War of the Worlds Page #3

- What do you mean, came down?

- You said it was buried.

- No, the machine I'm talking about

was buried, but what

came down in the lightning storm,

what operates it,

that's the... You know.

- The what?

- That's...

Why aren't there any helicopters

or airplanes?

- It's the what?

- Hey, Rach. How you doing?

- How is she doing?

- How you doing?

- Fine.

- She's good.

- Good. What was that thing you did?

- Works sometimes.

- She gets claustrophobic.

- Yeah? Hey, Rachel?

- I want Mom.

- Yeah, I know. You feel better?

- I want Mom.

- Yeah? Tell me about it, you know?

- Take me to Mom's.

- What I need is,

I just need you to hold it together

for me, okay?

I want Mom!

When you start screaming,

I can't really drive...

- Take me to Mom's!

- I know that.

- That's where we're going, Rachel.

- Take me to Mom's!

I know!

Hurry up, Dad. Come on.

Robbie, get the door.

Mom!

- Mom!

- Mom!

Mom!

Mom? Tim?

Mom? Tim?

- Mom?

- Mom?

- Tim?!

- Tim?

Tim?

Mom?

They're gone.

Is she dead?

She's not dead. All right?

She's just not here, okay?

- They were never here.

- How do you know?

Because they're

on their way to Boston.

And so they just...

...kept on going up to Boston.

Probably at your grandma's house.

I'm gonna call her.

How come the lights are on here

and not at your place?

Because...

...nothing bad happened here. Okay?

So we're safe here. All right?

Okay, Rachel? This is your area.

- Okay, you are safe...

- Dad, that's not how it goes.

Okay. Well, are you hungry?

I'll get you some food.

I'm gonna feed you.

Get something to eat.

- What do we have?

- Busy signal.

- Ketchup? Mustard.

- You think all the circuits are down?

Tabasco, barbecue sauce.

This is really good, Robbie.

Vinaigrette. I said pack food.

- What the hell is this?

- That's all that was in your kitchen.

Okay. No, it's all right.

All right. Okay.

Food.

Bread.

Okay. We're gonna have...

Let's get some sandwiches.

Wanna see me deal?

Wanna see me deal? Here we go.

There's two for you.

There's two for Robbie.

There's two for me,

one for the house.

Okay.

Maybe after we eat something,

I'll go down and show you guys...

Teach you how to play some poker?

A little five-card stud?

- Maybe a little blackjack.

- I'm allergic to peanut butter.

Since when?

Birth.

Okay, well, here.

You can eat the bread. Okay?

I'm not hungry.

Okay, well,

Robbie and I are gonna be

eating peanut-butter sandwiches.

- Want jelly on this sandwich?

- I'm not hungry either.

You're not hungry either?

Okay.

Okay, that's fine.

Fine.

Everybody just relax, okay?

Because we're here now.

We're safe, and we're gonna stay.

In the morning, your mom and Tim

are gonna be here.

And everything's gonna be fine.

Okay?

Okay.

If everything's fine, why do we

have to sleep in the basement?

- We've got perfectly good beds.

- Hey, it's like a slumber party.

What are you afraid

is gonna happen?

Nice basement.

I wanna sleep in my bed.

Got back problems.

Okay. Well...

You know on the Weather Channel

when there's a tornado,

they tell you to go to the basement

for safety? It's like that.

- There's gonna be tornadoes?

- Okay, Rachel?

- Hey, no more talking, okay?

- Could you be a little nicer to me?

God.

- Wanna stay here?

- Yeah.

- Good.

- Good night. Love you.

Love you, Rach.

Is the lightning back?

No, this is something else.

- What's that sound?

- I've never heard that before!

Is it them? Is it them?

We gotta go.

Where do we go?!

Robbie, this is your house.

Where do we go?!

No, no, no, wait!

Are we still alive?

Down here.

Were you on this plane?

Are you...?

Are you a passenger?

How you doing?

Wanna help me open this?

Are you a passenger?

He's deaf.

The shell went off right beside him.

Camera on his shoulder saved his life.

You hear that, Max?

Your stupid camera

saved your stupid life.

Where were you?

Out there in the Pine Barrens.

We were attached to

a National Guard unit.

The 83rd Mechanized.

They moved on one of those things

around midnight.

They got some kind of shield

around them.

You can't see it, but everything we fire

at them detonates too early,

before we can get close enough

to cause any damage.

When they flash that thing,

everything lights up like Hiroshima.

There's more than one?

You gotta be kidding me, right?

We were feeding New York,

but New York went dark.

So we patched over to D.C.,

they went down.

L.A., Chicago, uplinked to London.

Even called the affiliates to try

to get them to catch the feed,

but nobody answers.

It's the same everywhere.

Once the Tripods start to move,

no more news comes out of that area.

My God.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

I saw that storm. I was right

in the middle of one of those.

Well, you didn't see it like this.

Those machines come up

from under the ground, right?

So that means they must've been

buried here a long time ago.

So who's driving the goddamn things?

Watch the lightning.

Watch it.

Watch the lightning.

Keep watching the lightning.

What is that?

That is them.

They come down in capsules,

riding the lightning into the ground,

into the machines, right?

You hear that?

We're getting the hell out of here.

Get in, get in, get in, get in.

Hey, were you on that plane?

That's too bad.

It would've been a really great story.

Look at me. Look at me.

You keep your eyes only on me,

understand?

- Okay.

- Don't look down. Don't look around.

I'm taking you to the car.

You're gonna wanna look around.

But you're not going to.

- Are you?

- No.

You're doing good. You're doing good.

Keep your eyes on me.

I'm going right to Boston.

- We're gonna see your mom.

- I'm not gonna look, Dad.

That's a girl. That's my girl.

Now listen.

- I want you to close your eyes, okay?

- Okay.

Got them closed? There you go.

- Keep them closed for me.

- Okay.

Robbie, get in.

- Robbie, get in!

- Why are you yelling?

It's okay.

Get in.

- Why aren't we on the turnpike?

- I don't want everybody

to see that we've got a working car.

We'll stay along the Hudson

till we find an open bridge or ferry,

then we're gonna cross the Hudson.

We'll take the back roads across

Connecticut, all the way to Boston.

- Where is everybody?

- I don't know, running, hiding.

- In their basements.

- If we had balls, we'd go back

- and find one of those things and kill it.

- Right. Yeah, good.

Why don't you just let me

make the big decisions.

Which would be when? Never, Ray?

- Never's about your speed.

- Stop it.

Enough of the "Ray" sh*t. All right?

- It's "Dad," "sir,"

- Don't fight.

Or if you want, "Mr. Ferrier. "

That sounds a little weird to me,

but you decide.

- Dad?

- Yes, Rachel.

I've gotta go to the bathroom.

Really?

- I gotta go.

- Not so fast, not so fast, all right?

There's two things

we gotta watch out for.

And the second is people

who might want our car.

- There's nobody around.

- Yeah. I gotta go.

All right, Rachel?

Rachel, it's good right there.

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