Greenland 2: Migration (2026)
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Writers: Mitchell LaFortune, Chris Sparling
Based on: Characters by Chris Sparling
Release Dates: January 6, 2026 (Austria); January 9, 2026 (United States)
Stars: Gerard Butler (John Garrity), Morena Baccarin (Allison Garrity), Roman Griffin Davis (Nathan Garrity), Amber Rose Revah (Dr. Amina), Gordon Alexander (Lieutenant Blake), Peter Polycarpou (Dr. Haugen), William Abadie (Denis Laurent), Nelia Valery Da Costa (Camille), Tommie Earl Jenkins (General Sharpe), Trond Fausa Aurvåg (Lars), Rachael Evelyn (Kerri Holt), Sidsel Siem Koch (Pia), Alex Lanipekun (Riley Watson), Nathan Wiley (Major Green)
Plot
Five years after the Clarke interstellar comet destroyed most of Earth and civilization, the planet’s enviroment has turned into a periodic violent tectonic and volcanic chaos, as sudden electromagnetic storms can unpredictably form, along with lingering radioactive fallout from the comet. The Garrity family has survived since the initial chaos living in an underground bunker in Greenland, with Allison now a leader, John a scout and engineer maintaining the bunker, and their 15-year-old son, Nathan, who wants to become a scout. During their stay, a series of earthquakes collapses the bunker, forcing an emergency evacuation. Upon reaching the surface, most of the survivors are killed by a subsequent tsunami, and the facility is destroyed.
The Garritys and Dr. Amina escape on a lifeboat with a handful of survivors, barely making it to Liverpool. In Liverpool, the remaining Greenland survivors are separated when a gun battle occurs among the survivors trying to enter another rescue bunker. The family and Amina reach London, recuperate, and continue onward toward France, believing that the impact crater left by Clarke in the former Gulf of Lion and the Mediterranean Sea is where humanity has begun to rebuild. Rumors on survivor networks say the area is heavily defended by the military, and that something about the crater’s properties has mitigated the local tectonic and radiation dangers.
The family learns that John has been dying from radiation exposure due to his scouting work, and Amina is shot and killed by bandits en route to Dover. The family crosses the English Channel, now a windswept dry wasteland, and meets a French family in Calais that shelters them. At the French family’s request, the Garritys take their daughter Camille with them to Clarke. They reach the front lines of a raging military battle defending the crater region and are escorted behind the lines. On the way to the crater, bandits ambush their transport, and John is shot defending the group.
The family and Camille finally reach the crater, where they find fertile farmland, fresh lakes, and clear skies free of ash and energy storms, confirming the worldwide rumors that the impact site had healed. The survivors rest before entering the first safe valley, and John succumbs to his wound in sight of their destination, satisfied he protected Allison, Nathan, and Camille so they could reach a safe new life.
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Dust to Dust
Greenland 2: Migration arrives six years after its predecessor, sets itself five years later, and manages to feel both rushed and interminable—a peculiar dishonesty runs through the whole enterprise. The 2020 original, released during the pandemic lockdowns when audiences were hungry for any reminder that collective catastrophe could be survived, had an almost accidental resonance—a family scrambling through societal collapse while strangers in masks tried to kill them or save them, depending on luck and circumstance. That film wasn’t especially good, but it was modestly effective, and Gerard Butler, that craggy Scottish monument to middle-aged durability, gave it a workmanlike solidity. The sequel, directed again by Ric Roman Waugh, seems to have learned nothing from what made the first film tolerable and everything from what made it forgettable.
We rejoin the Garrity family underground in Greenland, where John (Butler) scrapes pipes and ventures outside to scavenge, his wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) now sits on some sort of bunker council, and their son Nathan (Roman Griffin Davis, replacing Roger Dale Floyd) has aged from a frightened child into a restless teenager who wants to become a scout like his father. Nathan is diabetic, which was a significant plot engine in the first film—an entire sequence involved the desperate search for insulin—but this detail has evidently become inconvenient. We see a vial grabbed in the opening chaos, and then the condition simply evaporates from the narrative, as if Type 1 diabetes were a mood that could be shaken off with sufficient adventure.
When earthquakes collapse the bunker and a tsunami kills most of the survivors, the Garritys and a handful of others escape on a lifeboat and somehow cross thousands of kilometers of hostile ocean to reach Liverpool. Where they get the fuel is never addressed, much as where anyone gets fuel, food, ammunition, or functioning vehicles throughout this ninety-eight-minute trek across post-apocalyptic Europe is never addressed. The film operates on a kind of cargo-cult logic: if there are survivors, there must be cars; if there are cars, they must have gas; if people shoot at each other, they must have endless bullets. The writers, Chris Sparling and Mitchell LaFortune, have constructed a world that looks devastated but functions with the convenience of a video game, complete with inexhaustible resources spawning just off-screen.
The destination is a rumored sanctuary in France, the crater left by the Clarke comet’s main fragment, which has supposedly healed itself into a garden within five years and now features fertile farmland, fresh lakes, and clear skies. The geological implausibility of this is so staggering that it transcends nitpicking and enters an almost mystical absurdity that the film’s grim, pseudo-realistic tone cannot support. We’re asked to accept that a massive impact crater in the Mediterranean has become Eden while the English Channel—which the family crosses on foot through what the film depicts as a dry, windswept wasteland—has simply emptied out. One begins to wonder if anyone involved consulted a map, or indeed a glass of water.
Butler remains watchable in the way he always is, rumpled and determined, his Scottish accent finally allowed to peek through rather than being buried under American vowels. He gives John Garrity a weary decency that the film doesn’t earn but benefits from regardless. Baccarin, a capable actress who deserves better than the Supportive Wife roles she keeps getting handed, has little to do except look worried and occasionally competent. Davis, as the teenage Nathan, carries that particular blankness of young actors who haven’t yet learned to fill silence with presence. The supporting cast exists primarily to die at convenient intervals—a pattern so repetitive that you begin timing the sequences: five minutes of peace, disaster, death, five minutes of peace, disaster, death. The film introduces characters just long enough for their deaths to seem significant without requiring us to remember their names.
What’s most frustrating about Migration is its insistence on solemnity. Waugh and his team clearly want this to be something weighty, a meditation on survival and sacrifice and the human spirit’s refusal to surrender. John is dying of radiation poisoning throughout the journey, a secret he keeps from his family, and when he finally succumbs—shot by bandits, within sight of the promised crater—the film expects us to feel the grandeur of his sacrifice. But sacrifice requires stakes, and stakes require a world that operates by recognizable rules. You can’t ask an audience to mourn a man who died for his family’s future when that future rests on a premise that makes no earthly sense. The original Greenland ended with hope; this sequel ends with a lie dressed up as hope, a Thomas Kinkade painting superimposed over the rubble, and the uncomfortable suggestion that sometimes a story is simply finished, no matter how much money might be made by continuing it.
