"Wher e ar e they?" "I don't know." "Dad!" "Uncle Merrill!" "Dad!" "Morgan!" "Bo?" "Bo?" "Bo, wher e's Morgan?" "Bo?" "Ar e you in my dr eam, too?" "" " This is not a dr-- " " Dad!" "Hey..." "Honey..." "Morgan?" "What's happening?" "The dogs wer e barking -- woke us up." "Ar e you hurt?" "I think God did it." "Did what, Morgan?" "Look, Lee, I don't even car e if it was him." "And you can just have a word with him, and that'd be enough f or me." "See, it was strange finding the crops that way." "The kids wer e conf used by it, and, uh, it'd sur e take the strangeness away if I knew it was just Lionel and the Wolfington brothers messing around, that's all." "At the movies?" "Ar e you sur e?" "Alright, then." "Uh, thanks f or your patience, Lee." "Yeah." "Bye." "Houdini peed." "I think he's sick." "Why don't you take him outside?" "I'll call Dr. Crawf ord." "He doesn't tr eat animals." "Well, he'll know what to do." "Oh." "That was quick, Caroline." "I only called you f olks two hours ago." "Old Mrs. Kendleman twisted her ankle, as she puts it, diving f or her lif e when a bunch of school kids rode down the sidewalk on skateboards." "She went down to Thornton's stor e this morning and started spitting on the new skateboards." "Spitting!" "By the time I got ther e," "Mrs. Kendleman had sprayed the whole damned place." "And she must have had a cold or something." "I'm telling you, I won't eat f or 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 bowl." "It tastes f unny." "It does not." "And besides, he licks his butt every day." "I don't think he'll mind." "Houdini?" "Bo, don't run." "What's wrong, boy?" "Stop it, Houdini." "Look at wher e it's bent over, Father." "It's not broken." "Now, what kind of machine can bend a stalk of corn over without br eaking it?" "Can't be by hand." "It's too perf ect." "It doesn't sound much like Lionel Prichard and the Wolfington brothers." "They can't take a piss without wetting the f ront of their pants." "I don't think anyone else around her e has had any problems." "I was over at Theo Henry's f arm yesterday afternoon, and he would have mentioned something." "Why wer e you at Theo's place?" "Some animals around the county have been acting f unny -- and some of them violent." "What is it, a virus?" "I don't think so, Father." "They'r e mor e edgy, you know, and alert." "It's almost like they act when they smell a pr edator around -- peeing on themselves and everything." "Caroline... please stop calling me "Father."" "What's wrong?" "I don't hear my childr en." "He f ell on me." "He wanted to kill Bo." "Did he hurt you?" "No." "I'm so sorry, Morgan." "Wher e wer e you?" "Houdini's sick." "Tie Isabel up to the back of the shed, please, and make sur e the knot's very tight." "What's the matter?" "Ther e's a monster outside my room." "Can I have a glass of water?" "What's wrong with the water next to your bed?" "It tastes old." "What ar e you thinking about?" "Why do you talk to Mom when you'r e by yourself?" "Makes me f eel better." "Does she ever answer back?" "No." "She never answers me either." "What?" "Lionel Prichard and the Wolfington brothers ar e back." "It's time f or an arse-whupping." "This is not an intelligent way to approach this." "Lee is a f riend of mine." "This is his son." "Yeah, we'll be doing Lee a f avour." "Alright, listen -- we both go outside, move around the house in opposite dir ections." "We act crazy, insane with anger -- make them crap in their pants, f orce them around till we meet up on the other side." "Explain "act crazy."" "You know, curse and stuff." "You want me to curse?" "You don't mean it." "It's just f or show." "What?" "Well, it won't be convincing." "It doesn't sound natural when I curse." "Just make noises, then." "Explain "noises."" "Ar e you gonna do this or what?" "No, I'm not." "Alright, you want them stealing something in the house next time?" "On the count of thr ee   1 ..." "" " Alright." "2...3!" "Aaah!" "I'm insane with anger!" "We'r e gonna beat your arse, bitch!" "We'r e gonna tear your head off!" "I'm losing my mind!" "It's time f or an arse-whupping!" "I cursed." "I heard." "How did he get..." "Ar e you sur e this is Lionel Prichard?" "You like that?" "You got an old baby monitor