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00:24THE END
00:33I don't think the Americans know more than us, but we don't know anything.
00:41They're not Americans, but they're the other ones.
00:46They've already hit us on our boat.
01:03Commander, how old is it?
01:05Get the post-Atlantida.
01:06We've been contacted.
01:09Commander, how old is it?
01:11Commander, how old is it?
01:26Looks like a couple of trigger-happy comrades tried to shoot down a saucer with an AK-47.
01:31Golf are talking?
01:32Yeah, the punch line is we had a destroyer out there thinks it was fired upon.
01:36They were fired on.
01:38I'm gonna follow.
01:39Looks like the North Vietnamese want to start a war.
01:55My name is John Lowengart.
01:57I'm recording this because we may not live through the night.
02:00They're here, they're hostile, and powerful people don't want you to know.
02:05History as we know it is a lie.
02:37After telling our story to the Warren Commission and being ignored, we were completely disillusioned.
02:43We needed a break from the war, so I promised Kim we would try to lead a normal life for
02:48a while.
02:48Pick a small town and blend in.
02:51But we were about to learn that no one dictates the rules of war.
03:05John?
03:14John?
03:16Can't you cry?
03:18Yeah.
03:31Do so.
03:32Do so.
03:54You thought I forgot.
03:59I almost forgot myself.
04:01Well, I went on a little scavenger hunt this morning.
04:05Got a little five and dime up the street.
04:07Let's see.
04:10We've got chocolate kisses.
04:17Strawberries.
04:19Mmm.
04:22And champagne.
04:26Sounds like breakfast in bed.
04:27Maybe I should get back under the covers.
04:31Well, I was actually thinking bathtub.
04:35Cool water.
04:37Bubbles.
04:39Bubbles?
04:42Oh.
04:44I must have left it.
04:46Forget about it.
04:47We'll pour in some champagne.
04:49I want this to be a perfect memory for you.
04:51Can you give me five minutes?
04:55Hey, if you want to make it perfect, make it three.
05:00I'll run.
05:02All right, all right.
05:03Thanks a lot.
05:03You bet.
05:07Let me guess.
05:08You got a new way to get a ganglion out.
05:13What do you want?
05:16You've just been drafted.
05:22This photo was taken a week ago.
05:25We believe the hive has begun building underwater earth bases represented by these shapes.
05:31This was taken yesterday.
05:34As you can see, all visible structures have been eliminated.
05:37You've got better eyes than I do, darling.
05:40My name is Juliette Stewart.
05:43Agent Stewart has been put in charge of coordinating all activities between Majestic 12 and the Soviet Aura-Z project.
05:49The point is, after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, retaliatory attacks were authorized by the United States against North Vietnam.
05:57I thought you said this whole damn Gulf of Tonkin thing was just so much hogwash.
06:02It was just lucky timing, Nate.
06:04President Johnson got his war against the communists that he was itching for, and we got covered.
06:09For what?
06:10The first 25 Air Force sorties took out the underwater installations.
06:14Well, I don't see it as a problem.
06:15Sounds like the mission accomplished to me.
06:17Not quite.
06:19Several Aura-Z intelligence officers witnessed the aftermath of the airstrikes.
06:24Seven saucers escaped. One was hit.
06:27It's been tracked here.
06:29Long K.
06:30The Aura-Z officers went in after it. They're now missing in action.
06:34In spite of the communists' buildup in Vietnam, Aura-Z has agreed to an American rescue mission.
06:38But you must act quickly.
06:43Miss Stewart, would you mind leaving the room?
07:05I don't need some broad telling me what I have to do.
07:08Look, Chuck.
07:10I could care less about the girl or about the Soviets, but I do want that bird back.
07:15Unfortunately, the war's taken on a new twist, so it's gonna be a lot harder getting into Vietnam.
07:20We're gonna need the help of the Air Force and the Army.
07:22Keep this line, officer.
07:24We areæ²»Ã.
07:45Hi, uh, I was wondering if a young man came back in for some bubble baths.
