"Previously on Taken..." "What do you want from me?" "!" "Leave my family alone!" "You really do need to see someone." "There is something in my head." "I think the things are tracking devices." " Dad?" " He isn't me, Charlie." "He's making me from the picture in your head." "They'll come for Charlie next." "You gotta go." "Charlie, we're gonna move around for a while." "Is this because of what happened to dad?" "What are these?" " Tom Clarke." "The Tom Clarke who ruined my father, who thought our entire program was a lie." "Kind of ironic, Jake." "The country's leading debunker turns out to have a half- alien half brother." "Don't you want to know what changed his mind?" "You're sleeping with Eric Crawford, Owen Crawford's son, the son of the man who ruined your mother's life." "How could you do that?" "!" "He's not his father." "He's covering up the biggest secret in American history, he's lying to the public on a regular basis" "What in the hell makes you think that he's not lying to you?" "!" "We believe you're carrying the evidence of a spacecraft that crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1947." "What kind of evidence?" "We believe you recovered bodies and that you're transporting them." "You and your friends here will be detained for interfering with a move of Air Force personnel." "Look!" "Look!" "How long you think you can cover something like this up?" "The crates." "Get these people onto the trucks." " Do it now!" " Yes, sir." " Step up." " Let's go." "All right, everybody into the trucks!" "Move it!" "This way!" "This way, please." "Let's go." "That's it, move it up." "What are you gonna do with all these witnesses?" "Hold them for 72 hours, convince them what they saw was the Goodyear blimp." "They're not gonna believe that." "They're gonna talk about this." "Let them." "The more people talk at once," "The more it sounds like nothing but noise." "They took your bodies, too, didn't they?" "Now what are you gonna do now they've taken back all your proof?" "It didn't have to be this way." "How could it have been any different?" "It's all gone." "You gotta love it." "We must have been getting close." "Why do you say that?" "Remember I said I thought they had an organic transmitter?" "I think it was one of the bodies." "We missed that." "It was right in front of us, and we missed it." "They couldn't afford to have us figure it out, so they just..." "Took it all back." "Every last bit of it." "Not quite everything." "Well, as expected, they pulled our plug." "eric:" "What are they going to do?" "All our evidence, all our research is gone." "I thought I made a pretty good argument." ""Senator," I said," ""the reason we have nothing to show you" ""is that it was plucked from our slimy little hands" ""by a flying saucer." "You can't deny that." "Right out of the sky, and pluck."" "Too bad we couldn't find Charlie Keys." "You know what burns my ass?" "I'll tell you what burns my ass." "If we'd gotten any funding at all," "I could have gotten that positioning system running." "We could have tracked Keys by that thing in his head and found him or anyone else taken in 24 hours." "What are you going to do now?" "Couple of buddies of mine from Yale are going into biotech." "How about you?" "I just keep picturing Tom Clarke smiling that smug smile of his and saying, "Still don't know how it flies, do you?"" "What you keep picturing is his sister dumping you." "I still want to know what made Tom Clarke a believer." "You could have had your answer, but you thought with "little Eric."" ""Hey, little buddy, where do you want to go?"" ""Over to Becky's house."" ""Okay."" ""Hey, let's take her to see the alien."" ""Good idea." "That'll really impress her."" "My own personal foibles aside, I still want the answer to that." "I want to know what changed his mind." "ALLlE:" "Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born?" "If it is. does that make us" "less responsible for the things we do." "or is the responsibility built in. too?" "After you hit the ball. do you stand and wait to see if it goes out." "or do you start running and let nature take its course?" "If that ball had been another couple of inches, it would have gone out of the park, end of story." "I swung too late." "I thought it was gonna sink." "That's why I like baseball- you can't make assumptions." "I thought you liked it because it was impossibly hard and there are useless statistics you could memorize." "Yeah, that, too." "Ohh" "Are you all right?" "Yeah, I'll be fine." "We'd better get home." "This was your grandmother's." "Love you, sweetie." "Every day and twice on Sundays." "Honey!" "Stay with him." "I'm gonna call 911." "It's beautiful." "So are you." "He's gonna know it, too." "Who?" "The guy you're gonna meet one day." "He's gonna take one look at you..." "And he's gonna know there is nowhere else he wants to be." "# I gave you my time #" "# Why you wanna... #" "Sorry it took so long, honey." "Charlie?" "Charlie?" "Charlie?" "Honey?" "Charl" "Honey." "Honey!" "You can't run off like that." "I thought" "What's wrong?" "Where were you, sweetie?" "Where'd you go?" "Oh, Charlie." "He'd been, um..." "Getting weaker since your grandmother died." "I kept asking him to see someone, but..." "He wouldn't." "He was so...resigned." "I guess he understood what was happening to him." "That sounds just like something he would say." "Damn it!" "Damn it, Danny!" "Hey, Danny!" " Danny!" "Carol, what's up?" "My husband just died is what's up." "My husband is dead, and I'd appreciate it if you'd stop making all that noise." "Oh, man." "I'm so sorry." "If there's anything I can do..." "ALLlE:" "People say that when we grow up." "we kick at everything we've been told." "we rebel against the world our parents have worked so hard to bring us into." "that part of growing up is kicking at the ties that bind." "But I don't think that's why we kick at all." "I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do." "They don't have all the answers." "We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along." "that there isn't any Santa Claus at all." "Hey, do you like Hüsker Dü?" "I think Bob Mould is probably as deep as it gets." "I saw them last year in Sacramento." "He was great." "I'm Nina Toth." " I'm Lisa." " Hi." "So how was your first day?" "Brutal?" "This place is totally harsh, so I'm gonna make a suggestion." "You wanna be friends?" "For life." "Lisa!" "And that's my stepdad." " Really?" " Yep." "My mum's in Berkeley taking a class in alternative nutrition." "Oh, cool." "So it's just me and Danny." "Well, I gotta go." "Okay." "Make sure you call me." " All right." " Okay." " Bye." " Bye." "Think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." "And yet." "I ask you..." "What could be more alien..." "Wait till she forms her own band." "All right." "Lisa!" "Dinner's ready." "Lisa, come on." "Dinner's ready." "Potatoes..." "Lise?" "Lise?" "Lisa?" "I'm in here." "Oh." "Sorry." "Everything all right?" "There's a phone number in my jacket pocket." "Could you get it for me?" "Yeah." "Number one..." "And number two." "That ought to hold you." "Mr Holding, do you have any champagne?" "I've got some Pepsi." " Pepsi will do." " All right." "Just don't expect me to give you the "today you are a woman" speech." "Please don't." "I'm really glad you called me." "I'm really glad you came." "Ladies." "Thank you." "Here you go." " Thanks." " Lisa..." "Today you are a woman." " Well said!" " Cheers." "You're the very first person I ever met who's lived in a trailer park." "My stepdad's a musician, and the lady who owned a bar he played at owed him money, so we just wound up with this trailer." "Don't apologize." "It's very, um..." "Rockford Files." "I know, I'm totally strung out on television." "Hey, Nina, thanks again." "It was a pleasure meeting you." "No problem." "Next time Lisa needs anything from the store, give me a call, I'll tell you which aisle." "I'll see you at school." " Bye." " Bye." "You sure you don't need a ride?" "My mum's picking me up." "So..." "Guess you're gonna go out and get all grown up now, huh?" "Your mum would be sad she was missing it." "You're getting really good on those drums." "Thanks." "Danny, I'd like to take Watson for a walk now." "I'll leave the door open for you." "Thanks." "Come here." "Come on." "Watson, come on." "Shh!" "Watson!" "Watson!" "Watson, what is it?" "Watson!" "Watson!" "Watson!" "Lisa..." "Today you are a woman." " Hi." " Hi." "Why do you think the aliens took all their stuff back?" "Well..." "What makes you think they took it all?" "Ha ha ha!" " Enjoy." " Thank you." "I hear this was quite a show." "Oh, w" "What do you want?" "I find I have a lot of free time on my hands." "Imagine that." "How's Becky?" "You want to have a conversation that doesn't end up with me coming over this table and stuffing my fist down your throat, you stay off of that subject!" "We're not enemies anymore, Tom." "We're on the same side." "I'm a private citizen now." "Our friends saw to that when they took all our evidence." "What do you want?" "You went from a sceptic to a believer in a nanosecond." "That happened months before the Mojave Desert sightings." "I want to know why." "Maybe I just saw the light." "What do you know that you're not telling?" "Say hello to your sister for me." "Tell her I miss her." "So, there was a lot of excitement around here while I was away." "I'm sorry I wasn't here." "I'm fine, really." "Your Uncle Tom has a lot of pretty weird ideas." "You're not starting to have the same ideas, are you?" "What if I am?" "You come from a special family." "Your father had an amazing mind." "He could look at things and figure them out." "With people, too." "He could see things other people couldn't see." "There was a lot about him that..." "There was just a lot about him." "Honey, your life is changing because you're growing up." "You're not being abducted into a spaceship." "You're being "taken" into adulthood." "Of the two, I'd say that's far and away the scarier proposition." "Hi." "For Austin, Texas, please." "Yeah, the number for Tom Clarke." "Thank you." "How's Pasadena?" "You've seen one genome, you've seen 'em all." "How's Julie?" "You two still haven't gotten divorced?" "Mary got into Yale, huh?" "Thank you for that letter." "I told you, they love me." "Directed a play there my senior year, won a couple of awards." "Gave Harry Hamlin his first part." "How the hell you been, man?" "Good." "Really good." "So, uh, what's all this about?" "They said they'd tell us when we got here." "Probably some investigation to find out how we lost a flying saucer." "After 12 years, I think it's about something a little bit more current than that." "This is Mission Control." "Do you copy?" "Argonaut 1, come in." "Argonaut 1, come in." "Damn it. you guys." "where the hell are you?" "Mission Control." "this is Argonaut 1." "What's going on up there." "Argonaut?" "What do you mean." "Houston?" "You've been off-line 2 hours and 20 minutes." "Houston. our last transmission was only four minutes ago." "We were at coordinates" "Oh. my God!" "About three weeks ago, we sent a manned mission into space." "This launch was unannounced." "The purpose of this mission was to put certain sensitive equipment into orbit." "What sort of equipment?" "Do you remember a program of President Reagan's, the Strategic Defence Initiative?" "Yeah." "Star Wars." "As you probably remember, there were some questions about whether or not this program was feasible." "Before President Bush revisits the project, we need to know that it's viable." "So what did you send up?" "A reactor?" "One of the drawbacks to getting the program off its feet was finding a compact power system that could put out enough kilowatts to power both particle beam weapons and rail guns." "You did!" "You put this thing into orbit, didn't you?" "Our payload was highly classified." "The capsule had been in orbit for 14 hours." "It was two hours away from being in a position where the payload was to be delivered." "The astronauts went dark for almost 21/2 hours." "They disappeared." "No contact." "Nothing." "Then they were back, clear as day." "They had no idea they'd lost 21/2 hours of their lives." "The payload?" "Gone." "I guess they didn't want a reactor messing with whatever they've got going on up there." "This is a waste of time." "The people in this room represent $286 billion a year in defence spending." "We need your help, gentlemen." "Stop playing games and tell us everything you know about whoever it is who's out there and what the hell they want." "I assume you ladies and gentlemen have all seen E. T." "They're nowhere near that nice." "We are back, baby, we are back!" "I don't think you get how big what just happened here is." "We are reinstated, fully funded, blessed for as long as Bush is in." "Probably after that!" "Would you mind getting into this without me?" "I'm gonna keep on the Tom Clarke thing." "He keeps getting calls from someone in Los Altos, California." "The phone is registered to a Danny Holding." "I thought I'd run out there and take a look." "For a while, I thought all this was a bluff." "I thought you had something big, but you've been on this Tom Clarke thing 12 years now, and the best you can do is check his phone bill?" "Forget Tom Clarke, will you?" "I've looked at other things, but it keeps coming back to him." "The Clarke family, they matter." "They're the key to this." "This is about your father, isn't it?" "You're just trying to finish something he started." "What exactly you trying to atone for here?" "You might as well be looking for Charlie Keys." "You're not gonna come in?" "I said good-bye to your father 13 years ago." "This is something for you to do yourself." "Dad?" "He isn't me." "He's making me from the picture in your head." "He's lying." "What do you want from me?" "!" "Leave my family alone!" "Dad." "Aah!" "They're coming for you!" "We've lived here for the last seven years." "eric: "We" would be?" "Myself, my wife, and my daughter." "Do you rent, or do you own?" "Who rents a trailer?" "Are you interested in this sort of thing?" "That's my daughter's." "Well, it's actually my stepdaughter." "Is that important?" "Sure it's important." "Everything's important." "Your stepdaughter?" "Yeah, from my wife's first marriage." "She was married to the brother of the guy who wrote that book-Tom Clarke." "Your wife's first husband was..." " Jack." " Jack." "Jack." "That's Lisa's dad." "We call him Jack, but I've heard my wife refer to him as Jacob." "Is this all part of a regular census questionnaire?" "This is a follow-up, Mr Holding." "It can never hurt to follow up." "Well, here she is now." "This is my daughter Lisa." "This is Mister..." "Jones." "Mr Jones from the Census Bureau." "I'm very, very glad to meet you." "Do you own any pets?" "Oh, come on." "Pick up, pick up." "Tom Clarke." "Uncle Tom, it's Lisa." "Lisa!" "There's a man here." "I get a really bad feeling about him." "You said I should listen to my feelings because they were from my dad." "That's right." "You should." "He says he's from the Census Bureau, asking Danny a lot of questions." "In civics, we learned about the census." "It happens once every ten years." "There's not supposed to be another one until 2000." "What does he look like?" "Blondish hair..." "Shorter than you..." "Kind of old, like 40." "He's dangerous." "You have to get out of there." "Right now?" " Yeah. right now." " Okay" "Do you remember our plan?" "Yes." "Go to your friend Nina's." "I understand." "I can be there by tomorrow night." "ALLlE:" "My mum told me once that when you're afraid of something." "what you want more than anything else is to make it go away." "You want your life back to the way it was before you found out there was something to be afraid of." "You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it." "But nothing ever stays the same." "It's not your old life at all." "but your new life with a wall around it." "Your choice is not about going back to the way things were." "Uncle Tom, thanks for coming." "Your choice is about hiding or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you." "That was so awesome." "Schooled that guy." " Got the hands for it." " All right, Charlie, see you." " Good night, Charlie." " See you, Charlie." "See you guys tomorrow." "It's homey." "A person starting college, a life of their own, they need homey." "Homey." "I kinda like it." "How much?" "I'll give your mum a call and let her know we got you settled, but I don't want you calling her or anybody else for quite a while." "Tell me about these people, why they're looking for me." "The man that came into your house, his name was Eric Crawford." "His father was an army colonel." "His name was Owen Crawford." "And he came after your father... came after Jacob." "Your Aunt Becky and I fooled him into thinking that Jake was dead, but I guess that Eric figured it out." "But why was Owen Crawford looking for my dad?" "This has to do with the things you write about." "See?" "You already knew." "You knew the first time you called me." "And you said one day, you'd explain it all." "Yeah, well..." "I think you've had enough excitement for one day." "Don't you?" "Listen, if you ever need me, this is what I want you to do." "I want you to take out a personal ad in the national edition of the New York Times and have it say," ""Drummer seeking gig with..." "Texas country band."" "You're young." "You could still develop decent taste in music." "Listen." "I know." "But you're gonna be okay." "Okay." "Our first date, your dad and I went for hot dogs." "You know, your dad never kept his own medals." "I don't think he ever went to collect them." "But he carried your grandfather's with him every day of his life." "They were in his pockets when he died." "Your grandfather was a hero, Charlie, just like your dad." "How's your job?" "I like teaching." "I think I'm pretty good." "I'm sure you are." "What's this?" "That is a picture of your father." "He must be about eight." "This guy with him is his stepdad." "Your father used to talk about this." "It was the most scared he'd ever been in his life." "Yeah, yeah." "This is definitely that." "What?" "Well, his stepdad took him to a carnival, one of those travelling kind they set up in vacant lots." "Some games, some rides, that sort of thing." "Those rides, they can be pretty scary." "They spin you around, turn you upside down, drop the floor out from underneath you." "But none of that scared your father, uh-uh." "It was the carnies..." "The guys who ran the rides." "He said there was something about them that just gave him the creeps." "Well, like this guy." "I guess if you were eight, he'd seem pretty creepy, huh?" "What was wrong with dad?" "He had a" "He had a brain disorder." "Made him believe certain things." "What kind of things?" "He's dead now." "Do you really want to remember this part of him?" "I want whatever I can get." "He believed he'd been taken... by aliens." "Lots of times." "And the men?" "The people we were hiding from?" " I guess they believed that, too." " How about you?" "I don't know, sweetie." "I don't know what I believe." "Your dad said once they were like his guardian angels." "He thought they were protecting him?" "No, he thought they wanted him for something." "He believed they had saved him from dying in Vietnam." "I think, in the end, he thought they were coming after you." "They have come for me." "More than once." "That's why he screamed the last time he saw me." "He could see that they were already taking me." "If you were eight, yeah, maybe this would scare you." "But you know what, mum?" "None of this scares me anymore." "Now it just makes me mad." "If they come again, I'm not going without a fight, and if that lands me in some hospital room, staring out some window, screaming, then that's what it does." "What was he like, my grandfather?" "I didn't really know him that well." "He kind of frightened me." "How come?" "He was always nice to me." "I-I don't know." "I guess he just terrified your father so much." "All your father ever wanted from that man was a pat on the back." "It's amazing how not getting something so simple can do so much." "When did you get in?" "Night before last." "I had a few days before fall quarter starts." "Good to have you home." "I'm sorry, honey." "He's got a lot on his mind." "Why don't you leave him?" "What?" "Leave, as in pack your bags, walk out the door, and don't come back." "It's not as simple as that." "Yes, it is." "He's thoughtless, insensitive." "If he can still get it up, he's doubtless unfaithful." "Honey" "You know it's true." "I have my compensations." "I have you." "So move to New Haven." "You'll have more of me and less of him." "I can set you up with my "Perspectives on Science" professor." "He's very cute." "You're terrible." "It's in the blood." "Do you think I look anything like him?" ""Home is the sailor home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill."" "I've got something important to tell you." "It can keep." "I've got earth-shattering news." "You ready?" "You wanna sit down or..." "What's your news?" "I was wrong." ""About what?" you ask." ""It's like this," I answer." "I take all the money the generals threw at us, and I tell my guys, "Build me something that will pick up the impulse signals from those implants"" "The signals that were being amplified by that transformer." "The transformer I said was the body we had stored at Groom Lake." "Y-Yes." "They build the thing." "They turn it on." "Voilà!" "Lights up like a Christmas tree." ""Now, why does this make me wrong?" you ask." "Okay." "These signals are big and bad and boosted." "Somewhere on this planet, there's still a transmitter going strong, as if when they grabbed all their stuff, they deliberately left it behind." "What does this give us?" "What I always said it would." "We can track any implant, anytime, anywhere." "Look at this." "Find Alan for me, will you?" "Remember that chip we took out of the girl from Cleveland?" "We put it into the head of a guy named Alan." "Works for the Department of the Interior." " Thinks he went in for a root canal." " Found him, sir." "Get him." "Motel 6." "May I speak with Mr Alan Stewart?" "One moment." "Hello?" " Mr Stewart?" " Yes." "Hold for Dr Lamarr." "Who's on the phone?" "Quiet." "It's Dr Lamarr." "Just wanted to check on your root canal." "Is that your wife?" "!" "How does she know where you are?" "I-I'm fine." "Dr Lamarr." "how did you find me?" "Mr Stewart, I'm a dentist." "That's my job." "If you're gonna talk to her." "what's the point of being here with me?" "I have to go." "I've got a patient in the chair." "You understand." "I still don't understand how this helps us." "Oh, yeah." "This sea of blinking lights, our very own galaxy of abductees." "How do we know who goes with each blinking light?" "Exactly." "We cross-reference known abductees, their movements, et cetera, with the implant data." "We name them and eliminate them." "That leaves unidentified abductees." "If there's someone we're looking for, we feed in everything we can- data from field agents, all of that-compare patterns." "Amazing what you can do with a modern computer and a couple of billion dollars in taxpayers' money." "Can you find Charlie Keys?" "Yeah." "How would you like to find somebody else?" "You kinda suck." "Do you think you can unsuck by a week from Wednesday?" "We've got a gig at the O.K. Hotel." "I'm in the band?" "No one else answered the ad." "No way, man!" "Didn't really mean it." "About you sucking." "You're no worse than the rest of us." "Thanks, I guess." "Just felt kinda bad, like I hurt your feelings or something." "I'm tougher than that." "First time away from home?" "Yeah." "I remember the first time I slept on my own in my new apartment." "When I woke up." "it took me a minute to remember where I was." "I'm lying there thinking how weird it is." "Yesterday. when I woke up." "everything was normal." "Today. it's gonna be different forever." "That's exactly what happened to me." "I expect to wake up any minute and be back in my old room..." ""It was all just a dream."" "Thanks for being so nice." "It makes all of this a little less heavy." "Anytime." "No, you are not gonna take me!" "You are not gonna take me again!" "You get the hell away from me!" "Get the hell away from me!" "It's open." "What are you doing?" "Sorry, Naomi." "I'm sorry." "Nothing." "Sorry." "This is how you're spending your leave of absence?" "Sitting in the dark, reading, with a baseball bat by the door in case anyone drops by?" "I just needed a little time by myself." "I've been principal at Lincoln for ten years, and I taught there before that." "Charlie, you're the best teacher I've ever seen." "I'm not gonna lose you without a fight." "What is all this?" "That's nothing." ""The Alien Agenda:" "What The Abductions Really Mean"?" "Compendium of Alien Races?" ""Adopt An Alien"?" "What is this all about?" "Oh, my God." "You think you've been abducted by aliens." "Do you have any idea how many people say that they've been abducted every year?" "Charlie..." "People believe in those things because they have to believe in something." "If that's all it is, how come all the stories are so similar?" "Because we see the same movies, we read the same books..." "They've been taking me since I was nine." "The last time they took me was only six weeks ago." "They came into this house, and they took me." "I tried to fight back." "I kicked and I hit and I bit." "It did nothing!" "They ripped me right through the living room wall!" "No!" "You are not gonna take me ever again!" "You're not gonna take me!" "You're not!" "Charlie." "There's no reason at all why you should believe me." "So I'm gonna get proof, and I'm gonna show you and anyone else who will listen that I'm not crazy." "Okay, Charlie." "Okay." "It