The War of the Worlds Page #2

- You could fry eggs on that thing.

- The sand is keeping the heat in.

Uncle, Dr Forrester. Dr Matthew

Collins is the pastor here.

- Well, how do you do?

- How do you do, sir?

Hey, you!

What have you got in here?

It's ticking like a bomb.

This is a Geiger counter

for detecting radioactivity.

- It's that meteor.

- It's radioactive?

Yes. It's difficult to account

for a reaction like that.

- Look at it. It's going crazy!

- Maybe we should keep people away.

I'll post a few deputies.

That meteor is either very light,

which is unheard of, or it's hollow.

If it were heavy and solid, it would

have made a tremendous crater.

I'll wait around until it cools off.

Is there a place I could clean up?

- I'd like you to stay at my house.

- Thank you.

It won't be cool for 24 hours. What

do people do here on a Saturday?

- Not much of anything.

- There's a square dance tonight.

Allemande left and the ladies star.

Gents walk around, but not too far.

Allemande left and the gentlemen star.

Ladies walk around, but not too far.

First and third balance and swing.

Promenade the outside ring.

Three quarters round the outside ring.

Through that couple and not too far.

Meet in the centre with right hand star.

Swing your corner with left hand round.

Let's take another look at it.

- It's almost cold now.

- We might as well go home.

- No sense staying out here.

- Let's go.

Hey, it's moving!

- It's a bomb!

- It didn't go off last night...

- Maybe it's gonna go off now.

- It's a sneak attack. Let's go.

Wait a minute.

Bombs don't unscrew.

It's no meteor. That's for sure.

Darnedest thing I ever saw,

the way that's unscrewing.

- Thank you, Doctor. Having fun?

- You know what I was thinking?

The energy from one square dance

could send the meteor back home.

- Must be somebody in there.

- Who? Where do they come from?

I read that Mars is near Earth now.

It happens every 20 years, they say.

Men from Mars...

- What do you think?

- Maybe these are not men, like us.

Everything human doesn't

have to look like you and me.

If it's men from Mars, we ought to

let them know we're friendly.

- No, you don't know what it is.

- We'd be the first to make contact.

We'd be in all the papers.

We could walk out there

with a white flag.

I got an old sugar sack in my car.

What are we going to say to them?

"Welcome to California."

Come on.

(PULSATING ELECTRONIC NOISE)

We're friends!

Open up!

- How will they understand us?

- We'll talk in sign language.

Everybody understands that the white

flag means we want to be friends.

- Hey there, open up!

- Come on out, we're friends!

- We welcome you!

- We're friends!

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