"Previously on Taken..." "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 1947." "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:" "Hs eveny moment of oun lives built into us befone we'ne bonn?" "Hf it is." "Does that make us less nesponsible fon the things we do." "On is the nesponsibility built in." "Too?" "Aftenyou hit the ball." "Do you stand and wait to see if it goes out." "On do you stant nunning and let natune take its counse?" "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 911." "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)" "# H 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 gnow up." "We kick at evenything we've been told." "We nebel against the wonld oun panents have wonked so hand to bning us into." "That pant of gnowing up is kicking at the ties that bind." "But h don't think that's why we kick at all." "H think we kick when we find out that oun panents don't know much mone about the wonld than we do." "They don't have all the answens." "We nebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along." "That thene isn't any Santa Claus at all." "(chattering)" "Hey, do you like Hüsker Dü?" "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 oun diffenences wonldwide would vanish if we wene facing an alien thneat fnom outside this wonld." "And yet." "H ask you..." "What could be more alien..." "W ait till she forms her owwn 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 twwo." "That ought to hold you." "Mr Holding, do you have any champagne?" "I've got some Pepsi." " Pepsi wwill do." " All right." "Just don't expect me to give you the "today you are a wwoman" 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 wwoman." " W ell said!" " Cheers." "You're the very first person I ever met wwho's lived in a trailer park." "My stepdad's a musician, and the lady wwho owwned a bar he played at owwed him money, so wwe just wwound up wwith this trailer." "Don't apologize." "It's very, um..." "Rockford Files." "I knoww, I'm totally strung out on television." "Hey, Nina, thanks again." "It wwas a pleasure meeting you." "No problem." "Next time Lisa needs anything from the store, give me a call, I'll tell you wwhich 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 growwn up noww, huh?" "Your mum wwould be sad she wwas missing it." "You're getting really good on those drums." "Thanks." "Danny, I'd like to take W atson for a wwalk noww." "I'll leave the door open for you." "Thanks." "Come here." "Come on." "(jingling)" "W atson, come on." "(barking)" "Shh!" "W atson!" "W atson!" "W atson, wwhat is it?" "(W atson barking)" "W atson!" "W atson!" "W atson!" "Lisa..." "Today you are a wwoman." " Hi." " Hi." "W hy do you think the aliens took all their stuff back?" "W ell..." "W hat makes you think they took it all?" "Ha ha ha!" " Enjoy." " Thank you." "I hear this wwas quite a showw." "Oh, ww..." "W hat do you wwant?" "I find I have a lot of free time on my hands." "Imagine that." "How's Becky?" "You wwant to have a conversation that doesn't end up wwith me coming over this table and stuffing my fist dowwn your throat, you stay off of that subject!" "W e're not enemies anymore, Tom." "W e're on the same side." "I'm a private citizen noww." "Our friends saww to that wwhen they took all our evidence." "W hat do you wwant?" "You wwent from a sceptic to a believer in a nanosecond." "That happened months before the Mojave Desert sightings." "Maybe I just saww the light." "W hat do you knoww that you're not telling?" "Say hello to your sister for me." "Tell her I miss her." "BECKY:" "So, there wwas a lot of excitement around here wwhile I wwas awway." "I'm sorry I wwasn't here." "I'm fine, really." "Your Uncle Tom has a lot of pretty wweird ideas." "You're not starting to have the same ideas, are you?" "W hat if I am?" "You come from a special family." "Your father had an amazing mind." "He could look at things and figure them out." "W ith people, too." "He could see things other people couldn't see." "There wwas a lot about him that..." "There wwas just a lot about him." "Honey, your life is changing because you're growwing up." "You're not being abducted into a spaceship." "You're being "taken" into adulthood." "Of the twwo, I'd say that's far and awway 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 twwo 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, wwon a couple of awwards." "Gave Harry Hamlin his first part." "Howw the hell you been, man?" "Good." "Really good." "So, uh, wwhat's all this about?" "They said they'd tell us wwhen wwe got here." "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 hourss and 20 minutes." "Houston, our last transmission was only four minutes ago." "We were at coordinates..." "Oh, my God!" "About three wweeks ago, wwe sent a manned mission into space." "This launch wwas unannounced." "The purpose of this mission wwas