"[Soft instrumental music]" "HOMELESS MAN:" "Dollar for a homeless vet." "Come on, little man." "Little man, I fought in the war with your daddy." "Phnom Penh." "Y'all ain't paid me for this leg yet." "Thank you, sugar." "Jackie Chan!" "Jackie Chan." "Shanghai Noon." "HOMELESS MAN:" "I take travelers' checks." "Arigato to you, too." "Thank you, sugar." "[Over P.A. system] ... at gate five." "PASSER-BY:" "Here you go." "Thanks." "[Soft instrumental music]" "THUG:" "Empty your pockets!" "[Russian lady cries out]" "PROT:" "Here." "FEMALE OFFICER:" "Hold it." "OFFICER:" "Stay away from her!" "HOMELESS MAN:" "He ain't done nothing." "RUSSIAN LADY:" "He take bag." "Hit." "Who took your bag and hit you?" "This man?" "No, it was some punks, man." "They came and ran off." "Four-eight, this is Romano." "Robbery victim with facial wound." "FEMALE OFFICER:" "I'd like you to stand there." "PROT:" "Certainly." " Are you traveling somewhere?" " I have arrived." "My travels are over, for the time being." " Where's your luggage?" " I don't require luggage." "FEMALE OFFICER:" "Do you have a ticket?" "Train ticket?" "FEMALE OFFICER:" "Ticket stub?" "PROT:" "I didn't arrive by train." "Would you remove your sunglasses for me, please?" "I'd rather not." "I'd forgotten, but I mean, wow your planet is really bright." " I see." " East forty-two, we have an EDP." " I have to ask you to come with us, sir." "Of course." "[Uptempo instrumental music]" "Freddy, did you see this fellow come out of a gate?" "He didn't come from no gate." "The brother came from nowhere." " You know what I'm saying?" " Yeah, Freddy, I know what you're saying." "[Rhythmic, uptempo instrumental music]" "ERNIE:" "I don't want to go outside." "There are things that can kill you." "Thank you." "You breathe all those chemicals out there, not to mention the cosmic rays and the West Nile virus, and that other one the new airborne pigeon disease nobody wants to talk about." "POWELL:" "Pigeon disease." "I've heard of that." "ERNIE:" "Another thing that's been bothering me is the food." "The cafeteria serves lukewarm food, full of germs." "You need to do something about that, Dr. Powell." "ERNIE:" "Heat is the only thing that kills germs." "POWELL:" "Point taken." "We'll look into that." "Right away." "In the meantime, I want you to start taking your medication again." "It'll help you sleep." "And you need to sleep, Ernie." "POWELL:" "Sleep is good." "[Buzzer sounds]" "Is our time up?" "Only for today, Ernie." "Two calls." "Your wife:" "Bring home a bottle of wine." "And Dr. Chakraborty:" "Transfer from Bellevue he wants you to look at." "Great." "Who is it this time, Jesus Christ or Joan of Arc?" "Dr. Chakraborty didn't say." "NURSE: [Over P.A. system] Dr. Connolly, call nine." "[Mystical instrumental music]" "CHAKRABORTY:" "He arrived at Bellevue a month ago, suspicion of hallucinogenic intoxication." "But he was found negative for substances of any kind." "His EKG, his blood value, are all normal." "There's no sign of concussion, brain tumor, no temporal-lobe epilepsy no indication of organic abnormality whatsoever." "However, after one month, his amnesia and his delusion have persisted." "He claims to be not human." "A visitor from another planet." "POWELL:" "They administered Thorazine on him for three weeks at 300 milligrams a day, and he was unresponsive?" "How can you be unresponsive to that much Thorazine?" "It's impossible." "That's why they sent him to you." "Terrific." "No I.D., no missing person's report matching his description." "What's this?" "CHAKRABORTY:" "He had it on him." "Well, let's hope extraterrestrials qualify for Medicaid." "JOYCE:" "He's here, Doctor." "POWELL:" "Thank you, Joyce." "Medical record 287, calls himself "Prot."" " This one's as gentle as a pussycat, Doc." " Come in." "Have a seat." ""Have a seat." Curious expression." "Well, let me introduce myself." "I'm Doc..." "Dr. Mark Powell Chief of Clinical Psychiatry of the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute." "Good." "You know where you are." "Well, now, Prot, is it?" " Prot." " I see." "Prot." "POWELL:" "Well, Prot, we're here to..." "PROT:" "May I?" "Please." "PROT:" "Red Delicious, you call this variety." "It's my favorite." "POWELL:" "I'd like to begin by asking you if you know why you're here." "Of course." "You think I'm crazy." "We prefer the term "ill."" " Do you think you are ill?" " A little homesick, perhaps." "Really?" "Where is home?" " K-PAX." " K-PAX?" "PROT:" "Capital "K" hyphen, capitals P-A-X." "K-PAX is a planet." "But don't worry." "I'm not going to leap out of your chest." "I'm not worried it's just that I'm only familiar with nine planets." "PROT:" "Actually, there are 10." "But that doesn't matter." "I'm not from your solar system." "K-PAX is about 1,000 of your light-years away from here." " In what you call the constellation Lyra." " That's quite a ways." "I'm curious." "How did you get to Earth?" "PROT:" "It's a matter of harnessing the energy of light." "I know that sounds crazy to you." "You beings are eons away from discovering light travel." "You travel at the speed of light?" "No." "We can travel many times that speed, various multiples of c." "Otherwise, the trip here would have taken about a 1,000 years now, wouldn't it?" "What if I told you that, according to a man who lived on our planet named Einstein  that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light." "I would say that you've misread Einstein." "May I call you Mark?" "You see, Mark, what Einstein actually said, was that nothing can accelerate  to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite." "He never mentioned entities already traveling at the speed of light, or faster." " At tachyon speeds." " Tachyon?" "I detect a note of skepticism, Dr. Powell." "Not at all." "It's just that you speak English so well." "I'm amazed." "PROT:" "English isn't that difficult a language to learn." "You should try speaking Ackssoneeahayoohahhehhh." "I'm confused." "Maybe you can explain it to me." "How is it that, being a visitor from space, you look so much like me or anyone else from Earth?" " Why is a soap bubble round?" " "Why is a soap bubble round?"" "For an educated person, Mark, you repeat things quite a bit." "Are you aware of that?" "A soap bubble is round because it is the most energy-efficient configuration." "Similarly, on your planet, I look like you." "On K-PAX, I look like a K-PAXian." "Prot, why did you want to come to our planet?" "Well, I've been here many times before." "But what brought me here first?" "I don't know." "Pure curiosity, I guess." "I'd never been to a Class BA-3 planet before." "POWELL:" "Class BA-3?" "PROT:" "Early stage of evolution." "Future uncertain." "RUSSELL: "And if I give all of my possessions to feed the poor..."" "ERNIE:" "Howie, go on, talk