For those who haven't read the plaque, we'll read the plaque.
"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. "
"July 1969. "
"We came in peace for all mankind. "
If this isn't an insanely beautiful woman, I'm hanging up.
Sir, I think you should Iisten to this.
- Goddamn it! - Sir?
Come on, baby. Come on!
This better not be another damn Russian spy job!
Air traffic say the skies are clear.
It's the real thing. A radio signal from another world.
Let's not jump the gun here.
Get online with Space Command. They're gonna want to know...
What's with the golf balls? You're gonna kill me!
Wait, this can't be right.
The calculated distance from source is only 375,000km.
It's coming from the moon.
- Who else knows about this? - SETI in New Mexico identified a signal.
But, they're even more confused than we are, sir.
- Major! - Yes, sir.
Radar reception has been impaired, but we were able to get these.
We estimate that it has a diameter of over 550km
and a mass roughly one fourth the size of our moon.
What the hell is it? A meteor?
- No, sir. - No, definitely not.
- How do you know? - Well, sir, it's slowing down.
- It's what? - It's slowing down, sir.
Get me the Secretary of Defense.
Then wake him!
- Hello. - Hi.
- It's me. - Hi.
- What time is it there? - It's 2.45 in the morning.
- I know I didn't wake you. - As a matter of fact, you did.
Liar.
I have a confession to make.
I'm sleeping next to a beautiful, young brunette.
You didn't let her stay up watching TV?
- Did you? - Of course not. You're coming home
- right after the Iuncheon? - Yes, yes.
- Mommy? - Here's your mother.
- Hi, honey! - I miss you.
President Whitmore's approval ratings have slipped below 40%...
He's good.
Are the salad days over for President Whitmore?
Leadership as a Gulf War pilot is different from leadership in politics...
Daddy Iet me watch Letterman.
Traitor.
They elected a warrior and got a wimp.
- Morning, George. - Morning, Mr President.
That game couldn't have been pretty.
Thank you, sir.
Connie, you're up awfully early this morning.
They're not attacking your policies, they're attacking your age.
"Whitmore seems Iess Iike the President and more Iike the orphaned child OIiver asking:
'PIease, sir, I'd Iike some more."'
- That's clever. - I'm not Iaughing.
Age was not an issue when you stuck to your guns. You were seen as young, idealistic...
Now the message has gotten Iost.
It's too much politics, too much compromise.
Isn't it amazing how quickly everyone can turn against you?
It's a fine Iine between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.
You can tolerate a Iittle compromise if you're managing to get something accomplished.
Well,
the Orange County Dispatch has voted you one of the ten sexiest men of the year.
That's accomplishing something!
Mr President, it's the Secretary of Defense.
Yes.
Could you say that again?
So why are you waiting?
My Social Security will expire, you'II still be sitting there.
- I'm thinking. - Yeah, well, think already!
Do you know how Iong it takes for those cups to decompose?
If you don't move soon, I'II start to decompose.
Listen, David, I've been meaning to talk with you.
- It's nice that you see me so much now... - Don't start, Dad.
It's been... what? Four years? You're still wearing a wedding band?
- Three years. - You're divorced, move on.
- This is not healthy. - No, the smoking is not healthy.
Checkmate.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
- Wait. This is not checkmate. - See you tomorrow, Pop.
Hold on! This is not checkmate.
Oh... Checkmate!
We've got everybody we have working on the problem.
I Iove X-Files too. I hope you get to see it.
David! What's the point in having a beeper if you don't turn it on?
I was ignoring you.
What's the big emergency?
It started this morning. Every station's making Iike it's the 1950s.
We got static, snow, all kinds of distortions. Nobody knows...
There's a reason we have bins Iabelled "Recycle".
What the hell is going on? My God in heaven!
So sue me. David! We got a problem!
Did you switch transponder channels?
PIease! You think I'd be this panicked if it was so simple?
OK, Iet's point the dish at another satellite.
We tried that. It didn't work. It's almost as though they weren't there.
AII right. What have we got here?
This is impossible.
- The signal's all screwed up. - Stop it! Just Ieave it alone. You'II break it!
It's so fuzzy.
Oh, no.
Morning, Lucas.
You see these? I got a whole goddamn crop full of these.
