"My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky." "She liked to watch the clouds in the day and the stars at night..." "especially the stars." "We would play a game sometimes." "a game called "What's Beyond the Sky?"" "We would imagine darkness or a blinding light or something else that we didn't know how to name." "But. of course." "that was just a game." "There's nothing beyond the sky." "The sky just is. and it goes on and on." "and we play all of our games beneath it." "Comin'in. twelve o'clock high!" "Tail gunner. get the bogey!" "Gunners... give'em short bursts when they're in range." "Do not waste ammunition." "Watch out!" "Bandit, twelve o'clock." "Watch out, they'll come back around." "There's one!" "There's one!" " That was too close!" " Roger that!" "Nine o'clock!" "He's comin' around." "I'm on him!" "Come on. you lousy Kraut!" "Come to papa!" "Yeah!" "Whoo!" "I got him!" "Nine o'clock." "keep your eyes open!" "There's another one!" "Whoo-hoo!" "Captain!" "What do you got, Toland?" "Lights...blue ones." " We see them. too!" " Holy Mary!" " What the hell are they?" " Let's get a look at these." " Are they Germans?" " They're too bright." "I can't see!" "Three bogeys. moving fast!" "Everybody keep calm." "We're gonna take care of this." " Bandit. twelve o'clock!" " F-1s coming down on our left." "Head right. full throttle!" " I'm hit!" " Oh, Christ!" "Russ!" " We're losing altitude!" " We're losing engines!" "Co-pilot. take the plane!" " Co-pilot, take the plane!" " Yes, sir!" "Captain Keys is on fire!" "Cover his tail!" "You hang on." "Russ!" "We're gettin' out of here!" " We lost an engine!" " Shut it down!" "They're comin' back!" "Christ. all around us!" "Keys is going down!" "She's breakin' up!" "We're goin' down!" "Get a parachute!" "We gotta get out of here!" "Let's go. guys!" "We've gotta bail out now!" "Captain, we've got to bail out!" "I don't want to die!" "Trust me, Johnson...we won't die." "ALLlE:" "Russell Keys came home from the war" "like a lot of other soldiers." "He was tired of fighting." "and he was very glad to be coming home." "There were things that had happened to him." "and he knew that he was not the same person he had been when he left." "He had changed." "and he wondered about all the things here at home that might have changed. too." "while he'd been away." "But sometimes when you go somewhere far away and then come back." "the part that bothers you most is not the things that have changed." "but the way that other things have stayed the same." "like you hadn't been anywhere or done anything at all." "Hello, Mum." "The kids would still play ball on the vacant lot where he and his friends had played every summer." "The high-school band would still play every Friday night in the park downtown." "and old Mrs Parker would still be waiting." "as the kids came home from school." "to yell at them if they stepped on her flowers." "All of that might still be the same." "but he was different." "and so nothing would really be the same at all." " I know you will." " Miss?" "Who do I talk to about getting one of those G.I. loans?" "I remember the day I proposed to your mother." "I was nervous as hell." "I can't picture anything making you nervous." "I had to walk around the block five times, and then I walked halfway home after that before I finally managed to get my nerve up." "Of course, I hadn't had the life experience that you've had." " Dad." " Hmm?" "My car looked real nice." "Well, we hid her from a couple of scrap drives." "Kind of unpatriotic, I guess, but we did our bit in other ways." "Was it very terrible?" "Nah, it wasn't so bad." "What do you got." "Toland?" "Lights!" "Blue ones!" "What the hell are they?" "!" "Captain. we've got to bail out!" "I don't want to die!" "Trust me." "Johnson...we won't die." "ALLlE:" "They say some men carry their war with them for the rest of their lives." "and some men put it behind them like an old pair of shoes." "And then." "I guess. there are others who go on fighting." "even if they have no idea who their fight is with or why it's so important not to give up." "Some people will tell you the war was won by superior manpower." "Some people say that it was strategy or a just cause or the fact that we're so damn tough." "None of that is true." "What won the war was secrets... knowing theirs and keeping ours." "Gentlemen, meet the Enola Gay." "When the Enola Gay dropped her payload on Hiroshima, only 107 men in the entire country knew what that specific payload was." "The B-29 had been redesigned to carry its load, and a new crew, selected to carry an atomic bomb, was onboard." "They were carrying out a mission so secret that even they didn't know what it was." "The secret was kept until the ultimate moment." "As a result, the war was won." "As members of the intelligence Corps, it will be your job to keep secrets." "Here at the 509th Bomb Group, that responsibility is made all the more awesome by the fact that we are the only base authorized to store atomic weapons." "At any given moment, your ability to keep your mouth shut and, if necessary, to lie through your teeth may very well determine the course of history." "Group, ten-hut!" "We had 18 more sightings today." "Dancing lights, mostly." "The bulk of them over the Pacific Northwest and three, I think, over the Great Lakes." "Something Russian?" "I heard something on the radio." "People were saying that they're from another planet." "We used to hear that a lot at Los Alamos." "We never knew if it was something of ours or something the Germans had going." "That's right, Owen, I forgot." "You were at Los Alamos." "We got a new mare in at the stables." "I thought you might like to join me for a ride." " I'd like that very much." " Fine." "Will you be joining us?" "No." "She doesn't ride." "Her constitution... it's a little too delicate." "He's a bit of a bully, your father." "It's not personal." "He just-he's like that." "Captain, are you gonna ride or stand around yapping'?" "If he doesn't let you ride, how does he feel about you going to the movies?" "Man named Kenneth Arnold- private pilot out of Boise flying over the Cascades- says he saw nine saucer-shaped disks in the sky." "This is all over the Seattle papers." "Wire services picked it up, and they're running with it." ""And they're running with it, sir. "" "You don't want to forget about the "sir."" "Some officers around here that can really get their shorts in a bunch over that, Howard." "Just something to keep in mind." "What do you make of all this?" "Russians." "Some sort of reconnaissance coming over the Bering Strait." "It has to be." "You don't think we're being invaded by Martians, then?" "No...sir." "I don't." "I did." "I thought it was swell." "Hey there, soldier." "You looking for some fun?" "Not now, Sue." "I'm on duty." "You look ready for action, but you don't look like you're on duty." "I'm meeting the colonel to go over something." "Sure you are." "Call you later?" "I won't be there." "Welcome back to KGFL studios in Roswell." "New Mexico." "It's a breezy July 2. 1947." "and here is Dinah Washington with Stairway To The Stars." "# Let's build a stairway to the stars #" "# And climb that stairway to the stars #" "# With love beside us #" "# To fill the night with song # ...second season as manager..." "Great." "Damn it!" "Hello?" "Hello!" "Is anybody out here?" "!" "Aah!" "We believe that what we saw was God's angels dancing." "That, or some new airplane from White Sands gone out of control." "You mentioned that you saw a crash." "Clear as day." "If that was God's angels, then right now, they're camped out about a mile and a half above Pine Lodge." "Yes?" "Excuse me for interrupting, sir." "There's a rancher just came into the sheriff's office with something I think you ought to take a look at." "Sue." "I'm right in the middle of something." "I really need to see you." "And I need to see you." "How about if I give you a call tonight if I can get away?" "I want every bit of debris out of this pasture and back at the base." "All of your men are confined to the base pending a debriefing." "And that means the two of you." " Yes, sir." " Yes, sir." " Any witnesses?" " Yes, sir." "His name's Brazel." "Sir, we'd appreciate your not speaking to anyone about this." "It's a matter of national security." "It's from outer space, isn't it?" "What crashed in that field was a constant-level balloon train." "And this is the material out of which the radar reflectors on the train are made." "If the Russians have figured out how to build a bomb, we want to know about it, and this little spy balloon will tell us." "This is a project called "Mogul"" "and has a security classification of A- 1." "Reporters are all over this." "We're gonna have to give them something." "Somebody already has." "With us this morning in the KGFL studios is a local rancher who has a startling story to tell." "You found something on your ranch." "some kind of debris?" "This wasn't just any debris. sir." "This was some metal like nothing I'd ever seen before." "This was something from another world." "We've got to shut this guy up, sir." "We thought we'd let it go, divert attention from Mogul." "You've seen the reports on all these sightings." "People are eating this up with a spoon." "I wouldn't recommend that, sir." "Why is that, Captain?" "If we give our seal of approval to this, people are gonna believe it." "You get a country that thinks we're not in control of the skies, you're inviting a major panic." "Oh, really?" "Which do you like better for the press release" ""Flying disks" or "Flying saucers"?" "Is this for real, Captain?" "Those were pieces of a spaceship?" "No, it was ours." "Spy balloon, highly classified, A-1." "That weird metal, all of that" "Part of the project." "Some flying saucer, eh, sir?" "This highly classified project collided with something, that's how it crashed?" "I suppose so, yes." "So what did it collide with?" "The advantage comes through preparation." "By the time your troop goes out for its wilderness badge, you guys are gonna know every inch of this ground." "Isn't that kind of like cheating?" "Scouting is about attitude." "You're gonna have to do something about yours." "We've done this weekend 14 times, Dad." "Don't you think we're ready?" "You're ready when you know- when you absolutely know your ground, okay?" "When you can be sure that nothing can surprise you." "Oh, my God." "radio:" "Jackie Robinson continues to extend his consecutive game hitting streak to 19." "While Robinson will no doubt remain the centre of attention in the National League." "he's about to share the spotlight with Larry Doby." "another Negro who..." "Once you let them in, there's no turning back." "It's the end of the world as we know it." "What do you guys make of all this flying-saucer razzmatazz?" "I think the Russians was giving us a buzz with some spy gadget, see what all we got out at the base." "The hell with that." "It was ours." "We were testing something to spy on them." "Or maybe the Germans." "I say it was the Martians, pure and simple." "The captain!" "Owen, I need to speak to you." "Sue, uh..." "Um, you know what?" "Couple of minutes." " Marty." " Yes, sir." "That woman I just nodded to- give me a couple of minutes, then go tell her I was called away on an emergency and I won't be back today." "And, Marty, she's gonna know you're lying, so try to sound as sincere as possible." "Yes, sir." "Excuse me, Miss." "I'm sorry, but the captain's been called away." "You're welcome to wait, but he may not be back for a while." "Excuse me." "Are you the people we talk to about flying saucers?" "There's someone who can help you down the hall." "My boys and I have some information." "Down the hall." "But we know where one crashed." "I was out with the boys, doing a little practise for their wilderness outing" "Which we think is kind of cheating." "Knowing as much as possible beforehand is not cheating." " It's being prepared." " Thank you, Captain." "We were just coming up over this rise." "It's a real one, isn't it, sir?" "Most people change kind of slowly." "They're who they are." "and then after a while." "they're someone else." "But some people know the exact moment where their lives changed." "They saw the person they were going to marry or the look in their baby's eyes the first time he smiled." "For some people." "it's not the good things in life that made them change." "It's something they've gone through that makes everything they look at from that moment on seem very different from how it had always been." "Beautiful boy you got there, Russell." "Yeah, he takes after his mum." "Yeah, he does." "You've got the life, I'm telling you." "You've got the best girl in Bement, a beautiful boy, you got your memories of your heroic youth." "Yeah, I've got it all." "Russell, if I was you, I'd be the happiest man in town." "I wouldn't be looking like something the cat dragged in." "Bill, I'm all right." "I just have, uh... trouble sleeping, that's all." "Come on, stop!" "Hey!" " Get off of him!" "Let him go!" " Go...go, go!" "# For they'll never know what love can do #" "# To each his own." "I found my own #" "# One and only...you #" " I'm sorry." " It's all right." "It's all right." "I get these pictures in my head... and I can't concentrate on anything." "Pictures in your head..." "from the war?" "I was shot in the gut, Kate..." "And I was dying... and my plane was going down." "And three days later, I was in a field in France with all of my men..." "With no idea where we'd been for those three days or how we'd gotten to that field..." "Or why weren't we dead." "What did your men say?" "We never talked about it." "Something happened to me." "I don't know what." "I just have this feeling it's still happening." "Jetzt bist du mein gefangener." "Aah!" "Get away from me!" "It was a dream!" "Get away from me!" "It was a dream." "You're all right, honey." "You're here with me." "It was a dream." "It was a dream." "A dream." "A dream." "It was a dream." "You're all right, sweetie." "You're all right." "It wasn't a dream." "For God's sakes, Russell, how are we gonna get out?" "It doesn't matter." "As long as they can't get in." "Who?" "As long as who can't get in?" "You don't want to know." "Russell!" "Russell!" " Look at me!" " No!" "No!" "What's happening to you?" "You're gonna let them give this to the press, too?" "Well, it was one thing when we knew it was a lie." "We can control that." "But now that it's real, there's no way we can let this out." "Who found it?" "A father and his sons out hiking." "Did you clean that up?" "I already have." "That's good." "Son..." "I appreciate your coming to me with this, and when the time comes, you won't be forgotten." "Sir, when I went inside the craft, there were- there were five seats." "There are only four bodies." "Canvass everything within a 200-mile radius of the crash site." "If something crawled out of here alive," "I want to know about it." "People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons." "Some people have something in their disposition." "Maybe they were just born too mean." "or maybe they were born too tender." "But most people are brought to where they are by circumstance." "by calamity or a broken heart or something else happening in their lives that wasn't anything they planned on." "What the hell's wrong with my chicken?" "I don't think it was your chicken, Tyler." "You can go on home, Sally." "I'll take care of these stragglers and lock up." "'Lessen, of course, you want to call Fred and tell him you're leaving him and the kids for me." "Well, maybe I best go home and tell him in person, Tyler." "He ain't good enough for you, Sal." "People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons." "The one thing that I do know is." "it doesn't matter what any one of them might tell you- nobody wants to be alone." " Shoehorn?" " What?" "The shoehorn- have you seen it?" "You have to leave tonight?" "I'm in San Antonio tomorrow afternoon selling to an insurance company." "Those guys can smell road sweat on a person." "They don't respond well to road sweat." "Did the kids eat?" "You want me to feed the kids?" "You're the waitress, you feed 'em." "I gotta go." "I'll see you in three weeks." "If something comes up, call the home office." "They know where I am." "Please help me." "Stay right here for just a second." "Tom, honey." "Wake up, sweetie." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "I need you to go sleep on the couch, okay?" "Who's that?" "We'll talk about it in the morning." "Go get the pillow and the extra blanket from my bed." "Come on, sweetie, go on." "Go on." "You really should see a doctor." "I'll be fine as soon as I can collect my thoughts." "Thank you." "Thank you for bringing me in." "Good night." "Who is he?" "Who's that man?" "He's a stranger, honey, and he's hurt." "How long does he have to stay in my room?" "I don't know." "I guess until he's better." "Mama, what happened to your nose?" "Some people have given up all hope of anything in their lives ever changing." "They just go on with it day by day." "and if something were to come along and make things different." "they probably wouldn't even notice it right off." "except maybe for that kind of nervous feeling you get in your stomach." "My mom and I used to call that "the car trip feeling. "" "because it was how I'd feel whenever I knew we were going to go somewhere far away or somewhere new." "How you feeling?" "I'm much better." "What's this?" "Breakfast." "Thank you." "Maybe in a few minutes." "The bathroom's right down the hall." "I put out some towels and shirt and pants that belonged to my husband before he gained weight." "I reckon you can keep 'em." "That's very kind." "Your husband doesn't appreciate that kindness in you." "He doesn't see your sadness, either." "But you've stopped wanting him to." "I think you're right." "There's some things you don't share with an uncaring person." "What happened to you?" "I was in an accident." "I can see that." "What kind of accident?" "Farming." "You got a farm around here?" "No, I..." "Someone gave me a ride." "What's wrong?" "Oh, I woke up with this headache." "I thought it was gone already." "You were telling me about your accident." "I'm not feeling much like talking right now." "Would you mind letting me rest for a while?" "I'm sorry." "Sure, not at all." "I'll put the tray here." "That way, it'll be here if you wake up hungry." "You were right, you know." "I guess I don't care if my husband sees my sadness." "Early in the morning of the 5th, this debris was recovered in a field near Roswell, New Mexico." "Earlier reports have stated that this debris was the wreckage of a flying saucer." "I'm afraid we are here today to pop that balloon and replace it with one of our own." "This, gentlemen, is a weather balloon." "On any given day in the United States, there are hundreds of these in the air, and they do not come from outer space." "They are manufactured in Cleveland." "This is its radar reflector." "It tracks wind speed." "None of this debris is from outer space." "The reflector is made in Newark, New Jersey, and the balloon is made in Cleveland." "Excuse me, sir." "I wonder if I might have a word." "Yes, Captain?" "I was wondering, sir, what we're gonna do now." "About what?" "About the craft, about the bodies." "What craft?" "What bodies?" "It's clearly organic." "It's not clearly anything." "Jenkins says it's animal, and it takes on the characteristics of an animal cell." "Kraus says it's some sort of fungus, which would explain its sameness and density, and we look again, and it has those characteristics." "It seems to be able to change... into whatever we want it to be." "You'd all better come see Dr Goldin." "I came to check on the body from the crash, and I found him like this." "What's he saying?" "Is it German?" "Goldin wouldn't speak German." "It's Hebrew." "What has he done with the body?" "My God." "Hello, operator?" "I'd like to place a call to Fresno, California." "Madison 4573." "Yes, ma'am, thank you." "My crew of nine men..." "Eight of them are dead." "And Johnson, my co-pilot..." "He's in the hospital at Fort Bliss, not expected to recover." "What happened to them?" "No one knows." "No one has any idea at all." "What are you doing?" "I have to find out what's happened to my men and what's happening to me." "No, you don't." "Kate, I'm no husband... and I'm no father to our boy until I can find out what's going on." "You're not going to find anything out there, Russell." "What do you think you're gonna find?" " Bishop, right?" " I'm Bishop." "You flew Colonel Campbell out of Fort Worth the other night." " Right." " Destination?" "That's need-to-know." "Army intelligence." "I need to know." "Captain Crawford." "Is that right?" "Colonel Campbell told me you might want to talk to me." "A gentleman to see you, Miss." "Can you go for a ride?" "I'll get my car coat." "No, I said a ride, not a drive." "Loosen up on the reins just a little." " Okay." "Okay." " There you go." " Like that?" " Yep." "There you go." "You all right?" " Yeah, I'm good." " Okay." "You all right?" "You doing okay?" " You want to go faster?" " Yes." " Are you sure?" " Yes, please." "Okay." "Okay." "Where did you learn to ride?" "One of my many odd jobs before I found the army." "Well, I'm glad you found us." "I was afraid you wouldn't come out with me." "Why wouldn't I come?" "Your father." "He's so dead set against you and me seeing each other." "I'm not quite sure why he has such a low opinion of me." "Well, I'm not my father." "I know that." "You're the sun and the moon to me, Anne." "The sun and the moon." "Here we go." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Um..." "Anne..." "I had to come up through the ROTC ranks." "I may never be anything more than a captain." "I don't care." "But I can tell you this" "I'm gonna do some things in this world, Anne." "I am nobody's fool, and I know that I can make my mark." "Anne..." "Will you marry me?" "Owen, what happened back there up on the hill" "I would never do anything like that with anyone but the woman I intend to marry." "Marry me." " Owen." "Marry me." "I want to tell your father." "Do you have any idea where he's gone?" "He seemed to be able to reach inside my brain, to use my own memories as a stage on which to mount our conversation." "I don't quite follow, professor." "I was there... in that room..." "My bar mitzvah in Dresden." "If I could have stayed..." "I could have spoken again with my father." "I wish... to see my father." "What in God's name happened here?" "They're both dead." "Mind stepping out of the car, sir?" "What did I do, officer?" "Would you mind stepping out of the car, sir?" "Thank you, officer, I'll take it from here." "Captain Crawford, Army lntelligence." "This is a routine debriefing." "Routine?" "I apologize for the unconventional approach." "I'll be honest with you." "There's a leak in the project." "Someone's talking." "We don't suspect you, but we need to go over some information to verify the source of the leak." "Does this have to do with what happened to Dr Goldin?" "In part, yes." "I don't see how Dr Goldin's death could have anything to do with a leak." "Why don't you tell me what you think happened?" "Well, Dr Goldin was in the room with, uh... the one that turned out to be alive." "Apparently, they can... well, uh, this is incredible." "We saw it first on a cellular level." "They can become whatever they want." "I don't follow you at all." "They can appear as people." "Dr Goldin, for example, thought he was 13, at his bar mitzvah." "He saw his father." "Apparently, that's what killed him." "And the...visitor." "You've been a lot of help, and, doctor, I think you can appreciate how important it could be that you say nothing about this to anyone." "They can appear as people, you say?" "Yes, as unbelievable as that seems." "And exposure to one of these apparitions, that's what killed Dr Goldin?" "It's not safe to spend too much time with one of them." "Whoa." "How do you feel?" "Like I'm floating." "Headaches?" "Anything like that?" "Nothing like that." "That's good." "That's good." "Tom?" "Becky?" "Wimmy, wammy, woo!" "That was amazing." "Mama, John's been doin' magic tricks that are much better than Tom's." "You're not hungry?" " No, I" " He's never hungry." "Tom, that's enough." "No, it's all right." "How are you feeling?" "Your headache?" "I'm fine." "I hadn't even thought about it." "Thank you." "Good." "That's good." "So where did you come from, anyway?" " Tom..." " I don't mind." "I come from Des Moines." "That's like 1,000 miles away from here." "How'd you know that?" "It's where my magic kit came from." "Tom, Becky, sit up and watch your manners." "I come from there originally." "I've just been working anyplace I could since then." "Farm work, mainly." "What happened to you that got you so messed up?" "Machine accident." "Why are you being so mean to John?" " He's our friend." " He's not my friend." "You certainly seem to be recovering nicely." "Like I told you, I just needed a little rest." "So now that you're feeling better," "I guess you'll be moving on?" "I guess so." "I just need a few more days." "Everyone knows not to stare into the sun." "It's something your mother tells you when you're a kid." ""Don't look at the sun." "or you'll go blind. "" "But sometimes you want to understand something so badly that you'll risk going blind forjust a glimpse of what it all might be about." "Damn." "I brought you something." "Thanks, Captain." "You got married, huh?" "Same girl?" "The one that worked at the bank?" "Yeah, same one." "What the hell are you doing here, Captain?" "Not that I'm not glad to see you." "Do you know about the other men?" "What about them?" "They're dead." "Same thing?" "Yeah, more or less." "What about you?" "How come you're the walking one and only?" "I don't know." "Do you believe in God, Captain?" "Yes." "Yes, I do." "How about you?" "Not in any way that helps." "Look, I'm sorry, Captain." "I don't mean to sound bitter." "I should be thanking you." "After all, you saved my life." "The thing is, Johnson, um..." "Except for these dreams..." "I've been having..." "I don't remember a thing about what happened." "Aw, well, hell, Captain, that's a damn shame, 'cause you were an A-1, Audie Murphy hero." "Whatever they did to us, they did for a long time." "Whenever I'd stop screaming," "I'd hear one of the other guys." "It seemed like we were there for days." "You were on the cot next to mine." "I don't know, maybe it was sloppy, maybe they thought we were just too far gone to care, that we wouldn't fight back, but they put that machine gun down right across from your cot..." "And they left the clip in the gun, almost like they didn't quite understand how a machine gun worked." "Well, you sure as hell showed them, Captain." "Only one thing." "You and I both know it wasn't Germans you killed that day." "It wasn't Germans at all." "How are you coming with the canvass for the fifth occupant of the craft?" "We haven't had much luck, sir." "You might be interested to know there was another live one, at least he was when he was brought in." "Our scientists have learned that they have certain abilities." "What kind of abilities?" "In good time." "Colonel Campbell..." "he's a small and petty man." "I don't like him." "He's an idiot!" "In an attempt to control the most important revelation of the century, if not all time, the colonel has confiscated the bodies and initiated a high-level cover-up." "He froze you out, just like he did to us in that field." "He doesn't share the limelight, and I'm not a person you freeze out." "I'm gonna take this project from him." "In the process, I hope to ruin his career." "I will also take down anyone who stands with him." "I'm under the impression that the two of you would never make that mistake." "No, sir." "If you were to have a bit of luck in your canvass for what is now the only live visitor," "I would hope you'd share that information with someone who's more forthcoming than the colonel." " We would, sir." " Yes, sir." "Good, Howard." "Oh, I mentioned that they had certain abilities." "Don't confine your search to little grey men." "Look for someone who's a little bit more... human." "Ah, this is beautiful country." "I guess it is." "Live in a place long enough, you forget to notice that sort of thing." "I think it's important to always try and see as much as you can." "Sometimes a person's life can spoil the view." "You're a really special woman." "You need to believe me when I tell you that." "You don't know what you're talking about." "Yes, I do." "You know, I've..." "I've done some things I didn't mean to do." "You don't have to tell me." "And I've" "I've had to learn to control my emotions." "It's okay..." "It's all been worth it..." "'Cause it brought me to you." "Oh, I don't know what's happening here..." "But I sure as heck don't care." "And when the Indians first saw the Spaniards, they thought they were gods or devils." "Because to the Indians, white man did not look like man at all." "I don't like him." "I think he's nice." "Ahem!" "Children... these gentlemen are from the United States Army." "They are searching West Texas for a deserter." "This man ran away from his post." "These men think he might be hiding around here somewhere." "If anyone has seen a stranger 'round these parts, you let us know about it right away." "Don't go trying to talk to him yourself." "This fella's dangerous, boys and girls." "I want to go through through his clothes and stuff, see if I can find anything from the army." "I don't know, Tom." "The sheriff said the deserter was dangerous." "That's why I want to know if it's John." "Come on!" "Where are his clothes?" "Tom!" "It's him." "It's who?" "Now listen to me." "You think you know something, but you don't." "Ah, ah." "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Let him go!" "Let him go!" "My business here is almost done, and I won't let you interfere." "Tom, your nose is bleeding." "I'm sorry, Tom." "I..." "Where is everybody?" "What's with them?" "See for yourself." "Sheriff!" "Hey, sheriff!" " All right, son." "The man you're looking for is at our house." "sheriff:" "Come on, let's move out!" "Harry, you take the south road!" "My boss down at the diner called to say that there were some soldiers in town" "looking for a deserter from the army base in New Mexico." "I know you come from a place a whole lot further than that." "I don't know how you do what you do." "I know you can see into people." "They're gonna be coming for you soon." "My grandmother gave me these." "She came over to Texas in 1893." "I always thought they were kind of funny." "They're for Texas, the Lone Star state, and there's two of 'em." "Will you take one with you?" "And I'll keep the other." "Can I see you once before you go?" "You better go inside." "What's this?" "Come on!" "I don't know what the trouble is." "That summer." "a lot of things had happened that people couldn't explain." "There had been lights in the sky and stories in the paper about saucers crashing." "John had come." "and then he had gone." "Put it on the table." "Take the cookies out." "For a while." "life went back to being life." "and almost everyone forgot the things that that summer had brought with it from out of the sky." "He's gone, hasn't he?" "He has." "Home?" "Yes, home." "I guess I'm too late, then." "Ma'am." "What the hell are you doing here." "Captain?" "I don't remember a thing about what happened." "I don't remember a thing about what happened." "Aw. well. hell." "Captain." "that's a damn shame." "You sure as hell showed them." "Captain." "You were an A- 1." "Audie Murphy" "You sure as hell showed them." "Captain." "Only one thing." "You and I both know those weren't Germans you killed that day." "Those weren't Germans you killed that day." "Wasn't Germans at all." "I thought I told you to keep that woman away from me." "I'm doing my best, sir." "She's somewhat persistent." "Persistent?" "Right." "Sue, it's so good to see you." "Lieutenant Bowen, this is Sue." "Ma'am." "You don't even know my last name." "I haven't been coming here for two weeks about you and me, Owen." "I came about this." "Where'd you find this?" "Up at Pine Lodge." "Here, come in my office." "That night after you ditched me to go to the movies with that army brat," "I was out driving around." "I saw something crash." "I went up there, and there was something in the trees, but it was dark, and I couldn't really see what." "And then I found that." "And you brought it to me." "Sue, you never let me explain about that night." "I was supposed to meet the colonel." "He was ill, and his daughter came to give me the message." "Sure she did." "You completely misunderstood the situation." "Sure I did." "You are the sun and the moon to me, Sue." "The sun and the moon." " Boo!" " Aah!" "You really should get in the habit of locking your door." "Oh, well." "It's too late." "Owen Crawford is the best commanding officer, boss, advisor, and all-around good guy that I've ever come to know." "And, Anne, well, you're not just marrying Owen." "You're getting me and Marty, too, and everyone else who's ever served under him." "So I hope you like company." "To Owen and Anne... congratulations." "Dance with me." "I can't believe it." "You can pour one for me, too, Dad." "If I didn't think that it'd break my daughter's heart," "I'd kill you where you stand." "But it really would break her heart." "You know what I'd like as a wedding present?" " I'd like to be a major." " What?" "A major." "Anything less, and it wouldn't be right when you put me in charge of your little project at Wright Field." "That project is mine." "You won't see the inside of that laboratory." "I disagree." "It's an alloy unknown on this planet." "There's no translation, ancient or modern, for the language." "It was found at Pine Lodge, at the crash site." "Either you give me exactly what I want, or I'll go public with this." "I'll bring your flying saucer crashing down on your head..." "Dad." "Enjoy your new promotion." "Oh, and, uh..." "I'd never do anything to hurt Anne." "She's the sun and the moon to me." "Hey, Tyler, what do I have to do to get a refill in here today?" "Well, just hang on a minute, will you, Larry?" "Sally will be right there." "Sally?" "Sally, honey, you all right?" "I'll be out in just a minute." "Honey, what's the matter with you?" "Oh, hell, Tyler." "I'm pregnant." "Well, Fred'll be proud." "Oh." "Honey, I'm sorry." "My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky." "She liked to watch the clouds in the day and the stars at night... especially the stars." "We would play a game sometimes... a game called "What's Beyond the Sky?"" "We would imagine darkness or a blinding light or something else that we didn't know how to name." "But. of course." "that was just a game." "There's nothing beyond the sky." "The sky just is." "and it goes on and on." "and we play all of our games beneath it." "# Stay all night, stay a little longer #" "# Dance all night, dance a little longer #" "# Pull off your coat and throw it in the corner #" "# I don't see why you don't stay a little longer #" "Previously on Taken..." "Guys!" " What do you got, Toland?" " Lights-blue ones." " My crew of nine men..." " What the hell are they?" "Eight of them are dead." " What happened to them?" " No one knows." "Are you the people we talk to about flying saucers?" "We know where one crashed." "I saw the saucer, and I saw its occupants." "I can't believe there's a live spaceman, sir." "I mentioned that they had certain abilities." "Don't confine your search to little grey men." "Look for someone who's a little bit more...human." "Who's that man?" "He's a stranger, honey, and he's hurt." "You're a really special woman." "You need to believe me when I tell you that." "I don't know what's happening here... but I sure as heck don't care." "Something happened to me." "And whatever it is..." "it's still going on." "Except for these dreams," "I don't remember a thing about what happened." "You were an A-1 Audie Murphy hero." "Only one thing- you and I both know it wasn't Germans you killed that day." "This is from my grandmother." "You take one with you, and I'll keep the other." "I saw something crash, Owen, and then I found that." "You brought it to me." "Can I see you once before you go?" "Sally, honey, what's the matter with you?" "I'm pregnant." ""In ordinary times," ""ordinary boys led ordinary lives filled with ordinary things," ""but these were not ordinary times," ""and Charlie Chestnut was no ordinary boy." ""He was the invited guest of Artemis P. Fonswick." ""All the animals knew Artemis." ""It was hard not to know a squirrel who was four feet tall." ""Artemis lived in the biggest oak tree in the woods." ""lnside the tree was a three-room house" ""with a bedroom and a sitting room" ""and a pantry with as many nuts as a person," ""or a squirrel, for that matter, would ever want to eat."" ""You could only find Artemis' home if you'd been invited, and now Charlie Chestnut had been invited."" "Mum?" "Go to sleep, Jesse." "You think Daddy ever thinks about us?" "Of course he does, honey." "You think he'll ever come and see me?" "You know I love you very much, and you know Bill loves you, too, just like you were his own boy." "Was it the war that made Daddy go away?" "Kind of, honey." "I don't really remember him." "I just thought maybe if you could call him on the phone or something that he could be my invited guest." "Go to sleep." " Jesse asleep?" " Yeah." "Did Charlie go into the woods and find Artemis yet?" "We always get to the part where he's about to go." "Love to know what happens when he gets to Artemis' house." "You'll get there." "He's asking about his father again." "He wants to know if Russell can come visit." "What did you tell him?" "What can I tell him?" "How about you, Kate?" "You still miss him?" "I'm married to you now, Bill." "That's not what I asked you." "That's what I thought." "Hey." "Hey." "He ran out on us." "You were there, and you didn't go anywhere." "Don't think I don't know that." "ALLlE:" "When you're a kid. all you ever want is for the stories your mum reads you to be true." "You think you can crawl inside the world that's in every book and live in the pictures on every page." "but deep down you know that this isn't something that could ever happen." "And it's knowing that the magic isn't quite there." "that it's just over the next hill or maybe in the next story." "that makes you feel safe in your bed at night." "You really wouldn't want it to be any other way." "Whoa." "Whoa." "There'll be no more need for weapons that kill men." "Think those Volturans were on the level?" "I'm sure they were." "There have never been any people in history who wouldn't be free of a dictator if they could." "Alpha was sure pleased." "He said he'd supervise their elections." "If all men..." "Little green men!" "Fire your ray gun!" "... worship as they wished." "the universe need never know war again." " Aah!" "ALLlE:" "There are times when it seems" "like the whole world is afraid..." "Captain Video, blast the Martian invader!" "They're no use against Zultan!" "...when the fear is something you have to live with day in and day out." " Use the nails