Failed Experiment Astronauts to be Pulled Into a Parallel Universe

 

In 2028, the government announces that the world's  energy resources will be fully exhausted within   five years. To solve this problem, it's been  decided to test the Shepard Particle Accelerator   in the orbiting Cloverfield Station. If all goes  well, this would provide Earth with infinite   energy. British engineer Ava doesn't want to leave  her husband Michael alone because they recently   lost their children to a fire and they should be  working on fixing their relationship. But Michael   convinces her to join the Shepard mission even  if it takes years because they'll all die if she   doesn't find a solution. Ava joins a crew formed  by American commander Jason, German physicist   Ernst, Brazilian doctor Monk, Irish engineer  Gordon, Russian engineer Sasha, and Chinese   engineer Ling.

The team works wonderfully together  but unfortunately they fail at activating Shepard,   and they keep trying for the next two years. Ava  keeps in touch with Michael through videocalls,   and he updates her on the awful state of the  world. When Ava needs some extra comfort, she   also plays old videos of her children. The mood in  the station is tense because they only have power   for three more tries and the chances are low. The  news they get from Earth isn't encouraging either:   the world is coming apart under oil wars and  conspiracy theorists believe Shepard is dangerous   because it could rip open portals into parallel  universes that will bring monsters to Earth. This   mood often ends up triggering petty arguments  among the crew that end up in actual physical   fights that the commander has to stop. The team  gets their emotions under control when it's time   for the 47th test.

After lots of calculations and  care, they finally manage to get a beam going,   but it immediately overloads and explodes.  The entire station shakes and throws the   crew from ceiling to floor, the power goes  out, and a fire begins around the Shepard.   Ernst puts it by opening the ventilation vents  into space, but there's still the matter of fixing   the power, which is harder than it looks because  for some reason the system is all scrambled.   Moments later, they have power again thanks to  the backup, because their main power is fried. The   O2 tanks are leaking, the reserves are severely  diminished, and Ava keeps trying to contact Earth   for help to no avail. When the engineers check  the comms they make a shocking discovery: Earth   is nowhere to be found. The first theory they can  think of it's that Shepard has thrown them across   the galaxy, prompting Ava to check her own private  communicator and sadly confirm she can't contact   her husband either. This dire situation triggers  another argument among the crew as they look for   someone to blame for the malfunction.

 Jason takes  a moment to cry in private, and once he's calmed   down, he breaks up all the arguments and reminds  his crew their priority is to survive. Each person   is assigned a repair to work on, but when Ava and  Sasha go to check on the gyroscope that aids in   the station's navigation, they find it missing.  That's not the only weird thing happening:   Sasha keeps touching his face because he feels  something bothering him under the skin, and there   are some weird groaning noises coming from one  of the walls. Yet another argument begins because   half of the crew doesn't want to break a wall and  release something dangerous, but they don't have   any other choice. As soon as they take the panel  off, they are shocked to find a woman named Mina   painful stuck among the wires. Nobody knows who  she is, but she mentions Ava's name. The crew   immediately cuts all the wires and takes Mina out  to take her to the infirmary, where they put her   to sleep so that Monk can take care of her without  more pain.

Meanwhile on Earth, Michael wakes up in   the middle of the night when he feels the whole  house shaking. Looking through the window shows   him lots of explosions outside, and when Michael  checks his phone, he sees messages from everyone   freaking out over a possible European invasion  having reached the USA. Then Michael checks the   internet for news, and while the government swears  it wasn't a nuclear weapon, they still won't tell   what caused the explosions. Michael calls the  hospital he works at to see if he's needed, and he   gets flabbergasted when he hears the actual facts  about what's happening. Back in the station, the   crew is arguing again. The gyro is missing, the  system is still scrambled, and a mysterious woman   appeared inside the wall, so they feel completely  lost.

 Jason tells everyone to go back to work on   the repairs since they're still the priority,  but Ernst asks Ling to meet him in the X-deck   in ten minutes to see if they can take control  of the situation because he's done with Jason's   orders. This is overheard by Sasha. While trying  to fix Shepard, Ernst snaps and yells at Ling,   who quickly puts him in his place and reminds him  they're a team. Meanwhile in the rec room, the   foosball is moving on its own. In the greenhouse,  Gordon discovers the worms are gone. Sasha keeps   obsessing with his skin and looking at his face  in the mirror, thinking he can see something   crawling inside him. Suddenly, his left eye moves  on its own, and Sasha begins creepily talking to   himself. Then he goes to the 3D printer and makes  a gun that he takes to threaten Ernst and Ling,   thinking he can make them confess to some secret  conspiracy. Sasha starts coughing while he speaks   and unexpectedly throws up before falling to the  floor as his body goes through a seizure

. Ling   puts the gun away while the crew takes Sasha to  Monk, but before the doctor can do anything, Sasha   throws up the missing worms and dies. A terrified  Ava goes to her room to stop herself from having   a breakdown, but she returns when she hears Mina  has woken up. Jason is wary of this woman, but Ava   still approaches her and asks her what she's doing  here. Mina wonders the same about Ava and explains   she's been in this station for two years, she  knows all the others except for Ling. Ava tells   her Ling is the Shepard engineer, but Mina says  that's her own job and that Ava was supposed to   be on Earth. Mina swears Ava had been the team's  civilian coordinator and they were friends,   but Ava still doesn't know who she is. Upset over  the fact nobody knows her, Mina clings to Ava with   a hug and whispers in her ear not to trust Ernst  because he was the one to sabotage the ship. When   Jason learns about this, he checks the system  and finds e-mails confirming Ernst is a spy.

   Jason immediately goes to find him and beat him  up before locking him up in a room as a prisoner,   although Ernst swears he doesn't know what  they're talking about. In the meantime on Earth,   city-wide destruction has been reported. Michael's  driving to the hospital while calling people at   the base to send a message to his wife, only  to hear they've lost contact with the station.   Suddenly Michael stops the car because he sees a  giant shadow walking away from a destroyed house,   where young Molly is yelling for help. Michael  takes her with him in the car but they can't go to   the hospital because Michael gets a message that  the building has been destroyed too. He promises   Molly she'll reunite with her parents later, then  he takes her to a shelter that belongs to a friend   that is out of town where they can wait safely. In  the station, Gordon is working on the repairs when   suddenly a weird hole appears on the wall and  swallows his arm.

 This strange hole is capable   of moving all over the wall and dragging Gordon  with him. Jason and Ava hear him cry for help and   come pull him out, but once he's free, Gordon  is shocked to discover he's lost his arm. Monk   takes a look at it but he can't find any clues,  especially since Gordon swears it doesn't even   hurt. Things get weirder when the door to Ernst's  room opens on its own and he comes out to find   something in the corridor that makes him call the  crew. Everyone joins Ernst and finds Gordon's arm   crawling on the floor. Gordon swears he isn't  controlling it, so the crew puts the arm under   a glass box while Ernst explains this proves  the conspiracy theorist right: the Cloverfield   Paradox is real and two realities in a multiverse  are fighting to occupy the same space, creating   chaos. The arm starts making writing gestures and  the crew brings it a pen that the arm uses to give   a message: they need to check inside Sasha. They  do as the arm says and to everyone's surprise,   they find the missing gyroscope inside Sasha's  stomach.

 They immediately put it back in the   system and manage to fix the scrambling, which  reveals the station had been upside down and   moved during the explosion. As soon as they fix  these issues, they manage to find Earth again and   while they can't send messages yet, they can  receive the planet's signals. The news clips   that appear on the screen are weird too: they  talk about a fourteen-month-old world war that   was caused by the destruction of the Cloverfield  station, which fell in the middle of the ocean.   Ernst quickly realizes what's going on: there  aren't two different realities fighting, the crew   and the station jumped into a different universe  where the original crew is dead except for Mina.   Ernst wants to fix Shepard and fire it again to  return home, but Monk and Gordon want to help the   people on this Earth. Ling disagrees and thinks  it's too late here, so they should go back and   prevent this war from happening on their Earth. 

 Ernst stops the argument by pointing out that   going back is their only option because the longer  they stay, the weirder effects they'll go through.   Later when Monk checks on Mina, she explains  her station also failed when Shepard overloaded,   and she can tell they are a crew from a parallel  dimension. Ernst and Ling think condensation   caused the Shepard to overload, so Ling goes to  fix the ventilation to help with that problem.   Ernst confirms it solves the issue but Ling can't  come back because the door has locked on its own   and now the room is being filled with water coming  out of the ventilation vents. Ernst, Ava, and   Jason rush to help her, but they can't override  the locking code, and they don't have enough   strength to pull it open manually. Eventually the  pressure of the water breaks open the outer door,   and Ling dies when she's hit by the vacuum of  space.

