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Hello.

Let's begin.

Thank you, sir. I believe we all have updated meteorological reports.

Dark rain is now falling on every continent.

We estimate that the pterodoxin exposure in the human population is between 95

and 97 percent. My God.

In the Middle Eastern regions where pterodoxin contamination was first

the birth rate of viables has already fallen to near zero.

Viables? The few births that have occurred in the affected areas have been

mutations, sir.

Genetically damaged, not considered to be viable.

So, you're telling me that the whole damn human race is becoming sterile? Is

that correct?

We should reach zero population growth in a matter of months.

How could it have spread?

I alerted this committee to the possibility of this 18 months ago. The

administration is well aware of your theory. With respect, sir, it is not a

theory, it's a fact.

The unreported exchange of chemical weapons in the Middle East was far worse

than the Gulf War. The chemicals used by both sides were designed to become

inert in a matter of hours and degrade in the atmosphere. But instead, they

combined to become a new chemical.

and start a chain reaction.

With all due respect, Doctor, the data supporting your theory is inconclusive.

There's probably traces of pterodactyl in that glass of water you just poured,

Doctor.

And you know it.

Who or what is responsible is not an issue. The people deserve to know that

brought this on ourselves. What the people deserve, Dr. Golan, are

not speculation. If we share what we know with the scientific community, we

can... The political fallout that would happen if it was perceived that we

caused this. We did cause this.

You will reveal nothing.

Not to anyone in any way, shape, or form.

You're asking me to fight this plague with one arm tied behind my back.

I'm advising you of your operational parameters.

That is the old way of working. The revelation of your theory will be

treasonous by this administration.

I resign as head of the...

I have the president's authorization to make you chair of the reproductive board

with all the powers necessary to enforce your policy. I don't have to remind

you, Watson.

We'll find a cure, sir. You have no choice.

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical.

We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to

clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest

inner mind to the outer limits.

Every child born is linked in a chain to generations past and future.

But what happens when that chain is snapped?

I know it's the last day, and I know I promised not to keep you here for long.

But I just wanted to remind you that you all have to register at the

reproductive board.

You know,

you've all been told since you were little babies just how special you are.

We're the last kids.

That's right.

And that's a big responsibility, I know.

But the reason the reproductive board needs you to register is so that... No.

Okay, Joe.

You know the practical reasons.

We've seen the videos and listened to the board members.

It's important to be tested for your fertility rating and to become sexually

active as soon as possible with someone in your same grouping.

But we never really talked about other reasons it's important, and this is my

last day with you. What other reasons?

Well, for example, the ones that are important to me.

I became a teacher because I love children. In fact, I just become a

around the time the dark rain started falling, and so... So now you're out of

job, aren't you?

Hey, look what my dad said.

Your father's right.

But so are a lot of other people, so I'm going to have a lot of company.

And I don't just need teachers.

Without children being born, the economies of the world aren't able to

for the future.

Well, you'll learn more about that next year.

I still hope the time will come when being a mother will be...

the

most important job in the world.

Okay.

Well, I promised your parents I'd just be handing out report cards, so they're

probably waiting outside.

Don't worry. You've all done really well. I'm very, very proud of you.

Well, this is, um, this is goodbye.

I'll miss you all very much.

Goodbye.

We'll miss you.

of us have no place to go. We're not terrorists for God's sake. We just want

die in peace.

We want our freedom.

What is wrong with those people?

The N .W .A.? They blame the government for the disaster.

Yeah, but why terrorism? It doesn't make sense.

We're supposed to be celebrating the first day of summer vacation.

You're right.

I am so sorry.

What?

Was I thinking?

Did you talk to your friend?

Yeah.

There's a big bust on the North Shore, so the street place has gone up.

You know, we don't really need you.

I mean, the odds of you getting pregnant. Oh, about a million to one, I

I just thought of conceiving a mutation.

It's all right.

It's all right.

I don't mind.

Uh -oh.

Look at the expiration date on this one.

Okay? Carrie, what's wrong?

Carrie, what is it, baby?

What's wrong, honey?

Oh, Dad.

Oh, I'm scared.

Did you fill out all the paperwork? Yeah. You feel any better?

