War of the Worlds (1988–1990): Season 1, Episode 14 - He Feedeth Among the Lilies - full transcript
In 1953, Earth experienced
a war of the worlds.
Common bacteria
stopped the aliens,
but it didn't kill them.
Instead, the aliens lapsed
into a state of deep hibernation.
Now the aliens have
been resurrected,
more terrifying
than ever before.
In 1953, aliens started
taking over the world.
Today, they're taking
over our bodies.
They're... they're hurting me.
Oh! Oh!
They're putting
something inside me.
Vital signs are down.
Prep for C.P.R.
I want D5W at 50
milligrams a minute. Stat!
Dopamine drip, 500cc's.
All right, let's move, everyone.
Come on now.
Is the O.R. ready?
Is the O.R. ready?!
And waiting.
We'll want Dr. Hollenberg.
Clear the hallway!
Let's move now. Come on!
They always squirm.
This isn't working.
Humans spoil too
fast in this radiation.
If we are ever to
solve our vulnerability,
we must discover the secrets
of the human immune system.
We'll have to do our
experiments outside of the cavern
where the bodies will be fresh.
It will be more dangerous.
But the selection is better.
We can choose the
bodies in good condition.
If we solve this puzzle,
there is no way the
humans can beat us.
I just want you both to know
we are God-fearing Christians
who have never been in
trouble a day in our lives.
I'd appreciate it if you just
told me what happened then.
We were out at our cabin.
Uh, we have a cabin on
Saturday Pond in Maine.
We were watching the
sun go down, like we do,
when for some reason,
we started to walk
through to the woods.
That's where we saw them.
There were six of them.
We were about to
walk over to them
when we heard them speak.
You've never heard
anything like it.
It sounded like...
I can hear it, but, uh,
I don't think I could
ever describe it.
They had this strange thing.
It looked almost like one of
those old vacuum cleaners
from the '30s.
And they were looking
around for something.
How do you know that?
You could tell by the way
they were moving
it across the ground.
What did they look like?
I know this sounds crazy,
but we've had a lot of
time to think about it.
It looked...
like a cross...
between a giant frog...
and a huge... slimy...
walnut.
With three fingers on each hand.
Other people have
seen them, haven't they?
I knew it.
I knew it.
People, people, do
you have any idea
how much this little
operation is costing us?
I mean, this government
house alone here is...
I know you don't mean to say
that saving the world
from alien invasion
is costing the government
too much money.
Well, now that's not
exactly what I'm saying, but...
See? I knew that.
- I - was pulled out of my car.
I have no idea how.
The doors didn't open
and the window was closed.
But suddenly, I was
outside of my car.
I don't, uh, I don't remember
the sequence exactly,
but it was like I was in
a hospital or something.
There were these lights.
It was like a dream.
Then they...
then they put this
metal thing over my face,
and I couldn't move my jaw!
I couldn't move it.
It did happen, but I could...
I hated it!
There must have been others.
I mean, I couldn't have
been the only one, right?
I mean, why me?
What's so special about me?
Is there something
wrong with me th...
What's going on here?
We've had six interviews,
and they've all described,
basically, the same experience.
It could be a form
of mass hysteria.
Mm... different times.
Different locations
across the country.
It's hard not to think
this is more than
just coincidence.
So I'm on my bike, right?
And I'm cruising
out in the country,
and everything...
everything turns green,
and my bike just stops.
Now, I'm not talking
about the motor dying.
I'm talking it just stops.
I'm just standing there
not moving or anything.
Look, this is
where it gets weird.
I'm just frozen there.
And these three
people come over to me,
and they look at my bike,
and then they...
they stuck these
long wire things...
I'm telling you this...
I'm sorry.
It's okay. It's okay.
You don't understand...
It's not okay.
They stuck these
wire things in me.
I could feel them inside me.
I couldn't do anything.
It drove me crazy.
Am I crazy?
Please, just tell me.
I've been shuffled
from doctor to doctor.
And then I'm told to see you.
I don't even know who you are.
I can't take it anymore.
I just can't.
I'm going to try a
relaxation technique.
It'll calm you down.
Let's try it, okay?
Okay.
Good.
Okay.
Now close your eyes.
They closed?
You have to close them
if this is going to work.
Okay.
