"Previously on Taken..." "(Subtitle Revised by HchC)" "My name is Jesse Keys." "I have encounters with unidentified flying objects." "Get away from me!" "Jesse, what happened?" "Ohh!" "Aah!" "No!" "What do you want from me!" "Why do you keep taking me?" "OWEN:" "There was one survivor at the crash." "We tracked him down to a small town in Texas." "He had formed a bond there with a young woman." "Years later." "I went back to that town." "She had two grown children and a ten-year-old son." "Kids, this is Owen Crawford." "Jacob!" "TOM:" "This guy broke her heart." "My life is not gonna be complete until I ruin his." "You know too much about what I do." "Aah!" "MARTY:" "Eric, your dad had me get him a car from the motor pool the night your mother was murdered." "When he returned it, there were 41 7 new miles on it." "41 7 miles is the exact distance roundtrip between Groom Lake and the spot where Howard and your mother were found." "They were both killed with Howard's service pistol." "He lost that pistol two days before he died." "I remember him asking me if I'd seen it." "He said he'd left it in his desk drawer and it had just disappeared." "She was drinking a lot." "Threatening to expose his work." "I'm sorry, Eric." "I've been carrying it around with me all this time." "Now that your father's dead, I thought you should know." "My father was a vicious, selfish man who put his personal aggrandizement above the good of his country." "In my opinion, his egomania made him a liability to the project." "However, he was also incredibly meticulous." "He kept files on everything." "This one's interesting, doctor." "Your signature on the autopsy reports from the three bodies recovered from the Roswell crash, and a fourth, the one who died while under observation." "Two copies of the crash-site reports-- the real one and the cover-up." "General, your signature's on both." "An interesting one on the disposal of the bodies of twin psychics used in some early research into the nature of the technology." "This one's particularly informative." "It's a briefing on the Roswell events that you and your colleagues prepared for General Eisenhower just before he took office." "On page 2, you'll find a list of the 1 2 of you who worked on the briefing." "A very impressive group." "These are copies, of course." "The originals are in a safe place." "So what do you want?" "Commander." "Your briefcase, sir." "What's going on here, Eric?" "I checked the motor pool records for the night my mother was killed." "You did check that car out." "That makes you an accomplice, Marty." "An accessory before the fact." "These men will hand you over to civilian authorities in Carson City." "I'm sure your fear of my father will be taken into account." "And you'll be stepping up to take over the project?" "The acorn doesn't fall too far, does it, Eric?" "I need that funding shifted over to biological research, Ted." "Find the resources." "Why is it so important?" "None of your damn business, Ted." "Ted, do your job or lose it." "ALLIE:" "Some people spend their lives hoping for something to happen that will change everything." "They look for power or love." "or the answers to their biggest questions." "I think really what they're looking for is another chance." "some way to lead another life where all the mistakes they've made would be erased." "and they could just start over." "Nothing bad has happened yet." "and all their possibilities are still in front of them." "I'm sorry I'm late." "That crowd of tourists." "We ought to put up a gift shop, sell little bobbing alien heads or something." "I had our people take the test subjects out across the desert to avoid them." "I can't run an operation under these conditions." "It's a joke." "Since I talked the general into letting me run this project, it's become a damn circus." "But if you're gonna be a damn circus, best to be in the centre ring." "What have you got?" "ERIC:" "What are you doing?" "These fell out of the heads of a half a dozen brain tumour patients we've been monitoring for the past couple of years." "Fell out?" "Put them away." "Don't worry." "They're dead." "They're like batteries." "They're not transmitting." "We had to open up a half a dozen people before we got a live one." " It's kind of like looking for pearls." " You got a live implant?" "Okay, now check this out." "This is really amazing." "Send in the soldier." "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "ALLIE:" "People come home for a lot of reasons." "They come home to remember." "They come home because they've got no place else to go." "They come home when they're beaten." "they come home when they're proud." "They come home looking for a door out into their past or a road out into their future." "They come home for a lot of reasons." "but they always come home to say good-bye." "Look like you remembered?" "Yeah, exactly." "Doesn't change much, does it?" "TOM:" "There they are." "Hey." "Mum's just waking up." "I'm glad you guys came." "My mum really wanted to get a look at Lisa." "Come on." "TOM:" "They say we're lucky because it's taking her so quick." "With cancer, it could've been a lot worse." "Hello, honey." "How do you like this, huh?" "They tell me it's the cigarettes, but I don't think I'd have lived this long without 'em." "You grew up real nice." "How you doing?" "I'm good, Mum." "I see that." "That's fine." "(knocks gently)" " Tom." " Yeah." "Come on in." "Mum, this is Carol, my wife." "Hi, Carol." "How you doing?" "Pleasure to meet you." "And this...is Lisa." "Tom, come take this thing out of my nose so I don't look so scary to that child." "(coughs)" "Come here, darlin'." "Let me get a look at you." "Come on, honey." "It's okay." "Hello, Grandma." "You're a pretty girl." "She's got your father's eyes." "TOM:" "Jake, I know who your dad was." "When the government was doing these experiments-- this is all freedom of information act stuff-- it was the beginning of the Cold War, and people were scared and willing to do anything, so they took these soldiers and filled 'em with psychotropic drugs" "to see what happened, and I believe that your dad was one of those soldiers." "When he escaped from the army base at Roswell," "Owen Crawford tried to get him back." "It might be a little bit more complicated than that." "Your abilities." "You got 'em from your father." "Whatever the drugs had done to him, like those women who took thalidomide..." "I think that they're taking civilians now, doing the same experiments, mind control or "processing,"" "whatever you wanna call it, to make them think they're being abducted by aliens." "And you know that this is not the case?" "The government makes them think that, but it's their cover story, Jake." "For a cover story, it seems..." "a little bit far-fetched, doesn't it?" "Mum's in a lot of pain." "Morphine doesn't seem to be helping." "It's okay, Mum." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Let's help you up, Mum." "Okay." "Jacob, it's time for me to go, honey." "Soon." "Tom..." "You just sit up, Mum." "You just sit up." "TOM:" "What are you doing, Jake?" "Something for Mum." "JAKE:" "It's all right, Tom." "Come on, Sally, let's go home." "I don't wanna believe this, Jake." "You never wanted to." "You always kind of did, though." "Right from when John came, and you saw the lights." "That's why all those years you... tried so hard to prove that it was a conspiracy, a lie." "Those are easier things to believe in." "It was kind of ironic, though, don't you think?" "Country's leading debunker turns out to have a half-alien half brother?" "What are you going to do now?" "I want you to come forward, Jake." "I can't do that, Tom." "We're talking about something that the entire world has a right to know." "You were the proof that it happened, Jake." "What do you want me to do, go on TV, bend some spoons?" "It'd turn into a freak show in a minute and a half, and you know it." "Then at least people would know it really happened." "Would they?" "Why did they come, Jake?" "What do they want?" "I don't know." "I do know that I'm not the only one who's special to them." "It's a feeling I get sometimes, that there is someone else." "They're playing catch-up, the government." "They're trying to figure out the same things you ask me-- why they came, what they want." "Owen Crawford knew about me." "If they're not already doing it, they're going to try and find that other person." "ERIC:" "Jesse Keys." "One of my father's many failures." "Not to speak ill of the dead, though, right?" "He kills this guy's father, then loses him." "I'd say, all in all, he screwed that one up." "He couldn't have known what would happen when they took out Russell Keys' implant, but if it makes you feel better to think your old man screwed up..." "And this one--Jesse?" "He mattered to them." "He was important." "I mean, we grab these people, we pop the implants out of their heads, we even kill some of them, but our little grey friends don't do squat." "But this guy, they pulled him right through the wall of a bomb shelter to take him away from us." "I don't think you can lay that one on your father either." "What do you think it all means?" "Maybe nothing." "Could be there's some they chew on repeatedly, and others they spit out after just one bite." "Now that we're looking more into the genetics, we'll figure it out." "We're really close." "What about those brothers in Alaska?" "Failed attempts at crossbreeding, like that kid Jacob Clarke your old man tried to bring back from Texas." "Jacob Clarke dies, and we all know what happened to the furry freak brothers." "You see what they're doing, don't you?" "Everything they can." "This is an FBI aging program." "Some fugitive goes underground for ten years, they wanna know 'em if they see 'em." "And I'll lay you diamonds to doughnuts this Jesse Keys is still alive." "You wanna find out what's so important about him?" "Maybe we should ask him." " MAN OVER RADIO:" "Truck eight." " Yeah." "Chief, we've got one over at Morgan's Junction." "Car full of college kids." "It's pretty ugly." "Paramedics on the scene." "We've also got a tractor injury at Sutter's and a kid pulled out of Hodgkin's Creek." "Paramedics at both." "I'll take the car." "(siren wails)" "Get over." "Keep moving, people." "Let's go." "Keep moving." "Keep that lane open." "Let's go." "Let's move." "What do we got, Bobby?" "Just kids on the way home from Milton." "Drunk, lost control of the car, flipped it." "Driver was killed instantly." "Two boys in the back pretty banged up." "They're on their way to County, and the girl in the passenger seat's a spinal." "We're just getting her out now." "WOMAN:" "Lights." "We saw these lights." "In the sky." "And then my friends." "They've been taken to the hospital." "Kevin." "Hey, can you do something for me?" "Can you keep your head straight and follow my pen with your eyes?" "Good." "We're gonna have you out of here in just a minute, but can you just keep your head straight and keep your eyes on my pen?" "Can you do that for me?" " Mm-hmm." " Good." "(Bobby retching)" "Bobby?" "Damn it." "I'm sorry, chief." "My first accident, I puked all over my chief's shoes." "Don't get any ideas." "Look, you know what I love about this job?" "You come to a scene, you look at it, you assess the situation, and your job's to make it better." "You can do that, no matter how bad it is." "You can always make it better." "Not for that guy who was driving, not for him." "Then you move on." "That's what it's all about." "You find someone you can help." "Here, make sure she stares straight ahead." "Don't let her look at the blood on the windshield, okay?" "Thanks, chief." "MAN:" "Get out of the road." "You nuts?" "I can't believe you're still out here." "Look, this is all my fault." "The other guys thought you were with me." "I thought you got a ride back with the sheriff's guys." "How long have I been out here?" "Uh...two-and-a-half, three hours." "Look, I'm really sorry, chief." "I don't know what else to say." " Hey, Dad." " Hey, Charlie." "Did you know 1 2 people..." "ALLIE:" "Some people put a lot of work into their lawn." "as if a patch of green grass was the most important thing in the world." "as if they thought that as long as the lawn out front was green and mowed and beautiful." "it wouldn't matter at all what was going on inside the house." "Are you all right?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Let's get this place cleaned up before Mum gets home, okay?" "Okay." "Come on." "Get in." "Dad said he's gonna come see my play." "Yeah, I'm sure he will, honey." "Can you help me with my costume?" "Yeah, sure." "Mum..." "Is Dad all right?" "Yeah, of course he is." " What do you mean?" " I don't know." "It's just... he seems like he's scared of something." "I've known your father a long time." "There is one thing I know about him-- he's not afraid of anything." "'Night, kiddo." "Right there, ace." "Hey, I know you." "I'm Luke Reynolds." "You pulled my son Moe out of our sweep auger last year." "What the hell are you doing out here?" "Oh." "You come to look at my lower field." " Lower field?" " My glow-in-the-dark wheat." "Heh heh." "Come on." "Ain't that a bitch?" "There was an accident out here today." "Yep, pretty bad one." "Had the field been glowing before the accident?" "Nope." "It started right after that." "It's the shape of it that gets me, though." "Look at it." "Looks like a damn flying saucer." "This hostage thing shows you what happens when you let your enemies see your weakness." "We should've gone in there the moment they were taken and gotten 'em back at any cost." "Miss Fox says if we'd done that, they might've killed the hostages." "Maybe, but they would've been less likely to do it again." "Can we talk about something else?" "How would you like to move?" "Like to Henderson, someplace a little further outside of town?" "No." "I was thinking more like Maine." "Don't you think this is a little sudden?" "Dad, is this 'cause there's flying saucers in Maine?" "Dylan Peters said you were the flying-saucer soldier and that you were in charge of all of it." "No, I don't think it's too sudden at all." "ALLIE:" "Do you know the feeling of daring yourself to walk across a dark room?" "That way you're excited because you know-- you really do know-- that there's nothing there to hurt you." "Some people get to choose their dark rooms." "They get to look for places where fear is only skin-deep." "But some people are nowhere near that lucky." "What do you want from me?" "!" "Leave me alone!" "Why are you coming back now?" "What do you want?" "Leave my family alone!" "What do you want now?" "!" "Jesse!" "What are you doing?" "Jess?" "For a while after they pulled me out of that temple in Vietnam, they stopped." "I'd think about them once in a while, but I'd convinced myself that the stuff that happened with my dad when I was younger and in the jungle had just all been in my mind." "These are the guardian angels you told me about." "I don't know if I call them angels, but...they were the reason why" "I did a lot of what I did back there, you know." "I did some pretty crazy things just to see if, you know, they would save me." "And they did?" "Every single time." "Honey... maybe it is all in your mind." "You're more than due for some post-traumatic stress." "Look at this." "You don't see it?" "See what?" "The rash." "It's shaped like a hand." "We've been through a lot, you and I, yeah?" "And we're gonna get through this, just like all the rest." "Jesse, I want you to see someone for me." "You owe me that much." "Just see someone." "They'll just tell me I have a tumour." "That's not necessarily what they're gonna say." "I was diagnosed with a brain tumour when I was 1 6." "My father died of one." "Okay, then you really do need to see someone." "There is something in my head." "It's no tumour, though." "It's something they put there." "Something that tells them" "For god's sake, Jesse, would you listen to yourself?" "!" "Look, honey, see someone." "If you won't do it for me, do it for Charlie." "Okay." "(knocks)" "You found a small tumour on the front of my brain no bigger than the tip of a lead pencil." "I talked to Amelia." "She told me you've been behaving strangely." "The tumour is very small, no sign of a fluid build-up, but still, it could explain your recent behaviour." "Dr Franklin Traub is the best brain tumour man in the country." "He's at the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul." "I just spoke to him." "You have an appointment tomorrow." "Thanks." "Um...any commonality in the stories?" "Well." "I think the first thing you want to remember-- you and everyone at home-- is that these are normal people just like you and me." "with no history of psychosis or schizophrenia. no mental illness." "They're normal people talking about something that has really happened to them." "The striking thing is how similar all the stories are." "He always was comfortable in a crowd." "Any minute, he's going to start doing card tricks." "I always knew, Jake." "I always did." "But I never thought that contactor Mum was building out in the garage was gonna get your father's attention." "She needed a better power supply with an impedance-matched output coupling." "You can sit around here all afternoon reminiscing or help clean out the garage." "Your loudmouth brother's gonna ride both sides of this alien thing all the way to the