0:00

The control group depicts a nuclear

0:02

catastrophe and the complete

0:04

annihilation of the human race. Listener

0:07

discretion is advised. Oh,

0:22

you say anything to you about painkillers?

0:25

There's aspirin in the first aid kit. I'm

0:29

not talking about aspirin. He

0:34

didn't leave some medicine or

0:36

something. No,

0:39

not that I know of. Your

0:42

bag of things is there here?

0:47

It is. I'm

0:51

just just

0:53

in vain. Can

0:57

I get you some water? It would be great.

1:01

Are you from around here? Oh?

1:05

I was just passing through. You're from outside

1:07

the valley? That's

1:10

right before

1:12

the accident. Did you

1:14

hear any news about the

1:16

attacks? Do you know if

1:18

Atlanta was hit? I

1:21

don't know anything about that. Jimmy

1:24

doesn't have a radio in his truck before

1:26

yesterday Monday.

1:29

Did you hear anything about it on the news

1:31

on Monday? Did they show pictures?

1:34

I don't even know what day it is now, so

1:37

how would I know? Come

1:39

on, Mom, give her some time. It's

1:41

just that we still don't know if for sure, how

1:43

bad things are in Atlanta. What do

1:45

you care about Atlanta? That's

1:48

where my husband is. Wait.

1:52

Noonan's not your husband. Were

1:55

you you his daughter? No?

1:58

He just brought us here. Noon,

2:00

and brought you here too.

2:04

That's right, speak

2:08

of the devil. Act

2:14

like I'm still unconscious. Don't let him know I'm

2:16

awake. But why would we do that? Mom?

2:22

You are you ladies decent?

2:28

How's our patient? Fine?

2:32

I think she's woken up? How to drink

2:34

of water? She'll

2:36

tell you anything. No, she's you've

2:39

finally realize you need some rest. Your cod

2:41

is all made up? Will be as quiet as possible.

2:44

Actually, I'm not gonna stick

2:46

around noon and I

2:48

just come back to see if

2:50

you like to take a little ride with me, Dory,

2:53

Is it safe? I'll take Carey well,

2:57

okay? Is it okay to leave?

3:00

Becky here? Becky? You

3:02

look after low rainforest, won't you. I

3:05

guess that's

3:07

a good girl. Quite

3:10

a girl you got there, door. Yes, I'm

3:13

truly proud of her. We

3:18

will you be gone long? I don't

3:20

know, maybe maybe an hour, Becky,

3:25

Rebecca? Do you We'll

3:29

be back in a little while, okay, Mother?

3:45

So how will

3:47

you know this nooning character? We

3:55

don't know him at all? I just met

3:57

him yesterday. M hm.

4:01

You keep any money in here? Any

4:03

weapons? Not that I know? Of food?

4:06

And water? A radio? Now,

4:11

before we begin today, I have a

4:13

special favor to ask. What's

4:16

that I think we

4:18

don't know the world of good? Is

4:20

there something years? Is

4:23

there some reason to think? And

4:26

what about this noon? And I want

4:28

you to trust him and show your

4:30

parents. My mom thinks we can trust him.

4:33

And what about you doing

4:35

this in a public you trust him? Or

4:37

if you're by yourself in your own seller

4:41

not hokey? To the many thousands

4:43

of men and women who

4:45

are bravely serving in our armed forces,

4:49

not just the soldiers, but the hard working

4:51

nurses, maybe you and me and

4:54

government officials, we need to think about

4:56

getting out of here, all of them working hard.

4:58

What do you say to that these united

5:01

I say, yeah, I've

5:03

been repeating these words for years, but

5:06

I'll be honest with you, these words

5:08

never failed to touch my heart.

5:11

And every great recite the pledge.

5:14

Did you hear that? She said it right,

5:16

said what touch my heart? So

5:19

what's the big deal about saying touch my heart? That's

5:22

a cute. That's a phrase she uses

5:24

when she's trying to send us a message. Let's also

5:26

do it for ourselves. What's the message?

