Again, I was on my way to London through towns and villages
that were blackened ruins, totally silent,
desolated, deserted.
Man's empire had passed away, taken swiftly and without error
by these creatures who were composed entirely of brain.
Unhampered by the complex systems which make up man,
they made and used different bodies according to their needs.
They never tired, never slept, and never suffered,
having long since eliminated from their planet the bacteria
which cause all fevers and other morbidities.
Halt!
- Who goes there? - Er, a friend...
Be on your way, this is my territory!
Your territory? What do you mean?
Wait a minute... it's you! The man from Maybury Hill!
Good heavens, the artilleryman. I thought you'd surely burned.
- I thought you'd surely drowned. - Have you seen any Martians?
- Everywhere. We're done for all right. - We can't just give up.
'Course we can't. It's now that we've got to start fighting.
Not against them, cause we can't win.
Now, we've got to fight for survival.
I reckon we can make it. I've got a plan.
We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves.
Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right?
So, we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us.
You know where? Underground.
You should see it down there, hundreds of miles of drains,
sweet and clean now, after the rain...
dark... quiet... safe.
We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch.
And what's so bad about living underground, eh?
It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion.
♪ Take a look around you at ♪ ♪ the world we've come to know. ♪
♪ Does it seem to be much more ♪ ♪ than a crazy circus show. ♪
♪ But maybe from the madness, ♪ ♪ something beautiful will grow. ♪
♪ In a brave new world, ♪ ♪ with just a handful of men, ♪
♪ We'll start... we'll ♪ ♪ start all over again! ♪
♪ All over again! All over again! ♪
♪ All over again! ♪
We'll build shops and hospitals and barracks,
right under their noses, right under their feet.
Everything we need: Banks, prisons and schools.
We'll send scouting parties to collect books and stuff,
and men like you will teach the kids.
Not poems and rubbish; Science, so we can get everything working!
We'll build villages and towns,
and we'll play each other at cricket!
Listen, maybe one day we'll capture a fighting machine, aye,
learn how to make 'em ourselves, and then: WALLOP!
Our turn to do some wiping out!
WHOOSH! With our heat ray! Whoosh!
And them running and dying, beaten at their own game.
Man on top again!
♪ Just think of all the poverty, ♪ ♪ the hatred and the lies, ♪
♪ And imagine the destruction ♪ ♪ of all that you despise, ♪
♪ Slowly from the ashes ♪ ♪ that phoenix will arise, ♪
♪ In a brave new world, ♪ ♪ with just a handful of men. ♪
♪ We'll start all over again! ♪
♪ Take a look around you... ♪
♪ at the world you've ♪ ♪ loved so well... ♪
♪ and bid the aging empire ♪ ♪ of man a last farewell. ♪
♪ It may not sound like heaven ♪ ♪ but at least it isn't hell. ♪
♪ It's a brave new world ♪ ♪ with just a handful of men, ♪
♪ We'll start, we'll start ♪ ♪ all over again! ♪
I'VE GOT A PLAN!
Can't you just see it?
Civilization starting all over again! A second chance!
Heh-we'll even build a railway and tunnel to the coast,
go there for our holidays!
Nothing can stop men like us!
I've made a start already.
Come on down here and have a look.
In the cellar there was a tunnel scarcely ten yards long.
It had taken him a week to dig.
I could have dug that much in a day,
and I suddenly had
my first inkling of the gulf between his dreams and his power.
It's doing the working and the thinking that wears a fellow out.
I'm ready for a bit of a rest. How about a drink, eh?
Nothing but champagne now I'm the boss.
We drank, and then he insisted upon playing cards.
With our species on the edge of extermination,
with no prospect but a horrible death, we actually played games.
Later he talked more of his plan, but I saw flames flashing
in the deep blue night, red weed glowing,
tripod figures moving distantly, and I put down my champagne glass.
I felt a traitor to my kind...
and I knew I must leave this strange dreamer.