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Shouldn't be here.

Moving on to...

Wolf 336, F Class star,

at right ascension 7.36.7.

5.21 declination.

I thought that was
the last one.

Why did you think that?

Because you said
that it would be.

No, I distinctly remember
forgetting that.

I don't know why
I put up with this.

Oh. Yes, I do.

Because I let you drive.
I'm rideshare hostage.

F Class star.
Recent variability.

14.6 light years away.

This is just nuts anyway,
the whole approach.

SETI's tough enough
on microwave band.

Now you want to search FM?

With all that noise?

Might as well look for
a needle in a haystack...

of needles.

Station 5.

Is my voice even vaguely
familiar to you, Zane?

Honey, I'm trying
to get out of here,

but, as usual, Calvin
is holding me up again.

Should be home
by 1:00, 1:30.

1:30, Tuesday,
Wednesday, a.m., p.m.?

What can I say?
I'm a rideshare hostage.

I'm going to go...

Look, I will try--

Where are you?

Oh, I'm having
a drink with Becky.

You're in some bar
while I'm here working?

Mmm. Oh, there's a cute
hockey player here, too,

but he's only in town
for one night.

All right, I give up.
What do you want?

I want your ass
in bed, Zane.

Okay. I'll leave now
if you leave now.

But do not talk
to any strangers

on the way out.

I'll see you at my place
in 83 minutes, okay?

You swear
you'll be there, Zane?

I really don't want
a repeat of last week.

Look, if I say
I'm going to be there,

I will be there,
end of story.

There is nothing more important
to me right now than--

Good solid spike.

Nice symmetry
to the modulation.

Detection protocol, now.

Zane. Zane?

Confirmation Phase 1.

Swing dish
5 degrees off axis.

And signal fades.
Looking good.

Now swing dish
back on target.

And signal returns.
Definitely sky-based.

Wolf 336,
you are howling.

Phase 2.

Initiating software check.

Jumping ahead to Phase 3--
Second source verification.

Who's still online?

Green Bank, Ohio State,
Moffett Field.

Checking, here.
Still checking.

Be there.
Just be there.

We got to get another ear
on this thing.

Software self-checks.
Phase 2 complete.

I'm just waiting--

Oh, come on, Moffett.
You're killing me.

I'm dying here.

Pick up the phone so we can
confirm this...thing.

Nothing.

Zaminsky!

ZaminsKky, this is not
valet parking!

Stalled out on me.

Stalled on me,
this piece of...

Sorry, uh, sir.

Sorry.

That's it?

42 seconds.

We listened all night.

All night, all morning,
and the sound never repeated.

It's 42 seconds
of non-random,

non-Earth-based signal.

This could be it, Gordy.

Sounds compressed like
a military burst communication.

No way. No way.
Not at 107 megahertz.

1077?

What the hell are you doing
so far below the microwave?

Good question.

So this is a variable star?
This, uh, Wolf 3367

14.6 light years away.

All right.

Okay. So if it is a variable,

it expands and contracts
dramatically.

So, gentlemen,
maybe you can explain to me

how intelligent life
can actually develop

in such
a volatile environment.

Well, it's only been unstable
for the last--

50 years or so.

Which means it's possible some
form of life can still exist there.

Exactly.

Maybe this is distress call.

An SOS.

Maybe they're sending out
their Encyclopedia Galactica,

jettisoning
all their knowledge

before it goes down
with the ship.

- Maybe--
- Zane. Zane!

It lasted 42 seconds,

and it never repeated.

That's why we have to
stay on this one, Gordy,

in case it does.

Look, I'll pull
double shifts.

I'll pull triple shifts
if I have to.

But I want priority status
and I want dish time.

I want serious dish time.

During normal
business hours, preferably.

Calvin, why don't you, uh--

Why don't you go home
and get some sleep, okay?

Go ahead.

Zane.

It's a mandatory
20% cutback.

Tracking station has
a fixed operating cost.

I can't touch that.

I've got to look
at personnel.

Are you even shitting me?

Look, I can-- I can
swing a month's pay,

you know,
instead of two weeks.

Maybe extend
the health benefits

two weeks beyond that, but...

Let me see
if I got this straight.

I come to you--

I come to you
with what may be

the preeminent discovery
of the 20th century--

The possibility
of extrasolar life,

and I get shit-canned
for it?

Zane...

I know how important this is.

But searching for E.T.s
in this political environment

is a tough sell
on Capitol Hill.

We don't start spending money
on harder science,

we're going to lose it.

Well, let's forget
about me for a second.

What about the signal?

I'm skeptical,

but it is interesting.

I'll pass it along to decoding.

See if there's a pattern
recognition there, but, uh...

Look, I don't have to tell you.
You know the rule.

If you can't confirm it--

Then it doesn't exist.

What asshole
made up that rule?

Can we fire him instead?

