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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,653 --> 00:00:04,220 A century ago, 2 00:00:04,570 --> 00:00:06,802 these fields were the bloody arena 3 00:00:07,086 --> 00:00:11,469 for the most terrible conflict in human history 4 00:00:11,470 --> 00:00:15,769 In 1913, an alien invasion shook the world 5 00:00:15,770 --> 00:00:18,936 and hurled it into an unimaginable future. 6 00:00:18,937 --> 00:00:21,602 The next four years of ferocious combat 7 00:00:21,603 --> 00:00:26,070 has forever marked this ground as the land of the vanished. 8 00:00:31,570 --> 00:00:33,570 We were fighting monsters. 9 00:00:35,570 --> 00:00:38,070 There was life beyond our planet. 10 00:00:40,103 --> 00:00:42,102 It went completely against everything 11 00:00:42,103 --> 00:00:43,603 I'd been raised to believe. 12 00:00:46,737 --> 00:00:50,236 I'm standing feet away from this huge dome, 13 00:00:50,237 --> 00:00:53,737 the cockpit sticking out of the earth like a half-closed eye. 14 00:01:01,437 --> 00:01:04,437 No one had fought a war remotely like this one before. 15 00:01:08,303 --> 00:01:11,302 An entire generation of young men, 16 00:01:11,303 --> 00:01:13,303 all of them vanished. 17 00:01:16,270 --> 00:01:19,103 I'll never stop hating them for what they did. 18 00:01:36,637 --> 00:01:38,969 2013 is the hundredth 19 00:01:38,970 --> 00:01:42,470 anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Martian War... 20 00:01:45,470 --> 00:01:47,970 A conflict unequalled in devastation 21 00:01:52,070 --> 00:01:54,570 and often mired in controversy. 22 00:01:57,270 --> 00:02:00,002 But the lost legacy of a forgotten hero, 23 00:02:00,003 --> 00:02:02,669 unearthed only last year 24 00:02:02,670 --> 00:02:06,670 might just ignite the biggest controversy of all. 25 00:02:07,903 --> 00:02:09,402 My great grandfather, 26 00:02:09,403 --> 00:02:13,669 he died about nine years before I was even born. 27 00:02:13,670 --> 00:02:17,669 He was Anishinaabe man, traditional man, 28 00:02:17,670 --> 00:02:19,669 and he kept to himself, 29 00:02:19,670 --> 00:02:23,170 so I never really knew much about him at all. 30 00:02:24,970 --> 00:02:27,669 Lafonde's great grandfather Gus 31 00:02:27,670 --> 00:02:31,769 was a First Nations Canadian soldier. 32 00:02:31,770 --> 00:02:34,803 His youth was spent fighting on the Martian front line. 33 00:02:35,803 --> 00:02:39,303 His final years were spent in this remote cabin. 34 00:02:41,970 --> 00:02:44,136 The things that are inside of that cabin 35 00:02:44,137 --> 00:02:46,369 have been there for years 36 00:02:46,370 --> 00:02:48,202 It changes everything... 37 00:02:48,203 --> 00:02:50,402 Everything we know about the war, 38 00:02:50,403 --> 00:02:53,903 and everything that we know about the enemy. 39 00:02:57,103 --> 00:03:00,669 What Kim found in her great grandfather's cabin 40 00:03:00,670 --> 00:03:03,036 may shed light on a dark warning 41 00:03:03,037 --> 00:03:07,936 from our alien invaders. 42 00:03:07,937 --> 00:03:09,436 And for this man, 43 00:03:09,437 --> 00:03:12,469 it's both a blessing and a curse. 44 00:03:12,470 --> 00:03:15,669 Historian Lawrence Hart has spent his entire career 45 00:03:15,670 --> 00:03:18,569 attempting to decipher the alien texts 46 00:03:18,570 --> 00:03:21,070 recovered after the war 47 00:03:23,570 --> 00:03:27,070 the so called 'Martian code'. 48 00:03:30,103 --> 00:03:32,869 He believes Gus Lafonde' obsessive study 49 00:03:32,870 --> 00:03:34,602 has cracked the code 50 00:03:34,603 --> 00:03:38,103 and finally given a voice to the alien invaders. 51 00:03:39,103 --> 00:03:40,602 I have been intrigued 52 00:03:40,603 --> 00:03:43,003 by the mysteries of this impenetrable alien text. 53 00:03:44,003 --> 00:03:46,202 And though a lot of people have tried, 54 00:03:46,203 --> 00:03:49,703 no one has been able to break what they call the Martian code. 55 00:03:52,803 --> 00:03:55,002 For Hart, the revelations hidden 56 00:03:55,003 --> 00:03:57,102 within the Martian texts 57 00:03:57,103 --> 00:04:01,269 cast the invasion in a shocking new light. 58 00:04:01,270 --> 00:04:05,270 They confirm a threat he has long suspected. 59 00:04:07,403 --> 00:04:09,569 On its 100th anniversary 60 00:04:09,570 --> 00:04:14,070 we expose the truth behind the Great Martian War. 61 00:04:15,070 --> 00:04:16,802 We finished it. 62 00:04:16,803 --> 00:04:18,802 We killed the bastards.. 63 00:04:18,803 --> 00:04:21,302 But I don't know. 64 00:04:21,303 --> 00:04:24,303 When I close my eyes... 65 00:04:26,437 --> 00:04:29,937 I don't feel it's all over. 66 00:04:42,803 --> 00:04:46,569 Here is where it all began... 67 00:04:46,570 --> 00:04:49,769 London's Herne Hill observatory. 68 00:04:49,770 --> 00:04:51,402 Through this telescope, 69 00:04:51,403 --> 00:04:55,436 on the night of the 24th of June 1913, 70 00:04:55,437 --> 00:04:59,002 astronomers observe a mysterious speck of light 71 00:04:59,003 --> 00:05:03,069 close to the planet Mars and moving fast... 72 00:05:03,070 --> 00:05:05,437 towards earth. 73 00:05:14,837 --> 00:05:18,837 Two days later, the world would change forever. 74 00:05:23,837 --> 00:05:25,336 An enormous shockwave, 75 00:05:25,337 --> 00:05:27,636 emanating from a single blast point, 76 00:05:27,637 --> 00:05:30,569 is felt all across Europe 77 00:05:30,570 --> 00:05:32,302 War historian and broadcaster 78 00:05:32,303 --> 00:05:34,870 Duncan Mitchell Myers takes up the story. 79 00:05:35,870 --> 00:05:37,369 It soon became apparent 80 00:05:37,370 --> 00:05:39,402 where the shock had been most strongly felt... 81 00:05:39,403 --> 00:05:41,403 in the Bohemian Forest. 82 00:05:45,137 --> 00:05:47,602 This forest at the centre of the blast 83 00:05:47,603 --> 00:05:50,836 is deep within the German Empire. 84 00:05:50,837 --> 00:05:53,636 Relations between Germany and its European neighbours 85 00:05:53,637 --> 00:05:56,102 have been tense for many years, 86 00:05:56,103 --> 00:05:59,702 and with the observations from Herne Hill going unreported, 87 00:05:59,703 --> 00:06:03,170 everyone jumps to a very dangerous conclusion. 88 00:06:05,170 --> 00:06:07,069 This looks like the beginning 89 00:06:07,070 --> 00:06:09,570 of the rush to war that everybody's been expecting. 90 00:06:12,270 --> 00:06:16,402 The Kaiser angrily denies German responsibility. 91 00:06:16,403 --> 00:06:18,769 He orders his troops into the Bohemian Forest 92 00:06:18,770 --> 00:06:23,536 to uncover the truth. 93 00:06:23,537 --> 00:06:27,037 The men enter the area on July the 3rd. 94 00:06:37,670 --> 00:06:40,170 They never return. 95 00:06:41,403 --> 00:06:43,536 No one in Europe knew what happened 96 00:06:43,537 --> 00:06:45,336 to the expeditionary party, 97 00:06:45,337 --> 00:06:48,302 and no one knew that in the heart of Europe, 98 00:06:48,303 --> 00:06:51,236 this was created... 99 00:06:51,237 --> 00:06:54,737 An eight mile wide impact crater. 100 00:07:00,437 --> 00:07:03,136 No one knew until the morning of July the 9th, 101 00:07:03,137 --> 00:07:05,769 when a telegram was received 102 00:07:05,770 --> 00:07:08,302 in all the capital cities of the world, 103 00:07:08,303 --> 00:07:10,803 and it was from Berlin. 104 00:07:12,403 --> 00:07:13,936 His Majesty the Emperor, 105 00:07:13,937 --> 00:07:15,769 in the name of God, the Fatherland, 106 00:07:15,770 --> 00:07:17,269 and the German people, 107 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:20,369 begs the assistance of his brother nations. 108 00:07:20,370 --> 00:07:24,270 Germany is under attack by assailants not of this earth. 109 00:07:29,737 --> 00:07:31,369 A ten year old, 110 00:07:31,370 --> 00:07:34,636 to find out that monsters are for real, 111 00:07:34,637 --> 00:07:37,302 that they come from somewhere up there, 112 00:07:37,303 --> 00:07:39,536 or somewhere in the dark... 113 00:07:39,537 --> 00:07:42,170 You don't feel safe ever again. 114 00:07:46,637 --> 00:07:50,102 Most of all was the fear that more would come for us, 115 00:07:50,103 --> 00:07:52,602 and do here what they did in Germany. 116 00:07:52,603 --> 00:07:55,303 We woke up with that thought everyday. 117 00:07:58,170 --> 00:07:59,769 Within days, 118 00:07:59,770 --> 00:08:02,237 there is carnage across Germany. 119 00:08:10,770 --> 00:08:12,469 It was totally unstoppable. 120 00:08:12,470 --> 00:08:13,969 With frightening ease, 121 00:08:13,970 --> 00:08:15,969 one by one the great cities fell. 122 00:08:15,970 --> 00:08:17,969 The name that most endures is Munich, 123 00:08:17,970 --> 00:08:19,970 which was the first to be hit. 124 00:08:21,270 --> 00:08:24,770 Munich was home to 14 year old Arnold Töckelt. 125 00:08:26,237 --> 00:08:28,802 He and his brother Bernie were among the first civilians 126 00:08:28,803 --> 00:08:32,303 to endure the full horror of an alien attack. 127 00:08:59,970 --> 00:09:02,302 Daylight came, 128 00:09:02,303 --> 00:09:04,469 I got out of the rubble, 129 00:09:04,470 --> 00:09:07,970 and there was no dead bodies, nothing to see. 130 00:09:08,970 --> 00:09:13,069 And my brother was nowhere. 131 00:09:13,070 --> 00:09:14,570 Vanished. 132 00:09:22,570 --> 00:09:24,202 Within four days, 133 00:09:24,203 --> 00:09:28,536 civil society in Germany has essentially collapsed 134 00:09:28,537 --> 00:09:32,702 The alien invasion shows no sign at all of slowing down, 135 00:09:32,703 --> 00:09:34,802 and people in other European countries 136 00:09:34,803 --> 00:09:37,903 realized that they have to act, and fast. 137 00:09:53,737 --> 00:09:55,336 With Germany ravaged, 138 00:09:55,337 --> 00:09:58,936 and her entire army missing... Presumed dead... 139 00:09:58,937 --> 00:10:00,969 Britain helps forge a grand alliance 140 00:10:00,970 --> 00:10:03,969 between the surviving nations of Europe. 141 00:10:03,970 --> 00:10:07,136 On July the 20th, speaking for all the Allies, 142 00:10:07,137 --> 00:10:11,336 King George the Fifth declares the world is at war, 143 00:10:11,337 --> 00:10:16,337 and calls for all able-bodied men of planet Earth to enlist. 144 00:10:24,337 --> 00:10:26,336 The call is answered... 145 00:10:26,337 --> 00:10:30,102 Britain and its colonies lead the way. 146 00:10:30,103 --> 00:10:33,369 Among the recruits from afar is bombardier Hughie Logan, 147 00:10:33,370 --> 00:10:35,469 of Calgary, Canada. 148 00:10:35,470 --> 00:10:37,702 For Hughie, going to war will mean 149 00:10:37,703 --> 00:10:42,436 parting from his new bride, Clara. 150 00:10:42,437 --> 00:10:43,936 We started going together 151 00:10:43,937 --> 00:10:45,936 when we were 15. 152 00:10:45,937 --> 00:10:48,536 We got married at 18... 153 00:10:48,537 --> 00:10:50,936 The same year they came. 154 00:10:50,937 --> 00:10:53,436 And I shipped out for Europe. 155 00:10:53,437 --> 00:10:56,103 The troops shipped from Halifax. 156 00:10:57,103 --> 00:11:00,969 I made her two promises before I left. 157 00:11:00,970 --> 00:11:04,802 First promise... 158 00:11:04,803 --> 00:11:08,136 Two girls, one boy. 159 00:11:08,137 --> 00:11:11,969 That's what we were gonna have. 160 00:11:11,970 --> 00:11:13,802 And the second promise was 161 00:11:13,803 --> 00:11:17,302 I'd write to her as often as I could. 162 00:11:17,303 --> 00:11:19,303 So that's what I did. 163 00:11:21,870 --> 00:11:23,336 For Hughie and the thousands 164 00:11:23,337 --> 00:11:25,102 of volunteers like him, 165 00:11:25,103 --> 00:11:28,002 there is hope and determination. 166 00:11:28,003 --> 00:11:31,503 But for those left behind it's a different story. 