Vertical Prison Where You Have 2 Minutes to Eat

In a prison known as the "Vertical Self-Management Center", Goreng wakes up in a concrete cell with the number 48 on its wall. There's nothing but a bed and a sink for him to use and a hole in the middle of the floor, which his cellmate Trimagasi calls "The Pit". There are hundreds of floors like theirs, all of them with two prisoners using fake names assigned by the management. Every day, food is lowered on a platform through the hole, and you have two minutes to eat as much as possible before it leaves to a lower floor. The lower you are, the fewer chances you have of eating anything. At the end of each month, prisoners are shuffled and sent to different floors.

When Goreng sees the platform for the first time, he decides not to eat because he isn't hungry, and he'd rather leave food for the lower levels. After eating as much as he can, Trimagasi spits on the table, knowing people above probably do the same. Goreng decides to keep an apple for later, but after the platform leaves, the cell begins to feel extremely hot. It turns out that keeping food is forbidden, so Goreng has to get rid of the apple or they'll burn to death. This makes Goreng think about the interview he had before entering the place, when he had to sign a paper accepting the fact he can't get out until the agreed period is over. Every prisoner has a choice to bring one item with them, and Goreng chose to bring a copy of "Don Quixote".

 Goreng came here voluntarily, he'll spend six months in exchange for an accredited diploma. The next day, Goreng refuses to eat again when the platform comes, and Trimagasi thinks floor 48 is wasted on him. Goreng asks Trimagasi for his story, and Trimagasi explains it all started with a television ad. He bought an extraordinary knife that he saw on tv, but only a few days later, they released a new ad promoting an even better knife. This made him so furious that he took the tv and threw it out the window, killing a guy that was passing by. Trimagasi was given a choice between a psychiatric hospital and the hole, so here he is. The lowest he's gone was 132, thus he knows there are more floors than that because he could see them below.

 No food reaches the lower levels, and a month down there isn't that bad, the problem is when you get two lower levels in a row. Goreng is scared of this possibility and tries to talk to the people on the other floors to ask them to ration their food, but he's ignored. Trimagasi replies by pissing into the lower floor, he also reveals that the item he chose to bring with him is the knife he bought from tv. The next time the platform comes by, Goreng finally begins to eat. He also sees a person from the upper levels fall through the hole, and Trimagasi says this is very common but nobody will do anything about it. Trimagasi tells Goreng about all the floors he's been on and mentions they'll be together next month. Goreng realizes that cellmates are kept together when they're shuffled and finally understands Trimagasi ate his previous cellmate when he was on the lower floors.

 When the platform comes by again, Miharu is sitting on it. Goreng worries about her because he notices she's injured, but Trimagasi tells him to ignore her. Miharu comes down the hole once a month to look for her missing child, she also kills every cellmate she gets in order to have more chances to be paired with her child the following month; the guy they saw falling was probably her victim. Trimagasi then explains that unlike her, he never killed anyone, he just ate the body that fell on his floor. When the platform goes to the next level, the prisoners try to take advantage of Miharu. Goreng yells at them to leave her alone, but it isn't necessary: Miharu just kills them and returns to the platform. When the month reaches its end, the prisoners are put to sleep with gas and shuffled around. When Goreng wakes up, he finds himself tied to his bed on floor 171. Trimagasi explains he tied Goreng up because he's younger and stronger, so Trimagasi has to protect himself. Screaming can be heard from the other floors that indicate people reacting to their new levels, and when the platform comes, there's not even a crumb left. After eight days, Trimagasi announces it's finally time for him to get some food. Ignoring Goreng's pleas for mercy, Trimagasi uses his knife to get some meat from Goreng's thigh, but before he can eat it, the platform arrives, bringing Miharu with it. Miharu remembers how much Goreng worried about her and jumps on Trimagasi, attacking him with his own knife. Then she frees Goreng and hands him the knife so he can use it to finish Trimagasi off.

 Goreng passes out after that, and he wakes up later to find himself on the bed. Miharu has bandaged his leg with a piece of bed sheet, and she's now eating Trimagasi. She brings some meat to Goreng who accepts after some hesitation, she also brings him some water before leaving on the platform without a word. Days pass and Trimagasi's body begins to rot, giving Goreng the chance to feed on worms too. Goreng also begins hallucinating, seeing Trimagasi's ghost judge him as he eats. At the end of the month, gas takes over the cell and Goreng dreams of being with a woman again while Miharu watches. When he wakes up, he discovers that the one licking him is a dog. To Goreng's shock, his new cellmate is Imoguiri, the woman that did his interview when he volunteered to enter this prison. The dog is the item she chose to bring with her, and they're now on level 33.

Goreng remembers the day of the interview and how Imoguiri made creepy pauses between questions. In the present, Imoguiri explains she volunteered as Goreng did, and that she didn't know people died here. As far as she knows, there are two hundred levels, and when Goreng explains there isn't enough food for all the people here, Imoguiri points out that the amount of food would be fine if people only ate what they needed. Something that fosters a spontaneous sense of solidarity needs to happen, but Goreng finds the idea ridiculous. He does wonder if change could be achieved by the death of a child, but Imoguiri's sure that company policy doesn't accept under-16s.

When the platform brings them food, Imoguiri only eats what she needs, and after giving some to her dog, she begins preparing two rations of food. Once the platform reaches the lower level, Imoguiri tries to reason with the prisoners, telling them to eat the rations she prepared and make two more for the next level to pass on the message. Obviously she is completely ignored, and Goreng points out that the Administration doesn't actually want solidarity to happen. Imoguiri hates that Goreng thinks all administration is bad because she worked for them without issues, but Goreng replies that being a former worker gave her the privilege of choosing her cellmate. Imoguiri doesn't give up and keeps on trying to ration the food every day, but she continues to be ignored by the lower levels. Two weeks later, Goreng finally gets tired of all her yelling and tells the people that if they don't follow Imoguiri's instructions, he'll relieve himself on the food every day and they'll have to eat poop. The threat works and the prisoners start passing the messages to the lower levels. Sometime later, the platform comes down with an unconscious Miharu on it.

Goreng and Imoguiri put her on a bed and take care of her while the dog steals some food. Once the platform leaves, the cell begins feeling extremely cold, and Goreng has to chase the dog to take back the food he stole before they're killed for breaking the rules. In the evening, Goreng leaves the bed to Miharu and sleeps on the floor, only to wake up to find the girls fighting - it turns out Miharu killed the dog to eat him. The next day, Miharu leaves on the platform. Goreng tells Imoguiri about Miharu's search for her child, but Imoguiri explains Miharu came alone ten months ago. She was an actress with no family that volunteered to come just like Goreng. Imoguiri sent people down here without knowing how bad it was, and she's been fighting cancer for three years. When she discovered she lost that fight, she volunteered to come because she thought she could make a difference, but she doesn't care anymore. On their last day on floor 33, Goreng tries to make Imoguiri eat something because they may not have food tomorrow, but Imoguiri is too depressed to leave the bed.

The next morning, Goreng wakes up to discover he's on floor 202, meaning there are more levels than Imoguiri knew about. Such revelation was too much for Imoguiri to handle and used her bed sheets to end things for herself. At that moment, Trimagasi's hallucination appears again, wondering if Goreng will eat his new friend. This time he's joined by Imoguiri and her dog, who insist he should eat her body. Goreng tries his best to ignore their constant rambling, and he tries to keep himself busy with other things: he tricks his stomach by eating pages of his book, and he takes a plate shard to start counting the days on the wall. Eventually the hunger becomes too much though, and Goreng finally begins feeding on Imoguiri while Trimagasi guides him on where to cut. Sometime later, the next shuffle comes and Goreng is pleased to discover he's on floor six.

The person on the other bed is Miharu, who comes after him with a knife, but this turns out to be just a dream. Goreng's new cellmate is actually Baharat, whose chosen item was a rope. Baharat is very excited because he thinks he can climb all the way to the top from here, and he asks the people on level five for help. The couple above teases him before accepting to grab the rope, but when Baharat starts climbing, the other prisoner lowers her pants and defecates on Baharat's face. Shocked and disgusted, Baharat lets go of the rope and falls, Goreng catches him just in time but the rope is lost in the hole. When the platform comes, they have to eat while listening to the prisoners on level five get frisky. As time passes, the hallucinations of Trimagasi and Imoguiri show up again.

 Trimagasi says Goreng is doing great because he only has one more month to go, and Imoguiri reminds him that change never happens spontaneously. This inspires Goreng to think of a plan, and he asks Baharat for help. They should jump on the platform with whatever weapon they can find, and make sure people ration the food so that everyone can eat. Goreng did the math when he was on floor 202, and judging by the time the platform takes to move, he thinks there are around 250 levels, which should be doable. Baharat accepts to work together and they break a bed to use its pieces of metal like weapons. The two of them jump on the platform and go to level 7, where Goreng points out they shouldn't allow the prisoners to grab anything.

These people ate yesterday and will eat tomorrow for sure, so they should only start handing out food after level fifty, which are the people having trouble. Baharat hesitates because these prisoners are his friends that helped him climb up some weeks before, but as soon as the old man reacts furiously, Baharat sees Goreng's point and begins helping him keep everyone away. The pair keeps going down while threatening people to keep the food untouched. After a few more floors, Baharat is shocked to come across Brambang, an old wise man that Baharat respects. Brambang approves of what the boys are trying to do, but he points out that the Administration doesn't have a conscience and won't care if they succeed, but perhaps the workers on level cero will, so they need a symbol. Baharat and Goreng choose the panna cotta because it's a very luxurious dish and will cause quite an impression if it arrives untouched to the bottom. The mission continues as they keep going down, keeping the panna cotta safe while keeping people away with threats. Once they reach level fifty, Baharat and Goreng begin handing out rations of food, and people are extremely grateful. On level 97, they find a sick old man and a mentally disabled boy. Goreng tries to feed the old man some soup, but the boy tells them not to bother because he'll kill the man later anyway to feed on him.

