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Oh my God.

Party house rioting.

Come on, come on, come on.

What just happened?

I don't know. Whatever it was, it was intense.

Yeah, intense is a good word.

Illogical is another.

Where did everybody go? I don't understand. Where did everybody go?

She doesn't make any sense. What was with that light?

Maybe this is somebody's idea of a joke. If this is a joke, I fail to see the

humor. Okay, maybe we're all having a mass hallucination. What do you mean?

We're stoned? You don't have to take drugs to hallucinate. It helps.

We were walking down the hall and then there was this flash. And everything

froze. It was like time just stood still. Why didn't we freeze? I don't

Like I said, this is not logical.

This isn't happening. This can't be happening. Maybe it's a dream. Yeah, it

could be a dream.

Yeah, okay. Okay, one of us is dreaming and the rest of us are all part of the

dream. Now, the question is, how do we determine which one of us is... Let me

slap you and see if you wake up. That's okay. No, we can't be the only ones

left. There has to be someone else here.

Where is everybody?

No!

That's physically impossible.

No, don't!

Okay,

this is really starting to freak me out.

We're all freaked out. The question is, what do we do?

Okay, we need to stick together until we can figure out what's going on here.

What if we can't figure it out?

What if reality just stopped making sense?

Like that?

No.

There has to be another way out of here.

There's nothing out there.

Where did everything go?

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 crystal 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.

about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest inner

mind to the outer limits.

Please stand by.

When a heart has been turned cold by anger and grief, can

patterns of destructive behavior be averted?

Or are they predestined?

We're screwed.

What'd you say?

Let's face it, we're stuck here.

Yeah, but where is here?

Looks like school to me.

Yeah, it looks like school.

What is it?

We're not stuck here.

There has to be a way out.

Keep trying. If we can get into the next hallway... Oh, yeah, it's easier said

than done.

What, are you guys just gonna stand here? I was letting you be the hero,

Get out of here, okay? The dank door's not going to open. They have to open.

What, you want to try? Does that mean we're stuck here?

I should be nodding off in Mercer's class right about now.

I was on my way to a physics lab.

I had an experiment I thought up in the middle of the night. What don't you

think about getting us out of here, Einstein?

If we can figure out how we got here in the first place, then we can figure out

how to escape.

Well, I think the light had something to do with bringing us here. Is that the

best thing you can come up with?

He is right about one thing. We have to stick together.

What makes you think we have a choice?

We've tried all the doors we have access to.

So structurally, another option might be the ventilation system.

The air vents?

Here, I'll give you a leg up. You can crawl through. At least he's trying to

find a way out of here. I know a way out of here. How?

Close our eyes, click our heels together, and say there's no place to

just trying to piss me off, man.

You're going to slap me around? Guys, wait!

Wait!

Maybe it's a test.

What kind of test?

Of our faith.

Oh, don't tell me I'm stuck here with a Bible thumper. Are you going to start

quoting scripture now? No, because the last thing I want to hear right now is

how this is so much like Jonah being swallowed up by a stupid whale.

I'm surprised you know the story of Jonah and the whale. Oh, you can rest

assured I'm not a Jesus freak. Neither am I.

Bet you're virgin though, aren't you?

It's none of your business.

Score one for the home team. Will you just focus on what the hell's going on

here? I've been known to read a little science fiction from time to time. No,

you're kidding.

And there are several possibilities concerning our situation.

We could have accidentally slipped into a parallel universe, or maybe we've

become on talking to... Guys!

Why didn't I think of that?

Guys!

Who or what is that?

Guys, this way.

Hey, hey, come on, shut the door. Shut the door.

What is that? What is that? I want to go home. Oh, my God.

There

is

no escape.

Sit down.

Who are you? You have questions.

But for now, you will listen.

We have been studying human beings for hundreds of generations.

We are usually discreet in our observations, but there are times when

to conduct what you would call experiments.

We've been abducted on some kind of alien spaceship.

You will not be...

