After a devastating plague (the Simian Flu) unleashed about 12 years earlier, a group of survivors (father and ex-architect Malcolm (Jason Clarke), Malcolm""s wife and CDC nurse Ellie (Keri Russell) and leader Dreyfus (Gary Oldman)) were living in a colony within the ruins of San Francisco.Quilty: What""s this, the deed to the ranch?Humbert: It""s your death sentence.Read it.Quilty: I can""t read, ah, mister.I never did none of that there book learnin"", ya know.Humbert: Read it, Quilty!Quilty: (He ridicules his own death sentence by play-acting and reading he confession note, written in verse, with a Gabby Hayes accent.She cowered in the front seat of a parked vehicle in the parking lot.On their way out of town in the Marshal""s car, Loomis told Nurse Marion Chambers more background about the wordSamhain -a Druid ceremony of ritualistic elimination and sacrifice:"In order to appease the gods, the Druid priests held fire rituals.During a dinner invitation with their friend Edward "Hutch" Hutchins (Maurice Evans), he warns them of the apartment building""s notorious, sordid and unsavory reputation for witchcraft and cannibalism over 50 years earlier -- (and provides some of the film""s foreshadowing of what a prospective mother would fear - underlined):Are you aware that the Bramford had a rather unpleasant reputation around the turn of the century? It""s where the Trench sisters conducted their little dietary experiments.The nosy Lounds asked about the murderer: "How""s he do ""em, Will?" Graham grabbed him physically, tossed him onto the hood of a car where Lounds"" foot smashed the windshield, and warned: "Keep the f--k away from me.