That's good.
Now take nice, long,
slow, easy breaths.
In... and out.
Nice and easy.
Nice and slow.
And think of clouds
just barely moving
across the sky.
Everything is in slow motion.
Nice and easy.
In...
and out.
You feel better?
Yes.
Thank you.
Keep breathing like that.
I've read your file and a
copy of your statement,
but what I'd really
like is for you to tell me,
in your own words,
what, exactly,
happened.
I work in my sound
studio all day...
and I always take a break
around 4:00 and go for a run.
It's always the same place.
Always the same time.
But then, um... one
day, last October...
I put on my Walkman...
and I started out
for my run.
Next thing
I remember...
it's 2:30 in the morning,
and I'm outside of
my sound studio...
and my Walkman's gone.
And... and, for the life of me,
I can't figure out
what happened.
Do you have any
recollection... Any
memory at all...
Of what actually happened?
No. Nothing.
Except that I have...
I have these dreams.
Well, they're
nightmares, really.
Of what?
I don't know.
I wake up so scared,
but I don't remember.
I have had every kind of test.
I've seen every kind
of doctor, psychiatrist.
I've had brain scans.
I've had MRIs.
I've... and nobody can
tell me what happened
to those ten hours.
Can you?
I don't know.
At least you're honest.
As everyone knows,
I was behind the Blackwood Plan
to interview all
of these people.
The Blackwood Plan?
But what have we learned?
That there are
aliens... We knew that.
That they have three
fingers... We knew that.
That they talk funny... fine.
But what's the point?
I think that we should move on
to more productive activities.
For example? For example...
Interviewing retired
government employees,
or maybe some veterans
from the invasion of '53.
Now, these people may lead us
to more alien storage sites.
That actually makes sense.
Except that these interviews
give us more and more data
on the aliens.
Hopefully, one day,
we'll be able to
anticipate alien behavior.
You know, there's nothing
written in stone that says
we all have to agree on this.
You mean you won't
punish us for disagreeing?
Not right away.
Time grows short.
We progress little in
our attempt to adapt
to this alien environment.
As the humans pollute
the air more and more,
survival becomes questionable.
Theirs... or ours?
We believe that we have solved
the problem of human spoilage.
You have devised a way we
can examine humans safely?
On the screens, Advocate.
We have taken over the
human bodies of two paramedics
and have commandeered
their ambulance.
We will have a mobile surgery.
You have done well.
I cannot do anything
without your counsel.
Not only shall we
continue our experiments,
but we will create panic
and terror among the humans.
To life immortal.
To life immortal.
No!
No!
Hello.
Karen McKinney?
Yes.
Are you all right?
Uh... who is this?
It's Harrison Blackwood.
I interviewed you yesterday.
Yes.
I'd like to see you.
What?
I'd like to see you.
Now?
So...
what's wrong?
I think I've found a way
we can get to
the bottom of this.
Have you ever been hypnotized?
What do you mean?
Did any of the
doctors you saw...
did they hypnotize you?
No. But I was hypnotized
once in a nightclub.
But it was silly.
My thought is that
we could regress you.
You know, hypnotize you,
and bring you back in
time to what happened.
No one's ever done that to you?
No.
You want to do it now?
No. Not now.
You mean you came
all the way over here
to tell me this at
4:00 in the morning?
It was on my mind...
and I was concerned about you.
Who are you?
Oh, just somebody
who wants to help.
You turn away. Why?
You feel it, don't you?
The priority is finding
out what happened
to you.
I know you do.
Karen, you came to us for help.
I can't...
You can do anything you want.
Do you know what I want?
Breakfast.
Where is Harrison?
He's not in his office?
And his bed wasn't slept in.
Norton, have you seen Harrison?
Has he run away from home?
Who ran away from home?
You blew this
morning's interviews!
Will you ever forgive me?
Paul was about
to put out a missing
persons report on you.
You know, somebody
doesn't report,
that's my job...
Security. Remember?
A hell of a job
you're doing, too.
Well, exactly where
were you, Mister?
I was having breakfast
with Karen McKinney.
Research?
No. Not exactly.
No.
Look, I'd really like to find
out what happened with her.
We've got a dozen more
interviews set up for today.
Who's Karen McKinney?
