Alone

This is Aidan.

It's day 42.

Um...

I'm sorry...

'cause I tried.

Hello?

Hello?!

Oh, cool.

Mmm, come to papa.

Come on, honey. Come on.

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This is an emergency broadcast. This isn't a test.

Jesus. Oh, my God. Jeez...

Hurry up, run!

- Run! - Run!

Help me!

Hey! Hey, sweetheart!

It's okay. I'm going to come get...

Somebody's gonna come get...

Whoa! No! Jesus!

- Whoa! - Whoa! Hey! Hey!

- What's... - It's okay... Hey, hey, hey.

- I'm your neighbor! I'm your neighbor! - Get... get out of my apartment!

- Get the fuck out! - You know my face! Okay?

You've seen me before. You know me!

I live next door. I'm Brandon.

Please... Please.

Help me! Help!

What are you doing in here?

The door was unlocked.

Yeah, why are you in my apartment?

- What... - Something's happening.

Yeah, no shit! Why are you in here?!

Are you alone?

Just what is going on?

My roommate attacked me.

And I've known him since the fifth grade.

Oh, God!

Major cities in complete chaos!

Infected people are extremely dangerous!

We're seeing bleeding from the eyes, screaming.

We're also seeing cannibalism.

The virus is being transmitted through the blood,

primarily through bites, scratches.

Uh, the amount of...

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I'm not that.

I'm fine.

I'm okay.

I'm okay...

Don't make me go out there.

- No! - I'm sorry.

- I'll die! - I can't help you here.

You have to leave.

Dude!

Oh, no! No!

Get the hell out!

Get out!

I'm sorry. Go. Go!

Tommy! Tommy! Somebody!

We're starting to see some instances of groups of people...

Well, groups of people fighting back-

We do not encourage this.

Certainly, if you are attacked, you should defend yourself.

But what we have seen so far, the best way to survive,

to avoid infection, to avoid being a part of spreading the infection,

is to just completely avoid contact.

Find a place to hide and stay there.

Hopefully, it won't have to be for too long.

We're sorry.

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Please check the number and...

Get away!

Somebody help me!

What?

What's happening?

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Help!

I love that they put this guy in the lead-off spot.

I mean, he hits everything. Look at him.

They can't get the ball past him. On top of that, he hits for power.

This is great.

So, in the absence of a biological imperative,

we learned that there could be a psychological driver

that makes infected people only willing to eat what's alive and not infected.

There are chemical changes happening

that are impacting brain function significantly.

Observation would tell you

that rage and shame are both at work in a very big way.

The wireless customer you called is not available.

So, if you're thinking about rationing food, that's smart.

But you also need to be thinking about your water.

We've still got running water here for now,

but we're starting to hear from other major metropolitan areas

that they are losing access.

And a human being can survive up to three weeks without food,

but water is more like three days.

Leave me alone!

Hi.

Um, this is my first video log, I guess.

I-I think it's recording.

Um, my name is Aidan.

And it's been seven days since this started.

Uh, the news is calling it a global pandemic.

I've been alone since day one.

Which is weird because I've...

never been by myself more than a day in my entire life.

So... And I can't leave.

And the phones are...

Stay away!

Can you hear that? It's... It's constant.

All the time.

And, uh...

And I'm, um... um...

I'm trying to, uh...

Now, there are two things going wrong in an infected brain.

The first is that the reptilian brain becomes hypersensitive,

particularly in the areas that control anger and aggression.

Triggered, as we have seen, by contact with the uninfected living things.

That when the reptilian brain is engaged,

it suppresses the natural activity of the frontal cortex.

Not enough to affect action, but enough to...

To scream-

Yes, and cause involuntary movement.

Um, although involuntary movements is a misnomer.

The twitching...

is the last movements that an infected...

You're crazy!

So, you're saying that they know what they're doing?

On some basic level, yes.

And they're almost screaming at themselves to stop.

But they can't.

Ahem.

Hey, this is Aidan.

Um, this is my 16th video log, I think.

I've made one every day since...

Made one almost every day since the first one.

I'm slowly running out of-..

Like everything. And, uh.-.

I mean, I know at some point I'm gonna have to go out there.

But, um-..

The news has stopped sending people out to shoot anything new.

So, they keep playing the same clips over and over,

and keep saying the same things.

And it's weird how they try to stay calm

and act calm like nothing's happening.

But... you can tell that something is.

I-I still watch it, though, because I-I don't know,

maybe I'll see my family on it.

I know it's stupid. What are the odds, right?

I read this thing a long time ago

about, um, sensory deprivation.

They put people in these sensory deprivation chambers,

and there's no sound, no-no sight, um, nothing.

And then after a little while, you-you kinda... you start to hallucinate.

Like, completely sane people would start to see things.

Just to see something.

Kind-of like an input for the brain.

I think that I've started to...

Like out of my periphery, I...

I don't know, I think that there'll be like a...

That's real.

No.

No.

Oh! Oh... Oh...

What is happening to me?

It's like I, uh...

No, I do know what's happening. It's not a mystery.

I'm losing my mind.

I...

I keep, uh...

I keep thinking about these stories, where...

a guy crawls miles in the snow

on-on two broken legs just to get to safety.

And... I can't even open my front door.

It's a hell of a thing to...

you know, find out that you're a coward,

to like... to like know that, you know?

Well, I begin starving in three days.

What the...? Did you hear...?

What-what the...?

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Aidan. Honey, are you there?

It's Mom. Your dad and I are really worried about you.

I hope you're at home. Your sister got out of town

- before the roads got blocked. - Go to your sister's.

- She's heading to our cabin. - Be safe.

We couldn't get out of here fast enough.

Please, try to get a hold of her. She isn't answering our calls.

I don't know if the phones are down or what.

Please, do everything you can to get in touch with her.

- And, honey, don't worry. - No, Dad...

We're here locked in with everyone at the office.

- We're okay. - I wish we were all together.

Listen to me, honey.

Do not go outside, and keep the doors locked.

There's somebody outside the door-

Don't. Get out of here. Mary, stay under the desk.