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[tires screech]

[woman on PA] Security detail to the lobby.

[man] Atten-hut!

[woman on PA] Colonel Logan to Level Four.

Let's begin.

[clears throat] Thank you, sir.

I believe we all have updated meteorological reports.

Dark Rain is now falling on every continent.

We estimate that the teradoxyn exposure

in the human population is between 95 and 97%.

My God.

In the, um, Middle Eastern regions

where teradoxyn contamination was first detected,

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

Viables?

The, uh, the few births that have occurred in the affected areas

have been mutations, sir.

Um, 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, sit, 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 teradoxyn

in that glass of water you just poured, Doctor.

And you know it.

Who or what is responsible is not at issue here.

The people deserve to know that we brought this on ourselves.

What the people deserve, Dr. Golding,

are solutions, not speculation.

If we share what we know with the scientific community--

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's the old way of working. -Revelation of your theory will be considered treasonous

by this administration.

Oh, well, then.

I resign as head of this--

I accept.

Effective immediately.

Dr. Royce...

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 what's at stake.

[Dr. Royce] We'll find a cure, sir.

[man] You have no choice.

[Control Voice] 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.

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?

[bell ringing]

[children chattering]

Okay, settle down.

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.

[children complaining]

[boy] This sucks.

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--

We know.

Okay, Joe.

You know the practical reasons.

You'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, um, since it's 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'd just become a teacher around the time

the Dark Rain started falling, so--

So now you're out of a job, aren't you?

-[shushing] -Hey, that's what my dad said.

Your father's right.

But so are a lot of other people,

so I'm gonna have a lot of company,

and I don't just mean teachers.

[sighs] Without children being born, the economies of the world

aren't able to plan jobs 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...

[exhales]

The most important job in the world.

Okay.

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

-[children groaning] -They're probably waiting outside.

What?

Don't worry, you've all done really well.

I'm very, very proud of you.

So this is, um... This is goodbye.

I'll miss you all very much.

Goodbye, Mrs. McAllister.

[girl 1] Bye, Mrs. McAllister.

[girl 2] We'll miss you.

[indistinct chattering]

[man on TV] Another NWA hideout in the city

was destroyed by Federal authorities in a surprise raid today.

Such hideouts around the country have long been suspected by the government

to be covert staging areas for terrorist activity.

[machine gun firing]

The New World Army spokesperson denied any wrongdoing.

Most of us have no place to go.

We're not terrorists, for God's sake, we just want to die in peace.

We want our freedom.

What is wrong with those people?

The NWA?

They blame the government for the disaster.

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

[sighs] We're supposed to be celebrating

the first day of summer vacation.

You're right.

-I am so sorry. -[laughing]

What was I thinking?

[giggling]

[both moan]

Did you talk to your friend?

Yeah.

There was a big bust on the north shore,

so the street price has gone up, but...

You know, we don't really need to use this.

I mean, the odds of you getting pregnant--

Are about a million to one. I know.

But just the 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.

It's now or never.

[laughs]

I love you.

I love you too.

[gagging]

Sherry?

[retching]

Sherry, what's wrong?

Sherry, what is it, baby?

[toilet flushing]

What's wrong, honey?

Oh, Tim... Oh, I'm scared.

Okay.

[sobbing]

[siren wailing]

[indistinct announcement on PA]

Go in now?

[indistinct announcement on PA]

-Hi. -Hi.

-Did you fill out the paperwork? -Yeah.

-Do you feel any better? -I threw up again. That made me 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.

Tim.

Hi, I'm Marisa Golding.

-Doctor. -You're Sherry, aren't you?

I'm pregnant, aren't I?

That's what you're gonna say.

Look, I know you're frightened.

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

They're horribly deformed mutants.

They just suffer--

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 con...

It's all right, Mr. McAllister.

I'm not a supporter of the new reproductive laws. Quiet 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 teradoxyn-related antibodies.

That's extremely rare.

What's that mean?

It means that your wife may be carrying a perfectly healthy child.

Oh, "may be."

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 find, am I right?

-I'll be with you the whole time, honey. -Tim!

This is what I was afraid of.

This was my worst nightmare.

Sherry, I am not with the government.

[knocking]

What room?

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

-No. -I did.