took us almost two months before we found her." "Something wrong with your system?" "No, the system's fine." "She just doesn't have an implant." "Why would she?" "She's Jacob Clarke's daughter." "What do you do for an amputee?" "You build them a fake hand." "From their point of view, we'd be psychic amputees." "We're missing something they take for granted." "So what did they give us?" "Implants." "They've given us electronic versions of what they have biologically." "Pull up the images of the brain tissue samples we took from that fire in Alaska." "Spectrographic analysis turned up some weird trace compounds." "Colour code for density threshold." "This sample comes from the brain of that twin who died in the fire with your brother." "The twins were failed attempts at crossbreeding, but we worked from the assumption their cellular structure is almost identical to Lisa's." "Good." "Now zoom out." "The tissue is doing double duty- spirals of neurons acting as antennae." "We found her." "She was just broadcasting on another frequency." "Hey, dude!" "Bye." "Hey, Lisa, how you doing?" "We got so much to talk about." "Don't stand there- do something!" "Unh!" "The national edition of the New York Times. please." "I'd like to place an ad in the personals." "I never told anyone about your father." "I didn't put it in any of my books." "But when Eric Crawford came after you," "I should have told you." "I don't know if I would have believed you." "So..." "This Crawford came after me because I'm..." "One-quarter alien?" "Does make you pretty interesting." "Wow." "From what I have experienced, and I'm only talking about what I've seen..." "They don't want to hurt anybody." "They saved you." "They walked you home." "Your father was very important to them." "And I guess that you are, too." "I think I know why." "These are the matched repeaters." "We started with anyone who had been taken more than once." "We noticed there was a subset" "People repeatedly taken on the same day as others." "We found Charlie Keys." "Let's assume he's part of pair number 55." "Why 55?" "Numbers thing." "Go with me for a moment." "Charlie's last abduction, right after we started tracking him, came on September 8th." "If we backdate Lisa's pregnancy, we can give her a conception date of September 8th." "They're breeding him with a girl who's..." "One-quarter alien already." "It's beautiful, isn't it?" "I'm not quite getting it." "That's 'cause you don't have my years of experience in the private sector." "See, in the biotech world, most of our research goes into recessive traits- things we can breed out of a species or into it." "What do we know about the Keys family?" "The grandfather, Russell, is a bomber pilot." "His son is a Vietnam vet and rescue worker." "These men are strong, brave, extremely resilient." "One other thing" "When they're taken, they fight back." "And the Clarkes- Jacob, he could do things." "My father was terrified of him." "But he was physically weak." "In a way, he was no more suited to survive than those mutant brothers in the Alaskan woods." "And Lisa..." "And Lisa, she doesn't seem to have inherited her father's gifts or his physical weakness." "She seems to be nothing more than a carrier." " You ever cook with tarragon?" " Hmm?" "It's a very strong spice." "One pinch is all you need." "Otherwise, it overpowers the dish you're making." "Genetics is a lot like cooking- little pinch of this, little more of that." "But what are they cooking?" "That, my son and heir, is one hell of a whopper, isn't it?" "Super weapon or saviour, take your pick." "ALLlE:" "Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps." "small steps." "to do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary." "We're always going someplace new. all the time." "Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory." "You take those small. familiar steps." "and you try to be honest." "not to live as if nothing had changed." "but still to go on with your life." "But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be." "Aah!" "Mum!" "Nina!" "This guitar player, Tony..." "I was auditioning for his band." "I don't think I like this guitar player." "I went back to the rehearsal studio the next day to see him." "He'd left for L.A." "Prick." "No, that's not what I mean at all." "He'd left for L.A. right from the rehearsal studio that night." "A friend of his came by and got him." "He hadn't followed me home at all." "Well, you went home with somebody." "No, I didn't." "Honey, come home." "The people you were hiding from, the same people who were looking for your father," "Tom says they know where you are." "They're not gonna bother me." "Because beings from another world are looking out for you?" "Yes, mum." "That's exactly why." "You weren't here." "You didn't see what happened to me." "Mum, I" "Mum." "This is gonna be all right." "I know it." "I can feel it." "You can, can't you?" "You're your father's daughter." "You know that." "Sooner or later, you two are gonna have to tell me what this is all about." "It started when I was eight." "I used to have these... at the time, I thought they were dreams." "There was always the same guy..." "What's he saying?" ""The craft are leaving."" "This man is a farmer in Tierra Del Fuego." "He's reported sightings for the past eight years." "We think many of the craft stay out of sight around the Antarctic." "One day, two weeks ago, he sees the ships, sky full of them, all above his field, middle of the day." "Then that's it." "Hasn't seen 'em since." "Woman from Siberia has a similar story." "And Norway, Alaska, Zanzibar, Australia." "144 multi-witness, confirmable reports from all over the world." "How long has this been going on?" "About six weeks now." "One big rush, then zilch." "Absolutely no activity." "Not one sighting." "Nothing." "Six weeks, and you never mentioned this to me?" " I'm mentioning it now." " This is still my project." "Abso-friggin'- lutely." "Eric, this is me, Chet." "We've been through the wars, buddy." "I was just giving you a little space," "letting you come to terms with your divorce and all." "How you liking the single life, by the way?" "What do you think this means?" "It's the calm." "The calm?" "Yeah." "The one that comes before the storm." "Speculation continues in the Pacific Northwest over the many reports of lights in the sky." "The government will neither confirm nor deny the rumours..." "They're beautiful." "...of secret aircraft being tested as part of a new Strategic Defence Initiative recently funded by Congress..." "It's gonna be okay." "Is it?" "Definitely." "What if there's something wrong with the baby?" "Honey, really." "It's gonna be great." "No, it's not that." "I think my water just broke." "You're gonna be all right." "Yeah." "Less than a minute apart." "Will you call my mum?" "Good, here's the general." "Gentlemen." "General." "We feed directly off the Cheyenne Mountain computer." "This grid shows the actions of every known man- made object in space- screws from a 1984 shuttle mission, a screwdriver the Russians dropped off Mir." "and thousands- thousands-of satellites." "You didn't bring us up from Washington to see screws." "We've had unidentifieds before, but nothing like this." "Look." "We eliminate the ones we've I.D.'d, and we're left with these." "Earlier tonight, there were hundreds of new objects." "We thought the system had gone down." "And then the objects... coalesced." "That's the only way I know how to explain it." "There were lots of little ones, and now there's one very, very big one." "You'd better have a good cover story, General." "No one's gonna believe this is marsh gas." " That's right, a little more." " There you go." "Can you scootch up a little?" "What do you have in the way of drugs?" "See if the doctor's available." "The mother's b.p. is high." "You'll feel better in a couple of minutes." "She's nine centimetres." "Stop pushing." "I can't." "Listen to me, you have to stop." "We have to bring your blood pressure down before you can have this baby." "Get Dr Catrell." "You'll have to step out." "It's a slight complication." " What's going on?" " You have to go now!" "Sir, it's coming down." "Surface velocity, 388.1 meters per second at 249.4 degrees local." "Altitude, - 75.2 meters per second." "Deinclination and speed on this thing- they're impossible." "It's over Seattle and coming down fast." "Flash alert to ClNC-NORAD." "Move to Defcon 2." "If it's what I think it is, none of that'll matter." "Her blood pressure's 200 over 100." "She's had two seizures." "There's protein in her urine." "She's eclamptic." "Let's stabilize her." "Two grams magnesium, five milligrams hydralazine." "Altitude, - 37.0 meters per second." "54.4 at 231.2, alt - 33.6." "52.8 at 229.0, alt - 30.1." "What's happening to you is called eclampsia, but we've treated your seizures, and we're bringing down your blood pressure." "Why is this happening?" "52.8 at 229.0, alt - 30.1." "51.2 at 227.8, alt - 26.7." "It's slowing down." "It's levelling out." " She's stabilizing." " Okay, very nice." " No sign of foetal distress." " Here comes another contraction." "If you can work with me, we can bring this baby into the world without a C-section, okay?" " Yeah." " Okay." "We're gonna try some pushing." "1...2...3...and push!" "Push, push, push, push!" "Okay, good girl." "Stop." "Nice job, Lisa." "Vitals?" "B.P '. s down to 120." "She's stabilizing." "Very nice." "We're gonna do it again, Lisa, okay?" "30.6 meters per second at 213.8 degrees local." "Altitude, - 9.3 meters per second." "Great." "Let's just wait for another contraction." "Just a second, and we'll go again." "Ready?" "On three." "1...2...3...push!" "Push, push, push, push." " Stop!" " Vitals still stable." "Way to go, Lisa!" "Estimated hover point- 47-39-14 north, 122- 18- 34 west." "You're almost there." "Just a few more pushes, okay?" "Oh, my God." "My God!" "Why is there so much blood?" "It's all right." "Doctor, there's foetal distress." "I'm taking this baby now." "Forceps." "Prep suction." "She's in D.I.C." "She's bleeding out!" "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "We're losing the baby, too." "25.2 at 211.0, alt - 4.9." "It-it stopped!" "It's disappeared." "What?" "It's gone." "It can't be gone." "We have the mother's heartbeat." "Baby is stabilizing." "She's stopped bleeding." "I want a teal-amber search, code red, right now." "Go." "Find the damn thing." "Go!" "Hey." "You're not supposed to be here, you know." "You were bleeding to death." "What happened?" "The bleeding stopped." "Nobody knows why." "I told you they'd look over you." "My baby?" "She's beautiful." "Seven pounds, three ounces." "Perfect little baby girl." "Oh... hi." "nina:" "Do you know what you're gonna name her?" "Allison." "Allie." "Her name is Allie." "Hey there, Allie." "ALLlE:" "My mum says that life is like a roller-coaster ride." "There are ups and downs." "there are big scares and slow builds and places where it levels out." "The only difference with this roller coaster is that every time it stops." "you get off in someplace totally different from where you got on." "How's your mother?" "She's fine." "She does not send you her love." "Thanks for coming." "You said it was important." "Your grandfather found this in Pine Lodge, New Mexico." "He found it at a crash site." "So it's all true." "What does it say?" "No one's been able to translate it." "Maybe it's a grocery list." "He gave it to you?" "Your father?" "Left it for me." "I found it after he died." "And there was a note." "My father and I..." "We weren't very close." "Well, he left this for you." "He must have changed his mind." "My brother died." "And your father just after that." "Before he died," "I think my father got a better look at me." "What does Uncle Chet say about this?" "Dr Wakeman hasn't seen it." "Why are you showing it to me now?" "There's a great deal of power that comes with the kind of knowledge I'm privy to." "I anticipate change." "I want you to join me in the program, Mary." "This is something that shouldn't go outside the family." "Hello, Thrillseekers." "Look at you, little Mary, all grown up and beautiful!" "How's the quest for the Nobel Prize coming?" "I got very close on a genomic mismatch scanning technique." ""Close" like "should Miss America fail to fulfil her duties" close?" "Close as in Patrick Brown got there first." "You're just a grad student." "You'll get there." "Lisa had her baby." "Little girl." "Are we going to try to pick her up?" "What would be the point in that?" "God!" "I've been wanting to do this since you were 13." "Me, too." "Why don't you pick up the baby?" "You don't waste any time, do you?" "She's clearly important." "In fact, I'd say she's the point of all this." "Definitely." " So pick her up." " Take her." "No, they'd just take her back." "They're way better at that than we are." "So what are we gonna do?" "We watch and wait." "And we figure out a way to take her that will work." "Watch and wait." "That sounds a lot like my father." "I'm nothing like your father!" "I have a theory about who she is." "You want to hear it?" "Evolution tends to eliminate, or at least, uh..." "Subjugate emotion." "The limbic brain is still down there." "But it's way..." "Down... under." "Why we don't run through the streets killing people- at least most of us." "Imagine their abilities combined with the energy of our strong emotion." "They'd be cherry bombs... she'd be a nuclear explosion." "Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you White Shadow." "White Shadow comes to us after spending the last three years jumping through a flaming hoop at a sea show in Florida." "Hopefully, over time, as we come to know and understand these creatures a little better, we'll become more caring and compassionate in our behaviour towards them." "Here at the aquarium, it is our hope that we can bring you that one step closer to truly knowing another species." "Any questions?" "Once the dolphin's been in captivity, is it possible to return the animal to its native environment?" "Not in most cases, although it depends on how long the animal has been away and under what conditions it was kept, but in most cases, once an animal has been taken, there's little hope of an uneventful return." "What's the matter with them?" "I remember the first time that I ever saw dolphins." "I was three." "It was the first time in my life" "I can remember knowing that something was beautiful... and it was the first time I had the feeling there was something about me that was different from everybody else." "Previously on Taken..." "It started when I was eight." "They've been taking me since I was nine." "At the time, I thought they were dreams." "There was always the same guy." "Grandfather was a hero, Charlie, just like your dad." "He believed he'd been taken by aliens." "It was the carnies, the guys who ran the rides." "He said there was something about them that just gave him the creeps." "I think he thought they were coming after you." "They have come for me." "You think you've been abducted by aliens." "There is no reason at all why you should believe me, so I'm gonna get proof, and I'm gonna show you and anyone else who will listen that I'm not crazy." "eric:" "There's a great deal of power that comes with the kind of knowledge I'm privy to." "What are you saying, Dad?" "I anticipate change." "I want you to join me in the program, Mary." "I've looked at other things, but it keeps coming back to the Clarke family." "They matter." "They're the key to this." "This is about your father." "You're just trying to finish something he started." "Charlie and Lisa, both taken on September 8th of this year." "The most recent simultaneous abduction." "eric:" "They're breeding him with a girl who's- 1/4 alien already." "The people you were hiding from know where you are." "They're not gonna bother me." "Why?" "Because beings from other world, they're looking out for you?" "Yes, that's exactly why." "Your father was very important to them." "I guess that you are, too." "lisa:" "I think I know why." "My water just broke." "Forceps." "Prep suction." "Lisa had her baby." "Little girl." "Do you know what you're gonna name her?" "Allie." "Her name is Allie." "We're going to try to pick her up?" " Are you about ready, Patty?" " Ready." "Okay." "We were coming back from a fishing trip, and we're on Highway 89 coming out of Tahoe City." "It wasn't a fishing trip." "You always tell it as a fishing trip." "We'd gone to visit the Nortons." "No, no, no." "We didn't visit the Nortons." "We were fishing Echo Lake." "There was no fishing on this trip." "One of the most memorable nights of your life, and you don't remember" " I know I wasn't fishing." " Can I finish telling the man the story?" "I'm not saying don't tell him." ""Get your facts straight," is all I'm saying." "You know what?" "She always does this to me." "Anyway, we're coming down Highway 89 from Tahoe City- you're not gonna argue about it being Highway 89?" "Why would I?" "God." "Anyway, so I look at my watch, and it's 7.30, and then, all of a sudden" "All of a sudden, there's this blinding flash." "I mean..." "you know what it's like when you stare into the sun when you were a kid?" "It was a lot brighter than that." "Why would he have stared at the sun?" " Most kids do." " I never did." "Well, aren't we the second coming?" " Can I finish the story?" " Who's stopping you?" "You are, dear." "Anyway, this light, it doesn't even pass over us, but more like through us, and then it's up in the sky, and then it goes down behind these pine trees, so we stop the car and we get out," "we got this glowing behind the trees, and we have no idea what it is" "My Mike was so brave." " Well, you were, sweetheart." " I didn't do anything." "You took my hand and told me not to worry." "Yeah, well, anybody would've done that." "Oh, no, they wouldn't have." "So, anyway, this light starts coming through the trees, and then the car dies." "We're up on this mountain, and my car goes dead." "We got curved roads, we got a steep drop-off, engine won't start, I've got no steering, but here's the funny thing, see- with this light coming at us," "I don't care because I know that we're gonna be all right." "The next thing we know, we're driving down Walnut Street and pulling up in front of our house." "It's 5.00 in the morning." "The sky is just starting to get pink." "We're at the top of that hill at 7.30 at night, we didn't get to the bottom till 5.00 in the morning, more than nine hours later." "And this is all just what happened that night." "It wasn't till about three months later that Mike started having the dreams." "You know, you wouldn't think that dreams could scare you, but mine got so bad, I wouldn't go to sleep." "I was having them, too, but neither of us were talking about it, so neither of us knew what the other was dreaming." "We'd just be sitting there watching TV, trying not to fall asleep, not knowing what was on the other person's mind." "It wasn't until we got sent to that hypnotherapist Dr Fulton." "That's when we both remembered where we'd been that night for that nine and a half hours and who we'd been with." "This is a picture Mike drew when Dr Fulton asked him under hypnosis what happened to us on the road that night." "And that there..." "is a picture that Patty drew when the doc asked her the same question." "This is the truth of it, and there can be no doubt- is that my wife Patricia and I were taken by aliens." "We've been interviewed quite a few times." "You seem to have more than just a passing interest in this." "Do you have your own story?" "ALLlE:" "If a dream is just a dream." "something that happens in your mind while you're asleep." "then that's all right." "It's yours to take with you into the morning." "and it fades away there in the light." "But when the dreams start to come while you're awake." "and they come with the light." "then that is not all right." "What we look for then is other people who have dreamed what we've dreamed." "who have seen what we've seen." "When the dreams become real." "sometimes the only comfort you can find is in knowing that you're not alone." "lisa singing TO radio:" "# I caught up with my ex- boyfriend #" "# You're the reason I'm in this mess #" "# And when they show up #" "# I'll give them what you said #" "# Your address #" "I just get to this place where I feel like it is so totally out of my control." "I just don't see the point." "It all ends, anyway, right?" "So why bother?" "I get up every day, all I see is the end of the day, and I just-I'm not into doing anything at all." "I-I could use some help with that." "When you play a song, when you're right in the middle, are you thinking about how the song ends?" "No way." "It's all I can do to get through a song just staying focused right where I am." "Oh...okay." "Okay." "Thank you." "Dude, this little girl's profound." "Hi, Mum." "Hey." "Are we here to get enlightenment or play some rock 'n' roll?" "Hey, you sit close to me, all right?" "My timing's always a little better when you're around." "That's 'cause she's a drummer's daughter." "# This is the heart of nowhere #" "# It's a dark, one-way street #" "# This is the land... #" "As long as I can remember." "people have liked to talk to me." "You know. kind of how somebody says something to you." "Doesn't have to mean so much." "It's just that it opens a door for you." "and you can see into a room you couldn't see into before." "It doesn't really matter how you got there." "The important part is." "you're seeing something new and different." "# This is the heart of nowhere #" " Morning." " Morning." "Rough waters out there." "This new footage of Allie just came in from our man in Seattle." "eric:" "She can block a shot on goal, but other than that, she hasn't demonstrated any of the kind of powers we were expecting." "She's a little kid." "Give her time." "A lot of genetic traits don't demonstrate until just before adolescence." "Schizophrenia, for example." "We still can't pick her up." "They'll just take her back like they did when we tried for Lisa." " That used to be the case." " "Used to be"?" "Wanna see what we can do?" "Step this way." "Microwave radiation- that part of the light spectrum, in the case of the oven, 12.5 centimetres, to be exact." "We block that wavelength, and the hamster's on easy street." "But we let that same wavelength through..." "Jeez." "In meditation, we learn the oneness of all things, the harmony that flows through nature." "This is the same idea, stripped of the comforting notion of divinity, that we find in science, more specifically in mathematics." "One, one, two, three, five, eight." "The Fibonacci Sequence." "One number added to the one before it makes the next number in the sequence, and from this sequence, we get the golden mean." "We find these numbers everywhere- shells, nebulae, the spiral of a pine cone, bee hives..." "DNA." "God's equation writ large across the heavens." "The cow grazing contentedly in the meadow, the grass on which she grazes, the breeze that blows through." "All parts of the one, the whole." " Is this going somewhere?" " Their crafts hold five." "Add the number of confirmed sightings in New Mexico last year-1,597." "They have three fingers, one thumb." "The number of breeding pairs you charted last year when you were figuring out who Allie was-55." "1, 3, 5, 55, 1,597." "All Fibonacci numbers." "How many lights on the board?" "46,367." " And with our little friend Allie?" " 46,368." "The 24th Fibonacci." "So, how do we take our revelation and turn it into an effective block so that we can grab little 46,368- our little Allie?" "This is Peter Miller." "Mr Miller's been taken 13 times." "Oh, don't worry." "I'm not gonna splatter him all over the room." "Janitorial would never forgive me." "Mr Miller has an implant." "We're monitoring it." "You can see it right here on the map." "Topeka, Montpelier, Somerset, Augusta." "There we are- Ellsworth, Maine." "Right here." "The implants broadcast on a spread spectrum." "The frequencies are all based around the hydrogen hyperfine transition line, the most fundamental wavelength in the universe." "Check this out." "We block those frequencies, and in much the same manner as the hamster didn't splatter, the implant doesn't register." "If we wanna pick someone up, we ought to be able to do it without having them grabbed right back." "Will this work on the girl?" "Allie has no implant." "She doesn't need one." "She's got the neuron spiral." "But the same principle applies." "We can block her frequency, too." "And they can't find her." "Okay, let's pick her up before she demonstrates." "After that, we may not be able to." "We're sure she hasn't demonstrated at all yet, right?" "Not according to our agent." "You know that therapy group her mother's in?" "We have someone in that group." "Good." "I believe this all has to do with the landing strip at the bottom of Lake Superior." "You look at the contrails." "As soon as they appeared in the sky above St. Paul, the incidence of severe upper respiratory infection quadrupled in the twin cities." "These trails are messages." "You're reaching there." "The idea of group is to listen." "We're not judging each other." "I think you're reaching here, Ray." "There is a base and a landing strip at the bottom of Lake Superior." "That's why the government has spread this cover story about pollution in the lake, to keep the curious away." "And those contrails, they are messages to the denizens of this base." "Where do you get your information, Ray?" "I was taken there on my third abduction." "How come you didn't drown?" "They did something that enabled me to breathe underwater." "That makes sense." "We're to believe your story about seeing your dead son on a spaceship, but I can't go to the bottom of Lake