You know, after last year's corporate, my wife was always encouraging me.
You know, she said: you did fine, you did fine in the corporate.
I was a bit nervous. This little guy... hello. Sorry.
That's nice, eh? Nice background with the people there...
We are here at the... must I look..? - Just look straight at the lens.
We are here at the... MNU head office,
Department of Alien Affairs. My name is Wikus Van De Merwe.
And behind me you can see the Alien Affairs' workers.
And what we do here at this department is...
we try to engage with the Prawn
on behalf of MNU and on behalf of humans.
To everyone's surprise, the ship didn't come to a stop
over Manhattan or Washington or Chicago,
but instead it costed to a halt directly over the city of Johannesburg.
The doors didn't open for 3 months. It just hovered there. Nobody could get in.
And they eventually decided, after much deliberation,
that the best thing to do would be to physically cut their way in.
We were on the verge of first contact.
The whole world was watching.
Expecting, I don't know...
...music from heaven and bright shining lights.
Oh my God!
The creatures were extremely malnourished,
they were very unhealthy, they seemed to be aimless.
There was a lot of international pressure on us at the time.
The entire world was looking at Johannesburg,
so we had to do the right thing.
The government then established an aid group that started to
ferry the aliens to a temporary camp set up just beneath the ship.
We didn't have a plan. There was a million of them.
So, what was a temporary holding zone soon became fenced,
became militarized. And before we knew it, it was a slum.
But the truth is, nobody really knew what this place was.
There's a lot of secrets in District 9.
At first, a lot of attention was given to...
giving the aliens a proper status and protection.
They're spending so much money to keep them here.
When they could be spending it on other things, but...
...at least they're keeping them separate from us.
l want to be realistic with everyone. The aliens will not be able to go home.
The aliens are here to stay.
There were literally thousands of different theories
as to why the ship seemed inoperable, and what was speculated was that
the command module had detached itself from the main ship,
and then somehow mysteriously became lost.
Did it fall by itself or was it programmed? I don't know.
Examination of the old video footage
shows very clearly that a piece falls from the ship.
We look for it. We look everywhere.
This piece that's falling caused us bloody problems.
More energy weapon caches found.
The Special task force conducted raids in District 9.
Where there's a weapon, there's crime. Tensions rose, and rose.
People became more and more fed up, and eventually the rioting started.
Residents in Tembisa rioted for the third consecutive night
in an attempt to remove all the aliens from their township.
I think they must fix that ship and they must go.
A virus, a selective virus. Release it near the aliens.
They must just go. I don't know where, just go.
If they was from another country we might understand.
But they are not even from this planet.
The government have enforced a nationwide curfew.
The aliens, prawns, they take my wife away.
The derogatory term Prawn is used for the alien, and obviously it implies
something that is a bottom feeder, that scavenges the leftovers.
I mean, you can't say they don't look like that.
That's what they look like, right? They look like prawns.
The aliens made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. One bystander was hurt.
What for an alien might be seen as something recreational,
setting fire to a truck, derailing a train,
is for us obviously an extremely destructive act.
They can take the sneakers you are wearing off you.
They take whatever you have on you. Your cell phone or anything.
After that they kill you.
And now, after 20 years, public pressure had forced the government
to shift the aliens out of Johannesburg.
They had had enough and they wanted District 9 to be moved,
and more intensively policed and controlled.
So, to enforce this mass eviction, the government turned to MNU.
Welcome all and thank you for coming.
Please listen very closely to this briefing.
Today we start a very complex and delicate operation.
This is the largest operation that MNU has ever undertaken,
and we believe that it is going to be undertaken successfully.
It is to move 1.8 million prawns
from their present home in District 9 to a safer and better location
200 kilometers outside of Johannesburg City.
We built a nice new facility where the prawn can go,
he can be comfortable, he can stay there...
The people of Johannesburg and of South Africa are going to live
happily and safely, knowing that that prawn is very far away.
UIO protocol dictates that we give the aliens
24 hours notice of our right to evict.
Today, you will serve these notices getting the aliens to sign I-27 form.
The legality that MNU is using to evict the aliens is simply a whitewash.
I'm going to appoint a field officer to take direct command.
Wikus Van De Merwe.
Everybody always said that Wikus was not a very smart boy,
but he was a wonderful son. That was my Wikus, just...
Feels like life on the big stage. Thank you Piet... Mr Smith.
l had to put aside the fact that my daughter was married to Wikus.
That didn't affect my decision to promote him.
It's almost as big as my wedding day. You know... not as big.
Wikus was always making me things.
He said that way they just mean so much more.
He left this paper-mache bowl on the sofa one day
and I didn't see it and I sat down, and I... kinda squashed it.
They took all his stuff away for the investigation, and...
I made them bring it all back.
Hey, congratulations, man! -Thanks, man.
Okay, you're gonna go to P7. - Wikus! -How is it going, man?
Here's the shake. P9 for you. -Thanks.
I'm not saying what he did was right, but...
he took the choices that were given to him.
This is Trent. Fundiswa, Trent. -Hi.
Fundiswa is the guy that I've selected to replace me.
If he can make it today, eh? -I'll make it.
I just want everyone watching this right now
to learn from what has happened. -You would think...
things like this would happen to somebody else, not to me.
How is it going, man? Long time, mate. Have you got my stuff?
Hey, boss! -How is it going? -I'm all right, boss.
Good, good, this is Fundiswa. He is training with us today.
I think I was disgusted with the way he worked.
There was always just a hint of something not quite kosher
with mr Van De Merwe. - Nobody saw it coming at all.