If your father's not in the air in 20 minutes, I'm getting someone else.
- Russell! - Hey, Miguel!
Russell! What are you doing?
Just what in the hell do you think you're doing?
It's the wrong field, you idiot!
Lucas's farm's on the other side of town!
Are you sure?
CNS is running a story that we're covering up a nuclear-testing experiment.
They can run with it if they want to embarrass themselves.
NASA wants to know our position.
Our official position is we have no official position.
- What is going on here? - Guys, would I keep you out of the Ioop?
- Absolutely. - What? I can't hear you.
At the moment our satellites are somewhat unreliable.
Isn't it possible that this thing may just pass us by?
What if it doesn't. Why don't we target some ICBMs to blow it up?
And risk turning one dangerous falling object into many?
We don't yet know enough to make any kind of intelligent judgments.
Luckily the press is making up their own story for now.
But that's not gonna keep.
- We may need to upgrade to DEFCON 3. - Absolutely.
General, tell NORAD we're on DEFCON 3.
- That's not what the President said. - Isn't that a bit premature?
Over 50% of the armed forces are on weekend Ieave.
PIus the commanders and troops that are in town for the Fourth of July parade.
The object has settled into a stationary orbit.
- Well, that's good news. - Not really, sir.
Part of it has broken off into nearly three dozen pieces.
Smaller than the whole, yet over 15 miles in width themselves.
Where are they heading?
They should be entering our atmosphere within the next 25 minutes.
Take us to DEFCON 3.
- PIease say we're gettin' somewhere. - There's good and bad news.
- What's the bad news? - There's a penalty for disturbing my Iunch.
And the good news is you won't charge me.
No. The good news is that the problem is not our equipment,
but a weird signal embedded in the satellite feed.
That's the good news?
Yes. It has a sequential pattern. Once I find the exact binary sequence,
I can calculate the phase reversal and apply it.
We should be able to block it out.
And then we'II be the only guys in town with a clear picture!
Yes! Yes! David! That's why I Iove you!
That's not necessary. Too kind.
- This had better be good. - Admiral on deck!
Sir, we're Iooking at a total radar blackout over a 13km area.
- Let's do a diagnostic check. - Excuse me, sir.
The radar may be malfunctioning, but the infrared is totally off the map.
Jeez!
Get me Atlantic Command.
Hang on, sir.
We have visual range with incoming over Iraqi air space.
- Second sighting? - Yes, sir. Just came in from the Persian Gulf.
Correction, sir.
We have two confirmed visual contacts.
Mr President, they're tracking another one off the California coastline!
AII right, put it on. General, you might wanna watch this.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are interrupting our regular broadcast
to bring you extraordinary events taking place in Russia.
This unexplained disturbance and the resulting hysteria are incredible.
How would you describe what you are seeing?
It is clearing the mountains, moving too slowly to be a comet or meteor.
Widespread panic has gripped the countryside as
thousands have taken to the streets.
It is confirmed. The unexplained phenomenon is headed for Moscow.
We have an AWAC off the West Coast.
ETA with contact point, three minutes.
Don't understand it, sir. Side radar doesn't see a thing.
I know! I'm blind, sir. Nothing is registering.
Negative. We have zero visibility. Visibility is at zero.
Command, this is Eagle Eye 370.
Captain, the President is Iistening. Repeat what you just told me.
We still have zero visibility.
Instrumentation is malfunctioning.
We can't get any kind of reading on what's in front of us.
Wait a minute.
It may be clearing.
Pull out!
- Line's gone, sir. - Two more spotted over the Atlantic.
One's moving toward New York, the other here.
- How Iong do we have? - Less than 10 minutes.
Mr President, I recommend we move you to a secure Iocation.
- Connie, can we expect the same panic? - More than Iikely.
- We can discuss this on the way. - I'm not Ieaving.
We have to maintain a working government.
Take the Vice President, the whole cabinet, and the Joint Chiefs to a secured Iocation.
I'm staying.
I don't want to add to a public hysteria that's gonna cost Iives.
Connie, we'II initiate the emergency broadcast system.
We'II advise people not to panic.
The best idea right now is to stay in their homes.
Yes, sir. Roy? Dean?
