Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - full transcript
Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgrounds are investigating the strange appearance of items in remote locations, primarily desert regions. In continuing their investigation, one of the lead scientists, a Frenchman named Claude Lacombe, incorporates the Kodály method of music education as a means of communication in their work. The response, in turn, at first baffles the researchers, until American cartographer David Laughlin deciphers the meaning of the response. In the second, electric company lineman and family man Roy Neary and single mother Jillian Guiler are among some individuals in Muncie, Indiana who experience some paranormal activity before some flashes of bright lights in the sky, which they believe to be a UFO. Roy becomes obsessed with what he saw, unlike some others, especially in some form of authority, who refuse to acknowledge their belief that it was a UFO in not wanting to appear crazy. That obsession both for Roy and Jillian is ratcheted up a notch when they begin to have a vision of a mound with vertical striations on its side as a key to what is going on. While the obsession negatively affects Roy's life as he knows it in its entirety, Jillian knows she has to find the answer as to its meaning, especially as it relates to her only child, three year old Barry Guiler, who may be more attuned to what is happening than the adult figures around him. These two stories have the potential to intersect if Roy and Jillian can discover where they've seen that mound before, and if they can overcome what they believe to be the lies perpetrated by those in authority in covering up what is going on.
Are we the first?
Are we the first to arrive here?
Mr Wilson!
Is the interpreter with you?
I'm not a professional interpreter.
My occupation is cartography.
I'm a mapmaker.
Can you translate French into English
and English into French?
Yes, I explained to the team leader in Villa Hermosa.
I'm just a little taken by surprise.
How long have you been working on this project?
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.
They're all there! All of them!
Check for landing marks!
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's happening here?
- It's flight number 19!
- 19 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?
He says this guy's local.
He was here last night. He saw it happen.
Sunburn?
He says the sun came out last night.
He says it sang to him.
Harry, keep an eye on that point-out I gave you.
He's on 122.5.
I'll be right back.
Indianapolis Centre, you have any
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. 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, I'll check low, over.
Dick, check and see if they know who this is.
Centre, 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, Centre, no distinct outline.
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 colours are a little striking.
Centre, this is TWA 517.
Traffic now looks like extra-bright landing lights.
I thought Air East had his landing lights on.
Could be a satellite.
I have that primary target now
in your 10 o'clock position...
...five miles, over.
- Never seen anything like that.
- Affirmative, 31.
The traffic is proceeding northeast.
No altitude readout.
Roger, Centre. It doesn't appear
he's gonna be a problem.
He's just descended about 1500 feet below me.
Wait a second!
Stand by one.
Okay, Centre, Air East 31. The traffic has turned.
He's heading right for my windshield.
We're turning right immediately.
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 Centre, do you have
test operations in restricted area 2508?
Air East 31, roger.
The traffic is quite luminous and is
exhibiting some non-ballistic motion.
Roger. Continue descent at your discretion, over.
Okay, Centre. Descent
at pilot's discretion is approved.
The traffic is approaching head-on,
ultra-bright and really moving.
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.
TWA 517, do you want to report a UFO? Over.
Negative. We don't want to report.
Air East 31, do you wish to report a UFO? Over.
Negative. We don't want
to report one of those either.
Air East 31, do you wish to
file a report of any kind? Over.
I wouldn't know what kind of report to file, Centre.
Air East 31, me neither.
I'll try to track traffic to destination, over.
- What are you doing?
- I'm just running my way...
What?
Barry?
Honey?
Honey?
Barry!
Barry.
Barry!
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?
- 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.
Honey?
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, this table.
I mean, you can have that table.
I don't want this stuff on my 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're gonna love it.
I don't believe this.
Who wants to go 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.
That's a wonderful way to win over your children.
I'm not serious. I'm just saying
that I grew up with Pinocchio.
And the 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!
Okay, now, I'll give you your choice.
I'm not gonna be biased in any way.
You can either play Goofy Golf, which
means a lot of waiting and pushing...
...or you can see Pinocchio...
...which is a lot of furry animals and
magic and a wonderful time. Okay?
- Now, let's vote.
- Golf!
All right, everybody to bed!
No way! Dad said we could finish
watching The Ten Commandments!
Roy, that movie is four hours long.
I told them they'd watch only five commandments.
- Hi, Ronnie, it's Earl.
- Hi, Earl.
We got a big problem coming your way.
I need your old man in the field.
Roy can't drive at night without me.
Tell him we're experiencing an overall outage.
Wait, wait, wait, I can't-- Hey, honey.
Jiminy Cricket! It's Earl on the phone.
Just a second.
- Hello.
- Neary.
Get into your truck
and report to line Mary-10 in Tolono.
We're losing power across the grid.
Has the outage hit you yet?
Neary? Neary? Neary?
Hey! Lights!
- Hey. Lights. Hey.
- Oh, God.
Barry!
Barry!
Help! I'm lost.
- Go, Ed.
- 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'?
Sodium-vapour streetlights.
Power must have been restored.
Couple hundred neighbours
in their p.j.'s think it's Saturday night.
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!
A-34, A-34... F-27.
M-Mary-10 through M-Mary-12. Okay.
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.
Unit 211, 10-30, five, Sev--
Oh, shit.
Oh, my God. Are you watching this?
Don't look up at them, they're like flashbulbs.
Unit 211, I'm back up on the street.
What do you guys got out there?
I don't believe this!
My God! It's bigger than a house!
This thing is like a barn.
This is absolutely crazy.
What is your location?
Just off the Telemark Expressway
and east toward Harper Valley.
Barry.
No!
Watch out!
Oh, my God! Lady! Lady!
Are you okay? I'm sorry.
I didn't see him. He was just standing
in the middle of the road.
- Hello?
- Oh, my God.
- Hello! Here!
- What's the matter with you?
Barry, come back here! Come on, now.
Ice cream!
This is nuts.
No.
Wait a minute!
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!
