The Outer Limits (1995–2002): Season 1, Episode 17 - The Message - full transcript
Jennifer Winter is deaf and had great hopes for a cochlear implant but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. She does begin to hear voices however, whispers more than language, and begins to frantically write what seems to be binary code. Robert Vitale, who works at the hospital, explains binary code to her and when he enters the data on his computer, the result is a message, apparently from an alien being. Jennifer's husband is concerned by his wife's actions and her doctor thinks she might be having a psychotic episode. Jennifer and Robert believe she's received a call for help.
This is pointless, Sam.
Let me go and tell her.
Look again, huh?
There has to be an explanation.
I gave her the new implant.
I helped invent the damn thing.
I wish it worked too, but it doesn't.
Look at where the implant
is supposed to interface. Right there.
If anything, it's more separated from
the auditory nerve than it was before.
Then how is it
she's starting to hear things?
She can't.
It's just not possible.
No, no, Dr. Madison,
my wife says she hears sounds.
Maybe the hope of hearing is making her
have some kind of auditory hallucination.
I don't know.
I'm way out of my league
in that department.
If you want, I'll make an appointment
with Dr. Leiberman.
No. If Jen wants to talk to
a psychiatrist, I'll call a psychiatrist.
White Ford Bronco,
license number HN 405.
She was so sure.
And it's gonna break her heart.
Help.
- What do you want?
- Get down here right away, please.
What?
I heard you.
You asked me for help.
I didn't say anything.
Jen, what is it?
Why do you need help?
I was just cleaning the floor,
and she spoke to me.
That's okay.
Don't worry about it.
- Jennifer, please, sit down.
- Sit down.
Jennifer, we've gone over the results
of the tests we ran...
but the implant still isn't working.
There's been no change from-
Help.
Yes, I can hear you.
Jen, who are you talking to?
I don't know.
There is nothing wrong
with your television.
Do not attempt
to adjust the picture.
We are now controlling
the transmission.
We control the horizontal...
and the vertical.
We can deluge you
with a thousand channels...
or expand one single image
to crystal clarity...
and beyond.
We can shape your vision
to anything our imagination can conceive.
For the next hour,
we will control all that you see and hear.
You are about to experience
the awe and mystery...
which reaches from
the deepest inner mind to...
The Outer Limits.
There is the silence of the oceans
and the unending silence of space.
There is the welcome silence
of serenity...
and the everlasting silence
of death.
A cry for help is lost
in the shrill noise of the world.
But the faintest of whispers
when spoken in silence...
can resonate across a universe.
I'm sorry. I was hoping
for good news too.
I hear. I know I hear,
and nobody believes me.
I wanna believe you, Jen.
I just don't understand
what it is you're hearing.
Can you hear me now?
Honey-
I know how much...
you wanted to hear
Ally's first words.
And I know how much
you wanna be able to hear her cry.
Maybe your imagination
has turned this desire into some-
But I don't understand
how it can be real sound.
Dr. Madison says that's impossible.
It's the difference...
between... seeing you,
your face, in the light of day...
and imagining it in the dark.
We'll see what happens.
Doctors have been wrong before.
And if you're hearing,
who cares what they say?
- What is it?
- Baby's crying.
She is?
Help.
Let her sleep. She wasn't crying.
Let her sleep.
Come on. Back to bed.
Let's go. Come on.
You okay?
You want me to sit up with you?
Good night.
Dr. Sanderson-
Nice to see you again.
Did I say something wrong?
I'm just learning to sign...
because of Dr. Madison.
Because I work here.
I hope I didn't offend you.
I'm sorry. It's just that
that looks like binary to me.
I thought you might be
a computer programmer.
Binary.
It's a machine language.
- This?
- Yes.
I don't know what the X's are.
But the rest looks like
binary to me.
Because-
Well, I used to work
with computers.
Binary's not a language you can read.
I'd have to input it into my computer
at home and see what comes out.
Please pick up
the courtesy phone.
Patient Bruce Gannon,
pick up the courtesy phone.
