However, Nic and Haley's escape is short-lived as they approach the only bridge that would take them over the canyon to the outside world, they run into Damon and his military men, who blow out the truck's tires. Jonah uses his remaining strength and prosthetic alien arms to subdue the group of soldiers. Nic and Jonah hug as the fatally wounded Jonah prepares for his final stand that will allow Nic and Haley to escape. Jonah then tries to hack into their computer system, only to be stopped by a hail of gunfire from the facility personnel, which causes damage to his eyeglasses and ruins his ability to see the computer clearly. After Nic discovers indications of alien technology also implanted in Haley's spine, the trio drive up to a military checkpoint. Jonah speculates that they are in Area 51 (because they both have the same tattooed number, which adds up to 51), and that this is all a test.

Jonah reveals that his forearms and hands have been replaced with the same alien technology as Nic's legs. At a visitors' center, they find Jonah in a white hazmat suit, disguised as one of the facility workers. He uses these super-powered limbs to break Haley and himself out of the facility, only to discover they are in the middle of a vast, barren desert.Īfter hitching a ride with an old lady who seems sweet yet oddly troubled, Nic and Haley hijack an 18-wheeler truck to try to find a way around the seemingly endless canyon that extends around the facility and surrounding area.

After being restrained, he is shocked to discover that his legs have been amputated and replaced by prostheses made from alien technology. Increasingly agitated, Nic tries to break Haley out but is intercepted. Nic asks Damon where Jonah went but Damon tells him that Jonah was never recovered from the house, implying that Nic's conversations with Jonah were imagined. When Damon questions him again, Nic tries to get answers about Haley's condition, but Damon will tell him only that she is in a coma.įollowing an unexplained experiment on a cow in another part of the facility, a security alarm goes off and Nic, along with other personnel, finds large dents with scorch marks running across the walls and no sign of Jonah. Nic is taken to his room where he hears Jonah talking to him through a small air vent, saying ' body feels weird.' Nic also notices that his legs, previously weak but functional, are now completely numb. Damon then shows him footage from Nic's own video camera and pauses where an alien face can be seen peering from behind a tree. Damon tells Nic what they encountered near the house was an EBE, an extraterrestrial biological entity. Wallace Damon, the head of the 'transition group' in charge of helping Nic to cope with his strange situation. Nic, now with the number 2.3.5.41 tattooed on his arm, wakes up in a strange and sterile underground research facility where he is questioned by Dr. After finding nothing in the house, Nic and Jonah hear Haley scream and run outside, only to see her pulled into the sky before disappearing into a white light themselves. They decide to go after NOMAD and track him to an abandoned house in the middle of Nevada. During their stay in a hotel, Nic and Jonah discover that a hacker named NOMAD, who nearly got them expelled for breaking into MIT servers, has found their location and is taunting them with strange and ominous e-mails. Haley feels Nic is distancing himself from her and Nic explains he does not want his disability to hold her back. Nic walks with forearm crutches, and the possibility of muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis or some other degenerative disease is implied but never specified. Three MIT students-Jonah, Nic and Haley-are on a road trip to move Haley to California, a decision that stresses Nic's relationship with her.

It premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 13, 2014. The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank, written by William and Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio, and starring Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne.

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