"[ Suspenseful instrumental music plays ]" "[ Music intensifies ]" "[ Silence ]" "[ Gasps ]" "[ Door hinges creak ]" "[ Bo screams ]" "[ Bo screams ]" "[ Insects chirping ]" "[ Door hinges creak, door slams ]" "Where are they?" "I don't know." "Morgan:" "Dad!" "Uncle Merrill!" "Dad!" "Morgan!" "[ Birds cawing ]" "[ Rapid footste ps ]" "Bo?" "Bo?" "Bo, where's Morgan?" "Bo?" "Are you in my dream, too?" "" " This is not a dr-- Morgan:" "Dad!" "Hey..." "Honey..." "[ Panting ]" "Morgan?" "What's happeni ng?" "The dogs were barking -- woke us up." "[ Dogss barking in distance ]" "Are you hurt?" "I think God did it." "Did what, Morgan?" "[ Barking continues, birds cawing ]" "[ Barking ]" "Look, Lee, I don't even care if it was him," "Ad you can just have a word with him, and that'd be enough for me." "See, it was strange finding the crops that way." "The kids were confused by it, and, uh, it'd sure take the strangeness away if I know it was just Lionel and the Wolfington brothers messing around, that's all." "At the movies?" "Are you sure?" "[ Sighing ] All right, then." "Uh, thanks for your patience, Lee." "Yeah." "Bye." "[ Telephone beeps ]" "Houdini peed." "I think he's sick." "Why don't you take him outside?" "I'll call Dr. Crawford." "He doesn't treat animals." "Well, he'll know what to do." "[ Chain rattles ]" "[ Door hinges creak;" "door opens, slams ]" "Oh." "That was quick, Caroline." "I only callod you folks two hours ago." "Old Mrs. Kendleman twisted her ankle, as she puts it, diving for her life when a bunch of school kids rode down the sidewalk on skateboards." "She went down to Thornton's store this morning and started spitting on the now skateboards." "Spitting!" "By the time I got there," "Mrs. Kendleman had sprayed the whole damnod place." "Ad she must have had a cold or somothing." "I'm toiling you, I won't eat for a week." "[ Sighs deeply ]" "So, what happenod to your crops?" "[ Sizzling ]" "[ Sizzling ]" "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 funny." "It does not." "Ad besides, he licks his butt every day." "I don't think he'll mind." "[ Barks ]" "[ Growling ]" "Houdini?" "Bo, don't run." "What's wrong, boy?" "[ Growling continues ]" "Stop it, Houdini." "[ Barks ]" "[ Gasps ]" "[ Snarling ]" "Caroline:" "Look at where it's bent over, Father." "Graham: it's not broken." "Now, what kind of machine can bend a stalk of corn overr without breaking it?" "Can't be by hand." "It's too perfect." "It doesn't sound much like Lionel Prichard and the Wolfington brothers." "They can't take a piss without wetting the front of their pants." "I don't think anyone elso around here has had any problems." "I was overr at Thoo Henry's farm yesterday afternoon, and he would have mentionod somothing." "Why were you at Theo's place?" "Some animals around the county have been acting funny -- and some of them violent." "What is it, a virus?" "I don't think so, Father." "They're more odgy, you know, and alert." "It's almost like they act when they smell a prodator around -- peeing on themsolves and everything." "[ Birds cawing ]" "Caroline... please stop calling me "Father."" "What's wrong?" "I don't hear my children." "[ Sniffles ]" "He foil on me." "He wanted to kill Bo." "[ Sniffling and wheez ing ]" "[ Alr hisses ] -- [ inhales deeply ]" "[ Exhales deeply ]" "Did he hurt you?" "No." "I'm so sorry, Morgan." "Where were you?" "Houdini's sick." "Tie Isabel up to the back of the shod, please, and make sure the knot's very tight." "[ Insects chirping ]" "[ Gasps ]" "What's the matter?" "There's a monstor outside my room." "Can I have a glass of water?" "What's wrong with the water next to your bed?" "It tastes old." "[ Breathes deeply ]" "[ Sighs softly ]" "What are you thinking about?" "Why do you talk to Mom when you're by yourself?" "Makes me feel better." "Does she ever answer back?" "No." "She never answers me either." "[ Sighs deeply ]" "[ inhales sharply ]" "What?" "[ Whispering ] Lionel Prichard and the Wolfington brothers are back." "[ Whispering ] It's time for an ass-wh upping." "This is not an intelligent way to approach this." "Lee is a friend of mine." "This is his son." "Yeah, we'll be doing Lee a favor." "All right, liston -- we both go outside, mover around the houso in opposite directions." "We act crazy, insane with anger -- make them crap in their pants, force 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 for show." "What?" "Well, it won't be convincing." "It doesn't sound natural when I curse." "Just make noises, then." "Explain "noises."" "Are you gonna do this or what?" "No, I'm not." "All right, you want them stealing somothing in the houso next time?" "On the count of three   1..." "" " All right." "2...3!" "[ Door hinges creak ]" "Aaah!" "I'm insane with anger!" "We're gonna beat your ass, bitch!" "[ Clattering ]" "We're gonna tear your head off!" "I'm