Have the cabinet members rendezvous here. We'II take them to NORAD.
Mr President, with your permission, I'd Iike to remain at your side.
I had a feeling you would.
What happens if they do become hostile?
Then God help us.
There it is. The strange atmospheric phenomenon.
It is apparently what is causing all the distortions...
David, are you watching this?
There is no evidence that these phenomena are endangering anyone.
Thus far, reports of oppression...
Marty, I got a Iock on that signal pattern so we can filter it out.
But if my calculations are right, it'II be gone in seven hours.
It's reducing itself every time it recycles so eventually it'II disappear.
- Are you Iistening? - Can you believe this?
Haven't you been watching? David!
Good afternoon. So far the phenomenon has not caused any damage.
We have to ask you to stay calm, and it's important for everyone not to panic.
We have a fix on three of the occurrences about to appear...
- It's just unreal. - Miguel, come here!
One is headed towards Los Angeles.
The other two are headed towards New York and Washington, DC.
Marty.
Jamie says this building has an old bomb shelter.
- We're heading down there now. - Everybody! Head down to the basement.
Take it slow, don't run. Walk down to the basement!
There's no shame in hiding.
I'd better call my mother.
Well, Iook who we have here.
Russ, I heard you had a Iittle trouble this morning. Dusted the wrong field.
I know you're probably still a Iittle confused from your hostage experience.
Hostage experience? Did something happen to you, Russ?
Years back he was kidnapped by aliens. Did all kind of experiments on him and such.
Tell 'em about it, Russ. Get a few beers in him and he'II tell you all about it.
Won't you, Russ?
Russ, when they took you up in their spaceship, did they do any...
..sexual things? Do you recall? Do you recollect?
- What's that? - Let's get outta here.
Wow!
Mommy, Iook it!
It's too early, baby.
- Is it an earthquake? - Not even a four-pointer.
Go back to sleep.
Daddy!
What are you doing here?
- You should be in the shelter. - What's going on?
- Aren't you coming, David? - I gotta see this.
The signal!
My God!
Now what do we do?
Address the nation.
There's gonna be a Iot of frightened people out there.
Yeah.
I'm one of 'em.
Hey! Come on!
He's just trying to impress you.
If you wanna impress me, you need to get a job and stop slobberin' all over my shoes.
I don't believe this. Jasmine!
Neighbours are movin' out. I guess they finally got tired of all these quakes.
A Iittle shake and they runnin'.
Police and fire departments want everyone to stay off the phone.
There's something on the news about the quake!
What's up, man? What you doin' goin' out there?
Shooting aliens.
Oh, you shootin' aliens. You think you're tough, huh? What you got? Turn around.
Come on, Iet's get you something to eat.
- Watch out! Watch it now! - I'm gonna go grab the paper.
Dylan!
Come on, honey. Let's go!
Babe, you want some of this coffee?
Babe?
Pentagon officials are warning more ships have arrived
over the capitals of lndia, England and Germany,
bringing estimates up to between 10 and 15 of these city-size spacecraft.
I know, Ma. Just try and stay calm.
- Tell her to Ieave town. - Why? What happened?
- Just do it! - Ma, Iisten!
Get your stuff together and head for Aunt Esther's.
Don't argue with me! Just go!
David! Why did I just send my mother to Atlanta?
David, talk to me.
The signal in the satellite feed is recycling down to extinction. Didn't you hear me?
- Not really. - Countdown.
A countdown? To what, David?
It's Iike in chess. First you strategically position your pieces.
Then, when the timing's right, you strike. See?
They're positioning themselves everywhere using one signal to synchronise their efforts.
In about six hours, the signal's gonna disappear and the countdown will be over.
And then what?
Checkmate.
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God, I gotta call my brother.
I'd better call my housekeeper, and my Iawyer!
Ah, forget my Iawyer.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
Good afternoon.
My fellow Americans,
a historic and unprecedented event has occurred.
The question of whether or not we're alone in the universe
has been answered.
AIthough it's understandable that many of us feel hesitation or fear,
we must attempt to reserve judgment.
He says he's your husband.
Oh, God.
- What do you want? - You gotta Ieave the White House.
This is hardly the time to be having that old discussion.
You gotta Ieave Washington.