Honey, wake up!
Honey, Ronnie, wake up!
You're not gonna believe what I saw!
- Ronnie?
- Don't! Not now.
No, listen! Ronnie. Ronnie,
I never would have believed it.
There was this-- In the cab, there was this whole--
It went-- It was-- There was a red whoosh that--
ROY -
Ike called you.
- I gotta get something to wear.
- And McGovern.
They want you to call right away.
They couldn't reach you.
I turned the radio off.
Don't do that. The phone rang off the hook.
It woke Sylvia up two times already.
And I think you'd better call them.
You know those matures 'm National
Geographic, the aurora boreaYvs?
This is better than that. This is really-- Come on!
Come on, Ronnie, get up. Come on.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing's wrong. I don't know.
- Get up! I'm not kidding.
- Is it an accident?
It's not an accident. You wanted
to get out of the house, right?
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, we're going on a little adventure.
Toby! Brad! Come on! Get up. Up. Come on.
It's better than Goofy Golf!
- Go faster.
- I'm going as fast as I can.
Come on.
All right, all right. Oh, hi, Mrs Harris.
Roy, there's Mrs Harris.
There better be a good reason for 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.
Honey, what is that?
Roy, what did it look like?
It was like an ice-cream cone.
What flavour?
Orange.
It was orange. It wasn't like an ice-cream cone.
It was more like a shell. You know, like this:
Like a taco?
Was it like one of those Sara Lee
moon-shaped cookies?
Those crescent cookies?
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.
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.
Is this the bathroom?
Hey, this is not your toy to play with
every time I turn around.
He looks like a 50/50 bar.
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 it's all one colour.
It makes my face look yellow.
What does this remind you of, Ronnie?
Then we'll tell everybody 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.
I want you to go outside and have a hot dog, okay?
Ronnie, don't tell him that.
Roy, look, don't talk about this until
you know what you're talking about.
Ronnie, that's crazy. If I can't talk about it...
...how will I know what's going on?
- What?
- Mom, I believe in them.
- 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.
What's--? Nothing's going on.
It's just one of those things.
Which things? Which things?
- I don't wanna hear about this.
- This is very important.
I'm not just gonna let it lay here.
I'm gonna call somebody.
- 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.
- No, you're not.
- Yes, I am.
No, you're not.
Do they live on the moon?
They got bases on the moon so at night
they can come through your window.
- This isn't a moonburn, goddamn it.
- You live on the moon.
- I saw it. You came through my window.
- You hurt me!
- You took all of my covers.
- Roy's not like that.
He loves his work. Don't say that!
What did he do? He was with us all night!
I won't have to go tonight.
- He is not like that at all!
- I don't believe it.
- Stop yelling at me!
- You did!
- You did!
- 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.
I want to know... from what direction
did your people hear these sounds
Where were the sounds coming from?
Where did these sounds come from? Tell us, please.
Where did these sounds come from?
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Well...
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 Zoltén Kodély.
Kodély developed these signs
to teach music to deaf children.
And now...
I haven't had a hand all night.
Hello?
Hi.
Oh, hi, how are you? You came here too?
Yes. Jillian Guiler.
Roy Neary. I'm sorry about what happened.
- Good night!
- What?
Look at you.
You got the same burn.
Yeah, but it's better on you.
You got it all over at least.
I gotta tan the other side tonight.
How's the kid? I'm really sorry.
I'll be right back.
Raise up your head a bit
and give me a smile. Come on, son.
He's a little young for a record, don't you think?
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.
- Here they come!
- Get the camera!
- Out of the northwest!
- Jimmy, come here.
It's like Halloween for grown-ups.
Trick or treat.
Wait a minute.
Here are the patterns.
- We received two 15-minute broadcasts.
- 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, then a new set of numbers.
Forty, break five, 36, break five, 10.
- A hundred and four rapid pulses.
- Lord!
Wait 60 seconds and the whole doggone thing repeats.
- Where are these signals coming from?
- Right in the neighbourhood.
Light-travel time, roughly 7 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 sent 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.
There's still so much that we don't know.
How about where the signals originate?
- Excuse me.
- Maybe they're letters.
What letter is 104?
Excuse me.
Before I got paid to speak French...
...I-
I used to read maps.
This first number is a longitude.
Yeah. 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 office.
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.
All right, everybody, quiet down!
Hold it down! Quiet!
That's not right.
The antenna. How dumb!
- Which Way's it pointing?
- Northeast.
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...
Toys!
Toys!
Come on, come on.
Oh, my God.
You can come and play now.
You can come and play now.
Come in through the door.
One, two, three...
Oh, honey.
Mom, look! The sun's here!
Oh, honey.
Oh, my God!
Go away!
Clean everything up!
- Mom, let me listen.
- Wait a minute! Wait.
- Mom, look!
- Oh, my God.
Come in through the door.
Barry! Barry!
Jillian. Jillian.
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.
- Mrs Guiler.
They got him.
What?
Is it true you're leaving to look for your son?
- Has there been a ransom note?
- Where would you start looking?
His name is Barry.
Where is your husband now, Mrs Guiler?
Mrs Guiler.
Are you involved in any kind of parapsychologies?
Turn around, please. Turn around!
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.
That's the one I saw.
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.
I wanted to point out that we're
not all "polished brass" about this.
And also to make a point that last year...
...Americans shot more than 7 billion photographs...
...at a record of $6.6 billion
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.
Our cameras have never taken a picture...
...of a plane crash as it actually happened...
...or an automobile accident
and get it on the 6:00 news.
- I have seen lights.
- Of course you have.
Folks...
Now, 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 centre, 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.
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 guys 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.
I don't know what you saw.
You can't fool us by agreeing with us.
No, no, no. Come on!
I saw Bigfoot once.
1951. Back in Sequoia National Park.
Had a foot on her, 37 inches. Heel to toe.
Made a sound I would not want
to hear twice in my life.
