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Don't go.

I love you, baby.

But you're late.

The ending.

The nuclear football, if I enter the blue code. A linked array of global EMPs

that would fry every electronic circuit on Earth. But it would also disable the

nukes. An ultimate fail -safe.

Xavier, take care of baby. I love you, baby.

Promise me something.

Give your father to me.

Your wife is alive out there, Xavier.

My name is Terry Rogers Collins.

I'm here. I'm a survivor.

I'm coming, baby.

And her father, he was leading a group through the bunker. It has to be you.

You must be Xavier.

Easy. I'm a friend of Terry's. How the fuck do you know my wife?

For the last three years, Terry has been my best friend.

She's my favorite person left in this godforsaken world.

She's been taken from me.

How you doing today, young man?

I'm just fine, thank you.

Jones. Believe.

Hey, it's nice to play with someone who knows what the heck they're doing.

Tell me about it. No shit. I'm sick of getting matched with 10 -year -olds

talking about whatever the fuck.

Totally.

Hey, I just sent you a friend request. You want to go again?

Yeah.

That, uh, yeah.

Hi, Gary.

How about this leather?

Yes, ma 'am. It's pretty warm.

Did you read the manifesto of that nutso who shot Bradford last week?

Uh, no, not really.

The dude had a whole conspiracy theory that a secret group of billionaires is

building a bunker in Colorado.

Whoa, why?

The apocalypse, bruh. That's why.

It's insane, right?

Yeah. Yeah, so, okay, what's your zombie apocalypse plan?

What? Bruh, come on, you know, zombie apocalypse plan.

Where would you go? What would you take with you? Who would you save? You know,

the classics.

Oh. Yeah, I guess I don't know. I guess I don't really

have anyone.

Yeah, that's okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't have anyone either. I don't have anyone either.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

When we're talking about emergency preparedness, I'm not talking about bug

kits, prepper stuff. What matters is air, water, food, shelter.

This nurse was hot. I'm saying, my God, she was hot. Wow. Can you believe it?

No. I thought nurses were only hot in porn.

Oh, dude.

Yeah, okay, so that's what I realized. We're going to need people with skills

for our zombie apocalypse plan.

Yeah. Okay, yeah, so I'm an engineer. We need a nurse, a hot one, obviously,

okay? A mechanic, a carpenter, or a builder.

You don't happen to be any of those, right?

No.

Probably a gardener, someone who can grow food, duh.

Yeah.

You know, no kids, no families, no pets, no spouses, just lonely motherfuckers

like us.

Yeah.

And like I said, we need a Navy SEAL or maybe spec ops, someone you know with an

arsenal. I don't know.

Well, we're going to need protection.

There are going to be guys with guns out there.

I know, but like what if our guy with a gun turns on us?

Okay. Okay, you have a point.

Once the eruption triggers the tsunami, habitable areas will become scarce. It

will be hours, maybe minutes, before the nuclear powers move to secure what they

can. We're talking all out nuclear war, brothers. The volcano will shoot

thousands of kilometers of ash into the stratosphere. The surface temperatures

will plunge.

Do you have any food?

Huh?

I'm hungry.

Uh, oh.

Yeah.

Here, this has some protein in it.

What's your name?

Don't you go to school?

Is... Is there anyone inside taking care of you?

Forget days.

It won't be habitable outside for three to five years.

Do you understand what I'm saying? There is no running away from this.

And I freaked myself out today.

What happened?

I was at work, and I noticed it had these thick concrete walls, so I looked

it, and apparently in the 60s, 1 ,500 post offices were designated

fallout shelters to protect from nuclear bombs and radiation and EMPs. Mine was

one of them.

It needs work. We need time to plan, but I think we could live there

with five to ten people for years if we had to.

Wow, this shit just got real.

Those people you found, the nurse, the mechanic, do you think they... Yeah,

yeah, you know, I can ask them, tell them what we're planning, see if they're

in. We keep it small, just seven of us, and we're going to need a shit ton of

supplies.

