"(MUSIC PLAYING)" "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "My name was Milo Rodricks." "Not that it matters anymore." "I'm..." "I was an astrophysicist." "I've lived more than a lifetime and..." "And I can smell Pop-Tarts." "I'm the last human being enjoying his last sensory pleasure." "I got a favor to ask." "Don't forget us." "We may have many faults, but we don't deserve to be forgotten." "Strike my first statement." "My name is Milo Rodricks until the very last second." "Until the end." "(WOMAN SCREAMING)" "(HORNS HONKING)" "BRIDGET:" "Milo, don't shovel, baby." "They're hot." "I'm booking a pedicure." "You good for a pedicure, honey?" " Had mine done last week." "(CHUCKLES)" "That the one that exploded?" " Nope." " Good." "(ENGINE STALLING)" "RICKY:" "Damn it!" "Ed..." "You swore, man." "(SIGHS)" "Diesel!" "Come on." "(AIRPLANE WHIRRING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "(DIESEL BARKING)" " Diesel!" "(DIESEL CONTINUES BARKING) -(BEEP)" "Ed." "Hey." "Hey, it's Ricky Stormgren." "I gotta ask you, have you been..." "Have you been drinking again?" "I think you must've been drunk when you worked on that thing." "(ENGINE SPUTTERING) -(STATIC)" "Hello?" "(DIESEL CONTINUES BARKING)" "Diesel!" "(KISSING) Come on." "Come on." "(WHISTLES)" "Come on. (KISSING)" "(RAPID BEEPING)" "(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)" "(STATIC)" " WOMAN:" "He's right there!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "MAN 1:" "Right there!" "Right there!" "MAN 2:" "No way." "MAN 1:" "Right there!" "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "(CLAMORING)" "(SCREAMING)" "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "(GASPS)" "(SPEAKING HINDI)" "(WIND HOWLING)" "REPORTER 1 ON TV:" "All military forces are assembling." "Planes, helicopters, even model aircraft." "Basically anything that is in the air that is manmade is being brought down without damage to person or property." "Communications, such as cell phones are being disrupted." "EDWINA STUDERMEIR:" "I'm standing on the Janiculum Hill overlooking the chaos in the streets of downtown Rome where the military continue to assemble in droves." "It's frightening and it's..." "Communications do seem to be scrambling." "But I would say that here in the United States they've been recorded over New York, Houston, and D. C." "ROBERT LINDERBY:" "Earned reports are saying that at least 40 cities around the world now have these vessels hovering over them." "London." "Okay, the picture is breaking up, but you can see a craft there." "SIOBHAN:" "They're downing all air traffic." "Aircraft are settling like..." "WAINWRIGHT:" "Feathers." "We'll say they're settling like feathers." "SIOBHAN:" "All over the world." "No casualties." "Everything in the sky has been grounded." "I'll tell you what they're doing." "They're containing us." "(PHONE RINGING)" "WAINWRIGHT:" "So, Dad, what's our angle?" "Siobhan, do we have a headline picture?" "Already up, Hugo." "REPORTER 1 ON TV:" "...still have no idea what they want or where they have come from, as they have made no replies to any attempts to contact them." "REPORTER 2:" "You see, what we're looking at here could be perceived..." "DANLOW:" "This is a national security matter now, so everyone looks to me." "No, no, no, no." "Listen to me." "We do not evac the President." "I want him to remain in the EOC." "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "What's going on?" "Wagons roll." "Come on." "Joel?" "Why can't you drive around him?" "Because he's my son." "DANLOW:" "Your son?" "I thought your son was dead." "LAURA:" "Uncle Paul?" "There's no need to be afraid." "BOY AND LAURA:" "My name is Karellen." "BOTH:" "I'm the Supervisor for Earth." "There's no need to be afraid." "My name is Karellen." "I am the Supervisor for Earth." "ANNABELLE:" "I know that this is frightening." "And bewildering." "Please try to understand that we've come a long, long way to help you." "(SOFTLY) Annabelle?" "ANNABELLE:" "We've come to help mankind." "War, famine, inequality." "These will be things of the past." "Suffering will end." "Injustice will end." "No tears." "Only happiness and safety." "WAINWRIGHT SR:" "Your national and local governments will still have jurisdiction." "You will run your water and power." "Your stores will be open." "Your markets will trade." "Your lives will continue as before minus one thing." "ELDERLY NUN:" "Injustice." "This won't happen overnight." "But the process is already beginning." "It will herald the arrival of the Golden Age of Man." "We're not conquerors." "We're enablers." "We're going to help you change." "I know it's frightening, but you are no longer alone." "I know that this is frightening, but you are no longer alone." "I know it's frightening, but you are no longer alone." "We're calling them The Visitors." "No, we're not." "OPERATOR:" "Cellular service is temporarily unavailable." "Please try your call again later." "REPORTER ON RADIO:" "We haven't been able to bring you this because we've been having transmission problems." "The