Superior?" " I didn't say I didn't believe you." " It was on your face." "The doubt." "I was thinking about my own experience about my boy." "Can you share some of that story with us, Dale?" "We lost our son Luke in the Gulf War, Desert Storm." "They got names for these things like movies, but this was no damn movie." "This wasn't anything that made any sense." "He was driving in a truck, taking supplies somewhere in the desert." "The war was already over." "There was a mine." "No one ever knew if it was theirs or ours." "About six months after we got the news about Luke is when they first came for me." "I woke up, and there were these five young men standing by my bed." "Soldiers, just like my boy." "They asked me if I wanted to see Luke, and I don't remember anything else until I was in this big, bright room." "And Luke was there." "And we were talking." "We...had had this fight, Luke and I." "You know, like boys and fathers do, then he went into the army before we had a chance to make it right." "But there we were, talking like there was no tomorrow." "They would come for me every night, these same soldiers." "At first, I'd just sit and talk with my son- how are the Mariners doing, and what's going on down at the plant?" "That sort of thing." "It was wonderful..." "to see my boy again." "But then they started taking him away." "We'd be talking, and then, uh, he'd be gone." "It was as if they wanted to see what would happen if they could make me grieve again." "Sometimes we'd start to fight, having that same fight." "Your son's dead." "You're having bad dreams, that's all." "That's what my wife said." "That's why the two of you separated, isn't it?" "That was just an excuse." "Truth of it was, we couldn't stand to look at each other anymore." "All either one of us could see was Luke." "You were a jerk to him, and you feel bad about it now that it's too late, and it's not something you can fix." "Do these look like dreams to you?" "Is that what you'd name them?" "That could've happened any way." "You could've done it to yourself." "Please." "Please, Dale, sit down." "Sit down." "Now, you're here, you're all here because you believe you've experienced something." "This is hard work, it's painful work, but we can get through it if we work together, all right?" "Good." "Why don't you believe my experience?" "You've been taken." "You know how it works." "Just offering alternatives." "Sorry, everybody." "I had to drop off Allie at soccer practice." "Lisa, we have a guest today." "This is Charlie." "Charlie's been videotaping the session for a documentary he's doing." "He's been interviewing people all around the country who've had experiences like all of yours, and now he's found his way to us." "The rest of us have agreed to allow ourselves to be put on tape, but... if you're not comfortable with that, then" "No, I'm not." " Turn that off, please." " Sorry." "I just try to keep my life private." "I'm sorry." "I understand." "Do I..." "Did Dorothy share today?" "She thinks her cats are aliens." "Do they live at the bottom of Lake Superior?" "That's the nice thing about being in the group." "It makes me feel positively normal." "You're doing a documentary?" "Not exactly." "I've...had experiences myself." "How long have they been taking you?" "Since I was a kid." "I didn't really know what was going on until I'd grown up, but... since I was a kid." "Me, too." "They don't take me anymore." "They haven't in nine years." "And what I've been trying to do since then is prove that it really happened, figure out why they stopped." "I'd just stick to the story about being a documentary filmmaker." "Did...did you like your abductions?" "charlie:" "Like them?" "Yeah, as in look forward to 'em, enjoy 'em?" "For me, it was always that." "I used to get this buzz, this energy thing." "It felt great." "I believe this whole abduction deal is gonna turn out to be a positive event." "Right now, people think we're whack, fringe dwellers, but that's gonna change." "We've been chosen for something." "This thing busts open, we're gonna be the folks to see." "For me, it was never a buzz, anything like that." "I didn't know what was happening to me, and I fought back as hard as I could." "Really?" "I-I should get going." "My daughter'll be home soon from soccer practice." "You have a daughter?" "Allie." "She's nine." "You have any pictures of yourself as a kid?" " You think it goes back that far?" " Why not?" "Yeah, I have one of me and my mum." "She's pretty." "Oh, that's my dad." "That's him as a little kid with my grandfather." "You would agree with me this whole thing's kind of weird, right?" "Well, it just got a whole lot weirder." "This is the guy." "I've never come across anything like this." "It's extraordinary." "This is your father?" "He had been taken, too?" " It started with my grandfather." " It seems to run in families." "We call these "screen memories."" "It's as if they take a sample of our memories and choose the realities they present us with." "This was something, this carnival, that scared my father." "And they used it." "That's not an uncommon part of the experience." "But this... to take a sample of your father's memory and use it as a screen on both of you?" "Why, it's..." "truly remarkable." "I thought you'd like it." "I'd like to regress you both, take you back to one of your abductions, see if we can figure out what this is all about, maybe even find out where the two of you met." "Lisa, I think it might help Charlie if you and I were to work together first." "With this new information, I might take you in a completely different direction." " Anytime." " How about now?" "Do you mind if Charlie stays?" "We...do seem to have a lot in common." "I guess we should've gone home and changed first." "I don't care if you don't." "Doesn't bother me at all." "Have you ever been here before?" "My dad took me here when I was a kid." "Hope I remember which fork to use." "With me and my mum, it was mostly pizza." "Where's your mum now?" "Detroit." "She's a nurse." "That's how she met my dad." " Was he a doctor?" " He was a patient." "How about you?" "What does your dad do?" "My dad died when I was eight." "I'm sorry." "My stepdad, he's a musician, a guitarist." "My mum's a nutritionist." "She could tell you not to eat anything they serve here." "My real dad- you use a computer?" "Sure." "He invented the buzz control scheme and half of the floating point logic." "I thought, with our luck, we'd wind up in a carnival." "This is kind of like a carnival." " To us." " Us." " Hi." " Hi." " I'm Charlie." " Okay." "You're in the third grade, right?" "You're doing State History?" "You're reading Sarah." "Plain and Tall?" "This is the "big ideas" year in science- electricity, magnetism." "I taught third grade the last three years." "We read Sarah." "Plain and Tall last year." "This year, it's Island of the Blue Dolphins." "charlie:" "It's a good one." "So this is the year I find out how everything works?" " The "big ideas"?" " Mm-hmm." "And everybody takes these classes?" "charlie:" "Pretty much." "So then what happens, they all forget?" "I never thought about it like that" "lisa:" "Sorry, Al." "I had to park all the way over by Parson Gardens." "You're cute." "Where's Lisa?" "She, uh- Lisa's getting garlic." "Hey, girls." "How was soccer practice?" "I'm trying to convince my god-daughter she doesn't want to play goalie." "It's either boring, boring, boring or, oh, my God, oh, my God." "I don't think it's so boring." "You get to watch the play come to you." "And then it gets there, and oh, my God, oh, my God." "Not if you've been watching the play." "There's no getting around you." "Who are you?" "We've been trying to figure that out all day." " Oh, another day-tripper?" " It's...a long story." "For which I don't have time." "I've got four freshmen who want Celtic bands and a concept artist who designed his own tattoo." "He says it goes across his face to cover the lie." "I'm gonna be up all night." "I do tattoos." "Oh." "You should get Lisa to show you her alien." "You know, you really are cute." "I bet I'm gonna be seeing you around." "Will you take a picture of his face once you've covered up the lie?" "Without question." "Good-bye, sweetheart." "Bye." "I guess Charlie's staying for dinner." "Maybe if you're real good, he'll help you set the table." "Did I hear you say you're a schoolteacher?" "I was, yeah." "What happened?" "I got a little too interested in other things." "You've been on the spaceships, too?" "At first, I wondered if I should tell her, but it would've been weirder to try and go to the group without even mentioning it." "Yes, I have." "Was it scary?" "Kind of." "Did it make you mean?" "I don't think so." "How come?" "My mum didn't get mean, either." "But some of the people she knows did." "I think people get mean when they're scared." "You're working late." "Just wanna make sure there's nothing I missed." "In this light, you look like my father." "You have his singleness of vision, something I never had." "I envy you for that." "I just wanna see this through." "That's what I mean." "She just looks like a little girl, doesn't she?" "She doesn't look special at all." "This is Brad." "This is Devon." "And this is Rich." "He's the cutest." "lisa:" "She does this just to humiliate me." "I'm nine." "I'm supposed to like this stuff." "I like this song." "This Alayna one's really good, too." "Oh, my God, man, the both of you..." "I drive a lot, I listen to the radio." "I like these guys." "What am I gonna do, brand my own child with a scarlet "L"?" ""L"?" "For "lame."" "# Every time I press rewind #" "# Stop when the red light flashes #" "# Upsy-daisy, my whole world crashes #" "That's my journal." "I write down things I think of and stuff." "Oh, that's a good idea." "I always wished I'd done that, but every time I start, I kind of get too lazy." "Maybe sometime I could read you mine." "That'd be great." "You're up next, you know." "Up next?" "Your regression with Harriet." "You're next." "You've never done it before, have you?" "Sometimes that can be a lot of information, just so you know." "# Talk to me and help me understand #" "# Tell me how my eye got black and blue #" "ALLlE:" "I grew up." "just my mum and me." "I never thought a lot about who my father was or where he'd gone." "I guess I knew there was something missing." "but when you're a kid." "your life is just your life." "You don't think about all the other ways it might have been." " Allie?" " Hi, Mr Watson." "Is your mum inside?" "Guess I'm a little early." "I get cooped up in my apartment." "Guess I just need to get out." "Your son Luke..." "He loved you very much." "Why did you say that?" "I just thought you should know." "Thank you, sweetheart." "Thank you very much." "I think. when you're older." "what gets hard is that you forget how to take things as they come." "And sometimes." "the things that do come are more than anyone should have to take." "girl:" "Come on, guys!" "nina:" "Keep your feet moving." "Don't get stuck in one place." "All right, let's get two passes." "Good." "Good." "Nice pass." "Nice pass." "Good." "That boy's going down." "nina:" "Heads up, Allie!" "nina:" "Okay, we got it back." "Good." "Good work, girls." "Allie and I are very...close." " How do you wanna tell her?" " I-I don't know." "I don't know if I wanna tell her." "She has to know." "No, she doesn't." "We're doing fine here." "Allie and me are fine." "I don't know you." "I don't know if I want you to be her father." "Yes!" "She's a beautiful little girl." "Does she even wanna know who her dad is?" " I mean, does she ask about that?" " Sometimes." "What do you tell her?" "That he was a nice guy, that I didn't know him very well, that sometimes people can mean a lot to each other for a short time." "And she doesn't even ask to see him?" "No...she doesn't." "I-I knew-I mean, I didn't know you, but I knew she was... damn it." "I go around pretending I'm cool with all of this, and I have to tell you," "I'm not cool with it at all." "What are they doing?" "What do they want out of all this?" "They wanna make us better to enable us to move to the next rung of the ladder, and in doing that, they'll better themselves as well." "I have another idea." "Say it began as a research project, a project on a scale completely beyond our imagination, a detailed accounting of our entire planet." "A history of the planet, a catalogue of everything." "Now imagine this-while they're doing this research, this cataloguing, they inadvertently come across an incredible insight, something that utterly transforms the way they see the universe." "And that's what Allie is- the result of this insight." "Yeah, but they're smarter than us." "They can do things we can't even begin to understand." " They're more highly evolved." " Evolution has a cost." "Every choice is the death of all other possibilities." "Maybe something was lost along the way." "Yeah, probably something very simple." "Possibly." "And now they've put it back." "Maybe." "Maybe it's become something more than that." "From the first time I set foot in that room in Groom Lake, saw that body, all I've ever wanted was to understand them, to see through their eyes, just...catch a glimpse." "I feel kind of- I've never said this to anyone- but I feel this sense of being with them." "We are so close, Mary." "We'll have the girl." "And through her, we'll be able to talk to them." "I've waited my entire life for this moment." "I-I'm an arrogant bastard." "I always knew I'd get there in the end." "I always knew." "What I never knew, what I had no idea about, was that I'd find someone to share the moment with me." "Yeah?" "Hello." "Oh." "Well, that is quite a surprise." "Thank you very much." "Um... yeah, I look forward to seeing you as well." "It is unexpected, but that is one of life's great joys, isn't it?" "Happy accidents." "Okay." "There's a new wrinkle." "Allie's dad just showed up." "Well, that's interesting." "We're gonna have to deal with that." "I just can't stand this feeling- that my life is out of control, that someone else is pulling the strings." "Welcome to the world." "No one has control." "Who could say?" "They're more advanced than us, but that doesn't make them God." "It does from where we're sitting." "What makes me furious, somebody has cut a deal with these guys." "That has to be what's happening." "The government knows about this, and they're covering it up in return for something." "For what?" "You always come back to that, but I just don't see it." "I think the government is just as confused as we are." "Yeah, but you'll give me this- they know about it." "Blah blah blah blah blah." "You people." "I mean, we're all such victims." "It's time someone did something." "I mean, they come into our homes, they take us up into their ships, they do things to us." "And we just sit around here, and we talk about it." "Ray, we talk about it because it helps." "What else can we do?" "With an attitude like that, nothing." "It's pathetic." "You talk like we could fight back." "I've been taken so many times, I can't count 'em." "Fighting back is not an option." "What about you, Ray?" "Have you ever fought back?" "Yeah, I-I-I'd like to think that I have, but that's not what I'm talking about." "There's us here in this room, okay, fine." "But those people out in the world, they treat us like we're crazy." "Like we're making this up." "If we're all alone, then there's no fighting back." "But if we were believed..." "if there was proof..." "That was your idea, too, wasn't it, Charlie?" " To get proof?" " It was, yeah." "Not anymore?" "Well, some things have come up that kind of rearrange my priorities." "All right, come on, girls." "Come on downfield." "Stick to the fundamentals." "Watch your dribbling." "Throw the ball." "All right." "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "Come on!" "nina:" "Good." "Good." "Remember the fundamentals." "nina:" "Good." "Good." "Make eye contact with the other players." "If you're making a checklist of superpowers...that was a big one." "She can manipulate time." "Let's get back to the cars." "Have you told Allie?" "We...we've talked about it, but we don't know how to do it yet." "We want to understand it first before we try to help her to understand it." "If I know Allie, she probably could explain the whole thing to you." "This is so romantic, really." "Soul mates destined to find each other in the stars." "You seem threatened by Lisa's story, Ray." "She always comes here with these warm and fuzzy little tales." "It's like aliens are bunny rabbits, like they're nice or something." "Why don't you back off and let Lisa tell her story?" "Hey, Charlie, I don't need your help." "I've been doing fine without you for nine years." "You wanna go with that, Lisa?" "I think it would be fair to say you have a certain a normal resentment about being a single mother, even under these truly abnormal circumstances." "I just don't need anyone weighing in at the 11th hour thinking I need taking care of." "Hey, don't get all over me." "I didn't know I was a father until yesterday afternoon." "I'm not all over you." "I'm just saying I don't need any help." "Just because you haven't had any doesn't mean you don't need it." "Meaning?" "Meaning you're living in a small apartment, supporting yourself and Allie by playing drums in a band." "You could use a little help." "What the hell do you know about how I'm living?" "I know what I see." "You have nothing to say about it, not about me and not about my daughter." "Hey, Lisa, I got a question." "Which story do you think Allie's gonna like better" "Mummy got nailed by some loser musician, or Mummy and Daddy never met, but did the nasty on a flying saucer?" "Why do you come?" "Why do you come if all you're gonna do Is heap abuse on everybody?" "Why?" "So I can spend more time with you." "Go to hell, Ray." "Oh, I've been, on more than one occasion." "Why don't you lighten up, buddy?" "Why don't I lighten up?" "Because I am sick and tired of your cosmic girlfriend's incessant whining." ""My father was half alien." Yeah." "All that crap." "Oh, you didn't know about that, did you?" "Yeah, one of these guys shows up in Grandma's barn, knocks the old lady up." "Nine months later, you got yourself a walking, talking hybrid." "It's a wonder your back's not broken, the size of that chip you're carrying around." "You gonna be the one to knock it off?" "Gentlemen, please." "Harriet, I think we need to ask him to leave the group." "He does nothing but cause trouble." "We are all here to help each other." "He's not helping anybody." "He's just making things worse." "I agree." "You know, Ray, all you ever do is shoot down everyone's stories, spreading trash, but we've never heard too much about your close encounter." "She's got a point, Ray." "Yeah, you said you fought back." "Tell us about that." " Come on." " Tell us your story." "What are you looking at?" "Maybe you should answer their questions." "Yeah, come on, Ray." "Tell us your story." "You wanna hear my story?" "Ray, sit down." "Here's my story." "What are you doing?" "!" "Put your gun away, Ray." "You don't wanna do this." " Put the gun away!" " No, I don't think so." "I got a better idea." "All right, everybody, get over in that corner." "You stay away from the windows." "Sit down on the floor where I can see you." "Come on!" "I'll shoot the new boy first, then I'll start in on the rest of you." "Sit!" "Ray, nobody's getting shot here." "That doesn't have to happen." "Oh, my God, he's gonna shoot us." "He's not gonna shoot anybody." "He's just showing off." "Is that what you think?" "Is that what you truly believe?" "Shoot me." "See if I care." "What are we doing here, Ray?" "Hey!" "I asked you to sit down." "Get that thing out of my face." "I've been abducted by aliens." "You think I care about your little toy trumpet?" "You sit down, hero, or I will shoot your bride- to-be." "Ray, I'm sure if we talk about this, we can work it out." "Ray, listen to Dr Penzler." "It's gonna be all right." "Give me the gun." "Give me the gun." "Please, give it to her, Ray." "Can't think with the phone ringing." "Dorothy, get over to the window and shut the blinds." "The rest of you stay put." "Don't do anything stupid." "Come on, Dorothy!" "All right, back with the others." "What's that?" "Whose is that?" "Is that you?" "Yeah." " Answer it." " You sure?" "Just don't say anything stupid, huh?" "Okay." "Hello?" "Ni-Ni-Nina, it's really not a good time." "Allie doesn't run off, Nina." "That's not something she does." "I-I can't." "It's really hard to explain." " Hang up." " My daughter's missing." " Hang up the phone." " You can just wait." "Is she okay?" " Yeah, she's all right." " How do you know?" "I know." "She's scared, but she's all right." "Listen, Nina" "End the damn call, Lisa." "Hang up now." "Oh, my God." "Help me sit him up." "It's all right." "Come on." " There you go." " Oh, my God." "charlie:" "Cellophane." " What?" " Cellophane." "Cellophane." "Somebody find some cellophane somewhere." "All right, he's got it." "Get it off." "I've got a scarf!" "I've got a scarf!" "Where are you going?" "I'm getting my scarf because you shot him, Ray!" "Ray, Charlie is really hurt." "We've gotta get him to a hospital." "I guess I wasn't that much help to you after all, was I?" "This doesn't have to get any worse, Ray." "Everything gets worse, Dr Penzler." "Every stinking thing in this world." "What are you gonna do?" "Let me think!" "I gotta think." "Who else has a cell phone?" "Um...turn 'em off and slide 'em over to me." " Ray, it's in my coat." " Go ahead." " What happens now, Ray?" " I'm thinking." "There's no time, Ray." "Charlie doesn't have that kind of time." "Okay..." "I want you to call the fbi." "You know which one of these is yours?" "The little flip phone." "This one?" "What should I tell them?" "The fbi, Ray." "What should I tell them?" "Um...tell 'em I'm armed, and I'm gonna have to start shooting people if my demands aren't met." "Oh, God." "We're gonna die." "We're gonna die." "Just shut up!" "I'm only gonna shoot you if they don't do what I'm asking them." " Ray?" " What?" "What demands?" "What are you asking them to do?" "Tell 'em I wanna talk to the person in charge of their, um... you know, whatever they call it, their-their extraterrestrial project." "You want Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones?" "Cynthia, you're not helping." "I'm not sure who I should be asking for." "Dr Penzler, just make the call." "All right, all right." "fbi, please." "What are you gonna do once you get to somebody in charge?" "I'm gonna make my demands." "You're gonna call the federal government and say," ""Let me speak to the man in charge of your super-secret operation because, if I don't, I'll shoot a few people"?" "That's pathetic is what that is." "Well, no one ever said that Ray wasn't pathetic." "cynthia:" "I knew I never should've joined this damn group." "This is like White people land." "Do you know how many Asian people have been abducted since 1947?" "Will you please shut up?" "Maybe seven, and you're looking at one of them." "So I decide to be open and honest about it, and this is what I get" "I'm abducted by Homer Simpson." "White people land." "Hello." "Hello." "Is this the-the fbi?" " You got 'em on the phone?" " Um, yes." "Uh-huh." "See?" "This is, um, Dr Harriet Penzler." "I'm hoping you can help me." "I have a bit of a problem here." "Yes." "Um, I have a group of people here, and one of them's been shot." "The-the man who shot him..." "Lisa, what are you doing?" "And, um..." "hold on a minute." "Lisa?" "Sit down." "Where do you think you're going?" "Isn't this sweet?" "Now we got the whole happy family." "Allie...it's okay." "Come here." "Come here." "It's okay." "Ten adults and one child." "That's right, exactly." "Sit down." "Okay, here's the thing." "I don't want any cops." "I don't want any hostage negotiator or any of that Dog Day Afternoon crap..." "Everything's gonna be okay." "I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you." "One SWAT team or anything, I start shooting these people." "Good." "I want someone here in 15 minutes." "There is a problem here right now, Allie, but it's gonna be all right." "Ray is just a little angry." ""Ray is just a little angry"?" "No, Ray is majorly pissed off." "I mean, you should be angry, too." "Look what they did to you and what's- his-name" " Charlie." "Look at that!" "I mean, how can you sit here and let that kind of thing go unanswered?" "Come on, we don't need to talk about that." "What, we're not supposed to tell Allie she's a test-tube baby?" "You sorry bastard." "Hey..." "Charlie's hurt." "Yeah." "Is he going to be all right?" "I don't know, honey." "If Ray will let us get him to the hospital..." "No one's going anywhere until I get what I want." "Campus security." "Dr Penzler?" "We had a report of a gunshot." "Hands up." "Get your hands up." "Yeah, you keep 'em up there." "Okay." "Here's the situation." "I'm holding these people hostage, all right?" "I've already shot one of them." "I'm angry and unpredictable." "Look at me!" "What we're doing here, we're waiting for the fbi." "There's two more security officers coming from other parts of the campus." "Yeah, so?" "What do you want me to do about them?" "I want you to go out there and talk to them." "I want you all to come up with something to clear this place out, okay?" "Say something exploded, say anything you want." "Just keep the world away from me till the fbi gets here, okay?" "Hey, don't be stupid." "A lot of people are gonna get killed." "You can go now." "What are you doing, Ray?" "What do you think you're gonna get done?" "We live in a world that's out of our control." "You should know that better than anyone." "I mean, things happen, right?" "What is that, God's will?" "The hell with that." "We