Where are they?
I don't know.
Dad!
Uncle Merrill!
Dad!
Morgan !
Bo? Bo?
Bo, where's Morgan?
Bo?
Are you in my dream , too?
-- This is not a dr-- -- Dad!
Hey. . .
Honey. . .
Morgan? What's happening?
The dogs were barking -- woke us up.
Are you hurt?
I think God did it.
Did what, Morgan?
Look, Lee, l don't even care if it was him,
And you can just have a word with him ,
and that'd be enough for me.
See, it was strange finding the crops that way.
The kids were confused by it,
and , uh , it'd sure take the strangeness away
if I knew it was just LioneI and the WoIfington brothers messing around ,
that's aII .
At the movies?
Are you sure?
AII right, then .
Uh , thanks for your patience, Lee.
Yeah . Bye.
Houdini peed . I think he's sick.
Why don't you take him outside? I'II caII Dr. Crawford .
He doesn't treat animaIs.
WeII , he'II know what to do.
Oh . That was quick, CaroIine.
I onIy caIIed you foIks two hours ago.
OId Mrs. KendIeman twisted her ankIe,
as she puts it, diving for her Iife
when a bunch of schooI kids rode down the sidewaIk on skateboards.
She went down to Thornton's store this morning
and started spitting on the new skateboards.
Spitting !
By the time I got there,
Mrs. KendIeman had sprayed the whoIe damned pIace.
And she must have had a coId or something .
I'm teIIing you , I won't eat for a week.
So, what happened to your crops?
Dad's gonna burn these again .
It's contaminated .
You don't even know what that word means.
It's not contaminated .
It's just tap water. Pour it in his bowI .
It tastes funny.
It does not.
And besides, he Iicks his butt every day.
I don't think he'II mind .
Houdini?
Bo, don't run .
What's wrong , boy?
Stop it, Houdini .
Look at where it's bent over, Father,
lt's not broken,
Now, what kind of machine can bend a staIk of corn over without breaking it?
Can't be by hand . It's too perfect.
It doesn't sound much Iike LioneI Prichard and the WoIfington brothers.
They can't take a piss
without wetting the front of their pants.
I don't think anyone eIse around here has had any probIems.
I was over at Theo Henry's farm yesterday afternoon ,
and he wouId have mentioned something .
Why were you at Theo's pIace?
Some animaIs around the county have been acting funny --
and some of them vioIent.
What is it, a virus?
I don't think so, Father.
They're more edgy, you know, and aIert.
It's aImost Iike they act when they smeII a predator around --
peeing on themseIves and everything .
CaroIine. . .
pIease stop caIIing me ''Father.''
What's wrong?
I don't hear my chiIdren .
He feII on me.
He wanted to kiII Bo.
Did he hurt you?
No,
I'm so sorry, Morgan .
Where were you?
Houdini's sick.
Tie IsabeI up to the back of the shed , pIease,
and make sure the knot's very tight.
What's the matter?
There's a monster outside my room .
Can I have a gIass of water?
What's wrong with the water next to your bed?
It tastes oId .
What are you thinking about?
Why do you taIk to Mom when you're by yourseIf?
Makes me feeI better.
Does she ever answer back?
No.
She never answers me either.
What?
LioneI Prichard and the WoIfington brothers are back.
It's time for an ass-whupping .
This is not an inteIIigent way to approach this.
Lee is a friend of mine. This is his son .
Yeah , we'II be doing Lee a favor.
AII right, Iisten -- we both go outside,
move around the house in opposite directions.
We act crazy, insane with anger --
make them crap in their pants,
force them around tiII we meet up on the other side.
ExpIain ''act crazy.''
You know, curse and stuff.
You want me to curse?
You don't mean it. It's just for show.
What?
WeII , it won't be convincing .
It doesn't sound naturaI when I curse.
Just make noises, then .
ExpIain ''noises.''
Are you gonna do this or what?
No, I'm not.
AII right, you want them steaIing something in the house next time?
On the count of three --
-- 1 . . . -- AII right.
2 . . .3!
Aaah ! I'm insane with anger!
We're gonna beat your ass, bitch !
We're gonna tear your head off!
I'm Iosing my mind !