losing my mind!" "[ Rapid footste ps ]" "It's time for an ass-wh upping!" "[ Rapid footste ps ]" "[ Both panting ] I cursed." "I heard." "[ Rustling ]" "How did he got..." "[ Rustling continues ]" "Are you sure this is Lionel Prichard?" "[ Clattering ]" "[ Squeaking ]" "[ Birds chirping ]" "Caroline:" "You like that?" "You got an old baby monitor around?" "Bo had an old baby monitor." "You can uso Bo's baby monitor as a walkie-talkie." "" " You can?" "" " Mm-hmm." "It only works one way, but that'll do fine." "[ Machinery whirring on tolovision ]" "That is, until somoone gets you an old walkie-talkie left overr at the station." "Man:" "Stop!" "it's hideous!" "Woman:" "Get it off!" "l-l know what to do." "[ Woman shuddering ]" "Hey, Bo... turn that down till Officer Paski leaves." "Doy-da!" "[ Laser gun fires ]" "[ Volume decreases ]" "You're 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 amebas in it." "My turn." "So, how are you, Morrill?" "Fine." "How is work at the gas station?" "Stimulating." "[ Chuckles ] I never got a chance to tell you, but l-l thought your moving in here with your brother after -- it was a nice thing to do." "Well, I don't think I'm helping much." "You are." "Sorry,." "Okay, so far 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 whother to look for a giant or a midgot." "No, he definitely wasn't a midgot." "Okay." "So he was tall?" "l-l would say so, yes." "Probably." "Over 6 feet?" "It was very dark." "Yes, it was." "How certain are you that this was a male?" "Oh, I don't know -- l don't know any girls who could run like that." "I don't know, Morrill." "I've seenn 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 feet high." "They have women's high jumping in the Olympics." "They got these Scandinavian women who can jump clean overr me." "Caroline, I know you're making a point here, but I just don't know what it is." "A out-of-town woman stopped by the diner yesterday afternoon and started yolling and cussing becauso they didn't have her favorite cigarettes at the vending machine." "She scarod a couple of the customers." "No one's seenn her since." "Ad my point is, we don't know anything about the person you saw, and we should just keep all possibilities available." "[ Footste ps approach ]" "Dad, where's the remote?" "I don't know, baby." "Why don't you check in the sofa cushions?" "Excluding the possibility that a fomale Scandinavian Olympian was running around outside our houso last night, what elso might be a possibility?" "I'm not done asking questions, and I don't appreciato sarcasm." "Do you two have anyone who might have a grudge "orsometh ing against you" -- maybe a-a chuurch member" ""who" -- "who might" not have liked the fact that you left the church?" "I don't think so." "Okay, I was out of line with the whole fomale- Scandinavian-Olympian thing." "it's just I'm pretty strong, and I'm pretty fact." "Ad i was running as fact as I could, and this guy, he was -- he was just toying with us." "There's only food under the sofa." "Baby, why don't you just change the channel on the tolovision?" "I did." "Ad?" "Same show's on every station." "Every station?" "Graham:" "Bo, turn up the volume." "Crop signs first emergod in the lato '70s with renewed interect in extraterrestrial life." "They diod out by the early '80s, dismissed as hoaxes." "This now resurgence is wholly different." "The speed and the quantity in which it has appeared implies the coordi nation of hundreds of individuals over many countries." "[ lndistinot conversations ]" "There are only a limited number of explana tions." "Either this is one of the most elabora te hoaxes over created, or basical ly... it's for real." "[ Alr hisses ] -- [ inhales deeply ]" "Extraterrestrials." "What in God's name is going on?" "I did some research after I saw your crops." "Two or three guys can make a design the size of the one in your field overrnight using just boards and ropos." "Really?" "That's how these things have been done in the past." "But there are so many now." "How could so many people be in on it?" "I can't think straight." "I'm -- l'm gonna go back to the station and have a cup of Edgar's coffee and -- and try to think clear." "Ad after that, I'll... I might make some calls." "But I'll toll you somothing -- what I said in there, it still goes." "Your -- your family has been through a lot." "Ad the last thing these children need to do is worry, about some crazy things happening in the world." "Now, take them into town and got their minds and your mind on everyday things, hmm?" "Good modicine." "That's good advice." "Ad you take care of yourself..." "Graham." "[ Engine turns overr ]" "Man on TV:." "The footage you're watching was shot yesterday afternoon by a 34-year-old local cameraman in Bangalore a southern city of India." "it's the 18th reported crop sign found in that country in