None of us had any idea of what he was doing.
l think it is a great thing to see that...
it's not the military guys in charge this time.
Not to say that Koobus and his cowboys are not wanted.
You guys are always wanted.
You see now, these are the cowboys.
They shoot first, and then they answer the questions.
Sorry, is this above the allocated amount of ammunition?
Because I see your pouches are full but...
I think maybe you should speak to the colonel.
F.A.G. over here says that we got too much ammunition.
No, all I'm saying, Koobus, is that, you know...
you should find ways of making you guys more efficient...
Listen to me, you fuck!
Get him outta my face.
There are rules, we're all living by rules in this world.
Well, l don't think he can be forgiven for what he did,
cause it's like a betrayal. - I've gotta get going, Les.
I think we're gonna have to cut this interview, cause we're gonna go...
12 KILOMETERS FROM DISTRICT 9
Take your magazines, people. Come on, lets go.
The Prawn doesn't really understand the concept of ownership of property.
So, we have to come there and say: listen, this is our land.
Please, will you go?
It's difficult to put the vest on by yourself.
Thomas, can you help me? -All right, boss.
They told me I was gonna get the vest inside the Casper.
Thomas, just look on the side if there's a vest there?
I'm just concerned about my family. - Don't worry about the vest, it'll be fine.
Rights groups have demanded that mercenaries should comply
with all UYO regulations in District 9.
We're coming to you from the entrance of District 9
as today, Multi National United sets out to relocate
approximately 1.8 million alien residents from their homes.
Human rights groups are keeping a watchful eye,
as many suspect abuses might occur.
We're seeing heavily armed private security forces
being deployed into District 9.
Backed up by significant air support.
We'll go shack to shack and get them to sign the form.
First one EX 247.
We're seeing the convoy stop. The operation is about to begin.
Just stay focused.
Are you ready, Thomas? -Yeah. -Okay.
Is that a signal? Okay, fellows.
You stay behind us. Good luck, boy.
Stay low! Where is he going? What is it?
It's clear that security is very high.
This is only the beginning of a total clamp down.
This is MNU agents. Open the door please! -Open up!
Hello! Hello, hello...
This is Wikus Van De Merwe from MNU.
We are here to serve you an eviction notice.
You just put your scrawl there. -Fuck off!
All right! Thomas, hold it! We've got his scrawl there.
Because as he hit it, it counts as a scrawl.
First time we come in, there will always be a little bit
of tension happening between us and them.
Hey, you can't eat that, man!
The prawn likes to eat the rubber. To him it's like a marshmallow.
No, no! Guard! Don't confront him like that!
Did you see that? Right in the roost. Stay calm!
This is gonna be a problem cause now all prawns are coming out,
they wanna see what's going on. Stop it! Stop it!
Bring my kit. See, everybody is gathering now.
Don't shoot or you're gonna turn it into a warzone!
What is that? Is that a tear gas? -No, it's cat food.
It is cat food. I just distract them.
One of them attacked the prawn and he's lost his arm.
No it's not my house. I don't live here.
Well, that's a pity because, you know, this...
This is a nice cat food, you know. But of course, it's not your house.
So, we'll just have to go and give it to someone else. -Yes! It's my house!
We need you to sign here. Now you can take that...
All right. Stop it!
The creatures became incredibly obsessed with cat food.
Something about it, like catnip for cats. Only a lot more intense.
Hello? MNU. We are here to serve eviction notices.
What is eviction?
What we have stranded on Earth in this colony,
is basically the workers that are unable to think for themselves.
They will take commands, they have no initiative.
They've lost all the apt of leadership
through whatever cause. We presume illness.
I'm holding steady over Nigerian compound area.
Where there's a slum, there's crime. And District 9 was no exception.
The nigerians had various scams going. One of them was the cat food scam.
Where they sold cat food to the aliens for exorbitant prices.
You put the money here first. You don't get anything until you pay.
What are you trying to do? I'll chop your balls off.
Not to mention interspecies prostitution,
and they also dealt in alien weaponry.
You have a car hijacking, there's a chop shop there,
you can see that, that's somebody's car in there.
The nigerians in District 9 are headed by a man called Obesandjo.
He's a very powerful underground figure in Johannesburg.
You don't want to play with these boys.
They will cut you into pieces.
That's the boss there. OK, no problem.
Don't look at him! This is gonna cause problems.
All right, next. 766, all right.
MNU agents. Open the door please!
Whoa! Jesus! What is it?
Check the other side!
Control, this is Wikus Van De Merwe.
I need a population control team at JV 766 immediately, please.
Check the other side, Thomas! There is 40 to 50 eggs in here.
Is this normal? -This is an amazing find.
l can just show you a little bit how it works.
Basically, a cow is hung from the ceiling, you can see here.
Very little of it left, of course, because all these pipes
supply the nutrition to the little prawn eggs.
You can do one, I can show you, want to see? -No, I'm fine.
There we go. Okay, no more nutrition to the guy.
Then finally we take air back.
The little guy is gone to a nice little sleep now.
You pop him out, there we go. Pop him out here.
You can take that. You wanna keep it as a souvenir of your first abortion.
You can feel like you did one of these here. -Thanks, boss.
Okay, here it comes, guys. This is the snake.
If we were going to abort each egg one at the time,
it'd take a very long time. So, this makes a lot of sense.
You hear that? That's a popping sound that you're hearing.
It's almost like a popcorn.
What the egg does, it pops up.
The little guy, what's left of him, pops out there.
So that's the sound that you're hearing with the popping.
