[chittering]
[clicking, chittering]
[low growling]
[Mitsuki] Laser Array Frequency Test 19-B,
commence.
Check levels.
Levels are a go.
Okay. We're operational.
-I'm on my way out. -Copy that.
[alien clicking, chittering]
[chittering grows louder, distorted]
[analyst] Yamato? Coming?
On my way.
[beeping]
Go to 44 kilohertz.
-Mm-mmm. -[Mitsuki] Go to UHF.
[analyst] No change.
[colleague] We can adjust amplitude.
Why is it not working?
Damn.
Lost my bet. I thought soonest would be tomorrow.
What is this?
Once in a while, the alien emits this signal.
We don't know why but it is always the same.
Here. Check it out.
[both] And now.
[analyst] That's it.
[typing]
What's it doing?
[analyst] No idea.
Transmit to Nikhil.
-[colleague] Done. -[analyst] It's probably just dying gasps.
The ship is like a giant damaged bio-organism.
[colleague chuckles] Alien gas.
[analyst chuckles] Hmm.
How often does it happen?
Sometimes it's days, sometimes hours.
Nikhil was all excited in the beginning,
but now it just goes in the data slush pile.
There's only so much bandwidth in the apocalypse.
[employee on comms] Base Camp Three, come in.
Base Camp Three here.
Requesting Mitsuki Yamato to the clinic.
[colleague] Copy. Out.
[analyst] Time to get your brain scanned. [sighs]
This is not necessary. I'm fine. I need to get back.
There's increased activity in the angular gyrus and Wernicke's.
Sounds or voices with no identifiable source?
I didn't say anything yet. Why are you writing?
And if you say you'll answer my question when this is done--
Then I'll answer your question when this is done.
I'm fine. I'll tell you when I'm not.
Actually, I'll tell you when you're not.
But I'll let you get back to it.
How's it coming?
The work.
Any progress establishing communication?
Not really.
But I can--
Sometimes I feel like…
Like I can feel it watching me.
Be careful in there, okay?
You don't want it prying around in your head
any more than it wants you exposing its secrets.
[people chattering]
Mitsuki?
I know him.
[Maya] Oleg Varga.
Won the Nobel Prize in physics three years ago.
Are you okay?
-Yes, I'm-- -Fine.
You know,
now would be the time to ask me questions.
I think they need you more than I do.
What did you do?
Nothing. We're running the sequences. Still no response.
Do that last one again.
What?
Do it again.
[analyst on comms] Run 92. Go.
[typing]
Reading's stable.
What's she doing?
I don't know.
Go back one more.
[analyst] Run 91, go.
Stable.
Run 90, go.
[typing]
That one. Do it again.
[colleague] Uh. Hey, Yamato.
-W-What's going on? -[Mitsuki] Come down here.
Bring the transmitter.
-[colleague] Think we got another burnout? -[analyst] Yeah. We'll see.
[colleague] These things creep me out.
[analyst] Yamato, what's going on?
Run it again.
Run 90.
[transmitter beeping]
Go.
Holy shi--
[people chattering]
[Luke] Why would you mark a stolen car like that?
What if they see?
They care more about people finding us than hiding.
The Movement's number one directive is we don't abandon people.
It's a good rule.
Where are you guys from?
Marion, Ohio.
It's this little nothing town, kind of in the middle of nowhere.
But I guess everywhere is kind of nowhere now.
What about you?
New York.
What was that language that you and your mom were speaking this morning?
She's teaching us Farsi.
She grew up in Syria but her mom's Iranian.
I don't know. I guess she misses home or something.
[Clark] Ry, honey. Let's get everybody loaded up.
[thunder rumbling]
I don't think your mother would like you doing that.
Hey, give me that can before your mom sees.
-[Aneesha] Sam. -Ooh. Too late.
Go inside.
Make sure your sister's things are all packed.
I'll meet you there.
There. In two minutes. Go.
What is this?
Just a kid being a kid, I guess.