It doesn't please me

to be losing
the brightest and the best.

I wish there was another way.

I honestly do.

Well, it is finally
cooling off in the Southland

after a day of
near-record temperatures,

but hot again tomorrow

and hot again on Thursday
with no let up--

Hey, how are you
doing for money?

You know, if you need
me to, I could maybe--

No, no. There's
a study program up north.

The guy who runs it,
Bill Wyatt,

was begging me
to come up there.

I might give him a call.

Zane, you're not
really thinking about

going back to it, are you?

Oh, God, we had
a bell-ringer this morning.

Really good signal.
I just--

I just couldn't
confirm it in time.

You had something
really good last year, too.

Turned out to be what?

A broken microwave oven.

What's your point?

There's always something
to give me false hope?

That I'm wasting my life?

I didn't say that.

But, you know, it's
interesting that you did.

Oh.

Come on.
Someone is watching.

What?

How in the hell
did I wind up

with someone like you?

I get tired of rich guys
with good futures.

No, really.
What is it you see in me?

What made you call me
the first time?

Boy, when their
self-worth goes...

Mmm.

Okay, I see a man
of great intelligence,

dedication,

cute little kind
of insecurity,

a little paranoia.

This went to shit fast.

Well, Zane, why do we always
have to analyze everything?

Can't you just trust
that I love you?

Algorithms, I trust.
Boolean logic, I trust.

Beautiful women,
they just mystify me.

Two years and we're still
talking about trust?

It's amazing.

I should shut
the hell up, huh?

Look, it's your career, Zane,

and I will support
any decision that you make.

But if we are going
to make it,

we've got to take care of our
problems here on planet Earth,

and that is just
a little hard

when you're always off
looking at the stars.

Listening.

Listening.

Are we falling apart here?

Is that it, Char?

I don't know, Zane.

Are we?

- How'd you do on the test?
- Pretty good.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

No, I'm saying it's incomplete.

There's no chemical breakdown.

There's no broadband
chart analysis.

Do you want me to go on?

I'm sorry that information

isn't available at this time.

Well, look,
this information

was promised to me
two months ago.

Now, come on.
These are not national secrets.

This is a routine analysis
of the atmosphere.

So why should I have--

There's a problem
with that satellite.

It's blind to
certain trace gases.

Really? As of when?

I believe it lost
a solar panel.

Some functions were shut down
to save energy.

Well, look.
Here's my problem.

I've devoted my sabbatical
to greenhouse trace gases.

So if I don't get this data,

I might as well be counting
cow farts in Montana.

Sorry, but you'll
have to wait

until the new satellite
is in place.

Okay.
When's the launch date?

NASA doesn't have
that information.

Round and round we go.

Thanks for naught.

Moffett Field.

Yo, Wyatt.

Zane Zaminsky.
How are you, man?

Oh, yeah, Zane. Hi.

Look, I know you said
you'd get back to me,

but I felt obligated
to give you a call,

let you know about
a job offer that came up.

Telecommunications.

Looks pretty sweet, too.

I mean, the health plan
alone, you know?

Well, good.

You should take it, Zane,

because I don't think things
are going to work out here.

Uh, but I-- I--

I thought you were
looking for--

For radio astronomers, Bill.

I-- I-- Some good
creative thinkers.

Isn't that what you said?

I remember you saying that.

Creative is one thing.

Too creative is another.

I'm not-- I'm not tracking.

I'm not sure I should
be saying this,

but I talked to
Phil Gordian at JPL,

and while
he wouldn't quite--

Well, the indication
was-- Just say it.

He said you were
faking signals

in order to keep your job.

I do believe this
permit's expired, Zaminsky.

Why haven't you?

Zaminsky!

Zaminsky!

To raise the temperature
of the planet tenfold.

To change the atmosphere into
one suitable to colonization.

To construct farms, cities,

and build an infrastructure
capable of supporting

thousands of colonists.

Make no mistake about it.

Never before have
we undertaken a task--

...have we undertaken
a task of this size.

The terraforming of Mars.

Do you know where
Phil Gordian is?

No.
Sorry.

Excuse me,
is Phil Gordian here?

No, uh-uh.

Excuse me, have you seen
Phil Gordian?

No.

Well, somebody's seen him.

Damn it.

Excuse me,

but perhaps you'd care
to use the microphone.

Yes.
Yes, I would.

Thanks.

Phil Gordian--
Has anybody seen him?

I'm looking
for Phil Gordian.

Anybody seen Phil Gordian?

The man was in the middle
of a seminar, Zane.

Why don't we step outside
and let him finish.

Did you even give it
to decoding?

Did you even see
what was there?

Zane, why don't
we take this outside.

If you're not going
to analyze it,

I want my tape back.
I want it back.

I'm sorry, I just--

I don't know what
you're referring to.

Okay, we don't you show me
how smart you are

by leaving right now.