After the crew has a moment to grieve,   Ernst wants to get back on the repairs because  losing Ling proves being here is dangerous. They   can't finish fixing Shepard without Ling though,  so Ava points out Mina is the Ling of this   universe thus she should have the same knowledge.  Jason continues to be wary of her, but they don't   have a choice. Back on Earth, Michael's sure the  paradox Ava had told him about it's behind all   this. He's calling a friend in the force to see  if he can locate Molly's parents when suddenly,   the shelter begins shaking and a monster  roar can be heard outside. In the station,   Mina's finally allowed to leave the infirmary, and  she accepts to help if she's given all of Ernst's   research to help her Earth. Ernst protests, but  Jason reminds him they'll leave this dimension   and the Ernst from this world is dead, meaning he  accepts the deal. Mina will require lots of power   to fix the final section of the Shepard, and the  guys begin working on that while Ava takes Mina to   her new room. Ava also takes the chance to ask why  this universe's Ava stayed on Earth, so Mina plays   a recording to show her that here her children  are alive and she stayed with them. The guys   are trying to figure out where to get the power  they need to activate the Shepard again and think   they could shut down the oxygen temporarily. They  would get two hours of oxygen to fire the Shepard,   and when they return to their universe, the now  working Shepard should provide power to turn on   the oxygen again. Ava interrupts them to ask Jason  for permission to take a pod to Earth to see her   kids. Jason explains this goes against protocol,  not to mention Ava may end up seeing herself,   but Ava explains she needs to warn her family  about the fire that killed them in her world.   Jason reluctantly allows her to go. The crew  begins working on their plan and Gordon goes to   shut down the oxygen tanks.

 The idea works and  the Shepard begins activating, but Gordon also   starts noticing weird magnetic problems around  him that take his tools away. The metallic sand   he had used to fix the wall also reacts and grabs  Gordon, trapping him on the wall before the weird   magnetic field causes the oxygen tanks to explode,  causing a huge part of the Shepard to blow up.   Mina informs the crew that the maintenance  deck gets more unstable with every rotation,   thus they need to decouple it to survive. While  Ava, Jason, and Monk suit up for the mission,   Ernst reminds Mina that he isn't the same guy that  betrayed her, but she stays cold. The trio goes   outside and approaches the maintenance ring, but  they find it jammed, which means they'll have to   jettison it. Monk and Ava begin making their way  back to see if there's a way to do this remotely,   but Jason knows it can only be done with the  door closed so he stays behind to keep it locked   manually.

After saying goodbye to Ava, Jason  jettisons the ring, losing his life to save his   crew. Meanwhile on Earth, Michael's watching old  videos of Ava when he gets a message confirming   Molly's parents have been contacted. This inspires  Michale to record a video saying goodbye to Ava   in case he's dead when she comes back. In  the station, Ernst confirms they only have   forty-three minutes of oxygen left. Jason left Ava  in charge so she gives everyone their next chores,   deciding to fire Shepard twice: first to overload  it and make it send them back, the second time   to make it power the station. She also announces  Monk and Ernst can go back, but she'll be leaving   with Mina to Earth on a pod. While Monk and Ernst  work, Mina takes the chance to steal the gun and   takes her to the pod to knock out Ava. Then she  activates the pod to make Ava leave alone while   Mina goes after the others. Fortunately Ava wakes  up quickly and sees this plan, so she must choose   between staying in the pod or saving her friends.  Mina finds Monk first and shoots him to get the   key for the Shepard because she wants to keep it  to save her planet. Ava decides to cancel the pod   and come looking for Mina, but by the time she  arrives, Monk's already dead.

Mina goes after   Ernst next, although her shot isn't in a vital  spot because she needs him to control the Shepard,   although she admits she wants revenge for  her crew. Ava arrives and tries to stop her,   prompting Mina to point out that Ava can't have  both Shepard and her kids, she also swears she   doesn't mind killing three people to save eight  billion. While the women argue, Ernst picks a   tool from the floor and hits Mina, giving Ava the  chance to run away. Ernst and Mina fight for the   gun, which is accidentally fired and knocks Ernst  out. Mina goes after Ava, trying to manipulate   her into coming out by playing the recordings  of her children. When Mina comes close enough,   Ava jumps on her and starts a fight using objects  from around the room, allowing her to struggle for   the gun and shoot out the window. This causes Mina  to be ejected into space while Ava holds herself   onto the furniture until she can crawl out of the  room and close the door to be safe. Afterward,   Ava takes Ernst to the infirmary and takes care of  his wounds. Since it's only the two of them left,   she can't go back to Earth, so she sends a message  to herself to warn her about the fire and remind   her that being with the family is the most  important thing. Next Ernst and Ava overload the   Shepard, and the beam once again transports them  between dimensions. The duo can see Earth again   and immediately contact the base, confirming  Shepard is working and getting permission to   come back.

 Once the Shepard is activated for a  second time to start the production of energy,   Ernst and Ava get on a pod to go home. Michael  gets a message from the base confirming his   wife is fine and soon they'll reunite, but Michael  freaks out and asks the higher-ups to tell Ava not   to come. As the pod comes closer to Earth, a giant  monster bursts from the clouds with a loud roar.

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Scientists Turned 5 Astronauts Into Super-Humans

 

In 2048, our planet is overpopulated and has  lost access to almost all natural resources. The   government begins a program that will genetically  modify fourteen soldiers to go to Saturn's moon   Titan to start a new civilization there. These  fourteen volunteers and their families are moved   to their very own neighborhood and given luxurious  technologically advanced houses. Former pilot   Rick is one of these volunteers and he brings  with him his wife Abigail, who is a doctor,   and their child Lucas. The head of the program  Doctor Collingwood has lots of hope for Rick's   development because when he was in the air  force, he was shot down and had to cross the   Syrian desert injured and alone without food or  water for three days, which proves he's a tough   survivor.

Both Rick and Abigail are doing this for  their son because they want him to have a future,   but Abigail admits to Collingwood she's a little  worried that Rick will get very sick. Collingwood   confirms this may happen, but she doesn't  need to worry because all Rick will need is   proper aftercare. Once all the volunteers have  finished moving, they have their first meeting   with Collingwood to start the treatment. First he  does a presentation about the program, explaining   how we've destroyed the planet and that Titan is  the place to go next because it's the only other   place in our solar system with an atmosphere and  primordial ecosystem. However it also has liquid   methane raining into huge oceans and lakes they  can't swim in and an atmosphere rich in nitrogen   that they can't breathe, it's simply too cold  to live in. This is why instead of terraforming,   they've decided the genetically modify humans  to adapt to Titan's natural characteristics.

 One of the volunteers doesn't understand  how the bodies won't reject the treatment,   and while Collingwood explains the clinical  trials were successful, he also admits there's   no guarantee everyone will survive. The volunteer  continues to question the program, but Rick shuts   him up and tells him to leave if he doesn't like  it. The volunteers come from all over the world   and they were chosen because they all survived  extreme circumstances. After the meeting is over,   they are given cardkeys to have full access to the  base and taken to the lab for their first shot out   of 300 that they'll be getting for the next few  weeks. Doctor Freya tries to explain what each   shot is for, but Rick only understands half of it.  Rick's family starts a new routine from then on,   but it's nothing out of the ordinary. Lucas goes  to school, Abigail takes care of the house, and   when she's allowed to, she sits with Rick through  the different treatments. All the volunteers   become fast friends and they start to hang out  together outside the base, being neighbors allows   them to throw dinner parties and barbecues all  the time.

Sometimes the conversations during   these parties turn a little dark, like when  one of the volunteers admits he's afraid that   after the two years on Titan they agreed on,  they won't be allowed to come back. One day,   their barbecue party has extra amounts of drinking  because this is the last time the volunteers   are allowed to consume alcohol. In the evening,  Abigail feels dizzy because of how much she drank,   so Rick helps her go upstairs. However he's the  one that ends up falling as he begins to cough a   lot, feeling like he can't breathe. Abigail  checks on him and notices he's burning with   fever and immediately drags him to the bedroom,  where she gives him medicine and tucks him in bed,   keeping him company for the rest of the night.  Sometime later, Collingwood is very pleased with   how the volunteers' DNA samples are progressing,  meaning it's time for a big test.

The group is   asked to spend a long time underwater without  an oxygen tank, and after the half-hour mark,   only Rick and Tally are left, making a little  competition out of it. In the end Tally makes   it to 39 minutes, but Rick manages to stay down  there - in fact he's so comfortable that he   begins swimming in the pool. This shocks everyone  because Rick isn't swimming like a normal human,   he's going at a high speed while moving like a  dolphin. In the evening, Rick shows off this new   move to his son in the garden pool. Afterward,  he tucks Lucas in, and the kid surprises him by   bringing up his dead grandfather, who he's sure  would've loved all this. Then he joins his wife   at the pool to get frisky in the water, but  Abigail pauses things when she notices some   black veins on Rick's body.

Rick wonders what's  wrong, but just like that the blackness is gone,   and Abigail decides to ignore it for now. Some  days later, the volunteers go through their first   surgery. One of the wives named Rayenne visits  Abigail to let their kids play together, and she   shares some of her worries. She confesses that  she's terribly scared and that she doesn't think   her husband belongs here, so Abigail comforts her  by reminding her the volunteers will save humanity   and most importantly, their kids. Rick comes out  of the surgery in great health and returns home to   continue spending time with his family. Abigail  is happy to see him well, but she also worries   about the potential side effects she reads about  in the manual they gave them. Later that night,   Abigail wakes up to find the bed empty.

