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People ask, where do you get your ideas?

Right here.

All this is my magician's toy shop.

I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is...

Wow.

Fresh coffee's on. I'm off half an hour late already.

Is that a problem?

Hope not. Think I cracked what they want.

Lucky you.

Back about five.

Happy Saturday.

be some game plan.

Kevin, Meg, what's going on?

What's the name of the game ever?

I'm taking these.

Hey. Okay.

Well. Hey.

What's the name of the game?

What's with them?

Dumb kids.

Who cares?

What do you want?

Want a hand?

No. You just make fun of us. Come on, Joel. Let's get out of here.

What's under there?

I won't tell.

Yes, you would. All you big guys.

And you'd laugh and spoil the invasion. The invasion?

Fine, Connor. Stay at the baby.

Skyway News, noon.

The World Peace Conference has confirmed that as of the beginning of this month,

no nuclear weapons are in the possession of any nation.

EMD, Earth Mutual Defense, now holds all weapons of mass destruction.

In related developments at the nation's capital

today...

Electro -laser oblong.

Rhombus.

How do you spell that?

R.

A gony hexagonal? What's a hexagonal?

Hey, I thought I gave you five minutes.

That's a hexagon, right?

Yes, good.

Hey, what's the rush?

Jill's waiting for me. Who's Jill? What a peculiar name.

You don't know him. Was he a new boy in the neighborhood?

He's new, all right.

Sit back down.

There's hot soup coming.

Hurry, Mom. It's the matter of life and death.

I know.

I was your age once.

Everything was life and death.

Slow down.

Can't. Drill's waiting for me. Who is this Drill?

You don't really want to know. He'd laugh and spoil the invasion.

Who's invading what?

Martians invading Earth.

Well, not exactly Martians.

They're from up and... Inside.

See? You're laughing. You'll kill Drill and everybody.

Oh, no. I wouldn't want to do that.

So tell me, is Drill a Martian?

Not exactly.

He's from maybe Jupiter or Saturn or Venus.

Anyway, he's had a hard time.

Well, I imagine he has.

He couldn't figure a way to attack Earth.

We're impregnable. That's the word Drill used.

Impregnable. That's a big word.

Must be a very brilliant little boy.

He is.

Drill says you've got to surprise people. That way you win. And also, you

help from your enemy.

The fifth column.

Drill said that, too.

Find a way to surprise.

Earth. And?

Then one day, they thought of us.

Us? Kids!

And how grown -ups are so busy, they never look under bushes, hedges, or

anything. Except for snails and fungus.

And then there's something about dim -dim.

Dim -dim?

Dimens... Dimens... Dimens... Dimensions?

Drill says, I'm listening about kids under nine and imagination.

It's real funny to hear Drill talk.

Well, I think that Drill must be waiting for you.

And that you should put that down, finish your soup, and then get this

over with. And then, young lady, you're due upstairs for a bath.

Bath? Drill says from now on, no bath.

He does, does he?

He told all the kids that.

until 10 and watch TV all day.

Well, you tell Drill that if he doesn't mind his P's and Q's, I'm going to be

calling his mother.

Drill says you're dangerous, you and Dad.

Know why?

Because you don't believe in Martians.

They're going to let us run the world.

Mink, that's enough.

I'm going to send you to your room.

Okay, okay.

Logic? Well, I suppose logic is knowing when things are true or not true.

Drew mentioned that.

And what's impressionable?

Why, it's being a child, Mink.

I wish you believed in Martian. Mink?

Don't worry.

You won't be hurt much.

Gee, thanks.

We'll kill you first.

Yeah. You and whose army, squirt? Me and Drill's army.

Who's Drill? I'm not telling you.

Because you don't believe in him.

You're snooty because you're growing up. And you think you know better.

But you don't.

We do.

Come zero hour, you'll be dead.

Come on, Joe.

Let him play this stupid game.

There are things on the West Coast.

And hello to you, too.

I'm fine.

You're not.

Sorry, sis.

Just job deadline.

And mink super invasion. And the combination.

You should try it sometime.

No way.

The kids alone are quite enough for me.

Crazier every day.

Peace and quiet.

What I do, just shut your ears. Only defense.

Hiya, Jimmy.

How's it going?

Father, can't you marry?

Mom, this is a hexagon, right?

Yeah. What are you doing with a cheese grater?

Drill. Needs it.

Drill? Who on earth is drill?

Drill.

What do they come up with next?

Well, whoever this drill is, he better stay out of my path.

He's turned my yard into a garage sale.

Same with Josephine in Chicago.

Her place is a mess, too.

Because her kids are wild about some new game.

Mayor?

Earth to Mary Morris.

Huh?

Helen, I'm sorry. I was just thinking.

About what?

Look, I'll call you later. Hey, wait a minute.

all of a sudden. Mink, did you make her cry?

Now you give me a civil answer, young lady, or inside you come.

I can't quit now.

It's almost time.

Time? Zero hours, five o 'clock. Get ready.

I want to know what made her scream and run away.

I told you, she's a scaredy -pan.

What's going on back here?

I already told you. Didn't you listen?

Drew's stuck halfway.

If only we could get him all the way through.

It'd be easier.

Then all the others could come through after him. Others?

What are you talking about others? You go inside the house right now.

of this you better be inside the house when your father comes home do you hear

me young lady

Hi, Joe.

Eddie. Hi, Mr. Morris.

Hey, Mink, is that you?

Shh.

Hide and seek, huh?

They love and hate us all in half a second.

Children, do you think they ever really forgive us?

For what?

Words of command.

Rules.

Failure to understand.

Closing our ears.

They must think that we're... out of touch, tall,

silly dictators.

You have had a bad day.

Do you hear anything?

Something in the kitchen?

You don't suppose they have something electrical out there, do you?

Electrical? For hiding things?

What?

Tell them to stop.

Stop what?

the invasion.

What?

No zero hour.

Zero hour?

No, ma 'am.

No zero hour.

Mary, the kids are playing hide and seek.

No. Quick.

and watch them and listen to them drill zero hour make the kids are

you sure that it's locked yes it's locked

How can we? You threw the damn key away.

I did.

I did.

Oh, okay.

Don't leave me.

I'm only going six feet. You're crazy.

I'm not crazy.

It's dark over there. Please stay here.

I can't know where to go.

Now find us.

Damn! Shh!

I don't give a damn!

Do you hear that?

That's Helen.

That's Helen calling.

You know what she's calling about?

She's calling about that.

That is happening in her house, too.

Helen!

Coming into our house.

Hey, who's trapping around down there?

I want them to.

Hey!