The president has gone on television to announce that Americans selected in a national lottery will enter underground caves to wait out the devastating aftermath of the comet's impact.
News anchors appear afterwards to announce details of the lottery.
Redgrave's face momentarily retains its composure, but a tremor ripples through her body. It looks, for a few vivid seconds, as if this woman is going to come apart in front of us, nerve by nerve. Redgrave claps her hand over her mouth, as if it were her only means of holding herself together. And the movie goes on. Except that it can't.