to him." "Go on." "You're really from up there?" "Indeed." "I am from K-PAX." "What sort of place is it?" "K-PAX is bigger than your planet." "But we are circled by seven purple moons." "SAL:" "Bullshit." "Bullshit." "Go on." "Well, K-PAX is most lovely when K-MON and K-RIL are in conjunction." "Those are our two suns, what you would call Agape and Satori." "[Subdued instrumental music]" " You finish your homework, Gabby?" " Yeah." "NATALIE:" "I lost another tooth." "POWELL:" "Maybe the tooth fairy will come tonight." "There's no such thing as a tooth fairy." "It's just you and Mom." "I fed them already." "They couldn't wait." "How was your day?" "POWELL:" "The 6:15 was late, didn't leave the station till 6:30." "I should've caught the nearest beam of light." "RACHEL:" "Should've caught what?" "POWELL:" "Nothing." "How was your day?" "Good." "Sent the deposit in." "For the house in the Cape, last two weeks of August." "Which is perfect, since Gabby gets out of camp on the 15th." " You sent the deposit in?" " Yeah." "Come on, Rach." "That wasn't definite." "We were just talking." "I said maybe." " Maybe sometime in August looked good." " Maybe." "Maybe we should start paying you for your time." "You got a family rate?" "Look they published my letter." "I spoke with Natalie about going into the after-school program next year  in case I go back to teaching." "And this morning my head fell off, but I sewed it back on with dental floss." "RACHEL:" "Waxed, of course." "POWELL:" "Dental floss?" "POWELL:" "Sorry, I wasn't listening." "RACHEL:" "I know." "Let's just eat." "The train was late, I'm tired, and the city's dumping patients on us." "I know." "You stink." "Have a nice day, Sal." "PROT:" "I've been to 64 planets within our galaxy." "Earth is the only one with your species, homo sapiens, that I've visited so far." "POWELL:" "And when did you arrive on Earth?" "PROT:" "Four years and nine months ago." "POWELL:" "So, that makes you how old?" "PROT:" "In Earth terms, 337 years old." "I aged about seven getting here, traveling at six multiples of c." "But really, Marko, it only seemed like an instant." "FLEEN:" "Marko?" "PROT:" "Time being warped at super-light speed." "Well, I say Axis 1 psychosis, NOS." "That's glib, to call him a psychotic." "That's a wastebasket diagnosis." "He believes he traveled here from another planet." "What's your diagnosis?" "Jet lag?" "How come he didn't respond to the Haldol?" "Haldol can make you more psychotic." "It's rare, but it does happen." "Look, I'm not saying that medication can't be useful to help somebody like this." "But you can't go..." "What about the Betazine protocol?" "The drug's on clinical trial." "You want to experiment on him before we have a diagnosis?" " Do you have some other idea?" " Well, he's not a danger to anyone." "How about getting to know him first?" "In the meantime, we have 10 new transfers to take care of." "POWELL:" "You know, maybe what's wrong with him is that he is." "VILLARS:" "Is what?" "POWELL:" "From the planet K-PAX." "[Laughing and chuckling]" "VILLARS:" "Davies, 517." "Have a look." "[Mystical instrumental music]" "Your produce alone has been worth the trip." "Could you tell me a bit about your boyhood on K-PAX?" "Where were you born?" "You were born, right?" "K" " PAXians have babies." "Yes." "Much like on Earth." "But unlike you humans, the reproductive process is quite unpleasant for us." "Could you compare it to something I might understand like a toothache?" "It's more like having your nuts in a vise except we feel it all over." "And worse, the sensation is associated with something like your nausea accompanied by a very bad smell." "The moment of climax is like being kicked in the stomach and then falling into a pool of mot droppings." "Mot droppings?" "A mot is a being much like your skunk, only far more potent." "If it's such a terrible experience, how do you reproduce?" "As carefully as possible." "What are you doing?" "You just reminded me of something I want to include in my report." "Your report?" "It's our custom to compile descriptions of the various places and people we encounter throughout the galaxy." " 'Morning, Betty." " Good morning, Prot." " 'Morning, Navarro." " What's up, man?" "Friedman. 'Morning, Maria." "I'm Vanessa." "'Morning, Bess." "ERNIE:" "She doesn't talk to anybody." "Afraid smoke will come out of her mouth when she talks." "Been here since she was a little girl." "Burned her house down." "Playing with matches." "Very dangerous." "It was an electrical fire." "Why do you make up stories like that?" "Ernie has a very powerful imagination." "MRS. ARCHER:" "Philistine!" "SIMMS:" "Come on, Doris." "You got to come out of your room sometime." "Look what I brought, just for you." "MRS. ARCHER:" "Boo, boo!" "Boo, poo!" "SIMMS:" "Do that again, you go up to three." "Her Royal Highness never comes out of her room, not even to eat." "No wonder she's in here." "Every day coming up here, she won't eat." "I hate that bitch." "The service here is atrocious!" "Good morning, Mrs. Archer." "Doris." "Well, I wasn't expecting any gentlemen callers until this afternoon." "Excuse me." "PROT:" "You have a place set for two." "Yes." " I'm expecting someone." " How long have you been waiting?" "Eleven years." "Some around here might call that crazy but I prefer to call it romantic." " Romantic." " Like a waltz in the moonlight?" "Or a candle-lit dinner." "A sunset?" "We have those." "On K-PAX, we have two suns." "They rise together only once every 200 years." "Now, that is quite a sight." "CHAKRABORTY:" "He most definitely has a sensitivity to white light." "But I think it's his range that you'll find interesting." "What am I looking at?" "He can detect light at a wavelength of up to 300 to 400 angstroms  ultraviolet." "Of course, Prot's explanation is that due to his planet's peculiar quality of light caused by its two suns K" " PAXians are used to light conditions much like our twilight most of the time." "Wait a minute." "Chuck, I didn't think human beings could see ultraviolet light." "We can't." "[Uptempo, mystical instrumental music]" "Good morning, Joyce." "That's a lovely configuration you're wearing today." "Thank you." "Macy's." "POWELL:" "Come in." "PROT:" "This is so much better." "It's a lot like home." "POWELL:" "Well, Prot, I was hoping you'd tell me more about home." "Well, what would you like to know?" "POWELL:" "Do you have a family on K-PAX?" "It doesn't work on K-PAX the same way it works here." "On K-PAX, we don't have families in the way that you think of them." "In fact, family would be a non sequitur on our planet, as it would on most others." "In other words, you never knew your parents." "On K-PAX, children are not raised by their biological parents, Mark, but by everyone." "They circulate among us, learning from one, and