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My name was Milo Rodricks.

Not that it matters anymore.

I'm...

I was an astrophysicist.

I've lived more than a lifetime,
and...

And I can smell Pop-Tarts.

I'm the last human being

enjoying his last
sensory pleasure.

I got a favor to ask.

Don't forget us.

We may have many faults, but we
don't deserve to be forgotten.

Strike my first statement.

My name is Milo Rodricks

till the very last second,

till the end.

♪ I see trees of green ♪

♪ Red roses too ♪

♪ I see them bloom ♪

♪ For me and you ♪

♪ And I think to myself ♪

♪ What a wonderful world ♪

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Milo, don't shovel, baby.

They're hot.

I'm booking a pedicure.

Are you good for a pedicure,
honey?

Had mine done last week.

- That the one that exploded?
- Nope.

Good.

Damn it.

Ed, you swore, man.

Diesel, come on.

Diesel!

Ed, hey.

Hey, it's Ricky Stormgren.

I got to ask you, have you
been--you been drinking again?

I think you must have been drunk
when you worked on that thing.

Hello?

Diesel!

Come on.
Come on.

Come on.

- Is your phone...
- No, no.

- You get a signal?
- Hello? Hello?

It just dropped,
all of a sudden.

- Right there, right there.
- There's no way.

- Right there.
- Up there.

- Hurry up.
- Let's get out of here.

Get out of the way!

All military forces
are assembling.

Planes, helicopters,
even model aircraft,

basically anything that is
in the air that is manmade

is being brought down without
damage to person or property.

Communications such as cell
phones are being disrupted.

I'm standing
on the Gianicolo Hill

overlooking the chaos
in the streets of downtown Rome

where the military continue
to assemble in droves.

It's frightening, and it's--

Communications do seem
to be scrambling,

but I would say
that here in the United States,

they've been reported over
New York, Houston, and D.C.

And reports are saying
that at least 40 cities

around the world now have these
vessels hovering over them.

London, okay,
the picture is breaking up,

but you can see a craft there.

They're downing all air traffic.

Aircraft are settling like--

Feathers, we'll say
they're settling like feathers.

All over the world.

No casualties, everything
in the sky has been grounded.

I'll tell you
what they're doing.

They're containing us.

So, Dad, what's our angle?

Siobhan, do we have
a headline picture?

Already up, Hugo.

Still have no idea

what they want
or where they have come from,

as they have made no replies

to any attempts to contact them.

You see,
what we're looking at here

could be perceived as...

This is a national security
matter now,

so everyone looks to me.

No, no, no, no, listen to me.

We do not evac the President.

I want him to remain in the EOC.

What's going on?

Wagons roll, come on.

Joel?

Why can't you drive around him?

- Because he's my son.
- Your son?

I thought your son was dead.

Uncle Paul?

There's no need to be afraid.

My name is Karellen.

I'm the supervisor for Earth.

There's no need to be afraid.

My name is Karellen.

I'm the supervisor for Earth.

I know that this is
frightening and bewildering.

Please try to understand
that we've come a long,

long way to help you.

Annabel?

We've come to help mankind.

War, famine, inequality...

these will be things
of the past.

Suffering will end.

Injustice will end.

No tears,
only happiness and safety.

Your national
and local governments

will still have jurisdiction.

You will run your water
and power.

Your stores will be open.

Your markets will trade.

Your lives will continue
as before minus one thing.

Injustice.

This won't happen overnight,

but the process
is already beginning.

It will herald the arrival
of the golden age of man.

We're not conquerors.

We're enablers.

We're going to help you change.

I know it's frightening,

but you are no longer alone.

I know that this is frightening,

but you are no longer alone.

I know it's frightening,
but you're no longer alone.

We're calling them The Visitors.

No, we're not.

Cellular service
is temporarily unavailable.

Please try your call
again later.

We haven't been able
to bring you this

because we've been having
transmission problems.

The images
of Gaza are staggering.

The wall that separates Israel
from the Gaza Strip,

all 400 miles of it, is gone.

Arab residents are mingling
with Jewish residents.

They didn't actually
resurrect the dead.

They appear to us
as beloved deceased relatives.