images of Gaza are staggering." "The wall that separates" "Israel from the Gaza Strip, all 400 miles of it, is gone." "Arab residents are mingling with Jewish residents..." "(STATIC)" " MAN:" "They didn't actually resurrect the dead." "They appeared to us as beloved deceased relatives." "Now that is something that..." "Ellie." "You okay?" "(SOFTLY) Ricky." "TV REPORTER:" "I just saw an Israeli soldier embracing an elderly Arab man who was weak and..." "And stumbling from the shock of it all." "I mean this is just..." "It's incredible." "I mean words cannot describe." "This is truly incredible." "Emotionally charged scenes between both Israelis and Palestinian residents." "I mean people from both sides are, are hugging." " Some are even weeping." " Who'd you see?" "I just saw an..." "I saw my dad, of course." "But, you know, they missed a trick because no way he would get through that many sentences without throwing in the "F" bomb." "You?" "Who'd you see?" "Yeah." "Me, too." "I saw my dad." "But they are not moving." "And they're displaying nothing that I could say looks like..." "It's like the playwright just walked on stage and stopped the play." "MAJOR GENERAL CAL:" "Remember that little old war in the Congo no one could stop?" "Now both sides are praying together under a flying saucer." "Hands-across-the-water moment, huh?" "They're doing something similar in Sudan." "We hear there's some kind of conciliatory intervention between North and South Korea." "Look, we might be able to get something into the air." "Hmm." ""Blessed are the peacemakers," General." "Let's keep it in our pants for now, hmm?" "SIOBHAN:" "Everyone was paid a visit by this avatar." "It calls itself "the Supervisor for Earth"." "Karellen." "How are we spelling that?" "With a K?" "Every major military conflict that we know about across the globe," "well, they've just stopped." "(EXHALES)" "There's some rioting." "Mogadishu went totally wacko apparently." " Then they blocked out the sun." " WAINWRIGHT:" "Ho." "(STUTTERS) Hold on." ""They blocked out the sun"?" "How?" "Localized eclipse?" "I don't know." "They're aliens." "It's world peace, all hold hands and sing Kumbaya." "Us cynics have to swallow our pride and expect pigs to start flying any day now." "My Uncle Joey kept pigs." "Irish grazers. (CHUCKLES)" "He used to hire a local choirboy to sing to them as they were loaded onto the truck." "And these pigs, they loved it." "They were so peaceful." "All the way to the slaughterhouse." "(GRUNTING SOFTLY)" "Okay." "I want you back in the house, Milo." "Come on, Mom." "It's fine." "All the planes can take off again." "We were just grounded so they could give us a message." "You're smart, baby, what do you think their weakness is?" "You mean like a character flaw?" "No, like in Signs when that little girl killed 'em with the glass of water." "You know Janey from downstairs said the Army's everywhere now." "Do you think they're gonna launch, like a, what do we call it?" "Like a air strike?" "I don't think they wanna hurt us, Mom." "Why come all this way just to blow us up?" "Because they're aliens." "(ALL CLAMORING)" "MAYOR:" "Can we just..." "We're never gonna get anywhere if we're all hoopin' it up." " Well, what about food and water, Mayor?" " ALL:" "Yeah." "MAN:" "Is there gonna be a stockpile for the town?" "There will be no hoarding." " ALL:" "Oh." " They've only settled over three cities." "And as far as I can tell, nothing here in Missouri has changed." "(ALL CLAMORING)" "(THUDDING)" "(RICKY SIGHS)" "(HISSES)" "I guess they approve of basketball." "Look, we've seen what they can do." "The question to ask ourselves is, what can we do about them?" "As far as I can tell, not a damn thing." "MAYOR:" "Ricky..." "You've been a godsend to this town." "The way you negotiated between the community and the limestone company last year." " But this is a horse of a whole different color." "(ALL MUTTERING)" "(STUTTERING) Yeah, exactly." "Which is why I ask... (STAMMERS) Why are we even trying to guess what they're up to?" "So what's your grand plan?" "RICKY:" "I say we sit tight." "They haven't zapped the head off the Statue of Liberty yet." "In fact, they've actually made an effort to make us feel comfortable." "So..." "If this is an invasion," "I gotta say, it's..." "It's an awfully considerate one." "(MURMURING)" "ELLIE:" "They need you all over again." "RICKY:" "I don't know about that." "They're probably all sick of me by now." "You never understood the effect you have on people." "It's very rare." "(PANTING)" "Ready to head up to bed?" "(SIGHS) We can pretend to sleep." "When that alien, Karellen..." " When he spoke to you as your dad..." "(STATIC)" "(MIXER WHIRRING)" "(GURGLING)" "(WHIMPERS)" "(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)" "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "(GUN COCKS)" "Els, you're not Annie Oakley, you're from Greenwich Village." "(RATTLING)" "(DIESEL BARKING)" "RICKY:" "Let's go." "Let's go!" "Come on!" "Quick!" "Move to the basement." "(CONTINUES BARKING)" "RICKY:" "Diesel." "(GLASS SHATTERS)" "(WHIMPERS)" "(MACHINE WHIRRING)" "(RUSTLING)" "(CLATTERS)" "(TRAPDOOR CREAKS OPEN)" "(THUDS)" "Okay." "You got my attention." "(EXPLOSION)" "(SHOUTING) Ahhh!" "All right!" "All right!" "Hey!" "(EXHALES)" "ELLIE:" "Ricky!" "RICKY:" "Ellie, stay down there." "(RATTLING)" "Son of a... (KEYS JANGLING)" "(WHIRRING)" "All right. (CLEARS THROAT)" "If I go, leave my family alone." "(RATTLING)" "This is ridiculous." "(WHIRRING)" "(DOG BARKING)" "(MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "MAN 1:" "Hands up!" "MAN 2:" "You let no one through, you hear me?" "No one." