Childhood's End (2015): Season 1, Episode 1 - The Overlords - full transcript

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

until the very last second.

Until the end.

Milo, don't shovel, baby.
They're hot.

I'm booking a pedicure.
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 gotta ask you, have you been...

Have you been drinking again?

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

Hello?

Diesel! Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

- He's right there! Hello? Hello?

- Right there! Right there!
- No way.

Right there!

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 Janiculum 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 recorded over New York,
Houston, and D. C.

Earned 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...

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 am 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.

Annabelle?

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 are no longer alone.

We're calling them The Visitors.

No, we're not.

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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 appeared to us
as beloved deceased relatives.

Now that is something that...

Ellie. You okay?

Ricky.

I just saw an Israeli soldier

embracing an elderly Arab man
who was weak and...

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, are hugging.

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

I just saw an...

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 looks like...

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?

Now 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.

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.

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 'em with the glass of water.

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

Do you think they're gonna launch,
like a, what do we call it?

Like a air strike?

I don't think they wanna hurt us, Mom.

Why come all this way just to blow us up?

Because they're aliens.

Can we just...

We're never gonna get anywhere
if we're all hoopin' it up.

- Well, what about food and water, Mayor?
- Yeah.

Is there gonna be
a stockpile for the town?

There will be no hoarding.

- Oh.
- 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.

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...
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...

Els, you're not Annie Oakley,
you're from Greenwich Village.

Let's go. Let's go! Come on!
Quick! Move to the basement.

Diesel.

Okay.

You got my attention.

Ahhh! 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.

Hands up!

You let no one through,
you hear me? No one.

Hold the line!

Get back.

Do you like it?

It's the honeymoon suite.

Four Seasons Hotel.

New York City.

Annabelle 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 are 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.

Mmm. "Overlords".

I find that term a little bombastic.
But, heigh-ho.

Why did you make this room?

Why'd you send me Annabelle?

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

No.

I got a new life.

I'm... I'm getting married again.

All of this... This is...

This is mind games.

You scare the hell out of us.

And you... 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.

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 home. Where's... Where's the thing.

People trust you.

You look them in the eye and...

Hey, if you... 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... It was the Pacifier. It was...

It was meant to be a joke.

Hmm. I know.

I've studied all human languages,
syntax, colloquialisms, jokes.

I get it.

Seven 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 wanna 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 wanna 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.

Everybody's looking to us
to make the first move.

- The President wants to strike, Paul.
- And 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.

And 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.

- All right.
- It's like we didn't see what it was.

- And that's when we saw it.
- Yeah. Good on.

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

Alien abduction.

...so fast,
we thought it was going to...

The Overlords talk about
peace, harmony, justice.

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

People need to know the facts.

Then they can make up their own minds.

Right there.

- Ellie.

Oh.

Hey, babe.

Are you okay?

I talked with him.

- Karellen.
- What?

What did he say?

What... What did he look like?

I... I don't know. I...
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?

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.

Progressive man. Humanitarian.

Be careful.
You're gonna have me blushing there Mr...

Danlow.

Paul Danlow.
I work with 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.

I mean, you're not gonna open it, are you?

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

Look, I understand.
The aliens gave you something and...

- It makes you feel special.
- Okay. No, 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've thought about that.

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

they could've 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 doing?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa.

Just recording you
on our property threatening us.

Uh, uh, 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.

- But decent men can be manipulated.
- Hey, look,

he said that they're here to teach us.

All right? To help us.

He said, "Heigh-ho".

They're evil aliens, but...
But their leader says, "Heigh-ho"?

No.

You know what I think?

I think you wanna know what's in this thing

just as much as I do.

Look, 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.

Morning.

Uh...

My name is, uh, is Richard Stormgren.

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

The intermediary between the Overlords

and us...

Earth.

And, uh... Trust me,

this is all one giant Twilight Zone to me, too.

So...

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

Karellen. And...

I was not permitted to see him

physically.

Uh, although I could...