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Transcript
Note for Students & Writers: This transcript is archived here for educational purposes, critical analysis, and screenwriting study. All rights belong to the original creators.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
JOHN: It’s not easy to move past certain things.
I don’t know how anyone ever could.
(COMET FRAGMENTS WHOOSHING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Especially this…
(LOUD EXPLOSION)
(EXPLOSION)
75% of the world, maybe more.
We still don’t know.
Gone.
(EXPLOSION)
(FLAMES ROARING)
(PROTESTERS SHOUTING)
Five years since impact, but Clarke wasn’t done with us yet.
Fragments stuck in our orbit, pelting us without warning.
We tried rebuilding, but the world wasn’t ready.
Forcing us back inside.
(EXPLOSION ECHOES)
Radiation hit differently everywhere.
Most places burned out.
Others, for reasons we don’t understand, stayed green.
Life, finding a way through the contamination.
(FRAGMENTS ROARING)
(EXPLOSIONS)
Our bunker’s holding on.
We’re doing the best we can.
It’s not easy living underground.
But we find joy when we can.
Together.
(WIND GUSTING)
(RUMBLING)
(HEAVY BREATHING THROUGH MASK)
JOHN: Microphone check.
One, two. One, two.
MAJOR GREEN: Loud and clear, John.
JOHN: You know what I woke up thinking about today?
(RUMBLING)
MAJOR GREEN: Let’s hear it.
JOHN: Biscuits and gravy.
MAJOR GREEN: (CHUCKLES) That’d be nice.
I’d trade my left arm for a decent cup of coffee.
JOHN: Peckman’s Diner made the best.
Across the street from Piedmont Park.
Walk over for one of those summer concerts.
Blue sky, grass, people.
Beer.
MAJOR GREEN: Sounds like paradise.
Oh, it was.
Jesus.
Another fissure’s opened up.
MAJOR GREEN: More lava?
JOHN: Yeah, and they’re getting bigger.
(RUMBLING)
Okay, looks like we’ve got a few lifeboats.
And another ghost ship.
A destroyer.
MAJOR GREEN: Nice.
Feelin’ lucky today?
JOHN: Always. I’m starting with the lifeboats, see what’s there.
MAJOR GREEN: Good luck out there.
Heading to the destroyer.
MAJOR GREEN: We’re seeing a pressure storm building off the coast, but it looks like you’ve got a little time.
JOHN: I won’t hang around.
(METALLIC CREAKING)
(GRUNTS, COUGHS)
(TOOLS CLANKING)
Jackpot.
(HINGES CREAKS)
Entering the bridge.
Oh, I’ve found something else.
MAJOR GREEN: What is it, John?
(SIGHS) The crew.
MAJOR GREEN: Shit.
(COUGHING)
(EXHALES)
(GASPING)
(COUGHING)
(RATTLING)
Oh, how beautiful.
(EXHALES)
MAJOR GREEN: John…
(RADIO INTERFERENCE) John, can you hear me?
John, can you hear me?
That storm just took a turn right for you.
You’d better get outta there now and get back here!
On my way.
Exiting ship now.
How much time do I have?
MAJOR GREEN: None.
It’s right on top of you.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(CRACKLING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY) Come on…
I’m staying ahead of it, but it’s gaining.
Shit, base…
This one’s coming in fast!
MAJOR GREEN: John!
John, where are you?
JOHN: I’m moving as fast as I can!
(RUMBLING, CRACKLING)
Open the east tunnel!
Open the door!
(LIGHTNING CRASHES)
Open the door! Get it open!
(DOOR CLUNKING)
(WIND HOWLING)
MAJOR GREEN: The storm is too close!
We have to close the blast doors, John!
JOHN: I can make it!
(LIGHTNING CRASHES)
(GRUNTING)
Close, close, close!
Go, go, go, go, go!
MAJOR GREEN: John, are you in?
(DOOR CLANKS SHUT)
(SPRAY HISSING)
(SIGHING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
MAN 1 ON RADIO: Bucharest, Romania.
The city has been destroyed by the earthquakes.
We’re trapped under…
MAN 2: Mumbai, India.
Salt water is still rising fast.
GENERAL SHARPE: FEMA planned for two years.
We’ve stretched our resources to five.
CHARLES: So we’re basically running on fumes?
Yes. We are getting too close.
Hopefully in a year we’re outside planting.
DR. AMINA: Well, we have measured a 4% reduction in coulomb per kilogram in the last three months.
We still can’t predict when it’ll be safe levels again, but…
But it’s improving, yeah?
Yes.
Though that’s mostly off the coast.
Yeah. Hopefully the winds will eventually clear out the radiation.
No, that’s not exactly how it works.
Continuous radiation exposure, even at those low levels still leads to fatality.
We should discuss our contingency plans.
ADAM: Okay, yeah. Um…
Canada, and much of the US, gone.
Iceland, gone.
Western Europe?
There are reports of fewer storms there, right?
Yes.
But is the air safe?
Safer than here.
Didn’t we just say that dying slowly is still dying?
I mean, am I right, Dr. Amina?
Isn’t it the same over there?
Yes.
Dr. Amina, what’s the latest on the crater?
Well, my colleagues at other stations have theorized the same thing.
And I’ve run my own calculations.
We can’t fully explain it, but it seems the size and shape of the crater walls prevent the radioactive storms from forming.
This combined with its depth are what’s making it such a safe zone.
We believe it’s what’s keeping the polluted air from getting in.
ADAM: But, Dr. Amina, even if it was real, it’s in Southern France.
How exactly are we gonna get there?
There have been reports of fighting, insurgency, civil war.
Europe is in chaos.
Please let’s…
Let’s stick to reality.
WOMAN ON PA: Attention residents, this is your daily reminder to report any malfunctioning air filtration…
MAN: Please ration carefully and only…
JOHN: There’s people here who say it’s the new normal.
Well, we’re going on… five years now?
Mmm-hmm.
So it isn’t all that new.
And it definitely ain’t normal.
You know, it’s no accident there were twice as many therapists selected as there were surgeons.
People are dealing with an incredible amount of trauma.
Why does everybody pretend like they’re not, huh?
Do you?
Pretend?
Mmm-hmm.
Sometimes.
Maybe you should stop.
Well, maybe you can recommend a good therapist that can help me with that.
Mine’s pretty good.
So, uh…
Allison, Nathan, how are they?
They’re getting by.
I think, I hope.
Openness is important. Uh…
Well, they’re pretty open with me.
I meant the other way around.
(RUMBLING, RATTLING)
Seems like there’s been more of those lately.
The tectonic plates are shifting again.