What's going on, huh?
What are you doing this for?

Back it up.
Back it up. Let's go.

Why are you telling them
lies about me?

I said now. Let's go. Huh?

Why? Let's go. Come on.

Let's go.
Why?

I'm sorry.
He's a troubled young man.

A very troubled young man.

My apologies.

Please continue.

So where was I?
Polar ice.

Yes, after the polar ice
has been melted,

the atmosphere begins
to grow thicker.

Finally, a kind of
critical mass is reached.

And at this point,

the atmosphere begins
to work for us.

Station 5.

Tell me I'm not
losing my mind.

Just tell me.

Zane, uh, where are you?

They're acting like
it never happened.

I just saw Gordy.

It's like we never
gave him any tape.

Uh, listen, Zane--

And then I remembered,

it should still be
on the backup DAT system.

We should have a copy
of the signal, right?

Well, uh, yes and no.

Um, there are some
DOD guys here, Zane,

going through our stuff
as we speak.

Apparently, it was a burst
from a spy satellite.

What?

Yeah, Zane.

It's a defense thing,
you know?

Which is probably why Gordian
couldn't tell us about it.

You know, we weren't cleared
for this spy shit.

Cal, Cal, listen to me
very carefully.

Satellites do not move
like stars move.

Now, we track this thing
in sidereal time.

In star time, okay?

Now, I don't know
who these guys are,

but I do know that
they're lying to you.

Is this everything?

Cal, if you haven't

told them about
the backup system, don't.

We have it all?

Don't you tell them, Cal.
Don't you dare!

Um, there, uh--

There's a backup system.

Hey.

Uh, so if this
was a spy bird,

why was it moving like a star?

We're not really sure.

We'll have to get back
to you on that.

It's a very aggressive
company.

And with the federal
mandate for airbags,

they are
perfectly positioned

to dominate the market
for years.

Blade Co. Technologies.

All right.
I'll send you a prospectus.

Are you at the same address?

Uh, okay.

Doug, can I call you back
in, say, 10 minutes?

- So I get this signal.
- How about 5:00?

- A signal from an F Class star.
- 5:15.

Just like our sun,
but a little hotter.

- First, they act like it's nothing.
- Great. Thanks.

But now-- now they're going
to unimaginable pains

to make it disappear.

Zane, I thought
you had a new job.

Something's going on
here, Char.

I mean, why the hell
would they do that?

What is it that
they're trying to hide?

Maybe we could talk
about this later.

I need to talk
about this now.

I called last night,
twice.

I got the messages.

I thought the problem
was I wasn't around enough.

Now that I am,
you're not.

What is this,
Tales From the Dark Side?

I guess I have been
avoiding this, yes.

Okay. Define "this."

Zane, the brokerage
is strongly suggesting

that I head up the office
in San Diego soon.

It'd mean moving there.

Okay.
Can you tell them no?

Oh, thank you, Zane.

I tell you I'll support any
career decision that you make,

but when it comes
to me and my work--

You're actually
considering this?

Char, it's Mr. Morgan
on line 5.

And?

I got to take this.

By any chance is he going
to San Diego also?

Zane, why don't you
stick your paranoia

back in your pants
and get out of here?

- I will call you.
- Okay, fine.

No problem.
When?

Whenever I get to it.

Tuesday, Wednesday,
a.m., p.m.?

Go!

Right now.

They could be talking
to us right now.

Hoo hoo!

An array.

Phased array.

Good morning, Mr. Carbiener.

I'm Horace with your
local satellite company.

Good morning.

Can I see your dish?

What a glorious morning.
Hot enough for you?

For a limited time,
we're offering a free upgrade

on a totally automated
fiber-optic control system.

All this
at no extra cost to you.

No extra cost.
No extra cost to you.

One of the many ways
which are improving

the quality of service
to our valued customers.

Can I see your dish?

- Aah!
- Jesus.

Ow.

What are you doing here?

And how soon can you leave?

What are you doing here?

I live here.
Do you mind?

I mind you grabbing
on me. Let go.

I'm trying
to help you down.

I can do it myself.

Aah, my foot is stuck.

You live next door.

With Mrs. Roosevelt, is that it?

I live in L.A.

Just kicking it here
a minute.

I don't want anybody
nosing around here.

Hey, if I were going
to steal your stuff,

it would be
over and done, okay?

Just what do you know
about my stuff?

And what are you doing climbing
roofs at 1:00 in the morning?

Shouldn't you be out tagging
freeway signs or something?

I don't got
to tell you shit.

Fine, hang there
all night.

Hey!

Hey, where you going?

Get me down out of here.

What are you doing?

I told you to wait
downstairs.

What's this thing here?

A cooling jacket
for a low noise amp.

Don't touch it.

What's that blinky shit
over there?

Would you just sit down?

Put this on your ankle.

I don't want that thing.
It's cold.

