Previously on Aftermath...
Kids, Lamar Boone, aka Booner.
Oh, God, Mom.
Ah, shit. He's possessed.
Run! Feverheads.
- How many? - 30, 40.
That's right. You go on back to hell.
Mom, we're here.
Sally, uh...
shopped at a co-op.
She made her own ice cream.
She went all over the world,
and she helped people every single day of her life.
She gave that life for us.
Let's not forget it.
That's just Mount Rainier. We get it all the time.
Yeah, you'd like that.
Is Mom gonna be okay?
I don't know.
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Guys, come on. I'm fine.
I know, that's the weird part.
Hey, Karen, listen.
- I'm thinking that it might be wise... - You want to go home.
We have Brianna. You want to go home.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- That's what I'm thinking. - Me too.
Hey, I want you to stay.
After the way the whole family fought last night,
I know you're up to it, and you'll be safe.
It's the end of the world. Nobody's safe.
Well, if you're gonna die, you may as well be around your friends.
Nobody's gonna die. We're not gonna die.
- You're not gonna die. - Okay, okay.
- Jesus. - But if you're gonna leave,
you need food and fuel.
- You've given us enough. - I've got both.
No, no, we're going to Camp Keewatin.
That's where Dana was a counselor. We're gonna get all our supplies there.
Oh, yeah, yeah, that summer that I was away.
- You were always away. - Well, I was on a dig.
I mean, that's part of the job requirements.
I know, honey, I know.
I'll throw in a couple extra shooters and a vehicle.
- I don't want your shooters. - Like hell you don't.
I'm gonna get my vehicle back.
What's the matter with this guy?
Pride is a deadly sin, Booty.
Take something from me for once.
- She'll take it. - I'll take it.
Where are you gonna be?
I have to go get supplies of my own.
I have to go to Memphis Pacific College.
It's probably 25 miles east of here.
You remember Gloria Douglas?
- The crazy professor? - That's right.
How do you know she's gonna be there?
No, everything she predicted has come true, and I don't know if she's gonna be there,
but I know that they'll have archived her work wherever she taught.
So I'll just go to the college, and I'll meet you at the camp after.
So you're gonna go through all this danger just for some research?
Lamar, you're helping us survive today.
I'm trying to help us survive tomorrow.
You're not going alone.
Okay, I'll take Briana and Devyn. You take Dana and Matt.
Plus an additional shooter per vehicle.
Come on, Booty. I got to do this.
- Done. - Deal.
Oh.
Done.
Here you go.
Your boyfriend's in the back talking to himself.
- Relax, Jane, hop in. - He's praying, Matt.
Matt.
Listen, you're in charge of your mother.
- She's gonna love that. - No, no, just don't tell her that.
Just observe and react.
Stay close to her.
All right.
Here, grab hold.
Thanks.
That wasn't the best morning.
You can't dwell on these things.
- Yeah, I guess. - I'm serious.
We get distracted, we die.
- Got it? - Yeah.
So you keep your eye on the woods, not on me,
in spite of what your father said.
- How did you know? - I know your father.
Be sharp.
We're not the only ones looking for supplies out there.
It's good to get going.
Of course she waited for my dad to go first
so she could watch him for a while.
Ooh, oops.
No problem.
Oh, sorry.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
Not much, in my opinion.
Godspeed, Booty.
See you after the end.
You're the man, Lamar.
See you, Booner.
All right! Lock it up!
All right, Dr. Douglas' research is archived here.
I won't be long.
Dad, how could she have predicted all this shit?
I don't know. I thought she was crazy, but...
- I'm going with you. - No, Dana, I want you with Bri and Devyn.
All right, let's load up as fast as we can.
Where do we find things?
Bulk food in the mess hall and the kitchen.
Dry goods? Survival?
They stored that in the counselor's cabin.
- I know where that is. - Okay, go with Martin.
Assume it's a free-fire zone. Safeties off.
Don't sorry, Mrs. Copeland. I got her.
Nothing bad's ever happened to two young,
- sexy kids at a camp before, right? - Stop it.
- So this was your summer camp? - Yeah, I loved it.
Dark skies. You could see the double star in Lyra,
naked eye.
Wow. Party girl.
Well, plus I couldn't wait to get away from my family.
Seems funny to say that now.
I fought with Brianna all the time.
- Over? - The important stuff.
Chores and clothes.
I was the only kid.
I used to wish I had a brother to fight with.
Well, where are your parents now?
I'm from Seattle.
I'm sorry.
