[♪♪♪]
[WIND HOWLING]
Are we the first?
[FEDERALE SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
Are we the first to arrive here?
[FEDERALES SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
MAN 1: Mr. Wilson!
Is the interpreter with you?
I'm not a, uh, professional interpreter.
My occupation is cartography.
I'm a mapmaker.
Can you translate French into English and English into French?
Yes, yes, I explained to the team leader in Villa Hermosa.
I'm just a little taken by surprise.
[BOTH SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[IN FRENCH] How long have you been working on this project?
[IN FRENCH] I've been with the American team from the beginning.
In fact, I saw you at the Montsoreau conference which ended well...
...especially for you. Especially for the French.
If it isn't too late, my congratulations.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
They're all there! All of them!
[♪♪♪]
[ALL CHATTERING]
MAN 2: Check for landing marks!
[ALL CHATTERING]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[IN ENGLISH] Mr. Lacombe wants the numbers off the engine blocks!
M-447148!
W-445529!
Number 445529, check!
Approximately 46 gallons in the right tank!
447149, check!
Tell me something. What the hell is happening here?
- It's flight number 19! - Nineteen what?
It's that training mission from the naval air station at Fort Lauderdale.
They were doing target runs on an old hulk.
Who flies crates like these anymore?
No one! These planes were reported missing in 1945.
[♪♪♪]
But it looks brand-new!
Where's the pilot?
I don't understand!
Where's the crew? Hey!
How the hell did it get here?!
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
[LACOMBE SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
He says this guy is local.
He was here last night. He saw it happen.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
[IN ENGLISH] Sunburn?
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
He says the sun came out last night.
He says it sang to him.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[MEN CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
Harry, keep an eye on that point-out I gave you.
He's on 122.5.
I'll be right back.
PILOT 1 [OVER RADIO]: Indianapolis Center, you have traffic for Air East 31?
Air East 31, negative.
The only traffic I have is a TWA L-1011 in your 6 o'clock position...
...range 15 miles...
...and an Allegheny DC-9 in your 12 o'clock position, 50 miles.
Stand by one. I'll take a look at broadband, over.
Air East 31 has traffic 2 o'clock, slightly above and descending.
Air East 31, roger.
I have a primary target about that position now.
I have no known high-altitude traffic.
Stand by one, I'll check low, over.
Dick, will you check low-altitude, see if they know who this is?
Center, Air East 31.
The traffic's not lower than us.
He's 1 o'clock now, still above me and descending.
Air East 31, can you say aircraft type?
Negative, Center, uh, no distinct outline.
Uh, to tell you the truth, the target is rather brilliant.
It has the brightest anti-collision lights I think I've ever seen.
Alternating white to red.
The colors are a little striking.
PILOT 2: Center, this is TWA 517.
Traffic now looks like extra-bright landing lights.
I thought Air East had his landing lights on.
It could be a satellite.
Air East 31, I have a primary target now in your 10 o'clock position, five miles, over.
- Never seen anything like that. PILOT 1: Affirmative, 31.
The traffic is proceeding northeast-bound.
No altitude readout.
Roger, Center. It doesn't appear he's gonna be a problem now.
He's going to descend about 1500 feet below me.
Wait a second!
Stand by one.
Okay, Center, Air East 31. The traffic has turned.
He's heading for my windshield. We're turning right and leaving flight level 350.
Air East 31, descend and maintain flight level 310.
Break Allegheny, turn right 30 degrees.
Get on the horn to the 45th Recon Wing, see what the hell they're testing up there.
This is Indianapolis Center. Are there any test operations in restricted area 2508?
Air East 31, roger.
The traffic is quite luminous, exhibiting some non-ballistic motion, over.
Roger, Air East 31. Continue descent at your discretion, over.
Okay, Center. Descent at pilot's discretion is approved.
The traffic is approaching head-on, ultra-bright and really moving.
[STATIC CRACKLES]
And right by us! Right now! Now that was really close.
Air East 31 is out of 340....
Ask them if they want to report officially.
TWA 517, do you want to report a UFO? Over.
PILOT 2: Negative. We don't want to report.
Air East 31, do you wish to report a UFO? Over.
PILOT 1: Negative. We don't want to report one of those either.
Uh, Air East 31, do you wish to file a report of any kind? Over.
I wouldn't know what kind of report to file, Center.
Air East 31, me neither.
I'll try to track traffic to destination, over.
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[WHIRRING]
♪ Of the shape of a square ♪
♪ If you really want to find it ♪
[TOY LAUGHING]
♪ So look with care For the shape of a square ♪
[TOY SIREN WAILING]
♪ Can you find it? ♪
[GUNFIRE NOISES]
♪ Is the door shaped like a square? ♪
♪ No, it's shaped like a rectangle ♪
♪ It has two long sides And two short sides ♪
♪ If you really want to find it ♪
♪ So look with care For the shape of a square ♪
[DOOR CREAKING]
♪ Look all around ♪♪
[DOOR RATTLING]
[CLATTERING]
[RATTLING]
[DOOR RATTLES]
[CLATTERING]
[TOY SIREN WAILING]
WOMAN [ON TV]: What are you doing? MAN: I'm just....
[JILLIAN SNIFFLING]
[TOY SIREN WAILING]
What?
[MAN & WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]
Barry?
[COUGHS]
Honey?
[TOYS WHIRRING]
Honey?
[BARRY GIGGLING]
Barry!
Barry.
Barry!
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[BARRY LAUGHING]
BOY: Dad, do my problems for me.
I don't have to do your problems for you. You do your problems for you.
That's why I graduated, so I don't have to do problems.
I don't understand these fractions.
All right. What's one-third of 60?
That's a fraction. I don't understand them.
All right, look.
Let's say...
...that this boxcar is 60 feet long, okay?
And one-third of it is across this switch here. All right?
Okay? And now another train is coming.
Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar off the track...
...so that the other train doesn't smash it?
Quickly, Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake.
Brad, any answer.
Remember last weekend...
...you promised everybody a movie this weekend?
Honey?
- And you also promised Goofy Golf. - Oh, yeah.
Roy, what is all this stuff on my table?
I thought I told you this was for my stuff.
I mean, you can have that table.
I don't want this stuff on my breakfast table. This can cause tetanus!
- What is this?! - Hey, you know what's playing in town?
Pinocchio! The kids have never seen Pinocchio.