She's the Stanford grad
who spent a couple
of years on the Amazon
with the aboriginal tribes
recording their music.
She has a very
inquisitive mind, Norton.
And how beautiful is she?
She's very beautiful.
She's very beautiful.
And where do I sign up?
She's having
recurring nightmares.
They're very debilitating.
I'd like it if you'd
talk with her.
Do a psychological assessment?
Yeah. But just keep it low-key.
I don't understand why I
can't just get hypnotized.
Because it doesn't
work that way.
Well, wish me luck?
Okay. Luck.
Oh!
We shouldn't...
I just wanted to get
to know you better.
Dr. Blackwood suggested
we spend a little time.
Right. To see if I'm
okay to be hypnotized.
Yes.
Well, listen, if
there is a chance
that this will
unlock my brain...
Let me know what
happened to me...
Then I want to do it.
I have to do it.
Great. Well, then,
let's get started
and do some tests.
Okay.
I see... my
father... on a train...
coming out of a tunnel.
That's not fair.
I'm sorry.
I must have done this
test a hundred times
in the past few months.
All I see are inkblots.
Of course, I don't
want to tell anybody that
because they'll lock me away.
All right, then, how do you
feel about word association?
The same.
Okay... father.
Mother.
Strange.
Interlude.
Running.
Nightmare.
Red.
Green.
Midnight.
Madness.
Green.
Blue.
Scared.
Night.
Alien.
Rape.
Running.
Karen, tell me what's going on.
I... I just...
I just feel so scared.
Oh, it feels terrible.
What does?
I don't know.
I just don't even know.
What's going on?
He said, "Peter,
I can see your house from here."
You're so funny.
You make me feel so good.
We have to be very careful
that you don't feel this way
because I'm helping you.
That's classic.
No, I feel this way
because I feel this way.
Real.
We can't deny that.
I just want to be sure
that we're doing
the right thing.
It feels so good,
how can it be wrong?
If there weren't any
other people here,
do you have any idea what
I'd be doing to you right now?
Have you paid?
Yes.
Do you live
very far from here?
You're married?
No. I'm not married.
It's my work.
I do very high security work.
What does that mean?
It means...
I can't take you there.
Harrison, what do you do?
I'm an astrophysicist.
I have seen doctors.
I've seen psychiatrists.
But why would an astrophysicist
be interested in someone
who has lost ten
hours of their life?
Harrison, why would
I be here with you?
Karen, if I could
tell you, I would.
I will. I'll find a way.
I'll figure out a
way to tell you.
But this has got nothing to do
with the way that we
feel about each other.
Nothing.
Somehow from the
first moment I saw you,
I knew we'd wind up
in a cheap hotel room.
You were going to
play me some music?
What's this?
Pygmies.
I love Pygmy music.
You've heard this before?
Mm-hmm.
You okay?
It's just so strange that
after feeling so special,
that this has to
come between us.
I want you to know
everything about me.
I want to tell you
about every part of me.
And I want to know
every aspect of you.
But I can't. Slow down, Karen.
Why? To let something
else come between us?
Remember when we
were kissing on the street?
I remember.
What am I going to do about you?
You don't know?
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I'm worried.
This is just not
like Harrison at all.
Well, he spoke to
Mrs. Pennyworth
last night.
But he didn't mention anything
about where he was
or when he'd be back.
But did he say what he wanted?
The name of a good
place for brunch.
You're missing the obvious.
Our fearless leader,
Dr. Blackwood,
has got himself short-circuited.
He's found himself a lady.
You do remember, you
know, the opposite sex?
Well, we'll just have to proceed
with the rest of the
interviews without him.
Uh, you're going
to do the interviews?
You have a problem with that?
Uh, no. No, no, no.
I, uh, think that would
be adventuresome.
No.
It's all right.
It's all right, it's
just a dream.
It's just a dream.
It's all over. It's over.
It's over.
But it's not.
It's not.
Actually, I'm glad
you're all here.
As you know, I've been spending
time with Karen McKinney,
who's a vital,
sensitive young woman
who's deeply troubled
by this missing
time in her life.
And I think we can help her.
At the same time it's furthering
the goals of this mission.
Meaning?
Meaning we've been
through the preliminaries.
It's time to hypnotize her.