bank." "Kim, Andy, you're done playing." "We got work to do." "Uncle Ronnie, just 'cause you're jealous that Aunt Becky's spending time with my dad is no reason to yell at Kim and Andy." "It's not going to make the fact that Uncle Tom's getting a lot of attention go away, either." "She is your daughter, isn't she?" "Mr Clarke." "I don't mean to question your ability or your expertise." "but I have to point out here that up until very recently. you were one of the leading debunkers of this entire phenomenon." "So we'd all like to know what changed your mind." " I have personal information." " You were taken?" "No." "No. that's not what I said." "Now there's a story that we'd all like to hear." "Well..." "I'm not at liberty to say." "Hold on--hold on. folks." "You have evidence of an alien being here on earth. and you're not sharing?" "Mr Clarke." "I find that hardly fair." "I think more than anything else we'd all like to know." "what changed your mind?" "We'll take a break." "You're right." "That thing in your brain is no tumour." "It's very small." "Looks metallic." " Where did you grow up?" " Illinois." "Any exposure to chemicals?" "Heroin." "You say your father had a similar tumour." "Yeah, identical." "We see these deposits occasionally in people who work with unusual chemicals, chelated heavy metals, things like that." "Sometimes they occur for no obvious reason." "Usually, they're mistaken for tumours, but in actual fact, it's just foreign matter that's swept up into a little pile the body doesn't know how to get rid of." "Now, the important thing is, we can treat this without surgery." "We can use localized ultrasound therapy, get this thing to break out, dissolve." "You'll pass it in a matter of days." "No surgery?" "That's great." "Must be disconcerting to wake up one morning and your whole world's changed." "For me, it was more like my whole world had come back." "This happened before?" "Yeah, when..." "when I was a kid, when I was a teenager and again in Vietnam." "If you're prone to this sort of thing, it's not surprising it's gonna reoccur." "Could it be affecting Jesse mentally?" "It's possible." "You've been having problems?" "Uh...yeah, but I think if you can get this thing out of my head, then it'll make them go away." "JESSE:" "I'll be home for Thanksgiving." "It's gonna be all right, Jesse." "JESSE:" "You know when I was a kid, the time I told you about when I saw my dad" "I was, uh, locked up in a bomb shelter on an air force base." "There are people involved in this, too-- very vicious people." "You're gonna be all right." "This is all gonna go away." "I don't care if you don't believe the rest, but you have to believe this-- I was taken." "Locked up by some people involved with the air force, and they--I got away, joined the army under a fake name." "I don't know if they stopped looking for me, but, uh, now that this has all started again, just...keep it in mind." "Okay." "Hey." "Remember our list of all the things I said I'd explain one day?" "Mm-hmm." "Aren't you glad I waited as long as I did?" "(car door closes)" "(car engine starts)" "(knock on door)" "Hey, that's a pretty good book." "Yeah, I don't read much." "Irving places far too much importance on death, in my way of thinking, but at least he makes it funny." "He's good." "Jesse, you don't believe you've got a metallic deposit in your head, do you?" "You have your thoughts about what I have in my head, and I have mine." "You wanna share your thoughts with me?" "No, I'd rather not." "Why are you here if you don't believe I can help you?" "No." "You have to help me." "You say you can make this thing in my head dissolve." "That's what I want." "I don't care what it is." "I have a nine-year-old son, and I almost hurt him because of this thing in my head." "I don't care about anything else." "I don't care about anything else at all." "(dials telephone)" "(line ringing)" "Hello." "Dr Wakeman, please." "Traub here, Rivers Clinic." "I've got the man you're looking for." "BOY:" "I'm gonna get you, Allan Holmes!" "Shut your mouth, Allan Holmes!" "Whoa, slow down there, kid!" "Come on, take it easy." "What's the problem?" " Let me go!" " What is this about?" "He started it." " Did not." " Did!" "Everybody knows your dad went crazy when he ran out of the house screaming." "Your dad's nuts." "Now they've locked him up." "That's enough, all of you!" "Now, Charlie's dad is sick." "It's very serious." "He's gone away to get well." "We're praying for him." "Sorry." "Hope your dad gets better." "So we're going down to the Lemke's." "I hear they have a wicked haunted house." "You wanna come?" "No more fighting?" " Promise." " All right, kiddo." "Have a good time." "They're so forgiving--children." "I didn't mean to butt in." "I was enjoying the evening." "I'm glad you were here." "Thank you." "I'm sorry to hear about your husband." "I hope he'll be all right." "Thanks." "Yes, I'll hold." " Hi, honey." "How are you?" " Lonely." "How was Halloween?" "It was great." "Charlie's Darth Vader." "I really just called 'cause I wanted to hear your voice." "ALLIE:" "When everything in your life is right on track." "it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason." "It's easy to have faith." "But when things start to go wrong." "then it's very hard to hold on to that faith." "It's hard not to wonder whose reasons these things happen for." "How long you gonna keep him under?" "A couple hours." "Let him think we did a full work-up." "What do you..." "think these marks on his chest are?" "Looks almost like a hand." "Maybe he fought back." "So what do you want to do with him?" "Take that thing out of his head?" "They're a dime a dozen." "I don't want the implant." "I want him." "He believes they've saved him, repeatedly, in Vietnam, other places." "They probably did." "It's just he's extremely important to them." "Okay, what do we know?" "They're working towards something, but what?" "Do they wanna destroy the planet?" "Save us from ourselves?" "Turn us into pod people?" "Anyway, we look at the stuff we got from one of the bodies from the New Mexico crash, and these beings, these...aliens, what have you they're us." "Same genetic make-up." "At least so far." "The same could be said about the fruit fly." "Maybe that's the point." "ALLIE:" "What makes a man who he is?" "Is it the worst things he's ever done or the best things he wants to be?" "When you find yourself in the middle of your life." "and you're nowhere near where you were going." "how do you find a way from the person you've become to the one you know you could've been?" "What did you do with my Cabbage Patch Kids?" "They're in one of the boxes, honey." "Can you take them out of the boxes?" "They don't like being taken places in boxes." "We'll unpack them when we get to our new place." "Why can't I tell my friends where we're going?" "Ask your father." " I want my dolls unpacked!" " Honey, we can't." " Hello, thrill-seekers." " Uncle Chet." " Hiya, sweetheart." "How you doing?" " Good." "Where's your dad?" "In the study." "Come on." "Come on." "(knock on door) Come in." "Dad, Mum won't unpack my Cabbage Patch Kids." "I'll talk to her about it, Mary, after I'm done with my meeting." "Don't ever move." "We got Jesse Keys in a clinic in Minnesota." "That's the prize your dad could never get." "What do you want to do with him?" "I'm thinking." "I'm thinking." "ERIC:" "While you're thinking, make sure you don't lose him." "I don't wanna make the same mistakes my father made." "Your old man's been dead, what, ten years now?" "Yes." "So don't you think you can stop trying to kick his ass?" "One of our researchers was going through some old files and came across these." "Any idea what they are?" "They look like the glyphs from that excavation site in Alaska, the one where my brother died." "That's what I thought, too, but these are dated 1 947." "That burial chamber in Alaska wasn't opened up until 1 970." " Did you translate it?" " Can't be done." "So close." "We got Jesse Keys under wraps." "Genetics guys are finding out more and more every day." "My engineers tell me they're following something very cool on the implants." "We're on the verge of a major breakthrough here." "Eric?" "There something you're not sharing?" "You know everything I know." "I know a hell of a lot more than you do, old pal of mine, but what I was asking was is if...there was something you weren't sharing." "And what I told you was no." "What are these?" "ERIC:" "Tom Clarke." "You didn't see him on TV the other day talking about the government conspiracy to cover up the presence of aliens here on earth?" "I don't like to watch TV during the day." "Weirds me out." "Suddenly, he's the Woodward and Bernstein of alien abduction." "Tom Clarke, huh?" "The Tom Clarke who ruined my father." "The Tom Clarke who thought our entire program was a lie." "His first two books here do nothing but debunk everything about extraterrestrial life, about visits, about our work." "Don't you wanna know what changed his mind?" " Bye, Mum." " Bye." "Good-bye." "Bye." "Have a good day." "ERIC:" "You're much prettier than I expected." "Your surveillance photographs don't do you justice." "Is this visit about something more than my good looks?" "I understand your brother has switched sides, that he's now a believer." "Wanna tell me what changed his mind?" "You and your brother have a way of sort of gumming up my family's work, so I'm going to be honest with you." "I'm not doing this out of any compelling need to tell the truth." "I just think it's the only method that'll work." "There." "I'm doing it already." "Do you look a lot like your mother?" "People say I do." "My father was a bastard." "What he did to your mother was unforgivable." "My father found a spaceship in the New Mexico desert." "There were four bodies on that ship." "There were spaces for five bodies." "He came to your home looking for the guy who was sitting in that fifth seat." "My father devoted the rest of his life to trying to find out what these visitors wanted." "He ran a government group dedicated to that quest." "Since his death, I've been in charge of that group." "Technically, we're part of the air force, but the paperwork is so muddled I couldn't even tell you who I work for." "This planet has been visited thousands of times since my father found that ship." "People have been taken from their homes, things have been done to them." "With a lot of money and a lot of very good minds, we're beginning to understand some things about our visitors, but we still don't know why they're doing all this." "We don't know what they want." "My father was a ruthless, ambitious son of a bitch, but the things he wanted to know were reasonable." "This could be the greatest threat the world has ever known." "This could be something miraculous." "We have to know." "We have to do whatever it takes to find out." "I am not my father." "You don't have to tell me what changed your brother's mind right away." "You could do something else instead." "What?" "Let me show you something." "I've been reading these reports from your genetics team." " This is astounding stuff." " Pretty cool, huh?" " Very." " There's something new." "These devices they put in people's heads," "I told you we're pretty sure they're a tracking system, right?" "They are." "My guys have found the signal they give off." "But the signal is incredibly weak." "It needs to be amplified somehow before it can be transmitted back to the mother ship or the planet Zeta Reticuli or wherever our little buddies are hanging out." " You gotta love it." " Transmitter?" "Where?" "We don't know." "But the logical assumption, based on what we do know, is that it's organic." " Organic?" " Don't you love it?" "A brain beaming thought signals out into the cosmos." "This just keeps getting better and better." "The energy of thought, of mind." "We know that's how they do things." "We also know Jesse Keys is of particular importance to them." "You think Jesse Keys is a transmitter." "That's why he's so special." "One way to find out." "Shut him off." "See if they come and turn him back on." "So, are you gonna be getting back to work soon?" "There's a couple people starting up here in Texas I wanna check out first." "You sure are in a hurry to get rid of me." "No, it's not that." "Meat loaf's gonna be ready about half an hour." "Andy's got arithmetic homework that he has to finish before he watches Charlie's Angels." "Your brother Tom's too high-toned to come to the door now?" "You gotta go outside to meet him?" "You haven't exactly been a prince to him every time he's been over here the last couple times." "Is he still pissed I didn't go to your mum's funeral?" "I don't know." "If you want to know, why don't you ask him?" "Why should I have gone?" "There's no love lost between me and your old lady." "RONNIE:" "All right, I'll ask him." "A cold day in hell is when." "I'll be home late." "So unpack the Cabbage Patch Kids." "What's the problem?" "All right, then, Julie, then don't unpack them." "I might be late." "Don't wait up." "I don't know why I'm doing this." "Curiosity." "BECKY:" "Why would I get in a plane with you, of all people?" "ERIC:" "I could put you in custody." "It's like that?" "No, it's not like that at all." "I'll have you back by 2:00 in the morning, spook's honour." "Oh." "He actually said that?" "Aliens were responsible for teenage drug abuse and open marriages?" "And the success of the skateboard." "You grow up in Vegas, you meet a lot of weirdoes." "I guess so." "My family is eating leftover meat loaf." "My wife's either called the Peking Inn or Pizza Hut." "I got married really young." "First girl I had slept with." "First time I slept with her, she's pregnant, I'm married." "Anything to show my father I was grown up." "I just needed my own identity." "Someplace where I wasn't Tom Clarke's little sister." "Big brother shadow." "I hear that." "Sun rose and set on my brother Sam." " I guess a lot of people do that." " Hmm." "They're just kids trying to get away from home." "They wind up smack-dab in the middle of their lives before they know what hit them." "My kids are great." "I guess everything's got its upside." "BECKY:" "Where are we?" "ERIC:" "Let me put it to you this way-- your brother would be very jealous." "We brought everything here from Wright-Patterson in '76." "It just made more sense to keep everything under one roof." "Oh, my God." "It's breathtaking, isn't it?" "I come in here sometimes by myself." "I...sit and just stare at him." "I keep feeling like if I stare just a little longer," "I'll be able to understand." "Thank you for showing me this." "I wasn't going to." "ALLIE:" "People move through their lives sometimes without really thinking about where they're going." "Days pile up." "and they get sadder and lonelier without really knowing why they're so sad or how they got so lonely." "Then something happens-- they meet someone who looks a certain way or has something in their smile." "Maybe that's all that falling in love is-- finding someone who makes you feel a little less alone." "I'm moving." "Did I tell you that?" "No." "Couple of air force sellouts write books, hit the talk-show circuit, couple of guys make movies." "Carter says he saw a UFO." "Next thing you know, I've got a crowd." " You and your brother didn't help." " Where are you gonna go?" "I got a spot picked out in Maine." "The gawkers will still come to the desert, and they'll see the same experimental planes and think they're seeing saucers, and we can continue our work undisturbed." "When are you leaving?" "Tomorrow night." "Becky..." "I-I didn't mean for this to happen." "I meant to charm you with my honesty and find out all I could about your brother, but that's not how it worked out." "I don't wanna be the man that I am, but with you, I'm somebody else." "I'm who I wanna be." "Eric, we can't" "I wanna be with you." "What is so terribly wrong about that?" "Nothing's wrong with it." "It's just not possible." "Of course it is." "I'm gonna tell Julie about us." "Come with me." "Leave Ronnie and come with me." "Maine?" "The trucks are leaving Groom Lake tomorrow night, sneaking out across the desert to avoid your brother and his friends by the mailbox." "What is it?" "Your work." "Tom says you've been taking people, experimenting on them." "He says some of those people have died." "Becky, I swear to you that your brother's wrong." "I've never done anything to harm anyone." "Would you leave Ronnie?" "Yes." "TOM:" "You're sleeping with him?" "It's not as simple as that." "Oh, okay." "Everything's okay, then?" "He's leaving his wife." "He wants me to leave Ronnie." "He wants us to stop interfering in his business, Becky!" "Eric Crawford." "Owen Crawford's son." "The son of the man who ruined your mother's life." "How could you do that?" "He's not his father." "He's covering up the biggest secret in American history." "He's lying to the entire public on a regular basis." "What in the hell makes you think he's not lying to you?" "!" "You don't respect anything at all, do you?" "You're just a selfish little girl who married the wrong guy, and you're willing to walk on anyone's grave you have to get away from him." "This is not about me and Eric." "This is about what Owen did to Mum." "No, it's not." "Not anymore." "It's about blowing the lid on this thing wide open." "How could something this huge have happened and the whole world doesn't know about