MAN: What do you mean,
I can't get off?
MAN 2:
No, let me through!
- (HORNS HONKING)
- Turn around. You gotta get out.
- No.
- Let me off this island!
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
A lot of people you know
are gonna be there, okay?
Why can't we just stay home?
Selina, because we can't, okay?
This is the safest place
in the neighborhood.
- I'm scared.
- I'm gonna take care of you.
I won't let anything happen,
okay, mamita?
Okay.
- Hey.
- (CHUCKLING)
- Okay, come on.
- Okay.
Venga, ven.
Let's hurry up.
(QUIET CHATTER)
- Hey.
- Hey.
Sophia, Selina.
Hey. Oh, I didn't expect
to see you.
I thought you would have left
the island by now.
Oh, I was going to,
but, you know, the money,Wesley.
$5,000 to stay?
That's life-changing for us.
- We need it.
- Yeah.
Pastor Almory opened up
the church to everyone.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay? We got cots.
There's gonna be security
at the door, food.
And Pastor's going to deliver
a sermon later tonight.
NINA:
Oh, Lord, forgive me.
Pastor's a wonderful man,
but his sermons
bore me to death.
It's a goddamn
snooze fest, okay?
- (LAUGHTER)
NINA: Yeah.
Why don't you make
yourselves at home?
- Anything you need.
- ALMORY: You'll be all right.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for coming.
Of course. I appreciate it.
Hey, y'all doing good?
We gonna be all right.
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
Sis.
Are you there yet?
I'm-I'm already
in Brooklyn, sis.
A block away from Uncle...
Uncle T's place.
Um, I-I got the last bus
off the island.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, I wish you were with me.
I know. I know.
But I just had to get
as many people
off the street
and into the church as I could.
Stay safe.
I'll be fine.
A'ight.
What you say, Skeletor?
(GUN CLICKS)
NEWS ANCHOR:
There are candlelight vigils
happening all over the country.
Now let's go to Anne with
footage from just moments ago.
That is the last of the buses
leaving the island.
The last ferry
left minutes ago.
We're just minutes away now,
and the questions
on everyone's mind
remain the same.
Will people participate?
Will Staten Islanders prove
that this is a night
America needs?
NEWS ANCHOR 2: Thanks, Anne.
And now we're going
to take you live
to the White House,
where President Bracken
will address
the citizens of Staten Island
and the nation
for the start
of the first experiment.
The courageous citizens
of Staten Island...
those pioneers...
will be part of something
that could bring about
great change.
We are all
Staten Islanders tonight.
Good luck.
(ALARM BLARING)
ANNOUNCER:
This is not a test.
This is your
Emergency Broadcast System,
announcing the commencement
of the NFFA Social Experiment
on Staten Island, New York.
Weapons of class four and lower
have been authorized for use
during the experiment.
All crime, including murder,
will be legal
for 12 continuous hours.
Blessed be
our New Founding Fathers
and America, a nation reborn.
May God be with you all.
(SIREN BLARING)
(QUIET CHATTER)
(ELEVATOR WHIRRING)
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(SIREN CONTINUES BLARING)
For our country.
(SIREN STOPS)
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(DRONES WHIRRING)
(DISTANT SCREAMS, DOG BARKING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(DEEP, GRUFF BREATHING)
(LAUGHING)
Skeletor's purge is on.
(CAT YOWLS, SCREECHES)
(Random guy)Motherfucker.
Tonight's my night, baby.
You been charging me money
to take out my money?
Fuck that.
I want my fucking money back.
(GRUNTS) 20s, 50s, 100s
or whatever this shit is,
I want that shit right back.
(GRUNTS) (Gets Stabbed)
Skeletor- You see me, NFFA?
- (MAN GASPING)
Is this the first of the night?
Number one.
(GRUNTS)
Making my money.
- Shit going down tonight, boys.
- Yeah.
We gonna purge.
Gonna have some fun.
It's Christmas in March,
niggas.
I got my list. Y'all got yours?
- GROUP: Yeah!
- Hey, yo, from tonight on,
no more bullshit.
From nobody.
No one, no thing.
From now on, just our shit.
Fuck Dylan!
This is my kingdom.
It's our night, fellas.
Y'all ready to run down?
- GROUP: Hell yeah!
- Let's go then, niggas.
NEWS ANCHOR: And just back
from Staten Island
and joining me here
in the studio is Abby Shea.
Abby, what was the atmosphere
like out there?
Abby:
Uh, well, you know, it...
People were...
they wanted to see
if this could work.
This violence
fighting violence.
I spoke to both
the anti-Purge protesters
and the Purge supporters...
?
We have something.
We believe that this is
the first purge of the evening.
Sam:
Okay.
Get it out there.
Yes, sir.
(RAPID TYPING)
- (CLATTERING)
- (GASPS)
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(QUIET, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)
(DISTANT CHATTER)
(CELL PHONE RINGTONE PLAYING)
Yo.
Dylan:
Zo. How we doing?
Quiet, quiet.
Locked down, all good.
Oh, oh, one thing.
Fat-ass Cap A didn't show up
to work today.
