Signs

HE GASPS

DISTANT SCREAM

DISTANT SCREAM

BIRDS SCREECH IN DISTANCE

Where are they?

BOY: Dad!

Uncle Merrill!

GIRL: Dad!

Morgan?!

BIRDS SCREECH

INSECTS BUZZ

Bo... Bo, Bo, where's Morgan?

Bo?

Are you in my dream, too?

This is not a dr...

MORGAN: Dad!

Morgan, what's happening?

The dogs were barking. It woke us up.

Are you hurt?

I think God did it.

Did what, Morgan?

DOGS BARK IN DISTANCE

BARKING GETS LOUDER

Look, Lee, I don't even care if it was him.

You could 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 it'd sure take the strangeness away

if I knew it was just Lionel and the Wolfington brothers

messing around, that's all.

At the movies.

Are you sure?

All right, then.

Thanks for your patience, Lee.

Yeah, bye.

Houdini peed.

I think he's sick.

Why don't you take him outside?

I'll call Dr Crawford.

He doesn't treat animals.

He'll know what to do.

DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS

Oh, that was quick, Caroline.

I only called you folks two hours ago.

Old Mrs Kindleman twisted her ankle

as she puts it, "diving for her life"

when a bunch of schoolkids rode down the sidewalk

on skateboards.

She went down to Thorton's store this mornin'

and started spittin' on the new skateboards.

Spittin'!

By the time I got there

Mrs Kindleman had sprayed the whole damn place.

And she must have had a cold or something.

I'm telling you, I won't eat for a week.

SHE SIGHS

So, what happened to your crops?

Dad's going to 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.

Besides, he licks his butt every day.

I don't think he'll mind.

HE BARKS FEROCIOUSLY

HE SNARLS

Houdini?

Bo, don't run.

What's wrong, boy?

Stop it, Houdini.

HE BARKS AND SNARLS

CAROLINE: Look at where it's bent over, Father.

It's not broken.

And what kind of machine can bend a stalk of corn over

without breaking it?

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 else around here

has had any problems.

I was over Theo Henry's farm yesterday afternoon

and he would've mentioned something.

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 edgy.

They're on alert.

It's almost like they act when they smell a predator around,

peeing on themselves and everything.

BIRDS CAW

Caroline?

Please stop calling me "Father".

What's wrong?

I don't hear my children.

He fell on me.

He wanted to kill Bo.

Did he hurt you?

No.

I'm so sorry, Morgan.

Where were you?

Houdini's sick.

Tie Isabelle up to the back of the shed

and make sure the knot's very tight.

INSECTS CHIRP

CHIRPING STOPS

What's the matter?

There'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.

HE SIGHS

MORGAN GRUNTS SOFTLY

What are you thinking about?

Why do you talk to Mom when you're by yourself?

It makes me feel better.

Does she ever answer back?

No.

She never answers me, either.

What?

Lionel Prichard and the Wolfington brothers are back.

It's time for an ass-whoopin'.

This is not an intelligent way to approach this.

Lee is a friend of mine. This is his son.

We'll be doing Lee a favour.

Listen, we both go outside,

move around the house in opposite directions.

We act crazy, insane with anger

and make them crap in their pants,

force them around till we meet up

on the other side.

Explain "act crazy".

Curse and stuff.

You want me to curse?

You don't mean it. It's just for show.

What?

It won't be convincing. It doesn't sound natural when I curse.

Just make noises then.

Explain "noises".

Are you going to do this or what?

No, I'm not.

All right, you want them stealing something

in the house next time?

On the count of three.

One...

two, three!

Aargh! I'm insane with anger!

We're going to beat your ass, bitch!

CLATTERING

We're going to tear your head off!

I'm losing my mind!

It's time for an ass-whooping!

THEY PANT

I cursed.

I heard.

CLATTERING

How did he get...?

FOOTSTEPS

Are you sure this is Lionel Prichard?

< CLATTERING

SWING CREAKS

RUSTLING

CAROLINE: You like that?

You got an old baby monitor around?

