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War Of The Worlds TV Series - Season 1 Episode 16 - The Prodigal Son - 1988 - 1990
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00:00In 1953, Earth experienced the War of the Worlds.
00:06Common bacteria stopped the aliens, but it didn't kill them.
00:09Instead, the aliens lapsed into a state of deep hibernation.
00:12Now the aliens have been resurrected, more terrifying than ever before.
00:16In 1953, aliens started taking over the world.
00:19Today, they're taking over our bodies.
00:30The End
00:39The End
00:41The End
00:43Oh, my God.
01:13Oh, my God.
01:43Oh, my God.
02:13Oh, my God.
02:43Oh, my God.
03:13Oh, my God.
03:42Oh, my God.
04:12Oh, my God.
04:42Oh, my God.
05:12Oh, my God.
05:42Oh, my God.
06:12Oh, my God.
06:42Then you must know it better.
06:46Where does he work?
06:47Unknown.
06:48Then where does he sleep?
06:50Also unknown.
06:52He must be captured and brought to us dead or alive.
06:55The future of the future of the future of the future.
07:00The future of our species on this planet may depend on him.
07:02The future of our species on this planet may depend on him.
07:04Dr.
07:34This way, please.
07:48I am Quinn.
07:50Harrison Blackwood.
07:52I dislike being touched.
07:54It's understandable in this age.
07:59You must wear these, Doctor.
08:00I have to protect the location and absolute privacy of my studio.
08:06Well, your secrets are safe with me.
08:08Are they?
08:09We'll see.
08:11My work is only possible with solitude.
08:15We share that need, Quinn.
08:18And perhaps other needs as well, Harrison.
08:30We'll see you next time.
09:00Can I take this blindfold, Doctor?
09:21Not yet, Doctor.
09:22Oh, my God.
09:34Oh, my God.
09:38It's a masterpiece.
09:40Is it?
09:41Do you not find it sterile, cold, and a bit lonely?
09:47Not at all, no.
09:49It's as alive as you and I.
09:52What do you call this?
09:53The universal truth.
09:55And the cost.
10:00What cost is truth?
10:06That sounds like I'm not going to be able to afford this.
10:09Don't worry.
10:12I'm a reasonable man.
10:13You're here.
10:19You're here.
10:19Oh.
10:20May I help you?
10:42I'm Margot.
10:44We're interested in the Quinn.
10:46A rare offering.
10:48You have excellent taste, gentlemen.
10:50Where can we find Quinn?
10:57I have no idea.
10:58I'd like to talk to him.
11:00Look, even if I knew how to find Quinn,
11:03I'm not going to tell anyone
11:04and possibly lose his business.
11:14Number for Quinn
11:15is 2-1-2.
11:195-5-6.
11:29It's an honor to be here,
11:35just to have the opportunity to own an original.
11:38Now, tell me, how much is this?
11:42You can buy it.
11:44I thought that's why you invited me here.
11:46I'll give it to you.
11:50Quinn.
11:53I don't know what to say.
11:56Thank you is enough.
11:57You couldn't afford it anyway.
11:59Here's another small gift
12:01which exactly matches Nightmole.
12:04I'll give it to you.
12:05Put it on.
12:13And thank you.
12:18Tell me, Harrison,
12:20do you believe there's life in outer space?
12:23How could I not?
12:24That answer reminds me
12:28of the little old Irish lady
12:29who, when asked if she believed in ghosts,
12:31replied,
12:31no, but they're there.
12:33Is that where you derive your inspiration from, Quinn?
12:42The stars?
12:43It is the source of all invention,
12:47of imagination itself,
12:50and of life immortal.
12:51You made contact with aliens?
13:04Long ago.
13:07Seems forever.
13:10But I can remember every detail
13:13as clearly as if it were happening right now.
13:16Where did this happen?
13:17California, near your hometown.
13:19In 1953?
13:21Yes, Harry.
13:24Would you mind if I call you that?
13:25I know Sylvia does.
13:26You know about Sylvia?
13:28And Dr. Forrester,
13:30and all about his secret alien study
13:32called the Ezekiel Project.