It's time to find out
what they did to her.
I assume that's okay with you.
There's only one problem...
And please don't take
this the wrong way...
But it's your lack
of perspective.
I worry that your involvement
with Ms. McKinney
may affect your objectivity.
Exactly.
That's why I need you.
Everything blends together.
There's no yes or no.
There's no front or back.
Everything's the same.
You're very relaxed
now, aren't you, Karen?
Yes.
Good.
I want to regress her back
to that moment in the park
that she told us about,
when she was running.
Karen, I want you
to go back in time.
You're running in the park
a few months ago.
What are you doing?
I'm running.
No...
No, no, no...
You're absolutely safe.
You're able to look at
everything that is happening
to you from above...
perfectly safe.
Now, can you tell
me what you see?
I...
I can't move.
They're... talking...
but it's not English.
It's... it's not any language.
It's...
it's just sound.
I never heard anything like it.
Oh...
They have something.
You're totally safe.
They can't touch you.
I... I'm...
What are they doing?
They're hurt...
hurting me.
Oh, they're putting
something inside me.
That's it. That's it.
That's it. We have it.
That's enough.
Karen,
I want you to stop
remembering the park now.
I want you to remember our
talk as being very pleasant.
No bad memories at all.
Nothing but pleasure.
You'll sleep very well,
and you'll feel
wonderful in the morning.
I just don't see
where we should be
playing God with her.
I think that we
have to tell her.
The point is she
may not be up to it.
She has been
traumatized in a major way.
The news that she has
been violated by aliens,
I mean, it might
be too much for her.
Look, she came
here for our help.
She wants to know
what's going on.
I think we're morally
obligated to tell her.
We owe it to her.
And then?
And then we find out
what the aliens did to her...
Whether they took something out,
or whether they
left something in.
Hi.
Hi.
Oh, it's so good to see you.
You're all right, then?
I couldn't be better.
What's wrong?
I have to talk to
you about last night.
What is it?
What?
Last night, when Suzanne,
hypnotized you,
you told us about what happened
to you in the park that day.
Tell me.
This is going to be hard...
Just tell me.
Okay.
You described
yourself running alone.
You remember up to that point?
Yeah.
And then you said
that you were stopped
by some sort of
a... of a green light
that froze you in your tracks.
And you were taken
off the running path,
and you were
taken into the woods.
By who?
By men...
who were not really men,
and they... they performed
some sort of medical
procedure on you.
What procedures?
We don't know.
We want to run
some tests, Karen.
They may have hurt you.
Well, who's "they"?
We have reason to
believe that they...
are aliens from another planet.
Come on!
You're saying that I
was attacked by people
from another planet?
That can't be.
It is.
Harrison...
That's why you came
to be interviewed by me.
That's my job.
That's what I do.
I track aliens down.
You're saying,
that I was...
When Dr. McCullough gave you
that word association
test, remember?
Mm-hmm.
You responded "rape" to the...
To the word "alien."
You're telling me the truth?
Harrison, what
did they do to me?
We think they...
they probed you with
some kind of instrument.
Beyond that, I don't know.
Oh, God.
Y-you mean, all the
flying saucer reports...
There are aliens here, Karen.
We know that.
And we also know that
they are not friendly.
I don't know what to say.
Believe me, I understand.
What did they do to me?
Harrison, did they rape me?
Is there something inside me?
Because I couldn't
stand it if I knew
there was something
alive inside me.
Norton's numbers indicate
that 49% of encounters
of the fourth kind
have violation nightmares,
and at least 24% have nightmares
but can't remember
the specifics.
And you think it's our aliens?
But what are they doing?
Running experiments,
tests, monitoring...
Gathering information.
I don't know, but I
sure as hell know
they are up to something.
I think it's time that we, uh,
took our investigation
a step further.
Meaning? Karen's
agreed to be tested.
For? For what they did to her.
But her file says
she has been tested.
They weren't looking for
evidence of alien violation.
Potentially, they could
have left some kind
of monitoring device in her.
Anyway, it's a unique
opportunity for us.
Hello.
Yeah, put her through.
It's Karen.
Hi.
What?
Yeah, of course, right away.
She's having a bad night.
Just one more
flight to the left, sir.
Excuse me.
I can't wait to get unpacked.
