Original subtitles

ANNOUNCER: In 1953, Earth experienced a war of the worlds.

Common bacteria stopped the aliens,

but it didn't kill them.

Instead, the aliens lapsed into a state of deep hibernation.

Now the aliens have been resurrected,

more terrifying than ever before.

In 1953, aliens started taking over the world.

Today, they're taking over our bodies.

WOMAN [ whimpers]: They're... they're hurting me.

Oh! Oh!

They're putting something inside me.

[ sirens wailing]

[ garbled radio transmission]

Vital signs are down.

Prep for C.P.R.

I want D5W at 50 milligrams a minute. Stat!

Dopamine drip, 500cc's.

All right, let's move, everyone.

Come on now.

Is the O.R. ready?

Is the O.R. ready?!

And waiting.

We'll want Dr. Hollenberg.

Clear the hallway!

Let's move now. Come on!

[ woman speaks indistinctly over P.A.]

[ speaking alien language]

[ moaning]

[ groans loudly]

[ whimpering]

They always squirm.

[ man screaming]

[ screams]

[ screams stop]

This isn't working.

Humans spoil too fast in this radiation.

ADVOCATE #2: If we are ever to solve our vulnerability,

we must discover the secrets of the human immune system.

ADVOCATE #1: We'll have to do our experiments outside of the cavern

where the bodies will be fresh.

ADVOCATE #2: It will be more dangerous.

ADVOCATE #1: But the selection is better.

We can choose the bodies in good condition.

If we solve this puzzle,

there is no way the humans can beat us.

I just want you both to know

we are God-fearing Christians

who have never been in trouble a day in our lives.

I'd appreciate it if you just told me what happened then.

We were out at our cabin.

Uh, we have a cabin on Saturday Pond in Maine.

We were watching the sun go down, like we do,

when for some reason,

we started to walk through to the woods.

That's where we saw them.

WOMAN: There were six of them.

We were about to walk over to them

when we heard them speak.

You've never heard anything like it.

It sounded like...

I can hear it, but, uh,

I don't think I could ever describe it.

They had this strange thing.

It looked almost like one of those old vacuum cleaners

from the '30s.

And they were looking around for something.

How do you know that?

You could tell by the way

they were moving it across the ground.

What did they look like?

I know this sounds crazy,

but we've had a lot of time to think about it.

It looked...

like a cross...

between a giant frog...

and a huge... slimy...

walnut.

MAN: With three fingers on each hand.

Other people have seen them, haven't they?

WOMAN [ on tape]: I knew it.

I knew it.

People, people, do you have any idea

how much this little operation is costing us?

I mean, this government house alone here is...

I know you don't mean to say

that saving the world from alien invasion

is costing the government too much money.

Well, now that's not exactly what I'm saying, but...

See? I knew that.

WOMAN [ on tape]: I was pulled out of my car.

I have no idea how.

The doors didn't open and the window was closed.

But suddenly, I was outside of my car.

I don't, uh, I don't remember the sequence exactly,

but it was like I was in a hospital or something.

There were these lights.

It was like a dream.

Then they...

then they put this metal thing over my face,

and I couldn't move my jaw!

I couldn't move it.

It did happen, but I could...

I hated it!

[ on tape]: There must have been others.

I mean, I couldn't have been the only one, right?

I mean, why me?

What's so special about me?

Is there something wrong with me th...

What's going on here?

We've had six interviews,

and they've all described, basically, the same experience.

It could be a form of mass hysteria.

Mm... different times.

Different locations across the country.

It's hard not to think

this is more than just coincidence.

MAN [ on tape]: So I'm on my bike, right?

And I'm cruising out in the country,

and everything... everything turns green,

and my bike just stops.

Now, I'm not talking about the motor dying.

I'm talking it just stops.

I'm just standing there not moving or anything.

Look, this is where it gets weird.

I'm just frozen there.

And these three people come over to me,

and they look at my bike,

and then they...

they stuck these long wire things...

I'm telling you this...

I'm sorry.

It's okay. It's okay.

You don't understand... It's not okay.

They stuck these wire things in me.

I could feel them inside me.

I couldn't do anything.

It drove me crazy.

Am I crazy?

Please, just tell me.

I've been shuffled from doctor to doctor.

And then I'm told to see you.

I don't even know who you are.

I can't take it anymore.

I just can't.

I'm going to try a relaxation technique.

It'll calm you down.

Let's try it, okay?

Okay.

Good.

Okay.

Now close your eyes.

They closed?

You have to close them if this is going to work.

Okay. [ clears throat]

That's good.

[ sighs]

Now take nice, long,

slow, easy breaths.

In... and out.