all feel that way sometimes" "Spare me the couch, Dr Penzler." "I'm not a crazy person." "I mean, things really happen to me, and I'm sick and tired of nobody believing me but you fruit loops." "What am I gonna do?" "Okay, so it's very simple." "The government is gonna come clean on national TV." "They're gonna tell the world this is all real, and then no one... no one will ever think I'm crazy again." "Answer your question?" "We do exactly what he wants." "We clear the area, evacuate the building, keep the students and faculty safe." "By then, the fbi will be here, and then it will all be their problem." " Start setting up the barricades." " Right away." "Something frightened you." "That's why you came here?" "I don't really know what happened." "There were some people." "And you felt as if they were coming after you?" " And I started to run..." " But?" "And then..." "I don't know what happened." "You did something." "I think so." "This way, folks." "Come down this way as quickly as you can." "All right, folks, calmly." "This way." "Quickly as you can, please move down." "Just follow them." "Thank you." "Right through the barricades there." "That's right." "Do you wanna know what I'm worried about?" "I wanna know who's gonna feed my cats." "We'll all be out of here soon." "You'll be home to feed them yourself." "And what if that doesn't happen?" "Relax, Dorothy." "The aliens'll feed 'em." "Yeah, they're old friends of your cats, right?" "What?" "What are you looking at?" "You really think if you're cruel enough to other people, all your own misery will go away?" "No." "Just keeps my mind off it for a while." "Gas trucks." "Nice touch." "Answer it." "Yes?" "It's for you." "Sit down." "Yeah?" "Okay." "I see you." "What do I want?" "How about a world cruise and a winning lottery ticket?" "Why don't you come up here?" "We can talk about it." "Just you." "Your little friends can wait down there." "Hey, sit down." "What do you think you're doing?" "I'm gonna get some ice for my neck because you hurt me." "And tomorrow morning, after the fbi either lock you up or shoot you dead," "I'm gonna have to get up and go to work like any other day, and I'd just as soon do that looking as fresh and pretty as possible." "Get some water for Charlie, will you please, Cynthia?" "cynthia:" "Yeah." "Anybody else?" " Is that okay?" " Yeah." "Thanks." "We got to get him out of here, Ray." "Yeah?" "Let's just hope this lady coming up the stairs now feels the same way about that as you do." "I felt good about this guy as soon as I saw him." "lisa:" "Me, too." "Answer it." "Come on." "Out of the way, Dr Penzler." "Let me see her." "Are you the one who asked for the fbi?" "Yeah." "I'm here." "You can talk to me." "Did anyone tell you what this was all about?" "Man in therapist's office holding ten hostages demands fbi agent." "I asked for someone from the fbi extraterrestrial project." "Someone who knows about aliens." "You mean, like on X-Files?" "I'm the one you want." "Okay." "Let me bring you up to speed on our situation here." "I shot him." "And he's gonna die if he doesn't get medical attention." "That's one." "After that, if I don't get what I ask for, these people, they're just fish in a barrel to me, you understand that?" "That was the lady in the park, the one who tried to grab me." "You understand?" "This is what I want you to do." "I want you to go public." "Go public?" "Call the New York Times." "call CNN." "Tell 'em everything you know, tell 'em this is all real." "You just signed our death warrant." " You think she cares about killing 11" " Shut up!" "She's not gonna call CNN, Ray." "She's gonna have us all killed." "I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to make that call." "My people have a very old-fashioned, Cold-War slant on things." "It's not right...keeping something like this secret as I'm sure everyone here would agree." "This is news that belongs to the world." "How do you know she's from the government, Ray?" "How do you know she's not one of them?" "Sit down." "Why don't you let the little girl come with me?" "It's the kind of gesture that would go a long way." "Give me the girl, and I promise, I'll do everything I can for you." "wilson:" "Look at the eyes, Ray." "You see?" "Those are alien eyes." "Wilson, shut up." "Let me have the girl." "Let Allie go, Ray." "She doesn't have to get hurt." "Allie, stand up." "Stand up." "You've got something I want, now I've got something you want." "Get out." "Get out!" "Clear it off the south perimeter!" "Here comes your dad." "The rooms here also" "What's the situation?" "He's gonna kill the girl unless we call CNN and tell the world we're not alone." "You two were going to pick her up." "This was supposed to be easy." "It got a little complicated." "I'm handling it." "How?" "I say what I have to, promise him anything he wants." "Just make sure the girl doesn't get hurt." "No one's going to get killed here today." " Hey." " Hey." "You got a nice move to the post." "That kid yesterday thought he could get one past you, but you were right there." "What I do is I fool myself." "I make myself believe I'm really going to cover." "Because I believe it, he believes it." "How do you get yourself over to the post?" "I don't know." "I'm afraid if I ever stop to think about it, it won't work anymore." "Do you know why you're here?" "Do you know what this is about?" "I'm not sure yet, but I think we're gonna find out soon." "This is the year for the "big ideas," right?" "Hey...hey." " I may pass out here." " No, you won't." " Do you know CPR?" " Uh, n-no." "You're gonna need to take my right arm and put it across my chest." "Okay." "Make sure I don't roll over." "Then what do I do?" "You're gonna have to give me mouth-to- mouth." "I'm sorry I said those things about the way you live." "I was scared." "It's like Allie said-people get mean when they get scared." "All right." "She's a wonderful girl, Lisa." "You did great." "You want CNN here so badly, why don't you call 'em yourself?" "Because they'd just think he was crazy, and he wants everyone to know that he isn't crazy at all." "Yeah?" "Okay." "The media'll be here in 15 minutes." "We're almost home, fruit loops." "Get down." "Who took that shot?" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "!" "What'd you think would happen if you tried something like that?" "It was a miscommunication." "I'm sorry." "It won't happen again." "You're damn right it won't!" "Next time something like that happens the little girl is coming out of the window with a bullet in her head." "eric:" "Mary." "Oh, what the hell, Ray?" "Leave the little girl alone." "You stay right there." "You sad little man." "Who do you think you are?" "God?" "You shut up." "He's not God, Dorothy." "He's just a poor excuse for a man." "A man without any faith." "Faith?" "You're gonna talk to me about faith?" "God comes down and, pluck, there goes your son, no more Luke." "Bye-bye." "Why?" "Dale, why?" "Because He's up in His Heaven and all's right with the world?" "Or because we live in a stinking sewer where nothing makes one bit of sense?" "But you have faith." "Your son dies for no reason, but you have faith." "You get taken and tortured, but you have faith." "If I didn't, then I wouldn't have any reason to go on living." "Then you crawl away and you die, because this right here- this is as much sense as the world will ever make." "What are you doing?" "I told you I didn't want anyone killed." "What am I doing?" "I'm trying to keep the little girl alive." "I put a man up there, I told him if he had a clean shot, he should take it." "And he missed, and we'll be lucky to get her out alive." "Pull everybody back." "And do what?" "What do you suggest?" "We should call CNN for him?" "This little girl is everything." "She's what it's all about." "We can't afford to lose her." "Yes." "Ray." "I am so sorry about what happened by the window." "There are some people out here who've seen too many Lethal Weapon movies." "Look up at the window." "You get me what I want." "Do it now." "Go sit down with your mum and dad." "You don't have to be scared, Mum." "This is all going to be all right." "A lot of things are going to happen because of this." "That's all." "But it's going to be all right." "You better hope you're right, or you're gonna have to start praying for a little intervention from your grandfather's side of the family." "You're not gonna get it any cleaner." "He's gonna kill her." "We've gotta take him out." "I'm not gonna be a party to any more killing, Mary." "I'm done with that." "I don't think you are, Dad." "You know who's in there, right, besides the little girl?" "Her mother and her father-Charlie." "That means he knows." "And that's two people with a lot of information that have had some pretty bad experiences with us over the years." "They have to go." "Dr Penzler, too." "I can't risk a leak." "It's too important." "They don't matter anymore." "It's all about Allie." "You're not in charge here, Mary." "I am." "Take a step back." "Calm down." "I'm sorry." "You're right." "Just, the two of them having gotten together has made me a little nervous." " They could really gum us up." " No one's getting killed here, Mary." "Of course not." "cynthia:" "I got to go to the bathroom." "Grab a cup." "Knock yourself out." "Lisa, how's he doing?" "He's still breathing." "Are you all right?" "I just don't want any more bad news." "Mr Watson?" "Luke, when he died, he wasn't mad at you anymore." "He wasn't?" "He knew." "It was just one of those things that happens." "He was growing up, and that was hard for you both." "He loved you very, very much, Mr Watson." "And that's what he was thinking when he died." "I just wish I could see him one more time." "I wish I could tell him that I was sorry." "He knows, Mr Watson." "He knows." "It's okay, Dad." "You can let go." "Now I can see why those people want you so badly." "When it gets dark, we shoot for the windows again." "At the same time, we bring two men through the hallway." "He'll be down on the floor, won't be looking to the door." "We've got a man up in the heating ducts." "He'll coordinate by earphone, drop down through at the same time the two men from the hall enter." "And then he turns and shoots the girl." "That room is covered by snipers." "These men know what they're doing." "It all goes by the numbers, we take him out." " And the others?" " Not a problem." "I don't want my father to see you do it." "You look like a college kid doing his homework." " What are you working on?" " Oh, just a little theory." "Their craft was, I like to call it, thought-powered." "Allie may be a stronger manifestation of that power, that energy." "How long have you been sleeping with my daughter?" "About six years." "You get some kind of sick pleasure from that, the boss' daughter?" ""Boss"?" "I thought we were friends." "I love Mary." "And I think she loves me." "I want your desk cleaned out by tomorrow." "After this is over, I'll be going back to Maine." "I don't wanna see you there when I go into the office." "How you feeling?" "What's happening to me?" " It's in her DNA, isn't it?" " That's what makes her special." "Mum..." "I never believed that part of your story- "My grandfather was an alien."" " Allie..." " Your dad- could he do things?" "I never saw it, but, yes, he could." " But you never could." " I can play drums and sing harmony." "A lot of people would tell you that's amazing." "There's you and me." "The way I know where you are, how you're feeling, if you're safe." "I always figured that was just because I'm your only daughter and you love me so much." "Yeah, I suppose it could be that." "It's what made your dad sick, isn't it, doing these things?" "You're not my dad, honey." "You've got a lot of other things in you." "You've got Charlie's family, too." "Everybody in position?" "He's not gonna last much longer." "You got a lot of hell on your plate." "What are we doing here, Ray?" "This man needs help." "Are you just gonna sit there while he bleeds to death?" "Nothing you do is going to change anything about what happened to you, Mr Morrison." "What are you talking about?" "That man in the woods when you were eight." "The one that took you in that shed." "He wasn't from another planet." "He was just mean and crazy." "You shut up about that." "You're just going to hurt more people, that's all." "It's not going to make what happened to you go away." "Shut up!" " lisa:" "Allie..." " It would be easier, wouldn't it?" "Blame it on them." "They came down and took you." "You stop it." "It's a lot scarier to think that the monsters might be us." "Shut up!" " Ray!" " You shut up right now!" "Ray!" "She doesn't mean it!" "She's a little kid." "She doesn't know what she's saying." "One day, you're gonna stand in front of the Lord, and you're gonna have to explain what happened here today." "You are gonna have to explain." "I'm not the one who has the explaining to do." "Dale's son-explain that." "Explain cancer." "Explain war." "Explain the whole damn thing to me just one time... so I can understand why everything has to be so hard." "Oh, God." "I'm sorry I hurt him." "Oh, God, I'm so sorry." "Allie..." "lisa:" "Allie..." "What are you doing, Allie?" "Charlie..." "Look at me." "Look at me." "Look at me, Dad." "He's all right?" "What do you think we ought to do now?" "Yes, Ray?" "Hello." "Ray?" "No." "This is Allie." "We're all going to come out of the building now." "Please tell everybody not to shoot." "I'll go with you." "All right." "They're coming down." "She says she'll come with us if we let the others go." "Everybody set?" " Mary...you can't do this." " Do what?" "You can't kill anyone." "What makes you think they'll let you?" "They don't care about Lisa and Charlie now any more than we do." "It's all about Allie." "Then where are they?" "We tried to pick up Lisa." "Lisa was helpless." "Allie can take care of herself." "Then what makes you think any of this will work?" "I don't know if it's gonna work." "At least I'm not afraid to try." "Mary, don't do this." "Listen to me." "I-I know this." "Walk away." "Even if you lose the project, walk away... before you do something you can't walk away from." "Here they come." "Why don't you just fade away?" "You're a burden to the project." "You don't have the stomach for it, and you don't have the brains." "You have no idea what I'm capable of?" "What I've done?" "I won't have any more blood on my hands." "Everybody set?" "Get a tight lead on that subject." "Run away!" "Take the little girl!" "It's a trick!" "Run!" "It's a trick!" "Oh, my God." "It's okay." "Come on!" "I'll take care of you." "Come on." "It's okay." "Keep coming." "I'll take care of you all." "Come on." "It's okay." "It's all right." "Keep coming." "I'll take care of you." "Come on." "ALLlE:" "Miss Crawford." "I'm ready to go with you now." "Little girl..." "I love the way your mind works." "Previously on Taken..." "Do I?" "To us." "Us." "Do you know what you're gonna name her?" "Allie." "Her name is Allie." "eric:" "I want you to join me in the program, Mary." "You're grandfather found this in Pine Lodge, New Mexico." "Found it at a crash site." "So it's all true." "This is something that shouldn't go outside the family." "What's this, Allie?" "That's my journal." "I write down things I think of and stuff." "We need your help, gentlemen." "You'll stop playing games and tell us everything you know about whoever it is who's out there and what the hell they want." "Mr Miller has an implant." "We're monitoring it." "The implants broadcast on a spread spectrum." "We block those frequencies, the implant doesn't register." "eric:" "Will this work on Allie?" "We can block her frequency, too." "And they can't find her." "eric:" "Let's pick her up." "She can manipulate time." "That therapy group her mother's in?" "We have someone in that group." "Put your gun away, Ray!" "You don't want to do this." "Put the gun away!" "You know who's in there, right, besides the little girl?" "Her mother and her father-Charlie." "That means he knows, and that's two people with a lot of information that have had some pretty bad experiences with us over the years." "They have to go." "Dr Penzler, too." "What are you doing, Allie?" "Look at me, Dad." "Get away!" "Take the little girl and-it's a trick!" "Run!" "Come on!" "I'll take care of you." "Come on." "Where did they go?" "ALLlE:" "Miss Crawford..." "I'm ready to go with you now." "ALLlE:" "I guess I always knew that there was something different about me." "But when all of this began to happen." "when I started to be able to do things." "it was kind of scary" "like in a dream where you start falling and it feels kind of good." "until you begin to wonder if you'll ever be able to stop." "That was a good trick." "You're a very complicated little girl." "What do you mean?" "I mean, with what you can do, you could have walked out of that building." "Why did you let us take you?" "I wanted you to leave my mum and all the other people alone." "I was afraid you might hurt someone." "I thought if I went with you, they'd be all right." "Allie?" "It's 12.17." "We've lost two hours." "What?" "We've lost two hours." "Are you all right?" "Look, what I did-I'm sorry." "It's okay." "I'm alive." "We're all alive." "Everyone get out of here." "Don't go home." "Find places where you're gonna be safe." " Allie?" " Just get out of here!" "Go!" "lisa:" "Allie!" "charlie:" "Go!" "lisa:" "Allie?" "Allie!" "Lisa, she's gone." "She's not here." "Where did she go?" "Where did they take her?" "Allie!" "I've got to find my daughter, please!" "I know." "Allie did this... the time...all of it." "Allie gave us missing time?" "Y-Y-Yes." "She...she stopped time." "She stopped us, she stopped us and let time keep moving." "She wanted to keep us safe, and she did that." "She needed the missing time so that she could go with them without us trying to stop her." "She was trying to keep us safe." "I'm coming!" "Oh, thank God." "I've been worried sick!" "I went by your apartment four times." "I kept calling." "What happened?" "Are you all right?" "Allie's gone." "Do you know who I am?" "Not exactly." "Well...um... our families go way back- mine and your mum's and your dad's." "I kind of think that you and I might be the end of all this." "We might just be the beginning." "Your grandfather wasn't a very happy man." "Why are you trying so hard to be like him?" "We're almost to the airstrip." "We better get this thing in place." "Lisa." "Lisa, it's all right." "Lisa." "Baby." "Lisa!" "Lisa!" "Lisa!" "N-N-N-Nina?" "I'm right here." "I'm right in front of you." "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything at all!" "nina:" "Lisa." "Lisa!" "All right?" "Can you see me now?" "What happened to you?" "I don't know." "I was...somewhere else." "I was somewhere else, and... wherever it was," "I couldn't see a thing." "She's always been a- she was a real good-looking baby right from the start." "And really smart." "At seven months' old, she was already playing peek-a- boo." "I've got a video at home of her taking her first steps." "You should see that." "I'd like to." "We've always had this link, you know, a connection." "I've always known exactly where she was, what she was thinking, how she was feeling." "I'd go to pick her up at school, I'd stop off to get Tylenol... she'd walk out the building with a runny nose and a headache." "Sounds silly, doesn't it?" "I mean, every mother has that." "No, they don't." "Man, I'm really, truly sorry." "This is because Allie's blessed, right?" "These people that took her want to know what she's all about." "Yeah, pretty much." "We'll do whatever we can to help you get her back." "I've got a couple of shirts around that'll fit you." "Over the years, a girl winds up with a souvenir or two." "Allie left this in the park when she ran away at soccer practice." "12 hours ago, there was a bullet in my lung." "I should be dead." "Why doesn't it surprise me that you're not?" "She's just a kid." "She didn't ask for any of this." "She shouldn't have to do any of this." "It's not fair!" "It's not fair at all!" "We'll get her back." "How?" "ALLlE:" "When you've done something that you can't take back." "something that you don't understand." "you start to hold tightly to the things you do understand." "and you try to make sense out of everything you can." "Because if you believed that all you had to do to make things right was to find a reason." "but what happens when you find the reasons and they are not your own?" "How do you find any comfort or any sense in that?" "They're on their way." "We haven't had a chance to talk." "What do you mean?" "About your father." "There's nothing to say." "You did what you had to do for the project." "Ha Ha. "For the project."" "When I was a kid, every time he went out of town, I used to imagine a car wreck, something like that, just how much better our lives would have been if he were gone." "You've been inside a craft." "Many times, yeah- that one at Groom Lake." "That was beautiful... wasn't it?" "Yeah." "That was my family legacy." "The craft, the bodies." "My grandfather's legacy." "My father squandered all that." "He had it right there in his hand, and he let it all slip away." "He couldn't stop them." "He could have tried." "You don't feel any remorse, do you?" "Do you think that makes me a bad person?" "You did what you had to do." "I heard about your father." "I'm sorry for your loss." "It was a terribly unfortunate mistake." "Mistake?" "You've got the girl?" "She's inside." "So you really believe that thing you put on her head is blocking her signal?" "Right now, they're in their ship, scratching their little grey heads, going, "Where's our girl?"" "Then, when we take that shield off, here they come." "You're confident we can take them down?" "Wherever they come from- the most distant star, the furthest reaches of time- the moment they enter our time and space, our reality, they're confronted by the laws of our physics." "You're sure of that?" "In 1947, in Roswell, New Mexico, a ship came down when it collided with a Mogul spy balloon-a balloon." "Yeah, I'm pretty damn sure." "You done a fine job." "We're indebted to you." "What is this?" "soldier:" "Charlie company, move out!" "I'd like to thank you on behalf of your country for your contribution to this effort." "You've done your part, Miss Crawford." "The little girl's a part of a military operation now." "We'll take it from here." "For three generations, my family's been preparing for this." "I've dedicated my career- my life-to this." "And don't think we don't appreciate it." "In a matter of days, we may be able to set foot inside one of their craft, to meet these beings, to find out what this has all been about." "If you think I'm gonna stand by while you take that opportunity away from me, you're out of your mind." "You don't really have a choice." "You've been benched." "Go sit down." "Grab some pine." "What I'd like you to do now..." "I'd like you to clean up the mess you made in Seattle." "The doctor-she's a liability." "Marginalize her." "And the girl's parents-put them somewhere until this is over." "Don't want them stirring the pot." "We have people for that." "You mentioned your father's death was a mistake." "People spend the rest of their lives in prison for mistakes like that." "Stay out of my way." "You can ride with me, doctor." "Brief me on the way." "E-E-Excuse me?" "We need your expertise." "I'm not giving you a choice here, doctor." "Come on, let's go." "Now." "Uh" "Milo and I, we drove everywhere." "We'd ask people in diners and in gas stations, and we got guys from every band we know doing the same thing." "Nothing." "What about taking this public?" "They're not gonna come after you with the whole world watching." "I called Channel 4 news." "I said my daughter was kidnapped by a super- secret government agency." "They-they said I should call the police." "I told them I didn't think it would do any good, and they gave me another number- for Highline West Psychiatric Hospital." "We put an ad in the New York Times." "That's how Lisa gets in touch with her uncle." "Tom will be calling us soon." "I'm cold." "Shouldn't be much longer." "Thank you." "Lisa." "I'm scared, Charlie." "I'm very, very scared." "Just how powerful is this little girl, doctor?" "She's demonstrated powers beyond anything we imagined." "She can manipulate time, she has amazing abilities to screen, to project images from our minds." "Just how powerful is she?" "The question you should be asking is, why is she letting us take her anywhere at all?" "You've reached the voice mail for Dr Chet Wakeman." "Dr Wakeman is out of range of this cellular device." "Please leave a message." "General Beers' office." "This is Mary Crawford." "Can you reach the general for me?" "I'm sorry, Miss Crawford." "He's not available." "Tell him I have new information he'll want to hear about." "ALLlE:" "We had come to the time I had always known was coming." "I had always had this feeling that. one day." "I would have to do something very hard." "I just hoped that I could find a way to do it without anyone getting hurt." "Sorry, sir." "There's been a toxic spill." "You need to turn your vehicle around." "No one's allowed to go through." "Let's get the gate." "How you doin' in there?" "I'm all right." "Can I ask you something?" "I heard that you let them take you, that you came right up to them and said you'd go with them." "Uh-huh." "I also heard that you can do things, kind of like magic or something." "Is that true?" "Yes." "So you've got all of that power, why didn't you just stop them?" "I was afraid they'd hurt other people." "You're one brave little girl." "I don't feel very brave right now." "Hey... maybe later, I could come back with a book or something." "Did you ever read Huckleberry Finn?" "No, I never