The Survivors 1.5 - Sun Card

The Survivors : Sun Card
Genre : Sci-Fi / Mystery / Drama
Showrunner: Tomas Alfredson
Writer : Mo Buck

Based on the French Canadian series

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Cara Buono, M. Emmet Walsh, Logan Lerman, Odeya Rush, Owen Vaccaro, Michael Mando, Clancy Brown, Jodelle Ferland and Donal Logue

Plot : Gerald (Brendan Fraser) comes back to the camping, during the day, after he was shot by the Latino gang acquiring fake identification for his family. Mary (Cara Buono), his wife, hits the panic button as soon as he gets home. A trained nurse during war times, Mary is able to keep her composure and to be calm again. Gerald asks to see Charles, but Mary says she hasn’t seen him for a while, but now is not the time to talk about that. She’s able to take the bullet out. With the help of Sarah (Odeya Rush), she bandages with the wound with an old sock, not the brightest idea, but they are doing what they can with what they have. Marco (Owen Vaccaro), comes out of the bedroom with his grandfather Horace (M. Emmet Walsh) who claims isn’t feeling so well. Mary says it’s not the time. When Horace sees the amount of blood Gerald lost, he faints. Mary, with the help of Marco and Sarah, drag Horace in the car. She comes back inside to give Gerald a kiss on the forehead and she gives him a bottle of whiskey. She asks to stay alive and she’ll comeback soon. She goes back in the car and leaves for the hospital. 

Charles (Logan Lerman) wakes up with a terrible headache after he was kidnapped by Victor (Michael Mando). He tries to move, but he’s restrained and trying to break free is pointless. He looks around and he thinks he ended up in an old church of some sort. He can barely see, the room is lit only by a barrel fire far away from him, but the light reflects on the roof. He tries to break himself free again. The rattling of his chains wakes up Judy (Jodelle Ferland) on the other side of the room. Her eyes adapted to the darkness and she recognizes Charles. She tries to scream his name and it’s enough to catch his attention. They try to scream at each other, until a deep voice orders them to shut up.

Mary dropped Horace in a wheelchair at the hospital. She orders her son Marco to stay with his grandfather until Gerald feels better. She gives him his identification and Horace’s. She orders him to stay calm and to do this like the champ he is, it’s going to be just fine. Marco enters the hospital with his unconscious grandfather. He follows the arrows until he’s at the front desk. He says his grandfather is unconscious and they immediately take him to the back. The lady at the counter asks him his name and why he’s alone. Marco answers that it’s a complicated story for another time. She asks for Horace’s health insurance card, otherwise known as the sun card, but the only thing he has is a driver license, for Horace, but his named is changed to Horacio. He gives it to her smiling and she says it can wait until his parents arrive. She asks if they have a cellphone they could call, but Marco doesn’t know what a cellphone is. 

Mary and Sarah stopped at a drug store to get antibiotics and bandages for Gerald. They are forced to realise that the drug stores have changed and they are all lost in the aisles. They don’t recognize the products they use to buy and Mary is categoric, she remembers Gerald’s orders, they can’t ask for help. They stop in front of the condoms, believing they are bandages. Mary wonders what they are and reads the packages. She thinks they are a blasphemy and she takes needles out of her purse to pierce the packages. They also see pregnancy tests and whatnot.  They end up finding the bandages. They forget they don’t have any money and steal both the antibacterial cream and bandages. Once they are out, Sarah says she likes this shade of her mother and Mary says she better enjoy it while it lasts, because she’ll never see it again. 

Gerald is laying down in the camping trailer with his bottle of whiskey when his neighbour Jack (Donal Logue) knocks at the door. Gerald sees him from the window and he closes the curtain. Jack sees the movement and enters through the unlocked door. He tells Gerald that he likes the fact that he’s day-drinking. He’d like to do it, but his wife doesn’t let him, she says it’s a bad example for his kid, women, right? He asks him what happened this morning, he heard all that commotion in their trailer, is everything alright? Gerald, who didn’t listen to him, lets out to grunt to agree with him. Jack takes a blunt out of his pocket and starts to smoke. He asks Gerald if he wants a turn and by looking at him, he notices the infected bullet wound  on his stomach. He starts to freak out and says he has to help him. Gerald rejects any help, he says Mary went out to get something.

At the same moment, Mary and Sarah enter the trailer, Mary telling Gerald that he won’t believe the blasphemy they saw at the drug store. Sarah throws Jack out of the trailer as Jack tells them to calm down and he’ll mind his own business from now on. Mary works on Gerald’s wound while Sarah isn’t feeling so well and goes in the bathroom to puke. Mary says it’s probably the nasty food Jack and Rita served. Mary is done and they hear a knock on their door. Jack is here to tell them there’s a party tonight at the camping and he hopes to see them there. 

Marco is alone at hospital with Horace, who keeps telling the nurses and doctors that he has the Spanish flu, even though it was eradicated in the 1920’s. The doctors keep asking Marco if his parents are coming and he doesn’t understand what’s the big deal, but they remind him that they’ll have to see his sun card eventually. 

The night has come and Charles is still locked up inside the church. He found an old rock lying near him and he’s using it to try and free himself. Chartwell (Clancy Brown) kisses Victor on the forehead and he says he sends him to spread their message. Charles wiggles himself free after loosening the chains with the rock. He tries to sneak to the other side to free Judy, but Chartwell sees him. He tries to free Judy anyway, but she tells him to run away, he could come back later. Charles gets past Chartwell and grabs whatever was lying on the table, a book, and runs away. Chartwell doesn’t bother to run after him and he just screams at him that he’ll find his father someday. 

At the party, Gerald and his family aren’t participating. Charles arrives, out of breath and shaking, while Sarah is vomiting in the bathroom. Mary asks him where he’s been and he explains what happens to him. Not far away from here, Victor is setting another building on fire, he writes Gerald with ash on the wall.