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After Nell phones Dan from jail explaining what has happened, Dan calls Bunky, who goes to check on Lyla. Lyla arrives home from school and finds Ronald in the house, claiming to be a babysitter. While Lyla is at school, Nell accompanies Toni to a nuclear power protest, where the women are arrested. The next morning, Preacher arrives at the Potter residence, pretending to be delivering a telegram, but Dan is not home. They leave Skagg behind after he kills an innocent bystander. They stop by a local strip mall that is being looted during the blackout and arm themselves with weapons from a sporting goods store.

The security system at Haven fails, and the four men on the third floor escape, killing security guard Ray in the process, before killing another doctor and stealing his car. Dan, Nell, and Toni go to a local rock club, while Lyla is left with babysitter Bunky.

Bain's office.ĭan's younger sister, Toni, who has recently suffered a nervous breakdown, arrives to visit. The four men make plans to kill Dan, and retrieve his address from Dr. Merton's departure, the third-floor patients irrationally blame Dan, believing he has murdered Merton and taken his place.

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Among them are former POW Frank Hawkes, pyromaniac evangelist Byron 'Preacher' Sutcliff, obese child molester Ronald Elster, and a shy serial killer John 'the Bleeder' Skagg, who refuses to show his face. Bain uses lenient security methods, except with the third-floor patients, whom he keeps contained with an electric security door. Dan, his wife Nell, and their daughter Lyla, move into a rural home in the area. Merton, has taken a new position in Philadelphia. Leo Bain's experimental psychiatric hospital, known as the Haven, in New Jersey.

Psychiatrist Dan Potter is appointed on the staff of Dr.

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