I believe I've encountered that gentleman myself.
I was sitting on the porch,
looking through the screen.
I seen this big white dot in the sky.
It turned red and blue and green.
--It just kept pulsating more and more and more.
UFOs do not represent a direct
physical threat to our national security.
We do not support them, and we encourage you not to.
Let's get in touch with the Forest Service...
...or we'll end up in a wilderness
area with vehicular traffic.
And that's strictly sacred-cow stuff
to those folks in Wyoming.
If this mission fully develops...
...I get white-knuckled 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, transportation
will be provided on the other end.
- Look. I still like the flash-flood idea.
- Where do you get the water?
We've had about two inches of rain--
We'll tell them one of the reservoirs is gonna burst.
Besides, there's not enough water
in those reservoirs.
Wait. Contaminated water
affects people, crops, animals.
Disease.
- Yeah, epidemic.
- What kind of disease?
- A plague epidemic.
- Nobody will believe a plague.
- Anthrax.
- Ranching country.
- Yes.
- There's a lot of sheep up in those hills.
Wait a minute. 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.
Come on.
Help yourself.
I hate these potatoes.
There's a dead fly in my potatoes.
It's okay.
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!
What is it?
What is it?
It's not fair.
Tell me.
Roy'?
ROY -
Open the door, please.
Please. Roy. Roy!
Open this door!
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.
Maybe it's not your fault anyway.
- 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! Get out!
- Come on, you guys. Come on.
You crybaby!
"Be quiet!
- Stop it!
I don't understand what this is!
- Well, neither do I.
- Get out!
Go to your room and close the door.
Hon?
- Ronnie?
- Yes.
I'm really scared.
I want you to help me. Come on. Ronnie?
All this bullshit!
It's turning this house upside down!
- Ronnie, just--
- I just hate you! That's why!
- No!
- Ronnie. Ronnie.
Just hold me. Just put your arms
around me. It'll really help me.
It'll really help me.
Listen! Listen! Listen!
Don't you see what's happening?
- None of our friends call us anymore.
- Ronnie.
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.
Well, what do you know? It's disintegrated.
Happy birthday, you thing from another world, you.
Thank you!
Well, I guess he's had enough.
Are you going to yell at me?
Ronnie? Everything's fine.
All this stuff is coming down.
It's all gonna be like it was.
That's the last straw! Now I use my secret weapon!
Roy'?
Roy, I'm sorry about last night. Roy!
Roy. Roy, what are you doing?
Jesus!
Roy. ROY-
The plants are fine there!
Roy, can you hear me?
Wait!
Wait! What are you doing?
You're gonna love it!
- What do you mean?
- You'll really love this.
Roy, what are you doing?
Oh, Roy!
My God!
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.
Do what? What are you doing?
- I got it.
- What are you doing?
I figured it out, that's all. Will you just listen?
You ever look at something crazy, and
then see it another way and it's not?
No, I haven't.
Come on, Ronnie. Just listen.
- I don't know what you're doing.
- Close your eyes.
Close your eyes and hold your breath,
everything will be really pretty.
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.
Like this?
Chicken wire.
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. 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.
Stay! Stay!
- Where are we going?
- Where are we going?
- Where are we going?
- Get in the car.
- Where are we going?
- Quietly, quickly, get in.
Get in there, Toby.
Quickly.
- Dad needs some more help.
- Okay, lock the doors.
Dad needs some more help!
Quiet! Just look the doors. Roll up those windows.
Dad needs some more help!
Honey, where you going?
- What?
- Where are you going?
Taking the kids to my sister's.
That's crazy. You're not even dressed.
What?
You said what?
Ronnie, wait!
Ronnie, hold it. Hold it.
Can you hold-- Would you hold it one minute?
Morning.
What is wrong with me today?
Who is it, please?
It's the mailman. There's a package
for Julie Anderson.
You can just leave it at the door.
I can't do that. I'm supposed to c.o.d. Like that.
And besides...
...you and I have to have a little talk...
...about Kim.
Like sands through the hourglass...
...so are the Days of Our Lives.
Good evening. At the top of the news
tonight, a rail disaster.
- Hang up.
- 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.
--To the public for three weeks...
- I can do other things.
- ...for renovations in the national park.
- I'm trying to be.
- We go to Charles McDonald for a report.
Yes, I am.
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?
- Once the toxic concentration's down...
- 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 right--
Ronnie! Don't hang up! Just don't--
- -meat should remain unaffected. This
means order your steak well-done.
Devils Tower, Wyoming was
the first national monument...
...erected in this country by
Theodore Roosevelt in 1915.
Thousands of civilian refugees
are fleeing the area...
...spurred on by rumours that the
seven overturned tanker cars...
...at Walkashi Needles Junction were
filled to capacity with GM nerve gas.
In a few minutes, we're going to be--
--boasts 400,000 vacationers.
Fortunately, during this mishap
there have been no fatalities.
- -forced to evacuate this area, which soon...
...will become 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.
--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.
--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 multi-lane 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?
Yo!
- Holy mother of--
- You're going the wrong way!
Yo! Turn back around. Back this way.
Idiot! What's the matter with you?
Yes, sir. Sorry, officer.
It's just a rental, officer. Just a rental.
My fault! My fault!
Starting with the letter as in "Frank"...
...to the letter "J" as in "Jack"...
...please find your way to the loading
platform for immediate boarding.
You'll 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.
Roy? Roy!
Roy!
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.
Please help each other by not rushing.
Roy'?
Roy'?
Roy!
ROY -
- Roy!
- Come on up here.
I don't care where you go,
just get behind the barricades!
I don't want any suicides.
There's no way out!
What are we doing?
Only way to get back is cross-country.
We'll break through the fence.
- 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 backyard refrigerators.
They asked me if I'd seen any strangers
in the neighbourhood.
I don't believe it's real.
I don't believe it's real.
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.
Oh, damn it!
Ma'am, would you please step away...
