He assigns another woman, Lieutenant Constance Pierce whom Ringer hates to accompany her to find Evan. Destroy the human village in order to save it.' Vosch tells Ringer that it wasn't enough to just destroy all of humanity, but that it had to change human nature. The only solution was radical intervention. '.we were doomed to destroy ourselves and our home. Ringer knows that Vosch is human and he tells her that he is necessary to facilitate the radical intervention to save mankind. When Vosch does not come after her Ringer goes back because she believes that she needs to kill Evan Walker. He wanted her to be free to do what she needs to do. Razor killed Teacup because he knew that Ringer would never leave her. Meanwhile Ringer (Marika) who has now been enhanced with the 12th System, a nanotechnology that allows her superhuman abilities is allowed to escape the military base. Before the bombs are unleashed all the Silencers will be brought on the ship. This is the last step before the launch of the 5th Wave. Evan tells them he needs to blow up the mother ship because on the spring equinox the ship is set to unleash bombs over the entire world that will destroy every city on Earth to complete the cleansing.

However both Cassie and Evan think he should wait until Evan blows up the mother ship. A girl!” Ringer didn’t understand why aliens who don’t have bodies need a planet and why they came for ours.īen wants to go with Dumbo to the caverns to find Ringer and Teacup. He wants to destroy his entire civilization, …For a girl. And not just murder one or two of his kind…All of them. Then one day he decides he’d rather murder his own kind so he can save all the unkidnapped human bodies.

He kidnaps a human body so he can murder all the unkidnapped human bodies. Compassion.”īen Parish (Zombie) tells Cassie he doesn’t buy Evan’s explanations, that Ringer was right, that there is something that doesn’t add up about all this. Without bodies, we lost the things that come with them. “An existence without pain, without hunger, without any physical needs at all. He tells her that for ten thousand years they have had immortality. He tells her he wanted to do it differently but they wouldn't listen. Evan tells her that they could have lived with humans indefinitely, sharing their knowledge and bringing peace and order to the world. Cassie furiously confronts Evan telling him she doesn’t understand WHY the aliens killed off the human population using such cruel methods when they could have done it differently. The Last Star begins with Cassie, her little brother Sam (Nugget), the human-alien Evan Walker, Ben Parish (Zombie), Dumbo and Megan hiding out at Grace’s well stocked house.

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I have lived a thousand years shmoop