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[person] I think you owe me some details.

[Verna chuckles]

He said he had a nice time, and what did you say?

He's… Angie.

[Angie] Marilyn! I mean, if he is as fine in real life

as he looked in those pictures…

Well, he… [chuckles]… he's nice. He's very nice.

So you'll call this very nice man for a second date?

[Verna] Okay, we discussed this.

- I'm doing things my way. Slowly. - [sighs]

There's slow and then there's asleep.

I love you, Big Sis, but your way isn't exactly working.

[Angie] Um, that does not look like the application for your internship.

[sighs] That's because it's not due until the end of the month.

Everybody's taking their sweet time in this family.

Marilyn, you can keep looking for the next 10 years,

you are not gonna find another Ronald.

He didn't want you to stop living.

He wanted you to have a big, full life.

Got everything I need.

Work, you, Langston.

Yeah, okay. But there's some things that we can't give you.

[Verna] Yeah? What is that?

Like, companionship…

- Lord… - …dates, orgasms.

- [Joel] Ma. Seriously? - [Angie laughs]

Okay. Uh, I'm saying goodbye.

- Bye. Bye. Love you. - [Angie] Bye.

[boss] Marilyn?

- I got it. - Oh, my God, you're an angel.

Becca's jazz band recital starts at 7:00 p.m.,

I got the flower delivery coming later today.

Uh, couldn't rustle up some earplugs, could you?

- Come on, Suze would kill us both. - Mmm.

The check-in meeting, we hit our targets, auto and home,

kind of lagged in life policies.

We're gonna have to push those writers. And it is Hakeem's birthday today.

- Oh. - I got a card and everyone signed it.

[boss] So I crunched the numbers and we lagged last quarter.

Remind your clients it's never too early to take out a life policy

and they don't wanna wait until it's too late.

- All right? - [office workers] Right.

Good.

And last but not least, Hakeem.

- [employee] Aw. - [boss] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

- [employee 2] Come on. - [all] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

♪ Happy birthday, dear Hakeem ♪

♪ Happy… ♪

[muttering]

- [employee 2] Weird. - It was the circuit breaker.

The guy came to check it this weekend.

[car alarms blaring]

[employees scream]

[citizen screams]

[screaming]

[citizen] What are we gonna do?

Can anyone get online?

I've still got service.

I just saw something that said it's a terrorist attack.

No… [stammers] …We don't know that.

They're setting up evacuation sites. Broadcasting them over the radio.

Okay.

Okay, everybody go home.

- Find an evacuation site. - [phone buzzing]

[sirens blaring]

- One second. - [Angie] Marilyn, thank God you're okay.

I'll be right there.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. I've been trying forever…

[Verna] Greg?

Greg.

I'll meet you at your place.

- I'll handle things. - [sighs] Okay.

Okay, okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

[Angie] Marilyn. Marilyn! Are you still there?

Are you okay? Nobody knows what happened.

- Everyone's leaving town. - Calm down.

I packed some sweat pants for you.

I wasn't sure what else you might want.

I should've met you there instead of making you come here.

- I wasn't thinking. - [siren blaring in distance]

- You're doing good. - What if they're still in the city?

- What if whatever attacked us isn't done? - Angie.

- What if... - I'm gonna take care of us.

Just like I promised Ma.

Hey.

I'm checking on the evacuation routes.

Uh, the highways are screwed for normal traffic.

The government's taking over buses.

They've got state troopers clearing lanes.

- Okay. - There's a bus depot on 9th and Wells.

- [Joel] Mm-hmm. - 9th and Wells.

Wait, what are you…

[Greg] Marilyn?

Come on.

- [Verna] Greg. - Marilyn.

I just wanted to let you know that the best way out of town is by bus.

- Seriously? - [Greg] Oh, it's okay, Marilyn.

Our friends, they, uh, they have a big lake house in Bayside.

They… They say it's safe up there.

[Verna] That's not far from us.

We can meet you there.

[Greg] Uh…

- Greg? - Yeah. Um… [stammers]

- It's not our house, you know? - [scoffs]

I-I mean… [stammers] …you know I would help if I could.

