Revelation, the final book of the Bible,
an extraordinary sequence of apocalyptic prophecies.
It describes how the world is going to be ripped apart
by a series of cataclysmic events.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
was completely destroyed during yesterday's deadly bomb
attacks.
MAN: Holy moly!
The storm, the pandemic, the attack on Israel.
We're at the end of days.
Listen, OK?
I need to get outta here.
Go, go, Doug!
Can you hear that?
What is that?
Tell him everything.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: First meteor strikes now reported
on American soil.
Grab the camera.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: What concerns
NASA is that the asteroid is nowbelieved to be on a collision
course with the United States.
MAN: There is a sequence of prophetic events
that the Bible says will happen.
MAN: These signs are getting clearer.
They are getting harder to ignore.
We have abused His trust!
MAN: He's gonna burn up the earth.
He's gonna burn up His heaven.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: An asteroid has hit Minnesota
just north of Minneapolis.
MAN: We have many people down.
Please, please respond.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: Flaming debris
is landing in New York City as we speak.
The shockwaves have destroyed entire neighborhoods.
Being told now that fatalities are likely to be
in the hundreds of thousands.
More breaking news, OK.
We're getting reports now of further meteor impacts.
MAN: Damn!
Oh my lord!
WOMAN: Please seek shelter.
Advise civilians to take shelter.
Hurricane force winds are nowdriving a cloud of dust and ash
south towards Chicago and--
all right, OK.
I'm sorry.
You gotta understand, this is a little hard to take in.
Oh my god.
All right, close my window.
It's really dark.
Oh.
Where'd the sun go?
Hey, God bless America, baby.
This is the command center.
This is my bed.
Sorry, I didn't make it.
This is Lee's.
A little more cleanly.
The guy still makes his bed every morning.
Hear that, ladies?
There's still a guy that makes the bed.
Where's our buddy?
There he is.
There's our hero, the guy who thinks that the Bible can
explain what's happened to the world.
Been thinking about this a lot.
I-- I can't help but wonder whether I'm part of His plan.
I-- I can't even believe I'm saying this.
I feel like I've been chosen to tell this story.
Back then, before it all started, I just--
I thought it was a coincidence, that I was just
in the right place at the righttime, making that dumb film.
[panting]
[explosion]
Oh my god.
[car alarms wailing]
Oh my god.
It's the wall.
Let's do one here.
I just wanna sum it all up again.
OK, I'm gonna move around you, OK?
So finally I can tell you what's been going on.
The world has fallen apart.
Dust from the meteor meanswe're down to five or six hours
of daylight, permanent winter.
I can't remember the last time I felt warm.
The power grid's in tatters.
Lucky if we get a couple hours a day.
Some places don't get anything.
Gas is worth its weight in gold.
And there's still sporadic outbreaks of the pandemic.
You have to watch your back.
It's dog-eat-dog.
You just never know who you can trust.
And-- and this.
These things, red eagles.
They've been cropping up everywhere.
What this all means, we have no idea.
CRAIG: Lee, why the hell are we still doing this?
What do you mean?
CRAIG: The world's gone to shit, man,
and we're still making a film.
Why?
This is the biggest story in 2,000 years.
CRAIG: Only if you're right.
If I'm right?
Craig, the Wailing Wall, the meteor, the pandemic.
I mean, you saw it for yourself.
The weirdest part?
It's all what Martin, Professor Kelly
told us about back in Jerusalem.
I am trying to get a seat on the next available flight
tomorrow.
Martin?
Yes, I'll hold.
So this Wormwood, it's some kind of asteroid or meteor?
Colossal, terrible death and destruction.
And then what?
The Bible calls it "the Tribulation,"
seven years of ordeal and suffering
and torment to test the limits of mankind.
Test how?
Rivers of blood, fields of fire.
Plagues of locusts?
Yes, things, too.
And the Beast, the Antichrist.
He builds his own city, Babylon, and then the forces
of good and evil range together.
Two prophets arise to confront him,
and it all leads to Armageddon and then the second coming.
Jesus?
Exactly.
The next flight.
It's all gonna happen, Craig.
We're in the Tribulation period right now.
CRAIG: If you say so, buddy.
Back to reality?
We're down to our last media card.
Already?
CRAIG: Yeah.
OK.
Let's do it.
It's been years since themeteor strikes devastated North
America, and looters continue to run wild in the cities hardest
hit--
New York, Chicago, Boston, and other northern communities.
CRAIG: Get the feeling we're not the first ones here?
Yeah, I think you're right.
Well, we should check anyway.
We might get lucky.
CRAIG: You OK?
Yeah, I'm all right.
Look at this.
All we need is a table.
Light.
That's a good sign.
Looks like the electrical department.
Charger.
Camera stuff.
Oh, jackpot.
So this is what it's come to, looting for camera media
cards to record onto.
Uh, Craig, Craig?
They have guns.
We should start walking over here.
OK?
Craig, over here.