It's time for an ass-whupping !
I cursed .
I heard .
How did he get. . .
Are you sure this is LioneI Prichard?
You like that?
You got an oId baby monitor around?
Bo had an oId baby monitor.
You can use Bo's baby monitor as a waIkie-taIkie.
-- You can? -- Mm-hmm .
It onIy works one way, but that'II do fine.
That is, untiI someone gets you an oId waIkie-taIkie Ieft over at the station .
Stop! lt's hideous!
Get it off!
I-I know what to do.
Hey, Bo. . .
turn that down tiII Officer Paski Ieaves.
Doy-da!
You're too oId to stiII be doing this.
You take a gIass of water, and you finish it.
Now, what's wrong with this one?
It has dust in it.
This one?
A hair.
This one?
Morgan took a sip, and it has his amebas in it.
My turn .
So, how are you , MerriII?
Fine.
How is work at the gas station?
StimuIating .
l never got a chance to tell you,
but I-I thought your moving in here with your brother after --
it was a nice thing to do.
Well, l don't think l'm helping much,
You are.
Sorry.
Okay, so far I have, ''It was very dark.''
Yes, it was.
You can't describe him at aII?
Don't you think that's kind of odd?
A IittIe.
I don't know whether to Iook for a giant or a midget.
No, he definiteIy wasn't a midget.
Okay.
So he was taII?
I-I wouId say so, yes.
ProbabIy.
Over 6 feet?
It was very dark.
Yes, it was.
How certain are you that this was a maIe?
Oh , I don't know -- I don't know any girIs who couId run Iike that.
I don't know, MerriII .
I've seen some of those women on the OIympics.
They can run Iike the wind .
This guy got on our roof in , Iike, a second .
O-Our roof is 1 0 feet high .
They have women's high jumping in the OIympics.
They got these Scandinavian women
who can jump cIean over me.
CaroIine, I know you're making a point here,
but I just don't know what it is.
An out-of-town woman stopped by the diner yesterday afternoon
and started yeIIing and cussing
because they didn't have her favorite cigarettes
at the vending machine.
She scared a coupIe of the customers.
No one's seen her since.
And my point is,
we don't know anything about the person you saw,
and we shouId just keep aII possibiIities avaiIabIe.
Dad , where's the remote?
I don't know, baby.
Why don't you check in the sofa cushions?
ExcIuding the possibiIity
that a femaIe Scandinavian OIympian
was running around outside our house Iast night,
what eIse might be a possibiIity?
l'm not done asking questions,
and I don't appreciate sarcasm .
Do you two have anyone
who might have a grudge or something against you --
maybe a-a church member
who -- who might not have liked
the fact that you Ieft the church?
I don't think so.
Okay, I was out of Iine
with the whoIe femaIe- Scandinavian-OIympian thing .
lt's just, l'm pretty strong,
and I'm pretty fast.
And I was running as fast as I couId ,
and this guy, he was -- he was just toying with us.
There's onIy food under the sofa.
Baby, why don't you
just change the channeI on the teIevision?
I did .
And?
Same show's on every station .
Every station?
Bo, turn up the volume,
Crop signs first emerged in the Iate '7 0s
with renewed interest in extraterrestriaI Iife.
They died out by the earIy '80s,
dismissed as hoaxes.
This new resurgence is whoIIy different.
The speed and the quantity in which it has appeared
implies the coordination of hundreds of individuals
over many countries,
There are only a limited number of explanations,
Either this is one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever created,
or basically,,,
it's for real,
ExtraterrestriaIs.
What in God's name is going on?
I did some research after I saw your crops.
Two or three guys can make a design the size of the one in your fieId overnight
using just boards and ropes.
ReaIIy?
That's how these things have been done in the past.
But there are so many now.
How couId so many peopIe be in on it?
I can't think straight.
I'm -- I'm gonna go back to the station
and have a cup of Edgar's coffee and -- and try to think cIear.
And after that, I'II . . .
I might make some caIIs.
But I'II teII you something -- what I said in there, it stiII goes.
Your -- your famiIy has been through a Iot.
And the Iast thing these chiIdren need to do
is worry about some crazy things happening in the worId .