But… [stammers] …I gotta go now.

[stammers] Good luck, Marilyn.

[phone beeps]

Hey. Hey, can we move things along, here?

Yeah, I'm talking to you. What the hell's your plan here, huh?

- Fucking dick. - Langston.

What? We were all thinking it.

I was definitely thinking it.

[aliens chittering]

[aliens screeching]

What is that?

Let's move. Move!

- We gotta move. - Move!

Hey! Come on! Come on!

[Joel] Wait! Let us in!

- Come on. Come on, come on! - Her first. First. Marilyn…

Come on, come on.

[Joel] Come on, let's go. Come on. Ma!

[Joel] Ma! Ma, no! Ma!

- [alien chittering] - Ma!

No! Angie!

- Angie! - Ma! Ma!

[Verna screaming]

[Angie whispers] Marilyn.

Angie.

Langston.

Langston!

Langston!

[person] He's over here.

Where are we?

We ran out of gas.

The bus driver and some of the passengers headed back,

the rest of us thought we'd try our luck there.

How's your daughter handling this?

Evie? As well as can be expected given everything.

Hey, I wanted to say thank you.

Your family saved mine back there.

I didn't save anyone.

My sister's…

Langston.

Langston, honey.

Please.

[refugee] Where is everybody?

[refugee 2] You think they got hit too?

[Verna] Rest up in there.

Figure out next steps.

[civilian] No telling when the taps will run dry.

We need to start saving water.

[civilian 2] Gas too. We can siphon it from…

[Verna] Hello.

Ah-ah-ah.

Stop right there.

[scoffs]

Nice.

I said stop.

Look, I'm Neil.

What's your name?

None of your fucking business. What do you want?

[Neil] Anything edible.

This look like a welfare center to you?

Well, it's a church. So, yeah. Kind…

Oh. No. This is a misunderstanding.

We were evacuated from Chicago. And our bus...

Don't care. Get out.

[pastor] Carolann!

What is going on?

Intruders.

Here to loot.

No. No, it's okay. We'll go.

- Our mistake. - Damn right, your mistake.

Carolann.

Please.

[pastor] How long have you been traveling for?

[Neil] We left Chicago yesterday.

We could use some food and water.

We'll leave. First thing in the morning.

Stay.

As long as you need.

It's dangerous out there, you can shelter with us.

Pastor.

We can't.

"Come to me,

all ye who are weary and burdened, and I shall give you rest."

Come in.

You're welcome.

Come on.

I keep replaying it in my mind.

Every choice.

I mean, every moment.

I could've… I'd… I…

should've done something different.

She was my baby sister. I'm supposed to take care of her.

Look, I'm sorry, No. I…

I can't do this. All right?

I just can't.

[door opens]

[Carolann] I'm telling you, we won't last two weeks...

[pastor] Look, I don't wanna hear about it right now. Okay?

[Verna] Pastor Allen?

Everything good?

You settling in okay?

Yes, thank you for taking us in.

[Pastor Allen] Oh, we're… we're happy to help.

Even Carolann?

[chuckles] Well, she's, uh…

She's just protective.

Scared. Like everyone.

It's not easy leading the flock.

A few days ago…

some people from town went missing.

We looked everywhere for them.

Called the sheriff.

And now with the attacks, everyone started fighting.

Stealing. It was ugly.

So ugly.

I couldn't even protect them.

Carolann had to do it.

You know, I… I have been praying.

Begging God for answers. For help, but…

Let me help you.

Please.

It's what I need…

right now.

To be useful.

Help me how?

What feels

most impossible right now?

[sighs]

Our food.

It won't last.

Okay.

Okay.

Show me.

From last year's food drive.

Lucky for us, people were generous.

Small town. We like to help our own.

I appreciate you showing it to me.

[whispers] Okay, paper, cans…

- [whispers indistinctly] - [chuckles] I'm sorry. What's she doing?

Um, it's… Uh…

Doing the numbers.

Just… running numbers.

So what do you think?

About what? Not her town, not her call.

