Independence Day Episode 56 Analysis: Alien Invasion and Global Joint Counterattack
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It's time for movie that all. It's the PEDTEN STAY. Good morning, George. Morning, Mr. President. That game couldn't have been pretty. Thank you, sir. Kind of you're up awfully early this morning. So not attacking your policies. They're attacking your age. Adressing Congress, what more seems less like the President and more like the orphan child Oliver asking please, sir, I'd like some more. It's clover. Show, I'm not laughing. Age is never an issue when you step to your gun. You were thought of as young, idealistic. Now, the message has gotten lost. It's just too much politics, too much compromise. Isn't it amazing how quickly everyone can turn against you. Excuse me, Mr. President. Mr. Secretary of Defense. Yes. Could you say that again? At the moment I've had a life just somewhat unreliable. Isn't it possible that this thing may just pass us by? What if it doesn't pass us by? Let me target some ICBMs to blow it out of the sky. The risk to any one dangerous falling object in to many. We don't yet know enough about what we're dealing with and make any kind of intelligent judgments. Luckily, the press is making up their own story at this point. But that's not going to keep. We may need to upgrade to Defcon 3. Absolutely. General Contactinorad, you tell them we've upgraded the Defcon 3. It's not what the president said. What if he gets away from the people? We have over 50% of the armed forces out on weekend leave. Not to mention the commanders and troops that are in town for the Fourth of July parade. Go ahead. Our intelligence tells us the object has settled into a stationary worker. Wow. That's good news. Not really, sir. Part of it has broken off into nearly three dozen other pieces. Small, but not as big as the other pieces. It's broken off into nearly three dozen other pieces. Smaller than the whole sir. Yet over 15 miles and width themselves. Where they heading? They should be entering our episode within the next 25 minutes. The officials are hoarding more ships at just arrival to the capitals of India, England and Germany, bringing estimates up to anywhere from ten to fifteen of these city-sized spacecraft. I know, my just trying to stay calm. Tell her to pack up and leave ten minutes. Why would happen? Just do it! Mark, my life is up. Get your stuff together and I head for an SS. Don't argue with me. Just go. He is. Why don't I just send my mother to Atlanta? David. David talks to me. Jeremy, telling you that the signal hidden in the satellite feed is slowly recycling down to extinction? Not really. Help down. When the count gets to one day, David! It's like a chest. The first strategic position of your pieces. Then when the timings are at you, strike. See? Their position sounds all over the world. Using this one signal to synchronize their efforts in approximately six hours. The signal is going to disappear and the count is going to be over. And then what? Checkmate. Oh my god! Oh my god! I'm going to call my brother. I'm going to call my housekeeper. I got to call my lawyer. I have to get my lawyer. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. We have some minutes. I follow Americans. A historic and unprecedented event has occurred. A question of whether or not we're alone in the universe has been answered. Although it's understandable that many of us feel a sense of hesitation or even fear. As the plumber ahead of the CIA, you knew about this place. When were you planning on informing the rest of us? I had been deemed classified. She told us about this when they first arrived. The President warned us before we launched a counterattack that causes the lives of hundreds of Americans. There was no way that we could have known that our fighters would have been not ineffective against their attackers. Mr. President. The little bit of information we have comes directly in the room with the President. Lana Chicago and Philadelphia. The strain. We learned that NATO and Western Allied installations were the first to be taken out. Then we were hit. They knew exactly where and how it is. And our forces were down at 15%. If you calculate the time it takes to destroy a city and move on, we're looking at the worldwide destruction of every major city in the next 36 hours. Being exterminated. Are you alright, Miss Ana? Your thoughts? I thought they were planning to do it. I'm not going to focus. They're moving from planet to planet. They're all civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on. They move next. Do come. Let's not the bastards. Do you have confirmation? Launch code confirmed. Alpha Zulu. Six, eight, nine. It's standing by. Please, it's targeting. Blocked out. We're locked out, sir. Do you wish to deploy? This president, if you wish, deploy the time is now. Mr. President, deploy. Let's go. Alpha Zulu is correcting with that lawyer. Here we go. Birds awake. We have visual confirmation of the missile. It's on target. Proceed. Man, children can give us. I think it's a new vaccine. Three, two, one. Oh, yeah! Stay here! Get down! Get down! Can we confirm that the target was destroyed? Get the tech meter online. I want confirmation. Talk to the destroyer. Red arrow, Alpha, 90723. Can you read? Repeat, Commander, you're breaking up. We have law