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I remember everything, though it happened long ago.

I remember how the fall came early to our tucked away and hidden town of

Rock. And I remember how I met Jake Spear, the man I came to love.

Jesus, who would have guessed what would happen that fall?

Everything seemed so good.

Got a smoke?

Do you?

Last one?

Only one. And I ain't gonna bum another.

Hey, you're not going in there.

Do you want to get killed?

Man, weren't you away or something?

What's so bad about me getting killed?

Obviously nothing.

Everybody else wants you dead.

Wait, I didn't mean that.

You didn't kill them.

You love them.

It was an accident.

It was an accident.

You couldn't pay me to live out there. Why?

I'm not going to let the black thing get me.

Speaking of the spare pasture.

The Slimmy Rock Ramblers.

He's got nerve.

What in the hell is he doing here?

Couldn't kill him sober. Had to get drunk.

Need a drink?

Why didn't he accept the room or a meal from me?

Won't even let me invite him in.

That's how he stops himself from killing.

What?

I was just thinking, you should join Josh and I for supper tomorrow, Jake.

Dancing on his parents' grave.

Come on.

Don't start, Dick. Burn his own house down.

Come here to watch the dance?

No.

Yeah.

I just had to get up.

See me alive up there. Hey, don't worry about it.

Listen, everybody here knows it was an accident.

What, like you'd do something like that?

What, for your parents' land?

You know what I was thinking over there?

What? There must be angels.

Because they're sure as hell is shit like you.

Damn it! Get him out! He's a little shipper, boy!

What the hell are you doing?

What happened? That beer kid came in here swinging. Ever since the

accident.

That wasn't no accident.

It was a blindside, man.

Where'd she go?

Keep playing!

What happened?

Just get away from me.

You've got dirt on you. Don't touch me.

Don't help me.

Dammit!

Don't you have friends in there?

Maybe I don't. But it looks like I don't got friends out here either.

So what the fuck does it matter?

Thought you said you didn't have any cigarettes.

Well, you want this one. You want the first one. Well, how was I supposed to

know that? Everybody else wants something.

You live up there all the time all by yourself.

What do you expect them to think?

They just... They don't understand.

What are you up there?

It's just... You're so far away.

Something might happen.

You gotta get a place in town.

Yeah, maybe I should move closer.

I could use a little extra love.

Yeah, well, what about the black thing?

Ever since the accident, people have been seeing it around your place. There

ain't no black thing. Certainly no black thing where I live.

Yeah, well, a lot of people have been...

Jake, I gotta get home.

Don't go out by yourself. There's two dangers up there.

Okay?

Oh, no,

it'll be too painful, too awful.

I can't stop contacting the guy.

Doctor!

Doctor!

Doctor!

The bridge is down.

The bridge is destroyed.

What? Lightning hit the tower.

Phone lines are down, too. Can't get a call in or out.

Thank you. Tell the reverend and the councilman.

Okay. Get that on medical flight. I'm going to figure we're stuck here. If

we'll cross the gorge.

Oh, I don't know much real bad.

You mean we're stuck out here?

Well, farmers don't have enough food for a few days. I don't know what then,

huh?

There you go.

Is there a problem?

No, not unless there's some type of emergency.

This stuff.

It's fungus.

Grows on dead things.

Ew!

James, you made it.

Oh, James.

Scratch.

I don't know.

I don't know why you're up here.

Just be polite.

I don't see why you had to bring him here.

He's only... Be nice.

I can't talk now. Things are moving on.

Hi.

Look what we found!

Can we keep the cat?

Please, can we keep him? Please?

Please? Please?

No,

not in here. She was all alone.

You have to leave before dinner. Come on, it's important.

Grandma!

What is going on? He was all alone. I really want to keep him. Just please say

yes. Please!

Yeah!

I want to hold her.

You can't control your children.

And you certainly can't control yourself.

He was talking.

This outfit is awful. Don't worry about the outfit.

My eyes are a wreck. Just look at these. Are you looking at these?

