Gaines takes the president to his bunker but there is a change of plan as Gaines announces to the world that Saviour has failed. Shocked by Jude's a lleged suicide Celine takes his body for burial in Slough and at the funeral Jamie meets Sutton, the old American who abducted Ariel and offers Jamie and his family a place in her own bunker. However Jamie is intercepted by Ariel, who imprisons him in the bank and impersonates him to Layla.. In America Rhonda is found guilty of treason and ends up on Death Row, where she re-encounters Leanne but they are rescued by Gaines ...

Jamie intends to find his real mother and his twin brother. Rhonda continues her journey after escaping from prison and the white house discusses pl ans to save mankind from extinction.

We are introduced to a range of characters across the globe who are leading their lives in their own unconnected way, right up to the point when the American President announces to the world that an extinction level event is due in 34 days time when an asteroid, 8 miles wide, will impact the earth. For some reason, all of these characters will come together in a bunker deep underground in a town in the UK called Slough to watch the end of the world on TV.