War of The Worlds 2005 Pack.


The machine, later referred to as a Tripod by a CBS reporter, rises high above the surrounding buildings. The machine then lets out an eerie howl, theorized to be its way of communicating with other tripods. As the machine organizes itself, two seperate appendages stretch out from the Tripod. The Tripod then begins to pick-off the humans with it's deadly Heat-Rays at the ends of its appendages. Ray narrowly avoids death and upon returning to his home, decides that it is not safe to stay there. Ray decides to steal a car that had been repaired and restored to working order shortly after the EMP blast, once again narrowly avoiding death as the Tripod advances on the area. The Tripod quickly destroys the entire area and Ray and his children barely escape as the entire neighborhood is engulfed in fire. Deciding the best place to take shelter is his ex-wife's house, Ray takes his children there, finding it unaffected by the EMP blast and otherwise empty, as Ray's ex-wife and her new husband have left for her parents home in Boston. Ray and the children sleep there overnight, taking shelter in the basement. In the middle of the night, they are awakened by a horrible noise and blinding lights, and Ray quickly hurries his children into the boiler room, the most secure spot in the house. In the morning, Ray ventures outside to find that a passenger jet had crashed, demolishing most of the house and the surrounding neighborhood. In the aftermath, Ray encounters a group of news reporters scavenging for food, and they reveal that it is not just one Tripod, but an invading army of hundreds, if not thousands of Tripods slaughtering entire cities unopposed. The reporters also inform Ray that the tripods have an invisible force field that causes weapons to detonate too early. Upon hearing the trumpeting sound of a distant Tripod, the reporters flee the area and Ray and his children quickly do the same.

Some time later, the group happens upon an intact ferry that is surrounded by crowds, and the car is eventually stolen in a tense stand-off between Ray and several other civilians, all possessing firearms. Now on foot, they walk to the Hudson Ferry and suddenly stopped by a railroad track gate. An Amtrak train with all cars including the engine engulfed in flames passes by. When the group is nearing the ferry, a group of Tripods discovers the humans, prompting a mass panic as the enormous crowd rushes the ferry. Ray manages to get himself and his children on, but the ferry is directly attacked by a submerged Tripod and quickly destroyed. The Tripod begins abducting people from the water and Ray and his family barely make it to shore, witnessing the second group of Tripods eradicating survivors on a nearby hillside. Some time later, the group finds themselves caught in the middle of a massive battle between the United States military and the Tripods, as civilian refugees scramble to get away. Robbie demands to be allowed to fight, though Ray forbids this, arguing with his son while Rachel is mistaken as abandoned by two other refugees. Ray is forced to choose between his son and his daughter, and reluctantly lets Robbie go in order to save Rachel. Almost immediately after securing Rachel, an enormous explosion rocks the entire area and nearly all of the military forces are destroyed, leaving Ray to assume that Robbie has been killed.

As the Tripods advance once more and begin eliminating the fleeing survivors, Rachel and Ray find shelter in the nearby home of Harlan Ogilvy. Ogilvy is clearly mentally unstable but offers them shelter in his basement. That night a probe visits the basement and a group of aliens, both of which Ogilvy attempts to attack out of intense fear, though is prevented by Ray. After the probe departs the basement, a small group of aliens enters to investigate, peering at human items with passing interest while Ray and Ogilvy have an intense and silent confrontation over a shotgun mere inches away. Soon after, Ray is forced to murder Ogilvy to keep himself and Rachel safe from discovery, as Ogilvy is being too loud and attracting attention from the martians. Then another probe visits the basement and wakes Ray and Rachel. Ray then hacks the head off it with an axe (like in the 1953 movie) and Rachel runs out of the basement on to the Red Weed covered ground screaming. Ray bushwhacks his way out of the red weed covered house. The enourmous foot of a tripod plunges down in front of him. It attempts to abduct him, but Ray hides in a car. His daughter is taken by the invaders, and Ray sets out after them, antagonizing the departing Tripod by grabbing a nearby satchel of grenades and using one to provoke the Tripod into abducting him. While waiting within the cage full of other abducted humans, Ray watches as one of the victims is pulled into the Tripod's processing engine and grinding alive into a catalyst for the Red Weed, and is soon pulled into the Tripod himself, though the other prisoners manage to pull him out. Ray reveals that he had kept the grenades and had activated all of them while partially within the Tripod, causing it to violently explode from the inside and collapse to the ground, freeing everyone.

Ray and Rachel finally arrive on the outskirts of Boston, where the remnants of the United States military are still evacuating civilians. Nearby, a Tripod lays dead in the rubble of a building, and upon asking a nearby soldier if they killed it, the soldier responds that the Tripod began acting strangely before collapsing on its own. Shortly after, a second Tripod appears, also behaving erratically. The military begins rushing civilians out of the area, though during the retreat Ray discovers that the Tripod's shields are down by the presence of birds landing on the Tripod's hull. After revealing this to the nearby officer, the U.S. army manages to destroy the Tripod with a barrage of Javelin missiles. The Tripod crashes to the ground and the aliens attempt to evacuate the vehicle, though die almost immediately upon exposure to the air. Afterwards, Ray successfully brings Rachel to his wife and her family in Boston, which somehow appeared unscathed from the war, and while Rachel and her mother tearfully embrace, Robbie is seen. The two men share a hug while Ray's ex-wife silently thanks him for bringing the children home.

During the epilogue, the narrator states that as soon as the Aliens arrived on Earth they had lost, as they had exposed their bodies to the foreign bacteria of Earth. It was only through a billion deaths that mankind had been saved by the smallest organisms on the planet, and that mankind would rebuild. That Lots of yapping