"[male voice] My birth was unconventional at best." "My first memory was waking up in the forest." "Like a newborn baby, I had no idea where I was or what was happening." "My eyes weren't sure what they were seeing." "Was this my hand or just my imagination?" "[rattling]" "Every species is born with instincts that ultimately create a balance with nature." "Every species except the one I was born into." " [girl moaning] - [boy chuckling] [male voice] I came across a red beast with two voices." "I was thankful to have found a companion." " [screaming]" " Hey!" "[ McLusky:" "She Will Only Bring You Happiness]" "Oh, we may have a pest problem." "I found some rat pellets." "No wonder I couldn't sleep." "I thought it was a squirrel." "Or the long-lost ghost of Lori's virginity." "Josh..." "Mom, can I borrow the car for Declan's party this weekend?" "Uh-oh, Declan's." "Better bust out the condoms, Dad." "Josh, pinch it off." "So can l, Mom?" "I'm the designated driver." " Mom wants the car to smell like puke?" " Mom wants to see your magazines?" " Hey!" "." " So can l, Mom?" "What, honey?" "Did you say something?" " [Lori] That's milk." " Oh." "I can't do breakfast." "I gotta go." "But can't you see the progress he's making?" "In less than a year he's learned to establish eye contact." " And the hair pulling has stopped." " They cut the funding, period." "You think I like it?" "You think I can't see how amazing you are with Jerry, the breakthroughs you've made?" "But he is your patient, not your son." "You've gotta learn to detach." "[yelling]" "It's OK, Jerry." "It's OK, it's OK, it's OK." "I'm here." "I'm here." "Yeah." "It's OK, it's OK." "Yeah." "Now, listen to me, Jerry." "I want you to go with Alberta now to a new place, where you'll have wonderful new friends and they'll take care of you." "Soon I was taken to new place, with imposing fences and sad faces." "For some reason, the more people I saw, the more alone I felt." "Yo, let's get some juice down here." "What's up?" "Everyone taking stupid pills around here?" "Juice me." "[boy] Most of our time is spent trying to lessen the pains of life." "I was about to learn how to quash hunger." "See something you like, punk?" "You're gonna see my fist if you don't quit eyeballing me." "Go kick his ass, man." "Be cool, Skeeter." "He can't understand a word you say." "He ain't dissin' you, man." "All right." "He keeps staring at me," "I'm still gonna have to kick his retarded ass." "[boy] I had no reason to fear this person, but he reminded me of the snake in the woods." " All right, all right." "Go on." " Just before it struck." "I was glad to see my new friend, but I couldn't think." "A pressure below my waist was getting painful." "[crowd jeering]" "Come on, show me what you got." "Come on, put your hands up." "Put 'em up." "You ain't tough, new kid." "Come on, put 'em up." "Come on." "I wanted to learn whatever game my friend was teaching me, but the ache in my belly was too intense." "[cheering]" "Hey!" "." "I barely noticed the discomfort on my face because inside me something had flipped and I began to feel wonderful." "Great job, guys." "No rec privileges for a week." "Now get outta here." "Now!" "." "Everybody out!" "[gunfire]" "Yeah, bitch." "How do you like me now?" "Josh." "Lori, baby." "Aw." "Looks like you could use a hug." "Sure, that'll just solve everything." "Don't take it personally." "Her friend's in town." " [both] Josh!" " [phone rings]" "You know, in Africa, they put you in a special hut." "[tribal-like chant]" "Lori in the hut!" "[tribal-like chant]" " Hi, Lou." "So what's up?" " I got someone here you'll wanna meet." "The kid showed up here this morning and he's right up your alley." "Great." "So what rocket scientist signed him over to your facility?" "[Lou] It's not like that." "Nobody knows where he came from." "Some campers found him in the woods, but he seems sharp." "And he's..." "Look, you gotta see him for yourself." " I'm intrigued." " Here's the thing." "He's made some enemies, OK?" "The wrong ones." "Now, my gut says he ain't gonna survive here more than a few days." "This afternoon OK?" " [Lou] Thanks for coming by to see him." " Does him have a name?" "Well, the paperwork says John Doe for the time being." "John Doe." "What's a handsome boy like that doing with a dead man's name?" "You know, he kind of reminds me of my brother Kyle." "He got all the looks in the family." "That's perfect." "Kyle." "Yeah." "He can't speak a word, but damned if he doesn't know what you're saying." " I'll be outside if you need me." " Fine." "[tapping]" "[Kyle] I wanted to show where I had come from and what I had seen." "[Lou] Here we go." "That's odd." "So the boy has no family that you know of, he doesn't communicate, and he was found wandering alone in the woods." "That's all the shelter