Take us to the next refugee center.
Do not talk to my kids.
Okay.
You ever let your guard down?
What?
I said, "Do you ever let your guard down?"
How do you expect your kids to do it if you don't know how to do it yourself?
Keeping this guard up has kept us alive.
We will take the ride, thank you.
We will be out of your way.
[Clark] Okay, let's go!
[tires screech]
[phone ringing]
Morning, Wade.
-Morning, Rosey. -Did you ask him yet?
Rosey, he's busy. You know the military has got the sheriff running around.
-I'm pushing water uphill here, Wade. -Hey, they brought a guy in last night.
He's in the cell. Okay, transpo will get him this afternoon.
And what am I supposed to do? Feed him?
Yeah. I mean, that'd be humane.
-Thirty-seven, as of yesterday, Wade. -I know, Rosey. I know.
I just don't know what I can--
[sighs] I'll ask him.
Please.
-Thank you. -[ringing continues]
[sighs]
It's about damn time!
I've been here all night. Y'all ain't got no on-duty officers?
Now, come on. What's that about?
Apologies. We're a little short-staffed on account of the whole alien invasion.
Transport will be here in a couple of hours.
Just sit tight until then.
[ringing continues]
Good morning, Miss Jilly.
Okay, now. You know I'd call if there was any news, right?
I'm sorry, no.
You holding up okay?
I'm okay, ma'am. Thanks for asking.
Okay, I'll talk to you tomorrow.
You guys got nothing to hold me on. Check your logs.
Go ahead, check them.
You're talking to the wrong person, buddy. I just answer phones.
Okay, fine. Look.
Please, I came in here with a notebook.
I just want to know where it is and know that it's safe.
I assure you your belongings are safe,
and will be returned to you when the van gets here.
I'll get you breakfast in a bit. I've got work.
Okay, like tracking down all these missing people?
I mean there's gotta be at least 30-something posters on these walls
and it looks to me you're gonna need all the help that you can get.
How about you let me out this cell and get me my notebook
before you run out of citizens to go missing and walls to put 'em on.
Why? 'Cause you're gonna help me find these people?
If they give me my notebook, yeah.
You've lost someone.
You got that look.
Hmm. Which one's yours?
Maybe I can help you find them.
That's not funny.
-I'm not trying to be funny. -Okay.
See, I get the savior complex.
Hell, I wish some random guy in a jail cell had the answer,
but I'm afraid Mr.-- Sorry, what's your name?
Cole. Trevante Cole.
Navy SEAL. Two tours Afghanistan, one tour Iraq.
One of them.
Let me show you something.
Mmm. This guy's my favorite.
This man hiked all the way from Alaska
because he heard we had an alien-fighting brigade
and he wanted to join.
[chuckles]
This woman saw little green men in a dream,
wanted to make sure we had a sketch.
This lady talks to the recently abducted.
Can you do that?
You know what every single one of these people had in common?
Every one of them came looking for an answer, a reason, some bigger picture.
But not one of them gave a goddamn about this town.
Jacquelyn ran the pet grooming business in town for 20 years.
Nels has three sons, seven grandkids, and his wife still calls every morning
to make sure that there's no news.
Eileen Grady there, we went to school together.
She was Deputy here.
That's who I've lost. Everyone on these walls.
And all those people out there trying to live their lives,
that's who I'm trying to keep safe.
So you and your magic notebook
can sit tight for a few hours while I get back to work.
And I'll make sure you get on that transpo.
I'll even throw in coffee and a muffin if you hush up.
We need to amplify the signal.
[typing]
Do you think it knows?
That we triggered its cloaking signal?
No idea.
[analyst] This is nuts.
You've been here, what? A few days?
We've never gotten near this kind of discovery.
Okay, stay in this frequency range. Run it through VHF.
[alien clicking, chittering]
-[colleague] Yamato. -[analyst typing]
Yamato.
[analyst] You okay?
Yeah.