13:34Quinn, if you have any information about aliens,
13:36tell me.
13:37Oh, I'll tell you, Harry.
13:39But just about one.
13:41I'll tell you all about
13:43one who did not fall to the bacteria
13:47in the great invasion,
13:48one who was stranded, alone,
13:51thirty-five long, lonely years
13:54on a hostile, alien planet
13:58called Earth.
14:01You're an alien.
14:09Oh, no, Harry.
14:14You're the alien.
14:15I am of a superior race
14:37from a dying solar system
14:39in the constellation humans call
14:41Taurus, roughly here.
14:43Forty light years away
14:45beyond time
14:47and beyond space.
14:50In 53, our army came to conquer
14:54this small planet
14:55and to purge its surface
14:57of all parasites.
14:59Including humanity.
15:00especially humanity, Harry.
15:07Of which you
15:08are a pathetic,
15:11miserable,
15:12bacteria-ridden
15:14park.
15:16But if you think you can escape,
15:19try.
15:20No, in fact, I insist on it.
15:23Just walk out the door, Harry,
15:25or I'll kill you where you lie.
15:39Do you like my gift, Harry?
15:40Harry?
15:40Is this 23 Canal Street?
16:02Yes, officer.
16:03Quinn up there?
16:04Never heard of him.
16:06It doesn't come off
16:15until I take it off.
16:19And that will be
16:19one of two ways.
16:21My choice,
16:22dead or alive.
16:24I'm a life queen,
16:26but I'm not afraid of death.
16:28Death on what scale,
16:29Dr. Blackwood?
16:31Yours,
16:31your country,
16:33or total planetary annihilation?
16:35Because that's what's coming
16:37or someone stops this war.
16:40If this is a piece over in Quinn,
16:42you have a strange way
16:43of showing it.
16:45Just call it the hard sell.
16:55Now I promise you sanctuary.
16:57Quinn, don't be an idiot.
16:58Come on.
17:01What's that explosion?
17:20Why do you think
17:21they call them trap doors?
17:27What's that explosion?
17:28Why do you think
17:29they call them trap doors?
17:31How could Harrison
17:49miss our meeting
17:50with General Wilson?
17:52I have no idea.
17:53I haven't heard from him.
17:54He hasn't even checked in yet?
17:56Not a word.
17:58That's not like him.
17:59If there was a problem,
18:02Doc would call me.
18:03We've already got a problem.
18:05Tomorrow night,
18:06the top five members
18:07of the U.N. Security Council
18:08expect a report
18:09from this mission
18:10by order of the president.
18:12How about that RSVP number
18:14that Harrison left for Quinn?
18:16I'll try.
18:17Norton,
18:17track down the address
18:18behind Quinn's phone number.
18:20I'll try and reach Harrison
18:21on his portable again.
18:23And let that line ring
18:24until somebody answers.
18:26You talk to nobody but me
18:46until you speak
18:47to the United Nations.
18:48Why are we running
18:49from your own kind, Quinn?
18:50Because I want to live.
18:54I've got rather used
18:55to the idea
18:56in a very human way.
18:58Half alien,
18:59half human?
18:59Yes,
19:00and half crazy
19:01from living in this zoo
19:02you call society.
19:05Inside this primitive
19:06host body
19:07is the secret
19:08of alien immunity
19:10to bacteria
19:11on this filthy planet.
19:13You're the exception
19:14to the rule.
19:15Exactly.
19:16And if the advocacy
19:18captures me
19:18they will take
19:19a vital organ
19:20out of me
19:21to get the secret
19:23for themselves.
19:25And I die.
19:27And our world
19:27dies with you.
19:29Quinn,
19:29why don't you
19:30just change bodies
19:30and disappear
19:31into a crowd?
19:32Because I can't,
19:33Harry.
19:33The same genetic twist
19:35that keeps me alive
19:36has trapped me
19:37inside this ugly shell.
19:40They know who I am
19:41and what I look like.
19:42I know.
19:42I told them years ago.
19:43But no one ever
19:46came after me
19:47until the awakening.