around?" "Bo had an old baby monitor." "You can use Bo's baby monitor as a walkie-talkie." "" " You can?" "" " Mm-hmm." "It only works one way, but that'll do fine." "That is, until someone gets you an old walkie-talkie left over at the station." "Stop!" "It's hideous!" "Get it off!" "l-I know what to do." "Hey, Bo... turn that down till Officer Paski leaves." "Doy-da!" "You'r e too old to still be doing this." "You take a glass 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 amoebas in it." "My turn." "So, how ar e you, Merrill?" "Fine." "How is work at the gas station?" "Stimulating." "I never got a chance to tell you, but l-I thought your moving in her e with your brother after -- it was a nice thing to do." "Well, I don't think I'm helping much." "You ar e." "Sorry." "Okay, so f ar I have, "It was very dark."" "Yes, it was." "You can't describe him at all?" "Don't you think that's kind of odd?" "A little." "I don't know whether to look f or a giant or a midget." "No, he definitely wasn't a midget." "Okay." "So he was tall?" "l-I would say so, yes." "Probably." "Over 6 f eet?" "It was very dark." "Yes, it was." "How certain ar e you that this was a male?" "Oh, I don't know -- I don't know any girls who could run like that." "I don't know, Merrill." "I've seen some of those women on the Olympics." "They can run like the wind." "This guy got on our roof in, like, a second." "O-Our roof is 10 f eet high." "They have women's high jumping in the Olympics." "They got these Scandinavian women who can jump clean over me." "Caroline, I know you'r e making a point her e, but I just don't know what it is." "An out-of-town woman stopped by the diner yesterday afternoon and started yelling and cussing because they didn't have her f avourite cigar ettes at the vending machine." "She scar ed a couple 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 should just keep all possibilities available." "Dad, wher e's the r emote?" "I don't know, baby." "Why don't you check in the sof a cushions?" "Ex cluding the possibility that a f emale Scandinavian Olympian was running around outside our house last night, what else might be a possibility?" "I'm not done asking questions, and I don't appr eciate 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 f act that you left the church?" "I don't think so." "Okay, I was out of line with the whole f emale- Scandinavian-Olympian thing." "It's just, I'm pr etty strong, and I'm pr etty f ast." "And I was running as f ast as I could, and this guy, he was -- he was just toying with us." "Ther e's only f ood under the sof a." "Baby, why don't you just change the channel on the television?" "I did." "And?" "Same show's on every station." "Every station?" "Bo, turn up the volume." "Crop signs first emerged in the late '70s with r enewed inter est in extraterr estrial lif e." "They died out by the early '80s, dismissed as hoax es." "This new r esurgence is wholly diff er ent." "The speed and the quantity in which it has appear ed implies the coordination of hundr eds of individuals over many countries." "Ther e ar e only a limited number of explanations." "Either this is one of the most elaborate hoax es ever cr eated, or basically... it's f or r eal." "Extraterr estrials." "What in God's name is going on?" "I did some r esearch after I saw your crops." "Two or thr ee guys can make a design the size of the one in your field overnight using just boards and ropes." "Really?" "That's how these things have been done in the past." "But ther e ar e so many now." "How could so many people 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 coff ee and -- and try to think clear." "And after that, I'II..." "I might make some calls." "But I'll tell you something -- what I said in ther e, it still goes." "Your -- your f amily has been through a lot." "And the last thing these childr en need to do is worry about some crazy things happening in the world." "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 car e of yourself..." "Graham." "The f ootage you'r e watching was shot yesterday afternoon by a 34-year-old local cameraman in Bangalor e, a southern city of India." "It's the 18th r eported crop sign f ound in that country in the last 72 hours." "Uncle