Ethan and his brother climb out of the car's windows and run, chased by the Darkseekeers. They then throw the bloody, beaten father across the car's hood as he begs his children with his dying breaths to escape. Suddenly, a mob of Darkseekers appear, dragging his mother out and tearing her to shreds.

His father leaves the car to investigate, armed with a golf club. After sundown, Ethan sees other families fleeing the streets outside the car. When his school bus passes him, Ethan notices that the driver's eyes are bleeding, a sign that he is infected with KV. The graphic novel 'Losing Voice: Ethan's story', explains Ethan's silence thus: During the first stages of the outbreak of the Krippin Virus, Ethan is shown being driven to school by his parents. That may be the real reason the character is given no dialogue. The DVD's special features reveal that the child actor has a very thick New York accent that some audiences would find hard to understand. He then says 'it's cold' when Neville throws in bait and the fish begin frenzying around him. A deleted scene from the movie (on the alternate ending cut DVD), Neville, Anna, and Ethan go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Ethan jumps into the fish pool. It is common for children who have been through extreme trauma to give up speaking. She may or may not have repeated the same process when she left Manhattan for the Bronx or Long Island or whatever route she took north to Vermont if either she was still unaware that the GWB was intact or if it was effectively impassible. Alternatively, and since Anna would not necessarily have known that the GWB was still intact (no mention of it is made in Neville's recorded radio broadcasts, and she came from Maryland), she took a boat across the Hudson River with Ethan and their stuff and scavenged the SUV when she got to the Manhattan shore.

When the ending was changed for theatrical and DVD release, that scene was cut from the movie, leaving no explanation as to how Anna ( Alice Braga) and Ethan ( Charlie Tahan) could have gotten on and off the island.

Patrols were stationed on that bridge to control access on and off the island, and a sign was posted with a WARNING that Manhattan was a restricted area and that it was unlawful to enter without permission of the Installation commander. In the original ending of the movie, it was shown that all the bridges were destroyed except for the George Washington Bridge (GWB).

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