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05 Maintenance - Miniseries 2002 English

My father was a vicious, selfish man
who put his personal aggrandisement

above the good of his country.

In my opinion, his egomania
made him a liability to the project.

However, he was also
incredibly meticulous.

He kept files on everything.
This one's interesting, doctor.

Your signature
on the autopsy reports

from the three bodies recovered
from the Roswell crash,

and a fourth, the one who died
while under observation.

Two copies of the crash-site reports...
The real one and the cover-up.

General,
your signature's on both.

An interesting one on the disposal
of the bodies of twin psychics

used in some early research
into the nature of the technology.

This one's particularly informative.

It's a briefing
on the Roswell events

that you and your colleagues
prepared for General Eisenhower

just before he took office.

On page 2, you'll find a list of the 12
of you who worked on the briefing.

A very impressive group.

These are copies, of course.

The originals
are in a safe place.

So what do you want?

Commander.

Your briefcase, sir.

What's going on here, Eric?

I checked the motor pool records
for the night my mother was killed.

You did check that car out.

That makes you
an accomplice, Marty.

An accessory before the fact.

These men will hand you over
to civilian authorities in Carson City.

I'm sure your fear of my father
will be taken into account.

And you'll be stepping up
to take over the project?

The acorn doesn't fall
too far, does it, Eric?

I need that funding shifted over
to biological research, Ted.

Find the resources.

Why is it so important?
None of your damn business, Ted.

Ted, do your job or lose it.

[ALLIE] Some people
spend their lives

hoping for something to happen
that will change everything.

They look for power or love.

Or the answers
to their biggest questions.

I think really what they're
looking for is another chance.

Some way to lead another life

where all the mistakes
they've made would be erased.

And they could just start over.

Nothing bad has happened yet.

And all their possibilities
are still in front of them.

I'm sorry I'm late.
That crowd of tourists.

We ought to put up a gift shop,

sell little bobbing alien heads
or something.

I had our people take the test subjects
out across the desert to avoid them.

I can't run an operation under
these conditions. It's a joke.

Since I talked the general
into letting me run this project,

it's become a damn circus.

But if you're gonna be a damn circus,
best to be in the centre ring.

What have you got?

[ERIC] What are you doing?

These fell out of the heads of a half
a dozen brain tumour patients

we've been monitoring
for the past couple of years.

Fell out? Put them away.

Don't worry. They're dead.
They're like batteries.

They're not transmitting.

We had to open up a half
a dozen people before we got a live one.

- It's kind of like looking for pearls.
- You got a live implant?

Okay, now check this out.
This is really amazing.

Send in the soldier.

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

[ALLIE] People come home
for a lot of reasons.

They come home to remember.

They come home because
they've got no place else to go.

They come home
when they're beaten.

They come home
when they're proud.

They come home looking
for a door out into their past

or a road out into their future.

They come home
for a lot of reasons.

But they always come home
to say good-bye.

Look like you remembered?

Yeah, exactly.

Doesn't change much, does it?

[TOM] There they are.

Hey.

Mum's just waking up.
I'm glad you guys came.

My mum really wanted
to get a look at Lisa.

Come on.

[TOM] They say we're lucky
because it's taking her so quick.

With cancer, it could've
been a lot worse.

Hello, honey.

How do you like this, huh?

They tell me
it's the cigarettes,

but I don't think I'd have
lived this long without 'em.

You grew up real nice.
How you doing?

I'm good, Mum.

I see that. That's fine.

[KNOCKS GENTLY]

- Tom.
- Yeah.

Come on in.

Mum, this is Carol, my wife.

Hi, Carol. How you doing?

Pleasure to meet you.

And this... is Lisa.

Tom, come take
this thing out of my nose

so I don't look
so scary to that child.

[COUGHS]

Come here, darling.
Let me get a look at you.

Come on, honey. It's okay.

Hello, Grandma.

You're a pretty girl.

She's got your father's eyes.

[TOM] Jake, I know
who your dad was.

When the government
was doing these experiments...

This is all freedom
of information act stuff...

It was the beginning
of the Cold War,

and people were scared
and willing to do anything,

so they took these soldiers
and filled 'em with psychotropic drugs

to see what happened,

and I believe that your dad
was one of those soldiers.

When he escaped from
the army base at Roswell,

Owen Crawford
tried to get him back.

It might be a little bit more
complicated than that.

Your abilities.
You got 'em from your father.

Whatever the drugs
had done to him,

like those women
who took thalidomide...

I think that they're
taking civilians now,

doing the same experiments,
mind control or processing,

whatever you wanna call it,

to make them think they're
being abducted by aliens.

And you know
that this is not the case?

The government
makes them think that,

but it's their cover story, Jake.

For a cover story, it seems...
a little bit far-fetched, doesn't it?

Mum's in a lot of pain.

Morphine doesn't seem
to be helping.

It's okay, Mum. It's okay.

It's okay.

Let's help you up, Mum.

Okay.

Jacob, it's time for me to go, honey.

Soon.