07:52Warman. Black sedan. Thank you.
08:10This is forged.
08:12You think your protector, Earl Warren, is going to know the difference?
08:15Well, he's not going to believe I'd just go enlist for the Army.
08:17Well, you've been doing a lot of strange things over the last year and a half. Could be part of
08:20a pattern.
08:23Look, John, you've got a choice.
08:25You can either land in a safe zone near Laos on a recon mission,
08:29or you can land in the north, behind enemy lines, unarmed.
08:33Either way, you're going to Vietnam.
08:35Why me?
08:37Because you're expendable.
08:40What if I live?
08:43Well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, if we get to it.
08:47So my surviving is a real long shot.
08:55Well, then I need to call Kim and let her know where I'm going.
09:00Write her a note, John.
09:02After we read it, we'll make sure she gets it.
09:17Chopper's ready outside.
09:19I've got a transport plane waiting in Andrews.
09:22Your contact in-country is Kellogg. He's arranging your guide.
09:27Why go yourself, Frank? This is just a standard recovery op.
09:30It's not just the North Vietnamese, Phil.
09:32If this saucer technology gets into the hands of the Chinese, the Japanese, even the Soviets,
09:35we've got more problems on her hand than just a hive.
09:39You want me to brief Juliet?
09:41No.
09:42Frank, she did all the reconnaissance on this.
09:44We'll be halfway across the Pacific before she even finds out.
09:51There she was, just a-walking down the street.
09:55Well, sit there, gentlemen!
09:57Step right in!
10:00Good-bye, gentlemen. Welcome to my humble abode.
10:02Hey, you don't want you guys to bring a Hershey bar?
10:04I didn't have much time to pack.
10:05That's too bad. Somebody's grunt.
10:07You know, they paid dearly for a little taste of Americana.
10:09Five bucks a bar.
10:10Forget about the candy. What about supplies?
10:12Oh, supplies. Supplies.
10:16Tag, Mooney Tags.
10:18Private Fisher.
10:20Who was Private Fisher?
10:22Oh, I don't see Betty. Cut them right in half.
10:24It's 19, in case you wonder...
10:25All right, all right. What about weapons?
10:27Weapons?
10:28Weapons I got.
10:29That shit never ran!
10:32Yeah, watch the pin there, Captain.
10:33Come on. Come on.
10:35Set up shop over it.
10:37Oh, this tunnel system.
10:38They got lots of those around here.
10:41We got toys galore.
10:42We had enough toys to take care of Charlie single-handedly.
10:44Yeah, you sure do.
10:46Where's your guide?
10:47Guide's late.
10:49Need a new watch, Kellogg.
10:53This the men?
10:54Uh, Captain...
10:55Riley.
10:56Private Fisher.
10:58Tay Ma.
11:00He's a friend of mine.
11:01He's father of the jungle.
11:03Knows every tree by name.
11:05I came early so we get to Cuencae before dawn.
11:08If I think moving to the region,
11:10daylight travel will not be safe.
11:11I'm not going with you.
11:12He is.
11:13He's the boss.
11:14What do you mean you're not going?
11:16You make it to the site,
11:17I'll be over there by the radio.
11:18I'm not gonna go traipsing through the jungle
11:20with all those landmines when I got you on a leash.
11:22You want to make it back to the States,
11:23you come out with a recovery team.
11:25You really do want me going, don't you, Frank?
11:26I want that wreckage.
11:29We should go.
11:31Stop.
11:39Okay.
11:43Frank K is just over the ridge.
11:47The map correct.
11:49The wreckage should be down in the valley.
11:51In the riverbed.
11:55Hold on.
11:57You said it was dangerous to travel by day.
12:01I don't know.
12:01Maybe we should lay low here for a while until dark.
12:05Huh?
12:06Okay.
12:07I scared the perimeter.
12:09Okay.
12:23Why do you know this area so well?
12:27I grew up 40 miles south of Quang K, near Dong Hoi.
12:32My family work on a French colonial farm.
12:35The owner, he taught me English.
12:38That's my home now.
