He reveals that he had been taken by the darkness, but his headlamp had re-activated and he reappeared. On the third day of darkness, Paul appears in the street, suffering from a severe concussion. Luke and James are later joined by Rosemary, who made her way to the bar thinking her son Manny might have been brought there by his father. Luke explains that it is eleven in the morning but it is dark out, implying that the sun is no longer providing light. James believes his mother is at a church down the street and will soon return. He finds a bar powered by a portable generator, where the bartender's young son, James Leary, waits alone. Three days pass, and Luke is alone in the darkness, trying to scavenge flashlight batteries and checking cars. A live feed from Chicago shows a newscaster telling people to keep a light on themselves at all times. He reaches his television station, also abandoned, and finds a recording which shows his girlfriend vanishing on air when the lights go out. Leaving his apartment, the downtown streets are empty except for abandoned cars and piles of clothing. The following morning, television reporter Luke Ryder wakes to find that the power is out. The scene changes to a hospital where a woman in scrubs, Rosemary, frantically looks for anyone left alive and continuously screams for a child named Manny. As Paul hears the guard cry out, his headlamp goes out as well. Upon hearing a sound in a department store the guard goes to investigate when his flashlight goes out, and he vanishes. He comes across a security guard holding a flashlight as Paul had a headlamp on for his reading, they deduce that people holding sources of light are protected against whatever dwells in the darkness. He finds that all the staff and patrons have vanished, leaving only their clothes behind.
Paul, a projectionist in a Detroit theater, is reading about the 16th century disappearance of the Roanoke Colony when the lights suddenly go out.
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