The Day The Earth Stood Still Page #2

there will be nothing left but dust.

It will sterilize the Earth.

This is all theater.

They're saying we lost launch capability.

- What? How?

- What does that mean?

- The missile's disabled.

- Disabled by what?

- They don't know.

- YUSEF:
But they can restore it, right?

There's a fallback. They have to launch.

Object impact in seven, six...

"Our father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done,

on Earth as it is in heaven...

- ... three, two, one...

- "... Give us this day... "

- Where is it?

- Could they have made a mistake?

Wait! Roger that.

They're saying

the object's still in its approach.

Well, then, where is it?

It's slowing down.

Awesome.

Slowing down?

I see it.

Radiation levels are slightly elevated,

but it's not dangerous.

I'm getting a lot of

electrostatic interference.

Yeah, me too.

Did you feel that?

Feel what?

I feel it.

It's close.

Checkmate 0-6,

who has tactical command here?

This is 2917. I need to know

who has jurisdiction on this site.

Checkmate 0-3,

this is Gator 2-3. We're blind here.

Checkmate 0-6,

do you copy? Over.

What the hell is that thing?

I need the rules of engagement now.

Target is advancing.

Target is advancing.

Repeat, target is advancing.

MAN OVER RADIO:
Sniper team is in place.

Sniper team leaders, come back. I repeat...

- Do not fire!

- It's coming right at us!

It's coming out!

- Hold your fire!

- Do we engage?

- Hold your fire!

- Fire!

- Cease fire!

- All stations, cease fire!

Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Do not shoot!

We need a medic!

Klaatu barada nikto!

We need that DNA swab. DNA swab now!

- It's soaking through.

- Where's the O2? Stat.

Get me the O2, stat.

Go. No one else!

What am I supposed to do now?

Do I start an IV?

No, no. We don't know its physiology.

For all we know, the fluids may kill it.

What do I do, then?

What do I do?

Its blood is red. It must have hemoglobin.

- Okay, she's right. Start the drip.

- Okay. I... I can't find a vein.

- It doesn't have any veins!

- Look for a central line site, then.

Going into cardiac arrest!

Do I defib?

- Yeah, get in there now. Go! Go!

- Clear!

- The monitor just shorted out!

- Heart rate is stabilizing! It's stabilizing.

What now? What now?

Do you have a surgeon?

Normally, for a gunshot,

we'd be using a general anesthetic.

But, as we don't know

how the patient will react,

I have opted for a local.

I'm making the first incision now.

No explosions. So far, so good.

Pale flesh,

a texture something akin to...

What?

Whale blubber.

I'm taking a specimen now.

Pack that on ice and chopper it

to a genomics lab for DNA mapping.

I'd like a sample of that as well.

I am entering the wound, and...

My God.

What is this?

I'm sorry. I'm a little taken aback.

- What's wrong?

- Nothing's wrong.

That's the thing. It's all so familiar.

The outer layer of the flesh is exotic,

it's strange,

but as I go deeper,

there's muscle, vein, nerve, bone.

I'm extracting the bullet.

This gray flesh,

it seems to be just falling away.

It's... It's removing itself.

I think I need to keep extracting it.

Yes. Continue.

Can you explain any of this?

It's dreaming.

Any signs of neural activity?

It lit up the fMRl like Times Square.

Get help.

Code white! Subject is conscious!

Help!

It's looking at you.

Try saying something to it.

My name is Dr. Helen Benson.

We're trying to help you.

You have nothing to fear from us.

Help you.

Nothing to fear.

Global markets are

panicked in early trading this morning

in response to the crisis in Central Park.

Trading has been halted

on the New York Stock Exchange,

the Nikkei and Hang Seng, as Manhattan

prepares for a massive evacuation.

In other cities around the world,

people are voluntarily evacuating

population centers,

fearing that the sphere in Central Park

may be the vanguard

of an impending alien invasion.

The President and Vice President have

been taken to separate, secure locations.

Until this situation

has some kind of resolve,

I am the eyes and the ears

of the Presidency.

So, what do we know?

Madam Secretary, we lost contact

with one of our DSCS-3

listening satellites orbiting Earth.

What is that image?

Are you saying that sphere

in Central Park isn't the only one?

In fact, we have intelligence

that smaller spheres

have landed at other locations

around the world.

Do we have briefings on that?

And, General,

where exactly

are these spheres right now?

I think we're asking the wrong questions.

What questions should we be asking?

Well, let's start with this.

Where is our satellite?

We lost contact with it.

In the scheme of things,

the loss of one satellite

- isn't necessarily our concern.

- DSCS-3

stands for "Defense Systems

Communication Satellite. "

Remember what it communicates with?

They were able to access our

defense mainframe via that satellite.

That's how they temporarily shut down

our missile defenses

and entered our airspace.

- We've changed all the codes.

- And on top of that,

there is a vast amount

of vital intelligence on that mainframe.

They know everything about us now.

- And we know nothing about them.

- Almost nothing.

The fact that they chose

to disable our defenses

tells us something about their intentions.

Madam Secretary,

we brought in several specialists

to analyze the tissue samples

we harvested from the being.

This is our chief geneticist,

Dr. Hideo Ikegawa.

This is our chief astrobiologist,

Dr. Helen Benson.

- Hello.

- Doctor?

The being is in a nascent state.

The DNA samples we've taken seem

to represent three distinct life forms.

- Three different DNA types?

- Yes, including the being's brain.

The body tissue is human,

as far as we can tell.

The gray flesh encasing it

is organic material,

some kind of bioengineered spacesuit.

What it resembles, oddly enough,

is placental tissue.

Which makes sense, given the placenta's

a life-support system.

And that, basically,

in order to survive in our environment,

the being had to be born here,

in its human form.

They must have come here in the past

and obtained a DNA sample

from a human subject.

Now, since that birth,

the being has grown exponentially.

This is one hour after surgery.

Three hours.

Six hours.

How much can you tell us about it

by decoding its DNA?

You don't understand.

These are the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Geneticists are gonna be

studying this code for generations.

No, they aren't.

This code is the property

of the US government.

Its very existence is classified.

I want to see it.

Water.

Bring him up.

Does it actually speak our language?

Or does it just parrot what it's heard?

No, it seems to already

understand our language.

They've compromised our satellites.

They know everything about us.

Mr. Driscoll.

My name is Regina Jackson.

I'm the Secretary of Defense

of the United States of America.

This body will take some getting used to.

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