then another." " Do you have a child?" " No." "Do you have a wife waiting back for you on K-PAX?" "Mark, Mark." "You are not really listening to what I'm saying to you, are you?" "We do not have marriage on K-PAX." "There are no wives." "There are no husbands." "There are no families." "I see." "So, what about a societal structure?" "Government?" "No, there's no need for one." " You have no laws?" " No laws, no lawyers." "How do you know right from wrong?" "Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark." "But what if someone did do something wrong?" "Committed murder?" "Or a rape?" "How would you punish them?" "PROT:" "Let me tell you something, Mark." "You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of "an eye for an eye."" ""A life for a life." Which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity." "Even Buddha and Christ had quite a different vision but nobody pays much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or Christians." "You humans, sometimes it's hard to imagine how you've made it this far." "[Soft instrumental music]" "STEVE:" "You guys be careful." "ABBY:" "Kids, let's go." "ABBY:" "The hot dogs are ready." "JOSH:" "Good job!" "RACHEL:" "Where were you, just now?" " Come on." " Okay." "Kids, come on." "Wash up." "Okay." "Josh!" "Now, come on." "Quit teasing the dog." "STEVE:" "Josh, settle down now." "ABBY:" "Let's go." "POWELL:" "Here we are." "ABBY:" "Great." "STEVE:" "Park that right here." " That looks terrific." " That looks great." "Steve, how was your trip up from Princeton?" "STEVE:" "Not too bad." "POWELL:" "Yeah?" " We stopped by to see Michael." " That was nice of you, Sis." " Quite a detour for you guys." " Well, it was his birthday." "I know it was his birthday." "I sent him a card, and a nice big check as usual." "It wouldn't kill you to pick up the phone every once in a while and talk to your own son." "Thank you, Abby." "You want to pass the potato salad, please?" "There you go." "By the way, I put him through Dartmouth." "He knows how to pick up a phone, too." " I might invite him for Christmas." " Great." "I thought he..." "He spends Christmas with his mother." "POWELL:" "He won't come here." "How do you know?" "When was the last time you asked him?" "I'm on the couch here?" "POWELL:" "Want a beer?" "STEVE:" "Please and thank you." "ABBY:" "You want some more?" "STEVE:" "Can I have a corn dog?" "I have a rather unusual favor to ask you." " What can I do you for, Dr. P?" " I have a patient." "Sit down." "POWELL:" "I have this patient who seems to know quite a bit about your field." "You have a patient who's an astronomer?" "STEVE:" "So, tell me about this patient of yours." "Well, he claims to come from a planet he calls K-PAX." "GABBY:" "What kind of name is that?" "NATALIE:" "K-PAX?" "He says it's 1,000 light-years away, near the constellation Lyra." "Big head, green?" "About this high?" "I know the guy." "No, he's very convincing." "I mean, of course, he's human." "It's just that he's, well, he's  the most convincing delusional I've ever come across." "And if I can prove to him that this K-PAX is just a figment of his imagination then maybe I can find out who he really is." "STEVE:" "Sure." "I can give you a whole list of questions to ask your fellow." "POWELL:" "Wonderful." "McALLISTER:" "All his books and papers and all are spread out over the desk like always but he's just sitting there." "Did someone change his medication?" "McALLISTER:" "I gave him his usual, Anafranil, 250 milligrams." "POWELL:" "Well, something's wrong with him." "An obsessive-compulsive doesn't just sit there looking out the window." "Howie?" "Good morning, Dr. Powell." "POWELL:" "Good morning." "Are you looking for something?" " The bluebird." " The bluebird?" "The Bluebird of Happiness." "Prot told me to find the Bluebird of Happiness." "Prot told you." "HOWIE:" "It's a task." "The first of three." "I don't know what the other two are yet." "He'll tell me." "If I complete all three I'll be cured." "[Uptempo, mystical instrumental music]" "PROT:" "There, Ernie, maintain your breathing." "That's it." "Now, you see?" "There are none of the ammonia particles that you're worried about." "In the first place, I would be able to see them, and I don't." "ERNIE:" "Winged monkey, 7:00." "SAL:" "Yeah, well, take a bath." "Take a bath." "Ernie, would you excuse us for a moment, please?" "POWELL:" "Good to see you outside, Ernie." "ERNIE:" "Thank you." "SAL:" "Ernie, you stink." "POWELL:" "Prot it's one thing to be interested in your fellow patients." "It's quite another to make them think that you can cure them." "You seem overly upset, Mark." "To borrow a phrase from Navarro, "You need to chill."" "For your information, all beings have the capacity to cure themselves, Mark." "This is something we've known on K-PAX for millions of years." "Listen to me." "On this planet, I'm a doctor." "You're a patient." "Doctor." "Patient." "Curious human distinction." "It's not your job to cure Howie, or Ernie, or Maria, or anyone." "It's mine." "Then why haven't you cured them yet?" "By the way, here are the answers to the questions you asked me." "I hope they meet your satisfaction." "[Soft piano music]" "STEVE:" "I don't know what to say, Mark." "STEVE:" "This is pretty wild stuff." "POWELL:" "Gibberish?" "Well not exactly." "See, your patient indicates his planet, K-PAX, orbiting  an eclipsing binary star system, Agape and Satori  near the constellation Lyra." "He could've looked that up, right?" "That's the funny thing, Mark." "Not really." "Except for my boss, Duncan Flynn one of the foremost astrophysicists in the world and maybe, two or three of his colleagues nobody knows much about the possibility of planets in this star system yet." "It hasn't even been reported in any journals." "STEVE:" "Tell me, honestly, did Duncan put you up to this?" "You know, like a joke?" "No, it's no joke, Steve." "Tell me, do you know of any missing astrophysicists?" "[Steve chuckles]" "STEVE:" "Can't say I do." "But there's one or two around here who'd like to meet your fellow." "POWELL:" "Thanks a lot, Steve, I sure appreciate it." "[Natalie plays the piano and Rachel sings the notes]" "PROT:" "Unlike you humans, the reproductive process is an unpleasant one for us." "POWELL:" "In what way is it unpleasant?" "PROT:" "It's a pain." "RACHEL:" "Good." "Okay." "Good." "[Natalie continues playing piano]" "RACHEL:" "Okay." "Good." "Not too fast." "NATALIE:" "Okay." "[Dreamy, mystical instrumental music]" "[Mystical, rhythmic instrumental music]" "NAVARRO:" "So, this is your neighborhood?" "POWELL:" "Hello, gentlemen." "Sure appreciate you meeting with us." "FLYNN:" "Thank you, Doctor." "We'd like to get to the bottom of this as much as you would." "POWELL:" "Thank you, Doctor." "Great, let me introduce you to