It’s triggering a lot of activity in this region.
This bunker survived Clarke.
It’ll survive tremors.
There’s one more thing we should discuss.
The distress signal we received from outside.
We cannot afford to feed 50 more mouths.
We can’t afford five.
I know, but these people are living in caves and mineshafts.
ADAM: Yes, and we don’t know if they’re bringing disease or how much radiation they’ve absorbed.
Okay. We just let them die.
We tell them we are not currently in a position to be of assistance.
Yeah?
No.
We put it to a vote like everything else.
Motion to send out a rescue party?
I second.
General…
The vote stands.
We’ll send out the Snowcat tomorrow.
And as we look at the northern sky, which constellation is this?
Gemini?
TEACHER: No. No, not Gemini.
Nathan?
Oh, um, it’s Cassiopeia.
You can tell by its Wshape.
STUDENT: Why do we have to learn so much about the stars?
Well, maybe we should have paid a little more attention to them in the past.
Clarke wasn’t a star, it was a comet.
Still is.
But it already hit the ground.
TEACHER: The biggest part of it did, but the smaller bits that didn’t, they got caught in our gravitational field.
Created what is known as a ghost ring.
(“PARADISE” PLAYING)
♪ You catch my breath
on the morning light ♪
♪ A thousand times
and it still surprises me ♪
♪ I fall asleep where
I like to think our dreams ♪
♪ Collide… ♪
Lars, what is this shit?
What? It’s classical rock and roll.
If you mean classic rock, then this ain’t it.
Gimme the Stones, the Allman Brothers…
Michael McDonald, now that’s classical rock.
Billy Ocean. Also pretty cool.
Just turn the valve on already.
(VALVE CREAKS)
(PIPES RUMBLING)
(GAS HISSING)
Come on, baby. Here we go!
(GURGLING)
Whoo! Back in business!
Nice!
(BOTH LAUGHING)
We can drink some water again.
(SIGHS)
Mom…
Mom, I can explain.
Nathan, I don’t want to hear it!
You hear how your dad’s coughing at night, right?
Yeah.
Get in.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(SIGHS) Oh, I hate this place.
Come here. I know.
It’s okay.
(“RUNNING ON EMPTY” BY JACKSON BROWNE PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Do you know it?
Yes, of course!
Impossible.
Hey, what did I miss?
He has never heard this song.
You’ve never heard this song before?
I like it though, huh?
Yeah? Then come dance.
Oh, okay. Let’s…
I’m gonna dance to the song I’ve never heard.
JOHN: Good.
(LAUGHTER) Oh, I know it’s a little late, but…
Dadadadah.
Happy belated Valentine’s Day.
(CHUCKLES)
Where’d you find it?
In that destroyer.
Amongst some other stuff.
I can finally fix my radio.
What about the pressure pump for desalination?
General Sharpe was saying that the water levels are getting low.
I’m sorry.
I love it. Thank you.
LARS: Whoo!
ALLISON: Thank you.
What about you, young man?
How was your day?
Fine.
Is there anything else you wanna say to your father, Nathan?
Security found him outside.
Outside, outside?
Yep.
JOHN: Are you kidding me?
How long were you out there for?
Only a few minutes.
Did you wear a mask?
Yeah.
And there wasn’t a storm.
It’s too dangerous for you to be going outside!
What are you thinking?
I know.
You told me, the radiation, the ash.
I understand.
Look, son, I know how much it sucks being down here.
I get it.
Try being 15.
Yeah, well, you’re not listening to me!
Look, wait…
Can I be excused?
(CHAIR SCRAPES)
He’s just trying to figure things out, I guess.
No, no…
He’s also sensitive.
No, he’s being an idiot.
Like you.
Going outside?
Oh…
(CLEARS THROAT)
Yeah.
Takes after his father.
(JOHN CHUCKLES)
♪ Everyone I know… ♪
Come on.
No, no. Allison, no.
If your lady asks for a dance, how can you say no?
Thank you, Lars.
Thank you. Thank you, Lars.
Come on.
All right, all right.
♪ If it takes all night ♪
♪ That’ll be all right ♪
♪ If I can get you to smile
before I leave… ♪
(LAUGHTER, CHATTER)
(COUGHING)
Are you taking care of yourself?
Yeah… yeah.
MAN: Base, this is Rover One returning with a full load.
Are we ready to receive the migrants?
MAJOR GREEN: Prepare to open the West Tunnel ramp.
Have the decontamination teams ready.
MAN 2: Copy.
Come on, come on, come on.
Morning, mate.
I was thinking we, uh, start on the intake pump today, Larsy.
Tackle the rest after lunch?
Shit.
MAN 1: Confirmed personnel incoming…
Copy. Hold, One.
Sir, seeking authorization for a second trip.
They left a lot of people behind.
A second trip?
No way.
Before we make any decisions, let’s just figure out exactly what we’re talking about.
Weren’t we discussing limited resources?
Where are they going to sleep?
In your bed?
If it’s gonna save lives, yes.
MAN 1: …approach (STATIC) …now.
Uh, bad copy, Rover One. Repeat.
We don’t have much time…
Are we approved?
(RUMBLING)
OPERATOR: Hold tight.
OPERATOR: A reading on that…
MAJOR GREEN: Rover One, repeat.
(RUMBLING)
OPERATOR: Oh, Jesus!
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(EXPLOSIONS)
Oh!
(DEEP RUMBLING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(JOHN GROANING)
(MUFFLED COUGHING)
(MUFFLED) Lars, Lars…
Lars help me.
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
(RUMBLING)
You all right?
WOMAN ON PA: Attention all personnel…
(LOUD EXPLOSION)
(SCREAMING) Allison!
(ALARM BLARING) Allison!
Allison, you okay?
(COUGHING) There you go.
All right. You hurt?
(COUGHING)
Okay. You all right?
Yeah…
Let’s get you up.
Let’s get…
(GRUNTS)
(RUMBLING)
Nathan… Nathan!
We’ve gotta go. Now.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Do you seen him?
No.
Nathan!
Dad!
I can’t breathe.
ALLISON: Are you hurt?
You can breathe.
We’ve gotta get out of here!
Yeah, let’s pack our bags!
Food, clothes.
Everything we’ve got.
Okay.
All right, Nathan?
I need you to be with me, kiddo.
You’ve got this, Nathan.
Help your mum.
Pack your stuff.
All right, I’m gonna go get some masks.
Pack your stuff.
Take everything you need.
Get your insulin.
As much as you can and you put it all in the bag, okay?
We’re not coming back.
(GASPING)
(RUMBLING)
(GRUNTS) Jacket, clothes… anything that’ll fit in there.
Okay. I’ve got some masks.
There you go.
Right, put this on.
Right, kiddo. Yep.
