Norton eventually gathers a small group of followers who are in denial of the dangers in the mist, and David and his followers fail to convince them not to go out into the mist. Once the danger is confirmed to only be outside, the patrons who either believe or are in little denial barricade the front store windows with bags of soil and dog food and duct tape the cracks caused by the tremors. Carmody is convinced that the End of Days has come. The others report the situation to the people in the market, but some, including Brent Norton, are sceptical, and mentally unstable religious fanatic Mrs. Mechanics Jim Grondin, Myron LaFleur, deputy manager Ollie Weeks and Norm the bag-boy attempt to fix the generator by sending Norm out to unblock the generator exhaust pipe, but as the loading door is opened, he is dragged to his death by a swarm of flesh-eating tentacles. When David searches the loading dock for something to cover Billy up with, he hears things slithering against the outside of the loading door. A woman with kids at home eventually asks for someone to escort her home, but everyone refuses, so the woman goes out into the mist alone, towards her car. The market is then struck and damaged by violent tremors. The patrons watch as the mist moves across the parking lot towards the market and engulfs it.

A bloody-nosed Dan Miller rushes in, ranting about something in the mist taking John Lee. The morning after the small town of Bridgton, Maine is struck by a violent thunderstorm, commercial artist David Drayton, his son, Billy, and his wife, Stephanie, witness a mysterious mist moving across the lake towards their lakeshore home.Ĭoncerned with cleaning up the aftermath of the storm, David, Billy and their neighbour, Brent Norton, head into town, to the local grocery store, where the patrons' attention is drawn by an unusual amount of police and military activity.

Stephen kings the fog