 The next level only has a body on it, and Goreng guesses this is where Miharu woke up. The platform doesn't stop here because there aren't any living people, which means Goreng's calculations were wrong and there are more than 250 floors. On the following floor, they find two men attacking Miharu. One of them has a sword and the other is huge and burly, so when Goreng and Baharat jump in to help the girl, it is extremely hard to defend themselves. Baharat manages to get his guy first and then he helps Goreng kill the big man, but unfortunately it's too late for Miharu, who is already dead. Goreng wants to mourn her, but Baharat drags him back on the platform before it leaves them behind. The two of them keep going down and handing out food to the prisoners they see, although many floors only have dead bodies on them. Eventually the platform stops at level 333, which seems to be the last one.

 At first they think it's empty, but there's actually someone hiding under the bed: it's Mali, the missing child. Baharat and Goreng approach the kid, and as soon as they leave the platform, it starts going down again. Goreng asks Baharat to throw the panna cotta into the hole, but Baharat refuses. To their surprise, the room doesn't get hot or cold to punish them, and after lots of hesitation, Bharata gives the panna cotta to Mali. The three of them stay on that floor, and Goreng keeps being haunted by Trimagasi, Imoguiri, and now Miharu as well. Suddenly Baharat agrees with the ghosts, telling Goreng that the girl is the message, and when Goreng wakes up, he discovers Baharat died because of his bleeding injuries.

The next time the platform comes, Goreng brings Mali with him and they're lowered into floor cero, which is completely dark and empty. Trimagasi appears to tell Goreng to come off the platform because he isn't part of the message, and together they watch the platform go up with Mali, hoping that she will show the abusers above the reality of the situation.

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Russian Spy Makes a Rocket Launcher

 

In a prison in North Korea, CIA agent Evelyn Salt  is being hurt to try to make her confess her spy   activity and they won't believe them when she  says she's just here for business. Sometime later,   her fellow agent Ted comes to rescue her by  accepting to do a prisoner exchange. Salt is   confused by this because the rules say one life  isn't worth saving if it will ruin the cover of   hundreds, and Ted agrees it's true, but the CIA  was forced into doing this by Salt's friend Mike.   When he found out what happened to her, Mike  petitioned the Senate and the State Department,   so the CIA gave in to avoid bad publicity.  Two years later, Salt and Mike are married   and living together with a dog and Mike's spiders,  since he's an arachnologist.

 Salt is sticking to   paperwork at the CIA for now, but one afternoon,  agent Peabody asks her for help interrogating a   Russian defector that just walked in because she  can speak the language. The guy's name's Orlov,   and he immediately notices Salt's wedding ring,  commenting a husband must be a distraction for an   agent. He explains he has cancer and that he used  to work for the FSB, both things get confirmed on   the system and so he's allowed to share his story. 

 In 1975, a Russian patriot came up with a plan to   destroy America: he started stealing babies and  training them from a young age to become the best   spies in the world, drilled with idiosyncrasy  and ideology. When they became old enough,   these warriors were sent to the USA as sleeper  agents to patiently await the day to attack   from within. That day will come soon: during  the funeral of the American vice-president,   agent KA12 is supposed to kill the Russian  president. The "KA program" is a Cold War legend,   and the CIA agents think this Orlov is selling  smoke, so they cut the interrogation short. When   Salt's about to leave, Orlov says that the name of  KA12 is Evelyn Salt.

This makes Salt believe she's   being set up and asks Ted permission to call Mike  because of Orlov's comment about her wedding ring,   but Mike won't pick up. Peabody still needs to  cover all possible options and locks Salt in   an office while he argues over what to do next.  Meanwhile a couple of agents try to move Orlov   to a different room by taking the elevator, but  Orlov takes them by surprise with a knife hidden   in his shoe and kills them both. Orlov escapes  the building and the CIA is so distracted with   starting a tracking plan that it's easy for  Salt to leave the office saying she has to   pee.

She manages to take the emergency stairs,  but the agents finally notice and begin locking   all the doors. Salt grabs a fire extinguisher to  blur out all the security cameras, and Ted calls   her directly to her phone to point out this  makes her look guilty, but Salt doesn't care:   her priority is finding her husband. She makes it  to the closet with the cleaning supplies and mixes   them inside a table leg, thus when the tactical  team comes after her, she makes this makeshift   bomb explode on their faces. Then she takes a  gun from one of the agents and uses it to smash   a window through which she finally escapes. After  running for a couple of blocks, Salt takes a taxi   and tries calling Mike again, but he still doesn't  pick up. Then Salt destroys her SIM card in case   she's being tracked and thinks back to when Ted  told her years ago to befriend Mike.

Since he was   an important scientist with unrestricted access  to the borders of North Korea, he could be the   perfect cover to get her inside. When Salt returns  to her apartment, Mike is nowhere to be seen,   and there's evidence of him having been kidnapped.  Salt immediately packs a bag, including a gun and   a spider, and leaves through the window with her  dog at the same time the CIA arrives at her place.   Peabody becomes frustrated when they find the  apartment empty, and Ted points out that maybe   Salt is telling the truth and she's being set up.  Meanwhile Salt is climbing around the building and   visits her young neighbor to ask her to take care  of her dog while she's gone. Salt takes the chance   to change into new clothes too and begins thinking  of Mike again.

 In the old days, Salt would show up   at the museum a lot just to befriend him for the  mission, but she became legitimately interested   in him. Afterward, Salt leaves the building with  a hat on her head, but Ted recognizes her anyway   and they begin to chase her through the city.  Eventually they manage to surround her on the   highway, and Salt tries to explain she's innocent  - someone is setting her up to distract the CIA   from the real person that will be killing  the Russian president. Nobody believes her,   so Salt decides to jump off the highway, landing  on a truck that helps her get away. The CIA and   the police immediately begin chasing her in their  cars, prompting Salt to begin jumping from truck   to truck. When they get close enough, Peabody  tries to shoot her and ends up wounding Salt   on her hip, causing her to fall and continue on  foot.

 At that moment, a biker appears on the road,   and Salt gets the chance to push him away and  steal his bike. This allows her to drive among the   cars, leaving the CIA behind because they don't  have room to follow. As Salt gets away, Peabody   gets a message from his research team explaining  that Salt lost her parents as a kid and was sent   to Russia, which matches Orlov's story. Moments  later, Salt goes to a biker bar to cover her wound   with a pad and change into new clothes as she  keeps thinking about Mike and the happiness they   had together. Next she takes a bus to New York,  and she remembers the day she was freed from the   Korean prison.

She confessed to Mike that she was  actually CIA and their thing couldn't be, but Mike   didn't care and asked her to be his anyway. When  Salt arrives in New York, she stays at a luxury   hotel under a fake name and steals a coat from a  hanger. In her room, she takes off her contacts   and her fake teeth, revealing the truth: she is  indeed a Russian sleeper agent, and Orlov showing   up had been part of the plan to let her know her  next objective. Salt has brought a huge amount   of weapons with her, and she takes the venom from  the spider to poison her bullets. She also uses a   computer to download the maps of the subway system  tunnels to start planning the assassination of the   Russian president. While she dyes her hair black,  she remembers the day she was accepted into the   CIA and how easily she convinced everyone that  she wanted to protect the USA.

 The next day,   the streets are crowded with all the people that  came to say goodbye to the vice-president, and   the CIA is there on the lookout for Salt so she  takes the subway. The station that should stop at   the church is closed because of the funeral, but  Salt's prepared: she releases a smoke bomb in the   wagon and while everyone is distracted, she jumps  out of the subway, using the map she downloaded   to find her way through the tunnels. This allows  her to enter the church undetected, and she begins   fighting every guard she comes across to make her  way to the room that is exactly under the church   podium, where the Russian president is currently  giving a speech. Ted and Peabody receive a message   that they're losing guards and go to investigate,  but Salt is many steps ahead of them already:   she puts a bomb on the roof of the room, and  when it explodes, the floor crumbles under   the Russian president, making him fall into the  room underneath. Salt wastes no time and shoots   him with the poisoned bullet, the noise she makes  allows Peabody to find her. To Peabody's surprise,   Salt actually drops her gun and lets the cops  arrest her. As she's taken out of the building,   Ted yells at her, hurt by her betrayal. The  Russian president is declared dead on his way   to the hospital, and while Salt is taken away in  the police car, she remembers her childhood in the   training facility. When she was still a kid, she  was given full plastic surgery to change her face   plus the new name Evelyn Salt with an American  backstory. The kid in the bed next to her wondered   if Salt would ever miss them, but Salt didn't  reply. When the police car reaches the bridge,   Salt begins beating up the officers and causes the  vehicle to crash against other cops.