In case you haven't noticed, we are having a Iittle crisis here!
They have a hidden signal. They're gonna attack.
- You are just being paranoid! - It's not paranoia!
The embedding's very subtle. It was probably overlooked...
Marty, get out of town as soon as you can. PIease?
The staff and I will remain here as we attempt to communicate.
If you feel compelled to leave these cities, please do so in an orderly fashion.
Excuse me! Coming through.
The arrival of the aliens has caused over 10,000 fender benders in just a few seconds.
But this is just the beginning...
- You can't go! You got to call them back! - I'm not gonna do this with you, Jasmine.
- I've got to report to EI Toro. - You said you was on Ieave for the Fourth!
Well, they cancelled it!
Look, why are you acting Iike this?
Why?
That's why!
Look, I really don't think they flew 90 billion Iight years to come and start a fight,
and get all rowdy.
Why don't you just relax? I'm gonna report to EI Toro, find out what's goin' on.
- What are you doin' in there, man? - Nothing, I'm just drivin'.
Look.
- I got these for you. - Firecrackers!
- You be careful. - Steve, wait.
- I wanna tell you something. - What is it, Jasmine?
You take care of yourself, you hear?
Look,
why don't you pack some things and you and Dylan come stay with me on the base?
You will see that there is nothing to be scared of.
Really?
- You don't mind? - Well, I mean...
I will have to Iet all my other girlfriends know they can't come over.
- I got to postpone a freaky weekend. - There you go, thinking you're all that.
But you are not as charming as you think you are, sir.
Yes, I am.
- Them big old Dumbo ears. - Look at you with them chicken Iegs.
Come on, Dylan.
Look out!
The television said they started Iooting. Vultures.
- Do you still have the PIymouth? - David, you don't have a Iicence.
- You're driving. - Yeah, I'm... I'm driving?
Come on.
I really want you out of Los Angeles.
You're staying there to keep people calm. I won't Iet them criticise you for it.
- I appreciate your trying to help me. - Liar. Stick to the truth. You're good at it.
OK. I don't want you in any one of those cities.
I'II Ieave as soon as the interviews are done.
AII right. A helicopter will be taking you to Nullius.
- And the munchkin? - She'II meet you there.
AII right. I Iove you.
I Iove you.
- Bye. - Bye.
It 's the White House!
- You can't drive up and ring a bell. - Can't you go any faster?
You think they don't know what you know? She works for the President.
- They know everything. - They don't know this.
You're gonna educate them, huh? So are you so smart?
How come you spent eight years in MIT to become a cable repairman?
AII I'm saying is they got people who handle these things.
If they want HBO, they'II call you. Look at these people, Iook.
Vultures. They take and then they go.
They're going faster than we are. We're in the fast Iane!
- They're cutting me off. - No one's cutting you off!
- They're getting in front. I can't go faster. - I don't wanna argue.
- Let's just get there, quickly. - What's the rush?
You think we'II get to Washington and it won't be there?
A crop-duster was arrested as he dropped leaflets from the air.
- Everybody's Ieavin'. - Can you give us some ofyour time?
We've got to stop them! I was kidnapped by space aliens ten years ago!
They did all kinds of experiments on me!
They've been studying us, finding out our weaknesses!
We 've gotta stop 'em. They're gonna kill us all!
Some people attribute his behaviour to post-traumatic stress
from his service as a pilot in Vietnam.
Others have a more unusual theory.
How would you describe Mr Casse?
- Keeps to himself. Quiet. - Private.
When they took him up in the spaceship,
the aliens abused him sexually.
Mr Casse is in the county lockup...
Pack up. We're Ieaving.
He may be released later tonight...
Miguel, what about Dad?
This could be our Iast night on Earth.
You don't wanna die a virgin, do you?
- Come on! We're going. - No, I'm not goin' anywhere.
Miguel!
Stop it!
Thanks a Iot, partner!
You read my mind!
Stay here.
We gotta get as far away from these things as we can!
- They Iet you out? - You damn right!
They got bigger fish to fry now, believe you me!
- Come on, boy! - We're Ieavin' without you.
We're goin' to Iive with Uncle Hector in Tucson.
Hector!
Like hell you are! I'm still your father.
No, you're not.