You guys have never seen Pinocchio. You'll love it.
- Aww.... - I don't believe this.
Who wants to go to see some dumb cartoon rated G for kids?
- How old are you? - Eight.
- You wanna be 9? - Yeah.
Then you're gonna see Pinocchio tomorrow night.
Roy, that is a wonderful way to win over your children.
I'm not serious. I'm just saying that I grew up with Pinocchio.
And if kids are still kids, they're gonna eat it up.
Okay.
Okay, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm Wrong Roy, all right?
Toby! You are close to death!
Come out here!
[TOBY GIGGLES]
ROY: Okay, now, I'm gonna give you your choice.
I'm not gonna be biased in any way.
Tomorrow night, you can play Goofy Golf, waiting and shoving and pushing...
...and probably getting a zero, or you can see Pinocchio...
...which is furry animals and magic and you'll have a wonderful time. Okay?
- Now, let's vote. BOTH: Golf!
All right, everybody to bed!
TOBY: No way! Dad said we could finish watching The Ten Commandments!
[PHONE RINGS]
Roy, that movie is four hours long, you know.
ROY: I told them they'd watch only five commandments.
- Hello? Hi, Earl. MAN: Hi, Ronnie, it's Earl.
- We got a big problem coming your way. - What?
I need your old man in the field now.
Oh, you know Roy can't drive at night without me.
Tell him we're experiencing an overall outage.
Wait, wait, wait, I can't, uh-- Hey, honey.
Jiminy Cricket! It's Earl on the phone.
Just a second.
- Hello. - Neary.
Get into your truck and report to line M-Mary-10 in Tolono.
We're losing power across the grid. Has the outage hit you yet?
- Neary? Neary? KIDS: Yay!
Neary?
[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
MAN: Hey! Lights!
[PEOPLE GRUMBLING]
[CAR HORNS HONKING IN DISTANCE]
Barry!
[PEOPLE CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
Help. I'm lost.
WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: Go, Ed. MAN 1: Responding to that 10-16....
Hold on. You're gonna cough up a little Tolono, right?
Cough up a Tolono or an interstate, a Highway 90.
A little familiar landmark of some sort.
Cornbread Road, south of 20.
Cornbread?
Power must have been restored up there.
Couple hundred neighbors in their P.J.s think it's Saturday night out here.
MAN 2: Dispatch, this is 411.
Do you want me to disregard that Tolono call?
You're in the middle of the road, jackass!
Can you tell me where Cornbread is? Turkey!
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
[INSECTS CHIRPING]
Eight thirty-four, 834.... F-27.
M-Mary-10 through M-Mary-12. Okay.
WOMAN [OVER RADIO]: Ten-47.
Well, it's all meaningless so far.
Okay, come on.
All right. Four-way stop leads you to the single-circuits...
...and leads you right to nowhere.
M-Mary-10.
[CHIRPING STOPS]
[RATTLING]
WOMAN: Unit 211, 10-30, five, sev--
[ENGINE STOPS]
[SPACECRAFT HUMMING]
[GRUNTING]
[METAL CREAKING]
[BELL CLANGING]
Oh, shit.
[STATIC CRACKLING ON RADIO]
[MUSIC PLAYING AND STATIONS CHANGING ON RADIO]
[RADIO TURNS OFF]
[CLANGING STOPS AND ROY GASPING]
[HUMMING STOPS]
[INSECTS CHIRPING]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[YELLS]
[ENGINE SPUTTERING AND ROY YELLS]
[ENGINE STARTS]
MAN 1 [OVER RADIO]: Oh, my God. Are you watching this?
MAN 2: Don't look up at them, they're like flashbulbs.
MAN 3: Unit 211, I'm back on the street. What do you guys got out there?
MAN 2: I don't believe this. I don't believe this.
MAN 1: My God! It's bigger than a house!
WOMAN 1: Stay off the county frequency. MAN 1: This thing is like a barn.
MAN 4: This is absolutely crazy.
WOMAN 2: What is your location?
MAN 4: Just off the Telemark Expressway and east toward Harper Valley.
[♪♪♪]
[MAN WHISTLING]
[♪♪♪]
Barry.
No!
Watch out!
[TIRES SCREECHING]
ROY: Oh, my God! Lady! Lady!
Are you okay? I'm sorry.
I didn't even see him. He was just standing right in the middle of the road.
BARRY: Hello? JILLIAN: Oh, my God.
BARRY: Hello! Here!
JILLIAN: What's the matter with you?
Barry, come back here! Come on, now.
[RUMBLING]
Ice cream!
[SIRENS WAILING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
This is nuts.
No.
[MAN WHISTLING]
[TRUCK ENGINE STARTS]
[TRUCK DRIVES AWAY]
[MELLOW POP MUSIC PLAYING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]
[BELLS CLANGING]
[SIRENS WAILING]
Wait a minute!
[TIRES SCREECHING]
What are you guys doing? Hey!
That's Ohio! That's a quarter!
[♪♪♪]
Jesus, look at that. Look at those suckers. They're glued to the road!
[SCREAMING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[PANTING]
Honey, wake up.
Honey, Ronnie, wake up. You're not gonna believe what I saw.
- Ronnie. - Don't! Not now.
No, no, no, listen, Ronnie! I never would have believed it.
There was this, uh-- In the cab there was this whole--
It went-- It was-- There was a red whoosh that--
[HANGERS CLATTERING]
Roy, um, Ike called you.
- I gotta get something to wear here. - And, um, McGovern.
They want you to call them right away. They said they couldn't reach you.
I turned the radio off.
Don't do that. The phone's been ringing off the hook.
It woke Sylvia up two times already. And I think you'd better call them.
You know those pictures in the National Geographic about the aurora borealis?
This is better than that. This is really-- Come on!
Come on, Ronnie, get up. Come on.
No, Roy, what's wrong?
I don't know if anything's wrong. Get up. I'm not kidding.
Is it an accident?
It's not an accident. You wanted to get out of the house anyway, right?
No, not at 4:00 in the morning.
Ronnie, I need you to see something with me.
It's really important.
Okay. All right. What about the kids?
What? Oh, the kids! I'll get the kids.
Sylvia, come on, we're going on a little adventure.
Toby! Brad! Come on! Get up. Up, move, come on.
It's better than Goofy Golf! Come on!
[DOOR CLOSES]
ROY: Go faster. RONNIE: I'm going as fast as I can!
