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This has nothing

to do with me, okay?

Are you okay?

Yeah. Fine. I'm fine.

Zeigler?

Zeigler?

Excuse me.

Zeigler!

Zeig?

Zeigler?

My boy hooked me up, okay?

I mean, I'm talking, now,

free passwords...

...to, like, over 100 sites.

So we're talking...

Thank you.

...horny coeds...

...Japanese girls in bondage,

and...

...what... granny trannys...

Okay, you did not just say that.

I never looked at 'em. Okay?

I'm just saying,

I have the passwords...

- He totally looked.

- You know he did.

I call it having access

to information.

It's called

having a girlfriend, Stone.

You should check it out.

- Damn!

- Wow, that's harsh.

Sorry.

Shrink in training...

I gotta tell it like it is.

Tim!

I'm right here.

What?

Check this out.

- Oh, he's cute.

- Oh, yeah.

Scroll down...

- g*y!

- Absolutely.

What?!

It's a boy-toy,

who saw your name is Izzie...

...and thought you was a guy.

You need to stop hatin'.

- Oh, I'm hatin'?

- Yeah.

Tim?!

What?! It's not me!

I swear!

Okay, who we shutting down?

No one.

No, I just...

...thought Josh might call.

He's been avoiding me

for over a week.

Our relationship

has been reduced...

...to text-messaging.

How tragic is that?

Okay, Mattie, come on.

I know... I know.

I guess I'm still hoping

he'll just...

...figure it out.

You need to let go, okay?

You guys have been breaking up

way longer than you hooked up.

If he can't recognize

that you got it going on...

...then... you don't need

to be involved with him.

Besides, look,

it's raining men right now.

Right, guys?

Yo. Ready to dance?

We could do that.

That's what I'm talking about.

- Come on.

- No.

Have you seen me dance?

It's not pretty.

Good night.

Hey!

Don't... do that.

Oh. Sorry.

I wanted out of there.

Thought I'd walk with you.

You live the other way.

I'll take the spiral route.

Plus, you know, single guy,

walking alone, late at night...

Well, thanks.

I'm good from here.

See you tomorrow?

Sure.

Okay. Bye.

You have two new messages.

First message, 9:37 P.M.

Mattie, it's Mom.

This is call number three,

honey.

I know you're busy,

but call me back, okay?

I miss you.

Next message, 10:47 P.M.

Mattie, it's Josh. Um...

Never mind.

This is Josh.

I'm not here right now.

Leave a message.

Josh, it's Mattie.

Pick up.

You haven't returned

one of my calls...

...and now...

...what's with the weird message?

Hey, Iz, are you here?

You know you have to get up.

You have class.

Get up! Now!

Of course there are

other kinds of stalking.

There is public stalking.

There is cyber stalking.

Each with its

own set of behaviors.

What I want to talk about now...

...is stalking,

the pathological mind...

...and the other.

Now, the pathological mind...

The pathological mind can only

satisfy its need for the other...

...by consuming the other...

...leading, once again,

to great need...

...and, of course,

the cycle begins again.

Now, what I'd like you to do Friday,

in preparation for the midterm...

...is write an essay on

what we've spoken about today...

...including in it ritual...

Come on, Mattie, you know

you're gonna have fun.

Chill out, relax.

Have a drink.

- Yeah, but...

- You're gonna come.

We're gonna hang out.

We need this, okay?

I'm gonna call you

right back.

Damn. Y'all look good.

A'ight. Check this out.

I got all the new joint...

Actually, these last four,

y'all have already.

And then, these five,

right here...

...won't even be out

for another month.

Plus, I have some

other ones here...

Yeah. You know, you should

just save us a few little tax dollars...

...and drive yourself

to jail right now.

Can I use your car?

And don't forget, I gotta take you with me...

...because you did buy

some of the stuff.

Oh, and your boy Josh...

Genius!

For every minute

I use on my cellphone...

...I get credited for two.

It's a beautiful thing.

Excuse me for one second.

What's up?

All right,

we're going to lunch, right?

Uh, actually, I'm gonna

hang here for a bit.

But I'll call you.

Okay. Um...

I'm gonna see you later then?

Maybe.

Josh?

Josh, it's Mattie.

Josh?

Oh, sh*t!

Josh.

Hey.

Why don't you answer my calls?

Everyone is worried about you.

Stay here. All right?

Oh, my... Josh!

Josh?

Oh, my God.

Hello, this is Louise Webber.

Leave your name and message

and I'll get back to you.