from last year." " I'm trying." "When people get scared." "they do a lot of different things." "They fight or they run." "they destroy the thing they're afraid of." "or they put a lot of distance between it and them..." "Hey!" "Watch it!" "... make it something you can shoot at with a friction-action gun." "We'll get a tree tonight when I get home, okay?" "Okay." "Bye, boys!" "And try not to destroy the universe, all right?" "Bye!" "We took this craft apart more than ten years ago." "More than ten years, and we still have no idea how it ran, no clue what its power source was or what the aerodynamics involved were." "In fact, we know less now than we did when we found the damn thing." "Just chime in if I've left anything out, gentlemen." "Two years ago, some tiny circuit you thought might do something electrical." "Or was it something that stored information?" "The year before, you thought you'd found out what the thing was made of." "Ten years, gentlemen, and so far all we have to show for all your hard work is a way to hold my pants up without a belt." "Sir, we're dealing with technology so far beyond ours, we can't even find a place to start." "We are in a space race. gentlemen." "Suppose another craft crashed or was brought down over the Soviet Union." "Could you imagine the implications if the Russians were to master this technology first?" "I hardly think that's likely." "Do you have a better explanation for the success of Sputnik?" " Sput" " Do you?" "This is Dr Kreutz." "He's here with Lockheed, working on a technology for a plane that can fly undetected by radar." "You may have seen the prototype out in the yard." "His is a project that shows some signs of yielding results." "Dr Kreutz has agreed to come to our program for an indefinite period of time." "Of course, a physicist of such eminence comes with his own people." "As of today, you gentlemen are reassigned to other duties." "We've been receiving reports of very strange radio signals coming from our base in Iceland." "Captain Bowen has the details of your transportation for you." "Merry Christmas." "I'm afraid I owe you an apology, Doctor." "Why?" "One of the burdens that comes with this assignment" "I report directly to the president." "General Eisenhower is not a patient man." "I've led him to believe that some of your technological advances were derived from our research." "What advances?" "General Eisenhower was particularly impressed by the Explorer satellites you sent up earlier this year." "I hope when you meet the president, you won't disabuse him of his impression." "And be reassigned to Iceland a week before Christmas?" "Certainly not." "Let me see your little bird." "The interior wasn't damaged in the crash." "It's exactly as it was when we found it." "May I?" "It is easy to see what has baffled your researchers for all these years." "No instrument panels, no monitoring devices." "Nothing." "And yet even now there is a sense of energy here." "We have to limit exposure in here." "There's some sort of field or something." "In about six minutes, your head will start to ache." "Twenty minutes maximum before you have a cerebral haemorrhage." "You will never get this craft off the ground without an engine." "We can't find the engine." "There were five of them." "They died in 1947." "These are beings of unimaginable power of mind." "The ability to reach inside a man's mind and give him the images lurking there- surely that requires more energy than what is needed to guide a ship among the stars." "The power of mind- that is the energy source your scientists have been unable to find." "What do you suggest we do, Doc, wait until they crash again?" " That is one option." " What's another one?" "Find someone else with unimaginable power of mind." "Oreos and a peanut-butter- and-jelly sandwich." "You're wrong." "My mum promised me a steak sandwich and pie." "How'd you do that, weirdo?" "Your mum and dad had a fight last night about him being drunk." "She used the steak on her eye." "She didn't feel much like making anything fancy." "You're dead, brainiac." "Hey, there he is." "Talk to me about my parents again, creep." "Are you hiding in the bushes outside my house?" "Tell me where you were, you little weirdo!" "Get him!" "You're gonna die." "Travis." "Travis, look at me." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "No." "No." "No..." "What did you do, freak?" "I'm sorry I was late, hon." "I got working' in that shed." "Lost all track of time." "How was the last day of school?" "Everybody excited about the big vacation?" "Honey, are you feeling all right?" "You don't have a fever." "I made you some fried chicken and brought you a Pepsi." "Here you go." "You can eat it now or you can rest until we get to Amarillo." "I love you, honey, every day and twice on Sunday." "Rock 'n' roll died last March 24th when Elvis went into the army." "Wouldn't you agree, Captain?" "I was just saying rock 'n' roll died when Elvis went in the army." "Yeah, if you say so." "The captain's not one for conversation." "The way he holds on to that ratty duffel of his, you'd think it was full of gold." "Go easy." "He is not right." "I'm just trying to make friendly conversation." "Man thinks he's the only one with a past." "My father liked to say that there were these things in life that didn't make any sense." "and they could never make any sense." "and if you were anywhere near smart. you knew that." "But yourjob was not to give up." "to keep on trying to make sense out of them anyway." "trying to understand things that could never be understood." "I guess maybe people will always find different names for their answers." "but the one thing is their questions will always be the same." "It was on my second trip to Venus that I first met Renuthia and learned the answer to the question that I'm sure has brought you here this evening, and that is," ""What do our space brothers and sisters want from us?"" "Well, what they want more than anything is for all of us to be friends." "Hey!" "Hey, Captain." "Give those back." "Yeah, what the hell, Captain." "Sure." "Uhh!" "This is the dawning of a new era of peace and understanding." "That is truly what they want us to know, that we are all part of the same great whole, that we all belong to the light." "These people are very gentle." "Their message is only one of kindness." "You want to tell us what you think about Elvis getting drafted, or are you still too hoi polloi?" "I want my things back." "Your hero medals?" "What you get your medals for?" "What kind of man did you used to be before you became just another lost soul?" "You hit him again, I believe he'll die." "He'll die or I'm gonna have to give back his things, and I don't want to do that." "The Feds!" "Come on, fellas!" "Whoa!" "Get away from me!" "Just go-now!" "Get away from me!" "That is the message that I want to leave with you tonight." "They mean us no harm." "They don't want to hurt us." "More than anything else, they want us to know... they come in peace." "No!" "No!" "No, not again, you bastards!" "No!" "Aah!" "Jesse." "I've met them, too." "One of them, at least." "There you are." "Do you think they'll be comin' back soon?" "Our time and their time is not the same time." "Are you planning on coming to our New Year's festival?" "I hadn't heard of it, actually." "Fifteen dollars includes a buffet dinner." "We're gonna call our space brothers and sisters." " Thank you." " Bye, now." "Breakfast?" "Compliments of Irish Dave and the others." " They're gone?" " Left in kind of a hurry." "Um..." "Dave, um, wanted you to have these back and to know that he was sorry and that if he ever saw you again- which he hopes that he doesn't- that you would- you would please forgive him." "Whenever you're in the mood," "I, uh..." "I wouldn't mind knowing what happened here last night." "I was a pilot in the war." "Did I mention that?" " You flew B-17s, right?" " That's right-23 missions." "I guess you earned those medals the hard way." "My crew." "Nine men." "All of them are dead." "What happened?" "Something like what happened last night." "We were taken." "That's the best way I know how to describe it." "Taken by who?" "Whatever they did to us, it killed my men." "I know that for a fact." "What I don't know what I c- what I can't understand is why am I alive?" "What's that?" "These are aeronautical maps of the United States." "You see, I keep a record." "Every place they pick me up, the exact location, the exact time." "I-I-I'm just trying to find a pattern to it." "If-if I could know when they were coming," " I could" " You could what-run?" " You could get away?" " Yeah." "From what I saw last night, it... it seems like you're a bit outclassed." "Maybe they don't know, either." "They don't know why you're the only one that lived." "Maybe that's why they keep taking you- to find out what sort of thing you've got." "Maybe there's something in the blood something that makes you special." "# O come ye to Bethlehem #" "# Come and behold him #" "# Born the King of angels #" "# O come let us adore Him #" "# O come let us adore Him #" "# O come let us adore Him #" "# Christ the Lord #" "Hey, Jesse." "Jesse, your mother needs your help in the living room." "Go ahead." "You're not welcome here, Russell." "I know." "I had something I needed to tell Jesse." "You lost the chance when you ran out on him and his mother." " You can stay in the lockup." " I didn't come here for that." "Well, you can't stay here." "I don't want Kate seeing' ya." "Bill, Jesse's in danger." "I need to talk to him." "It's not gonna happen, Russell." " girl:" "Watch out!" "Here goes!" "girl #2:" "How about we build us a snowman?" "Here I come!" "We need more sticks for hair." "Ow!" "That hurt." " girl:" "He's okay?" " girl #2:" "Yeah." " Gotcha." " Hurry!" "Hello, Jesse." "Christmas is all about hope." "Kids hope for new toys." "You get older. and the toys get bigger." "but the hope stays the same." "Some people might hope for peace on earth or maybe for a better tomorrow." "whatever their idea of that might be." "but most people still just want something bright and shiny and new." "It's a local." "Get us as far as maybe the Kentucky line." " You ever done this before?" " No, sir." " You willing' to try?" " You bet." "On 3-1, 2, 3!" " What are you looking at?" " You look just like your mother." "Everyone says I look more like you." "I don't see it." "Oh, I got something." "Yeah." "I've, uh, been wanting to give you these." "There you go." "Merry Christmas." "These are your war medals?" "You can put 'em on later if you want." "I got this one the first time I was shot down, over Belgium." "This one was for one time when we took a lot of flak, and I got some in my leg." "And this one- that's a Silver Star." "Got that on my last mission." "When you were shot down and captured and you saved your entire crew." "Mum said it was the war that made you go away." "But you know it wasn't, don't you?" "So...is this what you been doing the whole time?" "This where you live?" "Yeah, I live where I can." "Listen to me, Jesse." "What was happening to me..." "I didn't want to bring it home to you and your mother." "Who are they?" "I don't know." "Can you keep them from coming back for me again?" "I don't know that, either." "But I'm sure as hell gonna try." "Jacob!" " Merry Christmas!" " Merry Christmas." "You look great." "Watch out, now!" "Hey, there, little brother." "Where's Mum?" "She's in the shed." "In the shed?" "What's she doin' in there?" " She's working on something." " Workin'?" "It's Christmas Day." "I didn't bring all these presents for nothin'." "I think she thought you were coming later." "She hasn't put the turkey in the oven yet." "I should go see if I can help." "Hello, hello!" "Merry Christmas!" "I thought I heard your car." "Mama?" "Hey, there." "Merry Christmas." "What are y'all doin' here so soon?" "I thought you weren't comin' till this evening." "Well, it's 5:00." "Goodness gracious, where does the time go?" "What are you doin' in there, makin' moonshine?" "Oh, get on inside." "I'm so happy to see y'all." "eric:" "This one's kind of messy." "I think it's the usual-underwear." "eric:" "Doesn't make any noise." "Sounds like clothes." "This one looks like a cookie, here." "Mum, is Dad home yet?" "Not yet, sweetheart." "Could I open just one present?" "Let's just wait a little while longer, okay?" "Your dad wants to be here when you open his gifts." " How much longer, Mum?" " Just a little while." "Tom's pullin' money in hand over fist on that real estate, Mama." "I know he is." "I'm so proud of him." "And of you." "First one in our family to go to college." "Tom and I were talkin' about with all his extra money, maybe he could get Jacob into a school someplace." "Jacob is fine here with me." "The school that Tom found is in Montana." "It's for children who are special, different." "Of course he's different." "When is the last time you saw him laugh or cry?" "When is the last time he hugged you?" "When is the last time he smiled?" "This school might be able to help him, Mum." "There's nothin' wrong with Jacob." "He's fine here with me." "I'm sorry about the turkey, y'all." "Merry Christmas." " Merry Christmas." " Merry Christmas, Mama." "Merry Christmas." " Merry Christmas." " Merry Christmas, Esther." "Ladies, come on." "It's a wonderful service you are providing for your country." "We appreciate this." "It's been 20 minutes." "We have to get them out." " Give it another five minutes." " Sir, that will kill them." "They were dead the second they set foot on this base." "The boys are asleep." "We waited as long as we could." "I'm sorry." "Something came up." "You gave them both a Lionel train set." "Sam got the Space Patrol board game and the Leave It To Beaver lunch box." "Eric got the Leave It To Beaver board game and the Space Patrol lunch box." "They both got Hula Hoops." "What did I give you?" "A hell of a lot more than I bargained for." "This is kind of mean, Tom." "Becky, Mum really believes this crap." "That's why she's always taking Jacob to all those conventions." "All we have to do is show her that it's a trick, make her see how easy it is to fake." "You were with me." "We saw those lights in the sky." "The Lubbock Lights, yeah." "Quarrington wrote a chapter about it in his book and Popular Science had an article about it." "It was a reflection of streetlamps off a flock of plover birds." "We were little kids, Becky." "We saw what we wanted to see." "Just because some creepy guy ends up in our barn doesn't mean he's from Mars." "Venus." "Quarrington says they're from Venus." "If you turn on the porch light, it'll make it look more like it's in the sky." "Jake, what are you doin' up?" "I don't want to go away to school." "There was a lady watching me in class." "She wasn't from here." "I could sense her interest." "Jacob, you have to try to understand- you have sort of a gift, an insight." "I get that from my father." "You need to be in a place where people understand you." "If I go away, who's gonna take care of Mum?" "Kids!" "Y'all come here!" "It's ready!" "I call this a contactor." "What do you think?" "Yeah." "Uh..." " What is it?" " It's sort of like a radio." "I'm hoping to transmit a message up into space." "Sounds kind of crazy, doesn't it?" "Why do you want to send a message into space?" "Because I miss Jacob's father and I want him to know that we're all right." "And I want him to come and get us." "I want him to know that we're ready to go." "Go where, Mum?" "Home." "Jesse?" "Jesse?" "Jesse!" "bill:" "Don't move, Russell." "Where the hell is Jesse?" "What have you done with him?" "I don't know." "I don't know what's going on!" "I told Eisenhower we had the saucer running." "I promised him a demonstration by the second week in January." "That gives us two weeks." "Would you like to tell me what the hell went wrong?" "It's that kind of attitude that lost you people the war." "The theory was sound." "The Erenberg twins simply were not psychic enough." "Not psychic enough?" "They were the highest-rated sensitives on the Rhine scale." "The professor at Duke said they were the best he'd ever seen!" "All right, so what are we gonna do?" "I go back to working on planes powered by an energy I understand." "I'm afraid you can't do that." "I've had you moved to the military." "You work for me now." "You told your president the test was a success." "In order to keep me here with you, you'd have to admit you had failed." "We lost the war because the Russians betrayed our trust." "There was never a question of our attitude." "What the hell you two lookin' at?" "Jesse!" "I'll go 100 yards this way!" "Come on, boys." "Find him!" "bill:" "Jesse!" "Holler if you hear us, Jess!" "Keep movin' out!" "On the left flank!" "Jesse!" "Kate." "You bastard." "What did you do?" "I came back to try to save him." "Save him?" "What are you talking about?" "They're done with me." "I don't know how I know it, but I do." "I don't want to hear this." "I just want to know what you did with my son." "I didn't do anything with him." "They did." "They took him." "Kate, Jesse is special." "They're seeing if he's ready." "Ready for what?" "Aah!" "Get away from me!" "Aah!" "This New Year's Eve party you're goin' to- we think you should leave Jacob here with us." "Y'all don't think he should be exposed to all the crazy people?" "He gets tired so easily." "Stayin' up that late..." "No, we don'tthink he should be exposed to all those crazy people." "I'll be back tomorrow night." "Y'all aren't gonna sneak him off to one of those schools?" "No." "We'd need your signature anyway." "We're gonna sit around here and do some card tricks." "I don't know, maybe he is better off with all the loonies." "I'll tell him he's stayin' here." "I bet he already knows." "Ohh, I love you... every day and twice on Sundays." "I'll see you later." "This is the last of the raw data." "Still lots to go through." "I want to look at everything." "200 sightings in Central Illinois Christmas Day." " Anything?" " The Cold War." "These people are frightened and delusional." "You're not helping me." "Man who says he's been visited by representatives of the planet Arnadon." "Six hundred hovering yellow discs over Duluth." "Woman who says the broadcasts on her television are from outer space." "Got the surveillance photos in from the Quarrington lecture in Amarillo." "He's beautiful." "He will say anything we tell him to say." "Trips to Venus, space brothers." "I came up with that one- "space brothers."" "It's very inspired." "When you two are done, let's get back to work." "Yes, sir." "Ahem." "These people call themselves "Contactees."" "They believe they've had contact with aliens." "A bunch of them have built machines to talk to their space brothers." "They're all getting together on New Year's Eve." "They're gonna turn on the machines." "Maybe we could borrow one of the machines, call a spaceman, and ask him to come fly his ship for Ike." "Maybe we don't need to call anybody." "Go back one." "No, one more." "How old do you think that kid is?" "Why do people want so desperately not to be alone?" "Why is it more comforting to think you are being watched than to know that no one at all is watching?" "And why. really. does that make us any less alone?" "In the end." "if there are others out there." "then wouldn't we be. all of us." "still alone together?" "J-a-c-o-b." "Jacob." "That your card?" "No?" "What was your card?" "Jack of diamonds." "Jack." "Jack for Jake, right?" "They're old cards." "You know, the wax" "There's a new deck in the top drawer there." "Why don't you go get it?" "We'll try it with that deck." "Maybe then I can get it to work." "Aw, come