ROY: Come on.
RONNIE: All right, all right. Oh, hi, Mrs. Harris.
Roy, there's Mrs. Harris.
There better be a good reason for doing this, because it doesn't make any sense.
All right, Roy, I really think you've proved your point.
Roy. Roy.
Roy, you're sunburned. Look at you.
Wow.
[ENGINE STARTS]
Honey, what is that?
RONNIE: Roy, what did it look like?
It was like an ice-cream cone.
What flavor?
Orange.
It was orange. And it wasn't like an ice-cream cone.
It was more like a shell. You know, it was like this:
RONNIE: Like a taco?
Was it like one of those Sara Lee, um, moon-shaped, cookies?
Those crescent cookies?
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Don't you think I'm taking this really well?
I remember when we used to come to places like this just to look at each other.
[♪♪♪]
Snuggle.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[CAMEL GRUNTING]
[MAN SHOUTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[PANTING]
[YELLS]
[MAN SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[MEN SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[♪♪♪]
LAUGHLIN: I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
I don't believe it.
It's the Cotopaxi.
- Why is it here? - Beats the shit out of me.
BOY: Is this the bathroom?
BRAD: Shh!
Psst!
[ROY GROWLING]
[BOYS SCREAMING]
[LAUGHING]
Hey, this is not your toy to play with every time I turn around.
He looks like a 50/50 Bar.
RONNIE: All right, out of this house. All of you. Out of my house.
I'm sorry, but you're not to play with this ever!
Get out while I clean up your mess!
Thank you very much.
[♪♪♪]
Roy, I found this overnight-tanning stuff.
I want you to spray it on half of your face, so your face looks all even, one color.
It makes my face look yellow. What does this remind you of, Ronnie?
Then we'll just tell everybody that you fell asleep...
...under the sun lamp on your right side.
What for?
- Dad, can I ask you a question? - What?
Are they for real?
That's what for. No, they are not for real.
Now, I want you to go outside and have a hot dog, okay?
Ronnie, don't tell him that.
Roy, don't talk about this until you know what you're talking about, okay?
Ronnie, that's crazy. If I can't talk about it, how am I gonna know what's going on?
- What? - Mom, I believe in them.
TOBY: I believe in them too. - Oh, no, you don't.
Dad says we do.
No, he does not.
- Do you, Roy? - Ronnie.
All I wanna do is know what's going on.
Nothing's going on! It's just one of those things.
Which things? Which things?
- I don't wanna hear about this anymore. - Ronnie, this is very important!
I'm not just gonna let it lay here. I'm gonna call somebody about this!
I'm not listening. I'm not listening.
Ronnie, I saw something last night that I can't explain.
I saw something last night I can't explain.
I'm going out there again tonight, you know.
- No, you're not. - Yes, I am.
[PHONE RINGING]
No, you're not.
TOBY: Do they live on the moon?
BRAD: They got bases on the moon. At night they come through your window.
This isn't a moonburn, you know, goddamn it!
You live on the moon. I saw it, you came through my window last night.
You hurt me!
- You took all my covers. RONNIE: Roy's not like that.
- You did! RONNIE: He loves his work. Don't say that!
What did he do? He was with us all night!
Ronnie, I won't have to go tonight.
RONNIE: He is not like that at all!
- I don't believe it. You did! RONNIE: Stop yelling at me!
- Shh, shh! RONNIE: Can't you tell him about this?
Hello?
I can't believe it.
Roy...
...you got fired.
They didn't even wanna talk to you.
[CROWD CHANTING]
[ALL CHATTERING]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[ALL CONTINUE CHANTING]
[IN FRENCH] I want to know...from what direction...
...did your people hear these sounds?
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Where were the sounds coming from?
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[LACOMBE SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Where did these sounds come from? Tell us, please.
[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[SHOUTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] Where did these sounds come from?
[ALL SHOUTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[CROWD CHANTING ON RECORDING]
[RECORDING STOPS]
[IN ENGLISH] Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[AUDIENCE CHUCKLING]
I beg your pardon, but my English is not good too.
I want to share with you now...
...the breakthrough that happened in India.
We think it means something.
We think it is important.
To help you learn, I am using the hand sign created by Zoltán Kodály.
Kodály developed these signs to teach music to deaf children.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[CROWD CHANTS ON RECORDING]
[NOTE PLAYS ON KEYBOARD]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[CROWD CHANTS ON RECORDING]
[NOTE PLAYS ON KEYBOARD]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[CROWD CHANTS ON RECORDING]
[NOTE PLAYS ON KEYBOARD]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[CROWD CHANTS ON RECORDING]
[NOTE PLAYS ON KEYBOARD]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[CROWD CHANTS ON RECORDING]
[NOTE PLAYS ON KEYBOARD]
And now....
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[CROWD CHANTING ON RECORDING]
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[CAR APPROACHING]
WOMAN: I haven't had a hand all night.
[CAR DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
Hello?
Hi.
Oh, hi, how are you? You came here too, huh?
Yes. Jillian Guiler.
Roy Neary. I'm sorry about what happened with the kid.
- Good night. - What?
Look at you.
Oh....
- You got the same burn. - Ha, ha.
Oh, yeah, but it's better on you. You got it all over at least.
- Ha-ha-ha. Yeah. - I gotta tan the other side tonight.
How's the kid? I'm really sorry.
Uh-- I'll be right back.
Raise your head a bit and give me a smile. Come on, son.
JILLIAN: Hey, he's a little young for a record, don't you think? Hm?
[♪♪♪]
Weird.
I know this sounds crazy, but ever since yesterday on the road...
...I've been seeing this shape.
In shaving cream and pillows....
Damn it, I know this. I know what this is.
This means something.
This is important.
MAN 1: Here they come! WOMAN: Get the camera!
MAN 1: Out of the northwest! MAN 2: Jimmy, come here.
[♪♪♪]
It's like Halloween for grownups.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Trick or treat.
[♪♪♪]
[WOMEN SCREAMING]
Wait a minute.
[CLAMORING AND SCREAMING]
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
MAN 1: Here are the patterns.
We just received two 15-minute broadcasts.
Are these non-random signals?
A hundred and four rapid pulses. After a five-second interval, 40 pulses.
Another five-second break, and 30 pulses.
Sixty seconds of silence, and then an entirely new set of numbers.
Forty, break five. Thirty-six, break five. Ten.