[sighs] Lord, Carolann. Just let the woman speak.

I'd distribute it differently.

Inventory it. Organize it by what could and should be eaten first

and what could keep till later.

- It makes sense to me. - No one asked you, Carmichael.

I'd also have family-style meals.

It'll last longer that way.

I can do the planning.

It's just crunching numbers.

You skim any extra for your little friends, I'll know.

Got it?

Yeah.

I got it.

And soon I'll set up the schedule to divide duties,

cooking, cleaning, security, maintenance.

We've got clean clothes for y'all.

People left a lot of stuff behind.

I also found some prescription pills at the Richards.

I think Jean and Rufus might've been hiding something.

This is great.

We'll start a medical supply.

- Wow. That's great. - Yeah.

[Neil] All right.

You eat anything?

You need to eat.

[Joel] Yeah, uh, Evie.

- She brought me a bowl. - [Verna] That's great.

[Joel] Yeah, she's real pushy.

Yeah.

How are you sleeping?

These pews suck.

Yeah, I know.

I've got Henry looking for extra linens in town.

Mmm.

[sighs]

We can talk about it if you want to.

We can talk about her.

You know,

that morning at breakfast,

Mama asked me what I thought about her going back to school.

She wanted to get her degree in counseling, right?

Said that she felt stuck and she wanted to do something that mattered.

And I laughed.

[scoffs]

I laughed and I made some stupid joke

about how my guidance counselor's never helped anyone.

And then she… she laughed too.

But I could tell that she was hurt.

I was able to… to see it in her eyes.

What the fuck is wrong with me? You know?

- Nothing. - [scoffs]

Nothing is wrong with you.

She knew you didn't mean it.

You know what's crazy?

She always put everybody first.

She put me first.

She put you first.

And we let her.

On that day, the whole fucking world

was trying to push and shove to get on that bus.

And… I mean, why wouldn't she choose herself?

I mean, she should've…

- I should've… - Don't blame yourself.

You did everything you could.

She was better than anybody in here.

She was better than me.

She was better than you.

It should've been me.

- No, don't say that. - Yeah.

- Don't say that. - It should've been me.

We are all that is left of her.

My sister, your mother.

And we need each other.

I'm angry too.

I'm angry at everything and everyone.

But you think that's what she would want for us?

For you?

She was…

She was so proud of you.

Baby.

Oh, no thank you.

You didn't eat yesterday.

Or this morning.

[phone beeping]

- Oh, my God. It's working. Hey, hey. - [gasping]

I don't know how long it's gonna last or if it can handle everybody's traffic, but…

Uh… I've still got no signal here.

Shit. My sister made it out. She's in Grand Rapids. She's safe.

What's happening? Is there any news about the attacks?

[Joel] Holy shit.

- What? - What?

You guys gotta see this.

Okay. It's all right. It's all right.

[gasping, muttering]

My God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[cries] No, no, no, no.

Pastor.

Now might be a good time for a prayer.

Pastor.

A prayer.

[survivors gasping, crying]

[clears throat]

Does anyone remember when I, uh, preached about prayer a few weeks ago?

Uh, you were there that Sunday, weren't you Carmichael?

Yeah. Yeah, of course.

Uh…

You said prayer is like a…

like a conversation with God.

I liked the, uh, simplicity of that idea.

A conversation with God.

But you can't have a conversation with someone who isn't listening.

I'm sorry.

So sorry. [sighs]

[door opens]

- [door closes] - That's just great.

[Neil] We're all fucked.

- [sniffles] - [Verna] No, one scoop.

We have to stick to the ration schedule. Especially now.

Who the hell elected you our leader, huh?

There's aliens roaming the fucking earth, lady.

I'm gonna have as much soup as I want.

[Verna] No, you're not.

It's not just your life on the line, it's all of ours.

- Listen, bitch... - Hey!

- Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Hey, knock it off.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Guys. Take it easy.

Langston.

[sighs]

[Neil scoffs]

We all just need a minute.

Okay? They'll cool off.

Yeah, good fucking riddance.

What now?

[Verna] We rest.

And then tomorrow…

we plan for the long haul.