[shouting]
Run, Craig!
Stop the camera!
Get down.
[police siren wailing]
[dog howling]
Over here.
Check this out.
Is that a red eagle?
Let's go.
So the Antichrist, how will we know him?
You won't, not at first.
The Antichrist won't have horns and a tail.
He or she is able to convince the world that they're
on the side of good.
Could be anybody.
It could be a rock star, apolitician, a religious leader.
But he builds Babylon.
So he's in what, Iraq?
Lee, you're not listening.
Babylon is a metaphor for "sinful city" or "seat
of power."
So maybe it's in America.
Who knows?
Isn't there anything specific?
Yes, there's one thing.
There's a sign associated with the Antichrist
and his followers, the Mark of the Beast.
CRAIG: You think?
You got a better idea?
[explosion]
The blast killed one soldier and it seriously
injured another three.
It is the latest in an escalating series of IED
attacks on military patrols, andit's the second in Pennsylvania
this week.
Get down, get down, get down!
Several Christian militia groups are active in the area.
Now responding to the crisis and continuing unrest
in the northern cities,president Charles Brandon today
announced new powers for the military and a plan
to restore order.
These so-called Christian leaders are terrorists,
pure and simple.
Well, today I have a message for them.
I will not rest until they're defeated.
[cheering]
I am therefore authorizing the deployment of American troops
to your cities, your streets, and your homes.
CRAIG: They've been flying insoldiers and equipment all day.
I guess the president means what he says.
Personally, it's freaking me out.
It feels like an occupation.
LEE: Craig?
Craig, get in here! - Lee?
LEE: Get in here now! CRAIG: Lee, are you all right?
LEE: Bring the camera!
CRAIG: Lee, are you--
what happened?
Are you OK?
Are you filming?
CRAIG: Oh my god.
What is that?
It's coming out of the faucet.
I was washing.
Suddenly, everything's red.
CRAIG: Talk-- talk to me.
Are you OK?
Take a look.
CRAIG: Oh my god.
It's like a horror movie.
Yeah.
What Paul predicted in the Bible.
CRAIG: You're doing it again.
It's probably just rusty pipes, right?
Most likely just in this building.
I doubt it.
Red water, Memphis, Tennessee.
Score zero for the atheists.
Score 100 for the Bible.
Now, this mysterious red algal bloom
has been reported in dozens ofcountries around the world now.
The contaminated water is toxic, and authorities
have issued warnings to people not to drink or bathe in it.
Scientists are linking it to dust from the meteor strike.
Here in the US, the northern states
have been hit the hardest, but the bloom
appears to be heading south.
Rivers of blood.
There they are.
It's just algae.
You keep telling yourself that.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: The contamination of our rivers--
"And the third angel poured out
is vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters.
And they became blood."
I mean, come on.
Are we really supposed to take this seriously?
Well, you're certainly not gonna take it literally.
Sure, but why all the metaphors?
Why not just tell us what's actually gonna happen?
Lee, you're John of Patmos.
It's 90 AD.
You have a prophetic vision of the future, of now.
There's dozens of things you're never gonna understand,
so maybe that's how an aeroplanebecomes an angel or a tank
becomes a dragon.
It's how they connect we have to decode.
Like Martin said, I'm just making the connections.
CRAIG: No, you're imagining the connections.
OK?
You can't explain what's going on today with a book that
was written thousands of years ago, Lee.
That's insane.
Why do you keep denyingwhat's so [bleep] obvious, man?
CRAIG: What's obvious to you, not to somebody
with a rational mind!
Oh, come on!
You can explain an individual disaster through science.
Of course you can!
But that's not what's happening here, man.
There's a pattern outlined in the Bible.
The Rapture, hundreds of thousands of people
just disappear.
The last stone on the temple falling.
The asteroid, Wormwood!
The rivers of blood.
How many more do you need?
Craig, how many more do you need, man?
CRAIG: You need to stay objective, OK?
They're disasters.
It's not a battle between good and evil.
We'll see.
President Charles Brandon made an announcement today
about the second phase of his government's plan
for the country.
They're establishing what he is calling a Safe
Zone across the Deep South,with its capital in New Orleans.
ANNOUNCER: Are you dreaming of a new America?
An America free of crime and the 7HC pandemic?
An America where the water is clean,
there's gas and electricity forall, and the future is bright?
Welcome to the Safe Zone.
In New Orleans, we are beginning the task
of rebuilding this great nation.
Law and order has been restored.
Offshore, our oil rigs are back in action,
and there's plenty of fresh water for everyone
thanks to our desalination plants.
And there are enough supplies and the Panlexia antibiotic
to protect every man, woman, and child.
In New Orleans, we offer all Americans a safe haven.
I urge you to travel south and join us.
There's room for e--
Brothers and sisters, the end of days is upon us,
predicted in this book.
And now, just as the Biblesays, the Antichrist has risen.
His name is Charles Brandon.