I threw up again. Nothing would feel a lot better.

Did they give you anything?

So far, they've just taken fluids out of me. They haven't put any back. I'm

dying of thirst.

Hi.

I'm Marissa Golding.

Doctor, you're Sherry, aren't you?

I'm pregnant, aren't I?

That's what you're going to say.

I know you're frightened.

Look, I can't do it. I can't. I've seen what those babies look like. They're

just horribly deformed mutants. I just thought... None of the warning markers

have shown up in any of your samples.

But I am, aren't I? I'm going to have a baby.

Yes. Yes, you are.

I don't understand this. We were using birth control.

It's all right, Mr. McAllister. I'm not a supporter of the new reproductive

laws. Quite the opposite.

I can't do this.

I won't do this. Listen, a hospital staff member called me here because your

blood and urine show none of the warning markers of pterodoxin -related

antibodies.

That's extremely rare.

What's that mean? It means that your wife may be carrying a perfectly healthy

child. Oh, maybe.

Please, doctor, that hasn't happened anywhere on the planet in ten years, so

spare me the hope speech.

You're wrong, Sherry. I've given it too many times to the kids I used to teach,

and I knew I was lying then.

Government policy is to force all pregnancies to term, no matter what they

Am I right? I'll be with you the whole time, honey. This is what I was afraid

of. This is my worst nightmare.

Mary, I am not with the government.

Mary?

Did you tell anybody else here that you thought she might be pregnant?

No. I did, at the front desk. I said it looked like she had morning sickness,

but I didn't. You shouldn't have done that.

Why? What's wrong?

I have to leave.

Cooperate with them as much as possible.

We'll be in contact.

Wait, cooperate with who?

I don't like this. No, me neither, but Tim, I'm not staying.

You can't. You know you can't.

Please don't be alarmed, Mr. and Mrs. McAllister.

These men are only here for your protection.

There's been a great deal of NWA activity around the hospital, and I

you or your baby to come to any harm.

What do you want?

I am Dr.

Clayton Royce. I chair the Federal Reproductive Board.

And all that I want is to give you and your unborn child the very best medical

care that this country has to offer.

I understand that you're a schoolteacher, Miss McAllister.

Used to be. I just taught my last class.

Your last class.

It's more than tragic.

But you can help to change it.

What's this?

It's just a nutritional supplement for the child.

Why am I so sleepy?

Uh -huh.

You caught me. It's a supplement and a mild sedative.

Just to help you relax on our way to the facility.

I know that you must be scared stiff of having this child. And with good reason,

I think.

I won't deny it.

Of the relatively small number of births that have occurred over the last

decade,

not one has been viable.

Anywhere.

But isn't the survival of the human species reason enough to try?

Oh, God.

Yours could be the one, Cherry.

Something you say to every mother?

Do you think that as head of arguably the most important branch of the

government, I rush to the location of every confirmed pregnancy?

In the U .S. alone, there are still hundreds every year, thousands

None successful.

So I'm special.

Yes.

Watch your step now. Easy now.

There have been so many attacks on federal buildings, we've had to take

precaution.

NWA?

They're getting more and more daring. But I can assure you, you will be safe

here.

Yvette, we'll show you to your rooms.

I should get back to our place and pick up some of our things if we're going to

be here overnight. It's all being taken care of.

Is there anything special that you would like our people to pick up for you? I

still have to go to work.

I can do all that myself.

You are 50 % of this puzzle, Mr. McAllister.

We will be requiring that you stay with us as well during the duration of the

pregnancy. No, no way. I need that job. I can't just... You'll be more than

fairly compensated.

In fact, if Sherry is carrying a healthy child, you'll never have to work again.

You're going to pay us?

You could say you've won the lottery.

I'll see you both when you've had a chance to settle in.

Welcome, Mrs.

McAllister, Mr.

McAllister, and congratulations.

Our staff will be at your disposal 24 hours a day.

We'll do everything we can to make certain your stay with us is a pleasant

The fatigue you're experiencing doesn't last for the entire pregnancy.

I'm sorry, we're not at liberty to discuss the other patients.

