Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Writer: Matt Parker
Based on the comic series
Cast: Jack Reynor, Tessa Thompson, Constance Wu, Gal Gadot, Julianne Moore, Mackenzie Davis, Samara Weaving, Elizabeth Henstridge, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Aimee Teegarden, Lauren Ambrose
Plot: Brooklyn, New York. Yorick Brown (Jack Reynor) hangs, suspended upside down from his ceiling, strapped into a straight jacket. He is talking to his girlfriend Beth Deville (Samara Weaving), who is doing anthropological work in the Australian Outback for graduate school. He works at escaping from the straight jacket while she asks him about a job interview he had. He tells her that the prospects on that front don't look promising, but he did make a a good chunk of change performing card tricks down at Washington Square after the interview, so it wasn't a total loss. Yorick is free from the straight jacket when he gets a call from his mother. He asks Beth to wait on the other line. Yorick tells his mother, Jennifer Brown (Julianne Moore), that he's talking to Beth and asks if he can call her back. Jennifer tells Yorick to give Beth her best as she walks down the steps of the Capital Building in Washington D.C. Yorick asks Beth how things in Australia are. She starts describing how beautiful it is, but Yorick is suddenly hit by monkey feces, thrown by his pet capuchin monkey, Ampersand. Beth rolls her eyes and asks who gave him a monkey. Yorick tells her he volunteered to train it for a non-profit group.
Nablus, West Bank. Colonel Alter Tse-elon (Gal Gadot) is protecting a group of American television journalists doing a piece on the growing women's rights movement in the region. Some children begin throwing rocks at the news team. Alter begins firing her gun toward the kids. The journalists tell her to take it easy, they're just kids after all. She tells them that she is firing rubber bullets well above their heads just to scare them off.
Al Karak, Jordan. Agent 355 (Tessa Thompson) sneaks into a house and tells the woman inside that there are men coming after her to kill her. The woman asks why, and 355 tells her it's because of her amulet, the Amulet of Helene. The woman refuses to give it up, and is suddenly riddled with several bullets, killing her. Two armed men then storm in through the window. 355 kills them both and then looks around at the dead bodies around her. She radios in to Culper Ring, saying to inform the President that there's going to be a slight delay.
Back in Brooklyn, Yorick is still on the phone with Beth. He admits to her that he's been feeling agoraphobic since she left for Australia. Beth tells him not to be afraid of the world. He says he's not afraid of the world, he's afraid of the world without her. Yorick looks at a ring on his dresser.
Boston, Massachusetts. Hero Brown (Mackenzie Davis), a paramedic, is in the back of an ambulance making out with a firefighter when her phone starts going off. Hero looks at the phone, and sees it's her mother. Hero pulls herself off the man and answers the phone. While Hero is talking to her mother, Jennifer Brown, the firefighter is called to a fire. Hero waves to him.
The very pregnant Dr. Allison Mann (Constance Wu) is being wheeled through a hospital on a wheel chair, going into labor. The doctor asks her who her regular doctor is. Allison says she hasn't seen one since she's a doctor herself. The doctor asks who the father is, and Allison says she's the father. The doctor thinks for a moment and then realizes that Allison is saying she's about to give birth to her own clone.
On Capital Hill, Jennifer Brown's male aide clutches his throat. In Nablus, the male television journalists begin coughing up blood. In a plane 20,000 feet above Jordan, the pilot of 355's plane spits up blood all over the plane's wind shield. World wide, the male of every species has died, blood leaking from their eyes and mouths. Jennifer tries giving her aide CPR. Agent 355 takes the reigns of the plane and tries to radio for help. The doctor delivering Allison's baby lays on the ground in a pool of his own blood. Yorick asks Beth to marry him over the phone, but the line goes dead before she can respond. Yorick hears a loud crashing sound and looks out his window. Several cars have crashed and caught fire outside. Yorick looks at Ampersand and wonders aloud what is going on, telling Ampersand that he is not mentally equipped right now for another 9/11.