You don't need that, man. Only sissies wear that.
Been drinking a little bit here, eh?
What are you doing with this television set, sir? What's this?
Hey, smile for the cameras here.
That's a first day find. -That's a big find.
You see this? Trent, look at this! There's weapons all over here.
CK 5, 7572...
Some of the guns are small
but if it shoot you, it make a big mess.
MNU is trying to move the aliens for humanitarian reasons.
But the real focus, just as it has been
right from the beginning, is weapons.
MNU is the second largest weapons manufacturer in the world.
We assumed that we'd be able to pick up the alien laser gun
and just be able to shoot, but it didn't work like that.
Because, as we discovered, their technology is actually
engineered in a biological manner to interact exclusively with their DNA.
It just doesn't work with humans. And it's as simple as that.
This is basically a guy, and there's 3 humans here.
Basically trying to make a warning, you know.
He's saying "I kill 3 humans, watch out for me."
Hey, don't urinate on your own bloody... get back, get back.
This is Wikus, requesting First Battalion escort, please.
You want to talk to them or you want to talk to me?
No, not them!
Okay, guys, thanks very much. Yeah I know, he had a spade.
Look-I find some!
I tell you before... this is human technology, it is useless.
Only our technology contains the fluid.
This is not our technology? -No, it's junk.
Keep looking.
I find something.
Yes. This is what we need.
Good, little one.
Get down!
Careful... wait...
...there.
Why must it take so long?
Because it is very difficult...
...so much can go wrong.
Twenty years of work.
Our plan is ready now? - Quiet... listen...
...they are coming.
You must hide this. They must not find it.
Answer the door and be polite.
No! You take it.
You see, this is the problem. This is the gang sign.
You see this? So again, looks like we have
more and more gang members.
Fundiswa, you just stay back. You stay behind Thomas.
This place is swarming with MNU. I will be searched.
I must get back to my son. Don't make them angry - be polite!
MNU agents, open the door please.
Hello? We would like you to... -Nobody is here.
Okay, that's unexceptable. That is totally unexceptable!
Get out! Get out! You stupid prawn!
- Get outside! - C'mon! Move! Move!
On your knees! -I'm gonna have a look.
Just stay there! Right there!
Sir, we have to serve you an eviction notice.
Do you understand it? -No.
This is a classic kind of gangsta shack, I can tell you.
We're gonna find weapons here. Watch your head, don't hit the cows.
Just checking for panels. Ah, you hear that?
Yeah, it's hollow there.
See? Look at that!
I haven't see this type of setup. It's almost like a...
chemistry type of a set.
It's gotta be something.
l don't know, this has got the markings there of...
...so it is definitely alien.
But it's not a weapon. But I don't trust it.
Are you all right? Wikus, are you all right?
Switch it off, please. Just turn it off.
Are you gonna cut that part out, Trent, where it sprays me?
- Yeah, don't worry. - You cut that.
We just found a dangerous object here.
It has a fuel in and I suspect it might leak onto people or cause damage.
So we just check that in and we take that down nicely to the lab.
It's not a weapon but it's dangerous.
He's got weapons somewhere here, my sense is telling me that.
Lets check the other side here. Thomas! -Yes sir?
Thomas, keep the gun on him. -OK, I got it sir!
Keep the gun on him, Thomas, there's weapons here!
Oh, this is Christmas! This is Christmas, my friends.
This is the biggest find that I've ever seen.
Control, come in. Wikus Van De Merwe,
requesting First Reaction Battalion.
Stand by, guys!
This gun I've never seen. Have you seen this?
This is amazing! Look at this gun. What gun is this?
This is absolutely amazing!
- What are you doing? - I wanna show this to Thomas.
But I thought you said you can't handle it.
No, I am not handling it, I'm just gonna show it.
I'm not gonna use it, man. It doesn't even work with humans.
Thomas, look at this gun!
- That's not mine. - You're a dealer, eh? -No.
You hear this, sir? You see what's happening?
First Battalion, my friend. You know what that means?
That means that your days of flaunting the law are over.
Have a look, you see that? What's that?
That's a firing team.
Come here!
Wikus! Are you all right?
Where do you think you're going, eh?
You don't run away from the chopper. -No, no...
Where do you think you're going? You wanna piss me off?
Koobus to base, come in!
I've got two people down. MNU guard, MNU agent.
It's the Foxtrot Yankee 5-3-0... copy?
And we need a Med Evac ASAP.
No, that's fine, Koobus. I don't need a Med Evac.
Wikus, you burned your arm, you need to...
I'll just treat it here, Koobus.
Sir, I really think you must go to a doctor, a hospital or something.
- No, no. - You should just get it checked out.
I'll just have it treated by the medics. Help me up.
Did you see how fast that prawn was, Trent?
- Yeah, he was fast. - He was fast, I promise you.
Look, I fix it. I make it work.
I told you not to touch that.
What is wrong?
Nothing. Go outside and watch for humans.
Where is your friend?
He's gone.
Are you okay? -Yeah, I'm just a bit hot.
Are you guys hot? Are you hot, Trent? -No.
Yeah, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Now you see. There's kids everywhere.
This is what I mean. That's why we get rid of them.
- The little ones. - Yeah, that's why we abort.
Lets just shoot the little bastard. - No, no, don't shoot it now.
MNU agents! Come out!
Hello, little guy. MNU has sweets for you.
There you go, eat your sweety.
You know, eaty sweety. Works like a charm every time.
Oh fuck, man!
You almost poked my eye out with the fokkin' lollypop.
I tried to be fokkin' nice to you, man!
