The mass disappearance seems to coincide with the moment Flashlight was activated. In an underground lab, he discovers the dead body of Perrin, his superior, at the primary Flashlight Grid control panel a monitor displays the message 'Operation Flashlight Complete'. Zac enters his laboratory, but fails to contact any of the other labs around the world. Every living animal and human appears to have vanished between the ticks of a clock. Investigating a fire, he discovers the burning wreckage of a passenger jet, but there are no bodies, only empty seats. He drives into the city, which he finds deserted. He awakens abruptly when he turns on his radio, he is unable to receive any transmissions. Zac Hobson is a scientist employed by Delenco, part of a United States-led international consortium working on 'Project Flashlight' – an experiment to create a wireless global energy grid to power military equipment. At 6:12 a.m., the sun darkens for a moment, and a red light surrounded by darkness is briefly seen. July 5 begins as a normal winter morning near Hamilton, New Zealand. Other sources of inspiration have been suggested: the 1954 novel I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead, and especially the 1959 film The World, the Flesh and the Devil, of which it has been called an unofficial remake. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison. The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster.

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