You are a slowly maturing race, mired in repetitive patterns of behavior.

How you learn so little in the face of so much accumulated evidence stimulates

our interest.

I can experiment on this, I know it.

And still, you do not listen.

You are seeing.

An example of fear disrupting the ability to concentrate and focus.

A prevailing human trait.

Each of you has been chosen to participate in the experiment we are

about to conduct. Why are we so lucky?

The experiment?

quite simple.

As you can see by the clock on the walls, it is ten o 'clock.

At three o 'clock, one of you must die.

Now you may speak.

What do you mean?

One of us must die.

What is unclear?

You're going to kill one of us. I will be performing the execution, yes.

What right do you have to do this?

I choose to do it. That's all the authority I need.

Why us?

You were all chosen.

And we don't have anything to say about it? This is so unfair.

Now, how are you going to decide which one of us is... You know.

I will not be the one to decide. You will decide.

At three o 'clock, you will vote on which of your fellow humans is to be put

death.

After the execution, the four students left will return unharmed to live out

their normal lives.

What if we refuse to vote?

Then all of you will die.

You have five hours to come to a decision.

I

can't

do this.

Obviously he can. This is not happening.

I don't care what anybody says. This is not happening. I've got news for you.

This is happening. Why is he doing this? He doesn't need a reason.

My guess is we were chosen at random. Wait, you think he's just going to pop

of us? It's a distinct possibility.

I can't take this.

What are we going to do?

We don't have a choice. When three o 'clock rolls around, we're going to

Don't say that. Yeah, like we're going to vote for one of us to die.

Can we please concentrate on a way to get out of here? Aren't you listening?

There is no escape.

Just because he said that doesn't mean it's true, okay? We haven't explored

every possible option.

All right, let's explore every possible option.

No!

It didn't break.

How could it not break?

Well, obviously the window's all made of glass.

You're not going to be able to get out through the windows.

There has to be something we can do.

There has to be.

Why else would he give us five hours to think about the vote?

They want to see what we'll do, see if we can escape.

Who's they?

Don't you remember that mark he made about fear disrupting our ability to

and concentrate?

Who do you think he was talking to? They are watching us.

They're watching us.

We're lab rats, remember?

No, you know what? I'm not going to play this game.

I'm not going to give him the satisfaction.

I thought you asked a good question.

Yeah, what was that?

Why are we so lucky?

What if there's a reason to five of us and not five other students?

Well, what could it be? It's not like we're best friends or anything.

Let's face it. I don't hang out with any of you guys. Do you hang out together?

Yeah, we all hang out together.

All we do is talk about you. Don't you take anything seriously?

No, he doesn't.

How would you know?

I know.

What? You and your disciple friends, you talk about me? My friends and I are not

disciples.

And didn't you know?

Everybody talks about everybody.

What do you say when you talk about me? Don't tell me you care.

No, really, I want to know. Too bad, because I'm not going to tell you. Tell

No. Quit it, both of you. Uh -oh, look out.

Hero dude just got off his horse. He's going to whoop some ass. What's up with

you, this hero dude stuff?

You're the football hero.

The star running back.

At least you were until you hurt that knee of yours.

Rumor has it you hurt it pretty good.

I guess all those college scholarships pretty much dried up by then.

He's got a lot of pain inside.

It's fairly a psychobabble. What he doesn't realize is that we all have a

pain inside.

Oh, great. Next thing you know, we're going to be holding hands and singing

Kumbaya. Amen.

I'm out of here. Me too.

You don't have faith in anything, do you?

I have faith in science.

Meaning you worship at a computer rather than an altar. Well, you have to have

faith in something.

You know what I have faith in?

I have faith in me.

I know who I am, I know what I'm doing, and I know what I'm capable of.

Can you say the same thing about you?

I didn't think so.

and that room will open either.

It's like somebody glued them all shut. How can this be happening?

Stop asking me these questions. I don't know, all right?

That thing can't force us to vote, can it?

