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Why did police/emergency workers vanish all at once?


If people only vanished when out of someone's eyesight, why did the emergency first responders vanish all at once? Some of them had to be looking at each other. And the dining room had all those uneaten plates of food, suggesting they'd all been served at the same time, then vanished at the same time. They had to have been looking at each other too, sitting at tables facing each other.

Why didn't the kids all disappear at the same time?

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The emergency first responders didn't disappear. Clair did.

Travis Oates

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Travis --
In another post I took the opposite position.

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Wrong. The responders disappeared. As she was sitting in the car with her head down, she noticed it had gotten quite silent. When she looked back up everyone was gone.

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Dude! He can't be wrong. He's the god of that universe aka the writer/director of the movie (Travis Oates).

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@Travis_Oates That explanation makes the scene all the more chilling. I thought at first they all disappeared. It leaves open the question where was Claire when she disappeared? I was very curious to know what the place looked like, I just didn't know I had already seen it. Thanks for that.

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I figured that out, can't believe people think the emergency officials disappeared

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Seems like in the process of writing a mystery/thriller/horror movie, they writers couldn't seem to stick with their own rules for people disappearing lol. It was good the first time around, but it was kind of a let down after not having any kind of explanation.

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The person above you WROTE the movie. so mr. oates any explanation to what was happening?

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Shblinked

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I think the explanation was clear.

She was the one who in fact disappeared from that dimension. So as a consequence, none of the other people would be visible.

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Look up 'the quiet earth' if you want a tech explanation of a similar occurance. In, of course, SciFi.

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The casting gives away who's responsible. Robert Picardo's role -- > Man in Black
Nathan Lorbietzki -- > Man in Black.
Aliens --- > Experiment

Similar to "The Forgotten (2004)" with Julianne Moore, though psychological with Claire as an experimental subject (Joanne Kelly).
Nothing new to Man in Black (Robert Picardo), as he starred in a similar episode in Voyager where the crew disappeared one by one, he was the last remaining... or Joanne Kelly in Warehouse 13: Shadows with more disappearances...






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Yeah i am surprised most people didnt click when he arrives with the anomaly detector gizmo - apparently the writer was a big fan of Voyager! lol

Great film I really liked it but most people want everything explained to them but the best films dont, they either leave it to your imagination or like this one give you little hints!


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Just because the main group vanished one by one doesn't mean they had to. Since the whole point is we don't know what is happening, we don't know the 'rules,' if any.

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The diners didn't all have to vanish at the same time, just one person in the room had to vanish, the others would have stopped eating to go look for that person. If each searcher went off in a different direction, they could all have vanished quite quickly.

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