Is this your fokkin' little brat here?
Inside, go! I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Teach him some manners. Thomas, get him out.
Come! Get down! I've had enough of your stupid games.
What do you want?
We're from MNU. -I know.
We require your scrawl on this eviction notification.
- Why am I being evicted? - Yes, it's an eviction notice.
Put your scrawl on the bottom. See? There's your name at the top.
- Yes! - Christopher Johnson? So, put your name in the bottom.
It says you must give me 24 hours notice.
You're going to another place. A nice new city built especially for prawns.
- A special place! - And we are not even going to charge you, okay?
This isn't legal. -Sign the fokkin' paper! -No!
This guy is obviously... he's a little sharper.
So we are gonna have to try something else.
All right. Hello... okay.
Seems like we didn't understand each other there properly, eh?
So, you've got a little one there.
Do you have a licence for that little one? -Yes.
There's a litter out here. This is dangerous conditions for your child.
Article 75 says that because your child is living in dangerous
conditions, I'm gonna take him down to Child Services.
I'm gonna go and have a little chat with your son.
You keep away from my child!
Don't point your fokkin' tentacles at me!
You said you want to stay?
Your boy is coming down with me to Child Services.
He's gonna spend the rest of his life in 1 by 1 meter box.
Hello, little guy! It's the sweety man coming!
Fuck, look at this, Trent! Fuck it!
Thomas, keep the gun on him. He is definitely a criminal!
He's got a whole computer shop here, man!
You know, this is amazing. I mean, this is obviously...
you can see stolen computers now that he's decorating his place with.
Definitely he doesn't have the permit for this.
Where is that fokkin' little brat?
Hello! It's the sweety man...
It's the sweety... Hey, I've got this...
- Wikus! - Trent, turn it off!
Are you okay, boss? - Fuck off, man! Fuck off!
Shall I leave him? -Just fuckin' leave him, yeah.
I'll see you tomorrow, Christopher Johnson.
When dealing with aliens, try to be polite, but firm.
And always remember that a smile is cheaper than a bullet.
Are you feeling better? - What? -How are you feeling?
I'm fine, I'm alright. I'm just a little bit dizzy.
Can you just pull up there on the side?
I just want to get something to eat here.
Are you sure you should be having that?
After your whole puking episode?
I feel a lot better... I think I just needed the fillings, you know.
Boss! Boss!
There's black stuff coming out of your nose.
Jesus!
It's a silver cylinder. I can't find it.
We must find it. It contains the fluid.
It's not here.
It has to be. Keep looking.
We trade for ten thousand cans.
Certain factions of nigerian gangs
want to try and extract weaponry from District 9.
And have been trying to for many many years.
Give them one hundred cans. - Hundred. -One hundred!
Yes, yes, but we take them all now.
Alright, boys! Get them the catfood - hurry up.
And they amassed thousands of these weapons.
Without the ability to use them.
Fuck off! Go! Hey friend, not you. You stay here.
- What do you want from me? - I just want to talk.
Talk about what?
Stupid prawn. They'll believe anything.
Muti is a South African word.
Today it's synonymous with witchdoctory and magic.
You cut it here. This is their heart.
Cures high blood when you boil it,
cures sugar, diabetes, all diseases.
The nigerians were consuming alien body parts.
They believed that by doing so, they were ingesting their power
to use alien weaponry.
You must eat them.
And their power will live in you.
Just give me a fucking chance to go in front of you, man!
Oh, baby! -Hi baby, come in! -I need to get to the toilet, quickly!
Why? What's the matter?
Baby, listen. I might have crapped in my pants. -Surprise!
What's this for? -Your promotion. - All right, my promotion!
Hello, dad. How is it going? Hi mom. -Good to see you.
What a surprise, man! - Congratulations. -Thanks.
Congratulations, boss. -Thank you.
- Wikus, what happened? - I had a small incident, baby.
I'm just gonna go to the toilet, and then I'll talk to people, okay?
I need to talk to you. Come with me. -Okay, but I just gotta...
Guys, can you give us a moment, please?
What happened out there?
This prawn wouldn't listen to me, one really unruly prawn...
and I just had to... get him in my grasp.
Listen to me, too many aliens died out there today.
UYO is all over my backside.
Focus! you're not going to fuck this up for me!
If you can't do the job, I'll find someone who can!
Hi there! -Nice to see you again.
Does this mean he's in charge of this new operation?
- Yes. - That's nice.
Wikus! Baby are you okay?
Okay, let's cut some cake.
Doctor Smith, please come to room 405, doctor Smith.
Is it badly infected? - There's a lot of suppuration.
Also you should know on my right hand some fingernails were coming loose.
And I had a black fluid coming out of my nose, and sort of a black vomit.
What is happening to my arm, doctor?
What is this thing?
Just breathe deeply. Calm down. Stay calm.
Sir, please tell my wife.
Attention all medical containment evacuate ward 11.
Stop right there, madam.
What's going on? What are you doing to him?
Let me through!
Wikus! Wikus! Where are you taking him?
Okay, got him? Are you ready? -Got him.
We decided not to use the anesthetic,
the reason being we can't know how the subject will react.
Doctor Fester! -Yes? -I think you should see this.
I found it in his jacket. You think this is alien?
Stop, it's freezing! Fuck!
16 HOURS AFTER EXPOSURE
Where is this?
What?
What are they doing to these prawns?
Pain threshold, test one, DBX 7.
That's a strong pain reaction. That means the nerves have fused.
I mean, it's almost completely integrated.
Okay, do it.