5:30

I don't know. Touching heart

5:32

just tells us there is a message over your heart,

5:36

and so we

5:39

begin. I

5:41

pledged allegiance to the flag of

5:43

the United States of America

5:46

and to the Republic, for which it

5:48

stands, One nation

5:51

under God, indivisible

5:54

with liberty and justice for

5:56

all. I'm

6:01

I'm sorry. I don't mean to get emotional.

6:03

This is corny, even for Helen. You know what.

6:06

I'm not sorry. I'm

6:10

gonna see if I can get to the e o C and talk to her

6:13

emotions as much as Jesus

6:15

Stanley. If you can't go outside, durn't

6:17

sure. If you, I'll take the eyewitness

6:19

news car. Don't don't let me through, and I'll

6:21

be joining you throughout the day, doing

6:23

what I can to touch your heart the

6:26

same way that you my broadcast

6:29

family touch my heart.

6:31

Any idea what she's talking about, But

6:34

now let's check in with the Connal

6:36

rad desk to get our radioactivity

6:39

update AH.

6:47

The following is an emergency alert bulletin

6:49

from the United States Army. The

6:52

American Meteorological Society

6:54

is forecasting a warm frock from this up

6:56

that may out from the

7:00

YAH under

7:06

the why are we stopping stations operating?

7:09

You just need to rest my stations

7:11

is on the air. Alternately for a few simes. Have you

7:13

gotten any sleep since Monday morning? About

7:18

me? As the broadcast passes

7:21

for Wednesday,

7:30

It's strange to see the streets so empty.

7:33

Never in my life could I have imagined it. It's

7:37

almost like the bombs have already gone off. This

7:40

is all that's left. I

7:46

keep thinking, maybe there's

7:48

something, someone somewhere

7:50

I could do to stop

7:53

it. I

7:55

can't stop something that's already happened. Bombs

7:59

will follow, there's no going back.

8:03

Jesus he will.

8:06

I know he will. I

8:11

can feel his hand upon us

8:13

already. He's guiding

8:16

and protecting hand You you

8:20

want to know what I believed or yes,

8:22

nitting. I

8:24

think it's all part of God's will. I

8:27

mean, if you are the true believer

8:30

that then it can't be nothing but right,

8:33

I suppose, and

8:36

knowing that He's in command.

8:40

Instead of fighting against his will,

8:41

we should look for better ways

8:44

to go along with it. Don't don't give up hope.

8:48

It's sorrd for me to see happy ending in all

8:50

this. That's cause you're looking at

8:52

it all wrong. Instead

8:54

of thinking it's the end of the world, think

8:57

of it as a chance for a new beginning. The

9:00

Garden of Eden all over again.

9:04

Yeah. If things are bad and

9:07

the worst of it ain't ain't even here yet.

9:11

Any day now, there's gonna be a blanket

9:13

of radioactive fallout that covers

9:15

the ground like snow, killing

9:19

everything it touches. But

9:21

we saw this day coming, We was prepared.

9:25

What if we hunker down, hide

9:27

like rabbits and our little warring

9:29

up on cross Mountain, and we abide

9:33

until come the spring and

9:37

we step out, you, me

9:40

and Becky, like Adam

9:43

and Eve into a new paradise.

9:48

We'll rebuild this country and

9:51

make sure she don't get broke again.

10:00

Thank you for sharing that noon. And really,

10:03

your faith is so strong it

10:06

makes me dare to want to hope again. And

10:10

uh what and

10:16

we gotta repopulate it too, right,

10:23

so you understand? Mm

10:25

hmm, you

10:28

see what I'm saying. Mmm,

10:31

I'm not sure I'm

10:34

saying. We Uh,

10:37

those of us are still alive. We're

10:40

gonna have a responsibility to

10:44

rebuild the population of this country.

10:46

Is going to be the duty of every

10:48

man and woman.

10:52

I mean right,

10:55

Yeah, dude, I'm

11:01

a married I'm a married

11:03

woman. I

11:05

don't know where my husband is, what

11:09

might have happened to him, But until I know for sure,

11:11

I have to continue

11:13

believing that he's still alive, and

11:16

that means I couldn't begin to think about I'm

11:21

sorry, I guess I

11:24

guess I should have been more clear. I'm

11:27

talking. I'm talking about Becky. Becky.