the last 72 hours." "Uncle Morrill, will you turn on the radio?" "Woman on radio:" "They are signs intended "to be seen from the sky" " "[ Radio turns off ]" "No radio either." "Just for a while." "[ Sighs ]" "[ Brakes squeak ]" "Book money?" "Sure." "Just one." "Bo back for pizza in 15." "Carl: it's just a bunch of crock" "They're trying to sell sodas." "it's plain and simple." "Beenn watchhing these reports since morning." "I have seenn 12 soda commercials so far -- 12!" "You have any books on extraterrestrials?" "Now, don't toll me you believe this horse manure." "As a matter of fact, I think we have one." "Came by mistake in a shipment -- decidod to keep it for the city people." "Last row, third book on the left, honey." "Man on radio:" "Why is no one saying the obvious?" "These are just copycats." "Someone somewhere does the first one..." "Woman:" "It was asthma medici ne, right, Father?" "For Morgan Hess." "Ad it's not "Father" anymore." "In less than an hour, a couple hundred people got the same brilliant idea, and here we are, on the verge of mass hysteria." "Can I ask you a favor, Father?" "I need to clear my conscience." "Will you listen to me?" "Tracey..." "I am not a reverend anymore." "I haven't been for six months." "You know this." "[ Voice breaking ] All this stuff on TV -- two girls came in here talking about the end of the world " "I'm just a little scared." "[ Sniffles ]" "Please, I need to clear my conscience." "I've got it figured." "You do?" "I've had two soparate folks toll me there have been strangers around these parts last couple nights." "Can't toll what they look like 'causo they're staying in the shadows -- covertlike." "Nobody's been hurt, mind you." "Ad that's the giveaway." "I seen." "it's called "probing."" "it's a military procedu re." "You sond out a reconnaissance group -- very small -- to check things out." "Not to engage but to evaluato the situation -- evaluato the level of danger, make sure things are all clear." "Clear for what?" "For the rect of them." "Yeah?" "You got a pamphlot or somothing I can read?" "Sure." "Thanks." "You didn't used to play basebal l, did ya?" "Shit, I know you." "You're Morrill Hess." "I was there the day you hit that 507-foote r overr the left-field wall -- set the record." "Man, that thing had a motor on it." "It's still the record, right?" "Got the bat at home o-on the wall." "You've got two minor-league home-run records, don't ya?" "Five." "Why weren't you in the pros making stacks of cash and getting your toes licked by boautiful women?" "'Cause he has another record most people don't know about." "He has the minor-league strikeout record." "Hello, Lionel." "Morrill's a clclass-A screw-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 tree." "Morrill here has more strikeouts than any two players." "You really got the strikeout record?" "felt wrong not to swing." "It's contaminated." "Carl, there's somothing wrong with our water." "Your water's fine." "Bo has this thing about her drinking water." "She had it her whole life." "It's like a tick people have, except it's not a tick." "is that right?" "[ Pounds table ] Carl: 13!" "## Don't give me that so-so-soda ##" "## That same old cola ## ## l wanna pop ##" " "## Pop, pop" l wanna..." "Shasta ## -- l'll take it." "Tracey:." "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're a douche bag for kissing Barbara"?" "It's a curse." "Then it's not 37." "It's 71." "Pharmacy crowdod?" "I don't want any one of you spending time with Tracey Abernathy alone." "is that understood?" "[ Breathes deeply ]" "is that him?" "Yeah." "[ Car door closes, engine turns overr ]" "Who is he?" "[ Tires squeal ]" "[ Insects chirping ]" "[ Car approaches ]" "[ Brakes squeak ]" "[ Brakes squeak ]" "[ Static ]" "Merrill:" "What is it?" "Graham:" "it's Bo's baby monitor." "I found it in the basement." "I'm gonna uso it as a walkie-talkie." "[ Droning ]" "What if it's catchhing a signal from them?" "It's not." "But it wasn't working." "Morgan, this crop stuff is about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend in their lives." "They're, like, 30, and they work up little oodes togother, and they analyze Greek mythology and make up secrot socioties where other guys who never had girlfriends before can join in." "They do stupid crap like this to feel speoial." "It's a scam." "Nerds were doing it 25 years ago, and now nerds are doing it again." "It's just static, Morgan, all right." "Turn it up." "See." "[ Volume increases ]" "[ Droning continues ]" "It's a oode." "Why can't they got girlfriends?" "Can I seen that, please?" "[ Static, droning continue ]" "It's noiso." "It's broken, Morgan." "It's just gonna keep doing this." "Maybe some now batteries..." "We might lose the signal." "This is exactly what the nerds want." "I'm getting out now." "[ Droning continues, volume increases ]" "Nobody mover." "Voices." "Did you hear that?" "Not English, though." "You heard the voices, right, Uncle Morrill?" "I heard them, Morgan." "[ Droning ]" "Probably picking up another baby monitor." "That's right." "[ Pitch fluotuates ]" "Let me seen it." "[ High-pitchod droning ]" "Stop!" "[ Warbling ]" "[ Volume decreases ]" "See, this is why we're not watchhing TV." "People got obsessed." "I'm letting go now." "Bo:" "No, Dad!" "Morgan:" "Don't do it!" "You'll lose the signal." "Don't lot go." "It gets clearer the higher you hold it." "Merrill:" "I got it." "Bo, honey, I don't want you climbing on the car." "Come here." "[ Volume increases ]" "[ Panting ]" "[ Droning, trilling ]" "Stop!" "There's two of them talking." "[ Droning, trilling ]" "[ Static ]" "[ Sighs ]" "[ Boll clanging ] [ Isabel barks, whines ]" "[ Barking continues ]" "[ Barking ]" " [ Snarls ] -- "[ Gasps ]"" "[ Barking continnues ]" "[ Chain rattling ]" "[ Whining ] Isabel, you're gonna feel very silly when this turns out to be all just make-believe." "[ Whining continnues ]" "[ Whining continnues ]" "[ Creaks ]" "[ Barking continnues ]" " "[ Trilling ]" -- [ Gasps ]" "[ Breathing heavily ]" "[ Echoing ] You're wasting your time here!" "I'm not gonna report this or anything you do to my crops to the nows or TV or anybody!" "You're not going to got famous!" "[ Trilling ]" "[ Gasps ]" "[ Breathing heavily ]" "[ Corn stalks rustling ]" "[ Trills ]" "[ Gasps ]" "[ Panting ]" "[ Dishes clanking, water splashing ]" "[ Giggling ]" "[ Sighs deeply ]" "Okay." "Let's turn on the TV." "[ Clicks, tolovision humming ]" "Man on TV:." "It first appeared 52 minutes ago." "Mexico City officials as well as U.S. officials have confirmed that these are not aircraft from either governmen t's air force." "The first sighting was made by an Air Mexico 747 en route from Mazatlán to New York as the unidentified crafts entered Mexico City air space." "They were not detected by radar by either country." "[ Siren walls on TV ] " " The nerds were right." "We have to tape this." "My ballot recital." "Liston, Bo, this is very important." "Everything people have written about in science books is going to change." "The history of the world's future is on the TV right now." "We need to record this so you can show "your" children this tape and say you were there." "For your children, Bo." "My ballot recital." "Dad!" "Find another tape." "[ Videotape clattering ]" "[ Siren continues ]" "Uncle Morrill, I'm using your tape." "Man on TV:." "You are seeing a live feed from our affiliate down here in Mexico City." "This image has not been adjusted or enhanced in any way." "What you're seeing is real." "it's unbelievable." " [ Wheezing ] -- "Everyth ing they wrote" in science books is about to change I told you." "[ Alr hisses ] -- [ inhales deeply ]" "Some people are 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 pretend to be like you used to be?" "[ Exhales sharply ] Give me some comfort." "People break down into two groups when they experience somothing lucky." "Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence." "They seen it as a sign -- ovidence that there is somoone up there watchhing out for them." "Group number two sees it as just pure luck, a happy turn of chance." "I'm sure the people in group number two are 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 feel that whatever happens, they're on their own." "Ad that fills them with fear." "Yeah, there are those people." "But there's a whole lot of people in the group number one." "When they seen those 14 lights, they're looking at a miracle." "Ad deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there'll be somoone there to help them." "Ad that fills them with hope." "See, what you have to ask yourself is, what kind of person are you?" "Are you the kind who sees signs, sees miracles?" "Or do you helieve that people just got lucky?" "Or look at the question "this way" -- is it possible that there are no coincidences?" "I was at this party once." "I'm on the couch with Randa MoKinney." "[ Clicks tongue ]" "[ Exhales sharply ] She was just sitting there looking boautiful, staring at me." "I go to lean in and kiss her..." "[ Laughing ] and I realize I have gum in my mouth." "So I turn, take out the gum, stuff it in a paper cup next to the sofa, and turn around." "Randa MoKinney throws up all overr herself." "[ Chuckles softly ] I know the second it happenod it was a miracle." "I could have been kissing her when she throw up." "That would have scarred me for life." "I may never have recove rod." "[ Laughs ] I'm a miracle man." "Those lights are a miracle." "There you go." "So, which type are you?" "Do you feel comforted?" "Yeah, I do." "Then what does it matter?" "I never told you the last words that Colleen said before they lot her die." "She said, "See."" "Then her eyes glazed a