Falling Skies Recap for Two-Hour Series Premiere Part 1: “Live and Learn"
The opening voice over tells us how the aliens arrived in big ships, and we didn't attack them with nuclear weapons which was a mistake since they didn't want to be friends. EMPs (the bright lights) caused all forms of electronics to stop working. Then the aliens blew up army bases, capitals and major cities all around the world. Then the Skitters and Mechs came that started capturing kids and put harnesses on them.
Dr. Anne Glass has the children drawing pictures and telling stories about what happened to help them deal with the horrors they've faced. Matt Mason tells her how his mom died, and that his brother Ben was at Nick's house and he might have been taken. Matt is worried about his dad and Hal because they are out fighting.
Tom and Hal are running away from Mechs. We see a person get shot. They're pushing a cart of food, and a targeting system (that looks like the one the predators used in the predator movies) is targeting them and shots at them hitting the cart full of food, which is left behind. They make it to a line of defense and cover, but it is quickly blown up. Tom and Hal find an abandoned store and hide as the Skitters come. They were a strange noise as the Skitters approach, and see one person killed, and a girl who was knocked down by a blast, apparently stunned not killed. She is soon surrounded by skitters. Tom and Hall get away and run into Weaver who says that they barriers are down and that they are falling back. They witness a ship fly over and see another EMP blast. Tom tells the screaming girl to be quite, the noise attracts Skitters and Mechs.
