"There is nothing wrong with your television set." "Do not attempt to adjust the picture." "We are controlling transmission." "If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume." "If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper." "We will control the horizontal." "We will control the vertical." "We can roll the image..." "Make it flutter." "Make it flutter." "We can change the focus to a soft blur..." "Or sharpen it to crystal clarity." "For the next hour, sit quietly, and we will control all that you see and hear." "We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set." "You are about to participate in a great adventure." "You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to..." "Which reaches from the inner mind to..." "Kxkvi is located on highway 601 just 6 Miles South of cotterfield, where the supermarkets meet the people." "Serving all of Los feliz county, in sunny Southern Cal." "Kxkvi is brought to you good people at 1820, 1-8-2-0 on your radio dial." "Keep listening now for your top 10 tunes brought to you by your boy buddy." "Number6,come rock with me, an up-and-swinging vocal offering by the high lifers." "By the high lifers." "The shoe store spots," "Barney's drive-in, and the news and weather is on top." "Carol, get Alan." "Tell him to come in here quick." "What's wrong?" "Look at that dial." "That needle has just dropped about 10 points." "That needle has just dropped about 10 points." "What is it?" "The power output." "We're broadcasting on just about half." "Go on, babe." "Go get him." "I can't." "I can't." "What do you mean you can't?" "He knows about it." "How could he know about it?" "It just happened." "He's in the transmitter shed." "Are you telling me he cut down the power?" "On purpose?" "Are you telling me he cut down the power?" "On purpose?" "But, Carol, that's against the law." "These people pay us to cover an area of 200 Miles." "We guarantee them over a million audience." "All right, he's stealing power." "All right, he's stealing power." ""Stealing power"?" "Well, he's been doing it for weeks." "He steals equipment, too-- transistors, condensers-- we've got bills up to here." "We can't let him shut down, let everything go to pot." "Go tell him, Carol, tell him that if he doesn't boost us back on the air, we're--we're gonna have our contracts ripped up by the sponsors." "By the sponsors." "He won't open the door." "Phone him." "Phone him." "Come over here right away." "I want you to see something." "Said for me to come over." "He's probably picked up a program from telstar." "Well, I'll go humor him." "You watch." "Before he knows it, he's gonna be cleaned up, dressed up, and ready to go..." "Or I'll kill him." "This is gene "buddy" Maxwell bringing you your Saturday dance parade." "Your Saturday dance parade." "Come in!" "Come in!" "Close the door, please." "Close the door, please." "Carol, look." "Carol, look." "What is it?" "What is it?" "Well, I thought it was hydrogen static, but it's..." "Static?" "Listen." "Static?" "Listen." "I'm sure that's hydrogen and radio waves coming in at 21 centimeters." "Except for that high-pitched tone," "I don't know what that is." "It puts my teeth on edge." "It puts my teeth on edge." "I fed it through the TV monitor, tried to get a visual analysis." "What good is it?" "Well, it's coming from out there." "Well, it's coming from out there." "Out where?" "Space." "Space." "Just space?" "Yeah." "Haven't been able to pinpoint it yet." "It's taken a lot of power just to get this much." "Yeah, you cut the station down about half." "Well, I can't help that." "Well, you know we can lose our sponsors." "This is more important." "This is more important." "More important than drive-in commercials?" "More important than paying the bills?" "More important than paying the bills?" "The bills will be paid." "Carol..." "Carol..." "I want you to see what I've done." "Allan, do you even care anything about your own family?" "Sure." "Look, see, that's a 3-dimensional TV scanner it's the same as a conventional television except it shows the image height, width, depth, and it shows the sound you just heard in 3 dimensions." "See, by scanning it 3 ways, I'm able to give it solidity." "Solid static." "It's formed out of microwaves." "Allan, I know that it-- it makes you angry when I ask you questions like this, but what good is it?" "But what good is it?" "Well, it's interesting." "Well, it's interesting." "You have spent thousands of dollars on-- on transistors, and--and circuits, and cathode ray-- and cathode ray" "you're just bleeding electricity out of that transmitter until there is nothing left of kxkvi, but--but--but just a feeble beep, and all you can say is "it's interesting"?" "And all