11:32

Yeah. Wait, you thought you

11:34

thought I was gonna pull some kind of oh,

11:38

miss Langford. No, no, ma'am. I'm

11:40

an honorable man. It's the way I was raised.

11:42

I wanted to talk to

11:45

you alone so I could be a proper gentleman.

11:47

And you barely know her.

11:50

Well, well, we're about being

11:52

close quarters together, so there'll be time.

11:55

Becky, my fifteen

11:57

year old daughter, Becky. Now

12:00

she's fifteen. Now, she won't

12:02

always. Please just do

12:04

me a favor and don't say anything

12:07

not to me, and for God's

12:09

sake, don't mention anything of this to Becky.

12:15

Thank for. I've been thinking long and hard about this,

12:17

and I've been doing some praying. My

12:20

Bible. Then right there in

12:23

Genesis, God said be

12:25

fruitful and multiply and replenish

12:27

the earth. She's fifteen. That

12:30

means legally speaking, we

12:32

could have gotten married a year ago. That's

12:36

what you're asking to marry

12:38

her. Not exactly,

12:40

not exactly. She's

12:43

a little girl. Maybe to you

12:45

she is. She'd probably always

12:47

be a little girl. If

12:50

you want to court someone, court Lorraine,

12:52

who's to say I can't court Boe? What if

12:56

we're going to replenish the earth, then

12:58

it's gonna take a lot stop it. I'm

13:02

giving Becky a wonderful opportunity.

13:04

Ridiculous, don't you be stupid?

13:09

You're not exactly in a position right

13:11

now to be high and mighty. Now,

13:15

if I pro create with Becky,

13:18

i'd respect for her. Since

13:21

you're her mother, I'd

13:24

allow you to live in the shelter with us.

13:27

And if I don't give

13:29

my permission, well

13:33

we couldn't rightly have you there unless you two believe

13:36

in what we're doing. And

13:39

what if I don't believe? What

13:41

are you not believing? Not

13:44

much of anything right now? This

13:54

little mission it's

13:59

full believers. Oah. So

14:02

if you ben Becking are part of the mission and

14:07

we gotta leave you behind, we

14:11

can't let this world get contaminated

14:13

by skeptics all over again.

14:18

Broadcast. Hear

14:23

that theards,

14:27

the looters not

14:29

on my ward. Now we don't have time

14:32

together. We have to go there. If

14:43

this is it the beginning

14:46

of the end. You gotta believe in something,

14:49

something besides smashing. When does the skin

14:51

in applying something? If you're jealous, somebody's

14:54

gotta better be it. Well.

14:56

Nobody never gave me nothing. You don't see

14:58

me ride and do no? Why

15:01

not? Because I believe in something

15:03

I seem a good

15:16

Excuse me, miss Huntley, Yes,

15:19

gentlemen, to see you Stanley.

15:24

Oh, thank you Bergerie. Of course

15:35

we got your message. You cued us right.

15:38

You sent a message that you haven't got

15:40

a story, a story, a

15:43

news story, hard news. Late

15:45

bridey wait wait started to beginning in Langford.

15:48

Paraded me through the whole EO CNE,

15:51

showing me everything, all their

15:53

operations. He left me in

15:55

the office by myself for a couple of minutes. I

15:58

saw glassified Miranda here,

16:02

what'll

16:06

I figured you wouldn't believe me, so I brought you a souvenir

16:10

Opal sixty five sixty

16:13

five Operation Alert

16:15

Jesus. But the point is life

16:19

is going on as usual outside Eden

16:21

Valley. You don't know, sty I saw

16:23

it with my own eyes. What

16:25

if the Soviets have taken what

16:30

are you suggesting we do? Let's

16:33

pretend we're real journalists just

16:36

just for one day. Good ideas.

