Soon, it is learned that there are other colonies of blackout children in foreign countries, but due to their inhuman nature they were quickly eliminated, in some cases at the cost of destroying the entire town. The scientific team in Midwich quickly flee the town to escape the growing chaos. One of the government scientists, Dr. Susan Verner, is forced to show the children the well-preserved alien corpse of David's intended mate she secretly kept for research. David is devastated, and the children collectively force her to fatally stab herself. An angry mob gathers to kill the children, but Sarah, the widow of the late Reverend George, is forced to immolate herself, and later the state highway patrol and local sheriffs are mentally controlled into shooting each other in a chaotic gun battle.