Merrill, will you turn on the radio?" "They ar e signs intended to be seen f rom the sky " "No radio either." "Just f or a while." "Book money?" "Sur e." "Just one." "Be back f or pizza in 15." "It's just a bunch of crock." "They'r e trying to sell sodas." "It's plain and simple." "Been watching these r eports since morning." "I have seen 12 soda commercials so f ar -- 12!" "You have any books on extraterr estrials?" "Now, don't tell me you believe this horse manur e." "As a matter of f act, I think we have one." "Came by mistake in a shipment -- decided to keep it f or the city people." "Last row, third book on the left, honey." "Why is no one saying the obvious?" "These ar e just copycats." "Someone somewher e does the first one..." "It was asthma medicine, right, Father?" "For Morgan Hess." "And it's not "Father" anymor e." "In less than an hour, a couple hundr ed people get the same brilliant idea, and her e we ar e, on the verge of mass hysteria." "Can I ask you a f avour, Father?" "I need to clear my conscience." "Will you listen to me?" "Tracey..." "I am not a r ever end anymor e." "I haven't been f or six months." "You know this." "All this stuff on TV -- two girls came in her e talking about the end of the world " "I'm just a little scar ed." "Please, I need to clear my conscience." "I've got it figur ed." "You do?" "I've had two separate f olks tell me ther e have been strangers around these parts last couple nights." "Can't tell what they look like 'cause they'r e staying in the shadows -- covertlike." "Nobody's been hurt, mind you." "And that's the giveaway." "I see." "It's called "probing."" "It's a military procedur e." "You send out a r econnaissance group -- very small -- to check things out." "Not to engage but to evaluate the situation -- evaluate the level of danger, make sur e things ar e all clear." "Clear f or what?" "For the r est of them." "Yeah?" "You got a pamphlet or something I can r ead?" "Sur e." "Thanks." "You didn't used to play baseball, did ya?" "Shit, I know you." "You'r e Merrill Hess." "I was ther e the day you hit that 507-f ooter over the left-field wall -- set the r ecord." "Man, that thing had a motor on it." "It's still the r ecord, right?" "Got the bat at home o-on the wall." "You've got two minor-league home-run r ecords, don't ya?" "Five." "Why wer en't you in the pros making stacks of cash and getting your toes licked by beautif ul women?" "'Cause he has another r ecord most people don't know about." "He has the minor-league strikeout r ecord." "Hello, Lionel." "Merrill's a class-A scr ew-up." "He would just swing that bat as hard as he could every time." "Didn't matter what the coaches said, didn't matter who was on base." "He would just whip that bat through the air as hard as he could." "Looked like a lumberjack chopping down a tr ee." "Merrill her e has mor e strikeouts than any two players." "You r eally got the strikeout r ecord?" "Felt wrong not to swing." "It's contaminated." "Carl, ther e's something wrong with our water." "Your water's fine." "Bo has this thing about her drinking water." "She had it her whole lif e." "It's like a tick people have, ex cept it's not a tick." "Is that right?" "13!" "Don't give me that so-so-soda" "That same old cola" "I wanna pop" "Pop, pop I wanna..." "Shasta " " I'll take it." "I cursed 37 times last week." "I said the "F" word a couple times, but mostly..."shits"" "and..."bastards."" "Is "douche bag" a curse?" "I suppose that would depend on its usage." "How about, "John, you'r e a douche bag f or kissing Barbara"?" "It's a curse." "Then it's not 37." "It's 7 1 ." "Pharmacy crowded?" "I don't want any one of you spending time with Tracey Abernathy alone." "Is that understood?" "Is that him?" "Yeah." "Who is he?" "What is it?" "It's Bo's baby monitor." "I f ound it in the basement." "I'm gonna use it as a walkie-talkie." "What if it's catching a signal f rom them?" "It's not." "But it wasn't working." "Morgan, this crop stuff is about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlf riend in their lives." "They'r e, like, 30, and they work up little codes together, and they analyse Gr eek mythology and make up secr et societies wher e other guys who never had girlf riends bef or