to put certain sensitive equipment into orbit." "W hat sort of equipment?" "Do you remember a program of President Reagan's, the Strategic Defence Initiative?" "Yeah." "Star W ars." "As you probably remember, there wwere some questions about wwhether or not this program wwas feasible." "Before President Bush revisits the project, wwe need to knoww that it's viable." "So wwhat did you send up?" "A reactor?" "One of the drawwbacks to getting the program off its feet wwas finding a compact powwer system that could put out enough kilowwatts to powwer both particle beam wweapons and rail guns." "You did!" "You put this thing into orbit, didn't you?" "Our payload wwas highly classified." "The capsule had been in orbit for 14 hours." "It wwas twwo hours awway from being in a position wwhere the payload wwas to be delivered." "The astronauts wwent dark for almost 21/2 hours." "They disappeared." "No contact." "Nothing." "Then they wwere back, clear as day." "They had no idea they'd lost 21/2 hours of their lives." "The payload?" "Gone." "CHET:" "I guess they didn't wwant a reactor messing wwith wwhatever they've got going on up there." "This is a wwaste of time." "The people in this room represent $286 billion a year in defence spending." "W e need your help, gentlemen." "Stop playing games and tell us everything you knoww about wwhoever it is wwho's out there and wwhat the hell they wwant." "(clears throat)" "I assume you ladies and gentlemen have all seen E.T." "They're nowwhere near that nice." "W e are back, baby, wwe are back!" "I don't think you get howw big wwhat just happened here is." "W e are reinstated, fully funded, blessed for as long as Bush is in." "Probably after that!" "W ould you mind getting into this wwithout 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 wwhile, I thought all this wwas a bluff." "I thought you had something big, but you've been on this Tom Clarke thing 12 years noww, and the best you can do is check his phone bill?" "Forget Tom Clarke, wwill 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." "W hat exactly you trying to atone for here?" "You might as wwell be looking for Charlie Keys." "You're not gonna come in?" "I said good-bye to your father 13 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." "W hat do you wwant from me?" "!" "Leave my family alone!" "Dad." "Aah!" "They're coming for you!" "DANNY:" "W e've lived here for the last seven years." "ERIC: "W e" wwould be?" "Myself, my wwife, and my daughter." "Do you rent, or do you owwn?" "W ho rents a trailer?" "Are you interested in this sort of thing?" "That's my daughter's." "W ell, it's actually my stepdaughter." "Is that important?" "Sure it's important." "Everything's important." "Your stepdaughter?" "Yeah, from my wwife's first marriage." "She wwas married to the brother of the guy wwho wwrote that book..." "Tom Clarke." "Your wwife's first husband wwas..." " Jack." " Jack." "Jack." "That's Lisa's dad." "W e call him Jack, but I've heard my wwife refer to him as Jacob." "Is this all part of a regular census questionnaire?" "This is a followw-up, Mr Holding." "It can never hurt to followw up." "W ell, here she is noww." "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 owwn 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 wwere from my dad." "That's right." "You should." "He says he's from the Census Bureau, asking Danny a lot of questions." "In civics, wwe 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?" "W?" " 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 wwas so awwesome." "Schooled that guy." " Got the hands for it." " All right, Charlie, see you." " Good night, Charlie." " See you, Charlie." "See you guys tomorroww." "(siren)" "(cat yowwls)" "(wwind wwhistling)" "(loud clank)" "It's homey." "A person starting college, a life of their owwn, they need homey." "Homey." "I kinda like it." "Howw much? but I don't wwant you calling her or anybody else for quite a wwhile." "Tell me about these people, wwhy they're looking for me." "The man that came into your house, his name wwas Eric Crawfwford." "His father wwas an army colonel." "His name wwas Owwen Crawfwford." "And he came after your father... came after Jacob." "Your Aunt Becky and I fooled him into thinking that Jake wwas dead, but I guess that Eric figured it out." "But wwhy wwas Owwen Crawfwford looking for my dad?" "This has to do wwith the things you wwrite about." "See?" "You already kneww." "You kneww the first time you called me." "And you said one day, you'd explain it all." "Yeah, wwell..." "I think you've had enough excitement for one day." "Don't you?" "Listen, if you ever need me, this is wwhat I wwant you to do." "I wwant you to take out a personal ad in the national edition of the New York Times and have it say," ""Drummer seeking gig wwith..." "Texas country band."" "You're young." "You could still develop decent