JOHN CARPENTERS TALES SCIENCE FICTION THE ENVOY (2022)

What if time stopped for everyone but you? Would you stay in the nicest Manhattan penthouse, ignoring the frozen owner standing in the corner of the room? Would you eat at the finest restaurants, their food paused in time and still hot on the plates? And if you could unfreeze anyone with just a touch, would you? Or would you keep this newfound playground for yourself? You could live anywhere. Take anything. The world would be yours. Unless, of course, you unpaused the wrong people...

Time is frozen in New York City for everyone but Henry Jacobs. While exploring this paused world, Henry has learned that he can unfreeze anyone with just a touch. But what happens when he acts too impulsively and unfreezes a person in dire need of medical attention? Can Henry and his new friend Halima act quickly enough when there's a life on the line? Or will this paused reality claim its first victim?

With things stabilized at home, Henry sets out to navigate the paused landscape with his newly made allies Halima and Jack. With all of New York City still eerily quiet and frozen in time, they have to decide their next course of action. Do they start getting things back to normal and unpause everyone they see? Or do they take advantage of this free vacation and indulge in a city theirs for the taking? And when they're faced with an impossible decision, who decides what's right or wrong in a frozen world with no rules?

Henry Jacobs seems to be the only person immune to the 'great pause' that has frozen New York City in time. With the ability to unfreeze anyone he touches, he's begun to amass a fairly large group of fellow travelers with whom to witness this strange phenomenon. But when a member of his makeshift entourage proves not what they seem, how can Henry possibly hope to reverse an irreversible act? Without the ability to refreeze someone in time, there's no putting this genie back in its bottle.

A killer is loose in New York City, and it's all Henry Jacob's fault. With nearly every New Yorker helplessly frozen in time like lambs waiting for the slaughter, Henry and his friends must follow a macabre trail of death if they have any hope of finding the elusive Subway Slasher. How will they find a lone man in a city of eight million people? And more importantly, if they find him, how can they possible hope to stop this hardened killer from claiming more lives?

With time frozen in New York City, there is no one to stop the Subway Slasher as he roams Manhattan unpaused, adding more and more victims to his body count. But these kills feel hollow to the serial murderer. He misses the hunt and the thrill of hearing his targets beg for their lives. What happens when the Slasher learns of the one person in New York who remains not only helpless, but also unfrozen in time? Can Henry Jacobs hope to save his bedridden brother from this relentless killer? Or will the Subway Slasher finally strike too close to home?