I can start ordering stuff, stocking the place, sending stuff to P .O. boxes

there. No one ever goes in that basement.

Yeah, but how are we going to pay for all that?

What else am I going to use my pension for?

Man, I don't know, dude.

It's going to be really disappointing when none of this shit ever happens. No,

don't say that.

What? I'm just... Man.

from one lonely motherfucker to the next, you know?

Right, we've seen it. They've got elite pitching. They're fast in the lineup. We

just saw that clip of Castellanos hitting the walk -off home run last

I'm sorry. We have a breaking news development regarding this morning's

eruption in Antarctica and all of those haunting images that we've been seeing.

Okay, we're going to send you now to our news division in New York.

If you're just joining us, we have reports that the tsunami created by the

vaporization of the Antarctic ice sheet is headed up the coast of South America.

I'm coming for you. Send me your address.

Hey! Oh!

Hey! Oh!

Oh! Hey!

Hey, Enos?

I'm Robbie, but from now on, yeah, call me Enos. Okay.

Hey, I'm Gary. Hey, oh, hey, man. Nice to meet you.

I really thought we said no guns. Yeah, well, I told you, man. We need

protection. So I brought protection, okay? Okay.

Final checklist. Yeah, okay. The nurse, mechanic, gardener, woodworker,

survivalist, rope being already down there. Last stop, the egg, so we can

some laying hands. That's it? Yeah.

Yeah, and we got to hurry.

We got to hurry. We got to hurry.

Hey, hold on. What are you doing? Be right back.

I'll be right back.

Gary!

Hey! What are you doing?

Here, it's me.

Hey, we gotta go.

Hey, hey, you need to go inside, okay?

Are your parents home? Do you have a basement?

Ma 'am?

Hello? Hey!

Hey!

Come on, ma 'am. Hey, your son needs you.

All right.

Hey, listen to me, okay?

Something bad is happening.

I am going somewhere safe, all right?

Do you want to come with me?

Okay.

All right, all right, all right. Let's go.

Oh, God.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing? We have room.

This isn't a part of the plan. It is now.

All right. Come on, come on, come on.

I know it wasn't our plan. I get it. I mean, we only planned for seven. It's

just another mouthful. We should have plenty of supplies.

You want me to leave them there in the dirt? We can't take care of a child. I

mean, how old is he?

Come on.

Hey, we have to go get some eggs. I need you to stay right here, okay?

Okay.

Look where she's coming from.

I've talked every minute with you.

Promise me something.

Be a good father.

Be a good father to them.

Xavier.

Xavier, say...

I'm Terry.

What's your name?

I'm Dean.

How did you get out here by yourself? Where's your mommy?

Kid!

Hey! Hey, kid!

Come on, let's go.

Is this your daddy?

No.

I'm not his daddy.

Kid, come with me. Are you fucking kidding me? No, no.

The entire world is about to go poof.

We have a safe place to go. I am taking the boy there. I am just trying to help

him.

If y 'all want to live through this, would you please get in the truck with

Where is she?

Sorry, would you just put the gun down? Where the fuck is my wife?

It's a long story.

I've got time.

I survived the last three years here with a small group of people, including

your wife.

My best friend, he betrayed us.

He gave up our location and a group of armed men came and took her.

They took everyone.

Okay, you just put the gun down now. How many men?

Five or six. What kind of weapons?

I don't know. Weapons aren't my thing. Why?

Why did they take them? Do you know where they took it? I don't know. Is it

guarded? I don't know. How many men was it again? I don't know. You don't know

anything? You don't know anything about the weapons or anything else? Look, I

will tell you everything I know. Just put the gun down.

All right, here we go.

Okay.

It's right down here.

Okay.

Hi,

everyone.

Hi, you guys know me, the guy who probably sounded pretty nuts talking

preparing for the end of the world.