I can't believe this mess. My hair isn't anything like Barbara's and Nash's. Why

didn't you just say something? Don't you smile.

These are more important than she is anyway.

I can't believe she says they're loud. They're perfect. They're nice, but you

gotta say something. It's for the better. How can you say that? You didn't

notice these shoes. They're from Marcus's.

I don't care what you say. I think the outfit's pretty. It just makes you act

ugly.

Why did I say that? It's okay, Jake.

Where are you going?

Just make something up for me, please.

We have a play set for you.

Can't get near anyone without ruining everything.

I've got to cut my mind out.

I just don't know what happened.

Oh, Jake.

About your striking dick. I'm sure you just did not understand him.

I can't tell the time of day without setting someone off. If you can't... I

my mind.

You know, it's love that makes an important sense as a part.

Now, if you can still love Dick, do you believe God said that?

I wasn't listening.

Let me do the other one.

Watch it!

Mr. Shepherd thinks he owns the street.

Stop drinking and listen.

Now, I think you can see the mine shaft from the surface. And if the mine

shaft's visible...

What are you planning next, Sam?

Yeah.

You're drunk.

This is just what I'm talking about. Why do you think I came down here?

Just give me my jack.

What's up? It's your boyfriend that hit me, not you.

Listen, I'm sorry.

He gets mad because of me. He gets mad because he's not a man.

No, it's because I ruin things.

Like if I say the wrong thing or if I don't understand what he's saying.

You're not the one ruining things.

It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't want a lot.

Everything.

Too much.

More.

What do you think about that?

You know what I think about that? Mary.

You know, people who act like you are shit.

Dick.

That's exactly what I think about that.

Hey, save a few cases for the rest of the town, huh?

We went days losing buddies, taking shrapnel up our asses.

And this was a war to end all wars.

We came upon a village, a neutral village.

But by then, our men just weren't right. I noticed the radio man looking at me

and said about our men, all 100 of them, just like you, me, or anyone

else, said how we'd

tear them apart.

Our men want no limits.

They're people.

When I got back to the States, I couldn't hold down a job.

Never really saw the point.

Yeah, but you got a good mind.

A mind like an iron prison.

Right.

There's a good one in it for you.

Get this man ready for surgery.

What did this?

I know this is going to sound crazy, but a book was in his hand.

Man, have you been drinking?

No. This was done by a piece of machinery, a knife or a saw.

Well, yeah, I had to cut off his arm to stop the book.

Look, man, you're going to pile on that crap that you had to cut off this man's

arm because the book was eating it.

I just wasn't going to sit there and let it eat him.

We all saw it, Doctor. Go and look for yourself.

How is he?

Let me through.

Excuse me.

Excuse me, please.

I'm sure this works only once, right? Touch it with your face.

Now, there might be something on this book. I'm sure it's just a simple toxin.

And a hot day in math hysteria created the rest.

And psychology proves that.

I'm going to run some tests on this.

I'll lead the prayer.

Okay. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside still

He restores my soul.

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no

evil.

Forgive me, Lord, for I have strayed.

Let me see it.

No transfer.

It's built completely around it.

things in red and the chicken wire will keep us from

touching you sure as hell didn't tell us about the chicken wire i've checked the

door we can cross it we can we can build platforms down the side and be out in

the day wait till we've run out of here to tell us what we're running from

listen i will tell you what i know we are dealing with some type of

disease here

Now, I've isolated some contaminants, but I don't have the instruments or

facilities needed for significant testing.

What I do know is that contaminated objects consume specifically human

or animal cell tissue.

If a person does touch a contaminated object, it will stick to him

and will dissolve him in, I estimate, 10 minutes.

If there is a good side, it's that the contamination cannot transfer from one

inanimate object to another.

The party may have it everywhere, but the floor will not.

This stops the spread of the disease.

It also allows us to protect ourselves.

Please, you must wrap yourself with any material to form a barrier against this

syndrome.

Just don't wrap yourself with anything infected.

