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Fifty 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.

And I have to interfere before it's too late. We've got a breach.

Shut him down. Now!

What did he want with those records?

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

What if I told you that I could calculate the destiny of mankind?

This calculation forecasts the end of life for our entire species.

You think he might be trying to build a bomb?

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

All life is connected.

You just have to open your eyes. This could be a very dangerous person.

Your mind is an amazing adventure, just waiting to happen. If you open yourself

up to the idea that you can instead of can't, you'll amaze yourself.

We need him alive.

We just need him.

Oh, you had me kidding me, man.

Come on, MacArthur, step

on it. We gotta get back to the place.

Hold on to your hats, boys. Almost home.

And he gets one up and down and over the left center.

And up

the middle

he goes.

I can't hold his position. Out!

Go, go, go! Everybody out!

I gotta move us out of here, Colonel. You just say where we are.

Come on!

Get off the bus, come on.

He's coming off.

I know he's coming on.

Keep running! Get away from the bus!

Go! I know you're coming off the bus. Get off the bus, MacArthur.

We're out of time, Colonel.

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

Thank you.

You give me one more damn minute of trouble

Hello?

You okay?

Gave me a jump.

Can I help you?

No.

Can I give you a hand?

No.

Well, maybe. I'm trying to fix this incredibly annoying glass-washing

thingy, and I think I just...

Made it worse. Let me take a look.

Well, it's... You know, it works half the time, which I guess is okay, since

that's about twice as much as it gets used.

Business is kind of slow.

Oh, no, you don't have to... Not a problem.

Well, can I get you a drink on the house?

Got a sarsaparilla?

Yes, it's your lucky day.

Boy, I haven't seen one of these in a long time.

So, uh, where's your bus?

Mechanical problems.

Did you hit a prairie dog?

Yeah, big one. So you decided to just stick around and mingle with the good

people of Girard?

No.

I'm going to see a friend up at the airbase.

The old airbase?

Mm-hmm.

It was shut down about 20 years ago.

The airbase is gone?

What was it about this town that gave you the impression it might still be

here? Right.

Well?

Are you sure you know what you're doing?

Most of the time.

How about you?

No.

I haven't got a clue.

Runs in the family.

Cluelessness. That sounds like an excuse.

Usually they just get in the way of the truth.

So you're an expert.

Made a few excuses in my town. Well, most men have.

Well, sometimes they learn from their mistakes.

Not the ones I've met.

That sounds like another excuse.

Yeah.

You're spooky.

I just know how to listen.

Harrison, Montgomery, follow the tracks.

Yes, sir.

This area is negative, sir.

Colonel.

There are no tracks, no bodies, and none of the people saw anything.

He must have burned with the bus.

You haven't seen enough people die to have a fitness, Sergeant. People don't

just disappear, not even him.

Look again.

Yes, sir.

Local enforcement traffic, inbound. 20 minutes, 15 worst case.

FBI has to call. What I intend.

Roll the truck.

And a full tech squad.

Run for 1,500 hours.

County line.

There was a tune that you could honk.

A Glenn Miller orchestra, not like this papal.

Here's about time, Monroe. I was a whisker shy of giving away your room and

selling your kid.

Huh.

Found someone you like better, huh?

Always figured it was just a matter of time.

Well, he's younger than me, I'll give you that.

That's a strong start, Monroe.

Yeah, and I'm gonna need it.

The creek is up.

Way up.

You got the right stuff, son?

What do you mean?

I mean your drink.

What's your elixir of choice?

Sarsaparilla.

Sarsaparilla.

Sad to say, I am no longer in a Sarsaparilla mood.

Monroe, you haven't been in that mood since I've known you.

Oh, there was a time.

Days passed before your daddy left.

Yeah, well, all that's changed.

Everything except this place.

Let's dance.

I'll never leave you, Jason.

This is going away.

That child

is a creature of surpassing beauty.

