Larry Underwood is holed up in a Walmart, using the grill and cooking steaks. There is a community of people living here, including Nadine Cross.

Nadine has a boy named Joe. They're packing up to leave. Larry and Nadine are together.

They're heading to Boulder and expect to be there before dark.

Stu welcomes them to the Boulder Free Zone.

And we're flying through time. Larry is screaming at someone named Stacy. It's the end of the world, and his bandmates aren't showing up.

He's a drinker, I guess. His mom doesn't think much about that. His band was Pocket Savior. He talks about the real New Yorkers who didn't let sniffles stop them.

While on stage, people are hacking up lungs, and he's grabbing a drink.

Wade Stucky is in the audience. He's hacking up a lung, taunting Larry.

Lloyd Henreid is getting led to his cell. He's a rockstar in prison, heading to death row, maybe.

He's in a cell with George Trask.

Lloyd was with his mentor robbing a convenience store, and the other dude sneezed and blew someone's brains out by mistake. Lloyd didn't want to shoot anyone, but when a gun was held to his head. He considered it for a second. Then the police started shooting the shit out of the store. He's not much of a badass at all, surrendering immediately.

Stu and Larry are two of five people that Mother Abigail wants to run the Boulder Free Zone.

They're waxing poetic about Mother Abigail and the dreams. Larry is excited to see Harold and Frannie, who Larry was following. If I recall from the book, they followed by way of Harold's signs painted in spray paint.

Nadine isn't having the dreams about Mother Abigail.

Nadine found Joe in Pennsylvania. She was a teacher. The girl wandering her around wants to know if Nadine would be Joe's mom, at least temporarily.

Flashback to Larry dreaming about his name in lights jammed into the dirt. Sounded a lot like Randall Flagg's voice in the dream.

Larry gets up and does a line of coke as you do. He's in bed with a girl with snot covering her face. She's not happy he's fucking and running. He's not a nice guy!!

Larry's mom is in Belleview. Of course, that means the obligatory gross scene with people and their swelled necks and puss and yuck everywhere.

He says "Alice Underwood" at everyone as he looks for his mom. Then he calls out mom and finds her in a cot next to the wall. She's on her way out.

Someone is after Larry about his song again. The dude manages to hunt Larry down in the middle of Manhattan. That's good tracking, even with Captain Trips.

The state of these people as they die does nothing to command compassion about Captain Trips. Instead, it makes it a bit comical. Why are there no quarantines?

Song dude is still out in the rain, swollen neck and all. He is not letting go of that song.

A woman named Rae greets Larry with sarcasm in Boulder.

Larry is about to have his first meeting with Mother Abigail.

Larry is introduced to Nick Andros. Nick sports an eye patch and uses sign language.

Larry recalls his dreams of Randall Flagg interspersed with Mother Abigail.

Larry runs into an older man eating potato chips while in a hospital gown. He flashes his junk at Larry. He's going to Yankee Stadium, where he plans on running around stark naked and jerking off all over home plate.

Shots ring out.

Criminals always gonna crim.

He wanders across Rita Blakemoor in the park. She's in a white suit with a white umbrella. They strike up a conversation. It's a little too easy.

Prison is infected with the virus. Lloyd is begging for food and water. Only toilet water remains.

Larry shows Rita his marquee in NYC. She says he conquered NYC. Then they kiss.

Larry sees a crow eating the eyeball out of a dead horse in the street as Rita asks Larry to his apartment.

Sex!

Romantic music plays, but it's not romantic at all.

They agree to take off together. In the daylight, though, nothing about their new life is exciting.

A dude in the street wants to borrow Rita for 15 minutes. Several people in the street hope to swarm in and get Rita. Rita and Larry begin running. The dude with a million in a suitcase is just behind. He appears to be the lead baddie.

Now they're in the sewers. They don't know where they're going to go. Shortly thereafter, she gets attacked by rats. She's not cut out for this new world.

Lloyd is trying to kill rats with a magazine through his cell.

Now we're back in Boulder, where Larry shows Nadine and Joe their rooms.

Larry offers to stay on the couch with Nadine and Joe until they're settled. She wants to know what Abigail said to him.

Nadine wants him to take Joe when he goes to see Harold. He's not impressed with that.

Back in the sewers. Larry seems to be alone. I guess Rita died or something.

Larry sees his mother in the sewer. She's floating in the water, and a rat comes out of her mouth. She's calling for him to help her.

It seems he's dreaming again.

Nope. He screams to let him out, and Rita is up there. She removes the manhole cover. She walked north.

She stays up while he hits the sack.

In Boulder, Larry goes to see Harold. Larry doesn't seem impressed with Harold when he opens the door. Larry asked himself what would Harold do on his trip across the country. Larry wants to meet Frannie, too. But Harold says she doesn't live there. Larry says he was on the road with someone, and it didn't work out.

Joe won't look at Harold.

Back in the past, Rita grabs a bottle of booze and begins walking away. It's raining, but she doesn't care. She overdoses.

Nadine is in the dark. She finds a book.

Randall Flagg is singing oly oly oxen free on his way to Lloyd's cell.

Flagg wonders why Lloyd isn't dead already. He's been eating rats.

Flagg decides Lloyd will be his right-hand man as long as he promises that he'll be a good, loyal servant.