The Third Day Outline
Scene 1: Short title credits run, "I am become death" quote used for context.
scene 2: Flyover of Honolulu, settle on a home.
scene 3: A Teenage boy is on the phone with his mother who is working downtown, his friends are waiting outside for him.
Scene 4: The Phone conversation is suddenly and violently cut off by a massive nuclear explosion. The camera stays with the boy during a scene of unfathomable, apocalyptic chaos and destruction, Incredible, horrifying sound. Sudden cut to black.
scene 5: The boy awakens mildly injured in shattered debris of home, he stumbles outside into the street, revealing mushroom cloud, dust, smoke and haze.
scene 6: The boy dazedly wanders toward the wreck of another home down the street, and passes burned shadows on the ground that are possibly his friends.
scene 7: The boy nears the home, which suddenly explodes, flinging the boy into a smashed car, breaking his leg.
scene 8: The boy uses a shattered stop sign pole as crutch, drags himself back to his home in tears from pain.
scene 9: The boy uses a tattered sheet in a attempt to keep out choking dust from a corner of his broken home, and also uses a box of bandages to cover his initial injuries, the sun sets.
scene 10: The boy sits on his broken roof at night, looking out over a leveled and burning landscape. Eventually he shuffles into his "safe" corner in the home, and falls asleep.
scene 11: The boy, using the pole cane, a makeshift filter mask of torn cloth, and with renewed determination to survive, sets out for a nearby store to find food.
scene 12: The boy searches the wreckage for food, finds some things he thinks he can eat, and leaves with a single road flare.
scene 13: A deranged man attacks the boy, beats him with the boy's cane, and steals his food.
scene 14: The boy returns to his leveled home as sun sets again. He uses the flare to burn pieces of colored cloth found in his home in a makeshift vigil for his friends, then returns to the "safe" corner and begins to break down.
scene 15: The boy coughs up blood soon after waking on the third day, and realizes he will likely die of radiation poisoning before he can be rescued.
scene 16: The boy leaves the home sans mask and walks to ground zero, despite the futility of searching for his mother.
scene 17(final): The boy, nearing death, begins to hallucinate. Thousands of pillars of light begin to ascend into the sky, and he follows a image of his mother to a beach, where he finally succumbs to his illness, but not before being held one last time in his mother's arms.