The 5th Wave

Sammy watches Cassie disappear as the bus drives away, already regretting giving her his teddy bear. A soldier, Parker, offers the children fruit snacks. Parker tells Sammy that they are going to a safe place where there is no plague—Camp Haven. Later, he comes back when Sammy is feeling lonely and afraid. He reiterates that Camp Haven is a safe place with a force field made up of armed soldiers and watchtowers. Sammy says the camp sounds more like a prison. He doubts Parker because in the past few months, each time someone said he would be safe, something bad happened.

Sammy gets to know the girl sitting beside him, Megan. When he tells her that his sister and father are still alive, she becomes upset because her family is dead. The soldier, Parker, comes back and checks each child’s temperature via a silver disk—presumably a thermometer. He puts a red mark on Sammy’s hand and a green mark on Megan’s, saying she’s ill and will have to go straight to the base hospital.