He is building a city of sin.
In the Bible, it is called Babylon.
LEE: Craig, get this.
Get this.
In our world, it is called New Orleans.
People, America is the new battleground.
OK.
[beeping]
--Folks, we owe you an explanation.
I wanna tell you what happened.
In rural Pennsylvania, a Christian terrorist group
attacked one of our central TV relay stations.
What happened is, the terrorists briefly interrupted
President Brandon's broadcast with extremist propaganda.
Now, the operation appears to have
been led by former Pennsylvaniapolice officer John--
he's a member of an extremist evangelical cult.
They are known as the Red Eagles.
And its leader, Doug Michaels, is also
thought to be from the Pennsylvania area.
Tell me you got that.
CRAIG: Only a few seconds.
It's amazing.
Christian nut jobs hijacking state TV in a time of war?
It takes some serious balls, man.
Did you notice the logo behind them?
Do you remember what Martin said?
The Antichrist could be a religious leader.
With his own mark, man.
The Mark of the Beast.
CRAIG: So Doug Michaels, our Red Eagle chief,
thinks that President Brandon is the Antichrist.
But you don't agree, right?
I don't know.
What this Doug guy says kind of makes sense.
But it's like Martin always said.
It's ambiguous.
Mark of the Beast could be the Red Eagle logo.
CRAIG: Wait, so now that God-fearing TV hijacker is
the Antichrist?
Dude, my head hurts.
Let's figure out which ones which, then.
CRAIG: How?
We'll track this Doug character down.
CRAIG: We don't know where he is.
The TV relay was in Pennsylvania.
John Evans, who's his right hand man, was a cop from PA.
Do the math.
Besides--
CRAIG: Dude, that's disgusting.
I think it's time we head south, too, don't you?
Quarter of a tank.
We could definitely barter this to get there.
At least partway.
CRAIG: So we're going?
Just like that?
And what if I don't agree?
You will.
This is the biggest story in 2,000 years.
It's all in the Bible.
The Book of Revelation.
CRAIG: Probably ends with me getting killed
or us both killed.
What if you're wrong?
Guess you'll have a hell ofa story to tell your grandkids,
then, won't you?
MAN [ON RADIO]: Gridlock, long delays,
traffic spilling-- back-up on the Massachusetts turnpike.
We're talking pretty slow.
Total gridlock on the roads today as the first wave
of refugees from the North beganheading south to the Safe Zone.
Two hours just waiting in line.
Two hours I've waited.
MAN [ON RADIO]: They're calling it "freedom fuel."
Precious gas released from government reserves
to help people travel south.
For those without cars or unable to find fuel,
freedom buses are being sent to all Northern cities
to transport people south to New Orleans.
LEE: We'll hitch a ride with someone on this street.
CRAIG: Are you sure about this?
I'm telling you, Pennsylvania.
That's where these Red Eagles are kicking ass.
Hey, guys.
You guys are headed south, right?
Yeah.
I have gas if you guys wanna barter for two seats.
What else you got?
I can give you my watch.
All right, we're in.
CRAIG: How are they?
Well, you know.
[bleep]
[death metal playing]
CRAIG: Hey, you guys all right if we film back here?
Do whatever you want.
Just don't fart.
Yeah.
Make sure you get my best side, man.
Dude, that's your backside.
[chuckling]
[death metal playing]
Now, the first of the southbound Freedom Buses
will depart at noon today.
Citizens over the age of 70 will board specially equipped
Freedom Buses, each manned by a doctor
to provide medical care on the journey south.
Let me assure you that we are working
for a permanent solution to our continuing problems.
CRAIG: You guys, check it out, we're in Jesus country now.
You think they're right?
MAN: About what?
About these being the final days.
You know, stuff from Revelation.
[laughter]
No, man.
Don't tell me you're one of those fanatics, too.
No, no.
I'm just saying that--
[horn resounds]
What the hell was that?
Beats me, dude.
We've heard this sound before.
CRAIG: Lee, look at this.
Guys, you're not gonna like this.
CRAIG: What's that up ahead?
What's what?
CRAIG: That weird, dark cloud.
Dude, it's-- it's just a weird, dark cloud.
What are they?
LEE: Craig, get this, get this.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I can't see!
Dude, I can't see.
What is this?
They're everywhere, everywhere.
Easy, easy!
This is unbelievable.
Dude, this is [bleep].
What is happening?
God, this is gross.
This is so gross, man.
They're everything.
Dude, what the hell are these things?
Some kind of grasshopper.
LEE: They're not grasshoppers.
Vast swarms of locusts are now appearing across the US.
The scientists are quite baffled by the phenomenon
and are at a loss to explain where they have come from.
Just a weird, dark cloud?
Right.
This is freaking me out.
Look at this.
I've never seen anything like this.
Do remember back in Jerusalem, when Martin was talking
about the locusts?
CRAIG: Yeah.
He said something about they were linked to something.