After hitting   as many police cars as possible, Salt guides her  car off the bridge and manages to land safely   thanks to the airbags. A curious crowd begins  forming around the crash and Salt uses the chance   to escape without being noticed, stealing a hat  from a shop nearby on her way out. Sometime later,   Salt takes a boat and can't help thinking  about the day she was brought back to America   to be taken by a new family with whom she would  patiently until she got new orders. When Salt   makes it to the harbor, she sees on tv that there  are anti-American protests across Russia because   of what they see as an act of terrorism  against their president. In a bar nearby,   Salt reunites with Orlov, who calls her his  "perfect creation" because he's always been the   guy behind the KA project and the one who trained  her.

He also scolds her again for getting married,   but Salt explains it was part of looking normal.  To make sure Salt is still loyal to the Russian   cause, Orlov takes her to his hideout and reveals  Mika is being held hostage in the water. Instead   of shooting him, which would be easy to endure,  they begin to slowly drown him to see if Salt will   react. Salt keeps a poker face, but it's clear  in her eyes how much it hurts her to be unable   to do anything. Now they know they can trust Salt,  everyone welcomes her warmly, and Salt recognizes   these men as other kids that were trained with  her. Afterward Orlov takes to her in private,   explaining the next step is to seize control  of this country's atomic weapons.

 Salt will   meet an agent in NATO uniform at a plane here,  and he'll give her the final instructions. This   means Salt has all the information she  needed and in a sudden turn of events,   she grabs a bottle and uses it to quickly kill  Orlov for ruining her life. Then she grabs a bunch   of grenades and guns in order to kill everyone  in the base without hesitation. Unfortunately   her revenge doesn't taste sweet because when she  checks on Mike he's obviously dead. Salt grieves   as she remembers how happy she had been on the  day of her wedding. Moments later, Salt goes to   take the assigned plane and is delighted to see  Shnaider, the boy that said he would miss her.  

He's become a powerful colonel and he'll be taking  Salt as his attaché to the White House, where   they have to kill the American president. Shnaider  also points out there must be other sleeper agents   inside already. A few hours later, they arrive in  Washington and Salt puts on a man custom to match   the fake ID that Shnaider got him. They go through  White House security with no issues, and they   notice the CIA is attending the meeting with the  president as well. As part of the plan, Shnaider   suddenly begins pretending he's going crazy and  pushes Salt away before shooting at everyone in   his path. The guards take the president away right  before Shnaider activates an explosive, and Ted   tells his coworkers he thinks Salt may be around.  Salt is using the distraction created by Shnaider   to steal a card key and get rid of her costume.  She sees the agents taking the president to a   bunker by using the elevator, so after they're  gone, she knocks out the guard to then force open   the doors and climb down the elevator shaft. The  president and the agents make it to the bunker,   thus Salt rushes to sneak inside the corridor  right before the doors close, knocking out any   guard she finds in the way. While Salt destroys  the panel that controls the doors and the cameras,   the team informs the president that intel has  confirmed Russia is getting its missiles ready.  

 The president asks to start looking at their  nuclear options while some agents go out to   check what happened to the doors, but Salt easily  beats them up. The president gets in contact   with some army leaders to get the authorization  code for their nuclear weapons. The White House   security team discovers Salt is approaching them  and Ted asks for a weapon, but the guard refuses   because of protocol related to the president's  presence. Ted suddenly shows his true colors and   takes the weapons from the guard by force to then  kill everyone in the room. Ted reveals he's also   a Russian sleeper agent and asks the president to  collaborate, when the president refuses, Ted kills   him too.

When Salt finally makes it inside, she  finds the final door locked and must talk to Ted   through the intercoms. Ted explains he never told  her the truth because making friends is dangerous,   and she didn't recognize him because he was in  a class ahead of hers. A new security team is   already outside trying to bring down the door  while Salt pays attention to what Ted is doing,   learning that he'll launch nuclear missiles into  the Middle East to incite those countries to   attack the USA. Salt tells Ted she wants to help  him and be with him, but when Ted is about to open   the door, he sees something shocking on the news:  the Russian president is just fine and his death   had been attributed to temporary paralysis, which  had been Salt's plan with the spider poison all   along.

Ted realizes Salt stopped being loyal to  Russia when she fell in love with Mike and to get   her back, he starts explaining he was the one  that had to convince Orlov to use Salt as the   agent for the assassination. Orlov hadn't wanted  to at first because he knew she wouldn't come out   of it alive and he was fond of her. Ted is also  the one that asked Orlov to take Mike hostage,   hearing this makes Salt so furious that she starts  shooting at the glass to get him, but the window's   bulletproof. While Ted uses the president's hand  to authorize the missiles, Salt changes tactics   and shoots at the wall to reveal the system that  keeps the locks up.

 By destroying it she finally   gains access to the office and begins fighting  Ted hand-to-hand. At first Ted seems to easily   overpower her, but soon Salt manages to push him  away and rushes to the desk to stop the launch.   At that moment, the security team makes its way  inside and knocks Salt to the floor with a shot,   which she survives because she's wearing a vest.  Salt gets arrested, but since the security cameras   were off, Ted is still seen as CIA and innocent.  Peabody arrives to inspect the scene and hears   about what happened with Orlov and his gang, which  makes him confused about Salt's intentions. As the   guards begin escorting Salt out, she notices  Ted taking a pair of scissors from the doctor   tending his wounds, so she doesn't hesitate  to act first.

The chains of her handcuffs are   thrown against Ted's neck and Salt jumps over the  railing, quickly killing him. Moments later, Salt   is put in a helicopter with Peabody, who demands  some answers. Salt tells him about Ted, and when   Peabody doesn't believe her, she points out she  could've killed him and the president back in the   church but she didn't. She knows there are more  sleeper agents and she swears she wants to kill   them all for revenge.

Seeing her determination and  getting a message that confirms Salt killed Orlov,   Peabody realizes she's the only defense they have  against moles, but nobody will believe her story.   They'll have to do this the illegal way, so  Peabody releases her handcuffs when nobody is   watching, and when the helicopter flies above  the river, Salt jumps out as Peabody pretends   she took him by surprise. Peabody also asks the  helicopter to look around, but Salt is already   swimming out of the river and running through  the forest. Sometime later, the media reports   that the new president of the USA has traveled to  Russia for a peacekeeping visit.

During the speech   he gave there, he announced all sleeper agents  including Salt are dead. It is also revealed he   was orphaned as a kid during an accident here in  Russia, implying he's a sleeper agent as well.

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Accidental Death In a Survivalist Camp

 

It's late at night in a Canadian city, and  Antoine suddenly wakes up to alert his family   of an emergency. He rushes to wake his daughter  up too and makes sure she remembers to follow   all the steps he's taught her, but they realize  she's forgotten her turtle and she has to go back   to grab it. The mother is already waiting  in the garage with their emergency bags,   and when everyone is ready, they leave in the car,  being careful to make as little noise as possible.   The family drives through the city and when they  finally make it to the bridge that would take them   out of the island, Antoine checks his chronometer  to confirm they made a good time.

It turns out   there has never been an emergency, this was just  a drill, although Antoine reminds his daughter   that she always must remember to bring the turtle  because during a real emergency they wouldn't be   able to go back for it. Antoine is obsessed with  being capable of survival when society finally   collapses and makes the family do activities like  this all the time, from drills to sealing bags of   food together. Their inspiration comes from  Alain, a charismatic youtuber that has lots   of video tutorials on how to be self-sufficient in  case the government collapses or there's a natural   disaster.

One day, Antoine is accepted into  Alain's new multi-day training survival program   in his very own isolated camp, and he has to drive  all the way to rural Nord-du-Québec. He meets with   Alain in a special spot near the woods, because  he must leave his car behind and hand over his   cell phone before he's taken to the property. They  leave on Alain's snowmobile, but first Alain makes   Antoine wear blindfolding goggles so he won't know  where his home is. After crossing through a bridge   and a large open area, they finally arrive at  Alain's place, which consists of about 500 acres   of land. Campers Anna and David welcome Antoine,  and when he enters the communal tent to leave his   things, he also gets to meet Francois and Rachel.  Alain reminds them of the rules, which are hung on   the wall, and that curfew is at 10:30 pm.

Moments  later, Alain brings Sebastien, the last camper,   so they can finally get the training started.  Alain explains this is a "survivalist temporary   autonomous zone", which has always been his dream  project and he's worked on it for a decade. There   are six panels that provide electricity, an  extra generator, a chicken coop, a greenhouse,   productive apple and maple trees, and lots of wild  animals in the forest to hunt. Through the woods,   Alain keeps a series of evacuation tracks in case  he's ever attacked. There's only one that will   actually take you out of there, all the others are  dead ends that work as traps. At the very end of   the correct track, there's a container with the  bare necessities, so if he's ever under attack he   can defend himself and reclaim his land. However  Alain never shows them the right path and asks the   campers not to enter the woods without him because  they're dangerous.

When night falls and everyone   goes to bed, the group discusses their experience  with survival and their reasons to be here,   like their distrust of the government and the  slow destruction of the planet. Most of them   admit this is their first time doing any kind  of training. The group gets along pretty well,   but sadly their conversation is cut short when  Alain reminds them of the curfew by turning off   all the lights. The next day, the training starts  early. Alain makes the campers run with heavy bags   and weapons, teaches them about growing their own  vegetables, and shows them how to chop and store   wood. Later over dinner, they discuss recipes and  the campers decide to dedicate a toast to Alain,   who thanks them for being there with him because  he's happy to see his message spread. Not everyone   is this smart to understand the incoming danger,  meaning they have to take care of each other.   Alain used to have a girlfriend that left him  when he decided to move so far away from the city,   so having company again means a lot to him. After  dinner, the campers hang out around the bonfire.   Rachel shows off her self-defense moves by  easily defeating Sebastien and then David,   who doesn't like how everyone teases him for his  loss. It turns out Rachel used to be in the army   and she has a soldier boyfriend as well, but he's  deployed. Francois thinks war is interesting,   but Rachel refuses to answer any of his questions,  she only clarifies she isn't in the army anymore. 