Where do 3 million people go?
I don't know.
Somewhere good maybe.
I never thought of that.
Something to hope for.
Hope is really all that's left, I guess.
- You hear anything? - Thought I heard an engine.
Someone at the camp?
Let's say hello.
Damn, it's thick in here.
Stop your bitching!
Come on, let's go this way.
Found much more?
- No, we emptied the kitchen. - Great.
- There are people out there. - What people?
GRs in the woods. Two of them now, but there could be more.
Where's Dana?
I don't know, but they're armed.
Let's split up and find her.
Put the knife on the table.
Ponga el cuchillo en la mesa.
Would you like some water?
Quieres agua?
Can you tell me where the restroom is?
Puedes decirme dónde está el baño?
I would like to purchase some shoe polish.
Me gustaría comprar un poco de betÃºn.
This concludes Conversational Spanish, lesson six.
Dr. Douglas?
Gloria Douglas?
Yes.
Hi.
I'm Joshua Copeland. Dr. Copeland.
Oh.
What brings you here?
Well, to be honest with you, I was looking for your dissertation.
- Of course. - You remember me?
Sure, you're Joshua Copeland.
Yeah, from Whitstron College.
I, uh, I think I was opposed to your work
when you first put it out,
and I think we had some very bitter words,
which I was wrong.
I think your work is filled with important insights.
Of course.
I didn't expect to run into you in person.
I'm glad that I have an opportunity to say I'm sorry,
ask you if I could maybe re-read your work.
Well, you're having a good day then, aren't you?
Wow, you're a fast stacker.
Yeah, it's one of my better qualities.
It's not my best.
Okay, we are going to talk.
Yeah, I think the odds on that are long.
We need to find out everything about each other,
and there is very little time.
Okay, you first.
Okay, I almost never wear makeup.
Me either.
But I am surprisingly good at walking in heels.
Me too.
I think you're just saying anything that comes to mind
in hopes of having sex with me.
I would never do that.
Except for right now,
and any other time we're both in the state of Washington.
Or a state of undress.
Sorry, sorry, that just came out.
Yeah, are we really gonna do this?
Yeah, the evidence says we are, yeah.
Because I just got to say, and I swear it's the last time,
I'm a lot older than you,
and I'm your bodyguard, and...
Martin. Martin.
What you are is someone I am really attracted to,
and normally... normally we would just take a beat
and figure this out,
but the world is probably ending.
Yeah, I know, but...
And you can't regret what you won't live to regret.
You got a point.
What's wrong?
Go away, please.
I'm back here if you need me.
Did you find it yet?
- No. - Why is it so important to you?
Why? 'Cause everything you wrote is coming true.
Comets, plagues, skinwalkers, even the mythic beasts.
Indeed.
So if you can predict what's gonna happen next...
Let me show you.
What the hell is that?
- Where did you come from? - I hadn't seen you in a bit,
and in Booner's system it's hands on every ten minutes.
- Thank God for Booner. - I say it again,
- what the hell is that? - It's a Fetch.
It's an Anglo-Saxon word for shape-shifter.
I mean, they have them in every culture and every legend,
but they can turn into anyone you know, and then they become murderous.
At least that's the legend.
Like we don't have enough shit already.
Something else that Dr. Douglas predicted,
which means if it can turn into her,
then she's in the vicinity.
We have to find her.
Well, this is an archive.
You'd think her address is in here somewhere.
Stop tickling me.
What?
Stop it.
Dana!
- Hold on! - Help! Help me!
Get it off!
Get off!
Please!
Almost! Almost!
Get it off!
Go on! Go, go!
Go, go, go! Come on.
Oh, shit, I left my gun.
Don't bother.
We got the only ones you'll need.
What are you all doing here?
This is our camp, okay?
And we don't like uninvited guests.
Look, we don't know you guys and you don't know us,
but I need to warn you.
Dana, don't.
I have to.
That vine around your leg,
there's a killer plant underneath that cabin,
and it's gonna pull you underground and eat you.
Nice try.
- Jessie, it's got me! - Let's get out of here!
Help me, Jessie! It's got me!
Help! It's eating me!
Kill me!
What the hell?
- That was Jess. I know her voice. - Okay, let's go.
Do you really have to listen to that?
There's nothing else on.
Well, hep talk from the '50s isn't gonna help us.
Well, it can't hurt.
Water above and fire below,
the next wave's got a bubbling glow,
and the next precip is some kind of tip
with hot rocks from deeper down the roads.