Now, that is something--

Ellie, you okay?

Ricky.

I just saw an Israeli soldier
embracing an elderly Arab man

who was weak and stumbling
from the shock of it all.

I mean,
this is just--it's incredible.

I mean, words cannot describe.

This is truly incredible,

emotionally charged scenes
between both Israelis

and Palestinian residents.

I mean, people from both sides
are hugging.

- Some are even weeping.
- Who'd you see?

I just saw an Israeli--

I saw my dad, of course, but,

you know, they missed a trick

because no way he would get
through that many sentences

without throwing in the F-bomb.

You?
Who'd you see?

Yeah, me too, I saw my dad.

But they are not moving,

and they're displaying nothing
that I could say--

It's like the playwright
just walked on stage

and stopped the play.

Remember that little old war
in the Congo no one could stop?

Well, both sides are praying
together under a flying saucer.

Hands-across-the-water
moment, huh?

They're doing something
similar in Sudan.

We hear there's some kind of

conciliatory intervention
between North and South Korea.

Look, we might be able
to get something into the air.

Hmm.

"Blessed are the peacemakers,"
General.

Let's keep it in our pants
for now, hmm?

Everyone was paid a visit
by this avatar.

It calls itself the supervisor
for Earth, Karellen.

How are we spelling that?

With a K?

Every major military conflict
that we know about

across the globe, well,
they've just stopped.

There's some rioting.

Mogadishu went totally wacko,
apparently.

Then they blocked out the sun.

Ho, ho, ho, ho, hold on.

They blocked out the sun?

How?

Localized eclipse?

I don't know.
They're aliens.

It's world peace, all hold hands
and sing "Kumbaya."

Us cynics have to swallow
our pride

and expect pigs
to start flying any day now.

My Uncle Joey kept pigs.

Irish Grazers.

He used to hire a local choirboy

to sing to them as they
were loaded onto the truck,

and these pigs, they loved it.

They were so peaceful

all the way
to the slaughterhouse.

What's up, man?

Okay. I want you
back in the house, Milo.

Come on, Mom, it's fine.

All the planes
can take off again.

We were just grounded
so they could give us a message.

You're smart, baby. What do
you think their weakness is?

You mean like a character flaw?

No, like in "Signs,"
when that little girl

killed them with a glass
of water.

You know, Janey from downstairs
said the Army's everywhere now?

You think they're gonna launch,
like, a--what do we call it,

like, a air strike?

I don't think
they want to hurt us, Mom.

Why come all this way
just to blow us up?

Because they're aliens?

Quiet down now!
Let the Mayor speak!

Can we just...

We're never gonna get anywhere

if we're all hooping it up.

Well, what about food
and water, Mayor?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

Is there gonna be a stockpile
for the town?

There will be no hoarding.

They've only settled
over three cities,

and as far as I can tell,

nothing here in Missouri
has changed.

I guess
they approve of basketball.

Look, we've seen
what they can do.

The question to ask ourselves is

what can we do about them?

As far as I can tell,
not a damn thing.

Ricky, you've been a godsend
to this town,

the way you negotiated
between the community

and the limestone company
last year,

but this is a horse
of a whole different color.

Yeah, exactly,
which is why I ask,

why are we even trying
to guess what they're up to?

So what's your grand plan?

I say we sit tight.

I mean, they haven't
zapped the head off

the Statue of Liberty yet.

In fact, they've actually made
an effort

to make us feel comfortable,

so if this is an invasion...

I gotta say,
it's an awfully considerate one.

They need you all over again.

I don't know about that.

They're probably
all sick of me by now.

You never understood
the effect you have on people.

It's very rare.

Ready to head up to bed?

We can pretend to sleep.

When that alien, Karellen...

when he spoke to you
as your dad--

♪ Yeah, let's twist again ♪

♪ Like we did last year ♪

♪ Do you remember when ♪

♪ Things were really humming ♪

♪ Yeah, let's twist again ♪

Els, you're not Annie Oakley.

You're from Greenwich Village.

Let's go. Let's go!

Come on, quick!
Get in the basement!

Diesel.

Okay.

You've got my attention.

Ah! All right!
All right, hey!

