War of the Worlds

Sylvia:
They murder everything that moves.

Forrester:
If they're mortal, they have mortal weaknesses. They'll be stopped, somehow.

Radio Reporter:
All communications are out... which is why these tape recordings I'm making are for the sake of future history - if any.

Duprey:
I have never seen blood crystals as anemic as these. They may be mental giants but physically, by our standards, they must be very primitive.

Salvatore:
What do we say to them?

Wash Perry:
"... welcome to California."

Reporter:
By the way he's hedging maybe they got through. I've seen news off the Pacific wire; Rangoon, the Philippines, from what's coming through no one's stopped 'em yet.

Major General Mann:
They'll probably move at dawn...

Col. Ralph Heffner:
Everybody out of here. The Air Force will take care these babies now. Every out of here, everybody OU...

Well-Dressed Looter:
You can't buy a ride for love or money.

Marine Commanding Officer:
Hey you, better get out of here.

Dr Clayton Forrester:
I'm looking for someone, a girl.

Marine Sergeant:
"Come on, get in.

Dr Clayton Forrester:
She's kind of lost.

Marine Commanding Officer:
You look kind of lost.

Spanish Priest:
Don't go son. Stay with us.

Dr Clayton Forrester:
No, I'm looking for someone. She'll be in a church, standing by the door.

Dr Clayton Forrester:
We prayed for a miracle.

Major General Mann:
Pattern-wise, one lands, then two, making groups of threes joined magnetically. Is that possible?

Dr Clayton Forrester:
If they do it, it is.

Dr Clayton Forrester:
We know now we can't beat their machines. We've got to beat them.

Major General Mann:
That skeleton beam must be what they used to wipe out the French cities.

Forrester:
It neutralizes meson somehow. They're the atomic glue holding matter together. Cut across their lines of magnetic force and any object will simply cease to exist. Take my word for it, General, this type of defense is useless against that kind of power. You'd better let Washington know, fast.

Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins:
Colonel, shooting's no good.

Col. Ralph Heffner:
It's always been a good persuader.

Commentary:
In the first world war and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations using the crude weapons of those days. The second world war involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction. And now, fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on the Earth comes the War of the Worlds.

Narrator:
The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God and His wisdom had put upon this Earth.