Just keep your butt down,

your foot up,

and your mouth shut.

You can watch,
but don't touch anything.

So, what are all them dots?

They're satellite dishes.

Each one.

You string enough
of them together,

it makes one big
radio antenna, basically.

But what's it do?

It lets you get
close to the stars.

See if you get 92.9 KBUMP.

Greetings from beyond
the solar system.

That, my friend,
is Voyager 2.

What's that?

Voyager is a planetary probe
launched in the mid '70s.

They don't teach science
in school anymore?

Too busy patting us down,
seeing if we strapped.

I assume you mean guns.

They find one on you?

Not me, just everyone else.

That's how come the folks
want me out of L.A.

Crazy stuff going on.

Can I come in now?

So this is the star,
Wolf 336.

We'll check the spectra
at different magnifications,

looking for anything
unusual.

But unfortunately, all we find
is the typical radio noise

of an F Class star.

But you talked
to him before, huh?

The aliens.
This channel.

This star.
This frequency.

But we can't really talk.

You see, it takes years
for a radio wave to get here.

So all we can really do
is just listen.

But what'd they say,
before?

Maybe how to live forever.

Maybe how to make
nuclear power safe.

I don't know. Maybe they were
just ordering out for a pizza.

You see, we won't really know
what they're saying.

Not at first, but that doesn't
make it any less important.

If I can confirm this signal,

if we can find it again,

then we will finally,
finally know

that we're not alone.

I wonder what they're
going to look like.

Warning.

Your sleep period is over.

Get out of bed.

Warning.
Your sleep period is over.

Get out of bed.

Warning.
Your sleep period is over.

Jesus.

Going to try again?
Tonight?

If you are,
I could wait up

and sort of, you know,
help some this time.

You didn't tell anybody about
our little club house, did you?

What am I, new?

What about your grandma?

She doesn't care if
you stay up late at night?

Not after 10:00.

What happens at 10:00?

She passes out on cough syrup.

Tell you what.

Whenever I'm up there,
you can come over.

But only-- only if
you got the proper ID.

So where I get that at?

What about me, huh?

When can I do something?

Okay. Hit that key.

What one?
That one.

This one here?
Yes.

Are you sure it's okay?

I'm sure it's okay.

This one
right under my finger?

Give me your badge.
You're fired.

I'll do it.
I'll do it.

So, what's the signal
going to look like?

Just a spike.

A big one?

Or a little one?

Because I got a big one.

That's it.

That's exactly
what Calvin and I saw.

No, no, no.

No, come back.

And I didn't
touch nothing, okay?

It's the same thing.

Same signature,
same periodicity--

♪ What the hell is this?

What is that lambada shit?

It's got to be a bounce.

Radio wave that kicks off
the inversion layer

and then bleeds back in
through this side of the system.

It's coming from Earth?

Some Mexican radio station
on the same frequency

tells us where
the bounce came from,

but it doesn't...

But it's whack.

All of it?

Wait a sec.

The first signal was
definitely sky-based.

We verified it.

But this one
is Earth-based.

Two identical signals.

One comes from space,
the other from Earth.

I'm all screwed up here.

It doesn't make any sense.

Unless they're talking.

Hey, but last night, you were
telling me how we couldn't talk

because it would take years.

Cal.
I got to talk to Cal.

Somebody said something
about a faulty heater.

Carbon monoxide poisoning.

Really?

You taking him
down to County?

Yeah, sure.
This guys DOA.

Okay, what have we got here?

Huge concentrations
of trace gas

here in Central Mexico,
Ecuador, Brazil.

Look, you can see
for yourself.

700% increase
over the last 5 years?

- How can that be?
- My very question.

Just how accurate is this
data you sent us, llana?

Well, it's hard to say.

I mean, we cobbled it together
from ground stations,

weather balloons,
Uncle Earl's aching corns.

Some of your own numbers
are in there.

No satellite data?

NASA's bird has a bum wing.

Well, you've obviously
got some ratty data.

We checked this
as best we could.

George, run me
a future cast, will ya?

Say, ten years,
assuming the same increase.

Of course.

Well, this had better be wrong,
because according to this,

we're looking at an increase
of 12 degrees Centigrade

over the next decade.

- And that's just--
- Catastrophic.

Well, I was going
to say impossible,

but, yep, that, too.

Central Mexico.

Uh, excuse me.

You come to see
the ruins, my friend?

I take you to some
much very good places.

No, let's just head for town.

When does it start
to cool off down here?

In San Marsol? Hah.

This is cool-off.

This dial right?

Right, left, both ways.

This radio station,

you know where this is?

Oh, very far.
Not close to town.

Let's go there.

How about the ruins?

You want to see
the ruins, my friend?

The radio station.
I need to go there.

I'm going to talk
to the people.

Accidente, esse.

But no persons was here--

Gracias a Dios-- when
the fire come last night.

