Earth mounds in Ohio..........on the base even..........Gen Curtis LeMay.....aliens....


Cassie scavenges her way toward the Wright-Patterson Army Base to find her brother, but is shot in the leg by an unseen enemy when she walks out onto the debris-filled freeway. Cassie attempts to flee into the woods as blood gushes out of her leg, and passes out before reaching safety. Five days later, Cassie wakes up in a bed inside of a house, and meets Evan Walker. She learns that Evan saved her from bleeding to death on the freeway, and has been taking care of her. When Cassie asks about her gun, Evan claims that he didn't see one on the freeway. Later on, Cassie finds her gun hidden underneath the floorboards in Evan's room, and quickly packs her belongings up and runs from the house. She trips on a wire which sets off a home made alarm, and gets chased down by Evan. He pins her down as she tries to escape, but she stays silent as she realizes that an enemy sniper is hunting close to them. Afterwards, Cassie leaves to find Sam, and Evan accompanies her to help her. Cassie eventually kisses him after he bandages her leg again, but later learns that he is an Other in humanoid form. She leaves on her own to go find Sam, but not before Evan tells her that Colonel Vosch and the army are actually Others, and that the Fifth Wave will use children to eliminate the rest of Earth's survivors by misleading them.