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A man's at his most dangerous when he doesn't have anything.

‘Cause, when a man's got nothin', he's got nothin' fo lose.

Except for his freedom...

This is Macatawa State.

And this here's Les Danyou

All Les ever had was his brother Moe.

And all Moe Danyou had ...

.- was contempt for authority.

It wasn't long before ._

- .. prison hospitality wore thin on the Danyous.

And after a year, .. they'd had enough.

It took the coroner a half an hour ._

- . to pry that garden tool ...

... from the prison guard's skull.

Eyewitness reports had the Danyous headed west.

As the warden Buck Hutchison...

- - led the hunt for the convicts himself.

Now if timing is everything, ..

.- that's just another thing the Danyous didn't have.

‘Cause on this Eve of Halloween 1938, ...

.- there was something in the air ..

.. and it was about to descend on the Danyous.

We know now that in the early years of the fwentieth-century ...

- .. this world was being watched closely by intelligences _.

.- greater than man's.

We were scrutinized and studied.

Minds that are fo our minds...

- . asours are fo the beasts in the jungle, ...

.- regarded this Earth with envious eyes ..

- . and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

“Nol”

“Moe, - Dogs!"

“Oh bay, look at this!”

“ Moel”

“Les, dammit!”

“Dogs”

“Moel”

“Be quite!”

“Dogs”

“We'll lose them dogs down at the water!

“We got it now, hold ont”

Ladies and Gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music...

- . to bring you a special bulletin from the Infer-Continental Radio News.

It is reported that at 8:50 pm...

- .. a huge flaming object ...

— fell on a farm 22 miles from Trenton.

- . A flash in the sky was visible within a radius of several hundred miles _.

.- And the noise of the impact was heard as far north as Elizabeth ..

.- We have dispatched a special mobile unit to the scene .-

- - and will have our commentator, Carl Phillips .-.

- . give you a word picture of the scene ...

- - as s00n as he can reach there from Princeton .

«in the meantime _.

“Mind yer supper Jack!

“Nice shot partner”

“You know son you've been given somethin' special there”

“Not quite sure what you can make of it though

“Applesauce?”

“Well you want be wantin' fer supper then”

“Sweet Mother of Mary!”

.. People in the streets see it now _.

.- they're running towards the East River ._

- . thousands of them ... dropping in like rats ...

“Alright. - If it's a fight yer lookin' fer, you found it!'

- . People are trying to run away from it, but it's no use ...

“After you apologize to Colonel Jitters, ... ”

“I want you to do me a favor alright?”

“I'm gonna go up and say goodnight to Mom?

It'd been the better part of a year since the break-in, _.

- - but young Jack wanted revenge more than ever.

See, these criminals took a whole lot more than just a baseball.

Thay also took his Mother's life.

“Hey Pa, what's the favor?”

“Well hold down the fort, of course”

“Dammit!”

“Goddammit, Les!”

“Last

“Dammit! - Les!”

“Moe, Sshhh!”

“Don't tell me fo be quite goddammit.

“I almost broke my foot on that damn free back there!

“Moe, I been thinkin'. *

“Well thank God for that”

“Yea, well, . I'm headin' home”

“Les, don't start that shit with me. - Not right now goddammit”'

“Now look, I ain't got time for that shit. - Bring that boat back over here”

“Now I know Curly will give us our jobs back”

“And do what? - Shovel horse shit for 15 hours a day?”

“Now looky we can't go back home, you know that

“Besides, we going out to California, ... where there's beaches.”

“... and the starlets have titties the size of grapefruits”

“Now you know what I'm talkin' bout.

“And just a, a whole bunch a' really neat shit."

“We can have a boat? - and fish?”

“Yea Les, we can have a boat and fish!

“Now will ya bring that goddamn boat back over here .. ”

“._ 50 we can gol”

“Here, hold that. - Hold that right there. - Now hold my foot”

“Goddammit! _. Not that foot!”

.- The bells you here are ringing ..

... fo wam the people to evacuate the city as... Martians approach ..

Wait a minute, the, .. the enemy's now in sight above the Palisades!

“Trick or Treaf?”

“Dammit by! - Don't you know what's going on?”

“Pa told me to apologize for putting a burr up youra..”

A bulletin is handed me .

“Sshhh!”

Martian gylinders are falling all over the country ..

.- one outside of Buffalo, one in Chicago ... St. Louis ..

“They're everywhere!”

“My God bqy, didn't you hear?”

“Well alright now. - God bless your Ma son

“But you remember when yer house got broke info _.”

“_. and they took that ball of yours?”

“The one signed hy Babe Ruth?”

“Jack, go check your room son.

“Sarah? Sarah!”

“You remember?”

“It was Ty Cobb?

“Well alright then, Ty Cobb?”

“But the point is your home was invaded!”

“This here's the same deal boy!

“Only these creatures are after a much bigger ball

“One about the size of awhole Earth!”

“They've come for us, Jimmy!"

“Jack!

“You know all of us

‘Just saw one overhead not five minutes ago”

“What we got on our hands here ._

“.isatoetotoe..”

“. with Mars!”