So storms, the chaos in Jerusalem, Wormwood,
skies go dark, what else?
Horrible creatures from the bottomless pit
to torment the rest of mankind.
The Bible calls them locusts.
It could be any kind of pestilential swarm.
Oh, nice.
Well, "nice" is one way to describe the Tribulation.
What about this bottomless pit, then?
Well, the Bible calls it "smoking."
It could be a volcano.
It could be an earthquake. I don't know.
You'll know it when you see it.
Told you.
CRAIG: This is just too weird, man.
MAN: You guys coming or what?
Yeah.
OK, we're coming.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: Military production
is being scaled up to meet the growing security challenges
and ensure stability in the Safe Zone.
Up in the North, government troops
have launched a crackdown on Christian militias.
Everyone needs to move back, back around the corner.
Close your window.
Go back inside your house.
MAN: Men with machine guns coming towards us.
I'm filming.
I'm not gonna stop filming.
This is intense.
MAN [ON RADIO]: More than 100 Christian extremists
were arrested in Philadelphia alone.
It's feared many more have fled to rural areas.
Checkpoint.
I don't really trust soldiers, but hey,
if they got water, and heat, and women, I'm in.
[radio chatter]
LEE: All right, I think wemight need to cover the camera.
CRAIG: Yeah, in a minute.
Captain, come take a look at this.
Check out the "Jesus Saves" bumper sticker.
Jesus can't save their asses now.
Get out of the car.
Get out of the car!
Step out!
Put your hands on your head.
You guys said you weren't religious, right?
They're not gonna find, like, a Bible or something, right?
Right?
LEE: Well--
Get out, get out.
LEE: Why?
Dude, you heard him!
He said, get out of the car!
Get out of the car now!
Come on, guys.
Dude, he said get out of the car!
Get out, out, out, out!
Let's go, let's go.
Hey, quiet.
LEE: Into the woods.
We're taking a nice afternoon stroll.
MAN: Hey, you two!
You two, I said, back in the vehicle!
Stop, or I'll have to shoot!
Craig, run, run!
MAN: Stop where you are!
Run, Craig!
MAN: Stop or I'll - shoot!
[gunfire]
Run!
[gunfire]
What's my problem?
I just got shot at.
Me.
That's my problem.
Beavis and Butthead probably IDed us to those soldiers.
We're gonna be on a wanted list by nightfall.
Meanwhile, we're stuck here in these woods,
and it's getting colder by the minute.
But you know what?
I'm fine.
Everything's peachy.
LEE: And yet here you are, still filming.
CRAIG: I guess it's a habit.
We're not lost.
We're in Pennsylvania.
And our self-styled prophet/antichrist Doug,
he's around here somewhere.
I could smell him.
Let's go.
CRAIG: So we're not lost, right?
That's what I keep saying, we're not lost.
CRAIG: We're not lost at all?
You're sure?
No, Craig, we're not lost.
CRAIG: This is starting to feellike the Blair Witch Project.
[singing hymn]
[thunder cracks]
You hear that?
Let us pray.
Lord, we thank you for the gift of life
in these difficult times, and we ask for your protection
and guidance, for thine is the kingdom, the power,
and the glory forever and ever.
Amen.
This is great.
Thank you so much.
It's just from cans.
We truly appreciate it.
I really never even looked at the Bible
until we went to Jerusalem and everything kicked off.
You were there when the Wailing Wall fell?
Mm-hm.
Yeah.
I didn't believe in anythinguntil our son disappeared right
before my eyes.
We all started late down the road to salvation.
I guess that makes you tribulation saints, then.
The ones that rise up to fight the Antichrist.
Maybe, when the time comes.
It's Brandon, right?
That's what Doug Michaels, that's what he says,
the Red Eagles guy.
We're not sure.
What Paul means is, we need more signs.
We don't take nobody's word.
LEE: Not even a prophet's?
He's right.
We can' just wait around forever.
At some point, we're gonna have to commit.
Know where I can find Doug Michaels, the others?
You can't.
Nobody can.
Don't even try.
So the tank's about half full.
You're sure about this?
Head from Penfield.
Good people there.
Thank you.
Craig, let's go.
Good people.
CRAIG: Is that why you lied to them, calling Doug a prophet?
I thought he was the Antichrist.
Whatever it takes to get the story.
CRAIG: So do you think they're all just taken in by him?
[exhales]
I don't know.
I don't know anything anymore.
Shit!
Craig!
CRAIG: Great, no exit.
Craig, this goes bad, I just want you to know,
I always thought you were kind of a jerk.
CRAIG: Likewise, buddy.
Maybe we should do what he says.
OK, out of the truck, boys.
And you, Craig, isn't it?
Keep filming.
CRAIG: Hey, sure it's OK for me to film?
The boss approved it.
CRAIG: OK.
The boss?
That's who you're here to see, isn't it?
What's he like?
Doug?
LEE: Yeah.
He's-- well, you'll have to judge for yourself.
