Eight years later, Chrissy is on a plane filled with dead people.
She is terrified and doesn’t know what to do.
She gets another text from her adoptive brother John.
John
Chrissy? What’s happening?
Chrissy
What’s HAPPENING?
Chrissy
Do you really want to know?
Chrissy
Well, let’s see then…
Chrissy
I’m on an airplane halfway across the Atlantic, surrounded by dead people.
Chrissy
I just talked with my dead mother.
Chrissy
And I just realized that my real father killed himself after releasing a virus on my home town…
Chrissy
All because of something he found in my room…
Chrissy
A fact so terrible I’ve apparently been suppressing the memory for over six years.
Chrissy
Oh, and my adopted BROTHER told me one of my friends died in an explosion…
Chrissy
A sick joke, considering she just texted me a few minutes ago.
Chrissy
Of course she’s alive!
Chrissy
What would have killed her?
Chrissy
Certainly not an explosion at the airport since that ALSO didn’t happen.
John
Do you really think I’d lie about something like that?
John
It’s still all over the news.
John
And the woman who died — her name is Angelique Paradis.
John
It must be someone with the same name as your friend.
Chrissy
The same name?? Angelique Paradis isn’t some common name like Jane Smith.
John
So, what are you saying?
John
That I’m playing some twisted joke on you while you’re already dealing with a plane full of dead people?
Chrissy
I don’t know what I’m saying.
Chrissy
I just want to open my eyes and have this nightmare be over.
John
Okay, well, let’s work on that.
John
That I can promise you.
John
We’ll figure all of this out…
John
We’ll get the plane on the ground…
John
And everything will be okay then.
John
Well, why don’t we start by praying together.
Chrissy
Praying? Not this again. I told you, I…
John
You don’t believe in God.
Chrissy
My mother died from some terrible virus when I was sixteen.
Chrissy
It spread though my entire hometown in a matter of minutes.
Chrissy
And I just realized that it all started because of my dad.
Chrissy
He found something in my room, freaked out, and within fifteen minutes the entire town was dead.
Chrissy
I basically killed them all.
Chrissy
And I probably have the virus as well.
Chrissy
So don’t tell me to believe in God.
John
You should, and here’s why…
John
Everything you just told me, the same things happened to ME.
Chrissy
What do you mean?
John
I never told you this — but the town in Bulgaria where I grew up…
John
They all died one day, after my mother flipped out about something I did.
John
And the U.S. government sent Father to investigate.
John
That’s when he was at the Centers for Disease Control.
Chrissy
Wait. So Father adopted you after your entire town died?
Chrissy
And a few years later, he adopted ME after MY entire town died?
John
Like I said — it must be God’s plan.
John
There’s no other way to explain it.
John
And don’t worry, you don’t have the virus.
John
Father tested us both and we aren’t carriers.
Chrissy
He could be lying.
John
He’s not the one who told me.
John
I saw the test results when I was cleaning his office one day.
John
And that’s when I also learned the truth about my mother.
Chrissy
How did she die, John?
John
She cut her throat with a pair of scissors.
John
Apparently, she felt responsible for releasing the stress-triggered pathogen on the town.
John
I know. It’s terrible.
Chrissy
Is Father still there?
Chrissy
Because my real father died in the exact same way as your mother.
Chrissy
And the one link between everything — our hometowns, our real parents, our adoptions — is Dr. Henry Greene.
John
What are you saying?
Chrissy
I don’t know. At least not yet.
Chrissy
But this sure as hell doesn’t sound like God’s plan to me.
Chrissy
You’re the smartest guy I’ve ever known, John.
Chrissy
Take God out of this for a minute, and what does that leave?
John
But, I’m not going to just sit here and accept that the man who adopted both of us…
John
The man who’s always given us everything we want and never even raised his voice at us, is a psychopath.
John
It’s going to take some time to figure out how he was involved with our parents.
Chrissy
Right now I’m on a plane full of dead people with no way out of here.
John
Yes, so let’s figure out how to get you on the ground first.
John
Can you make it to the cockpit?
John
Then you can find out if the pilots are alive.
Chrissy
Okay, I’m going to try.
John
Let me know what you’re seeing on the way there.
John
Anything at all that might help.
Chrissy
The lights are very dim.
Chrissy
A few of the in-seat monitors are on.
Chrissy
There’s a news report about the airport bombing.
Chrissy
I guess it really did happen.
Chrissy
But how can that be?
Chrissy
And there’s a picture…
Chrissy
This can’t be real…
Chrissy
There’s a caption below it.
Chrissy
It says “Suspected bomber.”
Chrissy
My picture is on the news, and they somehow think I set off a bomb.
Chrissy
How can this be real??
John
I’m turning on the news to check.
John
They’re still showing the bombing, but I don’t see your picture.
Chrissy
All the monitors just changed.
Chrissy
Now they’re showing…
Chrissy
It’s another video. Of me.
Chrissy
Someone is filming me.
Chrissy
At our home. Through my bedroom window.
Chrissy
It’s three weeks ago I think, because I’m wearing the green robe I bought that day.
Chrissy
I’m getting ready for bed, and some creep is filming me.
Chrissy
The camera keeps turning back to whoever’s behind it.
Chrissy
But I haven’t seen his face yet.
John
Did you see the face?
Chrissy
Yes, I saw who was filming me.