it?" "That's wrong, Becky." "Did you tell him about Jacob?" "No." "You don't trust him, either." "(knock on door)" "Well...you're making short work of that book." "Not a lot to do around here, you know." "What is it?" "Well, your deposit is not disintegrating as quickly as I had hoped." "This is Dr Patterson from the Brazel Clinic." "Does this look anything like an astronaut's helmet?" "It looks perfect." "I wish Dad was here." "He's good at making things like this." "Yeah, he is." "(telephone rings)" "Go on." " Hello?" " Hey. big guy." "Hey, Dad." "Mum, it's Dad." "Are you going to be able to come to my play?" "I'm sure gonna try." "How was Halloween?" "Allan Holmes called you crazy." "so I punched him." "then some guy pulled me off." "I was gonna punch him again." "but he wanted me to go to the Lemke's house 'cause they had a haunted house there." "It was so cool." "Can you come to my play?" "I hope so." "Can I talk to Mum for a sec?" "Okay." "Just a sec." "It's for you." " Hi, honey." " Hey." "They're moving me." "This thing in my head isn't going away, and there's a new doctor, and they're gonna take me to someplace called the Brazel Clinic and see what they can do for me." "Okay." "I love you." " Call me when you get there." " I love you, too." "Yeah." "I sure hope that Dad's all right." "Maybe I shouldn't have told him about how I got into a fight with Allan." "I don't want him to worry about me." "Mum?" "Mum, what's wrong?" " It's a big country." " Yeah." "We'll take care of that thing in your head." "Once it's gone, no more little grey men." " I'm ready." " That's good." "How'd you know the little men were grey?" " Educated guess." " Right." "One small step for mankind-- I mean, man." "One giant leap for mankind." "(applause)" "The giant leap that Neil Armstrong was talking about was a leap into outer space for him and his Apollo team." "They started the journey, but it'll be up to us to continue it." " I can't believe you came." " Are you all better?" "Yeah." " Did you like my play?" " I loved it." "It was pretty cool, wasn't it?" "Pretty cool." "Dad, what are those lights?" "Why are we stopping here?" "Hey, Dad..." "Dad?" "What's going on?" "Dad!" " Come over here." " What's happening?" "Come here." "Dad?" "He's not your father, Charlie." "Don't listen to him, Charlie." "It's me." "It's okay." "He isn't me." "He's making me from the picture in your head." "He's lying." "He's not your dad." "Watch, I'll change the picture." "Remember last month I cut myself shaving, and I came downstairs and I had blood on my chin?" "Charlie." "Charlie, do you remember?" "CHARLIE:" "What's going on?" "JESSE:" "You're not gonna take him!" "Leave my boy alone!" "You're not gonna take him!" "Charlie, get away from him." "Dad!" "Get away from my boy!" "No!" "(gunshot)" "MAN ON C.B.:" "Truck 1 7." "we've got an engulfment event at the Pioneer grain silo on Erlington." "We've got two men with a grain bridge collapse." "(horn blares)" "Hello!" "Anybody!" "It wasn't a stroke or a seizure." "Could this have been caused by the tumour?" "I don't know." "The nearest I can come to it, it's like someone held his brain too close to a magnet." "Mum?" "Jesse." "Get me a towel, please." "What's happening to him?" "They'll come for Charlie next." "You gotta go." "I've called for help." "I'll see what's taking them." "Wait a minute." "Who did you call?" "Help." " Jesse." " You've gotta go." "Come on, Charlie." "Let's get out of here." "(Andy laughing)" "ERIC:" "I don't wanna be the man that I am." "Can you understand that?" "TOM:" "What in the hell makes you think he's not lying to you?" "!" "TOM:" "Eric Crawford." "Owen Crawford's son." "The son of the man who ruined your mother's life." "How could you do that?" "Did you tell him about Jacob?" "BECKY:" "No." "TOM:" "You don 't trust him. either." "ERIC :" "Come with me." "Leave Ronnie and come with me." "TOM:" "You don 't respect anything at all. do you?" "You're a selfish little girl who married the wrong guy." "You're willing to walk on anyone's grave you have to get away from him!" "ERIC :" "You live your life step by step." "doing what you do." "Someday you look up. and you're this person you didn't plan to be." "but with you." "I'm somebody else." "What is so terribly wrong about that?" "BECKY:" "Nothing's wrong with it." "It's just not possible." "ALLIE :" "Sometimes people come to a moment where they think they've found that one last chance to be someone else." "and they go for it." "When it doesn't work out." "they spend the rest of their lives looking back over their shoulder at what might have been." "Let's go." "(engine starts)" "(camera shutter clicks rapidly)" "MAN:" "Right there." "Few more feet." "(forklift hums)" "Perfect." "How you gonna get through the crowd at the gate?" "Three trucks come out, get the crowd's attention, then take off through the desert." "When we're sure they're being chased, then the real trucks will leave." "Hmm." "You think it'll work?" "We'll see." "You okay?" "You seem kind of down." " Hard to say good-bye, I guess." " We're doing the right thing." "The tourists can still come out and watch the stealths, and we'll all live happily ever after." "Right." "Oh, man." "Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man, oh, man." "Ahem." "You went out and got your little heart broken, didn't you?" "(snickers)" "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "Ohh!" "ALLIE:" "I never met my grandfather." "but my father told me he was a very brave man." "And with all that he'd done-- maybe because of all he'd done-- his favourite thing in all the world was to mow the lawn." "My dad said he heard his father talking to a neighbour once." "The neighbour asked him how he was and what he'd been doing." "and my grandfather said." ""I've been cutting the grass and watching it grow." ""Cutting the grass and watching it grow." "Life. " he said." ""is 90% maintenance. "" "Jackson Browne:" "#." "Oh. people. look around you #." "#." "The signs are everywhere #." "#." "You've left it for somebody other than you #." "#." "To be the one to care #." "#." "You're lost inside your houses #." "#." "There's no time... #." "Drinks are here." "Honey, we're gonna be moving around for a little while." "Kind of like The Dukes of Hazzard?" "Yeah, kind of like." "Is this because of what happened to Dad?" "There's some people who want to talk to us, and I don't wanna talk to them." "They're not people." "I-It doesn't matter, sweetheart." "They're not gonna find us again." "Hey." "Sometimes, when bad things are happening...we imagine things." "Maybe we think the things we make up can't hurt us as much as the real things that are actually happening." "Even if what we make up is scary, too." "Does that make any sense?" "Is Dad ever gonna be all right?" "I don't know." "I really don't know." "This isn't fair." "There's nothing fair about this!" "No, there's not." "#." "Rock me on the water #." "#." "I'll get down to the sea #." "#." "I'll get down to the sea somehow #." "Hey, this song got me through my freshman year of college." "This, and several plants we need never discuss." "Your father always hated this music." "Anything that was popular while he was away." "It wasn't so much the war as how he was just supposed to come back and act like nothing ever happened." "I know none of this makes any sense to you right now." "You just have to know that your daddy loves you." "Okay?" "Hey, dance with me." "Come on, come on, come on, get up." "Come on." "#...." "Soothe my fevered brow #." "Let's just dance for a while, okay?" "#." "Rock me on the water #." "#." "Maybe I'll remember #." "#." "Maybe I'll remember how #." "#." "Rock me on the water #." "#." "The wind is with me now #." "#." "Rock me on the water #." "#." "I'll get down to the sea somehow #." "#." "To the sea somehow #." "#." "Rock me on the water #." "#." "Ooh #." "#." "Rock me now #." "RADIO ANNOUNCER :" "The way Carter handled the hostage crisis really sealed his fate." "The American people were fed up." "Henry. from Selma." "California." "don 't you agree?" "HENRY:" "Absolutely." "When citizens are taken against their will." "people want to hold someone accountable." "When a president is not swift and strong in response  a man who's willing to take strong action." "and Reagan 's that man." "People can 't stand to see their  response." "There's no doubt this is why Carter lost..." "Do you have your sidearm?" "We'd like to take a look in the back of your truck." "That would be a violation of about three dozen army and air force regulations." "TOM:" "We believe you're in violation of a lot more than that." "We believe you're carrying the evidence of a spacecraft that crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1 947." "ERIC:" "What kind of evidence?" "We believe that you recovered bodies from that wreckage and that you're transporting them." "Bodies?" "Where would you have gotten an idea like that?" "TOM:" "Can we take a look at your cargo, please?" "In the interest of fairness, full disclosure, and you not wasting any more of my time, absolutely." "I was going to paint a big old happy face on the inside here and write the word "howdy,"" "but I just didn't get around to it." "Just so you know, my heart was in the right place." "BECKY:" "Tom, ask him what's in those crates." "ERIC:" "Personal effects, things that belonged to my father." "TOM:" "We'd like to take a look." "ERIC:" "I'm afraid I can't have you snooping through my father's affairs." "You and your friends here will be driven to Las Vegas, held for 72 hours, and then released." "Detained with what cause?" "You were detained for interfering with a scheduled move of air force personnel." "When we determined you weren't spies, we let you go." "Bastard." "What did you expect me to do?" "You wouldn't let me be someone else." "Look." "Look!" "You still don't know how to fly it, do you?" "How long do you think you can cover something like this up?" "As long as I have to." "(Subtitle Revised by HchC)" "Previously on Taken..." "(Subtitle Revised by HchC)" "What do you want from me?" "!" "Leave my family alone!" "You really do need to see someone." "There is something in my head." "CHET:" "I think the things are tracking devices." " Dad?" " He isn't me, Charlie." "He's making me from the picture in your head." "They'll come for Charlie next." "You gotta go." "Charlie, we're gonna move around for a while." "Is this because of what happened to dad?" " CHET:" "What are these?" " Tom Clarke." "The Tom Clarke who ruined my father, who thought our entire program was a lie." "Kind of ironic, Jake." "The country's leading debunker turns out to have a half-alien half brother." "Don't you want to know what changed his mind?" "You're sleeping with Eric Crawford, Owen Crawford's son, the son of the man who ruined your mother's life." "How could you do that?" "!" "He's not his father." "He's covering up the biggest secret in American history, he's lying to the public on a regular basis" "What in the hell makes you think that he's not lying to you?" "!" "We believe you're carrying the evidence of a spacecraft that crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1 947." "What kind of evidence?" "We believe you recovered bodies and that you're transporting them." "You and your friends here will be detained for interfering with a move of Air Force personnel." "MAN:" "Look!" "Look!" "TOM:" "How long you think you can cover something like this up?" "The crates." "Get these people onto the trucks." " Do it now!" " Yes, sir." " Step up." " Let's go." "All right, everybody into the trucks!" "Move it!" "This way!" "This way, please." "Let's go." "That's it, move it up." "What are you gonna do with all these witnesses?" "Hold them for 72 hours, convince them what they saw was the Goodyear blimp." "They're not gonna believe that." "They're gonna talk about this." "Let them." "The more people talk at once," "The more it sounds like nothing but noise." "They took your bodies, too, didn't they?" "Now what are you gonna do now they've taken back all your proof?" "It didn't have to be this way." "How could it have been any different?" "It's all gone." "You gotta love it." "We must have been getting close." "Why do you say that?" "Remember I said I thought they had an organic transmitter?" "I think it was one of the bodies." "We missed that." "It was right in front of us, and we missed it." "They couldn't afford to have us figure it out, so they just..." "Took it all back." "Every last bit of it." "Not quite everything." "CHET:" "Well, as expected, they pulled our plug." "ERIC:" "What are they going to do?" "All our evidence, all our research is gone." "I thought I made a pretty good argument." ""Senator," I said," ""the reason we have nothing to show you" ""is that it was plucked from our slimy little hands" ""by a flying saucer." "You can't deny that." "Right out of the sky, and pluck."" "Too bad we couldn't find Charlie Keys." "You know what burns my ass?" "I'll tell you what burns my ass." "If we'd gotten any funding at all," "I could have gotten that positioning system running." "We could have tracked Keys by that thing in his head and found him or anyone else taken in 24 hours." "What are you going to do now?" "Couple of buddies of mine from Yale are going into biotech." "How about you?" "I just keep picturing Tom Clarke smiling that smug smile of his and saying, "Still don't know how it flies, do you?"" "What you keep picturing is his sister dumping you." "I still want to know what made Tom Clarke a believer." "You could have had your answer, but you thought with "little Eric."" ""Hey, little buddy, where do you want to go?"" ""Over to Becky's house."" ""Okay."" ""Hey, let's take her to see the alien."" ""Good idea." "That'll really impress her."" "My own personal foibles aside, I still want the answer to that." "I want to know what changed his mind." "ALLIE:" "Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born?" "If it is. does that make us less responsible for the things we do." "or is the responsibility built in. too?" "After you hit the ball. do you stand and wait to see if it goes out." "or do you start running and let nature take its course?" "If that ball had been another couple of inches, it would have gone out of the park, end of story." "I swung too late." "I thought it was gonna sink." "That's why I like baseball-- you can't make assumptions." "I thought you liked it because it was impossibly hard and there are useless statistics you could memorize." "Yeah, that, too." "Ohh" "Are you all right?" "Yeah, I'll be fine." "We'd better get home." "This was your grandmother's." "Love you, sweetie." "Every day and twice on Sundays." "Honey!" "Honey!" "Stay with him." "I'm gonna call 91 1." "It's beautiful." "So are you." "He's gonna know it, too." "Who?" "The guy you're gonna meet one day." "He's gonna take one look at you..." "And he's gonna know there is nowhere else he wants to be." "(music plays)" "#." "I gave you my time #." "#." "Why you wanna... #." "(wind howls)" "(new song plays on the jukebox)" "Sorry it took so long, honey." "Charlie?" "Charlie?" "Charlie?" "Honey?" "Charl" "Honey." "Honey!" "You can't run off like that." "I thought" "What's wrong?" "Where were you, sweetie?" "Where'd you go?" "Oh, Charlie." "(electric guitar plays)" "He'd been, um..." "Getting weaker since your grandmother died." "I kept asking him to see someone, but..." "He wouldn't." "He was so...resigned." "I guess he understood what was happening to him." "That sounds just like something he would say." "(guitar continues)" "Damn it!" "Damn it, Danny!" "Hey, Danny!" " (guitar stops)" " Danny!" "Carol, what's up?" "My husband just died is what's up." "My husband is dead, and I'd appreciate it if you'd stop making all that noise." "Oh, man." "I'm so sorry." "If there's anything I can do..." "(bell rings)" "ALLIE:" "People say that when we grow up." "we kick at everything we've been told." "we rebel against the world our parents have worked so hard to bring us into." "that part of growing up is kicking at the ties that bind." "But I don't think that's why we kick at all." "I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do." "They don't have all the answers." "We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along." "that there isn't any Santa Claus at all." "(chattering)" "Hey, do you like Husker Du?" "I think Bob Mould is probably as deep as it gets." "I saw them last year in Sacramento." "He was great." "I'm Nina Toth." " I'm Lisa." " Hi." "So how was your first day?" "Brutal?" "This place is totally harsh, so I'm gonna make a suggestion." "You wanna be friends?" "For life." "DANNY:" "Lisa!" "And that's my stepdad." " Really?" " Yep." "My mum's in Berkeley taking a class in alternative nutrition." "Oh, cool." "So it's just me and Danny." "Well, I gotta go." "Okay." "Make sure you call me." " All right." " Okay." " Bye." " Bye." "RONALD REAGAN:" "Think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." "And yet." "I ask you..." "What could be more alien..." "Wait till she forms her own band." "(drums pounding)" "All right." "Lisa!" "Dinner's ready." "Lisa, come on." "Dinner's ready." "Potatoes... (door shuts)" "Lise?" "Lise?" "Lisa?" "I'm in here." "Oh." "Sorry." "Everything all right?" "There's a phone number in my jacket pocket." "Could you get it for me?" "Yeah." "Number one..." "And number two." "That ought to hold you." "Mr Holding, do you