"For eons, humans have gazed up at the stars and wondered:" "Are we alone?" "You flew me up here in a private jet, Doctor." "Why?" "6 months ago, Shuttle Pilot Chuck Bradshaw and Copilot Jeremy Wren re-entered the earth's atmosphere." "Mission control..." "Looks like all systems are good for re-entry." "Bit of a bumpy ride." "Makes you feel alive, don't it?" "Telemetry looks good." "They saw something shoot by, moving at approximately twice their speed." "Anchor looks good." "Stand by." "Shuttle entry's at what, 17,000 Miles per hour?" "Which puts whatever they saw moving at 34,000 per hour." "That's fast." "All systems are go." "You calling that in?" "Stand by." "I think I got my hands full." "You should be picking up speed." "Telemetry looks good." "Anchor looks good." "Jeremy, I think you should have your hands full, too, if you know what I mean." "Expect a little turbulence entering..." "Astronauts, Shuttle Pilots, the men who walked on the moon..." "There's this unspoken rule." "You see something you can't explain, you keep your mouth shut." "Houston?" "Roger that." "Go ahead." "We just saw a Santa Claus." "Hear the silence, man?" "They don't know what to say." "Uh, this is Houston." "That's a negative on the Santa Claus." "What you saw was a sun spot." "Sun spot?" "Yeah." "A sun spot entering the atmosphere at mach 45?" "Come on." "What do you want from me, Dr. Hodgins?" "I've been called a conspiracy theorist since I was 21." "I'm not afraid of being mocked." "My name is Major Jeremy Wren." "And if you're seeing this video..." "It's because I'm dead." "Why?" "Because I took this video during my last shuttle landing." "And is Major Wren dead?" "Car accident, two weeks ago." "Within hours, this video was on the Internet." "But here's the thing." "It's been modified." "What they are doing is covering the truth with lies." "What does the pilot say?" "Colonel Bradshaw?" "He did the smart thing." "He shut the hell up." "That is, until..." "Colonel Bradshaw, do you have any comment on the sudden death of Major Wren?" "It's a great tragedy." "Did you see what Major Wren saw up there, colonel Bradshaw, or was Major Wren insane?" "Jeremy Wren was definitely not insane." "Since that little slip-up at Wren's funeral, colonel Bradshaw has been fired for alcoholism." "Only thing is, he doesn't drink." "So they're after him because he wouldn't call his friend insane on TV?" "Anyone can see from this video that not only are there beans to spill," "Bradshaw is this far from spilling them." "What do you want me to find, the pilot?" "No." "In fact, he's the one that came to me." "Why you?" "I have a certain stature in the community of skeptics." "Conspiracy theorists." "I want you to find the object." "The sun spot." "It's not a sun spot." "It is an alien spacecraft that crash-landed somewhere on planet earth." "Find it." "Show it to the world, and Bradshaw gets his life back." "I don't believe in extraterrestrial visitations." "How can you not believe in extraterrestrial life?" "I said I don't believe in visitations." "Aliens exist." "Whatever Bradshaw and Wren saw proves it." "I'm in." "OK!" "Great!" "What do we do first?" "We?" "Hey, man, the Jeffersonian Forensics lab has gone dark for a week while the federal coroner is on vacation." "So, I'm all yours." "All right." "I need to talk to colonel Bradshaw." "That's impossible." "He's in hiding." "Oh!" "Hey!" "Hey." "Walter." "Colonel Bradshaw, Walter Sherman." "It's a pleasure to meet you, sir." "Do you believe that ultimate fulfillment can only be found in the arms of a significant other?" "There are an infinite number of paths to fulfillment." ""The soul is neither man nor woman."" "What are you reading?" "Some ladies' magazine from the eighties." "I'm reading the ancient Hindu text of wisdom called Upanishads." "I win." "What's up, Timo?" "Come on in and get yourself a nice cold drink." "What's wrong?" "Uncle shad wants to see us." "Both of us?" "Both of us." "Probably about your arranged marriage, which is anti-American." "We shouldn't discuss family business in front of you." "It's not our fault if Leo eavesdrops." "I'm pretty engrossed in this book." "I gave Shadrack the 10 grand worth of diamonds." "I'm confident he'll dissolve our engagement." "When?" "Could be anytime." "So just be ready." "So how'd