I could tell that in speaking to him
he seemed to be

compassionate.

I will be

taken up to meet with him at,
uh, at regular intervals.

And, uh, will be passing on...

Uh...

Passing on, uh, 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, um...

Yeah, they're gonna...
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...

That's gonna be more of a...

- A gradual process of development.
- Mr. Stormgren, just...

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

I don't know.

Can they stop death?

I... I can't... I... I can't...

What does
the inside of their ship look like?

Come on. Tell us something.

What?
You wanna know what it looks like?

It looked like, uh, a... A hotel suite.

Four Seasons Hotel in New York.

But, Mr. Stormgren. Hey!

You must know something.

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...
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.

Mmm-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, well, 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...

You'd have come here five years ago...

Annabelle still be alive?

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

Mmm-hmm.

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

No.

No, we'll...
We'll keep the room for now.

Of course.

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 Annabelle.

They sent you Annabelle, 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 wanna buy the world a Coke.

All lovey dovey.

You can dress this up
in as much hippie-dippy 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.

With the right people together

they will come because you ask them to.

And then what?

I... 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.

I... I... I think it would go

a hell of a long way with people

if you would just 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?

Mmm-hmm.

I can show you a petition

sponsored by the Freedom League.

Twenty-two million
four hundred thousand people

who want the Overlords
to get the hell off our property.

The next time you cozy up to your pal
in the sky, you tell him that.

Let... Let's look at what's happening.

I never thought that I would see world peace.

Did you?

No?

We've ended war.

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?

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 US fleet and use that to transport

the food supplies across the Atlantic

to West Africa.

Just gonna empty them out
and fill 'em 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 'em 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 gotta 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 look so nice.

They still can't take away the US of A.

Gotta have independence.

Fourth of July, ya'll.

Hi, honey. How was school?

There was a cocaine plant in Ecuador.

The Overlords split it up
into its component parts.

About four million pieces.

What they do, it's like magic, huh?

They've learnt 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.

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 have 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?

Well, 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 rolled 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.

Oh, great.

Here comes Doctor X.

You're selling my mom drugs again?

Go back in, Milo. I can handle this boy.

What?

Does this look like some boy toy to you?

Just give me my money.

Around here I'm the Overlord.

And that's the truth!

Next to them, you're nothing.

You're just a boy with his water pistol.

Milo.

Man, what you thinking?

Milo!

No!

Milo!

Honey?

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.

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.

Well, 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 is 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 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 Annabelle 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.

Oh, just... Just give me
a little bit of credit here.

You're distant from me.

Yeah, 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.

Hey, you all right?

What's she doing?

Coffee?

You wanna 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.

One hundred and fifty 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 wanna go and 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 powerplants?

Pollute our irrigation systems?

Look, listen to yourself.

Defiance.

If we stop following them,

they fail.

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

in our control,

than flourished under theirs.

Oh, okay. I get it.

So, then... So... 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 gotta 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.

Are you hurt?

No.

Time is 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 part of them.

I'm a part of you.

Why would Karellen send you?

He could've 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?

Mmm-hmm.

So, then you could've
stopped them from taking me.

We could've 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.

I'll 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.

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?

Just... 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.

Uh, Karellen.

Goodbye.

Karellen.

Karellen was right.
We can't let anyone see this.

Just delete it.

Get rid of him.

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 at 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 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 do you wanna do about that?

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

Then that is what you'll do.

Who knows why they chose 15 years?

But things have gotten a whole lot better.

I got a place at MIT, graduated.

I 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.

Janny?

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.

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 the wide-open spaces.

It's pretty much all mine now.

- Yeah?
- Mmm-hmm.

Are 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.

Mmm.

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

I thought, uh, maybe you'd wanna
come to a bar and share it with me.

Ah, 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.

- Buddy!
- Come on, Dad. It's started.

It's started.

- Jake!
- What's that?

- Come on!
- All right.

What are you doing?

No hello?

There.

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...

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.

Uh, there's...
Uh, 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 at 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.

Oh, 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.