have any champagne?" "I've got some Pepsi." " Pepsi will do." " All right." "Just don't expect me to give you the "today you are a woman" speech." "Please don't." "I'm really glad you called me." "I'm really glad you came." "Ladies." "Thank you." "Here you go." " Thanks." " Lisa..." "Today you are a woman." " Well said!" " Cheers." "You're the very first person I ever met who's lived in a trailer park." "My stepdad's a musician, and the lady who owned a bar he played at owed him money, so we just wound up with this trailer." "Don't apologize." "It's very, um..." "Rockford Files." "I know, I'm totally strung out on television." "Hey, Nina, thanks again." "It was a pleasure meeting you." "No problem." "Next time Lisa needs anything from the store, give me a call, I'll tell you which aisle." "I'll see you at school." " Bye." " Bye." "You sure you don't need a ride?" "My mum's picking me up." "So..." "Guess you're gonna go out and get all grown up now, huh?" "Your mum would be sad she was missing it." "You're getting really good on those drums." "Thanks." "Danny, I'd like to take Watson for a walk now." "I'll leave the door open for you." "Thanks." "Come here." "Come on." "(jingling)" "Watson, come on." "(barking)" "Shh!" "Watson!" "Watson!" "Watson, what is it?" "(Watson barking)" "Watson!" "Watson!" "Watson!" "Lisa..." "Today you are a woman." " Hi." " Hi." "Why do you think the aliens took all their stuff back?" "Well..." "What makes you think they took it all?" "Ha ha ha!" " Enjoy." " Thank you." "I hear this was quite a show." "Oh, w" "What do you want?" "I find I have a lot of free time on my hands." "Imagine that." "How's Becky?" "You want to have a conversation that doesn't end up with me coming over this table and stuffing my fist down your throat, you stay off of that subject!" "We're not enemies anymore, Tom." "We're on the same side." "I'm a private citizen now." "Our friends saw to that when they took all our evidence." "What do you want?" "You went from a sceptic to a believer in a nanosecond." "That happened months before the Mojave Desert sightings." "I want to know why." "Maybe I just saw the light." "What do you know that you're not telling?" "Say hello to your sister for me." "Tell her I miss her." "BECKY:" "So, there was a lot of excitement around here while I was away." "I'm sorry I wasn't here." "I'm fine, really." "Your Uncle Tom has a lot of pretty weird ideas." "You're not starting to have the same ideas, are you?" "What if I am?" "You come from a special family." "Your father had an amazing mind." "He could look at things and figure them out." "With people, too." "He could see things other people couldn't see." "There was a lot about him that..." "There was just a lot about him." "Honey, your life is changing because you're growing up." "You're not being abducted into a spaceship." "You're being "taken" into adulthood." "Of the two, I'd say that's far and away the scarier proposition." "Hi." "For Austin, Texas, please." "Yeah, the number for Tom Clarke." "Thank you." "How's Pasadena?" "You've seen one genome, you've seen 'em all." "How's Julie?" "You two still haven't gotten divorced?" "Mary got into Yale, huh?" "Thank you for that letter." "I told you, they love me." "Directed a play there my senior year, won a couple of awards." "Gave Harry Hamlin his first part." "How the hell you been, man?" "Good." "Really good." "So, uh, what's all this about?" "They said they'd tell us when we got here." "Probably some investigation to find out how we lost a flying saucer." "After 12 years, I think it's about something a little bit more current than that." "MAN:" "This is Mission Control." "Do you copy?" "Argonaut 1, come in." "Argonaut 1, come in." "Damn it. you guys." "where the hell are you?" "SECOND MAN:" "Mission Control." "this is Argonaut 1." "What's going on up there." "Argonaut?" "What do you mean." "Houston?" "You've been off-line 2 hours and 20 minutes." "Houston. our last transmission was only four minutes ago." "We were at coordinates" "Oh. my God!" "About three weeks ago, we sent a manned mission into space." "This launch was unannounced." "The purpose of this mission was to put certain sensitive equipment into orbit." "What sort of equipment?" "Do you remember a program of President Reagan's, the Strategic Defence Initiative?" "Yeah." "Star Wars." "As you probably remember, there were some questions about whether or not this program was feasible." "Before President Bush revisits the project, we need to know that it's viable." "So what did you send up?" "A reactor?" "One of the drawbacks to getting the program off its feet was finding a compact power system that could put out enough kilowatts to power both particle beam weapons and rail guns." "You did!" "You put this thing into orbit, didn't you?" "Our payload was highly classified." "The capsule had been in orbit for 1 4 hours." "It was two hours away from being in a position where the payload was to be delivered." "The astronauts went dark for almost 2 1 /2 hours." "They disappeared." "No contact." "Nothing." "Then they were back, clear as day." "They had no idea they'd lost 2 1/2 hours of their lives." "The payload?" "Gone." "CHET:" "I guess they didn't want a reactor messing with whatever they've got going on up there." "This is a waste of time." "The people in this room represent $286 billion a year in defence spending." "We need your help, gentlemen." "Stop playing games and tell us everything you know about whoever it is who's out there and what the hell they want." "(clears throat)" "I assume you ladies and gentlemen have all seen E. T." "They're nowhere near that nice." "We are back, baby, we are back!" "I don't think you get how big what just happened here is." "We are reinstated, fully funded, blessed for as long as Bush is in." "Probably after that!" "Would you mind getting into this without me?" "I'm gonna keep on the Tom Clarke thing." "He keeps getting calls from someone in Los Altos, California." "The phone is registered to a Danny Holding." "I thought I'd run out there and take a look." "For a while, I thought all this was a bluff." "I thought you had something big, but you've been on this Tom Clarke thing 1 2 years now, and the best you can do is check his phone bill?" "Forget Tom Clarke, will you?" "I've looked at other things, but it keeps coming back to him." "The Clarke family, they matter." "They're the key to this." "This is about your father, isn't it?" "You're just trying to finish something he started." "What exactly you trying to atone for here?" "You might as well be looking for Charlie Keys." "You're not gonna come in?" "I said good-bye to your father 1 3 years ago." "This is something for you to do yourself." "Dad?" "He isn't me." "He's making me from the picture in your head." "He's lying." "What do you want from me?" "!" "Leave my family alone!" "Dad." "Aah!" "They're coming for you!" "DANNY:" "We've lived here for the last seven years." "ERIC: "We" would be?" "Myself, my wife, and my daughter." "Do you rent, or do you own?" "Who rents a trailer?" "Are you interested in this sort of thing?" "That's my daughter's." "Well, it's actually my stepdaughter." "Is that important?" "Sure it's important." "Everything's important." "Your stepdaughter?" "Yeah, from my wife's first marriage." "She was married to the brother of the guy who wrote that book--Tom Clarke." "Your wife's first husband was..." " Jack." " Jack." "Jack." "That's Lisa's dad." "We call him Jack, but I've heard my wife refer to him as Jacob." "Is this all part of a regular census questionnaire?" "This is a follow-up, Mr Holding." "It can never hurt to follow up." "Well, here she is now." "This is my daughter Lisa." "This is Mister..." "Jones." "Mr Jones from the Census Bureau." "I'm very, very glad to meet you." "Do you own any pets?" "Oh, come on." "Pick up, pick up." "Tom Clarke." "Uncle Tom, it's Lisa." "Lisa!" "There's a man here." "I get a really bad feeling about him." "You said I should listen to my feelings because they were from my dad." "That's right." "You should." "He says he's from the Census Bureau, asking Danny a lot of questions." "In civics, we learned about the census." "It happens once every ten years." "There's not supposed to be another one until 2000." "What does he look like?" "Blondish hair..." "Shorter than you..." "Kind of old, like 40." "He's dangerous." "You have to get out of there." "Right now?" " Yeah. right now." " Okay" "Do you remember our plan?" "Yes." "Go to your friend Nina's." "I understand." "I can be there by tomorrow night." "ALLIE:" "My mum told me once that when you're afraid of something." "what you want more than anything else is to make it go away." "You want your life back to the way it was before you found out there was something to be afraid of." "You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it." "But nothing ever stays the same." "It's not your old life at all." "but your new life with a wall around it." "Your choice is not about going back to the way things were." "Uncle Tom, thanks for coming." "Your choice is about hiding or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you." "(laughing and chatting)" "That was so awesome." "Schooled that guy." " Got the hands for it." " All right, Charlie, see you." " Good night, Charlie." " See you, Charlie." "See you guys tomorrow." "(siren)" "(cat yowls)" "(wind whistling)" "(loud clank)" "It's homey." "A person starting college, a life of their own, they need homey." "Homey." "I kinda like it." "How much?" "I'll give your mum a call and let her know we got you settled, but I don't want you calling her or anybody else for quite a while." "Tell me about these people, why they're looking for me." "The man that came into your house, his name was Eric Crawford." "His father was an army colonel." "His name was Owen Crawford." "And he came after your father... came after Jacob." "Your Aunt Becky and I fooled him into thinking that Jake was dead, but I guess that Eric figured it out." "But why was Owen Crawford looking for my dad?" "This has to do with the things you write about." "See?" "You already knew." "You knew the first time you called me." "And you said one day, you'd explain it all." "Yeah, well..." "I think you've had enough excitement for one day." "Don't you?" "Listen, if you ever need me, this is what I want you to do." "I want you to take out a personal ad in the national edition of the New York Times and have it say," ""Drummer seeking gig with..." "Texas country band."" "You're young." "You could still develop decent taste in music." "Listen." "I know." "But you're gonna be okay." "Okay." "Our first date, your dad and I went for hot dogs." "You know, your dad never kept his own medals." "I don't think he ever went to collect them." "But he carried your grandfather's with him every day of his life." "They were in his pockets when he died." "Your grandfather was a hero, Charlie, just like your dad." "How's your job?" "I like teaching." "I think I'm pretty good." "I'm sure you are." "What's this?" "That is a picture of your father." "He must be about eight." "This guy with him is his stepdad." "Your father used to talk about this." "It was the most scared he'd ever been in his life." "Yeah, yeah." "This is definitely that." "What?" "Well, his stepdad took him to a carnival, one of those travelling kind they set up in vacant lots." "Some games, some rides, that sort of thing." "Those rides, they can be pretty scary." "They spin you around, turn you upside down, drop the floor out from underneath you." "But none of that scared your father, uh-uh." "It was the carnies..." "The guys who ran the rides." "He said there was something about them that just gave him the creeps." "Well, like this guy." "I guess if you were eight, he'd seem pretty creepy, huh?" "What was wrong with dad?" "He had a" "He had a brain disorder." "Made him believe certain things." "What kind of things?" "He's dead now." "Do you really want to remember this part of him?" "I want whatever I can get." "He believed he'd been taken... by aliens." "Lots of times." "And the men?" "The people we were hiding from?" " I guess they believed that, too." " How about you?" "I don't know, sweetie." "I don't know what I believe." "Your dad said once they were like his guardian angels." "He thought they were protecting him?" "No, he thought they wanted him for something." "He believed they had saved him from dying in Vietnam." "I think, in the end, he thought they were coming after you." "They have come for me." "More than once." "That's why he screamed the last time he saw me." "He could see that they were already taking me." "If you were eight, yeah, maybe this would scare you." "But you know what, mum?" "None of this scares me anymore." "Now it just makes me mad." "If they come again, I'm not going without a fight, and if that lands me in some hospital room, staring out some window, screaming, then that's what it does." "What was he like, my grandfather?" "I didn't really know him that well." "He kind of frightened me." "How come?" "He was always nice to me." "I--I don't know." "I guess he just terrified your father so much." "All your father ever wanted from that man was a pat on the back." "It's amazing how not getting something so simple can do so much." "(door shuts)" "When did you get in?" "Night before last." "I had a few days before fall quarter starts." "Good to have you home." "I'm sorry, honey." "He's got a lot on his mind." "Why don't you leave him?" "What?" "Leave, as in pack your bags, walk out the door, and don't come back." "It's not as simple as that." "Yes, it is." "He's thoughtless, insensitive." "If he can still get it up, he's doubtless unfaithful." "Honey" "You know it's true." "I have my compensations." "I have you." "So move to New Haven." "You'll have more of me and less of him." "I can set you up with my "Perspectives on Science" professor." "He's very cute." "You're terrible." "It's in the blood." "Do you think I look anything like him?" ""Home is the sailor home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill."" "I've got something important to tell you." "It can keep." "I've got earth-shattering news." "You ready?" "You wanna sit down or..." "What's your news?" "I was wrong." ""About what?" you ask." ""It's like this," I answer." "I take all the money the generals threw at us, and I tell my guys, "Build me something that will pick up the impulse signals from those implants"" "The signals that were being amplified by that transformer." "The transformer I said was the body we had stored at Groom Lake." "Y-Yes." "They build the thing." "They turn it on." "Voila!" "Lights up like a Christmas tree." ""Now, why does this make me wrong?" you ask." "Okay." "These signals are big and bad and boosted." "Somewhere on this planet, there's still a transmitter going strong, as if when they grabbed all their stuff, they deliberately left it behind." "What does this give us?" "What I always said it would." "We can track any implant, anytime, anywhere." "Look at this." "Find Alan for me, will you?" "Remember that chip we took out of the girl from Cleveland?" "We put it into the head of a guy named Alan." "Works for the Department of the Interior." " Thinks he went in for a root canal." " Found him, sir." "Get him." "OPERATOR:" "Motel 6." "May I speak with Mr Alan Stewart?" "One moment." "ALAN:" "Hello?" " Mr Stewart?" " Yes." "Hold for Dr Lamarr." "WOMAN:" "Who's on the phone?" "Quiet." "(disguised voice) It's Dr Lamarr." "Just wanted to check on your root canal." "Is that your wife?" "!" "How does she know where you are?" "I-I'm fine." "Dr Lamarr." "how did you find me?" "Mr Stewart, I'm a dentist." "That's my job." "WOMAN:" "If you're gonna talk to her." "what's the point of being here with me?" "I have to go." "I've got a patient in the chair." "You understand." "I still don't understand how this helps us." "Oh, yeah." "This sea of blinking lights, our very own galaxy of abductees." "How do we know who goes with each blinking light?" "Exactly." "We cross-reference known abductees, their movements, et cetera, with the implant data." "We name them and eliminate them." "That leaves unidentified abductees." "If there's someone we're looking for, we feed in everything we can-- data from field agents, all of that--compare patterns." "Amazing what you can do with a modern computer and a couple of billion dollars in taxpayers' money." "Can you find Charlie Keys?" "Yeah." "How would you like to find somebody else?" "(playing hard rock)" "(song ends)" "You kinda suck." "Do you think you can unsuck by a week from Wednesday?" "We've got a gig at the O.K. Hotel." "I'm in the band?" "No one else answered the ad." "No way, man!" "Didn't really mean it." "About you sucking." "You're no worse than the rest of us." "Thanks, I guess." "Just felt kinda bad, like I hurt your feelings or something." "I'm tougher than that." "First time away from home?" "Yeah." "(scratching noises)" "I remember the first time I slept on my own in my new apartment." "When I woke up." "it took me a minute to remember where I was." "(chuckles)" "I'm lying there thinking how weird it is." "Yesterday. when I woke up." "everything was normal." "Today. it's gonna be different forever." "That's exactly what happened to me." "I expect to wake up any minute and be back in my old room..." ""It was all just a dream."" "(noises continue)" "Thanks for being so nice." "It makes all of this a little