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Yeah!

We made it!

Thank God, we made it!

.before I bust your hole with my boot heel!

Yeah!

We made it!

Thank God, we made it!

I’m sorry. I’m trying to save you.

We’re getting slaughtered.

You need to get us off this beach.

We have to go. This drop ship is about to explode.

We have to go now.

Wait.

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

This ship is going to explode!

What are you doing?

Find me when you wake up.

What?

Come find me when you wake up.

On your feet, maggot!

Get in line before I bust your hole with my boot heel!

Good news is there’s hope for you, private.

Battle is the great redeemer.

The fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged.

The one place where all men truly sh.

Squad, this here is.

Private Cage. And you must be J Squad.

It’s good to meet you.

Isn’t that an officer’s uniform?

Those sure. These sure ain’t officer’s cufflinks.

Keys in the.

.left pocket, probably.

Private Cage is a deserter.

I’m making you all personally responsible for his deliverance.

He will be combat ready by 0600 tomorrow.

Private Cage is under the delusion he does not belong here.

We must dissuade him of this delusion.

If he tries to run, feel free to dissuade him. No. I’m not gonna run.

Not a chance. Till he can’t piss standing up.

Thank you, Sergeant Farell.

What next? A little, PT?

PT! Ten minutes!

Left! Left! Left!

What are you? I’m a warrior!

What do warriors do? Kill!

What are you gonna do? Kill!

What are you gonna do? Kill!

It’s gonna be my 20th battle tomorrow.

You haven’t been in 20 battles, mate. I have too.

You’re gonna dump your load the second we hit the beach.

Why don’t you get yourselves a cup of shut-the-hell-up?

You funny, girl.

I bet I set a record tomorrow.

Fastest time running backwards, Ford, slipping in your own shit.

Knock off the grab-ass!

Grab this, sarge!

Hold up!

Private, drop and give me.

Fifty, Sarge?

That’s right.

Fifty.

Platoon!

Drop and give me 50!

Compliments of Private Cage.

Thank you, Sarge.

And one! One!

And two! Two!

And three! Three!

What the hell were you thinking?

There’s hope for you, private. Hope in the form of glorious combat.

Battle is the great redeemer.

Three! Three!

Four! Four!

Five! Five!

Excuse me. Sergeant Vrataski.

Excuse me.

Sergeant Vrataski?

Excuse me.

Yes? Who said you could talk to me?

Have I got something on my face?

You did. You did.

Tomorrow. At the beach.

Tomorrow. At the beach.

We meet.

You said to find you when I wake up.

You do know what’s happening to me.

Come with me.

Now.

You don’t talk to anyone about this but me.

The best-case scenario is you’re gonna end up in a psych ward.

Worst case, you’ll get dissected for study. Are we clear?

Yes? Yes.

First time you died, what happened?

You killed a mimic? Yes.

Describe it. It was different.

It was bigger. Bluish.

And you got covered in its blood.

As a matter of fact, I did.

They know we’re coming on the beach tomorrow.

It’s a slaughter, isn’t it?

How do you know this?

Could you just.? Wait!

Wait. Wait.

Would you explain to me what the hell is happening.

What happened to you happened to me.

I had it. I lost it. Okay?

That’s great. There’s a cure. How do I get rid of this?

First, I need your help.

Help with what exactly?

Winning the war.

Let’s go! Come on!

Rita, what is this?

What are you doing here? You gotta give me some warning.

Who’s this? He’s me. Before Verdun.

He’s gonna help us.

What? You mean he’s.?

Yes.

When did he die? Where?

On the beach. Tomorrow.

How many fingers am I holding up behind my back?

How should I know that?

Okay.

So this is the first time we’ve had this conversation.

You should try this on him. What is that?

It doesn’t work.

Has he had any visions yet?

Visions of what?

There’s still time.

Yes. Time? Look, I’m sorry.

Who is this? Who are you?

I’m Dr. Carter. Particle physics. Advanced microbiology.

He’s also the only other person who’ll believe what’s happening to you.

No one understands mimic biology better than him.

He’s a top analyst at Whitehall.

Well, I mean, I was until I met Rita and now I’m just.

.a “mechanic with psychiatric delusions”

Carter.

Show him.

Yeah, right.

Right. Well, first of all.

.you’re not fighting an army.

You have to think of this as a single organism.

Now, these common drones, they act like its claws.

And Alphas, like the one that you killed, are much more rare.

Yeah. They’re like one in 6/18 million, by my guess. Yes.

They act as the enemy’s.

They’re like its central nervous system.

But this is the brain.

It controls them all. And this is the Omega.

And the Omega has the ability to control time.

Whenever an Alpha is killed.

.an automatic response is triggered.

The Omega starts the day over again.

But you see, this time, it can remember what’s going to happen.

.just like you do.

It knows exactly what we’re gonna do before we’re gonna do it.

And an enemy that knows the future can’t lose. It can’t lose.

But if that’s true, how did you win at Verdun?

We were allowed to win.

This thing wants us to believe we can win.

It wants us to throw everything we have into the invasion.

Operation Downfall isn’t our endgame.

.it’s the enemy’s.

The thing you’ve got to understand

is this is a perfectly evolved world-conquering organism.

For all we know, there are millions of those asteroids.

.floating around in the cosmos like a virus.

They’re just waiting to crash-land into a world with just the right conditions.

All they need is for the dominant life form to attack and:

There’ll be nothing to stop the mimics from conquering the rest of the world.

Unless you change the outcome.

Me?

When you killed that Alpha, you inadvertently entered the enemy’s nervous system.

Cage, you’ve seized control of the Omega’s ability to reset the day.

How’s that even possible? Perhaps this organism’s only vulnerability, its only vulnerability.

.is humanity.

Regardless of that, you control the power now.

Just as I did in Verdun.

So I’m resetting the day?

Okay.

How do I control it?

You have to die.

Every day.

Until the Omega’s destroyed.