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== Detailed Synopsis ==
== Detailed Synopsis ==


July 2nd, at S.E.T.I. in New Mexico, [[SETI Tech One]] is on duty when an alarm starts to go off.  He calls [[SETI Chief]] and puts the phone next to the computer speakers.  [[SETI Tech Two]] tells SETI Chief that no air traffic is in the area.  SETI Chief tells [[SETI Tech Three]] to get in touch with Space Command to let them know and SETI Tech Three tells SETI Chief the signal is coming from the moon.  [[General William Grey]] asks a [[Commanding Officers|Commanding Officer]] who else knows about the space signal.  Commanding Officer tells General Grey that only S.E.T.I. knows about it and the space mass has a mass roughly 1/4th the size of the moon.  [[Second Officer]] tells General Grey that it is not a meteor as it is slowing down.  General Grey then calls [[Albert Nimziki]].  [[Marilyn Whitmore]] calls [[President Thomas J. Whitmore]] and after confirming that Marilyn will return after lunch, he hands the phone off to [[Patricia Whitmore]].  [[Themselves|Fred Barnes]] is on the television discussing the approval ratings of President Whitmore with [[Themselves|Morton Kondracke]] and [[Themselves|Eleanor Clift]].  President Whitmore hands the sports section to one of the [[Secret Servicemen]] and says hello to [[Constance Spano]].  Constance tells President Whitmore that he is being criticized due to his youthfulness and for compromising.  [[Whitmore's Aide]] tells President Whitmore that Nimziki is calling.  In Brooklyn, [[David Levinson]] is playing chess with [[Julius Levinson]].  Julius tells David, he should move on from his divorce.  [[Co-Worker 2]], [[Co-Worker 3]] and [[Co-Worker 4]] are taking calls from angry cable customers when David arrives and [[Marty Gilbert]] runs up to David and tells him that all the stations have suddenly started having disturbances.  David reads what is happening with all the signals and doesn't believe it is possible.  In Imperial Valley, California, [[Troy (Independence Day)|Troy]] tells [[Miguel (Independence Day)|Miguel]] the television signal has gone bad.  [[Lucas (Independence Day)|Lucas]] drives up to their trailer in his truck and shows Miguel and [[Alicia]] a handful of wilted crops and threatens to fire [[Russell Casse]] if he doesn't crop dust his field within 20 minutes.  Miguel rides his motorcycle and waves at Russell who is flying his plane above a field and then crop dusts it.  Russell lands the plane and Miguel tells him, Lucas' field is on the other side of town as [[Farmer Kid]] and his family watch and stare at Russell take a drink of liquor.  The [[Aides]] tell Constance that the news is running a story that the administration is covering up a nuclear testing experiment and NASA wants to know their position on the phenomenon.  The [[Chief of Staff]], General Grey, Nimziki and President Whitmore argue on what to do next.  Nimziki tells [[Atlantic Air CINC]] to upgrade to DEFCON 3.  Another Commanding Officer walks in and tells the group that the object has split into multiple smaller objects and will be entering their atmosphere soon.  David tells Marty that he found a weird signal embedded in the satellite feed and he should be able to block it.  In the Northern Desert of Iraq, a group of Bedouin run up a hill as a large glowing object enters the atmosphere.  On the USS Georgia, [[Lieutenant]] is told by [[Sailor]] that they are suffering from radar black out, but the infrared shows a large object coming their way.  Lieutenant then calls Atlantic Air CINC.  Commanding Officer is told by Second Officer that an object has been spotted over Iraq , which Commanding Officer repeats to Atlantic Air CINC.  General Grey tells President Whitmore about another object heading towards California.  [[Themselves|George Putnam]] gives a report on events taking place in Russia, which is then explained locally by [[Russian Reporter]] who describes the hysteria in the area as a large object appears out of the sky.  [[Russian Newscaster]] continues that the object is headed towards Moscow.  General Grey tells President Whitmore that they have an AWACS off the Pacific Coast as [[Lincoln]] is on the phone.  [[Radar Techs]] tell [[Lt. Peterson]] and a fellow [[Pilots (Independence Day)|Pilot]] that side radar is picking up nothing.  Lt. Peterson and the pilot relay this information, but their AWACS explodes when it makes contact with the suddenly appearing large object.  [[Military Aide]] says they lost the signal and Atlantic Air CINC tells everyone two more objects have been spotted heading towards New York City and Washington, D.C.  The [[Master C.P.O.]] is talking on the phone as Nimziki tells Whitmore's Aide to organize a military escort, but President Whitmore decides he is staying.  President Whitmore tells Constance to have the National Broadcast system advise people not to panic.  A [[Video Newscasters|Video Newscaster]] reports on the object entering Russia as Co-Worker 2 asks David if he has been watching what is going on.  David tells Marty that the signal is going to be over in seven hours.  Marty ignores him and motions towards the television and Co-Worker 3 tells Marty that Jamie told him the building had a bomb shelter and Marty tells everyone to head to the basement.
July 2nd, at S.E.T.I. in New Mexico, [[SETI Tech One]] is on duty when an alarm starts to go off.  He calls [[SETI Chief]] and puts the phone next to the computer speakers.  [[SETI Tech Two]] tells SETI Chief that no air traffic is in the area.  SETI Chief tells [[SETI Tech Three]] to get in touch with Space Command to let them know and SETI Tech Three tells SETI Chief the signal is coming from the moon.  [[General William Grey]] asks a [[Commanding Officers|Commanding Officer]] who else knows about the space signal.  Commanding Officer tells General Grey that only S.E.T.I. knows about it and the space mass has a mass roughly 1/4th the size of the moon.  [[Second Officer]] tells General Grey that it is not a meteor as it is slowing down.  General Grey then calls [[Albert Nimziki]].  [[Marilyn Whitmore]] calls [[President Thomas J. Whitmore]] and after confirming that Marilyn will return after lunch, he hands the phone off to [[Patricia Whitmore]].  [[Themselves|Fred Barnes]] is on the television discussing the approval ratings of President Whitmore with [[Themselves|Morton Kondracke]] and [[Themselves|Eleanor Clift]].  President Whitmore hands the sports section to one of the [[Secret Servicemen]] and says hello to [[Constance Spano]].  Constance tells President Whitmore that he is being criticized due to his youthfulness and for compromising.  [[Whitmore's Aide]] tells President Whitmore that Nimziki is calling.  In Brooklyn, [[David Levinson]] is playing chess with [[Julius Levinson]].  Julius tells David, he should move on from his divorce.  [[Co-Worker 2]], [[Co-Worker 3]] and [[Co-Worker 4]] are taking calls from angry cable customers when David arrives and [[Marty Gilbert]] runs up to David and tells him that all the stations have suddenly started having disturbances.  David reads what is happening with all the signals and doesn't believe it is possible.  In Imperial Valley, California, [[Troy (Independence Day)|Troy]] tells [[Miguel (Independence Day)|Miguel]] the television signal has gone bad.  [[Lucas (Independence Day)|Lucas]] drives up to their trailer in his truck and shows Miguel and [[Alicia]] a handful of wilted crops and threatens to fire [[Russell Casse]] if he doesn't crop dust his field within 20 minutes.  Miguel rides his motorcycle and waves at Russell who is flying his plane above a field and then crop dusts it.  Russell lands the plane and Miguel tells him, Lucas' field is on the other side of town as [[Farmer Kid]] and his family watch and stare at Russell take a drink of liquor.  