less heavy." "Anytime." "No, you are not gonna take me!" "You are not gonna take me again!" "You get the hell away from me!" "Get the hell away from me!" "(knock on door)" "(knocking)" "It's open." "(gasps)" "What are you doing?" "Sorry, Naomi." "I'm sorry." "Nothing." "Sorry." "This is how you're spending your leave of absence?" "Sitting in the dark, reading, with a baseball bat by the door in case anyone drops by?" "I just needed a little time by myself." "I've been principal at Lincoln for ten years, and I taught there before that." "Charlie, you're the best teacher I've ever seen." "I'm not gonna lose you without a fight." "What is all this?" "That's nothing." ""The Alien Agenda:" "What The Abductions Really Mean"?" "Compendium of Alien Races?" ""Adopt An Alien"?" "What is this all about?" "Oh, my God." "You think you've been abducted by aliens." "Do you have any idea how many people say that they've been abducted every year?" "Charlie..." "People believe in those things because they have to believe in something." "If that's all it is, how come all the stories are so similar?" "Because we see the same movies, we read the same books..." "They've been taking me since I was nine." "The last time they took me was only six weeks ago." "They came into this house, and they took me." "I tried to fight back." "I kicked and I hit and I bit." "It did nothing!" "They ripped me right through the living room wall!" "No!" "You are not gonna take me ever again!" "You're not gonna take me!" "You're not!" "(Charlie sobbing)" "Charlie." "There's no reason at all why you should believe me." "So I'm gonna get proof, and I'm gonna show you and anyone else who will listen that I'm not crazy." "Okay, Charlie." "Okay." "It took us almost two months before we found her." "Something wrong with your system?" "No, the system's fine." "She just doesn't have an implant." "Why would she?" "She's Jacob Clarke's daughter." "What do you do for an amputee?" "You build them a fake hand." "From their point of view, we'd be psychic amputees." "We're missing something they take for granted." "So what did they give us?" "Implants." "They've given us electronic versions of what they have biologically." "Pull up the images of the brain tissue samples we took from that fire in Alaska." "Spectrographic analysis turned up some weird trace compounds." "Colour code for density threshold." "This sample comes from the brain of that twin who died in the fire with your brother." "The twins were failed attempts at crossbreeding, but we worked from the assumption their cellular structure is almost identical to Lisa's." "Good." "Now zoom out." "The tissue is doing double duty-- spirals of neurons acting as antennae." "We found her." "She was just broadcasting on another frequency." "(rock music blares)" "(chattering)" "Hey, dude!" "Bye." "Hey, Lisa, how you doing?" "We got so much to talk about." "Don't stand there-- do something!" "Unh!" "The national edition of the New York Times. please." "(dialing)" "I'd like to place an ad in the personals." "TOM:" "I never told anyone about your father." "I didn't put it in any of my books." "But when Eric Crawford came after you," "I should have told you." "I don't know if I would have believed you." "So..." "This Crawford came after me because I'm..." "One-quarter alien?" "Does make you pretty interesting." "Wow." "From what I have experienced, and I'm only talking about what I've seen..." "They don't want to hurt anybody." "They saved you." "They walked you home." "Your father was very important to them." "And I guess that you are, too." "I think I know why." "CHET:" "These are the matched repeaters." "We started with anyone who had been taken more than once." "We noticed there was a subset" "People repeatedly taken on the same day as others." "We found Charlie Keys." "Let's assume he's part of pair number 55." "Why 55?" "Numbers thing." "Go with me for a moment." "Charlie's last abduction, right after we started tracking him, came on September 8th." "If we backdate Lisa's pregnancy, we can give her a conception date of September 8th." "They're breeding him with a girl who's..." "One-quarter alien already." "It's beautiful, isn't it?" "I'm not quite getting it." "That's 'cause you don't have my years of experience in the private sector." "See, in the biotech world, most of our research goes into recessive traits-- things we can breed out of a species or into it." "What do we know about the Keys family?" "The grandfather, Russell, is a bomber pilot." "His son is a Vietnam vet and rescue worker." "These men are strong, brave, extremely resilient." "One other thing" "When they're taken, they fight back." "And the Clarkes-- Jacob, he could do things." "My father was terrified of him." "But he was physically weak." "In a way, he was no more suited to survive than those mutant brothers in the Alaskan woods." "And Lisa..." "And Lisa, she doesn't seem to have inherited her father's gifts or his physical weakness." "She seems to be nothing more than a carrier." " You ever cook with tarragon?" " Hmm?" "It's a very strong spice." "One pinch is all you need." "Otherwise, it overpowers the dish you're making." "Genetics is a lot like cooking-- little pinch of this, little more of that." "But what are they cooking?" "That, my son and heir, is one hell of a whopper, isn't it?" "Super weapon or saviour, take your pick." "ALLIE:" "Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps." "small steps." "to do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary." "We're always going someplace new. all the time." "Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory." "You take those small. familiar steps." "and you try to be honest." "not to live as if nothing had changed." "but still to go on with your life." "But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be." "Aah!" "Mum!" "(Laughing)" "Nina!" "This guitar player, Tony..." "I was auditioning for his band." "I don't think I like this guitar player." "I went back to the rehearsal studio the next day to see him." "He'd left for L.A." "Prick." "No, that's not what I mean at all." "He'd left for L.A. right from the rehearsal studio that night." "A friend of his came by and got him." "He hadn't followed me home at all." "Well, you went home with somebody." "No, I didn't." "Honey, come home." "The people you were hiding from, the same people who were looking for your father," "Tom says they know where you are." "They're not gonna bother me." "Because beings from another world are looking out for you?" "Yes, mum." "That's exactly why." "You weren't here." "You didn't see what happened to me." "Mum, l" "Mum." "This is gonna be all right." "I know it." "I can feel it." "You can, can't you?" "You're your father's daughter." "You know that." "Sooner or later, you two are gonna have to tell me what this is all about." "It started when I was eight." "I used to have these... at the time, I thought they were dreams." "There was always the same guy..." "(speaking Spanish)" "What's he saying?" ""The craft are leaving."" "This man is a farmer in Tierra Del Fuego." "He's reported sightings for the past eight years." "We think many of the craft stay out of sight around the Antarctic." "One day, two weeks ago, he sees the ships, sky full of them, all above his field, middle of the day." "Then that's it." "Hasn't seen 'em since." "Woman from Siberia has a similar story." "And Norway, Alaska, Zanzibar, Australia." "144 multi-witness, confirmable reports from all over the world." "How long has this been going on?" "About six weeks now." "One big rush, then zilch." "Absolutely no activity." "Not one sighting." "Nothing." "Six weeks, and you never mentioned this to me?" " I'm mentioning it now." " This is still my project." "Abso-friggin'-lutely." "Eric, this is me, Chet." "We've been through the wars, buddy." "I was just giving you a little space," "Letting you come to terms with your divorce and all." "How you liking the single life, by the way?" "What do you think this means?" "It's the calm." "The calm?" "Yeah." "The one that comes before the storm." "(guitar being strummed)" "MAN:" "Speculation continues in the Pacific Northwest over the many reports of lights in the sky." "The government will neither confirm nor deny the rumours..." "They're beautiful." "... of secret aircraft being tested as part of a new Strategic Defence Initiative recently funded by Congress..." "It's gonna be okay." "Is it?" "Definitely." "What if there's something wrong with the baby?" "Honey, really." "It's gonna be great." "No, it's not that." "I think my water just broke." "(panting)" "You're gonna be all right." "Yeah." "(panting)" "Less than a minute apart." "Will you call my mum?" "(both giggle)" "CHET:" "Good, here's the general." "Gentlemen." "General." "We feed directly off the Cheyenne Mountain computer." "This grid shows the actions of every known man-made object in space-- screws from a 1 984 shuttle mission, a screwdriver the Russians dropped off Mir." "and thousands-- thousands--of satellites." "You didn't bring us up from Washington to see screws." "We've had unidentified before, but nothing like this." "Look." "We eliminate the ones we've I.D.'d, and we're left with these." "Earlier tonight, there were hundreds of new objects." "We thought the system had gone down." "And then the objects... coalesced." "That's the only way I know how to explain it." "There were lots of little ones, and now there's one very, very big one." "You'd better have a good cover story, General." "No one's gonna believe this is marsh gas." " That's right, a little more." " There you go." "Can you scootch up a little?" "(grunting)" "What do you have in the way of drugs?" "See if the doctor's available." "The mother's b.p. is high." "You'll feel better in a couple of minutes." "She's nine centimeters." "Stop pushing." "I can't." "Listen to me, you have to stop." "We have to bring your blood pressure down before you can have this baby." "Get Dr Catrell." "You'll have to step out." "It's a slight complication." " What's going on?" " You have to go now!" "(moaning)" "Sir, it's coming down." "Surface velocity, 388.1 meters per second at 249.4 degrees local." "Altitude, -75.2 meters per second." "Deinclination and speed on this thing-- they're impossible." "It's over Seattle and coming down fast." "Flash alert to CINC-NORAD." "Move to Defcon 2." "If it's what I think it is, none of that'll matter." "Her blood pressure's 200 over 1 00." "She's had two seizures." "There's protein in her urine." "She's eclamptic." "Let's stabilize her." "Two grams magnesium, five milligrams hydralazine." "Altitude, -37.0 meters per second." "54.4 at 231.2, alt -33.6." "52.8 at 229.0, alt -30.1." "What's happening to you is called eclampsia, but we've treated your seizures, and we're bringing down your blood pressure." "Why is this happening?" "52.8 at 229.0, alt -30.1." "51.2 at 227.8, alt -26.7." "It's slowing down." "It's levelling out." " She's stabilizing." " Okay, very nice." " No sign of foetal distress." " Here comes another contraction." "If you can work with me, we can bring this baby into the world without a C-section, okay?" " Yeah." " Okay." "We're gonna try some pushing." "1...2...3...and push!" "Push, push, push, push!" "Okay, good girl." "Stop." "Nice job, Lisa." "Vitals?" "B.P'. s down to 1 20." "She's stabilizing." "Very nice." "We're gonna do it again, Lisa, okay?" "30.6 meters per second at 21 3.8 degrees local." "Altitude, -9.3 meters per second." "Great." "Let's just wait for another contraction." "Just a second, and we'll go again." "Ready?" "On three." "1...2...3...push!" "Push, push, push, push." " Stop!" " Vitals still stable." "Way to go, Lisa!" "Estimated hover point-- 47-39-1 4 north, 1 22-1 8-34 west." "You're almost there." "Just a few more pushes, okay?" "Oh, my God." "My God!" "Why is there so much blood?" "It's all right." "Doctor, there's foetal distress." "I'm taking this baby now." "Forceps." "Prep suction." "She's in D.I.C." "She's bleeding out!" "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "We're losing the baby, too." "25.2 at 21 1.0, alt -4.9." "It--it stopped!" "It's disappeared." "What?" "It's gone." "It can't be gone." "We have the mother's heartbeat." "Baby is stabilizing." "She's stopped bleeding." "I want a teal-amber search, code red, right now." "Go." "Find the damn thing." "Go!" "(baby crying)" "Hey." "Hey." "You're not supposed to be here, you know." "You were bleeding to death." "What happened?" "The bleeding stopped." "Nobody knows why." "I told you they'd look over you." "My baby?" "She's beautiful." "Seven pounds, three ounces." "Perfect little baby girl." "(cooing to baby)" "Oh... hi." "NINA:" "Do you know what you're gonna name her?" "Allison." "Allie." "Her name is Allie." "Hey there, Allie." "ALLIE:" "My mum says that life is like a roller-coaster ride." "There are ups and downs." "there are big scares and slow builds and places where it levels out." "The only difference with this roller coaster is that every time it stops." "you get off in someplace totally different from where you got on." "How's your mother?" "She's fine." "She does not send you her love." "Thanks for coming." "You said it was important." "Your grandfather found this in Pine Lodge, New Mexico." "He found it at a crash site." "So it's all true." "What does it say?" "No one's been able to translate it." "Maybe it's a grocery list." "He gave it to you?" "Your father?" "Left it for me." "I found it after he died." "And there was a note." "My father and I..." "We weren't very close." "Well, he left this for you." "He must have changed his mind." "My brother died." "And your father just after that." "Before he died," "I think my father got a better look at me." "What does Uncle Chet say about this?" "Dr Wakeman hasn't seen it." "Why are you showing it to me now?" "There's a great deal of power that comes with the kind of knowledge I'm privy to." "I anticipate change." "I want you to join me in the program, Mary." "This is something that shouldn't go outside the family." "CHET:" "Hello, Thrill seekers." "Look at you, little Mary, all grown up and beautiful!" "How's the quest for the Nobel Prize coming?" "I got very close on a genomic mismatch scanning technique." ""Close" like "should Miss America fail to fulfill her duties" close?" "Close as in Patrick Brown got there first." "You're just a grad student." "You'll get there." "Lisa had her baby." "Little girl." "Are we going to try to pick her up?" "What would be the point in that?" "God!" "I've been wanting to do this since you were 1 3." "Me, too." "Why don't you pick up the baby?" "You don't waste any time, do you?" "She's clearly important." "In fact, I'd say she's the point of all this." "Definitely." " So pick her up." " Take her." "No, they'd just take her back." "They're way better at that than we are." "So what are we gonna do?" "We watch and wait." "And we figure out a way to take her that will work." "Watch and wait." "That sounds a lot like my father." "I'm nothing like your father!" "I have a theory about who she is." "You want to hear it?" "Evolution tends to eliminate, or at least, uh..." "Subjugate emotion." "The limbic brain is still down there." "But it's way..." "Down... under." "Why we don't run through the streets killing people-- at least most of us." "(giggles)" "Imagine their abilities combined with the energy of our strong emotion." "They'd be cherry bombs... she'd be a nuclear explosion." "MAN:" "Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you White Shadow." "White Shadow comes to us after spending the last three years jumping through a flaming hoop at a sea show in Florida." "Hopefully, over time, as we come to know and understand these creatures a little better, we'll become more caring and compassionate in our behaviour towards them." "Here at the aquarium, it is our hope that we can bring you that one step closer to truly knowing another species." "Any questions?" "Once the dolphin's been in captivity, is it possible to return the animal to its native environment?" "Not in most cases, although it depends on how long the animal has been away and under what conditions it was kept, but in most cases, once an animal has been taken, there's little hope of an uneventful return." "What's the matter with them?" "I remember the first time that I ever saw dolphins." "I was three." "It was the first time in my life" "I can remember knowing that something was beautiful... and it was the first time I had the feeling there was something about me that was different from everybody else." "(Subtitle Revised by HchC)" "Previously on Taken..." "(Subtitle Revised by HchC)" "It started when I was eight." "They've been taking me since I was nine." "At the time, I thought they were dreams." "There was always the same guy." "Grandfather was a hero, Charlie, just like your dad." "He believed he'd been taken by aliens." "It was the carnies, the guys who ran the rides." "He said there was something about them that just gave him the creeps." "I think he thought they were coming after you." "They have come for me." "WOMAN:" "You think you've been abducted by aliens." "There is no reason at all why you should believe me, so I'm gonna get proof, and I'm gonna show you and anyone else who will listen that I'm not crazy." "ERIC:" "There's a great deal of power that comes with the kind of knowledge I'm privy to." "What are you saying, Dad?" "I anticipate