I have no proof.
But in my heart, I know the
aliens have Karen McKinney.
a war of the worlds.
Common bacteria
stopped the aliens,
but it didn't kill them.
Instead, the aliens lapsed
into a state of deep hibernation.
Now the aliens have
been resurrected,
more terrifying
than ever before.
In 1953, aliens started
taking over the world.
Today, they're taking
over our bodies.
They're... they're hurting me.
Oh! Oh!
They're putting
something inside me.
Vital signs are down.
Prep for C.P.R.
I want D5W at 50
milligrams a minute. Stat!
Dopamine drip, 500cc's.
All right, let's move, everyone.
Come on now.
Is the O.R. ready?
Is the O.R. ready?!
And waiting.
We'll want Dr. Hollenberg.
Clear the hallway!
Let's move now. Come on!
They always squirm.
This isn't working.
Humans spoil too
fast in this radiation.
If we are ever to
solve our vulnerability,
we must discover the secrets
of the human immune system.
We'll have to do our
experiments outside of the cavern
where the bodies will be fresh.
It will be more dangerous.
But the selection is better.
We can choose the
bodies in good condition.
If we solve this puzzle,
there is no way the
humans can beat us.
I just want you both to know
we are God-fearing Christians
who have never been in
trouble a day in our lives.
I'd appreciate it if you just
told me what happened then.
We were out at our cabin.
Uh, we have a cabin on
Saturday Pond in Maine.
We were watching the
sun go down, like we do,
when for some reason,
we started to walk
through to the woods.
That's where we saw them.
There were six of them.
We were about to
walk over to them
when we heard them speak.
You've never heard
anything like it.
It sounded like...
I can hear it, but, uh,
I don't think I could
ever describe it.
They had this strange thing.
It looked almost like one of
those old vacuum cleaners
from the '30s.
And they were looking
around for something.
How do you know that?
You could tell by the way
they were moving
it across the ground.
What did they look like?
I know this sounds crazy,
but we've had a lot of
time to think about it.
It looked...
like a cross...
between a giant frog...
and a huge... slimy...
walnut.
With three fingers on each hand.
Other people have
seen them, haven't they?
I knew it.
I knew it.
People, people, do
you have any idea
how much this little
operation is costing us?
I mean, this government
house alone here is...
I know you don't mean to say
that saving the world
from alien invasion
is costing the government
too much money.
Well, now that's not
exactly what I'm saying, but...
See? I knew that.
- I - was pulled out of my car.
I have no idea how.
The doors didn't open
and the window was closed.
But suddenly, I was
outside of my car.
I don't, uh, I don't remember
the sequence exactly,
but it was like I was in
a hospital or something.
There were these lights.
It was like a dream.
Then they...
then they put this
metal thing over my face,
and I couldn't move my jaw!
I couldn't move it.
It did happen, but I could...
I hated it!
There must have been others.
I mean, I couldn't have
been the only one, right?
I mean, why me?
What's so special about me?
Is there something
wrong with me th...
What's going on here?
We've had six interviews,
and they've all described,
basically, the same experience.
It could be a form
of mass hysteria.
Mm... different times.
Different locations
across the country.
It's hard not to think
this is more than
just coincidence.
So I'm on my bike, right?
And I'm cruising
out in the country,
and everything...
everything turns green,
and my bike just stops.
Now, I'm not talking
about the motor dying.
I'm talking it just stops.
I'm just standing there
not moving or anything.
Look, this is
where it gets weird.
I'm just frozen there.
And these three
people come over to me,
and they look at my bike,
and then they...
they stuck these
long wire things...
I'm telling you this...
I'm sorry.
It's okay. It's okay.
You don't understand...
It's not okay.
They stuck these
wire things in me.
I could feel them inside me.
I couldn't do anything.
It drove me crazy.
Am I crazy?
Please, just tell me.
I've been shuffled
from doctor to doctor.
And then I'm told to see you.
I don't even know who you are.
I can't take it anymore.
I just can't.
I'm going to try a
relaxation technique.
It'll calm you down.
Let's try it, okay?
Okay.
Good.
Okay.
Now close your eyes.
They closed?
You have to close them
if this is going to work.
Okay.
That's good.
Now take nice, long,
slow, easy breaths.