Tom...

You just sit up, Mum.

You just sit up.

[TOM] What are you doing, Jake?

Something for Mum.

[JAKE] It's all right, Tom.

Come on, Sally, let's go home.

I don't wanna believe this, Jake.

You never wanted to.

You always kind of did, though.

Right from when John came,
and you saw the lights.

That's why
all those years you...

tried so hard to prove
that it was a conspiracy, a lie.

Those are easier things
to believe in.

It was kind of ironic,
though, don't you think?

Country's leading debunker turns out
to have a half-alien half brother?

What are you going to do now?

I want you
to come forward, Jake.

I can't do that, Tom.

We're talking about something

that the entire world
has a right to know.

You were the proof
that it happened, Jake.

What do you want me to do,
go on TV, bend some spoons?

It'd turn into a freak show
in a minute and a half, and you know it.

Then at least people would know
it really happened.

Would they?

Why did they come, Jake?

What do they want?

I don't know.

I do know that I'm not
the only one who's special to them.

It's a feeling I get sometimes,

that there is someone else.

They're playing catch-up,
the government.

They're trying to figure out
the same things you ask me...

Why they came, what they want.

Owen Crawford knew about me.

If they're not already doing it,

they're going to try
and find that other person.

[ERIC] Jesse Keys.

One of my father's many failures.

Not to speak ill of the dead,
though, right?

He kills this guy's father,
then loses him.

I'd say, all in all,
he screwed that one up.

He couldn't have known
what would happen

when they took out
Russell Keys' implant,

but if it makes you feel better
to think your old man screwed up...

And this one... Jesse?

He mattered to them.
He was important.

I mean, we grab these people,
we pop the implants out of their heads,

we even kill some of them,

but our little grey friends
don't do squat.

But this guy,

they pulled him right through
the wall of a bomb shelter

to take him away from us.

I don't think you can lay that one
on your father either.

What do you think it all means?

Maybe nothing.

Could be there's some
they chew on repeatedly,

and others they spit out
after just one bite.

Now that we're looking more into
the genetics, we'll figure it out.

We're really close.

What about
those brothers in Alaska?

Failed attempts at crossbreeding,
like that kid Jacob Clarke

your old man tried
to bring back from Texas.

Jacob Clarke dies,

and we all know what happened
to the furry freak brothers.

You see what they're
doing, don't you?

Everything they can.

This is an FBI ageing program.

Some fugitive goes
underground for ten years,

they wanna know 'em
if they see 'em.

And I'll lay you diamonds to doughnuts
this Jesse Keys is still alive.

You wanna find out what's
so important about him?

Maybe we should ask him.

- MAN OVER RADIO: Truck eight.
- Yeah.

Chief, we've got one
over at Morgan's Junction.

Car full of college kids.
It's pretty ugly.

Paramedics on the scene.

We've also got
a tractor injury at Sutter's

and a kid pulled out
of Hodgkin's Creek.

Paramedics at both.

I'll take the car.

[SIREN WAILS]

Get over.

Keep moving, people.

Let's go. Keep moving.

Keep that lane open.
Let's go. Let's move.

What do we got, Bobby?

Just kids
on the way home from Milton.

Drunk, lost control
of the car, flipped it.

Driver was killed instantly.

Two boys in the back
pretty banged up.

They're on their way to County,

and the girl
in the passenger seat's a spinal.

We're just getting her out now.

[WOMAN] Lights.

We saw these lights. In the sky.

And then...

my friends.

They've been taken
to the hospital.

Kevin.

Hey, can you
do something for me?

Can you keep your head straight
and follow my pen with your eyes?

Good.

We're gonna have you
out of here in just a minute,

but can you just keep your head straight
and keep your eyes on my pen?

Can you do that for me?

- Mm-hmm.
- Good.

[BOBBY RETCHING]

Bobby?

Damn it. I'm sorry, chief.

My first accident, I puked
all over my chief's shoes.

Don't get any ideas.

Look, you know what I love
about this job?

You come to a scene,
you look at it,

you assess the situation,
and your job's to make it better.

You can do that,
no matter how bad it is.

You can always make it better.

Not for that guy
who was driving, not for him.

Then you move on.
That's what it's all about.

You find someone you can help.

Here, make sure
she stares straight ahead.

Don't let her look at the blood
on the windshield, okay?

Thanks, chief.

[MAN] Get out of the road.
You nuts?

I can't believe
you're still out here.

Look, this is all my fault.

The other guys
thought you were with me.

I thought you got a ride back
with the sheriff's guys.

How long have I been out here?

Uh... two-and-a-half,
three hours.

Look, I'm really sorry, chief.
I don't know what else to say.

- Hey, Dad.
- Hey, Charlie.

Did you know 12 people...

[ALLIE] Some people
put a lot of work into their lawn.

As if a patch of green grass was
the most important thing in the world.

As if they thought that
as long as the lawn out front

was green and mowed and beautiful.
It wouldn't matter at all

what was going on
inside the house.