Hey, Mom. Tag, you're it.

Hey, call me as soon

as you get this, okay?

Something happened.

I'll just tell you about it

when you call, okay?

I love you.

- Josh.

- Mattie...

Are you there?

I'm not me anymore.

Something's wrong with me.

I know it's very difficult for us

to talk about loss.

So many conflicting emotions

involved.

This might sound pat to you...

...but it is okay to cry, Mattie.

I have.

You have?

What, five minutes,

is that all I get, Mattie?

I'm wasting your time.

You're not wasting my time.

You're wasting mine.

You're angry.

That's normal.

Actually,

I'm just late for class.

You loved him, didn't you?

And you think it's something

that you did...

...that might've caused this.

The only person I blame...

...is Josh.

You sure about this?

f*ck...

Come on.

Talk.

I don't know why

I didn't see the signs.

I should've been there,

done something.

Sometimes,

there aren't any signs.

This was an intensely lonely

young man.

More than you can ever know.

He was very skilled

at hiding his loneliness.

And when he couldn't hide it

anymore, he hid himself.

Have you ever felt

that kind of loneliness?

Don't worry.

I read your book.

I'm not a suicide risk.

You psych students, you all have a tendency

to resist self-analysis.

Don't.

Don't avoid your fears.

Confront them.

You can keep your emotions down

for a while...

...but somehow, some way,

they will come out...

...and they will be

even more painful...

...and more destructive.

Do you understand that?

Hey.

You good?

Everything's

going to be okay.

It has to be a virus.

I mean, his computer is probably still logged on.

It's just hitting his address book.

They said, "Help me."

Yeah, but viruses always have

some important-sounding sh*t.

I mean, just the other day,

I got one that said...

"Urgent, Stone. Read me now."

I mean, that's a natural

occurrence.

- It happens all the time...

- That was from me, you idiot.

Damn.

That was pretty strong.

Well, someone should at least

log Josh's computer off.

I'd do it, but I don't want

to go back over there.

All right, I'll go.

Thanks.

There was something

so strange about him...

...when I went over there...

...like he wasn't himself.

But he really wasn't. It...

It was like looking

at a different person.

Why did he do it?

I don't know.

And I think that's

what's driving me crazy...

...that I didn't see it coming.

None of us did, okay?

You know, it's not all on you.

Are you still getting

those messages?

Yeah. What's the deal?

Did Stone not get over there?

You know, he didn't even

show up to class today.

I haven't spoken to him.

Hello?

Hey, Stone.

Hey, Izzie.

It's Mattie.

What's up, Mattie?

Are you still getting

those messages from Josh?

I haven't signed on.

I've just been kind of leaving

my computer alone.

Did you log off Josh's computer?

Did you turn it off?

Are you okay?

I just been kind of down,

you know?

Yeah, I know.

We all are.

Oh, my God.

You here to see the apartment?

Well, take a look.

New paint.

Gonna have new carpet.

You won't beat the rent.

The guy who lived here

was a friend of mine.

I need his computer.

Computer?

What'd you do with it?

I don't know nothing

about no computer.

His computer was

right over there...

...with all the rest of his stuff.

Girl, you better get out

of my face...

...or I'm calling the police.

Why don't I call the police?

All right.

All right! Don't get crazy.

For two months

that boy lived here...

- ...and didn't pay his rent.

- You sold it?!

For two months...

What was I supposed to do?

Who did you sell it to?

Dead cats,

and he done k*lled himself...

...and here, now, you

come here bugging me...

...about a damn computer.

You tell him he still

owe me a hundred bucks.

The bank didn't take

his raggedy-a*s check.

Dexter McCarthy.

- What, it bounced?

- I guess that doesn't really matter...

...since you bought

a stolen computer.

She seemed pretty honest to me.

Why are you e-mailing me?

E-mailing you?

I don't even know who you are.

That computer belonged

to someone I know.

You found his password.

Now you're messing...

...with the people

in his address book?

That's a really shitty

thing to do.

Really?

Come here.

That's not possible.

I have a procrastination

problem.

It hasn't been plugged in...

since you bought it?

No. Look, stolen or not,

the thing cost me 400 bucks.

You want to get me a refund?

Your boyfriend can have

his computer back.

Keep it.

He doesn't need it anymore.

He's dead.

Classic.

What's that?

It's from Josh.

This is his handwriting.

When was it sent?

Seventeenth.

That's two days before he died.

Keeps what out?

He obviously went nuts,

that's all.

What about Stone?