 Rick  turns out to be in the kitchen, putting some   ice on his skin because he feels very hot. Abigail  prepares a bigger bucket of cold water for him,   and Rick challenges her to a little game.  They both put their hands inside the bucket,   and while Abigail has to take them out after a  few minutes because she can't stand the cold,   Rick keeps them there, confirming he can't feel  the cold anymore. The next morning, they go for   a run together, and they stop to admire a special  spot by the road that has the most beautiful view   of the area. Rick laments not being able to save  the planet. The different experiments continue,   which include running with masks that simulate  Titan's atmosphere and swimming for long periods   of time in freezing water. Sometimes a volunteer  can't take it and must leave for the day,   but in the case of Tally, she's stubborn and  wants to stay in the water even when she can   barely tolerate the cold. To help her, Rick  teaches her to meditate underwater.

 One afternoon   after the testing is done, the volunteers are in  the showers, and Rick notices he's losing hair.   Tally confirms it's happened to her as well.  Suddenly they hear screaming and discover one   of the women is having a seizure while throwing up  blood. The doctors rush to help her, but nothing   they can do can save her and the volunteers meet  the first death in the group. Later that day,   the volunteers have a meeting to discuss what  happened. Some of them are worried about dying   too, but the others remind them that they always  knew the risk. Although they shouldn't drink, they   decide to do it anyway to help them cope. While  Rayenne comforts her husband Zane outside, Tally's   husband Andrew helps Abigail in the kitchen. He  shares the story of how they met and how he fought   to get together with Tally until the end, then  Tally joins them to point out that now Andrew is   desperate to start a family.

 When Andrew leaves  to put the dishes on the table, Tally confesses   Andrew thinks she'll leave for two years to get  it out of her system and become a good wife,   but she wants more than that. Moments later over  dinner, Abigail notices all the volunteers have   their veins occasionally getting black. Suddenly  they hear screaming coming from the garden:   Zane is having a breakdown and attacking Rayenne.  The other guys immediately rush outside and hold   Zane down until he calms down while Abigail takes  Rayenne away. The next day, Freya comes to the   neighborhood to give the volunteers extra medicine  that will stop them from having the same problems   that the dead woman and Zane did. Abigail notices  some of those doses are pretty high and asks to   talk to Collingwood, but he isn't available. Later  in the evening, Rick finds himself throwing up   with blood included. Abigail tells him to rest  while she cleans, and once Rick isn't watching,   she takes a sample of his blood. Afterward when  she moves around the house to lock all the doors,   she finally notices there are cameras hidden  in the house so that the people at the program   can watch them 24/7.

 The next time Rick uses the  pool, he begins to notice his skin is peeling off,   but he doesn't seem too worried. When they go  to bed, Abigail notices the state of Rick's skin   and the fact he's losing hair, making her worry  worse. The next day, Abigail looks at Rick's blood   in a microscope and discovers it's turning black.  Sometime later the volunteers go through the next   big procedure, which consists of making their eyes  similar to a cat's so they can see in the dark.   The surgery goes well, but Rick has to keep his  eyes bandaged for a while and his family has to   help him around the house. One night, Abigail  hears Rick groaning in pain as his eyes begin   to bleed. They take him to the lab for another  surgery, and Abigail approaches Collingwood to   ask what's going on, pointing out that something  is alive inside of Rick and that she knows about   the cameras. Collingwood explains that he didn't  want the cameras, but they were an order from the   Pentagon for security, and that Collingwood  being blind is part of the process, he'll be   fine in a few days.

Abigail thinks there's more  he isn't telling her, but Collingwood sends her   home. Abigail goes to her house and begins packing  some clothes for Rick when she suddenly hears some   sirens. When she comes out, she discovers the army  is surrounding Zane's home. She isn't allowed to   come closer, but she still sees the terrifying  sight that happens next: a mutated Zane throws   Rayenne through the window, instantly killing her.  The soldiers break into the house and shoot at   Zane, killing him too. Later at the base, Abigail  is watching over Rick and hears more soldiers   arrive. Since Collingwood will be busy dealing  with this mess, Abigail takes the chance to take   Rick's cardkey and goes snooping. After hiding  at strategic spots to avoid security, she enters   Collingwood's office and finds all the files  indicating that the volunteers are having their   DNA infused with animal DNA to reach the next  evolutionary step, which Collingwood has called   "Homo titaniens".

 Meanwhile Collingwood is having  a meeting with Colonel Solano and the people from   NASA, who want to shut down the program and call  it "unproven science". The volunteers are becoming   violent and this is entering a criminal area  instead of being about space, the last people   who tried something of the sort were the Nazis.  Colonel Solano wants this experiment out of his   base, but Collingwood and his advisor point out  that the Ministers of Defence have the last word,   so they aren't leaving unless they say so. After  the meeting, Freya also tries to tell Collingwood   that they should stop, but he dismisses her.  When Rick is sent home, Collingwood comes along   to explain his sight will return in 24hs. They  had miscalculated the brain's ability to process   enhanced senses and Zane's mind simply overloaded,  but a new surgery could fix things. Abigail   finally snaps and demands to know the truth,  thus Collingwood finally admits they're injecting   animal DNA into the volunteers. He can't guarantee  that it'll work so he understands Abigail's worry,   but he also points out they've always known there  would be risks. Rick needs to go through this   new procedure to survive; Abigail hates hearing  this and stays distant for a while. A day later,   Rick removes the bandages and confirms his sight  is fine, he also shaves his head to avoid having   bald spots. When night falls, he discovers he  can see every detail in the darkness and he's   so impressed that he calls Collingwood to confirm  he'll do the procedure. While the families stay   home, all the volunteers are put through surgery,  but there are lots of complications and most of   them die. In the end, only Rick and Tally are  left alive and healthy.

The next day, Andrew,   Abigail, and Lucas visit Rick and Tally, and they  are shocked to discover they've become some kind   of mutated creatures that only communicate  through tactile contact and a low-frequency   that humans can't hear. Rick puts his hand against  the glass that separates them, making Abigail cry,   and her tears get worse when Collingwood gives her  Rick's wedding ring. In a few days, Tally and Rick   will be leaving for Titan, but meanwhile they're  allowed to stay home. Rick has trouble putting   on human clothes and when Abigail tries to help  him, Rick accidentally hits her. He tries to check   on her, but now Abigail's so scared of him that  she can't help moving away from his touch. Rick   spends most of his time in the pool, feeling  more comfortable there than in the house.

 One   night after putting Lucas to bed, Abigail looks  outside and discovers Tally entering the garden   with her hand covered in blood. Rick doesn't  look bothered by this and approaches Tally so   they can communicate through some weird tentacles  that come out from their fingers. At that moment,   the army arrives in the neighborhood and finds  Andrew dead in the shower. They begin approaching   Abigail's house too, causing her to run upstairs  to hide with Lucas. The soldiers shoot Tally with   tranquilizer darts, and it takes quite a few  of them to knock her down. However when they   come closer, Tally reveals she's awake and uses  the tentacles to kill one of them. The others   immediately respond by opening fire to kill her.  Next the soldiers try to come after Rick, but he   easily knocks them out with his new strength. Rick  tries to drown the last soldier in the pool, but   Abigail hears the commotion and comes out to stop  him. Unfortunately it's too late, and realizing   what he's done, Rick runs away.

 Colonel Solano  calls his entire team to begin looking for Rick,   ignoring Collingwood when he asks him not to kill  him because he's expensive research. Abigail and   Lucas are taken to the base for safety reasons,  but Abigail leaves when she realizes where Rick   went. After making sure she isn't followed,  Abigail runs to their special spot and finds   Rick there. Abigail offers her hand to prove she  isn't scared anymore, and once Rick's tentacles   have grabbed her wrist, she kisses him. It's at  that moment that the army helicopters find them   and knock them out. Abigail wakes up later at the  base with Collingwood by her side, explaining they   had to hurt her for her own good. The Pentagon is  shutting down the program soon, meaning they need   to send Rick to Titan immediately, because Tally  proved the Earth's atmosphere will either drive   them crazy or just kill these new bodies.

However  they can't force him to do it either because that   may kill him too, so Abigail needs to convince  Rick to go. Afterward she's taken to see Rick,   who is being kept inside a glass cage. Collingwood  wants Abigail to give Rick a shot of quetiapine,   which works as a chemical lobotomy and will erase  all his memories. Abigail doesn't like this,   but Collingwood explains it's the only way to make  him leave. A soldier gives her the injection with   the quetiapine from a drawer, which Abigail drops  just to make him pick it up. Then Abigail enters   the cage, and after exchanging a meaningful  look with Rick, she gives him the injection,   which knocks him out. When Abigail comes out,  she asks Freya to come with her while a soldier   approaches Rick to get him ready for the trip.  However Rick's only pretending to be unconscious   and kills the man, it's then that Collingwood  realizes Abigail grabbed saline from the drawer   when the soldier wasn't looking and that's what  she gave to Rick.