19:48You spoke of
19:49ending the war,
19:50Quinn.
19:51How?
19:52Not here.
19:53Let's go.
19:55And if you make
19:55any more noise
19:56I'll give you to them.
20:06I'm sorry,
20:07your call cannot be
20:08completed at this time.
20:09The mobile customer
20:10you have called
20:10has traveled beyond
20:11our service range.
20:13Yeah,
20:38let's put you
20:39falls down.
20:39follow me.
20:59This better be important.
21:11Sorry,
21:11Sergeant Fitzpatrick,
21:12but this guy
21:12is from the White House.
21:14What's the White House
21:14got to do with this?
21:16Colonel...
21:16Iron Horse,
21:17Sergeant.
21:18Nothing at the moment
21:19except a friend of ours
21:20is missing.
21:21This is his last
21:22known location.
21:23What was he doing here?
21:24Buying art.
21:25We'd appreciate
21:26any information
21:26you could provide for us.
21:27Yeah,
21:28well,
21:28I got zip,
21:29Colonel.
21:29I got one dead
21:30Korean driver
21:31with a 38 slug
21:32in his brain
21:32and his limo
21:33like this loft
21:34is registered
21:35to a company
21:35in Panama,
21:36a matchbook
21:36from a Save the Dolphins
21:37group in San Francisco,
21:39a pile of goo
21:40that I think
21:40from the badge
21:41is a New York cop
21:42who's been missing
21:43for a month.
21:44And this...
21:48Quinn.
21:50So this is
21:51what he does.
21:52Okay,
21:55your turn,
21:55Colonel.
21:55Now,
21:55who's your friend
21:56and what was he doing here?
21:57That's classified,
21:58Sergeant.
21:59May I take a look
22:00at the matchbook,
22:01please?
22:15What do you think
22:16it means?
22:18I haven't got a clue.
22:22I'll keep in touch,
22:23Sergeant.
22:26Yes,
22:27that was Harrison's
22:28matchbook
22:28and yes,
22:29that is his writing
22:29but how do you get
22:30Q equals the delta sign
22:32means Quinn's an alien.
22:33Simple abbreviation.
22:35Q for Quinn.
22:36Delta,
22:37base three,
22:38the alien structure.
22:39If only Harrison
22:40would have given us
22:40a clue
22:41as to where he was going.
22:44What if he didn't know?
22:47My God,
22:48Paul.
22:49What if they took him over?
22:50I can't believe that.
22:53I won't believe that.
22:56Yep.
22:57Suzanne,
22:57that is a very real possibility.
23:02Please be Harrison.
23:05Iron Horse here.
23:06Norton here,
23:07Colonel.
23:07Seems like the
23:08East Manhattan police
23:09found a lady
23:10dead in an art gallery
23:11on 57th
23:12with
23:12three round holes
23:14in her head
23:14and mucus-like slime
23:16around the wounds.
23:18Aliens.
23:18You win.
23:20Now for the hard question.
23:21Where's Harrison?
23:23Likely with Quinn,
23:25who we think
23:25is an alien himself.
23:27My God,
23:28they got Harrison?
23:29It looks like it.
23:31You gotta find him.
23:33Look,
23:33see what you can
23:34muster up
23:34on this Quinn character.
23:35Okay,
23:36no problem.
23:37We'll follow up
23:38with the gallery murder.
23:39I want you
23:40and everyone else
23:41to evacuate
23:43the cottage immediately.
23:44What are you saying?
23:45I'm saying
23:46get out of there,
23:47Norton.
23:48They've got Harrison
23:49and if he's been
23:50taken over,
23:51everything that he knows
23:52the aliens will know.
23:53Please get Debbie
23:54out of there.
23:55Okay,
23:56don't worry about Debbie.
23:58I'll call you
23:59back to your van.
24:04Gertrude,
24:04let's get out of here.
24:05Come on.
24:06What's this?
24:27I home away from home.
24:36Absolutely no one
24:42knows about this place.
24:44Why don't I find
24:45that reassuring?
24:46Sit down.