John Evans, coming through.
So is he around?
DOUG: I hear you guys have been following this
from the very beginning.
God has a purpose for you, the chroniclers of Revelation.
Come on, I wanna show you something.
Come on.
This is quite the setup you have here, Doug.
Yeah.
Yeah, we figure we're safe from most things,
short of a bunker buster.
This is where you do your recordings?
That's it right there.
Red Eagles.
A map of revelation.
The trumpet judgment.
Hail and fire, Wormwood.
The sun darkened.
The bottomless put.
Do you guys know what it is?
Well, we think so.
Really?
Yeah.
Show them.
Come on, guys.
That's where we're going.
It's an old steel mill.
But it doesn't make steel anymore.
10, 15 trucks a night, just like that one.
Freedom Buses, too.
What are they unloading?
It's best if you see for yourself.
Let's go.
John, what's that sound?
Oh my god.
It's like a nightmare.
JOHN: This isn't even the worst.
[coughing]
Oh.
Oh, it stinks.
Get down, get down.
Let's go.
Oh my god.
They're all old.
At least 70.
A whole generation of grandmothers and grandfathers
has been wiped out, because it's cheaper than caring
for them in the Safe Zone.
Come on, we're not done.
Get down, quickly.
OK, follow me.
Oh my god.
There must be tens of thousands of them here.
This is genocide.
They have to be stopped.
We can't stay long.
Guards patrol every half hour.
You got enough?
CRAIG: For a lifetime.
We've got reports of grave pits
like that all over the country.
Bottomless pit.
That's what that it.
Yeah.
We think so.
CRAIG: Lee.
Yeah.
CRAIG: If that's the bottomless pit, then
who's the Antichrist now?
It must be Brandon.
CRAIG: So Doug Michaels, that gun-toting survivalist wingnut
is the leader of God's army on earth?
Yeah.
The Red Eagles have to be the good guys.
They're tribulation saints, like Martin said.
I-- I'm just trying to make sense of it.
Who is it that fights this Antichrist?
The tribulation saints.
LEE: The who?
"Here is the patience of the saints.
Here are they that keep the commandments of God
and the faith of Jesus."
They form a Christian army led by two prophets and march
on Babylon.
Craig, don't you see?
It's happening, man.
We're embedded with the guys who are
gonna watch on the Antichrist.
We're along for the ride.
It's like Doug said.
We are the chroniclers of Revelation.
CRAIG: Really?
Is that what we are?
Yes.
If we wanna be.
Fate or God, someone or something
has given us this role.
CRAIG: But is it worth risking our lives for?
You got something better to do?
Give us the blessing of Your protection in our work,
seeking not our own safety butonly that we may be instruments
of Your will.
In Christ's name, Amen.
Let's go.
Did you get that?
CRAIG: Yeah.
Are you rolling?
CRAIG: Yeah.
On our first ride along with the Red Eagles,
an attack on another TV substation.
They want their message on air again.
Buddy, when this kicks off, stay behind me.
CRAIG: OK.
10 minutes, in and out.
You ready?
CRAIG: Ready.
Go.
[gunfire]
- Oh, god. - Come on.
Did you see that?
[gunfire]
Come on!
Come on, John!
Come on!
Come on.
[gunfire]
John, your back, John, your back!
Come on, move it, move it, move it, move it!
Get this, get this!
[gunfire]
[alarm wailing]
Get the door, I'm jammed up!
Come on.
OK, OK.
I got it.
Network feed right here.
PRESIDENT BRANDON: In New Orleans,
we are beginning the task of rebuilding this great nation.
Law and order has been restored.
Come on, hurry up.
Come on.
I'm going, I'm going.
Jesus.
CRAIG: Did you see that, Lee?
He just shot those men without warning.
What do you expect, man?
Come on, we've only got five minutes.
Come on, come on, come on.
Hurry up!
OK, we're in.
[president speaking]
Do it.
[static]
I urge you to travel south and join--
Brothers and sisters, ask yourselves,
why does he want everyone in New Orleans?
Or to call it by its real name, Babylon.
What has he got planned for you?
It's time to take sides, to rise up against the Ant--
God is with us.
Doug, can I ask you a question?
Sure, go ahead.
How do you justify the violence?
I mean, your men killed soldierstonight without warning.
What alternative do we have?
They could have been good men, just doing their jobs.
Exactly.
Listen.
I try to keep violence to a minimum.
This is no game.
This is a war the Bible says has to be fought.
And those who fight the Antichrist go to heaven.
Oh, so killing from God is OK?
You better get used to it.
We're gonna have to fight our way into New Orleans.
Oh, yeah!
MAN [ON RADIO]: Christian extremists
made dozens of attacks across the North today, all designed
to cripple government infrastructure
and to seize weapons and supplies.
The scale of the operation suggests a number of groups
have formed an alliance.
These aren't Christians.
They are terrorists.
Those that harbor them willfeel the full force of the law.