  The following day, Alain splits the group into  teams to make them practice target shooting while   simulating an escape through the forest. Antoine  and Rachel do extremely well and Alain compliments   their teamwork. The training gets interrupted  when Alain gets a message on his phone, and he   takes the chance to show the group his traps. He  uses special snares with satellite transmitters   attached that send a message when they catch  something, that way Alain can immediately come   to retrieve the animal before anyone can steal  it from him. They take the rabbits back and   Alain teaches them how to clean them, making sure  to point out even the organs are edible.

 Alain   works with one rabbit and makes Francois clean the  other, but the smell and the blood cause Francoise   to get sick, giving everyone a good laugh. In  the evening, the group has another bonfire and   discusses what they would do if they caught  a person in a trap. Anna says violence isn't   her thing and Antoine shares he would scare the  intruder away, but David is much more violent:   he would kill the person and display the body as  a warning to other potential attackers. Sebastien   says he'd kill the person but he seems to be  joking, and Alain takes the chance to point out   that the person in the trap could be a doctor or  an extra farm hand, so the choice is harder than   they think. The next morning, Antoine is the first  camper to wake up, and he finds Alain playing the   piano. Antoine thinks it's beautiful and that it  brings a sense of peace that he wishes he could   bring to his family.

Alain tells him he could  move here with his family since there's plenty   of space, but Antoine is unsure of going that  far. After breakfast, Rachel is doing the dishes,   and she gets distracted by the boys' making jokes.  Alain suddenly stomps into the kitchen and yells   at Rachel for leaving the water running, since  it's a waste of resources. Everyone is shocked   to see this side of Alain, and after he leaves,  they comfort Rachel. Later, Alain teaches the   group how to make bombs and mines, since he thinks  they should be able to defend themselves from mobs   as well. After testing all the bombs successfully,  Alain takes Sebastien to start working on dinner   and the rest of the group must put away the gear.  Francois is the first one to grab a crate with   bombs, but as soon as he takes a few steps, the  box explodes and kills him. Rachel tries to do   CPR to no avail, and Anna goes looking for Alain. 

 Antoine panics at the sight of death, but David   stares as if he was fascinated. Eventually they  take the body inside and they start discussing   what to do: most of them want to call an ambulance  or the police and say it was a hunting accident,   but Alain and David disagree. They're sure the  cops will see the equipment and accuse them of   domestic terrorism. The argument escalates and  soon everyone is yelling at each other, so Alain   decides to cut it short and remind everyone this  is exactly the kind of emergency they're supposed   to be training for. Emotions are running high, so  they should go to sleep and discuss things in the   morning when everyone has calmed down. When they  return to their tent, Antoine, Rachel, Sebastien,   and Anna discuss their options, including trying  to find a way to get their phones back, while   David listens to them from his bed. Suddenly Anna  hears a noise and everyone goes outside to check,   although David makes sure to grab his gun first.  It turns out Alain sent everyone to bed so he   could take care of the body on his own, and now  he's burning it in the bonfire. Anna is aghast and   tries to push Alain as she insults him, causing  Alain to punch her to get her off him. This is the   last straw, thus Antoine, Rachel, Sebastien, and  Anna return to the tent to pack their things in   order to leave. David stays loyal to Alain and has  his back while Alain tries to convince everyone   to stay. The group doesn't care about his excuses  and tries to leave anyway, prompting David to take   out his gun and tell Alain the others were making  plans against him earlier.

 Rachel points out that   direct shooting won't be an accident anymore and  David puts down his gun, allowing them to leave.   The group gets out of the tent and David follows  them just to yell at them for ruining everything.   Alain shows up as well and shocks everyone by  shooting Anna in the leg, scaring Antoine, Rachel,   and Sebastien into running away. David wants to  follow them, but Alain asks him to help him move   Anna into the house. Anna can't stop yelling in  pain, but Alain ignores her and ties her to the   table before tourniqueting her wound. Meanwhile in  the forest, the trio keeps on running in the dark   and they don't see Alain's snares, so Sebastien  accidentally falls into one and dies. This sends   a message to Alain, revealing their location, now  he and David can go looking for them. Rachel also   realizes this and drags Antoine off the trail,  which slows down their escape.

 When Alain and   David arrive and find Sebastien's body, they also  notice the footprints Rachel and Alain are leaving   on the snow. Moments later, Rachel and Alain find  another trail that takes them to Alain's emergency   storage. Combining their strength allows them to  break the lock and get inside, where they find   plenty of weapons, supplies, and even a GPS that  can guide them out of there. At that moment, they   hear the snowmobile arrive, so they hurry to hide  among the trees. While Alain and David look for   them, Rachel considers shooting them, but Alain  doesn't let her because it'd cross a line. Alain   discovers they took weapons from the storage, and  David points out they'll need to defend themselves   as well, making Alain unsure because he doesn't  want any more death on his property. However   when David mentions that if Antoine and Rachel  escape Alain'll have to say goodbye to his dream,   Alain starts to see his point. Once the men leave  to search somewhere else, Antoine and Rachel keep   on moving, and by the time the sun raises they  come across a frozen river.

 It's a huge open   area that'll leave them exposed, so they'll have  to be quick. Antoine goes first and Rachel follows   with a weapon out to cover him, but unfortunately  she steps on a thin spot of ice that breaks under   her. Rachel falls into the freezing water, which  takes away her weapon and pushes her away from   the hole. Desperate, Antoine begins pushing away  the snow to follow her shadow and uses a knife to   hit the ice until he manages to open a new hole  through which he rescues Rachel. She may've only   spent a few minutes underwater, but she's still  about to freeze, so Antoine immediately puts   her inside a sleeping bag and rubs her muscles to  help her get warm. This doesn't seem to be enough,   and Antoine ends up getting in the sleeping bag  too in order to share body warmth. When Rachel   begins feeling better, she thanks Antoine  and admits she's impressed by his lack of   hesitation when he had to save her. During the  war, she hesitated once and lots of people died,   that's why she quit. After having a snack, the duo  keeps on moving, and using the GPS they manage to   find the area where they left their cars. They get  in Antoine's car, but when he tries to start it,   they can't move: all the tires have been slashed.  Antoine opens the door to check on the problem and   immediately gets shot, it turns out David has  been hiding here all along waiting for them.   He continues to shoot at the car, trying to get  Rachel, but she hides and uses a broken mirror to   find David's location. Then Rachel sneaks out of  the car and fires back at David, who eventually   moves a little too much and gives Rachel an  opening to shoot him in the leg.

 A furious Rachel   jumps on him and begins hitting him with her gun  until David's dead. Afterward, Rachel sheds some   tears for Antoine before grabbing his bag with  supplies plus David's weapon. By the time Alain   makes it to the parking area, Rachel is already  gone. Moments later, Rachel makes it back to   Alain's house and is devastated to discover Anna's  died from her wounds. Desperate for revenge,   Rachel starts a fire in the greenhouse to let  the smoke tell Alain where she is. When the guy   arrives, Rachel opens fire from her spot in the  window, and Alain immediately begins shooting   back. After exchanging a few shots, Alain decides  to throw a smoke grenade to create a thick fog   that allows him to enter the house without Rachel  landing a hit on him. Inside, Alain makes his way   upstairs as he calls for Rachel, asking her for  a truce.

 When he approaches the room she is in,   Rachel hits him with the door, then a fierce  hand-to-hand fight ensues. Alain pushes Rachel   downstairs and takes out a knife, but using  precise strikes, Rachel manages to disarm   him. Then Alain responds by throwing her into  the kitchen and grabbing the toaster to hit her   with it before using the power cord to try to  kill her. As she struggles, Rachel manages to   grab a knife from the counter and stabs Alain in  the leg before grabbing him with a self-defense   special move to break his arm. Now that Alain is  incapacitated, Rachel drags him outside to tie   him to the snowmobile with the intention to take  him to the police. Alain tries to convince her   to leave him here because nobody will believe  her and she'll get arrested too, but Rachel   ignores him and begins driving away, determined  to solve this without any more blood in her hands.

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Kid Can Instantly Teleport in Any Bank

 

In a small American rural town, David lives with  his abusive father William but without his mother,   who left them when he was five. At school,  David likes to hang out with his crush Millie,   a girl who dreams of traveling around the  world. David knows about this dream and one day,   he gifts Millie a snow globe with the Eiffel Tower  in it. Millie loves it, but the sweet moment is   interrupted by Mark, who teases David for being  a dork and throws the snow globe in the middle   of a frozen lake. David is determined to retrieve  it, but when he walks on the ice, it's not thick   enough to withstand his weight and it breaks. The  frozen water takes the boy and it makes him panic   to the point where he suddenly disappears from  the lake, only to appear again inside a library.  

 Confused and scared, David decides to ignore what  just happened and go home. William immediately   begins yelling at David for being late, so David  hides in his room, locking the door. Furious,   William begins pushing the door and when he's  about to burst in, David disappears and shows   up at the library again. Finally accepting he  has superpowers, David returns home, grabs his   savings, and escapes in order to start a new life.  First though he stops by Millie's house to leave   the snow globe so she knows he's alive and well.  Next, David moves to the city, rents a dingy room   at a motel, and begins testing his powers. The  first few times he ends up crashing against a   tree, but eventually he gets the hang out of it  by looking at pictures of the places he wants to   go to.