on." "That's a good trick." "Hey, Jake, come here." "I want to talk to you about something." "How long has Mum been talkin' about, you know, goin' to outer space and stuff?" "I don't know." "It's just something she says sometimes." "How long has she been building that machine?" "She's not crazy." "She's just sad." "Well...you think this is the best place for you to be?" "You know, around somebody who's so sad?" "Thank you all for coming, and a Happy New Year!" "Happy New Year!" "Are you all ready to greet our space brothers?" "Yes, we are!" "I see a lot of you have brought devices for that purpose." "If you'll just turn them on now, then we can enjoy a nice leisurely buffet and hope that we have some guests join the party." "That's a sophisticated-looking device." "How does it work?" "I made it from a plan out of Fate magazine." "These antennas are supposed to broadcast my brain waves up into space." "How do they do that?" "Well, you could either buy this thing that looked like a salad bowl or you could use this metal bucket over here." "I'm kiddin'." "Oh." "There's a radio transmitter in there." "I just turn on this microphone and hope for the best." "You don't remember me, do you?" "I come to a lot of these things." "Your machine-it's to send a message to that... to your friend you found in the shed, am I right?" " You were" " With the army." "I came to see you once." "I lost my job over your friend." "I filed a report saying I believed the man in your shed was an alien visitor who had returned to his planet." "That opinion cost me my job and my pension... not to mention my marriage." "I thought you were lookin' for him 'cause you knew he was from space." "There are levels and there are levels." "Once I told them what I knew, they had to make me go away." "I'll tell you something, though, all the time I worked for them, I was never a believer." "It was just right before I met you when I saw the lights in the sky." "You want to get a little dinner?" "Mmm." " Like your pendant." " Thank you." "Actually, it used to be a pair of earrings." "Belonged to my grandmother." " What happened to the other one?" " I gave it away." "Now it truly is a Lone Star, then, huh?" "Think it'll work?" "I don't know." "I think whatever their plan is, it's not gonna be changed 'cause of a couple messages from us." "Well, why do you do it, then?" "Passes the time." "Because I miss him and there's something that I want him to know about." "That's Tom, Becky." "These are my kids from my late but not at all lamented husband." "That's Jacob." "QUARRlNGTON:" "Folks, can I have your attention, please?" "In a few moments, it's going to be 1959, so I'd like to say Happy New Year again and thank you all for coming out." "I'm-I'm only sorry we weren't more successful, but we're gonna try this again next month, so in the meantime, just, uh, just keep watching the skies." "#...auld acquaintance be forgot #" "# And never brought to... #" "Maybe you should have sprung for the salad bowl, huh?" "#...be forgot #" "# And days of auld... #" "He knows, Sally." "Wherever he is, he knows." "# Auld lang syne, my dear #" "# For auld lang syne... #" "Aah!" "It was nice running into you again after all these years." "It was." "Maybe we'll see each other again at one of these things, although I have to admit I'm gettin' a little tired of Dr Quarrington and all of his trips to Venus." "With Renuthia?" "You heading home in the morning?" " Mm." " Well, I hope we do." "See each other again." "I do, too." " Good night." " Good night." "Owen?" "You said that filing that report cost you your marriage?" "I was just thinking that your wife must have been a very foolish woman to let you go." " Night." " Good night." "Are you gonna do that every day?" "It's good to keep linen fresh." "Kate, we had to call off the manhunt today." "Come on, it's been seven days now." " No." " We have to" "Kate?" "We have to face the facts now." "Okay?" "Come on." "He's just a little boy, Bill." "He's just a little boy." "I just..." "No." "There you go." "Like that." "Hey, y'all." "Kids, this is Owen Crawford." "About the only evidence of UFOs at my convention was the mysterious breakdown of my truck." "Mr Crawford was kind enough to give me a ride home." "Jacob!" "Jacob?" " Tommy, go after him." " Jacob?" "!" "Jake?" "Jacob?" "!" "Jacob!" "Jacob!" "When you're little. you like to think you know everything." "but the last thing you really want is to know too much." "What you really want is for grownups to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken." "And when you're little." "it doesn't seem like a lot to ask." "He's come here for me." "He wants to see if I'm special." "Well, then whatever you do..." "don't act special." "Your mother tells me you're in real estate, Tom." "I hear you cleaned up on that East Texas boom last year." "I did all right." "Guess you'll be headin' back to your empire soon?" "Yeah, I'm leavin' tonight." "Sorry I won't get more of a chance to talk." "What do you do now, Owen, now that you're not a soldier?" "I was never a soldier." "I was more of a spy." "Gosh, I've never met a real spy before." "Really?" "How would you know?" "It was never very glamorous." "I mostly filed reports." "Mum says you got fired for the one you filed on our...visitor." "Well, the, uh, the army and I had a disagreement." "Let's just put it that way." "So what do I do now, Tom?" "They didn't exactly give me a letter of recommendation." "I knocked around the Southwest for a while, odd jobs and such, then an uncle died and I came into a little money." "I was thinking about buying into something- a gas station or restaurant." "Mr Tyler's talkin' about sellin' the diner, isn't he?" "He already knew about Mr Tyler." "That's why he said it." "Jacob." "Sorry." "What are you tellin' him to buy the diner for?" "It just came out." "He seems nice enough." "He got booted out of the army for sayin' the guy in our shed was from outer space." "Mum met him at a flying saucer party." "She needs someone in her life, Tom." "I'm goin' back to U.T., you're goin' back to work." "If Jacob goes away, she'll be all alone." "Yeah, just her and the little green men." "Y'all be careful on this road, okay?" " You gonna call me?" " I will, Mama." "Mum, will you think about what we talked about?" "I already thought about it, honey." "Come on, sis." "We got miles and miles of Texas." "You take care, Jake." "You kids drive safe, now." "Come on out." "Pete" "This one's a fight you're never gonna win!" "Don't leave on my account, son." "I'm sorry." "I don't know what's gotten into him." "He's jealous." "We'll work it out." " What are you watching?" " A western." "Good guys in white, bad guys in black." "No spacemen in green?" "In town." "Doc can get you all patched up!" " May I?" " Please." " Help me." " No. thanks!" "I was, uh, gonna go into town and find a motel room." "I was hoping I could meet you at the diner in the morning, talk to this-Mr Tyler, was it?" "about his place." "Sure." "That would be fine." "Sally, you don't think I'm crowding you here." "I just..." "Well, it sounds like a fine opportunity." "Well, I think it is." "Long as you do one thing." "You gotta change Tyler's chicken recipe." "Tyler makes the worst fried chicken in all of West Texas." "I've always loved you." "You think you can just run off and leave a girl?" "I've done things I can't ever make up for." "Owen, you don't have to get a room in town tonight if you don't want to." " It's time to move on." " Then we'll go together..." "I'll go change the bedding in Tom's old bedroom." "You can sleep there tonight." "...somewhere out in the woods." "Don't go." "What are you doin'?" "Pete. come back." "Come back!" "Pete!" "No!" "No!" "I'm never gonna fly your saucer." "Not ever." "You two finally making' friends?" "Yes." "Yes." "We were getting acquainted." "In fact, Jacob just told me everything I need to know." "Marty, Anne Crawford." "Sam fell off the roof and broke his neck." "They don't know if he's gonna live." "If he does, who knows if he's ever gonna walk again." "I'm in Las Vegas at the hospital there." "Marty, I know Owen's not in Washington." "This is the kind of thing that he needs to hear from me in person." "He'll thank you for it, Marty." "I promise you that." "Lubbock, Texas?" "I can find it." "I found that two days after he left here." "Nothin's grown since." "My heart's sort of like that patch." "You need to know that if you're- you're gonna stay." "I come from a long line of farmers." "We can grow corn in a field where grass won't grow." "I'm not goin' anywhere, Sally." "I'm not." "You're the sun and the moon to me." "Okay, I'm comin' down." "Y'all don't let me fall." "Did you tell him about your idea yet?" "I thought he'd rather hear it from you." "Sweetie, Mr Crawford thought today might be a fine day to take you fishin'." "Would you like that?" "Nothin' like a day on a lake for getting acquainted." "I'm sure your mum will be fine here without us." "# Well." "I saw the thing comin' out of the sky #" "# It had one long horn... #" "It'll go easier for your mum if you help me out." "You know that." "# It was a one-eyed." "one-horned... #" "What are you gonna do afterward..." "dissect me?" "Depends on how much you can tell us without us having to cut you open." "#... to me #" "# Well. he came down to earth... #" "We're just the beginning of this, you and me." "It doesn't end with us." "And there's something else you should know in case you think you've won anything." "I'm not the only one that matters." "# One-eyed. one-horned flying purple people eater #" "# One-eyed. one-horned flying purple people eater #" "# Sure looks strange to me #" "# I said. "Mr Purple People Eater" #" " Just a second!" "I'm comin'." "Just a second!" "I got something on the stove!" "Jesus, I can't believe I was that stupid." "No, Mama, you don't have to worry about that." "We're gonna get him back." "Jesse!" "Oh, Jesse." "Oh, my." "It's okay." "Jesse." "You're so cold." "They told me Jesse was home." "I left 50 bucks for you with the front desk officer." "Don't come back here." " Is Jesse all right?" " No thanks to you." "Did he say what happened?" "You fell asleep and he wandered off into the woods." "But he is all right?" "Kate wanted me to let you go." "I'm up for keeping you for the kidnapping charges." "I don't know what happened, but he's been lost ten days." "No, he's not all right." "Wait, wait." "Bill-Bill, please" "Uhh!" "Russell, I meant what I said." "You don't come back here." "Yeah, we should be there by tonight." "Oh, he's very well behaved." "I told him I'd kill his mum." "What are you-what are you talking about, Marty?" "And you told her where I was?" "Do me a favour, Marty." "Go to my house, see if my kids are there with the housekeeper." "If they're both fine, which I am sure they are, then start shopping for a very warm jacket." "No." "Do I sound like I'm joking?" "Gonna need your strength." "Mr Crawford, look at me." "Aah!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "I called the army." "They have no personnel records of an Owen Crawford after 1947." "This just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?" "What do you think they want with Jacob?" "You don't think the government believes in people from other planets?" "No, I think they want us to believe." "That way, anytime they test some new missile, they can blame a flying saucer." " What do they want with Jacob?" " I don't know, Becky, but whatever it is, I'm not gonna let them get their hands on him." "Tom?" "Jacob!" "Jacob?" "Oh, I'm so sorry." "I never should have let you go." "It's all right, Mum." "No, it's not." "I was a lonely, foolish woman." "Should you have brought him back here?" "It's all right, Mum." "Mr Crawford won't be coming back." "Let's get inside, Mama." "Come on." "Let's get you inside." "You look terrible." "I was worried sick about you." "He's asleep." "I want him to go to that school." "He has to disappear." "If they come..." "If they come lookin' for him, there can't be a trace." "Tom and I have an idea about that." "You keep this safe for me, okay?" "I may not ever see you again." "You'll think about me once in a while?" "Every day and twice on Sundays." "I love you, Mum." "What are you gonna do about Eisenhower, sir?" "We got a report from the sheriff in Lubbock." "What?" "The sheriff in Texas?" "There was a fire." "Mother was working on some sort of invention in her shed." "The kid died, sir." "Good." "What happened, Colonel?" "You called in from the road, right?" "Said you were bringin' the kid in." "So how did he get all the way back to Lubbock to be in that fire?" "Did Marty tell you he was leaving for Iceland?" "I might reconsider..." "give the two of you another chance." "That boy in Texas..." "don't ever mention him to me again." "Glad to see you're feeling all right, son." "What are you talking about, Dad?" "While I was away, I had this-I don't know- call it a premonition or something- that you had been hurt." "Glad I was wrong." "Why don't you boys get ready for bed?" " But, Dad..." " No, go ahead." "Come on, let's go." "You followed me to Texas." "You were having an affair with that woman." "In my work, sometimes what I do can be distasteful." "I thought you understood that." "You'd like to leave me." "Yes." "You know too much about what I do." " Come in." " How you doin', buddy?" " I'm all right." "Jesse, I wanted to tell you something." "Uh, I wanted to let you know..." "um...that is, if there's anything you want to talk about at all, anything that happened while you were gone, uh..." "I'm not really that hard a guy to talk to." "I was just lost." "That's all." "Yeah." "Okay." "You know, your father, he was a real hero once." "A real hero." "You should be proud of that." "Good night." "People believe what they want to believe." "They find meaning where they can. and they cling to it." "In the end. it really doesn't matter what's a trick and what's true." "What matters is that people believe." "Previously on Taken..." "We took this craft apart more than ten years ago, and we still have no idea how it ran." "In fact, we know less now than when we found the damn thing." "The power of mind- that is the energy source your scientists have been unable to find." "What do you suggest we do?" "Find someone else with unimaginable power of mind." "Jacob!" "I'm never gonna fly your saucer." "Not ever." "It'll go easier for your mum if you help me out." "I'm not the only one that matters." "Hey, Jesse." "Your father was a real hero once." "A real hero." "Jesse's in danger." "I need to talk to him." "It's not gonna happen, Russell." "What I can't understand is why am I alive?" "Maybe there's something in the blood... something that makes you special." "Can you keep them from coming back for me?" "I'm sure as hell gonna try." "Kate, Jesse's special." "They're seeing if he's ready." "Ready for what?" "Aah!" "Get a way from me!" "Aah!" "Mr Crawford, look at me." "No, no!" "He has to disappear." "If they come looking for him, there can't be a trace." "That boy in Texas..." "There was a fire." "The kid died, sir." "Good." "Keep this safe for me, okay?" "I may not ever see you again." "I love you, Mum." "ALLlE:" "My grandfather used to tell my mum that kids should never have to worry about anything more serious than baseball." "Everything you need to know is there." "It has success and failure." "moments where you come together and moments where you stand alone." "And it has an ending." "Not a clock." "like in other sports." "but an ending." "And that. my grandfather used to say to my mum." "is as close as a kid should have to come to that sort of thing." "Can you even lift that bat?" "Hey, batter, batter." "Strike." "Two more like that, and we can go home." "Hey, batter, batter." "You all right, kid?" "Two down, one more." "Come on." "Hey!" "What happened?" "Is he okay?" "Stand back." "radio ANNOUNCER:" "One ball and no strike." "Boyer's in close at third." "Rest of the infield back." "Going for the double play on Keen." "Marshall getting ready." "The pitch to Keen." "Hello, Jacob." "Boyer at third base is calling for it." "You know my name?" "Of course." "Everyone here calls me Jack." "You know who I am?" "You have certain capabilities." "We both know what I'm talking about." "You mustn't use them again." "They're what's making you sick." "What happens if I do use them?" "At best, you'll burn them out," "lose them for good." "At worst, they'll take your mind with them when they go, and the strain of it could kill you." "I'm sorry." "It's all right." "We'll find another way." "Who's going to take the Series?" "The Yankees in seven." "Is that a guess or something else?" "One ball. one strike." " A guess." " I think you're right." "There's two outs..." "Marshall Bridges trying to get them out." "Checks his sign with Elston Howard." "Here's the one-two pitch." "He swings and a long belt to right field!" "It's well-hit!" " Maris back at the fence." "It's gone!" "Jack?" "Jack?" "I'm Dr Benson." "I'm sorry I wasn't here to see you earlier, son, but when you're the only doctor for 500 square miles, everybody expects you to be in three places at once." "Now, let's, uh, take a look at you and see what's keeping you off the diamond." "ALLlE:" "People like to examine the things that frighten them." "to look at them and give them names." "so saints look for God." "and scientists look for evidence." "They're both just trying to take away the mystery." "to take away the fear." "president KENNEDY:" "Let me ask you this- there were, if I remember from the report, four bodies on the craft?" "The craft held five, Mr President." "We brought back four." "This one was still alive when we brought him in." "I don't know if you've seen the reports on that." "Yes, I have." "Quite a time he gave you there." "And the fifth?" "Uh, we never recovered that body, sir." "I see." "Well, it certainly doesn't look as if they mean to attack us." "What makes you say that, sir?" "Well, from what you told me, if that was their intention, we'd all be dead by now." "We have one month to prove to him that our visitors are a threat." "After that, he's shutting us down and redirecting funds to the space program." "The arrogant son of a bitch!" "I need proof that there's a clear and present danger." "I need a smoking gun, gentlemen, and I need it now." "My best subject in school was algebra." "People always say algebra's hard, but that is because they don't get how easy it is." "I just loved all those "Xs."" "Anything you don't know, you just put down an "X."" "Or you can go with "Ys," or "As" and "Bs."" "In real life, you have one plus one, and if it doesn't equal two, you're up a creek." "But in algebra, it always works, no matter what the answer is." "You just have to figure out what "X" is." "It's a very beautiful thing." "Oh, hey, honey, let me show you." "Just let me do one." "Let me show you." "Mum..." "It's fine, honey." "Mummy is gonna fix that." "Why don't you go and lie down?" " "X" marks the spot." " How many drinks have you had?" " Several." " How many pills?" "Several." "Those pills are for your nerves, not to be taken willy-nilly." "Willy-nilly, eh?" "Lie down before you fall down!" "Finish your schoolwork, boys." "You're disgusting!" "You sober up, or I'll have you put someplace, and" "Get in bed." "And don't come out of your room until morning." "Esther, no, no." "I got it." "I got it." "Thanks." "Sorry to bother you, sir." "You said you wanted to see these as soon as possible." "Yes, of course." "Come on in." "Two possibilities, sir." "Both very credible." "Gail Arlen... has reported repeated encounters since 1960." "Divorced, no children, lives