167 00:11:33,503 --> 00:11:35,002 He was my dad, 168 00:11:35,003 --> 00:11:37,336 and I didn't want him to go. 169 00:11:37,337 --> 00:11:41,836 I was hanging onto his leg 'cause I knew, 170 00:11:41,837 --> 00:11:44,336 I absolutely knew, 171 00:11:44,337 --> 00:11:47,636 that the monster would come for him, too. 172 00:11:47,637 --> 00:11:50,402 They had to pull me off him in the end, 173 00:11:50,403 --> 00:11:52,903 one finger at a time. 174 00:11:55,437 --> 00:12:00,003 And now I can't even remember his face. 175 00:12:02,937 --> 00:12:05,002 It's a month since impact 176 00:12:05,003 --> 00:12:07,936 and humanity is mobilizing. 177 00:12:07,937 --> 00:12:11,636 Little is known of the origins of the alien invaders, 178 00:12:11,637 --> 00:12:14,469 but as the speck of light that signalled their approach 179 00:12:14,470 --> 00:12:17,269 was first seen beside the red planet, 180 00:12:17,270 --> 00:12:19,169 the enemy gets a name... 181 00:12:19,170 --> 00:12:22,670 The Great War against Th "Martians" has begun. 182 00:12:33,971 --> 00:12:37,971 It is four weeks since impact in the Bohemian Forest. 183 00:12:44,326 --> 00:12:47,825 An alien invasion force has annihilated much of Germany 184 00:12:47,826 --> 00:12:49,826 and is pushing across Europe. 185 00:13:02,826 --> 00:13:05,992 Halting the Martian advance is the Allies' immediate goal. 186 00:13:06,992 --> 00:13:08,491 In London, 187 00:13:08,492 --> 00:13:10,925 50 feet below the Palace of Westminster, 188 00:13:10,926 --> 00:13:13,358 a command centre is established 189 00:13:13,359 --> 00:13:16,791 and plans swiftly laid. 190 00:13:16,792 --> 00:13:19,191 The chief curator of the Martian War Museum 191 00:13:19,192 --> 00:13:21,291 and these preserved war rooms 192 00:13:21,292 --> 00:13:23,292 is Alexandra Banham. 193 00:13:24,659 --> 00:13:26,158 As the alien force 194 00:13:26,159 --> 00:13:28,491 crossed the German border into France, 195 00:13:28,492 --> 00:13:30,991 it was right here in front of this map 196 00:13:30,992 --> 00:13:32,491 that the joint chiefs of staff 197 00:13:32,492 --> 00:13:34,825 ordered the tiny British Expeditionary Force 198 00:13:34,826 --> 00:13:37,658 and the French standing army forwards 199 00:13:37,659 --> 00:13:41,658 to hold the line here along the western banks 200 00:13:41,659 --> 00:13:43,392 of the Moselle River. 201 00:13:51,926 --> 00:13:55,425 Among those awaiting the terror of the alien attack 202 00:13:55,426 --> 00:13:58,058 is a young English stretcher bearer... 203 00:13:58,059 --> 00:14:00,358 William Payne. 204 00:14:00,359 --> 00:14:02,891 His diary contains some of the earliest description 205 00:14:02,892 --> 00:14:05,392 from the Martian battlefront. 206 00:14:06,826 --> 00:14:10,125 It is a complete, personal account 207 00:14:10,126 --> 00:14:12,191 of the entire war, 208 00:14:12,192 --> 00:14:16,258 and it is undoubtedly one of the most important artefacts 209 00:14:16,259 --> 00:14:19,191 in this museum's possession. 210 00:14:19,192 --> 00:14:23,192 You can see that the date is August the 2nd, 1913. 211 00:14:27,392 --> 00:14:29,091 Dawn. 212 00:14:29,092 --> 00:14:32,625 Through the mist, towering shapes emerged 213 00:14:32,626 --> 00:14:36,491 not creatures, but machines. 214 00:14:36,492 --> 00:14:38,925 I whispered to God for mercy, 215 00:14:38,926 --> 00:14:42,426 and in response, our artillery exploded to life. 216 00:14:47,859 --> 00:14:51,358 Within moments of this opening Allied barrage, 217 00:14:51,359 --> 00:14:53,359 the alien army responds. 218 00:14:59,492 --> 00:15:01,125 We cannot hold them. 219 00:15:01,126 --> 00:15:03,058 Our lines are torn to pieces. 220 00:15:03,059 --> 00:15:04,791 Our guns are useless. 221 00:15:04,792 --> 00:15:06,391 Hell was not beneath us 222 00:15:06,392 --> 00:15:07,891 it has fallen from the sky. 223 00:15:07,892 --> 00:15:09,392 We must fall back. 224 00:15:11,959 --> 00:15:13,725 The soldiers give these giant 225 00:15:13,726 --> 00:15:16,425 fighting machines a name 226 00:15:16,426 --> 00:15:18,426 Herons. 227 00:15:24,659 --> 00:15:26,691 There were two component to these machines 228 00:15:26,692 --> 00:15:29,925 that became immediately apparent to the Allies... 229 00:15:29,926 --> 00:15:34,491 Firstly, they were entirely protected by an energy shield. 230 00:15:34,492 --> 00:15:37,625 This was the first introduction that we had 231 00:15:37,626 --> 00:15:41,126 had to the many uses of dark energy particles. 232 00:15:45,592 --> 00:15:48,691 The second was a slow firing, 233 00:15:48,692 --> 00:15:52,192 immensely destructive energy cannon. 234 00:15:54,959 --> 00:15:57,025 It was used to destroy defences, 235 00:15:57,026 --> 00:15:58,558 to cause chaos, 236 00:15:58,559 --> 00:16:02,059 but mainly to flush men out into open view. 237 00:16:10,526 --> 00:16:15,058 Each Heron is shrouded in a toxic cloud 238 00:16:15,059 --> 00:16:19,891 Combat troops are soon issued with gas masks, 239 00:16:19,892 --> 00:16:21,891 but civilians must make do 240 00:16:21,892 --> 00:16:26,392 with crude, home-made versions. 241 00:16:27,692 --> 00:16:30,691 For frontline soldiers like Jock Donnelly, 242 00:16:30,692 --> 00:16:33,026 protection came at a price. 243 00:16:34,026 --> 00:16:36,291 Well, you can't see a thing. 244 00:16:36,292 --> 00:16:38,825 And you can't talk to anybody... 245 00:16:38,826 --> 00:16:41,458 It's just you. 246 00:16:41,459 --> 00:16:45,092 You're sitting alongside 50 other guys, 247 00:16:46,092 --> 00:16:48,091 but you're alone. 248 00:16:48,092 --> 00:16:49,926 There's nobody. 249 00:16:57,992 --> 00:17:01,491 At the feet of the lumbering Herons 250 00:17:01,492 --> 00:17:03,992 are battalions of smaller machines... 251 00:17:07,259 --> 00:17:09,691 Their attack dogs. 252 00:17:09,692 --> 00:17:13,391 They rampage the battlefield by the thousands. 253 00:17:13,392 --> 00:17:17,391 Fast and merciless killing machines, 254 00:17:17,392 --> 00:17:20,392 these bring death at close quarters. 255 00:17:25,792 --> 00:17:28,491 This was their infantry division, 256 00:17:28,492 --> 00:17:31,625 and they were quickly named the Iron Spiders. 257 00:17:31,626 --> 00:17:33,291 And they were wielding a weapon from here... 258 00:17:33,292 --> 00:17:35,858 You can see it reconstructed... 259 00:17:35,859 --> 00:17:39,358 That was like nothing that had ever been seen. 260 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:41,359 These were the "ribbons of death". 261 00:17:44,159 --> 00:17:46,858 They snare us, entwine us 262 00:17:46,859 --> 00:17:50,291 stab us, skewer us, strangle us, 263 00:17:50,292 --> 00:17:53,292 tear us in half still alive. 264 00:17:56,959 --> 00:18:00,091 The worst were the night raids. 265 00:18:00,092 --> 00:18:05,091 The Spiders would sneak across the no man's land 266 00:18:05,092 --> 00:18:08,291 and hover over us, 267 00:18:08,292 --> 00:18:11,792 and the ribbons would descend. 268 00:18:15,126 --> 00:18:16,858 I knew we couldn't move, 269 00:18:16,859 --> 00:18:20,858 because any movement would be certain death 270 00:18:20,859 --> 00:18:23,359 when the Spiders are around. 271 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:33,091 They were ripping the Allies to pieces, 272 00:18:33,092 --> 00:18:36,592 whole cavalry battalions were tossed aside. 273 00:18:41,592 --> 00:18:46,258 The very front itself was in a chaotic fighting retreat 274 00:18:46,259 --> 00:18:48,759 right across France. 275 00:18:53,092 --> 00:18:54,925 On the 19th of August, 276 00:18:54,926 --> 00:18:57,458 General Sir John French wires Downing Street, 277 00:18:57,459 --> 00:19:01,459 and he tells them that the alien force cannot be stopped, 278 00:19:02,459 --> 00:19:04,025 that Paris will fall, 279 00:19:04,026 --> 00:19:06,058 the continent is lost, 280 00:19:06,059 --> 00:19:07,858 and the only thing Britain can do 281 00:19:07,859 --> 00:19:10,859 is prepare for imminent invasion. 282 00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:21,058 That same day, 283 00:19:21,059 --> 00:19:24,558 Europe is given one last hope. 284 00:19:24,559 --> 00:19:26,325 An unexpected messenger 285 00:19:26,326 --> 00:19:29,125 arrives at Allied Field Headquarters 286 00:19:29,126 --> 00:19:31,591 His news may be the saving of Paris 287 00:19:31,592 --> 00:19:34,991 and perhaps the entire war. 288 00:19:34,992 --> 00:19:37,258 He is a corporal in the army believed destroyed 289 00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:40,625 in the first week of the war. 290 00:19:40,626 --> 00:19:42,525 His communique states, 291 00:19:42,526 --> 00:19:44,458 "Though the Fatherland has fallen," 292 00:19:44,459 --> 00:19:46,291 the German Army has not, 293 00:19:46,292 --> 00:19:48,625 and we are on our way". 294 00:19:48,626 --> 00:19:53,158 It is signed by Count Paul Von Hindenburg 295 00:19:53,159 --> 00:19:55,991 So he issues an absolutely unprecedented 296 00:19:55,992 --> 00:19:59,258 Mobilization Order directed at every living German, 297 00:19:59,259 --> 00:20:00,758 telling them that they must make their way 298 00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:03,491 as fast as possible... "blitzartig"... 299 00:20:03,492 --> 00:20:05,391 Lightning fast is the word he uses... 300 00:20:05,392 --> 00:20:07,925 Through Belgium, south towards Paris, 301 00:20:07,926 --> 00:20:10,458 to sweep in and reinforce 302 00:20:10,459 --> 00:20:15,092 the increasingly desperate Allied line. 303 00:20:17,826 --> 00:20:22,025 Germans head for France in huge numbers. 304 00:20:22,026 --> 00:20:24,391 Among them is young Arnold Tockelt, 305 00:20:24,392 --> 00:20:27,892 who had survived Munich and now craved revenge. 306 00:20:31,192 --> 00:20:33,425 And we marched and marched 307 00:20:33,426 --> 00:20:36,492 until we finally reached the Belgium border 308 00:20:37,659 --> 00:20:41,159 and we received an embrace from there I will never forget. 309 00:20:43,159 --> 00:20:47,082 They gave us flowers... 310 00:20:56,059 --> 00:20:58,591 They looked after the wounded, 311 00:20:58,592 --> 00:21:00,658 and fed the hungry, 312 00:21:00,659 --> 00:21:04,158 and the Belgian men joined us 313 00:21:04,159 --> 00:21:07,159 and became our brothers. 314 00:21:11,092 --> 00:21:12,591 Over the next few days, 315 00:21:12,592 --> 00:21:16,958 wave after wave of German troops join the Allied line, 316 00:21:16,959 --> 00:21:18,891 and by August 29th, 317 00:21:18,892 --> 00:21:22,158 the alien army had come to a standstill 318 00:21:22,159 --> 00:21:25,025 and a communique arrives upstairs 319 00:21:25,026 --> 00:21:28,526 stating that the attack had been halted. 320 00:21:32,092 --> 00:21:33,858 The Germans had saved the day 321 00:21:33,859 --> 00:21:37,225 with the now famous "Hindenburg manoeuvre". 322 00:21:37,226 --> 00:21:39,825 A plan originally conceived years before 323 00:21:39,826 --> 00:21:42,025 by Count Von Schlieffen 324 00:21:42,026 --> 00:21:46,458 to conquer France, rather than save it! 325 00:21:46,459 --> 00:21:48,391 It's one of the most audacious manoeuvres 326 00:21:48,392 --> 00:21:49,992 in the whole of military history. 327 00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:57,025 Now that the alien advance is stopped 328 00:21:57,026 --> 00:22:00,992 the Allies regroup and prepare to go on the offensive. 329 00:22:03,059 --> 00:22:06,058 The offensive actions of the autumn of 1913 330 00:22:06,059 --> 00:22:09,059 were aggressive, large-scale artillery barrages, 331 00:22:13,059 --> 00:22:15,592 followed by mass infantry assaults... 332 00:22:24,426 --> 00:22:29,091 What the Allies were trying to do was outflank the alien army, 333 00:22:29,092 --> 00:22:34,058 and of course press home the advantage in numbers 334 00:22:34,059 --> 00:22:36,558 There was a real belief here that, at this point, 335 00:22:36,559 --> 00:22:38,559 victory could be achieved by Christmas. 336 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,859 Waves of new recruits are arriving daily. 337 00:22:50,459 --> 00:22:53,225 Among them is a minister' daughter from South Wales 338 00:22:53,226 --> 00:22:57,625 Nerys Vaughn. 