Folks up here call this God's country. Well, that surely is one of God's

children. Then, of course, folks don't know what I know.

About her father?

Jason?

He's a bum.

And her husband was worse.

Good riddance to both of them.

Tell me.

Tell me more.

I need to know.

Sir Bravo unit reports all clear through the town.

We have a unit sweeping to the east, but they've seen nothing bigger than prairie

dogs.

Garth is here.

I know it.

He's trying to get to the mountain.

All right.

Listen.

What I'm going to tell you, either folks don't know or they don't want to know.

But I've seen it.

Up there on that mountain.

I'm talking about the fire all wiggling and cracking.

Colors.

Just flashing on the sky.

Sounds like a thunderstorm to me.

Thunderstorm. Hell.

I believe you.

Okay, you've got to help me get into that mountain.

It can't be done, I told you. Listen, I worked on that thing.

I was on the crew that dug the tunnels.

Oh, we worked the dust so thick you can push the air aside with your hand.

Monroe. What? Listen to me.

There's a way into that mountain.

It's why I came looking for you.

Me.

You can't stop them.

Don't you understand?

I saw it.

I mean, I told people. They just treat me like I'm some crazy coot.

Right?

You know what they call it?

Huh?

The devil's rainbow.

You listen to me.

Before the sun sets tomorrow, we're going to see the

devil's rainbow.

Crazy bastard.

He's gone full metal jacket on us.

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase tourist trap.

We better find him before it gets worse.

But in who?

Vice or MacArthur?

Don't make no difference.

Them two boys mixed up thick in a pot of gumbo.

Can't take a bite out of one without getting a taste of the other.

Yeah, but what the heck they doing all the way up here in prairie dog land?

It's just the kind of country them NSA boys like to hide things in.

You ever been to Roswell?

You don't get paid to speculate, gentlemen.

Let's pick up the scent.

Find some hard answers.

What? What do you know about that mountain?

Don't pay any attention to him.

This is just country superstition. Never seen anything?

Never felt an earthquake?

Well, uh, sure.

You know, northern lights.

And where do you think all those mountains come from? I mean, we're bound

to feel a quake every now and again. And what about that creek?

I will take melting snow for 200.

Nobody up here has more than half a brain left.

And that half is usually pickled.

Well, that sounds like a good excuse.

Why do you care?

What's up there is part of the reason I came back.

What's the other part?

The other part's for me.

Don't leave.

I wish you weren't leaving.

I'm not leaving.

I'm just going to wait for a little bit.

I know you're not flying, but still.

Survival training, jumping around in the sand like a bunch of ants.

You just take care of our son.

When he's old enough to know what that means, I want it to still be true.

Our son.

Adam.

Nothing's going to happen to me.

I'm not going anywhere.

You'll never get past the fence.

It's like Monroe.

It never starts before noon.

Try it.

How did you do that?

Hang on, hang on.

Here, hold this.

Don't even think about going without me.

Go on.

What are you waiting for? Go on.

Well, we have our own schedule in here, and it doesn't bend for anyone.

Now, I've got a test to run in under an hour, so state your business.

Sir, I believe a fugitive I've been tracking in this area will try to

penetrate this facility.

He can attempt all he likes. He won't get in.

You know that better than anyone, Vice. You specced the blueprints.

It was one of your first jobs, wasn't it?

Yes, sir.

And I'm recommending you upgrade your security detail and go to maximum alert.

Who is this guy?

A serious threat.

Well, you better tag him quick, Colonel.

We light the torch in 49 minutes.

If he's topside, he's going to fry like whitefish on a skillet.

And if he's down here, you are.

Sergeant Hewlett, report to Section 5.

Next lockdown check, 1100 hours.

That's it.

Only a few of us worked on them.

The main fence shafts are up there behind the ridgeways.

Well, that would be behind the fence.

That's the only way to get there.

Of course, then you gotta get up the mountain in one piece.