Ricky?

Ellie, stay down there.

Son of a...

All right.

If I go, leave my family alone.

This is ridiculous.

Heads up!

You let no one through,
you hear me?

No one.

Hold the line!

Stay back.

Get back!

Do you like it?

It's the honeymoon suite.

The Four Seasons Hotel.

New York City.

Annabel and I didn't
leave this room for three days,

even though I had tickets
to the playoffs.

Hmm.

Yankees beat Minnesota Twins
three games to one.

What the hell is going on?

There's no need to be afraid.

My name is Karellen.

Why are you here?

You were on the verge
of discovering

interstellar travel,

but the stars are not for man,
Ricky.

We need a messenger
they can trust,

a conduit between the Overlords
and Earth.

Mm, Overlords.

I find that term
a little bombastic, but hey-ho.

Why did you make this room?

Why'd you send me Annabel?

Because she is still the most
important thing in your life.

No, I got a new life.

I'm getting married again.

All of this, this is--

This is mind games.

Look, you scare the hell out of
us, and you knock my door down,

and then you ask me
to be your ambassador.

Buddy, you're not even
in the right zip code.

I mean, you need--
you need the President,

the Pope,
the Dalai Lama, somebody.

Problem is,they have baggage.

You don't.

You are hardworking,

brave, kind.

Why did you make this room?

You're prepared
to change and adapt.

Okay, take me home.

Take me ho--where's--
where's the thing?

People trust you.

You look them in the eye and--

Hey, if you want someone
to push your agenda,

then you go down there,

and by all means,
do it yourself.

When the limestone mine
wanted to take over your town,

you brought both sides together.

You built bridges.

You healed divides.

They called you--

They called me "The Pacifier."

It was... it was meant
to be a joke.

Mm, I know.

I've studied
all human languages, syntax,

colloquialisms, jokes.

I get it.

7 billion people,

and I chose you.

It was between you

and an 82-year-old blind woman
from Seoul.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking I want to see
who I'm talking to.

I have to stay where I am.

There's a lot to tell people.

Look beside you.

What is it?

It's a gift.

What if I don't want to take it?

Well, then don't take it.

I hope you can trust me.

I might take it and just chuck
this thing in the river.

If that's what you want
to do, then of course,

I respect your decision.

I believe you will make
the right choice,

whatever that choice may be.

I don't know about you, Paul,

but these guys
don't give me the warm fuzzies.

They're neutralizing
the world's armies,

and everybody's looking to us
to make the first move.

The President wants to strike,
Paul.

Yeah, what's the point?

We'd be ants firing
wood-pulp pellets at a B-52.

The President thinks
that we could--

They brought dead people back.

They stopped the world, General.

As far as I'm concerned, that
puts them in the pilot's seat.

We need you here, Paul.

I just heard six hours ago

they kidnapped a farmer
named Richard Stormgren.

Jeez.

What do we tell the old man?

Tell him I'm going to Missouri.

Ran outside and approached
to see what it was,

- and that's when we saw it.
- Yeah, good on you.

The pod thing, it was over
the mountains over that way.

Alien abduction.

We thought it was gonna crash
right into their house.

The Overlords talk
about peace, harmony, justice.

Then they smash a fella's house
in and carry him away.

Well, people need
to know the facts.

Then they can make up
their own minds.

Still here waiting for--

There it is!

Right there?

Ellie?

Hey, babe.

Are you okay?

I talked with him...
with Karellen.

What--what did he say?

What--what did he look like?

I don't know.
I didn't--

I didn't see him face-to-face.

He gave me this.

What is it?

I have no idea.

Mr. Stormgren.

Can I see you for a minute?

Stay back!

For your own safety, move back!

So what can I do for you?

I've been reading all
about you on the flight over.

You're a smart man,
Mr. Stormgren,

a progressive man, humanitarian.

You better be careful,
you're gonna have me

blushing there, Mister--

Danlow, Paul Danlow.

I work for the
U.S. Secret Service.

I can figure out
who you work for, Mr. Danlow.

What you got there?

I have absolutely no idea.

They give you that?

Can I take a look-see?

You really should give
that to me,

and I can take it somewhere,
somewhere safe.