In... and out.
Nice and easy.
Nice and slow.
And think of clouds
just barely moving
across the sky.
Everything is in slow motion.
Nice and easy.
In...
and out.
You feel better?
Yes.
Thank you.
Keep breathing like that.
I've read your file and a
copy of your statement,
but what I'd really
like is for you to tell me,
in your own words,
what, exactly,
happened.
I work in my sound
studio all day...
and I always take a break
around 4:00 and go for a run.
It's always the same place.
Always the same time.
But then, um... one
day, last October...
I put on my Walkman...
and I started out
for my run.
Next thing
I remember...
it's 2:30 in the morning,
and I'm outside of
my sound studio...
and my Walkman's gone.
And... and, for the life of me,
I can't figure out
what happened.
Do you have any
recollection... Any
memory at all...
Of what actually happened?
No. Nothing.
Except that I have...
I have these dreams.
Well, they're
nightmares, really.
Of what?
I don't know.
I wake up so scared,
but I don't remember.
I have had every kind of test.
I've seen every kind
of doctor, psychiatrist.
I've had brain scans.
I've had MRIs.
I've... and nobody can
tell me what happened
to those ten hours.
Can you?
I don't know.
At least you're honest.
As everyone knows,
I was behind the Blackwood Plan
to interview all
of these people.
The Blackwood Plan?
But what have we learned?
That there are
aliens... We knew that.
That they have three
fingers... We knew that.
That they talk funny... fine.
But what's the point?
I think that we should move on
to more productive activities.
For example? For example...
Interviewing retired
government employees,
or maybe some veterans
from the invasion of '53.
Now, these people may lead us
to more alien storage sites.
That actually makes sense.
Except that these interviews
give us more and more data
on the aliens.
Hopefully, one day,
we'll be able to
anticipate alien behavior.
You know, there's nothing
written in stone that says
we all have to agree on this.
You mean you won't
punish us for disagreeing?
Not right away.
Time grows short.
We progress little in
our attempt to adapt
to this alien environment.
As the humans pollute
the air more and more,
survival becomes questionable.
Theirs... or ours?
We believe that we have solved
the problem of human spoilage.
You have devised a way we
can examine humans safely?
On the screens, Advocate.
We have taken over the
human bodies of two paramedics
and have commandeered
their ambulance.
We will have a mobile surgery.
You have done well.
I cannot do anything
without your counsel.
Not only shall we
continue our experiments,
but we will create panic
and terror among the humans.
To life immortal.
To life immortal.
No!
No!
Hello.
Karen McKinney?
Yes.
Are you all right?
Uh... who is this?
It's Harrison Blackwood.
I interviewed you yesterday.
Yes.
I'd like to see you.
What?
I'd like to see you.
Now?
So...
what's wrong?
I think I've found a way
we can get to
the bottom of this.
Have you ever been hypnotized?
What do you mean?
Did any of the
doctors you saw...
did they hypnotize you?
No. But I was hypnotized
once in a nightclub.
But it was silly.
My thought is that
we could regress you.
You know, hypnotize you,
and bring you back in
time to what happened.
No one's ever done that to you?
No.
You want to do it now?
No. Not now.
You mean you came
all the way over here
to tell me this at
4:00 in the morning?
It was on my mind...
and I was concerned about you.
Who are you?
Oh, just somebody
who wants to help.
You turn away. Why?
You feel it, don't you?
The priority is finding
out what happened
to you.
I know you do.
Karen, you came to us for help.
I can't...
You can do anything you want.
Do you know what I want?
Breakfast.
Where is Harrison?
He's not in his office?
And his bed wasn't slept in.
Norton, have you seen Harrison?
Has he run away from home?
Who ran away from home?
You blew this
morning's interviews!
Will you ever forgive me?
Paul was about
to put out a missing
persons report on you.
You know, somebody
doesn't report,
that's my job...
Security. Remember?
A hell of a job
you're doing, too.
Well, exactly where
were you, Mister?
I was having breakfast
with Karen McKinney.
Research?
No. Not exactly.
No.
Look, I'd really like to find
out what happened with her.
We've got a dozen more
interviews set up for today.
Who's Karen McKinney?
She's the Stanford grad
who spent a couple
of years on the Amazon
with the aboriginal tribes
recording their music.