you can say is "it's interesting"?" "Carol, it's more than interesting." "It's important." "Do you realize that every important change in the world for the last 30 years has come out of research in microwaves?" "Radar, television, even the h-bomb." "But what makes you think that you can discover anything?" "Who are you?" "Nobody." "Nobody at all." "But the secrets of the universe don't mind." "They reveal themselves to nobodies who care." "Isaac Newton was a nobody." "Michael Faraday was a bookbinder's apprentice." "Yes, but now--now they have big laboratories that--that work on all those things." "The big laboratories spend millions of dollars, Carol, and they work slowly and surely, and they get results, but not the big steps." "Not the breakthroughs-- those come from the human mind, not from the laboratory." "Call 'em inspiration, call 'em intuition, maybe blind luck, maybe it's God saying, "now's the time."" "Maybe it's God saying, "now's the time."" "Well, I'm sorry, Allan, but I don't like it..." "Because every day it takes you away from me more and more, until I hardly know you." "More and more, until I hardly know you." "You have friends who love you, want to honor you." "Want to honor you." "We want to see you and be with you." "We want to see you and be with you." "Well, I don't have time for that sort of thing now." "Well, I don't have time for that sort of thing now." "You don't have time for, uh, friends and..." "An everyday life, but you have all the time in the world for a..." "A cloud of static?" "For a..." "A cloud of static?" "Well, I'm sorry, Allan." "Don't ask me to appreciate it, because I can't." "It's cold." "It--it sounds like sleet and snow and it--and it looks like electricity frozen." "I just..." "I--I--I don't like it." "I'm sorry." "I--I--I don't like it." "I'm sorry." "Do you, uh..." "Do you happen to remember that half the town is turning out to honor you tonight?" "To honor you tonight?" "Tonight?" "Yes, it's uh..." "It's a testimonial dinner." "And they have a scroll and a plaque." "And you can't disappoint them." "No, I-I-I'll try not to let them down." "Allan, you've known about it for months, and you can't hurt people." "You just can't." "No, I--I don't--I don't want to hurt people." "All right, does that mean then that you'll get dressed and you'll be ready on time?" "And you'll be ready on time?" "Uh, yeah." "Yeah, yes." "Thank you." "Very much." "Thank you." "Very much." "Who are you?" "Who are you?" "Can you hear me?" "Can you hear me?" "Can you see me?" "Can you see me?" "Where are you?" "Where are you?" "Solar system." "Solar system." "Sun." "Mercury." "Venus." "Earth." "I am transmitting from earth." "Where are you transmitting from?" "Where are you transmitting from?" "Outside the solar system?" "Outside the solar system?" "My antenna is centered on the edge of the constellation Pegasus." "Are you beyond?" "Do you understand?" "How can I communicate with you?" "Words?" "How can I communicate with you?" "Words?" "Mathematics?" "Mathematics?" "Can you translate your binary pulses into my computer?" "Into my computer?" "Try to form..." "Your thoughts..." "Into word patterns using binary system." "Into word patterns using binary system." "My computer..." "Can translate your pulses..." "Into..." "My language." "Into..." "My language." "Who..." "Are you?" "Are you?" "My name..." "Is Allan Maxwell." "I am transmitting from a station..." "On the third planet in the solar system." "Earth." "Are..." "You..." "Receiving..." "Dimensional..." "Image?" "I am scanning the microwaves coming from somewhere beyond the constellation of Pegasus." "Hold chart." "Hold image..." "Universe." "Hold image..." "Universe." "Point." "Point." "Move point due east." "Third quadrant." "Move point due east." "Third quadrant." "Move north." "Move north." "Stop." "That is transmission point." "The great spiral Andromeda?" "Yes." "Transmission northwest quadrant." "Star system with 3-1 satellites." "Solar system?" "3-1 satellites." "31 planets?" "Yes. 3-1 planets." "Do you see me?" "Very dim." "You are in..." "Room." "Electronic room." "Do not increase your power." "Galaxy forbids contact of planets beyond central system." "We're both breaking the rules." "I'm not allowed to use the station for research." "I am not allowed to use equipment for exploration." "Do you have a name?" "Numbers not same as your 4-dimension numbers." "What is below eyes?" ""Below eyes"?" "Holes..." "In face." "Nose." "Mouth." "Why?" "Smell." "Eat." "Speak." "Smell?" "Eat?" "To talk?" "Explain." "Molecules flow through air to olfactory lobes." "Eat?" "Carbon cycle." "Plants, animals, h2o." "Talk?" "Communication." "Is that why mouth-hole moving?" "You hear me, don't you?" "Yes." "Do you