- This is for your own safety.
- Okay.
All right. What do you want? Get your hands off me!
- How are you feeling?
- I feel fine!
According to my birds, the only bad air
here is you guys farting around!
- Move them out!
- What's happening?
What do you want'? Where are we going?
- Go to the van.
- Where are you taking her?
- Hold it! Why can't we go together?
- Roy?
Watch your step.
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?
Do you realise the danger you
and your friend have risked?
In coming here, you've exposed yourself to toxic gas.
Well, I'm alive.
We're talking.
This is true, Mr Neary.
But if the wind blew from
the south instead of the north...
...this conversation would not be taking place.
There's nothing wrong with the air.
What makes you say that?
I just know. There's nothing wrong with it.
Go outside and make me a liar.
Look, I wanna talk to the man in charge.
Mr Lacombe is the highest authority.
He isn't even an American.
Mr Neary, are you an artist or a painter?
No.
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?
Monsieur Neary, please, one more question.
Have you recently had a close encounter?
A close encounter with something very unusual?
Who are you people?
- 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?
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.
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?
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?
Is that it? Answer me!
I didn't come this far to get
taken on any bus ride home!
Five minutes. Five!
We're gonna hold for a couple of minutes.
You brought in 12 people to
the decontamination camp...
...instead of the evacuation centre
where they belong. I'd like to know why.
- Because this means something.
- Because this means something.
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, cultists
and Christ knows what all.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
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.
- 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,
it's none of our business.
We only wanted to see the mountain.
It was a coincidence when I painted it.
You can take it off.
The air here is better than it is in Los Angeles.
Listen. How many of you people are
for getting out of here?
I don't know what's happening either,
and I must find out what's going on.
I believe for every one of these anxious,
anguished people who've come here...
...there must be hundreds also touched
by the vision who never made it here.
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.
Hey! Wait a minute!
- My name's Neary!
- Larry Butler!
- How you doing?
- I'm doing okay! You?
- Fine, fine!
- That's good!
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?
- 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.
But if you can't get these folks
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 headache, that's all.
We didn't choose this place.
We didn't choose these people!
They were invited!
They belong here more than we.
I shouldn't have given up jogging.
See that notch in the mountain?
We can make that one in no time.
Here come three more.
The authority in this park...
...has been superseded by
the United States government.
There's a ravine that leads straight up.
- It's an easier climb. It faces northeast.
- It's no good.
When you get to the top, it'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. I only painted one side.
- There was no canyon in my doodles.
- Next time, sculpt.
You give us a lot of credit.
That's a good hour's climb.
Come on, let's go.
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.
Go ahead.
Nothing to report at midstation.
As it looks 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,
call the dark side of the moon...
...and tell them we're gonna dust.
Get down!
You are entering a military reservation...
...and subject to military law.
Larry! Larry, come on!
Larry! Don't let them see you! Get down!
They're just crop-dusting. Los Angeles!
- Larry?
- Don't stop!
Don't look back! Come on, come on!
Roy!
Hurry! We're only 10 feet from the top.
Just a few more feet!
We can slide down the other side!
No!
Come on, hurry. I'll come down.
Don't come down.
Come on, come on. Come on!
- 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!
Jump! Jump!
- Do you see that?
- Oh, yes.
Good.
Is it on? Check the speaker system here.
- I want this up all the way.
- Is this one live?
Are you reading me on this one?
How about here?
- Testing. Testing.
- Okay, one, two, three, four.
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.
We're the only ones who know. The only ones.
You see that?
Yes.
Good.
All ground personnel not D-class approved...
...please evacuate the centre approach marker.
Audio analysis personnel,
behind the double yellow line.
ITC, stereo, time and resistance.
Auto ready?
- Tone interpolation on interlock.
- Altitude and tabling.
ARP interlock now.
Speed set at seven and a half.
All positive functions, standing by.
Special ARP teams tagged C, "Captain," F, "Frank"...
...to the speaking platform.
- Six-two.
- Go ahead.
- Sunset.
- Go.
Okay. Start with the tone.
- Tang.
- Go.
Up a full tone.
Down a major third.
Now drop an octave.
- Cool blue.
- Go.
Up a perfect fifth.
Nothing. Nothing at all.
We have a possible anomaly ranging
from plus-5 milligals to minus-50...
Give me a tone.
- "Re" to the second.
- Up a full tone.
- "Mi" to the third.
- Down a major third.
- "Do" to the first.
- Drop an octave.
- "Do" one-half.
- Up a perfect fifth.
"So" to the fifth.
I know that.
Faster.
Kick that mule!
Let's go!
I'm very happy tonight.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
Not a Merle Haggard, but it was great.
Mr Lacombe?
What is it? What's happening?
Come on. Come on, let's go.
Keep down.
They're talking way over my head.
- Shit.
- Duck, duck!
Photo one.
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 stay. I've gotta get down there.
I know.
This is Data Control to all personnel.
We monitor no biologic hazards.
Range safety clear.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Holy shit.
There is a safety-hazard zone...
...extending 25 metres from the ship.
Special teams are exempt and
should be aware of low gravity.
Expect some dizziness,
and look out for a static charge.
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.
Give her six quavers, then pause.
She sent us four quavers...
...a group of five quavers,
a group of four semiquavers.
All these phrases have in common are five signals.
- I hope somebody's taking 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.
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.
Let's go! Come on! 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.
Matthew McMichael, Lieutenant,
United States Naval Reserve...
- ...0909411.
- Lieutenant.
Good to have you back.
Furlow, Otis B...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy.
They haven't even aged. Einstein was right.
Einstein was probably one of them.
Erickson, David A...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy...
...0639552.
Henkle, Robert F...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy...
...0618475.
--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?
All right, now we have to talk.
He wants to speak about Mr Neary's case.
Swensen, Matthew Daniel...
...reported missing April 1976.
- Are they going away?
- Yes.