Bo had an old baby monitor.

Well, you can use Bo's baby monitor

as a walkie-talkie.

You can?

It only works one way, but it'll do fine.

That is, until someone gets you

an old walkie-talkie left over at the station.

TV BLARES

Hey, Bo?

Turn that down till Officer Paski leaves.

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 amoebas in it.

So, how are you, Merrill?

Fine.

How is work at the gas station?

Stimulating.

I never got a chance to tell you

but I thought you 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.

OK, 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 whether to look for a giant or a midget.

Well, he definitely wasn't a midget.

OK.

So, he was tall.

I-I would say so, yes.

Probably.

CAROLINE: Over six feet?

It was very dark.

Yes, it was.

How certain are you that this was a male?

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.

Our roof is ten feet 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're making a point here

but I just don't know what it is.

An out-of-town woman stopped by the diner yesterday afternoon

and started yellin' and cussin' because they didn't have

her favourite cigarettes at the vending machine.

She scared 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, where's the remote?

I don't know, baby.

Why don't you check in the sofa cushions?

Excluding the possibility that a female 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 appreciate sarcasm.

Do you two have anyone

who might have a grudge or something against you?

Maybe a-a church member

who might not've liked the fact that you left the church?

I don't think so.

OK, I was out of line

with the whole female Scandinavian Olympian thing.

It's just... I'm pretty strong

and I'm pretty fast

and I was running as fast 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 television?

I did.

And?

The same show is on every station.

Every station?

GRAHAM: Bo, turn up the volume.

'Crop signs first emerged in the late '70s

'with renewed interest in extraterrestrial life.

'They died out by the early '80s, dismissed as hoaxes.

'This new resurgence is wholly different.

'The speed and the quantity in which it has appeared

'implies the coordination of hundreds of individuals

'over many countries.

'There are only a limited number of explanations.

'Either this is one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever created

'or basically...

'..it's for real.'

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 overnight

using just boards and ropes.

Really?

That's how these things have been done in the past.

But there's so many now.

How could so many people be in on it?

I can't think straight.

I'm going to go back to the station

and have a cup of Edgar's coffee

and try to think clear.

After that, I might make some calls.

But I'll tell you somethin'.

What I said in there, it still goes.

Your family has been through a lot

and the last thing these children need to do

is worry about some crazy things happenin' in the world.

Now, take 'em into town and get their minds

and your mind on everyday things, hmm?

Good medicine.

That's good advice.

And you take care of yourself...

Graham.

TV REPORTER: '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 Merrill, will you turn on the radio?

REPORTER: 'They are signs intended to be seen from the sky...'

No radio, either.

Just for a while.

HE SIGHS

MORGAN: Book money?

Sure.

Just one.

Be back for pizza in 15.

MAN: It's just a bunch of crock.

They're trying to sell sodas. It's plain and simple.

Been watching these reports since morning.

I have seen 12 soda commercials so far - 12!

You have any books on extraterrestrials?

Don't tell me you believe this horse manure.

As a matter of fact, I think we have one.

It came by mistake in a shipment.

Decided to keep it for the city people.

Last row, third book on the left, honey.

RADIO: 'Why is no-one saying the obvious?

'These are just copycats.

'Someone, somewhere, does the first one...'

WOMAN: It was asthma medicine, right, Father?

For Morgan Hess.

And it's not "Father" anymore.

RADIO: 'In less than an hour

'a couple hundred people get the same brilliant idea

'and here we are - on the verge of mass hysteria...'

Can I ask you a favour, 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.

All this stuff on TV,

Joe Gills came in here talking about the end of the world.

I'm just a little scared.

Please, I need to clear my conscience.

MAN: I got it figured.

You do?

I've had two separate folks tell me there've been strangers

around these parts last couple nights.

Can't tell what they look like

cos they're staying in the shadows, covert-like.

Nobody's been hurt, mind you, and that's the giveaway.

I see.

It's called probing. It's a military procedure.

You send out a reconnaissance group -

very small, check things out.

Not to engage but to evaluate the situation.