Too late.

;Ccomo?

One day too late.

Posada San Marsol.

One of our much
very best hotels.

Uh-huh.

Sefiora,you see those things?

;Ccomo?

These TV dishes,

alli y alli.

You know of any big ones?

Big?
Yeah, big.

Not small like these,
but-- but big.

50, 60 feet wide.

Big. Grande.
Oh, no.

Nadabig in San Marsol.

Nada.

One of our very much
best hotels.

This is Peter Dowling
from Sierra Satellite.

Just wondering if you were
sick or dead or something.

Because if you're not,
you're fired.

Sorry, pal.

Yes, Zane.
Uh, this is Doug.

I heard about you and Char.

I heard it was skidsville,
and I'm sorry to hear that.

I know what it feels like.

If you want to
get together anytime,

you know, let's do it.

We'll talk it through.

I'm there for you man, okay?

Oh, and, uh, would you mind
if I got her number?

You know, I--
I just want to talk to her

about some investment
possibilities.

All right? Thanks.

I called this morning.

Just didn't leave a message.
Are you there now?

Well, I guess I didn't
get back to you that night

because I was mad, Zane.

I get so tired
of being questioned

about even the basic things,

and maybe I was feeling
some quilt, too,

for steering you away
from what you should be doing,

from what you love the most.

But you were such an ass
the last time we talked, I--

Damn, I can't remember if
this machine lets you ramble,

so I'd better
just admit this quick.

I miss your weird
and paranoid brain.

Call when you can.

Where are you, Zane?

Move!

Just who the hell
are you, huh?

Because I saw you in town.

I saw you at the airport.

You were waiting for me.

You knew, didn't you?

How the...

Where do you hide
a 20-meter dish?

Sir. No, no.

No. No.

Jesus!

Hey!

Excuse me.

Excuse me.
What's going on here?

I don't know. These
guys are stealing my stuff.

They're taking my equipment.
I was trying to work here.

Sefor,excuse me.

- Hey, hey!
- What?

Hey, take it easy.

Will you guys take it easy?

Whoa! Hey!

What? Oh!

No, no.

Well, I know
I should say thanks,

but that was a pretty dicey
stunt you pulled back there.

You could have
got us both shot.

You're welcome,
and you're right.

Saw you in town
last night, didn't I?

Zane Zaminsky.
Am I still bleeding?

Yeah, a little.
llana Green.

Damn, it's hot in here.

You'd think they'd have
air-conditioning in this place.

I don't like blood.

So why were they
rousting you, anyways?

Something about my gear
they don't like.

What is all that stuff?

It's technical.

Because it looks like
some kind of radiosonde

for atmospheric sampling.

That's right.

That's absolutely right.

Just who are you?

Can I ask
what I've done wrong?

I wish to apologize
to you both.

We have overreacted
in this matter.

As for the equipment,

it seems to be ruined.

If you give me a local
number-- Wait a second.

Why was I detained?

Why did these men take my gear
in the first place?

You were on private land.

But isn't this
a public facility?

Please try to understand this
is a new type of power station.

And with new technology

come those who would
like to steal it.

You're staying
at San Marsol, yes?

What do you mean
"new type"?

You still burn
fossil fuels, right?

With great efficiency.

Very few emissions.

What kind of emissions?

I'm not an expert
in this matter like yourself.

Perhaps if you were
to leave me a local number--

Yeah, perhaps if you give me--

No, no, no.
Call it a push.

Come on.

They say there's a twin
for everyone in the world.

No, that's not it.

Look, you roll the
genetic dice often enough,

they're going to land
on top of each other.

Trust me, llana.
That is not it.

Nice of them
to bring our cars here.

Follow me back to town,

and don't make
any stops, all right?

I understand
you do residential work.

I've got a little
weeding problem

I'm hoping you can
help me with.

It's really
a very small job.

There's the address.

We saw Gulf hurricanes
in March.

Right now there's a drought
in the Sudan killing thousands.

So we're talking
global warming, right?

Yes and no.

Yes in that
we're showing an increase

in global temperature
over the last decade.

It's not much,
but if you factor out

the cooling effects
of volcanic activity--

It's happening.

Our factories
can't pump out

7 billion tons of CO2 a year
and not do damage.

- This is the Arctic?
- Yeah.

90 miles from the pole.

Well, what's it doing there?

Taken by itself,
it's just another anomaly.

But as a whole,
we see the Arctic

is incredibly sensitive
to environmental change.

That's why we go there,

because things happen
first in the Arctic.

It's like a window
on the future.

So you're talking about

something a lot bigger
than global warming.

I see some major
climatic ordeal happening.

Oh, God.

I get so damned
apocalyptic when I drink.

But you have to remember

every major turning point
on this planet,

including the demise
of the dinosaur,

began with a shift in climate.

Even a 10-degree increase

will melt 70% of the polar ice cap.