At the front desk. I said it looked like she had morning sickness. But I--

-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 again.

Wait, cooperate with who?

-I don't like this. -No, me neither.

-Tim, I'm not staying. -You can't. You know you can't. It's the law!

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 don't want you or your baby to come to any harm.

What do you want?

Hmm.

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 of medical care that this country has to offer.

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

Used to be. I just taught my last class.

[sighs] 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?

Ah-ha. 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, Tim. -Yours could be the one, Sherry.

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 US alone, there are still hundreds every year, thousands worldwide.

None successful.

-So, I'm special. -Yes, you are.

Watch your step now. Easy now.

That's it. I'll lead the way.

[man] He's on the way up.

[female voice] Sergeant Waters to Conference Room 210.

There have been so many attacks on Federal buildings

we've had to take extra precaution.

NWA?

They're getting more and more daring.

But I can assure you, you will be safe here.

Yvette will 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 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 gonna 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 that

your stay with us is a pleasant one.

Just along here.

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

Who's she?

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

There are other women here?

Dr. Royce 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? You could be the one.

It's not going to happen, Tim. Not to me.

Why not to you?

It had to happen to somebody, eventually.

I can't imagine a better mother.

What if they're wrong?

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

I'm happy to say the results all look very promising.

What's wrong? Is it the tests?

[sobbing]

-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, 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.

Oh, I'll tell him myself.

Sherry.

Sherry!

[woman crying]

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

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 them 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 stopped 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!

[screaming]

I'm going to call... I'm going to call someone.

Hello! Help, somebody!

I don't want to go through with this.

God, please don't make me go through with it!

Somebody!

Help!

McAllister, go back to your room, now!

[screaming]

It looks like her water just broke.

If this one's like the last three, she's probably already fully dilated.

No time to take her to the delivery room.

We'll just deliver it right here. It'll all be over in a minute.

Please, don't let me see it! I don't... I don't want to see it!

[nurse] Sweetheart, breathe, breathe.

[screaming] 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.

No point. It's in too big a hurry to be born.

The anesthetic won't have time to take effect.

Start pushing it.

You're going to hell for this, I swear to God!

Now push.

Push, push, push!

That's good.

You're doing great, you're doing great.

Come on, one more push.

-Push. Push harder. -[crying] I can't.

-Almost there, sweetheart. -I don't care. I can't.

-Yes, you can. Push! -Push! Push! Push!

I hate you!

-Scissors. -Give me a towel. Towel!

[baby crying]

[crying stops]

[groaning]

[screaming]

Damn!

[Dr. Royce] Who the hell let her in here?

[gasping]

-What happened? -Shh, you're okay now.

Oh, God, Tim, it was horrible.

I know. Try not to think about it.

I won't bring something like that into the world.

[door opens]

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.

Well, we can't do that.

In time, you'll understand.

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

A friend.

[scoffs]

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

-I'm leaving. -What?

It's tonight, Tim. I'm not going through that.

Sherry. Sherry, Roy said that won't happen to our baby.

And would you know 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 it's what you want, then that's what we'll do.

Thank you.

I know there are still places we can get an abortion.

We have to find a way out of here first.

[door closing]

[guns cocking]

[door closing]

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.

Tim, we're going to die here.

Oh, 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're telling 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 disaster ever to befall humanity,

and I have found... Nothing.

Until I found you today.

As of this moment, the child inside your womb is perfect.

And I am 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 signs that the baby isn't--

I will authorize termination of the pregnancy.

You can do that?

I'm the only man in the country who can. And I will.

I give you my word.

That's how confident I am that it won't be necessary.

And 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 hope that we've had in ten years.

And I won't give you up.

Please.

Honey?

[ddor shuts]

[Sherry panting rapidly]

[nurse] Squeeze my hand.

[man] The baby's heart rate is...

[screaming]

[Tim] Keep breathing, honey.

[Dr. Royce] Push!

Come on, honey! You can do it.

[nurse] Come on, Mrs. McAllister. Squeeze my hand.

[screaming]

Good.

Keep breathing.

-It's coming! -Come on, honey! You can do it.

Push!

Now stop pushing. Stop! Stop!

That's it. Good.

[baby crying]

It's a boy.

It's a perfect, perfect baby boy.