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Let's get this place cleaned up
before Mum gets home, okay?

Okay.

Come on. Get in.

Dad said he's gonna
come see my play.

Yeah, I'm sure he will, honey.

Can you help me with my costume?

Yeah, sure.

Mum...

Is Dad all right?

Yeah, of course he is.

- What do you mean?
- I don't know.

It's just...

he seems like
he's scared of something.

I've known your father
a long time.

There is one thing
I know about him...

He's not afraid of anything.

Night, kiddo.

Right there, ace.

Hey, I know you.
I'm Luke Reynolds.

You pulled my son Moe
out of our sweep auger last year.

What the hell
are you doing out here?

Oh. You come to look
at my lower field.

- Lower field?
- My glow-in-the-dark wheat.

Heh heh. Come on.

Ain't that a bitch?

There was an accident
out here today.

Yep, pretty bad one.

Had the field been glowing
before the accident?

Nope. It started
right after that.

It's the shape of it
that gets me, though.

Look at it. Looks like
a damn flying saucer.

This hostage thing
shows you what happens

when you let your enemies
see your weakness.

We should've gone in there
the moment they were taken

and gotten 'em back at any cost.

Miss Fox says if we'd done that,
they might have killed the hostages.

Maybe, but they would've been
less likely to do it again.

Can we talk about
something else?

How would you like to move?

Like to Henderson, some place
a little further outside of town?

No. I was thinking
more like Maine.

Don't you think
this is a little sudden?

Dad, is this 'cause there's
flying saucers in Maine?

Dylan Peters said you were
the flying-saucer soldier

and that you were
in charge of all of it.

No, I don't think
it's too sudden at all.

[ALLIE] Do you know the feeling

of daring yourself
to walk across a dark room?

That way you're excited
because you know...

You really do know...

That there's nothing there to hurt you.

Some people get
to choose their dark rooms.

They get to look for places
where fear is only skin-deep.

But some people
are nowhere near that lucky.

What do you want from me?!
Leave me alone!

Why are you coming back now?
What do you want?

Leave my family alone!

What do you want now?!

Jesse!

What are you doing? Jess?

For a while after they pulled me out
of that temple in Vietnam, they stopped.

I'd think about them
once in a while,

but I'd convinced myself
that the stuff that happened

with my dad when
I was younger and in the jungle

had just all been in my mind.

These are the guardian angels
you told me about.

I don't know
if I call them angels,

but... they were the reason why

I did a lot of what I did
back there, you know.

I did some pretty crazy things just to
see if, you know, they would save me.

And they did?

Every single time.

Honey...

maybe it is all in your mind.

You're more than due
for some post-traumatic stress.

Look at this.

You don't see it?

See what?

The rash.
It's shaped like a hand.

We've been through a lot,
you and I, yeah?

And we're gonna get through this,
just like all the rest.

Jesse, I want you
to see someone for me.

You owe me that much.
Just see someone.

They'll just tell me
I have a tumour.

That's not necessarily
what they're gonna say.

I was diagnosed
with a brain tumour when I was 16.

My father died of one.

Okay, then you really do
need to see someone.

There is something in my head.

It's no tumour, though.

It's something they put there.
Something that tells them...

For god's sake, Jesse,
would you listen to yourself?!

Look, honey, see someone.

If you won't do it for me,
do it for Charlie.

Okay.

[KNOCKS]

You found a small tumour
on the front of my brain

no bigger than
the tip of a lead pencil.

I talked to Amelia.

She told me you've been
behaving strangely.

The tumour is very small,
no sign of a fluid build-up,

but still, it could explain
your recent behaviour.

Dr Franklin Traub is the best
brain tumour man in the country.

He's at the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul.
I just spoke to him.

You have
an appointment tomorrow.

Thanks.

Um... any commonality
in the stories?

Well. I think the first thing
you want to remember...

You and everyone at home...

Is that these are normal people
just like you and me.

With no history of psychosis
or schizophrenia. No mental illness.

They're normal people
talking about something

that has really happened to them.

The striking thing is how
similar all the stories are.

He always was
comfortable in a crowd.

Any minute, he's going
to start doing card tricks.

I always knew, Jake.

I always did.

But I never thought that contractor
Mum was building out in the garage

was gonna get
your father's attention.

She needed a better power supply with
an impedance-matched output coupling.

You can sit around here
all afternoon reminiscing

or help clean out the garage.

Your loudmouth brother's
gonna ride both sides

of this alien thing
all the way to the bank.

Kim, Andy, you're done playing.
We got work to do.

Uncle Ronnie,
just 'cause you're jealous

that Aunt Becky's
spending time with my dad

is no reason to yell at Kim and Andy.

It's not going to make the fact

that Uncle Tom's getting a lot
of attention go away, either.

She is your daughter, isn't she?

Mr Clarke. I don't mean to question
your ability or your expertise.

But I have to point out here that
up until very recently. You were one

of the leading debunker's
of this entire phenomenon.

So we'd all like to know
what changed your mind.

- I have personal information.
- You were taken?