339 00:22:57,626 --> 00:23:00,891 Her post-war account of life at the Martian Front 340 00:23:00,892 --> 00:23:02,391 "Anthem for the Vanished," 341 00:23:02,392 --> 00:23:04,559 would come to embody the fate of a generation. 342 00:23:05,559 --> 00:23:07,425 How did it feel, heading for war? 343 00:23:07,426 --> 00:23:10,758 Well, it wasn't a single emotion... 344 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:14,191 It was the most tantalizing cocktail... 345 00:23:14,192 --> 00:23:16,925 Excitement, fear, hope, 346 00:23:16,926 --> 00:23:20,191 dread, longing, calm, 347 00:23:20,192 --> 00:23:24,692 but together they created the most powerful feeling of all. 348 00:23:25,892 --> 00:23:29,392 For the first time, I felt my life had meaning. 349 00:23:34,559 --> 00:23:36,291 Another young volunteer 350 00:23:36,292 --> 00:23:38,559 was also disembarking in France. 351 00:23:41,326 --> 00:23:43,658 He was corporal Gus Lafonde, 352 00:23:43,659 --> 00:23:46,658 of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 353 00:23:46,659 --> 00:23:50,891 a First Nations soldier proud of his Anishinaabe heritage 354 00:23:50,892 --> 00:23:53,991 and eager to serve. 355 00:23:53,992 --> 00:23:58,292 Gus's war would turn boy to man. 356 00:24:06,059 --> 00:24:08,991 He drew on legends from his warrior ancestors 357 00:24:08,992 --> 00:24:12,492 to try and comprehend the unimaginable horrors he saw. 358 00:24:15,859 --> 00:24:18,658 This takes him deep into enemy territory... 359 00:24:18,659 --> 00:24:22,159 Uncovering dark secrets of the Martians. 360 00:24:27,059 --> 00:24:30,291 A lone voice lost in the horror. 361 00:24:30,292 --> 00:24:32,292 Yeah, exactly, that's exactly who he was 362 00:24:37,792 --> 00:24:39,291 Over two months, 363 00:24:39,292 --> 00:24:42,591 hundreds of thousands of enlisted troops arrive 364 00:24:42,592 --> 00:24:46,125 hoping for victory by Christmas. 365 00:24:46,126 --> 00:24:49,626 But hope soon turns to hell. 366 00:24:54,226 --> 00:24:55,991 Not one of the offensive 367 00:24:55,992 --> 00:24:59,491 of the autumn of 1913 was successful. 368 00:24:59,492 --> 00:25:03,225 Every attack was repulsed 369 00:25:03,226 --> 00:25:06,491 And the Allied casualty list just got bigger and bigger, 370 00:25:06,492 --> 00:25:08,858 along with something else... 371 00:25:08,859 --> 00:25:12,859 The battlefront itself is now of an unprecedented size. 372 00:25:14,426 --> 00:25:16,425 And it was growing, 373 00:25:16,426 --> 00:25:19,426 and growing, and growing. 374 00:25:22,726 --> 00:25:26,725 It's about to get worse. 375 00:25:26,726 --> 00:25:28,325 Out in the dark, 376 00:25:28,326 --> 00:25:32,958 the Allies encounter a third type of alien machine, 377 00:25:32,959 --> 00:25:36,959 and confront the grisly mystery of their 'vanished' comrades. 378 00:25:45,783 --> 00:25:47,582 By early December, 379 00:25:47,583 --> 00:25:52,583 the vast Martian Front slices Europe in two. 380 00:25:57,083 --> 00:26:00,082 Herons and Spiders are holding their line, 381 00:26:00,083 --> 00:26:02,083 repulsing every Allied attack. 382 00:26:11,621 --> 00:26:13,287 A mass of human dead 383 00:26:13,288 --> 00:26:15,553 wrapped in the wreckage of war 384 00:26:15,554 --> 00:26:19,287 litters the battlefield. 385 00:26:19,288 --> 00:26:23,288 But as the sun sets, the horror rises. 386 00:26:25,254 --> 00:26:26,953 A third alien war machine 387 00:26:26,954 --> 00:26:30,953 crawls out into the gloom of no man's land, 388 00:26:30,954 --> 00:26:33,454 and begins its work. 389 00:26:37,954 --> 00:26:40,720 It was the threat of what these machines 390 00:26:40,721 --> 00:26:43,487 were doing during the hours of darkness 391 00:26:43,488 --> 00:26:46,988 that occupied the thought of so many of the men. 392 00:26:51,388 --> 00:26:53,653 Not one of us can sleep 393 00:26:53,654 --> 00:26:57,187 not when those fiends are moving beyond the wire. 394 00:26:57,188 --> 00:26:58,787 The mere thought of them 395 00:26:58,788 --> 00:27:01,387 of what they're doing to our dead and wounded, 396 00:27:01,388 --> 00:27:04,388 fills every living man with dread. 397 00:27:05,688 --> 00:27:07,253 The men called them lice 398 00:27:07,254 --> 00:27:09,020 and there were thousands and thousands, 399 00:27:09,021 --> 00:27:11,521 and thousands of them. 400 00:27:17,054 --> 00:27:20,820 We could hear the noise from the lice 401 00:27:20,821 --> 00:27:24,821 coming behind us and cleaning the ditches for their harvest. 402 00:27:27,821 --> 00:27:29,753 The men at the front believed 403 00:27:29,754 --> 00:27:33,887 the vile purpose of the night-prowling herds of lice 404 00:27:33,888 --> 00:27:37,388 is to harvest the dead. 405 00:27:39,388 --> 00:27:41,320 Dawn breaks... 406 00:27:41,321 --> 00:27:43,787 The lice retreat like a black tide. 407 00:27:43,788 --> 00:27:46,153 And everything is gone! 408 00:27:46,154 --> 00:27:47,987 Every shell, every last shard of battle, 409 00:27:47,988 --> 00:27:49,887 and every one of our dead 410 00:27:49,888 --> 00:27:52,120 My fallen brothers are taken. 411 00:27:52,121 --> 00:27:54,020 Their bodies stolen. 412 00:27:54,021 --> 00:27:56,353 For food? For fuel? 413 00:27:56,354 --> 00:27:58,520 We hardly dare imagine why 414 00:27:58,521 --> 00:28:00,887 but this is why those devils are here. 415 00:28:00,888 --> 00:28:04,388 They came for us. 416 00:28:08,888 --> 00:28:10,487 Back at the home front, 417 00:28:10,488 --> 00:28:14,620 entire streets begin receiving telegrams from the war office 418 00:28:14,621 --> 00:28:18,120 informing them their men are missing in action. 419 00:28:18,121 --> 00:28:21,621 These missing men become known as "the vanished".. 420 00:28:22,621 --> 00:28:24,287 It was the first telegram 421 00:28:24,288 --> 00:28:26,453 I'd ever seen. 422 00:28:26,454 --> 00:28:30,120 It said there'd been a battle, 423 00:28:30,121 --> 00:28:32,453 and that he was missing. 424 00:28:32,454 --> 00:28:34,387 That was it. 425 00:28:34,388 --> 00:28:36,987 Oh, my poor mum, 426 00:28:36,988 --> 00:28:41,453 they might just as well have taken her, too. 427 00:28:41,454 --> 00:28:43,954 'Vanished' is what he was 428 00:28:48,888 --> 00:28:51,053 By now, Gus Lafonde has been 429 00:28:51,054 --> 00:28:55,320 on the front line for three months. 430 00:28:55,321 --> 00:28:58,487 His duty is to scout the enemy lines. 431 00:28:58,488 --> 00:29:00,987 But his passion for his Anishinaabe heritage 432 00:29:00,988 --> 00:29:03,488 pushes him much further than mere duty. 433 00:29:09,821 --> 00:29:11,620 Unlike his comrades, 434 00:29:11,621 --> 00:29:14,753 Gus ventures behind the enemy lines, 435 00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:18,687 and into the monstrous alien camp itself. 436 00:29:18,688 --> 00:29:22,188 Here, he begins to count coup. 437 00:29:24,088 --> 00:29:25,587 In Anishinaabe culture, 438 00:29:25,588 --> 00:29:28,121 a warrior could prove his courage 439 00:29:29,121 --> 00:29:32,120 by the form of counting coup, 440 00:29:32,121 --> 00:29:35,453 and it was a way to defeat the enemy 441 00:29:35,454 --> 00:29:38,653 without actually killing them. 442 00:29:38,654 --> 00:29:40,920 The highest form of counting coup 443 00:29:40,921 --> 00:29:44,620 was to sneak into the enemy's camp 444 00:29:44,621 --> 00:29:48,587 and to steal something without being harmed, 445 00:29:48,588 --> 00:29:50,087 without being noticed. 446 00:29:50,088 --> 00:29:53,088 And that's what Gus began to do. 447 00:29:56,454 --> 00:30:00,453 Gus's ghostlike scouting behind the alien lines 448 00:30:00,454 --> 00:30:02,687 puts him into frighteningly close contact 449 00:30:02,688 --> 00:30:06,553 with the Martian army. 450 00:30:06,554 --> 00:30:11,554 For him, each coup is a window on the aliens' secrets. 451 00:30:13,888 --> 00:30:18,687 This ledger book is how Gus counted his coup. 452 00:30:18,688 --> 00:30:22,853 There's a sketch of the exact coup that he had taken... 453 00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:26,354 It's all documented... It's absolutely amazing. 454 00:30:28,354 --> 00:30:30,053 From this collection of 455 00:30:30,054 --> 00:30:33,420 curious alien markings and artefacts, 456 00:30:33,421 --> 00:30:35,921 Gus is constructing a key... 457 00:30:40,988 --> 00:30:43,911 A key that Lawrence Hart is now using 458 00:30:43,936 --> 00:30:46,012 to crack the Martian code. 459 00:30:55,288 --> 00:30:58,287 As Christmas 1913 approaches, 460 00:30:58,288 --> 00:31:01,288 the war's influence is being felt around the world. 461 00:31:03,121 --> 00:31:04,653 In the United States, 462 00:31:04,654 --> 00:31:06,487 although President Wilson is resisting 463 00:31:06,488 --> 00:31:09,987 committing forces to the front, 464 00:31:09,988 --> 00:31:11,920 American business is eagerly 465 00:31:11,921 --> 00:31:15,421 supplying munitions and machinery. 466 00:31:22,721 --> 00:31:27,487 Never were the transatlantic shipping lanes so busy... 467 00:31:27,488 --> 00:31:30,988 A marked contrast to affairs on the Martian Front. 468 00:31:32,954 --> 00:31:34,953 By December 1913, 469 00:31:34,954 --> 00:31:39,187 all activity on the line has come to a complete stop... 470 00:31:39,188 --> 00:31:41,287 Both Allied and alien. 471 00:31:41,288 --> 00:31:45,853 Their earthwork systems had gone completely silent, 472 00:31:45,854 --> 00:31:50,854 and everything remained that way until Christmas night. 473 00:31:54,621 --> 00:31:57,621 It was a rumble. 474 00:31:59,321 --> 00:32:02,121 I felt the mood change all around me. 475 00:32:05,121 --> 00:32:08,621 We saw a light, a flashing light, 476 00:32:09,621 --> 00:32:12,754 and it's just like it says in the song... 477 00:32:16,254 --> 00:32:18,754 "Like a diamond in the sky." 478 00:32:19,754 --> 00:32:22,254 This was the Christmas star of 1913. 479 00:32:26,588 --> 00:32:28,320 All along the lines, 480 00:32:28,321 --> 00:32:31,321 scores of these objects begin to be seen, 481 00:32:32,321 --> 00:32:34,820 and then later that nigh 482 00:32:34,821 --> 00:32:37,553 there are tidal disturbances. 483 00:32:37,554 --> 00:32:41,053 There's flooding in coastal areas. 484 00:32:41,054 --> 00:32:42,687 And then three days later 485 00:32:42,688 --> 00:32:45,688 something much, much worse happened. 486 00:32:55,621 --> 00:32:58,720 The war has moved beneath the sea. 487 00:32:58,721 --> 00:33:00,720 The Christmas lights were colossal machines 488 00:33:00,721 --> 00:33:03,721 launched from deep within Martian-occupied Europe. 489 00:33:09,688 --> 00:33:12,753 Now moving freely through the shipping lanes, 490 00:33:12,754 --> 00:33:14,353 these submarine monsters 491 00:33:14,354 --> 00:33:17,854 begin to starve the Allies of their most vital supplies... 492 00:33:19,421 --> 00:33:22,921 A crippling, potentially fatal blow. 493 00:33:34,691 --> 00:33:36,590 Throughout 1914, 494 00:33:36,591 --> 00:33:39,423 the savage conflict rages 495 00:33:39,424 --> 00:33:43,490 Desperate refugees flee the shattered cities. 496 00:33:43,491 --> 00:33:46,056 Victories are bought at huge cost, 497 00:33:46,057 --> 00:33:49,057 then stolen back within days. 498 00:33:51,471 --> 00:33:53,237 Other than terrible losses, 499 00:33:53,238 --> 00:33:54,438 we'd achieved next to nothing. 500 00:33:55,438 --> 00:33:57,937 And slowly but surely, 501 00:33:57,938 --> 00:34:00,605 the notion of a swift victory had died. 502 00:34:08,838 --> 00:34:11,770 The sea war intensifies. 503 00:34:11,771 --> 00:34:15,837 The July 1914 sinking of an American passenger liner 504 00:34:15,838 --> 00:34:19,338 openly divides public opinion in the United States. 