Bet you this motherfucker
out there purging.
What else?
If you need company,
we got the girls on the way.
- I'm not interested.
- Yeah, well,
you should keep 'em around
just in case you get bored.
Call me if you need
anything else, bro.
I ask you, do we descend?
On this dreaded night,
do we descend?
- Or do we ascend?
- (CELL PHONE BUZZING)
That is the question
that we all must ask ourselves.
The 23rd psalm says,
"Although I walk
through the valley
- in the shadow of death..."
- (NINA WHISPERS): Check this out.
I found Pastor's
secret stash in his office.
Nina- He's got a whole bar up there.
Wesley- Are you kidding me?
Thank the Lord.
Monopoly is not gonna get me
through this night.
Oh. He gonna see you.
Nina- Mm-hmm.
- ALMORY: ...no man but God.
(CONGREGATION MURMURING)
Nina- It tastes like old-man ass.
- (LAUGHS)
Don't ask me how I know.
You sure you don't want a swig?
No, thank you, Dolores.
Okay. Gonna be a long night.
ALMORY:
Every dark night,
the sun shall rise
in the morning.
(LAUGHTER NEARBY)
(LAUGHING)
(BEEPING, WHIRRING)
I won't waste your time
I sense something
divine in you
Something divine in you,
yes, I do
(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)
(METALLIC SQUEAKING)
MAN:
Tonight, young blood.
(RATTLING)
MAN:
Get the fuck out of here.
MAN:
The fuck you looking at?
(VEHICLES APPROACHING,
HIP-HOP PLAYING)
That money
keep comin', nigga
You got it,
I want it, nigga...
(SONG FADES)
You see me kill
that motherfucker, boy?
- (OTHERS MURMURING)
- Tough guy.
What you think
you're gonna do with that?
- Stand down, motherfucker.
- Yo!
I'm exercising my right to
purge by taking all your merch.
And if you stand in my way,
I will fuck you up!
- MAN: Motherfucker.
- (LAUGHTER)
- Let's fucking purge, y'all!
- Yeah!
I'm coming for my free shit.
(PANTING)
- Get back, get back, man!
- Hey, you get back, nigga!
(CLAMORING)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Chill, chill.
Fall back. Yo,Mich.
Chill. It's me,Ethan.
Damn,E. Scared the shit
out of me, son.
(CHUCKLING):
Man, what the hell you doing
out here by yourself, yeah?
And why you wearing
those contacts?
What, you purging,
little nigga?
Oh, I see. You out here looking
for Skeletor, ain't you?
Motherfucker made you look
like a little bitch.
Now you trying
to save some face.
Man, screw that shit, yo.
Roll with us.
There's a Purge party
down the block.
What the hell is a Purge party,
my nigga?
Nigga, I don't know.
Could be fun, though.
Let's go find out.
Maybe your boy
Skeletor's there.
Let's go, y'all. We out.
There's nothing happening.
Look at this.
Some kind of block party.
There are actually a couple
across the island.
Parties?
Are you kidding me?
- I been poppin' all my life
- Whoo!
It's like my birthday
every night
Whoo!
I been poppin' all my life
Whoo!
Thank God that I'm alive
- Whoo!
- I been poppin' all my life
- (FIREWORKS POPPING)
- Whoo!
It's like my birthday
every night
Whoo!
I been poppin' all my life
- Whoo!
- Thank God that I'm alive
- Ooh, thankin' the Lord I'm alive
- God
- Your diamonds not lookin' alive
- Dead
Bentley truck swervin',
it's wide
- Heard you be talkin' to 12
- Who?
- But I do not fuck with them guys
- No
- First time I seen me a bale
- Bale
- I thought it was gold in my eyes
- Yes
- The coupe all red inside
- Ooh
- Duplex, shawty outside
- Ooh
- We not feelin' your vibe
- Yeah
- Nigga played out, retired
- Retired
Niggas out here...
(CONGREGATION SINGING)
ANNOUNCER: CNB breaking news
from Staten Island.
NEWS ANCHOR:
This footage just came in.
It's being reported
as the first kill
or purge of the evening.
The following is graphic
and contains violent images
- that might not be suitable for minors.
- Selina.
Hey, come with me.
Help me with the other kids.
SELINA:
There's something wrong
with the world,
isn't there,Wesley?
There is something wrong,
Selina.
But we have to keep trying
to fix it.
MAN (QUIETLY):
Please, Jesus...
NEWS ANCHOR:
This is very disturbing,
but it is what we expected
to see tonight.
It is very hard
to process that...
what we are looking at here
is actually legal,
that there is no punishment
for this inhumane act.
This is almost
an alternate reality.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER
AND LAUGHTER)
WOMAN:
Hi. I'm good.
- (CELL PHONES CHIMING)
- WOMAN: Have you seen it?
WOMAN:
No, what is it?
MAN:
You're a freak!
- WOMAN: What is it?
- MAN: Oh, shit, you see this?
- Yo, what's up?
- (CELL PHONE BUZZING)
(CELL PHONES BEEPING
AND CHIMING)
Yo, you looking at this, bro?
Holy shit.