Evaluate the level of danger.

Make sure things are all clear.

Clear for what?

For the rest of them.

Yeah.

You got a pamphlet or something I can read?

Sure.

Thanks.

You didn't used to play baseball, did you?

Shit, I know you. You're Merrill Hess!

I was there the day you hit that 507-footer

over 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 you?

Five.

Why aren't you in the pros, making stacks of cash

and getting your toes licked by beautiful women?

MAN: Cos he has another record

most people don't know about.

He has the minor league strikeout record.

Hello, Lionel.

Merrill's a Class 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.

Merrill here has more strikeouts

than any two players.

You really got the strikeout record?

It felt wrong not to swing.

It's contaminated.

Carl, there's something 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 tic people have, except it's not a tic.

Is that right?

CARL: Thirteen!

# Don't give me that so-so soda

# That same old cola... #

I'll take it.

TRACEY: I cursed 37 times last week.

I said the f-word a couple of times

but mostly...

"shit"s and...

"bastard"s.

Is "douche bag" a curse?

I suppose that would depend on its usage.

"John, you're a douche bag for kissing Barbara."

That's a curse.

Then it's not 37, it's 71.

Pharmacy crowded?

I don't want any one of you spending time

with Tracey Abernathy alone.

Is that understood?

HE SIGHS

Is that him?

Yeah.

Who is he?

INSECTS BUZZ

CAR APPROACHES

STATIC CRACKLES

MERRILL: What is it?

GRAHAM: It's Bo's baby monitor.

I found it in the basement.

I'm going to use it as a walkie-talkie.

What if it's catching 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 codes together

and they analyse Greek mythology

and make up secret societies

where other guys

who never had girlfriends before can join in.

They do stupid crap like this to feel special.

It's a scam.

Nerds were doing it 25 years ago.

New nerds are doing it again.

It's just static, Morgan.

Uh...turn it up, see.

ERRATIC CHIRPING

It's a code.

Why can't they get girlfriends?

Can I see that, please?

STATIC WHINES AND CRACKLES

HIGH-PITCHED WHINE

It's noise.

It's broken, Morgan.

It's just going to keep doing this.

Maybe some new batteries.

MORGAN: We might lose the signal.

This is exactly what the nerds want.

I'm getting out now.

STATIC GROWS LOUDER

MOANING

Nobody move.

MOANING

Voices. Did you hear that?

Not English, though.

You heard the voices, right, Uncle Merrill?

I heard them, Morgan.

CLICKING AND WHINING

Probably picking up another baby monitor.

That's right.

CLICKING

HIGH-PITCHED WHINE

Let me see it.

WHINING GROWS LOUDER It's them!

HOLLOW BEEPING AND HOWLING

See, this is why we're not watching TV.

People get obsessed.

I'm letting go now.

BO: No, Dad!

You'll lose the signal.

Don't let go.

It gets clearer the higher you hold it.

MERRILL: I got it.

Bo, honey, I don't want you climbing on the car.

Stop!

CHIRPING

There's two of them talking.

RAPID CHITTERING

CHITTERING STOPS, STATIC HISSES

MORGAN SIGHS

ISABELLE BARKS

ISABELLE WHINES

BARKING RESUMES

RUSTLING AND CHIRPING

ISABELLE BARKS AND WHIMPERS

Isabelle, you're going to feel very silly

when this turns out to be all just make-believe.

ISABELLE WHIMPERS

BARKING CONTINUES

CHITTERING

You're wasting your time here!

I'm not going to report this or anything you do to my crops

to the news or TV or anybody.

You're not going to get famous!

CHITTERING

HE BREATHES RAPIDLY

CORNSTALKS RUSTLE

OK...

Let's turn on the TV.

REPORTER: ...'First appeared 52 minutes ago.

'Mexico City officials as well as US officials have confirmed

'that these are not aircraft from either government's air force.

'The first sighting was made by an Air Mexico 747

'en route from Mazatlan to New York

'as the unidentified crafts entered Mexico City airspace.