505 00:34:30,338 --> 00:34:32,537 President Wilson remains adamant 506 00:34:32,538 --> 00:34:35,504 that while the Americas are free of Martians, 507 00:34:35,505 --> 00:34:38,337 US troops stay home. 508 00:34:38,338 --> 00:34:40,337 But former president Teddy Roosevelt 509 00:34:40,338 --> 00:34:42,338 demands "action this day." 510 00:34:50,938 --> 00:34:53,870 Roosevelt gets the permission of Congress 511 00:34:53,871 --> 00:34:57,405 to raise a volunteer force to fight on the Martian Front. 512 00:34:59,171 --> 00:35:01,470 But Wilson use his presidential powers 513 00:35:01,471 --> 00:35:04,904 to stop the troops shipping out. 514 00:35:04,905 --> 00:35:07,570 Now Roosevelt is enraged 515 00:35:07,571 --> 00:35:10,837 He travels the country to drum up support... 516 00:35:10,838 --> 00:35:12,337 It works... 517 00:35:12,338 --> 00:35:13,837 Two weeks later, 518 00:35:13,838 --> 00:35:16,170 the presidential veto is withdrawn 519 00:35:16,171 --> 00:35:19,470 and a small volunteer force, "the Frontiersmen", 520 00:35:19,471 --> 00:35:21,971 sails for Europe. 521 00:35:23,838 --> 00:35:27,338 And Roosevelt waves them off from New York harbour. 522 00:35:31,371 --> 00:35:32,404 I didn't see him. 523 00:35:32,405 --> 00:35:34,337 He didn't see him. I saw him. 524 00:35:34,338 --> 00:35:36,737 And yeah, he waved us off, 525 00:35:36,738 --> 00:35:38,570 and it was really gung-ho. 526 00:35:38,571 --> 00:35:40,804 I mean this was, you know, 527 00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:43,370 images of San Juan Hill all over again. 528 00:35:43,371 --> 00:35:45,404 Yeah, bully for him. 529 00:35:45,405 --> 00:35:47,024 Yeah. So we imagined, 530 00:35:47,049 --> 00:35:49,836 as we left on the boat, we thought, 531 00:35:49,861 --> 00:35:51,354 "Boy, this is going to be a great adventure." 532 00:35:51,379 --> 00:35:52,384 "We're going to go over there", 533 00:35:52,409 --> 00:35:53,711 "and beat the hell out of these guys", 534 00:35:53,736 --> 00:35:55,168 "and come home heroes." 535 00:35:55,264 --> 00:35:56,369 Heroes hmm... 536 00:35:56,686 --> 00:35:58,070 Didn't quite work out that way. 537 00:35:58,071 --> 00:36:01,071 But we were eager... Eager to go. 538 00:36:05,771 --> 00:36:07,904 In autumn 1914, 539 00:36:07,905 --> 00:36:11,537 corporal Gus Lafonde finally pushes his luck too far 540 00:36:11,538 --> 00:36:14,038 and is severely injured. 541 00:36:17,238 --> 00:36:19,104 Lawrence Hart believes an entry 542 00:36:19,105 --> 00:36:21,904 Gus made in his notebook while recovering 543 00:36:21,905 --> 00:36:24,870 shows he had spotted a Martian strategy 544 00:36:24,871 --> 00:36:29,871 Allied command had missed 545 00:36:31,205 --> 00:36:32,704 Here it is... 546 00:36:32,705 --> 00:36:34,704 Here's what he wrote... 547 00:36:34,705 --> 00:36:39,537 "Ki gii baadenmigoome mi shaa miigaadying." 548 00:36:39,538 --> 00:36:42,371 That's Anishinaabamowen. 549 00:36:49,671 --> 00:36:53,304 The phrase that Corporal LaFonde 550 00:36:53,305 --> 00:36:57,770 wrote in his diary describes a type of battle strategy. 551 00:36:57,771 --> 00:36:59,804 Now, in fencing, we call it a faint... 552 00:36:59,805 --> 00:37:01,370 It's a false attack, 553 00:37:01,371 --> 00:37:03,404 or it could be a false retreat... 554 00:37:03,405 --> 00:37:05,837 And it's to make the enemy act the way 555 00:37:05,838 --> 00:37:08,037 you want the enemy to act... 556 00:37:08,038 --> 00:37:11,037 To deliberately look weak or to even seem to lose, 557 00:37:11,038 --> 00:37:14,038 in order to gain a later more important victory. 558 00:37:15,505 --> 00:37:18,505 Gus Lafonde has worked out what no Allied general had... 559 00:37:19,838 --> 00:37:21,637 That the Martians were deliberately 560 00:37:21,638 --> 00:37:25,304 losing battles in 1914 to entice the Allies 561 00:37:25,305 --> 00:37:29,304 into ever larger offensive campaigns. 562 00:37:29,305 --> 00:37:31,537 These so-called experts 563 00:37:31,538 --> 00:37:34,637 that held the lives of millions in their hands 564 00:37:34,638 --> 00:37:37,137 didn't have a clue. 565 00:37:37,138 --> 00:37:39,970 Why is it vital to acknowledge this? 566 00:37:39,971 --> 00:37:42,471 Because of what they decided to do next. 567 00:37:53,571 --> 00:37:55,137 By 1915, 568 00:37:55,138 --> 00:37:56,570 the Chiefs of Staff 569 00:37:56,571 --> 00:37:58,971 were under huge pressure to deliver a definitive victory. 570 00:37:59,971 --> 00:38:01,470 At this point, 571 00:38:01,471 --> 00:38:03,904 their only strategic advantage was manpower, 572 00:38:03,905 --> 00:38:05,670 and so they planned to make fuller use 573 00:38:05,671 --> 00:38:08,171 of that than ever before 574 00:38:09,571 --> 00:38:11,104 The Allies plan... 575 00:38:11,105 --> 00:38:15,105 A simultaneous attack along the entire Martian line. 576 00:38:17,271 --> 00:38:18,837 The aim was to stretch 577 00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:22,037 the alien army's resource past breaking point, 578 00:38:22,038 --> 00:38:24,870 and then to decisively penetrate 579 00:38:24,871 --> 00:38:28,971 and then overrun the enemy defences. 580 00:38:33,471 --> 00:38:35,037 With this great push, 581 00:38:35,038 --> 00:38:39,137 looming aerial reconnaissance units and French spotters 582 00:38:39,138 --> 00:38:43,237 deliver disturbing news to their masters... 583 00:38:43,238 --> 00:38:45,404 Legions of Martian reinforcements 584 00:38:45,405 --> 00:38:48,570 are moving towards France 585 00:38:48,571 --> 00:38:50,404 The success of an all out offensive 586 00:38:50,405 --> 00:38:52,971 is now in grave doubt. 587 00:38:55,138 --> 00:39:00,137 The Allied command is in a difficult situation, 588 00:39:00,138 --> 00:39:02,204 but to do nothing, 589 00:39:02,205 --> 00:39:04,704 and just let the alien reinforcements arrive, 590 00:39:04,705 --> 00:39:06,537 well, that would have been madness. 591 00:39:06,538 --> 00:39:11,038 They had to make a decision - they had to act quickly. 592 00:39:12,038 --> 00:39:14,037 A controversial decision is made 593 00:39:14,038 --> 00:39:17,038 to bring forward the push by one month. 594 00:39:19,805 --> 00:39:21,370 The war at sea had already compromised 595 00:39:21,371 --> 00:39:22,870 their ability to move troops, 596 00:39:22,871 --> 00:39:24,870 and equipment they deemed necessary. 597 00:39:24,871 --> 00:39:28,004 And now they wanted to move the attack from June to May... 598 00:39:28,005 --> 00:39:30,005 Total, utter folly. 599 00:39:37,471 --> 00:39:39,670 And so the push is launched early... 600 00:39:39,671 --> 00:39:41,670 I believe you were on the front line itself 601 00:39:41,671 --> 00:39:43,304 that first day? 602 00:39:43,305 --> 00:39:46,237 Yes, with the 4th Newfoundland Regiment. 603 00:39:46,238 --> 00:39:48,538 We were expecting casualties, of course, 604 00:39:52,538 --> 00:39:54,037 but that day, 605 00:39:54,038 --> 00:39:57,038 endless waves of men went out over the top. 606 00:40:00,538 --> 00:40:04,038 I've never been so frightened in my life. 607 00:40:09,738 --> 00:40:12,238 My heart just jumped right out of my body. 608 00:40:16,271 --> 00:40:21,270 These were horrible, horrible, horrible things 609 00:40:21,271 --> 00:40:24,737 And you were scared to death to think 610 00:40:24,738 --> 00:40:27,204 that they were going to get you 611 00:40:27,205 --> 00:40:29,205 and tear you to ribbons. 612 00:40:33,205 --> 00:40:35,205 They had no rules at all 613 00:40:41,871 --> 00:40:43,904 We saw almost nothing, 614 00:40:43,905 --> 00:40:46,405 but we could hear it all while we waited... 615 00:40:51,038 --> 00:40:53,270 The guns, the shells, 616 00:40:53,271 --> 00:40:56,271 the deafening machines. 617 00:40:58,271 --> 00:41:01,771 But through all that noise, we could still hear the screams, 618 00:41:09,838 --> 00:41:13,770 and we just stood there, waiting. 619 00:41:13,771 --> 00:41:16,404 But nobody came back. 620 00:41:16,405 --> 00:41:21,405 Not a single wounded man for me to help. 621 00:41:24,205 --> 00:41:27,904 Did you know that on that first day, 622 00:41:27,905 --> 00:41:32,904 over 850,000 men went out into those fields, 623 00:41:32,905 --> 00:41:37,905 and at the end of the day they were all gone? 624 00:41:39,905 --> 00:41:41,404 After three weeks, 625 00:41:41,405 --> 00:41:44,537 the High Command calls the push to a halt. 626 00:41:44,538 --> 00:41:48,538 In that time 3 million men had vanished. 627 00:41:51,971 --> 00:41:54,304 They had no idea how their actions 628 00:41:54,305 --> 00:41:58,770 were actually aiding and abetting the aliens. 629 00:41:58,771 --> 00:42:00,970 They had no perception 630 00:42:00,971 --> 00:42:04,470 of what Corporal Lafonde had realized. 631 00:42:04,471 --> 00:42:05,971 They had no clue. 632 00:42:07,405 --> 00:42:09,437 The terrible news of the push 633 00:42:09,438 --> 00:42:11,704 reached Gus in hospital. 634 00:42:11,705 --> 00:42:14,670 As the scale of the disaster became clear, 635 00:42:14,671 --> 00:42:18,837 the normally analytical pages of his notebooks 636 00:42:18,838 --> 00:42:23,537 are scrawled with sketches of an all-consuming monster. 637 00:42:23,538 --> 00:42:27,537 The creature he drew is from Anishinaabe mythology... 638 00:42:27,538 --> 00:42:29,538 A wendigo. 639 00:42:34,371 --> 00:42:37,937 This is a wendigo, 640 00:42:37,938 --> 00:42:42,337 and its sole purpose is to take as much as it can... 641 00:42:42,338 --> 00:42:46,337 And it will stop at nothing. 642 00:42:46,338 --> 00:42:47,904 For the wendigo, 643 00:42:47,905 --> 00:42:50,905 the bigger it gets, the more it wants to eat 644 00:42:56,705 --> 00:42:58,170 Lawrence Hart believes 645 00:42:58,171 --> 00:43:01,437 that Gus's wendigo sketches are further proof 646 00:43:01,438 --> 00:43:04,638 he had deduced the central Martian tactic... 647 00:43:10,571 --> 00:43:13,204 That they were relying on Allied command 648 00:43:13,205 --> 00:43:15,404 to make mass attacks, 649 00:43:15,405 --> 00:43:18,737 with the lice deployed to harvest and directly feed 650 00:43:18,738 --> 00:43:21,238 the alien war machine. 651 00:43:26,371 --> 00:43:28,504 What if the formation of this enormous Front 652 00:43:28,505 --> 00:43:31,237 was part of their grand scheme? 653 00:43:31,238 --> 00:43:34,738 What if it was the surest way to get exactly what they wanted? 654 00:43:40,438 --> 00:43:42,870 The abject failure of the push, 655 00:43:42,871 --> 00:43:46,037 and the relentless consumption of men and resources, 656 00:43:46,038 --> 00:43:49,037 had cast doubts upon the Allies' leadership. 657 00:43:49,038 --> 00:43:52,105 The government back in Britain is finished. 658 00:43:53,671 --> 00:43:56,470 They were in an impossible situation. 659 00:43:56,471 --> 00:43:59,971 No one had ever fought a war remotely like this one before. 660 00:44:01,071 --> 00:44:04,071 Something had to change. 661 00:44:09,982 --> 00:44:12,582 The catastrophe of spring 1915 662 00:44:12,676 --> 00:44:15,176 forces a change of government back in Britain. 663 00:44:21,849 --> 00:44:26,849 Younger, more progressive minds demand a fresh approach. 664 00:44:38,810 --> 00:44:42,210 To address the technological imbalance between the two sides, 665 00:44:42,252 --> 00:44:44,485 a new goal emerged... 666 00:44:44,501 --> 00:44:47,167 To lay hands on alien technology, 667 00:44:47,168 --> 00:44:49,367 and then to harness it 668 00:44:49,368 --> 00:44:52,833 and to turn it back against the enemy. 669 00:44:52,834 --> 00:44:55,334 But that was easier said than done. 670 00:44:59,101 --> 00:45:01,433 Capture a Heron. 671 00:45:01,434 --> 00:45:06,434 That was the plan. 672 00:45:08,675 --> 00:45:11,874 At St. Jans Cappell, on the French-Belgian border, 673 00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:16,375 tunnels are dug in secret all the way under the Martian line. 674 00:45:17,375 --> 00:45:19,807 Crammed with tons of explosives, 675 00:45:19,808 --> 00:45:21,874 the blast is designed to take down 676 00:45:21,875 --> 00:45:26,574 one of the Martians' ultimate killing machines. 