alone." "My doctor told me it would reduce my tension." "Betty and Barney Hill." "Encounters in 1961 on their way back from Niagara Falls." "He's a postal clerk, and she's a child welfare worker." "They're both active in their community." "They've begun some sort of therapy using hypnosis." " They're very solid." " Very solid, sir." "In both these cases, the people claim that they were taken aboard a craft." " Taken?" " Yes, sir." "It could be just what we need." "Lonely divorcée..." "Makes up stories to get attention." "Hypnosis, you say?" "Medical hypnosis, like they use on amnesia victims." "No." "No Negroes." "It clouds the issue." " Sir" " Just keep trying!" "There must be somebody out there." "Yes, sir." "What the Russians want is nothing less than world domination." "Communism is a religion, a faith like any other, with a holy text and saints and martyrs." "The Russians see themselves as crusaders in a holy war." "Drop!" "Is there any reason you're not under your desk, Jack?" " I don't see the point." " The point is to be ready." "In the event of a nuclear attack on the Great Falls Air Force Base, which is the only military target within 500 miles, the initial blast would be jarring, but it wouldn't even break our windows." "You don't take the threat of nuclear attack seriously then?" "On the contrary, sir." "I believe that within three days of an initial attack, 3/4 of the world would've been destroyed." "I don't see the point of hiding from that kind of destruction under a desk." "Everybody back in your seats." "The Yankees lead one to nothing." "the bottom of the ninth." "Russell?" "Yeah, I'm heading to lunch." "You want to keep an ear open for the phone?" "Yeah, I'm on it." "Willie's had one hit." "That was a long triple." "Here's the pitch." "He swings and hits a long drive..." "It's clearly a foul." "It's going in the seats." "Willie McCovey. making a bid." "slams one deep into right." "The ball did not have..." "Uhh." "Maris going over near the line." "but it curves back into the crowd." "So it's one strike to Willie." "Boy. everything is riding on every pitch here in the bottom of the ninth." "Hey, Jess." "Who's winning?" "One-nothing, Yankees." "Bottom of the ninth, two outs, and Mays just doubled." "You like baseball." "Ralph Terry gets set." "Here's the pitch to Willie." "Here's a liner straight to Richardson!" "The ball game is over." "and the World Series is over!" "Willie McCovey hit it like a bullet!" "A line-drive right straight to Bobbie Richardson at second base." "Had that ball got out of his reach." "the Giants would've been the winners." "Force of nature, those Yanks." "How'd you know I was here?" "I heard Mum talking to Dad...to Bill." "She said you got a job as close as you were legally allowed." "She wanted him to come over and tell you to go someplace else." "Well, he did." "You grew up." "I've been reading these books about how the government knows about flying saucers." "They're afraid if they tell us, there'll be panic." "They started taking you again." "It says in there where it's mostly the Air Force that knows about them." "So what I was thinking..." "I mean, you were a pilot and all." "Why don't we go tell them?" "Yeah." "Why don't we?" "I'm sorry." "We got some kind of exercise just started." "It's got the whole base turned upside down." "Captain." "Real pleasure to meet you." "My mum said my dad always spoke very highly of you." "He was the best bombardier I ever saw." "I don't think he ever missed." "He was a good friend of mine." "How's your mother doing?" " She's doing fine." " Good." "You speak to her, let her know I sent my best." "Sure will." "You going to join the service like your dad?" "I might, sir." "It's a good life." "Well, you said on the phone there was something I could help you with." "Flying saucers." "I'm sorry?" "My father and I have both seen them." "We've both been inside them." "You've both seen them?" "Uh...okay." "Uh, well..." "let me just... get this all on record for you, then." "# Take good care of my baby #" "# Please don't ever make her blue #" "How long after we left his office do you think he threw that report in the trash?" " We weren't even out of the building." " He didn't believe us at all." " No." " There's got to be another way." "The people who aren't involved are all going to be like Lieutenant Wylie." "They'll smile politely and think we're crazy." "So how do we get to the people who are involved?" "I just don't know if they can do anything for us, Jesse." "# Just let your love surround her #" "Hey..." "I will do whatever it takes to help you." "# Once upon a time that little girl was mine #" "# If I'd been true #" "# I know she'd never be with you. so #" "# Take good care of my baby #" "# Be just as kind as you can be #" "Hey, Gus!" "You might want to open a window." "# And if you should discover #" "# That you don't really love her #" "# Just send my baby back home to me #" "Smell of it." "Can't eat." "# Well. take good care of my baby #" "# Be just as kind as you can be #" "What do you want?" "Uh...two bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches and a cup of coffee." "Okay." "I'll give you a cup of coffee." "# Take good care of my baby #" "There you go." "# Dum-dum-dum-dum dee-doo-wa #" "# Oh. yeah. yeah." "yeah. yeah #" "# Oh. oh. oh. oh. ah #" "# Only the lonely #" "See you in hell, niggers!" " Thanks." " Sure." "Something's wrong with your old man." "Get a napkin for his mouth!" "Something so he won't bite his tongue off." "Help me roll him on his side so he doesn't choke if he vomits." "Call an ambulance." "Tell them this man is having a grand mal seizure." "I'm a med student at U of U. I know what I'm talking about." "Do it now!" "It's all right, sir." "You're gonna be all right." "An ambulance is on the way." "Dad?" "You're in the infirmary at the Air Force base." "You had a seizure at the diner, and they brought you here." "Guess there are some benefits to being a vet." "I had this headache... and there were gunshots." "Yeah." "Are you all right?" "Yeah, they weren't shooting at me." "Those...those two coloured guys that came in, did they get hurt?" "Nobody got hurt." "You think the seizures had anything to do with our friends?" "Could be." "It could also be the end result of all those fifths of vodka" "I hit myself in the head with every night for eight years." "Captain Keys, how are you feeling?" "Why don't you tell me, doc?" "This kind of thing ever happen to you before?" "Yeah, once." "I was home, and next thing I knew, it was two hours later, and I'd sort of rearranged the furniture." "Headaches are pretty constant, though." "I'd like to take you down to x-ray, see if we can find anything." "You need to lie very still." "Try not to move." "ALLlE:" "We all like to think that we have some control over the events in our lives." "and a lot of the time." "we can fool ourselves into thinking that we really are in charge." "But then something happens to remind us that the world runs by its own rules and not ours and that we're just along for the ride." "May I speak frankly in front of your son?" "You have a tumour." "It's in the frontal lobe of your brain." "It's very, very small, but it appears to be putting pressure on your brain in unusual ways." "Can you take it out?" "So what happens?" "I've never seen anything quite like this on an x-ray before." "You might live a long and happy life, marred only by occasional headaches, perhaps more seizures like the one that brought you in here." "Or it might kill you tomorrow." "I'm sorry." "Doctor?" "Can you give me the same test you just gave my dad?" "See if I have a tumour in my head, too?" "Exactly the same size in exactly the same place." "What are the odds?" "The nature of the encounter seems to have changed." "We have stories of missing time." "People are losing several hours of their lives." "In a few cases, hypnotherapy has filled in those missing hours, giving us a story of a meeting with little men that is reminiscent of some of my country's experiments during the war." "But these are more than mere meetings." "These are, for lack of a better word...abductions." "That's new." "In the past, exposure for more than ten minutes was fatal." "So we know they've learned from their mistakes." "Their technology evolves." "Something has changed in their agenda." "Or if not their overall view, certainly in their, uh, methodology." "They are "upping the ante," I believe you say." " Why now?" " Why not?" " Can we prove this?" " Well, we are working" "I need the most credible of these people." "I need evidence that I can drop in Kennedy's lap before he pulls our plug." "What do you have for me?" "Well, I went in to get some ice cream, and I saw the light out the kitchen window..." "Bam!" "Refrigerator falls over, plates start flying off the shelves." "It was like sitting on the back of a wet dog shaking himself dry." "It was the same in the living room." "Everything's falling." "The house is shaking." "I managed to crawl back in through the kitchen, and... that's pretty much it." "Next thing Susan and I know, we're back on the couch and it's 2.00 in the morning." "That's 31/2 hours we lost." "I'd like to try to get those 31/2 hours back for you." " This is wonderful coffee." "Oh, thank you." "They're not coming back for these people." "Call it a gut instinct, whatever you like." "They're one-timers," "like when a fisherman throws back the little ones." "What you have to find me are the keepers, and you have to find them yesterday." "I know I've threatened you both in the past with reassignment and with worse, and I'm sure I don't need to tell you how hard it'll be for all of us to go back to a conventional military life" "if the president chooses to shut us down." "But at least for me, there's the comfort that I will have a rank, a position, and a place to go." "When I took over this operation from my wife's father," "I made certain provisions for all the men who were assigned to me." "Your names, ranks, and serial numbers no longer exist in any personnel file or other military record." "You are, in effect, non-people." "Without this organization," "I'm afraid you'll find yourself hard- pressed to have a life." "I've said this before, Marty, but that is one nasty bastard." "What are we going to do?" "You remember Jacob Clarke?" "The only person I've ever heard of that scared the colonel." "Too bad he's dead." "What if he isn't?" "His brother left for Montana the day after the fire in his mother's shed." "He had no business dealings there, no known friends, nothing." "Maybe he likes to ski." "Maybe." "But let's just say Jacob Clarke is still alive." "Wouldn't you like to know what it is about him that scares the colonel so badly?" "Well, Becky, he turns out to be a colonel in intelligence." "Owen Crawford." "He's the head of a classified operation that has something to do with unidentified flying objects." " Flying saucers?" " Uh-huh." "Remember those guys?" "This is what you've been doing?" "All those weekend trips, you've been spying on these guys?" "The last 31/2 years." "You could get locked up for this, Tom." " They do that." " Only if they can catch me." "Listen, Becky..." "Whatever else may have happened to Mum, this guy broke her heart." "My life is not gonna be complete until I ruin his." "It's as simple as that for me." "In this year alone, we have put two men," "John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, into orbit, and the Telstar Satellite has successfully telecast from outer space." "Your world is different than the world of your parents and teachers in ways that none of us can yet fully imagine." "Dr Greenspan." "Sorry to bother you." "Please go on with your class." "Thank you." " Jacob?" " Yes?" "Do you mind staying under there a while longer?" "I'm not sure I convinced our friends that you were already gone." "Dr Greenspan?" "Yes, dear?" "Those men are following us." "What do you want me to do?" "Go a little bit farther." "Don't worry." "I won't let them hurt you." "U.S. 12 West." "If she hits 87 and goes north, she'll be heading for Canada." "I hate driving in the dark." "It makes me nervous." "If she goes south..." "she could be heading for Billings." "What if we hit a deer or go off the road?" "It's really dark." "I-I have an astigmatism, you know." "My night vision is not to be trusted." "Do you want me to drive, Marty?" "How's your night vision?" "Pull up alongside the car..." "so I can shoot her." "The kid won't get hurt." "Here they come." "Okay, on three, stop the car and lay down flat on your seat." "It'll be all right." "One..." "Two..." "Three." "Good evening. my fellow citizens." "This government. as promised." "has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military build-up on the island of Cuba." "Within the past week." "unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island." "The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear-strike capability against the Western Hemisphere." "Come in." "Upon receiving the first preliminary hard information..." "I want you to put me in touch with whoever runs the UFO program." "We're in the middle of a crisis here, in case you hadn't heard." "...has now confirmed and completed our evaluation of the evidence..." "There is no UFO program that's run by the United States Air Force or any other branch of the government." " I don't believe that." " You're gonna have to go now." "I'll call someone to have you escorted off the base." "...several of them include medium-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead..." "My father's in your hospital." "He has something in his brain." "The doctors say it's a tumour they can't operate on." "I'm very sorry to hear that." "I have an identical tumour in my own head." "I believe these tumours were put there... put there by whoever comes in those unidentified flying objects the United States Air Force knows nothing about." "Our fathers fought together." "That has to count for something." "I don't expect you to believe me, but I expect you to help me." "...self-discipline lie ahead." "months in which both our patience and our will will be tested." "months in which many threats and denunciations will keep us aware of our dangers." "But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing." "The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards." "as all paths are." "but it is the one most consistent with our character and courage as a nation and our commitments around the world." "The cost of freedom is always high." "but Americans have always paid it." "And one path we shall never choose." "That is the path of surrender or submission." "You tell anybody I gave you this name, I'll deny it." "...but the vindication of right." "not peace at the expense of freedom..." "This guy's a colonel at Groom Lake near Las Vegas." "Thanks." "...and. we hope." "around the world." "God willing." "that goal will be achieved." "Thank you and good night." "Help me get all these things inside." "What's all this?" "The market was almost out of supplies." "I've never seen the shelves so cleared out." "It was so crowded." "I got everything I could." "You're expecting a world war?" "You heard the president's speech." "Don't give me that smirk, Colonel." "Just because you're in charge of the little green men project doesn't mean you know all the secrets." "Did you know that boys?" "You're daddy's big, important, secret job is to figure out if we're being attacked by Martians." "You're drunk, Anne." "You shouldn't take the car out when you're drunk." "He stole that job from my father." "I don't know how you did that." "Took my daddy's job." "Get these groceries in the house." "Now." "You should really be more careful about what you say in front of the children, Anne." "# I am a man of constant sorrow #" " The guy ought to get a haircut." " I think he looks serious." "Seriously stupid." "And this song has no beat." "I don't think it's supposed to have a beat." "Boys, you must be done with all your homework." "We just wanted to listen to some music first." "You always could do your work at the last minute, but you're setting a bad example for your big brother." "Don't look so bent out of shape." "You're not the straight" " A student who can afford to spend an evening by the record player." "I finished my homework at the library, sir." "I guess that's easier than having your mother spill her drink all over it." "You guys worried about this missile crisis?" "eric:" "I figure if there was going to be a war, you'd know about it." "You guys worried about your mother?" "People dig their own graves, boys." "That's something you'd do well to remember." "These are her problems she's dealing with, not yours." "You're my sons." "I'm gonna take care of you both." " You don't need to worry about that." " Is it true?" "Are you really in charge of some UFO project?" "No." "Absolutely not." "# Ooh. in this old world I'm a-bound to ramble #" "You guys have the number of my private phone at the office?" "I need to go in for a while this afternoon, see what I can find out about this crisis." "If anything around here gets out of hand," "I want one of you to call me, all right?" "It's kind of catchy." "Colonel Crawford?" "My name is Jesse Keys." "My father's name is Russell Keys." "He was a pilot over in Germany in the Second World War." "He and I have both had encounters with unidentified flying objects." "We've both been inside them." "They've come for us, they've taken us, and they're going to come for us again." "Get in the car." "Yes, sir." "ALLlE:" "You know in cartoons." "the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine." "they don't fall until they look down?" "My mum always said that was the secret of life." "Never look down." "But it's more than that." "It's not just about not looking." "It's about not ever realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly." "Whatever they did to me..." "Killed all the members of my crew." "I don't know why it didn't kill me." "I tried to run from it, but..." "Then they started taking Jesse." "They seem more interested..." "In him now than in me." "You're talking about the tumours?" "They are not tumours." "They are something that they put in our heads." "Possibly." "It's a shame we can't take a closer look." "The doctors tell me they're lodged in an inoperable spot." "If someone put them in, then someone ought to be able to take them out." "We could take them out, son, but it would kill you." "You have a very brave son... to be willing to go head-on at danger, to fly blind." "You should be proud of him." "It's not like they left us much of a choice." "Still, you're a very brave young man." "A little foolish, but very brave." "You go right at a thing." "The initiative, for example, with which you found me." "We are, for reasons I'm sure you both can imagine, a highly sensitive and secret group." "People are as worked up as they are right now over a couple of Russian missiles in Cuba, imagine how they'd react to a sky full of flying saucers." "And so we have officers out in the field." "Their cover is as regular military officers, but their real job is to screen the stories that come to us, separate the wheat from the chaff." "You mean Lieutenant Wylie works for you?" "Wylie." "Yes, he's one of ours." "Your son did the right thing by coming to us." "We can help you." "What do you make of this?" "You are familiar with the work Dr Watson and Crick are doing now, for which they won the Nobel Prize?" " Yeah." "Genetics, yeah." " That's what this is about." "Traits that run in families." "Our friends are looking for something." "In the Keys family, they have found at least some part