(GASPING)
You good?
Yeah, I’m good.
You good?
(SIREN BLARING)
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING) Let’s go!
WOMAN: I’m stuck!
We’re not gonna get through here!
Where are we gonna go?
To the East Tunnel!
ALLISON: Shit! Go, go!
ALLISON: It’s collapsed!
JOHN: We don’t have any other choice!
(RUMBLING)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(ALLISON SCREAMS)
John?
Allison!
It’s falling down!
I’ve got you! Come on!
All right, you’re good.
Come on, we’ve gotta go, we’ve gotta go!
Come on, come on!
(ALARM BLARING)
Okay, are we covered up as much as possible?
ALLISON: Yes.
Check your masks!
ALLISON: Everything’s good.
(LOUD RUMBLING)
(METALLIC CREAKING)
Go, go, go!
ALLISON: The radiation, what do we do?
JOHN: We’ve gotta get off this island.
This way, to the beach.
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
ALLISON: Nathan!
Where’s Nathan?
Where’d he go?
JOHN: Nathan!
Mom, Dad, over here!
There!
Doctor Amina!
You okay?
ALLISON: Dr. Casey?
(DR. AMINA GROANING) Can you stand?
Come on, let’s get up.
There’s lifeboats on the beach.
Let’s go. Let’s go!
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
All right, make sure to follow me!
There are more boats at the end of the beach!
Come on!
ADAM: Help!
Help!
Just give it.
No!
John! Over here!
JOHN: Allison!
ALLISON: Stop! Let him go!
(PANTING)
(GRUNTING)
Stay back!
There’s one more! Come on!
There’s one more over there!
Hurry!
(GASPING)
JOHN: Come on!
(CLAMORING)
BLAKE: We’ve gotta go.
Come on!
We’ve gotta go now!
Okay! Go, go, go!
No more! Shut the door!
No! Let them in!
We can make room!
No more!
We’ll capsize like the others!
Secure the hatch!
We can’t take any more.
I’m sorry!
WOMAN: Don’t leave us!
(BANGING) (SHOUTING)
(BOAT MOTOR HUMMING)
You okay? All right.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
Wait! Wait! No!
(EXHALES) All right, everybody okay?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Dad! Dad!
WOMAN: Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
BLAKE: Everybody, hold on!
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
WOMAN: Oh, my God!
JOHN: Brace! Brace!
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
JOHN: You okay, Nathan?
NATHAN: I’m good.
ADAM: It’s gone.
It’s all gone.
(DEVICE BEEPING)
Hey, I think the air quality’s good. Better.
We can take off the masks?
Yeah.
(JOHN COUGHING)
(SNIFFLES)
You all right?
Yeah.
Let me see you.
MAN: Where do we go?
There’s nothing to go back to.
Isn’t Iceland the closest place to here?
Ice… Iceland’s gone.
Well, we need a destination.
We just need to hit land.
Clarke changed the direction of the current.
It’s now flowing south.
MAN: We have with us barely a week’s supply of MREs and water.
I, uh… Europe is probably our best bet.
So, that’s good.
Then we head southeast.
Until we reach England.
If we can get to London, we can go to Mackenzie’s.
JOHN: Perfect.
Should take less than a week.
Pray we make it.
Southeast.
(ENGINE HUMMING)
(ENGINE SPLUTTERING)
(ENGINE STOPS)
Okay.
Try it now?
(ENGINE STALLING)
(SIGHS)
JOHN: All right.
Let me try one more thing.
(TOOL CLICKING) Okay.
(ENGINE STARTS)
There she goes.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(ENGINE REVVING)
How many fragments do you think are up there?
More than I can count, that’s for sure.
And so at least 50.
Whoa. That’s Andromeda.
That’s a whole other galaxy.
JOHN: Wow.
NATHAN: I can’t believe I’m seeing the stars for real.
JOHN: It’s pretty cool, huh?
I hope you never lose that.
That… wonder of yours.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
NATHAN: I wonder where that’s gonna hit.
(ENGINE SPLUTTERING)
(ENGINE STOPS)
I’ll take a look.
BLAKE: It’s not that.
We’re outta gas.
And maybe we can ration… two more days of water and MREs.
We’re at the mercy of the current now.
(BOAT CREAKING)
MAN: So wait, where did you end up then?
We ended in Shenandoah.
Really?
Oh, you know, I’ve always wanted to go there.
ADAM: Yeah, it was great.
Was it?
My wife wanted to do the whole trip, but I ended up cutting it short so I could take a new job.
Seemed like a big deal at the time.
JOHN: Your wife.
Did you lose her leaving the bunker?
No, I lost her getting… getting to it.
MAN 2: Need some…
Oh, I need food.
Crater.
The crater has enough…
(SIGHS) Build a bunker, and…
Swim…
We need to make it.
(BOAT CREAKING)
(BOAT THUDS)
(WOMEN EXCLAIMING)
MAN: Oh, my God.
What did we hit?
WOMAN: Oh, my God!
MAN 2: It’s land, guys.
WOMAN 2: What is that?
MAN 2: We’ve hit land!
JOHN: That’s the Liver Building.
We’re in Liverpool!
MAN: What?
WOMAN: England!
What?
WOMAN 2: What?
In England? Oh, my God!
(DEVICE BEEPING)
JOHN: The air’s okay, for now.
We’ll need to find shelter.
ALLISON: What did we hit?
Oh, my God.
Here, we’re on a…
We’re on a building top.
Let’s get these oars and push us off.
You ready?
JOHN: Yeah.
(BOAT CREAKING)
(GRUNTS) There’s a road up ahead, Lieutenant.
Can you steer us round that way?
Okay.
Dan, you reverse.
Yeah.
With the paddle.
Yeah, got it.
JOHN: Oh, there we go.
(BOAT CREAKS, THUDS)
All right, let’s go.
Stay close.
We don’t know what’s out there.
Come on, kiddo. Good stuff.
It looks, uh, abandoned.
JOHN: All right, first thing’s first, we need to find some food and water.
And we can’t stay up here the whole time, so a proper place for everybody to shelter.
Wasn’t there a bomb shelter or a bunker in this area?
Yeah, but we’ve never had any contact with them.
Still, we should try to find it.
Oh, look, there’s people there.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MAN: Where are they?
Where are your politicians?
Your noble kings?
They are all underground.
Only the true God…
How do they live outside?
MAN: …since the beginning of time…
JOHN: They probably don’t have a choice.
But they can’t survive for long.
There’s more people that way.
(CROWD SHOUTING)
SOLDIER: No badges!
Clearance badges only!
No badges! No entry!
Clearance badges only!
Clearance badges only!
We have badges!
Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey!
We’re governing officials from Greenland Station!
And we’re requesting emergency asylum!
