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"Go on, take a closer look." The Drifter encourages.

Jack moves forward a couple steps cautiously.

Outer space!

Two glowing suns in the distance, side by side.

"That's where they came from." The Drifter explains. Now Jack moves back to John and the Drifter adds "I don't know how it works exactly. Some kinda gravitational lens deal - bending of light or something. But you can move from place to place, world to world if you want. Works like a big airport. And they're off again, down the passageway. Boys, let me tell ya ... They've got their act together, believe you me."

Now Jack, John and the Drifter come to the end of the passageway, which is a low-lit, complex control room of a TV station. A sign identifies it as Cable 54.

The Drifter leads them in, and through several rooms of equipment and monitors ... Bustling (human-looking people go about their jobs. The Drifter speaks again "The brains of the whole operation. Master signal goes out to the satellite from here. We pump it out all over the world. Pretty fancy joint. Not too familiar with it myself ..."

They turn a corner, and there are two more guards, both human-looking, dressed like Red Berets who stand in front of a window looking into the Cable 54 set!

Two News Anchors are reporting the nightly news.

"This is as far as we go" the Drifter tells them.

"Think you can get us inside?" Jack asks. The Drifter looks at him. Even John's not sure what's going on so Jack adds "Never been inside a TV station before. And you seem to be the gentleman to ask."

"Sure. No problem." The Drifter indicates the guards "These guys are friends of mine.

The Drifter walks up to the First Guard "Hey, I got a couple of my buddies here. Thought I'd give 'em the grand tour."

Jack and John tense slightly as the Guards look their way. The Drifter asks "Think we can go in?"

"Be serious." The guard scoffs, and then says to Jack "You have your authorization cards?"

Jack pulls out his 9mm "Right here!"

He and John open fire!

Both Guards are hit! Fall! The Drifter looks stunned as John shoves the barrel of his gun right in the Drifter's face.

"Don't kill him." Jack moves to the window. No one on the set heard the gunshots. "Soundproof."

Jack comes over to the Drifter "Where's that signal?"

"The roof, I think." Comes the shaky reply.

Jack turns to John "Ianto works in there. If he made it maybe we can find him, then go up there and break the signal!"

"Wait, boys, wait. You're makin' a big mistake." The Drifter says with alarm.

"You made the mistake" John replies.

The Drifter is on the move now with them, making a desperate pitch "No, no … listen. I thought you boys understood ... It's just business, that's all. No different than England and Spain sendin' ships to the new world for spices and gold . I don't think you boys get it, do you? Ain't no countries any more. No good guys. They're runnin' the whole show. They own everything. The whole planet. They can do whatever they want. So why not have it good? Let us have it good if we They'll leave us alone… make some money. They'll help 'em. let us. You could have a little taste of the good life too. I know you want it. Hell, everybody does."

"You'd do this to your own kind?" Jack argues.

"What's the threat? We all sell out every day. Might as well be on the winnin' team."

WHAM!

A Red Cap steps through the doorway behind them, aims a pistol. Jack is on the move, spinning around - BLAMMO!

The Guard is hit!

Falls back.

As the Drifter lifts his gold wrist watch, his hand around the dial, a grin on his face "See ya, boys."

FLASH!

And the Drifter's gone! Disappeared!

Now Jack- pulls the pin on a grenade ... Throws it down a stairwell ...

KABLOOM!

Suddenly the door EXPLODES!

The News Anchors react!

SCREAM!

Jump for cover!

And out of the doorway step Jack and John. Guns drawn. Jack and John open fire!

SLAM!

BLAM!

Blasting the News Anchors, Program Director ... The Advertising Director is hit! Goes into the water cooler ... Others race for the doors! Dash off down hallways!

Now Jack and John are on the move.

Jack yells "Let's go!"

John and Jack. Moving down a hallway. Two Red Caps, human-looking, appear out of a doorway!

Jack and John BLAST THEM!

Behind, four more guards (human-looking) come running!

A wild GUNFIGHT!

People SCREAMING!

Running!

Jack and John keep moving around a corner! Faster and faster! More guards!

GUNFIRE!

Up ahead of them guards appear! Jack and John BLAST their way through. Turn a corner… Jack and John running, firing at Guards behind them!