- A hundred and four rapid pulses. MAN 2: Lord.
Wait 60 seconds and the whole doggone thing repeats.
- Where are these signals coming from? - Right in the neighborhood.
Light-travel time, roughly seven seconds.
It's well within the plane of the ecliptic.
Are these non-random signals here, 40, 36, 10, in response to that?
No. They should be. We've been sending out this musical combination for weeks.
But all we're getting back are numbers.
This could mean the India sounds reached a dead end.
They don't mean a thing.
MAN 3: There's still so much that we don't know.
MAN 4: How about where the signals originate?
- Excuse me. MAN 5: Maybe they're letters.
MAN 6: What letter is 104?
Excuse me.
Before I got paid to, uh, speak French....
I, uh....
I used to read maps.
This first number is a longitude.
I've got two sets of three numbers.
Degrees, minutes and seconds.
Now, the first number has three digits, and the last two are below 60.
Obviously, it's not in the right ascension and declination on the sky.
These have to be Earth coordinates.
There's a globe in the county supervisor's office.
MAN 1: This is what we need.
Maybe there's a release pin underneath here.
That's a $2500 globe! What are you guys doing?
- It's heavy, watch your feet. - Let me hit the mother.
MAN 2: No, no, clear it through.
[ALL CHATTERING]
MAN 1: All right, everybody, calm down! Hold it down! Quiet!
MAN 2: That's not right.
The antenna. How dumb! Huh?
- Which way is the antenna pointing? MAN 3: Northeast.
MAN 2: That's Wyoming.
We're going to need a geodetic survey map of Wyoming.
I want this down to the square yard.
Get me a geodetic survey map of Wyoming.
We not only need....
[ALL CLAMORING]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[PLAYING NOTES ON KEYBOARD]
[WHISTLING]
[PLAYING NOTES]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[BARRY GIGGLES]
[DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[BARRY LAUGHING]
[♪♪♪]
Toys!
Come on, come on.
Oh, my God!
[SPACECRAFT HUMMING]
[RATTLING]
You can come and play now.
Come in through the door.
One, two, three....
[JILLIAN GASPS]
JILLIAN: Oh, honey.
Mom, look! The sun's here!
[GASPING]
JILLIAN: Oh, honey.
Oh, my God!
♪ The moment you come into view ♪
[BANGING AND RATTLING]
♪ Just because ♪
♪ My composure sort of slips ♪
♪ The moment That your lips meet mine ♪♪
[♪♪♪]
Go away!
Bang!
[GASPS AND SHRIEKS]
[BARRY LAUGHING]
[♪♪♪]
[GASPING]
Clean everything up!
[NOTES PLAYING OVER PHONE]
- Mom, let me listen. - Wait a minute. Wait.
[JILLIAN SCREAMING]
- Mom, look! - Oh, my God.
[JILLIAN SHRIEKING]
Come in through the door.
[JILLIAN SOBBING]
Barry! Barry!
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
Jillian. Jillian.
REPORTER 1: May we have a statement?
The report you gave to the police was really quite spectacular.
We need it for the 6:00 news.
- Jillian. REPORTER 2: Mrs. Guiler?
They got him.
What?
REPORTER 2: Is it true you're leaving the state to look for your son?
REPORTER 3: Has there been a ransom note?
REPORTER 2: Where would you start looking?
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
His name is Barry.
REPORTER 1: Where is your husband now, Mrs. Guiler?
Are you involved in any kind of parapsychologies?
REPORTER 4: Turn around, please. Turn around!
[CLAMORING CONTINUES]
REPORTER 1: You gave the police a report.
Would you mind repeating it for the television?
Folks, you can go in now. Room 3655.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer.
MAN 1: That's the one I saw.
[ALL CLAMORING]
I swear that's the same one. It's the one I saw.
It's made of pewter, made in Japan...
...and thrown across the lawn by one of my children.
[CROWD GRUMBLING]
I just wanted to point that out to you to show...
...that we're not all "polished brass" about these things.
And also point out that last year...
...Americans shot more than 7 billion photographs...
...at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film equipment and processing.
Now, with all those shutters clicking...
...where is the indisputable photographic evidence?
Major Benchley, I've been in the news business for a long time...
...and our cameras have never been able to take a picture...
...of a plane crash as it happened...
...or an automobile accident and get it on the 6:00 news.
That's right. That's right.
[ALL CLAMORING]
Folks....
There are all kinds of ideas that would be fun to believe in.
Mental telepathy...
...time travel...
...immortality...
...even Santa Claus.
I know it's no fun to go home and say, "Guess what happened today.
I was in the shopping center, there was this tremendously bright light...
...and I rushed outside...
...and it was an airplane."
Excuse me, sir. I didn't want to see this.
I sure wish I had.
You know, for 15 years I've been looking...
...for these damn silly lights in the night sky.
I've never found any.
I'd like to, because I believe in life elsewhere.
Why don't you admit...
...that the Air Force is conducting secret tests in the Foothills area?
It would be easy to say yes to that.
But I'm not going to mislead you. This is not the case.
To tell you the truth, I don't know what you saw.
You can't fool us by agreeing with us. No, no, no. Hey, come on!
I saw Bigfoot once.
1951. Back in Sequoia National Park.
Had a foot on her, 37 inches. Heel to toe.
KIDS: Wow.
[PEOPLE CHUCKLE]
Made a sound I would not want to hear twice in my life.
[ALL CHATTERING]
MAN 2: I believe I've encountered that gentleman myself.
MAN 3: I was sitting on the porch one night, looking through the screen.
I seen this big white dot in the sky.
It turned red and blue and green.
Further it got away, it just kept pulsating more and more and more.
MAN 4: UFOs do not represent a direct physical threat to national security.
[♪♪♪]
We do not support them, and we encourage you not to.
Let's get in touch with those forest-service people...
...or we're gonna end up in a wilderness area with vehicular traffic.
And that's strictly sacred-cow stuff for those folks in Wyoming.
[♪♪♪]
If this mission fully develops...
...I get white knuckles just thinking about what might be ahead for those folks.
Your flight will be at 2000 hours.
We have a limo that'll take you to the heliport now.
And, of course, the transportation will be provided on the other end.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
- I still like the flash-flood idea. - Where you gonna get the water?
We've had about two inches of rain--
We can survey dams and reservoirs, tell them one's gonna burst.