B5. Testing AMR-B5.
Clear the range. Now, quickly!
Swing it around.
What are you doing? - The door is locked.
Can you grip that? -What is this?
- Put it through. - Why are you doing this?
- Standby for fire. Standby. - You want me to shoot that?
Stand back... and fire!
That's good!
It worked!
All right, thanks very much.
Do you know where my wife is?
Do you know if my wife knows where I am, sir?
Pull! Pull!
No sir, I will not pull.
What did you say about your wife? Fuck your wife!
Pull! -I will not pull.
Fire!
B7. -I can pull it. - He says he can pull it.
I said I could pull it! You fuckin'...!
B21.
Move, hurry up. Move!
Right, we want him in the center by the chain. -Get this off me.
Come on! Time, time!
Leave that fucking prawn, man, I will shoot at pig. I'll shoot, sir!
Listen, I'll shoot at pig again for you. I'll pull the trigger.
But I'm not shooting at prawn, you hear me? Untie the fucking gun.
B21 in human hand. That's good. It worked.
Just untie the gun, sir. -Stand by.
Listen, you can't use the real guy, he didn't do anything to you.
I want to try this. Everybody standing by.
Ready to go? Three, two, one, go!
Amazing!
All right! I think that's all we need.
Gentlemen, we are running out of time.
This is the key stage in the metamorphosis.
His DNA is in perfect balance between alien and human.
And a problem is, as the infection spreads,
the transition becomes permanent and less active.
He's going to turn into one of them. A prawn!
What happens to him isn't important.
What's important is that we harvest from him what we can right now.
This body represents hundreds of millions,
maybe billions of dollars worth of biotechnology.
There are people out there, governments, corporations,
who'd kill for this chance.
Will he survive the procedure? -No, of course not.
We need everything. Tissue, bone marrow, blood.
The procedure is gonna basically strip him down to nothing. -Please...
What about next of kin?
Please help me. Don't let them do it.
I'll handle that.
Okay, I say let's go. -Good, thank you.
I don't understand.
None of this makes any sense. He just hurt his arm, dad.
The doctors are trying, sweetheart.
Doing their best to save him.
We're starting to harvest material from the specimen.
We'll start with the soft tissue first. Cut through the chest cavern.
We need to get the heart out as quickly as possible.
Once it set the sinuosity, it just spread.
You know Wikus. He never was very strong.
I'll go through the chest, go straight into the heart.
Be quiet, please. -Fuck you!
Can I see him?
Not a good idea.
Fuck off! Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Drop the knife!
Move or I'll fuckin' cut his throat!
Okay. All right!
I'll fuckin' kill him!
You need to let go of him now.
It's okay, Tania. Everything will be okay.
Smith.
When?
Get Koobus.
...Wikus Van De Merwe.
White male, mid thirties. Is considered highly dangerous.
- Hey baby. - Wikus, is that you?
- Mrs. Smith? - How dare you phone us!
What are all these people doing in my house? -It's none of your business.
I need to speak to Tania straight away, please. It's my house.
This is my phone that you're using, mam. I'm fokkin'... what?
He tried calling me.
Anton, it's me! It's me! Accept the call!
I've been friends with you for fokkin' 13 years, man!
Fuck off! What are you watching? Fuck off!
We all thought it was for the best because he needed help.
A special medical help.
And he wasn't gonna get that as a fugitive.
He became the most valuable business artifact on Earth.
He was the only human who had ever...
successfully been combined with alien genetics and remained alive.
But his real value was that he could operate alien weaponry.
Hello.
Can I get some cheese burgers and one large sauerkraut, please.
We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news.
A patient has escaped from the isolation ward and is loose in the city.
Wikus Van De Merwe was recently apprehended
after prolonged sexual activity with aliens in District 9.
This is nonsense. -I have to call my manager.
That is totally untrue. You are legally obliged to serve me!
...is causing bodily disfigurement.
If I could just buy my burger, please. Don't listen to them!
It's highly contagious and the police warns people
to stay at least 20 meters away from this man.
Don't look at this hand! This hand is fine!
If you have any information regarding the whereabouts
of Mr Van De Merwe, contact us immediately on 0800-stop-wikus.
Stop!
31 HOURS AFTER EXPOSURE
Hi, this is Tania. -And Wikus.
We can't come to the phone right now.
Please leave a message. Bye. -Bye bye.
Control, there's no sign of mr Van De Merwe.
The entire world was watching him.
He was on every radio station, every image on television,
anything you could find had his face on it.
So he had nowhere else to go. He ended up hiding in the one place
he knew no one would ever come looking for him.
40 HOURS AFTER EXPOSURE
Pay now,or nothing.
I pay you next week, I promise.
No money - you get nothing. Fucking prawn, this isn't charity.
Hello, I'd like to buy some meat, please.
Hey, a man!
Yes, have you got a hamburger, or a steak roll?
Does it look like a hamburger shop?
Which one do you want? Goat?
Come on, come on, I don't have the whole day.
Is that a cat food there? -Yeah, yeah, it is.
I'll have some of that, guys.
Fuck, man!
Hello, hello?
Baby is that you? Tania?
God, please let it be you.
Yes, it's me.
I'm so happy you called me, baby.
Wikus, listen to me. -Okay.
I have something to say to you, and it's not gonna be easy.
No, no, look... listen baby, before you say anything...
Your father is working against me, but he's lying to you.
I did not have sex with one of these...
...fokkin' creatures, man!
I would never have any kind of
pornographic activity with a fokkin' creature!
They say that you're becoming one of them. I can't do this...
