Marty Weiss, Jerry Harlowe and others in “The Shelter”

We could have a block party tomorrow night or something. A big celebration!

Hey, there's an idea! A block party! Anything to get back to normal, huh?

Bill Stockton

Normal? I don't know. I don't know what normal is. I thought I did once. I don't anymore.

I told you we'd pay for the damages, Bill.

Bill Stockton

Damages? I wonder. I wonder if any of us has any idea what those "damages" really are. Maybe one of them is finding out what we're really like when we're "normal." The kind of people we are, just underneath the skin. I mean all of us. A lot of primal, savage animals...who put such a price on staying alive that they'll claw their own friends to ribbons, trample their own neighbors into the ground just for that privilege! We were spared a bomb tonight, but I wonder...I wonder if we weren't destroyed even without it.