![]() ![]() While the plane is in its final preparations to depart Bangor, Dinah telepathically communicates with Craig and persuades him that an important board meeting is being held on the runway. Dinah insists that Craig must not be killed as the group needs him alive. He stabs Dinah, a young blind girl with psychic powers, and kills Don Gaffey, before being subdued. Having lost touch with reality, Craig believes the others to be manifestations of the Langoliers, monsters he feared as a child that go after those who are lazy and waste time. ![]() Based on the belief that they have flown through a "time rip" into the past and that flying back into the rip will return them to their own time, the passengers work together to refuel the plane as the noise gets louder. Hearing an approaching sound like radio static, the group agrees to leave before it arrives. ![]() Upon arrival, they find the airport abandoned with no signs of life. Off-duty airline pilot Brian Engle takes control from the autopilot and lands the plane in Bangor, Maine despite protests from irritable Craig Toomy. They realize that only those who were sleeping are now left on the plane. On a cross-country red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared, leaving the airliner under the control of the autopilot. The four novellas contained in the collection are described here: Plot ![]()
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