No. No. That's not what I said.

Now there's a story
that we'd all like to hear.

Well...

I'm not at liberty to say.

Hold on... hold on. Folks.

You have evidence of an alien being
here on earth. And you're not sharing?

Mr Clarke.
I find that hardly fair.

I think more than anything else
we'd all like to know.

What changed your mind?

We'll take a break.

You're right.
That thing in your brain is no tumour.

It's very small. Looks metallic.

- Where did you grow up?
- Illinois.

Any exposure to chemicals?

Heroin.

You say your father
had a similar tumour.

Yeah, identical.

We see these deposits
occasionally in people

who work with unusual chemicals,

chelated heavy metals,
things like that.

Sometimes they occur
for no obvious reason.

Usually, they're
mistaken for tumours,

but in actual fact, it's just foreign
matter that's swept up into a little pile

the body doesn't
know how to get rid of.

Now, the important thing is,
we can treat this without surgery.

We can use localised
ultrasound therapy,

get this thing
to break out, dissolve.

You'll pass it
in a matter of days.

No surgery? That's great.

Must be disconcerting
to wake up one morning

and your whole world's changed.

For me, it was more like
my whole world had come back.

This happened before?

Yeah, when... when I was a kid,

when I was a teenager
and again in Vietnam.

If you're prone
to this sort of thing,

it's not surprising
it's gonna reoccur.

Could it be
affecting Jesse mentally?

It's possible.
You've been having problems?

Uh... yeah, but I think
if you can get this thing out of my head,

then it'll make them go away.

[JESSE] I'll be home
for Thanksgiving.

It's gonna be all right, Jesse.

[JESSE] You know...

when I was a kid,

the time I told you
about when I saw my dad...

I was, uh, locked up in a bomb shelter
on an air force base.

There are people
involved in this, too...

Very vicious people.

You're gonna be all right.
This is all gonna go away.

I don't care if you don't
believe the rest,

but you have to believe this...
I was taken.

Locked up by some people
involved with the air force,

and they... I got away,
joined the army under a fake name.

I don't know if they
stopped looking for me,

but, uh, now that this
has all started again,

just... keep it in mind.

Okay.

Hey.

Remember our list of
all the things I said I'd explain one day?

Mm-hmm.

Aren't you glad I waited
as long as I did?

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Hey, that's a pretty good book.

Yeah, I don't read much.

Irving places far too much importance
on death, in my way of thinking,

but at least he makes it funny.

He's good.

Jesse, you don't believe you've got
a metallic deposit in your head, do you?

You have your thoughts about what
I have in my head, and I have mine.

You wanna share
your thoughts with me?

No, I'd rather not.

Why are you here
if you don't believe I can help you?

No. You have to help me.

You say you can make this thing
in my head dissolve.

That's what I want.

I don't care what it is.

I have a nine-year-old son,
and I almost hurt him

because of this thing in my head.

I don't care
about anything else.

I don't care about
anything else at all.

[DIALS TELEPHONE]

[LINE RINGING]

Hello. Dr Wakeman, please.

Traub here, Rivers Clinic.

I've got the man
you're looking for.

[BOY] I'm gonna get you,
Allan Holmes!

Shut your mouth, Allan Holmes!

Whoa, slow down there, kid!

Come on, take it easy.
What's the problem?

- Let me go!
- What is this about?

He started it.

- Did not.
- Did!

Everybody knows
your dad went crazy

when he ran out of
the house screaming.

Your dad's nuts.
Now they've locked him up.

That's enough, all of you!

Now, Charlie's dad is sick.

It's very serious.
He's gone away to get well.

We're praying for him.

Sorry.
Hope your dad gets better.

So we're going down
to the Lemke's.

I hear they have
a wicked haunted house.

You wanna come?

No more fighting?

- Promise.
- All right, kiddo.

Have a good time.

They're so forgiving... children.

I didn't mean to butt in.
I was enjoying the evening.

I'm glad you were here.
Thank you.

I'm sorry to hear
about your husband.

I hope he'll be all right.

Thanks.

Yes, I'll hold.

- Hi, honey. How are you?
- Lonely.

How was Halloween?

It was great.
Charlie's Darth Vader.

I really just called 'cause
I wanted to hear your voice.

[ALLIE] When everything
in your life is right on track.

It's easy to believe
that things happen for a reason.

It's easy to have faith.

But when things start to go wrong.

Then it's very hard
to hold on to that faith.

It's hard not to wonder whose
reasons these things happen for.

How long you gonna
keep him under?

A couple hours.

Let him think
we did a full work-up.

What do you...
think these marks on his chest are?

Looks almost like a hand.

Maybe he fought back.

So what do you
want to do with him?

Take that thing out of his head?

They're a dime a dozen.
I don't want the implant.

I want him.

He believes they've saved him,
repeatedly, in Vietnam, other places.

They probably did.

It's just he's extremely
important to them.

Okay, what do we know?

They're working
towards something, but what?

Do they wanna
destroy the planet?