you make me?" "Rocketeers all look at the sky the way some men look at women." "Dead giveaway." "I told you he was good." "In the future I'll keep my eyes on the ground." "Do you think it was the footage that got Major Wren killed?" "I mean, isn't it obvious?" "And they are coming after me now, hammer and tongs." "I've been fired." "I can't find a job anywhere." "I'm being audited." "My wife just found emails saying I cheated on her." "I'm a totally faithful husband." "All of a sudden, colonel Bradshaw has a history of mental illness and substance abuse?" "How do I know you're not really a womanizing drunken crazy man?" "I guess you're just gonna have to make your own determination on that count." "Was it you that put the footage on the Internet after Wren died?" "No." "You know who did?" "No idea." "It'd be nice to have the original footage." "It disappeared with Jeremy's death." "All right, I'm gonna need to talk to the guy that told you it was sun spots." "Mission Commander Ed Scanlan." "Ed lives here in D.C." "Get this... two weeks after the sighting, Scanlan retired and immediately registered an advanced technology patent and became rich." "Scanlan did not get that technology from aliens." "Walter doesn't believe in extraterrestrial visitations." "Yeah, well, neither did I till I saw one zip by me at mach 45." "Come on." "OK." "Thanks for the inside info." "All right." "Nothing entered the atmosphere at those coordinates at that time except for the shuttle." "Says who?" "Guy who owes me a favor..." "Ira Messing." "Ira Messing, the asteroid tracker?" "Yep." "Ah, he's brilliant." "Wait a minute." "Why does Dr. Messing owe you a favor?" "'Cause I found a serial killer and a girlfriend for him." "In that order, but not the same person." "None of Messing's radio-telescopes registered the phenomenon." "Well, then, you know what that means." "It's an alien cloaking device." "It means that whoever is cooking this up can intercept all data from hundreds or radio-telescopes before it gets logged." "How can you refute the Mountain of evidence that aliens have visited this planet?" "There's no evidence." "There's some drawings and a lot of hokum." "What do you think that Bradshaw and Wren saw?" "Some kind of experimental drone." "We don't have that kind of technology." "Well, they hold it back in order to maintain control." "The corporations." "They?" "And they decide what we can and cannot have." "The aliens are here, and they control the people you think are controlling everything." "You are totally paranoid." "You are totally paranoid." "You're telling me the forensics lab at the Jeffersonian suspects that Jeremy Wren's death was not an accident?" "Mr. Scanlan, you have to admit it's suspicious." "Approximately 125 people die in traffic accidents every day in this country." "You factor in that he was agitated, depressed, medicated, sleep-deprived, I'd say that makes it a near certainty." "Either that or he drove into oncoming traffic on purpose." "Oh, what, suicide by tractor trailer?" "I didn't know Wren well." "I doubt he knew my real name." "He just called me mission control." "That's a pretty fancy watch you got there." "What did that set you back, 10 grand?" "Excuse me?" "Plus, you're not even trained as an engineer." "Is this guy mentally stable?" "He has a hard time focusing." "Walter's referring to the fact that you retire and immediately patent a process for manufacturing a super coolant outside your area of expertise?" "Let's just call it a hobby that paid off." "Did you skip Wren's funeral because you feel guilty?" "What exactly do you two do at the Jeffersonian, anyway?" "I'm a bug and slime expert under contract to the FBI." "I'm in discombobulated objects acquisition." "So, what, you find things?" "I call it a hobby that pays off." "I'm done talking to you yo-yos." "You told Wren and Bradshaw they were seeing sun spots." "Was that your way of saying "I believe you"?" "Otherwise you'd have said something more believable." "A meteor." "A weather balloon, a Chinese missile." "People who've left the planet, seen earth from space, how many of you are there?" "Messiahs and emperors outnumber us." "Why?" "Wren is dead." "Now they're ruining Bradshaw's life." "Both of those men were in that small group like you." "When did Wren and Bradshaw