You're just the man who married my mother. You're nothin' to me!
Well, what about Troy?
- Troy? - Yeah.
For once in your Iife, why don't you think about what's best for him?
Who has to beg for money to buy him medicine when you screw up? Huh?
Who? Who?!
You stop it right now!
I'm not a baby any more!
I don't want your stupid medicine because I'm so sick of medicine!
Do you know what this stuff costs?
Do you wanna get sick again? Do you?
The LAPD is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft.
You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.
Do you think we can find something better to do with our time?
Where you been, Stevie?
Man, this is unbelievable. This is, Iike, huge.
- They've recalled everybody. - Looks Iike the mail's still working.
You'II have to do the honours for me.
- You're a wuss! - Whatever. Shut up and read it.
It says: "Captain Steven Hiller"... Ioser.
- Come on! - BIah blah blah!
"We regret to inform you that despite your excellent record of service..."
I'm sorry, man. You know what you need to do?
You need to, Iike, kiss some serious booty to get ahead in this world.
That's what I'm trying to tell you. See, I Iike the one-knee approach,
because it puts the booty, Iike, right in front of the Iip...
- What's this? - That's nothin'.
What is this?
- Jasmine kinda has a thing for dolphins. - Stevie, this is a wedding ring.
I thought you said you were gonna break it off?
Well...
Man, you know I really Iike Jasmine.
You know that, right?
Man, you're never gonna get to fly the space shuttle if you marry a stripper.
It could only happen in California. Here's Wendy Walsh with a special report.
Hundreds of UFO fanatics have gathered on rooftops in Los Angeles
to welcome the new arrivals.
Oh, God! I hope they bring back Elvis!
I just came in to get my check tonight and I got talked into working.
Oh, I must have been trippin'.
It's the party event of the century!
Everyone is invited, especially you-know-who.
- This is so cool! - Girl, please!
Oh, hey! I made it before I came in.
Check it out!
I know you're not gonna join those idiots.
I am going over there as soon as I get off.
- Do you wanna come? - Tiffany, Iisten to me a sec.
I've got a really bad feeling about this. I don't want you to go.
Oh, Iike the really bad feeling you got when I went to Las Vegas?
And I was right. You didn't get the job and you Iost all your money gambling.
Yeah, but I wasn't in LA for the earthquake.
Tiff, I really don't want you to go up there.
Now promise me you won't.
Come on, girl! Promise me.
I promise.
OK.
Look,
I'm going. I'm out of town for a while.
- Later. - Bye.
Hey, there's my angel. Come on.
Come on, Boomer. Let's go.
Hey, talk to your boyfriend Iater.
Hey! What the hell's the kid doin' here? Huh?
- You try finding a sitter today. - Hey! Where are you going?
- You Ieave. You're fired. - Nice workin' with you, Mario.
Come on, Boomer.
Everyone is trying to get out ofWashington. We're the only schmucks trying to get in.
What the hell is that?
Pops, this is every phone book in America.
You think an important person Iike Constance will be Iisted?
She always keeps her portable phone Iisted for emergencies.
Sometimes it's her first initial, sometimes her nickname.
- Sometimes just her... - Oy, my God!
Hey, slow down!
- Pit stops! - Tell them!
SIow down!
A ramp!
SIow down!
- We made it! - Good.
- Nice drivin', Pops. - Well...
- So, not Iisted, huh? - No, no. I just haven't found it yet.
I tried C. Spano, Connie Spano, Spunky Spano.
Spunky?
- College nickname. - Cute.
- You tried Levinson? - She didn't take my name.
- Why would she... What do you mean? - Try it.
Here. Look.
So what do I know? Hm?
So?
Do you wanna ring the bell, or should I?
- Perfect, she's using it. - What? It's busy?
Yeah, I can use her signal to triangulate her exact position in the White House.
- You can do that? - Yeah.
AII cable repairmen can, Pops.
The visitors have arrived, but the President remains at the White House.
Question. Are Mr Whitmore's actions a) ultra brave or b) foolhardy?
- What? - Don 't hang up, sweetie.
David! How did you get this number?
- Do me a favour. Walk to the window. - And I'm Iooking for what?
You'll see.
Over here.
See us?
How does he do that?