have." "Well, I've got my copy in my duffle." "I always carry it with me." "It was my mum's favourite book." "She'd bake us Toll House cookies, and we'd share the whole plate of them while she read." "If it wouldn't make you too sad to remember her..." "I'd like to hear the story." "No, it wouldn't make me sad at all." "It would be nice to remember her." "We're calling the operation "Dropping the Dishes."" "The three Humvees equipped with the missiles will be here, here, and here, camo nets above 'em." "The target, gentlemen, will be in the air." "It will be big." "Observation posts here on the mountains for early warning." "Two men to each O.P." "We're gonna try to take this thing down intact, sir?" "That's the plan." "Once we get it down, sir, how do we find these guys?" "Y'all have seen the S-2 briefing video." "You know as much as I do." "All right, they can do some pretty incredible things." "They've taken people through walls." "They can make you see things that are not there." "But no problem, right?" "We're the best." "Y'all are about to fight an enemy the likes of which no soldier has ever seen." "I can't tell you how it will go, but I can tell you this- you're about to earn a place in history." "She's completely normal." "No fluctuation in brain-wave pattern, nothing in her blood chemistry." "Her biology is human." "Of course it is." "We won't find anything." "The part of her that isn't human is capable of perfect mimicry." "Then what are we looking for?" "I don't know." "soldier:" "Any questions?" "Is there anything we can do to maximize our cone of fire, sir?" "I'd aim for the centre of the damn thing and pray." "Any other questions?" "Uh, General?" "General." "I need to talk to you about the little girl-Allie." "Something wrong?" "Her powers are just beginning to manifest." "We need to protect her for further study." "So you're uncomfortable with the notion of using her for bait." "Let's not think of this, then, in terms of fishing." "In fishing, you put a worm on a hook, fish bites the worm, takes the hook, the worm's toast." "But this is hunting country, so think of her more as a...a salt lick." "A buck comes up to the salt, boom, you shoot the buck." "No harm at all to the salt lick." "General, I, uh..." "I think there's been a miscommunication here." "A miscommunication." "Really?" "Yeah." "See, um, my understanding of the plan- and I did design the plan- an explosion is to be detonated above the craft." "The effect is to bring the ship down intact." "We're not trying to, uh, bag a buck, as you so elegantly put it." "We're trying to collect specimens for the zoo." "My orders are to take down their craft and to replace the craft and the bodies you people lost and, if possible, to take the occupants of the craft alive, and if not, well, we'll have more bodies to study." "This is an opportunity to communicate with beings from another world." "We're on the brink of the single most important moment in human history." "As far as I'm concerned, we're at war." "These beings have taken our citizens against their will, they've invaded our air space, our lives, even our gene pool." "These are unparalleled acts of aggression." "We're at war here, fighting an enemy we don't understand at all, so I'll do whatever I have to do." "You guys think these things will do the job?" "You men are outclassed, outequipped, and probably outnumbered." "Plan A, then, would be for the missiles to do their job and take these things out of the sky." "Plan B would be for you to stick your head between your legs and kiss your asses good-bye." "There is no plan C, gentlemen." "You know about all the things they do?" "The probes and stuff, man?" "I hear they show you stuff that'll rip your brain apart." "I heard one of these came down in Nebraska two years ago... took a squad and wiped them off the face of the earth." "I think this is some sort of training exercise in psychological warfare, to see how we do with an impossible situation." " You saying there aren't any aliens?" " That's what I'm saying." "You've all seen the S-2 briefing videos." "I saw the alien autopsy video, too." "Dude, that was awesome." "That looked more real than any of our stuff." "I met this guy once, special ops, had to debrief these two marines that were taken right through their barracks walls." "Showed up a couple hours later with scars all over their bodies." "They were never right again." "See, it's drug tests." "Chemical warfare, something like that." "We're not fighting any aliens." "We're like lab rats being tested." "You don't think we're gonna storm a flying saucer?" "Tried to get my head around it, but, no." "I think this is some very deep, weird zone of "don't ask."" "Either way, we're toast." "Ah!" "Get it off!" "Get it off!" "Get it off!" "I've got this thing about roaches, all right?" "And this is the man who's going to save the world from the alien menace." "Back to work." ""They judged it was him, anyway." ""Said this drowned man was just his size" ""and was ragged and had uncommon long hair," ""which was all like pap." ""But they couldn't make nothin' out of the face," ""because it had been in the water so long." ""Weren't much like a face at all." ""They said he was floating on his back in the water." ""They took him and buried him on the bank." ""But I weren't comfortable long" ""because I happened to think of somethin'." ""I knowed mighty well that a drowned man" ""don't float on his back, but on his face." "So I knowed then that this weren't pap."" "This isn't getting too scary, is it?" "It's good." "I like it." "I remember I would picture that river." "When I imagined it, it was all kind of dark and mossy, trees hanging down and stuff." "Not like those pictures you see of Tom and Huck fishing." "Oh, I'd get so scared, but I liked it, too." "And my mum would get under the covers with me and read these parts." "She was nice, your mum." "Yeah, she was." "My mum, too." "My mum's great." "You want me to go on?" "Yes, please." ""We played robber now and then about a month," ""and I resigned." ""All the boys did." ""We hadn't robbed nobody, hadn't killed any people," ""but only just pretended." ""We used to hop out of the woods" ""and go charging down on hog drovers." ""Women in carts taking garden stuff to market- we never hogged any of 'em."" "I appreciate that, Colonel." "I thought with the history our families have shared over the years, you could give me an off-the- record location." "Yeah, I understand what "need-to- know basis" means, you jackass." "We need your help." "Come in." "Please, come in." "Sit down." "Close the curtains." "You don't have to worry." "No one's coming here." "What do you mean?" "I work for them, Charlie." "I was the one who called them." "You told them about Allie." "Lisa..." "Just tell me where she is." "Please, Harriet, tell me where they took Allie." "I don't know." "I tried to call them." "All the numbers I've been given are disconnected." "I have no way of finding them." "We trusted you, everyone in the group." "We put our trust in you, and you betrayed it." "They told me I was helping." "They told me they had proof that people who had been taken were in greater danger than they knew." "I thought" "You thought you were helping?" "!" "You told them Charlie was here, you told them Allie was with us, and now they have her!" "Lisa, I am so sorry." "I want you to put me back under." "Allie and I, we have this link." "Yes, I believe that's real." "In regression, I've had those moments where I feel Allie, where I get that sense of knowing where she is." "Yes." "I've been experiencing things like that again since they took Allie." "I keep getting this sense of knowing where she is and what she's doing." "It's very strong." "I" "I want you to help me find her." "We'd have to go pretty deep." "We've gone there before, but frankly, Lisa, I'm a little over my head here." "Can you help me get there?" "We're dealing with something that I don't fully understand." "Even if I am able to access it... hypnosis of this sort can be very dangerous." "Are you sure you're ready for that?" "I'll go wherever I have to if I can get my daughter back." "You have to do this for me." "You owe me that much." "ALLlE:" "Most of the fights people have are about something simple- you want something the other person has." "or maybe they're afraid you're going to want it." "and they go after you first." "People always think that if they win." "then that's the end." "everything will be all right from then on." "But everything changes." "and tomorrow. the thing you were fighting for will just be a memory." "Like everything else." "it's already happened." "They're ready to take the shield off, doctor." "What we're going to do is extremely delicate." "It would be easier for Lisa and me to find a way in if there wasn't anyone else in the room." "It's all right." "And a third deep breath..." "Now I want you to go to that place where you and Allie find each other." "Can you find it for me?" "Yes." "soldier: "And so we would lay in ambuscade," ""as he called it," ""and kill the lot and scoop the things." ""He said we must slick up our swords and guns and get ready."" "Okay, I'm going to take this thing off your head in just a moment." "Now, it's not very bright in here, but it may hurt your eyes at first, okay?" "Okay." "Now what do you see?" "Darkness." "All I see is darkness." "I-I can make out something." "lisa:" "There are people watching." "It doesn't feel good." "There are all these people." "They're waiting for something to happen." "They want something." "They're waiting for something." "Do you know where you are?" "It looks like a hospital... but it's not." "It smells kind of mouldy... it's like an attic." "Now what do you see?" "Ugh!" "But I don't know if it'll happen." "There's a lot of anger here and a lot of fear." "Lisa..." "Lisa." "Charlie?" "I don't know if they're gonna get what they want, but I know they're going to keep her." "They're going to keep her until they get what they want." "So what happens now?" "We wait." "How long should we wait?" "I don't know." "You believe they'll come?" "Absolutely." "But then again, I believe a lot of things." "He threatens to become a major pain in the ass." "nina:" "If they went for Dr Penzler, they'll be coming for you next." "I don't care about that." "All I care about is finding Allie." "Where is she?" "I was with her in this room." "It's... it's a room." "Uh..." "Bare walls, peeling wallpaper," "like a...farm." "Why a farm?" "The way the room looks and...feels." "Something on the wall- license plates... old, rusted license plates and a calendar with a picture of a tractor on it." "There were all these people." "A man I saw the time they tried to pick me up, but there was someone in uniform" "You said there were license plates on the wall?" "Yeah, old ones." "What state?" "Let me think." "North..." "North Dakota!" "North Dakota!" "That's a start." "North Dakota and a farmhouse doesn't exactly narrow it down that much." "Wallington's Feed and Grain." "Wallington's Feed and Grain!" "The calendar on the wall!" "That was the name of the place!" "North Dakota." "I don't know what city." "The listing's for Wallington's Feed and Grain." "You're sure?" "Nothing." "In the whole state of North Dakota, there's nothing." "Ask yourselves, what would Maddie Hayes and David Addison do?" "And they say that watching five hours of TV a day for 26 years is a bad thing." "This intelligence is of an other-than-human form." "They let us see what they want us to see. nothing more." "Your government knows this." "Gulf Breeze." "Exeter." "Dayton" "I love this guy." "He believes in everything." "The scary part is how often he comes close to the truth." "...our government has been involved in a massive conspiracy to cover this up." "Call me and tell me your story." "This is William Jeffries." "Talk to me. and I'll talk to you." "Oh. hi." "This is Theresa." "from Pocatello." "Idaho." "and I just have to tell you." "I'm so glad you're here." "because I was abducted last September..." "Snack time." "I tried to talk to everybody about this." "I tried the government" "I live on bad coffee and stale Oreos from the vending machine." "Thank God you're on the air." "Yes?" "Little girl's light just came back on." "North Dakota, Benson County, just outside of Brinsmade." " Program worked." " Thank you." "ALLlE:" "My mother used to sing to me a lot." "folk songs mostly." "and things she liked when she was a little girl." "There was this one song called Further Along that always made me feel better when I was sad." ""Further along." "we'll know more about it." ""Further along." "we'll understand why." ""Cheer up. my brother." "live in the sunshine." "We'll understand it all." "by and by. "" "When you get to wondering too much about things." "a song like that can really help a lot." "When we find her, she's gonna want that." "She'll be glad you brought it." "Thanks for the book." "Well, I figured now that you had that thing off, you could read it for yourself if you wanted." "I was kind of hoping you would keep reading it to me." "Sure." "I mean, I'd like that." "Me, too." "Can I ask you something?" "Sure." "Are they really gonna come and get you?" "I don't know." "Probably something like that." "That sure will be something to see." ""Well, three or four months run along," ""and it was well into the winter now." ""I'd been to school most of all the time" ""and could spell and read and write just a little" ""and could say the multiplication table..." "# Just before it gets dark #" "# When the light still hangs in the sky #" "# The day's not quite come #" "# All its promises still in your own eyes #" "# Between the time your mother calls #" "Thanks." "# And the time you put the ball away #" "soldier: "But before the cold weather, I used to slide out..." "# There's a lifetime to be lived #" "# And a world where every dream is here to stay #" "# Just before the night comes #" "# And you run back to the safety of your world #" "You're sure you've never heard of it- Wallington Feed and Grain?" "No, I'm sorry." "# Just before it gets time #" "Are you folks asking about Wallington?" "Yeah." "Harry Wallington, he went bust in '75." "'75?" "Had a place up in Brinsmade." "I used to stop in on my way back from fishing with my boys." "Good prices, quality products." "What's a couple of young folks doing asking about a store that went under when you were still in diapers?" "Thanks." "Thanks a lot." "# Well, nothin' lasts forever #" "# But those moments keep forever far away #" "You didn't mention that it was an old calendar." "Sorry, my super-vision's a little rusty." "We're gonna find her, Lisa." "We're going to Brinsmade." "Are you from there?" "No." "We're visiting a sick cousin." "Brinsmade's been evacuated." "You'll find your family member at the high-school gym in Leeds." "Evacuated?" "Why?" "Toxic spill." "A truck collided with a train." "What kind of spill?" "They don't tell me." "They just tell me to keep the cars out." "You're not afraid you're standing downwind of something?" "You folks turn around and do like I said." "You'll find your family member in Leeds." "Move along." "Let's go." "# Hold on tight #" "# And I promise you, baby #" "# It'll all be all right #" "# I promise you, baby #" "# It'll all be all right #" "Okay, so where are they?" "I mean, they took that thing off the little girl's head last night, so where are they?" "When I was in Afghanistan last year." "This was all we did...sit and wait." "Come out and kill me already." "I don't care." "Don't make me sit here and think about what might happen." "You would have been lost at the Alamo, my friend." "Day one of that siege," "I'd have been the first one over that wall." "So what's the deal with the little girl, Pierce?" "I mean, you been with her." "She's special." "Well, what's so special about her?" "You have to be in the room with her." "You guys are gonna think this is really weird" "We're in a field waiting for a flying saucer to land." "How weird could anything you tell us be?" "I've told you guys about my mum, what a good cook she was, the cookies she used to bake." "We have heard the tales." "My mum died in 1998." "And you start to lose 'em after they die- your loved ones." "I mean, their memories just... start to fade in your head." "I don't mean events- I remember birthdays, picnics, everything like that." "I mean, your actual mental picture of the person." "I'm reading to Allie, just helping her pass the time." "She's just a scared little kid, and she misses her mum, just like I miss mine." "The book I'm reading, it's something my mum used to read to me." "It's just like my mum's there with us, that's all I'm trying to say." "And you attribute this somehow to the little girl?" "I'm just saying, you have to be there with her." "You can't put it into words, but if you spend some time with her, you'll get it." "I can promise you that." "Thank you." "Sorry about how all this worked out." "If you guys want to go hunting in a couple of weeks, they should have the spill cleaned up." "There was no toxic spill." "I can tell you that." "How the hell you know that?" "Because I worked that railroad 19 years." "You know what they haul on those lines?" "Lumber and steel." "Nothing but lumber and steel." "Now, I'm up there at Cranberry Lake with Michael and Tony, and I'm trying to explain a little of my philosophy of life in the woods." "A couple of fellas up from Grand Forks desperate to kill something before the weekend is over, and I'm trying to explain that that's not really what hunting's all about." "Is this a story that goes someplace, or is this "Dewey's Meaning of Life, Part 7"?" "The point is, the three of us are sitting around the campfire and I'm explaining my philosophy, and this Humvee pulls up, a bunch of soldiers get out and tell us to head on back to civilization." "On account of the spill." "A toxic spill- if there had been one- they might have told us to evacuate the area and then gone on about their business." "Not this bunch." "They just stood there the whole time it took us to strike camp, and then they damn near followed us all the way out of the woods." "Excuse me." "I'm looking for a Mr Clayton." " Over there." " That's him?" "Thanks." "You're Mr Clayton?" "That would be my dad." "I'm Dewey." "We'd like to hire your services." "Oh, you lookin' for a guide?" "We were told that you're the best." "And you two want to go huntin'?" "In a way, yes." "Well, you're out of luck." "We're shut down." "Damn government's locked us out of our own woods." "We know that." "But you've got some reason you want to go up in there, anyway?" "Why don't you step into my office?" "Now what have we got out in those woods that you two are so anxious to go huntin' for?" "Our daughter." "She's lost in the woods?" "No." "She..." "The army has her." "Would this have anything to do with that toxic spill that didn't happen?" "Yeah." "And your daughter, you say?" "That gear back there belongs to a couple of young killers" "I had out this morning." "I promised to ship it to 'em so they could put it in storage." "I sure don't think they'll be back." "It'll just sit in the garage with the exercycle and the cross-country skis and the racquetball rackets." "Might as well put it to some use before then." "It'll get down pretty low tonight, but you get in them sleeping bags right away, you'll survive." "There's only one farm out this way." "Nobody's lived there for 25 years, so if they're keepin' her anywhere around here, that'll be the place." "Now..." "I take out all kinds of folks- hunters, what have you." "There's a lot of different game up here." "But if I'm lookin' at grouse, then I have to go in with a whole different set-up than if I'm lookin' at deer or elk." "Now, you don't have to be in a rush to tell me anything, but at some point, you're gonna have to let me know just exactly what it is that I'm gonna be lookin' at." "Oh... just bend these and give 'em a shake." "Good night." "I guess we'd better get in our bags." "They're not gonna do anything to her, Lisa." "She's too important to them." "# Just before it gets dark #" "# Before you grow #" "# Before you're too old to pretend #" "# Just before it gets dark #" "# And you know your dreams will not come back again #" "# Hold on #" "# Hold on tight #" "# And I promise you, baby #" "# It'll all be all right #" "# I promise you, baby #" "# It'll all be all right #" "Williams." "Williams, you asleep?" "Not anymore." "Keel's got the night watch on the little girl." "He's gonna let us in to take a look." "You in?" "Yeah." "All right." "Let's go." "This is really dumb." "This is a court- martial." "We'll be in and out in ten minutes." " No one's gonna get court-martialed." " Is that right?" "This kid's gonna bring these guys down from outer space." "The least we can do is look her in the eye." "Hi." "We were just kind of wondering" "What the big deal was." "Yeah, pretty much." "I'm not quite sure." "I'm important to the- do you guys call them aliens?" "Yeah, usually." "Okay, the aliens." "And your general figures they'll come get me." "We kind of know that already." "How come you're so special to them?" "They're my other family." "What do you mean?" "I'm part them." "For real?" "But you just look like a little kid." "Maybe they're not as different as you think." "ALLlE:" "Can I ask you something?" "Sure." "Are you mad at them?" "But you'll fight with them just the same?" "That's our job." "Grownups are weird." "36 hours-nothing from Cheyenne Mountain, nothing from NORAD, nothing in the sky." "Damn it!" "I knew this whole thing was a bust." "I'm a four-star general." "I've been serving my country for 30 years, now I'm sitting in the middle of Old McDonaldland with a 9-year-old girl?" "I'll tell you one thing" "I'm gonna have that squirrelly- ass Dr Wakeman served up on a platter for this." "I'm not gonna be the only one taking this fall." "You want to tell me what the hell went wrong?" "Oh, you got a theory, don't you?" "They're up in their craft worried about this girl, and as soon as you take that thing off her head, they're gonna come swooping down." "Well, we could have been mistaken." "Well, that's big of you to admit it." "General, we're talking about aliens here." "By definition, their motives, their behaviour, everything about them would be...alien." "So how much longer do we wait?" "That's entirely up to you." "What's a five-letter word for "idiot"?" "This whole culture is built on a fear of death." "No one wants to talk about it, everyone wants to pretend it's not gonna happen." "That's how come you get those vegetarians springing up all over the place." ""If I don't eat the little darlings, then they're never gonna die."" "Nonsense." "Neither one of you has ever been hunting, am I right?" "I went out with some guys once when I was maybe 14." "We were living in Wisconsin." "I didn't like it." "It made me feel terrible." "Well, you're supposed to feel terrible." "That's a part of it- understanding what it costs for you to stay alive." "Well, we better keep moving." "As it is, it'll be dark before we get to where I think we" "That little girl of yours must be something special." " How are you?" " I'm all right, ma'am." "What you got up there?" "Some sort of toxic spill, ma'am." "Ah, is that what they told you?" "Yes, ma'am." "You'll have to let me through." "I need to see General Beers." "Do you have clearance?" "Do you have any idea what spilled up there?" "No, ma'am, I don't." "You need to let me through." "I have important information that General Beers is expecting." "You're not gonna let me through, are you?" "No, ma'am." "I didn't think so." "Next time, I'm just gonna run through the roadblock, so why don't you arrest me?" "What?" "Arrest me and have someone take me to General Beers." "No one goes in." "We detain people here." "Okay, well, then detain me and get General Beers on the phone and let him know that Mary Crawford has important new information about the project." "I can't do that without provocation, ma'am." "I see." "How's this?" "They're not coming, are they?" "I told you she was powerful, right?" "Maybe they're not that worried about her, maybe they think she can fight her own battles." "You don't know when to quit, do you?" "At the roadblock, you told one of my soldiers you had information for me." "I lied." "You son of a bitch." "Did you think I was just going to let you take the project away from me, you and the general here?" "You bastard." "You sold me out the first chance you got." "Worthless bastard!" "At the roadblock." "Trunk." "Put her somewhere where she can't hurt anyone." "Creep." "It's a woman thing, right?" "They know how to hold a grudge." "My father had this idea that he could do dangerous things because they needed him, that they'd keep him safe." "Well, they took care of me more than once." "Because they needed us to, uh... to get together." "Because they needed Allie." "Exactly." "So they're not gonna let anything happen to her." "We don't know that." "They're not gods, Charlie." "No." "We're outclassed enough, so they can act like gods." "We don't know what they want with Allie or why they did this." "The odds are they didn't go through all this trouble just so they could hand her over to these people." "I think she's gonna be all right." "I'm going to find Allie and do whatever I can to help her." "I'm not going to rely on them for anything." "Hey!" "Okay." "I need to speak to Miss Crawford." "This is for Miss Crawford's ears only." "You can wait over there." "soldier:" "Yes, sir." "You peeked, didn't you?" "My grandfather found it at Pine Lodge." "At the crash site." "I never thought your dad was all that bright." "It can be very effective when a stupid person lies to you." "I found some papers with these images on them when we moved out of Groom Lake." "I asked your dad about them, he