e can join in." "They do stupid crap like this to f eel special." "It's a scam." "Nerds wer e doing it 25 years ago, and new nerds ar e doing it again." "It's just static, Morgan, alright." "Turn it up." "See." "It's a code." "Why can't they get girlf riends?" "Can I see that, please?" "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 exactly what the nerds want." "I'm getting out now." "Nobody move." "Voices." "Did you hear that?" "Not English, though." "You heard the voices, right, Uncle Merrill?" "I heard them, Morgan." "Probably picking up another baby monitor." "That's right." "Let me see it." "Stop!" "See, this is why we'r e not watching TV." "People get obsessed." "I'm letting go now." "No, Dad!" "Don't do it!" "You'll lose the signal." "Don't let go." "It gets clear er the higher you hold it." "I got it." "Bo, honey, I don't want you climbing on the car." "Come her e." "Stop!" "Ther e's two of them talking." "Isabel, you'r e gonna f eel very silly when this turns out to be all just make-believe." "You'r e wasting your time her e!" "I'm not gonna r eport this or anything you do to my crops to the news or TV or anybody!" "You'r e not going to get f amous!" "Okay." "Let's turn on the TV." "It first appear ed 52 minutes ago." "Mexico City officials as well as U.S. officials have confirmed that these ar e not aircraft f rom either government's air f orce." "The first sighting was made by an Air Mexico 7 47 en route f rom Mazatlán to New York as the unidentified crafts enter ed Mexico City air space." "They wer e not detected by radar by either country." "The nerds wer e right." "We have to tape this." "My ballet r ecital." "Listen, Bo, this is very important." "Everything people have written about in science books is going to change." "The history of the world's f utur e is on the TV right now." "We need to r ecord this so you can show your childr en this tape and say you wer e ther e." "For your childr en, Bo." "My ballet r ecital." "Dad!" "Find another tape." "Uncle Merrill, I'm using your tape." "You ar e seeing a live f eed f rom our affiliate down her e in Mexico City." "This image has not been adjusted or enhanced in any way." "What you'r e seeing is r eal." "It's unbelievable." "Everything they wrote in science books is about to change." "I told you." "Some people ar e probably thinking this is the end of the world." "That's true." "Do you think it could be?" "Yes." "How can you say that?" "That wasn't the answer you wanted?" "Couldn't you pr etend to be like you used to be?" "Give me some comf ort." "People br eak down into two groups when they experience something lucky." "Group number one sees it as mor e than luck, mor e than coincidence." "They see it as a sign -- evidence that ther e is someone up ther e watching out f or them." "Group number two sees it as just pur e luck, a happy turn of chance." "I'm sur e the people in group number two ar e looking at those 14 lights in a very suspicious way." "For them, the situation isn't 50-50." "Could be bad, could be good." "But deep down, they f eel that whatever happens, they'r e on their own." "And that fills them with f ear." "Yeah, ther e ar e those people." "But ther e's a whole lot of people in the group number one." "When they see those 14 lights, they'r e looking at a miracle." "And deep down, they f eel that whatever's going to happen, ther e'll be someone ther e to help them." "And that fills them with hope." "See, what you have to ask yourself is, what kind of person ar e you?" "Ar e 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 ther e ar e no coincidences?" "I was at this party once." "I'm on the couch with Randa McKinney." "She was just sitting ther e looking beautif ul, staring at me." "I go to lean in and kiss her... and I r ealise I have gum in my mouth." "So I turn, take out the gum, stuff it in a paper cup next to the sof a, and turn around." "Randa McKinney throws up all over herself." "I knew the second it happened it was a miracle." "I could have been kissing her when she thr ew up." "That would have scarr ed me f or lif e." "I may never have r ecover ed." "I'm a miracle man." "Those lights ar e a miracle." "Ther e you go." "So, which type ar e you?" "Do you f eel comf orted?" "Yeah, I