I'm fine.
I need some air.
[birds shrieking, squawking]
[in Japanese] You won't win.
We have one of your ships down here.
[in English] I know what it is!
It's a distress call. Pull up the history.
-What? -The signal.
I need to see every single instance of the past four months.
-[analyst] It's not consistent. Look. -[colleague] T-There is no pattern.
[Mitsuki] Watch.
[typing]
It fits with a cubic spline.
[analyst gasps]
It's not a dying gasp.
It's a Mayday.
It's sending an SOS.
Sending it where?
Now where would you send an SOS
if you were the one downed ship on our planet?
If I'm right, the next signal is at 5:32.
You wanna tell night shift not to come in?
You've already had four hours on the inside.
That exceeds your proximity quota.
You wanna tell me not to come in?
Okay. So, if we can predict the next signal, then what?
We stop it from sending?
No. We hack it.
[Maya] What are you doing here so late?
What's the time?
Only about 11 hours after your allotted shift?
I'm on the verge of something here.
[chuckles] Yes.
Yes, you are.
You didn't ask the question
because you don't want to contemplate the answer.
Every scientist in that room had one thing in common.
They all said they were fine,
and they weren't fine.
They all wanted to stare into the mind of that alien…
until they lost their own.
I know you think you're different.
But so did they.
Every single one of them.
Yes.
"Yes" was the answer to your question.
[inhales sharply]
I believed Hinata was on that ship.
And I blame myself…
for what happened to her.
To the world.
I know.
But do you think it will make it better if you punish yourself?
It might make it better if I punish them.
[alarm beeping]
[clears throat]
It's time.
Follow me.
All systems running.
-[colleague] Hi, Maya. -Hey, Misha.
[beeping]
Three, two, one.
Yes! Yes, we got you! We got you, you little bastard!
What just happened?
We-- She just figured out how to hack the mother ship.
And you think this SOS signal is going up to the mother ship?
[Mitsuki] Yes.
It must not be receiving.
Nothing's come down to retrieve the ship or the… [chuckles] …alien.
[Mitsuki] We don't know that.
Well, I think I'd have noticed an alien SWAT team on my doorstep.
Maybe it's receiving but decided one downed ship
isn't enough for a rescue mission.
This is insane.
Which is why she thought you would appreciate it.
Maya, what's your role in all this?
-Oh, I'm just here for moral support. -[Nikhil] Oh!
Some people find you intimidating.
Thank you. Thank you for that, Maya.
-Not her. -No.
So you're proposing that we piggyback on this "maybe" transmission.
And-- and what?
-Hack into their mother ship? -Yes.
[giggles] You're right, I love how insane this is.
But what's the endgame?
Let's-- Let's say your-- your premise proves right and we can…
see the matrix.
Then what, Neo?
The aliens, they are getting to Earth somehow.
We don't know why there's more here every day, everywhere.
And it's because they've been using this cloaking technology.
If we can get a look at them, we can target them.
You want to decloak their transport ships?
And shoot them out of the sky.
There's a downside.
What could possibly be a downside?
[Maya] Anything we hit crashes to Earth.
That carrier out there is the size of a small city.
We risk killing more of us than them.
Stalingrad.
The Battle of Stalingrad.
Everyone thought it was the nukes on Japan, apologies,
or D-Day that turned the tide against the Nazis,
but it was the win in Stalingrad that Germany never recovered from.
The deadliest battle in World War II.
The Soviets lost over a million people,
but they pushed them back.
This is our Stalingrad.
[exhales]
Besides, Earth's surface is 71% water.
I'll take our odds.
-Are you insane? -[laughs]
Uh, Maya-- Dr. Castillo.
Do you wanna answer that question from a clinical perspective?
And does anyone ever say yes to that question?
You wanted a win? I'm offering you a chance to--
To order all of my nuclear arms operatives to, quote,
"Look up at the sky at 0942 UTC and be at DEFCON 1."
That's correct, ma'am.