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Hold the line!" "MAN 1:" "Get back." "(RATTLING)" "KARELLEN:" "Do you like it?" "It's the honeymoon suite." "RICKY: (SOFTLY) Four Seasons Hotel." "New York City." "(EXHALES)" "Annabelle and I didn't leave this room for three days even though I had tickets to the playoffs." "Hmm." "Yankees beat Minnesota Twins three games to one." "(SIGHS)" "What the hell is going on?" "KARELLEN:" "There's no need to be afraid." "My name is Karellen." "Why are you here?" "You are on the verge of discovering interstellar travel." "But the stars are not for man, Ricky." "We need a messenger they can trust." "A conduit between the Overlords and Earth." "Mmm. "Overlords"." "I find that term a little bombastic." "But, heigh-ho." "RICKY:" "Why did you make this room?" "Why'd you send me Annabelle?" "Because she is still the most important thing in your life." "No." "I got a new life." "I'm..." "I'm getting married again." "All of this..." "This is... (SIGHS)" "(SOFTLY) This is mind games." "You scare the hell out of us." "And you..." "You knock my door down." "And then you ask me to be your ambassador." "(CHUCKLES)" "Buddy, you're not even in the right zip code." "I mean you need..." "You need the President." "The Pope." "Dalai Lama." "Somebody." "KARELLEN:" "Problem is they have baggage." "You don't." "You are hardworking, brave, kind." "RICKY:" "Why did you make this room?" "KARELLEN:" "You're prepared to change and adapt." "Okay." "Take me home." "Take me home." "Where's..." "Where's the thing." "KARELLEN:" "People trust you." "You look them in the eye and..." "Hey, if you..." "If you want someone to push your agenda then you go down there, and by all means, do it yourself." "When the limestone mine wanted to take over your town, you brought both sides together." "You built bridges, you healed divides." "They called you..." "They called me..." "It was the Pacifier." "It was..." "It was meant to be a joke." "Hmm." "I know." "I've studied all human languages, syntax, colloquialisms, jokes." "I get it." "Seven billion people and I chose you." "It was between you and an 82-year-old blind woman from Seoul." "What are you thinking?" "I'm thinking I wanna see who I'm talking to." "I have to stay where I am." "There's a lot to tell people." "Look beside you." "What is it?" "It's a gift." "What if I don't wanna take it?" "Well, then don't take it." "I hope you can trust me." "I might take it and just chuck this thing in the river." "If that's what you want to do then, of course." "I respect your decision." "I believe you will make the right choice." "Whatever that choice may be." "MAJOR GENERAL CAL:" "I don't know about you, Paul, but these guys don't give me the warm fuzzies." "They're neutralizing the world's armies." "Everybody's looking to us to make the first move." " The President wants to strike, Paul." " And what's the point?" "We'd be ants firing wood-pulp pellets at a B-52." " The President thinks that we could..." " They brought dead people back." "They stopped the world, General." "And as far as I'm concerned, that puts them in the pilot's seat." "MAJOR GENERAL CAL:" "We need you here, Paul." "I just heard six hours ago they kidnapped a farmer named Richard Stormgren." "Jeez." "What do we tell the old man?" "Tell him I'm going to Missouri." "(INDISTINCT)" "(SIRENS WAILING)" " MAN:" "All right." " WOMAN:" "It's like we didn't see what it was." " And that's when we saw it." " Yeah." "Good on." "The pod thing." "It was over the mountains, over that way." "Alien abduction." "WOMAN: ...so fast, we thought it was going to..." "The Overlords talk about peace, harmony, justice." "Then they smash a fella's house and, and carry him away." "People need to know the facts." "Then they can make up their own minds." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "WOMAN 2:" "Right there." "(AIRPLANE WHIRRING)" "(BEEPS)" " SHERIFF DE BONT:" "Ellie." "(DOG BARKING)" "(SWIRLING)" "(WHIRRING)" "WOMAN 3:" "Oh." "(SPACESHIP DOOR CLOSES)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Hey, babe." "(WHOOSHING)" "Are you okay?" "I talked with him." " Karellen." " What?" "What did he say?" "What..." "What did he look like?" "I..." "I don't know." "I..." "I didn't see him face-to-face." "He gave me this." "ELLIE:" "What is it?" "I have no idea." "(SIRENS WAILING)" "DANLOW:" "Mr. Stormgren." "Can I see you for a minute?" "(INDISTINCT YELLING)" "(ALL CLAMORING)" "MILITARY MAN OVER PA:" "For your own safety, move back." "(BABY CRYING)" "RICKY:" "So what can I do for you?" "I've been reading all about you on the flight over." "You're a smart man, Mr. Stormgren." "Progressive man." "Humanitarian." "Be careful." "You're gonna have me blushing there Mr..." "Danlow." "Paul Danlow." "I work with the U.S. Secret Service." "I can figure out who you work for, Mr. Danlow." "What you got there?" "I have absolutely no idea." "They give you that?" "Can I take a look-see?" "DANLOW:" "You really should give that to me and I can take it somewhere." "(CHUCKLES)" " Somewhere safe." "I'm sure you could." "I mean, you're not gonna open it, are you?" "That'd be one hell of a move with the Earth at stake and whatnot." "Look, I understand." "The aliens gave you something and..." " It makes you feel special." " Okay." "No, no, no." "Don't do that." " Don't patronize me." " Oh, I'm not." "They must take you seriously." "So I take you seriously." "That's why I'm asking you to hand it over of your own free will." "Uh-huh." " With a gun?" " Okay." "What if it's a bomb?" "Or a virus?" " You think of that?" " Of course, I've thought about that." "But don't you think that if that was their intention, they could've done it themselves at any point?" "Well, think about it, Ricky." "So far, these aliens have been overwhelmingly demonstrative and secretive." "Threatening." "They smashed open your home, forced you onto their ship." "Then they give you this thing and they tell you to open it?" "Actually Karellen told me I could do what I wanted with it." "Okay, he gave me a choice." " You're not." "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "Hey." "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "What are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Whoa." "Just recording you on our property threatening us." "Uh, uh, hey." "Look, look." "I've seen what these guys can do." "I'm pretty sure they can stop you from shooting us." "Yeah." "Maybe they can't." "Maybe they'll just find another farmer." "Actually, the backup was an old lady in Seoul." "DANLOW:" "Hell, cards on the table, Ricky." "You're a decent man." " But decent men can be manipulated." " Hey, look, he said that they're here to teach us." "All right?" "To help us." "He said, "Heigh-ho"." "They're evil aliens, but..." "But their leader says, "Heigh-ho"?" "No." "You know what I think?" "I think you wanna know what's in this thing just as much as I do." "Look, final warning." "Hand it over or I will put you down." "Okay." "(RATTLING)" "(BABY CRYING) -(SCREAMING)" "DANLOW:" "There's intel from hospitals as far away as China." "Same story everywhere." "We're looking at a 60% recovery in patients presenting with leukemia," "Hodgkin's lymphoma, pulmonary lung disease." "The first cure occurred the same minute that you opened the vial." "Maybe they are gonna cure everything." "You tell me." "They're your friends." "(SIRENS WAILING)" "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "Ricky, you're the sole spokesperson for an alien race." "Have fun with it." "(RICKY CLEARS THROAT)" "(INDISTINCT MURMURING)" "Morning." "Uh..." "My name is, uh, is Richard Stormgren." "Um, I have been chosen to be the..." "The intermediary between the Overlords and us..." "Earth." "And, uh... (EXHALES) Trust me, this is all one giant Twilight Zone to me, too." "So..." "(RICKY CLEARS THROAT)" "Uh, I was taken up to meet with him..." "Karellen." "And..." "I was not permitted to see him physically." "Uh, although I could..." "I could tell that in speaking to him he seemed to be compassionate." "I will be taken up to meet with him at, uh, at regular intervals." "And, uh, will be passing on..." "Uh..." "Passing on, uh, information." "Uh, Karellen wants you to know that any war, anywhere will be seen and will be firmly stopped." "Chemical pollution of the atmosphere will be, um... (SIGHS DEEPLY)" "Yeah, they're gonna... (STUTTERS) They're gonna deal with that." "They're going to deal with it?" "Yeah." "Pretty sure about that." "The environment, uh, social issues, politics, I'm told that that's..." "That's gonna be more of a..." " A gradual process of development." " Mr. Stormgren, just..." "Just tell us, why won't Karellen show us his face?" "I don't know." "(ALL CLAMORING)" "Can they stop death?" "I..." "I can't..." "I..." "I can't... (STAMMERS) What does the inside of their ship look like?" "Come on." "Tell us something. (CHUCKLES)" "RICKY:" "What?" "You wanna know what it looks like?" "It looked like, uh, a..." "A hotel suite." "Four Seasons Hotel in New York." "REPORTER:" "But, Mr. Stormgren." "Hey!" "You must know something." "One of their pods just landed on the White House lawn." "(INHALES DEEPLY) That'll be for me." "(SIGHS) Which way?" "DANLOW:" "Don't worry about it." " We'll get you up to speed." "(SIGHS)" "(FLUTTERING)" "RICKY:" "You know it's..." "It's only gonna get worse." "Half the world thinks that you're their salvation." "The other half wants to blow you out of the sky." "KARELLEN:" "Well, you've had that relationship with