folder said." "No amber alerts, no missing persons report." "But there is one more thing you should see." "[Lou] No belly button." "I have some important news and it concerns us all." " Oh, boy." " Here we go." "There's a very special patient of mine and it's very dangerous where they've put him now and he's coming to stay with us." " Jerry the retard?" " No way." "You mean some mental patient's going to live in our house?" " I wish you'd talked to me about this." " Not live." "It's just until Monday morning when social services can put him in a safe place." "Probably drool all over the house." "Gross." "Why don't we have all the Unicef babies stay here?" " Who is this kid?" " Do you have to be Mother Teresa?" "Doesn't he have a family?" "He touches my stuff, he's pulling back his thumb." "I don't think this is a good idea." "[ American Analog Set:" "Born on The Cusp]" "This is it." "Home." "You're gonna be staying for a few days." "At least until I can..." "[Kyle] My first thought was that flat, tiny people must be living in the walls." "Then I understood, humans get smaller as they develop and pretty soon I'd be shrinking myself." "Maybe one day this woman would hold me, too." "The images made my mind explode with complex mathematical formulae." "Would you like to play a game, Kyle?" "Here." "Lots of kids have tons of fun with this one." "This is called a mouse." "When you move it, this arrow..." " Hello there." "I'm a bird." " [phone rings]" "I fly high into the sky." " Watch the sky and watch me fly." " Hello." "Hey, Nic." "It's me." "I just wanna know how it's going with the..." "He's just great." "He's on the computer right now." "You're alone in the house with him?" "Isn't this the kid that got into fights?" "Trust me, honey." "I'll be fine." "Look at the house..." "Getting a little old for Barney, aren't we, Josh?" "Oh!" "[Kyle When I saw her, I realized something was horribly wrong." "Humans grow larger over time, not smaller." "Why didn't you tell me he was in the house?" "I think he saw my boobs." "What did she just say?" "Look, Nicole, I don't want some violent deviant in our home, and that's final." "...a teenage girl washed up on shore this morning having no memory whatsoever of how she got there..." "Fractions, fractions All done" "Yum-yum" "How much blood?" "Look, I'm on my way." "Listen, there's an emergency at work." "I need you to watch Kyle." " Sure, Mom." " I'm serious." "Watch him." "I'll be right back." "[phone rings]" "Hello." "Oh, hi, Hilary." "No, Declan still hasn't called." "And if he's with Jessica, he's probably got the clap by now." "You know me." "I felt weird when Mike Suby put his hand down my pants." "Because all I could think about were these warts on his hand." "[gasps] That could be him." "If I don't click over, you'll know why." "Hello." "Oh, hi, Declan." "No, I wasn't talking to anyone." "What's up?" "[laughs]" "[ Johann Pachelbel:" "Canon in D Major playing on piano]" "[Kyle] It was the most wonderful sound in the world." "It was part mathematics and part euphoria." "I felt certain that whatever this was was a gift to the world, meant to fill all that hurt it with a flood of emotions." "Amanda, I'm home!" "It then struck me that not everyone could appreciate this miracle." "The sound increased my sorrow for all those who could not hear it." "[whimpers]" "[pounding heartbeat]" "There was this pounding in my chest, my face felt like it was burning, and more than anything I wanted to disappear." "[screams]" " Josh, what's wrong?" " Run!" "There's a psycho in the shower!" "It's OK, Josh." "It's OK." "This is Kyle, the special boy I was telling you about." "If he's supposed to be so special, why'd you stick him in the bathtub?" "Nice to meet you... perv." "The reason I am letting that slide is because I have a favor to ask of you." "I would like Kyle to bunk down in your room for a couple of nights." "You kidding?" "He's got bed-wetter written all over him." "Well, I'm only asking." "Fine." "But you better bust out the rubber sheets." "Have you seen Lori?" "She was supposed to be watching him." "Some teacher called with test results." "Mrs. Planny-Parenthood?" "[Kyle] I was beginning to sense that my very presence was turning these people against one another." " You and I are gonna have a talk." " Oh, no." "Did something happen to Kyle?" "Oh, you mean besides him going outside by himself?" "You can forget about Declan's party." "Hmm. [chuckles]" "Hi, honey." "Is something wrong with Lori?" "She seems upset." "She's having a difficult time understanding what responsibility means." "Is this the, uh...?" "Kyle, this is my husband Stephen." " Honey, this is Kyle." " Hello, Kyle." "I'm happy to make your acquaintance." "Can he understand a thing I'm saying?" " I don't think so." " At least he doesn't look dangerous." "Watch