In Iight of our apparent inability to communicate with the visitors
Pentagon officials have retrofit this Skylift helicopter
with a visual communications device.
- Mr President. - Gentlemen, be seated.
- Where are we now? - We're commencing Iiftoff.
..and refitted with these enormous light panels
that are attached to the hull and onto the sides.
Echo One, Welcome Wagon is in the air.
I repeat, Welcome Wagon is in the air.
Roger, Welcome Wagon. Echo One, right beside you.
This is something I would never believe that I would be! In the White House!
If I knew I was gonna meet the President, I would have worn a tie.
Look at me, I Iook Iike a schlemiel.
- Oy, my God! - David,
- I don't know if he'II want to see you. - Then we're wasting time, we should go.
- Why wouldn't he Iisten? - Last time I saw him, we had a fight.
You walked in and punched him in the head.
- The President! - He wasn't president then.
I punched him, he fought back. It was a fight!
A fight that you started! David thought I was having an affair.
- With the President? - Which I wasn't!
Either go get him, or we should head back.
AII right, I'II get him. Wait here, and don't touch anything!
You punched the President?
God!
Nearing point of contact, Echo One. We're closing in.
Roger that. Begin sequence when ready.
This I Iike.
Look at this!
You know what famous people have been here? Hm?
- Yes, Dad. - Politicians, actors,
baseball players, singers...
And now me!
Imagine that! "A poor immigrant Iike me."
- "It's a dream!" - Sh! David!
The three choppers are approaching
what has been unanimously agreed to be the front of these spaceships...
You're Ieaving now?
Hey, see if they've got those pens they give away.
Dad, what?
I don't have a choice...
- I don't have time for this. - Two minutes, Tom, please.
Mr President, Julius Levinson. David is my...
- I told you he wouldn't Iisten. - You have to tell him now.
David, you have to tell him! David, tell him!
I know why we have satellite disruption.
AII right. Go ahead.
Let's say that you wanted to coordinate with spaceships on different sides of the Earth.
They couldn't send a direct signal, right?
- You mean Iine of sight? - Right. The curve of the Earth prevents it.
You'd need satellites to relay that signal in order to reach each ship.
Well, I found a signal hidden inside our own satellite system.
Excuse me, Mr President. They're starting.
They're using our own satellites against us.
The clock is ticking.
- Bringing it in to hover. - Welcome Wagon,
Echo One. Approaching alien ship.
Initiating communication sequence.
Welcome Wagon has commenced.
General Grey, coordinate with the Atlantic Command. Tell them to evacuate the cities.
Get those helicopters away from the ship. Call them back!
- What the hell's going on? - We're Ieaving. Kim! My daughter.
Something's happening.
They're responding.
Something is happening.
It Iooks Iike there's activity. This may be a response, Echo One.
We see it too. Can't identify it.
We are evacuating. I repeat, we are evacuating the White House.
Load the rest of the staff in the second helicopter.
- Is my wife in the air? - She will be shortly.
Nice. Very nice.
Good! CIose the door! Hatch secure!
We have our own phone.
Move outta here.
The President's ordered an evacuation.
Our prayers go out to the pilots' families.
- lndeed, God help us all. - Mrs Whitmore.
The visitors responded with terrifying...
Authorities have called for the evacuation of Los Angeles County.
People are advised to avoid the highways wherever possible.
Great! Now he tells me.
This is the Los Angeles Police Department.
Please vacate the premises immediately for your own safety.
- Can we move it along? - Dr Katz's office.
- Hello. Dr Katz, please. - I'm sorry, he's not available.
For $300 an hour, you can put me through to his house in the Hamptons!
This is the Los Angeles Police Department.
Please vacate the premises immediately for your own safety.
Mrs Whitmore!
You must leave now.
The First Lady's secured. We're on the move.
They're opening up!
It's so pretty.
Get the hell outta here!
Go ahead, pilot. We're ready to take off right now.
Can we get a blanket for Patricia?
Here.
Time's up.
Oh, crap.
Oh, my God! Come on, Dylan! We gotta go!
Come on, Boomer!
Boomer!
Reports are unclear as to the extent of the devastation,
but it appears that Los Angeles, Washington, and New York are in ruins.
Good God!
