Clay and the others bury him and travel north, as Clay is still determined to go home.Įn route, they learn that as "flock-killers," they have been psychically marked as untouchables, to be shunned by other normies.
The flock psychically compels Ardai to commit suicide. The phoners flock kills other normals in reprisal and orders the protagonists to head north to a spot in Maine called "Kashwak". A new flock surrounds their residence, and the survivors face the phoners’ leader: the Raggedy Man from their dreams. Waking, the heroes share their frightening dream experiences and dub him "the Raggedy Man". That night, all of the survivors share the same horrific dream: each dreamer sees himself in a stadium, surrounded by phoners, as a disheveled man wearing a Harvard hooded sweatshirt approaches. The five survivors decide they must destroy the flock and, using two propane tankers, they succeed in doing so.Ĭlay tries to get everyone to flee the scene, but the others refuse to abandon the elderly Ardai. It is clear the phoners have become a hive mind and are developing psychic abilities. The pair show the newcomers where the local phoner flock goes at night: they pack themselves into the Academy's soccer field and "switch off" until morning. They trek north by night across a devastated New England, having fleeting encounters with other survivors and catching disturbing hints about the activities of the phoners, who still attack non-phoners on sight.Ĭrossing into New Hampshire, they arrive at the Gaiten Academy, a prep school with one remaining teacher, Headmaster Charles Ardai, and one surviving pupil, Jordan. Having no better alternatives, Tom and Alice come with him. Clay is still determined to return to Maine and reunite with his young son, Johnny. The next day, they learn the "phoners" have begun foraging for food and banding together. Civilization crumbles as the "phoners" attack each other and anyone in view.Īmidst the chaos, Clay is thrown together with middle-aged Thomas McCourt and fifteen-year-old Alice Maxwell the trio escapes to Tom's suburban home as Boston burns. Clay is standing in Boston Common when the Pulse hits, causing chaos to erupt around him near an ice cream truck. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals.Ĭlayton Riddell, a struggling artist from Maine, has just landed a graphic novel deal in Boston when "The Pulse", a signal sent out over the global cell phone network, suddenly turns every cell phone user into mindless zombie-like killers.
Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King.
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