taste in music." "Listen." "I knoww." "But you're gonna be okay." "Okay." "Our first date, your dad and I wwent for hot dogs." "You knoww, your dad never kept his owwn medals." "I don't think he ever wwent to collect them." "But he carried your grandfather's wwith him every day of his life." "They wwere in his pockets wwhen he died." "Your grandfather wwas 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." "W hat's this?" "That is a picture of your father." "He must be about eight." "This guy wwith him is his stepdad." "Your father used to talk about this." "It wwas the most scared he'd ever been in his life." "Yeah, yeah." "This is definitely that." "W hat?" "W ell, 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 dowwn, drop the floor out from underneath you." "But none of that scared your father, uh-uh." "It wwas the carnies..." "The guys wwho ran the rides." "He said there wwas something about them that just gave him the creeps." "W ell, like this guy." "I guess if you wwere eight, he'd seem pretty creepy, huh?" "W hat wwas wwrong wwith dad?" "He had a..." "He had a brain disorder." "Made him believe certain things." "W hat kind of things?" "He's dead noww." "Do you really wwant to remember this part of him?" "I wwant wwhatever I can get." "He believed he'd been taken... by aliens." "Lots of times." "And the men?" "The people wwe wwere hiding from?" " I guess they believed that, too." " Howw about you?" "Your dad said once they wwere like his guardian angels." "He thought they wwere protecting him?" "No, he thought they wwanted him for something." "He believed they had saved him from dying in V ietnam." "I think, in the end, he thought they wwere coming after you." "They have come for me." "More than once." "That's wwhy he screamed the last time he saww me." "He could see that they wwere already taking me." "If you wwere eight, yeah, maybe this wwould scare you." "None of this scares me anymore." "Noww it just makes me mad." "If they come again, I'm not going wwithout a fight, and if that lands me in some hospital room, staring out some wwindoww, screaming, then that's wwhat it does." "W hat wwas he like, my grandfather?" "I didn't really knoww him that wwell." "He kind of frightened me." "Howw come?" "He wwas alwways nice to me." "L..." "I don't knoww." "I guess he just terrified your father so much." "All your father ever wwanted from that man wwas a pat on the back." "It's amazing howw not getting something so simple can do so much." "(door shuts)" "W hen did you get in?" "Night before last." "I had a feww days before fall quarter starts." "Good to have you home." "I'm sorry, honey." "He's got a lot on his mind." "W hy don't you leave him?" "W hat?" "Leave, as in pack your bags, wwalk 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 knoww it's true." "I have my compensations." "I have you." "So move to Neww Haven." "You'll have more of me and less of him." "I can set you up wwith 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 newws." "You ready?" "You wwanna sit dowwn or..." "W hat's your newws?" "I wwas wwrong." ""About wwhat?" you ask." ""It's like this," I answwer." "I take all the money the generals threww at us, and I tell my guys, "Build me something that wwill pick up the impulse signals from those implants"..." "The signals that wwere being amplified by that transformer." "The transformer I said wwas the body wwe had stored at Groom Lake." "Y-Yes." "They build the thing." "They turn it on." "V oilà!" "Lights up like a Christmas tree." ""Noww, wwhy does this make me wwrong?" you ask." "Okay." "These signals are big and bad and boosted." "Somewwhere on this planet, there's still a transmitter going strong, as if wwhen they grabbed all their stuff, they deliberately left it behind." "W hat does this give us?" "W hat I alwways said it wwould." "W e can track any implant, anytime, anywhere." "Look at this." "Find Alan for me, wwill you?" "Remember that chip wwe took out of the girl from Cleveland?" "W e put it into the head of a guy named Alan." "W orks for the Department of the Interior." " Thinks he wwent in for a root canal." " Found him, sir." "Get him." "OPERATOR:" "Motel 6." "May I speak wwith Mr Alan Stewwart?" "One moment." "ALAN:" "Hello?" " Mr Stewwart?" " Yes." "Hold for Dr Lamarr." "W OMAN:" "Who's on the phone?" "Quiet." "(disguised voice) It's Dr Lamarr." "Just wwanted to check on your root canal." "Is that your wife?" "!" "How does she know where you are?" "I-I'm fne." "Dr Lamarr, how did you fnd me?" "Mr Stewwart, I'm a dentist." "That's my job." "W OMAN:" "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 howw this helps us." "Oh, yeah." "This sea of blinking lights, our very owwn galaxy of abductees." "Exactly." "W e cross-reference knowwn abductees, their movements, et cetera, wwith the implant data." "W e name them and eliminate them." "That leaves