Wait a second, wait.
He says these are ordinary people
under extraordinary circumstances.
Delores, Rudolph E...
...reported missing December '51, Bisbee...
...Arizona.
Good bye.
Monsieur Neary...
...I envy you.
Mr Neary, I'm told we can count on
your complete cooperation.
- What's your blood type?
- I don't know.
- What's your birth date?
- December 4th, 1944.
Have you been inoculated against
smallpox, diphtheria?
Is there any history of liver disease in your family?
May the Lord be praised at all times.
May God help us and grant us a happy journey.
Show us your ways.
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...
Bye!
Subtitles Translated by: Devon C.
Are we the first to arrive here?
Mr Wilson!
Is the interpreter with you?
I'm not a professional interpreter.
My occupation is cartography.
I'm a mapmaker.
Can you translate French into English
and English into French?
Yes, I explained to the team leader in Villa Hermosa.
I'm just a little taken by surprise.
How long have you been working on this project?
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.
They're all there! All of them!
Check for landing marks!
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's happening here?
- It's flight number 19!
- 19 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?
He says this guy's local.
He was here last night. He saw it happen.
Sunburn?
He says the sun came out last night.
He says it sang to him.
Harry, keep an eye on that point-out I gave you.
He's on 122.5.
I'll be right back.
Indianapolis Centre, you have any
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. 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, I'll check low, over.
Dick, check and see if they know who this is.
Centre, 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, Centre, no distinct outline.
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 colours are a little striking.
Centre, this is TWA 517.
Traffic now looks like extra-bright landing lights.
I thought Air East had his landing lights on.
Could be a satellite.
I have that primary target now
in your 10 o'clock position...
...five miles, over.
- Never seen anything like that.
- Affirmative, 31.
The traffic is proceeding northeast.
No altitude readout.
Roger, Centre. It doesn't appear
he's gonna be a problem.
He's just descended about 1500 feet below me.
Wait a second!
Stand by one.
Okay, Centre, Air East 31. The traffic has turned.
He's heading right for my windshield.
We're turning right immediately.
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 Centre, do you have
test operations in restricted area 2508?
Air East 31, roger.
The traffic is quite luminous and is
exhibiting some non-ballistic motion.
Roger. Continue descent at your discretion, over.
Okay, Centre. Descent
at pilot's discretion is approved.
The traffic is approaching head-on,
ultra-bright and really moving.
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.
TWA 517, do you want to report a UFO? Over.
Negative. We don't want to report.
Air East 31, do you wish to report a UFO? Over.
Negative. We don't want
to report one of those either.
Air East 31, do you wish to
file a report of any kind? Over.
I wouldn't know what kind of report to file, Centre.
Air East 31, me neither.
I'll try to track traffic to destination, over.
- What are you doing?
- I'm just running my way...
What?
Barry?
Honey?
Honey?
Barry!
Barry.
Barry!
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?
- 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.
Honey?
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, this table.
I mean, you can have that table.
I don't want this stuff on my 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're gonna love it.
I don't believe this.
Who wants to go 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.
That's a wonderful way to win over your children.
I'm not serious. I'm just saying
that I grew up with Pinocchio.
And the 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!
Okay, now, I'll give you your choice.
I'm not gonna be biased in any way.
You can either play Goofy Golf, which
means a lot of waiting and pushing...
...or you can see Pinocchio...
...which is a lot of furry animals and
magic and a wonderful time. Okay?
- Now, let's vote.
- Golf!
All right, everybody to bed!
No way! Dad said we could finish
watching The Ten Commandments!
Roy, that movie is four hours long.
I told them they'd watch only five commandments.
- Hi, Ronnie, it's Earl.
- Hi, Earl.
We got a big problem coming your way.
I need your old man in the field.
Roy can't drive at night without me.
Tell him we're experiencing an overall outage.
Wait, wait, wait, I can't-- Hey, honey.
Jiminy Cricket! It's Earl on the phone.
Just a second.
- Hello.
- Neary.
Get into your truck
and report to line Mary-10 in Tolono.
We're losing power across the grid.
Has the outage hit you yet?
Neary? Neary? Neary?
Hey! Lights!
- Hey. Lights. Hey.
- Oh, God.
Barry!
Barry!
Help! I'm lost.
- Go, Ed.
- 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'?
Sodium-vapour streetlights.
Power must have been restored.
Couple hundred neighbours
in their p.j.'s think it's Saturday night.
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!
A-34, A-34... F-27.
M-Mary-10 through M-Mary-12. Okay.
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.
Unit 211, 10-30, five, Sev--
Oh, shit.
Oh, my God. Are you watching this?
Don't look up at them, they're like flashbulbs.
Unit 211, I'm back up on the street.
What do you guys got out there?
I don't believe this!
My God! It's bigger than a house!
This thing is like a barn.
This is absolutely crazy.
What is your location?
Just off the Telemark Expressway
and east toward Harper Valley.
Barry.
No!
Watch out!
Oh, my God! Lady! Lady!
Are you okay? I'm sorry.
I didn't see him. He was just standing
in the middle of the road.
- Hello?
- Oh, my God.
- Hello! Here!
- What's the matter with you?
Barry, come back here! Come on, now.
Ice cream!
This is nuts.
No.
Wait a minute!
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!
Honey, wake up!
Honey, Ronnie, wake up!
You're not gonna believe what I saw!
- Ronnie?
- Don't! Not now.
No, listen! Ronnie. Ronnie,
I never would have believed it.
There was this-- In the cab, there was this whole--
It went-- It was-- There was a red whoosh that--
ROY -
Ike called you.
- I gotta get something to wear.
- And McGovern.
They want you to call right away.
They couldn't reach you.
I turned the radio off.
Don't do that. The phone rang off the hook.
It woke Sylvia up two times already.
And I think you'd better call them.
You know those matures 'm National
Geographic, the aurora boreaYvs?
This is better than that. This is really-- Come on!