have life?" "Not the same." "You are carbon cycle." "We are nitrogen cycle." "We are nitrogen cycle." "Where you are, do you have death?" "Repeat." "We have end of being." "We stop moving..." "Stop breathing." "No thoughts." "Nothing." "We call it death." "Death is property of carbon cycle in 3-dimension." "No death in our dimension." "Electromagnetic waves go on to infinity." "Electromagnetic waves go on to infinity." "Do my brain waves go on?" "Yes." "What about wars?" "Do you have wars?" "Repeat." "Battles." "Atom bombs." "Radiation fallout." "Forbidden." "Reason we are not allowed to contact you." "You are danger to other galaxies." "What about God?" "What about God?" "Do you have a God?" "Explain." "An all-powerful being-- a force, underlying everything." "Electromagnetic forces underlying all." "No, I mean, an intelligent force." "God." "Electromagnetic force, intelligence." "Matter, space, time-- all the same." "Matter, space, time-- all the same." "All the same?" "Different names." "Infinity." "Infinity is God." "God infinity." "All the same." "All the same." "All the same." "You look great, Carol." "Thank you, sir." "Your voice sounds in good working order." "Yeah, I use lemon and honey." "Say, I, uh, I brought some albums." "I wonder if you'd check 'em over for clearance?" "Uh, no, take 'em to gene." "He's waiting for you inside." "Oh, ok." "I'll see you later." "Oh, ok." "I'll see you later." "Allan?" "Allan?" "What?" "Are you ready to go?" "No." "I can't." "What do you mean, you can't?" "I can't, Carol." "Something has happened." "I've got to write out a report." "But you promised." "I-I'm all dressed up." "Gene's waiting-- we even hired a relief announcer to take gene's place." "It doesn't matter, Carol." "Something tremendous has happened." "I've made a discovery." "Well, I don't want to hear about it." "Well, come in and see." "No, I don't want to see." "I just-- I just want my husband, and I want him here." "Now." "In this world tonight." "We can't keep the mayor and his wife waiting any longer." "I don't care what you've discovered, Allan." "One evening, one hour is not going to make any difference." "It might make all the difference in the world." "I'm not going to, um, ask you to choose between me and, uh, whatever that is, because I would probably lose." "So I'm going to force you to accept the honor that's due an outstanding member of the community." "I'm going to tell everyone that you invited them here." "Here?" "If you won't come to your own party, then I'll bring the party here." "No, you can't, Carol." "They--they--they wouldn't understand." "Oh, can't I?" "I think they'd just love to see your workshop and your experiments." "We can--we can jam 50 people in there without breaking too much equipment." "Without breaking too much equipment." "All right." "All right." "I'll be there." "I mean it, Allan, if you don't follow us in that station wagon," "I'm gonna bring everybody right back here, and the mayor can give you your plaque while you work." "And the mayor can give you your plaque while you work." "All right." "I'll be there." "All right." "I'll be there." "Oh, uh..." "This needle might give you a little trouble." "It kind of cuts down on power once in a while." "What do I do?" "Just leave it alone." "Ok." "Uh, you want to bring me on after this record?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Give me a voice level." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Give me a voice level." "1, 2, 3." "This is Eddie Phillips, the voice of Los feliz, subbing for gene "buddy" Maxwell." "Fine." "Fine." "Here he comes-- the slim one, Eddie Phillips." "Great to have you on board, Eddie boy." "Pleasure to be here, gene "buddy" Maxwell." "Eddie Phillips will substitute for the next 3 hours to bring you the best in music from kxkvi, your dancing station, covering Los feliz and cotterfield." "This is gene "buddy" Maxwell signing off for now." "Please stay tuned for Eddie Phillips' record revue." "Edward, you've got it." "Many thanks, gene, and my congratulations to your brother Allan on his testimonial shindig tonight." "He's made kxkvi the beacon of the southwest and all of you in the Maxwell family deserve a big round of applause." "We start off this evening's celebration with a musical salute to the maxwells." "Brother Allan, the electronic wizard, and brother gene "buddy" Maxwell, your favorite d.J. In the desert area." "Here we are with the deuces and treys singingbig time daddy." "Are you ready?" "Is he coming?" "Yes, or else." "He's gonna follow us in the station wagon." "Fine." "Fine." "Nice and easy." "Same to you." "Same to you." "I have to go." "To cotterfield center." "If I don't, other people will come in." "End of