bit." "And then she said, "Swing away."" "You know why she said that?" "Becauso the nerve endings in her brain were firing as she diod, and some random memory of us at one of your baseball games just popped into her head." "There is no one watchhing out for us, Morrill." "We are all on our own." "[ Siren walls ]" "[ Keys jingle, engine turns off ]" "What do you know?" "Well, there was an accident -- drunk driving, they weren't sure " "He wasn't drunk." "Ray foil asleep at the wheel." " ls 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." "[ Floorboards squeak ]" "For the kids' protection." "All they were doing was watchhing TV from 5:00 a.m." "I foIt like they were getting obsessed, like you said." "They should be playing furry, furry, rabbit or tea party or somothing." "What's furry, furry, rabbit?" "It's a game, isn't it?" "Anyways, they closed the schools." "Ad there's been some interecting developments." "What time is it?" "11:00 a.m." "They're gone, but they're not really gone." "We just can't seen them." "Early this morning, a bird flow into the area where the lights were hoverring last night." "It stopped dead in the air and foil straight down." "They caught it on tape." "They've been playing it all morning." "The footag e looks like the bird flow into a wall in the sky." "They found the bird." "His -- his head was crushod in." "They think they have some kind of invisible-shield thing going, l-like an optical illusion." "They're still there, hoveri ng." "Some people think there's more of them now..." "All overr the place, overr us, even." "There's a thoory about the c-- the crop circles." "They could be some kind of -- some kind of landmark, visual mapping system so they could navigato, coordinato -- makes sonso." "[ Wind chimes tinkling ]" "Morgan:" "Want to hear a story?" "Bo:" "Is it true?" "So the aliens can't read our minds." "Oh." "Oh, of course." "They toll you everything in this book." "It says they're probably very small, like my height, becauso as their brains develop, there was no uso for physical development." "It also says they're probably vegetarians becauso they would have realized the benefits of such a diot." "Who wrote this book?" "Scientists who have been persecuted for their beliefs." "That means they're unemployed." "If you're gonna make fun of it, then forgot it." "This is sorious." "I don't know what got into me." "There are piotures." "Dr. Bimbu, one of the authors of the book -- " " Bimbu?" "" " Dad." "I just asked his name." "You had a tone." "He said there are two reasons why extraterrestrials would visit us -- to make contact in the spirit of exploration and furthering the knowlodge of the universe, or the other reason -- they're hostile." "They've used up all the resources on their planot, and they're looking to harvest our planot next." "Here." "Looks a little like our house, doesn't it?" "Same windows." "That's weird." "[ Telephone rings ]" " [ Gasps ] -- [ Gasps ]" "Yeah, oh, yeah." "That's enough from Dr. Bimbu for now." "Everybody in this houso needs to calm down and eat some fruit or somothing." "[ Ringing continues ]" "Hello?" "Man:" "Father?" "Hello?" "[ Pulsating tone ]" "[ Footste ps approach ]" "[ Door hinges creak ] I'm going out for a few minutes." "No one leaves this houso -- no one." "Merrill:" "Where you going?" "[ Keys jingle ] " " Ray Reddy's houso." "Why?" "I think he just callod here." "[ Door opens, slams ]" "Bo:" "You don't think someth ing bad will happen, do you, Morgan?" "Why?" "You have one of your feelings again?" "is it bad?" "I won't lot anything bad happen to you." "I don't want you to die." "Who said I was gonna die?" "Who said I was gonna die?" "[ Knock on door ] [ Insects chirping ]" "[ Insects chirping, door hinges creak ]" "[ Creaking ]" "[ Pulsating tone ]" "Hello, Ray." "What happenod?" "I wrote your number down to call you." "It's been sitting next to the phone for 6 months." "When I know it was inside the houso... I couldn't think of any other number to call." "I panicked." "Thank you for coming, Father." "You're welcome, Ray." "I worked so long that night." "I've never fallen asleep driving before... never since." "Don't." "Most of the ride home, there wasn't a car in sight in either direction." "If I'd have fallen asleep then, I would have ended up in a ditch with a headache." "And it had to be at that "right momen t" -- 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 screwed, right?" "People who kill reverends' wives aren't exactly usherod to the front of the line in Heaven." "[ Keys jingle ]" "[ Engine turns overr ]" "Wh" " Where are you going, Ray?" "To the lake." "The way I seen it... these places marked in crops and such -- none of them are really near water." "I don't think they like water." "Can't be any worse than here." "Did you seen somothing, Ray?" "I know what I've done to you." "I made you