The [[Aides]] tell Constance that the news is running a story that the administration is covering up a nuclear testing experiment and NASA wants to know their position on the phenomenon.  The [[Chief of Staff]], General Grey, Nimziki and President Whitmore argue on what to do next.  Nimziki tells [[Atlantic Air CINC]] to upgrade to DEFCON 3.  Another Commanding Officer walks in and tells the group that the object has split into multiple smaller objects and will be entering their atmosphere soon.  David tells Marty that he found a weird signal embedded in the satellite feed and he should be able to block it.  In the Northern Desert of Iraq, a group of Bedouin run up a hill as a large glowing object enters the atmosphere.  On the USS Georgia, [[Lieutenant]] is told by [[Sailor]] that they are suffering from radar black out, but the infrared shows a large object coming their way.  Lieutenant then calls Atlantic Air CINC.  Commanding Officer is told by Second Officer that an object has been spotted over Iraq , which Commanding Officer repeats to Atlantic Air CINC.  General Grey tells President Whitmore about another object heading towards California.  [[Themselves|George Putnam]] gives a report on events taking place in Russia, which is then explained locally by [[Russian Reporter]] who describes the hysteria in the area as a large object appears out of the sky.  [[Russian Newscaster]] continues that the object is headed towards Moscow.  General Grey tells President Whitmore that they have an AWACS off the Pacific Coast as [[Lincoln]] is on the phone.  [[Radar Techs]] tell [[Lt. Peterson]] and a fellow [[Pilots (Independence Day)|Pilot]] that side radar is picking up nothing.  Lt. Peterson and the pilot relay this information, but their AWACS explodes when it makes contact with the suddenly appearing large object.  [[Military Aide]] says they lost the signal and Atlantic Air CINC tells everyone two more objects have been spotted heading towards New York City and Washington, D.C.  The [[Master C.P.O.]] is talking on the phone as Nimziki tells Whitmore's Aide to organize a military escort, but President Whitmore decides he is staying.  President Whitmore tells Constance to have the National Broadcast system advise people not to panic.  A [[Video Newscasters|Video Newscaster]] reports on the object entering Russia as Co-Worker 2 asks David if he has been watching what is going on.  David tells Marty that the signal is going to be over in seven hours.  Marty ignores him and motions towards the television and Co-Worker 3 tells Marty that Jamie told him the building had a bomb shelter and Marty tells everyone to head to the basement.  In California, two [[Mechanics]] walk into a cafe and one of them starts harassing Russell about his supposed alien abduction.  The cafe starts to shake and an alien spaceship appears out of the sky.  In Los Angeles, [[Dylan]] runs into [[Capt. Steven Hiller]] and [[Jasmine Dubrow]]'s bedroom and wakes them up.  A spaceship hovers over Washington, D.C., while another one hovers over New York City.  [[Co-Worker 5]] asks David if he is going to the bomb shelter, but David continues onto the roof.  David then realizes what the signal means.  [[Boomer (Independence Day)|Boomer]] brings Hiller his shoes.  He turns on the television where a news report is reporting on the spaceships.  Hiller goes outside to get the newspaper and sees the spaceship.  A Video Newscaster reports that more spaceships have arrived over India, England and Germany.  David tells Marty to tell his mother to leave town and that the signal is a countdown.  President Whitmore gives a news conference and an Aide hands Constance a phone and says David is on the other end.  David tells Constance about the signal and that the aliens are going to attack, but she hangs up on him.