677 00:45:26,575 --> 00:45:29,340 This mission impossible would hinge on an elite force 678 00:45:29,341 --> 00:45:34,307 of 3,000 men racing in to salvage the downed Heron 679 00:45:34,308 --> 00:45:37,307 before Spiders arrive. 680 00:45:37,308 --> 00:45:40,641 Hughie Logan was one of those men. 681 00:45:42,341 --> 00:45:44,140 Oh, it was an honour to be selected. 682 00:45:44,141 --> 00:45:47,274 No doubt about that, a great honour... 683 00:45:47,275 --> 00:45:49,840 And it was absolutely terrifying. 684 00:45:49,841 --> 00:45:52,341 We were scared to death. 685 00:45:54,208 --> 00:45:56,207 They hope to destroy 686 00:45:56,208 --> 00:46:00,208 a 5-mile section of the alien line in a single blast. 687 00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:05,907 On the 1st of July 1916, at exactly 7:00 AM, 688 00:46:05,908 --> 00:46:08,908 the dawn silence is shattered. 689 00:46:16,908 --> 00:46:21,408 The blast just knocked the wind right out of you 690 00:46:24,341 --> 00:46:25,941 They said they could feel it all the way in London 691 00:46:27,841 --> 00:46:30,340 At least one Heron is down. 692 00:46:30,341 --> 00:46:32,841 But could it be successfully retrieved? 693 00:46:37,241 --> 00:46:40,974 3,000 men will have to go tearing across 400 yards 694 00:46:40,975 --> 00:46:44,475 of blasted, shattered fields of mud. 695 00:46:45,475 --> 00:46:46,974 I pulled myself up, 696 00:46:46,975 --> 00:46:49,107 grabbed the sides of the ladder, 697 00:46:49,108 --> 00:46:51,541 climbed up and over the parapet. 698 00:46:57,575 --> 00:46:58,974 Where the ridge had been 699 00:46:58,975 --> 00:47:01,340 there was this enormous cloud of dust 700 00:47:01,341 --> 00:47:04,707 expanding across no man's land, 701 00:47:04,708 --> 00:47:08,707 and a single mass of men was running straight into it. 702 00:47:08,708 --> 00:47:10,707 And when the two came together, 703 00:47:10,708 --> 00:47:13,708 the men were gone, engulfed. 704 00:47:16,075 --> 00:47:18,074 We're moving forward, 705 00:47:18,075 --> 00:47:22,008 and then a shape appeared and then another one. 706 00:47:23,008 --> 00:47:25,507 And up ahead, there's guys' voices shouting, 707 00:47:25,508 --> 00:47:29,008 "We got two of them! We got two in the blast." 708 00:47:30,508 --> 00:47:32,440 I can't believe it. 709 00:47:32,441 --> 00:47:35,674 I can't believe what we've done. 710 00:47:35,675 --> 00:47:39,274 I'm standing feet away from this huge dome, 711 00:47:39,275 --> 00:47:43,775 the cockpit sticking out of the earth like a half-closed eye, 712 00:47:46,508 --> 00:47:49,440 but then I see something moving, 713 00:47:49,441 --> 00:47:53,807 something moving fast towards us, 714 00:47:53,808 --> 00:47:56,074 coming straight at us. 715 00:47:56,075 --> 00:47:58,575 Spiders. 716 00:48:00,575 --> 00:48:02,574 There are two of them, and then there was four, 717 00:48:02,575 --> 00:48:05,707 and then three more came and seven of them, right 718 00:48:05,708 --> 00:48:10,708 And then I'm thinking, "Jeeze. It's all over." 719 00:48:14,641 --> 00:48:16,140 With the Herons down, 720 00:48:16,141 --> 00:48:19,640 the Spiders have lost their masters. 721 00:48:19,641 --> 00:48:24,141 And the war takes an unexpected turn. 722 00:48:25,141 --> 00:48:27,141 There was no attack... 723 00:48:28,141 --> 00:48:31,874 Then one of them starts moving slowly, 724 00:48:31,875 --> 00:48:35,874 and the ribbon starts moving and spiraling up. 725 00:48:35,875 --> 00:48:39,375 All of them are doing the exact same thing. 726 00:48:40,375 --> 00:48:43,375 And they just stayed that way the whole time. 727 00:48:44,375 --> 00:48:48,374 Then we realize it's a gesture of surrender. 728 00:48:48,375 --> 00:48:51,175 They've surrendered. 729 00:48:58,708 --> 00:49:03,707 I looked and I saw coming out of the dust cloud 730 00:49:03,708 --> 00:49:08,708 the two Heron cockpits carried by those seven machines. 731 00:49:13,341 --> 00:49:17,340 The surrendered Spiders are helping the Allies. 732 00:49:17,341 --> 00:49:19,707 They are carrying the Heron cockpits 733 00:49:19,708 --> 00:49:24,708 back to the Allied line. 734 00:49:25,741 --> 00:49:27,274 Dear Clara, 735 00:49:27,275 --> 00:49:30,007 remember that race I wrote you about? 736 00:49:30,008 --> 00:49:35,007 Well, I got the gold Bluebell... In fact we all did. 737 00:49:35,008 --> 00:49:37,508 We won more than we ever hoped to. 738 00:49:47,941 --> 00:49:51,274 News of the triumph quickly spreads. 739 00:49:51,275 --> 00:49:54,274 And when the captured Heron cockpit is opened, 740 00:49:54,275 --> 00:49:58,775 at last the people of Earth know the face of their enemy. 741 00:50:01,441 --> 00:50:03,440 Those stupid newspapers... 742 00:50:03,441 --> 00:50:05,407 they said that we should be less scared 743 00:50:05,408 --> 00:50:07,407 now we know they're no bigger than us. 744 00:50:07,408 --> 00:50:10,408 Well I think they're wrong! 745 00:50:13,741 --> 00:50:15,874 Almost disregarded alongside 746 00:50:15,875 --> 00:50:17,874 the creature in the Heron cockpit 747 00:50:17,875 --> 00:50:21,374 are the first of many alien texts. 748 00:50:21,375 --> 00:50:23,440 They are sent to the code breakers, 749 00:50:23,441 --> 00:50:26,441 as all attention turns to the unopened Spiders. 750 00:50:35,675 --> 00:50:39,507 Transported to Roundway Down Experimental Station in Britain, 751 00:50:39,508 --> 00:50:41,274 scientists and soldiers prepare 752 00:50:41,275 --> 00:50:44,775 for their first encounter with a live alien. 753 00:50:53,475 --> 00:50:57,174 Of course there was no encounter... 754 00:50:57,175 --> 00:51:00,507 For the soldiers positioned here directly underneath, 755 00:51:00,508 --> 00:51:02,840 they were the first to see clearly that, 756 00:51:02,841 --> 00:51:06,474 unlike the Heron cockpits there was no pilot inside 757 00:51:06,475 --> 00:51:09,975 In fact, there was nothing discernibly living at all 758 00:51:12,808 --> 00:51:16,140 This unexpected mystery is followed 759 00:51:16,141 --> 00:51:19,340 by the gravest of discoveries... 760 00:51:19,341 --> 00:51:22,774 One that would finally reveal the fate of the vanished, 761 00:51:22,775 --> 00:51:26,275 and damn the High Command's entire war plan. 762 00:51:29,041 --> 00:51:31,240 It begins when Roundway Down 763 00:51:31,241 --> 00:51:34,741 deduces the composition of the alien machines. 764 00:51:35,908 --> 00:51:38,907 This piece is a piece 765 00:51:38,908 --> 00:51:41,874 of Heron cockpit, 766 00:51:41,875 --> 00:51:44,374 and these pieces... 767 00:51:44,375 --> 00:51:47,840 From two of the seven surrendered Spiders... 768 00:51:47,841 --> 00:51:49,907 They're all made from metals and alloys 769 00:51:49,908 --> 00:51:53,040 which are abundant on earth... 770 00:51:53,041 --> 00:51:54,840 Iron, steel, lead, 771 00:51:54,841 --> 00:51:56,607 copper, tin. 772 00:51:56,608 --> 00:51:59,207 In other words, Roundway Down realized 773 00:51:59,208 --> 00:52:01,207 that the majority of the alien war machines 774 00:52:01,208 --> 00:52:03,708 had been built after they had arrived. 775 00:52:06,808 --> 00:52:08,674 And that was when the activities 776 00:52:08,675 --> 00:52:12,274 of the Martian lice on no man's land 777 00:52:12,275 --> 00:52:15,275 began to make a dreadful new sense. 778 00:52:17,475 --> 00:52:19,640 The long-held belief that the lice 779 00:52:19,641 --> 00:52:22,040 are harvesting the bodies of the dead 780 00:52:22,041 --> 00:52:25,541 is silenced by a shocking truth. 781 00:52:28,408 --> 00:52:29,907 In fact, all along, 782 00:52:29,908 --> 00:52:33,207 there had been something of far greater worth to the aliens... 783 00:52:33,208 --> 00:52:36,840 The thousands of tonnes of shells and bullets 784 00:52:36,841 --> 00:52:39,940 and materials of warfare that we had been depositing 785 00:52:39,941 --> 00:52:43,441 on the fields of the Front every single day. 786 00:52:46,141 --> 00:52:48,774 The aliens build their killing machines 787 00:52:48,775 --> 00:52:52,341 with metals carried into battle by the Allies. 788 00:52:56,875 --> 00:52:59,874 Well, every shell I ever fired 789 00:52:59,875 --> 00:53:02,375 only ever made them stronger. 790 00:53:09,041 --> 00:53:11,074 With this realization, 791 00:53:11,075 --> 00:53:14,374 the true fate of the millions of missing soldiers... 792 00:53:14,375 --> 00:53:17,875 "the vanished"... Was finally understood. 793 00:53:18,875 --> 00:53:20,374 Here's the truth... 794 00:53:20,375 --> 00:53:22,340 And the truth is much worse 795 00:53:22,341 --> 00:53:25,374 than the rumours about the human rendering factories 796 00:53:25,375 --> 00:53:27,107 and the alien food stores 797 00:53:27,108 --> 00:53:30,040 and that's this... 798 00:53:30,041 --> 00:53:33,240 They were still there out in those fields... 799 00:53:33,241 --> 00:53:35,807 Crushed, eviscerated, 800 00:53:35,808 --> 00:53:39,607 ground into the mud. 801 00:53:39,608 --> 00:53:43,040 All the while the lice were swarming around 802 00:53:43,041 --> 00:53:45,640 and they were foraging for what they truly valued... 803 00:53:45,641 --> 00:53:48,574 And that was the lead, the metal, 804 00:53:48,575 --> 00:53:53,141 the steel to make even bigger and greater machines of war. 805 00:53:56,608 --> 00:54:00,108 And then we learnt what really happened. 806 00:54:01,408 --> 00:54:04,107 They weren't taken away by the Martians at all! 807 00:54:04,108 --> 00:54:08,374 They were still there, in that mud. 808 00:54:08,375 --> 00:54:13,375 They were crushed and churned up! 809 00:54:14,608 --> 00:54:19,607 And all they wanted was the metal! 810 00:54:19,608 --> 00:54:23,108 I'll never stop hating them for what they did. 811 00:54:34,108 --> 00:54:35,740 These corridors under 812 00:54:35,741 --> 00:54:39,107 the Combined Allied Commission for the Vanished 813 00:54:39,108 --> 00:54:42,407 bear mute witness to the sheer numbers who died. 814 00:54:42,408 --> 00:54:45,207 Look in each of these boxes... 815 00:54:45,208 --> 00:54:47,707 34 files... 816 00:54:47,708 --> 00:54:50,840 Each file is a human life lost in the war, 817 00:54:50,841 --> 00:54:55,841 and there are 27 miles of corridors. 818 00:55:01,808 --> 00:55:05,574 This is the lowest moment of the war 819 00:55:05,575 --> 00:55:09,740 Humanity is staring into the abyss, 820 00:55:09,741 --> 00:55:11,807 but Roundway Down are about to discover 821 00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:15,808 an alien secret that could turn the tide of the war... 822 00:55:27,380 --> 00:55:30,145 Across Europe, the mood is dark. 823 00:55:30,146 --> 00:55:33,146 But at Roundway Down, there is a breakthrough. 824 00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:44,199 In analyzing the surrendered Spiders, 825 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,432 the element that enables and powers them 826 00:55:46,433 --> 00:55:48,366 is examined in detail. 827 00:55:49,733 --> 00:55:54,233 To the perplexed scientists, it's nothing short of a wonder. 828 00:55:55,233 --> 00:55:57,732 This liquid element which powers 829 00:55:57,733 --> 00:56:00,432 all movement and weaponry in the Martian machines 830 00:56:00,433 --> 00:56:02,532 is like nothing previously observed. 831 00:56:02,533 --> 00:56:06,099 An organic metal capable of self-replication 832 00:56:06,100 --> 00:56:09,232 and what we can only term as awareness. 833 00:56:09,233 --> 00:56:13,099 As we investigate it responds and appears to work with us. 834 00:56:13,100 --> 00:56:14,665 Though impossible to classify, 835 00:56:14,666 --> 00:56:17,166 we have given it a name victicite. 836 00:56:22,366 --> 00:56:24,865 The discovery is a lifeline. 837 00:56:24,866 --> 00:56:26,532 The order immediately goes out 838 00:56:26,533 --> 00:56:28,999 to turn the wonder material victicite 839 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,500 back against the aliens. 