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50 years ago, Navy pilot Adam MacArthur was abducted by aliens.

Now, he's returned with an incredible mission. Things are happening. Things

that could affect the course of history. I have to interfere before it's too

late. We've got a breach.

Shut it down. Now!

All life is connected.

Just have to open your eyes.

We need him alive.

We just need him.

What's this gizmo?

The metal detector?

It's just like the ones in the airports, the standard in all federal buildings.

Try again.

Come on.

Come on.

It takes metal.

See you after lunch?

Sarah,

are you coming or are you going to work through lunch?

Are you kidding me? One more minute with this thing, I'm gonna chuck it out the

window. What's wrong? It's locked up again.

Oh, yeah, the security's overhauling the network.

Yeah, just leave it. Maybe it'll unlock on its own.

Fine with me.

Command, we have a breach of personnel file Zebra Niner in the NSA subsystem.

We are tracking now.

The silent runner has resurfaced, sir.

We have a trace?

He's not calling in from a telephone, sir. He's attempting to access the files

from inside our net.

He must be inside a federal building.

Where are you?

Where are you? You got him, sir.

See what I'm doing!

I need three men on the red perimeter.

I got east wing stuck.

Johnson, I got west wing.

You have violated US airspace.

If you do not land immediately, we will be forced to shoot you down.

It's coming right at us!

You were sent to investigate an illegal entry over United States airspace.

All you come back with is a dead suspect. But wait, it turns out he's not

dead. In fact, here he is, breaking into a federal building.

Um, I can explain.

I am salivating with anticipation.

What do we know?

We know that a craft...

that was faster and more maneuverable than anything we've ever seen, illegally

entered the U.S. airspace.

Shot down, it crashed in the mountains of Utah and self-destructed without

leaving a trace behind.

Or so Colonel Bice and the NSA would like us to believe. Exactly.

The only identifying marks of the scene are the fingerprints of a U.S. pilot who

disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle 50 years ago. Yet another file sealed,

classified by the good old NSA.

Okay, I'll bite.

What's the NSA hiding?

The suspect told witnesses of having escaped his captors who had conducted

experiments on him. And when we finally found our suspect, Colonel Vise was more

interested in killing him than questioning him.

What are you suggesting?

What if they created the perfect terrorist, gave him new technologies,

special training, new identity?

Artificial fingerprints, cosmetic surgery, nothing to it. Why choose this,

uh, Adam MacArthur?

What's the point?

Disinformation.

The story of a man who disappeared in a Bermuda Triangle would spawn a hundred

crackpot theories.

I don't know about this.

But you know the NSA.

What is he doing, Wilcox, in a federal building?

That's what we'd like to find out, sir.

We'd like to stay on this case.

Well, you guys better come up with some evidence fast or I'm tossing this thing

down to those two clowns in the basement.

I'm just doing my homework, Mom.

Here.

I'm sorry I'm late.

Split pea or clam chowder?

I already ate it.

Okay.

Spill it.

Is this about your dad?

Please.

The FBI was waiting when I got home from school today.

Adam?

You think he's okay?

Well, if the FBI is still looking for him, he must be okay.

I miss him.

Good afternoon, Mrs. Weldon.

For you.

Oh, my gosh.

Who's it from?

The card's usually inside.

Hey, have a good day, then.

All living things are connected.

Plant me.

Oh, damn.

Okay, where are we gonna put you, huh, fella?

Hmm.

I think we found your friend.

What exactly was on that disc?

Personnel records, civilians.

He broke into the NSA mainframe, downloaded several hundred records.

What did he want with those records?

Clearly, those are the people that he's targeting.

Well, can't we just put a watch on all the people in the file?

There's over 200,000 people.

We don't know which ones he downloaded.

And you're sure that he's a silent runner?

Is there something about this case you're not telling me?

What on earth would give you that idea?

All right, stay on advice.

And Vice, I want him alive.

Do not go turning this into something personal.

Tyler, can you get the... Oh, can you...

Yeah, hello?

It's me.

How are you?

Oh, I got your present.

Did you plan it? I sure did.

I had to dig deep.

Open the first file on the disk.

My what?

Get Tyler.

Tyler? Yeah?

Tyler, come here.

Oh.

Can you open this?

What is it? Yeah, like I know anything about computers.

Okay, he's on it.

This is the stuff Adam stole.