change." "I want you to join me in the program, Mary." "I've looked at other things, but it keeps coming back to the Clarke family." "They matter." "They're the key to this." "This is about your father." "You're just trying to finish something he started." "MAN:" "Charlie and Lisa, both taken on September 8th of this year." "The most recent simultaneous abduction." "ERIC:" "They're breeding him with a girl who's-- 1/4 alien already." "WOMAN:" "The people you were hiding from know where you are." "They're not gonna bother me." "Why?" "Because beings from other world, they're looking out for you?" "Yes, that's exactly why." "Your father was very important to them." "I guess that you are, too." "LISA:" "I think I know why." "My water just broke." "DOCTOR:" "Forceps." "Prep suction." "Lisa had her baby." "Little girl." "WOMAN:" "Do you know what you're gonna name her?" "Allie." "Her name is Allie." "We're going to try to pick her up?" " Are you about ready, Patty?" " Ready." "(clears throat) Okay." "We were coming back from a fishing trip, and we're on Highway 89 coming out of Tahoe City." "It wasn't a fishing trip." "You always tell it as a fishing trip." "We'd gone to visit the Nortons." "No, no, no." "We didn't visit the Nortons." "We were fishing Echo Lake." "There was no fishing on this trip." "One of the most memorable nights of your life, and you don't remember" " I know I wasn't fishing." " Can I finish telling the man the story?" "I'm not saying don't tell him." ""Get your facts straight," is all I'm saying." "You know what?" "She always does this to me." "Anyway, we're coming down Highway 89 from Tahoe City-- you're not gonna argue about it being Highway 89?" "Why would I?" "God." "Anyway, so I look at my watch, and it's 7.30, and then, all of a sudden" "All of a sudden, there's this blinding flash." "I mean..." "you know what it's like when you stare into the sun when you were a kid?" "It was a lot brighter than that." "Why would he have stared at the sun?" " Most kids do." " I never did." "Well, aren't we the second coming?" " Can I finish the story?" " Who's stopping you?" "You are, dear." "Anyway, this light, it doesn't even pass over us, but more like through us, and then it's up in the sky, and then it goes down behind these pine trees, so we stop the car and we get out," "we got this glowing behind the trees, and we have no idea what it is" "My Mike was so brave." " Well, you were, sweetheart." " I didn't do anything." "You took my hand and told me not to worry." "Yeah, well, anybody would've done that." "Oh, no, they wouldn't have." "So, anyway, this light starts coming through the trees, and then the car dies." "We're up on this mountain, and my car goes dead." "We got curved roads, we got a steep drop-off, engine won't start, I've got no steering, but here's the funny thing, see-- with this light coming at us," "I don't care because I know that we're gonna be all right." "The next thing we know, we're driving down Walnut Street and pulling up in front of our house." "It's 5.00 in the morning." "The sky is just starting to get pink." "We're at the top of that hill at 7.30 at night, we didn't get to the bottom till 5.00 in the morning, more than nine hours later." "And this is all just what happened that night." "It wasn't till about three months later that Mike started having the dreams." "You know, you wouldn't think that dreams could scare you, but mine got so bad, I wouldn't go to sleep." "I was having them, too, but neither of us were talking about it, so neither of us knew what the other was dreaming." "We'd just be sitting there watching TV, trying not to fall asleep, not knowing what was on the other person's mind." "It wasn't until we got sent to that hypnotherapies Dr Fulton." "That's when we both remembered where we'd been that night for that nine and a half hours and who we'd been with." "This is a picture Mike drew when Dr Fulton asked him under hypnosis what happened to us on the road that night." "And that there..." "is a picture that Patty drew when the doc asked her the same question." "This is the truth of it, and there can be no doubt-- is that my wife Patricia and I were taken by aliens." "We've been interviewed quite a few times." "You seem to have more than just a passing interest in this." "Do you have your own story?" "(Loud laughter echoing)" "(screams)" "ALLIE:" "If a dream is just a dream." "something that happens in your mind while you're asleep." "then that's all right." "It's yours to take with you into the morning." "and it fades away there in the light." "But when the dreams start to come while you're awake." "and they come with the light." "then that is not all right." "What we look for then is other people who have dreamed what we've dreamed." "who have seen what we've seen." "When the dreams become real." "sometimes the only comfort you can find is in knowing that you're not alone." "LISA SINGING TO RADIO:" "# I caught up with my ex-boyfriend #" "# You're the reason I'm in this mess #" "# And when they show up #" "# I'll give them what you said #" "# Your address #" "I just get to this place where I feel like it is so totally out of my control." "I just don't see the point." "It all ends, anyway, right?" "So why bother?" "I get up every day, all I see is the end of the day, and I just--I'm not into doing anything at all." "I--I could use some help with that." "When you play a song, when you're right in the middle, are you thinking about how the song ends?" "No way." "It's all I can do to get through a song just staying focused right where I am." "Oh...okay." "Okay." "Thank you." "Dude, this little girl's profound." "Hi, Mum." "Hey." "Are we here to get enlightenment or play some rock'n' roll?" "Hey, you sit close to me, all right?" "My timing's always a little better when you're around." "That's 'cause she's a drummer's daughter." "# This is the heart of nowhere #" "# It's a dark, one-way street #" "# This is the land... #" "As long as I can remember." "people have liked to talk to me." "You know. kind of how somebody says something to you." "Doesn't have to mean so much." "It's just that it opens a door for you." "and you can see into a room you couldn't see into before." "It doesn't really matter how you got there." "The important part is." "you're seeing something new and different." "# This is the heart of nowhere #" " Morning." " Morning." "Rough waters out there." "MARY:" "This new footage of Allie just came in from our man in Seattle." "ERIC :" "She can block a shot on goal, but other than that, she hasn't demonstrated any of the kind of powers we were expecting." "She's a little kid." "Give her time." "A lot of genetic traits don't demonstrate until just before adolescence." "Schizophrenia, for example." "We still can't pick her up." "They'll just take her back like they did when we tried for Lisa." " That used to be the case." " "Used to be"?" "Wanna see what we can do?" "Step this way." "Microwave radiation-- that part of the light spectrum, in the case of the oven, 1 2.5 centimetres, to be exact." "We block that wavelength, and the hamster's on easy street." "But we let that same wavelength through..." "Jeez." "In meditation, we learn the oneness of all things, the harmony that flows through nature." "This is the same idea, stripped of the comforting notion of divinity, that we find in science, more specifically in mathematics." "One, one, two, three, five, eight." "The Fibonacci Sequence." "One number added to the one before it makes the next number in the sequence, and from this sequence, we get the golden mean." "We find these numbers everywhere-- shells, nebulae, the spiral of a pine cone, bee hives..." "DNA." "God's equation writ large across the heavens." "The cow grazing contentedly in the meadow, the grass on which she grazes, the breeze that blows through." "All parts of the one, the whole." " Is this going somewhere?" " Their crafts hold five." "Add the number of confirmed sightings in New Mexico last year--1,597." "They have three fingers, one thumb." "The number of breeding pairs you charted last year when you were figuring out who Allie was--55." "1, 3, 5, 55, 1,597." "All Fibonacci numbers." "How many lights on the board?" "46,367." " And with our little friend Allie?" " 46,368." "The 24th Fibonacci." "So, how do we take our revelation and turn it into an effective block so that we can grab little 46,368-- our little Allie?" "WAKEMAN:" "This is Peter Miller." "Mr Miller's been taken 1 3 times." "Oh, don't worry." "I'm not gonna splatter him all over the room." "Janitorial would never forgive me." "Mr Miller has an implant." "We're monitoring it." "You can see it right here on the map." "Topeka, Montpelier, Somerset, Augusta." "There we are-- Ellsworth, Maine." "Right here." "The implants broadcast on a spread spectrum." "The frequencies are all based around the hydrogen hyperfine transition line, the most fundamental wavelength in the universe." "Check this out." "We block those frequencies, and in much the same manner as the hamster didn't splatter, the implant doesn't register." "If we wanna pick someone up, we ought to be able to do it without having them grabbed right back." "Will this work on the girl?" "Allie has no implant." "She doesn't need one." "She's got the neuron spiral." "But the same principle applies." "We can block her frequency, too." "And they can't find her." "Okay, let's pick her up before she demonstrates." "After that, we may not be able to." "We're sure she hasn't demonstrated at all yet, right?" "Not according to our agent." "You know that therapy group her mother's in?" "We have someone in that group." "Good." "MAN:" "I believe this all has to do with the landing strip at the bottom of Lake Superior." "You look at the contrails." "As soon as they appeared in the sky above St. Paul, the incidence of severe upper respiratory infection quadrupled in the twin cities." "These trails are messages." "WOMAN:" "You're reaching there." "The idea of group is to listen." "We're not judging each other." "I think you're reaching here, Ray." "There is a base and a landing strip at the bottom of Lake Superior." "That's why the government has spread this cover story about pollution in the lake, to keep the curious away." "And those contrails, they are messages to the denizens of this base." "WOMAN:" "Where do you get your information, Ray?" "I was taken there on my third abduction." "How come you didn't drown?" "RAY:" "They did something that enabled me to breathe underwater." "That makes sense." "We're to believe your story about seeing your dead son on a spaceship, but I can't go to the bottom of Lake Superior?" " I didn't say I didn't believe you." " It was on your face." "The doubt." "I was thinking about my own experience about my boy." "Can you share some of that story with us, Dale?" "We lost our son Luke in the Gulf War, Desert Storm." "They got names for these things like movies, but this was no damn movie." "This wasn't anything that made any sense." "He was driving in a truck, taking supplies somewhere in the desert." "The war was already over." "There was a mine." "No one ever knew if it was theirs or ours." "About six months after we got the news about Luke is when they first came for me." "I woke up, and there were these five young men standing by my bed." "Soldiers, just like my boy." "They asked me if I wanted to see Luke, and I don't remember anything else until I was in this big, bright room." "And Luke was there." "And we were talking." "We...had had this fight, Luke and I." "You know, like boys and fathers do, then he went into the army before we had a chance to make it right." "But there we were, talking like there was no tomorrow." "They would come for me every night, these same soldiers." "At first, I'd just sit and talk with my son-- how are the Mariners doing, and what's going on down at the plant?" "That sort of thing." "It was wonderful..." "to see my boy again." "But then they started taking him away." "We'd be talking, and then, uh, he'd be gone." "It was as if they wanted to see what would happen if they could make me grieve again." "Sometimes we'd start to fight, having that same fight." "Your son's dead." "You're having bad dreams, that's all." "DALE:" "That's what my wife said." "WOMAN:" "That's why the two of you separated, isn't it?" "That was just an excuse." "Truth of it was, we couldn't stand to look at each other anymore." "All either one of us could see was Luke." "You were a jerk to him, and you feel bad about it now that it's too late, and it's not something you can fix." "Do these look like dreams to you?" "Is that what you'd name them?" "That could've happened any way." "You could've done it to yourself." "Please." "Please, Dale, sit down." "Sit down." "Now, you're here, you're all here because you believe you've experienced something." "This is hard work, it's painful work, but we can get through it if we work together, all right?" "Good." "Why don't you believe my experience?" "You've been taken." "You know how it works." "Just offering alternatives." "(door opens)" "Sorry, everybody." "I had to drop off Allie at soccer practice." "Lisa, we have a guest today." "This is Charlie." "Charlie's been videotaping the session for a documentary he's doing." "He's been interviewing people all around the country who've had experiences like all of yours, and now he's found his way to us." "The rest of us have agreed to allow ourselves to be put on tape, but... if you're not comfortable with that, then" "No, I'm not." " Turn that off, please." " Sorry." "I just try to keep my life private." "I'm sorry." "I understand." "Do I..." "Did Dorothy share today?" "She thinks her cats are aliens." "Do they live at the bottom of Lake Superior?" "That's the nice thing about being in the group." "It makes me feel positively normal." "(chuckles)" "You're doing a documentary?" "Not exactly." "I've...had experiences myself." "How long have they been taking you?" "Since I was a kid." "I didn't really know what was going on until I'd grown up, but... since I was a kid." "Me, too." "They don't take me anymore." "They haven't in nine years." "And what I've been trying to do since then is prove that it really happened, figure out why they stopped." "I'd just stick to the story about being a documentary filmmaker." "Did...did you like your abductions?" "CHARLIE:" "Like them?" "Yeah, as in look forward to 'em, enjoy 'em?" "For me, it was always that." "I used to get this buzz, this energy thing." "It felt great." "I believe this whole abduction deal is gonna turn out to be a positive event." "Right now, people think we're whack, fringe dwellers, but that's gonna change." "We've been chosen for something." "This thing busts open, we're gonna be the folks to see." "For me, it was never a buzz, anything like that." "I didn't know what was happening to me, and I fought back as hard as I could." "Really?" "I--I should get going." "My daughter'll be home soon from soccer practice." "You have a daughter?" "Allie." "She's nine." "You have any pictures of yourself as a kid?" " You think it goes back that far?" " Why not?" "Yeah, I have one of me and my mum." "She's pretty." "Oh, that's my dad." "That's him as a little kid with my grandfather." "You would agree with me this whole thing's kind of weird, right?" "Well, it just got a whole lot weirder." "This is the guy." "I've never come across anything like this." "It's extraordinary." "This is your father?" "He had been taken, too?" " It started with my grandfather." " It seems to run in families." "We call these "screen memories."" "It's as if they take a sample of our memories and choose the realities they present us with." "This was something, this carnival, that scared my father." "And they used it." "That's not an uncommon part of the experience." "But this... to take a sample of your father's memory and use it as a screen on both of you?" "Why, it's..." "truly remarkable." "I thought you'd like it." "I'd like to regress you both, take you back to one of your abductions, see if we can figure out what this is all about, maybe even find out where the two of you met." "Lisa, I think it might help Charlie if you and I were to work together first." "With this new information, I might take you in a completely different direction." " Anytime." " How about now?" "Do you mind if Charlie stays?" "We...do seem to have a lot in common." "(piano music plays softly)" "I guess we should've gone home and changed first." "I don't care if you don't." "Doesn't bother me at all." "Have you ever been here before?" "My dad took me here when I was a kid." "Hope I remember which fork to use." "With me and my mum, it was mostly pizza." "Where's your mum now?" "Detroit." "She's a nurse." "That's how she met my dad." " Was he a doctor?" " He was a patient." "How about you?" "What does your dad do?" "My dad died when I was eight." "I'm sorry." "My stepdad, he's a musician, a guitarist." "My mum's a nutritionist." "She could tell you not to eat anything they serve here." "My real dad-- you use a computer?" "Sure." "He invented the buzz control scheme and half of the floating point logic." "I thought, with our luck, we'd wind up in a carnival." "This is kind of like a carnival." " To us." " Us." " Hi." " Hi." " I'm Charlie." " Okay." "You're in the third grade, right?" "You're doing State History?" "You're reading Sarah." "Plain and Tall?" "This is the "big ideas" year in