This could take a long time.
Sure. I guess I could. Okay.
What happened?
The principal phoned me.
Dr. Goldman to Radiology.
- Do you mind?
- No. No, of course not.
Thanks.
Okay?
Come on.
These voices, Jennifer, are they asking
you to do anything you don't want to do?
Good.
What do they want from you then?
You know, she said it's a sound
that she can actually hear in her head.
When I'm awake,
I hear voices I don't understand.
I can write them down, what they're
saying, but I don't know the meaning.
I sense that they want help.
My help.
Do you hear these voices now?
Here.
You've not seen this before, Sam?
No, this is new.
What does this mean, Jennifer?
I don't understand it.
How is this telling you
that the voices need help?
What is she saying?
She says she's met a man who understands
this stuff, is gonna translate it for her.
Good, good.
Then we'll know.
Does it hurt you
to hear them?
It hurts if I don't hear them, if I
block it out and I don't write it down.
They want to be heard,
these voices.
Oh, my-
I think it's fairly likely thatJennifer's
had a first-break psychotic episode.
She thought the cochlea implant
she had put in last year...
started to work
for some reason.
Dr. Madison ruled that out,
but this?
It's nothing to be ashamed of. I'd
like to start her on a mild antipsychotic.
- A drug I've had a lot of success with.
- Oh, God.
I know you think this couldn't possibly
just happen to your wife...
but believe me,
voices, writing gibberish...
even the man who will apparently
give her the answers...
they're all characteristic
of a first-break schizophrenic episode.
I got a six-month-old daughter
at home...
and it's not like
she doesn't already have a disability.
Don't worry. As soon as you get home
and Jennifer's on the medication...
everything will
get back to normal.
- Sleepwalking?
- No.
The voices have stopped?
Just like that?
That's fantastic.
- That's a relief.
- Yeah.
What?
Ally's crying.
- My turn.
- I want to.
Oh, my.
Dr. Colt to Radiology.
Dr. Colt to Radiology.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I was hoping I'd find you here.
I didn't know
how to get in touch with you.
You asked me to run this
through my computer?
I don't know yet.
It's nowhere near complete.
But I do know this-
It's a message.
- Follow me.
- Sure.
Where are we going?
Why are we in here?
We have to keep it
a secret from them.
Why can't they know?
Why do we have to hide?
Because they think
I'm crazy.
No, no, no, you are not crazy.
Believe me, believe me,
this is-
this is the best thing
that could happen to anyone.
All my life, I've dreamed of something
like this happening to me.
You could be receiving a message
from another world.
Tell me.
The message so far is trying to...
teach us how to read
the rest of the message.
And who would that be,
except some alien from another planet.
I want more.
Do you have more?
It stopped.
If it starts again, just use this.
This, you can type
the binary right onto here.
And then I can transfer it
into my computer with this.
It holds pages and pages.
I used to work at NASA.
Government cutbacks, you know.
Hello?
- Just a minute.
- What are you doing in there?
I'm cleaning.
Try one floor down, please.
I'm gonna get fired.
- Jennifer.
- Robert.
Shake it.
There you go. Yeah.
It's nice, huh?
Huh? Look it, here's Mommy.
Hello, Mommy. Hi.
It's time for you to go to sleep now.
Yes, it is.
Time for a little nap.
Daddy's gonna talk to Mommy.
There you go. It's okay.
What'd they say?
Leiberman gave you
a prescription, huh?
He said he might.
- He must think it's the right thing.
- Yeah.
You feel better?
You look better.
Yeah.
Okay, maybe I can get a couple of hours
of work in, and then come back for supper?
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- You sure? I don't wanna push.
- Yeah.
Okay. Ally's been fed.
She's been changed.
- Good.
- We watched two soaps and a game show.
I want you to know
that I want you to be okay.
- Good.
- Whatever that means, whatever it takes.
All right?
What are you doing?
I thought you were with Ally.
What's that?
Where'd you get it?
- I borrowed it.
- Let me see it.
Why not?
Are the voices coming back?