really see up there?" "I told them sun spots as a warning." "What they saw was sun spots, gentlemen." "You consider yourselves warned." "Scanlan knows, but he won't tell us." "Hey, you, uh, see goggle eyes over there with the wienie dog?" "Oh, the dachshund." "You ever seen him before?" "What, the dog or goggle eyes?" "Oh, that's not his dog." "How can you tell?" "That's a pretty common type of dog." "Otto!" "Come on, boy!" "Yeah!" "Come here, come here." "Oh, yeah." "Come here." "Whoa..." "Did you see him?" "No, no one came this way." "Oh, God, he's really fast." "Hi, uh, I have your dog." "Walter Sherman, please." "This is for you." "Hello?" "Tonight at 9 P.M." "The lowest level of the parking garage and 863 Granville." "P-3." "Come alone." "That voice was not human." "It was treated." "I got a meeting." "You can't come." "Well, do you think it's some kind of a trap?" "Most definitely." "Well, what am I supposed to do with Otto?" "You'll figure it out." "What?" "No." "No, no." "Walter?" "I never heard goggle eyes grunt once or pant or breathe." "And he outran you?" "Normal people can't outrun you." "Yeah, I am fleet." "He disappeared without a trace, like he flew away." "So what was goggle eyes?" "You've heard of male enhancement?" "Not in this context." "Eew." "Walter, what if what you're looking for doesn't even exist?" "Those astronauts saw something." "I can find it." "The video's all over the Internet." "Hodgins said that would happen." "He said they would produce so many fakes, the real ones would get buried." "Well, I could go on the Internet and dig backwards until I find the first one." "Like patient zero?" "Do that." "What's in it for me?" "What's in it for you is that Walter finds that thing and doesn't go crazy and spend the rest of his life gluing macaroni to tin cans." "And 200 bucks in your car fund." "I'm in." "Don't do anything until I get there." "You won't get here in time." "In time for what?" "I have to step into a trap in 20 minutes." "Wait, did you say trap?" "If anything goes wrong, talk to Hodgins." "But don't get into is car." "It's claustrophobic." "Ahem!" "I'm here." "What's it gonna be?" "Wow." "That's an impressive party trick you got there." "Could we hustle this along?" "I know you're not gonna kill me, otherwise you'd have done it this afternoon." "Mr. Sherman." "Hello, Mr. Sherman." "I'm pope." "Don't speak." "Just nod if you can understand me." "Do you know who I am?" "That's very good news for you." "Better?" "Mr. Sherman, you have a unique and valuable ability." "You've found things for very powerful people, who'd do anything to help you." "I need you to understand that none of that matters now." "No one can help you." "No one can help me." "Finding things is all well and good when indeed those things have been lost." "Mr. Sherman, you should concentrate on what I'm saying." "Not everything that is missing is lost." "Some things have been hidden, and some of those hidden things are not to be found." "They should never be looked for." "I'm the person who hides those things." "You're my opposite." "Yes." "We're at odds in our life's journeys." "The yin and Yang, if you like." "But it's not a competition." "I've already won." "You have a lovely home in Florida." "It's sunny." "Your toys." "A vault of souvenirs and treasures." "Oh, your friends." "I wonder how much you'd miss all that if you had to spend the rest of your life here." "I'll destroy the lives of everyone around you." "The little gypsy girl will rot in jail." "The U.S. Marshal will be disgraced." "Your family might disappear altogether." "Because, Walter, I hide things." "And I hide them very well." "The thing about well-hidden things is you never actually know if they're gone." "It's very painful." "I want you to remember that." "Remember this..." "I found you." "Well, this would never have happened if you had your minder with you." "My minder?" "Oh." "How indelicate." "I'll destroy the lives of everyone around you." "Walter." "Walter." "Hey." "How many fingers am I holding up?" "All of them." "How long have I been gone?" "3 days." "Isabel has every U.S. Marshal in the country looking for you." "How did I get here?" "Robot voice called me and told me where to find you." "Turned out to be your own bed." "This is why we have to confer before you take a