Revision as of 10:21, 25 July 2021

On the eve of Independence Day, a group of aliens attack the Earth.


Genre

Science Fiction

Characters/Groups

Capt. Steven Hiller - Will Smith

President Thomas J. Whitmore - Bill Pullman

David Levinson - Jeff Goldblum

Marilyn Whitmore - Mary McDonnell

Julius Levinson - Judd Hirsch

General William Grey - Robert Loggia

Russell Casse - Randy Quaid

Constance Spano - Margaret Colin

Albert Nimziki - James Rebhorn

Marty Gilbert - Harvey Fierstein

Major Mitchell - Adam Baldwin

Dr. Brakish Okun - Brent Spiner

Miguel - James Duval

Jasmine Dubrow - Vivica A. Fox

Alicia - Lisa Jakub

Dylan - Ross Bagley

Patricia Whitmore - Mae Whitman

Captain Watson - Bill Smitrovich

Tiffany - Kiersten Warren

Capt. Jimmy Wilder - Harry Connick, Jr.

Troy - Guiseppe Andrews

Dr. Isaacs - John Storey

Teddy - Frank Novak

Philip - Devon Gummersall

Techy/Med Asst 1 - Leland Orser

Aides - Mirron E. Willis and Ross Lacy

Whitmore's Aide - David Pressman

Tech/Med Asst - Vivian Palermo

Commander/Tech - Raphael Sbarge

Commanding Officers - Bobby Hosea and Dan Lauria

Radar Techs - Steve Giannelli and Eric Paskel

Radar Operator - Carlos LaCamara

Secret Servicemen - John Bennett Perry and Troy Willis

Technician - Tim Kelleher

Area 51 Technician - Wayne Wilderson

Area 51 Guard - Jay Acovone

SETI Tech One - James Wong

SETI Tech Two - Thom Barry

SETI Tech Three - Jana Marie Hupp

Second Officer - Matt Pashkow

Chief of Staff - Robert Pine

Co-Worker 2 - Marisa Morell

Co-Worker 3 - Michael Winther

Co-Worker 4 - Dexter Warren

Co-Worker 5 - Paul LeClair

Lt. Peterson - Capt. Michael "Chewy" Vacca

Secret Service Agent - David Chanel

Mario - John Capodice

Military Aide - Greg Collins

Sky Crane Pilot - Derek Webster

Pilots - Mark Fite and Eric Neal Newman

Russian Pilots - Levani and Kristof Konrad

Tank Commander - Kevin Sifuentes

Soldier - Elston Ridgle

Mechanics - Randy Oglesby and Jack Moore

Street Preacher - Barry Del Sherman

Secret Service Guy - Lyman Ward

Lincoln - Anthony Crivello

Ed - Richard Speight, Jr.

Monica Soloway - Barbara Beck

Reporters - Joe Fowler, Andrew Warne and Sharon Tay

Russian Reporter - Peter Jozef Lucas

Russian Newscaster - Yelena Danova

Korean Newscaster - Derek Kim

Newscaster - Vanessa J. Wells

German Video Newscaster - Jessika Cardinahl

Video Newscasters - Gary W. Cruz, Ron Pitts, Wendy L. Walsh, Christine Devine, and Mark Thompson

Rex Black/NY Newscaster - Ernie Anastos

Atlantic Air CINC - Kevin Cooney

Chaplain - Rance Howard

Japanese Tech - Nelson Mashita

B-2 Pilot - Jeff Phillips

Arab Pilot - Sayed Badreya

Sailor - Adam Tomei

Lucas - John Bradley

Housewife - Kimberly Beck

Lieutenant - Thomas F. Duffy

Older Boy - Andrew Keegan

Thomson - Jon Matthews

Reginald - Jim Piddock

Themselves - Fred Barnes, Eleanor Clift, Jerry Dunphy, Jack Germond, Morton Kondracke, John McLaughlin, Barry Nolan and George Putnam

