The video for " The Wave " begin with the aliens ' spaceship crashing to Earth . The camera then hover over a playground where dozens of children appear to be dead . Several policemen arrive at the scene and begin to remove the bodies by putting them in wheelbarrows . Meanwhile , Jean Noel is seen running on a desert road . The policemen then begin to dig graves for the corpses . Jean Noel then spot another specimen who look just like him and the two begin to run . They are soon joined by more specimens before arriving at the playground . By chanting at the policemen , the specimens appear to mind control them into dance . Jean Noel continue to run and stop when he see the crashed spaceship . The video end with the band 's jackalope logo .