Because if they are, then we need to tell
Dr. Leiberman to increase the dosage.
You know I have to go to Chicago
for a couple of days. I will cancel.
What's this for?
Believe in me.
Let's go to bed.
You have to see this.
I think I found something.
It's-Well, I need a lot of room
to spread it out. A lot.
Sure. As long as it's not
the bathroom.
That's everything so far.
Can you find Waldo?
Exactly.
They want us to know
what they look like.
It's more than a drawing.
It's a set of instructions.
So, this is the compressor
for the gas laser. Okay.
The last time I tried to follow
instructions this complicated...
I was a kid
and it was Christmas morning.
Hi.
- Where's Ally?
- With Mrs. Henderson.
Sorry about all the mess, but we had to
work here so she could be near the baby.
You're the one.
You're the damn janitor!
He's the janitor!
I don't know what you hope
to get out of this.
I don't know what you want, butJennifer
is very ill right now, so if you'll just-
No, she's not.
And I can prove it.
I'm listening.
You knew about the binary, right?
The zeros and the ones,
that's binary code.
All you have to do is look it up yourself
and you'll see.
Jennifer wrote
all this down, not me.
All I did was run it through my computer,
and then it printed itself out.
She was writing X's too, and at first
I didn't know what to make of them.
But then I realized when I put it
all together, they were a palimpsest.
A what?
A message
inside a message. Look.
The man and the woman
are a perfect image...
of what we sent out
on Pioneer 10.
We sent out this image of us, and
they sent it back with an image of them.
Pioneer is not supposed to be anywhere
near another advanced civilization yet.
It was launched in the '70s,
but it has left the solar system.
And if it passed through a wormhole
or a quantum singularity, then who knows?
Whoa! Stop!
Wormhole.
Why doesn't NASA see this?
Huh? Why doesn't
the government do something?
- J PL and NASA deny knowing anything.
- Of course.
I know some people from when I worked
there. We called, but I could get nowhere.
It's a cover-up, orJennifer's implant
makes her the only one who can hear it.
Jennifer's implant.
Of course.
It's an electronic receiver, isn't it?
Isn't it possible that she could be
picking up the alien signal?
Absolutely.
Alien signals.
$900 on my credit card?
That's a capacitor.
Some of the parts we can find.
Other times, we have to try to make them
from the instructions they give us.
Look, Mr. Winter,
the aliens want us to build a laser.
- Get out.
- Maybe I'm just not explaining it right.
Get out of my house!
Get out! Go on! You're putting this stuff
in her head. You're making it up.
Look, I know it sounds preposterous,
but I'm an astrophysicist.
- You just have to believe me.
- I don't have to do a damn thing.
The reason I'm angry
is because you lied to me.
You, you lied,
Wouldn't believe me! You!
Jennifer, don't. Don't.
I'll give you a hand, okay?
- Now, are you sure about this?
- Yes. Yes.
All right.
It's getting more painful, isn't it?
I know why.
They're getting closer.
The earth revolves
on its own axis...
every 24 hours, right?
So, every 12 hours...
the horizon comes around...
and their signal crosses
the terminator again.
They're 12 hours closer, exactly.
Sure. I've got a large economy size
bottle of aspirin...
above the sink in the kitchen.
I'll get it.
Okay.
If I don't take those
every day...
I'll start to hear voices too.
I did work for NASA...
for a while.
Until I had my first...
psychotic episode.
I'm not making this up, Jennifer.
I swear.
Before I got on medication
to help control it...
it got pretty bad.
I spent a year on the street
after I got fired.
I spent some time in jail.
I'm only telling this because...
I want you to know
I'm better now.
But that's why I could
only ever get a job...
working as a janitor
in the hospital.
Nobody wants to hire...
somebody who's been schizophrenic.
But my voices were never real.
Yours are.
But if you wanna leave-
Get back to work?
Okay, I'm working.
I'm working.
Where the hell has she been for the last
two days if not at her mother's?
- Where do you think she is?
- I have no idea.