job." "Was there anal probing?" "Only metaphorically." "It wasn't aliens." "It was a woman named pope." "We need Isabel." "So we got a man with goggle eyes, who can shove cars with one hand, whistles through his nose, shutter island, and a hider named pope." "Did I miss anything?" "The threats." "Are you sure this actually happened, Walter?" "It sounds insane." "They aren't only scaring Walter, they're making him look crazy." "Walter is crazy." "I mean that in a good way." "Goggle eyes moved a car with one hand." "Obviously an alien." "He didn't really move a car." "It's a parlor trick." "That whole meeting was staged." "Well, this pope lady doesn't sound like she's bluffing." "If she wasn't bluffing, Walter would still be locked in that psych ward." "Are you gonna keep looking?" "Walter never stops looking." "Maybe it's time I tried." "If I don't stop looking, they're gonna ruin Isabel's career, destroy Hodgin's life, throw Willa in prison forever, and do something awful to my family." "You have a family?" "What are they going to do to me?" "Pope didn't threaten you." "Why?" "They want Walter to think I work for them." "Excuse me, geriatrics, you always say Walter will die if he doesn't find what he's looking for." "What, like a bloodhound?" "Die, or go catatonic." "It's a theory." "I gotta stop." "Pope wasn't messing around." "These people..." "Who do they think they are?" "For centuries they've been hiding the truth, and for centuries brave men and women have defied them." "Merlin," "Jesus," "Galileo." "Tom Hanks." "I hate them." "I have a young son." "A baby." "And what I'd like at the end of my life is that for the man that he will become to respect me for pushing back on the veil of darkness." "I'm sorry you people don't feel the same way." "Don't not look because of me." "I'm a gypsy." "If they catch me, they can't hold me." "We are not a part of their world." "You've got the most to lose." "Yeah." "You." "If you die or go crazy, how am I supposed to enjoy being the Attorney General of the United States of America?" "You find it and you come tell me exactly what "it" is." "My wife and child are gone." "They can't touch me." "But if that woman put any doubts in your mind, you tell me now." "I got no doubts, Leo." "Besides, if pope locks me away in the loony bin, you're the one that's gonna come get me out." "What do we do first?" "I want to catch up to Hodgins, get him to give me a lift back to D.C." "Yeah, that footage is everywhere now." "That's what they do." "It's classic disinformation." "The just flood the Internet with altered video." "And the truth gets buried in thousands and thousands of lies." "But don't worry." "I got my top computer expert working backwards in the postings to find the most accurate version." "The truth." "I don't care about the truth." "What I'd really like is my life back." "They won't allow that." "They need the world to think that you're a hopeless, crazy drunk." "Look, my choice is to live the life they left me or end up like Jeremy." "I choose a crap life over no life at all." "You can stop looking." "Walter doesn't do that." "That's not my problem." "How's it going?" "There's an Internet behind the Internet made up of cached information." "It's been archived and erased but not destroyed." "There's a difference between erase and destroy?" "Oh, yeah." "It's like chasing a ghost through a hall of mirrors." "Where'd you learn to do this?" "I used to be the ghost." "Patient zero." "More like patient 1,000, but it's the closest I've seen yet." "It's got a bit more detail." "You still can't tell exactly what the thing is." "Send it to Walter." "And good job." "That's it?" "It looks like all the thousands of other videos on the Internet." "This is only 3 or 4 generations from the original video that was posted the day Wren was killed." "That's fantastic." "What do you want from me?" "Help us find the truth." "What truth?" "Guys, this is the real world." "OK?" "You cannot win with these people." "Wren is dead." "Bradshaw is ruined." "For what?" "The truth." "You keep saying that as if the truth was real." "Scanlan's saying there is no truth, just another layer of lies." "Give us a hint." "You're staring directly at the sun." "That's a good way to get blinded." "My advice to you..." "Avert your eyes." "Thanks." "Thanks?" "What