do." "Then what does it matter?" "I never told you the last words that Colleen said bef or e they let her die." "She said, "See."" "Then her eyes glazed a bit." "And then she said, "Swing away."" "You know why she said that?" "Because the nerve endings in her brain wer e firing as she died, and some random memory of us at one of your baseball games just popped into her head." "Ther e is no one watching out f or us, Merrill." "We ar e all on our own." "What do you know?" "Well, ther e was an accident -- drunk driving, they wer en't sur e " "He wasn't drunk." "Ray f ell asleep at the wheel." "" " Is he okay?" "" " Yeah." "That was the first thing Colleen asked, too." "She's talking." "What ambulance is she in?" "She's not in an ambulance, Father." "For the kids' protection." "All they wer e doing was watching TV f rom 5.00 a.m." "I f elt like they wer e getting obsessed, like you said." "They should be playing f urry, f urry rabbit or tea party or something." "What's f urry, f urry rabbit?" "It's a game, isn't it?" "Anyways, they closed the schools." "And ther e's been some inter esting developments." "What time is it?" "11 .00 a.m." "They'r e gone, but they'r e not r eally gone." "We just can't see them." "Early this morning, a bird flew into the ar ea wher e the lights wer e hovering last night." "It stopped dead in the air and f ell straight down." "They caught it on tape." "They've been playing it all morning." "The f ootage looks like the bird flew into a wall in the sky." "They f ound the bird." "His -- his head was crushed in." "They think they have some kind of invisible-shield thing going, l-like an optical illusion." "They'r e still ther e, hovering." "Some people think ther e's mor e of them now... all over the place, over us, even." "Ther e's a theory about the c-- the crop circles." "They could be some kind of -- some kind of landmark, visual mapping system so they could navigate, coordinate -- makes sense." "Want to hear a story?" "Is it true?" "So the aliens can't r ead our minds." "Oh." "Oh, of course." "They tell you everything in this book." "It says they'r e probably very small, like my height, because as their brains develop, ther e was no use f or physical development." "It also says they'r e probably vegetarians because they would have r ealised the benefits of such a diet." "Who wrote this book?" "Scientists who have been persecuted f or their belief s." "That means they'r e unemployed." "If you'r e gonna make f un of it, then f orget it." "This is serious." "I don't know what got into me." "Ther e ar e pictur es." "Dr. Bimbu, one of the authors of the book -- " " Bimbu?" "" " Dad." "I just asked his name." "You had a tone." "He said ther e ar e two r easons why extraterr estrials would visit us -- to make contact in the spirit of exploration and f urthering the knowledge of the universe, or the other r eason -- they'r e hostile." "They've used up all the r esources on their planet, and they'r e looking to harvest our planet next." "Her e." "Looks a little like our house, doesn't it?" "Same windows." "That's weird." "Yeah, oh, yeah." "That's enough f rom Dr. Bimbu f or now." "Everybody in this house needs to calm down and eat some f ruit or something." "Hello?" "Father?" "Hello?" "I'm going out f or a f ew minutes." "No one leaves this house -- no one." "Wher e you going?" "Ray Reddy's house." "Why?" "I think he just called her e." "You don't think something bad will happen, do you, Morgan?" "Why?" "You have one of your f eelings again?" "Is it bad?" "I won't let anything bad happen to you." "I don't want you to die." "Who said I was gonna die?" "Who said I was gonna die?" "Hello, Ray." "What happened?" "I wrote your number down to call you." "It's been sitting next to the phone f or 6 months." "When I knew it was inside the house..." "I couldn't think of any other number to call." "I panicked." "Thank you f or coming, Father." "You'r e welcome, Ray." "I worked so long that night." "I've never f allen asleep driving bef or e... never since." "Don't." "Most of the ride home, ther e wasn't a car in sight in either dir ection." "If I'd have f allen asleep then," "I would have ended up in a ditch with a headache." "And it had to be at that right moment -- that 10, 15 seconds when I passed her walking." "It was like it was meant to be." "I guess if this is the end of the world," "I'm scr ewed, right?" "People who kill r ever ends' wives ar en't exactly usher ed to the f ront of the line in Heaven." "Wh" " Wher e ar e you going, Ray?" "To the lake." "The way I see it... these places marked in crops and such -- none of them ar e r eally near water." "I don't think they like water." "Can't be any worse than her e." "Did you see something, Ray?" "I know what I've done to you." "I made you question your f aith." "I'm truly sorry f or what I've done to you and yours." "Alright." "And don't open my pantry, Father." "I f ound one of them in ther e and locked him in." "The startling f ootage we'r e about to show you was photographed by a 42-year-old, Romero Valadar ez." "This video was taken yesterday afternoon at his son's 7th birthday in the city of Passo Fundo, Brazil." "It was sent to the local news bur eau ther e and sent to us via satellite just a f ew minutes ago." "All initial opinions ar e this is genuine." "What you'r e about to see may disturb you." "Move, childr en!" "Vámanos!" "Oh!" "Hello?" "The police ar e her e." "I am with them." "I am a police officer." "I just want to talk with you." "We know all about the hoax." "We air eady took some of your f riends downtown in a paddy waggon." "Just tell us your name and why you did it, and we'll give you the same deal we gave the others." "Don't throw your lif e away, son." "Oh!" "Ah!" "Oh!" "Their skin changes colours." "That's why we couldn't see them that night." "Tell me something, Morgan." "Uh...in this book of yours... did they happen to detail what would happen if they wer e hostile?" "Yes." "It said they would probably invade." "They would use ground tactics -- hand-to-hand combat." "They wouldn't use our technology or fight an airborne battle 'cause they know eventually we would use nuclear weapons." "Then the planet would be useless to them." "How could anyone possibly know that inf ormation?" "It's ridiculous." "What else did it say?" "They said ther e ar e one of two outcomes of an invasion." "One, they fight and ar e def eated and have to r eturn again with f ull f orces hundr eds, maybe even thousands, of years later." "What's two?" "They win." "I'm sorry, what -- what book is this?" "Is this r eally happening?" "I heard a theory that, uh, they don't like places near water." "Maybe we'd be saf e f rom them near a lake or something." "Sounds made-up." "I saw one of them at Ray Reddy's house." "I can't be sur e, but I got the distinct f eeling he wanted to harm me." "So... we can choose to believe this lake idea, pack up, and go, or we can stay her e, hide inside our home, wait it out." "We might be overr eacting, but I'm willing to live with that." "Either way, at least we'll be together." "All those in f avour of the lake idea, raise your hand." "Yeah." "All those in f avour of home, raise your hand." "Okay." "My vote counts as two." "That's bullshit!" "You'r e cheating!" "Morgan, calm down." "I get two votes because I r epr esent two par ents her e." "We don't know anything yet." "We'll be saf e her e anyway." "I don't want to leave home." "This is wher e we lived with Mom." "That's got nothing to do with this." "I change my vote." "You can't change your vote." "All those in f avour of home, raise your hand." "This is ridiculous." "You lose, 3-2." "We'r e going to board up every window in this house." "How do we know boards will do anything?" "Because they seem to have trouble with pantry doors." "The inf ormation we'r e r eceiving comes f rom our affiliates across the world." "Dad, Uncle Merrill!" "Amman joins Nairobi, Beijing, and Jerusalem as the latest to confirm the appearance of lights." "Ther e ar e lights in over 27 4 cities." "They think it'll be 400 within the hour." "They'r e appearing at or within one mile of crop signs." "They were f or navigation." "They made a map." "They'r e gonna be within a mile of us." "Dad?" "Yes?" "They think these ar e staged immediately pr eceding an attack manoeuvr e." "I was wrong." "They'r e hostile." "It's like "War of the Worlds."" "Ground f orces have been assembled in countries throughout the globe." "Hundr