moment...North Korea is also launching
missiles. China actual approaching
ninety. North Korea actual at seventeen,
eighteen... The Red List confirms that
nukes are among them. Do you authorize a
counter-strike, Mr. President?
PRESIDENT SILVERSPOON
It looks like we have no choice. Launch
everything that's pointed at China and
North Korea.
NORAD
Yes, Mr. President. Transmitting Priority
Alpha Code to all stations. Authorize
full scale China, full scale North Korea,
and Defense Batteries active.
EXT. AMERICAN SOUTHWEST - DAY
Missile silo doors open. ICBM's thunder skyward.
EXT. WESTERN ALASKA - DAY
Eight ICBM's approach from the north.
A satellite-based laser destroys one of them.
Interceptor missiles from a distant ship destroy two more.
Land-based interceptor missiles launch by the hundreds.
Another ICBM is destroyed.
Four ICBM's slip through.
One of them races south.
The other three race in a southeast direction.
EXT. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DAY
A group of friends are drinking from a bottle atop the famous HOLLYWOOD sign.
A brilliant flash of light fades to a mushroom cloud rising from downtown L.A.
Moments later, a shock wave obliterates the Hollywood sign.
EXT. STATUE OF LIBERTY - NEW YORK - DAY
A Chinese family is snapping pictures from the statue's crown.
A brilliant flash of light blinds them before the statue is obliterated.
EXT. THE WHITE HOUSE - WASHINGTON, D.C. - DAY
The President of the United States comes running out onto the south lawn, looking skyward in horror.
A brilliant flash of light blinds him before The White House is obliterated.
EXT. CAPE CANAVERAL - DAY
A readied space plane sits upright on the launchpad.
A brilliant flash of light envelopes the area.
EXT. MICROCORE - DAY
Conventional missiles rain down.
A mushroom cloud can be seen rising far to the north.
EXT. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DAY
The city is completely destroyed. Days-old fires smolder amid the ruins.
Hundreds of Kek are picking through the rubble, retrieving, cocooning, and then stacking human corpses into piles.
EXT. MARS - DAY
The crew is assembled outside the landing shell.
YING
I just got off the link with Microcore
Earth Command.
ROSEGARDEN
It's about time. Did they forget we were
out here?
YING
I've got good news and terrible news. The
good news is that the habitat wheel has
been repaired.
ROSEGARDEN
And the terrible news?
YING
The United States has been attacked.
GERT
Oh my god.
YING