Prot." "It's a pleasure to meet you, Prot." "I'm Dr. Becker." "This is Dr. Flynn." "Doctors Patel and Hessler." "Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor." "How many doctors are there on this planet?" "[Steve laughs]" "[Soft, mystical instrumental music]" "NAVARRO:" "Oh, man." "It's cool, man." "Look at this." "STEVE:" "Here you go, Prot." "Have a seat." "NAVARRO:" "Oh, shit." "Feel at home?" "We found your notes quite interesting, Prot." "And we'd like to ask you some questions, if that's all right." "Be my guest." "FLYNN:" "Good." "Then I'll jump right in." "PROT:" "Make sure you can swim." "Yes, well, let's start with this idea of light travel, shall we?" "What can you tell us about that?" "Absolutely nothing." "PROT:" "If I told you you'd blow yourselves up." "Or worse, someone else." "You'd be surprised how much energy is in a beam of light." "Then, maybe you could show us how this light travel works." " You mean a demonstration?" " That would be fine." "Adios, aloha." " Well, when are you going to..." " I'm already back." "Where I come from, Prot, that's called the "Fastest Gun in the West" routine." "Well, I don't come from where you come from, Dr. Becker." "FLYNN:" "Prot, you've indicated in your notes that your planet, K-PAX orbits around the twin stars Agape and Satori near the constellation Lyra." "Frankly we're a bit mystified as to how you gained knowledge of such a planetary system around these stars." "Professor, where I come from that's common knowledge." "This was taken from the Hubble." "FLYNN:" "We've computer-enhanced it, based on Dr. Patel's readings from telescopes in Chile and Hawaii." "It's the clearest picture we have of where you come from." "And what we'd like is if you could diagram on the light pad the orbital pattern that your planet takes through this system." "PROT:" "My pleasure." "[Soft, mystical instrumental music]" "I think that's right." "FLYNN:" "Steven, could you input that?" "STEVE:" "Already on it." "What's going on?" "[Mystical instrumental music]" "PROT:" "I take it my calculations help explain the perturbations you've been seeing  in the rotation-pattern of your binary star but have been unable to explain until this moment." "FLYNN:" "How..." "How could you know this?" "How could you..." "Every K-PAXian knows this." "Just as every child on Earth knows that your planet revolves around your sun." "It's common knowledge, isn't it?" "POWELL:" "What happened in there?" "I mean you..." "He could be a savant." "There are savants who have painted flawless copies of Rembrandt  who couldn't remember their own names." "You don't believe him, Steve?" "STEVE:" "I don't know what I believe." "But I know what I saw." "SAL:" "I moved it." "It's removed." "[Soft, magical instrumental music]" "Bluebird." "Bluebird." "SAL:" "No, you just wait till next..." "HOWIE:" "Bluebird." "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" " Howie!" " Where?" "Bluebird!" "McALLISTER:" "Howie!" "HOWIE:" "Bluebird!" "HOWIE:" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "McALLISTER:" "Howie." "Bluebird!" "Bluebird." "Bluebird." "Bluebird." "Bluebird." "Bluebird." "Bluebird." "Oh, my God!" "ORDERLY:" "Howie!" "HOWIE:" "Bluebird!" "ORDERLY:" "Get back here." "HOWIE:" "Bluebird!" "HOWIE:" "Bluebird!" "PATIENT:" "Hey!" "ERNIE:" "Do bluebirds bite, Sal?" "SAL:" "No, they don't bite, stinkhead." "HOWIE:" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "HOWIE:" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "PATIENT:" "Hey, Buzz, there's a bluebird." "SIMMS:" "Shit." "Disturbance on 2." "ERNIE:" "Howie's bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "PATIENTS: [Chanting] Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "Bluebird!" "SIMMS:" "Not that way." "It's mass hysteria." "Betty?" "Betty, what the hell is going on here?" "Come here, come here." "HOWIE:" "Dr. Powell, come see." "POWELL:" "All right." "SAL:" "What's that?" "NAVARRO:" "Come here." "Come here!" "VILLARS:" "What's going on here, Dr. Powell?" "VILLARS:" "What on earth is out there?" "POWELL:" "Just a blue jay." "VILLARS:" "A blue jay?" "PATIENT 1:" "That's right." "PATIENT 2:" "It is." "SIMMS:" "Come on, calm down." "A blue jay." "ORDERLY:" "Come on, now." "SIMMS:" "Come on." "Off the chair." "ORDERLY:" "Come on." "SIMMS:" "Get off the chair." "SAL:" "Mrs. Archer came out of her room." "Bluebird?" "MRS. ARCHER:" "There is a bluebird?" "SIMMS:" "Come on over." "Come on over here." "SIMMS:" "Come on." "NAVARRO:" "That's right." "Help, yes." "SIMMS:" "Come on down the hall, Stevie." "It's okay." "PATIENT:" "Bluebird." "BESS:" "I know who you are." "You're the bluebird." "PROT:" "Good night, Bess." " And how are we today?" " Just fine." "PROT:" "That's good, Maria." "My man." "PROT:" "Excuse me." "About that light travel thing I was wondering if you could maybe show me how to do that." "SAL:" "I put up with the stink in this place for 10 years." "I want to get out, if you know what I mean." "I used to be the doorman at the Plaza." "Fifteen years." "That's when I started to notice it." "PROT:" "Notice what?" "SAL:" "The smell." "They all stank." "And I tried to tell them, but..." "They put me here." "And..." "And this place smells worse than all." "Except for you." "You don't smell, so I figured maybe you could help me." "You should smell the yort blossoms on my planet in a gentle breeze." "Very much like your sugar plums." "I would like to smell that." "I would like to go there to your planet." "I'm afraid I can only take one person back with me when I go." "POWELL:" "I had my weekly session with Sal today." "He says you're taking him to K-PAX." "I've heard from most of the patients on Ward 2." "They all tell me that they're going to K-PAX." "I wonder if it's a wise thing to be promising patients in a psychiatric facility?" " No, Mark." "I made it clear to every one." "I can only take one person back with me when I return." " Return?" "Mark, don't get me wrong." "I mean, you've been very hospitable." "Hospital." "Hospitable." "But my time here is almost up, and I can't wait to get back." " Back?" "To K-PAX?" " Yes, of course." "Where else?" " You're planning to return to K-PAX." " You're repeating yourself again." "I have one trip to take up north and then I am planning to return to K-PAX." "Joyce gave me these strawberries this morning from her garden in Hoboken." "They are delicious." "You'll have to forgive me, but this is a bit confusing." " When're you planning on..." " I'm departing on July 27." "Why?" "Why July 27?" "Safety reasons." "I can travel on Earth without fear of bumping into someone traveling at super-light speed  but beings are coming and going all the time from K-PAX." "It has to be coordinated." "You're telling me you're beaming back to K-PAX on July 27." "At 5:51 a.m., Eastern time." "[Mystical, uptempo