your religions for long enough." "Mmm-hmm." "Fear, disorientation and anger is part of the first stage." "Are." "I'm sorry?" "They..." "They are part of the first stage." "Second person singular present active imperative." "My bad." "You've cleaned up." "We are not as demonstrative as you might think." "We want to help you help yourselves." "Yeah, well, a lot of people are gonna find that awfully condescending." "Tell me, is it condescending to send your children to school?" "That's a good point." "But here's the thing, if you walk around calling us all children, you're gonna piss a lot of people off." "My bad." "(CHUCKLES)" "(KARELLEN CHUCKLES)" "If you, um..." "You'd have come here five years ago..." "Annabelle still be alive?" "We weren't here five years ago and she died." "Mmm-hmm." "If you'd like, I will dismantle this room." "No." "No, we'll... (STUTTERS) We'll keep the room for now." "Of course." "(FLUTTERING)" "(ALL CLAMORING)" "(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)" "RICKY:" "Diesel. (KISSING)" "Come on." "Come on." "Up." "(SOFTLY) Come here." "(RICKY SIGHS)" "This is gonna change everything for us, Ricky." "Look, I'm sorry, Els, all right?" "Just give me..." "Give me a couple weeks so I can wrap my head around what happens next." "It was Annabelle." "They sent you Annabelle, didn't they?" "Four Seasons honeymoon suite." "And every time you go back to that ship, it's to that hotel room." "I'm here." "Whatever you go through," "just know I love you." "WAINWRIGHT:" "A stonewashed hick from a flyover state." "Why do you think they picked this guy?" "Because he doesn't ask the right questions, that's why." "What if they're playing the long game?" "They can live for thousands of years." "So they can wait, you know." "Make us healthy, make us sleepy, make us fat." "They wanna buy the world a Coke." "(SIGHS)" "All lovey dovey." "(GROANS)" "You can dress this up in as much hippie-dippy crap as you like." "This is an invasion." "No disrespect, sir, but what the hell can you do about it?" "GIRL:" "On my daddy's farm, the animals have all the food they want." "I feed the pigs red apples. (LAUGHS)" "And Daddy gives them medicine so they never get sick." "And they're happy when Daddy and the other men take them away." "I don't know where they go, but I know they're really happy." "NARRATOR:" "Paid for by the Freedom League." "KARELLEN:" "Their reaction is understandable." "It means we're making an impression." "Now, there is plenty of food and shelter on this world." "It's a question of distribution." "With the right people together they will come because you ask them to." "And then what?" "I..." "I don't even own a suit." "I don't know what you think, I'm gonna accomplish that generations of diplomacy hasn't." "The politicians have failed." "Be yourself, Ricky." "Don't think like them." "Look, Karellen." "I..." "I..." "I think it would go a hell of a long way with people if you would just show yourself." "You wouldn't accept my appearance." "So, hiding out here, you plan to stop centuries of people hurting one another?" "But you are already feeling each other's pain." "You share the same fears and confusions about us and about your future." "It's a healthy beginning." "So, the Overlords have actually sealed up the Saudi oil reserves." "Uh, why?" "Well, I think that we're hoping it'll be taken as an invitation to come talk with us." "WAINWRIGHT:" "Mr. Stormgren?" "Mmm-hmm." "I can show you a petition sponsored by the Freedom League." "Twenty-two million four hundred thousand people who want the Overlords to get the hell off our property." "The next time you cozy up to your pal in the sky, you tell him that." "RICKY:" "Let..." "Let's look at what's happening." "I never thought that I would see world peace." "Did you?" "No?" "We've ended war." "Now, it's time to end starvation." "Every day, millions of people are starving while the rest of us just throw away unwanted food." "So, we need to find a way to get that surplus into the hands of the poorest people." "There we go." "So, we don't need a Navy anymore." "Right?" "Just so happens, we happen to have a lot of big ships just sitting around doing a whole lot of nothing." "So, we're gonna refrigerate the US fleet and use that to transport the food supplies across the Atlantic to West Africa." "Just gonna empty them out and fill 'em up with dinner." "Impressive." "No, it really is." "I mean, it leaves our nation completely open to attack." "But, I'm glad" "Africa will get her Meals on Wheels." "(MURMURING)" "The Overlords have imprisoned our oil reserves." "Actually, they freed your supply lines." "These pipes pumped your oil." "Now, we're gonna use 'em to pump desalinated water into the sub-Sahara." "You cannot just commandeer the property of the Saudi Kingdom." "DANLOW:" "These people are dying of starvation and thirst." "Now, we need to irrigate half a continent, sir." "And our think tank says that's the best way." "(CLEARS THROAT) Oh, I am so sorry." "You guys gotta be dying of thirst, too." "Can I get you something to