Michelle hurriedly packs a suitcase, leaves behind the keys to her apartment and a diamond ring, and departs New Orleans. She takes a call from Ben, who begs her to return, while driving through rural Louisiana at night. The news has reports of blackouts in several major cities. Her car is suddenly struck and flips off the road.10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
Awakening in a concrete room, Michelle finds she has an injured leg and is chained to the wall. A man named Howard enters and unchains her. She later unsuccessfully ambushes him, and he explains that there has been a massive attack by someone, perhaps Russians or Martians, and he had come across her wreck and saved her life by bringing her to his underground bunker. He tells a doubtful Michelle that they cannot leave for one or two years because the air is poisoned and that everyone outside is dead.
Howard takes Michelle on a tour of the well-stocked bunker he built, which houses a third resident, Emmett, whose left arm is in a sling. Through a viewport, Howard shows her his two decayed pigs outside as evidence of the fallout, but she also sees Howard’s truck and regains the memory of it forcing her off the road. She privately relays this to Emmett, who dismisses it. He says he came to the bunker, which he had helped Howard build, voluntarily after actually seeing the attack happen and injured his arm while fighting his way inside.
During their first dinner together, Howard shows little tolerance for Emmett and flashes of jealousy and rage. Michelle attacks him and steals his keys, but just before she opens the outer door a woman covered with lesions bangs on the viewport, screaming to be let inside. Horrified, Michelle retreats back to Howard. He confesses he accidentally struck Michelle’s car while in a panic to get to the bunker. She uses her fashion design skills to stitch the cut she caused on his forehead, and Howard opens up about his daughter, from