The soldiers open fire, but Rick   just runs away and hides in dark rooms where he  has sight advantage. Abigail goes to pick Lucas   up and Freya guides them to an alternate exit,  where they reunite with a heavily wounded Rick.   Lucas and Abigail hug him to prove again they  aren't scared, and Freya looks for some medicine,   but suddenly all the soldiers show up. Collingwood  asks the women to get away or the soldiers will   shoot everyone, but Abigail refuses. Furious,  Collingwood asks the soldiers to open fire,   but Solano stands up to him and tells him he won't  shoot two unarmed women and an innocent kid.

Then   he aims his own gun at Collingwood, and all the  other soldiers follow his example. As Collingwood   gets arrested, Abigail rushes to Rick's side, and  her hug allows him to reinforce his most precious   memories. Sometime later, Abigail together with  Freya become researchers on the Titan II project,   using more ethical methods to save the  world. Meanwhile Rick is sent to Titan,   where he reveals his new body has  wings and can fly around his new home.

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200 Pounds Girl Uses Plastic Wrap To Make Her Boyfriend Regret

 

In a cozy town in Russia, pastry chef Anya has a wonderful relationship with her boyfriend Zhenya, who works at a swimming pool and is obsessed with fitness. When the two of them first met, Anya looked like a supermodel. But since then, she's started to work in a bakery, and food became an addiction to her. As months pass, she starts to gain weight in a noticeable way, but Zhenya doesn't bring it up because he knows it's a sensitive topic. One day, Anya gets an invitation to a wedding, and she gets nervous when she sees herself in the mirror considering how much her body changed. When she starts trying on the dresses she has, they don't fit, and some of them even rip. After lots of testing, she finds one dress that fits decently and tells herself that nobody will notice the difference. Zhenya does notice though, and while he doesn't say anything, his face is obviously not happy. Anya notices his reaction and gets even more nervous, especially when she remembers all of Zhenya's fitness friends will be there too.

 Anya admits she doesn't feel like going to the party and offers a night of pizza and tv instead. Zhenya lets her stay but he has to go because this is a close friend, so he promises he'll just give his speech and come back quickly. To try to hide his dislike, Zhenya picks Anya up and sits her on the counter, but he turns away when she tries to kiss him, which upsets her. After Zhenya leaves, Anya gets into comfortable clothes and weighs herself. Seeing the numbers going up to seventy-six kilos, she decides today she'll only drink water. However she ends up making fried food anyway. When she checks her social media, she finds pictures of the wedding. All girls look beautifully skinny, and it makes her feel awful. To make matters worse, there's a video of a girl kissing Zhenya on the cheek, since obviously he stayed at the party after all.

 Anya gets furious and rushes to change to attend the wedding party, calling her best friend Natasha to pick her up. Natasha also notices Anya has gained weight, but she doesn't comment on it, in fact she thinks Anya looks beautiful and reminds her to love herself. When Anya arrives at the party, she finds Zhenya dancing with the girl closer than friends should. Jealous, Anya immediately gets between them and kisses Zhenya, causing the girl to get away. Zhenya is visibly annoyed but doesn't comment on it. After the dance, the couple takes a sear and Anya begins eating while asking why Zhenya was so close to that girl, but he says it was a group dance. Her jealousy causes Zhenya to finally admit he doesn't like her anymore because she's become a burden for him and that he's been thinking about breaking up all week. An argument ensues that gets interrupted by the photographer and the newlywed couple wanting to say hi, so Anya tries to hide how upset she is for the sake of the party. However the bride wonders if Anya is pregnant and that destroys her.

Afterward, Zheya properly breaks up with her and gets away, leaving Anya in tears. Anya leaves the party and takes the bus way to see her mom, not caring about having to cross the countryside in those heels. When she arrives, her mother Olga is in the middle of a date. Olga wants her daughter and her boyfriend to get along, but things are very awkward, and Anya doesn't speak up until the man leaves. Anya tells Olga what happened, and Olga points out Anya isn't fat, she just has thick bones, but this only makes Anya's mood worse. That night Anya stays at her mother's home and can't stop looking at pictures of Zhenya, because she still misses him even if he was a twat. She also finds an old picture of herself, which doesn't help her mood either. The next day, Natasha invites Anya to stay at her place, which she shares with her husband Dimas. It turns out Zhenya was here last night to drop off all of Anya's things, so Anya accepts to take the bed on the balcony until she finds her own place. Natasha also tries to comfort Anya to help her forget and move on, but Anya only rants her heart out, complaining about her boyfriend but also admitting she wants him back. Dimas tries to help too, telling Anya she's beautiful, but this only makes it worse because she can tell he's being nice out of compromise. Anya stays in bed for many days, not being able to cope with her sadness. One afternoon Natasha finally has had enough and shares the story of a friend of hers that also got dumped. Instead of crying all day long, that friend went to the gym and lost all her extra weight in just a month. When the boyfriend saw her again, the guy came to her office with flowers to beg her to take him back, but the girl told him to push those flowers up his end. All this can be done for free by using the one-week free trial in every gym in the city. Dimas interrupts their talk with a bucket of water to force Anya to wash, making her laugh for the first time in a while.

 Later that day, Anya only consumes a glass of water and promises to try. Sadly her first experience at a gym ever is a total disaster: she doesn't understand how to use the equipment and she just keeps falling, making her extremely frustrated, not to mention the pressure of seeing everyone else thin and working out well. By the time she's done, she ends up comforting herself with lots of fast food. Natasha sees this because she works at that joint and scolds her for her lack of commitment, throwing out her food before she can finish. Natasha chooses this moment to inform Anya she'll soon be moving to Moscow, so Anya needs to work hard to be able to move on soon. When Anya returns home, she applies a special cream on her bell and wraps it up, since she heard this trick could help her lose weight. However while waiting for the trick to work, she keeps eating junk food.

Her addiction is getting so bad that she wakes up in the middle of the night to take food from the fridge, and Natasha has to stop her. The fact Anya works at a bakery doesn't help. Whenever she licks her fingers while decorating, she tries to make up for it while exercising a bit in the kitchen. For lunch she only has tea. Throughout the rest of the day, she manages to control herself by drinking lots of water. But when she's left alone with a cake, the temptation is too much. After lots of pacing and even breaking a shelf, Anya gives in and eats half of the cake by herself while crying. Finally accepting how bad her problem has gotten, Anya looks for a self-help group dedicated to eating disorders. When she attends her first meeting, she's surprised to see they're all women except for one boy named Kolya. Anya gives them a fake name and says she doesn't have a problem, she's just here as a journalist to write an article about eating disorders.

The people in the group don't like the use of that words and being called gluttons, so an argument begins over choosing a nicer-sounding game. Suddenly Kolya calls them out, saying everyone here including himself is fat. He also calls Anya fat directly, causing her to pretend to get a phone call and leave the meeting in shame. Kolya follows her in his car, calling out her lying and pointing out she's in denial about her problem. He also invites her to have lunch together, but Anya turns him down. Afterward Anya goes to a restaurant and Kolya finds her there too. He throws away her juice as he complains about sugar, then proposes to be each other's fitness sponsors. If they keep each other accountable, they'll be able to exercise every day and find emotional support when they're having temptations. Anya is skeptical but Kolya gives her his number and asks her to call him. When she returns home, Anya looks Kolya up on social media and notices how hard he's working. The next day Kolya shows up at Natasha's and asks Anya to come for a run. Anya doesn't want to, but Natasha pushes her to go. During their first few days, Anya is embarrassed to be seen with Kolya and doesn't want to exercise much. However Kolya doesn't give up on her, and as time passes, Anya learns to depend on him. He's actually a very sweet guy and seeing him not be ashamed of his own body is very inspiring. Kolya and Anya become very good friends and are there for each other before every meal to provide support and understanding, making the process of losing weight less scary and frustrating. They establish an exercise routine and even join marathons. Anya learns to see how people are obsessed with food during everyday life and everyone wants to feed her, so she starts keeping count of the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates she consumes to fix her diet. She also brings healthy lunches to work and has lots of arguments with Olga whenever the topic of food comes up.

 Thanks to all this hard work, Anya begins to lose weight and regain some confidence. However this confidence is often put down whenever Anya finds herself surrounded by skinny girls, especially in contexts like pool parties. Kolya never gives up on her and comforts her whenever this happens, teaching her to scream to relieve stress and sharing his secret spot on the lake. One thing hasn't changed though: Anya still wants Zhenya back, going as far as leaving a comment on Zhenya's social media, and that makes Kolya jealous. Natasha is having trouble too, she keeps chatting with people from Moscow because of work and Dimas doesn't like it, so he keeps working on ways to sabotage the move. After a month and a half, Anya has lost enough weight to feel confident and visit Zhenya. She goes to the swimming pool where he works and pretends to bump into him by accident. Zhenya can't believe what he's seeing, and the two begin chatting like the old times, they also play in the water as if nothing had happened.

