- Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live.
- In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Every two minutes, one of them must die... Executed by an electrical pulse generated from a source within the chamber. At first the attacks seem random, but, soon the strangers realize that they, as a group, have the power to decide who will be the next to be killed: by the power of the vote. Mob mentality at its finest hour. A chance to control the machine. How will they choose who deserves to die? What happens when there's only one person left?
- Fifty strangers are unconscious in a mysterious compartment standing up in red lozenges. Suddenly, they awake without memory and with no possibility to move from the lozenge where each one is. Then each one of them is murdered by an electric ray every two minutes. Soon they learn that the attacks are random, but they can vote in who will be the next victim. They discuss criteria to buy time but finally they conclude that only one will survive. But who?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Fifty people awaken in a darkened room, arranged in two concentric circles around a black dome. When they attempt to move from their designated platforms or touch the others, alarms sound off. When someone ignores the warning and leaves formation, a beam from the dome kills them, and their body is quickly removed. As the others panic, a man attempts to calm them, but the device kills him mid-sentence. Thereafter, every two minutes, another person is killed. After several people die, the group realizes that the room's technology allows them to use hand gestures to vote for who dies, while arrows on the floor show each person their own vote but not others'. They attempt to boycott the vote, but someone is randomly selected to die after two minutes.
Following someone's suggestion, the group buys time to think by deciding in advance to eliminate the elderly (in real life, they would be the next to die anyways) for the next selections. The captives discuss where they are, how they got there, who has abducted them, and why. A young man, Eric (Michael Nardelli), remembers attempting to flee Los Angeles, and others concur. Eric says that he was pulled into the air, later waking in a red room with other humans. The old man next in line agrees, saying he saw and heard aliens. The disbelieving group eliminates him instead of listening.
After another member of the group aggressively targets a 52-year-old cancer survivor over the objections of people who do not consider her elderly, he is eliminated when most of the people in the room vote for him. Several people say they recognize the others: a man identifies the woman next to him as his wife, another man identifies the doctor he was having an affair with, and a tattooed man (Cesar Garcia) is eliminated after he admits to a cop's accusation of domestic violence (he beat his girlfriend). A colored man laments that colored people will be eliminated next and the cop objects to it and says that colored people already get everything handed to them on a platter. After several minorities are quickly eliminated, an African-American man (Coley Mustafa Speaks) claims the process has become racist. Several others dispute this, but when the cop goes on a racist rant, he is selected next.
The captives experiment with voting, find they cannot vote for themselves, and attempt to give one vote to every person in the circle. One man gives a second vote for a pregnant woman (Allegra Masters), so Eric votes for him; this causes a tie and the man is killed in a run-off vote. After several take their own lives (led by Shaun (Daniel Yelsky)) by leaving formation to buy the others time, an atheist (Rene Heger) antagonizes the theists who praised the volunteers' faith. The atheist is briefly saved, but when he mocks the girl beside him for having her boss pay for her breast enlargement, he is killed. A homophobic lawyer (Michael McLafferty) targets a lesbian (Mercy Malick), and he is killed as a result. The group theorizes that maybe the point of the exercise is to find and vote out the biggest sinner of the group and then it stops. They realize that one of the final two people left must not vote (and be killed) to render a winner.
The group creates a schism. One bloc (led by Eric, a Marine (Jordi Vilasuso), and the cancer survivor (Lisa Pelikan)) believes that everyone should sacrifice themselves to save a pregnant woman and a little girl (Molly Jackson), while the other bloc (led by a bearded man (Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau) and a rich man (Daniel Lench)) wants to eliminate them immediately as a threat to their survival, as they believe everyone is equal and no special privileges should be afforded. The husband and wife team initially vote with the bearded man's bloc but the husband is forced to vote with Eric's bloc when they threaten to eliminate his wife. Under interrogation, the couple admit that they concocted the relationship to curry favor, resulting in the "husband's" elimination.
Eric's faction incurs heavy losses but eliminates the other faction, leaving only Eric, the pregnant woman, the girl, and a silent man who has never voted. Eric theorizes that aliens have used the process to learn about humanity's values. After the silent man is eliminated, Eric and the girl agree to simultaneously sacrifice themselves. As the girl dies by suicide, Eric instead casts a last-second vote to kill the pregnant woman, only to realize that the pregnant woman's unborn child counts as a person. Eric votes to kill the child and then wakes up in Los Angeles where he joins a group of people, composed primarily of children and pregnant women, watching a fleet of alien craft float over Los Angeles.
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