I especially recommend these plastic.

They're non -porous and are extremely beneficial.

How do these things get infected in the first place?

Good question. Based on the location of the contaminated objects, I don't think

this disease was spread by random air currents.

I believe the disease was spread by a...

A carrier, like a dog or a squirrel.

Or one of us.

Listen, listen, listen.

We all have to leave right now.

And if it is one of us, we all have to cover ourselves anyway.

And once we get to the facilities in the city, he can be isolated and helped.

Now with all of us here, working.

Together we can build platforms down the side of the gorge and be out

tomorrow and everyone will be kept safe who's alive

today.

Thank you.

I was more tired last night than I ever was, and sleep came to me

not once.

For the life of me, I could not understand why after so many years of

prosperity, food, and love, our Lord the Shepherd decides to inflict us with

this disease, test if we're sinners, and indeed if we run or not.

I'm not saying that the doctor is wrong at great lengths.

But everyone here knows that this occurrence is beyond the everyday.

How can this not be God's hand?

What? Does God not have any powers on the other side of the gorge?

If we run, will we be saved?

We're taught of people being tested.

And here in our Garden of Eden,

We're acting like Adam and Eve, trying to run from God all over.

I say we have learned our lesson.

Man cannot run from God.

I say that a God who can put us in great danger can lead us to a

greater salvation.

Say it.

rejoice in the Lord for allowing us to witness his power and make us

stronger people.

Good speaker.

You win the mass murder and I join in.

What did the doctor say?

That's all he said.

The doctor didn't say anything else?

I'm telling you everything I know.

He's in the infirmary and he'll be okay.

Shit!

He made it through the war without getting a scratch, but Sleepy Rock... He

these war stories when he'd come for books, even when I was a kid.

At first he seemed a little nuts.

And one day...

After he left, I laughed and made fun of him to my dad.

And my dad stopped.

He said, Jake, everybody's got a little piece of the truth.

It just takes a little listening to find it.

And I forgot when my dad said stuff like that.

Jake, you just got to stop thinking about it.

I wish I could just live.

Just smile.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have to carry all this.

Four months ago, I didn't even drink.

So those guys found out and started shoving drinks down my throat.

Who?

Everyone. Tom, Josh.

Those same nice guys that treat me like a monster now.

They carried me home and sent me inside the house.

And in my hand was my lantern.

All I remember are the hands digging into my heart.

And the screams making it through the alcohol.

I pulled out of the fire and lay in the grass.

And then it hit me.

I started the fire and killed my parents.

I'm going to get out of here.

I can tell you right now.

Suicide and stay around here.

It's doing you no good.

Why don't you leave?

I don't see what's stopping us from going up there and getting into the

Let's get it over with. Don't be stupid, man.

Too soon.

No one's going to know.

It's just sitting up there waiting for us.

Didn't know there was a party going on here tonight.

Ain't no party.

When the chips are down, the best talk I've had was with Jim Beam.

Rappers look like plastic people.

I think that doctor ought to go back to the damn city where he belongs.

I get sick of him saying how he could be making ten times more of the city than

here. He's only been here five years, acts like he owns it. He wants your

He felt better before he came here. Oh, Christ, you never felt good.

Does everybody want money?

He's worth it.

Mary, come here.

Can't be the woman, Dickie.

Mary.

This here is B.

You ain't deaf.

In a minute. I want to talk now.

What the hell you been lately?

I couldn't find your name in the graveyard, so I figured you were still

Talk to me!

What the hell are you looking at him for? I ain't looking at him. Oh, the

you ain't. Well, make him smile. It's my job.

Goddamn whore.

Seems like if there's one thing someone can say to make me mad, that's what

they'll say.

I gotta fight to keep it inside.

It's stronger than me, and then I start getting scared, okay?

Only when I met you, it changed.

It's not so much I got stronger.

It's my bad side went away.

Tell me you can make me go back.

I don't know what I want.

I only know that I don't want anyone.

Not now.

I don't have something to be able to give anything.