science-- electricity, magnetism." "I taught third grade the last three years." "We read Sarah." "Plain and Tall last year." "This year, it's Island of the Blue Dolphins." "CHARLIE:" "It's a good one." "So this is the year I find out how everything works?" " The "big ideas"?" " Mm-hmm." "And everybody takes these classes?" "CHARLIE:" "Pretty much." "So then what happens, they all forget?" "I never thought about it like that" "LISA:" "Sorry, Al." "I had to park all the way over by Parson Gardens." "You're cute." "Where's Lisa?" "She, uh-- Lisa's getting garlic." "Hey, girls." "How was soccer practice?" "I'm trying to convince my god-daughter she doesn't want to play goalie." "It's either boring, boring, boring or, oh, my God, oh, my God." "I don't think it's so boring." "You get to watch the play come to you." "And then it gets there, and oh, my God, oh, my God." "Not if you've been watching the play." "There's no getting around you." "Who are you?" "We've been trying to figure that out all day." " Oh, another day-tripper?" " It's...a long story." "For which I don't have time." "I've got four freshmen who want Celtic bands and a concept artist who designed his own tattoo." "He says it goes across his face to cover the lie." "I'm gonna be up all night." "I do tattoos." "Oh." "You should get Lisa to show you her alien." "You know, you really are cute." "I bet I'm gonna be seeing you around." "Will you take a picture of his face once you've covered up the lie?" "Without question." "Good-bye, sweetheart." "Bye." "I guess Charlie's staying for dinner." "Maybe if you're real good, he'll help you set the table." "Did I hear you say you're a schoolteacher?" "I was, yeah." "What happened?" "I got a little too interested in other things." "You've been on the spaceships, too?" "At first, I wondered if I should tell her, but it would've been weirder to try and go to the group without even mentioning it." "Yes, I have." "Was it scary?" "Kind of." "Did it make you mean?" "I don't think so." "How come?" "My mum didn't get mean, either." "But some of the people she knows did." "I think people get mean when they're scared." "You're working late." "Just wanna make sure there's nothing I missed." "In this light, you look like my father." "You have his singleness of vision, something I never had." "I envy you for that." "I just wanna see this through." "That's what I mean." "She just looks like a little girl, doesn't she?" "She doesn't look special at all." "This is Brad." "This is Devon." "And this is Rich." "He's the cutest." "LISA:" "She does this just to humiliate me." "I'm nine." "I'm supposed to like this stuff." "I like this song." "This Alayna one's really good, too." "Oh, my God, man, the both of you..." "I drive a lot, I listen to the radio." "I like these guys." "What am I gonna do, brand my own child with a scarlet "L"?" ""L"?" "For "lame."" "# Every time I press rewind #" "# Stop when the red light flashes #" "# Upsy-daisy, my whole world crashes #" "That's my journal." "I write down things I think of and stuff." "Oh, that's a good idea." "I always wished I'd done that, but every time I start, I kind of get too lazy." "Maybe sometime I could read you mine." "That'd be great." "You're up next, you know." "Up next?" "Your regression with Harriet." "You're next." "You've never done it before, have you?" "Sometimes that can be a lot of information, just so you know." "# Talk to me and help me understand #" "# Tell me how my eye got black and blue #" "ALLIE:" "I grew up." "just my mum and me." "I never thought a lot about who my father was or where he'd gone." "I guess I knew there was something missing." "but when you're a kid." "your life is just your life." "You don't think about all the other ways it might have been." " Allie?" " Hi, Mr Watson." "Is your mum inside?" "Guess I'm a little early." "I get cooped up in my apartment." "Guess I just need to get out." "Your son Luke..." "He loved you very much." "Why did you say that?" "I just thought you should know." "Thank you, sweetheart." "Thank you very much." "I think. when you're older." "what gets hard is that you forget how to take things as they come." "And sometimes." "the things that do come are more than anyone should have to take." "GIRL:" "Come on, guys!" "NINA:" "Keep your feet moving." "Don't get stuck in one place." "All right, let's get two passes." "Good." "Good." "Nice pass." "Nice pass." "Good." "That boy's going down." "NINA:" "Heads up, Allie!" "NINA:" "Okay, we got it back." "Good." "Good work, girls." "Allie and I are very...close." " How do you wanna tell her?" " l-I don't know." "I don't know if I wanna tell her." "She has to know." "No, she doesn't." "We're doing fine here." "Allie and me are fine." "I don't know you." "I don't know if I want you to be her father." "Yes!" "She's a beautiful little girl." "Does she even wanna know who her dad is?" " I mean, does she ask about that?" " Sometimes." "What do you tell her?" "That he was a nice guy, that I didn't know him very well, that sometimes people can mean a lot to each other for a short time." "And she doesn't even ask to see him?" "No...she doesn't." "I-I knew--I mean, I didn't know you, but I knew she was... damn it." "I go around pretending I'm cool with all of this, and I have to tell you," "I'm not cool with it at all." "What are they doing?" "What do they want out of all this?" "WAKEMAN:" "They wanna make us better to enable us to move to the next rung of the ladder, and in doing that, they'll better themselves as well." "MARY:" "I have another idea." "Say it began as a research project, a project on a scale completely beyond our imagination, a detailed accounting of our entire planet." "A history of the planet, a catalogue of everything." "Now imagine this--while they're doing this research, this cataloguing, they inadvertently come across an incredible insight, something that utterly transforms the way they see the universe." "And that's what Allie is-- the result of this insight." "Yeah, but they're smarter than us." "They can do things we can't even begin to understand." " They're more highly evolved." " Evolution has a cost." "Every choice is the death of all other possibilities." "Maybe something was lost along the way." "Yeah, probably something very simple." "Possibly." "And now they've put it back." "Maybe." "Maybe it's become something more than that." "From the first time I set foot in that room in Groom Lake, saw that body, all I've ever wanted was to understand them, to see through their eyes, just...catch a glimpse." "I feel kind of-- I've never said this to anyone-- but I feel this sense of being with them." "We are so close, Mary." "We'll have the girl." "And through her, we'll be able to talk to them." "I've waited my entire life for this moment." "I-I'm an arrogant bastard." "I always knew I'd get there in the end." "I always knew." "What I never knew, what I had no idea about, was that I'd find someone to share the moment with me." "(cell phone rings)" "Yeah?" "Hello." "Oh." "Well, that is quite a surprise." "Thank you very much." "Um... yeah, I look forward to seeing you as well." "It is unexpected, but that is one of life's great joys, isn't it?" "Happy accidents." "Okay." "There's a new wrinkle." "Allie's dad just showed up." "Well, that's interesting." "We're gonna have to deal with that." "MAN:" "I just can't stand this feeling-- that my life is out of control, that someone else is pulling the strings." "Welcome to the world." "No one has control." "Who could say?" "They're more advanced than us, but that doesn't make them God." "It does from where we're sitting." "What makes me furious, somebody has cut a deal with these guys." "That has to be what's happening." "The government knows about this, and they're covering it up in return for something." "For what?" "You always come back to that, but I just don't see it." "I think the government is just as confused as we are." "Yeah, but you'll give me this-- they know about it." "RAY:" "Blah blah blah blah blah." "You people." "I mean, we're all such victims." "It's time someone did something." "I mean, they come into our homes, they take us up into their ships, they do things to us." "And we just sit around here, and we talk about it." "Ray, we talk about it because it helps." "What else can we do?" "With an attitude like that, nothing." "It's pathetic." "You talk like we could fight back." "I've been taken so many times, I can't count 'em." "Fighting back is not an option." "What about you, Ray?" "Have you ever fought back?" "Yeah, I-I-I'd like to think that I have, but that's not what I'm talking about." "There's us here in this room, okay, fine." "But those people out in the world, they treat us like we're crazy." "Like we're making this up." "If we're all alone, then there's no fighting back." "But if we were believed..." "if there was proof..." "That was your idea, too, wasn't it, Charlie?" " To get proof?" " It was, yeah." "Not anymore?" "Well, some things have come up that kind of rearrange my priorities." "(whistle blows)" "All right, come on, girls." "Come on downfield." "Stick to the fundamentals." "Watch your dribbling." "Throw the ball." "All right." "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "Come on!" "NINA:" "Good." "Good." "Remember the fundamentals." "(car door closes)" "NINA:" "Good." "Good." "Make eye contact with the other players." "If you're making a checklist of superpowers...that was a big one." "She can manipulate time." "Let's get back to the cars." "Have you told Allie?" "We...we've talked about it, but we don't know how to do it yet." "We want to understand it first before we try to help her to understand it." "If I know Allie, she probably could explain the whole thing to you." "This is so romantic, really." "Soul mates destined to find each other in the stars." "You seem threatened by Lisa's story, Ray." "She always comes here with these warm and fuzzy little tales." "It's like aliens are bunny rabbits, like they're nice or something." "Why don't you back off and let Lisa tell her story?" "Hey, Charlie, I don't need your help." "I've been doing fine without you for nine years." "You wanna go with that, Lisa?" "I think it would be fair to say you have a certain a normal resentment about being a single mother, even under these truly abnormal circumstances." "I just don't need anyone weighing in at the 11th hour thinking I need taking care of." "(scoffs) Hey, don't get all over me." "I didn't know I was a father until yesterday afternoon." "I'm not all over you." "I'm just saying I don't need any help." "Just because you haven't had any doesn't mean you don't need it." "Meaning?" "Meaning you're living in a small apartment, supporting yourself and Allie by playing drums in a band." "You could use a little help." "What the hell do you know about how I'm living?" "I know what I see." "You have nothing to say about it, not about me and not about my daughter." "RAY:" "Hey, Lisa, I got a question." "Which story do you think Allie's gonna like better" "Mummy got nailed by some loser musician, or Mummy and Daddy never met, but did the nasty on a flying saucer?" "Why do you come?" "Why do you come if all you're gonna do Is heap abuse on everybody?" "Why?" "So I can spend more time with you." "Go to hell, Ray." "Oh, I've been, on more than one occasion." "Why don't you lighten up, buddy?" "Why don't I lighten up?" "Because I am sick and tired of your cosmic girlfriend's incessant whining." ""My father was half alien." Yeah." "All that crap." "Oh, you didn't know about that, did you?" "Yeah, one of these guys shows up in Grandma's barn, knocks the old lady up." "Nine months later, you got yourself a walking, talking hybrid." "It's a wonder your back's not broken, the size of that chip you're carrying around." "You gonna be the one to knock it off?" "Gentlemen, please." "Harriet, I think we need to ask him to leave the group." "He does nothing but cause trouble." "We are all here to help each other." "He's not helping anybody." "He's just making things worse." "I agree." "You know, Ray, all you ever do is shoot down everyone's stories, spreading trash, but we've never heard too much about your close encounter." "She's got a point, Ray." "Yeah, you said you fought back." "Tell us about that." " Come on." " Tell us your story." "What are you looking at?" "Maybe you should answer their questions." "EVERYONE:" "Yeah, come on, Ray." "Tell us your story." "You wanna hear my story?" "Ray, sit down." "Here's my story." "What are you doing?" "!" "Put your gun away, Ray." "You don't wanna do this." " Put the gun away!" " No, I don't think so." "I got a better idea." "All right, everybody, get over in that corner." "You stay away from the windows." "Sit down on the floor where I can see you." "Come on!" "I'll shoot the new boy first, then I'll start in on the rest of you." "Sit!" "Ray, nobody's getting shot here." "That doesn't have to happen." "Oh, my God, he's gonna shoot us." "He's not gonna shoot anybody." "He's just showing off." "Is that what you think?" "Is that what you truly believe?" "Shoot me." "See if I care." "What are we doing here, Ray?" "Hey!" "I asked you to sit down." "Get that thing out of my face." "I've been abducted by aliens." "You think I care about your little toy trumpet?" "(group gasps)" "RAY:" "You sit down, hero, or I will shoot your bride-to-be." "DR PENZLER:" "Ray, I'm sure if we talk about this, we can work it out." "Ray, listen to Dr Penzler." "It's gonna be all right." "DR PENZLER:" "Give me the gun." "Give me the gun." "Please, give it to her, Ray." "(phone rings)" "(people scream)" "Can't think with the phone ringing." "Dorothy, get over to the window and shut the blinds." "The rest of you stay put." "Don't do anything stupid." "Come on, Dorothy!" "All right, back with the others." "(cell phone rings)" "What's that?" "Whose is that?" "Is that you?" "Yeah." " Answer it." " You sure?" "Just don't say anything stupid, huh?" "Okay." "Hello?" "Ni-Ni-Nina, it's really not a good time." "Allie doesn't run off, Nina." "That's not something she does." "I-I can't." "It's really hard to explain." " Hang up." " My daughter's missing." " Hang up the phone." " You can just wait." "Is she okay?" " Yeah, she's all right." " How do you know?" "I know." "She's scared, but she's all right." "Listen, Nina" "End the damn call, Lisa." "Hang up now." "(gunshot, people scream)" "Oh, my God." "(Charlie gasping)" "(group gasps)" "Help me sit him up." "DR PENZLER:" "It's all right." "Come on." " There you go." " Oh, my God." "CHARLIE:" "Cellophane." " What?" " Cellophane." "Cellophane." "Somebody find some cellophane somewhere." "All right, he's got it." "Get it off." "I've got a scarf!" "I've got a scarf!" "Where are you going?" "I'm getting my scarf because you shot him, Ray!" "Ray, Charlie is really hurt." "We've gotta get him to a hospital." "I guess I wasn't that much help to you after all, was I?" "This doesn't have to get any worse, Ray." "Everything gets worse, Dr Penzler." "Every stinking thing in this world." "What are you gonna do?" "Let me think!" "I gotta think." "Who else has a cell phone?" "Um...turn 'em off and slide 'em over to me." " Ray, it's in my coat." " Go ahead." " What happens now, Ray?" " I'm thinking." "There's no time, Ray." "Charlie doesn't have that kind of time." "Okay..." "I want you to call the FBI." "You know which one of these is yours?" "The little flip phone." "This one?" "What should I tell them?" "The FBI, Ray." "What should I tell them?" "Um...tell 'em I'm armed, and I'm gonna have to start shooting people if my demands aren't met." "Oh, God." "We're gonna die." "We're gonna die." "Just shut up!" "I'm only gonna shoot you if they don't do what I'm asking them." " Ray?" " What?" "What demands?" "What are you asking them to do?" "Tell 'em I wanna talk to the person in charge of their, um... you know, whatever they call it, their--their extraterrestrial project." "You want Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones?" "Cynthia, you're not helping." "I'm not sure who I should be asking for." "Dr Penzler, just make the call." "All right, all right." "FBI, please." "What are you gonna do once you get to somebody in charge?" "I'm gonna make my demands." "You're gonna call the federal government and say," ""Let me speak to the man in charge of your super-secret operation because, if I don't, I'll shoot a few people"?" "That's pathetic is what that is." "Well, no one ever said that Ray wasn't pathetic." "CYNTHIA:" "I knew I never should've joined this damn group." "This is like White people land." "Do you know how many Asian people have been abducted since 1 947?" "Will you please shut up?" "Maybe seven, and you're looking at one of them." "So I decide to be open and honest about it, and this is what I get" "I'm abducted by Homer Simpson." "White people land." "Hello." "Hello." "Is this the--the FBI?" " You got 'em on the phone?" " Um, yes." "Uh-huh." "See?" "This is, um, Dr Harriet Penzler." "I'm hoping you can help me." "I have a bit of a problem here." "DR PENZLER:" "Yes." "Um, I have a group of people here, and one of them's been shot." "The--the man who shot him..." "Lisa, what are you doing?" "DR PENZLER:" "And, um..." "hold on a minute." "EVERYONE:" "Lisa?" "Sit down." "Where do you think you're going?" "Isn't this sweet?" "Now we got the whole happy family." "Allie...it's okay." "Come here." "Come here." "It's okay." "DR PENZLER:" "Ten