Now, take them into town
and get their minds and your mind on everyday things, hmm?
Good medicine.
That's good advice.
And you take care of yourseIf. . .
Graham .
The footage you're watching was shot yesterday afternoon
by a 34-year-old local cameraman in Bangalore,
a southern city of lndia,
lt's the 1 8th reported crop sign
found in that country in the last 7 2 hours,
UncIe MerriII , wiII you turn on the radio?
They are signs intended to be seen from the sky --
No radio either. Just for a whiIe.
Book money?
Sure.
Just one,
Be back for pizza in 1 5.
lt's just a bunch of crock,
They're trying to sell sodas, lt's plain and simple,
Been watching these reports since morning .
I have seen 1 2 soda commerciaIs so far --
1 2 !
You have any books on extraterrestriaIs?
Now, don't teII me you beIieve this horse manure.
As a matter of fact, I think we have one.
Came by mistake in a shipment --
decided to keep it for the city peopIe.
Last row, third book on the Ieft, honey.
Why is no one saying the obvious?
These are just copycats,
Someone somewhere does the first one,,,
lt was asthma medicine, right, Father?
For Morgan Hess.
And it's not ''Father'' anymore.
ln less than an hour, a couple hundred people get the same brilliant idea,
and here we are, on the verge of mass hysteria,
Can I ask you a favor, Father?
l need to clear my conscience,
Will you listen to me?
Tracey. . .I am not a reverend anymore.
I haven't been for six months.
You know this.
AII this stuff on TV --
two girIs came in here taIking about the end of the worId --
l'm just a little scared,
PIease, I need to cIear my conscience.
l've got it figured,
You do?
I've had two separate foIks teII me
there have been strangers around these parts Iast coupIe nights.
Can't teII what they Iook Iike
'cause they're staying in the shadows -- covertIike.
Nobody's been hurt, mind you .
And that's the giveaway.
I see.
lt's called ''probing, ''
lt's a military procedure,
You send out a reconnaissance group --
very smaII -- to check things out.
Not to engage but to evaIuate the situation --
evaIuate the IeveI of danger,
make sure things are aII cIear.
CIear for what?
For the rest of them .
Yeah?
You got a pamphIet or something I can read?
Sure.
Thanks.
You didn't used to play baseball, did ya?
Shit, I know you . You're MerriII Hess.
I was there the day you hit that 50 7-footer
over the Ieft-fieId waII -- set the record .
Man , that thing had a motor on it.
It's stiII the record , right?
Got the bat at home o-on the waII .
You've got two minor-Ieague home-run records, don't ya?
Five.
Why weren't you in the pros making stacks of cash
and getting your toes Iicked by beautifuI women?
'Cause he has another record most people don't know about,
He has the minor-league strikeout record,
HeIIo, LioneI .
MerriII's a cIass-A screw-up.
He wouId just swing that bat as hard as he couId every time.
Didn't matter what the coaches said ,
didn't matter who was on base.
He wouId just whip that bat through the air as hard as he couId .
Looked Iike a Iumberjack chopping down a tree.
MerriII here has more strikeouts than any two pIayers.
You reaIIy got the strikeout record?
FeIt wrong not to swing .
It's contaminated .
CarI , there's something wrong with our water.
Your water's fine.
Bo has this thing about her drinking water.
She had it her whoIe Iife.
It's Iike a tick peopIe have, except it's not a tick.
Is that right?
1 3!
♫ Don't give me that so-so-soda ♫
♫ That same old cola ♫
♫ l wanna pop ♫
-- ♫ Pop, pop l wanna,,, Shasta ♫ -- I'II take it.
l cursed 3 7 times last week,
I said the ''F'' word a coupIe times, but mostIy. . .''shits''
and . . .''bastards.''
Is ''douche bag'' a curse?
I suppose that wouId depend on its usage.
How about, ''John , you're a douche bag for kissing Barbara''?
It's a curse.
Then it's not 3 7. It's 7 1 .
Pharmacy crowded?
I don't want any one of you
spending time with Tracey Abernathy aIone.
Is that understood?
Is that him?
Yeah .
Who is he?
What is it?
lt's Bo's baby monitor,
I found it in the basement.