His first visit is to the Empire State  Building, where David has fond memories of his   mother Mary. When he feels ready, David visits a  bank to get an idea of what it looks like inside,   and in the evening he teleports inside the vault  to steal all the money. While David celebrates in   his little room, the bank discovers the robbery  and Roland shows up pretending to be NSA. He has   experience with cases like this and knows of  the existence of Jumpers, in fact he's sure   one of them did this. Eight years later, David is  living the best life. He has a luxurious penthouse   apartment in New York filled with expensive  objects and such good control of his powers   that he uses them just to reach the kitchen.  His walls are full of pictures of landmarks   that allow him to easily teleport anywhere in  the world to spend the day, like having a picnic   on top of the Sphinx. One evening, he shows up  in London and enters a pub, here he teleports   to the bar to pick up a girl.

This carelessness  is noticed by Griffin, but David can't tell and   just leaves with the girl. Meanwhile a Jumper  teleports in the middle of a tropical jungle,   only to get caught in a net of wires that keep  tasing him and stop him from teleporting again.   This trap was set up by Roland and his men - they  call themselves the Paladins and hunt down Jumpers   because they think they're an abomination. Roland  kills the boy with no hesitation, then he gets a   call about their next lead. Moments later, David  returns to his apartment and finds Roland there,   who has brought all the notes David has left in  bank vaults through the years. David tries to kick   him out, but Roland responds by hitting him with a  special baton that shocks him with 1,000 volts of   electricity that don't let David teleport further  than a few feet inside the apartment. A fight   ensues and after lots of struggling, David manages  to teleport inside a hidden room in his wall,   cutting the baton cable. Roland follows the cable  and begins breaking down the wall, but David just   grabs a bunch of money and teleports away.

 Not  giving up, Roland looks at the pictures and sends   his men to all of David's usual jump sites. He  also looks at David's stuff and finds an old   picture of Millie. Seconds later, David appears  in his old room. William hears a noise from   downstairs and rushes to try to meet with his son,  saying he feels like he's crazy and that David is   welcome anytime. David only assures William that  he isn't crazy before disappearing again. The   next morning, David considers visiting William for  good, but he can't bring himself to talk to him.   Instead he goes to Millie's house, and Millie's  mother is so shocked to learn David is alive that   she hugs him. She informs David that Millie is  working at the local bar and David heads there,   only to feel like a coward again as soon as he  sees older Millie. David tries to leave without   being noticed and bumps into older Mark, who  immediately recognizes him and begins asking   questions. His outburst is overheard by Millie,  who reveals she saw David when he arrived and was   waiting for him to say something.

This makes Mark  jealous and he tries to make a move on Millie,   causing David to punch him for it. This triggers  a fight that ends up outside, giving David the   chance to push Mark through a fence and teleport  him away while nobody is watching. They appear   inside the bank vault David robbed, and David  threatens Mark with worse before he jumps away,   leaving Mark in the vault as punishment. Afterward  David returns to the bar and finally has a chat   with Millie, who dropped her dreams of traveling  because she had to face the reality of having a   job. David tells her he works in banking  and invites her to come to Rome with him,   which Millie obviously accepts. All this  is overheard by Griffin, who somehow is   in the bar too. Meanwhile Roland arrives at the  police station pretending to be CIA and punches   the detective when he isn't believed.

Then he  interrogates Mark, promising he does believe   the crazy story about teleportation. Relieved to  have found an ally, Mark tells Roland everything   about David and Millie. Roland immediately calls  his men to send them to Italy. A few hours later,   David and Millie arrive in Rome and check in at  a very luxurious hotel. Millie starts getting   suspicious of David's real job, but he swears he  isn't lying. The two of them end up getting frisky   for a while before they finally leave the hotel  and enjoy the beauty of Rome while Griffin watches   them from afar. Eventually David and Millie try  to enter the Colosseum, but it's already closed   for the day. While Millie is distracted, David  teleports inside to get a side door open and   pretends he found it like that. The couple wanders  around and enjoys the history behind these views,   with David pulling the same trick whenever they  find a locked door. When he tries to gain access   to the lower area, he bumps into Griffin relieving  himself on a pillar.

 David tries to ignore him,   but Griffin suddenly teleports in front of him  and reveals there are Jumpers all over the world.   Griffin scolds David for bringing a not-Jumper  into this and carelessly jumping around because he   gained the attention of the wrong people. At that  moment, the Paladins enter the Colosseum and start   chasing the boys. David is immediately shocked  with a baton and he can't move, but Griffin has   more experience with these guys' tricks. He  teleports away in seconds and quickly knocks   them out one by one. Then he tells David about  the Paladin organization before disappearing.   Suddenly an employee from the Colosseum shows up  screaming for help, so David jumps into the jump   scar left by Griffin's teleportation, allowing him  to find his secret hideout in the desert. Furious,   Griffin reminds him he left Millie alone and David  immediately jumps back to drag Millie out of the   building.

Unfortunately the police are waiting  outside and arrest them both. Eight hours later,   the cops are still trying to interrogate  David, although they can't make a formal   arrest until the magistrate from the U.S. embassy  arrives. This magistrate turns out to be Mary,   who frees David from his handcuffs and tells him  to run before more Paladins come. David tries to   go after her to demand an explanation, but a  cop gets in his way, so David teleports him   to Egypt as punishment. Then David returns to  the station and tells Millie the cops let them   go just like that. Millie doesn't believe it can  be this easy, but David asks her to trust him and   takes her to the airport. Not understanding why  they're running if things are supposedly fine,   Millie demands an explanation.

David shows her  all the money in his bag but doesn't give her any   answers, he only tells her they can't be together  anymore. Feeling betrayed, Millie flies back to   her hometown alone. Meanwhile Roland's team calls  him to inform him they were defeated, almost as if   someone knew they were coming. Then Roland visits  William, who pretends he hasn't seen his son in   eight years. William also admits that even if he  does see David, he won't tell the police, which   Roland doesn't appreciate. Moments later, David  shows up at Griffin's hideout and finds out that   Griffin hunts down Paladins to kill them. It turns  out Paladins have been doing this for centuries,   and they're responsible for things like the witch  trials and the Inquisition. Griffin points out   that if they can't get a Jumper, they'll attack  their loved ones, making David worried.

Millie   is safe for now because she's on a long flight, so  David teleports to his old home and is devastated   to find William dead on the floor. Grief doesn't  allow David to think straight and he teleports   William to the hospital, but there's nothing the  doctors can do to save him. Furious, David goes   to the police station and threatens Mark until he  admits he was the one that told Roland everything   about their hometown, including David's feelings  for Millie. David realizes he must catch Roland   before Millie lands in the US, so he teleports  to Griffin's hideout to try to steal his Paladin   research. Griffin doesn't let him, explaining that  unlike the henchmen, Roland is too dangerous.

 This   makes David think they should team up to defeat  him, but Griffin turns him down, saying he prefers   to work alone. Then Griffin teleports to Tokyo  and David follows him to keep bothering him about   teaming up. Griffin prefers to steal a scar to  have some fun, and brings David along, showing him   how he can make the car jump along on the road.  David never jumped with something this big, and   Griffin confesses he once knew a guy that tried to  teleport a whole building but died in the process.   After David asks for the millionth time, Griffin  accepts to team up as long as David doesn't   contact him ever again.

 Afterward, the two of them  teleport to the airport, but it's too late: Millie   already landed and left. David goes to the bar  to ask for her, and a waitress tells him Roland's   been around asking for Millie too. Next David  teleports to Millie's apartment and is relieved   to discover she's fine. Millie doesn't want to see  him, but David can hear the Paladins approaching   so he begins confessing everything, teleporting  to grab the snow globe on the shelves to prove   it to her. This terrifies Millie and she tries to  run away, thus David has no choice but to grab her   and take her to Griffin's hideout. This makes  Griffin furious because he knows the Paladins   have a machine that allows them to open wormholes  on the scar left by the jumps. In the meantime,   Roland and his men arrive at Millie's apartment  and do exactly as Griffin feared. While waiting   for the wormhole to open, the boys hide, and David  discovers that Griffin's research includes his own   mother because Mary is a Paladin too. At that  moment, Roland arrives and captures David with   his electrical wires. When he's about to kill  him, Griffin cuts in with a flamethrower and   begins fighting Roland. To counter Roland's use of  technology, Griffin teleports to the city to grab   a bus and bring it back, making it fall on Roland.  Unfortunately Roland is fine, so Griffin uses   the flamethrower again to push him back into the  wormhole, then he follows him to continue fighting   him at Millie's apartment. Meanwhile Millie cuts  the wires to save David and makes him promise   he'll leave her alone after taking her home. 

 David accepts but also confesses she's been his   only love since they were kids. The sweet moment  is interrupted by Griffin, who comes back with the   Paladins' machine, thinking they won't be followed  anymore. However Roland uses the jump scar Griffin   left to launch a hook that captures Millie and  brings her to the apartment right before the scar   closes. David wants to go to save Millie, but  Griffin begins preparing a bomb to take it to   the apartment and kill all the Paladins once and  for all, not caring if Millie also dies in the   process. Unwilling to lose Millie, David grabs  the bomb and drops it at the Colosseum. Griffin   immediately follows him and the two of them start  fighting over the detonator as they teleport all   over the world. Eventually they make it to the top  of the Empire State Building, so David throws the   detonator away and they have to jump after it.