Exactly. Let's go back.

And you're not done yet.

Then you gotta figure out how to get down them.

It's 2,000 feet now.

Can't be done. You've fallen on your own pitchfork. You know, they teach pilots

to bail their aircraft to 2,000 feet.

They usually give them a parachute.

Or a pension.

Okay, you two go back.

I can't put anybody else in danger.

I'll see you back at the bar.

Come on, we better get out of here.

We're going nowhere.

Bet you two-spot I can get ice-cold sarsaparilla in here.

i'll take that bet

any

sign of your boy no sir we should swing the energy transfer hinge today get more

juice out than we have to put in to light it i've been working for this for

a long time a lot of blood sweat and dollars don't let anything happen to

screw this up colonel Four minutes to threshold.

Is that understood?

I'm as invested in this as you are, General. I somehow think your payout

doesn't quite match mine.

No, sir, it doesn't.

My sights have set a bit higher than yours.

No pun intended.

No.

I wouldn't expect one from you.

Rental scan cleared.

All chamber technicians to lab stations.

All chamber technicians to lab stations.

After you, Colonel.

I wonder if you'll even recognize your old friend.

There it is.

Out of all the junk you've collected, the one true gem.

Pun intended.

As far as I'm concerned, wherever it came from, whoever made it, the day you

found this hunk of extraterrestrial pixie dust, you justified your entire

program. Two minutes to threshold.

Two minutes to threshold.

Containment chamber isolation commencing.

See what the ultimate weapon looks like, Vice?

Hang around.

Whoever came up with the nickname The Devil's Rainbow wasn't that far off.

Let's get to the lab.

It's gonna get hot in here.

Y'all feel that? Yes, Mother.

It was a good-sized earthquake.

We figured you were choking a bullfrog.

That was.

Dalton. Charlene Dalton.

That's the name on the liquor license.

She's the owner of the bar.

Call me as soon as you have anything.

Anything.

Where is everybody in this burg?

Can't tell you.

I thought y'all might want to throw a glance at this.

MacArthur.

1940.

This boy has found the fountain of youth.

You know, I'm starting to get a feeling like we've fallen down a rabbit hole,

boys.

Where in hell is everybody?

You felt it and you saw it. Hey, I may have an occasional beer, but you saw

that. I'm no more insane than you are. Come on, we've got to go get Adam. Are

you insane?

You know what they'll do to us if they catch us up there? Monroe, get in or

you're walking.

You are trespassing on U.S. government property.

We will escort you off this property immediately.

One, two, three, echo.

ADF has signal locked. Two, two, five, ring next. Security detail intercepted

two civilians at the perimeter fence.

Smacked them and sped them.

Either one your boy?

No.

I don't need any more attention up here, Vice.

The last thing I want is another Area 51 fiasco.

Nothing for him to tell.

When you're fugitive, listen to someone who told him.

I don't think anybody did.

So he's invisible and clairvoyant, huh?

No, sir.

But as sure as a bear squats in the woods, he knows how to use a rainbow

crystal.

Don't bet more than a week's pay on that.

Nobody knows how to use it.

We're just scratching the surface here, Colonel.

Our best estimate is that we're still under 5%. And we can only maintain that

for a few seconds.

Now, can you understand what we could do if we could get 100% continuous output?

He understands.

He's done it.

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

facility? Some days a bear squats on you, sir.

Oh, my God.

But there's no way in.

You better hope that's true, because if there is, he'll find it.

That you can bet on.

I want every surface sector swept.

We are locked down until we have any hostiles neutralized or I am certain we

do not have a penetration.

All right, we're buttoned down tighter than that's ass.

You should brush up on your invertebrate biology.

And then tell me what the hell this is.

No, it wasn't part of the original design.

We couldn't get enough venting in the main tunnel.

So you just drew a big wide hole in the rock.