I don't know if God is listening or not,

but we're here,

and we're gonna take care of each other.

[whispers] Marilyn.

Marilyn, hey.

[sighs] You need to see this.

They took everything.

Carmichael's truck, too.

They must've stolen it while we were sleeping. [sighs]

- [gasps] - It was Neil and the Rosses.

It had to be.

We have to tell Pastor Allen.

He's not in his bunk. He must've gotten up early.

- [knocks] - Pastor Allen?

[gasps] Oh, God!

Oh, no, no, no, no…

- [Joel] Auntie? - [Verna panting]

What are you…

Why would he…

Go get Carolann.

Okay.

- Go. Go! - Okay.

[thunder rumbles]

[indistinct voices]

[Angie] I need you. Marilyn.

- I need you. - Join us.

- We need you. - Angie?

Marilyn, I'm here. I'm not gone.

[Verna] Angie…

Listen to me.

[kids laughing]

[Verna] Langston.

Where were you?

Come with me.

- What is it? - She was here.

No.

She… She was here.

[groans] Stop.

- It was in the sky. - [groans] Stop it.

And I heard her voice.

Hey. Auntie, stop.

I heard Angie's voice.

Stop!

What the hell is wrong with you?

Look, she's dead.

- All right? We left her. - No. No.

I left her.

- No, it was my fault. I should've... - I had her hand

and I let it slip.

Okay?

I had her.

And I let her go.

[shushes]

- [Joel] It is my fault. - No.

It's my fault.

[Verna] It's not.

And she knows it.

She loves you so much.

- Auntie… Auntie, you are… - She told me.

You are talking crazy.

- No. - [Joel] You sound crazy.

[stammers]

It was real!

It was real.

She was talking to me. She was talking to me about you.

About how much she loves you.

And about how she wants you to live this big, beautiful life.

And she wants you to go to MIT,

and, uh… get a house on Magnolia…

get that house on Magnolia… MIT…

- [Joel] Whoa. Wait, wait, wait. - She...

How'd you know about the house on Magnolia?

We never told anybody about that.

She told me.

She told me today.

When I was a kid we used to…

When I was a kid she used to let me skip school when she didn't have to work.

We never told you about it because we knew that you would be upset.

We used to, uh…

drive around all the nice neighborhoods and look at the houses.

She'd say,

"You wanna go shopping today?"

Shopping. Yeah.

[Joel] There was this one house that she absolutely loved

and it was on Magnolia Avenue.

Blue paint, white shutters.

She always wanted a house with shutters even though they were kinda useless.

I forgot all about that.

[vehicle approaching]

What else did she say?

[tires screech]

[crashes]

- [driver] Did you see… - [Joel] You okay?

[driver] Yeah. Did you see that?

- Did you… - [Verna] Hey. Okay, take a deep breath.

- Yeah. - [Joel] What's this?

[Verna] Okay, everything's gonna be okay.

Hey, what is that?

Ugh.

Everyone. Um…

I'd like to take a moment of silence for Pastor Allen.

I wish he could see the joy in this room right now.

[survivor chuckles]

Can we?

All right.

Thank you.

And I'd also like to welcome our new friend, Violet.

More like guardian angel saving our asses

by crashing a truck full of MREs on our doorstep.

[Violet] I didn't do anything. [laughs]

What happened, did you fall asleep at the wheel or something?

Gift horse, Carmichael, don't ask why.

I, um…

Tell them.

Tell us what?

Just before Violet came…

I saw something out there.

An alien.

But it wasn't like the others.

It was beautiful.

Beautiful?

I mean, they're killers.

This one was different.

It had all these voices inside of it.

It was luminous.

My sister, Angie…

she was always pushing, telling me what to do.

I mean she would never stop.

It came from love, but it drove me crazy.

Langston, you remember?

- Yeah. Yeah. - [Verna] I kept thinking about that.

Who's gonna tell me what to do?

Push me to…

be better, do better?

And I could feel her slipping away.

You all know that feeling.

Something found me on that field.

A new kind of being.

Alien, but I think it wanted me to know why they're here.