I feel like I got nothing.

I knew it.

Someone touched your heart and they killed you. They killed you!

I'm going home!

You're a slut!

I never touched a man!

I'll make you mine.

You'll see. You'll change your mind. Stop it!

kids. She didn't know what's infected her. We're not to go.

He's married.

Yeah, it's different when it happens to you.

Screwing the children.

It's not the screwing. You just can't touch someone who's melting.

I still ain't gonna put my cock where it don't belong.

Jeff, hang on.

Jeff, hang on.

Why doesn't one of us go and get help?

We can't build down the side of a gorge by ourselves.

And do you know how many people would die in the meantime?

You'd just think they'd be here by now.

The storm probably knocked out a dozen cities.

It'll start with the big ones, then the small ones, and finally work their way

down to Sleepy Rock.

They don't even know what's going on out here.

You know those people in the church?

If I had them one at a time and talked to them, this whole town would be

packed to leave.

But there was a crowd.

There is something about a crowd that if someone says something and it's insane,

you can't stop it.

Life isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

All this is a great miracle.

It is humbling how God directs us with his wisdom.

Can't keep track of them.

There'll always be a new disease just waiting for the right opportunity to

infect the population.

And God will help. I can help.

No one can help.

I'm a prisoner on my own skin.

Listen, don't be scared.

Look, I never wanted this, believe me.

Some of the people that died were my best friends.

Who was it? I don't know. Shut up.

He's not around here.

What is that?

What?

You're plastic.

You've got to stay more protected.

You never know where the disease is.

Well, what's wrong with you?

I'm fine.

You're not fine.

I said I'm fine.

Tom's dead.

You shouldn't have stayed here one second, let alone days.

I know we really don't know each other or anything, but you gotta get out of

here. I mean, I want you to get out of here with

me.

What happened to your face?

It's okay. It's nothing.

What happened to your face?

I tripped and scraped it up.

I didn't even know until I tasted it.

Listen.

We can go someplace.

Doesn't matter where.

Someplace far away.

We gotta go someplace.

What do you... What do you think?

Well, it can't be too much worse out there with you than it is here with this

shit. Yeah?

Well, I'm just splitting with you. I don't mean to like you.

I gotta do something first.

Now I'm coming in.

Great.

to the conclusion that I know what type of animal the carrier is.

I'm afraid, good people, that the carrier is one of us.

The carrier...

See, anyone acting different or if you notice extra red objects around your

area, for Christ's sake, tell me.

But be careful, for any one of us might be the

carrier.

Look at you.

This is sent here because of what we've done.

Why else did God send it?

To get rid of people like you who leave the door open when we drink.

We've been friends for 30 years.

We got ties.

We've done some honest things. God pity both of us. We've done some things that

weren't so honest.

Get the hell out.

He

should

just shut up.

You were in church, weren't you?

Yeah, Ma.

Where else am I going to be?

Hey, Ma, what's the matter?

Before, we had nothing.

Now... Listen, Mom, I'm working on something. If

things go right... Can we talk?

We'll have a little lunch.

You've got to get a gun.

I bet the carrier is mad hot. The reverend doesn't allow guns in town.

And whoever it is, we must pray for him.

No way. The carrier has died. Get to your room.

I was only joking. I know you were. Joking?

Go to your room, sir. That child has no love in him.

They're difficult to understand.

All I understand is...

I thank the Lord someone in this house knows how to preach love to the boy.

Yes, you are preaching love.

But you're teaching hate!

I knew it. She's the carrier.

How can that be?

And you're her husband.

You get used to thinking people are a certain way.

And this disease comes along and shows us as naked as a child.

And we take care of the rest.

That's the horror.

See you tomorrow, Mom!

You kids get to sleep.

Right now.

a new woman we should just do nothing and pray

on every wall, every door, every corner of our house tested.

This tragedy will never happen here again.

Something that'll test and keep testing.

Yeah.

Like cats.

Every farm's got hundreds of them.