I've been sayin' it.
I've been sayin' it for ten damn years! Ain't I, Miguel?
Huh? I've been sayin' it!
Dad, I don't feel good. Pull it over, man.
- We're gonna be all right, Troy. - Yeah, Ieave me alone. I got it.
Miguel!
Look at all that.
We could have evacuated the cities hours ago.
That's the advantage of being a fighter pilot.
In the Gulf War, we knew what we had to do.
This is just...
..not simple any more.
A Iot of people died today.
How many didn't have to?
Any news on my wife yet?
The helicopter never made it to Nullius.
No radio contact.
Come on, Dylan. Stay close.
Here it is.
What happened, Mommy?
I don't know, baby.
You men will be the first wave in our counterattack.
Our target is to the north,
centred above what remains of downtown Los Angeles.
Our BIack Knight Squadron...
- Are you scared, man? - Nope.
- You? - Nope.
- Hold me! - Hey, pay attention.
Something you wanna add, Captain Hiller?
No, sir. Just a Iittle anxious to whup ET's ass, that's all.
You'II get your chance.
You'II all get your chance.
Good hunting. Dismissed!
Let's kick the tyres and Iight the fires, Big Daddy!
Ready to go, sir!
Let's bring it home. Bring that bad boy home, Captain!
- You Ioose? - Yes, sir!
- Got your victory dance? - Oh, I got it right here... yeah!
Hey, don't get pre-patrol on me. We don't Iight up till the fat Iady sings.
I'm all ears, brother!
You the man!
- AII right, gentlemen, we're on. - General, it's NORAD.
- General Grey here. - AI?
AII communications with the cities are down.
- AII systems gone. - For intelligence, we believe it's a total Ioss.
How about our boys? Where are they?
ETA to target, four minutes.
- I shouldn't have Ieft her. - Don't worry about it, big man.
I'm sure she got outta here before it happened.
Or, as the good Reverend would say:
"Why we're on this particular mission, we'II never know."
"But I do know, here today,
that the BIack Knights will emerge victorious once again."
- Amen, man! - Amen, Reverend.
Holy God!
Lock and Ioad!
Roger that.
LA attack squadron has Amraam missiles Iocked on target.
Washington and New York squadrons report Iock-on.
- Fire at will. - Fire at will.
Knights, we are red and free. Knight One, fox three!
Knight Three, fox three!
Knight Seven, fox three.
The missiles have been fired.
- Are they not getting through? - No, not one.
Command, Knight One. Switchin' to Sidewinders, moving in.
Knight Three, Iow 50 knots reference 120.
Knight Seven, 120.
Knight One, sweep Iock. Fox two.
Knight Seven...
Come on!
They must have a protective shield over the hull! Knights, pull up!
- Knight Three, pull up! - Complete failure in the stators!
Pull up!
BIow through!
Too many of 'em!
They got another one, sir.
Oh no, you did not shoot that green shit at me!
I got ya covered, Big Daddy!
Damn, they got shields, too!
Let's go, Knights! Move, Knights! Move!
Jesus!
They got another one. And two more. They're dropping Iike flies.
- We're Iosing it. - Get 'em outta there.
Squadron Ieaders, retreat to fallback position. Abort mission right away!
We'II have to make a run for this one! Let's get Iow and fast!
I gotcha, Big Daddy! Let's get 'em!
Watch the deck!
- Squadron Ieader, abort! - This isn't happening fast enough!
Get 'em out!
- The monitor! Where's the picture? - We've Iost the satellite.
- We got two on our six, Jimmy. Shackle! - Roger.
Come on, come on! Move!
- You told me, Iike, quite all right! - They ain't got nothin' for us! Let's push it!
- I can't shake 'em. - Yes, you can. Just the way I showed you.
- I'm gonna try somethin'. - Nothin' stupid!
- You know me! - That's what I mean.
Jimmy, you can't bank at that speed!
Jimmy, he's closing on you!
- Put your mask back on! That's an order! - I can't breathe!
Jimmy!
No!
Affirmative. We have incoming.
- Let me have it, son. - You got it.
Friendly?
- Sergeant? - I don't think so.
Come on and get me!
What are you shooting at?
Where you at, baby?! Come on!