adults and one child." "That's right, exactly." "Sit down." "Okay, here's the thing." "I don't want any cops." "I don't want any hostage negotiator or any of that Dog Day Afternoon crap..." "Everything's gonna be okay." "I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you." "RAY:" "One SWATteam or anything, I start shooting these people." "Good." "I want someone here in 1 5 minutes." "There is a problem here right now, Allie, but it's gonna be all right." "Ray is just a little angry." ""Ray is just a little angry"?" "No, Ray is majorly pissed off." "I mean, you should be angry, too." "Look what they did to you and what's-his-name--Charlie." "Look at that!" "I mean, how can you sit here and let that kind of thing go unanswered?" "Come on, we don't need to talk about that." "What, we're not supposed to tell Allie she's a test-tube baby?" "You sorry bastard." "Hey..." "Charlie's hurt." "Yeah." "Is he going to be all right?" "I don't know, honey." "If Ray will let us get him to the hospital..." "No one's going anywhere until I get what I want." "(knock on door)" "GUARD:" "Campus security." "Dr Penzler?" "We had a report of a gunshot." "Hands up." "Get your hands up." "Yeah, you keep 'em up there." "Okay." "Here's the situation." "I'm holding these people hostage, all right?" "I've already shot one of them." "I'm angry and unpredictable." "Look at me!" "What we're doing here, we're waiting for the FBI." "There's two more security officers coming from other parts of the campus." "Yeah, so?" "What do you want me to do about them?" "I want you to go out there and talk to them." "I want you all to come up with something to clear this place out, okay?" "Say something exploded, say anything you want." "Just keep the world away from me till the FBI gets here, okay?" "Hey, don't be stupid." "A lot of people are gonna get killed." "You can go now." "What are you doing, Ray?" "What do you think you're gonna get done?" "We live in a world that's out of our control." "You should know that better than anyone." "I mean, things happen, right?" "What is that, God's will?" "The hell with that." "We all feel that way sometimes" "Spare me the couch, Dr Penzler." "I'm not a crazy person." "I mean, things really happen to me, and I'm sick and tired of nobody believing me but you fruit loops." "What am I gonna do?" "Okay, so it's very simple." "The government is gonna come clean on national TV." "They're gonna tell the world this is all real, and then no one... no one will ever think I'm crazy again." "Answer your question?" "We do exactly what he wants." "We clear the area, evacuate the building, keep the students and faculty safe." "By then, the FBI will be here, and then it will all be their problem." " Start setting up the barricades." " Right away." "Something frightened you." "That's why you came here?" "I don't really know what happened." "There were some people." "And you felt as if they were coming after you?" " And I started to run..." " But?" "And then..." "I don't know what happened." "You did something." "I think so." "GUARD:" "This way, folks." "Come down this way as quickly as you can." "SECOND GUARD:" "All right, folks, calmly." "This way." "Quickly as you can, please move down." "Just follow them." "Thank you." "Right through the barricades there." "That's right." "Do you wanna know what I'm worried about?" "I wanna know who's gonna feed my cats." "We'll all be out of here soon." "You'll be home to feed them yourself." "And what if that doesn't happen?" "Relax, Dorothy." "The aliens'll feed 'em." "Yeah, they're old friends of your cats, right?" "What?" "What are you looking at?" "You really think if you're cruel enough to other people, all your own misery will go away?" "No." "Just keeps my mind off it for a while." "RAY:" "Gas trucks." "Nice touch." "(tyres screech)" "(cell phone rings)" "(rings)" "Answer it." "Yes?" "It's for you." "Sit down." "Yeah?" "Okay." "I see you." "What do I want?" "How about a world cruise and a winning lottery ticket?" "(chuckles)" "Why don't you come up here?" "We can talk about it." "Just you." "Your little friends can wait down there." "Hey, sit down." "What do you think you're doing?" "I'm gonna get some ice for my neck because you hurt me." "And tomorrow morning, after the FBI either lock you up or shoot you dead," "I'm gonna have to get up and go to work like any other day, and I'd just as soon do that looking as fresh and pretty as possible." "Get some water for Charlie, will you please, Cynthia?" "CYNTHIA:" "Yeah." "Anybody else?" " Is that okay?" " Yeah." "Thanks." "We got to get him out of here, Ray." "Yeah?" "Let's just hope this lady coming up the stairs now feels the same way about that as you do." "I felt good about this guy as soon as I saw him." "LISA:" "Me, too." "(knock on door)" "Answer it." "Come on." "Out of the way, Dr Penzler." "Let me see her." "Are you the one who asked for the FBI?" "(scoffs) Yeah." "I'm here." "You can talk to me." "Did anyone tell you what this was all about?" "Man in therapist's office holding ten hostages demands FBI agent." "I asked for someone from the FBI extraterrestrial project." "Someone who knows about aliens." "You mean, like on X-Files?" "I'm the one you want." "RAY:" "Okay." "Let me bring you up to speed on our situation here." "I shot him." "And he's gonna die if he doesn't get medical attention." "That's one." "After that, if I don't get what I ask for, these people, they're just fish in a barrel to me, you understand that?" "That was the lady in the park, the one who tried to grab me." "RAY:" "You understand?" "This is what I want you to do." "I want you to go public." "Go public?" "Call the New York Times." "call CNN." "Tell 'em everything you know, tell 'em this is all real." "You just signed our death warrant." " You think she cares about killing 11 " " Shut up!" "She's not gonna call CNN, Ray." "She's gonna have us all killed." "I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to make that call." "My people have a very old-fashioned, Cold-War slant on things." "It's not right...keeping something like this secret as I'm sure everyone here would agree." "This is news that belongs to the world." "How do you know she's from the government, Ray?" "How do you know she's not one of them?" "Sit down." "Why don't you let the little girl come with me?" "It's the kind of gesture that would go a long way." "Give me the girl, and I promise, I'll do everything I can for you." "WILSON:" "Look at the eyes, Ray." "You see?" "Those are alien eyes." "RAY:" "Wilson, shut up." "Let me have the girl." "Let Allie go, Ray." "She doesn't have to get hurt." "Allie, stand up." "Stand up." "You've got something I want, now I've got something you want." "Get out." "Get out!" "MAN:" "Clear it off the south perimeter!" "MAN:" "Here comes your dad." "The rooms here also" "What's the situation?" "He's gonna kill the girl unless we call CNN and tell the world we're not alone." "You two were going to pick her up." "This was supposed to be easy." "It got a little complicated." "I'm handling it." "How?" "I say what I have to, promise him anything he wants." "Just make sure the girl doesn't get hurt." "No one's going to get killed here today." " Hey." " Hey." "You got a nice move to the post." "That kid yesterday thought he could get one past you, but you were right there." "What I do is I fool myself." "I make myself believe I'm really going to cover." "Because I believe it, he believes it." "How do you get yourself over to the post?" "I don't know." "I'm afraid if I ever stop to think about it, it won't work anymore." "Do you know why you're here?" "Do you know what this is about?" "I'm not sure yet, but I think we're gonna find out soon." "This is the year for the "big ideas," right?" "(groans)" "Hey...hey." " I may pass out here." " No, you won't." " Do you know CPR?" " Uh, n-no." "You're gonna need to take my right arm and put it across my chest." "Okay." "Make sure I don't roll over." "Then what do I do?" "You're gonna have to give me mouth-to-mouth." "I'm sorry I said those things about the way you live." "I was scared." "It's like Allie said--people get mean when they get scared." "All right." "She's a wonderful girl, Lisa." "You did great." "You want CNN here so badly, why don't you call 'em yourself?" "Because they'd just think he was crazy, and he wants everyone to know that he isn't crazy at all." "(cell phone rings)" "Yeah?" "Okay." "The media'll be here in 15 minutes." "We're almost home, fruit loops." "(gunshot)" "(everyone screams)" "Get down." "Who took that shot?" "(cell phone rings)" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "!" "What'd you think would happen if you tried something like that?" "It was a miscommunication." "I'm sorry." "It won't happen again." "You're damn right it won't!" "Next time something like that happens the little girl is coming out of the window with a bullet in her head." "ERIC:" "Mary." "Oh, what the hell, Ray?" "Leave the little girl alone." "You stay right there." "You sad little man." "Who do you think you are?" "God?" "You shut up." "He's not God, Dorothy." "He's just a poor excuse for a man." "A man without any faith." "Faith?" "You're gonna talk to me about faith?" "God comes down and, pluck, there goes your son, no more Luke." "Bye-bye." "Why?" "Dale, why?" "Because He's up in His Heaven and all's right with the world?" "Or because we live in a stinking sewer where nothing makes one bit of sense?" "RAY:" "But you have faith." "Your son dies for no reason, but you have faith." "You get taken and tortured, but you have faith." "(Ray laughs)" "If I didn't, then I wouldn't have any reason to go on living." "Then you crawl away and you die, because this right here-- this is as much sense as the world will ever make." "What are you doing?" "I told you I didn't want anyone killed." "What am I doing?" "I'm trying to keep the little girl alive." "I put a man up there, I told him if he had a clean shot, he should take it." "And he missed, and we'll be lucky to get her out alive." "Pull everybody back." "And do what?" "What do you suggest?" "We should call CNN for him?" "This little girl is everything." "She's what it's all about." "We can't afford to lose her." "(cell phone rings)" "Yes." "Ray." "I am so sorry about what happened by the window." "There are some people out here who've seen too many Lethal Weapon movies." "Look up at the window." "You get me what I want." "Do it now." "RAY:" "Go sit down with your mum and dad." "You don't have to be scared, Mum." "This is all going to be all right." "A lot of things are going to happen because of this." "That's all." "But it's going to be all right." "You better hope you're right, or you're gonna have to start praying for a little intervention from your grandfather's side of the family." "You're not gonna get it any cleaner." "He's gonna kill her." "We've gotta take him out." "I'm not gonna be a party to any more killing, Mary." "I'm done with that." "I don't think you are, Dad." "You know who's in there, right, besides the little girl?" "Her mother and her father--Charlie." "That means he knows." "And that's two people with a lot of information that have had some pretty bad experiences with us over the years." "They have to go." "Dr Penzler, too." "I can't risk a leak." "It's too important." "They don't matter anymore." "It's all about Allie." "You're not in charge here, Mary." "I am." "Take a step back." "Calm down." "I'm sorry." "You're right." "Just, the two of them having gotten together has made me a little nervous." " They could really gum us up." " No one's getting killed here, Mary." "Of course not." "CYNTHIA:" "I got to go to the bathroom." "Grab a cup." "Knock yourself out." "Lisa, how's he doing?" "He's still breathing." "Are you all right?" "I just don't want any more bad news." "Mr Watson?" "Luke, when he died, he wasn't mad at you anymore." "DALE:" "He wasn't?" "He knew." "It was just one of those things that happens." "He was growing up, and that was hard for you both." "He loved you very, very much, Mr Watson." "And that's what he was thinking when he died." "I just wish I could see him one more time." "I wish I could tell him that I was sorry." "He knows, Mr Watson." "He knows." "(cries)" "It's okay, Dad." "You can let go." "Now I can see why those people want you so badly." "When it gets dark, we shoot for the windows again." "At the same time, we bring two men through the hallway." "He'll be down on the floor, won't be looking to the door." "We've got a man up in the heating ducts." "He'll coordinate by earphone, drop down through at the same time the two men from the hall enter." "And then he turns and shoots the girl." "That room is covered by snipers." "These men know what they're doing." "It all goes by the numbers, we take him out." " And the others?" " Not a problem." "I don't want my father to see you do it." "You look like a college kid doing his homework." " What are you working on?" " Oh, just a little theory." "Their craft was, I like to call it, thought-powered." "Allie may be a stronger manifestation of that power, that energy." "How long have you been sleeping with my daughter?" "About six years." "You get some kind of sick pleasure from that, the boss' daughter?" ""Boss"?" "I thought we were friends." "I love Mary." "And I think she loves me." "I want your desk cleaned out by tomorrow." "After this is over, I'll be going back to Maine." "I don't wanna see you there when I go into the office." "How you feeling?" "What's happening to me?" " It's in her DNA, isn't it?" " That's what makes her special." "Mum..." "I never believed that part of your story-- "My grandfather was an alien."" " Allie..." " Your dad--could he do things?" "I never saw it, but, yes, he could." " But you never could." " I can play drums and sing harmony." "A lot of people would tell you that's amazing." "There's you and me." "The way I know where you are, how you're feeling, if you're safe." "I always figured that was just because I'm your only daughter and you love me so much." "Yeah, I suppose it could be that." "It's what made your dad sick, isn't it, doing these things?" "You're not my dad, honey." "You've got a lot of other things in you." "You've got Charlie's family, too." "MAN:" "Everybody in position?" "He's not gonna last much longer." "You got a lot of hell on your plate." "MAN:" "What are we doing here, Ray?" "This man needs help." "Are you just gonna sit there while he bleeds to death?" "Nothing you do is going to change anything about what happened to you, Mr Morrison." "What are you talking about?" "That man in the woods when you were eight." "The one that took you in that shed." "He wasn't from another planet." "He was just mean and crazy." "You shut up about that." "You're just going to hurt more people, that's all." "It's not going to make what happened to you go away." "Shut up!" " LISA:" "Allie..." " It would be easier, wouldn't it?" "Blame it on them." "They came down and took you." "You stop it." "It's a lot scarier to think that the monsters might be us." "Shut up!" " Ray!" " You shut up right now!" "Ray!" "She doesn't mean it!" "She's a little kid." "She doesn't know what she's saying." "DOROTHY:" "One day, you're gonna stand in front of the Lord, and you're gonna have to explain what happened here today." "You are gonna have to explain." "I'm not the one who has the explaining to do." "Dale's son--explain that." "Explain cancer." "Explain war." "Explain the whole damn thing to me just one time... so I can understand why everything has to be so hard." "(sobs) Oh, God." "I'm sorry I hurt him." "Oh, God, I'm so sorry." "Allie..." "LISA:" "Allie..." "What are you doing, Allie?" "Charlie..." "Look at me." "Look at me." "Look at me, Dad." "He's all right?" "What do you think we ought to do now?" "(cell phone rings)" "Yes, Ray?" "Hello." "Ray?" "No." "This is Allie." "We're all going to come out of the building now." "Please tell everybody not to shoot." "I'll go with you." "All right." "They're coming down." "She says she'll come with us if we let the others go." "Everybody set?" " Mary...you can't do this." " Do what?" "You can't kill anyone." "What makes you think they'll let you?" "They don't care about Lisa and Charlie now any more than we do." "It's all about Allie." "Then where are they?" "We tried to pick up Lisa." "Lisa was helpless." "Allie can take care of herself." "Then what makes you think any of this will work?" "I don't know if it's gonna work." "At least I'm not afraid to try." "Mary, don't do this." "Listen to me." "I-I know this." "Walk away." "Even if you lose the project, walk away... before you do something you can't walk away from." "MAN:" "Here they come." "Why don't you just fade away?" "You're a burden to the project." "You don't have the stomach for it, and you don't have the brains." "You have no idea what I'm capable of?" "What I've done?" "I won't have any more blood on my hands." "Everybody set?" "Get a tight lead on that subject." "Run away!" "Take the little girl!" "It's a trick!" "Run!" "It's a trick!" "WOMAN:" "Oh, my God." "It's okay." "Come on!" "I'll take care of you." "Come on." "MARY:" "It's okay." "Keep coming." "I'll take care of you all." "Come on." "It's okay." "It's all right." "Keep coming." "I'll take care of you." "Come on." "(Laughs)" "ALLIE:" "Miss Crawford." "I'm ready to go with you now." "Little girl..." "I love the way your mind works." "(Subtitle Revised by HchC)"