The Moment After

Eye-In-The-Sky Traffic. This is John Hulet.

I have just witnessed 10, no, maybe 20,

20 or more cars lose control simultaneously.

As far as we can see,

traffic has come to a screeching halt on all major arteries.

Tracy. Tracy.

Come out, dear.

Are you hiding from Mama? Don't hide from Mama.

Come on, Mike, quit kidding around.

Judy... What...

Where did you go?

All right, already. I'm coming.

Charles, it's the middle of the night. Go away. Come back later.

It's 10:00. Get dressed. We're needed down at headquarters.

The only place I'm needed is in bed. Goodbye.

I've been trying to reach you for the last couple of hours,

but the lines have been down.

It wouldn't have mattered, the ringer's off.

Everything's in chaos. We've had power outages all over town,

countless number of car wrecks, even reports of plane crashes.

What's going on?

It seems that a lot of people have just disappeared.

Including George.

Disappeared? I just saw him four hours ago.

We worked the night shift.

His wife called this morning. He's gone.

The children are gone, too.

In fact, we've received thousands of missing-person reports in our district alone.

What happened?

No one knows exactly. That's what we need to find out.

At 7:23 this morning, everything you knew about the world changed.

The estimates of the missing are now in the hundreds of thousands.

Nationally, reports are in the millions.

Worldwide, we have no idea.

The President has declared a national state of emergency.

Martial law has been enacted.

Any estimate on how many of our agents are missing?

We've been unable to reach about a dozen of our own.

Officially, Donald Parker and George Harris are confirmed missing.

Now, this is going to hit a lot of you on a personal level, but I need you here.

It's chaos out there, and it's our job to find out what happened.

We need to restore order,

and each and every one of you has a very difficult job ahead.

Now, each of you will be given what leads we have.

Case reports will be on your desks within the hour.

Now I don't know what's going on out there,

but all I can say is good luck.

- This is it. - One down, 623 to go.

- Yes? - Mr Fulton?

I'm Agent Baker, this is Agent Riley, FBI.

That's her picture there.

Pretty, wasn't she?

We were married almost 14 years.

Sorry for your loss, sir.

We won't take much of your time. We only have a few questions.

- Could I get you guys a drink? - No, thank you.

If you could describe exactly what happened that morning.

We are late again. This is the second time this month.

I hate being late.

Sorry. Couldn't find the keys.

Yeah, I just hate it, though.

- Did you get your lunch? - Lunch?

Look at that. Look at that boat the Williams got.

Honey, do you know when they got that?

I looked away for a moment,

and she was gone.

Do you guys know what happened?

No, sir, we don't.

Hey, buddy!

Got any spare change?

Ball.

- Are you dudes really with the FBI? - Yeah.

Cool. We're not in trouble, are we?

No, we just wanted to ask you a few questions.

We're not skipping school or anything.

They called it off 'cause so many students and teachers being taken.

- We know. - What exactly happened that morning?

Well, we were having our morning practice as usual, before school.

We have some big games coming up.

Well, at least we did.

Okay. Let's go! Let's go! Let's get ready here! That's right.

I want you to dribble harder. I want you to think about this game.

I want you to look alive today. That's right. Take a shot. Take a shot.

Good job! Good job! That's it.

Pass it! That's the way to do it. Find your open man.

Take a shot. That's right! Let's go!

- It's kind of wild. - Yeah, wild.

Wonder why I wasn't taken, too.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Peter McCollum.

Welcome to Views.

On tonight's show, we have several very distinguished guests.

First is a leader in ecological research at City University, Dr Claire Holt.

Next is Dr Edward Wilkins...

...of City Evangelical Church, and Chair Emeritus at Alpha Theological Seminary.

And last but certainly not least, Dr Jason Hersch, President of APET,

the Astrophysics and Extra-Terrestrial Research Foundation.

Tonight, the topic that is still on everyone's mind,

what happened to all of the people?

- I've been counted. - I've been counted, too.