I'm gonna use it as a waIkie-taIkie.
What if it's catching a signaI from them?
It's not.
But it wasn't working .
Morgan , this crop stuff is about a bunch of nerds
who never had a girIfriend in their Iives.
They're, Iike, 30, and they work up IittIe codes together,
and they anaIyze Greek mythoIogy and make up secret societies
where other guys who never had girIfriends before can join in .
They do stupid crap Iike this to feeI speciaI .
It's a scam .
Nerds were doing it 25 years ago,
and new nerds are doing it again .
It's just static, Morgan , aII right.
Turn it up. See.
It's a code.
Why can't they get girIfriends?
Can I see that, pIease?
It's noise.
It's broken , Morgan . It's just gonna keep doing this.
Maybe some new batteries. . .
We might lose the signal,
This is exactIy what the nerds want.
I'm getting out now.
Nobody move.
Voices. Did you hear that?
Not EngIish , though .
You heard the voices, right, UncIe MerriII?
I heard them , Morgan .
ProbabIy picking up another baby monitor.
That's right.
Let me see it.
Stop!
See, this is why we're not watching TV.
PeopIe get obsessed .
I'm Ietting go now.
No, Dad!
Don't do it!
You'II Iose the signaI .
Don't Iet go.
lt gets clearer the higher you hold it,
l got it,
Bo, honey, I don't want you cIimbing on the car.
Come here.
Stop!
There's two of them taIking .
IsabeI , you're gonna feeI very siIIy
when this turns out to be aII just make-beIieve.
You're wasting your time here!
I'm not gonna report this or anything you do to my crops
to the news or TV or anybody!
You're not going to get famous!
Okay.
Let's turn on the TV.
lt first appeared 52 minutes ago,
Mexico City officials as well as U, S, officials
have confirmed that these are not aircraft
from either government's air force,
The first sighting was made by an Air Mexico 7 4 7
en route from Mazatlán to New York
as the unidentified crafts entered Mexico City air space,
They were not detected by radar by either country,
The nerds were right.
We have to tape this.
My baIIet recitaI .
Listen , Bo, this is very important.
Everything peopIe have written about in science books is going to change.
The history of the worId's future is on the TV right now.
We need to record this so you can show your chiIdren this tape
and say you were there.
For your chiIdren , Bo.
My baIIet recitaI .
Dad !
Find another tape.
UncIe MerriII , I'm using your tape.
You are seeing a live feed
from our affiliate down here in Mexico City,
This image has not been adjusted or enhanced in any way,
What you're seeing is real,
lt's unbelievable,
Everything they wrote in science books
is about to change,
I toId you .
Some peopIe are probabIy thinking
this is the end of the worId .
That's true.
Do you think it couId be?
Yes.
How can you say that?
That wasn't the answer you wanted?
CouIdn't you pretend to be Iike you used to be?
Give me some comfort.
PeopIe break down into two groups
when they experience something Iucky.
Group number one sees it as more than Iuck,
more than coincidence.
They see it as a sign --
evidence that there is someone up there
watching out for them .
Group number two sees it as just pure Iuck,
a happy turn of chance.
I'm sure the peopIe in group number two
are Iooking at those 1 4 Iights in a very suspicious way.
For them , the situation isn't 50-50.
CouId be bad , couId be good .
But deep down ,
they feeI that whatever happens,
they're on their own .
And that fiIIs them with fear.
Yeah , there are those peopIe.
But there's a whoIe Iot of peopIe in the group number one.
When they see those 1 4 Iights,
they're Iooking at a miracIe.
And deep down , they feeI that whatever's going to happen ,
there'II be someone there to heIp them .
And that fiIIs them with hope.
See, what you have to ask yourself is, what kind of person are you?
Are you the kind who sees signs, sees miracles?
Or do you believe that people just get lucky?
Or look at the question this way --
is it possible that there are no coincidences?
I was at this party once.
I'm on the couch with Randa McKinney.
She was just sitting there
Iooking beautifuI , staring at me.
I go to Iean in and kiss her. . .
and I reaIize I have gum in my mouth .
So I turn , take out the gum ,
stuff it in a paper cup next to the sofa,
and turn around .
