Taking Earth

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[epic music]

We look up at the sky...

We behold the

infinite stars...

And we believe

we are all alone.

[remote beeps]

Begin.

[orchestral music]

You're in for a treat.

This is the equivalent

of a juicy steak.

- Beans?

- Of course.

Not bad. It's good.

Eh? What'd I tell you?

There's nothing on TV.

Everything's still gone.

It's clever, no one

knows what's going on.

What do you mean?

Well, there's no way of

finding out what happened.

Everyone's in the dark

and people are clueless without

information.

It's ridiculous.

It makes no sense.

Isn't it weird?

Everybody going in

the same direction.

South. They're going south.

But why?

I don't know.

Sarah told me people were

saying it's safe in the south.

How do you mean safe?

I don't know. Less attacks?

Get out of the building!

Don't worry, we're safe.

How do you know?

Are you worried

because we're indoors?

Don't they get angry

if people go indoors?

It pisses them off

if people go inside anything...

Sure.

But the trick is to know

when they're coming.

How do you know when

they're coming?

The sound of screaming

gets louder.

[music swells]

Have you heard about

what happened in London?

The attack?

It's more than an attack,

they're saying it's

some kind of outbreak.

[power goes out]

What the hell?

What are you doing?

[whispering] Get out.

Excuse me?

[elevator door opens]

Get out!

[grunting]

[phone rings]

Hello?

David, baby,

have you heard?

Have I heard? What's up, baby?

The outbreak.

It's not just Washington.

Now they are saying

New York as well.

Washington?

I thought it

was in London?

David, it's happening

everywhere.

Okay, look, where are you?

I'm at the office.

There was an explosion.

Not even two

blocks from here.

What's happening?

I don't know.

Just stay there,

I'm coming to you.

I'm leaving right now.

Hurry.

What the hell?

[explosion, screams]

[frantic music]

Get out.

[car starts]

[tires screeching]

[pulsing]

[explosion]

[whirring

helicopter blades]

[explosions]

[jet engines]

Please.

Sarah!

Sarah, we need to get out

of the city, and I mean now.

Mom!

[quiet music]

Look.

At what?

I don't see anything.

Concentrate.

Look.

They're hidden.

But it's them.

I still can't believe

our luck today.

Those IO's literally

walked straight past us.

They were this close.

That... could have gone very

differently.

Yeah, we were lucky.

David, what are you

planning

to do next, or go next?

Find Sarah.

And help you

find your mom.

[distant explosions

and screams]

We need to go.

Get back!

[grunting]

Stay! Stay.

[tense music]

What are you doing?

Leave it!

It doesn't matter.

What are you doing?

They'll find me, David.

My blood.

No they won't, no

one's gonna find you!

They'll know, if they

taste my blood, they'll

know it's me.

What?

What are you

talking about?

Who'll find you?

IO's!

Infected ones.

They taste the blood!

They're looking for me!

No one's looking for you! Now

calm down.

[distant explosion]

[pulsing]

No...

Sh*t.

Dude, we need to get

out - [explosion]

We could stay

here tonight.

We should be safe.

How's your hand?

It's just a graze.

It stopped bleeding.

Cameron.

What the hell?

What happened?

Why were you freaking

out back there?

I think it would be better

if I didn't tell you.

I think if we are going to

stick together, I have a

right to know.

You have to promise

you'll believe me.

Sure, I'll believe you.

But I want to know.

Okay.

Everything that's

happened, it's not what

you think.

There was never

an outbreak.

Those things were

never infected.

They're being controlled.

What do you mean,

controlled?

Controlled by who?

They are being controlled

by very dangerous people.

They have done all of

this, taken this whole

planet, to find me.

To find you?

W-w-wait, what do you

mean, taken the whole planet?

Well, they're not from

here, from Earth.

They're here now.

So, these dangerous

people, they're...

I don't know, aliens?

Oh okay, aliens.

This is going a bit

differently to how I

thought it would go.

And these aliens have...

come all this

way to find you?

Yes.

Wow.

And they're looking for

you because...?

Because I'm not from here

either.

So you're an

alien too, then?

I've been hiding on Earth

for seven years with my

Attender - my mom here.

Because of a war that the

people who've come here started.

I'm not meeting her down

south, I'm meeting her at

our ship.

Your spaceship?

Of course, well, sh*t Cam,

it's kind of hard finding

one person out of

seven billion people.

It's a conundrum.

You said you'd believe me.

Well, I didn't know you

were gonna go say this.

And the blood?

The IO's taste the blood.

They can distinguish

between human blood and...

Okay, well, how do you think

those IO's didn't see us today?

It wasn't luck that they

walked straight past us.

I hid us.

I hid us from them.

You hid us?

If I stand still and

concentrate,

I can hide from them.

That's how they

haven't found me.

Oh, Cameron.

Do you remember I held

onto your arm and hid both

of us?

I hid us, David!

Okay, look -

[gunshots]

Get back!

Oh sh*t...

Where are they?

Don't move.

[eerie music]

I know you're here.

[IO shouts]

[car door slams,

tires screech]

[IO screams]

[epic music swells]

You hid us from them?

And today, when they

walked by us, you hid us

there, too?

Yes.

That's impossible.

You're not from here.

No.

This is insane.

And, uh, and somewhere up

there, is an invisible

spaceship.

Three.

Three!

Three invisible

spaceships!

So wait, I'm the first

human to know that aliens

exist?

Welcome to Earth, dude.

Thanks.

So...

You've never

ridden a bicycle?

No, never.

[David laughs]

This is freakin' awesome.

[music swells]

Is there any reason why

you guys live so far from

the ship?

We stayed for about two

years, but we were stuck

in the middle of nowhere.

Ellen wanted me to see

your world, so year three,

we moved to the city

and started traveling.

And then they arrived?

That must have been

insane for you guys.

Yeah, we didn't know what

to do, and Ellen wouldn't

let me surrender.

Surrender?

Why the hell would

you surrender?

Well...

look what happened to your

planet. It's all because

of me.

If I surrender,

then maybe...

Sure but, you didn't

invade us, Cameron.

You didn't do this.

They did.

I know.

But it's still happening

because of me.

This is screwed up.

Listen, I've got to talk

to you about that whole

'surrender' thing.

It doesn't have

to come to that.

The thing is, if things

get critical here, even

Ellen says I have no

choice but to surrender.

We'll just hide you until

they give up and leave.

No David, they

won't just leave.

They'll take me as their

prisoner, or they'll kill

me.

But how are they

gonna kill you?

It's a big place, like

finding a needle in a

haystack.

What are they gonna do?

They'll burn the haystack.

What do you mean?

If they can't find me,

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