Brave New Jersey Page #5

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God's messengers are on their way.

God's army is somewhere in Central New Jersey

and we will be the first to welcome them

when they get here!

Stay put, Ziggy.

I mean it.

-I didn't mean to--

-Didn't mean to what?

I was just trying to find out--

Find out what?

Nothing to find out here.

There are no Martians.

What did you say?

I don't think there are any Martians coming.

why not?

Well, I haven't seen any spaceships.

Don't smell any poisonous gas or anything.

Radio's not reporting anything else about the invasions,

So...

There are no Martians.

At all.

Are there?

None that I'm aware of.

Holy sh*t.

But what happens when everybody finds out the truth?

Everybody thinks they're gonna die.

That ain't a bad thing, is it?

In fact, might be a good thing.

Know what I mean?

Guess so.

You're too young to understand.

One day you will,

When you're closer to the end than the beginning.

Yep, still fits.

I knew it would.

So what are we supposed to do now?

Imagine you got one night to live.

One night to do whatever's inside you.

What would you do?

I know what I would do.

Now get the hell outta here!

Look at this place.

What a mess.

Clark, you don't have to do that.

No, I want to.

You love it here, don't you?

I've never been anywhere else.

No, I take that back.

I went to Princeton once.

Big trip to the big city.

Princeton's not a big city.

Manhattan, now that's a big city.

Oh, yeah.

I've seen pictures of that place.

You know, I went there a few months ago.

-You did?

-Yeah.

Really?

-I left early to run some errands.

-Yeah?

I don't know why I just kept on going,

like something was pulling me along.

-Mmm.

-I spent the whole day walking.

I must have walked down every street in Manhattan.

-I didn't wanna leave.

-Yeah, I bet.

Clark!

Wh-- wh-- wh-- What? What? What?

Oh, nothing, I--

I thought I saw something.

uh, hey, wh-- wh-- what were you saying?

Oh!

-When I got back...

-Yeah?

Paul was sitting in the living room

and I was standing, staring at him,

waiting for him to ask me where I've been,

-How my day was, anything.

-Yeah.

And finally he just looked up

and nodded and winked.

He just looked right through me.

I never told anyone that before.

That's all right.

I know what that's like.

To have a secret?

To feel invisible.

Hey, we better get going.

Oh, wow.

No, no, it's Lorraine again.

I'm here for Ann and Ziggy.

Well, they ain't here.

Where are they?

They were here earlier?

I left them here!

What the heck was I supposed to do?

The Polish kid had to poop real bad.

Ziggy?

Okay, let's go.

Move! move! move!

Come on, keep it coming.

Come on!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

What's going on here?

What's going on?

We're getting ready is what's going on.

Careful.

Whoa! Stop! Stop!

Stop! Stop!

What did you do?

What the hell is going on?

Collins, look at this.

We're gonna kill ourselves

before they kill us.

Look, I know you've got a plan,

but we can't win this.

We discussed this.

I told you we'd be ready.

Listen, I know, I know,

but we have no idea what's coming.

We got no idea.

And I said we'd burn that bridge when we get--

This is the bridge!

This is the bridge!

They'll come, we fight, history gets made.

-No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

-Mr. Mayor!

Stand up or stand down.

It's too late for protest.

I mean, come on, do you got a better idea, Clark?

Yeah, about two miles up we can hide.

-And if we hide--

-Hide?

Maybe that's how you do things, Clark,

hide and hope for the best.

But I look around and all I see are brave soldiers

willing to lay down their lives for each other.

Do you think they wanna hide?

We're not soldiers.

We're farmers.

-We're housewives.

-I'm not a soldier.

-I'm not a soldier.

-No, Mac, you grow corn.

Goddamn it!

We've only got a few minutes until they get here.

We don't have time for this.

I'm trying to get you more time.

-We need more time!

-Get rid of him!

-Get rid of him!

-Don't you touch him!

-Step aside, woman.

-No!

He gives his whole life to this town,

and you treat him like he doesn't exist.

And now you wanna what?

You wanna beat him up?

Why?

Because he cares about this place?

Because he doesn't want you all to die?

You oughta be ashamed of yourselves.

I mean, what a bunch of ignorant

small town a**holes you've all turned out to be.

Right?

Right.

Take 'em home.

Come on! Come on!

Think about it.

Get to your positions.

-All right, let's go.

-They're right over the horizon.

Come on, let's go.

See the thing I don't get,

they probably got heat sensors,

and if they got heat sensors,

they're gonna know there's living things down here.

-And if they do--

-Shh!

What? I'm just saying that they

will probably be able--

Shut your mouth.

Do you see that?

Should have kept your mouth shut, Clark,

like you always do.

So the letters are for?

I'm gonna mark everyone with charcoal

to separate us from the non-believers.

Helen, you'd be marked with an "h,"

Sally would get an "s."

Hold the phone.

Stan's "s," too."

To avoid confusion, Stan,

you'll be marked with an "x."

"x"? Really?

That's the cross-him-out letter,

don't worry, Stan, we'll think of something.

How about a number?

How about a nine?

Sure. Nine is beautiful.

Thanks, Reverend.

I got a nine.

See anything, Reverend?

Oh, you bet.

I saw a bright orange light for just a second.

What do you think they'll do when they come?

Well, they'll take us--

take us away,

Take us to someplace better.

Say they don't take us.

Instead of taking us to a better place,

they just instead cook every last one of us.

I just wanna say this.

We've been coming to you a good long time, Reverend,

and it ain't hard to see

that you're not the man you used to be.

And it's a hard thing when folks want answers

and maybe you don't have them.

Who knows?

Maybe there ain't any anyways.

All I know is that you helped us tonight, Reverend.

No, it's not me, it's them out there.

No. It's not out there.

Its you, Ray.

You helped us live without fear tonight.

You woke up something inside of us all.

Thank you.

You say it was a bright orange light?

I saw it, too.

Beautiful.

They'll be here soon.

Let's go.

This is it.

It's 04:
30.

This is what we've been waiting for.

Hustle, hustle.

Stay strong. Stay focused.

Hurry up.

Come on, you bastards.

What's happening?

Something's wrong.

They should be here already.

They should be here already!

Where the hell are they?

They know. they know we're waiting for them.

They know about the ambush.

They're watching us.

-Dear god.

-They're getting messages.

-How?

-Signals.

'Cause there's one of them among us.

Jesus Christ, what is the problem?

There's a spy.

There's no goddamn spy.

I saw something in the woods.

Something fishy's going on here.

We've been waiting here all night!

You don't understand the gravity

of the situation, Collins,

Things have taken a change for the much, much worse.

-I do understand.

-No, you do not,

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