Without her medication,
I'm afraid she might hurt herself. Yeah.
- You're that worried?
- I am that worried about her.
- Help me find her.
- We'll do what we can.
Come here. Come here.
Come here. Look.
It's a light sail.
It must be a thousand miles
in diameter.
It's so big,
we'll be able to see it.
What is a light sail?
It's never been done.
They've been theorizing
about it for years.
You make a sail with a large enough
reflective surface...
that a light source, a star...
a ground-based laser...
can send it to another star.
The only trouble is
they're headed off course.
Maybe the sail is malfunctioning
or something.
But they are headed
right into the sun with no brakes.
That's what lasers are for.
They want us to save them.
Our laser might be able
to deflect them around the sun.
But it's obviously...
not intended to stop them.
They'll just head back
out into the universe.
We will never get to meet them.
You're right,
at least they'll be saved.
Will it work right?
That's what it says in the instructions.
I hope it works.
It will. It will. It will.
- How's your head?
- It still hurts.
Oh, my God. I almost forgot.
I need a camera.
- I got a few minutes. I'll be right back.
- Hurry.
Okay, buddy, I know about you.
I don't want any trouble.
- I just wanna find Jennifer.
- Please, I don't have time for this.
- I have to get back.
- Where is she?
- Just leave me alone.
- Don't give me any bull.
I know she's been here. I know she's been
seeing you. I wanna know where she is.
- What have you done with her?
- There's nothing going on.
I know she's here.
Just tell me where she is. You lunatic!
- What have you done with her? Tell me!
- I don't have time.
Where's my wife?
What have you done with her?
- She's on the roof, I swear!
- Oh, no.
Jennifer, please!
Jennifer, he's insane.
I'm not here to hurt you, sweetheart.
I just wanna take you home.
- They're coming!
- I talked to the hospital administrator.
He's crazy. He's schizophrenic.
He's got a record.
- He's been feeding you nothing but lies.
- Jennifer, it's now or never.
I said stay away from us.
Jennifer, go!
Jennifer, if you love me-
- Don't, please!
- There's no more time. Go!
Wow. Neat.
Beautiful.
They're here.
Oh, my God.
- We saved them!
- We did? The laser worked?
We saved them.
And now they're gone.
There is no sound, no voice,
no cry in all the world...
that can be heard
until someone listens.
Let me go and tell her.
Look again, huh?
There has to be an explanation.
I gave her the new implant.
I helped invent the damn thing.
I wish it worked too, but it doesn't.
Look at where the implant
is supposed to interface. Right there.
If anything, it's more separated from
the auditory nerve than it was before.
Then how is it
she's starting to hear things?
She can't.
It's just not possible.
No, no, Dr. Madison,
my wife says she hears sounds.
Maybe the hope of hearing is making her
have some kind of auditory hallucination.
I don't know.
I'm way out of my league
in that department.
If you want, I'll make an appointment
with Dr. Leiberman.
No. If Jen wants to talk to
a psychiatrist, I'll call a psychiatrist.
White Ford Bronco,
license number HN 405.
She was so sure.
And it's gonna break her heart.
Help.
- What do you want?
- Get down here right away, please.
What?
I heard you.
You asked me for help.
I didn't say anything.
Jen, what is it?
Why do you need help?
I was just cleaning the floor,
and she spoke to me.
That's okay.
Don't worry about it.
- Jennifer, please, sit down.
- Sit down.
Jennifer, we've gone over the results
of the tests we ran...
but the implant still isn't working.
There's been no change from-
Help.
Yes, I can hear you.
Jen, who are you talking to?
I don't know.
There is nothing wrong
with your television.
Do not attempt
to adjust the picture.
We are now controlling
the transmission.
We control the horizontal...
and the vertical.
We can deluge you
with a thousand channels...
or expand one single image
to crystal clarity...
and beyond.
We can shape your vision
to anything our imagination can conceive.
For the next hour,
we will control all that you see and hear.
You are about to experience
the awe and mystery...
which reaches from
the deepest inner mind to...
The Outer Limits.