Come on, Ronnie, get up. Come on.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing's wrong. I don't know.
- Get up! I'm not kidding.
- Is it an accident?
It's not an accident. You wanted
to get out of the house, right?
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, we're going on a little adventure.
Toby! Brad! Come on! Get up. Up. Come on.
It's better than Goofy Golf!
- Go faster.
- I'm going as fast as I can.
Come on.
All right, all right. Oh, hi, Mrs Harris.
Roy, there's Mrs Harris.
There better be a good reason for 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.
Honey, what is that?
Roy, what did it look like?
It was like an ice-cream cone.
What flavour?
Orange.
It was orange. It wasn't like an ice-cream cone.
It was more like a shell. You know, like this:
Like a taco?
Was it like one of those Sara Lee
moon-shaped cookies?
Those crescent cookies?
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.
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.
Is this the bathroom?
Hey, this is not your toy to play with
every time I turn around.
He looks like a 50/50 bar.
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 it's all one colour.
It makes my face look yellow.
What does this remind you of, Ronnie?
Then we'll tell everybody 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.
I want you to go outside and have a hot dog, okay?
Ronnie, don't tell him that.
Roy, look, don't talk about this until
you know what you're talking about.
Ronnie, that's crazy. If I can't talk about it...
...how will I know what's going on?
- What?
- Mom, I believe in them.
- 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.
What's--? Nothing's going on.
It's just one of those things.
Which things? Which things?
- I don't wanna hear about this.
- This is very important.
I'm not just gonna let it lay here.
I'm gonna call somebody.
- 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.
- No, you're not.
- Yes, I am.
No, you're not.
Do they live on the moon?
They got bases on the moon so at night
they can come through your window.
- This isn't a moonburn, goddamn it.
- You live on the moon.
- I saw it. You came through my window.
- You hurt me!
- You took all of my covers.
- Roy's not like that.
He loves his work. Don't say that!
What did he do? He was with us all night!
I won't have to go tonight.
- He is not like that at all!
- I don't believe it.
- Stop yelling at me!
- You did!
- You did!
- 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.
I want to know... from what direction
did your people hear these sounds
Where were the sounds coming from?
Where did these sounds come from? Tell us, please.
Where did these sounds come from?
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Well...
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 Zoltén Kodély.
Kodély developed these signs
to teach music to deaf children.
And now...
I haven't had a hand all night.
Hello?
Hi.
Oh, hi, how are you? You came here too?
Yes. Jillian Guiler.
Roy Neary. I'm sorry about what happened.
- Good night!
- What?
Look at you.
You got the same burn.
Yeah, but it's better on you.
You got it all over at least.
I gotta tan the other side tonight.
How's the kid? I'm really sorry.
I'll be right back.
Raise up your head a bit
and give me a smile. Come on, son.
He's a little young for a record, don't you think?
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.
- Here they come!
- Get the camera!
- Out of the northwest!
- Jimmy, come here.
It's like Halloween for grown-ups.
Trick or treat.
Wait a minute.
Here are the patterns.
- We received two 15-minute broadcasts.
- 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, then a new set of numbers.
Forty, break five, 36, break five, 10.
- A hundred and four rapid pulses.
- Lord!
Wait 60 seconds and the whole doggone thing repeats.
- Where are these signals coming from?
- Right in the neighbourhood.
Light-travel time, roughly 7 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 sent 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.
There's still so much that we don't know.
How about where the signals originate?
- Excuse me.
- Maybe they're letters.
What letter is 104?
Excuse me.
Before I got paid to speak French...
...I-
I used to read maps.
This first number is a longitude.
Yeah. 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 office.
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.
All right, everybody, quiet down!
Hold it down! Quiet!
That's not right.
The antenna. How dumb!
- Which Way's it pointing?
- Northeast.
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...
Toys!
Toys!
Come on, come on.
Oh, my God.
You can come and play now.
You can come and play now.
Come in through the door.
One, two, three...
Oh, honey.
Mom, look! The sun's here!
Oh, honey.
Oh, my God!
Go away!
Clean everything up!
- Mom, let me listen.
- Wait a minute! Wait.
- Mom, look!
- Oh, my God.
Come in through the door.
Barry! Barry!
Jillian. Jillian.
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.
- Mrs Guiler.
They got him.
What?
Is it true you're leaving to look for your son?
- Has there been a ransom note?
- Where would you start looking?
His name is Barry.
Where is your husband now, Mrs Guiler?
Mrs Guiler.
Are you involved in any kind of parapsychologies?
Turn around, please. Turn around!
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.
That's the one I saw.
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.
I wanted to point out that we're
not all "polished brass" about this.
And also to make a point that last year...
...Americans shot more than 7 billion photographs...
...at a record of $6.6 billion
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.
Our cameras have never taken a picture...
...of a plane crash as it actually happened...
...or an automobile accident
and get it on the 6:00 news.
- I have seen lights.
- Of course you have.
Folks...
Now, 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 centre, 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.
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 guys 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.
I don't know what you saw.
You can't fool us by agreeing with us.
No, no, no. Come on!
I saw Bigfoot once.
1951. Back in Sequoia National Park.
Had a foot on her, 37 inches. Heel to toe.
Made a sound I would not want
to hear twice in my life.
I believe I've encountered that gentleman myself.
I was sitting on the porch,
looking through the screen.
I seen this big white dot in the sky.
It turned red and blue and green.
--It just kept pulsating more and more and more.
UFOs do not represent a direct
physical threat to our national security.
We do not support them, and we encourage you not to.
Let's get in touch with the Forest Service...
...or we'll end up in a wilderness
area with vehicular traffic.
And that's strictly sacred-cow stuff
to those folks in Wyoming.
If this mission fully develops...
...I get white-knuckled 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, transportation
will be provided on the other end.
- Look. I still like the flash-flood idea.
- Where do you get the water?
