[radio clicks]
[reporter, in Japanese] -- the enemy has been defeated
All around the world
the enemy falls, crashing to the earth!
And the greatest miracle of all,
is that it was Japan!
Who led the effort to destroy the enemy.
-[radio clicks] -[broadcast stops]
[Mr. Murai] We gave her a compass.
For her birthday...
I think she was...
...she was four.
She loved that compass.
She didn't play with the other toys for months.
We would take her to the park
and she would take her compass
and line up the little red arrow...
north.
She would walk that way, holding the little compass.
She wanted to know where that...
pull on the needle came from.
It pulled her too.
[announcer on PA, indistinct]
[Trevante] Breathe. Hey, look at me. Look at me. Caspar! [grunts]
It's okay, buddy.
Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!
Doctor, check him. Just check him.
- Do your shit. - What happened?
Keep his heart rate going.
He's breathing.
Careful. Get him in there.
[machine whirs]
It's gonna be okay.
[machine clicks, pulsates]
[computer mouse clicking]
What's it mean?
What does it mean?
- There's nothing. - Fuck "nothing." Try it again.
- This is not a test you-- - I said try it again.
[typing]
[machine whirring]
[inhales sharply] No reactivity.
Fuck!
He's breathing.
Okay.
- He's breathing. Again. Huh? - Okay.
-[typing] - Come on.
[mouse clicks]
His EEG is flat.
He's not breathing anymore, the machine is.
I'm sorry.
He suffered broad cerebral trauma from cortex to stem.
His heart stopped, deoxygenating the brain,
resulting in mass cellular death.
Brain cells are like us.
They die, and they don't ever come back.
I'm sorry.
He's lost all of them.
-[Jamila] So... -[neurologist sighs] He's dead.
[Aneesha panting]
[panting stops]
[Ahmed] Run, Aneesha!
Run, Aneesha! Run!
-[gunshot, echoing] -[gasps]
[gunshot]
[footsteps]
[Sarah] Did you see where Daddy went?
[sighs]
Your daddy...
They shot him.
He's dead.
[Sarah whimpers]
Then say it.
No.
He's-- He's hiding.
If we wait...
No, sweetheart.
Your daddy...
a bad man took him.
[Luke] Mom...
tell her.
[Sarah] Tell me what? [crying]
[Aneesha] Your daddy...
We left him...
and they killed him.
But Mom's here.
I'm here.
Daddy's dead?
[sobbing]
[keys jingle, clink]
[reporter, in Japanese] -- the enemy has been defeated
All around the world
the enemy falls, crashing to the earth!
They can fight no more,
they die in the street
And the greatest miracle of all,
is that it was Japan!
LONG LIVE JAPAN. CELEBRATION. NEVER GIVE UP!
Our great nation, our great people!
Who led the effort to destroy the enemy.
HOPE, DREAMS, GRATITUDE.
Our heroes can hold their heads high
[people cheering]
[gate buzzes]
[sighs]
[ventilator pumping]
[sighs]
[Jamila] Where you going? Are you running?
Don't you got, like, family or something, kid? Huh?
- Yeah. - Yeah? Do they know where you are?
You saw what he did.
- No, that wasn't him. - You saw.
He stopped them.
Nuclear bombs stopped them. None of this Jedi shit.
- What happened to him? What was it? - It was a seizure!
You saw!
Listen, I saw in there that he's dead. Okay?
He's still alive. And you're--
I'm not watching.
I've done that.
I'm not watching.
I held...
I held his hand when they unplugged him.
When they did that...
I couldn't save him.
Can't save him.
Okay?
You tried.
[sighs]
You got-- You got family here?
My mum works here.
Maybe you should go find her.
I'm fine.
Go on.
Wait.
This one's mine.
That's yours.
If you really don't believe that was him...
have a look.
Take it!
[people cheering, laughing]
[person] Yes!
[cheering continues]
["Fight The Power" playing]
[reveler] Hey, soldier! Hey, hey, hey! Fuckin' hero!
-[all cheering] - Hey, snap a pic with us, would you?
I ain't got a phone. Will you take a picture?
Got a fucking hero here, innit?
[all] Yeah!
Hey! Let me see. Let me see that.
Okay. Let me see. Let me see.
Yes!
[cheering]
-[horns honking] -[cheering]
[reveler 2] Move away!
[honking, cheering continues]
Get out of the way!