She has a very
inquisitive mind, Norton.
And how beautiful is she?
She's very beautiful.
She's very beautiful.
And where do I sign up?
She's having
recurring nightmares.
They're very debilitating.
I'd like it if you'd
talk with her.
Do a psychological assessment?
Yeah. But just keep it low-key.
I don't understand why I
can't just get hypnotized.
Because it doesn't
work that way.
Well, wish me luck?
Okay. Luck.
Oh!
We shouldn't...
I just wanted to get
to know you better.
Dr. Blackwood suggested
we spend a little time.
Right. To see if I'm
okay to be hypnotized.
Yes.
Well, listen, if
there is a chance
that this will
unlock my brain...
Let me know what
happened to me...
Then I want to do it.
I have to do it.
Great. Well, then,
let's get started
and do some tests.
Okay.
I see... my
father... on a train...
coming out of a tunnel.
That's not fair.
I'm sorry.
I must have done this
test a hundred times
in the past few months.
All I see are inkblots.
Of course, I don't
want to tell anybody that
because they'll lock me away.
All right, then, how do you
feel about word association?
The same.
Okay... father.
Mother.
Strange.
Interlude.
Running.
Nightmare.
Red.
Green.
Midnight.
Madness.
Green.
Blue.
Scared.
Night.
Alien.
Rape.
Running.
Karen, tell me what's going on.
I... I just...
I just feel so scared.
Oh, it feels terrible.
What does?
I don't know.
I just don't even know.
What's going on?
He said, "Peter,
I can see your house from here."
You're so funny.
You make me feel so good.
We have to be very careful
that you don't feel this way
because I'm helping you.
That's classic.
No, I feel this way
because I feel this way.
Real.
We can't deny that.
I just want to be sure
that we're doing
the right thing.
It feels so good,
how can it be wrong?
If there weren't any
other people here,
do you have any idea what
I'd be doing to you right now?
Have you paid?
Yes.
Do you live
very far from here?
You're married?
No. I'm not married.
It's my work.
I do very high security work.
What does that mean?
It means...
I can't take you there.
Harrison, what do you do?
I'm an astrophysicist.
I have seen doctors.
I've seen psychiatrists.
But why would an astrophysicist
be interested in someone
who has lost ten
hours of their life?
Harrison, why would
I be here with you?
Karen, if I could
tell you, I would.
I will. I'll find a way.
I'll figure out a
way to tell you.
But this has got nothing to do
with the way that we
feel about each other.
Nothing.
Somehow from the
first moment I saw you,
I knew we'd wind up
in a cheap hotel room.
You were going to
play me some music?
What's this?
Pygmies.
I love Pygmy music.
You've heard this before?
Mm-hmm.
You okay?
It's just so strange that
after feeling so special,
that this has to
come between us.
I want you to know
everything about me.
I want to tell you
about every part of me.
And I want to know
every aspect of you.
But I can't. Slow down, Karen.
Why? To let something
else come between us?
Remember when we
were kissing on the street?
I remember.
What am I going to do about you?
You don't know?
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I'm worried.
This is just not
like Harrison at all.
Well, he spoke to
Mrs. Pennyworth
last night.
But he didn't mention anything
about where he was
or when he'd be back.
But did he say what he wanted?
The name of a good
place for brunch.
You're missing the obvious.
Our fearless leader,
Dr. Blackwood,
has got himself short-circuited.
He's found himself a lady.
You do remember, you
know, the opposite sex?
Well, we'll just have to proceed
with the rest of the
interviews without him.
Uh, you're going
to do the interviews?
You have a problem with that?
Uh, no. No, no, no.
I, uh, think that would
be adventuresome.
No.
It's all right.
It's all right, it's
just a dream.
It's just a dream.
It's all over. It's over.
It's over.
But it's not.
It's not.
Actually, I'm glad
you're all here.
As you know, I've been spending
time with Karen McKinney,
who's a vital,
sensitive young woman
who's deeply troubled
by this missing
time in her life.
And I think we can help her.
At the same time it's furthering
the goals of this mission.
Meaning?
Meaning we've been
through the preliminaries.
It's time to hypnotize her.
It's time to find out
what they did to her.
I assume that's okay with you.
There's only one problem...