They have a delightful afternoon together until the girl from the wedding shows up and Anya is devastated to hear she's dating Zhenya. With her heart broken again, Anya breaks her habits to match and spends the night drinking and partying to forget. A guy takes interest in her and leaves with her. The next day, Anya wakes up in a strange bed, but it turns out this is Kolya's place and he swears nothing happened between them. Anya makes an effort and remembers that last night, she almost went home with a stranger, but Kolya arrived just in time to save her because the guy was wrong to take advantage of a drunk woman. This got him punched in the face. On their way home, Anya spent the entire trip complaining about Zhenya and her missing father. Kolya now thinks that Anya suffers from emptiness because of her father leaving her as a kid, and she fills that emptiness with food. She also seeks Zhenya's validation because she wants a mean man in her life to want her back.

 Ready to test this theory, Anya goes to see her mom again to ask her for her dad's number. Olga gives it to her even if she thinks it's a bad idea because that man hurt them both. Anya calls her dad and they have an awkward conversation where he agrees to give her his address so she can visit him. Then Anya looks in the drawers for the jacket her dad gifted her before he left. Anya asks Kolya to drive her to her father's home, and Kolya accepts if Anya in return goes to cheer for him during his next race, although Anya doesn't like the idea much. Since it's a long trip, they stop to take lots of selfies and have some fun. Kolya tries to put his arm around Anya's seat, but she always pushes him away. When they arrive at their destination, Anya finally meets her father Sergey and discovers he's living with a woman. Conversation during lunch is quite awkward, and when they have a moment alone, Anya wonders why her dad wasn't part of her life. Sergey immediately points out that when he tried to visit her for her birthday, Anya sent him away by showing him the finger through the window. Anya gives him the jacket and remembers the time they used to dance together, but Sergey thinks she's trying to make him look like a clown and leaves the table. Sometime later, Anya accidentally drops a candle and starts a fire that consumes the house, the flames even caught on her back. Kolya immediately helps her, but instead of worrying about her daughter's injuries, Sergey yells at her for ruining everything. Koyla comes in her defense, but Any decides to go home. The trip back is quiet and awkward. When Kolya drops Anya at Olga's place, she kisses him on the nose to thank him. Kolya thinks his flirting is finally returned and is in an amazing mood all day, even going as far as trading his watch to buy flowers for Anya.

Sometime later, Zhenya visits Anya and brings her flowers to apologize for everything. Anya is still weak to his charms and they end up getting frisky. While they're busy, Kolya shows up with his own flowers, but he sees them through the window and decides to leave to take care of his broken heart. After their fun times are done, Zhenya comments that breaking up turned out to be a good thing because it motivated Anya to lose weight. This makes Anya realize that Zhenya hasn't changed and that being with him would mean living in constant fear of her own body causing another breakup. Hurt but determined not to go through this again, Anya kicks Zhenya out. Later, Olga announces she's getting married, and Anya cries because she can't be happy like her. In the evening, Anya visits Natasha, who is having a party at her house. Natasha wants to share her problems, but Anya isn't in the mood to hear her because she has her own stuff to deal with. Suddely one of the partygoers gives Anya a pipe to hide, and Anya accidentally drops it over the balcony, causing it to fall on top of a police car. A cop comes to the apartment to arrest them for their illegal smoking, so Natasha bribes him to make him go away.

 That money was the last savings she had to go to Moscow, and Dimas sees it as a sign she shouldn't leave. An argument ensues about their dreams for the future, and when Natasha tries to help, Natasha yells at her. Anya always received help from her yet never returned the favor, and Natasha is tired of being the responsible one. As Natasha and Dimas keep fighting, Anya leaves to visit Kolya at the secret lake spot, looking for his support and comfort. However Kolya is angry and throws an apple at her, saying that if she doesn't love herself nobody will love her. He also breaks their sponsorship and tells her to get a new fat friend. After Kolya leaves, a group of mean guys surround Anya with their bikes, so she has to run away in tears. She ends up falling asleep in the middle of the wheat camp. The next morning, Olga's boyfriend saves Anya just in time before a harvester runs over her, and Anya learns he has a drinking problem. Afterward Anya goes to see Natasha, but nobody will open the door.

 A neighbor hears her and allows her to climb through his window to sneak inside Natasha's place. Anya apologizes to her for being a horrible friend and tells her to go to Moscow because she deserves it. The girls spend their last afternoon together as a goodbye. Later, Anya helps Olga's boyfriend to get rid of all his alcohol by setting it on fire, then she surprises Olga by showing she accepts her future marriage. The next day, Sergey comes to see Anya and apologizes for not trying to be in her life more. To prove he cares, he dances with her like they used to when she was a kid. Touched by the memory, Anya accepts to reconcile with him. When Sergey asks about Kolya, Anya explains what happened, and Sergey points out that if they can make up, she can do the same with her friend. Anya asks Sergey to drive him to the marathon and finds Kolya about to break the rules to drink some soda. Anya immediately takes it away and becomes the strict but caring sponsor he needs, and points out nobody loves themselves as Kolya does, so he should see himself as the inspiration he is. The duo ends up running the marathon together and completing it after lots of suffering. Kolya is so delighted that he can't help kissing Anya to celebrate. Anya doesn't mind because she's learned to appreciate the kind of proud happiness Kolya has in his life.

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Girl didn't fall ASLEEP for 10 YEARS

 

In a small town in Oregon, social worker Emily  is going through a usual day at the office,   which includes lots of angry parents and abused  kids. She's already got 38 cases on her plate,   but her boss Wayne doesn't hesitate to give her  a 39th. Emily checks the file and finds a girl   named Lilith, so she decides to take it home  with a few of her other cases. In the evening,   she goes to a bar to meet with her friend  Douglas, a psychologist that also works with   problematic families. Douglas asks Emily  to be more than friends, but Emily turns   him down again because she doesn't think her  time-consuming job allows her to have a proper   relationship. When she returns home, Emily reads  Lilith's file and learns her grades have gone down   a lot and that she's become very withdrawn.

  Emily makes an appointment with the family,   and when she shows up at the house a few days  later, she notices the mother Margaret looking   suspiciously through the window. When Emily knocks  on the door, Margaret doesn't open it completely,   wary of the presence of a stranger in her house  until Emily reminds her of their appointment.   Lilith looks at Emily from upstairs shily until  Emily shows she's friendly. The three of them   get comfortable in the living room, and when  Emily asks about the father, Margaret says she   doesn't know where he is or when he's coming  back. At that moment some noises can be heard   coming from the basement, and Emily makes Margaret  bring her husband to the meeting. Edward is also   wary and instead of talking directly to Emily, he  talks into Margaret's ear for her to repeat it.  

 Edward refuses to acknowledge the family has any  trouble and when Emily wonders why he won't speak   to her directly, Margaret explains Edward doesn't  like speaking out of anger. Later at the office,   Emily shares this experience with Wayne, who  points out that being scary isn't abuse or   illegal. Emily insists she feels something is  wrong with Lilith, so Wayne allows her to bring   the family for one last interview to see if they  can gather evidence. On the day of the meeting,   Edward is well-dressed and well-mannered as  he swears they love their daughter.

Afterward,   Emily tells Wayne that they're obviously acting  and Wayne believes her, but he can't do anything   without evidence. Emily rushes to find Lilith,  bonding with the girl by making her laugh and   sharing she's always wanted a sister to talk  to. This causes Lilith to open up, and the   girl explains she's heard her parents talk about  sending her to hell. Emily finally has enough for   a proper recorded interview with Lilith, but when  Wayne asks the important questions, Lilith sees   her father through the window and doesn't say a  word. Since once again they don't have any proof,   the family leaves. Later Emily goes to see her  friend Mike, to ask for his help as a detective. 

  Unfortunately Mike agrees with Wayne and he'll  only help if there's evidence. The next day, Emily   shows up at the school and gives Lilith her home  number so she can all in case anything happens.   In the evening, Emily gets a phone call from  Lilith. The girl is feeling very scared and says   her parents are "waiting to get her". Then Lilith  falls asleep out of a sudden. Emily rushes out of   her house and calls Mike to convince him Lilith  is in trouble. Edward and Margaret go to Lilith's   room and find her hiding under the bed. They take  her to the kitchen, where they push her inside the   ov*n. At that moment Lilith wakes up and tries to  escape as she screams in fear, but her parents tie   her up with tape and push her back before locking  the over door with more tape and turning it on. 

  Outside, Emily meets with Mike, who hears Lilith  screaming and immediately breaks down the door.   They rush inside and Emily's very disturbed by  what she finds in the kitchen. She finds a knife   and cuts the tape, saving Lilith. The parents  try to attack them, but Mike uses his training   to easily overpower them and arrest them. Later  during the pretrial, the judge decides the parents   will go undergo a psychiatric evaluation to decide  if they're fit for a proper trial. Afterward Emily   goes to the hospital and finds Douglas talking  to Lilith, inviting her to join his child therapy   group.