Is that Adam? Yeah.

Let me talk to him.

Hey, how's it going? Good.

Tyler, read me the first name and address on the disk.

Okay.

Uh, Louis Faraday, 3304 Griffin Street, Pocatello, Idaho.

Okay, tell your mom to send the disk to me at that address, okay?

Yeah, sure.

I got to go. Take care. Wait, I want to talk to you.

I was hoping against hope I'd never see this chicken coop again.

Ben Patton, I'm going to make a mountain boy out of you yet.

Approval for the wiretap should come through by morning.

But I think I'm going to have another conversation with Mrs. Walden before

then. Hold it a minute. Hold it.

Looked like old lady Luck just came and called it.

You got it?

I think I'm stuck.

Stuck? Yeah.

Got a key?

Do I have a key?

No, no, LaRue, it is a federal offense to destroy government property that I am

stuck on. Whoa!

Well, well, what do we have here?

Seems our boy just mailed a letter to our friend Adam McCarthy.

Guys.

Guys.

It's burning.

We attached the battery like you said.

Can we fire her up now? Oh, sure, Michael. She should start right up.

No way.

Whoa!

Or not.

Louis.

Principal Shenango, what brings you to the old mill?

Let's get some air.

i got your bike how long have we known each other oh since uh before before

there's uh lewis when i got you this job oh craig look i've been eternally

grateful the opportunity to teach hands-on how-to it's been a real

learning experience this is a practical world there's no future in theory yet

you were a brilliant scientist lewis i was a fool the fact which my colleagues

readily pointed out to me lewis the school board has voted god i hate this

The board has voted to terminate your contract effective the end of the

semester.

What? They feel shop is outdated. They need space for more computers.

Computers?

Look, a hundred simulations is no substitute for one hands-on experiment.

Malone is going on sabbatical. There'll be an opening in physics. Craig!

I cannot go back to teaching science. Now you know that.

Physical education.

It's the best I could do.

Hey, Lewis.

Get rid of the booze.

At least not on campus, okay?

Thank you.

You

okay?

Reverse peristalsis. Body's defense against poisons.

Always fighting to... Stay alive.

Human being is the only animal that can consciously choose to kill itself.

I can't do anything right in this life, even kill myself.

I used to be a somebody.

Heads would turn when I'd walk into the room.

Now my name doesn't mean anything.

That's not true.

I know who you are. You're Louis Faraday, and I think you're a genius.

Who the hell are you?

Just fall out of the sky?

Something like that.

Tell you, whenever I get too drunk, I try to kill myself.

The difference is, this time, if you hadn't come by, I would have succeeded.

So at least I can do this feed you.

Well, I love spaghetti.

The buoyancy principle, attributed to Archimedes, who, when he discovered it,

runs through the street naked, crying, Eureka!

Now, you don't plan on doing that.

Depends on dessert.

They're eating dinner. Good.

Alive, gentlemen. We want them alive.

Yeah,

I hate those two. This one sticks a little bit, but, you know, with the

arthritis, what are you going to do?

How's this gadget work?

You hold it under, you press it down.

You gotta jiggle it a little.

Hey!

Eureka!

Okay. On three.

One.

Two. Three!

Who? Who's the PI?

Federal Bureau of Investigation!

Stay where you are. Get upstairs.

Come in the rear!

Where is he?

Who? Adam MacArthur.

Never heard of him.

Is this not 5458 Eaton Road?

Who's Glenn Bickle?

Do you know anyone who resides in Lehigh, Utah?

I knew he'd get caught.

Glenn, what did you do?

I told him.

Who?

Tyler Walden.

Do you know what this is?

That's it.

This is it.

It's the new Super Mario Brothers game we pirated.

You weren't just walking by, were you?

No.

You were coming to see me, then?

Yes.

You stopped your research at MIT.

Yeah, by popular demand.

I had this theory.

Maybe I read too much science fiction. I thought I could crack the riddle of

gravity.

What happened?

I published my theory. It took the entire academic world no more than three

days to find gigantic holes in my thesis.

I don't know what I was thinking.

You were thinking that you'd change the world.

Energy, Lewis.

Cars, airplanes, elevators. If we don't need to lift things, we use less energy,

which means we make less pollution in medicine, new ways to synthesize drugs,

treat burn victims. Chemistry, Lewis.

It changed the world.

It changed destiny.