[chattering]
[no audible dialogue]
[mouthing words] Oh, yes.
[no audible dialogue]
SOC Trevante Cole, Task Force Saxo.
I just wanna get on a plane back to the US.
Yes, sir.
Okay. Yeah, okay.
[breathing heavily]
[sighs] Fuck.
[Luke] We shouldn't have left the road.
[Aneesha] I know what we should do.
There's food and soldiers and--
People.
People can help us.
Where are we even going?
Mom.
I'm hungry.
I'm hungry too, sweetie.
There's no one here.
It's too big.
It's warm.
You'll grow.
[TV reporter] Scenes are pouring in now from all around the world.
A lot of this we have coming in over the wire.
-A time of celebration and reunion... -[people cheering]
...people leaving shelter into the open
as this alien enemy has been defeated almost overnight,
almost as quickly as they arrived.
People now look up at the sky and they see victory.
That is the word for today.
-And there are celebrations... - What are we doing?
What are we doing?
- We can go home. - No, we can't go home.
Yes, we can. Look at everyone.
Why are we even here?
What are we doing?
We're surviving.
Why?
[Sarah] Mommy?
- What's that? -[Luke] It's a TV.
What's on it?
Nothing.
Are you talking about Daddy?
- No, no. We were talking about... - Surviving.
Mom is telling me why we're hiding from people.
Why are we hiding?
Because sometimes, when everything seems quiet and nice and safe,
and you feel like you can trust that,
that's when...
[sighs]
You have a voice inside you.
It's always there.
Sometimes it's very, very quiet, but you have to listen to it.
'Cause that voice in you is all you can trust.
And my voice is telling me,
"Not yet. Not yet."
You understand?
Do we live here now?
No, we don't live here.
We can sleep here tonight.
Then where?
[Luke] Nowhere.
Because it isn't safe.
Because Mom's voice says.
You want to be somewhere else without me?
I'm not leaving you. Ever.
And you aren't leaving me.
You will never leave my side. I won't let that happen.
Wherever we're together is home.
Tonight, this is home. Okay?
Here.
Go make a bed.
[Luke] You didn't look for him.
I didn't see him.
I did. I did.
Why'd you leave him?
He told us to.
You just do whatever he says?
No. I don't do what anyone says.
Then why should I do what you say?
Because I'm keeping you alive.
You were right. Those people wanted to kill us.
They will, if we aren't smart.
We are being tested.
The world wants to test us to see if it can break us.
But it can't.
Yeah, well...
it did.
[reporter] That is the word for today.
And there are celebrations like this taking place all over the world.
It really is something special,
a moment of shared worldwide victory
unlike any the world has ever known in its history.
[engine whirring]
[worker speaks indistinctly]
You're walking alone.
Yes.
They say it's safe now..
It looks that way.
Where are you trying to walk?
[chuckles]
The train isn't running.
The station. It's very damaged.
It will take time for the trains to run again.
You'll need a car.
I don't need a car.
There's nowhere to stay tonight either.
A lot of bloodshed up there.
Police now. Cleaning up.
You're welcome to stay in the temple.
If you observe the rules.
I have beer.
And internet.
Funny. First thing they do isn't clean up
the blood or the bodies.
You should've seen them all,
two hundred people working together, fixing cables...
to get their internet back.
[Mitsuki] You're alone too.
[monk] Mm.
Our Osho believed all this was a sign.
This "fall of the physical world"
was the Buddha's greatest test of the mental and spiritual world.
A test of mastery over reality.
He meditated without food. Without water.
As the world fell, he committed fully to the teaching of the Buddha.
He withdrew into the world of the mind.
And? Did he find nirvana?
Hmm.
In a way.
He starved to death.
In that room over there.
[matches rustle]
And the other monks?
They ran.
Aliens invading really has a way of testing your beliefs.
And now, you believe in beer.
I believe this was a test.
Maybe they came here to take everything we have,
to take our world...
because we've taken it for granted.
We worry about the past. The future.
We don't enjoy what we have while we have it.
Monks are worst of all.
We live only in the mind.
We deny ourselves physical pleasures.
It's a waste.
A waste of this world....
of beer...
these chips...
Now I enjoy everything in this world.
Mmm.
[chuckles] Especially weed.
And you?
What do you believe?
Me.
Mmm.
I believe...
in memory.
Not memory of the past,
but memory of possibility.