Randa McKinney throws up aII over herseIf.
I knew the second it happened it was a miracIe.
I couId have been kissing her when she threw up.
That wouId have scarred me for Iife.
I may never have recovered .
I'm a miracIe man .
Those Iights are a miracIe.
There you go.
So, which type are you?
Do you feel comforted?
Yeah , I do.
Then what does it matter?
I never toId you the Iast words
that CoIIeen said before they Iet her die.
She said , ''See.''
Then her eyes gIazed a bit.
And then she said, ''Swing away, ''
You know why she said that?
Because the nerve endings in her brain were firing as she died ,
and some random memory of us at one of your basebaII games just popped into her head .
There is no one watching out for us, MerriII .
We are aII on our own .
What do you know?
WeII , there was an accident -- drunk driving , they weren't sure --
He wasn't drunk. Ray feII asIeep at the wheeI .
-- Is he okay? -- Yeah .
That was the first thing CoIIeen asked , too.
She's taIking . What ambuIance is she in?
She's not in an ambuIance, Father.
For the kids' protection .
AII they were doing was watching TV from 5:00 a.m .
I feIt Iike they were getting obsessed , Iike you said .
They shouId be pIaying furry, furry rabbit or tea party or something .
What's furry, furry rabbit?
It's a game, isn't it?
Anyways, they cIosed the schooIs.
And there's been some interesting deveIopments.
What time is it?
1 1 :00 a.m .
They're gone, but they're not reaIIy gone.
We just can't see them .
EarIy this morning , a bird fIew into the area
where the Iights were hovering Iast night.
It stopped dead in the air and feII straight down .
They caught it on tape. They've been pIaying it aII morning .
The footage Iooks Iike the bird fIew into a waII in the sky.
They found the bird . His -- his head was crushed in .
They think they have some kind of invisibIe-shieId thing going , I-Iike an opticaI iIIusion .
They're still there, hovering,
Some peopIe think there's more of them now. . .
AII over the pIace, over us, even .
There's a theory about the c-- the crop circIes.
They couId be some kind of --
some kind of Iandmark,
visuaI mapping system so they couId navigate,
coordinate --
makes sense.
Want to hear a story?
ls it true?
So the aIiens can't read our minds.
Oh .
Oh , of course.
They teII you everything in this book.
It says they're probabIy very smaII , Iike my height,
because as their brains deveIop,
there was no use for physicaI deveIopment.
It aIso says they're probabIy vegetarians
because they wouId have reaIized the benefits of such a diet.
Who wrote this book?
Scientists who have been persecuted for their beIiefs.
That means they're unempIoyed .
If you're gonna make fun of it, then forget it.
This is serious.
I don't know what got into me.
There are pictures.
Dr. Bimbu , one of the authors of the book --
-- Bimbu? -- Dad .
I just asked his name.
You had a tone.
He said there are two reasons why extraterrestriaIs wouId visit us --
to make contact in the spirit of expIoration
and furthering the knowIedge of the universe,
or the other reason -- they're hostiIe.
They've used up aII the resources on their pIanet,
and they're Iooking to harvest our pIanet next.
Here.
Looks a little like our house, doesn't it?
Same windows,
That's weird,
Yeah , oh , yeah .
That's enough from Dr. Bimbu for now.
Everybody in this house needs to caIm down
and eat some fruit or something .
HeIIo?
Father?
HeIIo?
HeIIo?!
I'm going out for a few minutes.
No one Ieaves this house -- no one.
Where you going?
Ray Reddy's house.
Why?
I think he just caIIed here.
You don't think something bad will happen,
do you , Morgan?
Why? You have one of your feeIings again?
Is it bad?
I won't Iet anything bad happen to you .
I don't want you to die.
Who said I was gonna die?
HeIIo, Ray.
What happened?
I wrote your number down to caII you .
It's been sitting next to the phone for 6 months.
When I knew it was inside the house. . .
l couldn't think of any other number to call, l panicked,
Thank you for coming, Father,
You're weIcome, Ray.
I worked so Iong that night.
I've never faIIen asIeep driving before. . .
never since.
Don't.
