before leaving for camp haven evan the 5th wave

I think if the dad had always intended this he should have a) done it before they arrived at the camp and not after b) done it in a private place, instead of outside where anyone could have overheard or seen and c) maybe not gone to this obviously ‘dangerous for his teenage daughter’ camp in the first place. In fact, soon after they arrive the dad gives Cassie a handgun and shows her how to load and fire it and tells her to keep the gun on her at all times.

They arrive at the camp and it is looking a little shabby. Now the dad (Ron Livingston) decides to take his two children to another refugee camp. Many people die from this super bird flu. Wouldn’t you know it? The mother gets sick and dies. Cassie’s mother is a doctor, and she is working in a refugee camp and warns her family off for fear of them getting sick. Moving forward, the survivors are starting to get sick, and it is discovered The Others have modified bird flu and made it into some kind of super flu ( The Stand). Apparently The Others (as the aliens are called, not just the ghosts from The Others) created some massive earthquakes causing tsunamis and devastation across the globe. This almost gets them, but because this is a flashback, I have a good feeling that at least our heroine will survive. Now Cassie and her younger brother Sam (Zachary Arthur) appear to be aimlessly wandering around in the woods, when suddenly a huge flood shows up.

Planes fall from the sky (a la Revolution). Ten days later a massive EMP hits the whole Earth (presumably) and knocks out all the power. Aliens show up unannounced and hover silently over major cities, just like in other movies you’ve seen ( Independence Day, District 9). This movie is called The Fifth Wave, so we clearly need a recap of the first four (since we don’t know them). He’s reaching for something, is it a gun? Too late, she shot him. He’s asking for help, but our presumptive heroine seems pretty nervous. She starts looking around for supplies and stumbles upon a guy who is wounded. She is carrying an AR-15, so this is either a post-apocalyptic society or the Deep South. The movie opens with a teenager (Chloë Grace Moretz) exiting the woods and approaching a gas station. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.

Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated.

Before leaving for camp haven evan the 5th wave