unidentified abductees." "If there's someone wwe're looking for, wwe feed in everything wwe can... data from field agents, all of that... compare patterns." "Amazing wwhat you can do wwith a modern computer and a couple of billion dollars in taxpayers' money." "Can you find Charlie Keys?" "Yeah." "(playing hard rock)" "(song ends)" "You kinda suck." "Do you think you can unsuck by a wweek from W ednesday?" "W e've got a gig at the O.K. Hotel." "I'm in the band?" "No one else answwered the ad." "No wway, man!" "Didn't really mean it." "About you sucking." "You're no wworse 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 awway from home?" "Yeah." "(scratching noises)" "I remember the frsst time I slept on my own in my new apartment." "When I woke up, it took me a minute to remember wwhere I wwas." "(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 wwhat happened to me." "I expect to wwake up any minute and be back in my old room..." ""It wwas all just a dream."" "(noises continue)" "Thanks for being so nice." "It makes all of this a little less heavyy." "Anytime." "No, you are not gonna take me!" "You are not gonna take me again!" "You get the hell awway from me!" "Get the hell awway from me!" "(knock on door)" "(knocking)" "It's open." "(gasps)" "W hat are you doing?" "Sorry, Naomi." "I'm sorry." "Nothing." "Sorry." "This is howw you're spending your leave of absence?" "Sitting in the dark, reading, wwith 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 wwithout a fight." "W hat is all this?" "That's nothing." ""The Alien Agenda:" "W hat The Abductions Really Mean"?" "Compendium of Alien Races?" ""Adopt An Alien"?" "W hat is this all about?" "Oh, my God." "You think you've been abducted by aliens." "Do you have any idea howw 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, howw come all the stories are so similar?" "Because wwe see the same movies, wwe read the same books..." "They've been taking me since I wwas nine." "The last time they took me wwas only six wweeks 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 wwall!" "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 wwhy you should believe me." "So I'm gonna get proof, and I'm gonna showw you and anyone else wwho wwill listen that I'm not crazy." "Okay, Charlie." "Okay." "It took us almost twwo months before wwe found her." "Something wwrong wwith your system?" "No, the system's fine." "She just doesn't have an implant." "W hy wwould she?" "She's Jacob Clarke's daughter." "W hat do you do for an amputee?" "You build them a fake hand." "From their point of vieww, wwe'd be psychic amputees." "W e're missing something they take for granted." "So wwhat did they give us?" "Lmplants." "They've given us electronic versions of wwhat they have biologically." "Pull up the images of the brain tissue samples wwe took from that fire in Alaska." "Spectrographic analysis turned up some wweird trace compounds." "Colour code for density threshold." "This sample comes from the brain of that twwin wwho died in the fire wwith your brother." "The twwins wwere failed attempts at crossbreeding, but wwe wworked from the assumption their cellular structure is almost identical to Lisa's." "Good." "Noww zoom out." "The tissue is doing double duty... spirals of neurons acting as antennae." "W e found her." "She wwas just broadcasting on another frequency." "(rock music blares)" "(chattering)" "Hey, dude!" "Bye." "Hey, Lisa, howw you doing?" "W e got so much to talk about." "Don't stand there..." "do something!" "Unh!" "The national edition of the New York Times, please." "(dialling)" "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 wwhen Eric Crawfwford came after you," "I should have told you." "I don't knoww if I wwould have believed you." "So..." "This Crawfwford came after me because I'm..." "One-quarter alien?" "Does make you pretty interesting." "W oww." "From wwhat I have experienced, and I'm only talking about wwhat I've seen..." "They don't wwant to hurt anybody." "They saved you." "They wwalked you home." "Your father wwas very important to them." "And I guess that you are, too." "CHET:" "These are the matched repeaters." "W e started wwith anyone wwho had been taken more than once." "W e noticed there wwas a subset..." "People repeatedly taken on the same day as others." "W e found Charlie Keys." "Let's assume he's part of pair number 55." "W hy 55?" "Numbers thing." "Go wwith me for a moment." "Charlie's last abduction, right after wwe started tracking him, came on September 8th." "If wwe backdate Lisa's pregnancy, wwe can give her a conception date of September 8th." "They're breeding him wwith a girl wwho'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 wworld, most of our research goes into recessive traits... things wwe can breed out of a species or into it." "W hat do wwe knoww about the Keys family?" "The grandfather, Russell, is