What about him?

Wait, what's up with Stone?

He didn't sound like himself.

I can't explain it.

Kinda got the same feeling.

The same feeling as what?

As when I was at Josh's.

Later on in this broadcast...

...we'll show how

you and your family...

...can stay healthy and germ-free...

...at home and in the workplace.

And here's Skip Warren

with a late-breaking story.

A spokesman

for the County Health Department...

...is calling a recent cluster

of suicides in the city...

..."tragic and very unfortunate"...

...and he added that there's

no evidence to suggest...

...that they are connected

in any way.

It's okay.

Okay.

How well did you

actually know this guy?

- Why?

- 'Cause he was into...

...some scary sh*t.

Can I show you something?

What are we looking for?

You'll see.

So, your friend...

...was it an accident?

No.

Then what was it?

I'm not sure.

I thought it was just looping the same clips

over and over again, but it's not.

They don't always

do the same thing.

It's some kind of Web-cam feed.

Ah, Bag Man. Watch.

Every time he tries

to take it off...

...the image just cuts... it goes

right back to the beginning.

How did this get on there?

All I did was plug it in.

How long have you been

watching this?

No, I think the question is...

...how long have they

been watching me?

Damn it.

Yeah?

Look, look, man...

Turn it off. Turn it off!

Turn it off.

I can't believe

you showed me that.

It was your friend's computer.

Did he get off on the stuff?

Was he sh**ting those videos

and selling them on-line?

What was he doing?

Josh tied a phone cord

around his neck...

...and hanged himself.

That's what he was doing.

Mattie... Mattie,

don't you think...

...that your friend having

the video feeds...

...and then doing what he did

is not a coincidence?

And if those people...

...if what they're doing,

if it's real...

- ...if they're all dead...

- You know what I think?

I think, no matter what...

...Josh is still gonna be gone.

I think you need to go back upstairs

and erase his hard drive.

I tried.

It won't let me.

I need to move on.

I'm sorry.

Don't you want to know why?

Hello, this is Louise Webber.

Leave your name and message

and I'll get back...

Josh?

Josh, it's Mattie.

Mattie.

Are you there?

I feel all alone.

Josh?

Josh.

Something is wrong with me.

I have seen two people...

...k*ll themselves.

My psych professor stepped out

in front of a moving bus.

All in the last week.

Have you walked

around campus lately?

Every classroom is half-empty...

...and no one is talking

about it.

Something is following me.

It's in my dreams.

I saw it on the bus.

Come on, Mattie. Do you honestly feel there are

ghosts of some kind walking around out there?

I don't know.

But something is wrong.

You're a very smart young woman.

I want you to add this up for me.

A flu epidemic breaks out.

People are in a weakened state.

They're fearful of each other.

And then add a trigger event:

this coincidental clustering

of suicides.

The e-mail rumor mill

goes into overdrive...

...and suddenly people are seeing

strange things in the shadows?

I'm not imagining this!

Why do you think

you came here again?

It certainly isn't because you thought

that I would agree with you.

You knew what my response would be.

You knew that you needed to hear it.

You can't articulate what you think

is going on out there, Mattie...

...because it isn't real.

So what am I supposed to do?

- Just ignore everything I'm feeling?

- No. No.

You have to face what you

think is happening out there.

You have to stand ground,

take a good, long look...

...and you'll see it's not there.

You're not real.

You're not real.

Stone?

- I don't want to die!

- Stone...

I don't want to do it myself.

I don't want to die!

- Stone! What's happening!

- I don't want to die!

I don't want to do it myself!

Stone!

Oh, my God!

I'm ready to know.

What did you find?

Well, his hard drive was fried...

...but I was able to retrieve

most of the sh*t off of it.

Apparently your boy's into stockpiling

some pretty serious viruses.

Why would he do that?

It's a power trip.

It's like keeping nukes

in your closet.

I found some other stuff that...

...I think you need to see.

When I booted the drive,

this is what came up.

Josh?

This message is

for Douglas Zeigler.

I'm Josh Ockmann, I'm the guy

who hacked into your system.

I'm sorry...

but now I got to talk to you.

He kept a video diary?

It's more like a play-by-play.

Zeigler, it's Josh again.

How can I convince you

to talk to me?

Whatever you had locked up

in your system...

...I let it loose.

I let...

And now I don't know

how to stop it.

You okay with this?

Yeah.

I need to know

what you had in there.

I need to know.

I've never seen

anything like it...

...but it's burning

through every firewall...