'They were not detected by radar by either country.'

The nerds were right.

We have to tape this.

My ballet recital.

Listen, 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 ballet recital.

Dad...

Find another tape.

Uncle Merrill, I'm using your tape.

REPORTER: '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.

'Everything they wrote in science books is about to change.'

I told you.

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?

Give me some comfort?

People... break down into two groups

when they experience something lucky.

Group number one sees it as more than luck,

more than coincidence.

They see it as a sign -

evidence that there is someone up there watching out for them.

Group number two sees it as just pure 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, this situation is a 50/50.

It could be bad, it could be good...

but, deep down...

they feel that whatever happens

they're on their own,

and that fills them with fear.

Yeah, there are those people.

But there's a whole lot of people in group number one.

When they see those 14 lights...

they're looking at a miracle...

and deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen...

there will be someone there to help them...

and that fills them with hope.

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 believe that people just get lucky?

Or look at the question this way.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

WHISPERING: I was at this party once.

I'm on the couch with Randa Mckinney.

She was just sitting there,

looking beautiful, staring at me.

I go to lean in and kiss her

and I realise I have gum in my mouth.

So I turn, take out the gum,

stuff it in a paper cup next to the sofa,

and turn around.

Randa Mckinney throws up all over herself.

I knew, the second it happened, it was a miracle.

I could've been kissing her when she threw up.

That would've scarred me for life.

I may never have recovered.

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 let her die.

She said, "See."

Then her eyes glazed a bit.

And then she said, "Swing away."

You know why she said that?

Cos the nerve endings in her brain were firing as she died...

and some random memory of us

at one of your baseball games just popped into her head.

There is no-one watching out for us, Merrill.

We are all on our own.

What do you know?

There was an accident.

Drunk driving. They weren't sure.

He wasn't drunk. Ray fell asleep at the wheel.

Is he OK?

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 were doing was watching TV.

I felt like they were getting obsessed.

They should be playing "furry, furry rabbit"

or tea party or something.

What's "furry, furry rabbit"?

It's a game, isn't it?

Anyways, they closed the schools.

And there's been some interesting developments.

What time is it?

11am.

They're gone.

But they're not really gone.

We just can't see them.

Early this morning...

a bird flew into the area where the lights were hovering last night.

It stopped dead in the air and fell straight down.

They caught it on tape.

They've been playing it all morning.

The footage looks like the bird flew into a wall in the sky.

They found the bird. Its head was crushed in.

They think they have some kind of

invisible shielding, like an optical illusion.

They're still there...hovering.

Some people think there's more of them now

all over the place - over us, even.

There's a theory about the...the crop circles?

That they could be some kind of...

some kind of...landmark, visual...mapping system

so they could...navigate...

Coordinate.

Makes sense.

DISTANT SQUEAKING

< WHISPERING

CHILDREN WHISPER

So the aliens can't read our minds.

Oh.

Oh, of course.

They tell you everything in this book.

It says they're probably very small, like my height...

"because, as their brains developed,

"there was no use for physical development."

It also says they're probably vegetarians...

"because they would've realised the benefits of such a diet."

Who wrote this book?

Scientists who have been persecuted for their beliefs.

That means they're unemployed.

If you're going to make fun of it, then forget it.

This is serious.

I don't know what got into me.

There are pictures.

Dr Bimboo, one of the authors of the book...

- Bimboo? - 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 their knowledge of the universe

or, the other reason, they're hostile.

They've used up all the resources on their planet

and they're looking to harvest our planet next.

Here...

That looks a little like our house, doesn't it?

BO: Same windows.

MORGAN: That's weird.

PHONE RINGS

That's enough from Dr Bimboo for now.

Everybody in this house needs to calm down

and eat some fruit or something.

RINGING CONTINUES

Hello?

VOICE ON PHONE: Father?

SCRATCHING OVER PHONE Hello?

Hello.

DISCONNECTED LINE BEEPS

I'm going out for a few minutes.

No-one leaves this house. No-one.

MERRILL: Where are you going?

Ray Reddy's house.