I'm sure you could.

You're not gonna open it,
are you?

It'd be one hell of a move with
the Earth at stake and whatnot.

Look, I understand.

The aliens gave you something,
and that makes you feel special.

Okay, no, no, don't do that.

- Don't patronize me.
- Oh, I'm not.

They must take you seriously,
so I take you seriously.

That's why I'm asking you
to hand it over

of your own free will.

Uh-huh, with a gun?

Okay, what if it's a bomb
or a virus?

You think of that?

Of course I thought about that,

but don't you think that
if that was their intention,

they could have
done it themselves at any point?

Well, think about it, Ricky.

So far these aliens have been

overwhelmingly demonstrative
and secretive, threatening.

They smashed open your home,
forced you onto their ship.

Then they give you this thing
and they tell you to open it?

Actually, Karellen told me I
could do what I wanted with it.

Okay?
He gave me a choice.

You're not.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
What are you doing?

What are you do--whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.

Just recording you
on our property threatening us.

All right, all right,
hey, look, look.

I've seen
what these guys can do.

I'm pretty sure they
can stop you from shooting us.

Yeah?
Maybe they can't.

Maybe they'll just
find another farmer.

Actually, the backup
was an old lady in Seoul.

Hell, cards on the table,
Ricky, you're a decent man,

and decent men
can be manipulated.

Hey, look,
he said that they're here

to teach us, all right?

To help us.

He said, "Hey-ho."

They're evil aliens,

but their leader says, "Hey-ho"?

No.

You know what I think?

I think you want to know
what's in this thing

just as much as I do.

Whoa.
Final warning, hand it over,

or I will put you down.

Okay.

There's intel from
hospitals as far away as China.

Same story everywhere.

We're looking at a 60% recovery

in patients presenting with
leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma,

pulmonary lung disease.

The first cure occurred the same
minute that you opened the vial.

Maybe they are gonna
cure everything.

You tell me.
They're your friends.

Ricky, you're the sole
spokesperson for an alien race.

Have fun with it.

- You got it?
- Yeah.

Morning.
Uh...

My name is, uh,
is Richard Stormgren.

Um, I have been chosen
to be the...

the intermediary
between the Overlords and, uh,

us, Earth.

And trust me, this was all

one giant "Twilight Zone"
to me too, so...

Uh, I was taken up
to meet with him...

uh, Karellen,

and I was not permitted
to see him...

physically,

uh, although I could tell that,
in speaking to him,

he seemed to be compassionate.

I will be taken up to meet
with him at regular intervals

and will be passing on...

uh, passing on information.

Uh...

Karellen wants you to know
that any war anywhere

will be seen
and will be firmly stopped.

Chemical pollution
of the atmosphere will be, uh...

Yeah, they're gon--
they're gonna deal with that.

They're going to deal with it?

Yeah, pretty sure about that.

The environment,
uh, social issues, politics,

I'm told that that's gonna

be more of a gradual process
of development--

Mr. Stormgren,

just tell us, why won't Karellen
show us his face?

I...don't know.

- Can they stop death?
- I-I can't--I can't--

Well, what does the inside
of their ship look like?

Come on, tell us something.

What, you want to know
what it looks like?

It looked like a hotel suite,

Four Seasons Hotel in New York.

Well, Mr. Stormgren, hey,
you must know some--

One of their pods just
landed on the White House lawn.

That'll be for me.

Which way?

Don't worry about it.

We'll get you up to speed.

You know,
it's only gonna get worse.

Half the world thinks
that you're their salvation.

The other half wants to blow you
out of the sky.

Well, you've had
that relationship

with your religions
for long enough.

Mm-hmm.

Fear, disorientation, and anger

is part of the first stage.

"Are."

I'm sorry?

They--they are part
of the first stage.

Second person singular
present active imperative.

My bad.

You've cleaned up.

We are not as demonstrative
as you might think.

We want to help you
help yourselves.

Yeah, but a lot of people
are gonna find that

awfully condescending.

Tell me,is it condescending

to send your children to school?

That's a good point,
but here's the thing.

If you walk around
calling us all children,

you're gonna piss a lot
of people off.

