Good Evening.
We have received reports that a Kaiju has broken through the Pacific wall. We don't know how many have died, but we can assume it was in the tens of thousands.
People are saying that this is the end. People are saying that we have lost. [Beat] I ... I don't know what I think. In the last year, we have seen cities fall. We have seen Jaegers humbled [beat] broken. We have seen children die. Things [beat] things look bleak. But this is not an issue about monsters. This is not about robots and it certainly is not an issue about the strength of our spirit. [beat] This is an issue about a wall.
Martin Luther once wrote, "The Romanists, with great adroitness, have built three walls about them, behind which they have hitherto defended themselves in such wise that no one has been able to reform them; and this has been the cause of terrible corruption throughout all Christendom." Barack Obama declaimed, "No wall is high enough and no Iron Dome is strong enough or perfect enough to stop every enemy that is intent on doing so from inflicting harm." And, of course, Ronald Reagan once said, "Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
And yet we still build walls. But what exactly are we dividing? [extra long, pregnant beat] Are we dividing ourselves from harm? Are we dividing our children from fear? Are we, perhaps. dividing the present from a future that does not involve us? No. [the longest of beats and a knowing stare] We are dividing ourselves from each other. We are dividing brothers. We are dividing [momentous beat] the world. From New York, this is Will McAvoy.