You can't hit nothin'!
Low bridge!
See if you can fly that thing under cover!
Hope you got an airbag!
Son of a bitch!
This way! This way!
Get off! Get off of me!
That's what you'II get! Look at you!
Ship all banged up! Who's the man?!
Huh? Who's the man?! Wait till I get another plane!
I'm Iinin' all your friends up, right beside you!
Where you at? Huh? Where you at?
Welcome to Earth.
That's what I call a close encounter.
Baby, stay right here with Boomer.
Keys. Come on, keys.
Yes!
Come, baby. Come on!
Reports indicate that this battle has repeated itself all over the world
with the same results.
You're just Iike your mother, you know that? She was stubborn, too.
I had to twist her arm to get her to take her medicine.
- You're gonna be all right. - You're gonna be fine.
See, Troy? You're feelin' better already.
I couldn't find anything. Everyone's packin' up.
- They said a spaceship is headed this way. - We'd better Ieave, too, then.
- Penicillin. It'II help keep his fever down. - Thank you. It's really nice of you to help us.
I wish I could do more, but we're moving out.
I'm going with you.
- Well, I just mean that we're going, too. - Cool.
Tell that punk to shut the door, we're outta here. He can sniff around somewhere else.
It's Air Force One, for crying out Ioud. Still he gets sick.
- I don't feel too good. - Look at me, huh? Like a rock.
Could be bad weather or good weather.
We could go up or down, back or forwards, side to side...
What did I say?
- He still gets airsick, huh? - Yeah.
Julius, with all of this...
I didn't get a chance to thank you two.
AII he could think of was getting to you.
There's still Iove there, I think.
- Love was never a problem. - AII you need is Iove.
John Lennon. Smart man. Shot in the back, very sad.
We've moved as many of our forces away from our bases as possible.
- But we've already sustained heavy Iosses. - I spoke with the Joint Chiefs at NORAD.
They agree we must counterattack with a full nuclear strike.
Over American soil?
You're saying we should sacrifice more innocent American civilians?
If we don't strike soon, there may not be much of an America Ieft!
Sir! They've taken out NORAD.
- What? - It's gone, sir.
My God!
The Vice President? The Joint Chiefs?
Mr President.
We must Iaunch.
A delay would be more costly than when you waited to evacuate the cities.
You're not gonna Iaunch nuclear weapons. You'II kill them and us. If we fire nukes...
- Sir, may I remind you you are a guest here? - You ever hear of nuclear winter?
- It's the end of Iife as we know it. - Just go.
I don't have to go. It can't be allowed!
- Shut up! Captain, get him out! - Don't tell him to shut up!
You'd all be dead if it wasn't for my David! None of you did anything to prevent this!
There was nothing we could do. We were totally unprepared for this.
- Don't give me that! - Come on.
It was, what? In the 1950s, you had that spaceship.
- Dad. Look... - Yeah, that thing you found in New Mexico!
- Where was that? - Not the spaceship.
Roswell, New Mexico. You had the spaceship and the bodies!
They were Iocked up in a bunker.
Where was that?
David! Area 51. Right?
Area 51. You knew then! And you did nothing.
Sir.
Regardless of what you may have read in the tabloids,
there have never been any spacecraft recovered by our government.
Take my word for it. There's no Area 51.
And there's no recovered spaceship.
Excuse me, Mr President...
That's not entirely accurate.
What? Which part?
Hold on, everybody. Hold on!
Sorry.
The end hath come! He's spaken his word and the end hath come!
Hop on! We're headin' out to EI Toro!
You cannot defy what hath come!
It's the end!
EI Toro?!
- Can you give me a hand? - Sure.
Oh, God.
OK, Iet's get this off.
Here, Iet me help you.
She's hurt pretty badly.
You know, this was supposed to be my weekend off.
But, nooo!
You got me out here, draggin' your heavy ass through the burnin' desert
with your dreadlocks stickin' out the back of my parachute.
You gotta come down here with an attitude, actin' all big and bad.
And what the hell is that smell?
I coulda been at a barbecue!
But I ain't mad. It's all right, it's all right.
Do you need a Iift, soldier?
When I flew overhead, I saw a base not too far from here.
It ain't on the map.
Trust me, it's there.