And besides that, there's not enough water in those reservoirs!
MAN 1: Wait! Contaminated water affects people, crops, animals.
Disease.
MAN 2: Yeah, epidemic. MAN 3: What kind of disease?
MAN 2: A plague epidemic.
MAN 3: Nobody's gonna believe a plague in this day and age.
- Anthrax. - Ranching country.
- Yes. - There are a lot of sheep in the hills.
That's good, I like that.
- It'll create a panic. - But it may not evacuate everybody.
There's always some joker who thinks he's immune.
What I need is something so scary it'll clear 300 square miles...
...of every living Christian soul.
[♪♪♪]
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Help yourself.
[SYLVIA STAMMERS AND COUGHS]
SYLVIA: I hate these potatoes. There's a dead fly in my potatoes.
RONNIE: It's okay.
[SOBBING]
Well, I guess you've noticed...
...something is a little strange with Dad.
It's okay, though.
I'm still Dad.
I can't describe it, what I'm feeling...
...and what I'm thinking.
This means something.
This is important.
That's not right.
[♪♪♪]
It's not right.
That's not right.
That's not right!
[GRUNTING]
What is it?
What is it?!
It's not fair.
Tell me.
[SHOWER RUNNING]
[ROY SOBBING]
Roy?
Roy.
Open the door, please.
Please. Roy. Roy!
Open this door!
All right.
I don't think I know what's happening to me.
Look, Roy. What it is, is family therapy.
I mean, we all go. We all talk.
No one is singled out. And maybe it's not your fault anyway.
- Oh, it's waterproof. It still works. - Roy! Promise me you'll go!
- Please! - You crybaby! You crybaby!
- You crybaby! - Get out of here!
Get out!
Come on, you guys. Come on.
You crybaby!
- Be quiet! RONNIE: Stop it!
I don't understand what this is!
Neither do I.
Get out!
Go to your room and close the door.
Ronnie?
- Ronnie? - Yes.
I'm really scared. I want you to help me.
All this bullshit! It's turning this house upside down!
- Ronnie, just-- - I just hate you! That's why!
- No! - Ronnie. Ronnie. Ronnie.
- Just hold me. - No.
Just put your arms around me. It'll really help me.
Listen! Listen! Listen! Don't you see what's happening?
None of our friends call us anymore!
You're out of work! You don't care!
You're wrecking us! You're ruining us!
- Ronnie, just hold on. - No! No!
- Hold on. - No!
Ronnie?
Ronnie.
Ronnie, open the door now. Come on.
[♪♪♪]
[DAFFY DUCK SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]
[SNORING]
DAFFY DUCK [ON TV]: Well, what do you know? It's disintegrated.
[PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING THEN GUNSHOT ON TV]
PORKY PIG: Happy birthday, you thing from another world, you.
MARVIN THE MARTIAN: Oh, thank you!
DAFFY DUCK: Well, I guess he's had enough.
Ha, ha!
Are you going to yell at me?
Ronnie? Everything's fine.
[MUSIC BOX PLAYING]
All this stuff is coming down.
It's all gonna be like it was.
[ROY GRUNTING]
DAFFY DUCK: That's the last straw! Now I use my secret weapon!
[EXPLOSIONS ON TV]
[DAFFY DUCK LAUGHING]
Ooh! Ow.
[RUSTLING]
Roy?
Roy, I'm sorry about last night. Roy!
Roy. Roy, what are you doing?
Jesus.
[DOOR OPENS]
[CHATTERING ON TV]
Roy. Roy.
The plants are fine there!
Roy, can you hear me?
Wait!
What are you--? What are you doing?
You're gonna love it, Ronnie!
- What do you mean? - You'll really love this.
Roy, what are you doing?
Oh. My--
Oh, Roy!
Aah! My God!
ROY: Come on, men!
Dad, after this, can we throw dirt in my window?
Stop it.
Stop. Stop it.
Ronnie...
...if I don't do this, that's when I'm gonna need a doctor.
RONNIE: What are you doing?
- I got it. - What are you doing?
I figured it out, that's all.
- Will you just listen? - No.
Ronnie, look, you ever look at something when it's crazy...
...and then you look at it in another way and it's not crazy?
No, I haven't. No.
Come on, Ronnie. Just listen.
- I don't know what you're doing. - Just close your eyes.
Close your eyes and hold your breath, everything will be really pretty.
RONNIE: Roy, you're scaring us now.
Don't be scared. Just don't be scared. I feel really good.
Everything's gonna be all right.
I haven't felt this good in years.
Everything's gonna be okay. I can feel it.
- Now what else? What else? - Like this? Like this?
Right.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
Like this?
Chicken wire.
MRS. HARRIS: Whatever you're doing, it's against the law!
He's putting it back, Mrs. Harris.
I'll pay you for this.
Take it. Take it.
I'm perfectly fine.
You let go of this fence right now. You come with me.
Do you want me to hit you? You let go of that fence!
Toby! Listen to me. Listen to me.
Please. Come on, right now. We're going.
- I want to stay here! - Let go of the fence! Come on.
[DOG BARKING]
[DUCKS QUACKING AND ROY GRUNTING]
[QUACKING]
Stay! Stay.
SYLVIA: Where are we going? TOBY: Where are we going?
- Where are we going? - Just get in the car.
- Where are we going? - Quietly, quickly, get in.
Get in there, Toby.
Quickly.
TOBY: Dad needs some more help! - Lock the doors! Lock the doors!
TOBY: Dad needs some more help!
Quiet! Just lock the doors. Roll up those windows.
TOBY: Yes, he does! Dad needs some more help!
Honey, where you going?
- What? - Where are you going?
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]
Taking the kids to my sister's.
That's crazy. You're not even dressed.
[ENGINE STARTS]
What?
You said what?
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Ronnie, wait!
Ronnie, hold it.
Would you hold--? Would you hold it one minute?
[AIRCRAFT ENGINE DRONING]
Morning.
[CHATTERING ON TV]
[SIGHS]
[DUCKS QUACKING]
[CLATTERING AND GLASS SHATTERING]
[CLATTERING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ON TV]
WOMAN [ON TV]: What is wrong with me today?
[KNOCKING ON TV]
Who is it, please?
MAN: It's the mailman.
There's a package for Julie Anderson.
WOMAN: You can just leave it at the door!
MAN: Ha-ha-ha. I can't do that. I'm supposed to C.O.D. Mm-hm, like that.