But we're really glad you're here.

This is my best friend, Gary.

Hi, I'm Gary Jones, United States Postal Service. How are you all doing?

Let's start with some more introductions.

Your name and what you do.

I'm Enos.

I'm an engineer, right?

Hi, I'm Roberto.

I'm a carpenter.

And my name is Jackie, or Jack, mechanic.

I'm Ruth Rosenberg, and Enos was so sweet when he told us about his plan.

And, of course, I didn't think it was ever going to happen, but... Oh, I

Thanks. Thank you, Ruth.

Bob Gordon.

I've been a survivalist since I was this kiddo's age.

Thank you.

Crystal? Oh, um, hi.

I'm Crystal Song.

I'm a nurse.

I just need to say, I thought it was super weird when you first were telling

about all this stuff, but... Man, I am really glad that I'm here.

And you are?

I'm Dr. Terry Rogers -Collins, a mycologist.

I study mushrooms.

Well, that sounds helpful.

And this is Bean.

Hi, Bean.

Are you hungry?

Not yet, Ruth. Jesus.

This group was specifically chosen because together, we all

have the exact skills we need to survive down here.

As Enos told you when he approached you, we believe any ELE or extinction

-level event has befallen humanity.

But don't worry, the fallout shelter has walls thick enough to protect us.

Outside, there may be fried electronics, natural disasters, nuclear fallout, or

worse. We're safe here.

We must stay inside for the next 21 days to avoid any potential radiation, and

then this post office will be our home for the next three to five years until

the ash cloud dissipates. I'm sorry, what?

As we speak, there is an ash cloud encircling the planet that will make

uninhabitable for the next three to five years. I have a family.

I have to get to Colorado to be with them.

I know. I know that this is scary.

It's all happening so fast.

We have everything that we need to survive right here

for a long time.

Let's start by surviving.

Can we start there?

You have a way to heat water?

She needs a bottle.

Okay.

You two don't have to share a bed.

I know we planned for seven, but all I need is a few blankets. I'll be fine on

the floor.

It's okay.

Have you rested since we got here?

I'm not.

You just look tired.

I have chronic back pain.

Scoliosis.

Speak your mind, Gary.

Just fucking say it, dude.

You spend all day staring at a broken phone while everyone else

is helping.

I'm saying this because Enos doesn't like you.

He thinks you're an extra mouth. We don't have the rations to feed.

With instincts, they kick you out.

And you?

I'm a 38 -year -old mailman.

I've never led anything resembling a great life.

I didn't even have bad instincts. I had no instincts.

But... I felt something about you.

the street.

And I saw you holding the boy's hand.

My instinct is that you're going to be a big part of this.

You're going to help people.

I will help get you to your family the moment that it's safe out there.

But that is a long time from now.

Right now, we need you.

That was her bed.

We took that the day before she was taken.

When?

Twelve days ago.

Twelve days.

Jesus.

They took her.

They took our boy.

I know where they are.

And I tried to rescue them.

But I couldn't.

I couldn't.

They arrived two weeks ago, just stopped here.

Five armed guards. M16.

There's five guys patrolling with M16s. There's another four on either side of

that passenger car, plus one down by the engine.

And about 200 yards down on the right, there's a sniper.

This isn't a trained unit.

But by the way, they're laid out to guard in something.

Who are these guys?

I'm not sure. We kept to ourselves, barely ventured out, even though we

to see more people. What do they want with you, friends?

With her.

Don't you think I'd ask myself that? Come up with some pretty horrifying

answers.

I can get in there.

How?

How are you going to take out ten armed men with one gun and a baby?

Sixteen.

And I'm not.

There we go.

Where'd you get the baby?

It's a long story.

What's her name?

Annie's baby.

That's her name?

That's what I call her.

I can hold her if you like. You may know my wife, but I don't know you.

No one touches this baby except for me. You got it? OK.

Sorry, I just want to help.