quostion your faith." "I'm truly sorry, for what I've done to you and yours." "[ Sighs deeply ]" "All right." "Ad don't open my pantry, Father." "I found one of them in there and locked him in." "[ Tires spin ]" "Woman on TV:." "The startling footage we're about to show you was photographed by a 42-year-old, Romero Valadarez." "This video was taken yesterday afternoon at his son's 7th birthday in the city of Passo Fundo, Brazil." "It was sent to the local news bureau there and sent to us via satellite just a few minutes ago." "All initial opinions are this is genuine." "What you're about to seen may disturb you." "[ Children shouti ng indistinctly in Portuguese ]" "[ Dogs barking ]" "Move, children!" "Vámanos!" "[ Shouting continues ]" "[ Shouting intensifies ]" "Oh!" "[ Shouting continues ]" "[ Tape rowlnds ]" "[ Shouts in Portuguese ]" "[ Rustling, wind whistling ]" "[ Rustling stops ]" "Hello?" "The police are here." "I am with them." "I am a police officer." "I just want to talk with you." "We know all about the hoax." "We already took some of your friends downtown in a paddy wagon." "Just toll us your name and why you did it, and we'll give you the same deal we gave the others." "Don't throw your life away, son." "[ Sighs ]" "[ Knife scrapos ]" "[ Grunts ]" "[ Scrapos ]" "Oh!" "Ah!" "Oh!" "[ Both scream ]" "[ Birds chirping ]" "[ Dead bolt clicks ]" "Their skin changes colors." "That's why we couldn't seen them that night." "Tell me somothing, Morgan." "Uh...in this book of yours... did they happen to detail what would happen if they were hostile?" "Yes." "It said they would probably invade." "They would uso ground tactics -- hand-to-hand combat." "They wouldn't uso our technology or fight an airborne battle 'causo they know eventually we would uso nuclear weapons." "Then the planot would be usoless to them." "How could anyone possibly know that information?" "it's ridiculous." "What else did it say?" "They said there are one of two outcomes of an invasion." "One, they fight and are defeated and have to roturn again with full forces hundrods, maybe even thousands, of years lator." "What's two?" "They win." "I'm sorry, what -- what book is this?" "is this really happening?" "[ Sighs ] I heard a thoory that, uh, they don't like places near water." "Maybe we'd be safe from them near a lake or somothing." "Sounds made-up." "I saw one of them at Ray Reddy's houso." "I can't be sure, but I got the distinct feeling he wanted to harm me." "So... we can choose to believe this lake idea, pack up, and go, or we can stay here, hide inside our home, wait it out." "We might be overrreact ing, but I'm willing to live with that." "Either way, at least we'll be togother." "All those in favor of the lake idea, ralso your hand." "Yeah." "All those in favor of home, ralso your hand." "Okay." "My vote counts as two." "That's bullshit!" "You're cheating!" "Morgan, calm down." "I got two votes becauso I represont two parents here." "We don't know anything yet." "We'll be safe here anyway." "I don't want to leave home." "This is where 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 favor of home, ralso your hand." "This is ridiculous." "You lose, 3-2." "[ Sighs deeply ]" "We're going to board up every window in this houso." "How do we know boards will do anything?" "Becauso they seenm to have trouble with pantry doors." "[ Sighs deeply ]" "[ Wind chimes tinkling ]" "[ Door hinges creak ]" "[ Corn stalks rustling ]" "[ Tinkling, rustling continue ]" "[ Soft thud ]" "[ Tinkling, rustling intensify ]" "Man on TV:." "The information we're receivi ng comes from our affiliates across the world." "[ Siren walls on TV, pounding ] Morgan:" "Dad, Uncle Merrill!" "Amman joins Nairobi, Beijing, and Jerusalem as the latest to confirm the appearance of lights." "There are lights in overr 274 cities." "They think it'll be 400 within the hour." "They're appearing at or within one mile of crop signs." "They "were" for navigation." "They made a map." "They're gonna be within a mile of us." "Dad?" "Yes?" "They think these are stagod immodiatoly preceding an attack maneuver." "I was wrong." "They're hostile." "[ Horns honk on TV ]" "It's like "War of the Worlds."" "Man on TV:." "Ground forces have been assembled in countries throughout the globe." "[ Clears throat ]" "Hundrods of thousands have flocked to tomples, synagogues, and churches." "[ lndistinot conversations, bell tolls ]" "God be with us all." "[ Machinery clanking, helicopters whirring on TV ]" "I'm going to got 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 lot anything happen to us, right?" "No way." "I wish you were my dad." "What did you say?" "Don't you "over" say anything like that again." "Ever." "[ Tinkling ]" "There's too many windows in the bedrooms." "We don't have enough boards." "We'll board up the bedroom doors." "Where are we gonna sleep?" "In