Another survivor, noticing John's wristband and believing only American-born citizens should have been selected, attempts to fight him for it. John manages to hitch a ride on a truck with other survivors, where he learns through a young man named Colin that the military is flying to bunkers in Greenland for refuge. Ralph pulls over to kick Allison out, as well as take her wristband and kidnap Nathan, much to Judy's protest. Through conversation, Ralph and Judy find out that Allison and Nathan were selected for evacuation but denied entry. He briefly gets through to her before the call is dropped. He comes across a rooftop party and attempts to call Allison. Meanwhile, John is walking on foot through a small city, where looting is taking place in masses as worldwide panic ensues as an approaching Clarke looms ominously in the night sky. ![]() Ralph tells them they will take them as far as Knoxville, Tennessee. After narrowly escaping a store being looted, Allison and Nathan are picked up by couple Ralph and Judy Vento, who are also headed that way. Upon returning to their car, he finds a note left by Allison that she and Nathan are heading to her father's house in Lexington, Kentucky. A gunfight breaks out, inadvertently blowing up many of the evacuation planes and killing dozens while John narrowly escapes. John demands to be let off the plane just as the base is breached by an angry mob wanting to be saved. Oblivious to this, John makes it back to the plane in time, where another passenger confronts him about the medicine and learns that his family was turned away, too. Allison begs for them to be let on the plane, but is unsuccessful, and the two are escorted off the base. John hurries back to the car to find it while Allison and Nathan wait to board the plane, who are escorted away once a soldier learns of Nathan's ailment. When forced to consolidate their belongings into one bag, they also discover that Nathan's insulin is missing. They are allowed in with the QR code on John's phone and their wristbands. At Robins, a line of traffic prevents the family from reaching the gate and forces them to continue on foot, with Nathan accidentally leaving his insulin in the car. ![]() Debra, another one of their neighbors, desperately begs to leave their daughter Ellie with the Garritys to be saved, but John speeds off, knowing she would be turned away. Before they can, their neighbor, Ed, warns them that Clarke is actually a giant cluster of objects that are expected to bombard Earth over the next two days, with the biggest fragment expected to cause an extinction level event. Terrified, their neighbors storm out of the house to be close with their families while the Garritys rush to pack up and leave. John once again receives an automated call, which also displays on the television in front of his family and neighbors with instructions to be at Robins Air Force Base to make an evacuation flight. ![]() A shock wave rattles the area and blows out windows as the fragment, previously anticipated to land near Bermuda, vaporizes Tampa, Florida, and most of the state around it. Worried by this, John rushes home to the party, just as a comet fragment enters the atmosphere on live television. In the store, John receives a strange automated phone call, informing him that he and his family have been pre-selected for emergency sheltering. Arriving at a grocery store, John and Nathan notice a fleet of military cargo transport jets flying north in formation, much to their bewilderment. He returns home from work to reconcile with his family and prepare to host a party with their neighbors to watch the passing of a recently-discovered interstellar comet, named Clarke. John Garrity is a Scottish structural engineer living in Atlanta, Georgia, with his estranged wife, Allison, and their diabetic son, Nathan.
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