Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.
I used to think that life was about more than just surviving. But I'm not sure anymore. Animals don't feel guilty when they kill. They just do it. They kill, or they get killed. I tell myself that every life I took was for a reason. But the truth is, the other side had reasons, too. The Grounders, the Mountain Men, even A. L. I. E. Their reasons to want us dead were the same as ours. It was us or them. Kill or be killed – simple as that.
— We're doing the right thing.
— If you say it enough. Maybe I'll believe you.
Careful, Doc. He took a thorn out of a lion's foot. But he's still a lion.
Some fights aren't worth fighting, Madi. Not when there's another way.