TV News Anchor Quotes in The 5th Wave (2016)

Cassie Sullivan: [narrating] I didn't know it then, but that was the last normal day of my life.

[remember a soccer practice]

Cassie Sullivan: When you're in high school, just about everything feels like the end of the world. An early curfew... A final exam... Soccer practice... Turns out what we thought was the end of the world, wasn't.

Cassie Sullivan: [to team mate] What, did someone famous die or something?

TV News Anchor: [on TV at home] It appears to be metallic and of a considerable size. Across the world, social media has been awash with panic and speculation as these images spread like wildfire.

Another Reporter: [changing channels] The president has authorized NASA to attempt communication with the object that is now circling our planet, and is currently over the United States, moving west over Ohio.

Cassie Sullivan: Oh, my God.It's right over us.

[a switch actives Dr. Brown's television and we see a news report]

TV news anchor: The Senate is expected to vote on this today. In other news, officials at the Pacific Nuclear research facility have denied the rumor that a case of missing plutonium was, in fact, stolen from their vault two weeks ago. A Libyan terrorist group had claimed responsibility for the alleged theft. However, officials now attribute the discrepancy to a simple clerical error. The FBI, which is investigating the matter, had no comment. Twelve wooden crates filled with cocaine washed ashore near Boca Raton, Florida, yesterday.