...it's frying every circuit.

I need your help.

I bookmarked the rest.

Zeig, I got your e-mail.

I think I figured out

a way to stop it.

I'm writing a virus

that could shut it down.

Meet me at the library

at 5:00 today.

Check this one out.

I saw something in the library.

I can still feel it.

Like it reached inside of me.

Like it took something

out of me.

My life.

Why won't you answer me, Zeig?

I need your help.

g*dd*mn it,

why didn't you warn me?

Is that it?

There's one more.

But...

I want to see it.

It's breaking me down.

I feel like

there's nothing left of me.

I can't think, I can't move.

I can't take the pain.

I just can't.

I'm not even me anymore.

It's all gone.

I... can't go on.

I'm sorry, Mattie.

I'm so sorry, Mattie.

What if it's all connected?

- What?

- The suicides...

...the... Internet people,

the things I saw.

The ghosts?

I'm not buying it, Mattie.

Josh thought he saw them...

...and it messed him up

so bad, he...

...he did what he did.

Okay, what do you think

drove him over the edge?

Josh had some pretty

bad sh*t going on.

Josh wasn't on a power trip

with viruses.

He saw something horrible...

...something like this...

...and he wanted to stop it.

Hackers do this stuff

all the time.

It's a prank.

He got it off the Internet.

Come on.

But it wasn't hooked up

to the Internet.

- The cable was unplugged.

- So?

It came through the Wi-Fi.

Just like Josh said,

he pulled something through...

Pulled ghosts through the Wi-Fi?

It just doesn't make any sense.

It makes all the sense

in the world.

Do you have any idea

of the amount of data...

...that's floating out there?

The amount of information...

...we just beam into the air?

We broadcast to everyone where we are,

and we think we're safe?

The whole freakin' city

is going insane...

...and we're acting like

it's nothing.

Well, it's not nothing.

It's something

we don't understand...

...and it is coming for us.

You're freaking us out, man.

It's the end of the world.

That's what it is.

Maybe it's the booze

in your coffee.

What about Zeigler?

This whole thing

started with him.

He was one of Josh's

hacker friends.

There's got to be someone at school

who knows how we can find him.

Maybe he knows

what the hell is going on.

Computer virus...

...is affecting Internet service

worldwide.

Authorities are requesting those of you

who do not need to use your computers...

...to shut them down now...

...to avoid spreading the bug.

Hey.

I'm starting to think

I'm the only one living here.

Is there anything

going on tonight?

I don't really go out much.

Sorry.

b*tch.

"Douglas Zeigler."

Zeigler, the virus is inside...

Inside... inside...

Inside?

Are you saying...

...but we are receiving reports of...

mass disappearances in other cities, as well.

By all accounts, the crisis

appears to be spreading...

...and the federal government

is mobilizing a response...

...as more and more law enforcement...

...and emergency systems

appear to be...

...simply shutting dow...

I just wanted

to see you, Mattie.

Tim?

I just wanted to see you.

How are you doing this?

I see you.

Izzie, are you in there?

This voice mail is no longer...

Hey, I'm looking for Izzie.

...accepting incoming messages.

Please try again later.

Message 687.

Isabelle?

Come here. Come here.

You'll be okay.

You know what dying tastes like?

Metal.

You don't want to breathe.

Because every time, it's...

...it's more of it inside you.

I want to die but I'm

too afraid to do it.

You're not gonna die.

I want to.

What do they want?

They want what they

don't have anymore.

They want life.

They're coming for you, too.

There's nothing

you can do about it.

God, you're freezing.

Wait... here a second.

You have reached 911 emergency.

Sorry, all operators are busy.

Please stay on the line

for the next available operator.

I'm sorry, Mattie.

Izzie!

- Hello. This is Louise Webber.

- Hello?

- Leave your name and message...

- Damn it!

Mattie!

Dexter, Isabelle's gone.

What do you mean she's gone?

I'm packing a bag.

I'll meet you out front.

I'm on my way.

She was just standing there,

empty...

...like she wanted to die.

And she was just nothing.

Just... ash, just this...

Mattie, look at me.

I saw it... the thing Josh was

talking about, it came for me.

- Right after I found this.

- What?

The virus Josh was working on.

I found it taped

inside of his computer case.

Off-line, where they

couldn't get to it.

- Will it work?

- I don't know.

But Zeigler will.

You found Zeigler?

We're gonna get some answers.

Yeah.

We're gonna shut it down.

We're gonna shut it down.

Mattie... Mattie...