Two Months Later. Yorick walks down the streets outside Washington D.C. wearing a large poncho and gas mask, concealing his identity. He carries Ampersand in a pet carrier. Suddenly, he is almost run over by a garbage truck driven by Waverly (Elizbeth Henstridge). She gets out to check on him, assuming he's a woman. She looks behind the truck and is annoyed that the dead bodies of men fell out of the back. Yorick is surprised. Waverly tells him that it is her job to clean the bodies of the deceased men. Yorick notices that she has a gun and asks where she got it. Waverly tells him she took it off the body of a dead cop. Waverly notices the pet carrier and opens it, saying she loves dogs. Ampersand jumps out of the carrier and rips Yorick's gas mask off, revealing him to be a man. Waverly is stunned. She pulls out the gun and handcuffs Yorick to the garbage truck, telling him that she is going to sell him off for food. She then resumes putting the dead bodies back in the garbage truck. When she is finished, she finds that Yorick has broken free from the handcuffs.
Jennifer Brown enters an office in the White House and finds Yorick in there waiting for her. Jennifer clutches onto Yorick in disbelief. She is stunned by Yorick and Ampersand suriving. Yorick says he doesn't know why he survived, but that doesn't matter. He's going to Australia to find Beth. Jennifer tells Yorick that as the last man on earth he has a responsibility to the world. Jennifer asks Yorick to find Dr. Allison Mann. She may be able to figure out why he and Ampersand survived. There is suddenly an explosion outside. Jennifer leads Yorick down to a fallout shelter underneath the East Wing. Once Yorick steps inside, Jennifer locks him inside. Yorick starts forcing himself to throw up. Ampersand looks at him, and Yorick tells him that he swallowed a tension tool he can use to break out of the fallout shelter. Yorick isn't able to pick the locks, but he then notices that there is a smoke detector inside, but no sprinklers. Yorick pulls out a lighter.
Agent 355 arrives at the White House and informs Jennifer Brown that she is now the highest ranking surviving female in the U.S. government, which would make her the new President. Jennifer is confused, asking what happened to the Secretary of the Interior. Agent 355 says she was killed by looters. Jennifer asks 355 who she is, and 355 explains that she is an agent for the Culper Ring. Jennifer laughs saying that was George Washington's spy network and they haven't existed since the Revolution. Yorick announces that he will go and find Dr. Mann and then find his girlfriend Beth. Jennifer tells him that's out of the question. She will find a way to bring Dr. Mann and Beth to him. It would be too dangerous for him to leave the White House. Yorick says he survived on his own for months on the road already, he'll be fine. Jennifer says that she is assigning 355 to be his chaperone. 355 objects, saying she should be protecting the president, not her wayward son. Jennifer tells 355 to do her job and protect Yorick.
Tel Aviv, Israel. Alter Tse'lon is in a military base when a phone suddenly rings. She tells her underlings that it is a direct line from a governmental safe house in the United States. Alter answers the phone, but doesn't say anything. A voice on the other end of the line tells her that her only concern should be a young man named Yorick Brown.
Boston, Massachusetts. Yorick and 355 are camped out on the outskirts of town having stolen a couple of motorcycles on their way. Yorick wakes up from a nightmare to find 355 knitting by the fire. Yorick tells 355 that he is hoping they can spend some time looking for his sister Hero while they're in Boston to find Dr. Mann.
Hero is with Victoria (Lara Jean Chorostecki), leader of a man-hating group called the Daughters of the Amazon. They drag a young woman out of bushes and ask where she got her motorcycle since it used to belong to them. The woman spits at Victoria, who then tells Hero to kill the young woman. Hero hesitates and asks the woman again where she got the motorcycle. She says that she bought it from a couple women, one of them wore a gas mask. She says that the women then headed north toward Boston. Victoria once again orders Hero to kill the young woman. Hero kills the woman with a bullet to the head.