LEE: Here they come.
MAN [ON RADIO]: We've got a disabled vehicle up ahead.
Uh, roger that. How do you wish to proceed?
Over.
OK, guys, shoot only if you have to.
Help!
Please.
Please, help us.
Stay where you are, ma'am!
MAN: Hands up.
That's it!
What happened?
Militia.
They ambushed us.
They shot my husband!
Please, I think he's dying!
Frisk her.
MAN: All right, stand still.
Hands out!
Sir.
Check him.
MAN: Don't move!
[gunfire]
Craig, come on, come on.
Follow along.
Come on, come on, come on!
That's enough!
Hands up.
Hands up!
John says these taxes are the next stage before the Red
Eagles and a bunch of other Christian groups
hit New Orleans.
CRAIG: You don't think they candefeat Brandon's army, do you?
No.
But if the people rise up together at the same time,
maybe they stand a chance.
All right, guys, we're done here.
Let's move out.
[helicopter flying overhead]
You hear that?
It's best to keep driving.
Just hope they go away.
The people united will never be defeated.
Troops searching for Christian extremists
are encountering increasingly strong resistance,
with protesters taking to the streets.
President Brandon has retaliatedwith even greater force.
If you do not disperse, you may be arrested
and/or subject to--
MAN [ON RADIO]: And we have Ronald on line 4.
RONALD [ON RADIO]: Hi.
Have you seen what they're doing?
It's like something out of the Third Reich.
MAN [ON RADIO]: Right down to the gas chambers, eh?
RONALD [ON RADIO]: I'm just saying,
maybe those Red Eagles have a point.
I mean, I don't know who the bad guys are anymore.
So what's next, then?
The sixth trumpet.
Avenging angels bringing in fire and brimstone.
Doug, turn on the TV.
President's life.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: It was just before 11:00
AM when President Brandon arrived at his Safe Zone
headquarters for crisis talks on the protests.
Mr. President, over here, over here!
Sorry, I don't have time.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: Shortly after stepping out
of his limousine--
[gunshots]
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: Two shots rang out.
President Brandon remains in a coma with doctors
saying his condition is critical.
Get that camera out of here!
A Christian terror group calling itself the Red Eagles
has claimed responsibility for the attack.
And sources close to the president--
We should have known.
Should know what, exactly?
That he would try something like this.
What do you mean?
I mean, it's a setup to smear us,
to give him an excuse to do anything he wants.
CRAIG: Oh, come on.
You don't actually believe inconspiracies like that, do you?
Come on.
What if Doug's right and it is a setup?
CRAIG: So Brandon took two bullets knowing that he would
just somehow survive?
That's pretty extreme, man, I have to say.
There's something about this in here.
I know it.
Maybe this is exactly what's meant to happen.
Remember what Martin said?
Deception is this guy's specialty.
Doctors have confirmed that he is now out of danger,
and we've just learned he is expected to return
to normal duties any day now.
"And I saw one of his heads as it was wounded to death,
and the deadly wound was healed."
It is exactly what the Book of Revelation says.
PRESIDENT BRANDON [ON TV]: The assassination attempt
was a clear act of civil war.
I have today authorized the use of full military force
against the Christian terrorists.
We will hunt you down.
And when we find you, we will kill you.
HELICOPTER PILOT: Sword and Shield heading due north.
Good hunting.
Four minutes to target.
HELICOPTER PILOT: Roger that.
CRAIG: OK, we are ready.
We got a fresh battery, and we are recording.
Let's go from the assassination attempt.
The truth is, every wordthat comes out the Antichrist's
mouth is a lie.
And there was given on to him a mouth speaking great things,
and blasphemies.
He will cause deceit.
Deceit--
[horn resounds]
Is it the trumpets again?
Come on, let's get out of here.
Come on!
Craig, camera!
CRAIG: What the hell is this?
Do you see anything?
It's the sixth trumpet, avenging angels.
And out of the mouths issued smoke, fire, and brimstone.
[explosions]
[gunfire]
Bunker now!
Craig, are you all right?
Craig?
HELICOPTER PILOT: OK, light 'em up.
HELICOPTER PILOT: Sure thing.
[explosions]
Come on, this way!
[gunfire]
MAN [ON RADIO]: Hellfire engaged.
Fire.
Here, have a seat.
I think you're bleeding.
Are you all right?
CRAIG: It's just a scratch.
I'm fine. [explosion]
Whoa!
MAN [ON RADIO]: Fire.
All right, everyone, moving out now.
Come on, up.
Let's go!
Lee, Craig, over here!
There's a fork in the tunnel.
Go right.
There's a truck in the trees.
The keys are in there, OK?
Now, go.
But what about you guys?
I'll see you in Babylon.
Now, move!
Go!
Government forces today launched massive retaliatory
strikes against Christian terror groups
linked to the assassination attempt on President Brandon.
Sources say many groups were wiped out entirely,
but the hunt continues for the leaders of the most
militant group, the Red Eagles.