12:40I've seen the French left in 54.
12:42There's nothing to hold the country together.
12:45Only conflict.
12:47And now you've got the communists trying to take over.
12:52The war's not about communism.
12:54It's about change.
12:58I pray America will restore the peace.
13:01Maybe someday I'll go home, back to my country.
13:06I'll be a fighter.
13:08I'll be a farmer, huh?
13:32I'll be a farmer, huh?
13:41I can't see her, but I'll be a farmer here.
13:42They're everywhere.
13:43They're watching me.
13:45The white rabbit, he went down that hole over there.
13:49Even if my head would go through, what use would it be without my shoulders?
13:54What's wrong with them?
13:56Crazy.
13:57I've lost his mind.
14:00Keep talking to him.
14:01Maybe he did see something, huh?
14:06Soldier, why don't you come on down here?
14:07All right.
14:12So where are you from, soldier?
14:15Center of the Earth, where cats eat bats, and bats eat cats.
14:20And all I want is orange marmalade.
14:24Shhh.
14:29Anybody?
14:32Over here.
14:35Turn.
14:37You can see this.
14:54What is this creature?
14:59Crash site can't be too far off.
15:03I'll try to explain it to you on the way.
15:14I've got sound.
15:17I...
15:18Everything moving.
15:20The ship's core is magnetic.
15:22It can be pretty disoriented.
15:26As long as you don't touch it, you'll be okay.
15:29As long as you don't touch it, you'll be okay.
15:54All that's left is a power core.
16:00What the hell is that all over the side of...
16:04Looks like...
16:05Looks like guns.
16:13There should be a safe distance here.
16:18Damn, I should have known better.
16:25All you carry is these knives.
16:29I don't believe in guns.
16:33Well, we better call somebody who does.
16:38Many people here have seen the light in the sky.
16:43I've seen before I was a child.
16:46Well, I used to think it was only in America.
16:48Obviously not.
16:52We found one of the pilots, but somebody already got to it.
16:55Cut off its head.
16:57All right, use your grenades.
16:58Take out the core.
16:59I thought you wanted to salvage this damn thing.
17:02Negative.
17:02If magnetism gets your weapons, it'll take down the chopper.
17:05Just take out the core.
17:07Burn the head, too.
17:08We've got your coordinates.
17:09I'll be there pronto.
17:11Get that helicopter up, quick.
17:13Five minutes.
17:15You got it.
17:24Majestic, this is MJ-1.
17:26Do you copy?
17:27This just came in, sir.
17:40Prepare a briefing for all 12 directors.
17:42Let them know there'll be an emergency meeting Friday night
17:44in the event that Captain Bach doesn't return from Vietnam.
17:48Keep me posted on any change of status.
17:59I was supposed to go with Bach.
18:03This is not your personal crusade, Juliette.
18:05This is simply about cleaning up a mess.
18:09It's only going to get messier.
18:11I promise you.
18:24Scream and I'll shoot.
18:27If you want money, I...
18:29I want you to get in the car.
18:42I want you to get in the car.
18:43Okay.
18:44That should do it.
18:48Okay.
18:49You're so good.
19:05Let's go.
19:07Let's go.
19:10Let's go.
19:13Yeah, let's go.
19:14Let's go.
19:15What?
19:25Ha! Amazing. Not even a trace.
19:29Um, the lake still tingling.
19:33Yeah, mine too.
19:36Whew.
19:42He's got to be the captain. Let's get our things together.
19:50That's right, Albano.
19:51And unless I get John back,
19:54Frank Bach will never see his wife again.
19:59You want proof?
20:02Tell him something personal he would know.
20:06Anything. Just make it fast.
20:08Um, our son's middle name is Lincoln, like the president.
20:16Do I have your attention now?
20:18I don't know what you think this will accomplish, Sayers, but I strongly suggest...
20:21You have 24 hours, or she dies.
20:25I'll call you tomorrow.
20:26Sayers, don't hang...
20:28Sayers!
20:29Did you get the trace?
20:31No, sir.