My bad.

If you, um...

if you'd have come here
five years ago...

Annabel still be alive?

We weren't here five years
ago, and she died.

Mm-hmm.

If you'd like,
I will dismantle this room.

No, no, we'll...

let's keep the room for now.

Of course.

Ricky! Ricky!

- Ricky! Ricky!
- Ricky! Ricky!

Diesel.

Come on.

Come on, up.

Come here.

This is gonna
change everything for us, Ricky.

Look, I'm sorry, Els, all right?

Just give me...

give me a couple weeks
so I can wrap my head around

what happens next.

It was Annabel.

They sent you Annabel,
didn't they?

Four Seasons honeymoon suite?

And every time
you go back to that ship,

it's to that hotel room.

I'm here.

Whatever you go through...

just know I love you.

A stonewashed hick
from a flyover state.

Why do you think
they picked this guy?

Because he doesn't ask the
right questions, that's why.

What if they're playing
the long game?

They can live for thousands
of years,

so they can wait, you know?

Make us healthy,
make us sleepy, make us fat.

They want to buy the world
a Coke.

All lovey-dovey.

Oh, you can dress this up

in as much hippie-dippie crap
as you like.

This is an invasion.

No disrespect, sir,

but what the hell
can you do about it?

On my daddy's farm,

the animals
have all the food they want.

I feed the pigs red apples.

And daddy gives them medicine
so they never get sick,

and they're happy
when daddy and the other men

take them away.

I don't know where they go,

but I know they're really happy.

Paid for by the Freedom League.

Their reaction
is understandable.

It means we're making
an impression.

Now, there is plenty of food
and shelter on this world.

It's a question of distribution.

Put the right people together.

They will come
because you ask them to.

And then what?

I don't even own a suit.

I don't know what you think
I'm gonna accomplish

that generations
of diplomacy hasn't.

The politicians have failed.

Be yourself, Ricky.

Don't think like them.

Look, Karellen.

Hmm.

I think it would go a hell
of a long way with people

if you would just,
you know, show yourself.

You wouldn't accept
my appearance.

So, hiding out here,

you plan to stop centuries
of people hurting one another?

But you are already feeling
each other's pain.

You share the same fears
and confusions

about us and about your future.

It's a healthy beginning.

So the Overlords have actually

sealed up
the Saudi oil reserves.

Uh, why?

Well, I think that we're
hoping it'll be taken

as an invitation
to come talk with us.

- Mr. Stormgren?
- Mm-hmm?

I can show you a petition
sponsored by the Freedom League,

22,400,000 people
who want the Overlords

to get the hell
off our property.

Next time you cozy up
to your pal in the sky,

you tell him that.

Let's look at what's happening.

I never thought
that I would see world peace.

Did you?

No?

We've ended war,

and now it's time
to end starvation.

Every day, millions of people
are starving

while the rest of us just
throw away unwanted food,

so we need to find a way
to get that surplus

into the hands
of the poorest people.

There we go.

So we don't need a Navy anymore,
right?

It just so happens we happen
to have a lot of big ships

just sitting around
doing a whole lot of nothing,

so we're gonna refrigerate
the U.S. Fleet and use that

to transport the food supplies
across the Atlantic

to West Africa.

We're just gonna empty them out

and then fill them up
with dinner.

Impressive.

No, it really is.

I mean,

it leaves our nation
completely open to attack,

but I'm glad Africa
will get her meals on wheels.

The Overlords have imprisoned
our oil reserves.

Actually,
they freed your supply lines.

These pipes pumped your oil.

Now we're gonna use them
to pump desalinated water

into the Sub-Sahara.

You cannot just commandeer the
property of the Saudi Kingdom.

These people are dying
of starvation and thirst.

Now, we need to irrigate
half a continent, sir,

and our think tank
says that's the best way.

Oh, I am so sorry.

You guys got to be
dying of thirst too.

Can I get you something
to drink?

Hey, can we get these guys
something to drink, please?

Yes, why has there been
no water on the table?

Gentlemen, cheers.

Dirty Texan muck, hmm?

Very well, but understand
that this is not the wish

of our kingdom.