840 00:56:32,766 --> 00:56:35,065 There were profound philosophical questions 841 00:56:35,066 --> 00:56:38,632 to be asked about victicite... 842 00:56:38,633 --> 00:56:40,899 Its nature, its properties... 843 00:56:40,900 --> 00:56:44,399 But all that was left by the wayside. 844 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,500 Why? Progress was being made! 845 00:56:53,766 --> 00:56:56,665 A first wave of victicite-based war machines 846 00:56:56,666 --> 00:56:59,166 are soon rolling off the assembly line... 847 00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:06,999 Including an all terrain fighting vehicle 848 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,532 called a landship. 849 00:57:11,533 --> 00:57:13,299 They are swiftly tested, 850 00:57:13,300 --> 00:57:15,932 made front line ready, 851 00:57:15,933 --> 00:57:19,433 and in October 1916, deployed. 852 00:57:23,933 --> 00:57:26,433 Prematurely, as it turned out. 853 00:57:37,433 --> 00:57:38,999 At Douchey, Les Mines, 854 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,699 we were hasty, and it ended in failure. 855 00:57:41,700 --> 00:57:43,699 But it was an encouraging failure. 856 00:57:43,700 --> 00:57:46,332 We had successfully engaged the alien for a while 857 00:57:46,333 --> 00:57:49,665 and it was his overwhelming superiority in numbers 858 00:57:49,666 --> 00:57:52,965 and really bad battlefield conditions 859 00:57:52,966 --> 00:57:54,465 that proved too much. 860 00:57:54,466 --> 00:57:57,733 So there was ground here for real optimism. 861 00:58:05,433 --> 00:58:06,665 Faced with weapons 862 00:58:06,666 --> 00:58:08,933 made using their own technology, 863 00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,865 the Martian strategy shifts. 864 00:58:15,866 --> 00:58:19,332 All along the Front, attacks intensify. 865 00:58:19,333 --> 00:58:22,332 The aliens are no longer nurturing war. 866 00:58:22,333 --> 00:58:24,866 They're going for outright victory. 867 00:58:30,633 --> 00:58:33,632 Then, on November the 5th 868 00:58:33,633 --> 00:58:38,299 Allied command's worst fears are realized. 869 00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:40,465 Near the northern tip of the line 870 00:58:40,466 --> 00:58:42,465 in the Netherlands, 871 00:58:42,466 --> 00:58:44,966 a single Heron breaks through to the Channel ports. 872 00:58:49,366 --> 00:58:51,365 This is the stuff of nightmares... 873 00:58:51,366 --> 00:58:52,865 After three years, 874 00:58:52,866 --> 00:58:54,865 the moment everyone in Great Britain 875 00:58:54,866 --> 00:58:56,366 has been dreading has arrived. 876 00:58:58,666 --> 00:59:02,666 Well, there is chaos here in Command Centre. 877 00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:06,265 It's low tide in the Thames, 878 00:59:06,266 --> 00:59:08,432 so the navy can't give chase, 879 00:59:08,433 --> 00:59:10,632 and the small force that was originally assigned 880 00:59:10,633 --> 00:59:12,365 to protect the British mainland, 881 00:59:12,366 --> 00:59:14,365 the Home Air Defence Squadron, 882 00:59:14,366 --> 00:59:16,366 it was critically depleted. 883 00:59:18,366 --> 00:59:19,865 There are just two pilots 884 00:59:19,866 --> 00:59:22,299 within striking distance of London, 885 00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:27,300 testing new victicite-based weaponry 886 00:59:28,433 --> 00:59:32,066 British aces Edwin Sinclair and Gregory West. 887 00:59:34,066 --> 00:59:36,300 They are immediately scrambled. 888 00:59:41,166 --> 00:59:44,399 As the invader advances up the Thames estuary, 889 00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,299 warnings spread throughout London, 890 00:59:46,300 --> 00:59:49,999 and anti-alien batteries in Regent's park take up position. 891 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,500 Now most people flee westward, away from the danger, 892 00:59:59,500 --> 01:00:01,099 but thousands of people, 893 01:00:01,100 --> 01:00:03,065 with no conception of the danger they're in, 894 01:00:03,066 --> 01:00:05,032 choose to line the embankment. 895 01:00:05,033 --> 01:00:07,299 The police are issued with rifles. 896 01:00:07,300 --> 01:00:10,299 But as they attempt to drive the crowd back, 897 01:00:10,300 --> 01:00:13,300 a silence suddenly falls as a shape heaves into view. 898 01:00:21,033 --> 01:00:25,132 And there it is. 899 01:00:25,133 --> 01:00:27,565 Do I run? 900 01:00:27,566 --> 01:00:29,065 Do I hell! 901 01:00:29,066 --> 01:00:31,066 I run straight at it! 902 01:00:40,633 --> 01:00:44,632 The new weaponry stalls the Heron 903 01:00:44,633 --> 01:00:46,733 but it's not enough. 904 01:00:48,700 --> 01:00:50,699 And it's here that it fires 905 01:00:50,700 --> 01:00:54,199 a single shot at Sinclair's plane, 906 01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:55,932 and as we all know, 907 01:00:55,933 --> 01:00:57,833 the shot misses and strikes Big Ben. 908 01:01:04,833 --> 01:01:07,400 But help is on the way.. 909 01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,400 A third aircraft is coming in. 910 01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,399 It has followed the path of the Heron 911 01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,699 all the way from the Dutch coast. 912 01:01:17,700 --> 01:01:21,432 In the cockpit is a young Hungarian aristocrat, 913 01:01:21,433 --> 01:01:23,599 Count Laslo Andrazovski, 914 01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,600 and he is about to become the most famous man in Europe. 915 01:01:34,333 --> 01:01:36,999 I saw him give the signal to the other two, 916 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,532 and they came in behind him, 917 01:01:38,533 --> 01:01:42,033 and he leads 'em straight down to the bastard. 918 01:01:46,633 --> 01:01:48,200 Gotcha! 919 01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,299 The expertly coordinated fir 920 01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:58,800 had broken through the Heron's shield. 921 01:02:00,133 --> 01:02:02,132 Count Lazslo's first visit to London 922 01:02:02,133 --> 01:02:04,999 would become the stuff of legend. 923 01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,299 And as for the brief footage of the falling Heron, 924 01:02:08,300 --> 01:02:10,665 that would be replayed again and again 925 01:02:10,666 --> 01:02:12,165 throughout the entire world. 926 01:02:12,166 --> 01:02:16,165 It was of immense value for public morale. 927 01:02:16,166 --> 01:02:18,132 Of greatest importance, of course, 928 01:02:18,133 --> 01:02:20,766 was what happened in the aftermath. 929 01:02:21,766 --> 01:02:24,265 The London crowd, baying for blood, 930 01:02:24,266 --> 01:02:26,633 descends on the fallen Heron. 931 01:02:27,633 --> 01:02:29,632 Then we are runnin' onto the bridge, 932 01:02:29,633 --> 01:02:32,465 and there's fire and all sorts falling on top of us, 933 01:02:32,466 --> 01:02:33,965 but we don't care, 934 01:02:33,966 --> 01:02:36,532 'cos we're so busy tearing at the cockpit. 935 01:02:36,533 --> 01:02:38,065 And I want to do it, too 936 01:02:38,066 --> 01:02:40,032 because I want the same as they want, 937 01:02:40,033 --> 01:02:42,365 I want to be the one that finds him 938 01:02:42,366 --> 01:02:44,400 and rips him out of the wreckage! 939 01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,466 Then there's a surprise. 940 01:02:48,466 --> 01:02:52,199 I see him and he's alive! 941 01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:57,133 Wriggling like an eel on a hook 942 01:02:58,133 --> 01:03:02,800 and then he sees me and he's scared. 943 01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,300 I know he's scared of me 944 01:03:08,866 --> 01:03:11,365 And then the police come racing through on their horses 945 01:03:11,366 --> 01:03:13,866 and we're all forced back on the bridge. 946 01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:18,099 The mounted police clear the crowds 947 01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:22,732 and escort the living alien as it is rushed to Roundway Down. 948 01:03:22,733 --> 01:03:25,365 But within minutes of its arrival, 949 01:03:25,366 --> 01:03:27,866 the Martian pilot is dead 950 01:03:29,433 --> 01:03:33,332 Any initial disappointment vanishes during the post-mortem, 951 01:03:33,333 --> 01:03:36,099 because here Roundway Down 952 01:03:36,100 --> 01:03:38,599 make their key discovery of the entire war, 953 01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,600 and it's immediately classified "Most Secret" 954 01:03:50,433 --> 01:03:52,532 The autopsy reveals the alien died 955 01:03:52,533 --> 01:03:56,533 from infection by an animal virus called glanders. 956 01:03:58,066 --> 01:04:01,566 It was caught through contact with the police horses. 957 01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:06,299 Now at Roundway Down, 958 01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:08,965 the race is on to replicate the virus 959 01:04:08,966 --> 01:04:13,433 and create a super weapon 960 01:04:14,433 --> 01:04:17,433 The code name of the weapon is Trojan Horse. 961 01:04:19,433 --> 01:04:21,433 It couldn't come soon enough. 962 01:04:29,937 --> 01:04:32,736 After three years of crippling war, 963 01:04:32,737 --> 01:04:37,136 the Allies have found a virus lethal to the aliens. 964 01:04:37,137 --> 01:04:40,637 But the Martian attacks are intensifying on land and sea. 965 01:04:47,737 --> 01:04:51,237 The troops at the front cannot hold them off much longer. 966 01:05:02,203 --> 01:05:04,002 They seemed indestructible. 967 01:05:04,003 --> 01:05:05,803 I remember one of them... 968 01:05:06,211 --> 01:05:08,711 There was this guy next to you, 969 01:05:11,912 --> 01:05:14,412 and then this foot comes down and crushes this guy 970 01:05:15,412 --> 01:05:18,478 like leaves on the sole of your boots. 971 01:05:18,479 --> 01:05:21,012 I mean, how do you fight something like that? 972 01:05:22,012 --> 01:05:24,912 We needed something, and we needed it fast. 973 01:05:30,020 --> 01:05:32,585 As the line continues to fray, 974 01:05:32,586 --> 01:05:34,219 the Aerial Reconnaissance Division 975 01:05:34,220 --> 01:05:37,720 sights large numbers of alien machines moving west. 976 01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,720 There is no time to lose 977 01:05:53,420 --> 01:05:55,952 In January 1917, 978 01:05:55,953 --> 01:06:00,453 a solemn report is delivered to the Allied leadership. 979 01:06:03,753 --> 01:06:05,752 It is with the heaviest of hearts 980 01:06:05,753 --> 01:06:08,385 we must conclude within the next six months 981 01:06:08,386 --> 01:06:10,552 the total breakdown of our defensive line 982 01:06:10,553 --> 01:06:14,053 on the Martian Front is a certainty. 983 01:06:16,053 --> 01:06:18,185 Just nine days after this statement 984 01:06:18,186 --> 01:06:20,552 predicts the fall of Europe, 985 01:06:20,553 --> 01:06:24,052 three American naval destroyers returning to New York 986 01:06:24,053 --> 01:06:26,953 are sunk off the gulf of Mexico. 987 01:06:27,953 --> 01:06:29,652 You do know there weren't any actual 988 01:06:29,653 --> 01:06:31,319 sightings of alien machines... 989 01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,819 Just distress signals and garbled messages 990 01:06:34,820 --> 01:06:36,820 about coming under attack 991 01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:45,419 Allied U-boats did have a range of 5,000 miles... 992 01:06:45,420 --> 01:06:47,919 More than enough to be in those waters. 993 01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,819 Look, I'm not saying the were in those waters. 994 01:06:50,820 --> 01:06:52,319 All I'm saying is that 995 01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:54,320 they could have been in those waters. 