a bomber pilot." "His son is a V ietnam vet and rescue wworker." "These men are strong, brave, extremely resilient." "One other thing..." "W hen they're taken, they fight back." "And the Clarkes..." "Jacob, he could do things." "My father wwas terrified of him." "But he wwas physically wweak." "In a wway, he wwas no more suited to survive than those mutant brothers in the Alaskan wwoods." "And Lisa..." "And Lisa, she doesn't seem to have inherited her father's gifts or his physical wweakness." "She seems to be nothing more than a carrier." " You ever cook wwith tarragon?" " Hmm?" "It's a very strong spice." "One pinch is all you need." "Otherwise, it overpowwers the dish you're making." "Genetics is a lot like cooking..." "little pinch of this, little more of that." "But wwhat are they cooking?" "That, my son and heir, is one hell of a wwhopper, isn't it?" "Super wweapon 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 wwas auditioning for his band." "I don't think I like this guitar player." "I wwent back to the rehearsal studio the next day to see him." "He'd left for L.A." "Prick." "No, that's not wwhat 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 followwed me home at all." "W ell, you wwent home wwith somebody." "No, I didn't." "Honey, come home." "The people you wwere hiding from, the same people wwho wwere looking for your father," "Tom says they knoww wwhere you are." "They're not gonna bother me." "Because beings from another wworld are looking out for you?" "Yes, mum." "That's exactly wwhy." "You wweren't here." "You didn't see wwhat happened to me." "Mum, I..." "Mum." "This is gonna be all right." "I knoww it." "I can feel it." "You can, can't you?" "You're your father's daughter." "You knoww that." "Sooner or later, you twwo are gonna have to tell me wwhat this is all about." "It started wwhen I wwas eight." "I used to have these... at the time, I thought they wwere dreams." "There was always the same guy..." "(speaking Spanish)" "W hat'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." "W e think many of the craft stay out of sight around the Antarctic." "One day, twwo wweeks 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." "W oman from Siberia has a similar story." "And Norway, Alaska, Zanzibar, Australia." "144 multi-wwitness, confirmable reports from all over the wworld." "Howw long has this been going on?" "About six wweeks noww." "One big rush, then zilch." "Absolutely no activity." "Not one sighting." "Nothing." "Six wweeks, and you never mentioned this to me?" " I'm mentioning it noww." " This is still my project." "Abso-friggin'-lutely." "Eric, this is me, Chet." "W e've been through the wwars, buddy." "I wwas just giving you a little space, letting you come to terms wwith your divorce and all." "Howw you liking the single life, by the wway?" "W hat 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 Pacifc Northwest over the many reports of lights in the sky." "The government will neither confrm nor deny the rumourss..." "They're beautiful." "...of secret aircrafttt being tested as part of a new Strategic Defence Initiative recently funded by Congress..." "It's gonna be okay." "Is it?" "Definitely." "W hat if there's something wwrong wwith the baby?" "Honey, really." "It's gonna be great." "No, it's not that." "I think my wwater just broke." "(panting)" "You're gonna be all right." "Yeah." "(panting)" "Less than a minute apart." "W ill you call my mum?" "(both giggle)" "CHET:" "Good, here's the general." "Gentlemen." "General." "W e feed directly off the Cheyenne Mountain computer." "This grid showws the actions of every knowwn man-made object in space... screwws from a 1984 shuttle mission, a screwwdriver the Russians dropped off Mir, and thousands..." "thousands... of satellites." "You didn't bring us up from W ashington to see screwws." "W e've had unidentifieds before, but nothing like this." "Look." "W e eliminate the ones wwe've I.D.'d, and wwe're left wwith these." "Earlier tonight, there wwere hundreds of neww objects." "W e thought the system had gone dowwn." "And then the objects... coalesced." "That's the only wway I knoww howw to explain it." "There wwere lots of little ones, and noww 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)" "W hat do you have in the wway 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 centimetres." "Stop pushing." "I can't." "Listen to me, you have to stop." "W e have to bring your blood pressure dowwn before you can have this baby." "Get Dr Catrell." "You'll have to step out." "It's a slight complication." " W hat's going on?" " You have to go noww!" "(moaning)" "Sir, it's coming dowwn." "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 dowwn fast." "Flash alert to CINC-NORAD." "Move to Defcon 2." "If it's wwhat I think it is, none of that'll matter." "Her blood pressure's 200 over 100." "She's had twwo seizures." "There's protein in her urine." "She's eclamptic." "Let's stabilize her." "Twwo 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." "W hat's happening to you is called eclampsia, but wwe've treated your seizures, and wwe're bringing dowwn your blood pressure." "W hy is this happening?" "52.8 at 229.0, alt -30.1." "51.2 at 227.8, alt -26.7." "It's slowwing dowwn." "It's levelling out." " She's stabilizing." " Okay, very nice." " No sign of foetal distress." " Here comes another contraction." "If you can wwork wwith me, wwe can bring this baby into the wworld wwithout a C-section, okay?" " Yeah." " Okay." "W e're gonna try some pushing." "1... 