[ inhales deeply]

HARRISON: Nice and easy.

Nice and slow.

And think of clouds

just barely moving across the sky.

Everything is in slow motion.

Nice and easy.

In...

and out.

You feel better?

Yes.

Thank you.

Keep breathing like that.

[ sighs heavily]

I've read your file and a copy of your statement,

but what I'd really like is for you to tell me,

in your own words, what, exactly,

happened.

I work in my sound studio all day...

and I always take a break around 4:00 and go for a run.

It's always the same place.

Always the same time.

But then, um... one day, last October...

I put on my Walkman...

and I started out

for my run.

Next thing

I remember...

it's 2:30 in the morning,

and I'm outside of my sound studio...

and my Walkman's gone.

And... and, for the life of me,

I can't figure out what happened.

Do you have any

recollection... Any memory at all...

Of what actually happened?

No. Nothing.

Except that I have...

I have these dreams.

Well, they're nightmares, really.

Of what?

I don't know.

I wake up so scared, but I don't remember.

I have had every kind of test.

I've seen every kind of doctor, psychiatrist.

I've had brain scans.

I've had MRIs.

I've... and nobody can tell me what happened

to those ten hours.

Can you?

I don't know.

At least you're honest.

IRONHORSE: As everyone knows,

I was behind the Blackwood Plan

to interview all of these people.

The Blackwood Plan?

But what have we learned?

That there are aliens... We knew that.

That they have three fingers... We knew that.

That they talk funny... fine.

But what's the point?

I think that we should move on

to more productive activities.

For example? For example...

Interviewing retired government employees,

or maybe some veterans from the invasion of '53.

Now, these people may lead us

to more alien storage sites.

That actually makes sense.

Except that these interviews give us more and more data

on the aliens.

Hopefully, one day,

we'll be able to anticipate alien behavior.

You know, there's nothing

written in stone that says we all have to agree on this.

SUZANNE: You mean you won't punish us for disagreeing?

Not right away.

Time grows short.

We progress little in our attempt to adapt

to this alien environment.

As the humans pollute the air more and more,

survival becomes questionable.

Theirs... or ours?

We believe that we have solved

the problem of human spoilage.

You have devised a way we can examine humans safely?

On the screens, Advocate.

We have taken over the human bodies of two paramedics

and have commandeered their ambulance.

We will have a mobile surgery.

You have done well.

I cannot do anything without your counsel.

Not only shall we continue our experiments,

but we will create panic and terror among the humans.

To life immortal.

To life immortal.

[ wolves howling]

[ crows cawing]

[ bird screeching]

[ cawing]

[ screams]

[ speaking alien language]

[ screams]: No!

[ grunts]

[ speaking alien language]

No!

[ speaking alien language] [ whirring sound]

[ screams in slow motion]

[ phone ringing]

[ gasps]

[ ringing continues]

[ ringing]

Hello.

HARRISON: Karen McKinney?

Yes.

Are you all right?

Uh... who is this?

It's Harrison Blackwood.

I interviewed you yesterday.

Yes.

I'd like to see you.

What?

I'd like to see you.

Now?

[ clock chiming]

So...

what's wrong?

I think I've found a way

we can get to the bottom of this.

Have you ever been hypnotized?

What do you mean?

Did any of the doctors you saw...

did they hypnotize you?

No. But I was hypnotized once in a nightclub.

But it was silly.

My thought is that we could regress you.

You know, hypnotize you,

and bring you back in time to what happened.

No one's ever done that to you?

[ laughs]: No.

You want to do it now?

No. Not now.

You mean you came all the way over here

to tell me this at 4:00 in the morning?

It was on my mind...

and I was concerned about you.

Who are you?

Oh, just somebody who wants to help.

You turn away. Why?

You feel it, don't you?

The priority is finding out what happened

to you.

I know you do.

Karen, you came to us for help.

I can't...

You can do anything you want.

Do you know what I want?

Breakfast.

[ laughs]

Where is Harrison?

He's not in his office?

And his bed wasn't slept in.

Norton, have you seen Harrison?

Has he run away from home?

Who ran away from home?

You blew this morning's interviews!

Will you ever forgive me?

Paul was about to put out a missing

persons report on you.

You know, somebody doesn't report,

that's my job... Security. Remember?

A hell of a job you're doing, too.

Well, exactly where were you, Mister?

I was having breakfast with Karen McKinney.

Research?

No. Not exactly.

No.

Look, I'd really like to find out what happened with her.

We've got a dozen more interviews set up for today.

Who's Karen McKinney?

She's the Stanford grad

who spent a couple of years on the Amazon

with the aboriginal tribes

recording their music.