Dr. Boyce will be happy to answer all your questions when he meets with you

later.

I hope you find this comfortable.

Wow, how much is it a night?

You have a busy day ahead of you. Dr.

Royce has ordered a number of tests.

So I suggest you get a good night's sleep.

Sherry, this could be your dream.

You've wanted this all your life. We both have.

Not this.

What if he's right?

I mean, you could be the one.

It's not going to happen to him, not to me.

Why not to you?

It'd have to happen to somebody eventually.

I can't imagine a better mother.

What if they're wrong?

So, I'm happy to say the results will look very promising.

Is it the tests?

It's not just the tests.

Tim, I want to go home.

We can't, love.

Look, they said your emotions would be all over the place. Oh, God, don't blame

my hormones for this.

We're prisoners, and Tim, you just don't see it because they're offering money.

That's not fair.

They have poked and prodded me, too.

Just have to tell Royce he's pushing too hard.

I'll tell him myself.

Sherry?

Sherry!

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you.

I'm Sherry. I'm just down the hall. Just leave me alone, all right?

I just thought, you know, we're both in the same situation. No, we're not.

I hear they're whispering about you.

They say you're the one.

Excuse me?

They say you're carrying the good child.

The perfect child.

I don't know if that's true. They said that about me at first.

But pretty soon they stopped.

They stop saying anything at all.

They'll make you go through with it, you know.

No matter what they find out in a month or two months.

They won't tell you anything.

But you'll know.

to the delivery room. We'll just deliver it back.

It'll all be over in a minute.

Please don't let me see it.

I don't know. Show me. I don't want to see it.

Sweetheart, please.

Please don't let me see it. Don't show me. I don't want to see it.

Sweetheart, let me give her something for the pain.

It's in too big a hurry to be born. The anesthetic went up.

It was horrible. I know. Try not to think about it. I won't bring something

that into the world.

You should not have had to see that.

I'm sorry.

Who are you?

This is Grant, hon. He brought you back here after you fainted.

He told me what happened. I tried to find you. I want to end this pregnancy.

Oh, well, we can't do that. In time, you'll understand.

Who the hell are you to tell me what I can and can't do with my own body?

Sherry, what are you doing, baby? Come back to bed.

I'm leaving.

What? Tonight, Tim, I'm not going through that.

Sherry. Sherry, Roy said that's not going to happen to our baby.

And would you know it if he was lying?

Would you lie if you were in his place?

Sherry, I won't have a job to go back to.

Our apartment isn't ours anymore. We don't have any money. Where do we go?

Anywhere, Tim. It doesn't matter.

If you still think you won the lottery, you can stay.

No!

If that's what you want, then that's what we'll do.

Thank you.

I know there's still places we can get an abortion.

We have to find a way out of here first.

There is no way out.

There are cameras, silent alarms in all the patients' rooms.

You're far, far too important for us to just let you stroll out of this

facility.

Then we're going to die here.

No, no, no, no, no.

In the first few years, we did lose both mother and child in childbirth nearly

30 % of the time.

So much to learn, but not anymore.

You can leave. Thank you.

We want to leave, too.

If you did that, if you terminated this pregnancy, you would be committing not

just a crime, you'd be condemning humankind.

That's a lie!

I swear to you, I'm telling you the truth.

The woman I saw give birth to that thing.

You told her the same thing that you tell me. I told her the truth.

She lacked some of the warning markers at first, signs of mutation.

Showed up too late for me to terminate the pregnancy.

And even then, there was a chance.

A chance?

How could you make her go through that?

Because I am running out of time, Mrs. McAllister. Because ten years ago, the

President of the United States asked that I find an answer to the worst

ever to befall humanity, and I have found nothing.

And you, today, as of this moment, the child inside your womb is perfect.

And I'm convinced that it will be born perfect.

I will share with you everything that I know about it.

And it'll be my child.

Of course it will.

Always.

We'll stay on one condition.

If you find any warning sign that the baby isn't... I will authorize

of the pregnancy.

You can do that.

and I will.

I give you my word. That's how confident I am that it won't be necessary.

What if we don't believe you?

Well, I'm sorry, Sherry, but we all ran out of options a long time ago.