To kill us.

And destroy our planet.

No.

The real reason.

The gift they want to give us.

When it was hovering over me,

I heard Angie again.

Reaching out to me,

guiding me,

telling me what to do.

- She's up there. - [Debbie] What?

I think it's some kind of gateway to something beyond us.

To everyone we've lost.

That's impossible.

Okay, Marilyn?

You just miss her.

No. I did some research and there are others.

And other people have seen them too.

There's been these reports of people just disappearing.

Not killed, just gone.

Didn't that happen here?

Right before we showed up?

It… It did.

So how come the government's not talking about it, huh?

Because the government is fucking useless.

- Langston. - I've been hacking their databases.

NASA, the FBI, the military…

they have no idea what these things are.

And if they did finally, they wouldn't tell us,

because that's what they do.

They hide the truth and they keep us in the dark.

[Violet] I saw it too.

I did, I, uh…

I was so scared I drove off the road.

But I've just been sitting here wondering if maybe they brought me here.

To you all.

Look, if this is…

if there's even a chance that this is true…

I'd give anything to hear my wife's voice again.

To feel her presence.

They didn't kill us.

They could've wiped out this family we've built here.

Maybe there's a reason for that.

For us.

A purpose.

Something…

greater.

[Joel] All right, so you drag it over here

- and… yeah. All submitted. - [Verna] Ah. Nice.

[door opens]

- Hello. Welcome. - [door closes]

Hi. Uh…

I'm Nora, this is my mom, Greta.

She, uh, she's not well.

I heard there was a safe place, but I didn't imagine this.

We have a clinic right down the street.

A clinic? Wow.

The hunter-killer attack in Naperville, it didn't reach you here?

No. We're more concerned with human threats here.

But we do take care of each other here.

Uh, everything is shared.

Food, water, medicine, clothing.

Everybody does their part.

You know, we try to spread the truth and give people hope.

So that we're worthy.

Worthy of what?

Of what comes next.

Auntie.

This is Nora and this is Greta.

Hi. I'm Marilyn.

Oh. Oh.

[chuckles]

Have you come a long way?

Kansas City.

- [Verna] Hmm. - Yeah, hunter-killers…

Our house, my husband…

I'm so sorry.

You'll be safe here.

[Joel] Greta needs to see a doctor.

- I'll take you. Come on. - Thank you.

- Kansas City. - [door opens]

It's working just like you said. The scouts. The outreach.

I'm so proud of you.

She would be too.

Of the both of us.

Hmm. Yeah.

Hey, hey. You need to see this.

[anchor] I know I speak for us all when I say we owe a great debt

to Navy SEAL Trevante Cole and the WDC task force.

Because of their bravery, their sacrifice, the alien mothership

has finally fallen.

And details of the operation…

It's down. It's dead.

[Debbie] Our saviors…

We've lost them.

It's over.

[settler] Marilyn?

[sighs]

Angie.

Please.

I need you.

Please come back.

[footsteps approach]

We'll do anything.

[Joel sighs]

Please.

It's not over.

[Joel] It's not?

[Verna] No. We were wrong before,

thinking all we had to do was be worthy

and the heavens would open for us.

We have to earn it.

With faith.

With fearlessness.

With everything we have.

And then the gates will re-open?

To our loved ones, to everyone that we've lost?

If we're prepared, yes.

If we're vigilant,

one day…

one day a sign will come.

[aide] I'll have Mr. Hollander call you back, General.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir.

It won't stall the WDC for long.

Long enough.

You worried about Joel?

Joel's not alone.

It never gets easier.

I know.

They died, so we could finish our mission, our calling.

Last time I spoke to Carmichael, he described it to me.

The New World.

"A garden grows from nothing," he said.

"They walk among us, and the air ripples with life."

The WDC, those people out there, they call it the Dead Zone.

There's no place more alive.

They have risen and they're growing the new Eden.

And there's no way in hell I'm letting anyone destroy it.

[Tomas] What do we do now, Verna?

I told you a sign would come, and it did.

I told you the gates would open, and they will.

Follow me.