He doesn't like it too much ("East 12th St."). Jimmy matrix explodes in the metaphorical suicide of St. Jimmy relaizes that his days are numbered, and the Johnny/St. He longs for better days ahead, Tunny longs for home, and Will longs for all the things he's lost ("Wake Me up When September Ends"). Whatsername has had it and she leaves Johnny ("Letterbomb"). Johnny can't handle it and taunts her under the continuing influence of St. In The City, Whatsername appeals to Johnny to clean up and get serious about his life and their relationship ("21 Guns"). Back in suburbia, Will is alone, and Heather is somewhere far away, with their child. His nurse, the Extraordinary Girl from his fantasy, gives him a sponge bath and comforts him. Three simultaneous events: In the military hospital, Tunny's leg has been amputated. As he ties off and shoots up, he pictures Will, and they reiterate their old credo ("Know Your Enemy"). Johnny's need for drugs suddenly increases. Threatened by Johnny and Whatsername's intensifying connection, he retaliates by trying to separate them. In The City, Johnny sings Whatsername a beautiful love song that he has written for her ("When It's Time"). The mirage disappears, and he is left with his fellow soldiers in agony ("Before the Lobotomy – Reprise"). She pulls him into an ecstatic mid-air dance ("Extraordinary Girl"). In a morphine-induced hallucination, a mysterious burqa-clad seductress appears to him from the sky. Tunny is in a military hospital in the Middle East with three other injured soldiers ("Before the Lobotomy"). Despite Will's protestations, she takes the baby and walks out ("Too Much Too Soon"). Heather has had enough of Will's pot-and-alcohol-fueled apathy. By this time, Will and Heather's baby has been born, and Will is increasingly oblivious as Heather tenderly commits herself to her baby's future ("Last Night on Earth"). Jimmy gives Johnny and Whatsername some high-grade heroin, and they shoot up. Jimmy has other plans for them ("Last of the American Girls/She's a Rebel"). Johnny is smitten with Whatsername and wants to celebrate, but St. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, we find Tunny in combat, where he is injured ("Give Me Novocaine"). Back in suburbia, Will and Heather struggle to keep their relationship alive, but Will's inertia threatens to get the best of him. Jimmy's charisma and drugs, Johnny tracks down the girl in the window, Whatsername, and makes his move ("St. Surrounded by disciples and jacked up on St. Alone and desperate, Johnny conjures an all-powerful alter ego, St. Johnny returns to the hotel to find Tunny gone.
Mesmerizing images of power and patriotism inspire Tunny to enlist in the military ("Are We the Waiting"). Disillusioned with The City, he has a television-induced mystical revelation ("Favorite Son"). He even sees a lonely girl in a window and flirts with her ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams"). Tunny sleeps, but Johnny walks out into the night to claim his connection to the city. They arrive in The City and share a cheap room at a dive hotel. As expected, the America they find sickens them, and they redouble their commitment to forging their own path ("Holiday").
Johnny and Tunny take a bus across the country. At the last moment, Heather reveals to Will that she is pregnant with his child, and Will decides to stay home ("Tales from Another Broken Home"). Johnny, Will and Tunny will head to The City to start a new life. She is pregnant, and doesn't know what to do ("Dearly Beloved"). They get riled up, and Johnny challenges his friends to care ("I Don't Care"). When the three of them run out of beer, they head to the 7-11, where Tunny exposes the do-nothing, go-nowhere quicksand of their lives ("City of the Damned"). Their friend, Tunny, shows up, and they party. He goes to commiserate with his friend, Will ("Jesus of Suburbia"). He's almost 30 and he's done nothing with his life. We find ourselves in a suburban wasteland at some point in the recent past. Fed up with the state of the union, the company explodes in anger ("American Idiot"). Everyone is fixated on his or her own television.
Prologue: Dozens of televisions announce random bits of news, gossip and commercials.
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