- We've been counted. - We've been counted. Have you?

Brought to you by the National Emergency Census Bureau.

Gaia, as I refer to Mother Earth, is a living organism...

...endowed with great power to support life or extinguish it.

I believe this was Gaia's way of cleansing herself...

...of the negative influence of overpopulation.

Well, that's a very interesting theory, Doctor,

but there have also been many who reported seeing UFOs abduct these people en masse.

In the past two decades alone, over a third of the pre-event population...

...of the United States believed in UFOs or reported being abducted.

However amusing these anecdotal reports are, there is hard scientific evidence...

Both of you are wrong.

It was an event foretold thousands of years ago...

...by the prophets of the Bible. It's called...

Tonight, there has been gunfire in the downtown section of the city,

as Global Enforcement Units have joined with the National Guard...

...in routing out an enclave of gangs.

The gunfire was particularly heavy just moments ago,

as the Global Enforcement Unit stormed the building behind me.

Casualties were heavy, with a dozen gang members confirmed dead.

Sir, Lieutenant, if you could just answer, how many people were confirmed dead?

Why is this happening?

Those are old scriptures, Doctor,

and not dissimilar to other cultures of the same period.

Many ancient cultures have artwork and religions that directly point...

...to extra-terrestrial visitation.

Disturbances by right-wing extremists continue at the local census stations.

Don't be deceived, this is not of God, don't you...

Don't be blind to what the government is trying to do!

In other news, the Global Council of Nations continues...

The only belief that has ever done any good in this world is secular humanism.

The Judeo-Christian tradition has done nothing...

...but thwart scientific pursuit and enslave millions of people's intellect.

Science has validated the Bible time and time again.

God has fulfilled a major prophecy before our eyes.

Well, then why are you still here, Doctor?

Lively discussion tonight. We'll be back in a moment to Views.

You know, I've come to realise I'm one of the lucky ones.

None of my family was taken.

Well, except for my sister-in-law.

Rebecca took it kind of hard.

- How are things with her pregnancy? - It's going well.

Yeah, it's a nice feeling to know that we're bringing some life back into this world.

- It could use some. - Definitely.

We hope to bring a lot more. We both want to have a big family.

Do you?

- That's nice. - Thanks.

Come on in. I was just brewing some tea.

- Could I get you gentlemen some? - No, thank you.

It's been so long since it happened.

I was beginning to think that no one was ever gonna come.

Sorry, our case load has been a bit backed up.

I wasn't really their daughter.

They treated me like one, but they never had children of their own.

They couldn't. I was their live-in nurse.

- Her health wasn't that good. - You're still living here?

They left me the house.

I guess I must assume they're dead.

They are dead, aren't they?

If you could describe, to the best of your recollection,

what exactly happened that morning.

It was...

...really rather beautiful.

Beautiful?

Beautiful.

- How is she today? - She's resting well today.

Beautiful.

They spent their entire lives loving one another.

It only seems appropriate that they be taken together like that.

It just seems odd, people vanishing and no one knows what happened to them.

Yep.

Who's next on the list?

Catherine Harris.

George's wife.

I'm sorry.

He was a good man.

You realise we're not finding any answers, we're just filing reports.

Well, sometimes that's all the job is.

- All right, guys. Come on. - Come on. We're getting in here.

- Let's do it. - Hold it for me. Right, just like that, Charlie...

Good.

Yeah! We're going in now!

All right. Come on in, guys.

All right, we're gonna eat good tonight!

Yeah, and a warm bed!

John, my man.

It's all we got. All we got.

We are open for business.

All right.

- Why don't we go inside? - Really?

See what God has in store for us, huh?

- After you. - Thank you.

All right.

These facilities were set up in a hurry.

With all the disappearances, we've had a lot of people...

...in need of psychological assistance.

Here it is.

Why the security?

Some of these patients are a danger to themselves.

Now don't be long. Mrs Harris has been through a lot.

Thank you.