instrumental music]" "Hey, honey." "Mark, you were just dreaming." "You were just dreaming." "NATALIE:" "Daddy?" "RACHEL:" "Mark?" "RACHEL:" "Mark, what's going on?" "Daddy's okay." "Go back to bed." " Where is Daddy going?" " He's all right, his tummy hurts." "NATALIE:" "Daddy." "RACHEL:" "Get in bed." "POWELL:" "When did you arrive on Earth?" "PROT:" "Four years and 9 months ago." "PROT:" "In your years..." "RACHEL:" "What is it?" "POWELL:" "Listen." "POWELL:" "When did you arrive on Earth?" "PROT:" "Four years and nine months ago." "PROT:" "In your years, that would be..." "Four years, nine months and three days ago." "That'll be five years to the day on July 27." "That's when he's leaving." "RACHEL:" "What?" "POWELL:" "To go back to K-PAX." "RACHEL:" "What is the matter with you?" "POWELL:" "Rachel..." "It is 2:00 a.m. What's this patient doing to you?" "He's telling me that five years ago on July 27 something terrible happened to him." "Some horrible trauma." "I've got to get to him before that date." "GABBY:" "Mom, what's happening?" "RACHEL:" "Unbelievable." "RACHEL:" "Nothing." "Let's all go back to bed." "RACHEL:" "Come on." "GIRLS:" "Mom." "GABBY:" "I got it." "JOSH:" "Over here." "Oh, sorry." " Is the spaceman here yet?" " Don't call him that." "CHILDREN:" "Spaceman." "POWELL:" "No!" "POWELL:" "No, hey." "Everybody, come here." "Come here." "Listen, everybody." "He'll be here any minute." "I want you guys to just calm down." "Be yourselves." "Act natural." "NATALIE:" "Okay." "GABBY:" "Okay." "GIRLS:" "Spaceman." "RACHEL:" "When he gets here, I want you to behave." "GABBY:" "Is he going to zap us with his laser guns?" "RACHEL:" "I mean it." "I do." "Here." "NATALIE:" "Oh, Mom." " I can't believe I agreed to this." " I've tried everything else." "I want him to spend the Fourth of July with us." "To see if a normal family environment might bring something out of him." " Since when did we become a normal family?" " Please, Rachel." "Look, they're here." " I just feel uncomfortable." " Well, don't." "POWELL:" "Joyce's son is on the high-school wrestling team." "And Betty's husband's an ex-cop." " Hey!" " Hi." "RACHEL:" "Hey, Joyce." "POWELL:" "Glad you could make it." "DOMINIC:" "Thank you." "Same here." "McALLISTER:" "My husband, Dominic." " He looks like Data." " That's right." "Embarrass him." "Welcome, Prot." "This is my wife, Rachel." "How do you do?" "Rachel, thank you so much for inviting me today." "Thanks for coming." "GABBY:" "Watch out." "Watch out." "POWELL:" "No." "POWELL:" "Shasta, no." "Shasta!" "PROT:" "Come here, Shasta." "Damn dog's never liked anyone." "Okay." "Hey, kids." "RACHEL:" "Girls, girls." "Come here." "[Prot imitates Shasta barking]" "Okay." "She says she doesn't like it when you hide her favorite tennis shoe and she doesn't hear so well on her left side so don't sneak up on her anymore." "No way." "RACHEL:" "Let's go get some lunch." "Let's have lunch." "Let's go back." "ABBY:" "Come here." "PROT:" "Let's go eat." "RACHEL:" "Come on." "JOYCE:" "Looks good, Rachel." "RACHEL:" "Okay, you guys, come on." "Careful, Gabby." "RACHEL:" "Okay." "Come on." "JOYCE:" "Anybody else want some?" "RACHEL:" "There we go." "Good." "So, Prot, Mark tells me you don't eat meat." "That's very healthy." "Speak for yourselves." "Burgers." "GABBY:" "Burgers." "JOSH:" "Yes!" "I love burgers." "ABBY:" "Looks good." "McALLISTER:" "Everything looks so good." "Pass me one of those hamburgers." "Come on, pass them." "[Soft, mystical instrumental music]" "STEVE:" "That was good." "Good." "JOSH:" "Gabby, go!" "Go!" "STEVE:" "Yeah, let's do it." "Come back!" "There's a photograph on the piano of a young man with all the others." "That's Michael." "That's Mark's son from his first marriage." "How many marriages has he had?" "Just the two." "So far." "So far?" "I mean, he's not out to set a world record or anything." "But the young man in the photograph, he's not here today." "RACHEL:" "No, he doesn't live with us." "You know, he's away at college and..." "And the truth is, he and Mark don't talk to each other." "I don't know why I'm telling you this." "Probably because I'm a locked-up lunatic, so what harm could it do?" "Maybe." "Maybe that's it." "Dr. Powell has been trying to teach me the importance you beings place on your biological connections." "You think he means it?" "You don't?" "STEVE:" "Yeah!" "That was a good one, Son." "Do you know what a family is?" "You worry." "They don't tell you that, you know." "You don't have a family?" "No." "We don't have families on K-PAX." "You don't know what you're missing." "I'll get you some more lemonade." "STEVE:" "Hey, that's beautiful!" "ABBY:" "Okay." "Fourth of July." "Thank you for inviting me here today, Mark." "You're most welcome, Prot." "STEVE:" "That's good." "Come on." "Come on." "NATALIE:" "Come push me on the swing." "STEVE:" "All right, I'll send it to you." "JOSH:" "Okay." "PROT:" "Okay, but first you have to hold on very tight." "NATALIE:" "Okay." "PROT:" "You ready?" "NATALIE:" "This is fun!" "JOSH:" "Come on, let's go." "Come on." "Watch out." "Watch out." "Come near the water." "PROT:" "No, don't!" "NATALIE:" "Come on." "PROT:" "Don't!" "NATALIE:" "Come on!" "PROT:" "Don't go!" "Stay away!" "Don't go in the water!" " Don't!" " Let go!" "PROT:" "No, don't!" "No, you stay." "No!" "RACHEL:" "Natalie!" "Natalie!" "NATALIE:" "Mom!" "PROT:" "No!" "RACHEL:" "Mark!" "DANNY:" "Don't!" "No!" "Prot!" "Betty, quick!" "POWELL:" "Get back!" "Turn off the goddamn water!" "ABBY:" "Stay there, Josh." "ABBY:" "I'll turn it off." "McALLISTER:" "I got it." "POWELL:" "It's okay." "DANNY:" "Oh, yeah." "POWELL:" "Prot, it's okay." "It's okay." "No, it's okay, Betty." "POWELL:" "Where're his glasses?" "STEVE:" "Here." "I got them." "POWELL:" "You're all right." "STEVE:" "Here you go." "POWELL:" "Prot." "POWELL:" "You're okay." "Is that apple pie I smell?" "POWELL:" "Sweetheart, you okay?" "NATALIE:" "Yeah." "He was pushing my daughter on a swing like he had done it 100 times before." "Not like he was some alien from K-PAX." "I saw him." "He was connecting with something." " Some kind of normal life." " That's not enough." " He's a violent patient, Mark." " He is not violent." "Something violent happened to him." "Something in his past." "He wasn't trying to harm Natalie, he was trying to protect her." " From the sprinklers?" " I'm not sure from what." "I need more than a hunch to go on." "Otherwise I have to send him upstairs." "We need to regress him." "Take him back into the past." "Find out what happened and have him confront it." "VILLARS:" "Regress him?" "Do you have any idea how risky it is to regress a patient like this one?" "It's his only chance." "Claudia, we have to push him." "There's no time." "He told me that he's going back to K-PAX on July 27." "That's in