We've had about two inches of rain--
We'll tell them one of the reservoirs is gonna burst.
Besides, there's not enough water
in those reservoirs.
Wait. Contaminated water
affects people, crops, animals.
Disease.
- Yeah, epidemic.
- What kind of disease?
- A plague epidemic.
- Nobody will believe a plague.
- Anthrax.
- Ranching country.
- Yes.
- There's a lot of sheep up in those hills.
Wait a minute. 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.
Come on.
Help yourself.
I hate these potatoes.
There's a dead fly in my potatoes.
It's okay.
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!
What is it?
What is it?
It's not fair.
Tell me.
Roy'?
ROY -
Open the door, please.
Please. Roy. Roy!
Open this door!
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.
Maybe it's not your fault anyway.
- 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! Get out!
- Come on, you guys. Come on.
You crybaby!
"Be quiet!
- Stop it!
I don't understand what this is!
- Well, neither do I.
- Get out!
Go to your room and close the door.
Hon?
- Ronnie?
- Yes.
I'm really scared.
I want you to help me. Come on. Ronnie?
All this bullshit!
It's turning this house upside down!
- Ronnie, just--
- I just hate you! That's why!
- No!
- Ronnie. Ronnie.
Just hold me. Just put your arms
around me. It'll really help me.
It'll really help me.
Listen! Listen! Listen!
Don't you see what's happening?
- None of our friends call us anymore.
- Ronnie.
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.
Well, what do you know? It's disintegrated.
Happy birthday, you thing from another world, you.
Thank you!
Well, I guess he's had enough.
Are you going to yell at me?
Ronnie? Everything's fine.
All this stuff is coming down.
It's all gonna be like it was.
That's the last straw! Now I use my secret weapon!
Roy'?
Roy, I'm sorry about last night. Roy!
Roy. Roy, what are you doing?
Jesus!
Roy. ROY-
The plants are fine there!
Roy, can you hear me?
Wait!
Wait! What are you doing?
You're gonna love it!
- What do you mean?
- You'll really love this.
Roy, what are you doing?
Oh, Roy!
My God!
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.
Do what? What are you doing?
- I got it.
- What are you doing?
I figured it out, that's all. Will you just listen?
You ever look at something crazy, and
then see it another way and it's not?
No, I haven't.
Come on, Ronnie. Just listen.
- I don't know what you're doing.
- Close your eyes.
Close your eyes and hold your breath,
everything will be really pretty.
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.
Like this?
Chicken wire.
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. 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.
Stay! Stay!
- Where are we going?
- Where are we going?
- Where are we going?
- Get in the car.
- Where are we going?
- Quietly, quickly, get in.
Get in there, Toby.
Quickly.
- Dad needs some more help.
- Okay, lock the doors.
Dad needs some more help!
Quiet! Just look the doors. Roll up those windows.
Dad needs some more help!
Honey, where you going?
- What?
- Where are you going?
Taking the kids to my sister's.
That's crazy. You're not even dressed.
What?
You said what?
Ronnie, wait!
Ronnie, hold it. Hold it.
Can you hold-- Would you hold it one minute?
Morning.
What is wrong with me today?
Who is it, please?
It's the mailman. There's a package
for Julie Anderson.
You can just leave it at the door.
I can't do that. I'm supposed to c.o.d. Like that.
And besides...
...you and I have to have a little talk...
...about Kim.
Like sands through the hourglass...
...so are the Days of Our Lives.
Good evening. At the top of the news
tonight, a rail disaster.
- Hang up.
- 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.
--To the public for three weeks...
- I can do other things.
- ...for renovations in the national park.
- I'm trying to be.
- We go to Charles McDonald for a report.
Yes, I am.
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?
- Once the toxic concentration's down...
- 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 right--
Ronnie! Don't hang up! Just don't--
- -meat should remain unaffected. This
means order your steak well-done.
Devils Tower, Wyoming was
the first national monument...
...erected in this country by
Theodore Roosevelt in 1915.
Thousands of civilian refugees
are fleeing the area...
...spurred on by rumours that the
seven overturned tanker cars...
...at Walkashi Needles Junction were
filled to capacity with GM nerve gas.
In a few minutes, we're going to be--
--boasts 400,000 vacationers.
Fortunately, during this mishap
there have been no fatalities.
- -forced to evacuate this area, which soon...
...will become 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.
--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.
--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 multi-lane 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?
Yo!
- Holy mother of--
- You're going the wrong way!
Yo! Turn back around. Back this way.
Idiot! What's the matter with you?
Yes, sir. Sorry, officer.
It's just a rental, officer. Just a rental.
My fault! My fault!
Starting with the letter as in "Frank"...
...to the letter "J" as in "Jack"...
...please find your way to the loading
platform for immediate boarding.
You'll 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.
Roy? Roy!
Roy!
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.
Please help each other by not rushing.
Roy'?
Roy'?
Roy!
ROY -
- Roy!
- Come on up here.
I don't care where you go,
just get behind the barricades!
I don't want any suicides.
There's no way out!
What are we doing?
Only way to get back is cross-country.
We'll break through the fence.
- 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 backyard refrigerators.
They asked me if I'd seen any strangers
in the neighbourhood.
I don't believe it's real.
I don't believe it's real.
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.
Oh, damn it!
Ma'am, would you please step away...
- This is for your own safety.
- Okay.
All right. What do you want? Get your hands off me!
- How are you feeling?
- I feel fine!
According to my birds, the only bad air
here is you guys farting around!
- Move them out!
- What's happening?
What do you want'? Where are we going?
- Go to the van.
- Where are you taking her?
- Hold it! Why can't we go together?
- Roy?
Watch your step.
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?
Do you realise the danger you
and your friend have risked?
In coming here, you've exposed yourself to toxic gas.
Well, I'm alive.
We're talking.
This is true, Mr Neary.
But if the wind blew from
the south instead of the north...
...this conversation would not be taking place.