Everything's in my locker. What are we going to do, Ray? I don't have any great

ideas, do you?

You know, I'll let you in on a little secret.

People don't usually come to me for great ideas, and guys rarely come up to

because they're interested in my mind.

Well, can you blame them? Look at you.

You know...

You and I are kind of alike.

No, we're not.

Substitute your athletic abilities for my looks and what do you get?

My football career is over.

You still have your looks.

Lucky me.

Yeah, lucky you.

What are we talking about? You know we might die?

I don't even want to think about that.

If you were to vote,

I told you, I don't even want to think about it.

Toilet's still flush, in case you're interested.

Hey, where is everybody?

Oh, okay, there you are.

Okay, Brianna and I were talking. That can't lead to anything good. Give me a

chance. Okay, we were talking about the exit doors.

Hey, one -on -one in, and he came in the other end. So what about him?

Well... What's interesting about the phenomenon is it's not like you're

through a mirror. It actually took you a second to reappear. Big deal. We still

ended up right back here. But it is a big deal.

Well, that is, it could be a big deal.

Look, I can show you better than tell you. Come here. Open those doors down.

See?

Wow.

Bravo.

Bravo.

Will there be two shows nightly? You're not showing us anything we don't already

know. Okay, watch. I'll stick my arm in.

You see my arm sticking out the other end?

No, I don't see it.

Okay, well, however this maze works, there's obviously a space between this

of doors and that set of doors.

If someone were to walk out at an angle and sit straight ahead like Ray and I

did... We might be able to find a way out of here.

Where are you going now?

I need a rope.

What are you doing?

This will do.

Okay. Who wants to go?

Well, whose idea was it?

Right. I should go.

Okay.

Okay, I'll just slip around the corner here and stay pressed up against the

of the building.

Okay?

If I should yell or something, just pull me back in.

If you can't hear me for some reason, I'll give two quick tugs, and that means

pull me back.

All right?

Here, take it off. I'll go.

Okay. Way to go, hero dude.

Sorry.

I'm going to slip around the corner here.

Stay pressed up against the building.

If I have any problems, I'm going to yell.

You just pull me back, okay?

Or give two quick tucks.

Yeah, if you can't hear me, I'll just give two quick tucks.

I hope this works.

Save your breath. He's not going anywhere.

Yeah, yeah, I'm staying up against the building.

I can't see anything from here. Be careful!

Ray?

Ray, what are you doing?

Why isn't he answering?

Ray?

Ray?

Ray, the extension cord's running out.

Ray, what are you doing?

Ray, stop!

Ray!

Ray, where are you?

I guess I was wrong.

Ray! Where did he go?

I don't know. He's gone. We don't know that. Well, he's not here, is he?

Maybe now we don't have to vote.

Are you really that big of a jerk? I was just saying what everyone else was

thinking. I wasn't thinking that.

Maybe that's the brand.

Ray! Ray!

Ray! Are you okay?

Ray, what happened?

Something's out there. What do you mean?

I was stepping away from the building.

Something grabbed my cord. What?

I don't know. I don't know. I didn't see anything.

I started running. I just took off running. I untied the cord.

I ran into these doors.

Something... I think something just blew me through.

Well,

that's it, then.

There's no way out.

Look at this. It's like a morgue in here. No one's even died yet.

Don't tell me you've all given up. Nobody's given up, Phillips.

Then what are we going to do, Ray?

Tell me, because I'd really like to know.

Okay, maybe... Maybe, uh... Maybe one of us could volunteer.

Sacrifice him or herself so the rest of us can live.

Maybe you should volunteer, retard.

Brianna could always do the honors. Are you suggesting I sacrifice myself?

It'd be the religious thing to do. Nobody's going to volunteer to do

Ray's right, guys. If we all just stick together... No.

Look at you guys.

All your athletic ability.

All your good looks and rich friends.

All your brain power.

All your faith.

What good are they now?

What good were they even before this happened?

You all thought you were so cool.

So special.

Better than everybody else.