MAN [ON RADIO]: OK, let's get some more bad guys.
CRAIG: Man, this is unbelievable.
They must've dropped thousands of bombs.
It's like something out of Apocalypse Now.
It's the fields of fire.
"And the fourth angel poured his vial upon the sun,
and a power was given unto him to scorch men with fire."
Is this biblical enough for you?
CRAIG: More than enough.
You know, let's just try it.
Let's try this place right here.
CRAIG: Doesn't exactly inviting.
They got a couple pumps.
CRAIG: Anything?
No.
Not a thing.
CRAIG: So how far to New Orleans?
20, 30 miles.
CRAIG: What happens to it?
You know, in the book.
It's utterly destroyed in the final battle
between good and evil.
CRAIG: Great.
Don't you think maybe we just shouldn't go there?
Dude, you starting to believe?
CRAIG: All I'm saying is, why risk it, right?
All right.
I guess we'll both get killed.
Atta boy.
I knew you were with me.
Are you coming?
CRAIG: Yeah, just give me a minute.
Lee, if you're the one who finishes this film
and I don't get to actually tell you this,
I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry,
and I apologize for doubting you.
Working on this film with you, man,
it's-- it's been the greatest experience of my life.
[car engine struggles]
I guess we're walking.
More and more people are taking up President Brandon's
invitation to the Safe Zone, leaving the fighting
and increasing pollution in the North behind.
It's one of the largest migrations in human history.
MAN [ON RADIO]: Tailbacks stretch for miles.
Tens of thousands of people are on the road,
all hoping for a better life.
Security forces have been dispatched to maintain order
in the approach to New Orleans.
Processing stations on the perimeter
are struggling to cope.
Officials have issued a plea for new arrivals
to stay calm and stay in line.
Welcome to the Safe Zone, the birthplace of the new America.
As a precaution against the threat of a renewed pandemic,
all new employees must be inoculated with Panlexia.
This simple injection will help keep the Safe Zone safe.
Thank you, Major.
You'll receive an inconspicuous barcode
to prove that you've been injected.
Even I have one.
MAJOR: This simple injection will
help keep the Safe Zone safe.
It's New Orleans over there.
I don't see how we're gonna get through this.
CRAIG: I've got an idea, but you're not gonna like it.
Try me.
Man, the stink.
This is truly a horrible idea.
OK, you come on up.
Come on.
CRAIG: Looks like there's a curfew in place.
Look at this.
They're here already.
CRAIG: No wonder that killing all the sick and the elderly.
There's no resources here.
I guess only the strong survive.
Some kind of shop.
They're using some kind of barcode
on their wrist to buy things.
CRAIG: "And no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark or the name of the Beast
or the number of his name."
You reading the Bible or something?
CRAIG: Couldn't sleep.
The Safe Zone is a lie.
It's no better than the North.
It's dirty.
It's run down.
It's a police state, like Hitler's Germany,
right down to the eugenics.
Welcome to Babylon.
[helicopter flying overhead]
MAN [ON RADIO]: Section D clear.
New arrivals to report in, but no sign of trouble.
ANNOUNCER: Are you dreaming of a new America?
An America free of crime and the 7HC pandemic?
This propaganda shit.
ANNOUNCER: Where the water is clean and the future is--
We interrupt our regularprogramming with a special news
alert.
The leaders of the Christian terror group the Red Angels,
who were behind the assassination attempt
on President Brandon, have beenkilled in a military operation.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: It was just after midnight
when special forces surrounded this isolated farmhouse
near Coudersport, Pennsylvania.
Inside, the jackpot, Red Eagle leaders Doug Michaels and John
Evans.
[explosion]
[gunfire]
MAN [ON RADIO]: Target down, target down!
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: Both men were killed
after a fierce firefight.
Their bodies were taken to a military morgue
for full identification.
This is a decisive victory in the war on terror, a textbook
operation that eliminated the undisputed leaders
of an organization that has been responsible
for countless American deaths.
My god.
PRESIDENT BRANDON [ON TV]: People
may sleep easier in their beds tonight.
He killed them like animals.
CRAIG: So what now?
I don't know.
CRAIG: What does the Bible say?
MAN: Hey, you!
[bleep] Drop the camera, stay where you are!
Soldiers.
OK, Craig, now!
Run, Craig!
Are they gone?
CRAIG: I think so.
I don't see anybody.
Maybe we should head in there, see
if we can find some shelter.
Good idea.
Craig.
It's people.
Hi.
CRAIG: So you were saying something
about what happens next?
Actually, Martin sort of said it.
So the true prophets, the ones that lead the forces of good
to victory, how are we supposed to know them?
I mean, 100%?
They rise from the dead.
- Literally? - I don't know.
It could be a spiritual metaphor.
But the Bible says that they're captured and killed
by the forces of the Beast and then resurrected.
And then the final battle begins.
CRAIG: Really?
So these men are just gonna what?