gave me nothing." "I stood there with your father and told him I was wrong about the body from the Roswell wreckage being the transmitter." "I told him there had to be something else." "He just looked at me like he didn't have a clue." "You got to admire that." "Mary..." "I had to go with them." "I couldn't let all this happen without me." "You understand?" "Please." "I would have done exactly the same thing." "I know." "So this is it, this is the transmitter, this is how they send the implant signals up." "And your father had it stashed away all along." "That thing's a lot more than a transmitter." "You see these engravings, these inscriptions here, whatever you want to call them?" "Fascinating." "You don't know the half of it." "Along this edge here, these markings are the same as the ones you saw on these rubbings from 1947." "But on this side, on this edge here, this is all new information." "That was not there before." "It-it gathers information?" "Now we know why they left it behind." "It's been documenting this whole...experiment." "How long ago did you take off the shield?" "Day and a half." "Nothing's happened?" "We've got this, which is important, and we've got the little girl." "It would be interesting to see what would happen if the two were brought together." "It'll be dark soon." "I can make that happen." "Excuse me?" "What do you do for bathrooms around here?" "We go out back." "What do women do?" "You go out back." "I guess you'd have to take me?" "I'll walk you there, yeah." "Okay, let's go." "Whoa." "What's with the case?" "It's got my products." "Products?" "You never had a sister, did you?" "I really do have to go." "That's it there." "I can take it from here." "Um, do you think I could borrow your flashlight?" "I'm kind of scared of the dark." "I guess it would be okay." "Thank you." ""And we fished and hunted, and that's what we lived on." ""Every little while, he'd lock me in" ""and went down to the store." "Three miles-"" "I'm Dr Crawford." "The general sent me to have a look at Allie." "I wasn't told anything about it." "No, you weren't." "I'll need you to wait outside." "It's all right." "She's not going to hurt me." "I cried when Huck found out Jim never told him it was his father floating in the water." "We haven't gotten that far." "I've spoiled it for you." "I'm sorry." "I'm really sorry." "I can't stand knowing how something ends." "It makes the whole thing seem so pointless." "It's all right." "I just don't have a lot of experience with kids." "It's really okay." "I kind of guessed something like that was going to happen." "You're pretty good at that-guessing." "Yeah, sort of." "It must be so strange for you- finding out how strong you are, all the things you can do." "It is, a little." "I frightened you a lot." "I'm-I'm sorry." "I never meant to scare you." "You don't care if you do." "That's not really true." "I'm not the kind of person who takes pleasure in frightening people, hurting them." "But you do it, anyway." "They're not coming, are they?" "I don't know." "Maybe that's for the best." "Do you want to go home?" "Yes." "This is something that belonged to my grandfather." "Tell me what it says." "Read it for me, and you can go." "You can read it, can't you?" "Tell me what it says." "What do you want it to say?" "Don't go little Buddha on me, honey." "I don't like it." "Pick up the damn thing and read it." "Pick it up!" "Hah." "Good as new." "What happened?" "Oh, my God." "Well, there it is." "I'd say that now is a very good time for you to tell me what this is all about." "This is gonna be a little hard to believe." "Well, try me." "You ever heard of the Roswell crash?" "You mean that flying-saucer thing?" "My father was half-alien." "His father was the one survivor of that crash." "Our daughter was conceived onboard an alien craft." "She is of incredible importance to them." "A government agency now has her." "We don't know why." "She told you it was gonna be a little hard to believe." "I believe every word she said." "What were you doing with the girl?" "Just getting acquainted." "Either one of them tries to leave this area again," " Shoot 'em." "Is there a problem, Sol" "All units!" "Target inbound!" "Get ready!" "soldier:" "Let's go!" "Move out!" "Check out the little girl's brain activity!" "Look at this pattern!" "It's like an REM cycle kicked into overdrive!" "I've never seen anything like it!" "soldier:" "We got a sighting!" "soldier:" "Elevation-45 degrees!" "soldier:" "Get ready to fire!" "Allie must be in the farmhouse." "We've got to get her out!" "Lisa, wait." "You go running down there, and they're gonna shoot you." "I've got to get her out of there." "Lisa!" "Lisa!" "All batteries, report status!" "Over." "Alpha ready." "Bravo ready." "Charlie ready." "All batteries, stand by!" "All batteries, lock on target!" "All batteries, fire on my command!" "Ten, nine, eight, seven..." "Sir, what about the little girl?" " Five, four..." " We've got to get her." " At ease." " Sir!" "At ease, soldier!" "One." "Fire!" "Fall back!" "Fall back!" "Fall back!" " Mary!" "Lisa." "Lisa, wait!" "I can't!" "Will you two quit playing tug-o- war with each other!" "You're no good to your daughter if you're lying down there, shot dead in some field." "I know another way into that valley." "Come on." "Come on." "soldier:" "Watch your step over here." "Let's take her." "Advance to the perimeter of the craft." "Use extreme caution." "Mary, no!" "Shoot her." "Call them off!" "Assault positions!" "Aah!" "Previouslyon Taken..." "I've gotta find my daughter, please!" " lisa:" "Allie did this." " charlie:" "Allie gave us missing time?" "Why did you let us take you?" "I thought if I went with you, they'd be all right." "Our families go way back." "ALLlE:" "Your grandfather wasn't a very happy man." "Why are you trying so hard to be like him?" "Something's about happen." "Maybe next week, maybe in 30 years, but these visitors- they're moving toward something." "I saw the saucer and its occupants." "This is from my grandmother." "You take one with you, and I'll keep the other." "I think you and I might be the end of all this." "We might just be the beginning." "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything at all!" "You believe that thing you put on her head blocks her signal?" "In a matter of days, we may be able to set foot inside one of their craft, to meet these beings, to find out what this has all been about." "They can do some pretty incredible things." "They can make you see things that are not there." "That thing's a lot more than a transmitter." "It gathers information?" " I'm Dewey." " We'd like to hire your services." "What have we got out in those woods that you two are so anxious to go hunting for?" "Our daughter." "The army has her." "I've told you guys about my mum." "She'd bake us Toll House cookies, and we'd share the whole plate of them while she read." "You start to lose them after they die." "My orders are to take down their craft." "As far as I'm concerned, we're at war." " soldier:" "Alpha ready." " SECOND soldier:" "Bravo ready." "Fire!" "Advance to the perimeter of the craft... use extreme caution." "Mary, no!" "Shoot." "Secondary system's up." "The little girl's in this revved-up REM state." "I've never seen anything like it." "You check for equipment malfunction?" "First thing." "This is her brain- live and in person." "She's working hard at something." "What do we got?" "No further indication of energy from the craft since that last burst." "Is it dead?" "Interesting choice of words." "Doctor, I need to know how much danger my men are in." "What I don't need is your mouth." "If they were fixin' to do something, they would have done it when they took Miss Crawford." " They're done." "We're moving in." " You'd be jeopardizing Mary" "Miss Crawford." "You and I both know" "Miss Crawford made that choice when she ran for the craft." "You never should have stopped me." "I should've gotten her." "We stand a better chance of helping her if we keep going this way." "We don't know if that's true." "All I know is, that's my daughter down there." "How do I get to that farmhouse?" "My daughter's in that farmhouse." "How do I get down there?" "You gotta climb down the side of the mountain here." "Let's keep coming around back" "They won't be able to see us with that thing in the ground." "We should get out of here." "I'm just a hunting guide." "This is way out of my league." "I know it's your kid down there, but..." "We're going." "I'm sorry." "We've got the cameras up." "Good." "All right, men, remember your training." "Stay cool." "Okay, move into positions." "Men. we need to know what you see. when you see it." "This is a reconnaissance." "If you see anything." "don't engage unless they start it." "Roger that." "Approach the craft with extreme caution." "Look for any indications of activity." "Roger." "Walker, take a team and go." "Williams, Keel, Pierce, Ryan, Mack- let's move out." "Lisa, wait." "Lisa, are you okay?" "Lisa." "Yeah..." "Yeah." "Come on." "Lisa?" "Allie's all right." "She's doing something very...very hard." "Sweet Jesus, that's big." "Sir. we're 20 yards from the perimeter." "The craft appears to be dead." "All right. men." "Proceed and look for an opening." "What the hell happened?" "Where's your image?" "I can't seem to locate the problem." "Nothing wrong with the equipment." "Get me a picture, soldier." "Come on!" "Would any of you nice young people like one of my Toll House cookies?" "Lieutenant!" "Mum?" "Command. we're not sure exactly what we just saw." "but some sort of opening has appeared in the craft." "We've got you on video." "Lost you." "Command. how do you hear?" "Okay." "Here we go." "Let's get it together." "And, Walker... stay alert, stay alive." "Roger." "We're going in." "Here we go, fellas." "What are we supposed to do when we get there, knock on the side and say, "Open up"?" "I guess we do whatever we can." "Walker." "Walker!" "Walker?" "Lost coms." "They're flying blind." "Let God be with them." "Did you kids change your mind about the cookies?" "What the hell is this, Pierce?" "I don't know." "Maybe it's heaven." "It's not heaven at all." "It's West Virginia." "Now come in and have some cookies." "This isn't real, Pierce." "None of this is real." "I know." "I don't care." "Walker, that's my mum." "I know she's dead." "I don't care." "I don't care what's real." "You'll shoot your eye out." "Are you sure you don't want a cookie?" "Lieutenant... let's go." "It feels like... a thousand voices all talking at once." "Dr Wakeman, have you noticed any fluctuations in the girl's" "Not now." "You might want to consider a more cooperative attitude." "Miss Crawford came here against my express orders." "You, on the other hand, were invited to assist us." "Miss Crawford left you out here, doctor." "She left you, and now she's in there, jeopardizing your years of research as much as she's jeopardizing my operation." "Is that what he's doing?" "I'm..." "I'm okay." " Be still." "Ma'am." "Hold it right there." "Don't move." "I see your father in you." "Not enough to ruin things." "Your father really should have taken a closer look at you." "But he was too busy staring at his own navel to appreciate what he had." "You've done all right to get this far, Mary." "You've done fine." "Here, have a cookie." "They're really good." "How is this happening?" "They go into your head, and they pull things out." "You've seen pictures of me." "You have an idea of how you want me to be." "In my day, we called them "projections,"" "I think now you call them "screen memories."" "There are so many things I want to ask you..." "But I suppose I'd just be asking myself." "Give it a try." "You might find out something about yourself you never knew." "I've done things, terrible things." " You had to." " Why?" "To learn about them?" "To see them?" "What?" "Because of your overwhelming sense of their power." "Because you truly know the future lies with them." "Do you have another idea?" "They made this girl, Allie, because they weren't complete without us, without... without something we could give them." "Either way, their power is what compels you." "I know the feeling." "You want to be a part of that power at all cost." "You don't need that doctor boyfriend of yours anymore, Mary." "You can't trust him, and you know more now than he does." "Trust your gut, your instincts, and you'll be fine." "Believe me." "No." "You're me." "You're saying what I want you to say." "I'm saying what you know." "They're gonna win, aren't they?" "What makes you think it's a contest?" "My mother told me once that she was kind of frightened of you, that you were a scary guy." "I never thought of myself as scary." "I don't see it, either." "What I see is a man who couldn't live up to his dreams." "What do you mean?" "You had this-all of it." "You had Jacob Clarke." "You had him, and you let him go." " You think I had him?" " You did." "You don't know what happened." "That little boy frightened you." "He frightened you so badly that you let him go." "You let him go, and you spent the rest of your life running from whatever it was you saw." " It's not that simple." " It couldn't be simpler." "You saw something that frightened you, and you ran." "You're right, I did see something." "You want to know what scared me so badly?" "Yes." "That's what I want to know." "You want to know what I saw?" "Yes, damn it, I want to know what you saw!" "Then look at me, Mary." "Look at me." "You sure you don't want a cookie, Mary?" "Found these two in the woods, sir." "My God." "You know these people?" "Allie's mother and father." "Put 'em somewhere where they can't bother anybody." "Take him, too." "I don't want anybody else deciding to run and play in the spaceship." "Any of 'em gives you any trouble at all, shoot 'em." "That's it, let's go." "Let's go." "Lisa, talk to me, Lisa." "So you're Charlie." "You don't use the last name "Keys," do you?" "There was a time when a great deal of money and technology went into looking for you." "Kind of a boost to the old ego, wouldn't you say?" "If we have time when this is over," "I'd like a moment to knock you on your ass." "Oh, yes-a fighter." "No-nonsense." "That's what they always liked about the Keys family- you guys had 'tude." "Your fight's not with me anymore, Chuck." "The soldier boys took over." "It's a whole new ball game now." "Lisa, are you all right?" "All these voices...more and more." "It's too hard...just a little longer..." "You still think this is all some kind of weird experiment?" "I think you ought to ask me later is what I think, sir." "Get 'em off!" "Get 'em off!" "Get 'em off me!" "Walker!" "Walker!" "They're not real!" "They're in your head!" "They're in your head!" "Okay, yeah." "Did I also tell you guys that I'm really, really scared of rabid dogs and cobras?" "Joke." "It was a joke." "Let's move out." "Alle ihre erinnerungen und alle ihre angste." "Miss Crawford" "How do we know it's really her?" "Alle ihre erinnerungen und alle ihre angste." "All your memories and all your fears." "Come in, Colonel!" "Come in!" " soldier:" "Anybody copy?" " We're here." "Say again." "They're everywhere!" "Lieutenant Williams, get your people out of there!" "Look at that." "Walker, withdraw from the objective." "Pull back now." "Williams, do you copy?" "Does anybody copy?" "They're coming out of the walls. sir." "Keel!" "Pierce!" "Any stations." "Do you copy?" "What's that?" "Oh, my God." "Hold steady, guys." "Come on, come on." "Fall back!" "Fall back!" "Fall back!" "soldier:" "What do we do, sir?" "Lisa." "Lisa." "Lisa." "Lisa." "I guess they got what they came for." "That little girl is gone." "ALLlE:" "When I was very little." "my mother would read nursery rhymes to me." "I always hated Humpty Dumpty." "That's a very scary poem." "No one knows how to put it back together again- not all the king's horses or all the king's men." "No one wants to think that there's anything in the world that could fall apart that badly." "but. of course...anything can." "I guess that's what's so scary about Humpty Dumpty." "Move the troops and weapons out of here quick." "I don't want to be here when and if the media comes to see about this so-called toxic spill." "We'll debrief at Fort Ash." "And, Colonel... we were never here." "Bring the mother and father, too." "We're gonna need to talk to them." "They're our only link to the girl." "We don't have a prayer in hell, do we?" "Just get it all done ASAP." "Sir, I found this in the back of the Humvee that Miss Crawford was in." "You want to tell me what this is?" "It's theirs." "No kidding." "Get me Wakeman." "Peters, send in Wakeman." "You showed this to the little girl, didn't you?" "Damn it." "Mary, you all right?" "What happened?" "What did you see?" "What can you tell me about this, doctor?" "Nice...very nice." "What is it?" "Ahem... it gathers information, responds to stimuli." "It could be a recording device... could be a brain." "Just keep it up, doctor." "You and Miss Crawford withheld valuable information." "In my opinion, your actions and those of Miss Crawford are directly responsible for the failure of this mission." "Nice to have someone to blame when things go wrong, huh?" "Put 'em in the truck with the others and take 'em back to Fort Ash!" "Maybe the ride will give 'em a little time to consider the consequences of being uncooperative." " Let's go." " Ma'am." "I want two guards on them at all times." "Where are we being taken?" "She needs medical attention." "I don't need anything." "Charlie, it's gonna be all right." "These two are coming with me." "Lieutenant, I would like you to join us." "What, you're not even gonna try and find Allie?" "They just take her away, and that's that?" "What would you suggest?" "I don't know." "Just come with me, Charlie." "It's gonna be all right." "You drive." "I ride in the back with the mother." "Can you tell me about it?" "I don't want to talk about it, Chet, I really don't." "I'm sorry about the artefact." "I was guarded." "I couldn't get to it." "It's not important anymore." "How can you say that?" "You saw it." "It was working overtime." "Something is still going on." "When you went into that ship, what did you see?" "Bugs." "Cockroaches." "Something you're afraid of?" "It's been a thing with me ever since I was a kid." "And the other soldier?" "Pierce." "He saw his mother." "We all did." "Turn around." "Turn around!" "Stop the truck and get the general on the radio." "You'll have to sit down." "I don't have to do anything." "What you have to do is turn this truck around, unless you want to tell the general you refused to go back and get the girl." "Stop the truck." "Stop the truck!" "Get on the radio and see if you can get the general." "Honk your horn." "Maybe he'll see us." "General Beers, do you copy?" "Why are we stopping?" "Where the hell's the mother and father?" "They're with you, sir." "What?" "They were with you, sir." "I can explain this to you, but you're not gonna like it." "They put the farmhouse back." "They never took it away." "See if the little girl is inside." "What's the meaning of this?" "Do you see it?" "There was nothing." "No craft, no aliens-nothing." "Everything we saw and just went through, it all came out of our heads." "She took it." "Allie took it." "Our wishes, our dreams, our fears... our memories." "Then she played them all back." "Is that possible, doctor?" "You ever played tick- tack- toe with a chicken?" "It's something you do at county fairs." "You see, when you pick a square, it releases feed into the spot where the chicken should go next." "What you see from out there with all the suckers is a game of tick-tack-toe." "But what the chicken sees from inside the game is a very different level of reality." "So none of this really happened?" "This little girl can manifest thought." "That's as simply as I know how to put it." "Then find a way to put it more simply." "She fooled us, General." "Pure and simple." "The house is clear." "I'm gonna check the perimeter." "You with me." "Check the back." "Then where is she?" "This is the part you're definitely not gonna like." "Sir, where am I going?" "Where we're going is back to find our daughter." "Now get out!" "Get out!" "You don't have to go anywhere." "I don't know what you did, honey, but you sure did it." "Hey... hey." "Hey, honey." "They wanted to use me to make the ship come down." "I know." "I thought if I could make them think that I'd gone- that I had been taken- they would stop looking for me and everything could just go back to the way it was." "It's all right." "It's gonna be all right." "But they were gonna take you away." "Don't." "You did great." "They're gonna figure it out." "And they're gonna come looking for me again." "Just 'cause they're looking doesn't mean they'll find you." "Charlie's right." "We are not gonna let them get you again." "I'm scared." "Sweetheart..." "I just wanted to say..." "I don't know what happened back there and I don't think I ever will, but seeing my mum again- what you did for me was a pure kindness, and I'll always thank you for it." "Soldiers coming." "Allie, can you help us?" "Nothing's happening." "She's exhausted." "Come here." "I'm sorry about hitting you." "You really care about Allie, don't you?" "Yeah." "She needs your help." "Took off over those hills about ten minutes ago." "soldier:" "Load up!" "Okay, just to recap- we got a giant craft- a mothership, if you will- that everyone saw but wasn't really there at all because she made it all up." "And then, while we're standing around with our thumbs up our collective asses, she waltzes up looking just like me and takes off with her parents." "That about sum it up?" "Perimeter sealed?" "Soldiers at every access." "We'll find 'em." "If you do find them, General, then what will you do?" "When Allie did what she did, when she manifested the ship and everything in it, she demonstrated a power far beyond anything the aliens themselves are capable of." "So what, do we pack up our tents and go home?" "I see it more as, uh... sit back and enjoy the show." "What happened, soldier?" "They overpowered me, sir." "They overpowered me and got away." "Wonderful." "Allie?" "Thought them soldiers would never leave." "I've been up there watching you guys for a couple hours." "You just gonna stand there waiting for me to apologize, or are you gonna get in the damn truck?" "What did they do to that poor little girl?" "ALLlE:" "I had done what I could." "I tried to make the soldiers think that their plan to use me as bait hadn't worked." "that I had been taken away." "I thought that if I could make them believe that I was gone. then they wouldn't bother me anymore." "and I could go back to who I used to be." "But too much had happened to all of us by then for anything to go back to how it was." "Well, this is as far as I go." "Just leave me here and keep on going." "You might need all them rich- boy tents and stuff in back." "Thank you." "Have you got a car around here?" "In the parking lot of the bar." "You better give me the keys." "I'll put it somewhere where they won't find it right away." "There's something I gotta say here." "I saw something that I never thought I'd see." "And as for me running out on you up there, I" "No." " You take care of your little girl." " Thanks." "I hope this ends well for you." "Thank you." "Now go on." "Get out of here." "Okay." "That's everything, right?" "Hey." "Hello." "How ya doin'?" "I'm all right." "You helped her escape, didn't you?" "No..." "I didn't." "I know you did." "I can either tell the colonel, or you and I can talk." "They overpowered me." "Sure they did." "She told me you could be trusted" "Allie-when I was with her." "She told me if things got out of hand, that you were a good guy, and you'd been nice to her." "I don't understand." "You've noticed I'm not exactly on good terms with your general." "I was opposed to this entire operation- taking a little girl and using her as bait." "It's sick." "It's all right." "Like I said, she told me you were a good guy." "I'm not asking just to know." "I'm worried about her." "Worried?" "If you had to help her, that means she couldn't help herself." "Do you mean, like," "look like someone who wasn't there?" "For example." "If she's weak or sick, she may need my help." "She tried to do something, but she couldn't." "So she's weak." "Is she gonna be all right?" "I'm sure she'll be just fine." "Here you go, come on." "Got it, Dad." " Brought your favourite right here." "How's she doing?" "She's asleep." "My father had some of what Allie has." "My Uncle Tom-he said that using his abilities made my dad weak." "That's what killed him." "She's not your father." "She's got other things in her." "Your blood?" "Yeah, and your mum's." "Lisa, there's a reason this all leads up to her." "Maybe she can handle it." "We don't know that." "What if she never gets better?" "What if she just burned herself out and this is all that's left?" "Then we'll get her some help." "Who are we gonna get to help her?" "The first thing is to get off the road, get someplace safe." "My uncle and I have a plan." "If things get bad enough," "I put an ad in the personals of the New York Times" ""Drummer seeks gig in country-western band."" "Then Tom gets a message to me about where to meet him." "How does he do that?" "Talk radio." "A guy named William Jeffries has a late-night talk show about aliens, government conspiracies" "Crazy stuff." "Right." "And my uncle, having written these books about aliens and government conspiracies..." "Jeffries is always glad to take his call." "Then we'll place an ad." "I got it." "Thanks." "Nothing." "Not on the little girl or her mother?" "No signal?" "What does that mean?" "I'd say it means that Allie was the point of all this, and now that she's demonstrated, they don't care about anyone else." " I want