Baby please, don't give up on me.
Don't give up on me baby, because I can...
I want to see you again, baby.
I'm gonna fix my arm and I'm gonna see you again,
and I'm gonna kiss you and I'm gonna hold you again.
I also want you to hold me again.
Baby?
Hey! Hey man!
Okay...
We are on tracking directly to the location.
Roger that. I'll send you a couple of choppers for backup.
You!
What do you want?
Come in, control, there is our target moving to 66.
- You have to go. - Please, I need your help.
We're gonna play hide and seek. -Yes! Yes! -No, get back.
You want me to hide? Show me your favorite hiding place.
Please, just go. Leave us alone.
No, please, I need to hide.
They wanna kill me.
I just need to hide in here, sir, for 5 minutes, okay?
What is this? What are you doing here?
I remember you. -Nothing. You must hide somewhere else.
Sir... please sir, you have to help me.
I'm losing blood, they're trying to kill me.
Only one thing that could make that happen...
Quick! We have to hide him.
Now you... get down there.
Where's the fluid? What did you do with it?
- Please! - You took it...
I don't know what you're talking about!
...I know you did. I can see what's happening to you.
Tell me where it is.
Alright, alright.
Was it a black fluid in a flask container?
Yes, that's it. Yes!
I confiscated it and the guys at the lab took it.
It will be at the MNU. MNU has it.
What is this?
- You ruined everything. - Where is this?
Is that your shack?
This whole thing is under your shack?
For 20 years you've... had this fokking' thing in here?
Jesus, this is very illegal.
I mean, this is a find, you know. I wish they catch you with this.
Fuel goes in here.
That's enough! Quiet!
Then we fly away.
I said quiet! We cannot trust him.
What is he saying about the fuel? Are you trying to start this thing?
Are you little fuckers trying to start this and get away?
Never mind.
Yeah, you sneaky fokkin' prawns.
Too bad. I could've fixed you.
What? What did you say... about the fixing?
What do you mean you could fix me?
Forget it. It doesn't matter, it's too late.
No, listen! Listen. Are you saying that you can...
turn this prawn hand into a human hand?
You can make me human again?
We have medical machines on the mothership that can fix you. Yes.
We can use this ship to fly up there.
That's fantastic! You guys are brilliant!
I always thought that prawns were intelligent. Let's do it.
I don't have fluid.
I could fix you and I could fly away. But I don't have fluid.
Right, okay.
All right, I tell you what. Why don't we...
go risk it some more? Let's go collect some up.
It took twenty years to collect that amount.
Fuck, man! Fuck!
Fuck! The only one that exists is the one I confiscated?
Yes.
It's four stories underground.
Why does he keep looking at me like that? -He likes you.
We are the same.
We're not the same. We're not the fokkin' same.
There is a way out of this. We get the fluid back from MNU.
Yeah, and what then? Then we both die, eh?
Both of us dead. That's a suicide mission, man.
Can you not fill my head with that sort of nonsense?
The transformation is accelerating.
You don't have much time.
56 HOURS AFTER EXPOSURE
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Hello.
- Wikus? - Tania! Baby...
- Are you okay? - Oh God! Thank God...
Where are you?
I'am...
It's not like my father said. I know he was lying to protect me.
I just don't know what to believe anymore.
Baby I know, but listen to me.
It's all lies, I swear to you. Everything he said to you is lies.
- I know. - What? What?
I believe you, Wikus. I just want you back.
I want everything back the way it was.
That's... baby, that's what I want.
That's great! That's great news.
I can make it the way it was. If you take me back.
How? How can we go back?
I have a plan. I know how to fix it.
I know how to fix myself.
And it will be me. And we'll be back together.
- You promise me? - I promise you, baby.
Don't give up on me, okay?
Because I haven't given up on you. All right?
I won't.
- I love you. - I love you too.
Tell me you got a fix on him. -D9.
How many moons does our planet have?
Seven.
This planet only has one.
I can't wait to see our planet. It's bigger than this one, isn't it?
Enough.
We go home now?
Not home. No.
This is where we must go.
See that tent there? That might be ours.
I want to go home!
We can't go home. Not anymore.
Hi, you don't wanna go to the tents, they are not better.
They're smaller than the shacks.
Actually, more like a concentration camp.
If I can get you that black fluid, what happens then?
We go up to the mothership.
And you can start that thing? -Yes.
Okay, so just to be clear: this is gonna go back...
This is gonna go back to human like this.
I can go home and then you can go home.
You can take your boy, you can take all the prawns,
if I can get you that fluid, right?
You said it was a suicide mission. Maybe you were right.
We have no weapons. They'll shoot us on sight.
Look, look... Christopher...
I know where we can get weapons.
Hi guys. Hello.
I would like to buy some weapons, please.
How did you do this like that?
A doggie style with the demon.
I love it!
One brave white man, eh? Were you wearing a condom?
I need to buy weapons, please.
You and I both know that there are illegal weapons inside here.
I have money and I would like to buy some of those...
Sit!
Thank you sir for your time. Thank you very much for seeing me.
I would like to buy some weapons.
AK-47, some grenades... maybe tear gas canisters.
I see you have limpet mines here aswell, and I..
also see you guys have alien weapons there, which is great!
If I could have one or two of those.
I have money, okay? Now, I'm...
Sir! Please, sir!
I've heard about you.
Where do you have it? Show me!
Oh, shit!
Come here. Come.
No, no... don't please!
Why are you doing this? What do you want?
Shut up!
Forget the weapons! Forget the weapons!
I want the arm. Cut it off.