of whatever it is they're looking for." "And the tumours?" "Perhaps it is some unfortunate by- product of being taken into an alien environment, or perhaps it is something that's put there for a purpose." "It could be, for example, something as simple as a tracking device that allows them to know where the test subjects that are most important to them are." " We should find out more." " Definitely." "Where are Erickson and Bowen?" "Any word?" "I haven't been able to ascertain that, sir." "You don't have much of a future." "Anyone ever tell you that?" "What's happening here?" "We've just been put on Defcon 2, sir." "We're preparing for attack." "I knew that lvy League idiot Kennedy was gonna cause trouble." "I would have bet you dollars to donuts." "You feel good now?" "Are you rested?" "Well-fed?" "Never better." "You want to tell me why you were sitting in the middle of nowhere, staring into space?" "We were looking for the northern lights." "You can't see the northern lights this time of year." "We were misinformed." "What the hell's going on here?" "You know about Cuba?" "Is that why you guys are up here?" "I didn't say that." " You ever play football?" "Sure." "You send your man deep, defence moves to cover him, a hole opens up, you just walk right on through." "You think the Russians are coming through the back door here?" "Is that what you're saying?" "I'm not saying a thing." "Just asking if you ever played football." "None of this explains what the two of you were doing staring out your windshield at nothing." "Nope." "It doesn't, does it?" "You all right?" "What did that kid do to us?" "I think we got a little taste of why Colonel Crawford was so afraid of him." "Jacob's in the backseat." "We were followed." "Jacob stopped them." "Jacob did?" "Is he all right?" "He's in a lot better shape than they are." "Jake?" "Hi." "He's a very special boy." "Take care of him." "Hey, Jake." "You've seen them, haven't you?" "Mr Keys, should you be up and around?" "I saw it in your eyes." "You've seen them." "Can I fix you a drink?" "I'm here to make sure you don't hurt my son." "Hurt your son?" "You want the things they put in our heads." "You can have mine." "Take it out." "Do whatever you have to do." "But it ends there, and I want your word..." "You'll never do anything to my son." "Yes." "I've seen them." "I would think you'd be more concerned with what they might do to Jesse than with anything that could happen because of us." "I don't know how to stop them." "But you think I need stopping, and you think you can do that, Mr Keys." "We would never do anything to harm a private citizen." "We would never do anything to a citizen against his will." "I personally would never do anything to harm a child!" " How old is Jesse?" " 16." " Okay, a young man, then." " Do we have a deal?" "In the war, you enlisted in the Air Corps, am I right?" "Thank you for volunteering to help your country again." "Mum?" "Yeah, I'm all right." "Mum, I'm with Dad." "He didn't take me, Mum." "I went to see him." "It was my idea." "I don't know when I'll be back." "Mum, I love you." "I'll be all right." "I gotta go." "You got too much trust for people, kid." "That's your problem." "That's the boy." "I saw the lieutenant here give him specific figures- numbers, types of planes, payloads." "At the time, I didn't realize what they were doing, but when the Defcon order came through..." "You tricked me." "You were supposed to help us." "You tricked me." " Kind of young to be a spy." "Spy?" "What the hell are you talking about?" "You were supposed to help me and my father!" "What about the flying saucers?" "What about the UFOs?" "Must be hopped up on something to give him the nerve to do what he tried to do." "I just pray he didn't manage to deliver his information." "I'll notify the Pentagon, let them know we may have a breach." "Where's my father?" "I want to see my father!" "You look at three things on the commodities page," "like the price of poultry, cottonseed oil, and tin." "This is what I did, and all three of them are stable." "And this is how you tell there isn't gonna be a war?" "What do they serve you in the army?" "Chicken." "What does that chicken come out of?" "A tin can." " What is that chicken sitting in?" " Cottonseed oil." "Yeah, all right, so in a war situation, you have more soldiers" "Eating more canned chicken." "My point exactly." " That doesn't wash." " Of course it washes." "What the hell, it doesn't wash?" "This is the nuclear age." "They drop a bomb, nobody's eating anything." "End of story." "What do you think?" "Is this the nuclear age, or what?" "Where's Colonel Crawford?" "Why-why isn't he here?" "I don't know a Colonel Crawford." "Think this thing will go all night?" "'Cause if we're still here in daylight, there's a sweet little Studebaker over there I wouldn't mind taking a look at." "Good evening, Mr Keys." "Thank you for letting us take a closer look at that tumour of yours." "Where's Crawford?" "Colonel Crawford has an entire operation to oversee." "He's left this particular phase of it in my capable hands." "Well, I don't do anything until I talk to Crawford." "I need to know that my son is safe." "I might be mistaken, but it does not appear to me that you are in a position here to make demands." "Prep him." "Aah!" "You stay away from my boy!" "Scalpel." "What is it?" "Doctor, he's seizing!" "What's going on with the anaesthesia?" "soldier:" "Tin and cottonseed oil." " Tin and cottonseed oil!" "A retractor now!" "Tin and cottonseed oil!" "What the hell's going on here?" "Tin and cottonseed oil." "I want a puppy for Christmas!" "Tin and cottonseed oil!" "Tin and cottonseed oil." "Alle ihre erinnerungen kommen auf einmal." "Alle ihre erinnerungen und alle ihre aengste." "Tom?" "Becky?" "And you must be Jacob." "Jake's a little tired." "Come in." "Come in." "We've been waiting for you ever since Dr Greenspan got in touch with us." "They seem like really nice people." "We wish you could come home with us, Jake." "Do you still do card tricks?" "No." "Kinda gave that up after we made you disappear." "You gonna be all right?" "I just need some rest." "I'll be fine." "Well, listen... try not to...do anything." "We don't want any stories getting out about you." "You don't have to worry about that." "I can't do that stuff anymore." "What do you mean?" "Well, I guess it's kinda like a battery that runs out of charge." "I know I didn't have much left, but... those men were going to hurt Dr Greenspan." "I couldn't let that happen." "You take care, Jake." "You, too." "We can start with, "Where the hell were you,"" "and work our way up from there." "You told us to bring you a smoking gun." "We were following a lead." "A schoolteacher in Montana claimed she'd been taken." "And?" "Dead end." "Just another lonely lady looking for a little attention." "I hope you were able to give her some." "Well, there were a few stories up there." "I wouldn't mind getting back up there to take another look around." "I'm sure you wouldn't." "We had an interesting time of it while you were gone." "There's a classified report you both should take a look at." "Alle ihre erinnerungen kommen auf einmal." "Alle ihre erinnerungen und alle ihre aengste." ""All your memories play at once."" ""All your memories and all your fears."" "Howard, you stay a moment?" "I need your help with something at home." "It's a personal thing." "Something going on with Marty?" "How do you mean?" "He feels to me like someone about to try an end run." "Keep an eye on him." "I rely on you completely." "You're my eyes and ears out there, Howard." "Yes, sir." "What happened?" "Russians shot down one of our U-2s." "Bad time to be a spy, kid." "Time of war, they shoot you." "What's this?" " Bomb shelter." " Why?" " Like they're going to tell me." "Hey, did you hear about Henderson and Slide?" "They're escorting a patient from the hospital, some sort of secret surgery." "Something went wrong." "Big explosion." "Everyone's dead." "The patient from the hospital, do you know his name?" "Was I talking to you?" "Do you know the name of the man they were transporting?" "Who was he?" "I don't know his name." "Whoever he was, he's dead." "ALLlE:" "The world is made up of the big things that happen and the small ones." "And the part that's so unfair is that we call them "big" and "small. "" "because when something happens to you." "when you lose something or someone that you really care about." "that's all there is." "The world may be blowing up around you." "but you don't care about that." "You don't care about that at all." " What are you looking for?" " Evidence." "What do you mean?" "Sam, you're your father's favourite." "You know that?" "You always were." "I hope it doesn't ruin your life." "That's it." "His favourite." "Your birthday." "7-28-51." "What is it?" "Part of your inheritance." "Your mother and I need to talk." "Come on." "Out." "Out." "Come on." "My father told me about this." "It's from that spaceship." "What do you mean?" "What spaceship?" "The one that you and daddy found up at Pine Lodge." "He said you used this to take the project away from him." "You know, it broke his heart when he lost the program." "I think that's what killed him." "Your father had a drinking problem, Anne." "He imagined things." "What killed him was cirrhosis of the liver." "You know that." "I'm an intelligence officer, Anne." "I've never had anything to do with any kind of spaceship." "You're lying." "You're a liar!" "What you're holding is a piece of an experimental plane the Air Force is working on." "I thought I'd get it mounted it for Sam." "He seems to like that sort of thing." "Oh, God." "Anne, I'm so sorry." "I'm so single-minded in my work." "I don't..." "I don't give you enough." "You or the boys." "Remember the first time I took you riding?" "You almost fell off." "I want it to be like that again for us." "It's the most important thing in the world to me, Anne." "Please forgive me." "Please say you'll give me one more chance, okay?" "Anne..." "Anne, we need to do something about the pills and the liquor." "It's..." "You know that." "We can't go on like this." "There's a place in Oregon." "It's very comfortable and very discreet." "It's a six-week program, and I've made some calls." "You can leave tonight." "Okay?" "It's best for the boys." "And we'll all be here waiting for you when you get back." "Okay?" "I'm sorry." "Come here." "Howard." "Thanks for coming." "You can understand I wanted to keep this, you know...close?" "I truly appreciate you doing this for me and for my family." "Well, I'm happy to help out, Colonel." "And, uh, slow and easy on the curves." "My wife's in a delicate state, okay?" "Anne, Howard's here." "Ma'am." "I'll take that, sir." "You'll tell the boys I love them?" "Yes, I'll tell them, and I'll tell them you're going to be just fine." "And when you come home, we'll go riding again, okay?" "Okay." "See you soon, okay?" " Bye." " Bye." "radio ANNOUNCER:" "In a climax to what many see as the biggest threat since the bombing of Pearl Harbour." "the Soviets have agreed to remove their missiles in Cuba if the United States promises not to invade the island." "This brings to an end..." "I guess we came pretty close to glowing in the dark." "I guess we did." "You won't live long if you're in that kind of hurry." "I know." "I wonder where he's going so fast." "Would you rather hear some music?" " Yeah, I think so." "Do you mind?" " No, not at all." "Let's see what we've got." " Yeah, leave it there." " That's not too bad." "# My lonely heart knows how #" "# I want to be wanted #" "What the hell is that?" "# Right now #" "# Not tomorrow #" "# But right now #" "# I want to be wanted #" "Colonel." "# I want someone to share my love with #" "# And my dreams with #" "# Someone I know I'd love to spend #" "# A million years with #" "Aah!" "# Where is this someone #" "# Somewhere #" "# Meant for me?" "#" "# Alone #" "# Just my lonely heart #" "# Knows how #" "# I want to be wanted #" "# Right now #" "# Not tomorrow." "but right now #" "You probably won't believe me, sweetheart, but I'm..." "# I want to be wanted #" "I'm really sorry about this." "# I want someone... #" "# Someone I know I'd love to spend #" "# A million years with #" "# Where is this someone #" "# Somewhere #" "# Meant for me?" "#" "# Meant for me?" "#" "# And there's two white horses following me #" "# I got two white horses following me #" "# Waiting on my burying ground #" "# Did you ever hear that coffin sound?" "#" "# Did you- #" "I have some terrible news." "Sometimes grownups, married grownups, get the idea that they don't want to be married anymore." "And they start to see other people." "Something like that has happened with your mother." "Do you remember Captain Bowen who worked for me?" "Howard, sure." "He and your mother have been seeing each other." "Apparently, last night, they decided to go away together." "They were in Howard's car, going up over the Sierras." "The police don't know exactly how it happened." "It looks as if your mother changed her mind about leaving us." "And Howard tried to stop her, and..." "Look, sometimes when grownups care about something..." "Things can get a little confused." "She's gone, boys." "I'm so sorry." "She's gone." "She's go" "She was the sun and the moon to me." "I'm so sorry." "ALLlE:" "I have this idea about why people do the terrible things they do." "Same reason little kids push each other on the schoolyard." "If you're the one doing the pushing." "then you're not going to be the one who gets pushed." "If you're the monster." "then nothing will be waiting in the shadows to jump out at you." "It's pretty simple. really." "People do the terrible things they do because they're scared." "That's all we found in the wreckage." "Bodies and this film." "Russell Keys' body?" "Missing the piece of skull the surgeon cut out, yes." "Any sign of the thing they put in his head?" "Forensics people tell me there was a tiny hole in Russell Keys' frontal lobe where this thing could've been lodged, but, no..." "It must've been destroyed in the fire." "After first doing this to a room full of people." "Huh." "You're probably wondering why I wasn't in that room." "Over the years, Marty, I've found that I have good gut, a little twinge that tells me when I might do better to be cautious." "One of the luxuries of being in charge, you get a twinge like that, you can have other people take your risks." "Marty, I appreciate your loyalty in all this." "I'm not gonna forget you." "Now that Howard's gone, you're gonna be in a position of much greater responsibility." "I hope you're up to the challenge." "Yes, sir." "What was he looking for in Montana?" "What did he think he could find there that he could use against me?" "He thought that Jacob Clarke was still alive." "Was he?" "No." "Are you going to show this film to the president?" "No." "No." "No, I don't think so." "Now that he's saved the world, the son of a bitch is gonna be even more insufferable." "You really think he'll shut us down?" "Or make us pencil pushers." " So what do we do?" " We just bide our time." "Keep the other one on ice." "Jesse Keys?" "Yeah." "The doctors tell me the thing in his head is identical to the one in his father's." "We just bide our time and keep him on ice." "That pretty boy won't be president forever." "These, uh-I was told these were your old man's." "ALLlE:" "We're all standing on the edge of a cliff." "all the time. every day." "a cliff we're all going over." "Our choice isn't about that." "Our choice is about whether we want to go kicking and screaming or whether we might want to open our eyes and our hearts to what happens once we start to fall." "Dad!" "Dad!" "Previously on Taken..." " Flying saucers." " My father and I have both seen them." " We've both inside them." " Aah." "Not again, you bastards!" "Your daddy's big, important secret job is to figure out if" "You're drunk, Anne." "You shouldn't take the car out when you're drunk." "Owen Crawford." "This guy broke her heart." "My life is not gonna be complete until I ruin his." "I need proof there's a clear and present danger." "I need a smoking gun, gentlemen." "My father's in your hospital." "A tumour they can't operate on." "Exactly the same size in exactly the same place." "I have an identical tumour in my own head." "What are the odds?" "It could be something as simple as a tracking device that allows them to know where the important test subjects are." "You can have mine." "We would never do anything to harm a private citizen." "We would never do anything to a citizen against his will." "Aah!" "I personally would never do anything to harm a child." "Where's my father?" "I want to see my father!" "Thank you for volunteering to help your country again." "ALLlE:" "What makes us human?" "That we can think?" "That we can feel sorrow and pain?" "Maybe." "That we can laugh?" "I hope so." "We can hurt and we can laugh and we know a past and a present." "And. in some ways. a future." "Maybe what makes us human is that we know just enough to think we know where we're going." "# Turn around, go back down, back the way you came #" "# Can't you see that flash of fire, brighter than the day?" "#" "Come on, Manny, let's go." "Wow." "This could be big." "We get these reports two, three times a week." "Mutilated cattle, dancing lights, the sort of thing we're about to look at." "For you to come personally, you must have some reason." "The reports look good." "First one came in from a local pilot out of Gary, then a commercial airline en route to Chicago." "This could finally be your proof, Dad." "I mean, this could finally show the threat is real." "We already know that, don't we?" "Don't try so hard, kid." "Just do a good job." "Your old man'll come around." "Keep these people back!" "Keep them back." "Stay back, folks." "Out of the way, please." "Stay back, folks." "We may need that." "You never know what's out there." "Looks like a reporter." "Notify dispatch..." "Reports are all good, Bob." "This is real." "It's a landing strip." "I'd stake my career on it." "Yes, tell the President, and tell him I believe it signals that our friends will soon be here in force." "I really think you should look at this personally." "Thank you, Bob." "Thank you." " The President's on his way." " That's great news." "Why don't you... go help out with crowd control or something." "Colonel Crawford." "Toby Woodruff." "This is Ted Olson." "Where's the President?" "Mr Olson is with the NSA." "I'm with Defence." "The President felt you'd be better off dealing with the... the "hands-on" guys." "The "hands-on" guys?" "You been briefed?" "Let's go for a little ride, and we'll see how you feel." "Look at that." "This has happened before, here and France, England, and Germany." "The scale of this, the intent." "Look at the formation." "It's like a runway." "Like a landing strip?" "If it's a landing strip, that means they could be" "Landing?" "Think Nixon stands a chance at a second term?" "My opinion, he'd have to fix the next election." "No one likes the creep." "Truman was President when I started this project." "I've survived four of them." "Nixon will make five." "I've lasted this long because I know how to ruin the people who get in my way." "What I want you puppies to do is get on the phone and make the President know he has to be here immediately." "This is a threat to our country of unparalleled proportions." "You do that for me, because long after Richard Nixon is just a faded memory," "I'll be around to make your lives a living hell." "Looks like there's another one here." "Dr Powell, we've got something." "Very nice, Buzz." "It's in remarkable