Why?

I think he just called here.

BO: You don't think something bad will happen,

do you, Morgan?

Why?

You have one of your feelings again?

Is it bad?

I won't let anything bad happen to you.

I don't want you to die.

Who said I was going to die?

Who said I was going to die?

KNOCKING ON DOOR

DISCONNECTED LINE BEEPS

QUIETLY: Hello, Ray.

What happened?

I wrote your number down to call you.

It's been sitting next to the phone for six months.

When I knew it was inside the house...

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'd 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've 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 screwed, right?

People who kill Reverends' wives

aren't exactly ushered to the front of the line in Heaven.

ENGINE STARTS Wh-where are you going?

To the lake.

Way I see 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 see something, Ray?

I know what I've done to you.

I made you question your faith.

I'm truly sorry for what I've done to you and yours.

QUIETLY: All right.

And don't open my pantry, Father.

I found one of them in there and locked him in.

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 seventh 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 see may disturb you.'

CHILDREN SHOUTING ON TV

DOG BARKS

CHILDREN CONTINUE TO SHOUT

Move, children! Vamonos!

Esta atras de garagem!

Esta atras... It's behind!

CHILDREN SHRIEK

Oh!

SHRIEKING CONTINUES ON TV

Esta atras de garagem! Esta atras...

It's behind!

CHILDREN SHRIEKING ON TV

LIGHT SCUFFLING

Hello?

SCUFFLING STOPS

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 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 life away, son.

SILENCE

Aargh!

SCREAMS

SCREAM ECHOES

Their skin changes colours.

That's why we couldn't see them that night.

Tell me something, Morgan, er... in this book of yours...

did they happen to detail wh-what would happen

if they were hostile?

Yes.

It said they would probably invade.

They would use ground tactics, hand-to-hand combat.

They wouldn't use their technology

or fight an airborne battle

cos they know, eventually, we would use nuclear weapons

and then the planet would be useless to them.

GRAHAM: How could anyone know that?

That's ridiculous.

What else did it say?

They said there were one of two outcomes of an invasion.

One, they fight and are defeated

and have to return again with full forces

hundreds, maybe even thousands of years later.

What's two?

They win.

I'm sorry, what-what book is this?

Is this really happening?

I heard a theory that, er...

they don't like places near water.

Maybe we'd be safe from them

near a lake or something, but...

Sounds made-up.

I saw one of them at Ray Reddy's house.

I can't be sure, but I got the distinct feeling

it 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 overreacting, but I'm willing to live with that.

Either way, at least we'll be together.

All those in favour of the lake idea, raise your hand.

QUIETLY: Yeah.

All those in favour of home, raise your hand.

OK...

My vote counts as two.

That's bullshit! You're cheating!

Morgan, calm down.

I get two votes because I represent 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 favour of home, raise your hand.

This is ridiculous.

You lose - three to two.

We're 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.

REPORTER: 'The information we're receiving

'comes from our affiliates across the world.'

MORGAN: Dad! Uncle Merrill!

'Amman joins Nairobi, Beijing and Jerusalem

'as the latest to confirm the appearance of lights.'

There are lights in over 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 going to be within a mile of us.

MORGAN: Dad?

Yes?

They think these are stages

immediately preceding an attack manoeuvre.

I was wrong.

They're hostile.

It's like "War of the Worlds".

'Ground forces have been assembled

'in countries throughout the globe.'

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

'Hundreds of thousands have flocked

'to temples, synagogues and churches.'

BELL TOLLING ON TV

'God be with us all.'

HELICOPTER WHIRRING ON TV

I'm going to get back to the windows.

Hey, you guys OK?

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 were my dad.

What did you say?

Don't you ever say anything like that again - ever.

There's too many windows in the bedrooms.

We don't have enough boards.

We'll board up the bedroom doors.

MORGAN: Where are we gonna sleep?

In the family room.

What about Isabelle?

We'll tie her up in the garage after dinner.

I'll make some sandwiches.

BO: I want spaghetti.

We should eat fast, Bo.