16:38

I'll get Vance Norwood. What

16:41

guys says my story? Oh, come

16:43

on, Helen Vance as a journalist. If

16:45

this story is really as big a

16:48

journalist, don't get liberated

16:50

on me. Helen didn't, would get

16:52

inside the e O C. No, damn

16:55

writing didn't. It's my story.

16:58

I'm going to be the one to tell them from

17:00

here. Hell, on the minute you

17:02

say one word that they don't like, they're gonna

17:04

pull the plug and send you straight to go back

17:07

on the air Channel twelve. Channel

17:09

twelve would lose our license in nuclear

17:12

goddamn emergency. Stanley already

17:14

calm down, don't hell

17:16

me to calm down. I'm not telling

17:19

you to calm down, right, I

17:21

should be overcasting the test pattern. Yes,

17:25

and and radio Hell, if

17:27

we start broadcasting on a non emergency

17:29

channel, feed you the information and

17:32

and you go back to the station and put together

17:34

a tape package with me telling

17:37

the start. I'll get your photos,

17:39

documents, a five minute

17:41

piece and you can run it on a loop.

17:44

Well, how will anyone know to tune in a Channel

17:46

twelve or eleven sixty. It

17:48

might take a while for people to notice. I

17:51

got it. During my Civil

17:53

Defense broadcast tomorrow morning, I'll

17:56

just tell people

17:58

to change channels. What could be something?

18:01

Oh you have to do is press play.

18:12

All right, ladies, you know the drill, only

18:15

this time. Do it right so we don't have to come out

18:17

here a third time. No more

18:19

pushy footing around. Whoa

18:26

look all you

18:31

see? Who's coming? Who's this guy?

18:34

Is that? You

18:36

guys know this clown? A little

18:39

pet? You can be anything

18:44

I can do to help out? What

18:46

kind of uniform is at r

18:49

O? Kish caring

18:57

fire milicious? Second amendments

19:01

put the British on the top, put

19:04

it back. I'm

19:06

not suiting any housewife today. I'm

19:10

block market with the hooking ladder. I

19:16

reckon they're gonna cool things down, showing

19:21

the hydrant. Call he knows where?

19:24

Hey, Shay Henry from Nooning,

19:27

Sir, are you ready

19:29

to earn your stripes? Don't

19:32

serve me. I'm a sergeant. You

19:35

think you can help us clear the street, but I

19:37

think big show, Sir. I

19:40

got a dog. If you won't grab him, he's

19:42

a cure sheepherd canine police trained

19:45

should not bring him on a double. Get

19:48

your back here before the fireworks start.

19:50

Ah, sir aye

19:53

aye, Sir God,

19:56

would I give for some soldiers everything

20:09

okay? Not

20:11

okay, but but they're about

20:14

to be great. Why are you

20:16

taking that? No? No, no,

20:18

no, no, you can't do that. These are

20:21

our neighbors, they were given.

20:23

These are friends of mine. My daughter and her

20:25

school friends were there on Monday noon.

20:28

At least leave me the keys and I'll monitored

20:31

radio. We say, start reporting fall out. We'll need

20:33

to get back up the mountain. Good here

20:36

that roll off the windows while I'm gonna lock the doors.

20:38

Don't let nobody take those keys from

20:40

you. Hear me? Yes, yes or

20:44

lots opinion on that truck. Be

20:47

careful, keep your head

20:49

down. Shouldn't take home, go

20:56

back to Russia. World? Are

20:59

you play? You can ask all the questions

21:02

you want with a death sergeant books you

21:04

and answer a few while you're out. Hands

21:07

off me. Don't you touch our

21:09

emergency supposed to get

21:11

through here trouble. This is a pease action

21:14

ship on peace ready on

21:16

the hose, standing by, Open

21:19

the hydrant, Open the hydrant? And

21:22

what do you waiting on? Baptized?

21:26

Bad ship and

21:35

your street

21:38

two days as

21:40

are all going on against

21:44

the window. I got the

21:54

hell they are shot.

21:57

Anybody close to that windows when

21:59

you and Becky

22:13

no, no, this has to stop, This

22:16

has to stop. This

22:18

is made O

22:21

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