We have always been
in this together.

Now it's time
to start acting like it.

Gentlemen, welcome
to the Golden Age of Man.

Yes, of course, when they
first arrived, I was scared.

Everybody was scared.

We watched them
like we were shop mannequins,

but after the shock,

we realized that we had been
living in so much uncertainty.

They had come to rule us,

and you can argue the morality,
of course,

but they brought certainty
and stability.

At least that's
how it seemed to us at first.

I look back now and shudder.

We were all under a spell.

Paid for by the Freedom League.

That's some fancy schooling.

He gets a scholarship.

He wrote this essay
about the Overlords

and sent it to some
fancy college in Massachusetts.

Oh, yeah? Like what?
What's in it?

My son has theories.

Never known the neighborhood
to look so nice.

They still can't take away
the U.S. of A.

Got to have independence.

Fourth of July, yo.

Hi, honey.
How was school?

There was a cocaine plant
in Ecuador.

The Overlords split it up
into its component parts,

about 4 million pieces.

What they do is like magic, huh?

They've learned
how to manipulate solids

at a molecular level,

probably using
a controlled magnetic field.

It's not magic, Mom.

It's just a 30,000-year
head start.

Your mind, honey.

It just blossomed
when they arrived, didn't it?

What you gonna do
with all that know-how, huh?

I don't know.

I can't do much with it.

Keep dreaming.

Supper's on the table.

The Freedom League's
gaining momentum,

funded by people
like Hugo Wainwright.

Doesn't that bother you?

I had hoped the world had
had enough of angry mobs.

The Saudis are pushing back
on this whole thing,

and I can't blame 'em.

People get angry
when they feel impotent.

But I've enabled you all
to help yourselves.

But, see,
this is what I'm talking about.

While you're standing back there
hiding your face...

I mean, look at this.
Have you seen these?

I don't mind the centipede.

I'm not wild
about being portrayed

as a blue robot, though.

You know
what they're most afraid of...

is that you don't look
any different at all.

I'm telling you,
to have gone through all this

just to be ruled over
by humans--

We don't look like humans.

That's new.

As surely as it rises,
the sun has to set.

You cut this up
with roach powder.

I'm not taking it from you
no more, Fence.

You're damn lucky I get any.

And you pull your neck in, girl.

Get out of there!

Oh, great, here comes Dr. X.

You're selling my mom
drugs again?

Go back in, Milo.

I can handle this boy.

Boy?

Does this look
like some boy toy to you?

Just give me my money.

Ah!

Aah!

Around here I'm the Overlord,

and that's the truth!

Next to them, you're nothing!

Just a boy
with his water pistol.

Milo?

Bro, what you thinking?

Milo! No!

Oh, God!

Not you!

Milo!

Not you!

Ah! What?

No, not you!

Honey?
What?

Honey?

Look it's not just our science
that's been hobbled.

They control our justice system.

My news sites are reporting
they just executed a young kid

from the inner-city projects.

Well, we're getting
eyewitness reports

that say it was an accident.

Do the Overlords
allow accidents?

Sure, the kid had a gun,

but they took him out
right there and then, no trial.

You break the rules,
bang, you're dead.

They are watching us
all the time,

and they are dealing
in swift moral absolutes.

It's exactly the kind of thing

that makes
the Freedom League rise up.

They think they're God.

I'm glad you mentioned
the big, silent guy.

Let's bring Miss Peretta Jones
into the discussion.

Peretta, you're part
of the Junior Faith Initiative,

which aims to remind
young people of the importance

of remembering God
in these unique times.

Oh, yes, I guess we have to.

The Overlords
have destroyed God.

My mother
was a devout Christian.

We lived in the poorest part
of Brazil.

When the Overlords came,
she lost her faith.

My mother decided that she
couldn't live in a world

without God,
so she killed herself.

My fear is
that the next generation

won't remember
there was ever talk of God.

It's clear they control
our political process,

our law enforcement,

and though I'm not
a religious man,

Miss Peretta makes
a very good point.

They're controlling the way
we think.

This is nice.

Just you, me,
and the 5,000 by the gate.

Maybe I'll go take them
some loaves and fishes later.

They'll like that.