three weeks." "I think that he could become violent on that day." "Hurt himself, hurt somebody else." "You know what the problem is, Mark?" "You're too close to this patient." "Everybody else can see it but you." "I'm transferring him to the fourth floor, and that's final." "I know I'm too close to him, all right?" "Fine, I admit it." "VILLARS:" "Why choose this one to save, Mark?" "POWELL:" "I don't know." "Maybe, maybe because I feel  he chose me." "POWELL:" "Has anyone seen Prot?" "SAL:" "He went up north for a few days." "North?" "HOWIE:" "Greenland." "Iceland." "You know he had a few countries left to visit before he could finish his report." "Don't worry, Dr. Powell." "He'll be back." "How do you know, Ernie?" "Because he took his glasses with him, darling." "When he returns to K-PAX, he won't need them." "Patients do not escape from this institution." " They don't escape." " There has been no evidence of escape." "But obviously I've notified the police, Social Services." "I'll have a great time explaining this to the State Board." "I got psychotics packing up their sneakers because they think they're going to K-PAX." " Claudia." " Find him." "[Soft, dramatic instrumental music]" "POWELL:" "What about city shelters?" "Have you checked?" "No." "No, I'm not telling you how to do your job." "Thank you." "[Mystical instrumental music]" "PROT:" "Dr. Powell, I presume." "Where the hell have you been?" "Newfoundland." "Greenland." "Iceland." "Labrador." "All right, cut the crap." "We've been looking for you for three days." "I believe I mentioned my taking a trip up north in this very garden." "Taking a trip?" "You're a patient here." "You don't leave here without a discharge." "And don't give me this beam of light shit, because I don't buy it." "What would you say if I were to tell you that I don't believe you took any trip at all to Iceland or Greenland or anywhere." "That I don't believe you're from K-PAX." "I believe you're as human as I am." "I would say you're in need of a Thorazine drip, Doctor." "There is one way you could convince me beyond any doubt." "Of course, I would need your consent." "It's called hypnosis." "I'm sorry, I don't see the point." "Let me tell you what your alternative is." "A place where they'll stick a needle in your ass every day which may leave you grinning stupidly for the rest of your days on Earth." "Is that what you'd like?" "Prot?" "I want to help you." "POWELL:" "What we're going to be doing, Prot, is a bit like daydreaming." "I'm going to count from one to five." "On the count of three, your eyes will close and you will find yourself in a very nice, deep, comfortable, relaxed state of hypnosis." "One:" "Your eyes are starting to get very heavy now." "Two:" "I want you to use your imagination  and imagine small lead weights on your eyelids  that are just making them so heavy." "Pulse rate is 40 BPM." "I'd be concerned if he were human." "POWELL:" "Let yourself go way  way down deep." "Four:" "Let a wave of relaxation move through your body now  as you go down even deeper." "And five:" "Going way way down deep." "You are in a relaxed state of hypnosis now." "How do you feel?" "Like nothing." "I want you to go back in time." "I want you to recall the first experience that you can remember." "What do you see?" "POWELL:" "What was that?" "What do you see?" "I see  a casket." "Silver  with a blue lining." "Whose casket is it?" "It's the father of a friend of mine." "And what's your friend's name?" "Not telling." "Do you know how your friend's father died?" "He had an accident at the place he worked." "He was killed in an accident?" "POWELL:" "He was hurt and then died later?" "POWELL:" "Where did he work?" "PROT:" "A place where they kill cows." "Where is this place?" "The pulse rate just shot up 10 BPM." "POWELL:" "Do you know where this place is?" "I want you to relax." "I want to move forward in time now." "Where are you?" "It's nighttime." "We're in his house." "POWELL:" "At the other boy's house?" "PROT:" "Yeah." "I want him to come outside." "Why?" "To look at the stars." "That's where I come from, you know." "Is your name Prot?" "How did you know that?" "Where are you from, Prot?" "From the planet K-PAX." "It's in the constellation Lyra." "Do you know all the constellations?" "Yeah, most of them." "POWELL:" "And does your friend know them, too?" "Yes, he does." "When his dad got sick and had to stay home they got a telescope." "His dad taught him about all the constellations." "He's not interested in those right now." "Why not?" "Something happened." "That's why he called me." "He calls me when something bad happens." "Like when his father died?" "That's right." "How do you know to come?" "How does the boy call you?" "I don't know." "I just come." "I just know." "How do you get to Earth?" "I want to go outside." "Can I go outside?" "Read his body language." "I don't think he wants to talk anymore today." "All right, I want you to just relax." "Think about the stars." "That's right." "I'm going to count backwards now from five to one." "You'll find yourself wide awake." "Five:" "You're starting to come out of it." "Four:" "You're feeling more alert." "Three:" "Even more alert." "Two:" "You're becoming awake now." "And one." "So, when do we begin?" "It's already over." "The old "Fastest Gun in the West" routine." "POWELL:" "Let's find the locations of all the slaughterhouses in the United States." "I mean, how many can there be?" "JOYCE:" "I don't know." "POWELL:" "We eliminate the ones in or near big cities and we concentrate on small towns, rural areas." "Places where you can see the stars." "Joyce, we only have six days." "MRS. ARCHER:" "Should I bring the crystal, or leave it here?" "I suppose I won't really need it on K-PAX." "I don't even know what they drink." "SAL:" "Dream on, sister." "He can only take one of us." "Why would he take a stinker like you?" "He's taking me." "How dare you." "I do not stink." "No, forget it, I'm the one going." "ERNIE:" "Yeah?" "Which one of you?" "McALLISTER:" "Okay." "Who would like to begin?" "Ernie." "I was wondering if it was possible for us to have cream of wheat instead of oatmeal?" "SAL:" "Not again." "McALLISTER:" "Howie." "There's really not much time." "I would like to propose an essay contest to decide once and for all who will go with Prot." "He's agreed to read them all by July 27." "If anyone would like to be considered, please state your reasons in a clear legible hand and return them to me." "HOWIE:" "Russell." "Bess." "MARIA:" "Damn." "RUSSELL:" "Would I get to take my Bible to K-PAX?" "Of course you would." "McALLISTER:" "We can finish the essays later." "POWELL:" "I want you to go back in time again, but not as far back as last time." "Is your friend there?" "Is he with you now?" "Yeah." " What's his name?" " Not telling." "Prot, I