Island Zero Page #5

evaporated milk.

Does anyone have a few cans

they can spare for my kids?

Anyone?

Oh, come on, Lars.

Give 'em one of yours.

Early bird gets the worm.

Oh, damnit, Lars.

Give 'em one.

No.

- Yes.

- No.

[items clutter]

Hey. Stop it!

Come on! Come on!

Come on!

[grunts]

We're gonna start

eating each other next.

[soft chuckle]

Crisis like this, you'd think

they'd pull together.

In stead, they're starting

to tear each other apart.

They're scared. And I

can understand that.

They think the rest of

the world's vanished,

and we're on our own.

At least no one will starve.

They could always go fishing.

Good luck catching anything.

Boat's will be out of

diesel soon.

All the fish have vanished.

What?

Yeah, no one's picked

anything up in weeks.

No lobsters, no fish.

What's goin' on out there?

It's a question I'm

trying' to answer.

I wrote a paper on the

phenomenon a few years ago.

Sudden Unexplained

Collapse of a fishery.

SUC Fish for short.

[soft chuckle]

It sounds funny,

but it's a tragedy.

So this is not

a new phenomenon?

There was a theory proposed,

that maybe there are apex

predators we haven't

identified yet.

This is your theory?

My wife's.

I though Lucy was

a journalist?

Lucy and I aren't married.

My wife, Rachel. She was a

Marine Biologist like me.

Was?

Four years ago she

was lost at sea.

We found her research

boat adrift with no aboard.

I'm sorry, Sam.

Yeah, she died doing

what she loved.

That's the one thing

I keep telling myself.

It's like the only

way I can...

I lost someone, too.

So I understand.

There you go. Four stitches.

[soft chuckle]

I'm no plastic surgeon,

so you may end up with a scar.

I'm lucky you happened

to be on the island.

Well, I would love

to get off this island.

What if the ferry

doesn't come?

We all descend into

mass cannibalism.

[soft laugh]

- No, listen. I'm serious.

Look at them, they're scared

and they're at each

others throats.

Who's gonna keep order?

[knock on door]

Uh, Sam. There's a problem

down in the dock and

they need you.

[ominous music]

That Emmett's boat?

Yeah. Only problem is

there's no sign of Emmett.

I found it on the

shores over there.

Radioed Lars and Author.

We went searching on the water

but we couldn't find any sign

of Emmett or his body anywhere.

The day he left, Jess

packed him a sandwich,

it's still in his duffle bag.

He never ate it.

I don't think he ever made

it to the mainland.

Maybe he hit a wave?

Knocked him down.

Sam. There's blood here.

[ominous music]

He went overboard.

Yeah. It's what

it looks like.

Trouble is, the morning Emmett

left, the water was glass.

There were no waves.

What is that?

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