the family 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 fact, Bo." "Spaghetti sounds great." "What do you want, Morgan?" "Anything?" "French toast... and mashod potatoes." "Now we're talking." "How about you, Morrill?" "Chicken toriyaki." "Good choice." "I'm going to have a chooseburger with bacon." "Extra bacon." "[ Chuckles ]" "What's the matter with everyone?" "Eat." "Maybe we should say a prayer." "No." "Why not?" "We're not saying a prayer." "Bo has a bad feeling." "I had a dream." "We aren't saying a prayer." "Eat!" "I hato you." "That's fine." "You lot Mom die." "Merrill:" "Morgan." "I am not wasting one more minute of my life on prayer." "Not one more minute." "Understood?" "[ Bo cries ]" "Now we are going to enjoy this meal." "No one can stop us from enjoying this meal, so enjoy it!" " [ Crying continues ] " " Stop crying!" "" " Graham..." " "Don't yell at her!"" "[ Crying continues ]" "All right, since you're all not gonna eat." "I'm gonna try some of everything." "[ Silverware bangs ]" "[ Sniffles ]" "[ Crying ]" "[ Static ]" "[ Droning, trilling ]" "[ "Off air" signal blaring ]" "It's happening." "[ Insects chirping ]" "[ Silence ]" "Graham, hurry,." "Did I ever toll you what everyone said when you were born, Bo?" "You came out of your mama, and you didn't even cry." "You just openod your eyes, and you looked around the room at everybody." "[ Chuckles ] Your eyes were so big and gorgoous." "All the ladies in the room just gasped." "I mean, they literally gasped." "Ad they go, "Oh, she's like an angel."" "Ad they said, "We've never seenn a baby so boautiful."" "Ad then...you know what happenod?" "They put you on the table to clean you up, and you looked up at me and you smilod." "They say babies that young can't smile." "You smilod." "Let's go down now." "[ Isabel barking in distance ]" "We forgot Isabel." "[ Barking continues ]" "[ Growling ]" "[ Whimpering ]" "[ Silence ]" "[ Wind chimes tinkling ]" "Should we turn off the lights?" "They already know we're here." "[ Footste ps ]" "[ Wind chimes tinkling ]" "[ Sighs ]" "[ Footste ps continue ]" "[ Loud thud ]" "[ Thud ]" "[ Clattering ]" "Dad..." "[ Rapid footste ps ]" "Do you know what happenod when you were born, Morgan?" "You came out, and your mama kept bleeding, so the doctors rushod you out of the room before I even had time to seen you." "[ Footste ps continue ]" "They're on the roof." "While they were fixing her up, all she kept asking about was you." "[ Crash ]" "They're in the houso." "I wanted your mama to seen you first becauso she had dreamod about you her whole life." "Then she got feeling 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 starod at each other for the longost time." "Ad then she said real soft," ""Hello, Morgan." "I'm your mama." "You look just how I dreamod."" "[ Breathes deeply ]" "[ Chuckles ]" "[ Clattering ]" "[ Rapid footste ps ]" "Merrill:" "The attic door." "Let's go." "Come on." "We forgot our foil helmets." "Have we got anything to wedge against the door knob?" "They'll read our minds." "You're scaring your sistor." "I'm already scarod." "[ Trilling ]" "Morrill." "I'm looking!" "They'll know our secrot thoughts." "I'm not ready." "Morrill!" "Got it!" "[ Light bulb shatters ] " " Dad!" "[ Thumping, clattering ]" "[ Coughs ]" "Where's Bo?" "I'm okay." "[ Footste ps, clattering ]" "[ Clicks, tuning, static ]" "What's happening out there?" "Graham:" "I can't even imagine." "I hope they're doing better than we are." "We don't even have helmets." "[ Pounding on door ]" "They're only making noises." "They're not trying to got in." "Why would they do that?" "They want our attention on the door?" "[ Pounding continues ]" "They're distracting us." "From what?" "The book says they're probably very good problem solvers." "They'll find a way in." "[ Pounding continues ]" "Morgan, give me your flashlight." "They used to pour coal down in this basement." "There's a coal chute in here." "[ Pounding continues ]" "I can feel air." "Mo too!" "It's getting stronger." "I'm close." "[ Wind whistling ]" "What?" "Hold him!" "I got him!" "Hold him!" "I got him!" "Hold him!" "[ Rustling, clattering ]" "[ Panting ]" "[ Wheezing ]" "We don't have his modicine." "Don't be afraid, Morgan." "We'll slow this down togother." "Feel my chost." "Feel it moving in and out." "Breathe like me." "Breathe like me." "Come on." "I dreamod this." "Stay with me." "I know it hurts." "Bo strong, baby." "It'll pass." "It'll pass." "[ Wheezing continues ]" "Don't do this to me again." "Not again." "I hato you." "I "hate" you." "[ Panting ]" "The fear is feeding him," "Don't be aafraid of what's happeni ng." "Believe it's going to pass." "Believe it." "Just wait." "Don't be afraid." "The air is coming." "Believe." "We don't have to be afraid." "it's about to pass." "Here it comes." "Don't be afraid." "Here comes the air." "[ inhales deeply ]" "Don't be afraid, Morgan." "Feel my chost." "Breathe with me." "Togother." "The air is going in our lungs." "[ Exhales deeply ] Togother." "[ Exhales deeply ] We're the same." "[ Voice breaking ] We're the same." "[ Exhales deeply ]" "We should save the flashlights." "[ Clicks ]" "[ Clicks ]" "[ Clicks ]" "[ Sirens wailing ]" "Caroline:" "Ray's truck swerved off the road and hit Colleen and then a tree, and she was pinnod betwee n the two." "What does that mean -- pinnod?" "The truck -- the truck has severod most of her lower half." "What did you say?" "She won't be saved." "Her body is pinnod in such a way that it's alive when it shouldn't be alive, and the truck is holding her togother." "Ad she doesn't feel much, and she's -- she's talking almost like normal, and we didn't pull the truck out 'causo we -- we wanted you to come down here and be with her as long as she's awake." "Ad 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 wife?" "Yes, it is." "[ lndistinot radio conversation ]" "Man on radio:" "People think they cameraman here to take over the planet." "That's bull." "I don't think that." "My friend and I saw them." "[ Static ] -- l found a pack of light bulbs." "They poisoned his family." "They dragged them away." "[ Static ]" "Nobody helieves it, but they didn't comes here for our planet." "This is a raid." "They cameraman here for us, to harvest us." "[ Static ]" "We're lucky?" "as hell they're leaving here." "They're leaving?" "That's what they're saying." "[ Static ]" "How long have we been sleeping?" "12 hours or so." "[ Radio turns off ]" "He said they had poison gas... they secrete in small amounts." "A lot of people diod." "But they're leaving." "They left real fast this morning, like someth ing scared them off." "They left some of their wounded behind." "Why are they going?" "People must have figured out a way to beat them." "Everyone has a weakness, right?" "You didn't think we'd make it through the night, did you?" "No." "Liston... there'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 faith in things." "I saw your eyes last night." "I don't want to ever seen your eyes like that again." "Okay?" "I'm sorious." "Okay." "[ Wheezes ]" "He's been like that for a while." "He needs his modicine." "Have they said anything about our area?" "Philadelphia and its outlying counties are clearod... but who knows for sure?" "He's not strong enough." "If he has another attack right now -- l know." "We'd have to be sure before we openod up that door, Graham." "[ Clicks ]" "[ Static ]" "[ Sighs ]" "It's good enough for me." "Mo too." "[ Clanging ]" "[ Hinges creak ]" "[ lndistinot tolovision conversation ]" "Got the syringes' well." "We may need to give him an epinephrine shot." "Man on TV:." "The atmosphere here is cautiously optimistic." " "People are celebra ting." " " They're doing this on TV." "There's a great sense of relief." " "They're dancing." " " Yeah, like this." "As we begin evalua ting the loss of life," " "Do you want to see it?" -- "We will be left with" a lot of questions." " l'll bring the TV in here." " "l see the same expression" on every face." "We know the battle turned around in the Middle East." "Three small cities there found a primitive method to defeat them." "We have no further details at this time." "[ TV turns off ]" "[ Trilling ]" "Morrill, wait." "[ Growls, trills ]" "[ Wheezing ]" "[ Growling ]" "[ Trilling ]" "[ Weakly ] Hi, sweet ie." "Hi, baby." "I was... just taking a walk before dinner." "You lover walks." "It was meant to be." "Does it hurt?" "I don't feel much." "Good." "[ Voice breaking ] Tell Morgan... to play games." "It's okay to be silly." "[ Voice breaki ng ] I will." "Tell Bo to liston to her brother." "He'll always take care of her." "I will." "Ad toll Graham -- l'm here." "Tell him... seen." "Tell him to seen." "Ad toll Morrill to swing away." "See, what you have to ask yourself is, what kind of person are you?" "Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles?" "Or do you helieve that people just got lucky?" "Is it possible..." "there are no coincidences?" "[ Hisses ]" "[ Trilling ]" "Swing away, Morrill." "Morrill... swing away." "Ahhhhhhhhh!" "[ Groans ]" "[ Growls ]" "[ Grunts ]" "[ Alien growls ]" "[ Trills ]" "[ Sizzling ]" "[ Growls ]" "[ Trilling ]" "[ Growls ]" "[ Hisses ]" "Ahhhh!" "[ Sizzling ]" "[ Wheezing ]" "[ Silence ]" "Graham:" "That's why he had asthma." "[ Breathing heavily ]" "It can't be luck." "His lungs were closed." "His lungs were closed." "No poison got in." "No poison got in." "His lungs were closed." "His lungs were 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." "Morgan:" "Dad?" "What happened?" "[ Gasps ]" "Did somoone save me?" "[ Sobs ]" "Yeah, baby, I think somoone did." "[ Giggling, indistinot conversation ]" "[ Instrumental music playing ]" "[ Music ends ]"