2... 3... and push!" "Push, push, push, push!" "Okay, good girl." "Stop." "Nice job, Lisa." "V itals?" "B.P.'s dowwn to 120." "She's stabilizing." "V ery nice." "W e're gonna do it again, Lisa, okay?" "30.6 meters per second at 213.8 degrees local." "Altitude, -9.3 meters per second." "Great." "Let's just wwait for another contraction." "Just a second, and wwe'll go again." "Ready?" "On three." "1... 2... 3... push!" "Push, push, push, push." " Stop!" " V itals still stable." "W ay to go, Lisa!" "Estimated hover point... 47-39-14 north, 122-18-34 wwest." "You're almost there." "Just a feww more pushes, okay?" "Oh, my God." "My God!" "W hy is there so much blood?" "It's all right." "Doctor, there's foetal distress." "I'm taking this baby noww." "Forceps." "Prep suction." "She's in D.I.C." "She's bleeding out!" "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "W e're losing the baby, too." "25.2 at 211.0, alt -4.9." "It... it stopped!" "It's disappeared." "W hat?" "It's gone." "It can't be gone." "W e have the mother's heartbeat." "Baby is stabilizing." "She's stopped bleeding." "I wwant a teal-amber search, code red, right noww." "Go." "Find the damn thing." "Go!" "(baby crying)" "Hey." "Hey." "You're not supposed to be here, you knoww." "You wwere bleeding to death." "W hat happened?" "The bleeding stopped." "Nobody knowws wwhy." "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 knoww wwhat 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 wwas important." "Your grandfather found this in Pine Lodge, Neww Mexico." "He found it at a crash site." "So it's all true." "W hat 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 wwas a note." "My father and I..." "W e wweren't very close." "W ell, 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." "W hat does Uncle Chet say about this?" "Dr W akeman hasn't seen it." "W hy are you showwing it to me now?" "W?" "There's a great deal of powwer that comes wwith the kind of knowwledge I'm privyy to." "I anticipate change." "I wwant you to join me in the program, Mary." "This is something that shouldn't go outside the family." "CHET:" "Hello, Thrillseekers." "Look at you, little Mary, all growwn 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 fulfil her duties" close?" "Close as in Patrick Browwn got there first." "You're just a grad student." "You'll get there." "Lisa had her baby." "Little girl." "Are wwe going to try to pick her up?" "W hat wwould be the point in that?" "God!" "I've been wwanting to do this since you wwere 13." "Me, too." "W hy don't you pick up the baby?" "You don't wwaste 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 wway better at that than wwe are." "So wwhat are wwe gonna do?" "W e wwatch and wwait." "And wwe figure out a wway to take her that wwill wwork." "W atch and wwait." "That sounds a lot like my father." "I'm nothing like your father!" "I have a theory about wwho she is." "You wwant to hear it?" "Evolution tends to eliminate, or at least, uh..." "Subjugate emotion." "The limbic brain is still dowwn there." "But it's wway..." "Dowwn... under." "W hy wwe don't run through the streets killing people... at least most of us." "(giggles)" "Lmagine their abilities combined wwith 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 W hite Shadoww." "W hite Shadoww comes to us after spending the last three years jumping through a flaming hoop at a sea showw in Florida." "Hopefully, over time, as wwe come to knoww and understand these creatures a little better, wwe'll become more caring and compassionate in our behaviour towwards them." "Here at the aquarium, it is our hope that wwe can bring you that one step closer to truly knowwing 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 howw long the animal has been awway and under wwhat conditions it wwas kept, but in most cases, once an animal has been taken, there's little hope of an uneventful return." "W hat's the matter wwith them?" "I remember the frsst time that I ever saw dolphins." "I was three." "It was the frsst time in my life" "I can remember knowing that something was beautiful... and it was the frsst time I had the feeling there was something about me that was different from everybody else."