After Douglas leaves, Emily informs  Lilith that she'll be taken to a children's   home. Lilith wants to live with Emily, but Emily  points out it's not that simple. The next day,   Emily drops Lilith at the children's home and  Lilith begins asking to live with her again. Emily   again tries to explain why it's impossible and  that she isn't mom material, and Lilith says she   can't know if she doesn't try. This leaves Emily  thinking a lot and she decides to apply to be   Lilith's foster parent. Wayne explains she'll have  to drop the case because of conflict of interest,   but both he and Douglas are supportive. Later  Emily makes a presentation to the committee,   explaining Lilith needs to be someone she trusts  and that her experience with these matters can   provide the proper support. Since finding a foster  home can take weeks or even months, permission is   granted to Emily to bring Lilith home.

Lilith is  delighted to see Emily's house and the room that   has been prepared for her. Emily tries to be as  comforting as she can and since she knows Lilith   has trouble sleeping, she brings her tea before  bed to help her relax. The next day, Emily goes   to Lilith's house to pick up her things. A cop  makes her sign some papers and leaves because he   has lots to do, so Emily has the chance to snoop  around. In the basement she discovers Edward had   been digging a grave, and in the parents' bedroom  she finds strange marks on the floor. She also   finds extra deadbolts on the door, which makes  Emily think they were crazy after all. Meanwhile   Lilith goes to group therapy where she hears Diego  share the bad situation he's going through at home   and school. The following day, Emily arrives  at the office and learns some horrible news:   Diego killed his parents last night. Emily rushes  to the scene of the crime and is shocked to see   the slaughter as Mike explains Diego locked all  doors and windows before using a tire iron to do   the killing. It's hard for Emily to believe a  kid could do this but Mike explains he saw how   it took three cops to subdue the child.

 At that  moment their conversation is interrupted by a   dog violently barking at them, which Mike clearly  dislikes. Afterward Emily goes to see Diego at the   detention center, and the kid has a breakdown  when he sees her. Later in the afternoon,   Emily and Lilith go for a walk at the harbor and  Lilith asks Emily for details about her life,   so Emily shares she never met her dad and that  her mom had problems. Lilith points out that Emily   must've been scared of her mother because she  doesn't like to talk about her. The next morning,   Emily finds Lilith hiding a picture under  her pillow - it turns out to be a photo of   young Emily and her mother. Emily scolds Lilith  for snooping but still shares what happened:   her mother was driving too fast during a rainy day  and they had an accident. Afterward Emily puts the   picture away in a closet she locks up.

 Later Emily  meets with Mike and learns Lilith's parents have   been sent to a mental hospital. Mike also informs  her that the phone records of Diego's house showed   a call was received the night of the murder, and  it came from Emily's home number. Emily swears   she didn't call them and takes Mike to see Lilith,  but she promises it wasn't her either. Mike leaves   after telling Emily he's sure Lilith's lying,  and when she turns around, Emily discovers Lilith   overheard them. The following day Emily goes  to see Diego again and asks him about the call,   this causes him to have a panic attack. Once  he's taken to the infirmary, Emily tries again,   and Diego confirms that Lilith called him. However  he also says it was a male voice. Later Douglas   visits Lilith to check on her progress. Lilith  looks bored by the usual questions and asks   Douglas to get to the point in a rather rude  way. Douglas asks her why she filled out her   questionnaire saying she isn't afraid of anything  because everyone has fears.

 Lilith asks him to   go first, and Douglas shares that he's afraid of  hornets since he accidentally hit a nest when he   was a kid. Then Lilith confesses she is scared of  herself because she has bad thoughts about people,   including Douglas. She begins insulting Douglas  using very adult words and even offering complex   definitions when Douglas looks confused. Lilith's  body language shows her to be smug as she tells   Douglas he should be worrying about what'll  happen next. After the meeting is over, Douglas   tells Emily this is the first time a kid made  him feel threatened. Later during dinner, Emily   watches Lilith eat her peas in a very weird way  and realizes she's starting to be suspicious of   the girl.

 Lilith offers to brush her hair to help  her relax and when Emily turns her down, Lilith   wonders if Douglas told her anything. Meanwhile  Douglas is at home reading about personality   disorders when the phone rings. Douglas takes the  call but only hears static on the other side and   hangs up before going back to reading. Suddenly he  starts feeling an itch on his ear which makes him   think the phone is ringing again, but it's just  his imagination. At that moment his ear starts   hurting and he can hear a weird buzzing. Douglas  rushes to the bathroom and uses a cotton swab to   remove whatever is in his ear, only to discover  it's a hornet. He throws it in the toilet,   but as soon as he turns around, two more appear  on his shoulder and one more comes out of his ear. 

 Soon a bunch of hornets is flying around Douglas,  so he desperately kills them all with his towel   and tosses them in the toilet too. However more  hornets show up and Douglas finds his back covered   with them. As carefully as possible, Douglas  takes his shirt off and puts it in the tub before   closing the door, this causes the hornets to start  making a painful noise that drives Douglas crazy.   Suddenly hornets begin coming out from every part  of his body, and when he tries to fight them off,   he falls against the bathroom door, getting  hurt by the glass. The pain becomes too much   to handle and Douglas decides to end things with  a broken neck. Later during Douglas' funeral,   Lilith tries to take Emily's hand, but Emily's  even more suspicious now and takes it away.

On   their trip back, Lilith accuses Emily of blaming  her for Douglas' death, so Emily lets her hold her   hand to convince her they're fine. Afterward Emily  goes to see Mike and tells him she doesn't think   this was an accident. Unfortunately Mike just  thinks she's being paranoid, especially since   they checked the phone records and Douglas didn't  get any calls from her house. Later at work, Emily   secretly takes Lilith's file and gets the tapes of  the interrogation with her parents after the ov*n   incident. They said that it was God's will to kill  Lilith, implying she was evil incarnate. Margaret   said that as soon as Lilith was born, Margaret's  brothers and Edward's sisters died. In fact people   died around Lilith all the time, and Lilith didn't  kill her parents too because first she had to   find somebody else. Afterward Emily goes to the  mental hospital and learns that the nurse found a   screaming Margaret on the floor scratching her own  skin because she was convinced she was on fire.   Now she's kept tied to the bed and can't receive  visitors, but Emily is allowed to see Edward. As   soon as Edward sees Emily, he guesses someone  died and says Lilith is no daughter of his. She   won't go anywhere until she's done with Emily, and  Edward's sure she planned everything for a social   worker to take her. Lilith can see and sense  everything, and she wants to learn a person's   idea of hell is to make them live it. When Emily  returns home, she hides all her case files,   phones, and anything that could be used for harm  in the closet she keeps locked. At the last second   she decides to keep a knife, but when she hears  Lilith is coming back from school, Emily hides   the knife in the couch. Lilith looks around and  notices the phones are gone, so Emily tells them   both broke, which Lilith finds suspicious. the  girl asks about her mother, saying Emily had   told her she would be visiting Margaret. Emily  denies ever telling her that and Lilith blames it   on a dream. The next day, Emily goes to see Nancy,  the woman in charge of finding permanent adoptive   parents for abused children. Nancy explains Lilith  isn't her priority since she's safe with Emily,   and she's shocked to hear Emily asking her to  accelerate the process. Emily made a big deal   when she ask for Lilith, and now Nancy thinks  she needs to deal with it.

 Afterward Emily goes   to pick Lilith up from therapy and notices her  whispering something into another girl's ear.   Emily freaks out and rushes to drag Lilith out  of there. The new doctor immediately calls her   out for her behavior, but Lilith comes to Emily's  defense saying she's just stressed. Then the two   of them go to take the elevator and Emily tells  Lilith she can't come to group therapy anymore.   Lilith begins obnoxiously repeating "why Emily?"  until the elevator suddenly stops, and when Emily   sticks to her decision of canceling therapy,  Lilith cuts the elevator wires to make it fall at   a great speed. Emily is terrified but Lilith makes  the elevator stop at the ground floor and steps   out as if nothing happened. In the evening, Emily  puts extra deadbolts on her door and accidentally   drops a screw. Lilith finds it and hands it to  her as she realizes Emily is becoming like her   parents. The next day, Emily is so distracted that  she can barely work. When it's time to make an   important call, she loses her temper and yells at  a parent with insults.

 Wayne hears this and tells   her to go home, causing Emily to admit she doesn't  want to. At that moment, Wayne's phone rings and   when he picks it up, he hears only static. However  he passes it to Emily saying it's for her. Emily   hears Lilith's voice telling her she shouldn't  leave her alone, and Emily immediately hangs up,   only to discover she's alone in the office  and the phone is gone. Emily returns home and   ignores Lilith to hide in her room, locking all  the bolts and keeping a screwdriver at hand to   defend herself. Lilith knocks gently at first, but  when Emily doesn't answer, Lilith begins hitting   the door with outstanding strength. Her screaming  doesn't stop until Emily asks her to leave her   alone, but then a strange noise comes from the  closet. Emily looks inside and when she moves   the clothes, she's suddenly startled by the burned  spirit of Margaret.