Won't be rain when it explodes,
it'll be Rainier if you'll pardon my eruption.
- Mount Rainier? - And what happens
when the underground leaves dark behind
and burns out bright?
I don't think this thing blows tonight, but soon, aficionados, soon.
Is he talking about Mount Rainier erupting?
I don't know what he's talking about. I just like the sound.
Ugh.
The only address they have for her is here at this college.
She must have had her mail forwarded.
Maybe she lives here, like that shape-shifter thing.
Why don't you check this building,
I'll check the residences, and meet back here?
Let's go.
Mom!
Don't do that to me.
I heard screaming and gunfire.
I couldn't find her.
It's not Dana, she's still here.
Let's stick together, scour the place.
Try not to get shot.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It ate... It ate her.
We got to get out of here.
Who ate what?
The monster in this building, it ate her.
- Did you see the looters? - Two.
We had them cornered, and then they told us about the monster,
and then it took Roz.
Maybe they set a trap.
Yeah, with the monster they carry around.
Look, I don't know who these people are,
but they have to answer for Roz.
Let's find them.
We can't just hide in the woods.
Hey, hey, they're looking for us.
I'm unarmed, and we don't know how many we're facing.
But Mom and Matt...
Have better odds if we don't lead hostiles right to them.
What if... what if they find Mom on their own?
Then...
I pity the fool.
Hey, it's gonna be okay.
I know.
Come on, let's go.
Gloria?
Is it Gloria Douglas?
Dr. Douglas?
Joshua Copeland.
- Yes. - It's me.
Trust you to get past the shape-shifter.
Was that a Fetch?
That's the Anglo-Saxon version.
I prefer to use the Filipino word:
Aswang.
Kind of reminds me of you somehow, Aswang.
Y los demonios va a surgir.
And the sun will darken,
and the demons will emerge.
Well, since we're gonna die soon,
let's say we have a drink.
Relax, the bourbon is on the table.
How did you know about the Fetch?
We call it an Aswang.
Do not be such a WASP about every little thing, Josh.
I'll get it.
I was at my office last week doing some work,
and the thing came slithering in.
I think... I think it might be some kind of virus.
So they touch a crumb, a DNA,
and they can use it to replicate,
and there they are.
Or there you are.
I even trained my Aswang to kill anybody who came looking for me.
You trained a shape-shifter?
Just got to be smarter than the virus, Josh.
How did you know?
How did you know all these things would appear?
You wrote about them even in your early work.
You mean the work that you used to ruin me?
That's what you want to discuss right now
in the last hours of your life?
The last hours of my life?
There've been 2,200 little earthquakes
over the last 24 hours.
- It's called a swarm. - I don't feel anything.
That's because they stopped this morning,
and that's a very bad thing, Josh.
This lovely institution lies
in the shadow of Mount Rainier, and you know what that means?
That means that all those little micro-vents,
when the quakes happen, they... they close.
And when every single vent gets shut tight,
pressure starts to build, and therefore what happens?
What happens when that happens?
Boom.
Boom?
Boom.
When?
I don't know.
Sometime less than the next 12 hours
and more than the next 30 seconds, say.
I presume you want to leave now.
No, I don't. I want to discuss your work.
You mean the work that you blackballed me with?
All right.
I'm truly sorry for the part that I played in that.
I, you know, I didn't realize, obviously.
Fine.
You're in luck 'cause I'm lonely.
The only thing worse than being lonely is being right
and nobody knows it.
- Except me. - Yeah, except you.
You're all I got.
Listen, I have to ask you something.
I heard these broadcasts.
Seems like they're from decades ago,
but I'm starting to think he's talking about current events.
Josh, you're gonna have to give up on all these quaint,
little ideas.
Time and space, it's not all that it's cracked up to be.
Maybe this guy just knows things before they happen, like me.
Don't you know things before they happen, Josh?
Yeah, some things I know, but...
Do you want me to tell you?
Yes.
Okay, I will.
Did you ever learn how to surf?
No, why?
It would be useful to ride the waves.
- But what waves? - Those waves, idiot.
Those waves.
Those are the waves that are making things happen,
that are hitting us, that are smashing us to bits.
What kind of waves?
I don't know.
They're... it's a physics thing.
Really it's, I don't know,
gravity or magnetic, or...
Oh, my God, I'm so tired.
Well, that's all I got.
It's a wave.
Can we do anything to stop it?
If I could stop it,
would I be camped out
in this archive getting drunk every day?
How about another?
This is where the camp counselors would come to make out.