And please don't take
this the wrong way...
But it's your lack
of perspective.
I worry that your involvement
with Ms. McKinney
may affect your objectivity.
Exactly.
That's why I need you.
Everything blends together.
There's no yes or no.
There's no front or back.
Everything's the same.
You're very relaxed
now, aren't you, Karen?
Yes.
Good.
I want to regress her back
to that moment in the park
that she told us about,
when she was running.
Karen, I want you
to go back in time.
You're running in the park
a few months ago.
What are you doing?
I'm running.
No...
No, no, no...
You're absolutely safe.
You're able to look at
everything that is happening
to you from above...
perfectly safe.
Now, can you tell
me what you see?
I...
I can't move.
They're... talking...
but it's not English.
It's... it's not any language.
It's...
it's just sound.
I never heard anything like it.
Oh...
They have something.
You're totally safe.
They can't touch you.
I... I'm...
What are they doing?
They're hurt...
hurting me.
Oh, they're putting
something inside me.
That's it. That's it.
That's it. We have it.
That's enough.
Karen,
I want you to stop
remembering the park now.
I want you to remember our
talk as being very pleasant.
No bad memories at all.
Nothing but pleasure.
You'll sleep very well,
and you'll feel
wonderful in the morning.
I just don't see
where we should be
playing God with her.
I think that we
have to tell her.
The point is she
may not be up to it.
She has been
traumatized in a major way.
The news that she has
been violated by aliens,
I mean, it might
be too much for her.
Look, she came
here for our help.
She wants to know
what's going on.
I think we're morally
obligated to tell her.
We owe it to her.
And then?
And then we find out
what the aliens did to her...
Whether they took something out,
or whether they
left something in.
Hi.
Hi.
Oh, it's so good to see you.
You're all right, then?
I couldn't be better.
What's wrong?
I have to talk to
you about last night.
What is it?
What?
Last night, when Suzanne,
hypnotized you,
you told us about what happened
to you in the park that day.
Tell me.
This is going to be hard...
Just tell me.
Okay.
You described
yourself running alone.
You remember up to that point?
Yeah.
And then you said
that you were stopped
by some sort of
a... of a green light
that froze you in your tracks.
And you were taken
off the running path,
and you were
taken into the woods.
By who?
By men...
who were not really men,
and they... they performed
some sort of medical
procedure on you.
What procedures?
We don't know.
We want to run
some tests, Karen.
They may have hurt you.
Well, who's "they"?
We have reason to
believe that they...
are aliens from another planet.
Come on!
You're saying that I
was attacked by people
from another planet?
That can't be.
It is.
Harrison...
That's why you came
to be interviewed by me.
That's my job.
That's what I do.
I track aliens down.
You're saying,
that I was...
When Dr. McCullough gave you
that word association
test, remember?
Mm-hmm.
You responded "rape" to the...
To the word "alien."
You're telling me the truth?
Harrison, what
did they do to me?
We think they...
they probed you with
some kind of instrument.
Beyond that, I don't know.
Oh, God.
Y-you mean, all the
flying saucer reports...
There are aliens here, Karen.
We know that.
And we also know that
they are not friendly.
I don't know what to say.
Believe me, I understand.
What did they do to me?
Harrison, did they rape me?
Is there something inside me?
Because I couldn't
stand it if I knew
there was something
alive inside me.
Norton's numbers indicate
that 49% of encounters
of the fourth kind
have violation nightmares,
and at least 24% have nightmares
but can't remember
the specifics.
And you think it's our aliens?
But what are they doing?
Running experiments,
tests, monitoring...
Gathering information.
I don't know, but I
sure as hell know
they are up to something.
I think it's time that we, uh,
took our investigation
a step further.
Meaning? Karen's
agreed to be tested.
For? For what they did to her.
But her file says
she has been tested.
They weren't looking for
evidence of alien violation.
Potentially, they could
have left some kind
of monitoring device in her.
Anyway, it's a unique
opportunity for us.
Hello.
Yeah, put her through.
It's Karen.
Hi.
What?
Yeah, of course, right away.
She's having a bad night.
Just one more
flight to the left, sir.
Excuse me.
I can't wait to get unpacked.
I have no proof.
But in my heart, I know the
aliens have Karen McKinney.