Northridge Field Reporter - Eric Michael Zee

Redneck - Pat Skipper

Farmer Kid - Carlos Lara

Butler - Mike Monteleone

Elvis Fanatic - Lee Strauss

Woman on Roof - Lisa Star

Intellectual on Roof - Malcolm Danare

Trucker on Roof - Arthur Brooks

Thief - Michael G. Moertl

Master C.P.O. - James J. Joyce

Kim Peters (Reporter) - Joyce Cohen

Entertainment Tonight Reporter - Julie Moran

Flagstaff News Anchor - Robin Groth

LAPD Helicopter Pilot - Richard Pachorek

Boomer - Dakota

SETI Chief - Erick Avari

Tech/Med Asst 3 - Tracey Walter

Harvesters

Character thumbnails with links to profiles

Detailed Synopsis

July 2nd, at S.E.T.I. in New Mexico, SETI Tech One is on duty when an alarm starts to go off. He calls SETI Chief and puts the phone next to the computer speakers. SETI Tech Two tells SETI Chief that no air traffic is in the area. SETI Chief tells SETI Tech Three to get in touch with Space Command to let them know and SETI Tech Three tells SETI Chief the signal is coming from the moon. General William Grey asks a Commanding Officer who else knows about the space signal. Commanding Officer tells General Grey that only S.E.T.I. knows about it and the space mass has a mass roughly 1/4th the size of the moon. Second Officer tells General Grey that it is not a meteor as it is slowing down. General Grey then calls Albert Nimziki. Marilyn Whitmore calls President Thomas J. Whitmore and after confirming that Marilyn will return after lunch, he hands the phone off to Patricia Whitmore. Fred Barnes is on the television discussing the approval ratings of President Whitmore with Morton Kondracke and Eleanor Clift. President Whitmore hands the sports section to one of the Secret Servicemen and says hello to Constance Spano. Constance tells President Whitmore that he is being criticized due to his youthfulness and for compromising. Whitmore's Aide tells President Whitmore that Nimziki is calling. In Brooklyn, David Levinson is playing chess with Julius Levinson. Julius tells David, he should move on from his divorce. Co-Worker 2, Co-Worker 3 and Co-Worker 4 are taking calls from angry cable customers when David arrives and Marty Gilbert runs up to David and tells him that all the stations have suddenly started having disturbances. David reads what is happening with all the signals and doesn't believe it is possible. In Imperial Valley, California, Troy tells Miguel the television signal has gone bad. Lucas drives up to their trailer in his truck and shows Miguel and Alicia a handful of wilted crops and threatens to fire Russell Casse if he doesn't crop dust his field within 20 minutes. Miguel rides his motorcycle and waves at Russell who is flying his plane above a field and then crop dusts it. Russell lands the plane and Miguel tells him, Lucas' field is on the other side of town as Farmer Kid and his family watch and stare at Russell take a drink of liquor. The Aides tell Constance that the news is running a story that the administration is covering up a nuclear testing experiment and NASA wants to know their position on the phenomenon. The Chief of Staff, General Grey, Nimziki and President Whitmore argue on what to do next. Nimziki tells Atlantic Air CINC to upgrade to DEFCON 3. Another Commanding Officer walks in and tells the group that the object has split into multiple smaller objects and will be entering their atmosphere soon. David tells Marty that he found a weird signal embedded in the satellite feed and he should be able to block it. In the Northern Desert of Iraq, a group of Bedouin run up a hill as a large glowing object enters the atmosphere. On the USS Georgia, Lieutenant is told by Sailor that they are suffering from radar black out, but the infrared shows a large object coming their way. Lieutenant then calls Atlantic Air CINC. Commanding Officer is told by Second Officer that an object has been spotted over Iraq , which Commanding Officer repeats to Atlantic Air CINC. General Grey tells President Whitmore about another object heading towards California. George Putnam gives a report on events taking place in Russia, which is then explained locally by Russian Reporter who describes the hysteria in the area as a large object appears out of the sky. Russian Newscaster continues that the object is headed towards Moscow. General Grey tells President Whitmore that they have an AWACS off the Pacific Coast as Lincoln is on the phone. Radar Techs tell Lt. Peterson and a fellow Pilot that side radar is picking up nothing. Lt. Peterson and the pilot relay this information, but their AWACS explodes when it makes contact with the suddenly appearing large object. Military Aide says they lost the signal and Atlantic Air CINC tells everyone two more objects have been spotted heading towards New York City and Washington, D.C. The Master C.P.O. is talking on the phone as Nimziki tells Whitmore's Aide to organize a military escort, but President Whitmore decides he is staying. President Whitmore tells Constance to have the National Broadcast system advise people not to panic. A Video Newscaster reports on the object entering Russia as Co-Worker 2 asks David if he has been watching what is going on. David tells Marty that the signal is going to be over in seven hours. Marty ignores him and motions towards the television and Co-Worker 3 tells Marty that Jamie told him the building had a bomb shelter and Marty tells everyone to head to the basement. In California, two Mechanics walk into a cafe and one of them starts harassing Russell about his supposed alien abduction. The cafe starts to shake and an alien spaceship appears out of the sky. In Los Angeles, Dylan runs into Capt. Steven Hiller and Jasmine Dubrow's bedroom and wakes them up. A spaceship hovers over Washington, D.C., while another one hovers over New York City. Co-Worker 5 asks David if he is going to the bomb shelter, but David continues onto the roof. David then realizes what the signal means. Boomer brings Hiller his shoes. He turns on the television where a news report is reporting on the spaceships. Hiller goes outside to get the newspaper and sees the spaceship. A Video Newscaster reports that more spaceships have arrived over India, England and Germany. David tells Marty to tell his mother to leave town and that the signal is a countdown. President Whitmore gives a news conference and an Aide hands Constance a phone and says David is on the other end. David tells Constance about the signal and that the aliens are going to attack, but she hangs up on him.