drink?" "Hey, can we get these guys something to drink, please?" "SAUDI BUSINESSMAN:" "Yes, why has there been no water on the table?" "Gentlemen..." "Cheers." "(CLICKS TONGUE)" "Dirty Texan muck, hmm?" "(INHALES DEEPLY)" "Very well." "But, understand that this is not the wish of our kingdom." "We have always been in this together." "Now it's time to start acting like it." "(SIGHS)" "Gentlemen, welcome to the Golden Age of Man." "NARRATOR 1:" "Yes, of course, when they first arrived, I was scared." "Everybody was scared." "We watched them like we were shop mannequins." "But after the shock we realized that we had been living in so much uncertainty." "They had come to rule us." "And you can argue the morality, of course." "But they brought certainty and stability." "At least, that's how it seemed to us, at first." "I look back now and shudder." "We were all under a spell." "NARRATOR 2:" "Paid for by the Freedom League." "That's some fancy schooling." "He gets a scholarship." "He wrote this essay about the Overlords and sent it to some fancy college in Massachusetts." "FENCE:" "Oh, yeah?" "Like what?" "What's in it?" "BRIDGET:" "My son has theories." "Never known the neighborhood look so nice." "They still can't take away the US of A." "Gotta have independence." "Fourth of July, ya'll." "BRIDGET:" "Hi, honey." "How was school?" "There was a cocaine plant in Ecuador." "The Overlords split it up into its component parts." "About four million pieces." "What they do, it's like magic, huh?" "They've learnt how to manipulate solids at a molecular level." "Probably using a controlled magnetic field." "It's not magic, Mom, it's just a 30,000-year head start." "Your mind, honey." "It just blossomed when they arrived, didn't it?" "What you gonna do with all that know-how, huh?" "MILO: (SIGHS) I don't know." "I can't do much with it." "Keep dreaming." "Supper's on the table." "(CROWD CHEERING)" "Freedom League's gaining momentum." "Funded by people like Hugo Wainwright." "Doesn't that bother you?" "KARELLEN:" "I had hoped the world had had enough of angry mobs." "The Saudis are pushing back on this whole thing and I can't blame 'em." "People get angry when they feel impotent." "But I have enabled you all to help yourselves." "But, see, this is what I'm talking about." "While you're standing back there hiding your face..." "I mean, look at this." "Have you seen these?" "Well, I don't mind the centipede." "I'm not wild about being portrayed as a blue robot, though." "You know what they're most afraid of?" "Is that you don't look any different at all." "I'm telling you, to have gone through all this just to be rolled over by humans." "We don't look like humans." "(THUD)" "That's new." "KARELLEN:" "As surely as it rises, the sun has to set." "(DISTANT SHOUTING)" "You cut this up with roach powder." "I'm not taking it from you no more, Fence." "You're damn lucky I get any." "And you pull your neck in, girl." "Oh, great." "Here comes Doctor X." "You're selling my mom drugs again?" "Go back in, Milo." "I can handle this boy." "What?" "Does this look like some boy toy to you?" "Just give me my money." "(GRUNTS)" "(BRIDGET WINCES)" "Around here I'm the Overlord." "And that's the truth!" "Next to them, you're nothing." "You're just a boy with his water pistol." "Milo." "(GUNSHOT)" "MAN:" "Man, what you thinking?" "BRIDGET: (SCREAMS) Milo!" "No!" "(SCREAMING)" "(SOBBING)" "(GRUNTS)" "(CRYING)" "(WAILING) Milo!" "(CRYING)" "(GASPS)" "Honey?" "Honey." "Look, it's not just our science that's been hobbled." "They control our justice system." "My news sites are reporting they just executed a young kid from the inner city projects." "We're getting eyewitness reports that say it was an accident." "(SCOFFS)" "Do the Overlords allow accidents?" "Sure, the kid had a gun." "But they took him out right there and then." "No trial." "You break the rules." "Bang, you're dead." "They are watching us all the time." "And they are dealing in swift, moral absolutes." "It's exactly the kind of thing that makes the Freedom League rise up." "They think they're God." "I'm glad you mentioned the big silent guy." "Let's bring Miss Peretta Jones into the discussion." "Peretta, you're part of the Junior Faith Initiative which aims to remind young people of the importance of remembering God in these unique times." "Well, yes." "I guess we have to." "The Overlords have destroyed God." "My mother was a devout Christian." "We lived in the poorest part of Brazil." "When the Overlords came, she lost her faith." "My mother decided that she couldn't live in a world without God." "So she killed herself." "My fear is that the next generation won't remember there was ever talk of God." "It is clear they control our political process." "Our law enforcement." "And, though I'm not a religious man," "Miss Peretta makes a very good point." "They're controlling the way we think." "(CHEERING)" "(CHEERING)" "ELLIE:" "This is nice." "Just you, me, and the 5,000 by the gate." "Maybe I'll go take them some loaves and fishes later." " They'll like