There is the silence of the oceans
and the unending silence of space.
There is the welcome silence
of serenity...
and the everlasting silence
of death.
A cry for help is lost
in the shrill noise of the world.
But the faintest of whispers
when spoken in silence...
can resonate across a universe.
I'm sorry. I was hoping
for good news too.
I hear. I know I hear,
and nobody believes me.
I wanna believe you, Jen.
I just don't understand
what it is you're hearing.
Can you hear me now?
Honey-
I know how much...
you wanted to hear
Ally's first words.
And I know how much
you wanna be able to hear her cry.
Maybe your imagination
has turned this desire into some-
But I don't understand
how it can be real sound.
Dr. Madison says that's impossible.
It's the difference...
between... seeing you,
your face, in the light of day...
and imagining it in the dark.
We'll see what happens.
Doctors have been wrong before.
And if you're hearing,
who cares what they say?
- What is it?
- Baby's crying.
She is?
Help.
Let her sleep. She wasn't crying.
Let her sleep.
Come on. Back to bed.
Let's go. Come on.
You okay?
You want me to sit up with you?
Good night.
Dr. Sanderson-
Nice to see you again.
Did I say something wrong?
I'm just learning to sign...
because of Dr. Madison.
Because I work here.
I hope I didn't offend you.
I'm sorry. It's just that
that looks like binary to me.
I thought you might be
a computer programmer.
Binary.
It's a machine language.
- This?
- Yes.
I don't know what the X's are.
But the rest looks like
binary to me.
Because-
Well, I used to work
with computers.
Binary's not a language you can read.
I'd have to input it into my computer
at home and see what comes out.
Please pick up
the courtesy phone.
Patient Bruce Gannon,
pick up the courtesy phone.
This could take a long time.
Sure. I guess I could. Okay.
What happened?
The principal phoned me.
Dr. Goldman to Radiology.
- Do you mind?
- No. No, of course not.
Thanks.
Okay?
Come on.
These voices, Jennifer, are they asking
you to do anything you don't want to do?
Good.
What do they want from you then?
You know, she said it's a sound
that she can actually hear in her head.
When I'm awake,
I hear voices I don't understand.
I can write them down, what they're
saying, but I don't know the meaning.
I sense that they want help.
My help.
Do you hear these voices now?
Here.
You've not seen this before, Sam?
No, this is new.
What does this mean, Jennifer?
I don't understand it.
How is this telling you
that the voices need help?
What is she saying?
She says she's met a man who understands
this stuff, is gonna translate it for her.
Good, good.
Then we'll know.
Does it hurt you
to hear them?
It hurts if I don't hear them, if I
block it out and I don't write it down.
They want to be heard,
these voices.
Oh, my-
I think it's fairly likely thatJennifer's
had a first-break psychotic episode.
She thought the cochlea implant
she had put in last year...
started to work
for some reason.
Dr. Madison ruled that out,
but this?
It's nothing to be ashamed of. I'd
like to start her on a mild antipsychotic.
- A drug I've had a lot of success with.
- Oh, God.
I know you think this couldn't possibly
just happen to your wife...
but believe me,
voices, writing gibberish...
even the man who will apparently
give her the answers...
they're all characteristic
of a first-break schizophrenic episode.
I got a six-month-old daughter
at home...
and it's not like
she doesn't already have a disability.
Don't worry. As soon as you get home
and Jennifer's on the medication...
everything will
get back to normal.
- Sleepwalking?
- No.
The voices have stopped?
Just like that?
That's fantastic.
- That's a relief.
- Yeah.
What?
Ally's crying.
- My turn.
- I want to.
Oh, my.
Dr. Colt to Radiology.
Dr. Colt to Radiology.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I was hoping I'd find you here.
I didn't know
how to get in touch with you.
You asked me to run this
through my computer?
I don't know yet.
It's nowhere near complete.
But I do know this-
It's a message.
- Follow me.
- Sure.
Where are we going?
Why are we in here?
We have to keep it
a secret from them.
Why can't they know?