There's nothing wrong with the air.
What makes you say that?
I just know. There's nothing wrong with it.
Go outside and make me a liar.
Look, I wanna talk to the man in charge.
Mr Lacombe is the highest authority.
He isn't even an American.
Mr Neary, are you an artist or a painter?
No.
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?
Monsieur Neary, please, one more question.
Have you recently had a close encounter?
A close encounter with something very unusual?
Who are you people?
- 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?
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.
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?
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?
Is that it? Answer me!
I didn't come this far to get
taken on any bus ride home!
Five minutes. Five!
We're gonna hold for a couple of minutes.
You brought in 12 people to
the decontamination camp...
...instead of the evacuation centre
where they belong. I'd like to know why.
- Because this means something.
- Because this means something.
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, cultists
and Christ knows what all.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
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.
- 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,
it's none of our business.
We only wanted to see the mountain.
It was a coincidence when I painted it.
You can take it off.
The air here is better than it is in Los Angeles.
Listen. How many of you people are
for getting out of here?
I don't know what's happening either,
and I must find out what's going on.
I believe for every one of these anxious,
anguished people who've come here...
...there must be hundreds also touched
by the vision who never made it here.
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.
Hey! Wait a minute!
- My name's Neary!
- Larry Butler!
- How you doing?
- I'm doing okay! You?
- Fine, fine!
- That's good!
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?
- 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.
But if you can't get these folks
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 headache, that's all.
We didn't choose this place.
We didn't choose these people!
They were invited!
They belong here more than we.
I shouldn't have given up jogging.
See that notch in the mountain?
We can make that one in no time.
Here come three more.
The authority in this park...
...has been superseded by
the United States government.
There's a ravine that leads straight up.
- It's an easier climb. It faces northeast.
- It's no good.
When you get to the top, it'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. I only painted one side.
- There was no canyon in my doodles.
- Next time, sculpt.
You give us a lot of credit.
That's a good hour's climb.
Come on, let's go.
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.
Go ahead.
Nothing to report at midstation.
As it looks 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,
call the dark side of the moon...
...and tell them we're gonna dust.
Get down!
You are entering a military reservation...
...and subject to military law.
Larry! Larry, come on!
Larry! Don't let them see you! Get down!
They're just crop-dusting. Los Angeles!
- Larry?
- Don't stop!
Don't look back! Come on, come on!
Roy!
Hurry! We're only 10 feet from the top.
Just a few more feet!
We can slide down the other side!
No!
Come on, hurry. I'll come down.
Don't come down.
Come on, come on. Come on!
- 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!
Jump! Jump!
- Do you see that?
- Oh, yes.
Good.
Is it on? Check the speaker system here.
- I want this up all the way.
- Is this one live?
Are you reading me on this one?
How about here?
- Testing. Testing.
- Okay, one, two, three, four.
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.
We're the only ones who know. The only ones.
You see that?
Yes.
Good.
All ground personnel not D-class approved...
...please evacuate the centre approach marker.
Audio analysis personnel,
behind the double yellow line.
ITC, stereo, time and resistance.
Auto ready?
- Tone interpolation on interlock.
- Altitude and tabling.
ARP interlock now.
Speed set at seven and a half.
All positive functions, standing by.
Special ARP teams tagged C, "Captain," F, "Frank"...
...to the speaking platform.
- Six-two.
- Go ahead.
- Sunset.
- Go.
Okay. Start with the tone.
- Tang.
- Go.
Up a full tone.
Down a major third.
Now drop an octave.
- Cool blue.
- Go.
Up a perfect fifth.
Nothing. Nothing at all.
We have a possible anomaly ranging
from plus-5 milligals to minus-50...
Give me a tone.
- "Re" to the second.
- Up a full tone.
- "Mi" to the third.
- Down a major third.
- "Do" to the first.
- Drop an octave.
- "Do" one-half.
- Up a perfect fifth.
"So" to the fifth.
I know that.
Faster.
Kick that mule!
Let's go!
I'm very happy tonight.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
Not a Merle Haggard, but it was great.
Mr Lacombe?
What is it? What's happening?
Come on. Come on, let's go.
Keep down.
They're talking way over my head.
- Shit.
- Duck, duck!
Photo one.
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 stay. I've gotta get down there.
I know.
This is Data Control to all personnel.
We monitor no biologic hazards.
Range safety clear.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Holy shit.
There is a safety-hazard zone...
...extending 25 metres from the ship.
Special teams are exempt and
should be aware of low gravity.
Expect some dizziness,
and look out for a static charge.
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.
Give her six quavers, then pause.
She sent us four quavers...
...a group of five quavers,
a group of four semiquavers.
All these phrases have in common are five signals.
- I hope somebody's taking 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.
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.
Let's go! Come on! 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.
Matthew McMichael, Lieutenant,
United States Naval Reserve...
- ...0909411.
- Lieutenant.
Good to have you back.
Furlow, Otis B...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy.
They haven't even aged. Einstein was right.
Einstein was probably one of them.
Erickson, David A...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy...
...0639552.
Henkle, Robert F...
...Lieutenant J.G., United States Navy...
...0618475.
--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?
All right, now we have to talk.
He wants to speak about Mr Neary's case.
Swensen, Matthew Daniel...
...reported missing April 1976.
- Are they going away?
- Yes.
Wait a second, wait.
He says these are ordinary people
under extraordinary circumstances.
Delores, Rudolph E...
...reported missing December '51, Bisbee...
...Arizona.
Good bye.
Monsieur Neary...
...I envy you.
Mr Neary, I'm told we can count on
your complete cooperation.
- What's your blood type?
- I don't know.
- What's your birth date?
- December 4th, 1944.
Have you been inoculated against
smallpox, diphtheria?
Is there any history of liver disease in your family?
May the Lord be praised at all times.
May God help us and grant us a happy journey.
Show us your ways.
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...
Bye!
Subtitles Translated by: Devon C.