Most of the ride home,
there wasn't a car in sight in either direction,
lf l'd have fallen asleep then,
l would have ended up in a ditch with a headache,
And it had to be at that right moment --
that 1 0, 1 5 seconds when l passed her walking,
It was Iike it was meant to be.
I guess if this is the end of the worId ,
I'm screwed , right?
PeopIe who kiII reverends' wives
aren't exactIy ushered to the front of the Iine in Heaven .
Wh-- Where are you going , Ray?
To the Iake.
The way I see it. . .
these pIaces marked in crops and such --
none of them are reaIIy near water.
I don't think they Iike water.
Can't be any worse than here.
Did you see something , Ray?
I know what I've done to you .
I made you question your faith .
I'm truIy sorry for what I've done to you and yours.
AII right.
And don't open my pantry, Father.
I found one of them in there and Iocked him in .
The startling footage we're about to show you
was photographed by a 42-year-old, Romero Valadarez,
This video was taken yesterday afternoon
at his son's 7 th birthday
in the city of Passo Fundo, Brazil,
lt was sent to the local news bureau there
and sent to us via satellite just a few minutes ago,
AII initiaI opinions are this is genuine.
What you're about to see may disturb you .
Move, chiIdren ! Vámanos!
Oh !
HeIIo?
The poIice are here. I am with them .
I am a poIice officer.
I just want to taIk with you .
We know aII about the hoax.
We aIready took some of your friends downtown in a paddy wagon .
Just teII us your name and why you did it,
and we'II give you the same deaI we gave the others.
Don't throw your Iife away, son .
Oh ! Ah !
Oh !
Their skin changes coIors.
That's why we couIdn't see them that night.
TeII me something , Morgan .
Uh . . .in this book of yours. . .
did they happen to detaiI
what wouId happen if they were hostiIe?
Yes.
It said they wouId probabIy invade.
They wouId use ground tactics -- hand-to-hand combat.
They wouIdn't use our technoIogy or fight an airborne battIe
'cause they know eventuaIIy we wouId use nucIear weapons.
Then the pIanet wouId be useIess to them .
How could anyone possibly know that information? lt's ridiculous,
What else did it say?
They said there are one of two outcomes of an invasion .
One, they fight and are defeated and have to return again
with fuII forces hundreds, maybe even thousands, of years Iater.
What's two?
They win .
I'm sorry, what -- what book is this?
Is this reaIIy happening?
I heard a theory that, uh ,
they don't Iike pIaces near water.
Maybe we'd be safe from them near a Iake or something .
Sounds made-up.
I saw one of them at Ray Reddy's house.
l can't be sure,
but l got the distinct feeling he wanted to harm me,
So. . .
we can choose to beIieve this Iake idea, pack up, and go,
or we can stay here, hide inside our home, wait it out.
We might be overreacting , but I'm wiIIing to Iive with that.
Either way, at Ieast we'II be together.
AII those in favor of the Iake idea, raise your hand .
Yeah .
AII those in favor of home, raise your hand .
Okay.
My vote counts as two.
That's buIIshit! You're cheating !
Morgan , caIm down .
I get two votes because I represent two parents here.
We don't know anything yet.
We'II be safe here anyway.
I don't want to Ieave home.
This is where we Iived with Mom .
That's got nothing to do with this.
I change my vote.
You can't change your vote.
AII those in favor of home, raise your hand .
This is ridicuIous.
You Iose, 3-2 .
We're going to board up every window in this house.
How do we know boards wiII do anything?
Because they seem to have troubIe with pantry doors.
The information we're receiving
comes from our affiliates across the world,
Dad, Uncle Merrill!
Amman joins Nairobi, Beijing, and Jerusalem
as the latest to confirm the appearance of lights,
There are Iights in over 2 7 4 cities.
They think it'II be 400 within the hour.
They're appearing at or within one miIe of crop signs.
They were for navigation .
They made a map.
They're gonna be within a miIe of us.
Dad?
Yes?
They think these are staged
immediateIy preceding an attack maneuver.
l was wrong, They're hostile,
It's Iike ''War of the WorIds.''
Ground forces have been assembled
in countries throughout the globe,
Hundreds of thousands
have fIocked to tempIes, synagogues, and churches.