I wouldn't go that far.

I would.

1783, June. Mean something to you?

A little before my time.

France. The Montgolfier brothers design and construct the world's first hot air

balloon. The only thing is, they don't know how it works.

They could create it.

I couldn't conceive it. It would later be known as aerostatics, the physics of

lift.

I'm a little familiar with it.

Well, then lift your butt off my porch. I want to show you something.

You okay?

I haven't seen a plane like this in a while.

Ain't she a beauty?

I've been getting my students to help me rebuild her.

Engine's a dud, though.

Can't get it to go.

I don't know why I keep working on it.

Seems like my whole life I've been wanting to fly, defy gravity. And you

know the funny part of the whole thing?

I'm afraid of heights.

I can never fly.

Always have to take the bus or a train.

Why'd you want to show this to me, Lewis?

I guess because I'm the kind of person who tries to build planes that can't

fly. I'm tired of self-delusion. You know, some things shouldn't be done,

some things you just can't do.

You're right.

If you believe that, it won't be done.

Not by you.

But if you believe you can, you might change the world.

Man, we have some questions for Tyler.

We need to speak with him right away.

Kindly pardon the inconvenience of the hour.

Tyler, wake up.

These men want to talk.

Where is he?

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder

what you are.

The caffeine.

Just in case my research was putting you to sleep. This is great.

I've spent years of my life trying to make this stuff down here work.

It just isn't happening.

You're on the threshold. You can't give up.

I work at a dead end.

Just give it more time. It's too important.

What makes you think this isn't just a gigantic waste of time?

Waste of time?

Watch.

You see the pattern the sugar made when it hit the floor?

What if I told you that we could scientifically track this apparently

random pattern? We could track every grain.

You're talking about chaos theory, the prediction of random events.

I got a name for it now.

Chaos, that's perfect.

Now, let's go one step beyond that. What if we could use this science to predict

that I would dump the sugar on the floor before I even thought of it?

then I would have told you not to do it.

Look, you're pushing the envelope here.

Complexity theory is not a science yet. It's a thought experiment at best.

Yet.

What if I told you that I could scientifically calculate the destiny of

mankind?

That I could mathematically compute the events of our time to predict the

future?

And what if I told you, Lewis,

that this calculation forecasts the end of life for our entire species.

But there are people, certain key people, who have an opportunity

to change the future.

Lewis, and you are one of those people.

That's why I came here first.

This all has to fall into place to start the change.

This is crazy talk.

You and I should give up science and take up fiction.

Lewis.

If you can dream it, you can make it happen.

What the?

Talk about getting high.

Weird, but very cool.

There's Tyler's computer.

Do it.

Bring up whatever the kid was working on.

Very considerate of you, young Master Walden.

Very considerate.

What are you doing here, Tyler?

I thought you might want this.

Do you realize how many laws of physics you just broke?

Well, can you go to jail for that?

Submit it to a jail. Why didn't you mail this? They didn't ever publish it.

I wanted to see it.

Besides, FBI's been all over this.

How did you do that?

I don't know how.

I just know that I can. I'm like your Montgolfier brothers.

I can make it happen, but I can't conceive it.

You think you were followed?

Please, those dudes couldn't catch a cold.

Look, look, there's stuff going in my theory. This is why what you just did is

impossible. Lewis, meet my friend Tyler. Hi.

His arrival means my time with you is very limited.

I need to know, are you going to continue your research?

I don't know how.

You can use me, test me, study me, see what happens to the physical universe

around me when I levitate.

You're willing to be a human guinea pig?

Oink.

Oink.

Oink.

Everything I know says this shouldn't be happening.

But it is.

This can't be.

This is amazing.

Truly amazing.

This can't be happening.

It must be happening.

It is.

It's going to take me forever to go through all this data.

How's it feel?

What feel?

Be working on your research again.

I knew this close.

I'm flying.

Now let's go over this one more time.

We haven't seen Adam MacArthur since the hospital.

Where's Tyler?

Well, he isn't with him.

Then where is he?

Oh, he probably went to see his father.

Where is that?

I don't know.

Are you telling me you don't know where the boy's papa is? Yeah, and if you can

find him, why don't you try to collect me some of those back child support

payments?

I know you think we're the bad guys.

We're not.

We believe Adam MacArthur is not who he pretends to be.

This could be a very dangerous person.

