Independence Day Page #9

(LAUGHS)

Neat?

Could somebody grab my laptop there? Doc

can I just have the computer inside?

What? See these

patterns here?

They are repeating sequentially,

just like their countdown signal.

They're using that frequency

for computer communications.

See? That's how they're

coordinating their ships.

You know...

You're really starting

to make us look bad.

(METAL CRASHING)

They got one! They

got one alive!

They got one, alive!

Jesus!

Look. You'll be okay

by yourself, Dave?

Fine by it. Yeah.

Don't touch anything.

Everybody's always telling

me not to touch anything.

Here, here.

It's all wet.

STEVE:
Right here. We got him in

the back of the pickup.

General, sir. Captain Steven Hiller,

United States Marine Corps.

Guess who's

coming to dinner!

I need a doctor.

I need a doctor!

RUSSELL:
Oh, boy! Oh, boy! How

long has he been unconscious?

About three hours.

Let's get him in containment, stat!

My son, he's very sick. He

needs immediate attention!

He's drying out. I want him

sprayed down with saline.

He has a problem with

his adrenal cortex.

(SHOUTING) Please!

If you don't do something about

it right now, my son will die!

Okay, just help him!

Okay. O'Haver, Miller,

you come with us.

You, take us

to him, okay?

MAN:
Let's go.

All right! Move it,

move it, move it!

GREY:
As the former head of the

CIA, you knew about this place.

When were you planning on

informing the rest of us?

It had been deemed

classified.

You should have told us about

this when they first arrived!

You should have warned us before

we launched a counterattack,

that cost the lives of

hundreds of American pilots!

There was no way that

we could have known

that our fighters would have been that

ineffective against their attackers.

Mr. President.

MAN:
The little bit of information we have

comes directly into this room, Mr. President.

TOM:
Atlanta, Chicago

and Philadelphia.

Destroyed.

GREY:
We learned that NATO and Western Allied

installations were the first to be taken out.

Then we were hit.

They knew exactly where

and how to hit us.

TOM:
And our forces?

GREY:
We're down to 15%.

If you calculate the time it takes

to destroy a city and move on,

we're looking at the worldwide

destruction of every major city...

in the next 36 hours.

We're being

exterminated.

MITCHELL:
Mr. President.

This is Captain

Steven Hiller.

Captain.

Mr. President.

Well done!

Where is it now?

We have it isolated down in

the containment lab, sir.

I'd like to go see it.

General, I'm really anxious

to get back to El Toro.

Hasn't anyone told you?

El Toro has been

completely destroyed.

(SIGHS)

We were lucky.

Yeah!

Today was the first

time I used the subway.

Thank God for

the Metro Rail.

These should

last us a while.

Don't move. I'll get it for you.

Stay still.

He's your son?

He's my angel.

Was his father

stationed here?

No, he...

He wasn't his father.

But I was kind of hoping

he wanted the job, though.

So what do you

do for a living?

I'm a dancer.

Ballet!

No.

Exotic.

Oh!

Sorry.

Don't be.

I'm not.

It's good money.

Besides...

JASMINE:
My baby's worth it.

Dylan, come here.

I want you to meet

the First Lady.

Hello.

DYLAN:
Hi.

I didn't know that

you'd recognized me.

Well, I didn't want

to say nothing.

I voted for the

other guy.

BRAKISH:
All right, life-support

monitors recording.

So if we screw up,

it's all on tape.

Okay, come on,

come on, come on.

Let's get this

biomechanical suit off.

Put the spreader right here,

right along the ridge.

Microprobe thingamajig goes right here.

Pick there. Good.

All right, now spread

it very, very gently.

Let me get in.

BRAKISH:
Gentle,

gentle, that's it.

Run this right in...

(ALL YELPING)

(SCREAMS)

All right. Okay.

Let's proceed.

Now comes the... the

really icky part.

Oh!

Oh, boy!

This is one smelly,

disgusting...

Oh, look at it!

It doesn't look

alive, does it?

The arm is moving.

(ALIEN SCREECHES)

(SCREAMING)

Doctor? Doctor?

(BRAKISH SCREAMING)

Doctor?

(SCREAMING CONTINUES)

Don't move! Don't move!

(AIR HISSING)

(WOMAN EXCLAIMING)

(ALARM BLARING)

(SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

(ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

(ALIEN GROWLING)

(ALL SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

(SCREAMING)

MITCHELL:
Dr. Okun?

(BRAKISH GROANS)

ALIEN VOICE:
Release me.

Open the door. Get him out of there!

No, wait.

(ALIEN SHRIEKING)

Release me

now.

BRAKISH:
Now!

I know there is much we can

learn from each other,

if we can negotiate

a truce.

We can find a

way to coexist.

Can there be a

peace between us?

BRAKISH:
Peace?

No peace.

What is it you

want us to do?

Die.

(ALIEN SCREECHING)

(TOM GRUNTING)

Die!

(TOM SCREAMING)

Mr. President.

Is that glass bulletproof?

No, sir.

(GUN FIRING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(ALIEN SHRIEKING)

(TOM GROANING)

GREY:
Are you all right?

TOM:
I saw...

his thoughts.

I saw what they're

planning to do.

They're like locusts.

They're moving from

planet to planet.

Their whole

civilization.

After they've consumed every

natural resource, they move on.

And we're next.

(ALIEN SHRIEKS)

Nuke them.

Let's nuke the

bastards.

(DAVID SIGHS)

Just my luck. No ice.

CONNIE:
I take it you've heard?

DAVID:
Hey, toast.

To the end of

the world.

He didn't come to this

decision lightly.

He didn't have any

other choice.

Well, you still

believe in him.

Yeah. Well, he's

a good man.

(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

He'd better be. You

left me for him.

Or, you know, for

your career.

You know, it wasn't

just my career.

It was the biggest

opportunity of my life.

I wanted my life to make a difference.

I wanted my life to mean something.

Yeah. And...

I wasn't...

ambitious enough for you?

David!

David, you could have done

anything that you wanted.

Research, development...

DAVID:
Oh, honey, I was happy where I was.

Haven't you ever wanted to be

part of something special?

I was part of

something special.

Well, if it makes

any difference,

I never stopped

loving you.

But that wasn't

enough, was it?

(MAN SHOUTING

INDISTINCTLY)

MAN:
Let's pick it up, man. We've got

a tight schedule. Now, let's go!

Let's pick it up, man. We're

on a tight schedule. Let's go!

Let's go man!

MAN:
Pick it up!

What the hell are you doing?

Get out of there!

(GUN C*CKS)

Look, I got something I gotta handle.

I'm just borrowing it.

No, you're not, sir.

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