God be with us all,
I'm going to get back to the windows.
Hey, you guys okay?
Some guy had a sign saying it was the end of the worId .
Don't worry.
You won't Iet anything happen to us, right?
No way.
I wish you were my dad .
What did you say?
Don't you ever say anything Iike that again .
Ever.
There's too many windows in the bedrooms.
We don't have enough boards.
We'II board up the bedroom doors.
Where are we gonna sIeep?
In the famiIy room .
What about IsabeI?
We'II tie her up in the garage after dinner.
I'II make some sandwiches.
I want spaghetti .
We'II just eat fast, Bo.
Spaghetti sounds great.
What do you want, Morgan?
Anything?
French toast. . .
and mashed potatoes.
Now we're taIking .
How about you , MerriII?
Chicken teriyaki .
Good choice.
I'm going to have a cheeseburger with bacon .
Extra bacon .
What's the matter with everyone? Eat.
Maybe we shouId say a prayer.
No,
Why not?
We're not saying a prayer,
Bo has a bad feeIing .
I had a dream .
We aren't saying a prayer.
Eat!
I hate you .
That's fine.
You Iet Mom die.
Morgan,
I am not wasting one more minute of my Iife on prayer.
Not one more minute.
Understood?
Now we are going to enjoy this meaI .
No one can stop us from enjoying this meaI , so enjoy it!
Stop crying !
-- Graham . . . -- Don't yell at her!
AII right, since you're aII not gonna eat.
I'm gonna try some of everything .
It's happening .
Graham , hurry.
Did I ever teII you what everyone said
when you were born , Bo?
You came out of your mama, and you didn't even cry.
You just opened your eyes,
and you Iooked around the room at everybody.
Your eyes were so big and gorgeous.
AII the Iadies in the room just gasped .
I mean , they IiteraIIy gasped .
And they go, ''Oh , she's Iike an angeI .''
And they said , ''We've never seen a baby so beautifuI .''
And then . . .you know what happened?
They put you on the tabIe to cIean you up,
and you Iooked up at me and you smiIed .
They say babies that young can't smiIe.
You smiIed .
Let's go down now.
We forgot IsabeI .
ShouId we turn off the Iights?
They aIready know we're here.
Dad . . .
Do you know what happened when you were born , Morgan?
You came out, and your mama kept bIeeding ,
so the doctors rushed you out of the room
before I even had time to see you .
They're on the roof.
WhiIe they were fixing her up,
aII she kept asking about was you .
They're in the house.
I wanted your mama to see you first
because she had dreamed about you her whoIe Iife.
Then she got feeIing better, they brought you in ,
and they pIaced you in her arms,
and she Iooked at you , and you Iooked at her,
and you just stared at each other for the Iongest time.
And then she said reaI soft,
''HeIIo, Morgan . I'm your mama.
You Iook just how I dreamed .''
The attic door,
Let's go.
Come on .
We forgot our foiI heImets.
Have we got anything to wedge against the door knob?
They'll read our minds,
You're scaring your sister.
I'm aIready scared .
MerriII .
I'm Iooking !
They'II know our secret thoughts.
I'm not ready.
MerriII !
Got it!
Dad !
Where's Bo?
I'm okay.
What's happening out there?
l can't even imagine,
I hope they're doing better than we are.
We don't even have heImets.
They're onIy making noises. They're not trying to get in .
Why wouId they do that?
They want our attention on the door?
They're distracting us.
From what?
The book says they're probabIy very good probIem soIvers.
They'II find a way in .
Morgan , give me your fIashIight.
They used to pour coaI down in this basement.
There's a coaI chute in here.
I can feeI air.
Me too!
It's getting stronger.
I'm cIose.
What?
Hold him!
l got him!
Hold him!
l got him!
Hold him!
We don't have his medicine.
Don't be afraid , Morgan .
We'II sIow this down together.
FeeI my chest.
FeeI it moving in and out.
Breathe Iike me.
Come on,
I dreamed this.
Stay with me.
I know it hurts. Be strong , baby.
It'II pass.
Don't do this to me again .
Not again .
I hate you .