996 01:06:59,253 --> 01:07:01,385 Aliens or Allies, 997 01:07:01,386 --> 01:07:06,352 the debate still simmers as to who was behind the attacks. 998 01:07:06,353 --> 01:07:11,252 What is certain is hysteria took hold on American streets. 999 01:07:11,253 --> 01:07:15,253 Roosevelt's pro-war supporters besieged the White House. 1000 01:07:16,253 --> 01:07:17,852 Wilson has become 1001 01:07:17,853 --> 01:07:20,120 the lamest of presidential ducks. 1002 01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,485 This can come to only one conclusion, 1003 01:07:23,486 --> 01:07:25,986 and it's an unprecedented one. 1004 01:07:28,286 --> 01:07:30,652 Woodrow Wilson resigns, 1005 01:07:30,653 --> 01:07:34,285 Roosevelt is sworn in as US president, 1006 01:07:34,286 --> 01:07:37,785 and on the 17th of February 1917, 1007 01:07:37,786 --> 01:07:41,286 America finally enters the war against the Martians 1008 01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:46,452 Within months, the volunteer "Frontiersmen", 1009 01:07:46,453 --> 01:07:48,519 now hardened veterans, 1010 01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:52,552 see their conscripted American countrymen arriving in France, 1011 01:07:52,553 --> 01:07:56,053 at the rate of 12,000 men a day... 1012 01:07:57,553 --> 01:07:59,019 That was a good thing. 1013 01:07:59,020 --> 01:08:00,185 They were finally coming 1014 01:08:00,186 --> 01:08:02,219 Yeah, nice to see them. 1015 01:08:02,220 --> 01:08:04,485 Mazel tov! What took you so long? 1016 01:08:04,486 --> 01:08:05,985 You know, I'm serious... 1017 01:08:05,986 --> 01:08:07,485 I mean, what took them so long? 1018 01:08:07,486 --> 01:08:09,486 We'd been in this thing for three years already. 1019 01:08:16,486 --> 01:08:18,052 With this massive injection 1020 01:08:18,053 --> 01:08:20,319 of troops from the States 1021 01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,820 Allied command prepares for the end game. 1022 01:08:25,686 --> 01:08:28,119 The Allies are playing all their cards here. 1023 01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:30,620 This is it now. This is all or nothing. 1024 01:08:32,886 --> 01:08:34,919 Immediately after the Westminster alien's 1025 01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,219 death from infection, 1026 01:08:37,220 --> 01:08:38,719 Roundway Down begins 1027 01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:41,852 mass-producing the glanders virus. 1028 01:08:41,853 --> 01:08:46,052 They must now deliver the weapon to the enemy. 1029 01:08:46,053 --> 01:08:49,019 The risks to humans are uncertain, 1030 01:08:49,020 --> 01:08:50,519 but for High Command, 1031 01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:53,019 there is no alternative to biological warfare 1032 01:08:53,020 --> 01:08:54,520 on the Martian Front. 1033 01:09:03,820 --> 01:09:06,152 In the summer of 1917, 1034 01:09:06,153 --> 01:09:10,352 rumours of an Allied secret weapon are spreading fast, 1035 01:09:10,353 --> 01:09:12,520 infecting the men with hope. 1036 01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,219 It hardly seems possible 1037 01:09:21,220 --> 01:09:23,919 but I feel it like a fire inside me. 1038 01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:25,719 After four years of losses... 1039 01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,385 Four years of blood, of agony, 1040 01:09:28,386 --> 01:09:31,886 of endless murder... we can win. 1041 01:09:36,020 --> 01:09:39,985 They had developed a secret weapon. 1042 01:09:39,986 --> 01:09:42,085 So you know, alright... Bring it on. 1043 01:09:42,086 --> 01:09:45,586 We're ready to go. 1044 01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:50,119 No one knew what it was, 1045 01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:53,386 but we believed that it could help us win. 1046 01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:00,719 The days tick by, 1047 01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:04,352 and the alien army continues to reinforce. 1048 01:10:04,353 --> 01:10:08,752 Roundway Down are struggling to mass-produce the virus. 1049 01:10:08,753 --> 01:10:13,253 With no sign of a new weapon at the Front, hope fades. 1050 01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:22,785 Each day there were a million Spiders creeping closer, 1051 01:10:22,786 --> 01:10:27,420 and then every day we're saying, "Okay, where's the weapon?" 1052 01:10:28,420 --> 01:10:33,252 They were only 50, 40, 30 miles away, 1053 01:10:33,253 --> 01:10:36,253 and still nothing. 1054 01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:38,819 And then we were told 1055 01:10:38,820 --> 01:10:41,885 that we were going into battle in three days, 1056 01:10:41,886 --> 01:10:45,385 and now there was no feeling at all, 1057 01:10:45,386 --> 01:10:50,352 'cause we knew nothing's coming to save us. 1058 01:10:50,353 --> 01:10:52,353 Nothing. 1059 01:10:57,686 --> 01:11:00,519 It was a terrible realization. 1060 01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:04,019 There was no answer... Just disillusionment. 1061 01:11:04,020 --> 01:11:06,686 That's all... Utter disillusionment. 1062 01:11:07,853 --> 01:11:10,685 Desertions were occurring up and down the Allied Front, 1063 01:11:10,686 --> 01:11:12,185 as well as several mutinies 1064 01:11:12,186 --> 01:11:14,186 which had to be forcibly put down. 1065 01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,586 I had it. I left. 1066 01:11:18,586 --> 01:11:20,685 I knew this was my last time, 1067 01:11:20,686 --> 01:11:22,385 I would not survive. 1068 01:11:22,386 --> 01:11:25,085 I had this feeling that my time was up. 1069 01:11:25,086 --> 01:11:28,019 I was a soldier for four years, 1070 01:11:28,020 --> 01:11:32,019 and yet from now and forever, 1071 01:11:32,020 --> 01:11:35,520 I'll be a deserter. 1072 01:11:37,853 --> 01:11:40,085 Only the elite few know 1073 01:11:40,086 --> 01:11:44,585 Operation Trojan Horse is finally ready, 1074 01:11:44,586 --> 01:11:49,085 but its success is dependent on a mass assault. 1075 01:11:49,086 --> 01:11:52,086 It's vital the troops are rallied. 1076 01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:56,719 Field marshal Sir Douglas Haig 1077 01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,720 issues a special order of the day 1078 01:12:01,386 --> 01:12:03,885 Many amongst us are tired. 1079 01:12:03,886 --> 01:12:06,119 To those, I say hold firm. 1080 01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:08,619 Ultimate victory is within our grasp. 1081 01:12:08,620 --> 01:12:10,119 With our backs to the wall, 1082 01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:12,485 and believing in the justice of our cause, 1083 01:12:12,486 --> 01:12:15,752 each one of us must fight on to the end. 1084 01:12:15,753 --> 01:12:19,019 The safety of our homes and the freedom of mankind alike 1085 01:12:19,020 --> 01:12:21,485 depend upon the conduct of each one of us 1086 01:12:21,486 --> 01:12:23,486 at this critical moment. 1087 01:12:27,586 --> 01:12:29,252 Haig's words hit the mark 1088 01:12:29,253 --> 01:12:30,885 The line rallied. 1089 01:12:30,886 --> 01:12:32,585 Order seemed to restore itself... 1090 01:12:32,586 --> 01:12:34,919 Even though very few remained in any doubt 1091 01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:36,420 as to their probable fate 1092 01:12:42,353 --> 01:12:45,019 The night before the last offensive 1093 01:12:45,020 --> 01:12:49,019 William Payne leaves his diary in a field hospital 1094 01:12:49,020 --> 01:12:50,519 The final entry is addressed 1095 01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:53,086 to the young nurse he had long admired. 1096 01:12:54,086 --> 01:12:56,919 You bestow a million kindnesses 1097 01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,752 upon men you know not 1098 01:12:59,753 --> 01:13:02,452 and never see again. 1099 01:13:02,453 --> 01:13:06,152 Perform one more for another... 1100 01:13:06,153 --> 01:13:11,153 Keep this safe as if it were my heart. 1101 01:13:14,186 --> 01:13:17,185 At 7:00 AM the following day, 1102 01:13:17,186 --> 01:13:21,186 the largest military offensive in human history begins. 1103 01:13:28,391 --> 01:13:30,791 The secret weapon is ready, 1104 01:13:30,890 --> 01:13:32,889 and the means to carry the infection 1105 01:13:32,890 --> 01:13:35,890 to the aliens is in place 1106 01:13:39,857 --> 01:13:44,489 Great herds of glanders-infected horses are waiting, 1107 01:13:44,490 --> 01:13:47,990 massed in vast pens along a 50-mile line. 1108 01:13:50,223 --> 01:13:53,256 These unwitting weapons of mass destruction 1109 01:13:53,257 --> 01:13:55,756 are tended by volunteer wardens... 1110 01:13:55,757 --> 01:13:57,757 like Hughie Logan. 1111 01:14:00,990 --> 01:14:02,522 I'd never seen so many horses all together... 1112 01:14:02,523 --> 01:14:04,022 Nobody had. 1113 01:14:04,023 --> 01:14:06,956 And that was just our station. 1114 01:14:06,957 --> 01:14:11,022 Success requires an attack to draw the Martians in, 1115 01:14:11,023 --> 01:14:13,556 followed by a surprise retreat, 1116 01:14:13,557 --> 01:14:17,557 which will lure the alien towards the horse pens. 1117 01:14:18,957 --> 01:14:20,989 The entire attack is focused 1118 01:14:20,990 --> 01:14:23,489 on one 50-mile section. 1119 01:14:23,490 --> 01:14:25,489 This is the greatest concentration 1120 01:14:25,490 --> 01:14:26,990 of troops ever seen. 1121 01:14:32,890 --> 01:14:34,422 The entire army is thrown 1122 01:14:34,423 --> 01:14:37,122 against the alien legion 1123 01:14:37,123 --> 01:14:41,256 The results are predictable. 1124 01:14:41,257 --> 01:14:45,257 The Allies take horrendous casualties, 1125 01:14:47,757 --> 01:14:49,757 barely holding the line. 1126 01:14:56,257 --> 01:14:57,756 Then the order goes up 1127 01:14:57,757 --> 01:15:01,257 to pull the trigger on the secret weapon. 1128 01:15:02,523 --> 01:15:04,122 They suddenly turn 1129 01:15:04,123 --> 01:15:06,023 and begin a full retreat 1130 01:15:09,023 --> 01:15:11,222 The Martians give chase, 1131 01:15:11,223 --> 01:15:16,223 annihilating everything and everyone in their path. 1132 01:15:17,223 --> 01:15:19,223 This has become a rout. 1133 01:15:22,290 --> 01:15:23,422 And it is exactly 1134 01:15:23,423 --> 01:15:25,789 what High Command had hoped for. 1135 01:15:25,790 --> 01:15:27,489 The triumphant aliens, 1136 01:15:27,490 --> 01:15:30,022 charging after the retreating troops, 1137 01:15:30,023 --> 01:15:32,523 are heading right where the Allies want them. 1138 01:15:38,857 --> 01:15:42,889 The whistles sound and the wardens open the gates, 1139 01:15:42,890 --> 01:15:45,156 sending thousands of infected horses 1140 01:15:45,157 --> 01:15:49,022 stampeding through the ranks of retreating soldiers 1141 01:15:49,023 --> 01:15:50,657 towards the Martians. 1142 01:15:55,657 --> 01:16:00,089 We had to drive the horses back towards the line. 1143 01:16:00,090 --> 01:16:03,589 We lined up at the back of the pen 1144 01:16:03,590 --> 01:16:06,689 and we shouted at them, 1145 01:16:06,690 --> 01:16:10,189 screamed at them, hit them. 1146 01:16:10,190 --> 01:16:12,289 And I was glad I was wearing my gas mask, 1147 01:16:12,290 --> 01:16:15,790 because I didn't want them to see me. 1148 01:16:17,723 --> 01:16:21,756 And once they panic, 1149 01:16:21,757 --> 01:16:25,756 they'll all go in a herd even the old cart horses 1150 01:16:25,757 --> 01:16:27,756 They'll get the scent in their nostrils, 1151 01:16:27,757 --> 01:16:30,856 and they'll follow, too, 1152 01:16:30,857 --> 01:16:33,322 and that's what happened 1153 01:16:33,323 --> 01:16:34,822 Bang! 1154 01:16:34,823 --> 01:16:38,189 Away they went at full gallop, 1155 01:16:38,190 --> 01:16:41,757 right into that fury, that hell. 1156 01:16:48,523 --> 01:16:50,689 The infected horses are engulfed 1157 01:16:50,690 --> 01:16:53,656 by the alien advance. 