And besides...
...you and I have to have a little talk...
...about Kim.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING ON TV]
ANNOUNCER: Like sands through the hourglass...
...so are the Days of Our Lives.
[JINGLE PLAYING AND CHORUS SINGING ON TV]
♪ Here comes the king ♪
♪ Budweiser beer, the king Is second to none ♪
♪ When you say Bud ♪
♪ The king is coming ♪
♪ Let's hear the call ♪
♪ When you say Bud, you get it all When you say Bud, you get it all ♪
♪ Here comes the king ♪♪
Good evening. At the top of the news tonight, a rail disaster.
At Devils Tower, Wyoming...
...a train loaded with a dangerous chemical gas went off the rails...
...and has forced the widest area evacuation...
...in the history of these controversial Army rail shipments.
Whenever you want me to. Tomorrow is fine.
[SIGHS]
I can do other things.
I'm trying to be.
Yes, I am.
REPORTER 1: The Army and National Guard are supervising the evacuation.
I am an adult, okay? Even though there's no such thing.
It was a joke!
--the danger will be over within 72 hours.
Ronnie, anything you want.
Anything you want, I'll do.
For how long?
All of you?
No. Ronnie, I wanna talk about this in person.
This is not-- We can't talk about this on the telephone. All ri--
Ronnie! Don't hang up! Just don't--
--meat should remain unaffected.
This means order your steak well-done, Walter.
Devils Tower, Wyoming was the first national monument...
...erected in this country by Theodore Roosevelt in 1915.
[♪♪♪]
REPORTER 2 [ON TV]: Thousands of civilian refugees are fleeing the area...
...spurred on by rumors that the seven tanker cars that overturned...
...at Walkashi Needles Junction were filled to capacity with GM nerve gas.
In just a few minutes, we're going to be--
REPORTER 3: --boasts 400,000 vacationers.
And fortunately, during this mishap there have been no fatalities.
REPORTER 4: --forced to evacuate this area, which in a few minutes...
... will become known as the "hot zone, " depending on the prevailing winds.
But as it is, this is as close to the disaster as we've been allowed to get.
REPORTER 5: --due to a strong prevailing north-south wind.
Army chemical engineers and the Wyoming National Guard...
...are making every effort to both contain the leaking toxins...
...and evacuate an area of almost 200 square miles.
Everyone is being warned: Stay out of the area.
Everyone, please, stay out of the area.
REPORTER [ON RADIO]: --and thousands of others are homeless.
U.S. Army Materiel Command has issued these new area restrictions:
All roadways north of Crowheart on Interstate 25.
Shit.
All roads leading into the Grand Tetons west of Meeteeste.
All multilane undivided full-traffic interchange...
...railroad, local and historic stage roads south of Cody.
[♪♪♪]
Why aren't there any fat lines instead of these thin ones?
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
Yo!
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
- Holy mother of-- MAN: You're going the wrong way!
Yo! Turn back around. Back this way.
Hey, what's the matter with you?
Yes, sir. Sorry, officer.
It's just a rental, officer. Just a rental.
My fault! My fault!
MAN 1 [OVER PA]: Starting with the letter "F, " as in "Frank"...
...to the letter "J" as in "Jack"...
...please find your way to the loading platform for immediate boarding.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
MAN 2: Step right up.
And now, you're gonna be real disappointed and sorry...
...if you don't have an early-warning system, such as a bird, a gas mask.
Why, even my dog has a gas mask.
And any of you folks are worth more than a dog.
Now, the first thing-- The first symptom that you're gonna see...
JILLIAN: Roy? Roy! MAN 2:...is a dilation of your eyeball.
JILLIAN: Roy!
[TRAIN HORN BLARES]
MAN 1 [OVER PA]: The train has time to clear the area.
There's no immediate danger and no need to hurry or push.
Please help each other by not rushing.
JILLIAN: Roy!
SOLDIER: I don't care where you go, just get behind the barricades!
WOMAN: There's no way out!
[CROWD CLAMORING]
[ROY & JILLIAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[♪♪♪]
- What are we doing? - The only way we'll get back in...
...is to go cross-country. We gotta break through the fence.
- Then let's go. - All right, hold on. Hold on.
Watch out!
The police dragged the river for him.
I told them he wasn't in the river. He wasn't in the river.
Then they went around to every house within five miles...
...looking inside back-yard refrigerators.
They asked me if I'd seen any strangers in the neighborhood.
[LAUGHING]
[TIRES SCREECH]
[♪♪♪]
I don't believe it's real.
ROY: It's real.
Let's get down there. Get some gas and get down in there.
[♪♪♪]
What are those?
Look, I guarantee you. This whole thing is a put-on.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Oh, damn it!
[TIRES SCREECHING]
MAN 1: Ma'am, would you please step away....
- This is for your own safety. ROY: Okay.
All right, one at a time. What do you want? Get your hands off me!
MAN 2: How are you feeling? ROY: I feel fine!
According to my birds, the only bad air around here is you guys farting around!
MAN 3: Move them out! JILLIAN: What's happening?
- Wait. Where are we going? MAN 4: All right, go to the van.
ROY: Where are you taking her?
Hold it! Why can't we go together?
MAN 4: Watch your step.
JILLIAN: Roy.
[♪♪♪]
We have very little time, Mr. Neary. This is Mr. Lacombe.
- Hello. - We need answers from you...
...that are honest, direct and to the point.
Where is Jillian?
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Do you realize the danger that you and your friend have risked?
In coming here, you've exposed yourself to toxic gas.
Well, I'm alive. We're talk--
We're talking.
This is true, Mr. Neary.
But if the prevailing winds were blowing from the south instead of the north...
...this conversation would not be taking place.
There's nothing wrong with the air.
[BOTH SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
What makes you say that?
I just know. There's nothing wrong with it.
Go outside and make me a liar.
Uh, look, I wanna talk to the man in charge.
Mr. Lacombe is the highest authority.
He isn't even an American.
[BOTH SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Mr. Neary, are you an artist or a painter?
No.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
Have you been hearing a persistent ringing in your ears?
Almost an agreeable ringing?
No.
Having headaches, migraines?
Yeah.
An irritation in your eyes and your sinuses?
Yeah.
Do you have hives? Do you have allergies?
And burning on your face and on your body?
- Yes. Who are you people? - Look at this.