Load this place.

So go out there and get me cats.

He's in God's hand now.

Be grateful.

And if any of you feel Satan's pain at this beautiful moment, God have pity on

you.

It just doesn't make any sense.

He went the way he always went. He was protected.

It doesn't make sense.

It just doesn't make sense.

Someone wanted him even more than you.

That's it.

What was that all about?

Any religion that says there's a good side to dying is no religion of mine.

you were lying back there. To the parents?

Yeah, talking to them like you believed.

What was honest is they loved their son more than anything in the world.

There's only one best way to tell them that, and that's what I did.

And if that makes me a liar, well, I never made any claims.

The table's contaminated.

How can you know that unless you're like... Oh, my God.

What the... Come back here. You're a cheater. Shepherd dick.

What happened?

I don't know what I'm doing. I just asked Jake. He grabbed the table and ran

down the street like a father to hell.

What's so

great

about cats anyway?

What? I'm going to check under your bed with the cow.

And they walk around like a constant warning bell.

I'd still say they're better animals than cats.

There's a lot more wild cats than wild dogs.

I ain't sticking with no wild dogs.

I tell you, it's the Reverend.

The doctor sure as hell ain't sticking to nothing.

It's my wife.

You know it. You seem to be acting strange.

Take that back.

Listen to that reaction. I bet maybe you're the carrier. Yeah, yeah.

They're not going at each other's throats.

Hey,

cats.

Ain't that the most beautiful herd you ever saw?

Come on.

Be careful.

He's getting away.

Grab it. Come on.

Don't touch those. Those are ours.

We got them running. Hold it right there.

What the hell are you talking about?

Hold it.

What is this?

I said stop!

But we can't find none. Show a little compassion.

There's hundreds of cats.

Watch this.

And you're a God -fearing man.

We gotta face your knives in order to save our families.

What about...

Your families?

Yeah.

Lying in drunks? We can't give them cats.

Show a little compassion.

You can have two.

What are you doing? Take them out.

Take them out.

Get going with the children.

Now!

I got one! Whoever gets them, get out of my way!

It's mine! It's mine!

Boy, I got it!

You poor son of a bitch.

He tried to get me.

You saw it.

You saw it.

Get him!

Get him! Get him!

man.

It's the cat.

Yes, you should have bet.

Get some of this gas and take care of yourself.

I ain't never seen nothing like it.

What is that?

Catnip.

Come here.

I wouldn't hurt you.

works out. You just gotta follow the rules. Yeah, you have to do well. Hey,

they're good rules.

All right, hey, come on. Take one step and stop.

We better get out of here. Come on.

I thought they were running.

Well, I'm glad somebody went through the trouble of getting us some cash.

Those aren't yours. Come on, just hand them over here.

Grab the crate. Grab it.

What the hell?

One for him.

Corp. Give it.

We just killed a kid.

It was an accident.

It could have happened to anybody.

Damn it!

says to the shoe.

Push up!

I'm trying.

Undo the damn shoe.

of worrying about them damn cats. You should have been worrying about

Why didn't you just give us the cats? We would have let you go.

Why don't you let me go now? We'll call it even.

I ain't gonna get strung off the skin for you getting your brother's skin.

you're head infected.

Sorry, there's nothing alive up there to infect.

What the hell are you doing? It's a cat.

What about her?

She'll know we'll kill her if she talks. And I'll kill her myself anyway.

They'll kill her.

No killerless witness, girl.

Hold him tight.

Kiss this world goodbye.

Don't miss.

Just trying to keep him healthy.

Did you look upstairs?

Who are you looking for?

The children.

They got us! We had kids!

They killed Ty!

months. There's no telling how much time we got.

Pull the windows first, then the wire.

In the shed with those. And be careful.

We want to join you. Good Christians, as always.

What the hell are you doing?

The cord just passed the boy. I just checked.

What? We can build a platform. We'll be out in a day.

Why don't you just go and help some men?

We've got to get out. And be attacked?

With all the children?

