any meteor arrived.
Where are you from?
- Texarkana.
- That's a long ways from here.
- Every now and then I'd find a group.
Travel around with them.
Bastards caught up to me though.
I don't know how long I
ran, I just kept going.
- That's adrenaline.
Some people have it and some people don't.
Go ahead, finish it.
You're going to need your energy.
- I never liked the crust, either.
(dramatic music)
- I need the girl alive.
All right, the buyers
don't like bruised fruit.
- The old man?
- Either way.
(dramatic music)
- [Radio] Zephyr, come in,
we have a visual of the girl.
Over.
- Boss.
Radio.
- The chopper got a lead on the girl.
We're heading into town.
(gun clicking)
- What happened to your wife?
- I told you, she fell ill.
- I know that, but what happened to her?
- She's dead and I don't
want to talk about it.
- Okay.
Then what do you want to talk about?
Listen, I can't sit here like this.
I hate uncomfortable silences.
- Okay.
You want to talk, let's talk.
No bullshit.
You knew those guys back
at my ranch, didn't you?
What happened, I thought
you wanted to talk?
- I met them out East.
I was holed up at a camp there.
After my parents died I
tried looking for my brother,
but I never found him.
Anyway, I heard people say it was best
to get above sea level,
you know, wait things out.
It took so long and we all
started to go hungry out there.
Those guys, they seemed legit.
They had another place they said,
could be a safe haven for
us if we could get there.
- An island.
- That's right.
- Yeah.
They baited you.
You were being trafficked.
- The more they talked about it,
the more it sounded like
I didn't have a choice.
I told them I wasn't going with them
and they tried to kidnap me.
I got away on foot and
the rest is history.
Look, I know it was
naive of me to trust them
but it was a fucked up
time back then, you know.
They were nice to me.
- You lied to me.
- I didn't know you that well.
- Well enough to ask me to
risk my ass to hide you.
They would have eaten you.
You know that, right?
Instead, they're going to
sell you to someone else
who's most likely going
to do the same thing.
(radio staticing)
- Jessie, I--
(suspenseful music)
- Not Jessie.
- Look, I don't know who
you are or what you want.
But you should know I don't
have anything of any value.
- Have a seat for me, please.
Please?
Value is in the eye of
the beholder, Doctor.
Is that what you used to be?
Before the space rocks, and
floods, and all that shit?
Yeah.
I know you.
I know all the little naughty
things you do around here.
Transport papers.
You're a forger.
- What do you want?
- The girl.
- What girl?
(finger snaps)
- I implore you not to test me.
Please.
The little girl, the old man.
I know they were here.
- They were.
They left.
They wanted me to get them transpo papers.
I told them it was too
dangerous because of her age.
- That's smart.
It's very smart.
They never would get
on one of those trains.
The people we work for,
they pay top dollar for skin that fair.
- I know.
I told them that, and they left.
Probably back to wherever they came from.
- I doubt that.
- What are you going to do to me?
- I'm going to kill you.
That is if you can tell me
where I can find the girl.
- Why would I do that?
If you're just going to kill me anyway.
If you don't tell us,
we're going to have a
little fun with you, first.
And then we're going
to have a light snack.
And then I'll kill you.
Okay so, the other way just
saves us a ton of energy.
- Where were you when the meteor hit?
- I was home, sitting on the
porch, drinking a cold beer.
First thing I remember was
how bright everything got.
The reflection off the water.
Power went off about an hour later.
And it all happened so fast.
By the time we lost radio signal,
three quarters of the Eastern
seaboard was under water.
The rich fled.
They survived, like roaches.
Ironic, isn't it?
- I was seven years old,
crazy that it's been a decade.
- They disappear like sinking ships.
- [Hanna] What does?
- The decades.
The years are free, but priceless.
Time just passes us by
and sooner or later we're all
making excuses of why
we waste so much of it.
Now there's no good reason
to even keep track of it.
Or how much we have left.
- Do you have children?
You and your wife?
- No.
She couldn't.
We'd been to the doctor, but nothing took.
- I remember when I was a
little girl going to church.
In Sunday school they told us the story
about Noah and The Flood.
- What about it?
- Well, the rainbow was a promise.