Give me your clearance badges!
ADAM: Badges.
Here. Here.
(CROWD SHOUTING)
(SCANNER BEEPS)
She’s clear. Come through.
I can’t find my badge!
I can’t find my badge.
Then that’s it! Just her!
Listen!
Listen, they’re with us!
One badge! One entry!
(CROWD SHOUTING)
We’re Allison’s family!
My name’s Adam Shaw!
Move back!
ADAM: I’m from Thule bunker in Greenland.
(CROWD SHOUTING LOUDER)
Just run me in your system!
(CROWD SHOUTING, BANGING)
I’m a governing official!
My name’s Adam Shaw!
You should find me in your system!
I’m a governing official from…
(GUNSHOT)
(GROANS) Oh, Christ!
Let us in!
(GUNSHOT)
(CROWD SCREAMING)
Back up!
Close the gates!
What have you done?
(SIREN BLARING) Adam? Adam!
(CROWD CLAMORING)
(STORM RUMBLING) What’s happening?
(CRACKLING)
(CROWD SHOUTING)
Move! Move!
Move! Move!
We’ve gotta go.
We’ve gotta get out of here!
Let’s go! We’ve gotta go!
All right, okay.
Casey, come on.
ALLISON: Casey!
We’ve gotta go! He’s gone!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo!
Wait! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Wait, wait, wait, wait!
(HORN HONKS)
What? Move, my friend!
We need a ride.
I need to go.
Oh, you’ve gotta take our family, please.
Where?
Uh, London, London.
London! Mackenzie’s.
Okay. London, London.
You have to give me something.
We don’t have anything!
That will do.
Enter.
Go, go, go, go!
All right, there you go.
(LIGHTNING CRASHES)
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(ENGINE REVVING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(ENGINE REVVING)
(STORM RUMBLING)
Thank you.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
(SOBS)
ALLISON: Oh, my God.
Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, look at me.
It’s okay, it’s okay.
It’s all right. Okay.
Deep breaths.
We’re gonna go to Mac’s.
Everything is gonna be okay.
Okay?
DR. AMINA: Is everywhere like this?
The world is a dangerous place now.
People are so desperate, they’ll kill you for a scrap of food.
A radiation storm like that one, they come out of nowhere.
Kill you in seconds.
And if they don’t get you quick, you’ll die a slow death anyway.
Hmm.
Yeah…
Great.
The air filtration in here, how is it?
It works, but none of us are living to a hundred, my friend.
Babe, when was the last time you spoke to Mackenzie?
Um, eight or nine months ago.
(STORM RUMBLING)
NATHAN: Dr. Amina?
Do you believe it’s real?
The crater?
Yeah, I believe it’s possible.
So it is just like the dinosaurs, the KT event.
Nathan, do you know what happened after the KT event?
Life came back.
Not just came back.
It flourished.
The impact created the seeds for new life.
Without the KT event, we wouldn’t even be here.
MAN: We are close.
Maybe another half hour to London.
JOHN: Let’s make this quick.
Don’t wanna spend too long outside.
(JOHN COUGHING)
What’s your name?
Obi.
Where are you from, Obi?
Nigeria.
Right.
I moved to England 12 years ago.
I used to hear about life here.
It was a childish dream of mine.
Well, I’m sorry this is what you got instead.
No, I still love it here.
It’s become my second wife.
Though sometimes I do wonder… what it would be like to go back.
If I’d still recognize anything at all.
Mmm.
What do you hear about people heading further south, over into France?
France is more dangerous than here.
Is that because of what’s over there?
You mean the stuff your scientist friend there was talking about?
Yeah.
Sounds nice.
Also sounds like ashi gi.
Bullshit.
You good?
Yeah.
(CHUCKLES)
(DISTANT RUMBLING)
(RUMBLING CONTINUES)
Whoa, what is that?
Another storm?
No, that’s not a storm.
(FRAGMENTS WHOOSHING, RUMBLING)
Allison!
Grab onto something!
Come, come!
(GASPING)
There.
(NATHAN GASPING)
(FRAGMENTS WHOOSHING)
(SCREAMS)
(GASPING)
(EXPLOSIONS)
Obi! No!
OBI: It’s all I have!
You okay?
Yeah.
JOHN: I hope she’s still here.
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Mac!
Oh, sh…
Bloody hell! Bloody…
(LAUGHTER) Get inside! Come!
Mac!
Get inside!
Is that loaded?
(GASPS) Oh!
Hi.
Get inside!
(BOTH EXCLAIMING)
How are you on my doorstep right now?
I haven’t heard from you for so long!
I was beginning to fear the worst.
Oh, and John! I never thought I’d see that ugly mug again!
Oh…
You’re looking good, Mac.
Oh, liar. (LAUGHS) Oh, this must be the man, yes!
You’re all your mum ever talks about!
Really?
Yeah.
Nearly all, I think. (LAUGHS) Honestly, I can’t believe my eyes. (GIGGLES) Oh, wow. You’re celebrating Christmas early.
Oh, every day is Christmas here.
Here, just put your bags down anywhere and just make yourselves at home.
Honestly, I can’t believe…
Um, also the air is really a lot better than the outside.
I managed to seal off this wing of the hospital and the generator keeps the filtration system going.
It’s not as good as the air you’re used to in the bunkers, but it’ll give us a few more years.
Thank you.
Please, no.
You’re family, honestly.
I mean, I dream about our time in the States.
Those American boys.
They’re suckers for an accent.
(LAUGHS) Ah. So are the girls.
(LAUGHTER)
Hey.
What are you treating here?
Oh, Alzheimer’s.
And, well, broken hearts.
Most of them have no idea what happened to their families or anything about the comet.
Which is probably just as well.
So I stayed on.
Even when the government stopped delivering food and the lights turned off.
I won’t let them be abandoned again.
(COUGHING)
Actually, speaking of which, it’s time I prepped their supper.
Oh well, I’ll help.
Oh, that’s so kind. Thank you.
Hey John, um, you and Nathan grab some more coals.
I feel like celebrating!
(LAUGHS)
(“KEEP ON DANCING” BY BY KIKI GYAN PLAYING)
(CHATTING, LAUGHTER)
Run back in.
Oh, my God, just…
Whoa, it’s amazing!
Okay. How’s this?
See? That’s still better.
We finally spoke, this is finally…
(LAUGHTER)
Cheers everybody.
Cheers!
(GLASSES CLINKING)
Guys, this almost feels normal. Almost.
DR. AMINA: Yeah. Almost.
Oh, he’s still sleeping?
Ah, that’s good.
Poor kid is exhausted.
Does he remember the impact at all?
Yeah, he does.
I was hoping he would forget with time, but he hasn’t.
He’s just…
I guess he’s still processing.