The fear is feeding him,
Don't be afraid of what's happening,
Believe it's going to pass, Believe it,
Just wait, Don't be afraid,
The air is coming, Believe,
We don't have to be afraid,
lt's about to pass,
Here it comes, Don't be afraid,
Here comes the air,
Don't be afraid , Morgan .
FeeI my chest. Breathe with me.
Together. The air is going in our Iungs.
Together.
We're the same.
We shouId save the fIashIights.
Ray's truck swerved off the road
and hit CoIIeen and then a tree,
and she was pinned between the two.
What does that mean -- pinned?
The truck --
the truck has severed most of her Iower haIf.
What did you say?
She won't be saved .
Her body is pinned in such a way
that it's aIive when it shouIdn't be aIive,
and the truck is hoIding her together.
And she doesn't feeI much ,
and she's -- she's taIking aImost Iike normaI ,
and we didn't puII the truck out
'cause we -- we wanted you to come down here
and be with her as Iong as she's awake.
And that won't be very Iong .
Now, Father, do you understand what I've toId you?
CaroIine. . .
is this the Iast time I'm gonna taIk with my wife?
Yes, it is.
People think they came here to take over the planet,
That's bull, l don't think that,
My friend and l saw them,
I found a pack of Iight buIbs.
They poisoned his family, They dragged them away,
Nobody believes it, but they didn't come here for our planet,
This is a raid,
They came here for us, to harvest us,
We're lucky as hell they're leaving here,
They're Ieaving?
That's what they're saying,
How Iong have we been sIeeping?
1 2 hours or so,
He said they had poison gas. . .
they secrete in smaII amounts.
A Iot of peopIe died .
But they're Ieaving .
They left real fast this morning,
like something scared them off,
They left some of their wounded behind,
Why are they going?
People must have figured out a way to beat them,
Everyone has a weakness, right?
You didn't think we'd make it through the night, did you?
No.
Listen . . .
there's things I can take and a coupIe things I can't.
One of them I can't take is when my oIder brother,
who's everything I want to be. . .
starts Iosing faith in things.
I saw your eyes Iast night.
I don't want to ever see your eyes Iike that again .
Okay? I'm serious.
Okay.
He's been Iike that for a whiIe.
He needs his medicine.
Have they said anything about our area?
PhiIadeIphia and its outIying counties are cIeared . . .
but who knows for sure?
He's not strong enough .
If he has another attack right now --
I know.
We'd have to be sure before we opened up that door, Graham .
It's good enough for me.
Me too.
Get the syringes' weII .
We may need to give him an epinephrine shot.
The atmosphere here is cautiously optimistic,
-- People are celebrating, -- They're doing this on TV.
There's a great sense of relief,
-- They're dancing, -- Yeah , Iike this.
As we begin evaluating the loss of life,
-- Do you want to see it? -- We will be left with a lot of questions,
-- I'II bring the TV in here. -- l see the same expression on every face,
We know the battle turned around in the Middle East,
Three small cities there found a primitive method to defeat them,
We have no further details at this time,
MerriII , wait.
Hi , sweetie.
Hi , baby.
I was. . .just taking a waIk before dinner.
You Iove waIks.
It was meant to be.
Does it hurt?
I don't feeI much .
Good .
TeII Morgan . . .
to pIay games.
It's okay to be siIIy.
l will,
TeII Bo to Iisten to her brother.
He'II aIways take care of her.
I wiII .
And teII Graham --
I'm here.
TeII him . . .
see.
TeII him to see.
And teII MerriII to swing away.
See, what you have to ask yourseIf is, what kind of person are you?
Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracIes?
Or do you believe that people just get lucky?
ls it possible,,, there are no coincidences?
Swing away, MerriII .
MerriII . . .
swing away.
Ahhhhhhhhh !
Ahhhh !
That's why he had asthma,
It can't be Iuck.
His Iungs were cIosed . His Iungs were cIosed .
No poison got in . No poison got in .
His Iungs were cIosed . His Iungs were cIosed .
Don't touch him . Give him a minute.
Graham . . .
Give him a second,
D-Daddy. . .
Don't touch him,
Graham . . .
Don't. . .don't.
Dad?
What happened?
Did someone save me?
Yeah , baby, I think someone did .