that." "(CHUCKLES)" "So, uh, what with world peace and all that stuff, do you even need to go back up there anymore?" "Babe, I guess that's up to Karellen." "It's up to you." "All right." "I tell you what..." "Why don't we get this wedding back on track?" "Do you want to?" "I love you, Els." "Hey," "I love you." "But you never would have if things had been different." "If Annabelle was still..." "And I can't help thinking things are different for you up there." "Karellen is not letting you move on." "He's built this dollhouse of the past to control you somehow." "Oh, just..." "Just give me a little bit of credit here." "You're distant from me." "Yeah, because I have responsibility." "I'm sorry. (STAMMERS) As much as you may want, this is not about us." "This is..." "This is about the whole damn world." "You're my whole damn world." "What's up there isn't real." "(DIESEL BARKING)" "(CONTINUES BARKING)" "All right, guys." "Hey, come on." "Back on the other side of the fence." "(VEHICLE MOVING AWAY)" "Ricky?" "Ricky?" "(BARKING CONTINUES)" "Know what they call you?" ""The Blue Collar Prophet"." "Cool, huh?" "Where are you from?" "Mexico City." "How's the air in Mexico City these days?" "It's clean." "Listen, if you don't have him, you need to help him." "You can do anything, right?" "So, you find him and you bring him back to me." "Bring him home." "MAN:" "Hey, you all right?" "WOMAN:" "What's she doing?" "Coffee?" "You wanna tell me what part of your journalistic experience gives you the chops to play General?" "I'm not playing General." "I'm a pacifist." "We are 120 miles from the nearest town." "One hundred and fifty feet underground." "Lead-shielded." "Self-sufficient." "And off-grid" "I believe they like to call it." "So, what are you trying to do here, Wainwright?" "You wanna go and start a war?" "Come on, you're smarter than that." "You know you can't win." "You're right." "We can't win a war against them." "But organized resistance, now that's different." "You see," "Karellen likes to see himself as the benign Overlord." "What if we stopped working with him?" "What if we destroy our clean powerplants?" "Pollute our irrigation systems?" "Look, listen to yourself." "Defiance." "If we stop following them, they fail." "So you destroy every good gift they've given us?" "Then what?" "They leave." "(CHUCKLES) What choice do they have?" "So, we can just screw the world up all over again?" "WAINWRIGHT:" "I'd rather the world went down the toilet in our control, than flourished under theirs." "Oh, okay." "I get it." "So, then..." "So..." "So, this is about who's holding the power." "Right?" "'Cause you used to hold the reins to public opinion." "Now, you don't like that they've taken that from you." "You've got..." "You gotta wrap your head around the fact that working with them is not the same as working for them." "Semantics, Ricky." "So, what the hell do you want from me?" "I want you to join the Freedom League and speak for us." "No." "WAINWRIGHT:" "Then, the Overlords have their first martyr." "(GRUNTING)" "(BULLET FIRED)" "(CROWD MURMURING)" "(CROWD GASPING)" "(STATIC)" "(DOOR OPENS)" "Are you hurt?" "No." "Time is changed." "Our time." "A second is an hour to us." "ANNABELLE:" "Remember how we used to talk about that?" "How we wished that a night would last a whole year?" "Don't come to me like this, Karellen." "I'm not Karellen, Ricky." "Then, what are you?" "A memory." "A ripple in a pond." "I'm not part of them." "I'm a part of you." "Why would Karellen send you?" "He could've sent anything." "No, he couldn't." "He's led by what's in your heart." "That's why he built this room." "Our room." "No." " I buried you." " Did you?" "One day you'll understand why I came back." "And why he built the room." "ELLIE:" "Ricky?" "ELLIE:" "What's happening to us?" "Oh, come here." "Come here." "(SIGHS) Look at you." "They shouldn't do this to us." "They're playing with your mind." "You need to see who this Karellen really is." "(RUSTLING)" " Be safe." " Yeah." "Don't think about it." "Just do it." "You guys see everything, right?" "KARELLEN:" "Mmm-hmm." "So, then you could've stopped them from taking me." "We could've neutralized his armies." "But we needed the world to see what human resistance is capable of." "That they would murder someone so beloved for their cause." "Their spirit is broken now." "The Freedom League is disbanding." "We are doing this for your own good." "I'll tell you a little something about trust, Karellen." "It works both ways." "The World Federation is being founded." "Your nations will now unite as one." "The first stage is complete." "Exactly right." "I'm just talking to myself." "You told me that you needed my advice just as much as we needed yours." "Well, here it is." "As long as you stay hidden back here, there's always gonna be people that don't trust you." "Human beings don't trust what they can't see." "KARELLEN:" "They trust in a god they can't see." "Man needs a lot more psychological preparation before we can show ourselves." " So, when?" " Not for many years." " But when