War of the Worlds Page #5

- Will you hold my hand?

- Yes.

- Are you gonna be okay?

- Yes.

I wanna know everything you know.

This...

This machine,

it crawled out of the ground,

started torching everything.

It was killing everybody.

What is it? Is it terrorists?

No, this came

from someplace else.

- What do you mean, like, Europe?

- No, Robbie, not like Europe!

That machine,

it was already buried.

Maybe it...

...it came down in the lightning storm.

- They came down in a lightning storm.

- What do you mean, came down?

- You said it was buried.

- No, the machine I'm talking about

was buried, but what

came down in the lightning storm,

what operates it,

that's the... You know.

- The what?

- That's...

Why aren't there any helicopters

or airplanes?

- It's the what?

- Hey, Rach. How you doing?

- How is she doing?

- How you doing?

- Fine.

- She's good.

- Good. What was that thing you did?

- Works sometimes.

- She gets claustrophobic.

- Yeah? Hey, Rachel?

- I want Mom.

- Yeah, I know. You feel better?

- I want Mom.

- Yeah? Tell me about it, you know?

- Take me to Mom's.

- What I need is,

I just need you to hold it together

for me, okay?

I want Mom!

When you start screaming,

I can't really drive...

- Take me to Mom's!

- I know that.

- That's where we're going, Rachel.

- Take me to Mom's!

I know!

Hurry up, Dad. Come on.

Robbie, get the door.

Mom!

- Mom!

- Mom!

Mom!

Mom? Tim?

Mom? Tim?

- Mom?

- Mom?

- Tim?!

- Tim?

Tim?

Mom?

They're gone.

Is she dead?

She's not dead. All right?

She's just not here, okay?

- They were never here.

- How do you know?

Because they're

on their way to Boston.

And so they just...

...kept on going up to Boston.

Probably at your grandma's house.

I'm gonna call her.

How come the lights are on here

and not at your place?

Because...

...nothing bad happened here. Okay?

So we're safe here. All right?

Okay, Rachel? This is your area.

- Okay, you are safe...

- Dad, that's not how it goes.

Okay. Well, are you hungry?

I'll get you some food.

I'm gonna feed you.

Get something to eat.

- What do we have?

- Busy signal.

- Ketchup? Mustard.

- You think all the circuits are down?

Tabasco, barbecue sauce.

This is really good, Robbie.

Vinaigrette. I said pack food.

- What the hell is this?

- That's all that was in your kitchen.

Okay. No, it's all right.

All right. Okay.

Food.

Bread.

Okay. We're gonna have...

Let's get some sandwiches.

Wanna see me deal?

Wanna see me deal? Here we go.

There's two for you.

There's two for Robbie.

There's two for me,

one for the house.

Okay.

Maybe after we eat something,

I'll go down and show you guys...

Teach you how to play some poker?

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