You can help by finding the things we need.

Old cardboard mail tubing.

Packing tape.

You said they took your weapons.

You got any bullets left?

What about car battery?

Anything that can give us a spark of electricity.

We used up all the batteries we brought. Anything outside the shelter was dead.

I know you had something that could power a radio.

That might be tough.

Thanks. You got that so easily.

You're cute and you're blessed, you know.

Remember, we power essentials only. Just like downstairs.

He is catatonic over there.

He's been through a lot.

Yeah, but not just him, Gary.

And Enos.

Acting like a military commander is not helping.

Is this really the life you guys were fighting for?

We have to make a life for this kid, a childhood.

We have to do more than just survive, or we're never going to make it.

Do you know what's coming up soon?

Bean?

Hey, Bean, wake up.

I have something to show you.

Come on.

What is this?

This is Christmas, honey.

There were a ton of packages that never got sent, so we can even do Christmas

presents.

Stop being a Grinch.

Go on. Okay.

There we go.

The Polaroid camera.

Thank you. I want to take pictures all day. Thank you.

Beautiful. No idea.

World's number one day.

Thank you, babe.

All right, let's wrap it up. Five more minutes. We have to conserve fuel.

Hey, I got something to show you.

Yeah.

I did get you something.

Enos doesn't think it's a good idea. It might attract attention.

But I told him that we need to know what's going on out there.

Who knows? Maybe we can find a way to send a message to your family.

What is it?

Oh, um, it's a radio.

I built it for you.

I built it for you so you can transmit.

Oh.

Oh, my God.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, my God.

I'm so sorry. No, it's okay. Gary, I'm so sorry. It's fine. That was so

inappropriate of me. I would never... Gary, I need you to look at me.

I need you to hear me.

You saved my life.

I will never be able to repay you. But I'm going to spend however much time we

have here trying to.

And I'm going to give you everything that I've got.

But I cannot give you that.

Thank you.

Oh, I'll leave you to it.

This is Terry Rogers Collins.

I'm looking for my husband, Xavier Collins.

He's with our children, Presley and James.

They were headed to a complex in Colorado.

I'm trying to find out if they made it.

If they're safe.

I was supposed to be with them.

This is Terry Rogers Collins.

I'm with a group of survivors searching for my husband.

If you know the whereabouts of Xavier Collins, if

you're listening, please tell my husband.

Tell him.

Tell Xavier.

I love him.

Motherfucker.

Gary!

What?

Oh, my God.

I'm gonna kill him.

Oh, all right, Terry, let's just take a deep breath. No one dangerous is going

to find us. I've been doing this for two and a half years. If they were coming,

they'd have come by now. I know.

I just don't think he wants anyone to leave.

I think this is the most important he's ever felt.

We never got it working again.

She confronted him.

Almost threw down, honestly.

But he played dumb.

It was a standoff.

Motherfucker.

I spent every day for the last three years thinking she was gone.

And then I heard that voice.

A message she sent me from right here.

That will not be the last time that I hear my wife's voice.

We gotta get a battery.

Uh, why?

What is all this for?

I'm gonna go back to that train.

I'm gonna create a distraction.

Draw them out so I can go in and get Terry What kind of distraction a bomb?

All we need is something we can use as a detonator.

You should expect to have that.

I've never been there, but they're the only ones we can trust.

Where are we going?

What's the state?

Wyoming? Close.

Colorado.

We're going to Colorado.

And you know how we've been tracking the weather for our climate studies

project? Mm -hmm. Well, it's warmer now, more normal, so that means we can

travel soon.

Well, that's why he's making out like gunk.

Fuel, yeah.

And we need to make more so we can drive there.

Can I go look for mushrooms?

Sure. Just make sure you're back in time for dinner.

I will.

And you know the rule, Bean.

Bring them back so I can check them before you eat any.

I will.

I don't want you tripping bowls.