And if they see anything, a particularly vague concept,
to shoot it down.
Right.
We'll need the speed and range of tactical nukes.
We have something, Benya. We really have something.
I don't like to be wrong, so you know I wouldn't ask
if I didn't think there was a very good chance.
"A very good chance."
How long?
-Madam? -How long would you like
my nuclear operatives to stare at the sky in the hope that something shall appear?
I need an answer.
I don't know.
[whispers] Then guess.
Thirty minutes.
Thirty minutes, Madam President.
Thirty minutes.
And tell them, targeting needs to be ready to lock on.
I don't know how long we'll have before they cut the signal.
Is there anything else I can do for you, Miss Yamato?
[chuckles]
No, that's all.
Thank you, Madam President.
Ta-ta.
[Rose] Morning, Sheriff.
Morning, Rose.
You got a minute?
If we got another problem with this coffee machine--
Oh, no, no, no. Well… [chuckles] …actually we do.
But that's not what I wanted to discuss.
I was just--
Well, I was wondering if you'd taken a look at those three new cases.
I was looking at where they were last seen,
and maybe there are some kind of clues.
Rose. We're trying our best, I promise.
We're stretched thin.
I know, I know. Which is why I compiled everything.
Put it all down along with any connection to the other cases.
Rosey, leave it to the professionals.
Right. Well, just like you said.
With everyone being stretched thin and more folks disappearing,
feels like every day now,
I thought you'd appreciate an extra set of hands.
I do. I really do.
Thank you, Rosey.
Now let's get that coffee machine working again, shall we?
[scoffs]
[huffs]
Damn it. [inhales]
-[Rose sighs] -[Trevante] You all right?
[Rose huffs] Left my job at the shop to make a difference
and the only thing I'm making is coffee.
Not even that.
-Maybe, like I said, I can help. -Yeah?
Just like the military said when they got here?
"We can help. Just follow protocol."
Y'all love that word, "protocol."
And what they done?
Just come in, took over, turned the library into some kind of lab.
Their big base over there? Used to be our high school.
Turned Ben Shelton's farm into their supply depot or some shit.
Ground zero in the Americas, lucky us.
Our people keep disappearing, but no one cares.
Because what's 37 missing people,
when a quarter of the world's gone dead or missing?
But every single one of them had a name.
Everyone had a date that they went missing.
But soldiers treat those dates like a death sentence
to put on their tombstone.
Dates.
It's not a star.
It's a badge.
And those are the numbers.
That was the sheriff right there? That old guy, Tyson?
Sure was. And let me tell you, he would have done something
if he was still here.
[Trevante] What happened to him?
[Rose] One of the first to go missing.
Night of his retirement party. How's that for a joke?
He brought me here.
-That's not the kind of joke I meant. -I'm serious.
Hey, look. I need you to get me that notebook.
-We've been over this. It's in lockup. I-- -Look at me. Look at me. Look at me, okay?
I know you've heard this before,
and I know I sound as crazy as the rest, but I'm telling you I've lost everything.
Everything. I've lost hope down to this second, but I'm telling you.
You think you're desperate?
Try sitting months in an Internet hub trading rations for minutes,
and staying there till 4:00 in the morning every single night.
Getting dead end, after dead end, after dead end, getting nothing.
Until now. Right this second, I've found something, Rose.
I need you to get me that notebook, okay? So I can show you.
And maybe, just maybe, we can help each other.
And you can save your town, and I can win a goddamn war for a change.
Look, Rose. You need me like I need you, okay?
Four months ago, a couple of strangers, you know, they asked me for help.
Kids.
And I didn't wanna help them. I didn't.
But I didn't have anything else left to lose
and that was the first time I actually felt like I'd made a difference.
So, now I'm asking you from the bottom of my heart,
what do you have to lose?
-[static on radio] -[person on radio] Help! Help!
-Ryder. -Help us! Anybody?
Mayday? What is your status and location?
I repeat, what is your status and location?
