The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long...

[last lines] Commentary: [voiceover] The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.

Then our first target will be the initial landing place outside Los Angeles. First thing you get there, arrange for the Pacific Tech scientists to monitor the drop. I'll send wire orders ahead of you and have the area clear all around. We've still time to hit them before dark. Then we'll blast them all over the world. Forrester, everybody's been looking for you. I know. We've walked halfway from Corona. Finally found an abandoned truck. This is Miss van Buren. Dr. Gratzman, Dr. Pryor, James, Bilderbeck. What's this I hear about the A-bomb? We've been assigned as special detail, we're going in right afterwards, study its effect. We're leaving in half an hour. - What's that? - King-sized fish eye? This is an electronic eye. The Martians modeled it after their own eye. They use it the way we use a periscope. It'll tell us a lot about their metals and alloys. If this is actually a lens, we can find out about their optics. Interesting. Very interesting. And this... the blood of a Martian. I don't remember ever seeing blood crystals as anemic as these. They may be mental giants... but, by our standards, physically, they must be very primitive. Isn't it curious how everything about them seems to be in threes? Their eyes have three lenses and three distinct pupils.