Save us from ourselves?
Turn us into pod people?

Anyway, we look
at the stuff we got

from one of the bodies
from the New Mexico crash,

and these beings,
these... aliens, what have you...

they're us.

Same genetic make-up.

At least so far.

The same could be said
about the fruit fly.

Maybe that's the point.

[ALLIE]
What makes a man who he is?

Is it the worst things he's ever done
or the best things he wants to be?

When you find yourself
in the middle of your life.

And you're nowhere near
where you were going.

How do you find a way
from the person you've become

to the one
you know you could've been?

What did you do
with my Cabbage Patch Kids?

They're in
one of the boxes, honey.

Can you take them
out of the boxes?

They don't like being
taken places in boxes.

We'll unpack them
when we get to our new place.

Why can't I tell my friends
where we're going?

Ask your father.

- I want my dolls unpacked!
- Honey, we can't.

- Hello, thrill-seekers.
- Uncle Chet.

- Hiya, sweetheart. How you doing?
- Good.

Where's your dad?

In the study.

Come on. Come on.

[KNOCK ON DOOR] Come in.

Dad, Mum won't unpack
my Cabbage Patch Kids.

I'll talk to her about it, Mary,
after I'm done with my meeting.

Don't ever move.

We got Jesse Keys
in a clinic in Minnesota.

That's the prize
your dad could never get.

What do you want to do with him?

I'm thinking. I'm thinking.

[ERIC] While you're thinking,
make sure you don't lose him.

I don't wanna make the same
mistakes my father made.

Your old man's been dead,
what, ten years now?

Yes.

So don't you think you can
stop trying to kick his ass?

One of our researchers
was going through some old files

and came across these.

Any idea what they are?

They look like the glyphs
from that excavation site in Alaska,

the one where my brother died.

That's what I thought, too,
but these are dated 1947.

That burial chamber in Alaska
wasn't opened up until 1970.

- Did you translate it?
- Can't be done.

So close.

We got Jesse Keys under wraps.

Genetics guys are finding out
more and more every day.

My engineers tell me they're following
something very cool on the implants.

We're on the verge
of a major breakthrough here.

Eric?

There something
you're not sharing?

You know everything I know.

I know a hell of a lot more
than you do, old pal of mine,

but what I was asking was is if... there
was something you weren't sharing.

And what I told you was no.

What are these?

[ERIC] Tom Clarke.

You didn't see him
on TV the other day

talking about
the government conspiracy

to cover up the presence
of aliens here on earth?

I don't like to watch TV
during the day. Weirds me out.

Suddenly, he's the Woodward
and Bernstein of alien abduction.

Tom Clarke, huh?

The Tom Clarke
who ruined my father.

The Tom Clarke who thought
our entire program was a lie.

His first two books here
do nothing but debunk everything

about extraterrestrial life,
about visits, about our work.

Don't you wanna know
what changed his mind?

- Bye, Mum.
- Bye.

Good-bye.

Bye.

Have a good day.

[ERIC] You're much prettier
than I expected.

Your surveillance photographs
don't do you justice.

Is this visit about something
more than my good looks?

I understand your brother has
switched sides, that he's now a believer.

Wanna tell me
what changed his mind?

You and your brother have a way

of sort of gumming up my family's work,
so I'm going to be honest with you.

I'm not doing this out
of any compelling need to tell the truth.

I just think it's
the only method that'll work.

There. I'm doing it already.

Do you look a lot
like your mother?

People say I do.

My father was a bastard.

What he did to your mother
was unforgivable.

My father found a spaceship
in the New Mexico desert.

There were four bodies on that ship.
There were spaces for five bodies.

He came to your home looking for
the guy who was sitting in that fifth seat.

My father devoted
the rest of his life

to trying to find out
what these visitors wanted.

He ran a government group
dedicated to that quest.

Since his death, I've been
in charge of that group.

Technically, we're
part of the air force,

but the paperwork is so muddled
I couldn't even tell you who I work for.

This planet has been visited
thousands of times

since my father found that ship.

People have been taken
from their homes,

things have been done to them.

With a lot of money
and a lot of very good minds,

we're beginning to understand
some things about our visitors,

but we still don't know
why they're doing all this.

We don't know what they want.

My father was a ruthless,
ambitious son of a bitch,

but the things he wanted
to know were reasonable.

This could be the greatest threat
the world has ever known.

This could be
something miraculous.

We have to know.

We have to do
whatever it takes to find out.

I am not my father.

You don't have to tell me what
changed your brother's mind right away.

You could do
something else instead.

What?

Let me show you something.

I've been reading these reports
from your genetics team.

- This is astounding stuff.
- Pretty cool, huh?

- Very.
- There's something new.

These devices they put
in people's heads,

I told you we're pretty sure
they're a tracking system, right?

They are.

My guys have found
the signal they give off.

But the signal
is incredibly weak.

It needs to be amplified somehow

before it can be transmitted
back to the mother ship

or the planet Zeta Reticuli or wherever
our little buddies are hanging out.