Uh, we're trapped in the ravine!
Give me your location. Please, just specify your location.
-I don't know. Elk's Pass. -Elk's Pass.
Hey there, folks. We may have a rescue situation.
What are you doing?
[Ryder] Got it. Next turn's onto Highway 6.
Hanley, Jackson, Chrissy, with me.
-[Hanley] Copy that. -[Chrissy] Copy that.
You said you would get us to safety.
And I will, as soon as we check out this distress call.
-Let us out. -In the middle of nowhere?
-Just let us out. Let us out right here! -[Clark] Listen--
-[Aneesha] Stop the car. -I am gonna get you to safety.
-We just gotta do this first. -[Aneesha] Why?
I told you. We help people, okay? It's what we do.
Notify me when submarines are in place.
India's holding.
[Benya clears throat]
General.
Madam President,
this directive to bypass the chain of command is troubling,
to say the least.
Necessary. We have to trust our operators. We may only have a brief window.
I trust my operators. It's yours I distrust.
I don't relish ICBMs dropping on my head
because some 20-year-old lacked restraint.
Tell all operators, if they miss, to detonate in the air.
Let's try not to shoot each other.
-Happy? -Not particularly.
Well, who is?
[Clark] Hanley? Jackson? Chrissy? Here we go.
[Hanley] Copy that.
[Chrissy] Copy that.
You know? For my 30th birthday,
I had the biggest firework display in history.
Thirty barges. [chuckles]
They said you could see it from space.
Trended for a week.
Do you still want my clinical evaluation of your sanity?
You okay?
The last time we fired at them…
was the last time I heard her voice.
This time's different.
Hmm.
I think you can bury someone…
a memory…
a feeling.
But one moment can bring it all back.
[inhales] What part of my brain is that?
The human part.
[Wade] Military wants us on the streets at dawn looking up at the sky.
Some kinda action they got going on.
Okay. Davids, Garcia, saddle up.
-You're riding with me, Wade. -[Wade] Sheriff.
[sheriff] Come on. Let's go, Carmichael.
-What's going on? -Oh. Hey, Rosey.
Transport's being held till whatever they got going on's done.
Think you can watch him a couple more hours?
Yeah. I'ma stay here. Get that coffee machine working.
-You're a savior, Rosey. -[Rose chuckles]
A savior.
All right, open it up.
-You did this? -No, the kid. The kid that I helped.
He drew it. I mean, he would see things. See what the aliens would see.
They like comic books like us?
Go a few pages back. Three or four.
There. He drew that over four months ago.
And at first, I thought it was a star.
Like a planet or something, but don't you recognize it?
That's the same shape as Sheriff Tyson's badge.
Am I wrong?
[scoffs]
Could just be a coincidence.
Go get his flyer, please.
Now check the numbers in the book and check the date that he was missing.
See? The answers are in there.
They brought me here for a reason.
The answers are here.
[Hanley panting] We got a family of three stuck in a car.
I counted six aliens.
They're coming from all sides.
[Clark] Suit up. All the throwers.
[people chattering]
Got a family trapped.
Half a dozen aliens pinning them down.
-Ry, you're staying. -I'm going with you.
-Not this time. Ry! -No, Dad. I always come--
You're a safe distance. Nothing's gonna happen to you.
Safe distance?
I gave you my word. I keep my word.
But if things go sideways…
drive away.
[static on radio]
-[Clark] Quick and quiet. -[Hanley] Copy. Jackson, you're on assist.
-[Jackson] Copy that. -[Clark] On my signal.
Go, go, go.
[shouting in distance]
[Clark] Go, go, go. Guys, ready? [continues, indistinct]
Go, go!
[person screaming]
The message will broadcast continuously on all emergency signals for 30 minutes,
or until you give the order to stop.
My fellow global citizens.
Today at 0942 UTC,
the global community will attempt a coordinated response
to the alien aggressors who have invaded our world.
