S Soldier
Quite a sight, wasn't it Sir?
Col. Edwards A sight I'd rather not be seeing.
S Soldier
Are you worried about them, Sir?
Col. Edwards Well, they must have a reason for their visits.
S Soldier
Visits? Well that would indicate visitors! Are big guns the usual way of welcoming visitors?
Col. Edwards We haven't always fired at them.
Col. Edwards For a time we tried to contact them by radio, but no response. Then they attacked a town. A small town, I'll admit. But nevertheless a town of people. People who died.
S Soldier
I never heard about that, Sir.
Col. Edwards Well, it was covered up by the higher echelon. Take any fire, any earthquake, any major disaster, then wonder. Flying saucers, Captain, are still a rumour. Officially.
AF Air Force Captain
Looks like we beat them off again, Sir.
Col. Edwards What do they want...where are they from...where are they going...
AF Air Force Captain
They, Sir? Who? Oh, this is a training maneuver, Sir. We only did a little practice firing at the clouds.
Col. Edwards Yeah. I wonder what their next move will be.
What will their next move be?
Gen. Roberts Sit down. I understand, Colonel, you've been on tap for many of our saucer attacks.
Col. Edwards I'm in charge of field operations, Sir.
Gen. Roberts You believe there are such things as flying saucers, Colonel?
Col. Edwards Yessir.
Gen. Roberts You've seen them?
Col. Edwards Yessir.
Gen. Roberts You realize there's a government directive stating that there is no such thing as a flying saucer?
Col. Edwards Yessir.
Gen Roberts Do you stand by your statement that you've seen flying saucers?
Col. Edwards Well, uh, yessir.
Gen. Roberts This could mean a court marshall. Admitting this against direct orders.
Col. Edwards General Roberts, may I speak freely?
Gen. Roberts You may.
Col. Edwards How could I hope to hold down my command if I didn't believe in what I saw and shot at?
Gen. Roberts I, uh, like you Colonel.
Col. Edwards Thank you, Sir.
Gen. Roberts There are flying saucers. There's no doubt they are in our skies. They've been there for some time.
Col. Edwards What're we going to do about them?
Gen. Roberts Who knows?
[at the cemetery]
Colonel I've been out here so often you'd think I'd taken a lease on this place.
Col. Edwards Not a long lease, I hope.
I see what you mean. But you know, I can't help but feel the answer's out here somewhere.
Col. Edwards Is the, uh, girl safe?
Mrs. Trent you'd better stay with the car.
Stay here alone? Not on your life.
Col. Edwards Yeah, they been that way all down through the ages. Especially in a spot like this.
Col. Edwards [at Clay's grave]
Looks to me like someone had broken out instead of in.
I figured that, but that's impossible!
Col. Edwards I wonder.
Look, Colonel, some things just can't happen.
Col. Edwards Yeah, well after that apparition that was draped across Mr. Trent's patio, I would say we should keep our minds open to anything.
Look, Colonel, I'm a policeman. I've got to deal in facts. But, I guess I'll have to go along with you. You know I bet my badge right now we haven't seen the last of those weirdies.
I? A fiend? I am a soldier of our planet! I? A fiend? We did not come here as enemies. We came only with friendly intentions. To talk. To ask your aid.
Col. Edwards Our aid?
Yes. Your aid for the whole universe. But your governments of Earth refused even to accept our existence. Even though you've seen us, heard our messages, you still refused to accept us.
Col. Edwards Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our Earth?
Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots!
Now you just hold on, Buster.
No, you hold on. First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your handgrenade. They began to kill your own people a few at a time. Then the bomb, then a larger bomb. Many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb. Split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you bring the destruction of the entire universe, served by our sun. The only explosion left is the solarbonite.
Col. Edwards Why there's no such thing.
Perhaps to you. But we've known it for centuries. Your scientists will stumble upon it as they have all the others. But the juvenile minds you possess will not comprehend its strength, until it's too late.
Col. Edwards You're way above our heads.
The solarbonite is a way to explode the actual particles of sunlight.
Col. Edwards Why, that's impossible.
Even now, your scientists are working on a way to harness the sun's rays. The rays of sunlight are minute particles. Is it so far from your imagination they cannot do as I have suggested?
Col. Edwards Why, a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.
Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can explode one. A ray of sunlight is made up of many atoms!
So what if we do develop this Solanite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.
Stronger. You see!? You see!? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
That's all I'm taking from you! [leaps at Eros]
Get back here you jerk! Let him finish.
It's because of men like you that all must be destroyed. Headstrong, violent! No use of the mind God gave you.
You also think it impossible that we, too, might think of God? You, who wear the uniform of your country. You see, I wear the uniform of my country. Yes, we've had to use drastic means to get to you, but you left us no alternative. When you have the solarbonite, you have nothing. Nor, does the universe.
Col. Edwards You speak of solarbonite, but just what is it?
Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the Earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the Earth, back along the line of gasoline to can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source, and spread to every place that gasoline, or sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, Gentlemen, and you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here, and a chain reaction will occur, direct to the sun itself. And to all the planets that sunlight touches. To every planet in the universe. This why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner, or as it seems, you want it.
Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves? You have done this. Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves? You have also done this. How then is it mad that one planet must destroy another that threatens the very existence-
That's enough!! In my land, women are for advancing the race, not for fighting man's battles. Life is not so expansive on my planet. We don't cling to it like you do. Our entire aim is for the development of our planet.