Beer is fine.
But nothing is better than a dream.
So you live in your head too.
Maybe you should be the monk.
To be a monk, you have to let go of the past. Right?
"Nekkahamma." To be free of desire.
That's true freedom. They say.
[exhales]
[wind howling]
[official, in English] And you got from Afghanistan to here
after the flights were stopped?
[typing]
There's blood on your vest there. Yours?
Some.
[types]
Your squad was lost in an encounter.
One of the first.
Was that your only encounter?
No.
[types]
You fought one?
A few of 'em.
And you survived, when your whole squad was lost?
My squad wasn't there when we fought.
How did the aliens move? Together?
What do you mean?
Describe it.
All alien life and craft went dead at nuclear detonation.
The tests they've done on these show that they're identical,
each one of them, coded.
Yeah.
"Yeah." Describe it. How did you stop them?
I didn't.
So then what happened?
They stopped pursuit? Chose a new target?
[panting heavily]
They were after one thing.
[official] What?
Terraforming.
-[typing] - Excuse me?
That's what we think they were doing.
Did you see 'em spread this substance?
It metabolizes,
releases gas into the atmosphere, changes the air.
Is that what it did?
[sighs]
Looks like you got all your answers in here.
Aren't I supposed to fill out some form so I can get on a transport and go home?
[official sighs]
All right.
Let's get you transport, Chief Cole.
Thank you.
[typing]
-[heart rate monitor beeping] -[ventilator pumping]
[doctor] Do you want to say goodbye?
You have a few moments.
["Drown" playing]
[rhythmic beeping, steady beep]
[music continues]
[steady beep continues]
- Jamila! -[gasps]
Mum?
- Mum! - My baby girl! [sobbing]
[both sobbing]
[passenger] Can you believe it's over?
I'm going home.
Was only supposed to be here two days.
Then this.
Only been a week since I saw my family, but feels like forever.
You?
[inhales deeply] Yeah.
How long's it been?
Two years.
[Sarah] Daddy.
I love you, Daddy.
You taught me how to ride a bike.
And you got me ice cream even when Mommy said no.
And...
you were the bad breath monster.
It was funny.
And...
[cries] I love you.
That was great, sweetheart.
Dad...
It's okay.
I'm sorry.
You have nothing to be sorry about.
Bye.
[paper rustles]
[soil, leaves scrape]
[helicopter whirring]
[device clicking]
[breathing heavily]
[clicking continues]
[clicking intensifies]
-[static] -[high-pitched buzzing]
[dogs barking]
[birds chirping]
[sighs]
[footsteps approaching]
[Learah sobbing]
[Trevante sobs]
[sniffles]
You get my message?
- What? - My messages.
Wha-- What?
I love you.
You.
You're all I love.
Look.
I got your letters.
Stop. Stop, stop, stop.
[sniffles]
I just got home.
I see a strange man broke into my house.
I might call 911.
But 911 isn't working, so...
maybe I'll just let him go.
But I-- [sighs]
What if he, uh...
What if he doesn't wanna go?
[scoffs] Well, then I'll kick his ass and throw him out.
'Cause he broke some things around here.
[breathes shakily]
And what if he's willing to fix 'em?
He can't just put it all back together.
A new job.
Yeah?
A new job?
Yeah.
- You mean it? - I'm here.
-[sobs] - All right.
[both crying]
[thuds]
[wind whistling]
[feet shuffling]
[thuds]
[strains]
This yours?
Nah.
- Ooh. I'ma run quick, babe. - Yeah.
"Star."
Hey.
Baby. Baby, look.
[static pulsing]
[parent 1] I wish you would just calm down and listen.
[parent 2] All I do is listen. You never shut the fuck up.
[parent 1] I don't wanna fight anymore. I think we just need some time apart.
[parent 2] Some time apart?
Yeah, you try it. You try and walk out that door. You see what happens.
[parent 1] John, he can hear us.
[John] You think I fucking care what he hears?
[glass shatters]
Mum?
Dad?
[in Japanese] There you are.
I was looking for you...
Looking at the stars?
You didn't open your gift.
Open it.
Go on.
It's for you.
You can see...
where you are.
And where you're going.
You can see...
how the world pulls.
[pulsing]
[pulsing continues]
[pulsing intensifies]
[static pulsing]
[fire crackling]
[gasps, breathes heavily]