 A  new series of jumps begin, and Griffin teleports   a truck to hit David when they make it to a  Chechen battlefield. Ignoring the war around them,   Griffin retrieves the detonator, but at that  moment David jumps on him and pushes him against   a pylon with enough current to keep Griffin  trapped for a while. Afterward David teleports   back to Millie's apartment and finds her tied  to the wall. As soon as he tries to rescue her,   Roland attacks him with the baton and captures  him too. Then Roland gets ready to kill him,   but Millie apologizes for misjudging everything,  and this gives David the support he needs to take   his powers to the next level. Suddenly, the  whole room disappears from the building and   is teleported to the middle of the Huron River. 

David is feeling dizzy underwater, so Millie swims   to him to ground him, helping him teleport again  into the old library. After Millie wakes David up   with a slap, David notices Roland is still around.  He teleports Millie to a safe spot before jumping   on Roland to take him to an isolated cave in  the middle of the Grand Canyon. Before leaving,   David points out that he's a good person because  he could've left Roland with the sharks yet he   didn't. Many days later, David follows some clues  about his mother to a house in a snowy area. He   discovers Mary has a new life with a daughter  here, and Mary admits she left him because she   knew about his powers. Mary refuses to leave  her job as a Paladin and hugs him, explaining   that she does love David but the only thing she  can offer is a head start. David leaves as he   accepts his mother is the enemy and meets with  Millie, who leaves with him to a warmer place.

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Troubled Teens Must Survive Stranded on a Island

 

Around ten years ago, a priest traveled to an  island in Malaysia with his daughter and wife on   a mission to bring the word of god to the natives.  At first they were very welcome and the island's   habitants would go to the newly built church every  day. However soon the followers of the local gods   became angry that a white man was trying to  overwrite their beliefs and shortly after weird   symbols and masks began appearing around, the  church was burned down. In the present, American   teenager Toby ignores his father David's request  to work on the car together to remember the old   times because Toby would rather fool around on  his phone. David decides to work alone anyway,   and soon after he steps outside, he's surrounded  by a group of masked criminals that attack him   with a knife before escaping with the car.

Because  the television is on, Toby doesn't hear anything   until the car takes off, and by the time he goes  outside, it's too late. David's murder appears all   over the news and Toby can't shake off all the  guilt he feels. His mother takes him to see a   psychologist who recommends a special program that  takes traumatized people to an uninhabited island   to give them time to think and go through serious  introspection, and Toby accepts. A few weeks   later, Toby's on a boat to the island, throwing up  because of seasickness.

This makes him the perfect   target for a prank in which he's hit by the sail  and thrown into the water. After a whole day of   sailing, leader Kay explains each group member  will be dropped on a different island, and they'll   have to stay there for three days and three  nights. They're given a sleeping bag, a tarp,   a torch light, some food, and a flare they must  use in case of emergencies. The next morning, Kay   drops Toby off and reminds him to be on the shore  at the crack of dawn in three days. Seeing her   leave reminds Toby of the night the police took  his father's body, but then he forces himself to   get started. He begins by making a very bad tent  with the tarp while talking to himself to feel   less lonely, then he enters the jungle to pick up  some wood.

There are some coconuts on the ground   that he tries to grab as well, but when he moves  the vegetation away, he's shocked to find a dead   monkey that reminds him of how he found David's  body. He decides to return to his tent without   the coconuts, only to discover another monkey has  eaten half of his food. Then he tries to start a   fire, but he fails and only manages to hurt his  hand. Afterward, Toby walks into the water to see   if he can catch some fish. He ends up accidentally  stepping on some shells and hurting his foot,   but at least he also finds some clams. His foot  bleeds in the water and this blood reaches one   of those mysterious masks at the bottom of the  sea.

 Later, Toby uses his swiss knife to open the   clams and discovers it comes with a magnifying  glass which allows him to finally start a fire.   When night falls, Toby has the clams for dinner,  but they make him feel sick. After throwing up,   Toby walks into the jungle with the torch light to  look for those coconuts in order to have a drink,   but when he finally finds them, he hears someone  running behind him among the trees. By shaking his   torchlight around, Toby finally gets to see that  the source of that noise is a creepy face behind a   tree that suddenly runs off. Terrified, Toby runs  back to his camp and lights the flare before he   passes out as memories of his father's death flood  his mind. During the night, the high tide takes   most of Toby's things away.

 The next morning,  Toby mysteriously wakes up resting against a tree,   and there are already cut coconuts waiting for  him. After having a good drink, Toby's shocked   to notice there's a girl in the water, and when  she tries to leave, he follows her. The girl   suddenly turns around with a knife in hand, but it  turns out she doesn't want to attack Toby, she's   just following the sound of an animal trapped  in one of her many traps. Madeleine explains   they can't stay there because it's dangerous, so  Toby follows her after noticing exactly how deadly   those traps are. He has lots of questions for  Madeleine, but she doesn't talk except to share   her name. They make it to a damn that was built by  missionaries, and Madeleine starts a fire to cook   her catch and share it with Toby. When they're  done, Madeleine announces she's going home and   that Toby can't follow her. Toby tries to anyway,  and Madeleine suddenly takes her knife out again,   but it's to kill a snake that almost kills  Toby.

 Before leaving for good, she advises   him to stay close to the fire because it keeps the  animals away, and Toby follows her instructions,   falling asleep inside a makeshift shelter that  was already on the damn. That night, one of his   dad's killers finds Toby and attacks him, but  it turns out to be just a nightmare. Now awake,   Toby notices the fire's out and tries to start  a new one, getting nervous as he keeps hearing   noises in the darkness. Thinking it may be  Madeleine, Toby enters the jungle and finds   some thread that shakes some weird decorations on  a tree when he pulls it. The creepy figure appears   behind Toby and tries to come closer, but as soon  as Toby turns around, the creature is gone. The   next morning, Toby wakes up in the shelter to find  Madeleine already cooking breakfast.

She notices   the wound on his foot and takes him with her to  find a special plant that will help with it, she   also shares she's been on this island since she  was a child and it's only her and her mother left   because her dad died. When they find the plant,  Madeleine applies it to Toby's wound, explaining   you can't eat it unless you want to fall asleep.  When she puts a bit of it on Toby's lip to prove   her point, Toby realizes his lip's now numb.  The teens spend the day together, and Madeleine   teaches Toby all she knows about surviving on  the island, from fishing to making a shelter.   In return, Toby tells her about things like  high-fives and the internet. When night falls,   Madeleine has to leave again, and Toby notices  she's going in the direction of the tree with the   weird decorations. Madeleine leaves him a spear  she made so he can protect himself and explains   that if he comes with her, her mother will kill  him.

 She promises they can see each other again in   the morning, but Toby explains they'll pick him up  at dawn and this hurts Madeleine, who feels she's   being abandoned. Madeleine runs to her home in the  tree and Toby stays behind to try to talk to her,   so when Kay arrives at the beach at dawn, she  doesn't see the boy anywhere. Kay could hear   Toby yelling Madeleine's name and enters the  jungle with her torchlight out to find him,   but when she begins hearing weird noises among the  trees, she trips and falls, losing the torchlight   in the process. Suddenly, Kay finds herself  blinded by her own torchlight, but when she comes   closer to see if it's Toby, the light goes out and  the torchlight is thrown on the ground. When Kay   reaches out to grab it, she notices two glowing  eyes in the dark and without notice, a paw appears   on top of her hand.

For a few minutes, the only  noise in the dark is Kay's screaming. The next   morning, Toby wakes up realizing he fell asleep  while calling out for Madeleine so he must rush   to the beach, but he finds it empty. He sits to  wait just in case anyway, and after a few hours,   he notices a lifebuoy floating around. When  he enters the water, he finds a whole trail   of objects, and he follows it to find Kay's  boat floating upside down. To his surprise,   Madeleine's mother is swimming out of it with  Kay's supplies. Once the woman is out of sight,   Toby swims inside the boat to investigate and  finds two flares inside a cabinet, but to his   dismay, he finds also Kay's body behind a door.  Terrified, Toby begins swimming away before he   runs out of air, only to get his clothes stuck on  another door. Fortunately he manages to untangle   them and return to the surface just in time.  Afterward, Toby enters the jungle and finds Kay's   torchlight with a weird scratching mark on it. 

 Using this torchlight, he decides to go through   the entrance of Madeleine's tree and discovers a  rocky tunnel filled with bats and weird noises.   The creepy creature approaches him from behind  again and makes Toby drop the torchlight, leaving   him in darkness. The noises begin getting closer,  so Toby searches the ground until he finds the   torchlight and turns it on again, which allows him  to suddenly see some really creepy drawings on the   walls. Moments later, Toby finds the end of the  tunnel and comes out to find what is left of the   old burned church. He also hears a goat bleating,  and when he goes to check, he finds Madeleine's   mother killing it for food. Then he keeps looking  around and finds the cabin where both women live.   Inside, he finds Kay's empty bag, a box with  three passports, and an old picture that indicates   Madeleine and her mother are the family that came  with the priest all those years ago. There's also   a can of gasoline, and most importantly Kay's  radio, which Toby immediately uses to call for   help.