would like to know your friend's name." "I ain't going to tell you." "POWELL:" "We have to call him something." "How about Pete?" "That's not his name, but whatever thrills you." "What year is it?" "1985." " How old are you?" " 175." " How old is Pete?" " 17." "POWELL:" "Tell me about Pete." "What happened?" "Is there a problem?" "Is that why he called you?" "He's got a girlfriend." "POWELL:" "There's a problem with the girlfriend?" "She's pregnant." "He can see it coming right down the road." "You get married, have a bunch of kids, wind up in the job that killed your dad." "POWELL:" "He blames her for this?" "No, he doesn't blame her." "How did he put it?" "He hates the chains that people shackle themselves with." " We don't have all that crap on K-PAX." " All right." "Prot, listen to me carefully." "We're going to move forward in time again, say two weeks." "If you'd like to open your eyes or move around, you may." "Would you like to?" "I know that." "Prot..." "PROT:" "Well, it's 1991, according to your Earth calendar." "And your friend Pete called you." "Not for anything in particular." "He just wants to talk things over  with someone every now and then." "Tell me about Pete now." "He's a knocker." "A knocker?" "PROT:" "The knocker is the guy that knocks the cow on the head so it won't struggle  while they slit its throat." "I know." "Barbaric, isn't it?" "Does he still live in the same town?" "Well, just outside of town." "He's got a little place, but he's fixed it up nice." "It's got some trees, and a couple of acres and a river." "PROT:" "Reminds me of K-PAX, except for the river." "Tell me, did he ever marry that pregnant girl?" "Wow, what a memory." "Yeah, they got married, but she's no longer pregnant." "That was six years ago." "I've forgotten her name." "I didn't tell you her name." "Can you tell me now?" "Sarah." "POWELL:" "Did they have a son or a daughter?" "Rebecca." "It's her birthday next week." "VILLARS:" "Chuck, what's happened?" "CHAKRABORTY:" "Howie tried to kill Ernie." "What?" "He's fine." "Ernie?" "I feel wonderful, Dr. Powell, absolutely wonderful." "What happened?" "My good friend Howie, he nearly strangled me to death." "What?" "Son of a bitch, I love him." "Ernie, I don't understand." "I was asleep, you know the way I like my hands tied and everything?" "He wrapped something around my neck, maybe a handkerchief." "And then tightened it." "There wasn't a damn thing I could do about it." "Well, when I stopped breathing, he lifted me onto the gurney." "He rushed me up here, they brought me back as quick as they could." "And when I woke up you know what I realized, Dr. Powell?" "Dying..." "Dying is something you have no control over." "Why waste your life being afraid of it?" "I'll sleep on my stomach from now on." "I'll eat fish with bones in it, I'll swallow the biggest pill you can find." "Bring it on." "I feel good." "That's terrific, Ernie." " See you at our session tomorrow?" " Yes." "I cured him, didn't I?" "Prot says one more task and I'll be cured, too." "And then, it's bon voyage." "[Soft instrumental music]" "Tell me your name, damn it." "I'm going to give you a specific date and I want you to remember where you were and what you were doing on that day." "Do you understand?" "Perfectly well, my dear sir." "The date is July 27, 1996." "I'm on K-PAX." "POWELL:" "Are you sure?" "Quite sure, Governor." "I'm harvesting kropins for a meal." "Kropins are a fungi, like your truffles." "Big truffles, delicious." "Do you like truffles?" "Wait a minute." "There it is." " What?" "Is it Pete?" " Yes." "I sense something is wrong." "He needs me." "I'm now on Earth." "I'm with him." "Where are you?" "What are you doing?" "By a river." "In the back of his house." "It's dark." "He's taking off his clothes." "Why is he doing that?" "What?" "What is he doing?" "He's trying to kill himself." "Why does he want to kill himself?" "Because something terrible has happened." "Has he done something he shouldn't have?" "He doesn't want to talk about it." "Prot, I'm trying to help him." "I can't unless he tells me what happened." "He knows that." "Well, then why won't he tell me?" "Then you would know what even he doesn't want to know." "Then you have to help him." "Prot you have to help him tell me what happened." "He doesn't want to talk about it." "Are you fucking deaf?" "Time is running out for him." "Time is running out for everyone." "He jumps in." "He's floating." "Pulse is up to 140." "Respiration's at 30." "For God's sake, bring him back." "Right, listen to me." "Listen to me." "You can save him." "You're his friend." "I am his friend." "That's why I won't try." "Save him!" "No, I can't." "The current is too strong." "There's no chance." "POWELL:" "Listen to me." "You've helped a lot of patients here, Mrs. Archer you've helped Howie, and Ernie." "Help cure Pete, now." "Let's call it a task." "I want you to let me speak to him." "If he's listening I want him to know that he can trust me." "That if it was Sarah or Rebecca..." "[Prot yells]" "McALLISTER:" "Get in here." "POWELL:" "No, wait!" "Wait, wait!" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "It's okay." "It's all right." "[Prot continues sobbing]" "I'll count backwards now from five to one." "And as I count, you'll become more and more alert." "I'll snap my fingers on the count of one, and you'll wake up feeling refreshed." "Five:" "You're starting to come out of it." "Four:" "You're becoming more alert." "Three:" "Even more alert." "Two:" "You're starting to wake up now, and one." "Are you okay?" "Yes, feeling fine." "Okay." " God bless you." " Thank you." "POWELL:" "Is this area code 505?" "Where are you?" "New Mexico?" "POWELL:" "Salva..." "Salvation." "Salvation." "JOYCE:" "There are a dozen Salvation Army shelters in New Mexico." "Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Roswell." "Wait a minute, there's one in Santa Rosa." "Santa Rosa." "POWELL:" "Guelph." "That's pretty close to Santa Rosa." "What's the biggest local newspaper for that region?" ""Guadalupe County Observer, covering Guadalupe County."" "POWELL:" "Okay, bring that up." "POWELL:" "Go to July 27, 1996." "POWELL: "Swap meet, livestock sale."" "Wait, go to the 28th." "There it is!" ""Robert Porter, drowned."" "His name is Robert Porter." "[Climactic instrumental music]" "Robert Porter." "Here it is." "I do remember this case." "About the biggest thing to ever happen around these parts." "Quiet type." "As I recall, he was a real smart fellow." "Brainy." "Strong as a horse though, worked as a knocker." "Lived about 20 miles outside of town with his wife and child." "POWELL:" "Sarah." "His wife's name was Sarah." "That's right." "SHERIFF:" "Damn shame what happened." " You got time to take a ride?" " Yeah." "SHERIFF:" "It's been empty." "Nobody comes around here much