And if your son is with him, he could be in danger, too.

Oh, I can't accept that.

Adam is not dangerous. He wouldn't hurt anyone.

But some people wouldn't hurt him.

And anyone near him.

can get caught up in the crossfire.

Is that acceptable to you?

You thirsty?

Thank you.

How's Lewis doing?

Cool. He's trying to deal with that slide of you through him.

How's your mom?

She know you're here?

Nah, I snuck out.

Tyler.

How's your life?

Beats the alternative.

You hear from your father yet?

No.

Why is it so hard for families to stay together?

My father hates me.

No, he doesn't.

Then why does a guy even have a kid if he's just gonna leave someday?

Well, life's not fair.

Bet you wouldn't leave.

You know, just because a father isn't there doesn't mean he stops.

caring or thinking about his children.

I didn't get to see my son grow up.

Really?

I never stopped loving him. Not for one moment.

Yeah, but what difference does it make if he doesn't know?

I guess not much.

You wanted proof he's a silent runner?

This is the man he went to see. I traced the boy to Pocatello, Idaho.

There's only two names on the files that match.

I rule out the first one, this is the other.

Discredited because he attempted to alter gravity through superconducting

hyperdimensional devices?

What's your point, Colonel?

His theories were completely shot down.

What if the silent runner has a missing piece to Faraday's puzzle?

What if he does?

Anti-gravity. Defined by decreasing gravity.

As a reverse side.

The opposite of anti-gravity is increased gravity.

The potential to create a man-made black hole.

So you think he might be trying to build a bomb?

I think he's trying to create hell on Earth.

Okay, come on, baby.

The magic.

Your daddy the sugar.

It can't be.

It isn't.

It is, it is, it is!

Eureka!

Eureka! I had a breakthrough!

Good morning.

Eureka! I had a breakthrough!

This is better than the buoyancy principle!

Hello!

Eureka!

You stay there.

Good as

new.

You ever fly one of these things?

Oh, yeah.

Hell of a ride.

We gotta get you out of here.

Cool as Dennis Rodman.

What happened to you?

I had a breakthrough. I plugged the holes in my theories.

Eureka.

What a nut.

Look, this isn't funny.

The FBI and the police, they're surrounding my house. Since they're not

usually interested in out-of-work school teachers, I figure they're after you.

You're leaving again, aren't you?

Yes.

Why don't you come stay with my mom and me?

I can't.

I know, your mission.

I was thinking, what you said about your son, maybe you could make it up to him.

It's not that easy, Tyler.

Well, if you can dream it, then you can do it, right?

I need your help.

Appreciate that.

He said nobody used to work here on the weekend, but he did see a long-haired

man lurking about the metal shop.

Okay, let's move.

Damn it.

Let's go.

Yeah, Mom.

So I guess this is goodbye.

You're going to be all right, Nadine.

What about you?

Is it going in?

Do you remember me telling you something about being afraid to fly?

Telling you my.

What I'm afraid of.

Do not harm them. Just don't let them take off.

Sure we do.

We don't have enough room to take off. Throttle to full.

This isn't working.

Concentrate, Lewis.

What? You gotta help the plane.

Don't let that plane get in the air.

Give me that!

Come on.

Get out of the way, give it.

Levitation. We need to lift the plane.

Concentrate, Lewis.

Come on.

It's like... I am, aren't I?

Yes, you are.

Eureka. Eureka!

Locked down in a holy shell brick.

You got a visitor.

Adam?

Mr. Faraday, I hope we've made you as comfortable as possible under the

circumstances.

You can't keep me locked in here forever, Colonel.

Then I'll hold you as long as they let me.

You can't stop my research. You can't lock up my ideas.

No, but I can stop you from publishing your findings.

Your research violates national security.

Get comfortable, Mr. Faraday.

You may be in there longer than you think.

You can't lock up my mind, Colonel Weiss.

You can't lock up my mind.

I'm lying.

Stay tuned for scenes from the next episode of the visitor.

Next Friday on the visitor.

The day you found this hunk of extraterrestrial pixie dust, you

justified your entire program.

What's up? There's part of the reason I came back. I got this here. He's trying

to get to the mountain. There's no way in.

That's true. Because if there is, he'll find it.

Are you telling me you have a live extraterrestrial running loose around my

facility?

Now, a pack of

demonic dogs must be stopped. The Millennium is near on Fox.