- Wipe out all agriculture.
- Raise the temperature of the planet.

To change its atmosphere

into one suitable
to colonization.

Terraforming.

What is that?

This guy at JPL,

he's been giving talks
about Mars

and how its whole environment
could be changed

and how we could terraform it
and then live there.

It'll never happen, of course.
Cost hundreds of billions.

But he did say
something about--

After the polar ice
has been melted,

the atmosphere
again grows thicker.

Finally, a kind of
critical mass is reached.

What?

I don't know.

We might give him
a call if it's not too--

Jesus, I did
the time warp dance here.

Well, before I go around saying

the sky is falling
or even warming,

I've got to get
new gear from NCAR.

When do you leave?

First thing in the morning.

You?

I don't know, yet.

Still haven't seen
everything I need to see.

Maybe a couple of days.

You know,
I must say, Zane,

I really enjoyed
our talk tonight.

It's uncommon for me
to find someone

who can actually
grasp the things

that I'm passionate about.

Yeah, I hear ya.

So, where are you staying?

Well, I was in room 302
at the big pink place

until merged with room 402.

What?

Some kind of an accident?

Everything is lately.

How is this dump?

Well, it's not bad
with the lights off.

Maybe I'll get a room.

Well, look, I'm gone
first thing in the morning.

Why don't you
just stay here now

and keep the room tomorrow?

You mean, share it?

Well, there is a couch.

We could at least keep the
appearance of respectability.

Uh, yeah,
I suppose we could.

And not that I don't find

the proposition
intriguing or anything.

And not that you
just propositioned me.

Did you?

Boy, Zane,
that's a lot of guilt

for somebody who hasn't
done anything, yet.

I take it there's a warm body
in bed at home?

Not in my bed,
still in my head.

I don't know.

I guess there's still something
to be said for abstinence.

You think?

In moderation.

Terraforming.

If you find anything,
get it to me, care of UCLA.

I will.

Oh, llana.

What? Yes.

Just-- Just be careful.

Change for the phone.

Cambio.

Man, it was good
to hear your voice.

Zane.

Look, I'm really sorry
about before,

but, like, I tried to--

No, no, no. No.
You're right.

I was a complete asshole.

And we will get back to that,

but you still get downloads
at home, right?

Stock stuff?

Yeah, but--

Planecorp Industries.

Check it out for me,
will ya?

Slow modem, still waiting.

So when are you
coming home, Zane?

I'm not exactly s--

Who said I was gone?

I stopped by yesterday
and the papers

were stacking up,
so I put them inside.

Okay, here we go.

Ticker PLC,
Planecorp Industries,

a leader
in clean air technology.

Blah, blah, blah.

Looks just like they buy up
old power utilities,

overhaul, and put them
back online.

Ecuador, Peru,
three facilities in Mexico.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute. Back up.

There's more than one plant?

Mm-mm.
As of January 1st,

they have 8 facilities online
and 12 more planned,

all in Third World countries.

20 plants?

Where's all the money
coming from?

American investors.
Your mutual funds at work.

Wow.

Well, thanks--
Thanks for the help, Char.

Wha-- What?
That's it?

After four weeks,

you call me up
for a stock report?

I-- I don't know
what else to say.

How about "I miss you"?

I shouldn't have to say it.

If that's it...

How big does that make the--

My God.

Aah!

Go.

Aah!

Aah! Uh!

No.

Do you want to see
the ruins, my friend?

Mr. Zaminsky,

we got you speeding on
the wrong side of the road.

Then you said you were
in the cantina last night

with, uh,
SenoritaWhat's-Her-Name.

Green, llana Green.
Green. Right.

I suppose
you were drinking.

Oh, we had a couple
of beers, big deal.

That has nothing
to do with--

This week is El Dia
de los Muertos--

- The Day of the Dead.
- Yeah? So what?

As an American, you're not too
familiar with all these costumes,

with all these things
we see all around.

Uh-uh. Wrong.

What I saw was no costume,
was no papier-méache skeleton.

It was nothing like that--

The captain of security
for the power station

has called to report
an accident.

That a man, intoxicated,

had killed someone
with this car last night.

An American man.

No. That-- That--
That is not what happened.

That is to say
you were involved.

They are lying!

It's up to me
to decide who's lying.

That's why I make
the questions

and that's why
you give me answers.

Now, again.

Were you involved in this?

I hit something
with the car.

Now, who it was
or what it was,

I'm not sure.

But if they're saying
that I killed someone,

I want to see it.

Bring the body here.
I demand to see it!

There's no need to
demand that, Mr. Zaminsky.

That's just exactly
what they're doing.

Don't go anywhere.

No, no.

Our word for an "attorney"
is "abogado."

I suggest you--

Mercury peaks at around
99 degrees today.

And, yes, that will be a
record for this day in October.