 He only gets one hello from the other end  before the line goes dead, and at that moment,   Toby has to run and hide under the bed because  Madeleine and her mom are back. While the mother   prepares a special concoction with the dumbing  plant, she has an argument with Madeleine because   she thinks her daughter isn't ready to go out  there. When Toby moves further under the bed   not to be seen, he's shocked to find an extremely  creepy mask and realizes this is the face of the   creature that attacked him before. As soon as the  mother leaves the room, Toby approaches Madeleine,   but Madeleine reminds him this is dangerous  and promises to meet him at the beach later.   Toby makes his way back to the beach and uses  everything he's learned to catch some fish and   start a fire. While having lunch, he notices a  light blinking on the other end of the island and   he replies by starting an extra big fire that  can be seen from a distance.

In the evening,   Toby's trying to sleep when he's suddenly startled  by Madeleine, who had thought Toby would be gone   by now. He explains Kay's dead and that he thinks  the mother killed her, causing Madeleine to rest   her head on Toby's leg and share the few things  she remembers from her childhood. She used to   be happy living with her family and playing with  the local kids, but one day something happened,   and she only remembers being in a corner crying  while her mother, covered in blood, told her not   to look. Madeleine admits she sees terrible things  at night and that her mother probably killed them   all. Toby asks Madeleine if she wants to run away  with him because they'll probably send a new boat   soon, and Madeleine accepts, but she'll come back  tomorrow to avoid her mother getting suspicious. 

 The next morning, Toby wakes up when he hears a  plane flying by, but by the time he runs after it,   it's already gone. However this run has  allowed him to find an abandoned lighthouse   that he proceeds to investigate. Unfortunately the  light isn't working, and when Toby checks out its   inner workings, he remembers all the things  David taught him about taking care of cars,   this allows him to understand the light needs  gasoline. Then Toby begins making his way   back to the beach when he suddenly bumps into  someone: it's Cameron, another one of the guys   that signed up for the service. He was never  picked up either, but he did find a rowboat,   so he used it to try to find other people because  his own island's definitely empty. Toby shares   some food and tells him about his experience while  making a new spear, which he uses to threaten   Cameron when he points out that trusting a crazy  pair of murderers is dumb. After apologizing,   Toby explains he refuses to leave Madeleine behind  because she's also a victim and goes looking for   her.

Moments later, he makes it to the house,  only to be caught by surprise by the mother.   The woman takes the spear from Toby and lets him  go to try to make him see reason, but Toby runs   away. Mother runs after him and accidentally falls  into one of Madeleine's traps, leaving her stuck   between a tree and a thicker spear. Knowing she  doesn't have much time left, the mother explains   to Toby that she didn't kill anyone. She's only  been trying to scare people away because the   crazy murderer is actually Madeleine. All those  years ago, the locals tried to warn them that   something evil was on the island, but the priest  didn't believe them and tried to depend on the   word of god. While he and his wife argued with the  natives, Madeleine took the chance to wander and   approach the altar where the locals killed animals  as an offering, this allowed the demon to use the   child as his vessel in a ritual that matched the  drawings Toby saw in the tunnel.

 It was Madeleine   that killed everyone in the church and burned it  to the ground, only leaving her beloved mother   alive. Mother then gives Toby the special plant  in a bag to subdue Madeleine and points out that   she doesn't like the light when she's demonic.  Before dying, mother reminds Toby that Madeleine   shouldn't leave the island. Meanwhile Cameron is  waiting at the camp when he suddenly hears some   weird noises. He enters the jungle to investigate  and comes across a bunch of bones on the ground   that distracts him from seeing the real danger:  a demonic Madeleine appears right next to him and   drags him away through the trees to kill him. By  the time Toby comes back, only Cameron's blood's   left. A noise suddenly makes him turn around and  he sees demonic Madeleine coming closer with her   mother's body, but she becomes human again when  she realizes Toby's a friend.

She demands to   know what happened to her mother, and in order  to keep her calm, Toby says he did it so they   could be together. This makes Madeleine happy and  she kisses Toby, pushing him to the ground to get   frisky. Toby loses the little bag with the special  plant when he falls, thus he pretends to be into   it to be able to recover it. When Madeleine  notices, she growls and begins to change,   but Toby manages to find her spear and uses  it to knock her out. Then, he puts the plants   in her mouth to keep her subdued and uses some  vines to tie her up. Afterward, Toby runs to the   house to grab the gasoline and prepare a torch  that lights his way back to the lighthouse. He   leaves the torch at the door to keep animals away  then goes upstairs to finally turn on the light   while remembering the time his dad taught him how  to start a car. While Madeleine begins to stir,   Toby waits for a boat, but seeing nobody is close,  he decides to leave. When he makes his way down,   the stairs break, causing Toby to fall and spill  the gasoline all over the floor. It also makes him   discover the special plant grows here as well.  At that moment, the door closes on its own,   and as soon as the rotating light is pointing in  the opposite direction, demonic Madeleine sneaks   into the shadows to attack. Toby manages to grab  some of the plant before he's dragged away, but   Madeleine's too strong and when he tries to use  the plant on her, she turns his hands around to   make the juice fall on his eyes instead.

Madeleine  then jumps away when the light comes inside again,   so Toby uses the chance to approach the sink  and wash his face. Floating in the water he   finds a glass shard and when Madeleine has enough  darkness to attack again, Toby uses the shard to   keep her away. Toby begins considering using the  torch as well, but when he approaches the door,   he finds little Madeleine crying. He worries about  the child, but this is actually a trap, and the   kid reveals her demonic face before returning  to her adult form and jumping on Toby.

 A boat   can be heard approaching the island so Toby needs  to think fast because Madeleine's in the process   of possessing him too. Toby manages to grab the  shard again, and when Madeleine grabs his wrist   to stop him, Toby improvises by turning the glass  enough to make the light reflect on it and burn   Madeleine's face, getting her to back away. Then  Toby runs outside and grabs the torch to throw   it at the gasoline, starting a fire. Madeleine  turns human again to try to be pitied, but Toby   just closes the door before running away. As soon  as he makes it to the beach, Toby notices the boat   is following the direction of the lighthouse, so  he gets in the water to go after it.

Unfortunately   he isn't heard when he cries for help, and the  noise allows demonic Madeleine to sneak behind   him and finally kill him. A few moments later, the  rescuer leaves the island with Madeleine aboard,   believing her to be the person that turned on  the lighthouse. As soon as the man is distracted,   Madeleine reveals she's still possessed and  will cause more trouble in the city soon.

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Killer Makes Impossible Assassinations Look Like Accidents

After faking his death during his last adventures,  former hitman Arthur is living a peaceful life in   Rio de Janeiro under a fake identity. One  afternoon while he's enjoying his time at   a nice restaurant, Arthur is approached by Renee,  who has proof of who he really is. She represents   a powerful man that wants to hire Arthur to  kill three enemies and make it look like an   accident. If he turns the offer down, her boss  will let criminals know Arthur's alive. Arthur   pretends he needs to make a call and takes out his  phone, but actually he uses it to take a picture   of Renee. She immediately takes out her gun and  Arthur responds by pushing the table against her,   turning down the offer. All the henchmen Renee  brought attack Arthur, and he fights them all   using his self-defense skills and any object  he can find in the restaurant, including the   grill itself.

 Then Arthur jumps on the roof of a  passing sky tram to get away, but Renee and her   men board the same tram and try to shoot Arthur  from inside. Renee also tries to climb up to him,   so Arthur decides to jump on the back of a hand  glider to escape successfully. In the evening,   Arthur makes it back to the boat he lives in and  finds some suspicious men checking it out. Using a   remote control he activates the bombs he installed  in case of emergencies and makes the boat explode,   killing those guys. Afterward he goes to an  old container where he's hidden all his tools   and burns his old passport to replace  it with a new identity. Sometime later,   Arthur moves to Thailand, where his old friend Mei  gives him back his old hut. Under the hut floor,   Arthur has hidden more weapons and tools, so he  immediately begins working on researching Renee.  

 He discovers she works for Crain, a dangerous  criminal he's very familiar with. The next day,   a woman named Gina comes to Mei's place to ask  for some first aid supplies. Mei notices there   are some bruises on her, but Gina turns down  any extra help. When night falls Mei hears   screaming coming from one of the boats and  notices Gina is being violently mistreated   by a man called Frank. Mei asks Arthur  for help and while he doesn't want to go,   he knows he owes it to Mei. When he makes it to  the boat, Arthur tries to ask for Gina nicely,   but Frank attacks him. Arthur immediately defends  himself and when Frank falls, he accidentally hits   his head and dies. When Gina sees the body,  she passes out, and Mei approaches the boat   too to bring her to the shore. Meanwhile Arthur  looks around and finds a gun, Gina's passport,   and a phone with his own picture.

Then Arthur sets  the boat on fire. When Arthur returns to the hut,   he wakes Gina up and demands to know if she works  for Crain while pointing a gun at her. Gina tries   to disarm him, but Arthur easily overpowers  her and makes her talk. Crain did send Gina,   but she doesn't actually work for him, Crain is  blackmailing her into doing this. She was supposed   to play an innocent victim to get Arthur's  attention, and Frank got a little too much into   his role. The plan was to get close to Arthur and  then call Crain, but Arthur forbids her from doing   so, he'll decide when these guys get to come. The  next day, Arthur discovers Gina used to be part   of a humanitarian group that offered assistance in  Cambodia. Arthur asks Gina what Crain has on her,   and Gina explains she ran a shelter for victims of  human trafficking.

