coming out of the house with a broom.
closer to the house now.
alarmed as he runs out of the garden and toward the truck just as it jerks to a stop.
turning quickly, the camera following him into the dining room. he pulls the cloth off the table, begins moving it toward the door. in the entry, he lifts the table on end and piles it against the door. he goes into the kitchen again, camera following. he upends the enamel-topped table, drags it to the back door. he is piling chairs against the table when melanie comes in. she looks at what he is doing with alarm. mitch looks in the direction of where his mother is and then back to melanie, with an expression almost of desperation. both turn back to the barricaded door. the clawing and the pecking fills the void. the noise is a din now, insidious and increasingly more frightening.
as the door bursts inward and he stumbles into the room. he begins swinging at the birds immediately, reaching down for melanie, fighting off the attack at the same time. he begins dragging her out of the room. her clothes have almost been shredded from her body, and her face is torn and bleeding. we catch only quick glimpses of her near-nudity, as mitch pulls her into the corridor and then, holding the door shut behind him with one hand, delivers swinging furious blows at the few birds that have escaped into the corridor.
as he carries her into the living room, but her down on the couch.
as he goes to the front door, and cautiously moves away the table and chair. he opens the door a crack.