enforcement. Roger that. We're looking for confirmation. We got the bastards. Good job, everyone. Congratulations. Imagine if you have visual, repeat the usual confirmation as the target is been destroyed. Negative. Target remains. Target remains. Call the other flames back. Why the bombers might have more luck? So we shouldn't just give up on this? I said call them back. A board. Or a board mission. Issue the board codes right away. This is an abort. Call a board. You reach. A board mission right away. Major Mitchell. Give a pistol. What? Got a gun? It's not a good fighter. See that, uh, cocaine. It's not from the alien craft. I think you can shoot that thing on. Do it, shoot it. Sir? What? You're in the ball. I'm sorry. My fault. My fault. That cocaine was protected by the craft's shield. We can't penetrate their defenses. We know that already. What's your point? Right. My point is if we can't beat their defenses, and we've got to get around them. Major, one more time. Anytime. Oh! How did you do that? I gave it a cold. I gave it a virus. Computer virus. Are you telling us you can send out a signal that will disable all their shields? That's right. Just like they used our satellites against us. We can use their own signal against them if we plant a virus into that mother's ship. It's going to then filter down into all the corresponding ships below. I'm sorry. I don't understand. Just how exactly do we infect the mother's ship with this virus? We're going to have to fly their alien craft out of our atmosphere and dock with it. We can enter here, as shown in the satellite photos, we then upload the virus. We then set off some kind of explosion, which will disable it, and that'll disorient the small ship's below. That could buy it, I think, at least sometime to take them out, take them down, do your stuff. Good morning. You're less than an hour. Aircraft from you will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests, perhaps space that today is the Fourth of July. And you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecutions. But from annihilation, we're fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win the day. The Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday. But as the day when the world declared in one voice, we will not go quietly into the night, we will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Independence Day.Above is the content of Episode 56 of Independence Day organized for you by Qicaiwan, hope it helps you!
- compromise
- penetrate
verb
1. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
e.g. It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
she was penetrated with sorrowSynonym: clickget throughdawncome homeget acrosssink infall into place
2. come to understand
Synonym: fathombottom
3. pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
e.g. The bullet penetrated her chest
Synonym: perforate
4. spread or diffuse through
e.g. An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration
music penetrated the entire building
His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacksSynonym: permeatepervadeinterpenetratediffuseimbueriddle
5. insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
e.g. Did the molester penetrate the child?
6. make one's way deeper into or through
e.g. The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest
7. enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
e.g. The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor
Synonym: infiltrate
- stationary
adj
1. not capable of being moved
e.g. stationary machinery
2. standing still
e.g. the car remained stationary with the engine running
- synchronize
verb
1. make synchronous and adjust in time or manner
e.g. Let's synchronize our efforts
Synonym: synchronisesync
2. cause to indicate the same time or rate
e.g. synchronize your watches
Synonym: synchronise
3. operate simultaneously
e.g. The clocks synchronize
Synonym: synchronise
4. arrange or represent events so that they co-occur
e.g. synchronize biblical events
Synonym: synchronisecontemporizecontemporise
5. make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action
e.g. synchronize this film
Synonym: synchronise
6. happen at the same time
Synonym: synchronisecontemporizecontemporise
- deploy
verb
1. place troops or weapons in battle formation
2. to distribute systematically or strategically
e.g. The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East
- classified
noun
1. a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type
Synonym: classified adclassified advertisement
- unreliable
adj
1. not worthy of reliance or trust
e.g. in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable
an undependable assistantSynonym: undependable
2. liable to be erroneous or misleading
e.g. an undependable generalization
Synonym: undependable
3. lacking a sense of responsibility
4. dangerously unstable and unpredictable
e.g. treacherous winding roads
an unreliable trestleSynonym: treacherous
- annihilation
noun
1. destruction by annihilating something
Synonym: obliteration
2. total destruction
e.g. bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll
Synonym: disintegration
- extermination
noun
1. the act of exterminating
Synonym: liquidation
2. complete annihilation
e.g. they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs
Synonym: extinction
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