condition." "Where'd you find it?" "North six, west twelve." " Where we found the drums?" " And there's more." "Let's go check it out." "Do you think we could be onto a smokehut?" "Something the shaman used to drive out evil spirits?" "Yeah, possibly." "Sarah's back on the demons again." "That's why we came here in the first place, isn't it?" "Rumours of demons in the woods." "The places that the Russian settlers wouldn't go." "Places that people still won't go?" "That and 80 years of research into the Tsimshian people." "Dr Powell." "Yeah." "What's up, Daryl?" "I found something." "Oh, yeah." "I don't think it's a smokehut." "Looks to me more like a funeral potlatch." "The drums, the bowls, the raven to take the spirit into the next world." "We're all dead." "First, there's the demons, then we open up a tomb." "We're toast." "Remind me, what are these demons supposed to be doing?" "They're a native version of the legend of the Incubus and Succubus." "They would take people from their homes to the woods, and sometimes, the women would come back pregnant." "Sometimes, they don't come back at all." "Daryl, you okay?" "I'm hurt, man." "Here." "Buzz, grab a ladder." "How you doing, buddy?" "I landed bad." "I twisted my ankle." "We'll get you out." "Don't worry." "What the..." "Oh, my God." "Sir." "Yes?" "23 years." "What are you going to do?" "Learn to fly-fish." "For what it's worth..." "I think you got a raw deal." "I tell my doctor I'm worried about my heart, my blood pressure." "He tells me to take these pills and to go fly-fishing." "Apparently there's something soothing about hooking a fish," "looking at them, then letting them go." "What about Jesse Keys?" "My smoking gun." "16-year-old boy with something put in his head by our friends." "You and I both know we're never gonna find him." "He disappeared from that bomb shelter and fell off the planet." "I'll tell you something." "I've never known what our friends were up to, not a clue." "Roswell, taking all these people." "But the way they took Jesse Keys... whatever they're doing, we don't stand a damn chance against them." "Is there something else?" "I was just wondering where to put the desk." "I guess they didn't want to go outside the project." "They put me in charge." "Great." "Then you can look for Jesse Keys." "ALLlE:" "I asked my dad once about his dad. my grandfather." "I knew he'd had some hard times." "But I didn't know a lot more than that." "I said to my dad." ""I guess maybe he was kind of lost. "" ""Not lost. really. " my dad said." "but for a while." "he was definitely bewildered. "" "# I hope to get home all right #" "# Hey, Mr Spaceman #" "# Won't you please take me along?" "#" "# I won't do anything wrong #" "# Hey, Mr Spaceman... #" "What's the weirdest thing you ever saw?" "And acid trips don't count." "I saw this two-headed snake once at the zoo in San Diego." "And one time, man..." "I think I saw a flying saucer." "I've been on a flying saucer, more than once." "One time, I saw my father." "He'd been dead... for four days." "Okay, my man." "Now, that is really and truly weird." "A waste of friggin' time and money, going to the moon." "You know what I admired about you back when we were over there?" "I was in four different units while I was in 'Nam, and you were the only one." "What do you mean, "only one"?" "Officer who walked point." "Every single mission, you walked point." "At first, I thought it was just 'cause you was crazy..." "Then maybe because you were the best guy in the whole world." "Or maybe because you'd seen something that was... something other than that Ring of Hell that we were in." "It was because I was the best guy in the world." "See, now, me?" "I believe in everything." "You tell me there's aliens or that you've gone for a ride on a saucer... sure, why not?" "You tell me they killed the Kennedys or started the war, and I am with you 100%." "But what I'm sorry to hear is..." "Is that your experience was so bad that you could do what we did without even flinching." "I don't know what my experience was." "All I know is, my whole life is like that- walking point through a jungle, waiting for something that..." "I can't stop to happen to me." "No disrespect, but how does that make you any different than anybody else?" "How's my credit?" "Sorry, but there's nothing I can do in that regard." "Willie, I saved your life." "Come on." "Two times." "Now I'm gonna save yours." "Get straight." "I don't wanna get straight, Willie." "I wanna get high." "I know, you want to get taken to that other world." "Well, that costs money." "I'm good for it." "You're not good for nothing, same as every other junkie I do business with." "That is why I am strictly cash-and- carry." "Get straight, and I'd be happy never to see your face ever again." "If you get some money, then I'd be happy to accommodate you." "We're expecting a telegram." "From Los Angeles, California?" "Your telling me again doesn't make it get here any quicker." "You're the people that are digging in the woods?" "Yeah." "What are you looking for?" "Do you know about the Indians who used to live out here?" "A little bit." "We're trying to find out more about them." "It's five even." "You gonna be getting the hell out of there any time soon?" "Why are you people so hostile?" "We're not doing anything." "You got a home with a backyard?" "I got a backyard, yeah." "You go outside, people digging potholes all over the yard, maybe digging up things better left buried, how are you gonna feel about it?" "Thanks." "Apollo 13 got into trouble shortly after 10.00 eastern time last night." "Something happened which cut off the power and oxygen supply in the command ship." "At midnight. the astronauts were told to use the moon-landing ship." "At 3. 42 a. m.. they were ordered to make the critical firing to put the mission in an orbit..." "Do you think this was an accident?" "If I had to weigh our friends' propensity to interfere against NASA's growing incompetence," "I think I'd have to go with NASA." "...made their last television broadcast to earth." "Last night." "after 10 p.m. eastern standard time..." "What?" "Nothing." "If you were still in charge, you would have used this as further proof of that imminent invasion." "Probably." "...the hypothesis for Houston at this point is that it may have been caused by a collision with a meteoroid or an explosion on the aircraft..." " Sam." " Hey, Dad." "What a surprise." "What the hell are you doing here?" "Dad said he lost his job." "Right." "Like you care about that." "What do you want, Sam?" "How's Julie?" "She's pregnant." "What do you want?" "Pregnant." "Well, congratulations." "You came home to gloat, didn't you?" "You came home because he lost the organization." "You still think he's some sort of a god, don't you?" "He craps on you for 21 years, you keep coming back for more." " You don't know what you're saying." " I'm talking about lies, Eric." "I'm talking about this." "A guy named Tom Clarke says he devoted his life to exposing the government UFO hoax." "People see something strange in the sky, the government makes them think it's a UFO, not some secret plane." "People taken in the middle of the night and filled full of mind-altering drugs." "Must have been cosmic visitors." "It sure wasn't our government testing some new chemical weapon." "Is that our legacy, Eric?" "Is that what he's been doing- covering for these creeps?" "What creeps?" "Tom Clarke." "I should have known." "You know him?" "Our paths have crossed." "I spent a lifetime building my organization." " With one prank, he took it away." " It wasn't the prank." "It's the times." "Nobody cares about this science- fiction stuff." "Real monsters are running this country, killing innocent people." "Oh, right, son." "There were no monsters in my generation." "No killing." "You're my son!" "This is your inheritance he took!" "I don't want any part of that." " Then why did you come home?" " I was asking the same question." "If you don't give a damn, why did you come home?" "What is it?" "Part of your inheritance." "Is it true?" "Are you really in charge of some UFO project?" "No. absolutely not." "Guess I could have changed the combination, but..." "I always thought when you were ready, you'd come home." "I found this at a crash site in New Mexico." "What crashed was nothing man-made." "Inside this craft were five beings." "They were not human." "Three of them were dead, the fourth one died under observation, and the fifth..." "Everything I've done since I found this wreckage has been about this- trying to understand who they are and what they wanted." "I was wrong about the crop circles, but I'm not wrong about this." "Something is about to happen." "Maybe next week, maybe in 30 years, but these visitors-they're moving towards something." "It's really true, isn't it?" "Dad, you had no right to hide the truth like that." "Do you know what would've happened in 1947 if the country had believed we were about to be attacked from outer space?" "I don't know, the growth of a military-industrial complex?" "Senate hearings to determine if you were or had been an alien sympathizer?" "Maybe we would have started to invade countries we thought succumbed to the menace." "I can't abide a mess." "And what about now?" "You've kept this from the world for 23 years, Dad." "Don't you think it's time you told the truth?" "I've only been frightened once in my adult life." "Would you like me to tell you about that time?" "That fifth one... the survivor of the crash that was never accounted for..." "I tracked him down to a small town in Texas." "He had formed a bond there with a young woman," "And years later, I went back to that town." "The woman was not that young then." "She had two grown children, and she also had a 10-year-old son, the result of her bond with this stranger." "Her older son Tom is the one who made that crop circle." "He did it deliberately to destroy me." "Well, I guess he had his reasons." "I got close to the Clarkes." "I wanted to know more about the younger boy-Jacob." "I was bringing him back to the ranch when it happened." "He was a strange boy." "He was gentle, and he was withdrawn." "When I looked in this boy's eyes, Sam, what I saw- what I saw there was all my memories and all my fears." "More than that, I saw them add up." "Do you understand?" "I saw my own death, Sam." "I saw how I would die." "Maybe it was a moment of guilt." "You know, maybe what you saw..." "Is what you know you deserve." "Well, there's your story, son." "Your big scoop." "A Pulitzer while you're still an undergraduate." "And all you have to do is make someone believe you." "Hi." "Do you know where I can find some information on the dig site?" "Yeah, I do." "Who are you?" "Oh." "Sam Crawford." "Sarah." "How're you doing?" "I'm a journalism student from UC Berkeley." "Uh, Dr Powell?" "This is Sam Crawford." "He's a journalism student." " Nice to meet you." " How you doing?" " Is that the carbon-dating report?" " Yeah." "Well, how old's our body?" "It's about...six years old, give or take." "Yeah." "The wrappings are bed sheets." "They date back to the early 1960s." "Lab estimates 1964, but they can't tell for sure." "We should've known." "There was nothing Tsimshian about the burial." "They never wrap their dead." "The glyphs were indecipherable, not their language at all." "Actually, I was hoping I could talk to you about that." "What did you make of the writings you found in the burial chamber?" "It was no language we've been able to identify." "Yeah, probably no more real than our mummy." "I gotta go find the sheriff." "Sam, you're welcome to stick around." " Thanks." " Okay." "ALLlE:" "I remember my mum telling me that she only went to church once with her mother on Easter Sunday." "When the minister said that the kingdom of heaven was within her." "that scared her half to death." "It meant it was all up to her." "People want the comfort of strong arms." "They look to the voices in their heads. to drugs." "They look to the sky." " Hey." " Hey." "I can see you didn't take my advice about getting clean, so I have to say to myself... maybe the man's got some money." "I got these." "What are they?" "They're my dad's medals." "What the hell are you doing?" " Get a doctor." "Right away." "I want you people packed up and out of here by tomorrow morning." "Sheriff, we've got to be able to come to some sort of compromise." "This is a significant archaeological dig." "I don't care." "I want you gone." "Where's the mummy?" "Can I ask you something?" "You say this mummy might be evidence of a murder." "That's generally the case when somebody hides the body." "Then aren't you supposed to say, "Don't leave town,"" "instead of, "Get out of town by sunrise"?" "You find that helps you as you make your way through life?" "Being a wise-ass?" "Hey, Dr Powell?" "The mummy was here just a minute ago." "Well, it didn't just get up and walk off by itself, now, did it?" "Hey, look at this." "Mosquitoes starting early this year, huh, George?" "Hmm..." "I read somewhere that mosquitoes have killed more people" "In the history of the world, the way they spread disease and all, than all the wars, famines, and floods put together." "Hard to believe something like that." "I don't know why I buy this stuff." "It doesn't work at all." "Champ!" "Champ!" "Champ!" "Champ." "Champ." "You know what I like to do for mosquitoes?" "I like to get garlic and motor oil and rub it all over any part of me that's gonna be exposed." "I never have any trouble with the little bloodsuckers." "Bye, Louise." "Honey, would you put..." "Wendy?" "Wendy?" "Wendy?" "Wendy?" "Wendy, I" "Wendy." "Wendy!" "Wendy!" "Wendy!" "Wendy!" "Wendy!" "Wendy!" "She knows not to go in the woods." "She has been told, and she has been told." "Louise, it's gonna be all right." "Kids wander off all the time." "We find them." "Not in these woods." "They walk among us in many shapes, and their ways are not always what we would hope." "So to understand that which is not you, you must become that other thing." "My grandmother said, "Walk a mile in another man's shoes."" "That is the greatest secret to shape- shifting." "So it's not about the disguise, it's about knowledge." "You guys really gonna leave in the morning?" "Well, we really don't have much of a choice." "It was a good dig, sir." "Even without the body, you've done some important work here." "We were only just getting started." "Yeah." "Nature call." " Not very subtle, are they?" " Nah." "You really wanna look at the writing on the wall?" " Yeah." " Let's go." " Daryl, you wanna join us?" " Okay." "You sure you wanna do this?" "I'm not a virgin, if that's what you mean." "I'm not talking about that." "I'm saying, you sure you wanna wander into the deep, dark woods when there's something out there?" "What do you think happened?" "Tana leaves." "The curse." "He's been revived." "He's coming for you, Sarah." "Cut it out." "That's not funny." "Dr Powell, is the raven considered a trickster or a shape-shifter?" "Daryl, are you looking for a grade here, or do you really want to know?" "A little bit of both." "All right." "Fair enough." "Trickster is both good and bad." "He brings man knowledge of the universe as it is." " Do you understand that?" " Yeah." "Okay, so Jack Tales and Loki and Daffy Duck are all examples of trickster gods." "What could be trickier than shape-shifting?" "Right." "Like when Daffy pretended to be a skunk." "That was Sylvester, and he spilled paint on his back, but, yeah, you get the point." "Wow." "You sure that wasn't Daffy?" "Because the duck, he's always getting into something." "I get the feeling this all means something to you." "Stay here and watch our stuff." "Where are they?" "Let's check up here." "You want to get that light out of my face?" "Sorry." " These two belong to you?" " Yeah." "You okay?" "She's fine, but if you're gonna be so jumpy you scream in the face of every old man you meet, you shouldn't be walking in the woods in the middle of the night." "Trickster." "The trickster." "Dr Powell?" "I was just messing around, man." "Hello?" "Buzz?" "This isn't funny, man." "Hello?" "Dr Powell?" "Dr Powell?" "radio:" "The safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts who splashed down in the Pacific near the USS Iwo Jima." "The astronauts were immediately flown by helicopter to the lwo Jima, where a medical doctor examined them." "President Nixon watched the final moments of the Apollo 13 on TV and then announced that he will fly to Houston to pick up families of the astronauts and continue on to Hawaii where he will award the astronauts with the Medal of Freedom." " How are you feeling today, Frank?" " Better." "Feeling better." "Miss?" "Miss, I got this itch that really needs scratching." "You slept through the night." " First time." " I know." "Thought you might be up for some solid food." "I've got something solid right here." "Looks like Johnson's hungry." "Hungry?" "Aah!" "Aah!" "No, no." "Do they still have those guys in the park who sell hot dogs?" "Uh-huh." "But, sheriff, Daryl's vanished." "He's been gone all night." "Is he a citizen of Haysport?" "No, he's not." "So his disappearance is not my problem." " What do you mean, not your problem?" " Who are you?" "I'm Sam Crawford." "I'm a reporter." "I'm doing a story on the dig." "Not anymore, you're not." "Look, sheriff, last night, there was an old man prowling the woods with a shotgun." "One of my students has disappeared, and you're not going to do anything?" "Tell you what-you file a report..." "I'll keep my eyes open." "Right." "It's starting again, Kerby." "Isn't it?" "ALLlE:" "When you're a kid." "anything can take you away- soap bubbles or a hose spraying a rainbow up over a new-mowed lawn." "I guess growing up means that it gets harder and harder to find your way back to that kind of place where you can be taken." "The one time I see grownups with that same sort of look on their faces is when they're just at first falling in love." "It changed a lot while you were away, huh?" "I wasn't really thinking about that." "I was just thinking about all those bubbles." "They're beautiful, aren't they?" "Yeah." "Those kids look really happy." "What happened?" "A lot of things." " In the war?" " I don't know." "That was just the icing on my cake." "No!" "Get your kids out of here!" "What do you want from me?" "!" "Why do you keep taking me?" "!" "Why did you save me in the jungle?" "!" "Why didn't you let me die with my men?" "!" "Frank!" "Frank!" "Jeez, man." "Lighten up." "It's not my war." "Come on." "Oh, my God." "Man can't make a damn bubble in the modern world." "Come on." "It's okay." "Frank." "Frank." "Hey, it's okay." "You can tell me." "My name's Amelia, for God's sake." "I was named after somebody who was lost." "Can I ask you to do something for me?" "Would you call me Jesse instead of Frank?" "Frank's not my real name." "Maybe someday I can explain." "Excuse me, miss." "I'm looking for Lieutenant Frank Pierce." "Ridley, Personnel Services Office." "Records Branch." "You're a difficult man to find." " I've been sort of preoccupied." " You never picked up your medals." "I have a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart." " Keep 'em." " Excuse me?" "Give them to someone who deserves them." " You don't want them?" " I don't want 'em." "Okay." "I read the report on this, lieutenant." "What you did- it's a miracle you survived." "The temple was on fire." "You couldn't save everyone." "I don't know if you blame yourself for the men you couldn't save, if that's what this is about" "It's about that and a lot of other things." "I'm not gonna take your medals." "Well, we'll just add