But now you know.

There's no point to it.

Because the truth is, any of us can die at any moment.

Death gives life meaning.

Does it?

Does the fact that one of us is going to die here today have a lot of meaning to

it? You don't know one of us is going to die. One of us is going to die, and the

rest of us are going to live, and we get to choose who gets sacrificed.

Damn it, Cody, just shut up. Hey, I didn't make the rules.

You're making things worse. How can I make things worse than they already are?

Look, I think we should refuse to vote. Oh, yeah, that'd be a great idea.

Didn't you hear what that thing said?

If we don't all vote, we're all going to die.

Then we'll all die.

My life is just getting started.

I don't want to die.

Me either.

Do you think I want to die?

I don't.

But I'm not going to vote for somebody else to save my own skin.

Not even you.

There's, uh, no smoking in the hall.

That's a joke.

Could I even try one of those?

I thought smoking was ridiculous, but this isn't so bad.

You're supposed to inhale.

Yeah, right.

No, no, I was right.

Smoking is ridiculous. Did you want something?

I was just thinking about what you said back there.

Uh, about life being absurd.

Is that what I said?

Yeah, you know, about everyone thinking they're better than everyone else.

What's the point?

I think about what the point of everything is, too, sometimes.

A lot, actually.

I thought you had faith in science.

Oh, I do.

I mean, science is great. Without math and science, I don't know where I'd be.

It really bothers me when I can't make logic out of something.

Man, you must really be going insane then.

It's funny because you don't look like you're going insane.

I'm not.

I mean, I'm worried, of course, like everyone else.

What if this vote takes place?

You know, what if I'm the one who everyone decides is expendable? Why

vote for you when they have me?

Well...

That's what I was kind of wondering about You don't seem to want to try to

nice be nice So they won't vote for me Something like that maybe they will vote

for me, but I'm ready See that's the secret Jason

I'm ready now

leave me alone

It's time for you to cast your votes.

What if we refuse?

Your deaths

will not be pleasant.

Why are you doing this?

I owe you no explanation.

You will now vote for who will die or all of you will die.

Brianna.

No. I won't do this.

How must you do this?

Brianna votes that all of you should die.

Jason.

I can't do this.

Jason votes for all of you to die.

Ray.

I could vote for somebody.

But I won't.

Ray votes for all of you to die.

Daniel.

You're not going to really kill us, are you? I assure you, I will.

Danielle. What?

No.

You refused to vote.

leave you guys what are you doing we're doing what we think is right for you

maybe cody if you have ever felt anything for anyone besides yourself

shut up well all of you just shut up rest of us didn't say anything you must

vote four of you can live while one dies or all of you can die

Now, you must live with it.

fell out of his hand.

A gun?

What's he doing with a gun? He had it in his waistband. You had a gun this whole

time? Yeah, so what?

Oh, so what other surprises do you have? Go get his backpack.

No.

I can't believe you had a gun this whole time.

That's my stuff!

My yearbook pictures?

What's this?

Why are our pictures circled?

And a gun.

He had a gun!

What were you planning on doing?

Were you going to shoot us? I wasn't going to shoot anybody.

The gun was for self -defense.

Look, I was going to use the gun on the alien. No, no, you had this gun before

any of this happened.

Don't you get it?

He would have killed us.

If I didn't vote for Brianna, you and you and you would be dead right now.

You hate me now, but someday you'll thank me. You made a list.

That was a joke, a game.

A game?

Look, I circled your pictures in the yearbook because I resented you guys.

You all walk around school thinking you're so damn cool.

You think that I think I'm cool? You think you're smarter than everyone else.

That's a way of thinking you're cool, right?

And you.

I asked you out once.

You remember what you did?

You laughed in my face.

You remember that?

And you and your football buddies, you pick on me every chance you get. No, no,

it's because you don't know how to keep your mouth shut.

Every day some jerk of a jock thinks it's really cool to impress some other

of a jock by making me feel like nothing.

Every day I go to school and my life feels more and more like a living hell.