Spaghetti sounds great.

What do you want, Morgan?

Anything?

French toast...

and mashed potatoes.

Now we're 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're not saying a prayer.

Bo has a bad feeling.

I had a dream.

We aren't saying a prayer.

Eat.

I hate you.

That's fine.

You let Mom die.

MERRILL: Morgan!

I am not wasting one more minute of my life on prayer.

Not one more minute.

Understood?

BO SOBS

Now, we are going to enjoy this meal.

No-one can stop us from enjoying this meal, so enjoy it!

Stop crying!

- Graham... - Don't yell at her!

BO SOBS LOUDER

All right, since you're all not going to eat

I'm going to try some of everything.

STATIC HISSES

HIGH-PITCHED TONE

It's happening.

CRICKETS CHIRP

CHIRPING STOPS

Graham, hurry!

Did I ever tell you what everyone said

when you were born, Bo?

You came out of your mama, and you didn't even cry.

You just opened your eyes

and you looked around the room at everybody.

HE CHUCKLES

Your eyes were so big and gorgeous

and 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 beautiful."

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.

ISABELLE BARKS OUTSIDE

MORGAN: We forgot Isabelle.

BARKING INTENSIFIES

WHINING AND SNARLING

WHIMPERING

WHIMPERING STOPS

SOFT SCRAPING

QUIETLY: Should we turn off the lights?

They already know we're here.

FOOTSTEPS

CHIMES TINKLE

FLOORBOARDS CREAK

FOOTSTEPS RUNNING

< BANG

BANG ON DOOR

RATTLING

QUIVERING: Dad?

FOOTSTEPS RUNNING

Do you know what happened when you were born, Morgan?

You came out and your mama kept bleeding

so the doctors rushed you out of the room

before I even had time to see you.

FOOTSTEPS THUD They're on the roof.

While they were fixing her up

all she kept asking about was you.

GLASS SMASHES

They're in the house.

I wanted your mama to see you first...

because she had dreamed about you her whole life.

And 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 stared at each other for the longest time.

And then she said, real soft...

"Hello, Morgan. I'm your mama.

"You look just how I dreamed."

CLATTERING AND SCRAPING

FOOTSTEPS RUNNING

MERRILL: The attic door.

Let's go. Come on.

We forgot our foil helmets.

Have we got anything to wedge against the doorknob?

MORGAN: They'll read our minds.

You're scaring your sister.

I'm already scared.

CHITTERING

Merrill.

I'm looking!

They know our secret thoughts.

I'm not ready.

Merrill!

Got it!

BO: Dad!

THUMPING ON DOOR

GRAHAM GRUNTS

THUMPING ON DOOR

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

Where's Bo?

I'm OK.

DISTANT BANGING

MUFFLED FOOTSTEPS

WEAK STATIC CRACKLES

What's happening out there?

GRAHAM: I can't even imagine.

MORGAN: I hope they're doing better than we are.

We don't even have helmets.

LOUD BANG

BANGING AND THUMPING

They're only making noises.

They're not trying to get in.

Why would they do that?

MERRILL: They want our attention on the door?

They're distracting us.

MERRILL: From what?

The book says they're probably very good problem solvers.

They'll find a way in.

BANGING CONTINUES

Morgan, give me your flashlight.

They used to pour coal down in this basement.

There's a coal chute in here.

GRAHAM: I can feel air.

MERRILL: Me, too!

It's getting stronger.

I'm close.

What?

HE GASPS

MERRILL: Pull him!

You got him?!

GRAHAM: I got him!

Pull him!

SCUFFLING

RUSTLING

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

MORGAN WHEEZES

We don't have his medicine.

Don't be afraid, Morgan.

We'll slow this down together.

Feel my chest.

Feel it moving in and out.

Breathe like me. Breathe like me.

I dreamed this.

Stay with me.

I know it hurts.

Be strong, baby.

It'll pass.

It'll pass.

LABOURED BREATHING

QUIETLY: Don't do this to me again.

Not again.

I hate you.

STIFLED SOB: I hate you...