transmission." "No." "Keep the channel open." "Danger." "I will keep the selectors locked." "If your signal drifts, it will keep them centered." "It will keep them centered." "I'll be back in one hour." "Hour?" "Passage of time it takes earth to revolve 1/24 of its circumference." "Do not change power level." "Don't worry." "Your selectors are locked." "Your channel is centered." "Keep transmitting." "I'll return in one hour." "Wait for me." "Wait for me." "Thank you, deuces and treys." "Coming up now, an all-time favorite selected for you by yours truly, Eddie Phillips, the voice of Los feliz." "I'm Eddie Phillips." "What do you say, Allan?" "Hello, Eddie." "Did Carol go on?" "Uh, yeah." "Gene drove her on in." "You're supposed to take the station wagon." "Yeah." "Eddie, this is the power transmitter control." "This is the output monitor." "Yeah, that's a pretty weak signal you're putting out." "Oh, yeah, well, I, uh," "I, uh, blew some fuses." "Uh, knocked out half the breakers." "I doubt if you're carrying over 30 Miles." "Yeah, well, that's exactly where I want it." "No more, no less." "Now, Eddie, if that needle creeps to either side, just keep it centered right where it is." "Hang on, now," "I'm not an engineer." "No, I don't expect any trouble, but if it does move, just-- just keep it right-- right there where it is." "Just keep it right-- right there where it is." "Uh, does, um, that knob boost the power?" "Yeah." "How much of a load will it take?" "How much of a load will it take?" "We're tied into the substation-- high-tension substation-- plus generators." "Uh, I mean, how far can you carry with a full load in case you ever had to pour it on?" "With a full-power broadcast, they'd hear you in Canada, shf, anywhere in the world." "Oh, no wonder you blew the fuses." "Look, um, Eddie, don't even touch it unless you have to." "I'll be back in about an hour." "Ok." "Ok." "Uh, when they're toasting you, have one on me." "Yeah." "Yeah." "On behalf of the young people and citizens, to you, Allan Maxwell." "To you, Allan Maxwell." "Look, Carol, I've got my plaque." "The mayor's happy." "The party's fine." "Nobody's gonna notice if I take off." "I'll notice." "Well, you'll be the only one." "I've been here almost an hour, and nobody's even said hello." "You've been in cold storage so long, nobody knows who you are." "I could come back and pick you up after midnight." "If you leave me, I'll leave you." "Let's get a breath of air." "Let's get a breath of air." "If we have to toast Allan one more time, they'll carry me out." "Hello there." "Oh, thank you very much." "Good to see ya." "Yeah." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Yeah." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "You know, I feel pretty special sneaking away with the brother of a guest of honor." "Well, you are special, baby." "Cool night air, cool music, and the cool lips of gene "buddy" Maxwell on your fevered brow." "On your fevered brow." "Look, honey, I'm talking as loud as I can." "They got the power trimmed down." "Trying to save a buck-- on my time." "You know it." "Before I'm through, the whole country's gonna know it." "This is Eddie Phillips booming out at ya from here to Canada and east to the Mississippi." "Keep your set tuned on." "Listen to how it soups up." "Yeah, I'll call you back on the next record." "Yeah, I'll call you back on the next record." "You are listening to the big, big new sound on kxkvi." "This is Eddie Phillips, the voice of Los feliz, welcoming all you new listeners" "from here to Canada and east..." "From here to Canada and east..." "What's he doing with that?" "He's fooling around with the transmitter." "I'd better tell Allan." "I'd better tell Allan." "Hey, Allan, something's going on down at the station." "The car radio started to blast, and then it turned to solid static." "Solid static?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "When did it start?" "Couple of minutes ago." "Yeah, it's way overreach." "He said something about welcoming new listeners in Canada." "I told him not to turn up the power." "Where are you going?" "To make a telephone call." "To make a telephone call." "It's busy." "He's probably taking record requests." "No, I don't-- I don't think so." "Hey, you want to drive up?" "What?" "No, uh, the phone's quicker." "I, uh, need to get to him and tell him to cut down on that power." "Is there any danger?" "Uh, all kinds." "Uh, all kinds." "Check the operator." "See if it's out of order." "Check the operator." "See if it's out of order." "No, I'll, uh, I'll call Collins over at the warehouse, ask him to run a message over." "Ask him to run a message over." "No answer?" "No, it's dead." "No, it's dead." "It's dead." "It's dead." "You're