A few weeks ago, a staff member   disappeared, and two days later her body was left  at her door. Crain sent a henchman that would kill   the kids if Gina didn't accept to do this mission  for him. Later, Arthur notices a boat nearby with   men looking at the shore. They probably were  sent by Crain, so Arthur walks around hand in   hand with Gina to make them think her mission  is going well. Mei notices this and puts them   together through some old Thai traditions at the  party she's throwing, and Arthur and Gina end up   having lots of fun together. In the evening,  Gina apologizes to Arthur for getting him into   this mess. Arthurs explains he understands  because he was an orphan too. He was sold to   a gangster that trained child soldiers, and Crain  was there too. While Arthur escaped, Crain didn't,   and Arthur thinks they blamed Crain for it and  now he wants revenge. Then Gina and Arthur kiss   and spend the night together. Afterward, Arthur  promises Gina he's been arranging everything for   her to escape without endangering the kids. 

He won't make the kills Crain wants him to,   he'll only kill Crain himself. Arthur also gifts  Gina his father's watch, the only memory he has   of the man. The next morning, a group of policemen  arrives at the beach, but Gina recognizes one of   them as Crain's man. Arthur begins fighting them  off, but while he's busy, the men kidnap Gina,   so Arthur has no choice but to accept a meeting  with Crain. Moments later, Crain tells Arthur   that if he wants Gina back, he'll have to do three  kills for him and make them look like an accident.   The first one is Krill, the highest-profile arms  dealer in Africa who is currently in a Malaysian   prison. Crain also gives him a pill he must  swallow after the kill for them to find him.   While Arthur works, Gina is kept hidden in one of  Crain's many boats.

 Arthur travels to Malaysia and   begins researching the prison, which is on top of  cliffs and surrounded by shark-infested waters,   so it's impossible to sneak in. With a plan  in mind, Arthur buys some powerful explosives   that he disguises as chewing hum, some shark  repellent that he puts in a skin cream tin,   and hides the capsule inside a cigarette. Lastly,  he makes a fake ID and disguises himself as an   infamous wanted criminal. As soon as Arthur begins  walking the Malaysian streets, he gets recognized   and arrested. In prison, the reception guard  doesn't notice anything weird about his items   and allows them to keep them. The first few days,  Arthur takes it easy and talks to other prisoners   to learn more about his target.

 Krill has his men  following him at all times because lots of people   want to kill him. Even if he's locked up, Krill  manages all his business from here and is the real   boss of the place. Arthur watches a knife exchange  hands between two prisoners, and during lunchtime,   he bumps against them on purpose to discreetly  steal that knife. Later, one of Krill's former   men tries to kill Krill for revenge, but Arthurs  cuts in and kills him with the knife. Krill is   very impressed and invites Arthur to have dinner  with him, Arthur only accepts if Krill is willing   to leave his men outside. Surprisingly  Krill accepts his terms and in the evening,   Arthur is taken from his cell to meet Krill at his  private hut.

Krill tries to offer Arthur a job,   but as soon as he turns around, Arthur jumps on  him and kills him by putting pressure on his neck.   Then he mixes the snake venom Krill used for his  rituals with his actual drink to make it look like   Krill ended things for himself. The guards outside  are getting suspicious, but Arthur puts the body   in a praying position so the guards think the  silence is for the sake of religion. Afterward,   Arthur puts the explosive gum on a prison wall  to make a hole. Then he swallows the pill,   covers himself with the shark repellent, and  jumps into the water before the cops can catch   him. Crain's men are waiting for him in a fishing  boat, and Arthur gets to escape safely. Crain   makes a videocall to prove Gina is fine and  gives Arthur his second target: Adrian Cook,   a human trafficker that lives in Australia.  Some days later, Arthur is investigating his   target. 

He learns that Cook's penthouse suite is  impenetrable, but he also has a cantilever pool   that overhangs above the streets. Arthur hires  a helicopter to study the building from afar,   then he pretends to be interested in one of the  apartments near Cook's. While the realtor shows   him around, Arthur calls her phone to distract  her, and he takes pictures of the apartment   keys so he can make a duplicate. Lastly he uses  dangerous chemicals to create a small but potent   explosive that can shatter glass and make it look  like it broke from pressure. A few days later,   Arthur disguises himself as a technician to  enter the building without being noticed,   then he uses the duplicate key to get inside  the apartment. Using advanced equipment,   Arthur leaves through the window and climbs up the  building until he reaches the pool, where he makes   a small hole to insert his special explosive. 

 Cook is currently swimming and can see Arthur,   but before he can call the guards, the glass  starts to crack. Arthur jumps away and slides down   the building to return to the apartment while the  swimming pool breaks and Cook falls to his death.   Crain sees Cook's death on the news and orders his  men to get things ready for the next videocall.   Gina notices they make her sit near a window that  happens to show the boat's hull number, so she   moves the camera to put the window on the frame.  When the call starts, Gina raises her hand to show   Arthur the watch as a way to make him look at the  number. As soon as the henchman notices he ends   the call, but Arthur manages to get the number and  uses it to find the location of the boat. Later,   Arthur makes a helicopter follow Crain's boat, and  he jumps into the water with a bag full of special   equipment.

After hiding the bag under the boat,  Arthur sneaks aboard and begins killing every man   he comes across. Unfortunately he's seen and  Arthur finds himself in a hand-to-hand fight   against a bunch of thugs while Gina is taken out  of the room. She tries to defend herself but her   basic skills aren't enough and she's put in a  helicopter. Arthur jumps on one of the guards   and takes his grenade to knock out the thugs that  are after him, using the guy as a shield at the   same time. Sadly more men arrive and tase him to  capture him. Moments later, Gina and Arthur are   taken to another boat, where Crain confesses he  knew Arthur would try this because he can't help   himself, but he still has to do the third kill.  After Crain leaves, Arthur beats up the guards   instead of letting them take him away properly.  Then he jumps into the water where he retrieves   his equipment, which includes an oxygen tank and  a small engine that allows him to escape safely.  

 A few days later, Arthur is in Bulgaria, where  he gets the details of the last kill: Max Adams,   an American arms dealer. Arthur begins doing  his research and realizes that Adams has max   security fortress where he keeps submarines with  intercontinental ballistic missiles. He also   realizes that these kills are Crain's attempt at  getting rid of all his competition in arm dealing,   which makes him have second thoughts. Sometime  later, Arthur shoots at one of Adams' guards from   afar, then he sneaks onto the roof of a hospital  to hide in the emergency helicopter. The pilot   flies to Adams' fortress to check on the fallen  soldier, and while everyone is distracted, Arthur   gets to enter the building. Inside, he installs a  jammer to ruin the security cameras, then begins   taking down any guard he sees.

 Soon the building  is put under alert and the henchmen escort Adams   to his panic room, Arthur delays them by making  the elevator malfunction. By the time Adams   makes it to his room, Arthur is already there  waiting for him. However Arthur doesn't shoot,   instead he offers Adams to work together to bring  down Crain. Arthur's plan begins with Adams faking   his own death. Sometime later, Adams is checking  his submarines and when he walks on a bridge,   a bomb explodes. Arthur is ready underwater and  shares an oxygen tank with Adams to get him away   to a beach. Crain sees the explosion on tv, where  the news announce Adams' was buried in the water   under a bunch of debris. At that moment Arthur  calls him to inform him of the third kill, but   Crain won't believe him until he sees the body.  Arthur promises the body can be found underwater,   so after hanging up, Crain sends his men to find  Adams' body and kill Arthur.

Meanwhile Arthur   returns to the submarine pen and prepares a bunch  of traps in advance. When Crain's henchmen arrive,   one by one they fall into the traps and die, and  those who don't are killed by Arthur from the   shadows. Crain realizes Arthur is coming for him  next and puts Gina outside as bait. Arthur travels   underwater and reaches the boat to immediately  begin killing every guard on sight. Crain sees   him on the security footage and orders his men  to bring Gina back inside right before Arthur   destroys the cameras. Gina tries to fight the  guard that grabbed her and ends up with a wound   on her stomach, then the guard pushes her into  the jacuzzi for Crain to grab her next.

 While   Arthur continues to fight the guards, Crain  takes Gina inside and activates an explosive   hidden in the boat. Then he leaves to try to  escape in his rescue boat. Just a second later   Arthur finds Gina and learns about the bomb, so  Arthur puts Gina in an emergency release pod and   sends her away. Afterward Arthur goes after Crain,  killing the last few guards before a hand-to-hand   fight ensues. Crain puts his hands on the anchor  chain and uses it to capture Arthur by his leg,   but Arthur takes advantage of its length and uses  it to tie Crain to the boat. Crain laughs because   Arthur took too long and he'll die too, but Arthur  doesn't look too worried and he runs inside right   before the bomb explodes.

Gina watches the boat  blow into pieces and catch on fire, and cries for   Arthur's death. At least the explosion gave  away their position and she's rescued by the   coast guard. Adams also watches from the shore  and thinks there's something weird about the boat   pieces that are being brought from the sea, he  also notices a security camera nearby. Some weeks   later, Gina is back in Cambodia with the kids, and  she writes to Mei to thank her for her donation of   a water filter. One afternoon while she's busy  teaching, she's shocked to discover Arthur is   alive and has come to see her. Meanwhile Adams  researches Crain's boat and learns this model   has something called a diving bell, which contains  trapped air to allow divers to breathe underwater.  

 With a theory in mind, Adams check the security  footage and confirms Arthur escaped by hiding in   the diving bell. Impressed by this plan, Adams  deletes the footage to protect Arthur's future.

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