Yorick and 355 break into medical facility thanks to Yorick's lock picking abilities. Once inside they find a room with a light on. 355 tells Yorick to wait while she checks it out. 355 finds Dr. Allison Mann and tells her that she is there to assist Allison with her cloning research on direct orders from the President of the United States. Allison says she is done with her cloning research because she believes the birth of the male clone inside of her somehow caused the plague that killed every man on the planet. Yorick then appears. Allison appears more interested in Ampersand than Yorick though. She then says that she could understand how one of them could have survived through some anomaly, but the fact that both Yorick and Ampersand have survived is astonishing. 355 says that they were hoping Allison would be able to figure out why. Allison prepares to draw blood from Yorick and Ampersand, but Ampersand freaks out and jumps out a window. Yorick, 355 and Allison all race out of the building to find Ampersand.
While they are out, Alter Tse'lon and her team enters Dr. Mann's lab. She notices a footprint on the floor, saying that a man was definitely here. Several hours later, Yorick, 355 and Allison have found Ampersand and are walking back to the lab when they find the building has been set on fire. Allison breaks down crying that 12 years worth of research has been destroyed. 355 asks if Allison she has duplicate samples in a contingency site. Allison says she does, but it's in California. The three then discuss what they should do next. 355 suggests they return to Washington DC, Allison suggests they go to California, while Yorick says they should take a ship to Australia so he can reunite with Beth and start repopulating the Earth the old fashioned way.
Yorick trades their motorcycle for passage in the cargo hull of an old diesel train, pretty much the only mode of long distance travel left. When Yorick, 355 and Allison board the train they find that they will be traveling across the country to California in a train car full of pigs. Yorick asks Allison what nationality she is. 355 sighs and tells Yorick to shut up. Allison answers that nationality is American, but her ethnicity is Chinese and Japanese. Clearly she changed her last name to Mann, Allison says, to insult her father. She then says that she is glad the plague killed her father. 355 says that she has to get back to her original mission once she's done with babysitting Yorick. Yorick asks if it has anything to do with the Amulet of Helene, pulling it out of his pocket. 355 takes it back, saying her mission is classified.
In Boston, Hero and Victoria encounter a Russian woman named Natalya (Svetlana Khodchenkova) who says that she knows where men are. Victoria humors Natalya and asks where. Natalya says in space. The Soyuz spacecraft is going to land in Kansas. Victoria thinks the woman is delirious and ignores her. One of her followers says that someone spotted the motorcycle they're looking for, which they now believe was taken by a man. The woman says that someone wearing a gas mask and carrying a monkey drove it to the rail yard. Hero is caught off guard by the monkey comment, and thinks of her brother.
A group of women storm into the train car and order Yorick, 355 and Allison to pay a toll for riding the rails. 355 pulls a gun on them, but Yorick tackles the women. Yorick is sent flying from the train. 355 dispatches the raiders and tells Allison that they need to get off of the train and find Yorick. Allison says she can just ride the train to San Francisco and get to her lab, but 355 says that she has to protect both Yorick and Allison. 355 then tosses Allison from the train, jumping off after her.
Marrisville, Ohio. In the morning, Yorick wakes up, naked, in a bed. A young woman Sonia (Rachel Brosnahan) tells him that she found him and his pet monkey unconscious by a well. He asks why he's naked, and Sonia tells him that his clothes were filthy so she put them in the wash. Allison wakes up in a field and starts looking for 355. She finally finds her, but 355 is bleeding from her head. She uses what little medical supplies she has to bandage 355's head, but tells 355 she needs to get her to a medical facility. 355 gives Allison her gun and tells her that she needs to find Yorick. 355 then passes out.
Boston, Massachusetts. Hero and Victoria find the train conductor and demand to know who she got the motorcycle from. She tells them that she got it from some lady in a gas mask with a monkey that needed to get to California.
Marrisville, Ohio. Sonia brings Yorick back his clothes. Yorick thanks Sonia for her hospitality, but tells her that he has a job to do and friends he needs to find. When he opens the door to leave Sonia's house, there are several dozen women standing outside. Yorick takes a look around and notices that the town is in prestine condition compared to everywhere else he's been. There's even electricity. Sonia tells him that after the plague, the women in town worked to get the grid control station online and set up a hydroponic greenhouse to grow food in. Yorick is stunned that they have fresh food. Allison makes her way down the street and spots Yorick and all the women. Allison says that 355 is hurt badly and they need to go and get her.