One child is not enough to save the human race, but you're the first ray of

that we've had in ten years.

And I won't give you up.

Keep breathing, honey.

Come on, honey. You can do it.

Keep

breathing.

It's coming.

Come on, honey. You can do it.

That's it, good.

It's a boy.

It's a perfect, perfect baby boy.

Wait a minute, where are you taking it?

Dr. Roy!

Please understand, we can't risk the possibility that she might expose him to

pterodoxin. He may not have inherited her immunity.

That is our people!

I think they gave me something. Oh, come here.

Where's our baby?

I'm very sorry that that had to happen, Mr. McAllister.

I was hoping that by now we had your trust.

Trust? You take our child the way you talk to me about trust?

We want to see him.

And you will.

But I want to share with you the good news.

We have found no evidence of physical defect or deformity, and he seems to

retained his mother's immunity.

He's a beautiful, healthy boy.

He has your eyes, Tim. We need to see that for ourselves.

Indeed. But there are some things that we have to discuss.

Your child is the first fully normal birth since the disaster, which makes

very special.

And it makes you special.

Both of you. What?

By some miracle, you have produced a perfect child.

Which means, of course, that you can do it again.

Hopefully... several times, and in the future, perhaps even with other

You're saying that we can't leave.

Well, I assume that you do want to be near the baby, and you can certainly

understand why he has to remain.

He is our child! You don't decide!

Oh, yes, I do. I make all the decisions regarding the child. Let's get that out

of the way right now.

I would like to see my baby.

Of course.

You will, for regular feedings.

Morning, folks.

What do you want? What are you doing here?

I'm with the N .W .A.

Do you want to be free?

What are you talking about?

Don't worry about the cameras. We have people on security.

Do you want to be prisoners here for the rest of your life, or do you want

freedom?

With our baby.

That's the idea.

We want out.

Well, then get dressed.

I've got to get you out of here before Dr.

Royce comes to show off the baby.

This is the nursery for the mutations that survive past childhood.

Come on.

This is horrible.

What about

you?

I'm coming with you. Get in.

Come on.

Let me help you.

Hello, Senator.

Is it Wonderful Hughes?

Yes, sir. Welcome.

Mr.

and Mrs. Callister?

Yeah, I felt it the whole time.

Okay,

you may have to get back inside these things if we come up to any roadblocks.

Where are we going?

You don't need to know that.

I think we have a right to know.

There's a lot of people risking their ass to do this thing, and we're not out

it yet.

Right now, you don't know anything, and it's going to stay that way.

Anything's better than that place, Tim.

Anything.

Let's go. Quickly.

How

long

is the beach?

Five or six hours.

Only baby in the world and I don't know what I'm doing You

have

to carry the baby from here on

You're taking a long hike, you up for it?

Yeah, yeah, I'll be okay.

We have to stop. I can't go any further.

It's all right. You don't have to. This is it.

This is it?

Come on, I'll show you the order.

Children? Yes. Well, immunity is rare, but it does happen.

And we certainly could use another teacher.

I thought the NWA was a bunch of parrots.

A lot of us are ex -army, and our actions in that respect are to distract

government from our real work.

This is our real work.

We're building a new society, Sherry.

One that won't make the same mistakes as the one that's dying right now.

I'm just so sorry it took you so long to get here.

At the hospital? Yeah.

We try to get there first. It doesn't always happen.

So healthy kids are being born.

Yeah. Yes, they are. There's a whole handful of them out there.

But unless they find their way to us, they'll never be free.

Entire lives will be wasted trying to repopulate an old world.

Could I, uh... Could I hold him?

Oh, yeah.

His name's Joey.

Joey?

Joey.

Well, Joey, the old regime's trying to hang on, but it won't last.

It's on its last leg.

Another 30 or 40 years, and I'll be gone.

You and the rest of these children inherit the earth.

Just for a second, though.

We only have a few hours left of outside time before we have to go back to the

complex.

Hi,

I'm Tessa.

Hi, Tessa. Hi.

Are you a teacher?

I guess I am.

Just as we inherited the earth of our forefathers, We too will bequeath this

world, so long as there are children to claim the inheritance.

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