eds of thousands have flocked to temples, 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 world." "Don't worry." "You won't let anything happen to us, right?" "No way." "I wish you wer e my dad." "What did you say?" "Don't you ever say anything like that again." "Ever." "Ther e's too many windows in the bedrooms." "We don't have enough boards." "We'll board up the bedroom doors." "Wher e ar e we gonna sleep?" "In the f amily room." "What about Isabel?" "We'll tie her up in the garage after dinner." "I'll make some sandwiches." "I want spaghetti." "We'll just eat f ast, Bo." "Spaghetti sounds gr eat." "What do you want, Morgan?" "Anything?" "Fr ench toast... and mashed potatoes." "Now we'r e talking." "How about you, Merrill?" "Chicken teriyaki." "Good choice." "I'm going to have a cheeseburger with bacon." "Extra bacon." "What's the matter with everyone?" "Eat." "Maybe we should say a prayer." "No." "Why not?" "We'r e not saying a prayer." "Bo has a bad f eeling." "I had a dr eam." "We ar en't saying a prayer." "Eat!" "I hate you." "That's fine." "You let Mom die." "Morgan." "I am not wasting one mor e minute of my lif e on prayer." "Not one mor e minute." "Understood?" "Now we ar e going to enjoy this meal." "No one can stop us f rom enjoying this meal, so enjoy it!" "Stop crying!" "" " Graham..." "" " Don't yell at her!" "Alright, since you'r e all not gonna eat." "I'm gonna try some of everything." "It's happening." "Graham, hurry." "Did I ever tell you what everyone said when you wer e born, Bo?" "You came out of your mama, and you didn't even cry." "You just opened your eyes, and you looked around the room at everybody." "Your eyes wer e so big and gorgeous." "All the ladies in the room just gasped." "I mean, they literally gasped." "And they go, "Oh, she's like an angel."" "And they said, "We've never seen a baby so beautif ul."" "And then...you know what happened?" "They put you on the table to clean you up, and you looked up at me and you smiled." "They say babies that young can't smile." "You smiled." "Let's go down now." "We f orgot Isabel." "Should we turn off the lights?" "They air eady know we'r e her e." "Dad..." "Do you know what happened when you wer e born, Morgan?" "You came out, and your mama kept bleeding, so the doctors rushed you out of the room bef or e I even had time to see you." "They'r e on the roof." "While they wer e fixing her up, all she kept asking about was you." "They'r e in the house." "I wanted your mama to see you first because she had dr eamt about you her whole lif e." "Then she got f eeling better, they brought you in, and they placed you in her arms, and she looked at you, and you looked at her, and you just star ed at each other f or the longest time." "And then she said r eal soft," ""Hello, Morgan." "I'm your mama." "You look just how I dr eamt."" "The attic door." "Let's go." "Come on." "We f orgot our f oil helmets." "Have we got anything to wedge against the door knob?" "They'll r ead our minds." "You'r e scaring your sister." "I'm alr eady scar ed." "Merrill." "I'm looking!" "They'll know our secr et thoughts." "I'm not r eady." "Merrill!" "Got it!" "Dad!" "Wher e's Bo?" "I'm okay." "What's happening out ther e?" "I can't even imagine." "I hope they'r e doing better than we ar e." "We don't even have helmets." "They'r e only making noises." "They'r e not trying to get in." "Why would they do that?" "They want our attention on the door?" "They'r e distracting us." "From what?" "The book says they'r e probably very good problem solvers." "They'll find a way in." "Morgan, give me your flashlight." "They used to pour coal down in this basement." "Ther e's a coal chute in her e." "I can f eel air." "Me too!" "It's getting stronger." "I'm close." "What?" "Hold him!" "I got him!" "Hold him!" "I got him!" "Hold him!" "We don't have his medicine." "Don't be af raid, Morgan." "We'll slow this down together." "Feel my chest." "Feel it moving in and out." "Br eathe like me." "Br eathe like me." "Come on." "I dr eamt this." "Stay with me." "I know it hurts." "Be strong, baby." "It'll pass." "It'll pass." "Don't do this to me again." "Not again." "I hate you." "I hate you." "The f ear is f eeding him." "Don't be af raid of what's