it, watch it!" "It's hot, hot." "Ouch!" "Agh!" "[Kyle] This being was clearly a superior communicator." "I somehow understood everything it said and wondered why other humans chose to speak so... ineffectively." "[knocking]" "You know this neighborhood isn't zoned for halfway houses." " Oh, good evening, by the way." " Excuse me?" "One of your challenged cases broke in..." "He didn't break in, Mom." "Broke into my house this afternoon and snuck up on Amanda while she was alone." "Who knows what could have happened if I hadn't come home?" "He's not one of my cases." "He's my cousin's boy, from Lithuania." "She's had enough trauma in her life without your cousin trespassing." "I'm so sorry, Carol." "Lori was responsible for watching Kyle." "Look, Nicole, I would hate to make this into a police matter." "Come along, Amanda." "I'll see you later." "[Lori sighs] It's not fair, Dad." "I was in the next room." "It's not like I left him alone with Michael Jackson." "[Kyle] There are over 800,000 words in the English language." "The eyes, however, speak a more precise code through their narrowing..." " Running a retard farm, are we?" " Josh." "...brow arches, dilations blinking or the asymmetrical closure, which I hadn't yet deciphered." "This miracle-worker trip's getting out of hand." "Cool it, guys." "What did we say about giving your mom some latitude?" "I was suffering from thirst, but my language skills were relatively primitive, so I relied on phrases from the children's home." "Y o!" "Let's get some juice down here." "In the past, this simple request had required two complete sentences." "What's up?" "Everyone taking stupid pills around here?" "Juice me." "Oh, man." "Sweet." "He's like that Indian from Cuckoo's Nest." "Wait." "Did he just learn to talk in one day?" "No." "Lori, that's impossible." " Right, honey?" " Can you understand me, Kyle?" " Go on, do it again." " Mom, is that how you talk to a dog?" ""Go on, do it again."" "Watch this." "Kyle, speak." "I felt weird when Mike Suby put his hand down my pants 'cause all I could think about were these warts on his hand." "Ha!" "It's amazing." "Autism typically involves mimicry, but Kyle isn't emotionally withdrawn, his behaviors aren't fixated." " So can he understand us or not?" " I can't say." "I've never dealt with anyone like him before." "Suby." "Nice one!" "What's all this "cousin from Lithuania" stuff?" "Well, it's just better if nobody knows where Kyle's from." "Oh." "Oh, of course." " Why?" " You sure you wanna know?" " Yeah." " Plausible deniability." "Well, I can't raise a family blind, Nic." "I know." "I'm sorry, honey." "I know." "But you should have seen Kyle drawing a picture." "It was incredible." "And he doesn't have a belly button." "How could he not have a belly button?" "Test-tube babies are put back into the womb, so they've got 'em." "Exactly." "I don't know, Nic." "Don't you think you should have done some more testing before we bring him into this house?" "Please trust me, Stephen." "I haven't felt this right about something in years." "You were able to help Jerry without bringing your work home." "Help Jerry." "He's gonna be strapped down and medicated in some warehouse." " He'll never have a family or..." " All right, I get it, I get it." "But there are two of us here, remember?" "Come on, boys." "Let's get to work." "[Kyle] It took me an hour to make the connection between the pencil and the simple puzzles." "But then came a wonderful series of cognitive breakthroughs." "Whoa!" "Slow down, Rain Man." "Haven't even finished grading the last one." "That was an hour-long test." "How long did it take him?" "Five minutes?" "Yeah, and he got them all right." "What is this kid, seriously?" "Freaky, man." "[Nicole dials number]" "Hello, Dr. Fields, please." "Try not to move, Kyle." "Oh, damn." "When was the last time you had this thing calibrated?" "It's fine." "I ran two MRls this morning." " Are you blind?" "Look, it's a mess." " What is it?" "The equipment's on the fritz." "This red area is supposed to represent the active part of the brain." "Yeah, so?" "You and I use maybe seven percent of our brains." "At any given time." "Einstein used nine percent of his brain." "Rupert here uses two percent." " So he's some supergenius?" " Mechanical failure." " You'll have to come back." " What if the machine's right?" "Hypothetically speaking, with this type of neural-hyperactivity, he'd be prone to all sorts of seizures, strokes, tumors." " Tumors." " Yeah." "He probably wouldn't even live for six months." "Wow." "It's been a busy day, huh, kiddo?" "Good night, Kyle." "Sweet dreams." "[ Earlimart:" "Sounds]" " Here." "You're gonna need that." " What's wrong?" "First drink, then talk." "Hi!" "Ooh." "[Kyle] An ancient ceremony was underway that involved spastic gyrations." "The heat