So, uh,

what with world peace
and all that stuff,

do you even need
to go back up there anymore?

Babe,
I guess that's up to Karellen.

It's up to you.

All right.

I'll tell you what.

Why don't we get this wedding
back on track?

Do you want to?

I love you, Els.

Hey...
I love you.

But you never would have
if things had been different,

if Annabel was still...

and I can't help thinking things
are different for you up there.

Karellen is not
letting you move on.

He's built this dollhouse of
the past to control you somehow.

Okay, just give--just give me
a little bit of credit here.

You're distant from me.

Because I have responsibility.

I'm sorry.

As much as you may want,
this is not about us.

This is--this is about
the whole damn world.

You're my whole damn world.

What's up there isn't real.

All right, guys, hey, come on.

Back on
the other side of the fence.

Ricky.

Ricky?

Know what they call you?

The Blue Collar Prophet.

Cool, huh?

Where are you from?

Mexico City.

How's the air
in Mexico City these days?

It's clean.

Listen, if you don't have him,
you need to help him.

You can do anything, right?

So you find him,
and you bring him back to me.

Bring him home.

What's she doing?

Coffee?

Want to tell me what part
of your journalistic experience

gives you the chops
to play general?

I'm not playing general.

I'm a pacifist.

We are 120 miles
from the nearest town,

150 feet underground,

lead-shielded, self-sufficient,

and off-grid,
I believe they like to call it.

So what are you trying
to do here, Wainwright?

You want to--you want
to start a war?

Come on,
you're smarter than that.

You know you can't win.

You're right.

We can't win a war against them,

but organized resistance?

Now, that's different.

You see,

Karellen likes to see
himself as the benign overlord.

What if we stopped working
with him?

What if we destroy
our clean power plants,

pollute our irrigation systems?

But listen to yourself.

Defiance.

If we stop following them,
they've failed.

So you destroy every good gift
they've given us.

Then what?

They leave.

What choice do they have?

So we can just screw the world
up all over again.

I'd rather the world
went down the toilet

under our control
than flourished under theirs.

Oh, okay, I get it.

So then--so this is about
who's holding the power, right?

'Cause you used to hold
the reins to public opinion.

Now you don't like that they've
taken that from you.

You've got--you got to wrap
your head around the fact

that working with them is not
the same as working for them.

Semantics, Ricky.

So what the hell
do you want from me?

I want you to join the
Freedom League and speak for us.

No.

Then the Overlords
have their first martyr.

Did he plan that for the camera?

Are you hurt?

No.

Time has changed.

Our time.

A second is an hour to us.

Remember how we used
to talk about that?

How we wished that a night
would last a whole year?

Don't come to me like this,
Karellen.

I'm not Karellen, Ricky.

Then what are you?

A memory.

A ripple in a pond.

I'm not a part of them.

I'm a part of you.

Why would Karellen send you?

He could have sent anything.

No, he couldn't.

He's led
by what's in your heart.

That's why he built this room,
our room.

No.

I buried you.

Did you?

One day you'll understand
why I came back

and why he built the room.

Ricky?

What's happening to us?

Oh, come here.
Come here.

Look at you.

They shouldn't do this to us.

They're playing with your mind.

You need to see
who this Karellen really is.

Be safe.

Yeah.

Don't think about it.

Just do it.

You guys see everything, right?

Mm-hmm.

So then you could have
stopped them from taking me.

We could have
neutralized his armies,

but we needed the world
to see what human resistance

is capable of,

that they would murder someone
so beloved for their cause.

Their spirit is broken now.

The Freedom League
is disbanding.

We are doing this
for your own good.

Let me tell you a little
something about trust, Karellen.

It works both ways.

The World Federation
is being founded.

Your nations
will now unite as one.

The first stage is complete.

He's exactly right.

I'm just talking to myself.

You told me
that you needed my advice

just as much as we needed yours.

Well, here it is.

As long as you stay hidden
back here,

there's always gonna be people
that don't trust you.

Human beings don't trust
what they can't see.

They trust in a God
they can't see.

Man needs a lot more
psychological preparation

before we can show ourselves.

So when?

Not for many years,

but when the time is right...