- You gotta love it.
- Transmitter? Where?

We don't know.

But the logical assumption,
based on what we do know,

is that it's organic.

- Organic?
- Don't you love it?

A brain beaming
thought signals out into the cosmos.

This just keeps
getting better and better.

The energy of thought, of mind.

We know that's how they do things.

We also know Jesse Keys is
of particular importance to them.

You think Jesse Keys
is a transmitter.

That's why he's so special.

One way to find out.

Shut him off.

See if they come
and turn him back on.

So, are you gonna be
getting back to work soon?

There's a couple people starting up
here in Texas I wanna check out first.

You sure are in a hurry
to get rid of me.

No, it's not that.

Meat loaf's gonna be ready
about half an hour.

Andy's got arithmetic homework
that he has to finish

before he watches
Charlie's Angels.

Your brother Tom's too high-toned
to come to the door now?

You gotta go outside
to meet him?

You haven't exactly
been a prince to him

every time he's been over here
the last couple times.

Is he still pissed I didn't
go to your mum's funeral?

I don't know.

If you want to know,
why don't you ask him?

Why should I have gone?

There's no love lost
between me and your old lady.

[RONNIE] All right, I'll ask him.
A cold day in hell is when.

I'll be home late.

So unpack
the Cabbage Patch Kids.

What's the problem?

All right, then, Julie,
then don't unpack them.

I might be late. Don't wait up.

I don't know why I'm doing this.

Curiosity.

[BECKY] Why would I get in a plane
with you, of all people?

[ERIC] I could put you in custody.

It's like that?

No, it's not like that at all.

I'll have you back by 2:00
in the morning, spook's honour.

Oh. He actually said that?

Aliens were responsible for teenage
drug abuse and open marriages?

And the success
of the skateboard.

You grow up in Vegas,
you meet a lot of weirdoes.

I guess so.

My family is eating
leftover meat loaf.

My wife's either called
the Peking Inn or Pizza Hut.

I got married really young.
First girl I had slept with.

First time I slept with her,
she's pregnant, I'm married.

Anything to show my father
I was grown up.

I just needed my own identity.

Someplace where I wasn't
Tom Clarke's little sister.

Big brother shadow. I hear that.

Sun rose and set
on my brother Sam.

- I guess a lot of people do that.
- Hmm.

They're just kids trying
to get away from home.

They wind up smack-dab
in the middle of their lives

before they know what hit them.

My kids are great.

I guess every-thing's
got its upside.

[BECKY] Where are we?

[ERIC] Let me put it to you this way...

Your brother
would be very jealous.

We brought everything here
from Wright-Patterson in '76.

It just made more sense to keep
everything under one roof.

Oh, my God.

It's breathtaking, isn't it?

I come in here sometimes by myself.

I... sit and just stare at him.

I keep feeling like if I stare
just a little longer,

I'll be able to understand.

Thank you for showing me this.

I wasn't going to.

[ALLIE] People move
through their lives sometimes

without really thinking
about where they're going.

Days pile up.
And they get sadder and lonelier

without really knowing why they're
so sad or how they got so lonely.

Then something happens...

They meet someone
who looks a certain way

or has something in their smile.

Maybe that's all that falling in love is...

Finding someone who makes you
feel a little less alone.

I'm moving. Did I tell you that?

No.

Couple of air force sellouts
write books, hit the talk-show circuit,

couple of guys make movies.

Carter says he saw a UFO.

Next thing you know,
I've got a crowd.

- You and your brother didn't help.
- Where are you gonna go?

I got a spot
picked out in Maine.

The gawkers will still come
to the desert,

and they'll see the same
experimental planes

and think they're seeing saucers,

and we can continue
our work undisturbed.

When are you leaving?

Tomorrow night.

Becky...

come with me.

I-I didn't mean
for this to happen.

I meant to charm you
with my honesty

and find out all I could
about your brother,

but that's not
how it worked out.

I don't wanna be the man that I am,
but with you, I'm somebody else.

I'm who I wanna be.

Eric, we can't...

I wanna be with you.

What is so terribly wrong
about that?

Nothings wrong with it.

It's just not possible.

Of course it is.

I'm gonna tell Julie about us.

Come with me.

Leave Ronnie and come with me.

Maine?

The trucks are leaving
Groom Lake tomorrow night,

sneaking out across
the desert to avoid your brother

and his friends by the mailbox.

What is it?

Your work.

Tom says you've been taking people,
experimenting on them.

He says some
of those people have died.

Becky, I swear to you
that your brother's wrong.

I've never done anything
to harm anyone.

Would you leave Ronnie?

Yes.

[TOM] You're sleeping with him?

It's not as simple as that.

Oh, okay.

Every thing's okay, then?

He's leaving his wife.
He wants me to leave Ronnie.

He wants us to stop interfering
in his business, Becky!

Eric Crawford.

Owen Crawford's son.

The son of the man
who ruined your mother's life.

How could you do that?

He's not his father.

He's covering up the biggest
secret in American history.