Yeah, I got one just like it in my living room. Who are you people?
[BOTH SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Monsieur Neary, please, one more question.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Have you recently had a close encounter?
A close encounter with something very unusual?
Who are you people?
[LACOMBE SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
LAUGHLIN: These people strangers to you?
Yeah. Except for her.
And the two of you felt compelled to be here?
Yeah, you might say that.
But what did you expect to find?
An answer.
That's not crazy, is it?
[BOTH SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Ho, ho, ho. Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Is that it?
Is that all you're gonna ask me?
Well, I got a couple of thousand goddamn questions, you know?
I wanna speak to someone in charge. I wanna lodge a complaint.
You have no right to make people crazy.
You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh?
If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail?
I've never been here before.
How come I know so much?
What the hell is going on around here?!
Who the hell are you people?!
[♪♪♪]
ROY: Is that it?! Answer me!
I didn't come this far to get taken on any bus ride home!
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Five minutes. Five!
PILOT: We're gonna hold for a couple of minutes.
WILD BILL: You brought in 12 people to the decontamination camp...
...instead of the evacuation center where they belong. I'd like to know why.
[LAUGHLIN SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
- Because this means something. - Because this means something.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
These people have come from all over their country...
...to a place they have been told will endanger their lives.
- Why? - Why?
Well, because somebody could be trying to subvert this whole operation...
...by sending in fanatics and cultists and Christ knows what all.
- Robert. - Yes.
Thank you very much.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
This is a small group of people...
...who have shared a vision in common.
Look.
It's still a mystery to me why they are here.
Even they do not know why.
Jillian!
- Jillian. MAN: Don't! You'll be poisoned!
Listen, there's nothing wrong with the air around here.
The Army's getting us out of here because they don't want any witnesses.
But if the Army doesn't want us here, then it's none of our business.
We only wanted to see the mountain. It was such a coincidence I painted it.
You can take it off!
The air here is better than it is in Los Angeles. Ha, ha!
Listen, listen. How many of you people are for getting out of here?
[♪♪♪]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
LAUGHLIN: I don't know what's happening either. And I must find out what's going on.
For every one of these anxious people who have come here this evening...
...there must be hundreds also touched by the vision who never made it this far.
Simply because they never watch the television.
Or perhaps they watched it, but never made the psychic connection.
It's a coincidence. It's not scientific.
Listen to me, Major Walsh...
...it is an event sociological.
[♪♪♪]
MAN: Hey! Wait a minute! Hey!
- My name's Neary! - Larry Butler!
- How are you doing? - I'm doing okay! How are you?
ROY: Fine, fine! LARRY: That's good!
WILD BILL: Everybody keep their masks on...
...until you're out of here and out of danger.
Listen, we wanna get out of here! What's the matter with you?
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
MAN [OVER RADIO]: Major Walsh, Major Walsh.
Yes, sir. I'll have the rest of them off the mountain in one hour.
Major, I want you to use infrared...
...and get me a photo analysis of the northern face.
Yes, sir, it's already been ordered.
Major Walsh, listen.
I don't like to do this. We're in enough trouble with these cattlemen already.
If you can't get them off the mountain and out of the area by 2000 hours...
...start dusting with EZ-4.
What's EZ-4?
It's a sleep aerosol. Same stuff that we used with the livestock.
Comes out of Riot Control.
They'll sleep for six hours and wake up with a hell of a headache, that's all.
LAUGHLIN: We didn't choose this place. We didn't choose these people!
They were invited!
They belong here more than we.
I should have never given up jogging.
See that notch in the corner of the mountain?
We can make that one in no time.
Here come three more.
MAN [OVER SPEAKER]: The authority in this park...
...has been superseded by the United States government.
There's a ravine leading straight up. I remember it from my painting.
It's an easier climb. It faces northeast.
It's no good. At the top, there's a 300-foot drop straight down. Get down!
What do you think is down on the other side?
There's a box canyon on the other side with ravines and trails...
...if you take this gradual incline to the right.
I never imagined that. In my painting, I only painted one side.
There was no canyon in the doodles I made.
Next time, try sculpturing.
You've given us a hell of a lot of credit. That's a good hour's climb.
Come on, let's go.
MAN [OVER SPEAKER]: The authority in this park...
...has been superseded by the United States government.
You are entering a military reservation...
...and subject to military law.
Call the bastard.
Bahama, this is Pyramid. Over.
WILD BILL [OVER RADIO]: Go ahead.
Nothing to report at midstation.
Up ahead there's thousands of places to hide.
We're gonna need at least three times the men to cover this in one hour.
Get everybody off the northern face, then call the dark side of the moon...
...and tell them we're gonna dust.
[BLOWS WHISTLE]
[♪♪♪]
ROY: Get down!
MAN [OVER SPEAKER]: You are entering a military reservation...
...and subject to military law.
[♪♪♪]
ROY: Larry! Larry, come on!
Larry! Don't let them see you! Get down!
They're just crop-dusting. Los Angeles!
JILLIAN: Larry? ROY: Don't stop!
Don't look back! Come on, come on!
JILLIAN: Oh! Roy!
Hurry! We're only 10 feet from the top.
Just a few more feet! We can slide down the other side!
[JILLIAN SCREAMS]
Come on, hurry. I'll come down.
Don't come down.
JILLIAN: Come on, come on. Come on!
ROY: Don't worry. We're gonna make it. - Roy.
Come on. Come on. Move it. Move your ass!
Come on.
[♪♪♪]
Roy, come on. Come on. Please, come on.
Hurry!
Hold it!
ROY: Jump! Jump!
- Do you see that? - Oh, yes.
Good.
MAN 1 [OVER PA]: Is it on?
Check the speaker system here.
I want this up all the way. Is this one live?
[FEEDBACK SQUEALS]
Are you reading me on this one?
How about here?
[MAN 1 SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
MAN 2: Testing. Testing. MAN 1: Okay, one, two, three, four.
MAN 2: Testing. Testing.
One, two, three, testing.
Gentlemen, ladies. Take your positions, please.
This is not a drill.
I repeat, this is not a drill.
Could we have the lights in the arena down 60 percent, please?
Sixty percent.
I don't think we could ask for a more beautiful evening, do you?
Okay, watch the skies, please.
We now show uncorrelated targets approaching from the north-northwest.
[♪♪♪]
[LAUGHING]
[PEOPLE CHEERING AND WHISTLING]
ROY [WHISPERS]: We're the only ones who know. The only ones.