What is he saying?
I'll show you.
Holy shit!
You tell them to stand down!
You tell them to be quiet! To back off!
Tell them to put the fokkin' weapons in the bag!
Give me the fokkin' weapons, man!
Don't you, sir, look at me.
I said don't fokkin' look at me!
How did you get that hand?
Fokkin' hurry up there!
Look at me when I fuckin' speak to you. What is your secret?
What did you do? Tell me!
I want that fuckin' arm. What the fuck did you do?
You fuckin' mazungo, I'm coming for you!
I'm coming for you and I'm gonna get you!
Drop your fokkin' knife. Drop your fokkin' knife!
He's useless to us dead. -Would you relax?
For fuck's sakes, my men have done this a hundred times before.
Maintaining a visual on the location.
It's gonna be quick.
It's gonna be clean.
Best of all, it's gonna be quiet.
Van De Merwe hasn't got a clue what's coming his way.
It's empty! -Where are they?
Target is gone. The place is empty.
What do you mean, empty? Where the fuck is he?
That little shithead has got no idea what is coming his way.
I'm gonna find him.
There are the guards! At the gate! Watch the guards at the gate, man!
Move! Get out!
They're going down. Four stories down.
This is alien weaponry. Give me a status report.
It's Van De Merwe. He's on level four.
Switch to live, and then we're taking him out.
Colonel, we weren't allowed to use live ammunition.
They want him alive.
Stay here until I call you. -I understand.
I need to get the door open.
No! I said stay until I call you!
Fuck!
I thought you said not to kill them?
He shot at me!
Fuck! Get out! Don't fuckin' look at me!
Get out! Get the fuck out!
Get out! Everybody get the fuck out!
Get out! Go!
Move the fuck out! Go!
What is this place? - Don't worry about that.
What do they do in here?
Check these boxes.
Any type of a box that looks like it can hold a tube. Just check it out!
These fuckers!
Go, go, go...
Clear.
I got it! I got it!
Chris, I got it. Let's go!
Christopher!
Oh, fuck!
Listen... I promise you, I didn't know they were doing this.
Until they brought me here the other day,
I swear to you I did not know they were doing this to you guys.
But Christopher... look at me. Listen to me.
We need to leave now. Okay?
The whole of MNU is gonna come down here.
He's going to destroy us.
We can do this, okay? We're gonna get out of here...
Fire!
Move, move!
Shoot at the prawn!
Christopher! What the fuck are you doing?
Think of your boy, for fuck sake!
What the hell are you doing? Are you out of your fuckin' mind?
You're gonna get us killed! -What do we do now?
I thought you had a way out?
I didn't say anything about the way out.
I promised you that we'll get in. We're in! -I have an idea.
- Where are you going? - Follow me!
What are you doing? -Making a bomb.
Let's go!
Quick! Get in!
Go! Drive!
Okay!
Okay, hold on!
Fuck!
Reports are coming in of explosion in downtown Johannesburg.
Well, there was a terrorist attack,
but I can assure you that we dealt with it. Everything is fine.
Droop it down! Droop it down! Decline!
They are really close to us now!
Shit!
Let's go, let's go!
Don't drop that fokkin' thing!
Come on, move! Get down there!
Go down and initiate the binary commands.
Set it down right now!
When we get up to the mothership, how long is this gonna take?
- To do what? - The fixing. To fix me.
It's going to take a bit longer than I thought.
Okay, that's fine. How long do you need?
Three years.
Sorry, just go slowly with the clicks there,
it sounded like you said "three years", like human years.
Yes. Three years.
What? Three fuckin' years?
I will fix you,
but first I must save my people.
The deal was: you go home, I get fixed!
I will not let my people be medical experiments!
I'm a fokkin' medical experiment! You hear me, Christopher?
I'm a fokkin' medical experiment, man!
I must go home and get help.
I must use all the fluid to travel quickly.
I'll just stay here, Christopher? I'll just stay here in this shack.
And I'll see you in three years time? -I will come back. I promise.
Christopher!
Where the fuck is he?
Hey, you're hiding Wikus down there, my boy?
- Father? - No, no, no.
Your daddy needs to stay here to sort out a few things, alright?
We're gonna go. We're gonna come back and fetch him, okay?
In here? -In there. - Goes in here?
How the fuck do you open this, prawn?
Father.
Show me, you fucker. You want me to fuckin' kill you?
Is that what you fuckin' want, eh?
Right... there's no buttons.
On!
Activate?
My teachers teach only:
One prawn, one bullet.
I can't believe I get paid to do this.
I love watching you prawns die.
Fuck, man!
Father!
Get out! Get out!
This is remarkable.
It looks like something is emerging from the ground.
Something is definitely coming out of the ground.
Okay... steady!
Go sit down, I can't play with ya now.
Uncle Wikus is flying.
Bug off. Bug off!
Lock the weapon at target!
Fire when locked.
It seems to be drifting towards the center of the territory.
We have a lock on him. -Fire!
Something is fired upon... it has been hit!
What the fuck is that?
One of the engines is billowing smoke, it's out of control.
It's going down, boss. Should I send the boys to fuck him up?
Now... it hit the ground, the massive impact,
and it's come to a standstill.
My son! My son's in there!
Shut the fuck up! Get this fucker inside.
We're moving out. Come, let's go, let's go...
Move!
We're banking around now, trying to get a better view of the ship
which is absolutely wrecked, waiting for some of the smoke to clear.
Somebody has been brought out of the vehicle.
It looks like a human being.