Why do we have to hide?
Because they think
I'm crazy.
No, no, no, you are not crazy.
Believe me, believe me,
this is-
this is the best thing
that could happen to anyone.
All my life, I've dreamed of something
like this happening to me.
You could be receiving a message
from another world.
Tell me.
The message so far is trying to...
teach us how to read
the rest of the message.
And who would that be,
except some alien from another planet.
I want more.
Do you have more?
It stopped.
If it starts again, just use this.
This, you can type
the binary right onto here.
And then I can transfer it
into my computer with this.
It holds pages and pages.
I used to work at NASA.
Government cutbacks, you know.
Hello?
- Just a minute.
- What are you doing in there?
I'm cleaning.
Try one floor down, please.
I'm gonna get fired.
- Jennifer.
- Robert.
Shake it.
There you go. Yeah.
It's nice, huh?
Huh? Look it, here's Mommy.
Hello, Mommy. Hi.
It's time for you to go to sleep now.
Yes, it is.
Time for a little nap.
Daddy's gonna talk to Mommy.
There you go. It's okay.
What'd they say?
Leiberman gave you
a prescription, huh?
He said he might.
- He must think it's the right thing.
- Yeah.
You feel better?
You look better.
Yeah.
Okay, maybe I can get a couple of hours
of work in, and then come back for supper?
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- You sure? I don't wanna push.
- Yeah.
Okay. Ally's been fed.
She's been changed.
- Good.
- We watched two soaps and a game show.
I want you to know
that I want you to be okay.
- Good.
- Whatever that means, whatever it takes.
All right?
What are you doing?
I thought you were with Ally.
What's that?
Where'd you get it?
- I borrowed it.
- Let me see it.
Why not?
Are the voices coming back?
Because if they are, then we need to tell
Dr. Leiberman to increase the dosage.
You know I have to go to Chicago
for a couple of days. I will cancel.
What's this for?
Believe in me.
Let's go to bed.
You have to see this.
I think I found something.
It's-Well, I need a lot of room
to spread it out. A lot.
Sure. As long as it's not
the bathroom.
That's everything so far.
Can you find Waldo?
Exactly.
They want us to know
what they look like.
It's more than a drawing.
It's a set of instructions.
So, this is the compressor
for the gas laser. Okay.
The last time I tried to follow
instructions this complicated...
I was a kid
and it was Christmas morning.
Hi.
- Where's Ally?
- With Mrs. Henderson.
Sorry about all the mess, but we had to
work here so she could be near the baby.
You're the one.
You're the damn janitor!
He's the janitor!
I don't know what you hope
to get out of this.
I don't know what you want, butJennifer
is very ill right now, so if you'll just-
No, she's not.
And I can prove it.
I'm listening.
You knew about the binary, right?
The zeros and the ones,
that's binary code.
All you have to do is look it up yourself
and you'll see.
Jennifer wrote
all this down, not me.
All I did was run it through my computer,
and then it printed itself out.
She was writing X's too, and at first
I didn't know what to make of them.
But then I realized when I put it
all together, they were a palimpsest.
A what?
A message
inside a message. Look.
The man and the woman
are a perfect image...
of what we sent out
on Pioneer 10.
We sent out this image of us, and
they sent it back with an image of them.
Pioneer is not supposed to be anywhere
near another advanced civilization yet.
It was launched in the '70s,
but it has left the solar system.
And if it passed through a wormhole
or a quantum singularity, then who knows?
Whoa! Stop!
Wormhole.
Why doesn't NASA see this?
Huh? Why doesn't
the government do something?
- J PL and NASA deny knowing anything.
- Of course.
I know some people from when I worked
there. We called, but I could get nowhere.
It's a cover-up, orJennifer's implant
makes her the only one who can hear it.
Jennifer's implant.
Of course.
It's an electronic receiver, isn't it?
Isn't it possible that she could be
picking up the alien signal?
Absolutely.
Alien signals.
$900 on my credit card?
That's a capacitor.
Some of the parts we can find.