I know you're disappointed
with my answer,

but we've seen the effect
our appearance can have.

So then you have been seen
by people.

Your world isn't the only
planet we've supervised.

Now, your work is done here,
I think.

What?

So that's it?

I've so enjoyed our chats.

Oh--okay, just hold on.

You'll live to see that day.

It will be wonderful
for both of us,

but it will still be very hard
when we finally appear.

I hope you don't mind me
saying this,

but I'm going to miss you,
my friend.

Hmm.

Uh, Karellen...

- Good-bye.
- Karellen!

Karellen was right.

We can't let anyone see this.

Just delete it.

Get rid of 'em.

I'm done.

I'm home.

Ellie Ryberg,

will you marry me?

Evil can disguise itself
as truth.

Whatever faith
or belief you have,

know that we're in this battle
together,

all of us.

We can never give up the fight.

No matter how mighty
the Overlords may seem,

we should never give up.

Remember, there is an ultimate
truth in this universe.

I will never,
ever stop believing that.

Media magnate
Hugo Wainwright, Jr.

has been found hanged
in his D.C. office.

The newspaper proprietor
left no note,

and there are believed to be
no suspicious circumstances.

You seem pretty low
for a walking miracle.

I never used to feel
this different or this scared

when I was in the chair.

That's 'cause your chair
was a barrier

protecting you from the world,

but the barrier's down now.

You've got to stop hiding
and work out who you are.

Is that what they did
when they cured me?

Oh, maybe.

Maybe they think
you got potential.

On the TV,
they say that science is dying.

I don't want it to die.

So what are you gonna do
about that?

Well, I want to be the first
person to visit their planet.

Then that is what you'll do.

Who knows
why they chose 15 years,

but things
had got a whole lot better.

I got a place at MIT, graduated,

and got a job in astrophysics.

Mom got clean and looked
younger than ever before.

In fact, everyone did.

"Youth of Utopia,"
they called it.

The Earth was being reborn,
so to speak,

and right now was waiting

to meet their guardian angels.

Kenny?

Milo.

Oh, my God, Milo.

Welcome home.

It's good to be back.

You still playing scientist?

I am in the dwindling
dodo profession

that is astrophysics, yes, sir.

Man, I mean, wow.

Look at this.

Everything--
everything's changed.

Yeah, most of these are empty.

When folk found out they
didn't have to earn money,

they just cleared on out
into them wide-open spaces.

- It's pretty much all mine now.
- Yeah?

- Mm.
- I mean, you looked after?

People leave this for me
every few days.

I have music.

I have peace.

They did it, Milo.
They did it.

They showed us
how to make heaven on Earth.

Mm!

- It's a big day.
- Yes, it is.

Thought maybe you'd want
to come to a bar

and share it with me.

I don't need to see them, Milo.

What are you talking about?

I've seen enough.

You know me.
I could never see enough.

Hey, buddy.

Come on, Dad, it's started.

What's started?

- Jake!
- What's that?

- Come on!
- All right.

What are you doing?

Ahh.
No hello?

Right there.
Okay.

It's hard to believe
that our wait is over,

but it is,

and it seems that the
supervisor for Earth, Karellen,

deems us ready
to look him in the eye.

And here we are at
the designated monument site--

I can't believe it's arrived.
We're ready, huh?

Guess we are, Amy.
Guess we are.

It's a beautiful, balmy evening

as the sun starts to set on
the 200,000 excited spectators.

Delegates
from the World Federation

are taking to the main podium.

It's fair to say
that everybody's breath

is truly bated as we wait
to meet our guardian angels.

There's--there's
some disturbance in the sky.

And it's here.

It's above us right now.

People are on their feet.

We haven't seen
an Overlord ship this close

since they first arrived
over a decade and a half ago.

Now, it does appear to be
docking with the arrival ramp.

And it's docked.
The ship is docked.

This is Karellen.

Let the children come forward.

The child greeters
that Karellen asked for

are now entering
the arrival ramp.

My God.

Karellen was right
to hide himself from us.

Still, I think, uh...

I think it may be too soon.

This world will be okay,
won't it?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

Hello.

There is no need to be afraid.

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