A sign from God that
he'd never flood the earth again, right?
So, I mean, what happened?
- You were too young to see
what we had done to this place.
- [Hanna] What place?
- The planet.
Such a small stage in
this vast cosmic arena.
And what did we do to it?
Destroy it, that's what.
The only world that can harbor life
and we're stuck on it
with nothing better to do
but figure out ways to suck it dry
of every natural resource
we can get our hands on.
It stopped being about every man's need
and became about every man's greed.
You want to know why God
took us out the way He did,
it's cause He was sick of our shit.
We took His crown jewel and
cleaved it clean to the bone.
That meteor was His reset button.
Last one out, turn off the lights.
(gun fires)
- What is it?
- We have to go.
(suspenseful music)
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Get up here.
Stay low, stay low, stay there.
- What are you going to do?
- I'm going to do something
stupid to buy us some more time.
(suspenseful music)
- We're going to search every square inch
of this fucking place.
You, go that way.
Apollo, come with me.
- Forgive me Father.
(gun fires)
(dramatic music)
- He's gone.
- Get down, get down!
- Motherfucker!
(gun firing)
- Go!
Go, go, go!
Back up, back up, back up.
(gun firing)
- What do you want to do?
- Put him in the fucking truck.
You fucked up, old man!
I know you're in there!
Have no fear, I'll be back real soon.
(dramatic music)
- What?
- Where are we going?
- We're going to get back to the ranch.
I have more guns there.
We're going to need more
firepower to fight these guys off.
- I don't know how to
shoot one of those things.
- Take it, go on, take it.
It will make you feel better.
Let me have that.
- [Hanna] What's that?
- That's my livelihood.
That's everything we've got.
I had a couple shotguns,
but the rust got to them.
This should be enough.
Come on, follow me, we
don't have a lot of time.
- Where are you going?
- To teach you how to shoot
one of these damned things.
All right, here we go.
Put that right up to your shoulder.
You want to get that scope
about two inches from your eye.
When you look through there,
you'll see the cross hairs,
and you want to get that jar right
in the middle of the cross hairs.
Do you see it?
- Got it.
- Okay.
Now then, you want to relax.
Your arms, your legs, your
breathing, everything.
Just let it go.
Concentrate on that target.
Now, imagine what it
is you're shooting at.
- A jar.
- I know it's a jar.
Nothing is impossible to kill.
It's just that sometimes
after you've killed something,
you have to keep shooting
it until it stops moving.
(gun fires)
Tell me about your brother.
- What about him?
- Well you said that you went
looking for him after the flood.
- He was three years older than me.
Studying to be a pediatrician before.
Anyway, he didn't talk much.
But he was my older brother, you know.
He made me feel safe.
After my parents died I didn't really
have anywhere else to turn.
- Any idea where he might have gone?
- I heard a train goes up
the Colorado mountains.
They say there was a colony
up there, and he was smart.
If he's alive, that's where he'll be.
- Again.
(gun fires)
- Fuck me.
- It's called The Covenant.
I've heard of it, too.
- Is it real?
- Well, it's hard to know for sure.
My doctor friend was trying
to get you some papers that
would get you into New Mexico,
and there's supposed to be
some border towns there that
talk of a train coming through
in the middle of the night.
- You don't think it's real.
- What gave me away?
- Why don't you tell me
what happened to your wife?
- Well, I still see her sometimes.
Only she's not old, like me.
She's always the same as
she was when it happened.
You, you can't protect yourself from death
without protecting
yourself from happiness.
I, I told you she was ill.
She suffered from anxiety attacks.
Mostly about the end of the world.
Bi-polar.
You name it.
She wasn't always that way.
The night before she died
she came in and sat
down at the dinner table
and she asked me,
she said why do people
have to be this lonely?
What's the point of it all?
Millions of people, all of them yearning.
Looking for others to satisfy themselves
yet isolating themselves.
Why?
Was the earth just put here
to nourish human loneliness?
I never could answer that for her.
The next day she went out to the barn
and hung herself with
a two and a half inch thick field rope.
I found her after lunch in the barn.
Her feet hanging there like mirror dice.
A few nights ago I took a pistol
and I put it under my chin,
and I pulled the trigger.
Nothing happened.