Perry, you're not going with them? Oh, we have to let them roam.

Can't hold on too tight.

Okay.

Almost done.

Okay.

Thanks, Doc.

Jackie and I are moving out.

What? Where?

Those travelers last month, they told us about that group settling at the high

school gym.

Yeah?

Jackie went by to check it out, and just a few people looking to set up a swap

meet. A place for people to come and trade, and... I mean, we've been wanting

our own space for a while.

But it's not just that.

So... I was a home health aide, not a nurse.

Okay, but that's like a nurse. Yeah.

You know, I made sure my patients didn't mix up their pills. I held their hands

as they died.

I was good at it. You know, I was good at helping people die.

But I always wanted to help people live.

I'm starting my own clinic at the Swamp Meet.

Open to anyone who needs help.

Wow.

You should come with us.

You know, I'd love to, but... But, you know, I can't.

I have to get to Xavier.

So they're off.

Terry will probably be leaving soon, too.

I know you still care about her. No.

We're just friends.

How about you?

You good?

I know you always thought you and Crystal would get together.

Nah, she'll fall for me soon.

It's just me and you again, P.

The two loneliest motherfuckers in the world.

I officially converted the engine to run on biodiesel. Now you just need enough

to get to Colorado.

Three blue barrels.

I got one.

Well, you have to come visit us first.

Of course I will.

What are you going to call it?

Welcome to the Thunderdome.

For one full tank of propane, the final bid is five unopened Hidden Valley Ranch

packets and two Holiday Inn Express soaps.

Going one.

Twice. Hold.

Sashay on over, Miss Ranch Packet. We got more to go.

Next.

Excuse me.

Looking for a working car batter?

All right.

How much for those two old field walkies?

And, um, is that a clacker?

That's perfect. I'll take it.

What you got?

What do we got?

Um, how about that pistol?

That work?

This?

Sure.

Not my king.

I ain't seen a world without a battery in three years, but two asking for one.

So you ain't a local.

We good people around here.

Doing our best.

We don't want any problems.

You seem like a problem.

Take your pistol and go.

Gary? Gary!

Shit, it is you.

Oh, my God, Jackie.

Oh, my God, baby.

Baby, look who it is. Oh, my God.

Jesus Christ.

You look taller.

Crystal,

Jackie, this is Xavier Collins.

Jesus Christ, you shit.

Where's Terry?

I came back.

They had taken everything.

Everyone's gone.

Gone? How?

Enos.

He told others where the post office was. I think he's working with me. That

motherfucker.

You know, I've never met anybody as nonstop as Terry.

She figured out how to make penicillin. She made biodiesel out of mold to get to

Colorado, to get to you.

I mean, the only thing that could slow her down was her back.

I remember two years in, she lifted too much.

We practically had to strap her to the bed out by the heater to get her to

recover. She was ordering us around for three days.

I had to read The Bean every night.

Those, uh, name any Snicket books?

Terrible puns, by the way.

Yeah. We'd do anything for her.

I'm gonna get her back.

And I built a bomb to do it.

We came here for supplies, radios, ammo, and a clacker to set it off.

But that old -ass biker boy wouldn't sell.

Hey, Dollface.

Yes, Jack?

Give our friend Xavier here whatever he's asking for.

He's Terry's husband.

All right.

All right.

Terry really had you read to the kid?

Man, I was doing the voices and everything.

Not well.

She's as healthy as can be.

Look, if there's ever anything else you need, we're here for you.

I made a promise to get it to her daddy.

I'm going to walk through fire to rescue Terry today.

But tomorrow, I'm going to come back for it.

We'll keep her safe for you.

Hi, Enos.

You'll be leaving soon?

Yep. And I'll be out of your hair forever.

You taking the kid?

Gary and I think it's best.

Okay.

What is it, Enos? Talk.

I don't hate you.

I don't.

I didn't like you. I'm still not sure I like you, but I never hated you.