He's lying to the entire public
on a regular basis.

What in the hell makes you think
he's not lying to you?!

You don't respect
anything at all, do you?

You're just a selfish little girl
who married the wrong guy,

and you're willing to walk on anyone's
grave you have to get away from him.

This is not about me and Eric.

This is about
what Owen did to Mum.

No, it's not.

Not anymore.

It's about blowing the lid
on this thing wide open.

How could something
this huge have happened

and the whole world
doesn't know about it?

That's wrong, Becky.

Did you tell him about Jacob?

No.

You don't trust him, either.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Well... you're making
short work of that book.

Not a lot to do
around here, you know.

What is it?

Well, your deposit is not disintegrating
as quickly as I had hoped.

This is Dr Patterson
from the Brazel Clinic.

Does this look anything like
an astronaut's helmet?

It looks perfect.

I wish Dad was here.

He's good
at making things like this.

Yeah, he is.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Go on.

- Hello?
- Hey. Big guy.

Hey, Dad. Mum, it's Dad.

Are you going to be able
to come to my play?

I'm sure gonna try.

How was Halloween?

Allan Holmes called you crazy.
So I punched him.

Then some guy pulled me off.
I was gonna punch him again.

But he wanted me to go
to the Lemke's house

cause they had
a haunted house there.

It was so cool.
Can you come to my play?

I hope so.

Can I talk to Mum for a sec?

Okay. Just a sec. It's for you.

- Hi, honey.
- Hey.

They're moving me.

This thing in my head isn't going away,
and there's a new doctor,

and they're gonna take me
to some place called the Brazel Clinic

and see what they can do for me.

Okay.

I love you.

- Call me when you get there.
- I love you, too. Yeah.

I sure hope that Dad's all right.

Maybe I shouldn't have told him

about how I got
into a fight with Allan.

I don't want him
to worry about me.

Mum? Mum, what's wrong?

- It's a big country.
- Yeah.

We'll take care of that
thing in your head.

Once it's gone,
no more little grey men.

- I'm ready.
- That's good.

How'd you know
the little men were grey?

- Educated guess.
- Right.

One small step for mankind...
I mean, man.

One giant leap for mankind.

[APPLAUSE]

The giant leap that
Neil Armstrong was talking about

was a leap into outer space
for him and his Apollo team.

They started the journey,
but it'll be up to us to continue it.

- I can't believe you came.
- Are you all better?

Yeah.

- Did you like my play?
- I loved it.

It was pretty cool, wasn't it?

Pretty cool.

Dad, what are those lights?

Why are we stopping here?

Hey, Dad...

Dad?

What's going on?

Dad!

- Come over here.
- What's happening?

Come here.

Dad?

He's not your father, Charlie.

Don't listen to him, Charlie.

It's me. It's okay.

He isn't me. He's making me
from the picture in your head.

He's lying.

He's not your dad.
Watch, I'll change the picture.

Remember last month
I cut myself shaving,

and I came downstairs
and I had blood on my chin?

Charlie. Charlie,
do you remember?

[CHARLIE] What's going on?

[JESSE] You're not
gonna take him!

Leave my boy alone!
You're not gonna take him!

Charlie, get away from him.

Dad! Get away from my boy!

No!

[GUNSHOT]

[MAN ON CB] Truck 17.

We've got an engulfment event
at the Pioneer grain silo on Erlington.

We've got two men
with a grain bridge collapse.

[HORN BLARES]

Hello! Anybody!

It wasn't a stroke or a seizure.

Could this have been
caused by the tumour?

I don't know.
The nearest I can come to it,

it's like someone held
his brain too close to a magnet.

Mum?

Jesse. Get me a towel, please.

What's happening to him?

They'll come for Charlie next.
You gotta go.

I've called for help.
I'll see what's taking them.

Wait a minute. Who did you call?

Help.

- Jesse.
- You've gotta go.

Come on, Charlie.
Let's get out of here.

[ANDY LAUGHING]

[ERIC] I don't wanna
be the man that I am.

Can you understand that?

[TOM] What in the hell makes you
think he's not lying to you?!

[TOM] Eric Crawford.

Owen Crawford's son.

The son of the man
who ruined your mother's life.

How could you do that?

Did you tell him about Jacob?

[BECKY] No.

[TOM] You don 't trust him. Either.

[ERIC] Come with me.

Leave Ronnie and come with me.

[TOM] You don 't respect
anything at all. Do you?

You're a selfish little girl
who married the wrong guy.

You're willing to walk on anyone's
grave you have to get away from him!

[ERIC] You live your life step by step.
Doing what you do.

Someday you look up. And you're
this person you didn't plan to be.

But with you. I'm somebody else.

What is so terribly wrong
about that?

[BECKY] Nothings wrong with it.

It's just not possible.

[ALLIE] Sometimes
people come to a moment

where they think they've found that
one last chance to be someone else.

And they go for it.

When it doesn't work out.
They spend the rest of their lives

looking back over their shoulder
at what might have been.

Let's go.