24:47We're safe here.
24:51I said sit down.
24:58Mister?
24:58Mister?
24:59Don't get any ideas,
25:10Harry.
25:11I'm much stronger
25:12than Miss Bondi suggests.
25:15Crushing your skull
25:16would be like
25:17killing a cockroach.
25:22Why do you hate
25:22humans so much,
25:23Quint?
25:27I have nothing
25:27really against humans.
25:29Some of my best
25:30friends are humans.
25:33But as a group,
25:34they stink
25:35and you know it.
25:36I say kill them all.
25:38Is this the only way
25:39to end the war,
25:40Quint?
25:40Why can't we start
25:41here and now
25:42between you and me
25:43some interspecies dialogue
25:44which might bring peace?
25:46Dialogue?
25:47No.
25:48Demand?
25:48Yes.
25:50You will tell
25:51the UN Security Council
25:53leaders tomorrow night
25:54that 10%
25:56of the human race
25:57will be allowed
25:58to live.
25:59Only if they
25:59follow my orders.
26:01The rest
26:02will be poisoned.
26:04Otherwise,
26:05total annihilation
26:06is inevitable.
26:09That's an offer
26:09you can't refuse.
26:11That's not a peace offer,
26:12Quint.
26:12That's the slaughter
26:13of billions of people.
26:15This is a fact.
26:17Why?
26:17Why?
26:18Why our planet?
26:20We come from an ancient
26:24world, Harry.
26:26A garden planet
26:27called Mortax.
26:30But our sun is dying.
26:32And without light,
26:34there is no life.
26:36Earth is the closest planet
26:38by far to continue
26:39our eternity
26:40under a new sun
26:41in a new world.
26:44A world you don't deserve.
26:46A paradise your kind
26:47treats like a toilet.
26:49You're all vermin.
26:51A plague this planet
26:52can well do without.
26:53We belong here,
26:54Quint.
26:55You don't.
26:56We are the future,
26:57Harry.
26:58In less than five years,
26:59three million colonists
27:00will arrive here
27:01for Mortax.
27:02And an army of thousands
27:04out there right now
27:05works to slaughter
27:05all of you.
27:06But I offer mankind
27:08a compromise.
27:08Take it.
27:12What happens
27:13to the ones
27:13that you spare of me?
27:15I will have them
27:15put on reservations
27:16far from my kind.
27:19The world will be
27:20a better place for it.
27:22And we will live
27:23life immortal.
27:27Even if I was
27:28to convey this
27:29grisly offer
27:30to the UN,
27:32how do I know
27:32that your kind
27:33would accept this idea
27:34especially coming
27:35from a renegade
27:36like you?
27:37Because I am
27:38one who knows
27:41the supreme commander
27:43of the army
27:44and I sacrificed everything.
27:46I left my mates,
27:47my children,
27:47my home
27:47to come here
27:48to make a refuge
27:49from my dying race.
27:50But our ruling class
27:52thought only
27:53of its own glory,
27:54ignoring the warnings
27:55of our scientists.
27:57Yes, I know
27:57that problem well.
27:58The army will accept me
27:59to quickly win this war.
28:01Earth is a new world
28:02with new rules.
28:03We are thousands
28:04ruled by only
28:05three,
28:05the advocacy.
28:06But now,
28:07Harry,
28:08I will rule alone.
28:11And me?
28:12You,
28:13you will make
28:16the final selection
28:18who amongst you
28:20lives
28:21and who dies.
28:25with all this cash
28:40and jewelry left behind
28:41it sure wasn't thieves.
28:42They're not thieves,
28:44Sergeant.
28:46We belong to a task force
28:47on terrorism.
28:48Our enemy uses
28:49unique methods.
28:51They're ruthless,
28:51determined,
28:52ruined, and deadly.
28:53Any idea
28:54what these
28:54unnamed terrorists
28:56are after?
28:58Come on,
28:59what exactly
28:59does your
29:00missing team member
29:01mean to them?
29:02Colonel,
29:02what about tonight's
29:03special meeting?
29:04We have to assume
29:05that the enemy
29:06is aware of that now.