1158 01:16:53,657 --> 01:16:55,889 To the soldiers on the ground, 1159 01:16:55,890 --> 01:16:59,390 this action seems both horrific and futile. 1160 01:17:03,390 --> 01:17:05,389 The alien force resumes 1161 01:17:05,390 --> 01:17:08,722 its pounding action towards the coast, 1162 01:17:08,723 --> 01:17:11,956 without any clue that the fatal blow has already been struck. 1163 01:17:11,957 --> 01:17:15,957 And that the day and indeed the entire war are finally ours. 1164 01:17:19,023 --> 01:17:23,023 Operation Trojan Horse has delivered. 1165 01:17:24,023 --> 01:17:26,556 The invading army never reached the coast. 1166 01:17:26,557 --> 01:17:29,389 Within days and within hours, 1167 01:17:29,390 --> 01:17:32,256 the Herons come to a complete standstill. 1168 01:17:32,257 --> 01:17:34,022 In each of the cockpits, 1169 01:17:34,023 --> 01:17:36,523 the lone pilot is rapidly dying. 1170 01:17:37,890 --> 01:17:40,289 The symptoms are always the same... 1171 01:17:40,290 --> 01:17:41,989 Frothing at the mouth, 1172 01:17:41,990 --> 01:17:44,522 grossly swollen respiratory tract, 1173 01:17:44,523 --> 01:17:48,523 and in their single lung, a fatal accumulation of fluid. 1174 01:17:49,623 --> 01:17:53,789 Simply put, they drowned 1175 01:17:53,790 --> 01:17:55,822 Two day later, 1176 01:17:55,823 --> 01:17:59,323 the Allies proclaim victory around the world 1177 01:18:03,323 --> 01:18:08,323 Victory, but a victory won on the hardest terms. 1178 01:18:18,323 --> 01:18:20,022 Two million were lost. 1179 01:18:20,023 --> 01:18:22,022 Now, let me be quite clear about that... 1180 01:18:22,023 --> 01:18:25,523 That's two million that Allied command were willing to lose. 1181 01:18:26,623 --> 01:18:30,622 It was an immense price, 1182 01:18:30,623 --> 01:18:33,089 but it was the price that was necessary 1183 01:18:33,090 --> 01:18:37,589 in order to induce the deep systemic infection of the alien 1184 01:18:37,590 --> 01:18:40,723 that was needed for us to win. 1185 01:18:43,057 --> 01:18:46,022 In the immediate aftermath of the war, 1186 01:18:46,023 --> 01:18:49,989 the infected horses and millions of refugees 1187 01:18:49,990 --> 01:18:54,189 struggled to survive in the ruins that was once Europe. 1188 01:18:54,190 --> 01:18:58,522 In the squalor, the glanders virus spreads. 1189 01:18:58,523 --> 01:19:01,089 As it does, it mutates, 1190 01:19:01,090 --> 01:19:04,056 and soon becomes an airborne contagion 1191 01:19:04,057 --> 01:19:08,422 that easily infects the mass of susceptible humans. 1192 01:19:08,423 --> 01:19:10,756 Over the next five years 1193 01:19:10,757 --> 01:19:14,256 the death toll from "Martian flu" 1194 01:19:14,257 --> 01:19:17,356 would reach 100 million. 1195 01:19:17,357 --> 01:19:20,857 One casualty is young Clara Logan. 1196 01:19:23,723 --> 01:19:25,089 She died in 1920. 1197 01:19:25,090 --> 01:19:28,489 It was nearly the end of it. 1198 01:19:28,490 --> 01:19:31,990 She was one of the last it took. 1199 01:19:33,757 --> 01:19:36,757 She was 23. 1200 01:19:39,957 --> 01:19:42,956 Was it me? 1201 01:19:42,957 --> 01:19:47,456 Was I one of the guys that brought it back? 1202 01:19:47,457 --> 01:19:50,056 Maybe. 1203 01:19:50,057 --> 01:19:54,522 I didn't know. 1204 01:19:54,523 --> 01:19:59,389 I still don't know. 1205 01:19:59,390 --> 01:20:02,890 All I knew was... 1206 01:20:06,357 --> 01:20:08,857 she was gone. 1207 01:20:21,957 --> 01:20:25,389 As Europe begins to put itself back together, 1208 01:20:25,390 --> 01:20:27,389 the Martian nest sites reveal 1209 01:20:27,390 --> 01:20:30,890 their immense stockpiles of victicite. 1210 01:20:32,357 --> 01:20:35,356 The contents of the alien nest sites 1211 01:20:35,357 --> 01:20:36,856 were the biggest, 1212 01:20:36,857 --> 01:20:40,689 and most valuable prize of all waiting for us. 1213 01:20:40,690 --> 01:20:44,889 Vast quantities of victicite presented humankind 1214 01:20:44,890 --> 01:20:47,890 with enormous possibilities. 1215 01:20:49,223 --> 01:20:50,722 The products of victicite 1216 01:20:50,723 --> 01:20:53,889 become a vital part of the modern world. 1217 01:20:53,890 --> 01:20:55,589 This organic metal, 1218 01:20:55,590 --> 01:20:58,656 with its ability to perceive and respond, 1219 01:20:58,657 --> 01:21:03,157 opens up a technological gold rush. 1220 01:21:05,090 --> 01:21:07,756 I'm constantly surprised at the number of our visitors 1221 01:21:07,757 --> 01:21:11,089 who just don't seem to realize how many aspects of modern life 1222 01:21:11,090 --> 01:21:13,956 can be traced right back to the Martian war... 1223 01:21:13,957 --> 01:21:16,356 So many advancements that we've made 1224 01:21:16,357 --> 01:21:19,089 in telecommunications, in science and engineering, 1225 01:21:19,090 --> 01:21:21,089 and in medicine... Even in travel. 1226 01:21:21,090 --> 01:21:25,590 They can be traced right back to this time, to them. 1227 01:21:31,823 --> 01:21:34,822 Kim Lafonde has grown up in a world 1228 01:21:34,823 --> 01:21:39,722 that has prospered through the widespread use of victicite. 1229 01:21:39,723 --> 01:21:42,022 But the key to the Martian code she uncovered 1230 01:21:42,023 --> 01:21:44,389 in her great grandfather's cabin 1231 01:21:44,390 --> 01:21:48,889 is set to question the benefits of this progress 1232 01:21:48,890 --> 01:21:52,889 Kim may have lifted the lid on a warning... 1233 01:21:52,890 --> 01:21:55,390 The invasion is not over. 1234 01:22:03,627 --> 01:22:06,159 My family, at some point, 1235 01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:09,660 we forgot my great grandfather. 1236 01:22:12,860 --> 01:22:15,726 I was born nine years after he died, 1237 01:22:15,727 --> 01:22:17,226 and 21 years later, 1238 01:22:17,227 --> 01:22:21,059 I came here and opened up that trunk. 1239 01:22:21,060 --> 01:22:24,526 The things that he learned about the war, 1240 01:22:24,527 --> 01:22:26,526 those things survived. 1241 01:22:26,527 --> 01:22:28,026 They remain in this book 1242 01:22:28,027 --> 01:22:31,027 and they were here for me to find. 1243 01:22:39,660 --> 01:22:42,126 In his study of these notebooks, 1244 01:22:42,127 --> 01:22:44,192 the historian Lawrence Hart believes 1245 01:22:44,193 --> 01:22:47,026 that Gus's Anishinaabe heritage 1246 01:22:47,027 --> 01:22:48,892 granted him a unique perspective 1247 01:22:48,893 --> 01:22:51,126 on the alien symbols, 1248 01:22:51,127 --> 01:22:54,627 and led directly to the cracking of the Martian code. 1249 01:22:57,593 --> 01:22:59,726 Hart has completed the work, 1250 01:22:59,727 --> 01:23:03,226 and applied it to the collected alien texts. 1251 01:23:03,227 --> 01:23:04,726 To his surprise, 1252 01:23:04,727 --> 01:23:07,226 many appear to be very personal writings, 1253 01:23:07,227 --> 01:23:08,727 even laments. 1254 01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:11,933 These are not unlike our letters 1255 01:23:11,958 --> 01:23:15,046 and diaries written by our own. 1256 01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:17,359 Now, this symbol here 1257 01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:20,659 is the most common symbol translated in the texts. 1258 01:23:20,660 --> 01:23:23,292 We find it over and over and over again. 1259 01:23:23,293 --> 01:23:27,293 And the nearest word I can translate is this 1260 01:23:35,093 --> 01:23:37,092 But most extraordinary 1261 01:23:37,093 --> 01:23:40,160 is the text recovered fro the Westminster Heron. 1262 01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:46,459 Hart is convinced it wasn't trying to obliterate London, 1263 01:23:46,460 --> 01:23:48,460 but offer a warning. 1264 01:23:49,460 --> 01:23:51,459 These are some of the key symbols 1265 01:23:51,460 --> 01:23:53,626 that make up the text. 1266 01:23:53,627 --> 01:23:55,892 Now this first row here 1267 01:23:55,893 --> 01:23:57,392 the alien describes himself 1268 01:23:57,393 --> 01:24:01,692 as a warrior that represents all warriors. 1269 01:24:01,693 --> 01:24:05,692 Now here, he says that he has been deceived, 1270 01:24:05,693 --> 01:24:08,493 like we will be deceived 1271 01:24:09,493 --> 01:24:11,626 Hart believes that the deception 1272 01:24:11,627 --> 01:24:15,092 described by the Westminster alien is that their race 1273 01:24:15,093 --> 01:24:17,526 was itself once invaded, 1274 01:24:17,527 --> 01:24:21,492 and infected by a parasite... 1275 01:24:21,493 --> 01:24:25,492 The same parasite that drove them to invade Earth in 1913... 1276 01:24:25,493 --> 01:24:27,493 To infect us. 1277 01:24:29,993 --> 01:24:32,192 The text goes on to recount how, 1278 01:24:32,193 --> 01:24:34,792 a long time ago in their history, 1279 01:24:34,793 --> 01:24:38,192 their planet was invaded by an alien species 1280 01:24:38,193 --> 01:24:43,026 whose technology was powered by this symbol here... 1281 01:24:43,027 --> 01:24:46,527 A thriving metal that feeds on life. 1282 01:24:49,893 --> 01:24:51,892 The strange metal material 1283 01:24:51,893 --> 01:24:56,893 described in this translation Hart believes is victicite. 1284 01:24:59,127 --> 01:25:01,459 Victicite has long been recognized 1285 01:25:01,460 --> 01:25:03,559 as a form of life in its own right. 1286 01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:05,726 So ask yourself this... 1287 01:25:05,727 --> 01:25:07,392 What is a form of life 1288 01:25:07,393 --> 01:25:10,926 that takes possession of another species, 1289 01:25:10,927 --> 01:25:12,692 that modifies its host behaviour 1290 01:25:12,693 --> 01:25:15,226 to dispense itself in even greater numbers? 1291 01:25:15,227 --> 01:25:18,959 What else if not a parasite? 1292 01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:22,460 But that is precisely what victicite is. 1293 01:25:26,727 --> 01:25:29,659 If Lawrence Hart is right 1294 01:25:29,660 --> 01:25:32,226 and the aliens were infected carriers 1295 01:25:32,227 --> 01:25:37,226 forced to spread the parasitic victicite across the galaxy, 1296 01:25:37,227 --> 01:25:40,793 then what next for us? 1297 01:25:42,527 --> 01:25:44,959 Now it's our turn to stand 1298 01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:48,026 at the gateway to the stars. 1299 01:25:48,027 --> 01:25:50,526 It's our turn to reach out to the void of space 1300 01:25:50,527 --> 01:25:53,960 and our turn to carry and spread the parasite yet further. 1301 01:26:04,693 --> 01:26:09,159 How can you win a war, when with every blow you land, 1302 01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:11,160 you're only making the enemy stronger? 1303 01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,659 This one was for the last offensive. 1304 01:26:25,660 --> 01:26:29,027 It's says "bravery", but I say it was crazy... 1305 01:26:30,027 --> 01:26:32,827 Because I'd have to be crazy to go back. 1306 01:26:51,327 --> 01:26:53,826 We just volunteered! 1307 01:26:53,827 --> 01:26:55,492 And do you know the first thing we learned 1308 01:26:55,493 --> 01:26:56,992 when we were in the army? 1309 01:26:56,993 --> 01:26:58,993 Never volunteer for anything. 1310 01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,759 Two girls, one boy. 1311 01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:13,093 That's what we're gonna have. 1312 01:27:18,927 --> 01:27:20,926 My whole life since then... 1313 01:27:20,927 --> 01:27:23,359 I've been waiting for them to come back... 1314 01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:25,359 But I don't know... 1315 01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:27,860 I don't believe they ever left. 98836

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