Invasion

Again, a larger ship has arrived.

Today marks the fourth month since the aliens invaded our world.

Four long months. The hardest our world has ever known.

We have suffered. We have sacrificed lives,

land, loved ones.

And yet, with millions gone, we here at the World Defense Coalition

are fighting for you every day with every resource of every nation.

We are doing everything we can to understand and overcome our enemy.

We ask for your help. Please cooperate with the military,

comply with all codes, and evacuate contaminated areas.

The alien spores have now infected the air in over 30% of our planet.

We have set up shelter for refugees from all infected areas.

We are working together, one world, one coalition, to bring you to safety.

Together, we will win this war.

Together, we will see the other side of these dark days.

And when that sun rises on a sky free from our invaders,

it will be the brightest day our species has ever known.

Run! Run!

Don't worry, we are going to find your mama.

WDC, World Defense?

You're with the Coalition? Government?

Mitsuki Yamato?

There are people here in trouble.

We're not here for them.

Let go of me!

What are you saying?

Let me go! What are you doing?

Let me go! What are you doing?

We need to help everyone!

You're the Government! Help everyone! What are you doing?

Let me go!

Let me go!

Let me down!

Let go of me. Let go of me!

Let me down, let me down.

Let go of me.

- We have orders-- - People are dying!

- I understand. - I have to help them.

We are losing this war.

Let me down.

Let me down, people are in trouble and need our help.

We're taking you somewhere that could help us win...

...somewhere you could save everyone.

Let go of me. Let go of me.

Where are we going?

...attacks in India are now spreading west into Pakistan,

creating a refugee crisis that aid groups are calling

the worst of the invasion thus far.

The World Defense Coalition is reporting ammonia levels

rising at an alarming rate round the atmosphere,

with some areas approaching 200 parts per million.

Supporters from the fringe group, the Movement,

have continued to cause problems for the Coalition.

This morning, a supply convoy was ambushed and stripped of rations

while headed for a survivor's camp in the... region.

- Raids of this nature have increased... - Do you have any candy?

- ...the food shortage continues to worsen... - What?

Jell-O? Any ice cream?

Kid, we barely have food. We stopped getting ice a month ago.

...make their way to the nearest camp.

Okay, then what about stuffed animals?

Like a teddy bear? It doesn't even have to be a bear.

It can be an otter, a seal, a rabbit on a key chain--

Hey. Who brought you here?

My mommy. She's in the bathroom.

Bathroom?

You need a key for the bathroom.

You wait right there.

...Dubai and Santiago remain largely untouched at this time,

suggesting that climate and terrain may play a role.

Luke, we gotta go.

- Hey! - Seventeen, sixteen...

Twelve, eleven,

ten, nine...

Hey! You, out there!

Eight, seven...

- Where's Luke? - He was right behind me.

- Open the damn door! - Where's your brother?

Open the damn door!

- Luke, what happened to you? Are you okay? - Mom, I got tools. Look.

Luke, you know the rules.

The moment they move for the door, you have 17 seconds to get out.

You took more than 30.

You could have died in those seconds. All of us could have.

But we didn't, okay?

- And we need these. - Luke, you know the rules!

Seventeen seconds!

Yeah.

I know the rules.

We're almost there.

It's their ship,

the one we shot out of the sky...

I know what it is.

She's coming, Madam President.

Well, I hope you're right this time.

We've had that ship for nearly four months now.

And if you can't provide progress fast,

the Coalition will have to take over the operation.

Might I remind you there wouldn't be an operation without my funding.

So, technically, it belongs to me, not some United Nations knockoff.

This is not one of your expensive toys, Nikhil.

And I'm telling you what the world leaders are telling me.

We need results.

That map was nearly 80% green last week.

Now we're clinging to 75.

There are dead zones across whole countries.

At this rate, they would have terraformed our atmosphere in--

Yeah, I can do the math, Madam President.

And you can tell the rest of your leaders that results are on the way.

Bye-bye.

This way, please.

Welcome, welcome.

I can't tell you how excited I am to finally have you here.

You speak English, yes?

You know, we've been trying to track you down for over a month.

We thought we had you in Kanazawa, but-- You were gone by the time we got there.

Everyone was gone. Everyone but them.

Right. Right. Would you like a drink? Something to eat?

I have a fabulous chef. He can do Asian. He can do anything.

What the hell am I doing here?

Oh. Straight to business.

I like it. Okay.

Let's get the pleasantries out of the way, shall we?

My name is Nikhil Kapur.

I know who you are.

Everyone knows who you are.

Right. Right.

Sometimes I forget there was a world before all this.

Actually, I never forget.

I was just being humble there.

But we don't have time for false modesty, do we?

You're here because that is here.

And that is here because of you.

It was your codes that made contact with that ship.

The only communication anyone has made with the enemy.

Your coordinates made it possible to

shoot that ship out of the sky.

You gave us the only win of this war.

It wasn't a win.

It only made things worse.

Did you bring me halfway across the world to look at a dead ship?

Is that what you think?

It's dead?

You communicated with it before.

We want you to communicate with it again.

We've tried.

Had some of the world's greatest minds in and out of it.

And still, there's only one person who's ever made contact.

You.

Contact. Communication. Connection.

It's the only chance we'll have to learn what they want.

Why they're here.

And how to stop them?

The last time I worked with the military, they lied to me.

They used me.

Why should I trust you?

Because I'm not the military, and I don't trust them either.

I've worked outside the system my whole life,

and the only rule I've ever followed is...

"Make sure you're always breaking one."

What did you mean when you said it's not dead?

Go inside. See for yourself.

We'll just need to run a few tests on you first.

- What kind of tests? - Just standard.

To baseline your psychology-- physiology-- in case something happens.

It's a formality, really, for your own safety.

What's in there?

Well, if you can answer that question, Mitsuki Yamato,

we might actually have a chance to win this war.

Guys, guys. What are you doing? I said to pack up. Come on!

I like it here. We had running water for once.

And mattresses, even if they're a little stinky.

It's two votes to one. We stay.

I'm your mother. It's not a democracy.

It hasn't even been 48 hours yet. You're not playing by your own rules.

We can't stay because you broke the rules. It's too dangerous now.

What if that man at the station called the authorities?

What if there are people looking for us? We have to keep moving.

I'm sick of running all the time.

If we go any further, we're going to drive into the ocean.

We're done heading west. We go north now,

to the top of the continent, as far as the roads will take us.

Nobody lives that far, even before the invasion.

Exactly. That's the point. We will be safe.

From aliens or humans?

It wasn't aliens who took your father.

Please, pack your things. Come on.

Shit.

Looking for this?

You know we don't expose that, ever.

Luke, give it to me.

I was the one who found it. It'll keep us safe so we can stay here.

I am the one who keeps us safe, Luke.

Luke, I said give it to me. Luke, you need to trust me.

- You need to trust-- - Your little voice inside?

That little voice inside has kept us alive this whole time.

The whole world out there is falling apart.

You, your sister, this family is my whole world.

I would do anything and everything to hold it together.

You know, I have a voice inside too. Shouldn't that count?