George Washington Bridge (level)/Transcript

Ellie Martinez: The sun had gone down by then--so it should have been dark. But as we flew north, lakes of fire lit up the skylines.

(scene shifts to the skylines of New York with billowing stakes of smoke, and flashes to innumerable refugees fleeing on the George Washington Bridge.)

Ellie Martinez: Thousands of people were killed, but hundreds of thousands had boarded ships, made their way through tunnels, or crossed the bridges in an effort to escape.

''(scene changes to a Chimeran fighter firing on a crowd of refugees)

Ellie Martinez: The Chimera tried to stop the exodus--but the army held out longer than anyone could have expected. And they paid in blood. Some of the soldiers were buried in parks, schoolyards, and even front yards. But most lay where they fell.

(scene shifts to a group of Hybrids in a street facing away from a burning bonfire)

Ellie Martinez: Roads were littered with abandoned suitcases, clothes shed like skins, and family photograph albums. They lay open to the wind--and snapshots flew like leaves as the Chimera prowled the deserted city streets.

(scene pans through a burning New York)

Ellie Martinez: Belmont, Coney Island, Greenwich Village, Harlem, Red Hook, and Jackson Heights - the stinks took all of them. It was clear, life as I had known it was over.