You all right?

Yeah.

Get out of the car.

Is he all right?

- Let's go.

- What?!

Come on.

There's nobody in the car?

No.

Come on. Come on.

- Don't you move!

- What the f...

- Don't come any closer!

- Don't sh**t!

Put the g*n down!

Calvin, are you crazy?

They're safe, they're not...

they're just kids!

We're not going to hurt you.

Put it down.

We've got to keep moving.

We're wasting time.

We've got to get out

of the city!

They came through the computer.

We saw them.

We think we have a solution.

Are you people insane?

You stay here, you're dead.

We shouldn't be out here...

they say it's spreading.

They say that they don't know how long

until it's everywhere.

The cops are gone!

People are dying

all over the place! Come on!

We heard it's safe

in the dead zones.

Anywhere there's no computers,

no phones, no Wi-Fi.

Anywhere where they

can't come through.

- Let's go!

- Save yourselves!

Hurry!

What if they got Zeigler?

CWhat if we can't get out?

He's alive!

He's got to be.

Douglas Zeigler?

Zeigler!

My God.

He's not here.

No! You're going

to let them in!

- Who are you?!

- My friend Josh needed to see you. Why?

That's the little prick

who let them in.

Let what in?

The slightest leak,

the slightest hole...

...that's how.

We need to know

what you were working on.

What was it?!

It was a telecom project!

It was my baby.

It was super-wide band.

We found frequencies that we

didn't even know existed...

...and they came through.

Who did?

We didn't know

what it was at first.

We thought it was

like a radio wave interference.

Then, we realized

that there was a pattern to it.

Every time that we'd try

to monitor them...

...they would stop, or they

would change frequencies.

I mean, they were smart.

They were reacting to us,

and then...

...we started seeing things

around the lab.

But shadows can't hide

underneath the desk.

Shadows can't walk

across a room in broad daylight.

There was this tape.

Red utility tape.

Have you seen it?

It must have blocked

part of the spectrum...

...that they needed

for transmissions...

...so we could keep them

out of a room...

...but we couldn't keep them out.

I mean, they were coming through

so fast...

...it was like a blur.

The last thing you want,

the last thing you ever want...

...is for them to get to you.

'Cause when they grab ahold,

they take your will to live.

Everything that made you is gone.

You don't want to talk...

...you don't want to move.

You're a shell.

And then come the bruises.

They spread all over.

Your body dies

right out from under you...

...and the next thing you know,

you're just a pile of ash!

I saw it happen to Tillman.

I saw it happen to Plummer.

What are they?

I wish I knew.

I just watched

my best friends die, Zeigler.

That's not the answer

I came here for.

Well, what do you want me

to say?

They've already crawled in

the entire regional network.

Everywhere...

cellphones, Pads...

We can't stop them.

We have to crash

the entire system.

How are we supposed

to crash the system?

This is what Josh

was working on.

A virus, configured

to the specs of your system.

Where's your server?

In a highly non-optimum place.

Where is it?!

It's in the basement,

in the computer lab!

It doesn't matter,

because even if you upload it...

...it still doesn't mean

that it's going to work!

No, no, no!

No!

Run!

Go!

Come on!

Dexter!

Go!

Mattie.

Josh?

Josh?

I'm sorry, Mattie.

No, don't look!

Just run!

Mattie! Mattie!

Come back to me.

I saw it, Dex.

I saw...

Okay. Stay right here.

I'll be right back.

I'll be right back.

No!

- I have to.

- It's too late. There's nothing we can do.

I can still shut the system down.

Don't you get it?

There's no system to shut down.

They are the system.

I have to go.

No... no...

It worked.

Let's get the hell

out of here! Come on!

Come on! Run!

How much gas do we have left?

Half a tank.

How far is that gonna get us?

We're gonna find out.

This is an emergency message...

...from the United States Army.

Search and rescue units...

...have been dispatched to assist

survivors of the crisis.

We have established safe zones...

...in locations without wireless

or cellphone coverage.

Cellphones, computers...

...and Pads are all conduits

for the invasion.

Dispose of all technology before

proceeding to these locations.

Hold on, Mattie!

You all right?

Yeah. What happened?

I don't know.

We must've hit a dead zone.

They can't exist without a signal.

We can never go back.

The cities are theirs.

Our lives are different now.

What was meant to connect us

to one another...

...instead connected us to forces...

...that we could've

never imagined.

The world we knew is gone.

But the will to live

never dies.

Not for us...

...and not for them.