[IN NORMAL VOICE] You see that?
Yes.
Good.
[MEN CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
MAN 1 [OVER PA]: All ground personnel not D-class approved...
...please evacuate the center approach marker.
Audio analysis personnel, behind the double yellow line.
[CAMERAS WHIRRING]
ITC, stereo, time and resistance.
Auto ready?
- Tone interpolation on interlock. - Altitude and tabling now.
ARP and interlock now.
Speed set at seven and a half.
All positive functions, standing by.
MAN 1 [OVER PA]: Special ARP teams tagged C, "Captain," F, "Frank"...
...to the speaking platform.
MAN 2 [OVER RADIO]: Six-two. MAN 3: Go ahead.
- Sunset. - Go.
Okay. Start with the tone.
[NOTE PLAYS ON KEYBOARD]
- Tang. - Go.
Up a full tone.
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
Down a major third.
Now drop an octave.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING]
- Cool blue. - Go.
Up a perfect fifth.
[NOTE PLAYS ON KEYBOARD]
Nothing. Nothing at all.
MAN 4: Give me a tone.
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
- "Re" to the second. MAN 4: Up a full tone.
- "Mi" to the third. MAN 4: Down a major third.
- "Do" to the first. MAN 4: Drop an octave.
- "Do" one-half. MAN 4: Up a perfect fifth.
"Sol" to the fifth.
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[SINGING NOTES]
I know that.
Faster.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Kick that mule!
Let's go!
[SPACECRAFT PLAYING NOTES]
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[PEOPLE APPLAUDING AND CHEERING]
[LACOMBE & LAUGHLIN SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
LACOMBE: I'm very happy tonight.
- Congratulations. - Thank you.
Not a Merle Haggard, but it was great.
[CHATTERING]
Mr. Lacombe?
LAUGHLIN: What is it? What's happening?
[LAUGHLIN SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[♪♪♪]
[CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
[WHISPERING] Come on. Come on, let's go.
Keep down.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
MAN: They're talking way over my head.
[♪♪♪]
[SPACECRAFTS BLARING]
[PEOPLE CLAMORING]
- Shit. - [IN NORMAL VOICE] Duck, duck!
[HUMMING]
[CHATTERING]
MAN 1 [OVER RADIO]: Photo one.
MAN 2: Fantastic! Keep those reloads coming.
Fantastic!
[♪♪♪]
- You wanna see better? - I can see fine.
- We can't stay here. - I can.
- Why? - Because Barry's not here.
I'm just not ready.
I can't-- I can't stay here. I've gotta get down there.
I know.
MAN [OVER PA]: This is data control to all personnel.
We monitor no biologic hazards.
Range safety clear.
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Oh, my God.
[HUMMING]
Oh, my God.
Holy shit.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
[♪♪♪]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
[♪♪♪]
MAN 1 [OVER PA]: There is a safety-hazard zone...
...extending 25 meters from the ship.
Special teams are exempt and should be aware of low gravity.
Expect some dizziness, and look out for a static charge.
MAN 2: All departments at operational during this phase...
...signify by beeping twice.
If everything's ready here on the dark side of the moon...
...play the five tones.
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[SPACECRAFT BLARES NOTES]
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[SPACECRAFT BLARING NOTES]
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[SPACECRAFT BLARES NOTES]
[NOTES PLAYING ON KEYBOARD]
[SPACECRAFT BLARING NOTES]
Give her six quavers, then pause.
[KEYBOARD PLAYING]
She sent us four quavers...
...a group of five quavers, a group of four semiquavers.
[KEYBOARD PLAYING]
[SPACECRAFT BLARING]
The only thing these phrases have in common are five signals.
I hope somebody's taking all this down.
What are we saying to each other?
It seems they're trying to teach us a basic tonal vocabulary.
It's the first day of school, fellas.
[KEYBOARD & SPACECRAFT PLAYING IN UNISON]
Take everything from the lady. Follow her pattern note for note.
We have a translation interlock on their audio signal.
We're taking over this conversation now.
[KEYBOARD STOPS]
[CHATTTERING]
MAN: Let's go! Come on!
[♪♪♪]
I am Claude Lacombe.
Frank Taylor...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy Reserve...
...064199.
Lieutenant, welcome home.
This way to debriefing.
Harry Ward Craig...
...Captain, United States Navy...
...043431.
Captain, would you come right this way?
Welcome back, Navy. Welcome back.
- Craig, Harry Ward. - "Captain, United States Navy...
...0434311."
Disappeared off Chicken Shoals, flight 19.
MAN: Matthew McMichael, Lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve...
- ...0909411. - Lieutenant.
Good to have you back.
MAN [OVER PA]: Furlow, Otis B...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy.
They haven't even aged. Einstein was right.
Einstein was probably one of them.
MAN [OVER PA]: Erickson, David A...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy...
...0639552.
Henkle, Robert F...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy....
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA]
Reported missing July 1955, Pensacola, Florida.
Monsieur Neary...
...what do you want?
I just wanna know that it's really happening.
I went up in the air, and I saw our house.
I saw you going up in the air. Did you see me running after you?
- Yes. - Yes?
[BOTH SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
All right, now we have to talk.
He wants to speak about Mr. Neary's case.
MAN [OVER PA]: Swensen, Matthew Daniel...
...reported missing April 1976.
- Are they going away? - Yes.
[ALL CHATTERING]
Wait a second, wait.
He says these are ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances.
MAN [OVER PA]: Delores, Rudolph E...
...reported missing December '51, Bisbee...
...Arizona.
[JILLIAN SOBBING]
Goodbye.
Monsieur Neary...
...I envy you.
[♪♪♪]
Mr. Neary, I'm told that we can count on your complete cooperation.
- What type of blood do you have? - I don't have the slightest idea.
- What is your date of birth? - December 4th, 1944.
Have you been inoculated against smallpox, diphtheria?
Is there any history of liver disease in your family?
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
May the Lord be praised at all times.
ALL: May God help us and grant us a happy journey.
REVEREND: Show us your ways.
ALL: And lead us along your paths.
God has given you his angels charge over you.
Grant these pilgrims, we pray, a happy journey...
...and peaceful days, so that with your holy angel as a guide...
...they may safely reach their destination....
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[♪♪♪]
Goodbye!
[♪♪♪]