We are getting unconfirmed reports that this might be
Wikus Van De Merwe, a fugitive that has been on the run
from MNU for the past 3 days.
They are loading him into a vehicle now, and heading off.
72 HOURS AFTER EXPOSURE
What the fuck?
We caught him, boss. -Bring him to me.
Come on! Get back!
Oh, fuck!
Control, we're taking enemy fire! We need support. Backup, now!
Fuck off! Fuck off, man!
Get you hands off me! Fuckin' get off me!
Get your fuckin' hands off me!
Didn't I tell you... that I'm gonna get you?
You came in here and you left with something that belongs to me.
Fuck you.
Fuck you all!
I told you that the day will come.
You've been running around with my prize.
All I want is to eat that hand and become like you.
No! It won't work...
Once I have that power, no one will stop me.
It was your turn... now it's mine!
Fighting MNU security forces, this armed faction is doomed...
Now I'm gonna eat, my friend.
We're getting reports claiming that the alien device is activating...
You see that prawn back in the Casper? -Yeah.
He knows what the fuck is up with that ship.
Get that fucker out and get him talking, now.
Three contractors are closing in on the nigerian compound, and...
Come, alien!
What's your plan?
How are you doing it?
Who's moving that ship?
All right, that's very clever.
Wait for my command. Make sure you fuckin' shoot to kill.
Fuck! Move it! Move it!
Bring that fucker down!
Hold you fire! Hold your fire and keep your positions!
It's Van De Merwe.
Hey, Dickus!
I'll come back for prawn, alright guys?
Do you hear me, now? -Run, Wikus!
- You hear me? - Run!
And keep on running, you fuckin' coward!
Run! Run!
Get the air support up, and get on his fuckin' trail, now!
It's not gonna work, boss. He's a tough one.
He's not gonna talk. -Then just fuckin' kill him.
Fuck!
He's a tough one. He's not gonna talk.
Then just fuckin' kill him.
Hey, c'mon. Get up! I'm gonna get you out of here.
- I can't... it's too far. - It's not too fokkin' far. Get up!
I'm gonna get you there. I'm gonna get you to your boy!
C'mon, stay behind me!
Go back!
Run, run, run!
Arriving at the location now. We have a clearance to engage.
Prawns are coming, get down, get down!
There are headed for a drop site. Knock these fuckers off!
Come to mommy, come...
Fuck!
Shit!
Are you hurt?
We can make it. I was shot in the arm.
We can make it, come on!
Listen, you go ahead. You can make it.
I'm gonna just... hold them off here, and I'll join you soon.
No, we stick together. I'm not leaving you here.
Take your boy and go home. You have to make it.
Don't make me go through all of this and not make it.
Do you understand? -I will come back for you.
Go! Go now before I change my mind! Go!
Three years. I promise.
I'm not fuckin' scared of you!
Quit fuckin' with me!
You want me? You want me?
Is that all you got?
Is that all you fuckin' got?
Some kind of quite extraordinary light from the mothership.
I've never seen anything like it. It's a beam of light...
Full scan. Okay.
Fire!
Get to the vehicle, now! Get going. -Yes colonel. -Go, go, go!
Fuck!
Quit playing with me, Koobus!
You fucker!
Go, Chris, go.
Go home.
We go home now?
Yes.
74 HOURS AFTER EXPOSURE
Unbelievable.
Now I know why everybody wants a piece of you.
I can't wait for those med boys to cut you up.
But you know what?
You're not gonna waste any more of my time.
You half-breed piece of shit!
I'm gonna just fuckin' kill you myself.
Stay back, you fuck! Stay back!
Stay back!
The people everywhere across Johannesburg
are flooding the streets and pouring out of their offices
and all eyes are pointed up towards the sky on this momentous day.
It's the first time, ladies and gentlemen, in over two decades,
that the mothership has shown any sign of movement,
and people are tremendously excited.
The city had come to an absolute standstill.
Everybody wants to know what's going to happen next.
There's no way of knowing whether or not Christopher Johnson will return.
We don't know if he was simply escaping,
whether he will effect a rescue plan...
...and, as the so called free press says,
whether or not he will come back and declare a war on us.
This is the last known footage of Wikus Van De Merwe.
And we can only speculate as to what has happened to him.
The more zany conspiracy theories state that
he's been captured by MNU or by another government.
Or by perhaps some shady government agency
and he's actually being held in captivity.
If we knew where he was, we would try and help him,
and that is the most difficult part, not knowing where he is.
Wikus, sadly, is gone but I'm the one who stays behind
with all the questions. I can't give the answers.
He died in my mind a long time ago. And that's that.
Wikus Van Der Merwe is a name that will become very widely known
because of this pivotal role that he played in this whole event.
He was an honest man, and he didn't deserve any of what happened to him.
I mean, I know. I looked into a computer system and I found stuff.
I mean, the whole data was there, you know?
They didn't even do a good job of hiding it.
Fundiswa Mhlanga is currently awaiting trial
for exposing MNU's illegal genetic research program.
District 9 was demolished
after the alien resettlement operation was completed.
District 10 now houses 2.5 million aliens and continues to grow...
You guys haven't seen a picture of my wife. Let me show you my wife.
She's my special angel.
She even looks like an angel with veil, you want to see that?
Look, you see, with the white veil over the...
she even looks like an angel. Everyone says that his wife is angel,
but this is a real angel that you see there, on the cameras.
They won't put that in the video, I don't think.
I found this at my front door.
As tho somebody had just left it there.
My friends say that I should throw it away,
cause it's just a piece of rubbish.
That it couldn't possibly come from him.
I know it's true.