29:08Sergeant,
29:09I'll have photos
29:09of Dr. Blackwood
29:10faxed to your office
29:11within the hour.
29:12And I'm gonna need
29:13every available man
29:14you can muster up
29:15by 1,900 hours.
29:171,900 hours
29:19for what?
29:20A stakeout
29:21of the United Nations.
29:211,900 hours.
29:45This won't hurt you.
29:58We leave for the U.N.
30:00in 15 minutes.
30:05Adulge me, Quinn.
30:06Answer me just one question.
30:10Do you realize
30:11that you're unique?
30:13What's your point, Harry?
30:15My point is
30:16that you've lived here
30:17for so long
30:17that you're more human
30:18than you are alien.
30:20Don't try my patience.
30:22I've very little left.
30:23That's what I mean.
30:26The truth is
30:27that you've lived here
30:27for 35 years
30:29in torment
30:29and suffering
30:30in a terrible
30:30kind of loneliness.
30:32Now you're revolting
30:33against your condition.
30:35Despite the pain
30:36you want to live, Quinn,
30:37that's a human feeling.
30:39What I've done,
30:40I've done to survive
30:41no matter what
30:41you read into it.
30:43From what I know
30:44of your people,
30:45they are short on humor
30:46and they are long
30:47on murder.
30:48Do you think
30:49that millions
30:49of alien society
30:50are going to
30:51accept that body,
30:53that mind
30:54and its human feelings,
30:55let alone allow
30:56a half-breed
30:57like you to leave them?
30:58No, Quinn.
30:59Your kind is intolerant
31:00in their superiority.
31:01Your kind murders
31:03anything different
31:03from its own.
31:04Yours is a killer race,
31:06Harry, not mine.
31:06But we have learned
31:08the value
31:08of tolerance, Quinn.
31:10And your species
31:11hasn't.
31:12Tolerance is
31:13and always will be
31:14the saving grace
31:15of humanity.
31:16Tolerance, Harry.
31:17What good
31:18is tolerance to me?
31:20Because if you want
31:20to live, Quinn,
31:22humans will tolerate you.
31:24They might even celebrate
31:25your half-alien identity,
31:26but your kind,
31:27your kind will squash you.
31:28They will kill you
31:29out of fear.
31:29I will rule
31:32this planet
31:33and anybody
31:35who stands
31:36in the way
31:37will die.
31:38That's been tried
31:39before, Quinn.
31:40Maybe not by one man
31:42operating all by himself.
31:43Oh, but I'm
31:44more than one, Harry.
31:45I have you.
31:47And if you're good,
31:49really good tonight,
31:50Harry,
31:51the United Nations
31:52will end this war.
31:54And put you
31:55on a throne?
31:56You'd better pray
31:57that they do.
31:59Because if this fails,
32:01you'll be extinct,
32:04along with all
32:05the rest of your
32:06godforsaken species.
32:24If anyone spots
32:25Dr. Blackwood,
32:26I want you to
32:26contact me immediately.
32:27Yes, sir.
32:28But what if our target
32:29is about to evade
32:30capture, Colonel?
32:31Sanchez,
32:32Dr. Blackwood
32:33is not a target
32:34until I say
32:36he's a target.
32:37So I damn well
32:38better be the one
32:39who does any shooting.
32:40Just a manner
32:40of speaking, sir.
32:42Well, if that manner
32:42becomes trigger-happy,
32:44you'd better hope
32:44the enemy gets you
32:45before I do.
32:46You understand,
32:47soldier?
32:47Yes, sir.
32:52Harrison may be
32:53the biggest weirdo
32:54pain in the butt
32:55I've ever known,
32:55but he's a friend
32:58of mine.
32:59He's a friend
33:00of mine, too,
33:00Susan.
33:00He's a friend
33:02of mine, too,
33:03Susan.
33:04We're almost there.
33:29Why do you use
33:31New York's tunnels,
33:31Quinn?
33:32Believe it or not,
33:34the light above
33:35hurts my eyes.
33:37How ironic.