God, you can’t put Clarke in a box.
Not when you’re reminded of it every time you look out the window.
What do you know, Mac, about the crater?
You know, the… where Clarke hit?
Are you thinking of buying a holiday home?
(LAUGHTER)
No, I’ve just heard rumors, just a load of rumors.
No, because Casey thinks there’s a possibility life returned there, right?
Yeah, I do. Yeah.
Let’s say you have extremely high temperatures, right?
And you added in raw materials and, uh, the ocean water from the tsunami.
Throw in some terrigenous nutrients from the rocks smashed during impact, then it’s possible you could, uh…
You could create the building blocks for new life.
Mmm.
DR. AMINA: Breathable air.
Drinkable water.
It’s… it’s possible.
MAC: That’s a nice thought.
But, um, you know, what I’ve made here is, it’s good enough to survive these days.
And it’s safe, you know?
I’ve made it safe.
(SHOUTING IN DISTANCE)
(GUNSHOTS) Oh…
Okay, safer than outside.
MAN: Hey!
(GUNSHOTS)
MAC: London isn’t London anymore.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(GUNSHOTS)
(SIGHS)
(JOHN COUGHING)
(JOHN COUGHING)
(SIGHS)
(DOOR OPENS)
John, are you okay?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, my God, you’re bleeding.
Yeah.
Yeah. Must be the air.
Nosebleed.
(SIGHS) John…
What’s going on?
Just… I’ve got a nosebleed.
Bullshit.
The doctor said, um… when symptoms start… bleeding… six to eight weeks.
Six weeks? What?
I mean, it may be more, I…
What are you talking about?
That can’t be right.
We’re here now, with Mac.
She has medicine.
I’m sure we can get you the right medication.
Ali, no. Ali…
And everything will be okay.
Ali…
It’s not fixable.
What do you mean?
It’s…
Too many trips outside, I guess.
(GASPING)
Why didn’t you tell me?
I wanted to…
John!
I wanted to…
Why?
Because I couldn’t see this…
I couldn’t see this from you.
I couldn’t…
Okay, all right.
Okay, okay, okay. (SOBBING) Look at me.
Okay.
Okay. We’re gonna stay here, with Mac.
And we’re gonna take this time that we have left and we’re gonna be together as a family.
We can’t stay here, Ali.
I don’t wanna stay here.
I don’t wanna die here.
I don’t want you and Nathan to live here.
We didn’t come all this way for this!
I mean, what if Casey’s right?
About the crater.
There’s something there, like a fresh, a new beginning.
For you. For our son.
Half of his life has been surviving.
We have to get Nathan to the crater.
I know.
There’s no life for him here.
Okay.
Okay.
JOHN: You’re sure you’re okay with us taking this?
MAC: Oh, well, I took it from someone else.
And it should have enough fuel to get you to the Channel.
Yeah.
Take this.
And don’t stop for anyone.
You’re gonna wanna head down through Dover.
It’s the only place you’ll be able to cross the Channel.
Thank you.
Oh…
Okay.
Take care of my girl!
JOHN: I will.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, Nate…
Nice to meet you.
Bye, Nate.
(ENGINE STARTS)
DR. AMINA: Okay.
So according to this map, we should get there in about two hours.
You’re very quiet there, bud.
You remember we used to play those car games?
Back when you were little?
Yeah, I remember.
Like “I Spy”…
“Would You Rather”…
That was my favorite.
You know, my sister and I, we used to play 21 Questions on road trips.
Do you remember that one?
JOHN: Go on, what do you say, Nathan?
You wanna play?
No thanks.
You know what? Let’s play anyway, without him.
Yeah!
I wanna play I Spy though.
I’ll go first.
JOHN: No, I’ll go first.
ALLISON: I’m gonna go first.
Okay…
(GUNSHOT)
(GASPS)
(BRAKES SCREECHING)
Oh, my…
Casey…
(GUNSHOTS)
(ALLISON SHRIEKS)
ALLISON: Get down, Nathan!
Nathan, get down! Stay down!
MAN: Don’t shoot the engine!
We need that car!
(GUNSHOTS)
Move forward! Move!
ALLISON: Who are they?
Marauders! Nathan, stay down!
(GUNSHOT) Ah… Go, go.
(MARAUDERS SHOUTING)
(GASPS)
(GUN CLICKS)
(GUNSHOT)
(ALLISON GASPING)
It’s okay, it’s okay.
It’s okay, it’s okay.
It’s okay, it’s okay.
It’s okay.
Nathan? Nathan? Nathan?
Nathan, are you okay?
You okay? (SIGHS) Okay. There you go.
(SPADE DIGGING)
(JOHN GRUNTING)
(SPADE THUDS)
May the Lord rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And may the rains fall softly upon your fields.
Why do people say prayers at funerals?
It sounds like you’re wishing them well.
And they’re dead.
JOHN: Well, you are… wishing them well.
It’s an old tradition.
Same reason they put coins over the eyes.
Coins?
JOHN: Bribe the ferryman.
Crossing the river to the world of the dead.
Even if they don’t believe in heaven?
Even if they don’t believe in heaven.
Is that the English Channel?
It was.
Jesus.
My dad used to take us over here to France on a ferry when I was a kid.
And that was all water?
Oh, yeah.
Twenty miles of sea from here to France.
There’s so many battles, there’s so many wars fought over this.
It’s all gone.
Well, at least we don’t have to take a boat.
JOHN: Exactly.
Let’s get across this quick and find a place for the night.
Is that a Spanish galleon?
What are they all stopped for?
I don’t know.
I guess we’re leaving the car.
(COUGHING)
NATHAN: We’re gonna cross that?
Yeah. We’re gonna have to.
(WIND HOWLING)
(DISTANT SHOUTING)
JOHN: Watch your step now.
I’ve got you.
Come on!
(EXHALES)
Watch your step. Watch.
Don’t look down.
Ah!
MAN: Careful!
Okay. Tighten up, everybody.
Make sure we’re secure.
No, I can’t. I can’t do this.
I can’t… I can’t do this!
There’s gotta be another way!
Nathan! Just put one foot in front of the other.
Just follow me.
I’ll go first, okay?
You’ve got this.
All right, come on.
All right.
You good?
Okay. You’ve got this.
Be careful.
JOHN: Okay.
(JOHN GASPING)
(ROPES CREAKING)
(WIND HOWLING)
(WHIMPERING)
Just keep going! Go!
(GASPS)
JOHN: You good?
ALLISON: Go, go, go!
(JOHN COUGHING)
(WIND HOWLING)
(SCREAMING) Ahhh!
Hang on!
Everything okay?
Yeah, Dad.
(COUGHING)
Come on. Atta boy.
Yeah.
(SIGHS) Okay.
That’s good.