 Terrified, Emily runs outside   as Margaret chases after her. There's a bus parked  nearby, and Emily convinces the driver to let her   in right before Margaret hits the door. The driver  is confused because there's nobody out there, and   when Emily turns around, she can't see anything  either. Afterward Emily goes to her car and finds   the key she hid under it, but as soon as she gets  inside, Lilith startles her from the backseat,   reminding her she has to do everything she  asks for. The next day at work, Nancy informs   Emily that she's found a family for Lilith. Emily  doesn't want another family to go through the same   thing, so she goes to see Edward again to ask for  advice. Edward explains there's no choice but to   kill her, and that can only be accomplished when  Lilith is sleeping, which she almost never does.   He also reminds Emily not to be afraid. When Emily  returns home, she finds Lilith watching the tapes   of her parents' interrogation. She mentions that  they did what she wanted for a while, but then the   secrets started, except they weren't secrets  because Lilith always knew what they thought.   Meanwhile at the mental hospital, Margaret begins  hallucinating that she's burning again.

 Edward is   having lunch and notices a man eating peas like  Lilith does. That man suddenly uses Lilith's   voice, causing Edward to go crazy and kill the  guy with a fork. The guards try to catch Edward,   but he's in the middle of an outburst and in the  struggle, he falls off the table, dying when he   lands on his own fork. Sometime later, Emily goes  to see Mike, who finally believes her because he's   discovered Douglas did get a call from Lilith, and  it came from Emily's cell phone. The recording has   lots of static but Lilith's voice can be heard  making a threat. Emily confesses she wants to   kill Lilith and Mike promises to help. Afterward,  Emily goes to see a doctor to get some sleeping   medicine while Mike takes some weapons from the  police station.

Then he goes to the parking lot   to get his car and discovers various dogs growling  at him. Scared, Mike tries to hide in his car,   but the dogs appear next to him and attack him.  Mike tries to shoot them, but the dogs disappear   and the bullet kills Mike instead. Emily returns  home to see her files spread all over the floor   and follows the trail to discover Lilith has  been keeping a collection of pictures of her   victims. At that moment she hears a weird noise  coming from under the bed and checks to find her   cell phone ringing. Emily takes the call and after  some static, Wayne's voice informs her that Mike   is dead and the police believe he ended things  for himself. Emily starts to cry but her grief is   interrupted by Lilith pumping up the volume of the  tv. Furious, Emily pushes the tv to the ground and   tells Lilith to leave, but Lilith ignores her.  Emily tries again by pushing the popcorn bowl,   this causes Lilith to suddenly change into a more  demonic face and ask with a creepy male voice not   to be yelled at.

 A terrified Emily runs to her  room and after locking the door, she moves the   furniture in front of it, making marks on the  floor that explains the ones at the old home.   Lilith comes to ask for forgiveness with a sweet  voice, but as soon as Emily asks her to leave,   the door starts being hit with supernatural force.  Emily tries to keep it closed by pushing the   furniture, but Lilith breaks it anyway, so Emily  hides under the bed. Lilith grabs the screwdriver   and stabs the floor with it before joining Emily  under the bed. She sweetly asks to be loved,   and Emily says she will just to make her leave.  Afterward, Emily prepares the evening tea and puts   the sleeping medicine in it to make Lilith drink  it like every night. Once Lilith falls asleep,   Emily ties the doorknob with some rope before  covering the whole house with gasoline and setting   it on fire. Moments later, Emily watches the house  burn while the firemen arrive, but as soon as she   turns around, she discovers Lilith is just fine.

  Emily and Lilith leave in the car to find a place   to stay. Lilith mentions she wants a hotel with  a swimming pool, giving Emily an idea. Lilith is   suspicious and begins taunting Emily with mentions  of her mother, saying the car crash hadn't been an   accident and that Emily had been scared of her.  Emily begins driving faster and Lilith makes her   hallucinate, causing Emily to see herself as her  mother and her young self in the backseat. It's a   recreation of the old accident, and when a truck  blocks the road, Emily remembers Edward's advice   and tells herself she isn't scared because  it isn't real. The car drives right through   the illusion, and for the first time ever, Lilith  looks terrified. Emily suddenly turns the car into   the harbor, making it fall into the water. When  Emily tries to swim away, Lilith in her demonic   form grabs her, so Emily pushes her back with  the seat to drown her. Then Emily swims again,   but at the last second, Lilith's hand comes  out of the car's tail light and grabs her   ankle. After lots of struggling, Emily manages to  kick the hand away and swims back to the shore,   where she watches the last bubbles on the  water indicate Lilith is finally gone for good.

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Place Where 1 Day is Equal to 50 Years of Lifetime

 

To get away from the stress of everyday life,  the Kappa family decides to take a vacation at a   beautiful tropical resort. They're welcomed by the  resort manager and waitress Madrid, who offers the   parents Guy and Prisca some exotic drinks. The  kids Maddox and Trent go looking for the candy   station and Trent immediately befriends Idlib,  the manager's nephew. After leaving their things   in their room, the family changes into their  swimsuits and goes to the beach. Trent and Idlib   play together and like to talk to everyone on the  beach to learn about their jobs, getting answers   even from a cop like Greg. Later in the evening,  Guy and Prisca have an argument about Prisca's   illness and their incoming divorce. They're trying  to keep it hidden from the kids to give them one   last vacation as a family, but their argument  escalates and the kids hear them yell anyway.  

Trent tries to keep himself distracted by reading  a letter from Idlib, which he must decode first   because the boys have invented their own code to  write to each other. Meanwhile on a beach nearby,   Brendan watches his companion get in the water.  The next morning all the resort visitors come   down for breakfast. Charles has come with his wife  Chrystal, who needs lots of calcium in her food,   their child Kara, and his mother Agnes with her  dog. The manager approaches the Kappas and tells   them about a special beach not many people know  about, promising to send a van to pick them up   later. Idlib comes by to say hi to Trent, but the  manager reminds him he isn't allowed to be there. 

 Suddenly everyone turns around when they hear a  noise: it's Patricia, who has fallen because she's   having an epileptic seizure. Her husband Jarin is  a nurse, but Charles is a doctor and comes to help   them anyway. Fortunately Patricia recovers quickly  and apologizes to everyone for ruining breakfast.   Moments later, a driver comes to pick up the  Kappas and Charles' family. He takes a hidden   road that requires him to go through a special  gate that says "off limits", and he leaves them   outside a clearing, explaining he can't come  along. The families cross the woods and a very   narrow cavern to come out to a beautiful secluded  beach. Charles notices Brendan is sitting nearby   and since he's a racist twat, he decides to leave  their things as far away as possible.

Maddox sees   Brendan too and recognizes him as a famous rapper,  but Guy forbids her from bothering him on his   vacation. The adults relax while the kids play  together. Guy and Prisca notice that when the   children play house with the dolls, their dialogue  includes lots of arguments. Then the kids explore   the beach as they complain about being constantly  hungry, and they come across a large mound of sand   that contains lots of abandoned items, including  rusted cluttery from the hotel. Prisca immediately   reminds them not to play with that because it can  give them an infection. Moments later, Trent is in   the water and notices there are no fish here like  on the main beach. Suddenly something hits him   from behind and he screams when he realizes it's a  body.

 Guy and Charles bring the body to the shore   and Brendan confirms that's his companion, but he  swears he doesn't know what happened - she just   left to have a swim and never came back. Charles  doesn't believe him and wonders why Brendan's   nose is bleeding, but Brendan refuses to give any  explanations. Trent complains about being hungry   again and tells Prisca that his swimming suit is  too tight, which makes Prisca notice something   weird. At that moment, Patricia and Jarin also  arrive at the beach. Guy realizes this could give   them the chance to contact the driver, but the  couple confirms he's already left. Agnes suddenly   begins complaining about chest pain and Charles  rushes to check on her while the others try to use   their phones, but there isn't signal here. Jarin  goes back into the cavern to see if he can find   anyone in the woods, but his head starts hurting  badly and he passes out. When he wakes up, he's   back on the beach. Prisca tries to ask Charles  for his help because she thinks there's something   wrong with Trent, but Charles is too busy checking  on his mother. However as soon as he turns around,   Agnes stops breathing and not even CPR can save  her. Charles assumes the stress caused by the   body they found gave her a heart attack. Meanwhile  the kids keep hanging out together and they think   they somehow look different, they also won't stop  eating. They notice some lights on a hill nearby,   but the lights quickly disappear. Then they go to  chat with Jarin and Patricia, who don't believe   them when the kids say their ages. Prisca shows up  asking where her kids are and Jarin and Patricia   think they're being pranked since the kids are  right there.

 It's then revealed that Maddox,   Trent, and Kara have suddenly become teenagers.  While everyone's busy with these revelations,   Brendan runs into the cavern to try to escape.  Charles immediately follows him but both men are   affected by the same terrible headache Jarin had  and they pass out only to wake up on the beach a   second later. An argument ensues on how to proceed  and the adults decide to separate in pairs to see   if they can find a safe escape route, but the same  happens: a headache followed by waking up on the   beach. Another argument begins on how to proceed  while Charles suddenly takes out a knife from   his pocket and uses it to hurt Brendan, saying  he thought he was being attacked as an excuse.   Jarin tries to check the injury, but to everyone's  shock, the cut has already scarred. Brendan swears   he doesn't know what's going on and explains he  met his companion here in the resort, they bonded   because they both took a vacation after being  recently diagnosed. Since there are so many sick   people in this group, Patricia wonders if this  is some kind of group psychosis.