are we..." "Thanks for what?" "We've been looking in the wrong direction." "They wiped the official records clean." "The linked video is the only evidence and it's nearly useless." "We have to avert our eyes, look to the peripheries." "OK, here's earth." "Look to the periphery and you get what, the moon?" "Well, yeah." "That's brilliant." "I was being sarcastic and snarky, not at all helpful." "What else happened in space that day?" "I'll check the Jeffersonian space page, but I'm just gonna point out that space is a mighty large ballyhoo, so a lot happened." "On the day of the shuttle landing, the following events took place in outer space." "The constellation Leo re-enters his den." "Russia fails to contact a stranded Mars moon probe." "That sounds suspicious." "Ah, it's too much periphery." "Keep reading." "A storm on Jupiter enters its 348th year." "Wow." "Tinkerbell 4 communications satellite sustains damage from space junk." "A crater on the moon..." "Wait." "That's it." "The damaged satellite." "Tinkerbell 4?" "OK, whatever Bradshaw saw was crashing." "Crashing by definition means smacking into something." "OK." "All right." "Then what do we do?" "We're just gonna call up the Tinkerbell company and ask them if a flying saucer hit their satellite?" "I need a uniform." "Does this museum have anything more current than the civil war?" "This company insured Tinkerbell 4." "Satellites are insured?" "It's a matter of public record." "You know who really runs things, right?" "Insurance companies." "Of course they do." "Oh, man, I was kidding, but you think it's true." "Where there's an insurance claim, there's an adjustment report." "Paperwork." "Don't worry." "The secret here is to pretend like you belong." "I'm not scared, just..." "If we step through that elevator and, you know, it all goes bad, I just want to say," "I have dreamed of doing this my whole life." "Now I'm... just..." "Thank you." "It's an insurance company, not the..." "Not the secret Pentagon moon base." "Yes." "Here is the insurance report on the loss of Tinkerbell 4." "Geosynchronous." "Elliptical orbit, one of 24 satellites that Stellarcom insures." "Our payout was a flat $8 million." "May I ask your interest?" "It's a little embarrassing, actually." "We think we might be to blame." "OK." "You are air force." "And you're..." "Can't really say." "So NSA." "Gentlemen, you're off the hook." "The official cause of the damage to Tinkerbell 4 was space junk." "Well, it might have been space junk." "Our space junk." "Both the air force and various space agencies from around the world have assured us that whatever damaged Tinkerbell 4 is unidentifiable." "Do you think that we could take a copy of that report?" "Run our own analysis?" "If we find liability, we'll reimburse Stellarcom for their payout." "You're from the military." "And the government." "And you want to take responsibility for something you may have done wrong?" "I find that really hard to swallow." "Gentlemen, you make me proud to be an American." "Thank you." "It's a pleasure to serve my country." "Timo." "What?" "Look, I know you gave Uncle shad those earrings, but you can never pay him too much respect." "What is this?" "It's my life savings." "Just take it." "It's a grand." "Have a good day." "Uncle shad." "We're here." "Like you asked." "Timo and Willa." "It does my heart so good to see you two together." "You got an insurance report under false pretenses?" "At least it's not a felony." "Leo, I got to wear Chuck Yeager's uniform." "He's the first guy who broke the sound barrier." "Impersonating an officer..." "6 months federal prison." "Told you." "Hope whatever you got is worth it." "We got the position the satellite was in when it got hit." "We also know the speed of the object and the position and velocity of the shuttle." "We do a little math and krunk-a-doodle-do, we know where the object hit mother earth." "OK, good." "Gotta go." "It's $1,000." "It's a small gift, from us." "Where'd you get it?" "I saved it." "It's from her work." "These are wages?" "What's the family coming to when I'm taking wages?" "Why don't you want to marry Timo?" "She thinks of me like a brother." "I'm asking Willa." "Timo thinks of me as a sister." "Well, you're gonna have to find a way to change your feelings." "A couple