A couple of weeks ago, I was having a really bad day.

I got pissed off.

So I circled your pictures in the yearbook, and I tore the pages out.

So then you brought a gun to school and just waited for just the right time?

No!

No, I never would have done anything.

Look, I haven't done anything.

You haven't done anything?

What about Brianna? I don't know.

What did she ever do to you?

Nothing. She didn't do anything.

We went out once.

It was a disaster.

I didn't realize how spiritual she was. I made fun of her.

But she didn't get angry. She didn't fight back.

As the night wore on, I couldn't stand her.

I couldn't understand how anyone could look at this world and see anything good

in it.

We should have voted for you.

Do you really hate us all that much? No, I don't hate you. Yes, you do.

You don't get it.

You're the reason we're here.

No, no, don't try and blame this on me. That thing knew that you had our

pictures circled on those pages. No, this is not my fault. Rihanna's not your

fault? Us being duck here's not your fault? Look, he said the rest of us

be let go, returned to our normal lives.

Do you see him?

We made our decision, and now we're going to have to live with it. Look,

everyone acts in their own self -interest. That's the way this world

here, Cody.

Here you had a chance to rise above all that.

And you failed.

All right, so I failed.

So I screwed up.

This is me, Cody Phillips. The jerk, the a -hole, the guy who always screws up,

remember?

For as long as I can remember, everyone's always tried to blame

me, even when I hadn't done anything.

Mom, Dad, my teachers, my so -called friends.

If something was missing or broken or hadn't been done, it must be Cody's

I mean, when did everybody get together and put me on trial and decide that I

was guilty?

I tried to talk to a couple people about it, and you know what?

Nobody cared.

I was already branded.

Everybody wanted me to keep being the a -hole so they could keep picking on me.

Why is that?

Why do people need to feel superior to other people?

I don't know, man. I've never been able to figure it out.

So I decided if everyone was going to keep picking on me, I might as well give

them a reason to pick on me.

Nobody cares. Trust me.

Nobody in this world gives a damn.

So why should I?

That's when I started to run my mouth. And you know what? I'm not going to

I can't stop because you guys won't let me stop.

So why don't you use that gun?

Put me out of my misery.

Go ahead, pull the trigger.

You can do it.

I'm so tired of being me anyways.

I don't want to kill you, Cody.

I don't want to kill anyone.

You know, people pick on me too.

But... This... And you know, if I did

laugh in your face the one time you asked me out, you need to forgive

me.

I'm trapped in a role just like you are.

But I'm not going to go get a gun and start shooting people.

There has to be a better way.

Wait a minute.

This wasn't the deal.

You said the four of us who were left would be returned to our normal lives.

Then yeah.

Right. Jesus.

Damn you. You lied to me.

You hear me? You lied to me.

Where are you?

What are you going to do?

You're going to leave me here to rot?

What do you want from me?

Huh?

What does anybody want from me?

Nobody. Nobody wants anything.

Nobody. Nobody wants me.

Nobody wants me.

Nobody. Nobody.

Nobody wants me.

I'm so sorry.

I didn't know what I was doing.

That's no excuse, I know.

If I could do something, anything to bring you back, I would.

Perhaps it's not too late.

Daniel was right.

with the reason this experiment was conducted.

Why?

Because the day was coming when you would have pointed that gun at your

students. No, I don't believe that, no.

In the fit of rage, a human is capable of anything.

Fortunately, not all the patterns of behavior you fall into are permanent.

You have shown here that you are still capable of change.

I don't understand I think you do

I'd love to burn up in search I

try to find out what it feels like

dead in the center of the below

waiting for something to be my hero

In the chapel, in the steeple, in the

window, there's a people.

In the shelter, in the fallout,

now what happened?

Our faith is gold.

We sleep with the light on.

Monday is gone.

Cody, something I can do for you.

In an ever more complex and dangerous world, vigilance and guidance is needed

for those most vulnerable to its cruelties.

Our children.