Other times, we have to try to make them
from the instructions they give us.
Look, Mr. Winter,
the aliens want us to build a laser.
- Get out.
- Maybe I'm just not explaining it right.
Get out of my house!
Get out! Go on! You're putting this stuff
in her head. You're making it up.
Look, I know it sounds preposterous,
but I'm an astrophysicist.
- You just have to believe me.
- I don't have to do a damn thing.
The reason I'm angry
is because you lied to me.
You, you lied,
Wouldn't believe me! You!
Jennifer, don't. Don't.
I'll give you a hand, okay?
- Now, are you sure about this?
- Yes. Yes.
All right.
It's getting more painful, isn't it?
I know why.
They're getting closer.
The earth revolves
on its own axis...
every 24 hours, right?
So, every 12 hours...
the horizon comes around...
and their signal crosses
the terminator again.
They're 12 hours closer, exactly.
Sure. I've got a large economy size
bottle of aspirin...
above the sink in the kitchen.
I'll get it.
Okay.
If I don't take those
every day...
I'll start to hear voices too.
I did work for NASA...
for a while.
Until I had my first...
psychotic episode.
I'm not making this up, Jennifer.
I swear.
Before I got on medication
to help control it...
it got pretty bad.
I spent a year on the street
after I got fired.
I spent some time in jail.
I'm only telling this because...
I want you to know
I'm better now.
But that's why I could
only ever get a job...
working as a janitor
in the hospital.
Nobody wants to hire...
somebody who's been schizophrenic.
But my voices were never real.
Yours are.
But if you wanna leave-
Get back to work?
Okay, I'm working.
I'm working.
Where the hell has she been for the last
two days if not at her mother's?
- Where do you think she is?
- I have no idea.
Without her medication,
I'm afraid she might hurt herself. Yeah.
- You're that worried?
- I am that worried about her.
- Help me find her.
- We'll do what we can.
Come here. Come here.
Come here. Look.
It's a light sail.
It must be a thousand miles
in diameter.
It's so big,
we'll be able to see it.
What is a light sail?
It's never been done.
They've been theorizing
about it for years.
You make a sail with a large enough
reflective surface...
that a light source, a star...
a ground-based laser...
can send it to another star.
The only trouble is
they're headed off course.
Maybe the sail is malfunctioning
or something.
But they are headed
right into the sun with no brakes.
That's what lasers are for.
They want us to save them.
Our laser might be able
to deflect them around the sun.
But it's obviously...
not intended to stop them.
They'll just head back
out into the universe.
We will never get to meet them.
You're right,
at least they'll be saved.
Will it work right?
That's what it says in the instructions.
I hope it works.
It will. It will. It will.
- How's your head?
- It still hurts.
Oh, my God. I almost forgot.
I need a camera.
- I got a few minutes. I'll be right back.
- Hurry.
Okay, buddy, I know about you.
I don't want any trouble.
- I just wanna find Jennifer.
- Please, I don't have time for this.
- I have to get back.
- Where is she?
- Just leave me alone.
- Don't give me any bull.
I know she's been here. I know she's been
seeing you. I wanna know where she is.
- What have you done with her?
- There's nothing going on.
I know she's here.
Just tell me where she is. You lunatic!
- What have you done with her? Tell me!
- I don't have time.
Where's my wife?
What have you done with her?
- She's on the roof, I swear!
- Oh, no.
Jennifer, please!
Jennifer, he's insane.
I'm not here to hurt you, sweetheart.
I just wanna take you home.
- They're coming!
- I talked to the hospital administrator.
He's crazy. He's schizophrenic.
He's got a record.
- He's been feeding you nothing but lies.
- Jennifer, it's now or never.
I said stay away from us.
Jennifer, go!
Jennifer, if you love me-
- Don't, please!
- There's no more time. Go!
Wow. Neat.
Beautiful.
They're here.
Oh, my God.
- We saved them!
- We did? The laser worked?
We saved them.
And now they're gone.
There is no sound, no voice,
no cry in all the world...
that can be heard
until someone listens.