20:37I recognize your voice now.
20:39You came to my house. It must have been about a year ago.
20:42You said you were a schoolteacher.
20:45I was the diversion.
20:47My boyfriend was taking something from your husband.
20:50Do he and Frank know each other?
20:56You don't have a clue, do you?
21:04These footprints go in all different directions.
21:07The ship must be in pieces.
21:08There's no way that the V.C. could have dismantled it.
21:10Well, there's no tire tracks, so they couldn't have carried the pieces too far.
21:14One thing at a time.
21:14We have to find those greys and burn them.
21:16There's no need for loose ends.
21:18Hey, you said that there were four.
21:19How do you know that?
21:21Wichita, Roswell, it takes four to operate the craft.
21:23That's why I know there's got to be more out there somewhere.
21:25I never heard about Wichita.
21:27And you won't either, unless we contain this.
21:29Did you burn that other head?
21:30Yeah, we took care of it.
21:31Okay, we've got to split up.
21:34Over here!
21:40Still moist.
21:43Treco that way.
21:45It looks like the gray's blood.
22:07Frank, look at this.
22:09This one was obviously carrying the other one.
22:11Shoot itself loose.
22:12Check the ABI.
22:13There's no flies, no worms.
22:15How do these things decompose?
22:16They don't.
22:16That's why we've got to burn them.
22:23Okay.
22:31Fisher!
22:32Come on, come here.
22:35Yeah.
22:37Yeah.
22:38Yeah.
22:38Yeah.
22:39Yeah.
22:40Yeah.
22:40Yeah.
22:42Yeah.
22:42Yeah.
22:43Kellogg said that these tunnels are all over the place.
22:49It's not man-made.
22:50Too small.
22:52Ain't no blade mark.
22:54See dirt?
22:54Scratch?
22:55Like a dog.
22:57White rabbit.
22:58All right.
22:59Get back.
23:00Let's see if we can smoke out number three.
23:02All right.
23:17Maybe it's already dead.
23:20Yeah.
23:21Well...
23:23There's no point taking any chances to pay him off.
23:27This is not his war, Frank.
23:29No.
23:30These creatures, it's everyone war.
23:37Well, I know you don't believe in using these,
23:40but you might want to start.
23:54Hey, Ma, do you see anything?
23:58There's more blood down here.
24:01Big pool of it.
24:03Still warm.
24:05How far down are you now?
24:07Ten feet, maybe.
24:10Make no sense.
24:12Where'd the dirt go?
24:18Okay, wait.
24:19The tunnel opened up.
24:23Very large room.
24:25The floor wet, muddy.
24:29It smells terrible.
24:32Mud dripping from the ceiling.
24:42Okay, Ma.
24:44I see it.
24:46The creature, I see it.
24:47On the ceiling.
24:48I'm digging.
24:49I'm digging one.
24:51I'm eating the dirt.
24:53You see me?
24:58Hey, Ma!
25:00Say, Ma, did you hear me?
25:05What are you doing, Frank?
25:07Oh, God.
25:07Hey, Ma!
25:08Get back there.
25:09Get back.
25:11No, Frank!
25:12You may still be alive!
25:13Hey, Frank!
25:16Whoa!
25:25So now what?
25:27You gonna go find the fourth one and make me go down that tunnel?
25:30You can tell me right now, Frank, I'm as good as dead anyway, right?
25:33Right!
25:34Right!
25:35Right!
25:55And that left me and John right back where we started.
25:58Only worse now because we didn't even have the Attorney General on our side.
26:02But the Warren Commission, they said that it wasn't a conspiracy.
26:06Don't you get it?
26:08That is your husband's job.
26:10Covering up the truth.
26:12Frank is a soldier.
26:13He only follows orders.
26:14President Johnson doesn't even know about Majestic.
26:17Your husband makes the orders and he doesn't care what the fallout is for us or for anyone.
26:21You still don't get it?
26:32Look.
26:36I don't want to hurt anyone.
26:40I'm counting on your husband at least still caring about you.