Hey, yo, Zay.
Check this out, bro.
It's the first kill
of the night.
20 million views already.
Damn, that's some
animal shit, man.
That's some nasty shit, yo.
But I'm out.
I'm-a go find that psycho.
Hey, yo, yo, yo.
Careful, son.
That motherfucker crazy.
- Yeah.
- Y'all see that?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER
AND LAUGHTER)
(WOMEN LAUGHING)
Yeah, your queens ready
to party with the king.
Fuck, hey!
- (LAUGHING)
- Whoo!
- Ay!
- Yeah!
Yo.
What up, sexy?
Call me if you need anything.
- All right, cool.
- A'ight?
Good luck, Seven.
(WOMEN CHUCKLING)
Dyaln:
Make yourselves at home.
You already know
where the bar is.
(SMACKING LIPS)
- Plug walk
- (LAUGHTER, CHATTER)
I don't even understand
how the fuck...
Hey, yo,
any y'all seen Skeletor?
Pick him up
in a space coupe
I don't let my plug walk...
(WHISTLING A TUNE)
New freak, had to cut
my other little bitch off
50K, you could come and book
a nigga for a plug walk
You can't reach me
Space coupe like E.T.
It's the plug
tryin' to call me
I was up trappin'
early in the morning
Ooh, on the wave
like a do-rag...
(LAUGHING)
- (SPITS)
- (WATER RUNNING)
(SIGHS)
(SHUTS WATER OFF)
(SIGHS)
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
movin' right up...
- Can't wait, baby.
- Whoo!
Y'all getting it poppin'.
- (CHUCKLES)
- (WHOOPING)
They tryin' to fuck
my night up...
So, what's this?
You're matching and shit?
Yes.
- What up, daddy?
- Oh.
What's up?
It's time
that I bring right up...
(CHUCKLES)
Oh, he's ready.
And I'm-a live it right up
Oh... (CHUCKLES)
There's a lotta shit
that I hold down
(LAUGHTER, CHATTER)
I'm-a bring it right up
They tryin' to fuck
my night up
I live it right up,
I get it right up
I live it right up
I hold shit down
But pick it right up
'Cause I live right up
I get it right up
I'm-a get rich, get rich
'Cause niggas
living like us
I said time to hold
shit down
Look how sexy she is.
But they gonna
fuck the night up...
You like what you see?
- You want me?
- So hot.
- DMITRI: Mmm.
- (CHUCKLING)
Keep it all different
Yeah, I pose different
My time lavish,
my time lavish
Miss Jackson, Tom Braxy
Super savage, super savage
Champion
Who's that girl?
(SONG FADES)
(CHUCKLING)
Mmm, Zaddy.
(GRUNTING AND YELLING)
(GRUNTS)
(YELLING)
(GRUNTING AND GROANING)
(YELLING AND GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTING AND GROANING)
(YELLING)
(GROANING)
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTING AND GROANING)
(SCREAMING)
(SKELETOR LAUGHING)
(FRANTIC CHATTER, SCREAMING)
SKELETOR:
Founding Fathers...
pay me!
- Save me!
- (GUN COCKS)
You gotta be fucking
kidding me.
(PAINED GRUNTING)
Who and how much?
- Capital A.
- (COUGHING)
A lot.
More money than we'd see
in ten lifetimes
doing the shit we do.
Wasn't personal, D.
It was our way out.
(GASPING)
(LAUGHING)
Purging.
Cherry.
(CLICKING TONGUE)
Cherry, they watching.
Make that money.
Soil that soul, Innocent I!
(SKELETOR GROWLS)
(GRUNTS)
Where you gonna run to, Isaiah?
You can't run from me.
I'm the night, Isaiah.
I'm gonna find you.
UPDALE:
It's starting.
The basic tenets of morality
have to be abandoned.
Religious dogma
must be dropped.
People are beginning
to participate.
Don't get too excited.
NEWS ANCHOR:
And to this point, we've seen
mostly looting and vandalism,
with only a few instances
of real violence
across the island.
ANNE: Take, for example,
the Park Hill Towers,
the center of the community.
Many people are looking at them
as a gauge
of the Purge's success,
but so far,
it's been relatively quiet.
(PANTING)
SKELETOR:
Where you gonna go?
I'm everywhere, Isaiah!
You can't hide from me!
(BUILDING CREAKING)
SKELETOR:
I see you!
- WOMAN: You hear that?
- MAN: Get that motherfucker!
(INDISTINCT WHISPERING)
WOMAN:
I told you, he's over there!
MAN:
Yo, this way.
(WATER DRIPPING,
BUILDING CREAKING)
(CLATTERING NEARBY)
(FOOTSTEPS SCURRYING)
MAN:
Yo, over here.
We gonna get you,
motherfucker!
- MAN: I think he left.
- WOMAN: Nah.
Let's check out back.
(PANTING QUIETLY)
MAN:
Where you hiding, boy?
We know you're here.
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
WOMAN:
Mother...
Wesley:
Hey. Just calling to check in.
How's Brooklyn? How's Uncle T?
(PANTING):
Wesley, I'm not in Brooklyn.