happening." "Believe it's going to pass." "Believe it." "Just wait." "Don't be af raid." "The air is coming." "Believe." "We don't have to be af raid." "It's about to pass." "Her e it comes." "Don't be af raid." "Her e comes the air." "Don't be af raid, Morgan." "Feel my chest." "Br eathe with me." "Together." "The air is going in our lungs." "Together." "We'r e the same." "We'r e the same." "We should save the flashlights." "Ray's truck swerved off the road and hit Colleen and then a tr ee, and she was pinned between the two." "What does that mean -- pinned?" "The truck -- the truck has sever ed most of her lower half." "What did you say?" "She won't be saved." "Her body is pinned in such a way that it's alive when it shouldn't be alive, and the truck is holding her together." "And she doesn't f eel much, and she's -- she's talking almost like normal, and we didn't pull the truck out 'cause we -- we wanted you to come down her e and be with her as long as she's awake." "And that won't be very long." "Now, Father, do you understand what I've told you?" "Caroline... is this the last time I'm gonna talk with my wif e?" "Yes, it is." "People think they came her e to take over the planet." "That's bull." "I don't think that." "My f riend and I saw them." "I f ound a pack of light bulbs." "They poisoned his f amily." "They dragged them away." "Nobody believes it, but they didn't come her e f or our planet." "This is a raid." "They came her e f or us, to harvest us." "We'r e lucky as hell they'r e leaving her e." "They'r e leaving?" "That's what they'r e saying." "How long have we been sleeping?" "12 hours or so." "He said they had poison gas... they secr ete in small amounts." "A lot of people died." "But they'r e leaving." "They left r eal f ast this morning, like something scar ed them off." "They left some of their wounded behind." "Why ar e they going?" "People must have figur ed 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... ther e's things I can take and a couple things I can't." "One of them I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything I want to be... starts losing f aith in things." "I saw your eyes last night." "I don't want to ever see your eyes like that again." "Okay?" "I'm serious." "Okay." "He's been like that f or a while." "He needs his medicine." "Have they said anything about our ar ea?" "Philadelphia and its outlying counties ar e clear ed... but who knows f or sur e?" "He's not strong enough." "If he has another attack right now " "I know." "We'd have to be sur e bef or e we opened up that door, Graham." "It's good enough f or me." "Me too." "Get the syringes' well." "We may need to give him an epinephrine shot." "The atmospher e her e is cautiously optimistic." "" " They'r e doing this on TV." "" " People ar e celebrating." "Ther e's a gr eat sense of r elief." "" " They'r e dancing." "" " Yeah, like this." "As we begin evaluating the loss of lif e," "" " Do you want to see it?" " we will be left with a lot of questions." "" " I'll bring the TV in her e." "" " I see the same expr ession on every f ace." "We know the battle turned around in the Middle East." "Thr ee small cities ther e f ound a primitive method to def eat them." "We have no f urther details at this time." "Merrill, wait." "Hi, sweetie." "Hi, baby." "I was...just taking a walk bef or e dinner." "You love walks." "It was meant to be." "Does it hurt?" "I don't f eel much." "Good." "Tell Morgan... to play games." "It's okay to be silly." "I will." "Tell Bo to listen to her brother." "He'll always take car e of her." "I will." "And tell Graham " "I'm her e." "Tell him... see." "Tell him to see." "And tell Merrill to swing away." "See, what you have to ask yourself is, what kind of person ar e you?" "Ar e you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles?" "Or do you believe that people just get lucky?" "Is it possible..." "ther e ar e no coincidences?" "Swing away, Merrill." "Merrill... swing away." "Ahhhhhhhhh!" "Ahhhh!" "That's why he had asthma." "It can't be luck." "His lungs wer e closed." "His lungs wer e closed." "No poison got in." "No poison got in." "His lungs wer e closed." "His lungs wer e closed." "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."