of weeks ago Timo brought me diamonds as big as your knuckle." "The boy did that so you'd let him pick his own wife." "Leo!" "Oh, no." "Leo?" "Is your employer the end of the world?" "Ends of the earth." "Uncle Shadrack." "Pleased to meet you." "And you as well." "I did not ask Leo to come here, Uncle Shadrack." "It's all right." "Leo can hear this." "As head of the family, I have made my decision." "You two will be married within the year." "Was there anything else you wanted to discuss?" "Can I ask why?" "Willa is growing away from the family." "She will finish her probation with you, then come back to the family and marry Timo, and you will be nothing but a memory." "I need Timo tonight, so maybe you want to take Willa back to the end of the world." "Of course, it's not really the end of the world." "It just feels that way some of the time." "You can keep that." "On the house." "Let's go." "Come on, would you please call your extremely hot, extremely smart wife to come do this?" "It's just data input." "I can do it." "Are you afraid of her?" "Yes, yes, I am." "She built this thing by hand." "OK, here's the insurance company's animated recreation of the destruction of Tinkerbell 4." "See that red line?" "That's the trajectory of the alien spacecraft." "Military drone, by the way." "And the satellite goes offline." "Now, seconds later, the alien craft..." "Military drone." "Zips by the shuttle..." "Ends up in the Puerto Rico trench." "That's one of the deepest parts of the ocean." "Right smack into the Bermuda triangle." "And you think that that's a coincidence?" "No." "No." "It had to have been piloted there." "By someone working a joystick, sitting at a console underneath a Mountain in Colorado." "By aliens." "Aliens who traveled light-years dodging suns, asteroids, and black holes, but were too stupid to avoid a Fender-bender with a stationary cell phone satellite?" "You believe that humans could do that?" "That's why they created the term "human error."" "Have you ever heard of the term, uh, "alien error"?" "No, I think not." "What I need to do is find a way to steal a vehicle that can go deep enough to get to the bottom of the trench." "And what did you come up with?" "There's no vehicle that can go deep enough to get to the bottom of the trench." "Oh, so the government can't even get down there?" "Come on, it's definitely aliens." "You know what?" "Just take me home." "I need that suit." "Walter!" "Hey!" "Get..." "Walter!" "That's not yours!" "It's at the bottom of the Puerto Rico trench?" "A canyon 5 Miles deep in the ocean floor." "Walter, do not steal a submarine." "A submarine can't go that deep." "What can?" "A cusk eel." "About a foot long, very ugly." "I'm going to find a cusk eel, attach this camera to its ugly little head, send him down to the ocean floor." "Walter, it's not gonna work." "Usually I'm very supportive of your efforts, Walter." "But I'm with Isabel on this one." " Boom." " She did it!" "Who did what?" "The gypsy girl." "She found first generation footage." "Look at this." "I hate to be a Debbie downer, but it looks like all the others." "But, still, it's a Major accomplishment." "Wait a second." "Play that back." "There." "What is that?" "Haven't seen that before." "It looks like a shard or something with shard-like properties." "It's gotta be an alien escape pod." "What we're seeing there is the bumper falling off after some kind of cosmic Fender bender." "Falling off of what?" "A secret super-fast unmanned military drone weapon." "Oh, man." "You both talk like the other one is wack-a-doodle." "And sadly, you're both right." "All right, you're the satellite." "Leo, you're the Shuttle." "I'd rather be the flying saucer." "Fine." "Isabel, your geosynchronous orbit over the Equator." "Leo, you're heading for a nice safe landing in Florida." "OK, now, I am an extraterrestrial traveler and I'm heading towards earth." "You smack into Isabel now." "Ouch." "Ooh." "Then I whiz by the shuttle and realize I'm in trouble, so I escape, using my escape pod." "No, you lose your marble." "Where's the marble land?" "Ira, it's Walter Sherman." "Yeah, another favor." "Same time of day as last time." "I know you found out that it hit the ground, but did anything burn up before impact?" "Space junk re-entering." "Burned up at 68,000 