Up ahead, down the hallway, Ianto steps out of a door. He stares at them as they approach "What's going on?"

Jack grabs him on the run "Come on!"

And now he's running with them!

They come to the end of the hall at the top of the stairway. They OPEN FIRE!

John grabs Ianto to protect him!

Jack BLASTS the Guards!

Then he charges up the stairs... John starts to follow ... but Ianto suddenly pulls a gun, BLAM! John looks at Ianto long and hard, then seizes his arm, yanking him towards the door.

Jack emerges from the stairwell door. Moves across the roof to a huge satellite dish.

Jack comes up to it. There, at the base of the dish, is the glowing, throbbing master signal panel, a huge HUMMING console. Assuming John and Ianto are right behind him Jack takes aim at the panel.

"John - are you and Ianto clear?" Jack yells.

"I'm clear. Are you?" Jack turns at the sod of John's voice and there's Ianto in the stairwell door… John is holding a gun to Ianto's head "Don't do it. Don't interfere. You can't win. We tried for months to find the hidden moles and you flush the secret society out in five days... well done Jack."

Jack is devastated. Slowly he turns to John.

"Come back inside." John demands.

Across the roof, rising up from below the edge, comes a police helicopter! The helicopter just hangs there, hovering and another police chopper rises up right next to it!

Jack looks back over at the master signal console.

Then looks over at Ianto again .

It's over. He drops his gun.

Looks down in open defeat.

Ianto suddenly pulls a hidden snub nose and FIRES!

John is hit!

John gets off a SHOT as he's blown backward through the door, down the stairwell but he missed Jack. Ianto is clinging to the doorframe on his knees, totally done.

Jack turns, pulls the pin on a grenade!

He holds it over the satellite dish! One of the helicopters moves abruptly.

A voice booms from the helicopter "Move away from the transmitter or we will open fire!"

Jack smiles. He knows he has them.

"If you are not away from the dish in 10 seconds, we will open fire!"

"Like hell you will." Ianto says as he steps up beside Jack. Now he takes the snub-nose and aims it down at the master signal. BANG… as the master signal EXPLODES!

It SHATTERS! FIZZES! FLASHES!

A fountain of sparks and smoke spew up into the night sky.

All over the nation TV screens flicker as people wake up. An Alien is now visible! It's a NEWS ANCHOR ALIEN giving a report "The Oscar winners give a press conference, and how to buy a sailboat as Prime News continues . . ."

Now there are people running past the camera lens as the Anchor Alien asks "What's wrong?"

"Ted, you look like shit."

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In a Bar downtown a Bartender looks at a TV set that shows two Alien movie critics like "At the Movies" with Roger Ebbert and Gene Siskel.

"All this sex and violence on the screen has gone too far for me, Rodger. I'm fed up with it."

An Alien Drinker is now visible among all the Human Drinkers who react to him! They can now see him!

Slowly he turns in his seat to stare back at the gaping bar full of humans.

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In a working class home, a wife in her 30's, watches in amazement as her TV screen shows the Cable 54 logo, except now a Happy American Human is jumping up and slapping hands in slow motion with an Alien.

Wife looks over ... Yep! She has an Alien Husband who slowly turns to her.

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A middle class home where three teenage girls are watching TV. MTV, except an Alien Rock Star performs in a video.

"Ooo! That's so bitchin'." One of the girls gasp.

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An apartment in the dark. The huge TV is showing an Alien in a commercial for a new car.

In the room a woman in her 20's. Naked. Obviously in the throes of passion. On top of an unseen partner below. She looks over. Sees the Alien on TV. Then looks down at her partner in horror. Her partner is a Alien Lover. They've been making love and now he is visible!

He looks up at her "What's wrong, baby?"

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Jack and Ianto cling ot one another as the world around them is changed forever, both of them feeling hope for the first time in a long time. Together, they might just make it.

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THE WAR FOR THE WORLD BEGAN THAT NIGHT… IT WAS LED BY A HOMELESS MAN CALLED JACK HARKNESS. HIS PARTNER WAS A MAN CALLED IANTO JONES.

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THE END

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Yeah... the original ending sucked the big one so i changed it. you knew i would right? Happy birthday my friend, in the end... we get to kick ass and chew bubblegum ... if ya got any.