She has a very inquisitive mind, Norton.

And how beautiful is she?

She's very beautiful.

She's very beautiful.

And where do I sign up?

She's having recurring nightmares.

They're very debilitating.

I'd like it if you'd talk with her.

Do a psychological assessment?

Yeah. But just keep it low-key.

I don't understand why I can't just get hypnotized.

Because it doesn't work that way.

Well, wish me luck?

Okay. Luck.

[ laughs]

Oh!

We shouldn't...

I just wanted to get to know you better.

Dr. Blackwood suggested we spend a little time.

Right. To see if I'm okay to be hypnotized.

Yes.

Well, listen, if there is a chance

that this will unlock my brain...

Let me know what happened to me...

Then I want to do it.

I have to do it.

Great. Well, then, let's get started

and do some tests.

Okay.

I see... my father... on a train...

coming out of a tunnel.

That's not fair.

[ laughs]

I'm sorry.

I must have done this test a hundred times

in the past few months.

All I see are inkblots.

Of course, I don't want to tell anybody that

because they'll lock me away.

All right, then, how do you feel about word association?

The same.

[ both laugh]

Okay... father.

Mother.

Strange.

Interlude.

Running.

Nightmare.

Red.

Green.

Midnight.

Madness.

Green.

Blue.

Scared.

Night.

Alien.

Rape.

Running.

Karen, tell me what's going on.

[ cries]

I... I just...

I just feel so scared.

Oh, it feels terrible.

What does?

[ cries]: I don't know.

I just don't even know.

[ siren warbling]

[ siren warbling]

MAN: What's going on?

[ rasping]

HARRISON: He said, "Peter,

I can see your house from here."

[ laughing]

You're so funny.

You make me feel so good.

We have to be very careful

that you don't feel this way because I'm helping you.

That's classic.

No, I feel this way because I feel this way.

Real.

We can't deny that.

I just want to be sure

that we're doing the right thing.

It feels so good, how can it be wrong?

If there weren't any other people here,

do you have any idea what I'd be doing to you right now?

Have you paid?

Yes.

Do you live

very far from here?

You're married?

No. I'm not married.

It's my work.

I do very high security work.

What does that mean?

It means...

I can't take you there.

Harrison, what do you do?

I'm an astrophysicist.

I have seen doctors.

I've seen psychiatrists.

But why would an astrophysicist be interested in someone

who has lost ten hours of their life?

Harrison, why would I be here with you?

Karen, if I could tell you, I would.

I will. I'll find a way.

I'll figure out a way to tell you.

But this has got nothing to do

with the way that we feel about each other.

Nothing.

Somehow from the first moment I saw you,

I knew we'd wind up in a cheap hotel room.

You were going to play me some music?

[ tribal music plays]

What's this?

Pygmies.

I love Pygmy music.

You've heard this before?

Mm-hmm.

You okay?

[ music continues]

It's just so strange that after feeling so special,

that this has to come between us.

I want you to know everything about me.

I want to tell you about every part of me.

And I want to know every aspect of you.

But I can't. Slow down, Karen.

Why? To let something else come between us?

Remember when we were kissing on the street?

I remember.

What am I going to do about you?

You don't know?

[ kissing]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

I'm worried.

This is just not like Harrison at all.

Well, he spoke to Mrs. Pennyworth

last night.

But he didn't mention anything

about where he was or when he'd be back.

But did he say what he wanted?

The name of a good place for brunch.

You're missing the obvious.

Our fearless leader, Dr. Blackwood,

has got himself short-circuited.

He's found himself a lady.

You do remember, you know, the opposite sex?

Well, we'll just have to proceed

with the rest of the interviews without him.

Uh, you're going to do the interviews?

You have a problem with that?

Uh, no. No, no, no.

I, uh, think that would be adventuresome.

[ window slams]

[ rustling]

[ speaking alien language]

[ gasps]

[ growls]

[ yells]

[ screams]

[ screams]

[ speaking alien language]

[ sighs]: No.

It's all right.

It's all right, it's just a dream.

It's just a dream.

It's all over. It's over.

It's over.

[ cries]: But it's not.

It's not.

HARRISON: Actually, I'm glad you're all here.

As you know, I've been spending time with Karen McKinney,

who's a vital, sensitive young woman

who's deeply troubled

by this missing time in her life.

And I think we can help her.

At the same time it's furthering the goals of this mission.

Meaning?

Meaning we've been through the preliminaries.

It's time to hypnotize her.

It's time to find out what they did to her.

I assume that's okay with you.

There's only one problem...

And please don't take this the wrong way...

But it's your lack of perspective.