feet." "Hey, just for snits and giggles, could you tell me, say, the square mile that it would have hit if it would have hit?" "All right, thanks, buddy." "I owe you." "Wow, we can practically walk there from here." "I don't want to be negative, but I don't see how we're gonna find anything in this muck." "Walter finds things." "Yeah, but a meteor could hit in this environment in the morning and all signs would be gone by the afternoon." "I'm sure we'll see some kind of sign." "Yeah, I'm not doing that." "Tin-foil hats?" "Come on, that's number one on the crazy checklist." "Suit yourself, pal." "Something scorched that tree." "Whatever it was ended up somewhere over here." "What we need out here is like ground-penetrating radar." "I mean, in order to find something, you just..." "Doc, really?" "How about a hand?" "The chances of finding something out here..." "Oh, my God." "It's metallic." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Not a sign of scorching or damage." "I think we found what we're looking for." "What's that writing?" "Alien hieroglyphics." "This is not terrestrial in origin." "I'll take that, please." "Hey." "I am pleased to greet you on behalf of humankind." "Welcome to Florida." "I have so many questions for you." "He's not an alien." "He's got a hangnail." "Ignore my friend." "He's a doubter." "Most of humanity will welcome you with open minds and open arms." "I'm from Emporia." "Great!" "Where is that?" "Alpha Centauri?" "Epsilon Eridani?" "There's a town in Kansas called Emporia." "Yes." "I'm Hector, from Kansas." "That's mine." "Well, don't give it to him." "Oh, yeah?" "What happened to "welcome"?" "Yeah, you can have it." "Under one condition." "I don't do conditions." "Oh, yeah." "Nice try, pal." "So, uh, here's the condition." "Bradshaw gets his life back." "We don't make deals." "Is that what you think, hmm?" "Listen to me here, friend." "Colonel Bradshaw is a good man." "He served his country with courage." "He followed the rules." "You will give him his life back." "Because if you don't," "I will keep looking." "He's turning a funny color, Walter." "You can tell pope it all ends today in this swamp." "You hear me?" "Leo, put the hat back on my head." "Why aren't you unconscious?" "'Cause they couldn't zonk me without zonking old goggle eyes here, too." "Could you find my glasses?" "We got a deal?" "You honestly expect me to believe it's these tin hats that kept him from knocking us out?" "That wasn't him." "It's a high-altitude military plane up there training sonic weapons on us." "He takes off his glasses, that's the signal to zap us." "But... we're protected, pal." "I don't buy it." "What am I supposed to do, pick you guys up under each arm and pack you out of here?" "Walter." "Walter." "We'll just have to work harder." "Come up with more money." "God, Timo." "Grow a set." "Get the girl." "Run away." "Get married." "Defy Uncle shad?" "That's not our way." "Our way has you and I married within a year." "And every time you're with the family, you'll see Magdalena with the husband that Uncle shad chooses for her." "How does that sit with you?" "I had my arm around his neck." "He wasn't an alien." "I know something about alloys." "That was not terrestrial." "Did you see the writing on it?" ""Astronaut Bradshaw tapped for board of Stellarcom insurance."" "Stellarcom?" "Hey, that's the insurance company that we got the Tinkerbell 4 info from." "Pope accepted Walter's deal." "Walter even annoys aliens into doing what he wants?" "It wasn't an alien." "OK, then why was goggle eyes wearing a hat?" "So he could hide his ears." "Or... or he came from a warmer planet." "He could have been hiding gills or tentacles." "Again, impervious to mocking." "Ha ha!" "Ha ha!" "Walter, you made a deal for Bradshaw." "That's really sweet." "Not really." "Getting his life back is what Bradshaw really wanted me to find in the first place." "He just didn't know it." "Hey, yeah." "Yeah, see that?" "Can I have that?" "That's it." "I want to bring that back to the Jeffersonian for translation and interpreta  tion." "We were not up against aliens." "Pope works for a shadowy group of government insiders and corporate honchos." "Here we go." ""Secrecy is the element of all goodness." "Even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.""