the time is right..." "(SIGHS)" "I know you're disappointed with my answer." "But we've seen the effect our appearance can have." "So then you have been seen by people?" "Your world isn't the only planet we've supervised." "Now, your work is done here, I think." "What?" "Just..." "That's it?" "I've so enjoyed our chats." "Oh, okay." "Just hold on." "You'll live to see that day." "It will be wonderful for both of us." "But it will still be very hard when we finally appear." "I hope you don't mind me saying this, but, I'm going to miss you, my friend." "(KARELLEN CHUCKLES)" "Uh, Karellen." "Goodbye." "Karellen." "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "(SIGHS) Karellen was right." "We can't let anyone see this." "Just delete it." "Get rid of him." "(LAPTOP BEEPS)" "(SIGHS)" "I'm done." "I'm home." "(CHUCKLES)" "Ellie Ryberg, will you marry me?" "PERETTA:" "Evil can disguise itself as truth." "Whatever faith or belief you have, know that we're in this battle together." "All of us." "We can never give up the fight." "No matter how mighty the Overlords may seem, we should never give up." "Remember, there is an ultimate truth in this universe." "I will never, ever stop believing that." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO)" "FEMALE REPORTER:" "Media magnate Hugo Wainwright Jr." "has been found hanged at his D. C. office." "The newspaper proprietor left no note and there are believed to be no suspicious circumstances." "(RADIO TURNS OFF)" "You seem pretty low for a walking miracle." "I never used to feel this different or this scared when I was in the chair." "That's 'cause your chair was a barrier, protecting you from the world." "But the barrier's down now." "You got to stop hiding and work out who you are." "Is that what they did when they cured me?" "Oh..." "Maybe." "Maybe they think you got potential." "On the TV, they say that science is dying." "I don't want it to die." "So, what do you wanna do about that?" "Well, I wanna be the first person to visit their planet." "Then that is what you'll do." "MILO:" "Who knows why they chose 15 years?" "But things have gotten a whole lot better." "I got a place at MIT, graduated." "I got a job in astrophysics." "Mom got clean and looked younger than ever before." "In fact, everyone did." ""Youth of Utopia, " they called it." "The Earth was being reborn, so to speak." "And right now was waiting to meet their guardian angels." "Janny?" "Milo. (CHUCKLING) Oh, my God." "Milo. (LAUGHS)" " Welcome home." " It's good to be back." "You still playing scientist?" "I am in the dwindling dodo profession that is astrophysics, yes, sir." "(LAUGHS)" "I mean, wow." "Look at this." "Everything..." "Everything's changed." "Yeah." "Most of these are empty." "When folk found out they didn't have to earn money, they just cleared on out into the wide-open spaces." "It's pretty much all mine now." " Yeah?" " Mmm-hmm." "Are you looked after?" "(BIRDS CHIRPING)" "People leave this for me every few days." "I have music." "I have peace." "They did it, Milo." "They did it." "They showed us how to make heaven on Earth." "Mmm." "(SIGHS) It's a big day." " Yes, it is." "I thought, uh, maybe you'd wanna come to a bar and share it with me." "Ah, I don't need to see them, Milo." "What are you talking about?" "I've seen enough. (CHUCKLES)" "You know me, I could never see enough." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "(GRUNTS)" " Buddy!" " Come on, Dad." "It's started." "It's started." " AMY:" "Jake!" " What's that?" " AMY:" "Come on!" " All right." "AMY:" "What are you doing?" "No hello?" "There." "WOMAN ON TV:" "It's hard to believe that our wait is over." "But it is." "And it seems that the Supervisor for Earth, Karellen," "deems us ready to look him in the eye." "(SIGHS NERVOUSLY)" "And here we are at the designated..." "AMY:" "I can't believe it's arrived." "We're ready." "Huh?" "Guess we are, Amy." "Guess we are." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "(APPLAUSE)" "WOMAN:" "It's a beautiful balmy evening as the sun starts to set on the 200,000 excited spectators." "Delegates from the World Federation are taking to the main podium." "It's fair to say that everybody's breath is truly bated as we wait to meet our guardian angels." "Uh, there's..." "Uh, there's some disturbance in the sky." "(CROWD CHEERING)" "And it's here." "It's above us right now." "People are on their feet." "We haven't seen an Overlord ship this close since they first arrived over a decade and a half ago." "Now it does appear to be docking at the arrival ramp." "And it's docked." "The ship is docked." "KARELLEN:" "This is Karellen." "Let the children come forward." "WOMAN:" "The child greeters that Karellen asked for are now entering the arrival ramp." "(SOBBING)" "Oh, my God." "(EXHALES)" "(CROWD GASPING)" "Karellen was right to hide himself from us." "RICKY:" "Still I think, uh, I think it may be too soon." "This world will be okay, won't it?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I think so." "Hello." "There is no need to be afraid."