Failure to fire they call it.
The next day you showed up.
About as subtle as that bullet.
There are two types of
people in the world.
Those who prefer to be sad amongst others,
and those who prefer to be sad alone.
- Which are you?
- I lived alone for ten years in that home
until you showed up there at the ranch.
Again.
(gun fires)
(glass shatters)
(both chuckling)
- I'm sorry.
- You didn't kill her, sweetheart.
- No, I mean, I know you didn't
ask for this, to help me.
- Part of being human
is just helping others.
- You could die.
- There's worse things than death.
- What are we going to do about those men?
(dramatic music)
- We're going to kill them.
(dramatic music)
(engine rumbles)
(suspenseful music)
- Apollo, come here.
All right, the buyers
they still want the girl.
All right, hey Apollo, the old man.
- On it.
(suspenseful music)
- Forgive me.
(guns firing)
- You fucked up, old man!
Now I'm going to have to kill you!
(suspenseful music)
I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal!
You give up now, I'll make it painless!
(gun firing)
(suspenseful music)
Lucy!
I'm home!
Come out, come out wherever you are.
No one's going to hurt you, old man.
We just want the girl.
We got anything you want.
Tobacco, whiskey.
Fuck, even women!
I'm not a bad guy, once
you get to know me.
(suspenseful music)
All I want to do is talk.
(suspenseful music)
Shit!
(suspenseful music)
Fuck.
(suspenseful music)
(guns firing)
- Drop it!
I said drop it!
- You heard what she said, drop the gun!
- Ah, you fucking people.
- The next one is above the neck.
- Do you really think you're
going to get away with this?
They'll find you.
They're going to eat the girl.
Then they're going to make an
example out of you, old man.
- I'll tell you what,
why don' you just reach into your pocket
and give me your transport papers.
Hanna!
He does anything, anything
at all, you pull the trigger.
Do not hesitate.
If I'm in the way, you shoot.
Understand?
- You don't have to yell.
- Not these!
I want the government papers,
I want the interstate papers.
I want the ones that you use
to go back and forth to the
island and your rich friends.
- The interstate?
Are you going to catch a train?
Huh?
Let me tell you something.
The Covenant, newsflash, old man.
It ain't fucking real.
(man laughs)
- Papers!
- Got to dig deep.
(Liam cries out)
- No!
- Shh, shh.
(man mock laughing)
(gun fires)
- You're hurt really bad.
Do you have anything inside?
We can stitch this up.
Tell me what to do.
(dramatic music)
- It's okay.
I'm all right, I need to get,
get the papers out of his back pocket,
and get to the border
and find The Covenant.
Find it if you can.
- We can go together, you and me.
(dramatic music)
- We can't.
No, no.
You go, find your, find your.
(Liam chocking)
Your brother and find him if, if you can.
- Please don't go.
Please.
I can't do this alone.
(dramatic music)
- I'm on my way down.
(dramatic music)
- Are you ready?
- You have no idea.
(dramatic music)
(rope creaking)
(dramatic music)
(Hanna crying)
- [Man] Hello.
- Hold it.
Take another step and
it will be your last.
- Sorry, I didn't mean to
sneak up on you like that.
I saw what happened up there.
Your friend.
- [Hanna] And you didn't help?
- I'm unarmed.
Still, I saw what you did.
- Then you know I'm a
good shot now, don't you?
- I don't intend to find out.
- Then what's your business here?
- The Covenant.
- [Hanna] I heard the train is a myth.
- It's not a myth.
- Last time I trusted someone like you,
they tried to sell me
for food to the rich.
- It's real.
I know, I've been on it.
I've seen where it takes
people like you and me.
- Really, and what people is that?
- Survivors.
Every couple of months,
we spread out and try to
find people who can help us
might want to join us.
- Join you in what?
- Starting over.
We've got safe places
to stay, food, water.
- Does the train go up
to Colorado Springs?
- Yeah.
- Ever heard of a Doug up there?
- There's so many of us
now I can't really recall,
but come with me and we
can look for him together.
You'll be safe with the others.
- I have transport papers.
- You won't need those where we're going.
So, this Doug from Colorado, who was he?
- He was my brother.
Can you help me find him?
(dramatic music)