[ENGINE STARTS]

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS RAPIDLY]

[MAN] Right there.

Few more feet.

[FORKLIFT HUMS]

Perfect.

How you gonna get through
the crowd at the gate?

Three trucks come out,
get the crowd's attention,

then take off
through the desert.

When we're sure
they're being chased,

then the real trucks will leave.

Hmm. You think it'll work?

We'll see.

You okay? You seem kind of down.

- Hard to say good-bye, I guess.
- We're doing the right thing.

The tourists can still come out
and watch the stealths,

and we'll all live
happily ever after.

Right.

Oh, man.

Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man, oh, man.

Ahem.

You went out and got
your little heart broken, didn't you?

[snickers]

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

Ohh!

[ALLIE] I never met my grandfather.

But my father told me
he was a very brave man.

And with all that he'd done...

Maybe because of all he'd done...

His favourite thing in all the world
was to mow the lawn.

My dad said he heard his father
talking to a neighbour once.

The neighbour asked him
how he was and what he'd been doing.

And my grandfather said.

I've been cutting the grass
and watching it grow.

Cutting the grass
and watching it grow.

Life. He said.
Is 90% maintenance.

♪ [JACKSON BROWNE] ♪
♪ Oh. People. Look around you ♪

♪ The signs are everywhere ♪

♪ You've left it ♪
♪ for somebody other than you ♪

♪ To be the one to care ♪

♪ You're lost ♪
♪ inside your houses ♪

♪ There's no time... ♪

Drinks are here.

Honey, we're gonna be
moving around for a little while.

Kind of like
The Dukes of Hazzard?

Yeah, kind of like.

Is this because
of what happened to Dad?

There's some people
who want to talk to us,

and I don't wanna talk to them.

They're not people.

I-It doesn't matter, sweetheart.
They're not gonna find us again.

Hey.

Sometimes, when bad things
are happening... we imagine things.

Maybe we think the things
we make up can't hurt us as much

as the real things
that are actually happening.

Even if what we make up is scary, too.
Does that make any sense?

Is Dad ever gonna be all right?

I don't know.
I really don't know.

This isn't fair.
There's nothing fair about this!

No, there's not.

♪ Rock me on the water ♪

♪ I'll get down to the sea ♪

♪ I'll get down ♪
♪ to the sea somehow ♪

Hey, this song...

got me through
my freshman year of college.

This, and several plants
we need never discuss.

Your father
always hated this music.

Anything that was popular
while he was away.

It wasn't so much the war as how
he was just supposed to come back

and act like
nothing ever happened.

I know none of this makes
any sense to you right now.

You just have to know that
your daddy loves you.

Okay?

Hey, dance with me.

Come on, come on,
come on, get up.

Come on.

♪ Soothe my fevered brow ♪

Let's just dance
for a while, okay?

♪ Rock me on the water ♪

♪ Maybe I'll remember ♪

♪ Maybe I'll remember how ♪

♪ Rock me on the water ♪

♪ The wind is with me now ♪

♪ Rock me on the water ♪

♪ I'll get down ♪
♪ to the sea somehow ♪

♪ To the sea somehow ♪

♪ Rock me on the water ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Rock me now ♪

[RADIO ANNOUNCER] The way
Carter handled the hostage crisis

really sealed his fate.

The American people were fed up.

Henry. From Selma. California.
Don 't you agree?

[HENRY] Absolutely.

When citizens are taken
against their will.

People want
to hold someone accountable.

When a president is not swift
and strong in response...

a man who's willing
to take strong action.

And Reagan 's that man.

People can 't stand
to see their...

response.

There's no doubt
this is why Carter lost...

Do you have your sidearm?

We'd like to take a look
in the back of your truck.

That would be a violation
of about three dozen

army and air force regulations.

[TOM] We believe you're in violation
of a lot more than that.

We believe you're carrying
the evidence of a spacecraft

that crashed
in the New Mexico desert in 1947.

[ERIC] What kind of evidence?

We believe that you recovered
bodies from that wreckage

and that you're
transporting them.

Bodies? Where would you
have gotten an idea like that?

[TOM] Can we take a look
at your cargo, please?

In the interest of fairness,
full disclosure,

and you not wasting any more
of my time, absolutely.

I was going to paint
a big old happy face on the inside here

and write the word howdy,

but I just didn't
get around to it.

Just so you know,
my heart was in the right place.

[BECKY] Tom, ask him
what's in those crates.

[ERIC] Personal effects, things
that belonged to my father.

[TOM] We'd like to take a look.

[ERIC] I'm afraid I can't have you
snooping through my father's affairs.

You and your friends here
will be driven to Las Vegas,

held for 72 hours,
and then released.

Detained with what cause?

You were detained for interfering with
a scheduled move of air force personnel.

When we determined you
weren't spies, we let you go.

Bastard.

What did you expect me to do?

You wouldn't
let me be someone else.

Look.

Look!

You still don't know
how to fly it, do you?

How long do you think you can
cover something like this up?

As long as I have to.