[man] It's perfect!

[chhering]

[woman] Success! We have a baby!

Congratulations.

Thank you.

[baby crying]

I want to hold him. Can I hold him?

Wait a minute. Where are you taking him?

Dr. Royce!

Please understand. We can't risk the possibility

that she might expose him to teradoxyn.

He may not have inherited her immunity.

That is our baby!

[grunts]

Tim! Tim!

What are they doing? What are they doing?

What are they doing?

-[man] You'll be okay. -Tim!

Please calm down.

Tim, are you okay?

Yeah. 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 away and 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've found no evidence

Of physical defect or deformity,

and he seems to have 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 him 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 partners.

[scoffs]

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.

[guns cocking]

I would like to see my baby.

Please.

Of course.

You will, for regular feedings...

When it's time.

Tim. Tim!

Wake up.

Morning, folks.

-What do you want? -What are you doing here?

I'm with the NWA.

You want to be free?

What are you talking about?

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

You want to be prisoners 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 gotta get you outta here before Dr. Royce comes to show off the baby.

[babies crying]

This is the nursery for the mutations that survived past childbirth.

[babies crying]

Oh, my God.

Come on.

Tim, this is horrible.

[baby crying]

[Tim] Oh, my God.

Is that our baby?

Oh, Tim.

[beeping]

[terminal beeps]

They've changed the code.

[door opening]

-Let me. -[beeping]

Go! Go! I'll take care of security.

[baby cooing]

Shh, Mama's got you now.

Okay.

Okay, let's go.

Go! Go!

[Tim] What now?

We lost two patients in the high-risk wing yesterday.

They were scheduled to go out right now.

-You'll be going out instead. -In a coffin? No, no.

Look, you will not be inside longer than an hour. And the baby can ride with you.

Tell him I'm not taking the baby in a coffin.

Come on. You passed the point of no return five minutes ago.

People, let's go.

Honey, this is our only chance.

Come on.

-What about you? -I'm coming with you.

Get in. Come on.

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

Oh, honey.

Tim, you take that coffin over there.

[Sherry shushing]

[muffled crying]

Calm. Calm.

[grunts]

[baby crying]

[man] Let's go.

Let me help you.

Hello, Senator. Isn't it wonderful news?

-Fantastic. -Welcome.

[indistinct chatter]

Mr. and Mrs. McAllister?

[groans]

-You all right? -Yeah.

He slept the whole time.

You may have to get back inside these things if we came 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 of it yet.

Right now, you don't know anything. And it's gonna stay that way.

Anything's better than that place, Tim.

Anything.

Let's go!

Let's go! Quickly!

Here, honey, take the baby.

-Okay, close it up. -Move it out!

Let's go.

[Sherry] How long has it been?

Five or six hours!

-We're gonna run out of diapers! -[baby crying]

Oh, oh, here.

You want to burp him?

Here, here.

Yeah.

Okay.

What do I do? Just this?

Yeah, yeah, nice and firm. Just get the bubble up.

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

You're gonna have to carry the baby from here on.

-Oh, God. -Here, take this.

-It's a long hike. You up for it? -Yeah, yeah, I'll be okay.

-[indistinct chatter] -[baby cooing]

[baby cooing]

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

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

[Tim] This is it?

Come on. I'll show you to your quarters.

[bell ringing]

Watch your step.

[children yelling and screaming]

[overlapping chatter]

You made it.

Oh, I'm so glad.

Hello.

[Sherry] Wh-- How? All these 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--

[Grant] Terrorists?

A lot are ex-army.

And actions in that respect

are to distract the 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 sorry it took you so long to get here.

-At the hospital-- -Yeah.

We tried to get there first. 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. -Sure.

[Tim] His name's Joey.

Joey?

Joey, is it?

Well, Joey,

The old regime's trying to hang on,

but it won't last.

It's on its last legs.

Another 30 or 40 years,

they'll all be gone.

You and the rest of these children

will inherit the Earth.

Can I see the new baby?

Yeah. Just for a second, though.

We only have a few more hours left of outside time

before we have to go back to the complex.

[baby cooing]

Hi, I'm Tessa.

-Hi, Tessa. -Hi.

Are you the new teacher?

I guess I am.

[Control Voice] 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.

[chattering]