26:49If what you're telling me is true, then I can only offer you my sympathy.
27:02I appreciate that.
27:06I do.
27:16I thought the South Vietnamese were on our side.
27:20They are, John.
27:22It's the VC that got us.
27:24Tricky little devils, you know.
27:27Always on the move.
27:29On foot.
27:29Taking their prisoners with them.
27:31They go from village to village.
27:33Go in, get some food, water, spend a couple of days, and then they head out again.
27:36Always moving north.
27:44You seem awfully calm about this.
27:54So what's this all about, the U.S. and Vietnam?
27:59What's any war about, John? It's always about the same thing.
28:03Putting out fires.
28:05Find a fire, put it out.
28:11I remember one.
28:151944.
28:19Just three days before the Allied invasion of Normandy,
28:23I was on a mission somewhere between Cannes and Cherbourg.
28:30I saw this little boy.
28:34About the same age as my daughter is right now.
28:39Dropped out of his father's arms when his father got shot,
28:41right in the middle of the street.
28:44His mother was across the street in an alley,
28:47pinned down by Nazi gunfire.
28:52Went for my weapon because I wanted to help,
28:54but all of a sudden, she screamed out,
28:59make her run for her, come on.
29:03And he did.
29:06He ran right through this whole storm of bullets.
29:15completely unscathed.
29:19He didn't need me.
29:21He had a much more powerful force watching over him.
29:31I never pegged you for a religious man.
29:35It's got nothing to do with religion, John.
29:38When you're facing death,
29:39the only thing that counts is peace of mind.
29:43But you made the right choices.
29:46Sounds to me like you've already accepted defeat.
29:50Nah, John.
29:53Remember,
29:54it's not whether you win or lose,
29:56it's how you play the game.
30:00And this mission is over.
30:05So I called in an airstrike.
30:07We got about five hours left.
30:16Want some water?
30:20Yeah.
30:42Don't be stupid now.
30:44You were so smart coming back here.
30:46This is the last place Majestic would look.
30:49A lot of good that does me.
30:50They won't find you.
30:53Boxcar leaks oil.
30:54Led me straight from the grocery store.
30:56I left no trace.
31:03What's going on in there?
31:09Who is she?
31:11She does your husband's dirty work.
31:13Not exactly.
31:14But I did hear enough to assure you
31:16that everything Miss Sayers told you about Frank was true.
31:19Your husband lied to you.
31:22Just like he lied to me.
31:33I wasn't sure what I would do when I found you.
31:36Frank must be held accountable.
31:40We deserve the truth.
31:41All of us.
31:43Whose side are you on anyway?
31:46This is not about sides.
31:48It's about right and wrong.
31:54Your instincts were correct.
31:56Bringing Frank's personal life into this.
31:58We may not get the answers we want,
32:00but at least we'll get even.
32:05The important thing to remember is that we're all in this together.
32:17It's the wreckage.
32:23What's this material?
32:25What is your mission?
32:27Turn to me.
32:29I'm the officer in charge.
32:32Me.
32:32I'm the boss man.
32:33He doesn't know anything.
32:34Nothing.
32:35Me.
32:35Me.
32:36Him nothing.
32:38Me.
32:39Go.
32:40Me.
32:41Sit down.
32:47Frank Buck.
32:49Majestic.
32:49I recognize him from intelligence documents.
33:03He is a brave man.
33:11You're Russian.
33:13Da.
33:15My name is.
33:18Lev Stjolnatsky.
33:21But like Bach said.
33:24Some of us fight together for a higher cause.
33:30Well that's comforting.
33:33But I'm not ready to die just yet.
33:36Hmm.
33:39There is woman in your life.
33:43I can't see it in your eyes.
33:48My leg.
33:50Gangrene.
33:53I should have died days ago.
33:56But like you I.
33:59Hold on to a vision of my only love.
34:09And nobody knows about this place.
34:13Not congress.
34:14The president.
34:16According to your husband they don't need to know.
34:21And neither do the people.
34:24In many ways your husband's the most powerful man in the world.