Huh, including you?
Yeah, with Marquise.
Who's he?
Beautiful eyes. Big teeth.
I like a guy with big teeth, okay?
How are mine?
You have other qualities.
Come here.
Mm.
There ain't no monsters. It's something else.
Something else like what?
Will you two just zip it and keep your eyes open?
- You see any tracks? - Nothing yet.
They got to be around here somewhere.
We'll find them.
So this, this wave, is it...
Does that control everything?
That is such a male thing to say, controlled.
No, of course the wave doesn't control anything.
It's like a man. It doesn't have a mind.
It's just a thing that causes other things to happen.
- Okay. - Are you married?
- Yes. - I'm not married.
I knew too much.
You're learning Spanish.
It's a bit late in the game, I have to admit.
It's a Spanish mystic, Bartolomé.
He died about 1,000 years ago,
and it was reading his stuff
that led me to investigate all this other stuff.
Yeah, did he predict these events?
No, but he probably would have
if he hadn't been burned at the stake.
So things described in end-time prophesies
from dozens of different cultures are suddenly becoming real.
It's the damnedest thing, isn't it?
So did this mystic, did he have some insight
into what's gonna happen next?
Sure, and it would kill every drop of hope you have.
There's always hope.
What did he say?
He said, "Everything ends forever."
Did I happen to mention that Mount Rainier's gonna blow?
The most violent volcano in the world,
and we're sitting right on top of it.
Yeah, well, Yellowstone Caldera's on top of...
If I'd meant Caldera, I would have said Caldera.
It is the most dangerous volcano in the world,
and we are sitting right on top of it.
Plus, get this, the big headed dopes that built this archive
put it right on top of this immense lava vent.
So Bob Black's broadcasts, they're real.
They're happening in real time.
He's describing what's really happening.
He's describing Mount Rainier.
So we need to get out of here.
You go. I'm gonna stay.
Why is that?
Because...
I'm trying to kill myself.
I want to kill myself, and I can't do it,
so I'm gonna let the volcano do it for me.
Look at me.
I want to get out of here.
I know, me too.
Devyn, I promised Jane we'd stay in...
Devyn.
Devyn!
Devyn, what are you doing?
Nothing.
Just go away and I can do it.
Do what?
Devyn, where are you?
Where the hell are you?
Devyn, talk to me.
Devyn, I can tell you're moving.
Devyn, come out.
Oh, my God.
I told you not to look.
Devyn, don't do this, please.
I have to.
Why?
I don't want to hurt you.
Devyn, if you pull that trigger,
I won't recover for the rest of my life.
All right?
If you don't want to hurt me,
you put the gun down, we walk out of here,
and things will get better, I promise you, all right?
You give me the gun.
Devyn, give me the gun.
If you love me,
you will give me the gun.
Give it to me.
You're so stupid.
Don't you ever scare me like that again.
I love you so much.
- Stop right there! - Drop the weapons.
All right, bitches, drop them!
I said drop it!
Drop it!
- Drop it! - Hey, hey!
- You stole our food. - I didn't know it was yours.
- I don't care. - Where are the others?
- What others? - The ones who were there
- when my friend died. - What friend?
Tell us, or studly here gets it.
- Let us go and you won't die. - Oh, you got that backwards.
We're here with soldiers. Better trained than you.
We don't meet them in 15 minutes, they're gonna blow your heads off.
Bullshit.
They're Army Rangers. They're trained to track.
You're wearing their favorite color.
I'm your only way out.
Here's the deal. You take us to the truck.
We let you live.
We split the food.
- I need to read your work. - Too late.
Yesterday I decided I didn't have the guts to die in lava,
so you know what I did?
I took a little drive into town,
went to the local hardware store,
liberated some high explosives,
and the whole building is wired. I'm gonna die with my work.
Why would you do that? Why wouldn't you want to save people?
Save, save, save?
No one is saved, asshole.
It's the apocalypse. You think things are bad now?
They're just gonna get much, much worse.
I'm gonna die right here.
- Gloria, it's not too late. - Thankfully, it is too late.
Listen, I just... I need to know how you did that.
I need to know how you predicted that.
I don't know.
I need to know what process you used.
I don't have a method.
All of a sudden I just knew everything.
Why?
You have to know why?
Yes, of course, of course!
I think I'm part of the wave.
I think the wave is using me, and I can't stand myself.
All right, so if there's a cause then it's not random,
then there's a purpose,
and then life has meaning, and then there's...