going out to the station?" "It doesn't sound like 1820, does it?" "Frequency cycle." "At least the static's quieted down." "I'm going out there." "I'm going out there." "Tell Carol." "Tell Carol." "What happened?" "What happened?" "Babe, come on." "He just probably took a walk." "He'll be back in a few minutes." "I don't care why he went." "Please, just leave me alone." "Come on." "Come on." "Carol, are you all right?" "No, I am not." "Listen, Carol," "I don't want you to get excited, but something has happened." "Dont't get excited." "The main thing is to be calm and come with me." "Look out!" "Look out!" "Look out!" "Look out!" "Look out!" "Let's get out of here!" "Let's get out of here!" "Don't touch us!" "Radiation!" "Don't touch us!" "Radiation!" "Don't!" "You'll burn us!" "Follow me back to the transmitter." "Follow me back to the transmitter." "It looked like a man, but it wasn't." "Read him the highway report." ""It glowed and flickered like a person made out of blue light."" "That's right." "It captured your brother and his wife." "Yeah." "When I heard the screaming, I ran inside." "They, uh, they came by me." "I--I tried to stop it." "Oh!" "They found the car smashed up in a ditch on 601." "The hood was crushed, the wheels broken, the paint burned off the front end, and no survivors." "Put in a call to the state headquarters." "Request assistance outside the county police." "Yes, sir." "Did your brother say anything else?" "Yeah." "He said, "kxkvi."" "Those are the call letters of our station." "Let's go." "Let's go." "It's all right." "It'll be all right." "It's all right." "It'll be all right." "Back." "Listen, it's all right." "Listen, I know it looks different than us, but he's got a mind similar to us." "Please let me go." "He didn't want to come here, and he made contact out of curiosity." "Don't you understand?" "We brought it here." "I've got to get it back!" "Now be quiet, or we'll all get killed!" "Now be quiet, or we'll all get killed!" "What happened?" "Waited for you." "Power came on full." "Microwave transmission caught me." "No way to stop." "No way to get out." "Transmission of atomic structure." "Transmission of matter." "Can you get back?" "Too late." "They know I have broken laws." "They must destroy me." "They must destroy me." "Destroy you?" "I am danger to my galaxy." "They will come for me." "They will come for me." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Your people coming closer." "Your people coming closer." "Carol, take a look." "No." "Tell 'em it's all right!" "Go on!" "Go on!" "She's dying." "Microwave pattern not moving." "I can feel damage in base of neck." "Don't touch her!" "Stop damage." "Burn with radiation." "Burn with radiation." "Cauterize?" "Stop death." "Stop death." "Carol, are you all right?" "Carol, are you all right?" "Line up on the transmitter shed." "Don't fire!" "Don't shoot." "It's my brother!" "Hold it." "Hold it." "We got orders to kill it by any and all means." "You can't kill a man with it." "Give me that speaker." "You get him out of there." "We'll let him go." "Come out." "Make a run for it." "We'll cover you." "Come out." "Make a run for it." "We'll cover you." "No!" "I'm staying right here." "Now listen to me." "It won't hurt you." "You saw what it did." "It's using him." "Come out." "This is your last chance." "Come out." "My wife is in there." "She was wounded, but it has helped her." "It saved her life!" "There it is." "Fire." "Fire." "Stop..." "Or you be silenced." "Or you be silenced." "You people of this planet, you must not use force." "You do not move." "I do not see you, but I receive your brain patterns." "I have told you not to use force." "Now I warn you, there are powers in the universe beyond anything you know." "Beyond anything you know." "There is much you have to learn." "You must explore." "You must reach out." "Go to your homes." "Go and give thought to the mysteries of the universe." "I will leave you now in peace." "I will leave you now in peace." "What are you going to do?" "Reduce the microwave intensity." "Reduce mass." "You'll disintegrate." "There is no death for me." "What will happen?" "Unknown." "Unknown?" "End..." "Of..." "Transmission." "End..." "Of..." "Transmission." "The planet earth is a speck of dust, remote and alone in the void." "There are powers in the universe inscrutable and profound." "Fear cannot save us." "Rage cannot help us." "We must see the stranger in a new light-- the light of understanding." "And to achieve this, we must begin to understand ourselves and each other." "We now return control of your television set to you until next week at this same time, when the control voice will take you to..." "When the control voice will take you to..."