34:28Which makes you stronger than you've ever dreamed.
34:31I'm sorry.
34:37Forget how you found them.
34:38But you made a serious error in judgment bringing those women here.
34:42Mine was not the original sin.
34:45Get rid of her.
34:47No.
34:50The three of us deserve the truth.
34:52We want some answers about this Vietnam mission and we want them now.
34:56Or what?
35:01Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
35:10Majestic's presence in Vietnam is highly classified. That is all you need to know.
35:15John is there against his will. I want him brought back.
35:18I want them both brought home.
35:27You want the truth?
35:30Intel reports say they've both been taken captive by the Viet Cong.
35:35Lev too.
35:39Frank called in an air strike as a fail safe.
35:41Within three hours the whole region is being dumped with enough napalm to burn everything for miles.
35:48Call it off. Now!
35:50I can't call it off.
35:52It was set through AF in country.
35:55For security reasons I don't know with who.
35:58It's completely out of my control.
36:00I can't call it.
36:07I can't call it.
36:09I can't call it.
36:10I can't call it.
36:10Operating to the Jester.
36:11Keeper going for takeoff.
36:17Seabird, we are 60 minutes to target.
36:20OK.
36:22Sound?
36:30Where's your net?
36:35Where's your net?
36:56Damn!
37:12Damn it!
37:27Come on, let's get you out of here.
37:30Go, go.
37:31There's no time.
37:33Go, go.
37:35I'll be back for you.
37:40Seabird, we are altering course to strike coordinates.
37:43Forty minutes to target.
37:53We are here.
37:54We are here, you are here.
38:00We are here.
38:04Let's go.
38:06Come on.
38:06In the middle of the mountain.
38:10There are no stairs.
38:11Oh, yeah.
38:25Completely unscathed.
38:27Kellogg, this is Private Fisher.
38:31Captain Riley and I were captured.
38:33I need an airlift out of here ASAP.
38:39This is out of your hands.
38:41Close to be a joint recovery mission.
38:43Get me RZ Command.
38:46Make the call.
38:51I've got Leningrad online.
39:11Or I can launch fighters from Hanoi to stop the airstrike.
39:18Shoot down the American planes.
39:21There's a war on. Your cover is in place.
39:24You are an observer in this organization.
39:27The Soviets have no authority to authorize that kind of action,
39:30and quite frankly, neither do I.
39:36I can't ask you to kill American pilots to save John.
39:43There's already been enough innocent people hurt in this mess.
39:46The American pilots.
39:56Go to Bosnia.
39:58Where's Bosnia?
40:14Oh, my God.
40:41Number four.
41:05Seabird, we are twenty-five minutes to target.
41:12Oh, my God.
41:41Oh, my God.
41:51I got rocket launchers, I got Willie Peets, I got Blushets.
41:55Let's rock and roll.
41:56We've got twenty minutes until that airstrike.
41:59I just needed the Virgin to get me back inside.
42:00Now, let's go.
42:12Let's go.
42:14Let's go.
42:17Let's go.
42:17Let's go.
42:31Let's go.
42:33Let's go.
42:51Cut me a little closer, John.
42:53I know how much you like to draw them.
42:55Come on.
42:59Target in sight.
42:59We are commencing attack.
43:04Here comes your ass strike, amigo.
43:06Let's go!
43:07Let's go!
43:31I'm not even going to ask what you're doing here.
43:36I'm OK.
44:14There was a man in the prison camp with us.
44:17His name was Lev.
44:19He died helping us escape.
44:27He wanted me to give you this and tell you that he loved you
44:32more than life itself.
44:51I was one of the lucky ones to escape Vietnam with my life.
44:57Maybe Bach was right.
44:59Maybe there was some higher force watching over me.
45:02But that didn't make it any easier to accept the loss of all
45:06those young men in the years to follow.
45:10Looking back on it now, it's clear that Vietnam was just
45:14another tragic diversion from the only war that really mattered.
45:21The war against the Hive.
45:41The war against the Hive may be its name.
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