LABOURED BREATHING CONTINUES

GRAHAM: The fear is feeding it.

Don't be afraid of what's happening.

Believe it's going to pass. Believe it.

Just wait.

Don't be afraid.

The air is coming.

Believe.

We don't have to be afraid.

It's about to pass.

Here it comes. Don't be afraid.

Here comes the air.

BREATHING SLOWS

Don't be afraid, Morgan.

Feel my chest.

Breathe with me. Together.

The air is going in our lungs.

GASPING: Together.

Together. We're the same.

VOICE BREAKING: We're the same.

We should save the flashlights.

CAROLINE: Ray's truck swerved off the road

and hit Colleen and then a tree.

And she was pinned between the two.

What does that mean, "pinned"?

The truck... the truck has severed

most of her 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.

Now, she doesn't feel much

and she-she's talking almost like normal.

Now, we didn't pull the truck out cos we...

we wanted you to come down here 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 going to talk with my wife?

Yes, it is.

MAN ON RADIO: 'People think they came here

'to take over the planet - that's bull.

'I don't think that.

'My friend and I saw them.'

I found a pack of lightbulbs.

MAN ON RADIO: 'They poisoned this family, they dragged them away.

'Nobody believes me

'but they didn't come here for our planet.

'This is a raid. They came here for us, to harvest us.'

WEAK STATIC CRACKLES

'We're lucky as hell they're leaving.'

They're leaving?

MERRILL: That's what they said.

How long have we been sleeping?

12 hours or so.

TURNS RADIO OFF

They said they had poison gas...

they secrete in small amounts.

A lot of people died.

But they're leaving.

They left real fast this morning.

Like something scared them off.

They left some of their wounded behind.

Why are they going?

People must have figured out a way to beat them.

Everyone has a weakness, right?

You didn't think we'd make it through the night, did you?

Listen... 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 see your eyes like that again, OK?

I'm serious.

OK.

RASPING BREATHING

He's been like that for a while.

He needs his medicine.

Have they said anything about our area?

Philadelphia and its outlying counties are cleared.

But who knows for sure?

He's not strong enough.

If he has another attack right now...

I know.

We'd have to be sure

before we opened up that door, Graham.

STATIC HISSES

- It's good enough for me. - Me, too.

LATCH CLANKS

TV PLAYS IN DISTANCE

Get the syringe, as well.

We may need to give him an epinephrine shot.

MAN ON TV: 'The atmosphere here is cautiously optimistic.'

They're doing this on TV.

They're dancing?

Yeah, like this.

'As we begin evaluating the loss of life...'

You want to see it?

I'll bring the TV in here.

'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.'

TURNS OFF TV

CHITTERING

WHISPERING: Merrill, wait!

SCREECHES AND CLICKS

MORGAN'S LABOURED BREATHING

ALIEN'S RASPY BREATHING

CHITTERING

Hi, sweetie.

Hi, baby.

WEAKLY: I was...just taking a walk before dinner.

You love walks.

It was meant to be.

Does it hurt?

I don't feel much.

Good.

CRYING: Tell Morgan...to play games.

It's OK to be silly.

VOICE BREAKING: I will.

Tell Bo to listen to her brother.

He'll always take care of her.

WHISPERS: I will.

And tell Graham...

I'm here.

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 are you?

Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles?

Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

Is it possible...

there are no coincidences?

LOW SNARL

HISSING AND CHITTERING

Swing away, Merrill.

Merrill...swing away.

VAPOUR HISSES

SHE SCREAMS

ALIEN SNARLS

MERRILL GRUNTS

ALIEN HISSES

BREATHING STOPS

GRAHAM: That's why he had asthma.

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.

VOICE BREAKING: Graham...

Give him a second.

- Daddy? - Don't touch him!

MERRILL: Graham...

Don't. Don't.

MORGAN: Dad?

What happened?

Did someone save me?

Yeah...baby, I think someone did.

DISTANT LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN

MERRILL TALKING IN DISTANCE

LAUGHTER CONTINUES

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