I worry that your involvement with Ms. McKinney

may affect your objectivity.

Exactly.

That's why I need you.

[ siren warbling]

[ speaking alien language]

[ whirring]

SUZANNE: Everything blends together.

There's no yes or no.

There's no front or back.

Everything's the same.

You're very relaxed now, aren't you, Karen?

Yes.

Good.

I want to regress her back to that moment in the park

that she told us about,

when she was running.

Karen, I want you to go back in time.

You're running in the park

a few months ago.

What are you doing?

I'm running.

[ crows cawing]

No...

[ bird screeches]

No, no, no...

You're absolutely safe.

You're able to look at everything that is happening

to you from above... perfectly safe.

Now, can you tell me what you see?

I...

I can't move.

They're... talking...

but it's not English.

It's... it's not any language.

It's...

it's just sound.

I never heard anything like it.

[ whirring]

Oh...

They have something.

You're totally safe.

They can't touch you.

I... I'm...

[ whirring continues] [ screams in slow motion]

What are they doing?

[ sobbing]

They're hurt...

hurting me.

[ sobbing]

Oh, they're putting something inside me.

That's it. That's it.

That's it. We have it.

That's enough.

Karen,

I want you to stop remembering the park now.

I want you to remember our talk as being very pleasant.

No bad memories at all.

Nothing but pleasure.

You'll sleep very well,

and you'll feel wonderful in the morning.

IRONHORSE: I just don't see where we should be

playing God with her.

I think that we have to tell her.

The point is she may not be up to it.

She has been traumatized in a major way.

The news that she has been violated by aliens,

I mean, it might be too much for her.

Look, she came here for our help.

She wants to know what's going on.

I think we're morally obligated to tell her.

We owe it to her.

And then?

And then we find out what the aliens did to her...

Whether they took something out,

or whether they left something in.

[ knocking]

Hi.

Hi.

Oh, it's so good to see you.

You're all right, then?

I couldn't be better.

What's wrong?

I have to talk to you about last night.

What is it?

What?

Last night, when Suzanne,

hypnotized you,

you told us about what happened to you in the park that day.

Tell me.

This is going to be hard...

Just tell me.

Okay.

You described yourself running alone.

You remember up to that point?

Yeah.

And then you said that you were stopped

by some sort of a... of a green light

that froze you in your tracks.

And you were taken off the running path,

and you were taken into the woods.

By who?

By men...

who were not really men,

and they... they performed

some sort of medical procedure on you.

What procedures?

We don't know.

We want to run some tests, Karen.

They may have hurt you.

Well, who's "they"?

We have reason to believe that they...

are aliens from another planet.

[ chuckling]

Come on!

You're saying that I was attacked by people

from another planet?

That can't be.

It is.

Harrison...

That's why you came to be interviewed by me.

That's my job.

That's what I do.

I track aliens down.

You're saying,

that I was...

When Dr. McCullough gave you

that word association test, remember?

Mm-hmm.

You responded "rape" to the...

To the word "alien."

You're telling me the truth?

Harrison, what did they do to me?

We think they...

they probed you with some kind of instrument.

Beyond that, I don't know.

Oh, God.

Y-you mean, all the flying saucer reports...

There are aliens here, Karen.

We know that.

And we also know that they are not friendly.

I don't know what to say.

Believe me, I understand.

What did they do to me?

Harrison, did they rape me?

Is there something inside me?

Because I couldn't stand it if I knew

there was something alive inside me.

Norton's numbers indicate

that 49% of encounters of the fourth kind

have violation nightmares,

and at least 24% have nightmares

but can't remember the specifics.

And you think it's our aliens?

But what are they doing?

Running experiments, tests, monitoring...

Gathering information.

I don't know, but I sure as hell know

they are up to something.

I think it's time that we, uh,

took our investigation a step further.

Meaning? Karen's agreed to be tested.

For? For what they did to her.

But her file says she has been tested.

They weren't looking for evidence of alien violation.

Potentially, they could have left some kind

of monitoring device in her.

[ phone ringing]

Anyway, it's a unique opportunity for us.

Hello.

Yeah, put her through.

It's Karen.

Hi.

What?

Yeah, of course, right away.

She's having a bad night.

[ gasps]

[ gasps]

[ grunting]

[ tires squealing]

MAN: Just one more flight to the left, sir.

Excuse me.

I can't wait to get unpacked.

[ siren warbling]

[ horn honking]

[ siren warbling]

[ whimpers]

[ speaking alien language]

[ speaking alien language]

[ siren warbling]

[ tires squealing]

[ siren receding]

HARRISON: I have no proof.

But in my heart, I know the aliens have Karen McKinney.