made me sweat and I needed something to drink." " Who's that?" " I don't know, but he's cute." " So spill it already." " Huh?" "I hope you weren't too set on hooking up with Declan tonight." "Remember that slut Jessica?" "[boy] Hey, beer bong!" "Who's next?" "Whoo!" " Maybe I don't wanna know after all." " Yeah." "Then I wouldn't go in there." "[groaning]" "[ DJ Harry:" "Flock]" "[Kyle] At the children's home, the other captives often referred to a strange place, and I realized that I'd finally arrived in hell." "[indistinct chatter echoing] [boy] Y o, man, it's time to roll!" "Cops are here!" "Party's over!" "The appearance of an unknown enemy had begun to agitate the group." "Everybody out!" "Police orders!" "Everyone out!" "Hey, you, get down!" "Let's go!" "Let's go." "Everybody out." "Let's go!" "Time to go home!" " I didn't do anything." " Yeah, well, you can tell the judge." "Oh, snap!" "Did you see that?" "He just walked through the window." "[indistinct chatter]" " Get back here, kid." " [kids] Leave her alone!" " [shouting]" " She didn't do anything!" "Cool it, kid." "You're fried." "I had no idea why I did this." "Itjust came naturally." "[hisses]" "[kids] Oh!" "[kids] Oh!" "I hoped that this creature would have as much sense as a snake." "When I do catch you, there won't be any witnesses." "[kids cheering]" "[soft music plays]" "[Lori] Help me, Jerry." "I am..." "Ieaking." "God." "What happened to you?" "There's no blood on any of the doors and the windows ain't broken." "That's OK, hon." "We'll figure it out tomorrow." "Go back to bed." "[Kyle] The photos reminded me I had no memories of being small." "What was wrong with me?" "What... am I?" "Well, Kyle that's a difficult question to answer." "You're a boy, a special boy." "And boys are human beings." "[Kyle] Even with years of historical research and scientific discovery, the more humans try to define themselves, the more they drown in their own confusion." "At least, that's the evolutionist point of view." "You... know not." "[chattering]" "Now this one." "It'll help you detox." "Forget it." "One more sip and this place becomes a barfatorium." "Focus on something else." "Like, say, your knight in shining armor." " What?" " Don't give me that." "The guy who saved your ass last night." "The guy with all the Jackie Chan moves." "The guy who carried you home." "Oh, my God." "I forgot." "Jerry?" "No, wait." "Kyle." " I thought I dreamt that." " So does your dream have digits?" "Yeah, mine." "Remember that short-bus kid I told you about?" "[Kyle] Humans have infinite variations of greetings, however, not all are appropriate for every situation." "Oh, Kyle!" "You scared me." "What is scared?" "Oh, scared is... fear." "Like "agh"." "I get scared." "What?" "What are you scared of?" "Everything." "I don't know what..." "Kyle, I can't imagine how strange and scary the world must feel to you right now." "But it will get better." "I swear." "Help me Mom." "I'm gonna take care of you, Kyle." "[exhales, sniffles]" "I promise." "This means so much, Lou." "If you could have seen his face." "This'll be our little secret." "We could get in trouble for shredding this." " Shredding?" "What shredding?" " I don't understand." "It was right here, right next to all the other John Does." "It's not like anybody would take it." "It's not like me to misplace something like this, either." "Hey, hey, look at this." "See these scratches?" " Somebody broke into my files." " Is anything else missing?" "No." "Just Kyle's file." "Maybe somebody's looking for him." "Who?" "And why would someone just leave him in the woods?" "I don't know, but if anybody ever asks, I ain't in this mess." " What about me?" " Your name wasn't on the paperwork." "Nobody knows anything about this." "And it might be safer if we don't talk for a while." "Thank you, Lou." "Come on, now." "Where are you?" "Don't touch that." "Those are for killing rats." "Rats are your enemy?" "No, but when they start paying rent, they can put down people traps." "No, Kyle." "We don't want them in the house." "So you kill them?" "[sighs]" "Yeah..." "I guess." "Ha!" "There it is." "Oh, man." "Oh!" "Damn it!" "[Kyle] Whereas human communication was so random and contradictory, this language was a logical, math-based shorthand that made perfect..." "Oh, come on!" "Ah!" "I simply needed to reconstruct the lost information." "Wow, that's it." "That's the one." "How did you...?" "[Kyle] Once I found out that humans are lethally territorial," "I knew that reparations with Josh were in order." "Where did you find my... thing?" "Thanks." "OK, Kyle's gonna be down in a sec." "Look, I have a favor to ask each of you." "And before you all jump down my throat, I'd like you to think about it." "I was thinking, hoping, that you wouldn't mind if Kyle stayed with us a while longer."