Put themselves back together like Humpty Dumpty?
You saw their bodies, Lee.
And here I thought you were starting to believe.
CRAIG: Not in fairy tales.
A quick update for you now.
President Brandon announced today
that due to continuing lawlessness, the curfew--
Brothers and sisters, you know who I am.
You saw my dead.
And now God has raised me from the dead to continue His work.
Now believe that.
Please.
God loves you.
And Brandon does not.
And this is what he's doing.
CRAIG: What the hell?
Lee, that's my footage.
DOUG [ON TV]: A mass murderer of the innocent.
What else do you need to act?
Now is the time to rise up, destroy this evil.
Now, to prove that this is God's will,
He brings you one last sign.
[horn resounds]
The earthquake.
It's the beginning of Armageddon.
We gotta get out of here.
We gotta go.
We-- we gotta go now!
[shouting]
Doug's words, his prediction about the earthquake
was like dynamite.
Right after the tremorsstopped, demonstrations started.
The crowds just got bigger and bigger.
I think it's happening, the uprising.
People have had enough.
MAN [ON PA SYSTEM]: Immediately disperse.
You must leave immediately.
CRAIG: Did Doug really just come back from the dead?
I mean, he could've set all that stuff up before he died.
Does it even matter?
It was a real earthquake.
That's for sure.
MAN [ON PA SYSTEM]: This is an unlawful assembly.
Disperse immediately or face arrest.
This is an unlawful assembly.
Disperse immediately or face arrest.
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: President Brandon today called for calm
in earthquake-hit New Orleans, blaming the rioting that
broke out across the city on a fake propaganda broadcast.
CRAIG: So this is Armageddon.
No, this is just the beginning.
Come on, come on, come on, come on!
Get this!
[gunshot]
Craig, let's-- Let's go, let's go, let's go!
[gunshots]
Armageddon, the endgame, the last battle
between good and evil.
How it unfolds, I have no idea, but it
will be violent and bloody and dangerous.
Rebel forces have breached the Safe Zone perimeter.
Reports are coming in now that they control large sections
of the city.
We also have unconfirmed reportsof army personnel laying down
their weapons.
MAN [ON MEGAPHONE]: Clear the streets or airstrikes
will be launched.
Clear the streets or airstrikes will be launched.
Run, Craig!
[gunfire]
Come here.
CRAIG: When does this insanity end?
The second coming.
CRAIG: What?
Armageddon ends with the return of Christ.
CRAIG: Come on, then.
Tell me more.
Jesus appears in the clouds.
CRAIG: Are we really gonna see that?
I don't know.
That's what the book says.
Let's get outta here.
Let's get back to the warehouse.
It might be safer there.
CRAIG: Good idea.
Let's go, in here!
Go!
Maybe it's all over.
I don't think so.
MAN [ON PA SYSTEM]: Rebel forces have 30 minutes
to clear the downtown area or tactical nuclear weapons
will be deployed.
Where the hell are we supposed to go?
MAN [ON PA SYSTEM]: Rebel forces have
30 minutes to clear the downtownarea or tactical nuclear--
There's nowhere to go.
I guess this is it.
[horn resounds]
What the hell is that?
CRAIG: More avenging angels?
This is something else.
Hey, wait!
This is what it's all been leading to.
Holy crap.
That's crazy.
CRAIG: Whoa!
LEE: Look at that.
This right now, this is the second coming.
Jesus Christ on earth.
CRAIG: I have to get this.
Are you insane?
[horn resounds]
CRAIG: I've been in this from the beginning.
I'm not gonna miss the ending.
Craig, do not go out there.
Craig, you will die!
Don't be a hero, man.
Please don't go out there!
CRAIG: I gotta go out there!
Please, don't.
Craig, come back!
Craig, no!
Craig!
NEWSCASTER [ON TV]: As scientists remain unsure what
caused the intense blast of light and heat,
although a nuclear explosion hasbeen categorically ruled out.
Now, shortly after this unexplained phenomenon,
President Brandon was found dead in his bunker.
It's thought he may have committed suicide
or have been killed by his own men as they mutinied.
CRAIG: Just get that-- oh my god.
That's crazy.
MAN: Holy crap.
I have never seen anything like this.
LEE: So the second coming, Jesus Christ on earth?
The Bible says it will signal 1,000 years of peace.
Perhaps that just means a new way
of seeing, a new way of being without war and violence.
Whatever it is, I'd like to be there.
Sounds quite something.
I still can't get used to seeing the sun so clearly.
I guess we were lucky to survive,
if you believe in luck, that is.
I'm not sure I do anymore.
We never found Craig's body.
I don't know what happened to him.
But I do know that wherever he is, he's doing fine.
Things are getting better, gradually.
The fighting stopped.
People, those of us who are left,
help each other when we can.
Maybe it's a second chance for humanity.
Maybe we won't screw it up this time.
Or at least not so bad.
Maybe.
[music playing]