Ladies and Gentlemen, _.

1 have a grave announcement fo make.

Incredible as it may seem, _.

- . both the observations of science _.

- . and the evidence of our eyes _.

.. lead to the inescapable assumption _.

... that those strange beings _.

- .who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight ...

.- are the vanguard of invading amy from the planet Mars _

“Chron!”

alas?”

“Les, do you hear that?”

“Goddammit.”

“Oh shit”

“Well hey Les, ...”

“What you got there?”

“It's a boat!”

“Put it down'

“No, no, no, no, no ... You said I could”

“Les, I wasn't falkin' about that boat. - I meant another boat”

“One we got out in California. - Now put that boat down

“Ill fit in the boxcar”

“Les, we ain't takin' that damn boat _.*

“.. on a train fo California. - Not tonight we ain't”

“Now put the damn boat down!”

“I want it. - It ain't comin), I ain't goin.”

“Not .. No! No! No! No! Goddammit! No!”

“Now I'm tired of your shit!”

“Now I'm tired in general!”

“I'm the one who came up with the whole damn thing fo get out of jail

“Now I'm tired of it”

“Now we ain't takin' it no damn where. — Put it down right now!”

“You listen here! - I wouldn't even be in this mess. ”

“... if you hadn't killed that woman at the farmhouse!”

“Shit”

Now it wasn't Moe's idea to look after Les af all.

It was their Mother's dying wish.

And from that moment on a ball and chain was Moe's constant companion.

“Well alright then!”

And the more he tried fo shake it, the heavier it seemed to get.

“I'm tired of draggin' your damn ass, when this whole thing was my idea!”

“My Ideal”

Ah, and that broadcast wasn't helpin' none either.

- .. something's happening ..

“Listen Skippy - You know where I keep Winchester?”

“Get 'em!”

.- There's a jet of flame springing from that mirror, ..

- . and it leaps right af the advancing men.

It strikes them head on!

Good Lord, they're fuming info flame!

Now the whole field's caught fire! - The woods . the barns _.

- . the gas tanks of automobiles ...

... it's spreading everywhere. - It's coming this way now _.

Ladies and Gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control, ...

- . We are unable fo continue the broadcast from Grovers Mill ...

“Hand me ny eyes bqy. - Over there son”

.- we will return to that point at the earliest opportunity ..

In the meantime, we have a late bulletin from San Diego, California _.

“Oh, Winchester!”

“I gotta go tell Pa

“You do that son. - Tell him its war!”

“Oh brother..."

“I got your cover!”

“Hey Pa, what's the favor?”

“Well hold down the fort, of course”

_. At least 40 people, including 6 state troopers ...

- - lie dead in a field east of the village of Grovers Mill.

Their bodies bumed and distorted beyond all possible recognition.

“In the penitentiary I was readin'... ”

- .. Well, Shemp was readin'. ”

“.. about how 400 ton of space matter falls fo the Earth yearly

“That's 400 fon every year! - Now _. ”

“.- I figure, you goin' back a ways...”

“That right there..."

“is how life on Earth commence!

“ikea.”

“Like a..a..”

“What? - What Les?”

“What?”

“Moe? ._"

“Why?”

“I mean why us? - Why all this?”

“Les, I don't know!

“Sometimes a.”

“.. aman just gets in the way of his self, like destiny or something...”

“Just pick the damn thing up. - We got fo go. - Hump it up right now!”

“These ugly bastards is dumb as soap!”

“But they're shooters!”

I see something on top of the gylinder.. Mo, that's nothing but a shadow ...

- . Now the troops are on the edge of Wilmuth Farm _.

“I'm just getting fired of if rainin' on us all the time!”

- . well wait, that wasn't a shadow. - I's something moving _.

- - solid metal _. kind of a shield-like affair...

- . rising up out of the cylinder ...

“I see one!”

.- It's going higher and higher _. Why, it's standing on legs ..

- . actually rearing up on a sort of metal framework ...

“Bloody Jesus!”

... it's reaching above the trees, _.

... the searchlights are on it. - Hold on!

“Hit 'em boy!”

At this time we take you to Washington ..

... for a special broadcast on the National Emergency.

Citizens of the Nation. - Placing our faith in God.

‘We must continue the performance of our duties.

“Space matter!”

... Each and every one of us _.

“Matter my dick!”

“That's the Law bqy! - Get on the hump!”

- .. So that we may confront...

“Noooo ..."

.- this destructive adversary -.

“Hit "em again boy!”

“I'l get ‘em.

.- with a Nation united, courageous, .-

... and consecrated fo the preservation .. of human supremagy _.

...on this Earth ... I thank you.

“It ain't gonna rain no more, buddy”

That Halloween the Danyous almost got away with murder.

“Applesauce.”

But there was something in the air that night.

Some kind of order fo the chaos ...

.- that allowed a bqy to avenge his Mother's death.

You know _. Einstein once said, .-

.- “God doesn't play dice with the universe'

Things happen for a reason.

‘Cause they're supposed fo.

And then again, ... maybe all this happened ..

- . because Les and Moe didn't know Jack.