her back." " You don't have the means." "Find her for me." "Are you asking me back into the fold, General?" "Would you like for us to work together again?" "This little girl is the product of three generations of selective breeding, of a genetic experiment on an unparalleled scale." "Once they produced her, they sat back for nine more years." "I would suggest to you that they were waiting for a moment when all that was latent in her would become active." "When she did what she did here- made us see the craft- that was her "demonstrating"?" "They saw the power they'd been waiting to see." "This little girl- this extremely powerful little girl" "I don't need to point out how important she is to us." "There's a big leap from looking at the sun to making a hydrogen bomb." "In between, you just go blind." "I'm gonna find that little girl, with or without your help." "And when you find her, then what?" "When this started, you asked us just how powerful she was." "She did this, she did all this, General, and I believe she's just getting started." "In a war, Miss Crawford, you don't run away just because the enemy has superior firepower." "Do you really still see this as a war?" "I told you that before, yes." "It's between us and them." "I can help you win it." "I can help you find the girl." "Mary" "Your soldier Pierce helped her get away." "He helped her because she was too weak to help herself." "She's weak now." "You can pick her up." "But when she gets strong again, she'll be unstoppable." "You're thinking, "I can get to the girl." "Why do I need this bitch in the mix?"" "I don't use the expression "in the mix."" "When I showed her the artefact- that thing my grandfather found at Roswell- she saw something that frightened her deeply." "I know what she saw." "Do you?" "I know because I saw it, too, and it frightened me." "It's what my grandfather saw." "And you're not sharing?" "I agree that this is a war, and we're fighting an enemy we can't possibly defeat, not with any of the means at our disposal." "But that little girl is much more powerful than they are." "Here's the kicker" "I know how to talk her into working for us." "What are you doing?" "I told him what he wanted to hear." "It sounded pretty real to me." "We'll give them just enough truth to hang themselves." "You'll help him use Allie to stop them?" "That's what I told him, yes." "I think that's what you want now, too." "That's not what I want at all." "What scared you?" "What did you see?" "It's like a walk through a mine field, isn't it?" " What is?" " Life." "When you start out, there's just a few mines- childhood diseases, falls from high places- then you hit adolescence, and there's more mines- drugs, unprotected sex, drunk drivers, lonely kids with guns" "and the older you get, the more mines you see, and all you're trying to do is get to the other side of the field, but that's not possible, is it?" "No, because the more you look, the more mines you see." "Pretty soon, you realize that there's nowhere left to step." "Mary...what did you see?" "What did I see?" "I saw where all the mines were." "I saw everything I'd ever done, everything that had ever happened to me." "I saw where all this would end." "That's what Owen saw." "That's what destroyed him." "I'm not folding like my grandfather did." "Did what I see frighten me?" "Of course it did." "Will it stop me?" "No." "Everybody dies." "Don't worry about the general, sweetheart." "We'll keep him around for as long as we have to." "Once we have Allie on our side, he doesn't stand a chance." "What's Allie scared of?" "You said you thought the artefact was gathering information." "Well, say that's their record of this whole experiment, everything they've done and intend to do here." "You'll agree that Allie is the end result of that." " She's what this is all about?" " Of course." "I think she saw her own destiny." "I think she saw what they want her to do, and I don't think she likes it." "Happy birthday, Allie!" "Allie, happy birthday." "Yee-haw." "We're so glad to have you back, Allie." "We never want you to go away again." "Look at all the presents!" "Look at all of your friends!" "This is where you belong." "This is where you should stay." "We can all be one happy family." "Stay with us, Allie." "I can't!" "I can't." "You're not going to come inside?" "If somebody comes, what are you gonna do?" "I don't know." "I want to keep watch." "They had no right to do any of this." "No." "Our lives don't belong to them, Lisa." "There's gotta be a way to stop this." "You're a good guy." "I'm glad you're with us." "Mum." "Honey, you feeling better?" "Can I talk to you for a minute?" "Yeah." "This is all getting pretty scary, huh?" "When those people took me- the ones that thought they could trick the spaceship into coming down" "Yeah." "Do you remember that woman?" "You know, the one that I went with at Dr Penzler's?" "Right." "She said that her family and our family had known each other for a long time, that her grandfather knew your grandma." "She had this thing that her grandfather had found when the spaceship crashed a long time ago." "What sort of thing?" "It was a piece of some sort of metal." "It was more than that, though." "It was part of them." "I could feel in her head that it was important, that she had done a lot of things to get it." "She asked me to read it to her." "Could you?" "No... but I felt like I understood it." "It made me feel like I was with all of them." "Does that make sense?" "If you felt it, then, yes, it does." "She asked me to touch it, but I didn't." "Why not?" "When I looked at it, I saw things." "What...kind of things?" "Things that are going to happen." "Mummy..." "Yeah?" "I just want to stay here with you." "You are gonna stay here with me, okay?" " I won't be long." " Okay." "An army spokesperson said that the little girl and her parents had inadvertently wandered into an area under quarantine after a toxic spill." "What about that little girl?" "Whoever heard something like that?" "Army chasing after a kid?" "The little girl may have come in contact with something that is extremely dangerous." "Sounds like some sort of secret biological hoodoo." "One of those, like, flesh-eating viruses where you bleed out your eyeballs." "The Bush Administration has issued a statement flatly denying the growing rumours of some sort of biological weapons test." "What did I just say?" "Flesh-eating virus." "...you're urged to contact the FBI or your nearest army barracks with details." "There is a substantial reward for any information" "leading to her whereabouts." "Tell me how substantial that reward is, maybe I'll forget about the extremely dangerous" "Dude, your change!" "What the heck crawled up his butt?" "...driving a silver GMC Sierra." "Again. ifyou have any information on the girl or her parents" "First thing we gotta do is get rid of this truck." "We'll take backroads, we won't camp at sites." "My mum and I moved around a lot, so I've got experience with this kind of thing." "Well, it seems to have stopped thinking for the moment." "I know it shut down." "What I want to know is, why?" "Your grandfather tried to have it translated, right?" "My father, too." "Any luck?" "You really should have told me about this earlier." "Trust is the basis for all healthy relationships." "I didn't think we knew each other well enough." "You two can work on your relationship on your own time." "What can I tell you?" "I take my work home with me." "The artefact never came on when either your father or grandfather had it, right?" "My father certainly never mentioned it." "We're gonna translate it." "We're gonna learn how to speak alien." "The best way to crack any code is to know what they're trying to say." "This thing came on to record Allie's demonstration of power." "So then everything that happened in North Dakota should be on there right now." "Or a recipe for chicken a la grey." "I think we can do this and make this work." "We're gonna need a team of linguists, cryptologists" "Mathematicians?" "The Fibonacci Sequence again." "I'm glad you find it so promising." "Why don't see if it starts off by telling me where I can find the little girl?" "The place is deserted." "You'll be safe here." "Okay." "You should probably give me all the money." "Right." "All we got." "Charlie..." "Be safe, okay?" "We need you." "Well, I could maybe give you that Datsun over there." "Does it run?" "On a wing and a prayer." "You figure I'm asking a lot, wanting you to take a truck with no papers..." "Yeah, I do." "Even though it's fully tricked-out, less than 20,000 miles on it?" "All the more reason to be dubious, my friend." "I need something reliable." "And I need a vehicle I don't have to strip into parts to see a profit." "You and I both know that, stripped down to parts, this truck will get you at least $15,000." "I have a feeling you couldn't stand to watch a profit like that drive away." "Why don't I just turn you in?" "Then the cops take the truck." "Look, the only way this works out for you is if you cut a deal with me." "All right." "You look around and tell me what will meet your needs." "I'll go juggle some numbers, see what I can do." "Hi there." "Oh, uh... just coffee." "You sure you don't want anything else?" "Our early bird hasn't killed too many people this week." "Coffee's fine." "Let me get this mess for you." "Oh, man." "I'm so sorry." "No." "Here, let me" "Forget it!" "Forget it!" "Let me help." "No." "I gotta go wash this crap off." "Let me help you." "I think you've done enough." "Lousy cup of coffee, and you're this much work?" "You could've ordered something." "Getting hungry?" "Yeah." "Charlie should be back with some real food soon." "He's been gone a long time." "I know." "Here." "Feeling better?" "I'm okay." "Don't, uh..." "Don't do anything for a while, even if people come for us, okay?" "I don't think I can yet." "Well, don't try." "I thought you might want to have... this." "I knew I'd find you." "I knew I'd be able to bring it to you." "You're gonna have a hell of a lot to write about." "Yeah." ""Yeah"?" "That's all you got from me?" "Yeah..." "Yeah." "Probably just Charlie." "Do you know how to use that?" "Not a clue." "But if I point it at someone, they're not gonna know that." "You stay here." "I'll go see who they are and what they want." "And, baby...don't do anything." "I can take care of this." "Hello, Allie." "Allie?" "Allie?" "Get away from my daughter right now!" "Hello, Lisa." "Please, don't be frightened." "I'm your grandfather." "Your grandmother gave this to me a long time ago." "Whoo!" "Yeah!" "We know you've got that little girl in there!" "Come on out!" "Dude, turn that up." "Maybe they can't hear us." "Stay here." "Let me take care of this." "Get out here." "Want us to come in there and get you?" "Come on out." "Got a little surprise for you." "Come on out before we come in!" "Yeah." "We've come about the little girl." "There's no little girl here." "It's just me." "You're lying." "We followed you up from Halsey." "We saw the guy take off in his truck." "You and your friends should go away." "There's nothing here for you but trouble." "This trouble supposed to be coming from you, huh?" "Bang." "Who the hell are you?" "Huh?" "Who the hell are you?" "What the hell are you doing?" "Make him stop." "Shoot him!" "Shoot him, somebody!" "Shoot him!" "Shoot him!" "Shoot him!" "Shoot him!" "Somebody shoot him!" "Allie?" "Go away!" "Go away now!" "Allie, what are you doing?" "Stop it, please!" "Stop it." "Get out of here!" "What the hell is going on?" "These guys came for Allie." "She scared them off." "charlie:" "Who's that?" "Allie's...great-grandfather." "You mean he's" "They shot him." "Good." "He was trying to help." "Help?" "He's the one who's responsible for this whole thing." "We wouldn't need his help if he hadn't started this." "What do you want, huh?" "What the hell do you want?" "!" "Charlie, stop it!" "Let's go." "People are gonna come looking for this truck." "What about him?" "Leave him." "Leave him and let's go." "We can't just leave him here." "Sweetheart, he's not our friend." "That doesn't matter." "It's not the right thing to do." "Can't just leave him." "No, sir, I don't have another explanation." "We didn't get information about the vehicle until this morning." "Thankfully, there's been no media circus yet." "Yes, I appreciate that fact, sir." "Thank you, sir." ""You can't get re-elected if people perceive you as beatable."" "Put that in the quote book right next to "Ask not what your country can do for you."" "We got enough to do out in the field without having to cover junior's ass." "Okay, beautiful." "Thanks." "What do you think happened here?" "I think it's safe to say her strength is returning." "You love me...right?" "What is this, Chet?" "Remember I said that we didn't have a signal on Allie, that we didn't know where she was?" "I lied." "Yes, Chet." "I love you." "ALLlE:" "There's a feeling you get sometimes in a bad dream." "You're running. and something dark and big is chasing you." "and you want to just stop to let the dark. big thing catch up with you." "Something bad is going to happen." "you can't change that." "but you can turn and see it coming." "You can see the face of your bad dream." "Previouslyon Taken..." "My daughter's in that farmhouse." "How do I get down there?" "Our daughter was conceived onboard an alien craft." "She is of incredible importance to them." "Pull back!" "Pull back!" "They made this girl, Allie, because they weren't complete without us." "That was my grandfather's legacy-craft, bodies..." "What was he like, your grandfather?" "You want to know what scared me so badly?" "Yes, damn it, I want to know what you saw!" "Then look at me, Mary." "Look at me!" "Their power is what compels you." "I know the feeling." "You want to be a part of that power at all costs." "What's the meaning of this?" "Do you see it?" "There was nothing." "Everything we saw, went through, it all came out of our heads." "This little girl can manifest a thought." "When Allie did what she did, when she manifested the ship, she demonstrated a power far beyond anything the aliens themselves are capable of." "I thought if I could make them think that I'd gone, that I'd been taken, they would stop looking for me." "This girl is the product of three generations of selective breeding, of a genetic experiment on an unparalleled scale." "You want to tell me what this is?" "It gathers information, it responds to stimuli..." " She asked me to read it to her." " Could you?" "They made me feel like I was with all of them." "lisa:" "My uncle and I have a plan." "I put an ad in the personals of the New York Times." "Then Tom gets a message to me about where to meet him." "Remember I said we didn't have a signal on Allie, that we didn't know where she was?" " I lied." " I love you." "Hello, Allie." "Get away from my daughter!" "Right now!" "Please, don't be frightened." "Lisa, I'm your grandfather." "Your grandmother gave this to me a long time ago." "Make him stop!" "Shoot him!" "Somebody shoot him!" "Shoot him!" "Go away now!" "Allie, what are you doing?" "Stop it, please!" "Stop it!" "Doctor!" " Please." "We've got to get away from all these people." " They're with somebody." " With somebody?" "Another man." "According to these gentlemen, a man stepped forward." "A guy in his 30s." "His eyes turned black, and they shot him." "They were waiting for her to demonstrate." "They see she's got the power, and bam!" "They're here." "You're saying the one who did all this was an alien?" "You are paying attention." "She didn't leave in a spaceship." "She left in a Dodge Durango." "Still doesn't make you look very good, does it?" "You take a nine-year-old girl and a special ops unit into the American heartland, you lose the girl, you come up with nothing." " You're in the deep end." " You're right in there with me." "I have to go back to Washington and explain what happened here." "Find me the girl and whoever she's with." " How'd you like us to do that?" " The little girl's weak." "This being who came to help her has been shot." "You'll have a definite advantage." " Smooth sailing, I'd say." " Just do it." "And when we find her?" "Then find me." "I'll take it from there." "That's worked so well up till now." "I'm not goin' down alone on this one." "Try not to screw things up." "They're about ten hours ahead of us in Montana." "I had our guy switch the monitoring to my laptop in case the general got it into his head to check." "Good." "Mary, you've been through a lot with your father and everything with Allie." "I just wanted you to know I'm here for you." "I know that." "You said you thought they were waiting for her to demonstrate." "Yeah." "What happens now that she has?" "Pie." " What?" " Pie." "My rule of any car trip." "Let's find a place to get some." "I'll tell you my theory of everything." "She's exhausted from all that she's been doing." " She'll be all right." " Will she?" "And then what?" "They come for her again or she does something again." "You've gotta do something to change all this." "I just want my little girl back." "You started all this, and you don't have any more of an idea where it's gonna end than any of us do." "Charlie?" "What's going on?" "Get out." "Get out!" "lisa:" "What are you doing?" "Just give me a minute." "I want to talk to you." "lisa:" "We need his help." "Allie does." "His help?" "He's the one responsible!" "I want to know what the hell this is all about." "Charlie, you're hurting him." "Stop it." "He's already weak." "Sweetheart, it's gonna be all right." "Give me a minute." "Why are you here?" "Why have you been doing this?" "What the hell do you want?" " We're just trying to understand." " Understand what?" "Everything." "I'll try to put this in terms that you commonly use." "I'm...a scientist." "We were all scientists." "We came here to learn about your world." "Our idea was to find out everything- your history, your biology... everything." "We came here to learn." "We're not that different from you genetically, biologically, but what you call evolution has changed us." "We see things in you that..." "we no longer recognize in ourselves." "What do we know?" "They're this energy that can manifest itself in different ways- as the beings we've seen, as their crafts, as our thoughts." "There's no right or wrong about them." "The whole concept of right and wrong was...alien to us." "The idea that the things we were doing were cruel..." "They have no concept of kindness or cruelty, no way of seeing beyond the oneness of all that energy to the separateness, the uniqueness, your ability to hate, to love, to feel." "You have compassion as well as cruelty." "We lack both." "Or that is, the traits lie dormant in their brains, like the animal that lives far back inside all of us." "But an experience of something basic can awaken that primitive thing." "And that's what happened." "Your grandmother Sally, she took me in and showed me a great kindness." "Something could have touched one of them, something simple, awakened the sense of what was missing, something gone and half-remembered." "And so our greatest experiment began." "Could they put it back, this thing that had been bred out of them for eons and eons?" "Your emotional core- your strength, your feeling- and our more- evolved consciousness... could we bring these two together?" "If we could could do this, we would have the next step in the evolution of life." "The experiment was an unqualified success." "What do you think is gonna happen next?" "Allie goes with us." "We work with her." "We help her to understand our part of the equation." "That's never gonna happen." "You still don't get it." "This...thing you saw in my grandmother, this compassion, our humanity- you still don't have a clue what that means." "Allie is my daughter." "She is nine years old." "I love her with all my heart and soul." "You will never take her away from me." "She can't stay here, Lisa." "She did too much." "If she uses her power again, that part of her that's us, it will kill her." "You were right." "Those people will keep coming after her, and she will do something to keep you or Charlie safe." "It's the only place for her." "That is what's next." "No, it isn't." "You've inflicted enough pain on this planet." "It's over." "Let it go." "Go away." "Montana." "Looks like they've stopped." "We should be able to catch up with them tonight." "Tomorrow morning at the latest." "We've taken it all the way together, haven't we?" "I don't know what you mean." "We're gonna be there when it comes together." "We're gonna know we did our part." "Our part?" "Keep Allie safe, so they can finish their work." "You're fine with that, aren't you?" "Them finishing their work." "I can't wait." "That's all you want, right?" "Front seat at the show?" "They're more highly evolved than we are." "She's more highly evolved than they are." "It's the way of the Tao." "Nature takes its course." "What if it's our nature to fight back?" "Then we lose." "Evolution 101." "Pretty weird couple of days." "Yeah, pretty weird." "You all right?" "I just want to be home listening to my CDs playing soccer with my friends." "I know." "I'm just a little kid." "I didn't ask anyone to make me special." "WOMAN ON radio:" "My friend Dale." "his son was killed in the Gulf War." "Allie showed him his boy." "We all saw him clear as day..." "Your uncle should have seen the ad we put in the paper by now." "He will." "He'll call." "radio HOST:" "What else happened." "Cynthia?" "cynthia:" "People were there from the government." "people who'd come to take her." "I want to hear the rest of this." "but right now we've got a call I've been hoping for." "I'm gonna ask you to please stay on hold a few minutes." "As he does from time to time." "noted UFO-logist Tom Clarke is checking in." " Talk to me." "Tom." "Hi." "Bill." "Tom Clarke." "What news from the front. my friend?" "I've got nothing tonight but a false alarm." "I'm calling from Gray's Lake in Idaho." "Gray's Lake." "Promising name." "Uncle Tom!" "Uncle Tom!" "Hey, there, sweetie." "Hey." " It's good to see you." " Good to see you, too." "Is this him?" " He's my dad." " I know." " Tom." " Charlie." "Thanks for taking such good care of our family." "What kind of adventures you been on lately?" " A lot's been goin' on." " Oh, yeah?" "Tom?" "It's good to see you." "I thought we'd go into Mexico through Texas." "I got a guy down in El Paso." "He's working on the documents." "He's gonna meet us at my mum's old place in Lubbock." "I was thinking that you guys should go down to South America." "I've got a family there who can put you up indefinitely in Buenos Aires." "It's a big change, but I just think it's something you have to do." "What?" "You've got a feeling?" "This is all supposed to be going somewhere, that's all." "Mexico sounds like a good idea." "What do we do about him?" "He doesn't look too good." "I don't think we'll have to worry about him much longer." "ALLlE:" "People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are." "But everything we do." "every plan we make is kind of a lie." "We're closing our eyes and pretending the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans." "Hope is the biggest lie there is." "and it is the best." "You have to keep going as if it all mattered." "or else we wouldn't keep going at all." "Want a granola bar?" "Are they good?" "They're not as healthy as they say on the wrapper." "They've got a lot of sugar in them." "You eat food, don't you?" " We eat." " Try it." "That's good." "I don't want to do this." "I know." "At the gas station, I was gonna make those men hurt each other." "I could have done that." " But you didn't." " I almost did." "I don't want to hurt people." "How do I make this stop?" "I mean, if I couldn't do any of those things, then people would leave me alone, wouldn't they?" "I don't know that much about people." " Is there anything I can do?" " Nothing." "Will the others come for you?" "I'm not important." "Allie, things are gonna get hard for you for a while." "You'll be afraid, and you'll be alone." "You're becoming more than you already are." "I'm not going to go with you." "I belong here with my family." "I brought this for you." "What is it?" "It was your great-grandmother's." "She gave it to me before I left." "I can't do this much longer." "I know." " How you feelin'?" " Okay." "You always wanted to go on a long car trip, didn't you?" "Allie..." "John... he's helped us out, and he's hurt, but that doesn't mean you have to do anything he asks." "I already told him I wasn't going to go with him." "What did he say?" "He gave me this." "Let me have that." "My dad, he used to say that kids shouldn't ever have to think about anything more complicated than baseball." "You're gonna be a little girl again..." "I promise." "Hey, back together again." "See how this looks, gorgeous." "I'm never gonna let you go, honey." "Never." "Oh, that's lovely." "I've got a gun to your mother's back." "I'm betting I can get a shot into her before you turn the gas station into a flying saucer or a house of pies." "Allie, don't try to do anything." "Do you understand?" "Be a good girl." "Listen to your mum." "Allie, when we were in that farmhouse, you saw something that scared you." "I think you know what they want you to do, and I don't think you want to do it." "I can take care of you." "I can keep you safe from your...friends." "We can work together on this." "I don't want to hurt anybody." "I really don't." "You're out of options." "You must have realized that by now." "I have the resources and technology to help you." "It's me or them." "I just want to help." "You're lying." "You can't help anyone." "Let's go." "Get in the car...now!" "Get in!" "Move!" "Move!" "charlie:" "Lisa!" "Allie!