that to the list." "The list of things you're gonna explain to me someday." "You like it, being a nurse?" "I was in college." "I knew everything that was wrong with the world." "I wasn't doing one little thing to make it better." "What about you?" "Did you always want to be a soldier?" "I always figured I'd be a mechanic, like my dad." " What happened?" " We're different in that way." "I stopped thinking I could fix things." "Look out!" "You okay, buddy?" "Steve, you little idiot!" "What were you doing?" "Why don't you think?" "Ma'am, I think he's scared enough." " Thank you." " Yeah." " You okay?" " Yeah." "You're very brave." "No, I'm not." "It's not brave when you know nothing can hurt you." "What do you mean?" "Someone's watching over you?" "You got a guardian angel or something?" "Or something." "Is that what happened in Vietnam, Jesse?" "You thought you couldn't get hurt?" "No." "I knew I couldn't get hurt." "We were in the Quang Ngai province, and... we walked into a trap." "Knowing what I knew, knowing that I was safe..." "I should've been able to do more." "I dared them the whole time, saying, "Go ahead." "Get me out of this one."" "And they did." "They got me out." "And they let 27 men from my unit die." "Who are "they", Jesse?" "Who are you talking about?" "Add that to your list, too." "Okay, guys." "The only way to cover enough ground before nightfall is to split up." "Any problems, blow your whistles." "Keep blowing until the rest of us can get to where you are." "Sam's offered to help us look." "One more thing- someone has to stay here, just in case Daryl comes back while we're out looking for him." "I will." "Thanks, Sarah." "You might want to keep this." "Let's go, you guys." "Be safe." "Daryl!" "Daryl!" "Daryl, it's Dr Powell." "Daryl?" "Daryl!" "Daryl!" "Daryl." "Daryl." "Hello?" "Is anybody there?" "Hello?" "Daryl!" "You in there?" "Hello?" "Any word yet?" "Nobody's been back?" "This is deeply creepy." "Yeah." "Deeply." "Look, I better go back out." "You wanna take this?" "You should keep it." "Okay." "Okay." "Aahhh!" "You take care of the problem?" "Yeah." "He'd just gotten to Powell when I came on him." "I shot him twice." "No body?" "There was blood all over." "I figured he'd crawled away to die." "You figure, or you hope?" "Come on, doc." "I told you, I shot him twice." "You didn't want to make sure, just in case you were wrong?" "What are you looking at, old man?" "You ain't helping, creeping around the woods." "You're damn lucky you're still alive!" "I need some help!" "Somebody help me, please." "It's okay." "Shock." "Nothing more." "She probably won't remember a thing." "Well, let's hope not." "What's going on here, sheriff?" "What paper did you say you worked for again?" "Well...it's a college newspaper." "Uh-huh." "Well... next time an officer of the law makes a suggestion to you," "like "Go Away," for example, you should think about listening." "If I see you again," "I'm gonna drive you out into the woods, and I am gonna shoot you." "Go away." "His eyes..." "He came through the burial chamber..." "His eyes... oh, God." "His eyes." "You're all right." "When I found you, I thought you might be dead." "Then I noticed you were still breathing, so I..." "I dragged you in here to keep you out of the elements and such." "Who the hell are you?" "My name's Leo." "My daughter's name was Nadine." "She would've been 40 this year." "We got the northern lights up here, but in 1958, there was something in the sky that wasn't any aurora borealis." "There were these lights in the sky...dancing, moving in ways you wouldn't believe, coming down out of the sky and disappearing into the woods." "My Nadine went walking in there, trying to see what they were." "She came back a day and a half later, no idea where she'd been, no idea what had happened to her." "It was about four months after that she started to show." "The twins were born in early '59." "The pregnancy was hard, real hard, and the birth killed her." "I was Nadine's only family, so I took the boys." "I named 'em Larry and Lester." "They were all wrong, those boys, right from the start, but it wasn't just that." "It was how they looked and what they could do." "They could peer inside a fellow, even when they were small." "When I looked in this boy's eyes. what I saw... what I saw there was all my memories and all my fears." "After a little while, it got too hard for us to stay in town." "Folks just didn't want them around, so... we went out into the woods, stayed in this cabin my father had built for hunting trips" "How much did you tell him, Leo?" "Well, doesn't really matter." "We're gonna take that drive I promised you." "You killed one of the twins, didn't you?" "You killed him, you wrapped him up and stuck him in that chamber." "Larry." "He was the worst of the two." "Took to trying out his abilities when he was 16 years old." "Leo mention that?" "Hmm?" "All the dead dogs and cattle?" "Things he did to them hunters in the woods." "This town makes its living off of hunting season." "Close to ten years, couldn't pay folks to go in our woods." "Leo wouldn't go near that cabin himself." "It's my job to keep this town safe for everybody." "That boy was a menace." "I went up there to try to talk some sense into him." "Anyway, I didn't wrap him up." "I buried him under a tree." "How he wound up in that burial pit, wrapped up like that..." "I got some ideas." "Come on!" "Get after him!" "Damn it!" "Where'd he go?" "This way." "Come on." "Can you come with me?" "Lester?" "It's the sheriff." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Louise, what the hell is going on?" "We're going in after him, Kerby." "My daughter's still missing, and we know who's responsible." "All right, let's go." "Over here." "She's hurt bad." "Must have tried to climb a tree to see where she was, and she fell." "Her leg's broke in a couple of places." "I sneak up when she's asleep, leave her food and water, but I can't get her into town." "I'm afraid she'll look at me." "What happens when people look at you?" "I don't know, exactly." "When my brother and I were kids... we used to just scare folks, mostly." "I think people look at us, they see too much." "All their memories." "All their fears." "I guess you could say." "Why'd you wrap your brother up like that?" "My brother and I...sometimes... we would draw in this weird language." "We never knew what it meant, but it looked kind of like in books and stuff about ancient Egypt." "Yes." "I knew it was important, like...maybe magic or something." "I thought maybe if I..." "wrapped him up like that, put him somewhere special with that writing all around him..." "Maybe he'd come back to life." "Kind of foolish, huh?" "No." "No, Lester, I don't think that's foolish at all." "I think you loved your brother very much." "I never meant to hurt any of those people who dug up the grave." "I was trying to get help for the girl." "I know." "My, uh..." "Whatever it is I do to people..." "I guess it got stronger after Larry died." "I really never meant for anyone to get hurt." "You're hurt, too." "I gotta get you both to a doctor." "Just worry about the little girl." "Hi." "Hi." "Are you the one who's been bringing me food?" "No, sweetheart." "I'm not." "Is that him over there?" "I wanna say thanks." "His name's Lester." "You can thank him later, okay?" "Right now, I'm gonna have to pick you up, but it might hurt a little, so can you be brave?" "Hey, stop!" "The little girl's here!" "She's all right!" "Stop!" "Stop pouring the gas!" "We're coming out!" "Come on, sweetie." "It's okay." "Come on." "All right." "Mister?" "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Oh, God." "Baby." "Oh, my God." "Baby, did he do this to you?" "No, mummy." "I fell out of a tree." "Get her back to the car, Louise." "We're gonna finish this once and for all." "Why don't you let me take it from here?" "Eric." "What are you doing here?" "You're not a hard man to follow, Sam." "From everything the sheriff and Dr Shilling have told me, you've got something important to the project- some sort of half-breed or something." "That's why you're here?" "I'm here to keep you from doing anything unfortunate." "The sheriff says you've been uncooperative." "Look, there's nothing here for you." "I think I'd like to see for myself." "Eric, you can't go in there." "You're going to stop me?" "You could be killed." "You care about me, Sam." "I'm touched." "He's right, son." "You don't want to go in there." " Eric, no." " Get your hands off me!" "I'm not gonna let you take him!" "Lester don't want to hurt anybody." "Get out of here." "Step away from the porch, Leo." "Mummy, are they gonna hurt Lester?" "Hush, honey." "I let you people take my boys before, and look where it got me." "No, sir." "I'm not moving." "Well, suit yourself." "Come on!" "Get that gasoline on it." "Mummy, no!" "You want him now, little brother?" "He's all yours." "Lester, you gotta get out of here." "Larry didn't mean to hurt anyone, either." "They came out with cameras to take pictures of the freaks." "Larry just lost his temper." "We gotta go!" "What's the point?" "Where am I gonna go?" " We'll figure something out." " You better get out of here." "Lester, come on." "Oh, my goodness!" "There you go." "Grandpa did that, didn't he?" "Yes, you're very cute." "Hi, Mary." "Come on." "Can you say "grandpa"?" "Can you say "grandpa"?" "She's only a week old." "Can't start indoctrinating them too soon." "Come on, Mary. "Grandpa."" "Come on. "Grandpa."" "I wish your brother Sam was here to see this." "Say "grandpa."" "Come on." "Julie, could you give dad and me a minute?" "Yeah." "I bring my baby over for you to see, you're still talking about Sam." "We haven't heard from him since he left." "We won't be hearing from him anymore." "Sam is dead." "What?" "He went out trying to find proof that would destroy you, and that proof killed him." "He died trying to bring you down." "He hated you that much." "You never told me any of the things you told Sam." "I would never have broken your trust, and you never once gave it to me." "This... is this what you saw when you saw your own death?" "No!" "Aah!" "A stroke, right?" "A massive explosion." ""Pop" goes the brain stem." "That's why you always hated me." "I scared you." "You knew I was the last thing you'd ever see." "Kind of funny, isn't it?" "If you'd been a little kinder, showed a little more interest, this might not have happened." "Knowing what you know- that's what brought us here." "So, how does it end, Dad?" "Are you trapped in there?" "Stuck inside your head a while longer before the lights finally all go out?" "I always loved you better." "You know that." "You wet yourself." "Marry me." "That goes in the kitchen." "Master bedroom, please." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Shut the door on your way out." "Eric." "I guess I was wrong about you." "Good luck and Godspeed." "Dad." "# If my words did glow #" "# With the gold of sunshine #" "# And my tunes were played #" "# On the harp unstrung #" "# Would you hear my voice #" "# Come through the music?" "#" "# Would you hold it near #" "# As it were your own?" "#" "# It's a hand-me-down #" "# The thoughts are broken #" "# Perhaps #" "# They're better #" "# Left unsung #" "# I don't know #" "# Don't really care #" "# Let there be songs to fill the air #" "# La da da da #" "# La da da-da da #" "# La da da da #" "# La da da da da #" "Previously on Taken..." "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?" "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!" "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!" "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 417 new miles on it." "417 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 Iot." "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'II find a list of the 12 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'II 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." "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?" "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!" "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?" "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." "They say we're lucky because it's taking her so quick." "With cancer, it could've been a Iot worse." "Hello, honey." "How do you Iike 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." " 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." "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." "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 Iittle 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 Iittle bit far-fetched, doesn't it?" "Mum's in a Iot 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." "What are you doing, Jake?" "Something for Mum." "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 Ieast 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." "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'II figure it out." "We're really close." "What about those brothers in Alaska?" "Failed attempts at crossbreeding, Iike that kid Jacob CIarke 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'II 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." "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'II take the car." "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." "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?" "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 Iove 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." "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 12 people..." "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 Iong 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 Iike to move?" "Like to Henderson, someplace a Iittle further outside of town?" "No." "I was thinking more like Maine." "Don't you think this is a Iittle 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." "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 Iot 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 Iot, 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'II 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 16." "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." "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 Ioudmouth 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 Iot of attention go away, either." "She is your daughter, isn't she?" "Mr Clarke." "I don't mean to question your ability oryour 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 Iittle 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'II 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'II make them go away." "I'II be home for Thanksgiving." "It's gonna be all right, 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?" "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 Ieast 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." "Hello." "Dr Wakeman, please." "Traub here, Rivers Clinic." "I've got the man you're looking for." "I'm gonna get you, AIIan 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." " AII 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'II be all right." "Thanks." "Yes, I'II 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." "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." "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'II 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." "Come in." "Dad, Mum won't unpack my Cabbage Patch Kids." "I'II 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." "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 1947." "That burial chamber in Alaska wasn't opened up until 1970." " 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 Iot 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?" "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." "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'II work." "There." "I'm doing it already." "Do you look a Iot 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 Iot of money and a Iot 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 Iast 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." "AII right, I'II ask him." "A cold day in hell is when." "I'II be home late." "So unpack the Cabbage Patch Kids." "What's the problem?" "AII 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." "Why would I get in a plane with you, of all people?" "I could put you in custody." "It's like that?" "No, it's not Iike that at all." "I'II 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 Iot 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 CIarke's little sister." "Big brother shadow." "I hear that." "Sun rose and set on my brother Sam." " I guess a Iot 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." "Where are we?" "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 Iittle longer," "I'II be able to understand." "Thank you for showing me this." "I wasn't going to." "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'II 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." "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 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." "Well...you're making short work of that book." "Not a Iot 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." "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 Iove you." " Call me when you get there." " I Iove 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'II 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." "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'II be up to us to continue it." " I can't believe you came." " Are you all better?" "Yeah." " Did you Iike my play?" " I Ioved 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'II 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?" "What's going on?" "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!" "Truck 17." "we've got an engulfment event at the Pioneer grain silo on Erlington." "We've got two men with a grain bridge collapse." "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'II come for Charlie next." "You gotta go." "I've called for help." "I'II 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." "I don't wanna be the man that I am." "Can you understand that?" "What in the hell makes you think he's not lying to you?" "!" "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?" "No." "You don't trust him. either." "Come with me." "Leave Ronnie and come with me." "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 to get away from him!" "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?" "Nothing's wrong with it." "It's just not possible." "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." "Right there." "Few more feet." "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'II work?" "We'II 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'II 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?" "Ha ha ha!" "Ohh!" "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 Iittle 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 #" "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?" "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 Iike to take a look in the back of your truck." "That would be a violation of about three dozen army and air force regulations." "We believe you're in violation of a Iot more than that." "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 that you recovered bodies from that wreckage and that you're transporting them." "Bodies?" "Where would you have gotten an idea like that?" "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." "Tom, ask him what's in those crates." "Personal effects, things that belonged to my father." "We'd Iike to take a look." "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."