For months now, we've been outnumbered, outflanked, outgunned.
I cannot guarantee that we will succeed.
Load sequence.
-But what I can say… -[analyst] Loading.
…is we'll try hit them back where it hurts.
Let them feel a fraction of what we feel.
[Hanley] One more incoming.
[Clark] Jackson, cover me.
Chrissy, Chrissy. You got eyes on it? Left! To your left!
[Benya] My father used to say,
"Never let them see you with your head bowed."
So I ask you now, to look up.
-Five, four… -Look up.
-Let us no longer fear… -Three.
-…the stars and the sky above. -Two.
One.
Go.
[typing]
[analyst] Onboarded.
Hold. Hold.
Halt.
Now what?
We wait.
[Chrissy] Clark!
-Behind you! Behind you! -[Clark groans, screams]
-[Chrissy] Clark! -Ryder! Ryder!
[Clark] Let's go, let's go!
-Mom! -[Aneesha] Ryder, come back!
[Clark] Hold steady! Zeb's down! Zeb's down!
Mom, please! We have to help them. We can't leave them like we left Dad!
-That is not what happened! -It is what happened! It--
[Aneesha] Luke, what's wrong?
Luke.
[Sarah] Luke?
Luke!
More are coming.
[aliens shrieking]
[Clark] We got more! Aliens from the west! Jesus! Where did they come from?
-[Aneesha] Luke! -[Clark] Throwers on.
-Circle up! Circle up! -[Hanley] There's too many!
[Aneesha] Luke.
-Mom! -Luke!
[Aneesha panting]
Hold on to this, no matter what! Don't let go! Don't let go!
Mom!
-[breathing heavily] -[static on radio]
I need you to be right, Nikhil.
[electronic beeping, whirring]
Something's happening.
How much longer you reckon we're supposed to keep doing this?
How the hell am I supposed to know?
-[Chrissy] Pull back! -[Clark] Stay down! You gotta stay down.
[Hanley] Someone got eyes on it?
[Clark] We're not dead yet, okay? Come on.
[aliens shrieking]
It's happening.
-[people chattering] -[person 1] What is that?
[person 2] Oh, my goodness. The size of it.
[operator on comms] Carriers, do you copy? Do you copy?
[radio chatter]
[operator] We have a target. I repeat, we have a target.
Fire away.
-[operator 1] Direct hit! Enemy down. -[radio chatter continues]
[cheering]
[Nikhil] Oh, yeah!
God, I love winning! Huh?
[employees cheering]
[laughs]
Who's giving me a cuddle? Who's giving me a cuddle?
[analyst] That was the biggest firework show of all time!
[Jackson] Y'all seeing this?
[aliens shrieking]
[Chrissy] What's happening?
[Jackson] They're dying!
-[Clark] Family's clear! -[whimpering]
[Clark] Let's go! Let's go! Everyone, move out!
[cheering, laughing]
[employee] Seven of their ships are down.
Four in the Pacific, two in Antarctica, one in Eastern Russia.
Put in a call. Offer aid.
That's right.
Now you see us.
-[cheering, laughing] -[Maya giggles]
You did it, Mitsuki.
-[both laughing] -[sheriff] All right, yeah!
[grunts]
-[person] Got ya. -[Hanley sighs]
There you go. Okay. Get to that corner.
Hey, there.
[chattering]
-[Hanley] I'll get you some food. -[Ryder] Hey.
You did good.
[Luke] You too.
[Hanley] Go to the vehicles, okay?
-[Aneesha sighs] -Thank you.
-[Hanley] You were good. -[person] Come on.
[person 2] I got him, I got him.
[Jackson] Hell you think happened?
[Chrissy] The aliens just stopped.
[Clark] I don't think we were the only ones fighting.
Sarah. Sarah.
Sarah, Mommy!
Sarah!
Sarah! [panting]
Sarah!
-Sarah! -[Clark] Sarah!
Mommy!
-[Clark] Sarah. -Sarah!