Of course life has meaning. It's just not good.
All right, you want me to help you?
There's... there's a piece of my research out there.
It's in a nice, little box...
- Right. - In plain sight.
You find it. You understand it.
Maybe it helps you.
And you have one minute till the building blows up.
I don't believe you.
58 seconds.
56 seconds.
You I'm gonna miss.
We had a deal.
I don't hear any soldiers.
That's why they train.
Think you can die quietly?
Well, that's pretty cocky for a slack-ass, barnyard bitch.
Back off, soldier boy.
You know how this goes.
Here's the deal.
I'll let you keep the food
if you tell me where the others are.
Clock's ticking, Josh.
Getting warmer.
Computer cards.
Tick, tick, tick.
Time's a-wasting.
- I want my daughter. - What daughter?
The girl you saw with the soldier.
Oh, hell.
We offed that tasty little slice and her boyfriend.
Oh, no, please, no!
No! Please, God.
- Where's my daughter? - Please, please, please, no!
You son of a bitch.
Mom.
Dana.
What have you done?
They told me you were dead.
So you killed them?
Honey.
Don't touch me.
Who are you?
It's me.
Open up.
Dad?
It's Dad.
Why didn't you bring your keys?
I was getting worried. Did you find the papers?
And where's Jane?
Sorry I'm cranky. I've had a shitty day.
Dad.
Dad!
Dad, don't!
Daddy!
Daddy don't do it! Please!
Don't!
Brianna!
Are you okay?
- You're safe now. - It wasn't him.
- You're safe now.
It wasn't him.
There's no bomb, huh?
I'm a kidder.
Mm.
But I'm... I'm not kidding about being afraid.
I am afraid of volcanoes.
I'm afraid of bombs.
So I want you to do it.
You have to kill me.
I'm not gonna kill you.
Why not?
You killed me once already.
You're good at it.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You know, when you and your little boyfriends
in academia were done with me, I couldn't get a job anywhere.
I end up at Memphis Pacific College.
Are you kidding me?
Memphis is nowhere near the Pacific.
I look like an idiot. I should have gone to Princeton.
I should have been famous.
I'm the one who knew everything,
and look where I end up:
in this shithole with no publications,
and no kids
and no hope.
So you owe me.
Okay, just do it,
and take the computer cards.
They're all you need to understand this whole thing.
Now shoot me.
Well, I can't use the computer cards without a reader.
Wait a second.
Shoot me.
I'm not gonna shoot you.
Come with me.
- Shoot me. - Join us.
- We have a room. - Just shoot me.
- I can make you safe. - Shoot me, Josh.
- You can travel with us. - Just shoot me!
I'm not gonna shoot you!
Oh.
Wow.
Thank you.
When someone asks you to do that, you do it, okay?
The thing about end of times is that people know what they want.
Listen to the voices in the night, Josh.
What's wrong?
Big day, Dad.
Big day.
Hi. What happened?
We got what we needed.
And the bodies on the ground?
They got what they needed.
Yeah, they would have killed us if we hadn't made a move.
Okay.
Matt, you got to tell him.
They were GRs. The worst I've seen.
They threatened us. They taunted Mom.
I mean, they told her Dana was dead.
That's... that's gonna do it.
The last one she shot over and over.
It must have been 20 times. She just lost it.
- I'm sorry. - No, it's my fault.
I should have been around here.
There's nothing you could have done about it, so...
What about Dana?
She fought off a Jubokko.
Well, then she gets to smoke.
- What's going on with Devyn? - I'll handle it.
Hoo, hoo, hoo!
Dev! Dev, stop.
- I saw it. - Stay away from me.
I saw the skinwalker.
Then you know I'm going to kill you.
If you saw it, you know.
You know it's true.
No, you won't.
You don't hurt the people you love.
But you don't love me.
Look at me.
I love you, okay?
I mean it, I do, but you...
You cannot flip out on me, all right?
They will kill you.
You have to understand that.
You won't last.
I tried to fight it, Brianna.
I have, and I can't anymore.
Yes, you can, Devyn.
You can fight it. Love is stronger than anything.
It's not stronger than this.
You're a good person, okay?
I'm gonna help you.
I love you so much.
He's making me do this because he knows how much I love you.
I won't let you have the boy.
Devyn, no. Please!
Please.
Hey, hey!
Devyn, don't! Please!
Please don't do it!
Please! Please!
Devyn!
Please.
Please don't do this.
Devyn don't do this, please.
You were right.
Love is stronger, Brianna.
Please.