It's a lovely beach, shame about the locals.

On the way they are attacked by a couple of the Terminals (the most commonly used name for those cannibals).  Vinny soon knocks them off the Bull, and takes pleasure in reversing over one of them. Finally, they reach the good ole' beach, and start looking around for the spaceship. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a group of military men turn up, take J.J. and Howe captive, and chain down the Bull, throwing a fake grenade inside to trick Vinny into getting out. This gang of military type men are from Fort Lizwell, where a group has sprung up and taken control of the survivors in the area, and this is where Howe, J.J. and Vinny are tied up and taken too.

Howe and J.J. get to ride up front!

A glorious morning cruising the beach.

Even the Bull doesn't have the power to escape.

The camp is depressingly dark, full of tents and shacks with people crying out for help. The armed men swagger around like kings and the odd hanging body can be seen. On their way into the camp they pass a line of civilians who are being forced to drag the spaceship to the camp and are shouted forward by a slave driving teenager. It would have been nice to see how civilization had descended to this situation in little over a month, but this is never really explained, and is left up to us to decide. The commander of Fort Lizwell? A young man named Gideon Hayes. It's never explained properly how Gideon came to be in charge of the group. Supposedly he is still a schoolboy, although he looks to be about 20.

Vinny is sent straight to the cages they use as jails along with J.J., who turns out to be Gideon’s old girlfriend from before the nukes. Gideon questions Howe about locations of safe zones, but is soon informed by Lacey, his right hand man, that the memory box onboard the spaceship has been found, and it contains all the information they need.

Gideon easily confuses Howe with basic questions about the weather.

Howe is thrust into the jail with the others, and finds that Jordan is also in there, fully recovered after her nice long sleep. J.J. finally explains what happened in the area. Gideon’s father was in the army, knew of the impending attack and sent a helicopter for Gideon and J.J. Also on the helicopter was Lacey, a computer guy called Boomer and some other top brass. The helicopter crashed and the only survivors were Gideon, Lacey, J.J. and Boomer. The explanation that Gideon slowly took over due to his nature as a leader is pretty weak, but hey, it makes for an interesting plot. The character Boomer was forced to set up his equipment and somehow managed to override the spaceship’s programming, forcing it to land in their area, explaining what had happened. Gideon wants information from the spaceship about where a government safe zone might be, as the area they are in now is slowly contaminating everybody. Gideon has a sailing boat, and intends to sail off with a few of his men to the safe area.

Somewhere else in the base Gideon is busy persuading Boomer to give him the password for the information held on the spaceship's memory that they recovered from the lifepod. Boomer is tied to a vertical bed, and is frothing at the mouth, obviously emancipated and with no strength. Boomer is eventually persuaded with the offer of a steak, and Gideon manages to get the location of a zone that's still operational, somewhere north of their location (at a convenient sailing distance). Unfortunately for Boomer, evil Gideon drops the steak on the muddy floor and stands on it. Boomer is unbuckled and drops to the floor beside the steak, but doesn’t have enough energy to eat.

Gideon is rather mean to poor Boomer.

The next day, Howe, Jordan, Vinny and J.J. are tried for their trumped-up crimes. It’s an interesting sequence in an old aeroplane, where “justice” is handed out within seconds. They are all sentenced to hang. Surprisingly, all the civilians that have turned up to watch are pretty lively, and seem to be loving the idea of watching some people die.

Gideon makes the classic mistake of waiting too long. He decides to spice things up by offering the convicted the chance to pull the lever that will kill the others, with their freedom as the prize. Eventually, Howe steps forward. I don’t know if this was meant to be heroic, but it certainly doesn’t earn him any points in my eyes. Meanwhile, throughout the scene we can see Boomer dragging himself towards the hanging area. It’s quite ridiculous, but he still seems to have some energy in his arms. Somehow, just before the drum roll stops and Howe is supposed to pull the lever, Boomer manages to fire a shot at Gideon (where he got the gun from I don’t know). In all the confusion Howe escapes, Boomer is shot and Jordan is persuaded to aid Gideon, whose leg was hit. J.J. and Vinny are temporarily spared whilst Jordan aids Gideon.

Back at the base, Jordan has cleaned up Gideon’s wound. He asks for morphine, and she spies a chance to kill him, filling the needle up with potassium instead. Gideon knows exactly what he's doing, however, and gets Lacey to inject Jordan instead, killing her. He could have just shot her, but seems to take sick pleasure in his mental games.

Outside, J.J. seems to have changed her opinion of Gideon and begs to see him. She tells him that she was mistaken and wants to join him as his girlfriend again. How the normally intelligent Gideon can fall for this is anybody’s guess, but she obviously despises him. Meanwhile, Vinny is placed up against a wall to be shot. Vinny begs for his life, and is about to be executed when Howe piles through the gateway in the Bull. Vinny joins Howe, and they distribute guns to some of the civilians. A huge (well, reasonable) battle breaks out, and Howe searches for Jordan and J.J., freeing the other jailed people while he's there.

J.J. tries to save her skin, and Vinny begs for his live, with the delay actually saving him.

Howe fails in his efforts to look like an action hero.

Eventually, Howe finds Jordan’s dead body and realises it's time to leave. He and Vinny head down to the dock in the Bull, and see Gideon has already cast off. “Can you swim?” Howe asks Vinny. Now how on earth Howe manages to find himself in the water besides the boat I don’t know. All I can imagine is that he runs down the coast a little to head them off, because there's no way he could catch up to them normally.

Before he gets there we get to see what's happening on board. Lacey and two men are with Gideon and J.J.. Gideon thanks the two men for their service, then shoots them, knowing that he doesn’t need them any more (if only he knew). While Lacey and Gideon are below deck, Howe appears in the water. J.J. throws a rope and he climbs on from the stern. Lacey and Gideon appear, but J.J. manages to push Lacey into the water. Howe threatens Gideon with a fish hook, but Gideon threatens to cut J.J’s throat. Howe, can’t let that happen, so abandons his attempt and jumps back into the sea. As Gideon finds a gun and tries to shoot Howe, J.J. knocks Gideon into the water with the sail. As for Vinny, well I guess he couldn’t swim, but I guess J.J. went back to pick him and Howe up.

If only Gideon had killed her at the beginning he wouldn't be in this situation.

We cut to later in the day, and the sun is starting to rise. Gideon arrives back at his base and is limping badly, after somehow managing to swim back to the shore. It appears the battle is over and his men have triumphed. Many civilian bodies are scattered all over the ground. As he walks through the base, his eyes fall on the lifepod, and he notices the one remaining nuclear warhead. The 60 hours are up and the thing explodes, giving Howe, J.J. and Vinny a pretty explosion to look at as they sail away.

Shield your eyes idiots! Get down below or something.