Boston, Massachusetts. Hero, armed with a bow and arrow, confronts the lady thugs from the train and asks them about the man they supposedly saw. They are less than coopertative at first, so Hero shoots one of them in the hand with an arrow. She tells them to describe the man. They says they heard his name was Rick-something and he had a monkey with him. They tell her that he fell off the train somewhere in Ohio. Hero tells Victoria that the man they were looking for is her brother. Hero tries to tell Victoria that Yorick is a good guy, but Victoria punches Hero. Victoria tells Hero that anyone and anything with a penis is a monster. Rapists and serial killers, the lot of them. Victoria asks Hero what the Amazons need to do to her brother. Hero says they need to kill him.
Marrisville, Ohio. Yorick, Sonia and Allison take 355 to the town's medical center. Allison says that thankfully 355 just has post-concussion syndrome, but it could have been much worse. The others from Marrisville tell Sonia they are worried about the presence of Yorick and his government friends. Sonia tells them they have nothing to worry about. Yorick and Sonia go for a walk while Allison attends to 355. Yorick and Sonia end up kissing after Sonia attempts to seduce Yorick. Afterward, Sonia confides in Yorick that all the women in town were inmates at the nearby women's prison. They were let out when the plague was hitting so they wouldn't starve to death. Sonia herself was a crack addict who was arrested with her drug dealer boyfriend.
Yorick storms into the medical center, Sonia right behind him. Yorick announces that the town are a bunch of criminals. Sonia apologizes to the others, saying she thought she could trust Yorick. Suddenly, Hero kicks in the door, bow and arrow drawn. She tells Yorick that he has to come with her and her Amazon sisters or she will slaughter the entire town of Marrisville. Yorick is shocked to see his sister. She hits him with the bow, knocking him to the ground. Yorick asks what the hell she's doing. Allison looks outside and sees Victoria and a group of Daughters of the Amazon waiting outside. Victoria announces to all of Marrisville that she just wants the male, and doesn't want to hurt any of the women of Marrisville. Sonia stands between Hero and Yorick and tells Hero that the women of Marrisville will not bow down to Hero or the Daughters of the Amazon. Hero goes outside and tells Victoria that the women in town won't give Yorick up. Yorick suggests he go out and try to reason with his sister. Allison tells him that's crazy, that the Daughters of the Amazon are all starving and clearly brainwashed by Victoria. Yorick asks Allison to watch Ampersand. He gives Sonia a kiss, and exits the building.
Yorick confronts Victoria, Hero and the other Daughters of the Amazon. Hero forces Yorick onto his knees. Just as Victoria is about to shoot Yorick in the head, she stumbles back, an axe sticking out of the side of her head. Yorick looks over to see Sonia surprised the axe hit Victoria. Hero then shoots Sonia with an arrow. Yorick grabs Victoria's gun and points it at Hero's head. Hero asks him to pull the trigger. Allison tells Yorick to put the gun down, she's his sister after all. Yorick says he doesn't care, Hero just executed an innocent woman.
Alter Tse'lon and her team have just stolen a Blackhawk helicopter from a Massachusetts Air National Guard base. She lays down suppressive fire to make their escape. A voice comes on the radio, the same voice from the phone earlier, telling Alter that Yorick Brown was recently located in Marrisville, Ohio.
Yorick, Allison and 355 leave town to protect Marrisville from the outside world. 355 tells Yorick that she is sorry that she wasn't able to protect him in Marrisville. In the Marrisville Penitentiary, Hero and the other Daughters of the Amazon are incarcerate. Hero begins throwing up, finally coughing up a key. Allison tells Yorick and 355 that the women of Marrisville traded a bunch of produce to get them on the next train heading west to California. The conductors are searching the train for freeloaders before they leave. Yorick, Allison and 355 watch as the conductors remove a Russian woman, Natalya, from a cargo car. They train begins to pull away from the station.
220 Miles Above Earth. Three astronauts are onboard the International Space Station. A female astronaut, Ciba Weber (Lauren Ambrose) announces that hydrogen is leaking into the cabin. Two male astronauts onboard the ISS then say that the decision has been made for them. They will have to go back home to Earth now.
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