33:38That's what you
33:39came here for.
33:40New York's tunnels.
33:48$2,000.
33:49$2,000.
33:50$2,000.
33:53$3,000.
33:54$3,000.
33:59$1,000.
34:01$2,000.
34:05$4,000.
34:08Stay close, Harry.
34:22Don't slip, friend, of this damn alien.
34:24Handcub of yours will kill us, folks.
34:38We're early, but tonight we won't be disturbed.
35:05What did you do with the door?
35:06My laser lock. It'll hold for 30 minutes.
35:08A simple principle of physics, but nothing can break that door down now.
35:12Some kind of force field?
35:13It's all the same thing, Harry, if you understand the universe.
35:16Light and energy, Quinn. I understand the principles.
35:18It's the mechanics I'm after.
35:19Now, how do you know the session is set for this room?
35:22Human secrets are pathetically protected by those who make them, Harry.
35:25A few bucks here, a phone tap there, and anything you want to know is yours.
35:29Maybe you'd better tell them that, Quinn.
35:36You must concede to the will of the advocacy, Quinn.
35:44You're surrounded.
35:46There's no way out.
35:56Fitzpatrick.
35:57Sergeant, what's your location?
36:06Going in.
36:07Stay here.
36:08You're the command, Quinn.
36:20You're nothing without counsel.
36:22You won't take me alive.
36:24Maybe I don't plan to.
36:26I will give you this human who knows too much about our people.
36:30Do you really think I'm glad you live, Quinn?
36:32He leads those who would resist us.
36:37Then you won't be rewarded.
36:39Your death will be that of a hero.
36:41No, I must live.
36:42I know this planet and its life forms.
36:45I will rule in place of the three.
36:48No, we live to serve the three.
36:52What are you doing?
36:57Full of survival.
36:58It's impossible.
36:59I have no more tricks to stop them, and they won't leave here without me.
37:01Quinn.
37:02You underestimate human ingenuity.
37:15Oh, you're mad.
37:16The laser lock will disengage in ten seconds.
37:18We're finished.
37:20Oh, yeah?
37:22Let them in.
37:25Why not?
37:26Why not?
37:26Let's go.
37:48Let's go.
37:48Zip, Tom.
37:53Zip.
37:55Zip, Tom.
37:56Zip.
37:58I don't know.
38:28I don't know.
38:58I don't know.
39:28I don't know.
39:58I don't know.
40:00I don't know.
40:29I don't know.
40:31I can see why you've lasted so long, Quinn.
40:52You're a real survivor.
40:56When you live in the jungle, you learn many things about survival.
41:01Now it's back into the jungle for me.
41:07And me?
41:08You gave me my life, Harry.
41:13I give you yours.
41:15Twist the crystal on your bracelet.
41:24You're free.
41:25Quinn?
41:35Quinn?
41:35Quinn?
41:36Quinn?
41:37You'll meet again.
41:42Don't turn around.
41:49Don't turn around.
41:50Keep your hands where I can see them.
41:52You're a real person.
41:53You're a real person.
41:59I don't know.
42:01Certainly.
42:02You're a real person.
42:03new holes in me to prove it. Believe it or not, it's important to me, too. You've been
42:10under Quinn's influence for a long time. How do I know you're not one of them? Well, I
42:16could tell you a joke, but if you didn't get it, and you might not, Colonel, you might
42:21just shoot me out of spite. Very funny. Paul. Yes? It's really me. I guess it is.
42:33Thirty-five years ago, a great invasion force of aliens nearly obliterated mankind in an
42:51all-out attack from the stars. They came here on these spaceships, and they fell from the
42:56sky dead. So we all thought. Earth was saved from interstellar conquest by the presence
43:02of common bacteria found on this planet, but they were not dead, as my adoptive father,
43:07Dr. Forrester, tried to warn everyone. They were only asleep. Dr. McCullough. They are
43:15capable of inhabiting human bodies, a perfect cover which allows them to roam our cities
43:20undetected, unnoticed. We are at war, gentlemen, and we had better win. There won't be any second
43:28situation Let's go to the widest church.
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