But nowhere
is it hotter right now

than in the hallways
of NASA,

where officials are still
trying to explain

what happened yesterday
to that atmospheric satellite

that blew up just 32 seconds
after launch.

Press conference now under way
at JPL in Pasadena.

Anybody going to lose

their job over this,
Mr. Gordian?

Sorry, I'm really
not the right--

Zane?

You don't look too good.

Actually, I look like
a can of smashed assholes.

Here's a tip.

If you ever get the chance
to travel with a Mexican rodeo,

pass.

Look, Zane, about before,
I'm, uh-- I'm sorry.

DOD was putting a lot pressure
on me to keep a lid on things.

Then you started
asking questions

in front
of all those people.

No, no, no, no.

Forget it.
No hard feelings.

I just wanted to drop by
and pay you a visit.

Check up
on my old buddy Gordy.

Maybe see
what's really what,

who's really who.

I tell you, Zane, you're really
not making very much sense.

Maybe we should walk
over to the infirmary.

It didn't make a lot
of sense to me, either,

the first time I saw
your face on another guy.

Genetic dice?

Uh, no, no.
I don't think so.

I think somebody
just screwed up.

As good as you are,
you do make mistakes,

don't you?

You should have
broke the mold, Gordy.

What do you want, Zane?

What do I want?

I want to blow a hole

in your head and donate
your organs to science.

But there are a few things
I need to know first.

Fucking NRA.

It's just so easy
to get one.

Let's have a chat.

Yeah, okay.

Media center.

Looks like somebody stole
some camera gear.

You want it?

A real crime.

Okay, somebody's on the way.

So who was targeted?

Anyone in SETI?

Well, not anyone.

Who then?

Look in the mirror.

Prime intellect.
Non-conformist reasoning.

Capacity for lateral thinking.
Isn't that what you see?

And then what?
A control is assigned?

Somebody like you?

Could I, uh, actually see
this gun of yours, Zane?

Oh, sure.

But if I pull it out,
Gordy,

it'll be the last thing
you ever see.

Well, I, uh--

I think
it's possible to say

that you've been watched
for quite a while now.

So which programs
besides SETI?

NASA?

Ask yourself why
an antenna won't deploy

on a deep-space probe.

Or ask how they could launch
a $6 billion telescope

without testing its mirror.

- So what you're actually saying--
- I'm saying nothing.

I'm just listening
to you ask questions.

Then [I'll ask
about Planecorp.

Planecorp?

Sorry, I don't know
what that is.

You know, it's that
factory down in Mexico.

It's outside my knowledge.

1 of 20 being built
in Third-World countries.

Outside-- Where there's
no laws to protect the air.

Outside my knowledge.
You build where it's hot.

Because you like it hot,
Gordy, don't you?

Zane, if you force me
to answer you,

what you will be hearing
is your own death sentence.

Because right now,
as much as you think you know,

you don't know the half of it.

Right now, you're just
one little guy

with a big conspiracy theory
and no proof,

and the world
is full of them.

So Zane,
you take great care

in what else
you choose to learn.

They're terraform factories,
aren't they?

Yes.

You're pumping out
greenhouse gas.

And now you're dead.

Your changing the air,
the temperature,

the whole ecosystem.

We're just finishing
what you started.

What would have taken you
100 years, we'll do in 10.

Just speeding along
your own demise.

Like you sped Calvin along.
And llana Green, right?

If you can't tend
to your own planet,

none of you deserve
to live here.

Bang.

You're dead.

Don't tell me
that's who I think it is.

Do we have a problem here?

No. No.
No problem.

I'm going to handle
this myself.

Jeez!

Zane? What are you
doing out here like this--

Who's been here?
Anyone?

Anybody watching my house?

Uh-uh.
Nobody I've seen.

I can't believe
they wouldn't be.

Kiki, I'm going
to say something

that's going to sound
completely insane.

But I'm telling you

because I think you might
actually believe me.

I'm also telling you

because I can't be the only one
who knows, in case they...

find me
before I finish this.

Well, tell me.

You know how I followed
the signal down to Mexico

because we thought
somebody was--

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They weren't us, Kiki.

Well, so what was they?

So do they got these little
flashlight fingers that, uh--

So maybe they got
these big metal teeth

that come out and sort of--

Well, what does
they look like then?

Like you. Like me.
Like anyone.

Then what they doing here?

I'll show you.

I'll show everyone.

Soon as I fire up the array.

Shit.
You been evicted.

I got to get out
to Oro Valley.

Out to the big dish.
Hold this.

Don't drop it.

What game does it play?

Man, where's the start button?

Char.

Zane.

Can you let me in?

Who's Char?

I can't stay.

If they're not here now,
they will be soon.

Who, Zane? The police?

What about the police?

Well, they came
to my work, Zane.

Some detective.

He said something about
manslaughter charges in Mexico.