(WOMAN WHIMPERS)
Come on, you’ve got it!
You’ve got it!
Oh! Thank you.
JOHN: Right, almost there.
Just a little bit more.
You got it?
Yeah.
You good?
Yeah.
That’s it.
(NATHAN GASPS)
MAN: Earthquake!
Get down!
(RUMBLING) You’ve gotta be kidding me.
We’ve gotta get off of here!
Let’s go.
You go first, Allison.
I’ll go behind Nathan.
Just stay focused.
(LADDER CLANKING)
JOHN: That’s it. You’re okay!
(NATHAN GRUNTING)
(GASPING)
JOHN: That’s it. There you go.
That’s it, Nathan!
(RUMBLING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(LADDERS CLANKING)
(PANICKED SHOUTING)
MAN 1: The line is breaking!
MAN 2: Hang on!
(ALL SCREAMING)
Let’s go!
Get me off!
(LADDER CLANKING)
JOHN: Keep moving!
Get me off of this!
Get me off!
(RUMBLING)
(SCREAMING) Keep moving!
(MAN SCREAMS) It won’t hold!
No, no, no, no, no!
It won’t hold!
JOHN: Stay there! No!
NATHAN: No! No!
JOHN: Nathan!
Nathan!
Dad, Dad!
JOHN: Come on! Hold on!
(GASPING)
You’ve got it! It’s okay.
(ALLISON SCREAMING)
NATHAN: Please don’t let me fall!
Hold on!
(SCREAMING) Nathan! Nathan!
Don’t let me fall!
(SCREAMING)
JOHN: Come on! That’s it!
It won’t hold!
(RUMBLING)
JOHN: Nathan! Keep moving!
Come on!
Come on, you’ve gotta go.
That’s it.
Come on, kiddo! Almost there.
ALLISON: Come on, Nathan!
(RUMBLING) Hurry!
Take my hand!
Don’t look down!
(JOHN GRUNTING)
Come on! Okay, let’s go!
Let’s go. Let’s go, Nathan.
Come on! That’s it.
Come on!
(GASPING)
ALLISON: Oh, my God!
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(RUMBLING)
What the hell?
NATHAN: Is that it?
ALLISON: No. That’s not it.
It’s much further south.
JOHN: It’s totally dead.
What if the Clarke crater’s like this?
This could’ve been a fragment that hit a week ago.
Or five years ago.
Hey…
This is what we’re doing.
We’re gonna keep going.
(SIGHS) Yeah.
Okay.
(GUNSHOT)
(MAN SPEAKING FRENCH)
(SHOUTS IN FRENCH)
JOHN: Uh… English?
(IN ENGLISH) Who are you?
My name is, uh, John Garrity.
This is my wife, Allison.
My son, Nathan.
What are you doing here?
We’re trying to get to the Clarke Crater.
I am Denis Laurent.
Hi.
You look hungry.
We don’t have anything to trade.
Ah, but you do.
It’s called company.
JOHN: So, do you always shoot at people?
DENIS: It’s a dangerous area.
You’re lucky I found you.
Most people aren’t so nice.
(GUNS FIRING IN DISTANCE)
(CHAIN RATTLING)
This is us.
JOHN: What was this place?
DENIS: This is our mail sorting center.
Nobody tries to take this from you?
They’ve tried.
JOHN: This is your power supply. You built this?
Yes. We draw power from the solar panels into the car’s power bank, and we have electricity.
It powers our air purifiers.
It’s not perfect, but it’s the best we can do.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
John, Allison, Nathan…
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) And my daughter, Camille.
Nice to meet you.
DENIS: She does not speak.
Her nervous system.
The radiation has taken its toll.
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Very good.
Yeah, c’est bon.
It’s good, yeah.
Closest thing you get to a French restaurant today.
(ALLISON CHUCKLES)
JOHN: Thank you so much.
It’s great.
ALLISON: Very good.
It’s very nice to have a homecooked meal.
So, you are trying to reach the crater?
Yeah.
Yeah, we are.
They say the crater is La Terre Promise… how you say…
The Promised Land.
Humanity’s last chance.
It could be so.
We’ve also heard that… maybe people have gone there.
That region is too dangerous.
The Western Alliance, including remnants of the French Army, are defending it from an invasion by the Eastern Coalition, who want to take the crater for its resources.
There is heavy fighting on the entire front.
From Lyon to Berne.
Only two cities left standing.
It is impossible to get through.
NATHAN: Where’d you get all these things?
CAMILLE: My dad sometimes will go outside and try to find stuff that was not completely destroyed.
So we could make a home.
Can I show you something?
Sure.
I made this in the bunker, in Greenland.
It’s, um, it’s the sky we can never see.
It’s what we would have seen if we… we could’ve seen.
You hold that end.
Which one? Oh…
Oh, sorry. Okay.
You come down as well, yeah.
Oh, okay.
(TORCH CLICKS)
So, these are the star signs.
Do you know what star sign you are?
I think I’m Aquarius.
Oh, that’s air.
I’m a Pisces.
Mmm…
So I’m a fish.
(CAMILLE GIGGLING)
I read somewhere that… that Pisces and Aquariuses get along well.
(NATHAN AND CAMILLE CHATTING)
(INAUDIBLE)
(“LONG GONE” BY ANKIT SHRESTHA PLAYING)
(COUGHING)
Oh… hey.
Hi.
How long have you been up for?
Most of the night.
Oh…
Oh.
Hey, the night before our wedding…
My dad took you aside into this little side room or whatever it was.
He told me he loved me.
Like a son.
(LAUGHS) What did he really say to you?
Oh, he made me promise something.
That I would take care of you… until my last breath.
Oh, hey…
(JOHN COUGHING)
This one… is more up to date than yours.
The Western Alliance defends the crater so people can live there as a free society.
As I said last night, this entire region is a heavy war zone, but there is a way around.
I recommend you take this way.
Clermont-Ferrand.
Then down to Valence.
Less fighting.
The crater is protected by several mountain ranges.
Through the first, there is only one way.
The pass.
It will be very difficult to move through this area.
The pass is protected by my friend’s battalion, of the Western Alliance.
So when you get there, you will ask for Commander Jeunet.
Jeunet.
And you will give him this.
He’ll know I sent you.
He can get you through.
Thank you.
There is, uh, one more thing.
(NATHAN AND CAMILLE CHATTING, LAUGHING) Oh, look…
DENIS: I don’t know what awaits you at the crater.
But I am convinced this is where the world will be reborn.
Take Camille with you.
Please.
(SNIFFLING)
Take our daughter.
I couldn’t do it myself.
My wife, she can’t travel.
You see that.
I have yet to meet anyone else I would trust with this.
I beg of you, John…
JOHN: I…
DENIS: I beg of you.