At that moment,   the group discovers Agnes' dog is also dead. Jarin  wonders if they could swim out of here, but there   isn't any land in sight, meaning any possible  distance may be too dangerous. Patricia gathers   the group in a circle and asks them to share their  problem to see if the psychosis is caused by the   stress. Chrystal admits she and Charles had been  having trouble because Charles has been under lots   of stress at work, which Charles hates to hear.  Prisca refuses to talk but admits she's feeling   weird, and Guy confesses she's got a tumor.  Suddenly Prisca passes out and Charles checks   her abdomen, pointing out the tumor is huge.  Guy doesn't understand this since the tumor   was supposed to be benign and only 3cm. If they  want to save Prisca, they'll have to do an improv   operation. Charles uses some alcohol and his knife  to start, but the first cut immediately closes,   so when he tries again Jarin has to keep it open  with his hands.

 They manage to remove the tumor,   which has gotten even bigger in the last few  seconds, and once again the cut closes on its   own. Brendan goes to check on his companion's  body for clues and discovers she's already   become a skeleton, which usually would take  years. Prisca also notices Guy has wrinkles,   and the group finally realizes that time passes  faster on this beach. Based on the kids' new age,   they calculate thirty minutes equals a whole  year, and they guess nails and hair are dead cells   so they react to whatever this beach is doing  differently. This also explains that the kids   are eating so much because their mass is growing.  If they stay here for a while, they'll all die of   old age. In the meantime, Trent and Kara have  made a tent with an umbrella and some towels to   have privacy as they bond over their fears and  get closer. When they come out a moment later,   they're looking even older and Kara's five months  pregnant. As everyone begins arguing again,   Kara's belly keeps on growing and her water  suddenly breaks. Charles, Jarin, and Patricia   help Kara give birth, but this is too much for  Chrystal to handle and she runs away. She tries   to escape through the cavern but she gets the same  headache and wakes up on the beach to immediately   hear bad news: since time passes so fast here, the  baby only stayed alive for a minute before he died   from lack of attention. Trent has a breakdown and  his family tries to calm him down. Chrystal tries   to comfort Kara, but Charles also freaks out  and calls his wife out for looking ugly.

Hurt,   Chrystal runs away again, and when Maddox tries to  comfort her, Chrystal just asks to be left alone.   Suddenly Patricia screams and everyone  discovers Charles is stabbing Brendan,   proving that the sick one in his family is him  because he suffers from schizophrenia. He's been   hiding it because he would lose his job. They try  to stop him, but by the time they reach Brendan's   side he's already dead. Afterward Charles  leaves to sit alone, and Guy takes the chance   to carefully take the knife from him. Then Jarin  decides he'll try to swim out of the beach to   find help, especially since Patricia needs her  medicine. Patricia can't help but notice that   even though technically years have been passing  for her, she hasn't gone through another seizure   since they arrived. Trent considers climbing  the high rock wall that surrounds the beach,   but Prisca forbids it because it's too dangerous.

  While Charles begins talking to himself, the group   discusses how they learned about this place.  Supposedly it was a random sweepstake that came   with a receipt at the pharmacy, but they're now  realizing they were specifically chosen because of   their illnesses. Since the passports are in their  rooms and they sent a special car to pick them up,   they can make it look like the families never  left their homes. Later, Maddox has a private   talk with Prisca, wondering if she had been  planning to leave Guy. Prisca confirms she   had and that she had an affair when she learned  about the tumor because she got scared. Maddox   can't believe what she's hearing and needs some  time alone, so she gets in the water to distract   herself. At that moment something bumps against  her and she screams when she finds Jarin's body.   Patricia cries for her husband as the others  realize Brendan had been telling the truth,   he never hurt his companion.

After a certain  distance, the sea probably works the same way   the cavern does and Jarin drowned when he passed  out. Meanwhile Kara can't stop holding her dead   baby while she laments all the cool high school  experiences they've missed. Trent finally decides   to take the baby from her and do a proper burial,  but Kara takes advantage of his distraction to   start climbing up the rock wall. Unfortunately  this area also works like the cavern, meaning   Kara passes out and falls to her death. Trent has  another breakdown and Guy has to pull him away   from the body, pointing out they should all stay  together from now on. Patricia finds some floating   noodles and ties them together to check if she can  use them to float away.

 Before she can try though,   she begins having another epileptic seizure.  Charles is lost in his own mind and there's   nobody else with medical knowledge to help, so  sadly Patricia dies next. At that moment, Guy   realizes his vision is getting blurry, and Prisca  can't hear from one ear. Chrystal hasn't consumed   any calcium in a while and her body is starting  to deform, so she decides to stay hidden from   everyone else. Trent and Maddox start a fire for  their parents since old age makes them feel chilly   all the time. Guy confesses to Prisca he knew  about her affair because he saw her text messages,   and Prisca apologizes as she confesses the place  she wants to be at right now is Guy's side. Guy   admits that he wants to stay with her too. Trent  and Maddox go looking for more things to throw   into the fire and find a notebook in the sand  mound. The owner of the notebook was taking notes   about what was going on and mentioned something  about magnetism affecting their cells. Trent   wonders if they could hide inside a metal tube to  stop the transformation, like the metal vests they   use during X-rays, but they have nothing to test  that theory with.

The notebook also has all the   names and addresses of the beach's last victims.  Then Trent sees the lights on the hills again and   finally realizes they're cameras, meaning someone  is recording them. Meanwhile Charles finally loses   it and comes to attack Guy and Prisca with the  knife. The couple tries to protect each other,   but since the cuts close themselves, Charles just  keeps going. Prisca runs to her kids and sends   them to hide before she grabs a rusted knife  that she uses to stab Charles. The cut closes,   but the infection begins to spread incredibly  fast and Charles dies.

 Maddox and Trent hide   among the rocks and come across Chrystal, whose  hypocalcemia has completely deformed her body.   She's having a terrible breakdown and starts  throwing things at the kids to scare them away,   but suddenly her body begins squirming in pain  and she dies as well. The Kappas reunite and   have a soft moment together by the fire. Guy  and Prisca are elderly by now, and Guy's having   memory problems. He's forgotten what they had been  fighting about and why they wanted to leave this   beach because he thinks it's beautiful. Then Guy  confesses he's also forgotten the word for his   feelings for Prisca, and as he rests his head on  her shoulder, he dies of old age.

 Prisca tries to   walk away from the body to grieve, only to  immediately die as well. The next morning,   Maddox and Trent are middle-aged adults, and they  think they may only have around thirteen hours   left. They agree they should attempt to escape  one more time, but first, they're going to make   some sandcastles as a last memory. As they play,  they ponder if they have childhood wonder because   they grew up so fast or if this is something all  adults are hiding. Trent suddenly remembers he   had a message from Idlib that he never decoded, so  he decides to do it now.

 To his shock, the message   is actually a clue that says "my uncle doesn't  like the coral". The siblings wonder if the coral   can protect them from the effects of the beach  like the tube they thought about and decide to   try swimming under it after Trent picks something  up. The first few minutes of swimming go swiftly,   but suddenly Maddox's clothes get stuck on the  coral and they don't know how to get her out.   All this is being watched from the hills by the  driver, who is the person behind the lights. After   the siblings fail to come out, he assumes they're  dead and let his boss know before returning to   a lab hidden in the woods. At that moment the  leader shows up and turns out to be the manager,   who asks for a minute of silence for the latest  deaths.

It turns out the resort invites sick   people to stay so they can be used in experiments,  and Madrid receives them with those special drinks   because they have experimental medicine in  them. This lab uses the effects of the beach to   develop medicine trials that usually would take a  lifetime. Today they've found a cure for epilepsy,   proven by the fact Patricia went sixteen years  without a seizure. This lab is also in charge   of wiping all the electronics left by the dead  visitors to avoid being found. Afterward the   manager returns to the resort to receive his new  victims, and he takes the time to remind Idlib he   must ask which children he's allowed to play with. 

 At that moment, a mysterious figure approaches   Greg to give him a notebook in a bag. The  newcomers arrive at the resort and when Madrid is   about to hand them the drinks, someone bumps into  her and makes her spill everything. While Greg   calls his station and confirms every name on the  notebook is a missing person, it's revealed that   Maddox and Trent did manage to escape the coral  by breaking the piece that got stuck on Prisca's   clothes and breathing through the holes in the  roof. They found fish as soon as they came out   on the other side, confirming that was a safe part  of the sea. Trent shows Idlib the coded message,   and Idlib has to touch his face to believe  this is his dear friend. Moments later, Greg   is taking the siblings away in a helicopter as he  explains his team is arresting everyone involved.

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