anymore since all that happened." "And there ain't no living next of kin to give the place to anyway." "SHERIFF:" "I had detectives come down from Albuquerque to try and piece this one together." "According to the official story, Porter was at work when this drifter, Daryl Walker, came by the house." "He was a two-time parolee, looking for trouble." "You know?" "Started out as a robbery." "The wife and daughter were out back." "PROT: [Echoing] Becky?" "Sarah?" "Sarah?" "From what we can gather from forensics Walker forced the two women into the house." "SHERIFF:" "Raped the wife." "Then killed them both." "Porter must have come home and found Walker still here." "[Dramatic and ominous instrumental music]" "God." "Snapped a grown man's neck like it was a twig." "[Eerie, mystical vocal music]" "SHERIFF:" "Can't say I wouldn't have done the same." "[Eerie, mystical vocal music continues]" "[Melancholy music continues]" "The river's this way." "SHERIFF:" "We found the clothes there." "This is probably where he jumped in." "This river can be treacherous." "Even in July, it's got a hell of a current." "It might have been a mistake officially to declare it  a drowning, when the body was never found." "Doc, if that boy you got in New York is really Robert Porter  I'd just as soon not know about it." "Know what I mean?" "[Melancholy instrumental music]" "[Soft, emotive instrumental music]" "POWELL:" "I'm sorry." " Don't do that again." " I won't." "What happened?" "I found what I was looking for." "You sure?" "Wish I hadn't." "[Elton John's Rocket Man plays]" "MRS. ARCHER:" "If you don't mind putting mine on top." "Prot." "Have a seat." "All packed?" "Ready to go?" "Quite ready." "I travel light." "That's a joke, Mark." "You humans." "There's just no sense of humor." "I doubt Freud ever tried this but when someone goes away, we send them off with a little toast." "Scotch okay, or would you prefer something more fruity?" "I will try the Scotch." "Well, here's to a safe journey." "To tell you the truth K" " PAX sounds like a beautiful place." "I'd like to see it sometime." "Is there a chance of that?" "I think you should see more of your world." "Matter of fact, I think you should see more of your own family." "Invite your son for Christmas." "I may just do that, Prot." "You know what I've learned about your planet?" "There's enough life on Earth to fill 50 planets." "Plants, animals, people, fungi, viruses, all jostling to find their place." "Bouncing off each other, feeding off each other." "Connected." "You don't have that kind of connection on K-PAX?" "Nobody wants, nobody needs." "On K-PAX, when I'm gone, nobody misses me." "There would be no reason to." "And yet, I sense that when I leave here I will be missed." "Yes." "Strange feeling." "POWELL:" "You don't have to leave, Prot." "I'm sure there must be some way that I can help you to stay." "As one of us." "I will miss you, Dr. Powell." "I have to finish my report." "But I seem to have misplaced my pencil." "Take mine." "A much more efficient writing tool." "Adios, my friend." "Prot?" "I want to show you something." "That is Robert Porter." "Prot, that's you." "You and Robert Porter are the same person." "That's patently absurd." "I'm not even human." "Can't you at least admit the possibility?" "I will admit the possibility that I am Robert Porter if you will admit the possibility that I am from K-PAX." "Now, if you'll excuse me I have a beam of light to catch." "PROT:" "Oh, Mark now that you've found Robert please, take good care of him." "[Patients singing For He's A Jolly Good Fellow]" "SAL:" "I can't stand this." "I can't stand this!" "I demand to know which one of us is going with you." "I can tell you this." "There are extra points for the one who goes to sleep first." "You never gave me my last task." "What's my last task?" "To stay here." "And be prepared for anything." "You look tired, Doc." "Why don't you get some rest?" "He's not going anywhere." " We've got 7 hours, I'll see you in 4." " Get some rest." "RACHEL:" "You're going to eat." "You need some food, and you need to sleep." "Chow Fun." "From the place on Broadway with the ugly lanterns in the window?" "The mean waiter who always shouted at us." "POWELL:" "Fortune cookies never had any fortunes in them." "We never needed any." "I knew my fortune that night." "He was sitting right in front of me." "Hope he still is." "SIMMS:" "Hey, Ron." "NAVARRO:" "What's up?" " $20 says he goes." " You're on." "[Eerie, foreboding instrumental music]" "[Suspenseful instrumental music]" "Shit!" "Damn it!" "Two minutes." " I wonder where Dr. Powell is." " I'll buzz him." "One minute." "Here comes Dr. Powell." "He's moving." "Repeat." "He's moving." "What the hell?" "Wait for me!" "Son of a bitch." "POWELL:" "Oh, God." "NAVARRO:" "Oh, man." "Call a code blue." "Help me." "Get him." "[Somber instrumental music]" "ERNIE:" "Who's that?" "Beats me." "How did he get in here?" "MARIA:" "That's not Prot." "HOWIE:" "Definitely not Prot." "Certainly not." "Prot's gone." "Where's Bess?" "SAL:" "Bess!" "He chose Bess." "Bitch." "ERNIE:" "Goodbye, Bess." "Good for you, home girl." "Bess went to K-PAX." "POWELL:" "Patient 287, Robert Porter." "I wish I could say that Robert sat up one fine day  and said, "I'm hungry, got any fruit?"" "Like most catatonics, he probably hears every word we say  but refuses, or is unable to respond." "Nevertheless, I keep him up to date." "I told you about Howie." "He got that job at the public library." "And Ernie, he's determined to be a crisis counselor." "The only one we're really concerned about is Bess." "We check halfway houses, shelters, churches, bus stops." "Nothing." "I don't understand." "It's like, people don't just disappear." "July 27." "You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?" "Robert?" "No?" "Well, maybe it'll come to you." "Whenever you're ready, I'll be waiting." "[Soft instrumental music]" "PROT: [Voiceover] I want to tell you something." "Something you do not yet know  but we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered." "The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself." "And then it will expand again." "It will repeat this process forever." "What you don't know is that when the universe expands again  everything will be as it is now." "Mistakes you make this time around  you will live through on your next pass." "Every mistake you make  you will live through again and again forever." "So, my advice to you is to get it right this time around  because this time is all you have." "[Soft instrumental music continues]" "You're looking great, Michael." "Think so?" "Thanks." "How are you doing?" "POWELL:" "Good." "How was your trip?" "MICHAEL:" "Good." "POWELL:" "I'm really glad you could make it." "[Poignant instrumental music]" "Subtitles :" "Filou ;-)"