Um…
ALLISON: We’ll take her.
We’ll get her there.
We’ll get her there.
We’ll get her there.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(POIGNANT MUSIC SWELLS)
It should be a straight shot from here.
The pass is just before the outside of the crater.
(COUGHING)
ALLISON: You guys okay?
Maybe we should stop.
Take a break.
Yeah.
Would you rather read minds or be invisible?
Read minds.
Be invisible.
Read minds.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, would you rather have really small hands, or really big feet?
Big feet.
How do you walk with big feet?
Yeah. Small hands.
How does that work?
Small hands.
You already have small hands.
I do not.
Show me.
I have normal hands.
Look at yours.
They’re huge!
No…
(LAUGHS) See? Look.
Normal. See?
Would you rather fight 50 chicken-sized horses or one horse-sized chicken?
CAMILLE: What?
JOHN: Fifty horse-sized chickens?
50 horse-sized chickens?
That’s…
NATHAN: Fifty…
JOHN: Chicken-sized horses.
NATHAN: Fifty…
What?
You said chicken-sized…
Okay! (LAUGHS)
(LAUGHTER)
(VEHICLES APPROACHING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
BENOIT: (IN ENGLISH) To the crater?
You know you’re gonna have to go through a war zone to get there?
You’ll never make it.
Maybe you can help us.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(EXPLOSIONS)
(GUNS FIRING)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE)
(GASPING)
(IN ENGLISH) This pass is the only way through.
Commander Jeunet is stationed ahead.
(GUNS FIRING)
(EXPLOSIONS)
Okay, follow me close.
Move as I move, okay?
Okay.
Come on.
Quickly! Quickly!
(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(ALLISON GASPS)
BENOIT: Down, down!
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH)
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!
Come on, Nathan!
(EXPLOSIONS) Follow me! Follow me! Run!
Run fast!
JOHN: Keep moving!
BENOIT: Stay low!
Keep your head down!
Stop. Stop, stop, stop!
Oh, my God…
Get down!
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!
(SHRIEKS)
Come on! Come on! Come on!
(MAN SCREAMING)
(ALLISON WHIMPERING)
BENOIT: Come on!
Come on! Let’s go!
Up to the bunker!
Up to the bunker!
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) All right, go!
Go, go, go, go!
JOHN: Nathan, head down!
BENOIT: Stay low!
Jump, Nathan!
Get down into the trench!
(JOHN COUGHING)
John, you okay?
Yeah, I’m okay.
Okay. Come on. Let’s go.
Okay.
Come on!
Uh!
(COUGHING)
(GUNS FIRING) Go, go, go, go, go!
This way.
Up the ladder! Up the ladder!
Let’s go, let’s go!
Nathan, go, go, go!
All right. All right!
Get up! Get up!
Go Hey…
Keep walking through the forest in that direction, all right?
Jeunet is the commander of that area.
All right?
Okay.
I need to get back to my unit.
Merci!
JOHN: Okay.
BENOIT: Good luck!
Thank you!
Let’s go.
Thank you!
Bonne chance.
(DISTANT GUNS FIRING)
(COUGHING)
JOHN: That must be their camp.
Those mountains.
They were never there before.
We’re getting close to the crater.
(CONVERSING IN FRENCH)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) He’s there.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH)
Do you speak English?
Oui.
We’re looking for, uh, Commander Jeunet?
Her father, Denis Laurent, is old friends with Commander Jeunet, and he said that Commander Jeunet would take us to the crater.
Come.
Commander Jeunet.
People wait days for that bus.
I’m sorry.
There is nothing I can do for you.
Now, please leave my tent.
Is there somebody else we can speak to or we can talk to?
Get them out of here.
No, hey. No, hold on.
Hold on. Wait.
Please, let me. Plea…
Look, we’ve been through a lot.
We’re not gonna hurt anybody.
All we wanna do is get to the crater. That’s all.
I’m dying.
I don’t know how much longer and I…
I promised my family that I’ll get them to safety.
Please don’t take this away from us.
Please.
(SIGHS)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) There’s a transport bus just past there.
It’s bringing people to the crater.
Luc will take you. Go now.
Thank you.
Bonne chance.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(DOOR SHUTS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(EXPLOSION)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
SOLDIER: Insurgents!
All of you, stay on the bus!
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
Oh! John!
SOLDIER: Start the bus!
(SCREAMING)
(INSURGENT SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH)
This is our bus now!
Let’s go!
Everybody off the bus!
Line up against the bus!
Move! Move!
Line up against the bus!
I promised you I was gonna get you to the crater.
INSURGENT: Let’s go!
Go, go.
INSURGENT: Move!
ALLISON: Follow me.
Go, son. Go. It’s all right.
It’ll be okay.
INSURGENT: Move!
INSURGENT: You, let’s go!
Get off the bus!
(ALLISON GROANS) Move! Move!
Let’s go!
Move! Off the bus!
(GRUNTING)
No!
(THUD)
(GUNSHOT)
(GASPS)
(GUNSHOT) Oh, my God!
(SIGHS)
NATHAN: Dad?
Oh, my God!
NATHAN: Dad!
(GASPING)
(GROANS) Dad, Dad!
I’m okay.
We’ve gotta get you help!
Oh, my God!
All right, we’ve gotta go.
There might be more of them.
I’ll drive!
Get up! Get up! Let’s go!
Okay.
(ENGINE STARTS)
It’s okay.
It’s okay.
ALLISON: Nathan, keep pressure on it!
Push hard. Yeah.
It’s okay, mate.
Ah, that’s it.
(GASPING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
That’s it.
We’re stuck.
Can you walk a little bit?
Yeah.
I’ll hold onto that.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
JOHN: Oh, my God, it’s real.
(GASPING)
Oh, it’s so beautiful.
Oh, yeah.
(ALLISON LAUGHS)
JOHN: Hold on. Let me take this in for a second.
Almost there.
It’s just a little further.
We’ll get you fixed up.
You’re gonna be okay.
Yeah?
You did great, Dad.
We made it!
We did it!
Yeah.
Yeah, we did it.
What a view.
Think of the world you could build here.
(GROANS)
John!
Oh, yeah…
ALLISON: John…
John?
Thank you.
For being my girl.
(SOBBING)
May the…
May the roads rise up to meet you.
May the… May the wind always be at your back.
May the…
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And the rain fall, fall softly upon your fields.
Travel safe, Dad.
(BIRDS CALLING)
JOHN: You have a chance to start over again.
The chance to build a better place.
A better world.
One led by kindness and compassion and understanding.
One not just worth living in, but living for.
And though I won’t see the sun rise… you will.
And you’ll carry that light with you, because that’s what we’re built for.
(UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING)
Tomorrow belongs to you.
To all of you.
Safe journey on.