You're a fugitive?
Ooh, that's fat.

The whole thing
was fabricated.

They set me up.

I-l don't understand, Zane.

Why would the police
want to--

Not the police.
It was them.

Them. Who's them?

Forget it.

Probably the aliens.

Who is this child?

And does he mean
illegal aliens, Zane?

I hope.

I'll take you car.
Give me that.

No, no.
No, you won't.

Not until I know
what is going on here.

Look.

It sounds nuts,
but I know what I saw.

I know why they're here.

I know about the poppy field
in the Arctic.

Their whole master plan
about the air and the--

Give me the keys.

I can't let you go, Zane.

Not alone, not like this.

You don't have to come.

I wouldn't believe me, either,
unless I'd seen for myself.

But, Char, I must leave now.

You think I'm letting you
out of my sight?

Yeah, you are nuts.

Can I come?
Can I come?

Get off me!
This isn't a field trip.

I left my grandma a note.

I want to come.
I want to help.

Drive!

Pull over at the onramp.

I'll drive.

I got shotgun.

Zane, I think that you've
got to deal with this.

You know, somehow.

If it means both of us
going to the police

and just explaining--

I can't get stuck
in some jail.

Not now.

Please, pull over.

All right, we're here.

Now what do you hope
to accomplish?

Keys.

Keys. Keys.

Where's Char?

What are you doing?

Getting my stuff
out of the car.

Is that all right?

I just--
The strangest thoughts.

Kiki, if it says "power,"
you push it.

These monitors.
This stuff here.

Light it up, everything.

Find Omni Star 5.

I'll need two sets
of coordinates--

Right ascension
and declination.

Zane, I don't see how
listening to some star is--

It's not a star.

And this time, we're
talking, not listening.

So, this is some kind
of satellite in orbit?

It's a co-op
weather satellite.

One that about 50 TV stations
pull a continuous feed off of.

100,000 watts ought
to get their attention.

And they'll understand
what all this means?

We're gonna find out,
right now.

Shit.

What is it?
What's happening?

What's wrong
with this thing?

Gardening.

I didn't see any gardens
around here, Zane.

What are they
doing here, Char?

Like I should know.

You made a call.

From the car.

Zane, when you start talking
about aliens and master plans,

and then this woman
being killed in Mexico--

Did I mention
that it was a woman?

The pol-- The police
told me, okay?

Ah! And that's who
you called, right, Char?

You called the police.

Yes, itis.

You were scaring me
with your talk.

You're scaring me now,
the way you're--

As soon as I left SETI,
you left.

As soon as I got back
from Mexico,

there you were,
waiting for me.

Because I thought
you might need me, Zane.

Like I needed
all that career advice?

The gentle persuasion?

The little nudges about
how I was wasting my life?

Aah!

Cold.

Too cold.

I'm sorry.

I am just so sorry.

I didn't believe about--

You've got to trust me

when I say that
I only called the police,

and only because
I wanted--

Then what are they
doing here, Char?

Who told them
to find me here?

I don't know.

I honestly do not know.

Kiki.

Watch this screen.

When you see my face,

I want you to hit
the red key right there.

The one right next to you.
The transmit key.

Heh-hey, you ain't
leaving me here, are you?

Don't worry.
They'll be chasing us.

We're gonna give this
one more shot.

Go.

No, no, no.
It's this way. Go.

Give it.
Give me the chain.

You can move the dish
from here, right?

So go.
I can do this.

Zane, for once
in your paranoid life,

would you please
just trust me?

Now, Kiki.

Now, Kiki!
Hit it now!

Kiki, the red transmit key.
Hit it now.

Kiki, for shit's sake,
hit it now!

Now! Now!

Hit it now!

Like I said, Zane...

you didn't know
the half of it.

Zane, what happened?

Why did they leave?

They didn't.

How do you know?

Because we aren't dead yet.

Help me.

Move!

Zane, c-can we get
out of here now?

Not that way.

I'll be right behind you.

Not...so...fast.

Zane!

Aah!

Aah!

Oh, please.

Oh, please. Please.

Why did it have
to be like this?

Why couldn't you just come
and ask for our help?

Then you tell them.

You go back and tell them
that I know.

That she knows.

That others will know.

It's not gonna be easy.

Not anymore.

Summer is just
refusing to go away.

Record highs again
in the Big Apple,

while New England states
are reporting a delay

of the fall foliage season.

In fact, it's been
warmer than normal

up and down the entire
Eastern seaboard.

They're terraform factories,
aren't they?

Yes.

You're pumping out
greenhouse gas.

Now you're dead.

You're changing the air,
the temperature,

the whole ecosystem.

We're just finishing
what you started.

What would've taken you
100 years, we'll do in 10.

Just speeding along
your own demise.

Like you sped Calvin along.
And Ilana Green, right?

If you can't tend
to your own planet,

none of you deserve
to live here.