And how do you know the disease isn't ten times worse on the other side?

This house may not be much, but I'll be damned if it's all we've got.

Please,

help the other men.

Lied about the disease?

Your life?

What else have you lied about?

You're such a pain, I figured you'd figure it out.

You couldn't have told me? You wouldn't have gone.

So, I go, you tell me, and where does that leave me?

Look, if you don't want to talk to me, I'd understand.

Lord knows if you pulled that shit on me, I wouldn't talk to you. But you lied

to me.

I like lying.

I don't like you. Just go. Get out of here.

I'm done.

You've got enough. You're done.

Says who?

But if you say them, I catch you at... Just go. Get out of here.

Whoa.

You're not yelling at me because you're pissed at me?

Get out of here.

Something else is going on here.

Like what?

Don't touch me. I don't want to die.

Well, put your gloves on first.

Stop laughing.

Meet me in front of the church.

Don't be late.

Don't kiss anything red.

You're because Jake's acting strange.

You shouldn't have gotten Jake drunk.

All we have to look forward to is the future.

The mine is on Jake's property. It was because of the mine that you got him

drunk.

But I didn't start no fire.

Watch it!

You're behind me 100%. Just like everyone else.

I didn't get him stoned drunk. I didn't drag him up to his house.

Tie up his parents.

So what? Not if I started the fire.

Sure, we make mistakes.

But the reason why everyone here tied up and killed Jake's parents was to get

rid of those mistakes.

Forever.

Why didn't we just kill Jake Long with his stinking pumps? That was the whole

idea.

He thinks he did it.

Has anyone blamed us?

Has anyone even looked at us?

And now we can get what's in the mind, and no one's wiser.

Jake might be acting different, but he's still convinced he started the fire.

Jake sure does take the blame for what he's got done, doesn't he? Yep.

He's a real responsible guy.

Protect yourselves.

They're killers. It's the Joneses.

What the hell are you talking about?

I heard them planning.

Do something before they kill the rest of you.

The Joneses aren't going to kill anybody.

Half this area is contaminated.

Then why are they building a fortress for an all -out war?

What fortress?

They're building fences and they're boarding their window. Why didn't you

something? I didn't know it was for a war.

They got a bar boy or two.

That's right. I saw that.

officials. Why are they hoarding so many cats?

That's right.

If they weren't hoarding cats, your friends would be alive today.

They sure as hell ain't offering any cats to us.

Goddamn liars.

They've got hundreds of red -marked objects, too.

If it wasn't for the Joneses, we'd have cats.

So what if we don't have any cats? We can find other animals.

But there are cats!

Then for the love of Sleepy Rock, your family and your friends' blood, let's

the Joneses!

They got axes, plastic, and red objects.

I saw it!

I knew it!

How much time have we got?

I don't know. A couple minutes.

They're coming now!

But you got a fence that'll hold them long enough. What are you talking about?

You don't even need extra weapons!

How do you know we don't need extra weapons?

For you, for them, I'm getting extra weapons, extra red objects.

Thanks, Jake.

Well, it's only for what you mean to me I'm doing this.

Get ready to defend. Sharpen your weapons. You and you, get the red

distribute them. You, you, and you, guard the cats. Where's Bob? Right here.

some men and grab the rear. Let's go!

All set.

You all remember my wife, Jane?

Little Tommy?

Sandra?

George?

Rebecca?

Mark and all those wounded and dying,

fight until you tell your lungs to breathe.

And they breathe no more.

Pigs.

Come on.

Hit it.

We're behind this from the start.

Hold your position. Get the children and cats inside.

Come on, Dana.

I want to watch. Get inside.

Bolt the door!

I

always

knew you were a yellow liar.

Attack so I can put an end to your pathetic life.

Hoarding cats, stocking weapons, killing our men. You started that. They weren't

spreading the disease.

We let you have cats.

As God is my witness, we're the ones who are trying to help.

Then bring out the cats.

I can see now cats aren't what you need.