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hold on!" " Allie, don't do anything." "It's not safe!" " I didn't do anything!" "Come on!" " Stop it!" " You were gonna shoot her!" "You're damn right." "She's staying here with us!" "That was too close." "How did they find us?" "charlie:" "Sweetheart, I want to ask you something." "Those people from the government- when you went with them, you said they put something over your head." "Right." "I heard them say it was to block a signal." "If those people know enough to block that signal, then they know how to read it, to track it." "You have one, too, Lisa." "That's how they found you in Seattle." "There's not much point in going to Buenos Aires, is there?" "No matter where we go, they'd find us." "There's gotta be something we can do." "You can shut her off, can't you?" "You can do something so they won't be able to track her signal or mine." "If you can do it, then do it." "You owe us that much." "I can't do it." "I don't have the strength." "But Allie can." "Find it inside you, Allie." "Can you?" "lisa:" "Allie, don't do anything." "You're weak." "ALLlE:" "I have to." "Allie, please, no." "What are you doing?" "The music helps me concentrate." "We're not picking up their signals." "I know." "You know?" "Shut off." "Gone." "No more signals." " You didn't bother to tell me?" " I was gettin' to it." " Do you think Allie did it?" " Probably." " You seem pleased about it." " Check this out." "The sightings are starting again." "Lights in the sky." "Idaho and Nebraska." "We better be ready." "You can't do anything, Mary." "Don't you get it?" "You want to talk about what happened at the parking lot?" " You were gonna shoot her." " I was going to stop her." "That's not up to you." "You're not gonna let it go, are you?" "I can't." "Do you know the story of the Medusa?" "You look at her and you turn to stone." "Unless you know the secret which you have to be an enlightened warrior to learn." "This is going somewhere, right?" "If you know the secret... you can kill her." "And then the winged horse," "Pegasus, flies from her head and the world becomes a very... very beautiful place." "I used to think we could get something out of this." "A new science...something." "I even thought we could get the better of them somehow." "But we're not ready to be anything but spectators in this." "Anything more stone." "I'm not giving up, Chet." "I'm gonna find her, and I'm gonna be more than just a witness to this." "MAN ON radio:" "If it's really all about the little girl Allie" "like all your callers are saying." "then maybe this isn't some evil conspiracy after all." "Mr Jeffries." "Maybe this is all about coming together and moving on." "JEFFRlES:" "Thank you." "Bruce from Nebraska." "End on a good note." "I always say." "Are these the last days?" "Is it all coming to a head?" "The lights are in the sky. and a little girl is out there somewhere on the road." "She's in our thoughts." "and she has our prayers." "This is William Jeffries saying." ""Keep watching the skies and hope for an answer that doesn't hurt. "" "lisa:" "I should've stopped her." "I never should've let her shut us off." "All right, all right." "Take a breath." "Take a breath." "Let her come out of it a little before she travels again." "Nobody's gonna find you here." " What about John?" " Let him rest." "Give Allie a couple of days until she's stronger." "My friend will be here by then with the papers, and we can move on." "What are you doing?" "I can't stay with you anymore." "If I'm here, sooner or later you'll be found." "Now that you've turned your signals off once I'm gone... none of us will know where you are." "You mean no one will be able to find me?" "I can't promise you that." "Then at least you'll get the chance to be the little girl you said you wanted to be." "But if things get too difficult if you feel that you can't stay here any longer, you can find us again." "You'll know." "Find the part of you that is us." "We'll hear you, and we'll come for you." "But unless you call us..." "we won't be able to find you." "I'm the one that's gonna know?" "When the time comes... it'll be your choice." "What I've learned from doing this what's changed in me I would never, never do any of this again." "This is all my fault." "It wasn't mine to meddle." "You wouldn't have been able to do it if you weren't supposed to." "I'm very glad I got to see you." "Good-bye, Allie." "Can I walk with you a minute?" "Just to the edge of the woods." "This is as far as you should go." "Good-bye, Allie." "ALLlE:" "How do you let someone go?" "How do you understand that that's all right." "that everything changes?" "How do you find a way for that to make you feel good about life instead of breaking your heart?" "The hardest thing you'll ever learn is how to say good- bye." "lisa:" "Allie?" "Allie?" "Allie..." "Allie." "Charlie?" "Charlie!" "What did he do to her?" "He did something and just left!" "No, I don't think so." "I think she was about to give out anyway." "I think he left to protect her!" "I had this feeling about John, something he was feeling." "When John showed Allie how to block our signals," "I think he made it so the aliens couldn't find us, either." "But as long as he stayed with us, sooner or later they were gonna find us." "He was part of them..." "I don't know." "But I think when he went back, he was giving Allie, giving us all a chance." "So we should take it." "Maybe they don't know where she is, either." " That's a thought, isn't it?" " You can't be serious." "What if they're lookin' for her, too?" "Her signal disappeared and then her mother's." "And then the lights appeared." "How's that possible?" "She's with one of them." "Good question." "So what do you think?" "The man driving the camper was Tom Clarke, Lisa's uncle." "Yeah, I thought I recognized him." "He's gettin' a little long in the tooth." "I had the office upload my grandfather's files, everything we have on Tom Clarke." "My-my grandfather went to Texas once." "Yeah, and got the bejesus scared out of him by Jacob Clarke, right?" "Tom still owns his mother's farmhouse, the one my grandfather went to to get Jacob." " You think that's where they've gone?" " I'm all for takin' a look." "What if they're there, Mary?" "Then what?" "Austin, Texas." "Tom Clarke." "This is Tom Clarke." "I'm not home right now." "but ifyou'd like to leave a message." "just leave it at the tone." "Tom Clarke, this is Chet Wakeman." "I'm calling you with a warning." "I want to help you." "You know, I never would have thought, 50-odd years ago, when we found him in the shed it was all leading towards something like this." "They took you, right?" "They did." "And you stood up to them, didn't you?" "I tried." "You stood by Allie and Lisa." "This goes way back for you." "Grandpa?" "My dad, too." "They didn't do us any favours." " Well..." " Sorry." "Nothing's ever simple, is it?" "I'm gonna go inside and see how Allie's doin'." "What happened?" "I called you as soon as I heard." "I've explained a bit of the situation to the local authorities." "They've agreed to yield jurisdiction." "How'd it go in Washington?" "In my years as a commanding officer," "I find I get the best results from my people when I don't refer to them as incompetent idiots." "People perform best when they're not riddled with self-doubt." "The joint chiefs seem to favour a more direct approach." "We got 48 hours to find the girl." "I want to thank you for steppin' up, Captain." "Colonel Breck wasn't up to the challenge, something this-this unusual." "Thank you, sir." "With all due respect to the colonel, sir, what did he expect?" "It's one thing to expect something, Captain, quite another to have it bite you in the ass." "That is one cold and nasty bitch." "Clearly, she knows where the little girl is." "I imagine she and the doctor both knew, but there was a difference of opinion on what to do about it." "That is one cold and nasty bitch." "That's exactly right, General." "I made a call to my guy." "He'll be here as soon as the papers are ready." "Probably be tomorrow." "Then we'll get you out of here, get you out of the country clean." "What is it?" "There was this... there was this message on my machine at home... from Chet Wakeman, one of the hotshots on the project, the guy who came after you in Seattle." "Right." "Right." "He said he wanted to help us." "Then he got cut off." "Probably just some sort of bluff, get us to move too quickly." "Yeah, probably." "Can you get your guy to hurry with the papers?" "I already made that call." " This way, Miss Crawford." " Are these really necessary?" "For the authorities to feel comfortable handing you over, yeah, they are." "Sit down." "It disgusts me to have to deal with you." "I want that on the table." "I understand that." "When we're through all this, I'm gonna see to it that you're held accountable for what you've done." "So let's get to it, then." "You knew where the little girl was, and you chose not to tell me." "You wanted to keep her for yourself." "I thought I'd use her to re-establish my power base." "What changed your mind?" "Dr Wakeman." "You've been monitoring the reports from the Northwest, the lights?" "Yeah." "So far, that's all they've been, just some sightings of lights." "He thought that this was it, they're coming for Allie." "Why don't they just take her, then?" "Because, at the moment, they don't know where she is." "She's with one of them, the one from the gas station." "Maybe he's the one who turned her signal off." "Maybe he's protecting her." "Why would he be doin' that?" "Remorse?" "I came after Allie in a gas station." "She escaped with the help of that alien." "Allie didn't do a thing." "It sounds like she didn't have to." "No." "No." "She's down, General." "She's spent." "Suppose I'm right." "Suppose they don't know where she is." "Then, for the moment, they can't protect her." "For the moment." "So you want to get to her before they do." "I want to finish what we started." "After everything you've done." "You know what the stakes are, General." "He was going to warn her." "Warn her?" "You're gonna have to work with me." "You want to take these off?" "Tom Clarke's mother's house, Lubbock, Texas." "This is what we didn't want you to know." "You've taken this away from me before, and it blew up in your face." "When this is over, you can have me arrested, do whatever you think you need to do, but for the moment, you need someone who understands what it is you might be up against." "You need me." "I want this quick and quiet." "Get our people out of Fort Ash and down to Texas." "ALLlE:" "They will be coming soon." "coming to try to stop what was going to happen next." "But maybe they could be stopped." "Maybe something could happen that would make it hard for them to do what they wanted to do." " How is she?" " The same." " You think they're coming?" " It's just a matter of time." "Well, there's no point in running unless we have a place to run to." "Something like this, the government can only do because nobody's watching." " That's what you always said." " Yeah." "I have an idea." "How far do you have to go to make a phone call?" "Who are you going to call, Charlie?" "I'm not going to call anybody." "You are." "JEFFRlES:" "I've never been inside a UFO, never met one of these creatures, and yet I believe with all my heart that this is real." "Why?" "Because I do not believe that hundreds of thousands of people could tell the same lie." "If this next caller's who I think it is, folks, we're in for a real treat." ""Tom Clarke back again," it says here on my screen." "To what do we owe the pleasure?" "Did you find something in Idaho?" "Talk to me, and I'll talk to you." "It's about that little girl the army's been looking for." "We been gettin' lots of calls about her." "The people who have been calling are telling the truth." "I know this little girl." "I was hoping your listeners could help us out." "I believe we have a lot to talk about, Tom, but I have to pay my bills first, so if you'd just hang on... you still there, Tom?" "I'm here." "Listen, Tom, we're off the air now." "This little girl..." "I've been getting these really extreme calls out of Seattle." "What can you tell me about her?" "For starters...she's my niece." "It's done." "JEFFRlES:" "I've got information about this girl you've heard about on the news, on this program, and, as usual, you're not gettin' the whole story." "This little girl, she's a piece of the sky, my friends." "Have you been taken?" "Well, so has she." "Have you had experiences beyond human comprehension?" "Same's true of Allie." "This little girl. my friends. she may hold the key to an understanding of all that you've gone through." "The government believes it." "That's why Allie's not safe because they're not going to rest till they have her in their hands where they can look at her." "try to figure out what this is all about." "That's why she needs your help." "They can do what they do because they can do it in secret." "They don't have to stand in the light of day." "If you're on the road tonight, turn your car toward the state of Texas." "If you're in bed, get up and get dressed because they're not gonna be able to touch her if there are witnesses." "The government must be on the road already." "but we have to get out there first to save this little girl." "So many of you call me, e-mail me, write to me, and you're starving for an answer." "You want to know why you were taken, what this has all been about." "We're gonna save one child. my friends." "and. in doing so." "we may just learn that answer." "Tom, Lisa, you should come see this." "Their target is a little girl." "Her name is Allie." "She's the focus of our government and of a race of aliens that have been visiting this planet since the late 1940s." "This is the girl in question." "While the government has offered a reward for information that may help them to find her." "army officials deny any connection between their search for the girl and reports of troop movements from Fort Ash." "Mr Jeffries. do you believe that this troop movement is related to the government search for the girl?" "We have come here to Texas to see this little girl and to understand what's been going on for all these years." "Super-secret missions, government conspiracies involving UFOs and aliens?" "It may all be a bit hard to swallow, but Jeffries is not alone in his belief." "Tom?" "Tom Clarke?" "Thanks for comin', Bill." "This is really something." "I guess people really do listen to the radio at 4.00 in the morning." "How's your niece?" "One of these people happened to be a doctor." "She's in there with her right now." "Good." "This might be a little beyond my medical capabilities." "Can she travel?" "Look, I'm a multiple abductee myself." "I've been taken repeatedly since I was seven, but I..." "I still don't even really know what we're dealing with here." "This might be something better suited to their medicine than to ours." "No!" "No way in hell is she going anywhere near them." "We'll-we'll find a way to help her here." "Okay...okay." "I'll leave you folks alone with your little girl." "You try to be strong for your kid, you know?" ""I'm your mum." "I can take care of everything." "I can keep you safe."" "But really, you know, there's nothing you can do." "You can't keep them safe from anything at all." "Hey...you've done a lot." "We're gonna be all right." "Tom's got it all set up for us." "His friend brings out the papers, and we disappear into the sunset." "I spent my childhood disappearing." "I'm pretty good at it." " Nina." " Hi." "Oh, my God!" "I can't believe you're really here." "Denny heard about it on the radio." "God, is she all right?" "No, she's not all right at all, Nina." "It was a series of miracles, that's what it was." "The things that happened, what they did to us, it was just a series of miracles, and the things that she can do- there's a kindness to her power, an intention to do good." "I was really angry." "I still am, I guess." "But what we saw, and what she did" "I'm with these people." "After what I did to them, I'm here with them." "They were able to forgive me." "That's because of her." "This is as close as we can get without getting the attention of the crowd." "We'll treat this like a riot situation, have the guards go in first, get the crowd out of there." "Still, you gotta admire the move." "We're tryin' to fly under the radar, and they put up a wall of people between us and the little girl." "She must really mean a lot to those folks." "Goin' through these lengths." "We'll move in tonight." "Video message waiting..." "Hey. there. toots." "I programmed this file to send if I didn't delete it in 24 hours." "I guess I didn't delete it." "which I guess means... you deleted me." "I kinda saw that one comin'." "You must be headed in for the final wing ding about now." "God." "I wish I could be there." "There's something I wanted to share with you." "We're all so desperate for meaning. aren't we?" "All of us." "You. too." "Mary..." "even if you think you're not." "You want answers." "and in that way." "I think the aliens are gonna disappoint you." "Here's the stone truth of it." "They're still asking the same questions we are." "No one is God here." "We're all in the same boat." "That was our life together." "wasn't it?" "We asked questions." "I used to love the way you..." "I used to love the way you'd get that faraway look in your eye whenever you were workin' something out." "We could have been happy." "Mary." "I really believe that..." "If only you'd just let it go." "That's another question for them. isn't it?" "What is it that makes us so screwed up?" "Why do we do the things we do?" "Well. maybe... they can create something better than the sum of its parts." "Allie belongs with them." "We're not ready for the knowledge they have." "It would destroy us." "Look at me." "Guess in the end." "I turned out to be something of a humanist." "You're shakin' your head. right?" "See?" "You do love me." "What brought you here?" "As soon as I heard what was happening with the little girl," "I-I knew I had to be here." " How long do you think you'll stay?" " As long as it takes." " And you?" " We all feel it." "I don't know if any of us could tell you exactly why, but we all knew we had to be here." "It's kind of hard to explain if you haven't been taken, but...we all knew we had to be here." "The girl, Allie, is inside this house." "Some say she's resting, others say she's dying." "The question we haven't been able to answer yet is what does she mean to this group of abductees, people who believe they've been taken?" "I really appreciate you doing this for me." "No problem." "Good luck, Tom." "This is all of it- passports, visas." "We have a car waiting for you in the woods." "An old back road leads all the way to Highway 177." "Dale and I took it this morning." "It leads all the way past the army." "We came out on the other side." "They weren't any the wiser." "You ready?" "We went to the sporting goods store and cleared out the hunting section." "If anyone tries to hurt our little girl, they're gonna have to come through us first." "I don't want you to do that." "Allie?" "Tom, could I talk to her?" "Just for a moment." "No." "Please go back to your cars!" "Bill, please help me get these people..." "Folks, please..." "Uh...uh... she's not ready to talk to us yet." "She's just not ready." " You all right?" " I'm fine." "Listen, we're gonna get out of here." "We're going someplace where none of this matters, okay?" "Everything's ready." "We gotta go." "No, not now." "I want to talk to them." "Hi." "I know you're all scared, and you don't have to be scared anymore." "Honey... honey... you don't have to do this." "All you have to be is my little girl." "The rest of it, it doesn't have to happen." "You don't have to do anything." "They're scared." "They need something." "You don't have to be the one to give it to them." "I think maybe I do." "You have something in your heads." "It lets them know where you are." "I can shut them off." "When they shut off, they'll fall out." "Don't be scared." "ALLlE:" "They won't come for you anymore." "They won't be able to find you." "No one's going to take you." "It doesn't seem right to, uh, interfere with us the way they did." "Maybe not to us, but if we saw this from someplace else, it was just time for this to happen." "For what to happen?" "Me." "Listen to me!" "All of you!" "All of you, listen to me!" "They're not gonna do anything!" "There's too many of us here!" "Do you want to help?" "Stay in front of the porch!" "Go to the mayor now." "Get me the wireless unit." "Attention!" "This area is under federal control!" "Please make yourselves available for immediate relocation to a debriefing area." "Your vehicles and personal belongings..." "You don't listen to that!" "It's a lie!" "You stay right here!" "Stay right in front of the porch!" "Right here!" "Stay in front of Allie." "Stay right here." "Stay in front of Allie." "We're stronger together!" "Stay in front of the porch." "Just so you know, a lot of us are armed and willing to give our lives to protect Allie or take some if we have to." "Get out of here now." "Put your plan into action." "We'll do what has to be done." "charlie:" "Thanks." "They're here in force, come out of the night to put the monster back in the box." "We better get back inside." "No..." "Allie..." "Are they gonna come for you now?" "John left that up to me." "Do you think if we'd been regular people," "Charlie would have lived with us, and we could have been a family?" "I know that would have happened." "I don't want to go." "I want to stay here with you." "Then stay!" "We've got a plan." "We can get out of here right now!" "It'll be okay." "Give the command." "Troops...advance!" "Here they come." "After a little girl, ladies and gentlemen!" "Please disperse immediately!" "Ifyou do not disperse." "you will be in violation of Federal Ordinance 860... endangering of public welfare..." "Oh, Allie." "Allie, please, please don't." "Please." "You heard Dale." "If I stay here, people will kill each other." "I don't want that to happen because of me." "Then we'll go away." "We have a plan." "Where could we go?" "This would all just happen again." "Allie, Allie, listen to me." "I am not gonna let that happen." "We're gonna get Charlie, and we're gonna get out of here." "We'll figure out a way." "There's nothing we can do." "We're a family now." "We can try." "We were always a family." "General." "I didn't ask for this!" "I want to be a little girl!" "I just want to be a little girl!" "They're really coming this time aren't they?" "Charlie..." "I'm glad you turned out to be my dad." "I love you." "I love you, too, Daddy." "I have to go." "No." "No, I can't." "I can't, I can't." "I won't let you." "I won't let you go." "You...you said this was all meant to be." "And I meant all of it." " This part, too." " I can't stand this." "I have to go." "And I said I wouldn't ever let you go." "I love you, honey every day and twice on Sundays." "I love you, too, Mama." "Is she makin' this all up?" "Is this just another screen?" "This is no screen, General." "This is real." "Can you stop them?" "Can you stop them?" "!" "Please!" "You gotta do something." "This is my family." "That's my daughter!" "We can't." "Allie belongs with them... her and the knowledge of how they did all this." "I'm sorry." " That, too." " No." "This is a record of everything." "Even if we lose the little girl, at least we'll still have this." "Sooner or later, we'll know what they know." "Exactly." "You're the one who was gonna see this through to the end." "I did." "Sir!" "Let her see the rest of this." "She deserves that much." "ALLlE:" "I don't know what will happen next." "I don't know what I'm going to be." "what I'm going to learn." "but what I do know is this" "Iife. all life." "is about asking questions." "not about knowing answers." "It is wanting to see what's over the next hill that keeps us all going." "We have to keep asking questions." "wanting to understand." "Even when we know we'll never find the answers." "we have to keep on asking the questions." "Excuse me." "Did you know the little girl or her family personally?" "No, I didn't." "I just came to see what the deal was." "Sir, shall we pick up the mother and father?" "The mother and father?" "You're talkin' about the little girl's parents?" "Yes, sir, her parents." "They must have slipped away in all the excitement." "I don't see them anywhere." "Neither do I, sir." "Shall I tell the JTF guys to head back to Fort Bliss?" "I don't see why not, Captain." "There's nothin' for us here." "Thought you might want this." "She did all right, Lis." "She took the other one with her." "She took the other star." "She's gonna be back, Charlie." "She really is." "She's gonna be back." "ALLlE:" "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." "# Just before it gets dark #" "# When the light still hangs in the sky #" "# The day's not quite come #" "# All its promises still in your own eyes #" "# Between the time your mother calls #" "# And the time you put the ball away #" "# There's a lifetime to be lived #" "# And a world where every dream is here to stay #" "# Just before the night comes #" "# And you run back to the safety of your world #" "# Just before it gets dark #" "# You can believe in every story ever told #" "# In those last precious moments #" "# There's a beauty no one wants to give away #" "# Well, nothin' lasts forever #" "# But those moments keep forever far away #" "# Just before it gets dark #" "# Before you grow old #" "# Before you're too old to pretend #" "# Just before it gets dark #" "# And you know your dreams will not come back again #" "# Hold on #" "# Hold on tight #" "# And I promise you, baby #" "# It'll all be all right #" "# I promise you, baby #" "# It'll all be all right #"