[Thesevenkillings are marked below by numbers - one of the seven occurred before the film""s action.] What makes things especially perplexing is that important characters involved in the plot never appear alive on screen (e.It""s more crucial than that.We are down to the line, folks.We are down to the line...We""ve got to remain logical.We""ve got to, there""s no choice.It has to be.It""s that or the end." Meanwhile in his bed, Roger awoke as a full-fledged, reanimated zombie, and Peter shot him in the head, as Fran uttered: "It""s really all over, isn""t it?" Roger""s body was buried in a garden within the mall.In the first light of the prehistoric dawn on the second day, a tall, black, rectangular monolithic slab (THE FIRST MONOLITH), with an eerie humming sound - symbolic of the religious/spiritual unknown - materializes in the midst of their den.As the blood dispersed and flowed into her body, there was a drastic change in the child""s vital signs displayed on a wall.