Only spiritless men slaughter animals in drunken rages and then beg for more.

Please accept the Lord as your savior.

Can I use the Lord to test objects?

Come on, Josh.

How can you talk punch wood if they just don't listen?

If we fight, we'll use every red object we've got.

We're dying.

We got nothing to lose.

Now give up the cats.

Give up this madness.

We have the Lord, weapons, and walls.

You can't fight that.

Is it caps or is it death? That's no choice.

Jake, people.

We're split in town, and... Well, a lot of those people that died... It

was an accident.

I wanted none of it. It's you.

You're the carrier. Yeah, but I was... And you weren't trying to hurt anybody,

were you? You weren't trying to hurt anybody.

That's right.

Oh, I knew it. What did you know?

I knew it. The pattern was much too stupid to be intentional.

Well, if you're going to the city, I'll be just a second.

What are you talking about?

You think the gorge is passable? What are you doing?

Why didn't you tell somebody? Look, I don't want them to crucify me. That's

point.

Look, the whole town looks to you.

You split today, they'll know. Tomorrow, they'll figure we went with you.

You think a gorge will stop them?

All Jake has to do is protect himself.

We can go to the city and I'll find someone who can help.

I mean, I want to help.

I'm telling you, you can't help.

I've been with this mess since the beginning.

You need someone who's known you for years.

Look, the only reason we came here was so you won't waste more time looking for

the carrier.

If you want to help, help them.

You can't help me.

Okay?

Okay.

What's that?

I'm sorry to disturb you. I knew you'd understand.

But you're exhausting.

Goddamn idiots!

Don't do anything terrible!

Don't understand!

Help me!

Gotta stop him!

You're not going to tell them it was me, are you? No.

I'll tell them a story.

But you've got to show up at the church.

Why?

Because everyone will be there.

And if you don't show up, you'll be suspect.

The town is going to be evacuated, and they're so knife -happy.

500 people with dead loved ones will be trailing you forever.

As if you ever intended any of this to happen.

If one person stands out, that'll be the person they'll get.

You're so much on everyone's list.

Don't you think they'll notice if you're not there?

A town meeting is the only way.

You've got to be there.

Then you'll be free.

Well, what are you going to tell them?

Don't worry. I've got a plan.

I can leave right after you're done.

Yes.

Tell me another way.

Keep the front clear because I'll be sitting by the door.

You okay?

Calm the

craziness.

Didn't figure you'd show fear.

It's Bob.

Watch. It's Matt. I know it.

I'll hold him.

Be careful.

Well, I'm glad... some of you stopped killing long enough to make it here.

Now, you're aware that I know who the carrier is.

He has no family, so we can only take position with him.

He's an evil, young outcast.

And once I name him, there'll be no doubt that he did it.

So now, I reveal that the name of the carrier

is... Tim...

Doolittle.

And he died in the fight.

But he told me of his fears beforehand.

And later, by testing, I determined that he was indeed the carrier.

So now, I am honored and happy to proclaim that the Sleepy Rock

Syndrome is over!

Take as long as you need.

Go over the whole town.

Make sure that everything contaminated is marked.

Go.

The carrier's dead.

It was Doolittle. Doolittle? I wanted to cut him myself. Where is Nathan?

I don't want anyone else infected.

Touch the wall, Jake.

I'm not going to take some stupid test.

If someone else has the disease, we'll isolate him.

Isolate the carrier.

Touch the wall, Jake.

You're crazy.

Touch the wall, Jake.

You're all crazy.

Touch the wall, Jake.

Listen to reason.

full of grief.

He's going to dissolve him.

Sleepy Rock was soon evacuated by the government.

Authorities never learned anything new about the disease.

Nothing that wasn't already known.

And it all wore off in time.

Just like so much else.

The doctor and White have a small practice in the city.

And couldn't talk much about it.

And then there was Jake.

Jake didn't believe in simple good or bad.

Jake was simply... Honored.

Jesus, you try to forget.

You try to forget.

But it just doesn't go away.