Robert and Barbara's daughter Maggie has recently died. While Robert is taking apart Maggie's bed frame, the radio plays, warning of an impending cosmic flare. Suddenly, the radio glitches and the lights flicker out. They hear a noise downstairs and investigate. In their basement, they find a strange alien creature. The creature screeches at the couple and they run upstairs. Barbara asks Robert if he saw "her eyes", and exclaims that she felt Maggie in that creature. Robert denies this, arguing that the alien came from the cosmic flare. Barbara insists that the alien is, or is somehow connected to, their dead daughter. The alien begins to morph into different shapes, taking the form of a human body, and eventually taking the form of Maggie. The creature teleports to Maggie's bedroom and looks through her belongings, including her diary. Later, the creature explains to Robert and Barbara that it came to their house with the purpose to manipulate, but after adapting to become Maggie, it turned off its directive for conquest. Barbara agrees to go along with "Maggie" and Robert is eventually convinced. The three leave the house with an unknown destination and purpose, as other groups of families leave their homes and are seemingly on the same path.