Terry, I put a lot of thought into this place, me and Big P. For years before,

together.

And it worked.

You did.

Saved us, Enos.

I'm still not sure I like you, but I have grown to respect you.

Your perseverance, even in the face of consistent abject failure to achieve a

frankly impossible goal. Where is this going?

I'm sorry I destroyed your radio, Terry.

Is that it?

Yes.

No, no, um...

I'm not an engineer.

I'm not. I insult Internet at people's houses.

I was basically a cable guy.

I was trapped in a life I hated so much that when I started planning all this

with Gary, it's because I wanted someone I cared about as much as you care about

your family.

I think that's what I respect the most about you, Terry.

You love in a way that scares me.

He loves you two that way, and when you leave him, it'll break him.

I know.

There's a train!

There's a train full of people!

A train? A train? What do you mean, a moving train?

Yeah.

We have to go check that out.

If they've been able to conduct a train here, that means they're finding enough

viable fuel, rebuilding.

Okay, what do we do? We check it out.

You stay here with the kid. He could be perfectly safe, Enid. Yeah, or they

could shoot us right away. You stay here with Bean.

Here.

Can I ask you something?

You wouldn't let me so much as smile at that baby, one story, and you leave her

with strangers?

Bedtime's tough for kids.

They always stall.

You got to get them through teeth brushing, PJs, stuffed animals, what

But my favorite part was always story time.

It's one of the biggest fights I had with Terry.

She always insisted on being the story reader. Said I did the voices wrong.

Then I realized it was sacred to her to be the voice our kids hear as they drift

off and dream.

If she chose them to read to beam, she'd trust them.

There's something you're not telling me, Gary.

I choose sooner rather than later to fess up.

Holy shit.

Drop the gun!

Whoa! Stop! All right, all right.

My caress in assuming that the curious mushroom -hunting boy is with you? Yes,

ma 'am.

We don't want any trouble.

Come on, let me pour you some coffee so we can talk.

Okay. Let's go. Let's go.

Grab the gun.

All right.

I know it can be a little jarring.

Everybody's just on high alert.

Yeah.

Uh, how'd you get the engine to work?

Diesel fuel doesn't... It's only good for about a year under normal

We were near an army base. They use something called renewable diesel.

It's good for about 12 years.

It looked like a charm until we used it up, so we stopped here to refuel at the

air reserve base nearby.

Uh, dolphins?

Yeah.

Sit down.

I learned early on that you have to hold on to the things that make you feel

like you.

Cheers.

You ever hear of teachers without borders?

No, no.

That was me.

I'm part of a group like that now that's trying to help people, get things going

again, trying to restart the world. We're on our way west to join up with

rest of them.

Way out west?

I can't tell you that.

I'm not the leader anyway. It's a kid.

Kid named after a video game. You believe that shit?

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

It's okra seed coffee.

Real things hard to come by.

Sure.

All right.

In two weeks, we'll be gone.

You know anybody with skills who might want to join us? We're going to

Let him out.

Holy shit.

All this time, Terry's been trying to find a way there.

She doesn't need another barrel of biofuel. She can just get on that train.

Savior.

I have been keeping something from you.

Tell me.

Two weeks, she can leave with me.

Any of us.

She could actually fucking make it to that goddamn family of hers.

Hey.

Hey, man.

Hey, I'm so sorry.

I was in love with her.

I was in love with her.

But she never felt the same way about me.

She was my partner, and I loved her.

And the best way I can honor that... It's about getting you to her.

From hell or high water.

You know, you need to brace yourself, pal.

Terry and the kid, they're as good as gone the second we get back and tell

there's a train heading to Colorado.

I know you thought you had a bunch more time.

She's looking at me, smiling in the bright light.

Coming through a stereo when everybody loves

you.

Now let's go get my wife.

Well, I'm gonna paint my picture.

Paint myself blue and red and black and gray.

All the beautiful colors of air.

your day