The air from those shafts comes up at nearly 200 miles an hour. Nobody thought

it would be a security problem.

Can somebody get this damn door open?

Payment chamber clear for access.

It's gone.

I'll have your stars for this.

Octolotus! Octolotus! Let's go!

This way

Move in! Sector 4!

Move out!

Don't contact this moron!

Is this what that was all about?

You stole it?

Rescuing would be more in the right spirit.

It doesn't belong to those people and they shouldn't have it.

What is it?

This is what makes what Monroe calls the devil's rainbow.

It's like a magnifying glass.

Only it magnifies energy.

Why did you rescue it?

Because it's a weapon in the wrong hands.

We're not ready for it.

We haven't earned it.

It's like giving guns to chimpanzees.

We don't know how to use this without hurting ourselves.

Forget about the chimps. I don't think humans should have guns.

At least not the humans that were aiming them at Monroe and me.

Wilgot's here.

Yes, go ahead, Mother.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

Adam... You mean Adam MacArthur?

Charlotte MacArthur.

She's his granddaughter.

The woman who owns the bar is MacArthur's granddaughter.

Okay, okay. Thank you, Mother. Thank you. Got it. Go, go, go!

I am going. I am going.

I know that if you look at the big picture, my problems really don't rate.

I mean, there are too many stars in the sky to count.

So what does that make us?

I think it makes us too small to see.

It makes us us.

And that's enough.

You've been looking through the wrong end of the telescope, Charlie.

It doesn't matter how big we seem. Every piece matters.

Every piece.

means something.

This is my grandmother's place.

No matter what bad things happen, it stayed in the family.

Maybe it was meant to remind me that there's beauty back there somewhere.

Maybe not.

Sometimes it feels like it's a noose tightening around my neck.

But I can't walk away because it was Grant's.

Where is she now?

Your grandma.

Last time I saw her, she was in a nursing home in Florida. But that was

years ago.

She didn't know me.

I remember going on picnics, just the two of us. And she'd fill my head up

with all these stories about her life and the war and her husband. And I

couldn't have been more than five or six.

But I could hear the bitterness.

This is Grant.

Constance McGorth.

Hey, right there, right there.

Hold that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's nice. Smile now.

One more, one more. Let me see your teeth.

She bought this bar with the pension after her husband died in a plane crash.

It's ironic, really, because the war had already ended.

All those flights over enemy territory, dodging flak.

fighters, the glory of war.

No, he crashed in the water 50 miles off Florida.

And I don't think she ever forgave him.

Not for dying.

For leaving.

Like my father left.

Like my husband left.

Like all men leave.

Like you're gonna leave.

Somebody needs a drink coming out here this time of night.

Who is it?

Everyone out. 10 seconds. They're out of level, this shack.

10, 9.

Who are we kidding?

3, 2, 1.

Get down!

I'll be right out. Come out, MacArthur.

The next one's live.

Ten seconds.

Nine.

Eight.

Stand down, boys.

First impression tells me this is just a rivet beyond full metal jacket.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two. Don't make me shoot you, Vyse.

Let's see what you're made of, Wilcox.

Vyse!

What? Colonel!

I've got your crystal.

We know that.

Toss it out.

Exit the bar with your hands in the air.

I can't do that.

Fine.

I'll blow up the whole damn building.

Then you won't get the crystal.

If we can't have it, son, neither can you.

I'm counting again, MacArthur.

Bye, stand down. Nobody needs to get hurt here.

Bye!

He's lovely.

Have it your way!

Go! Go! Go!

Colonel Vise, do you hear me?

Turn around. Look at me.

Quit whining, Wilcox.

I did my tour.

This behavior is unacceptable.

Even in war.

That's right. But this is war.

And I'm the last line of defense.

Unless you've got something else you want to say to me.

I'm leaving.

Until next time.

Count on it.

I can't stay.

I don't have a choice. Everybody has a choice.

You don't understand. I don't understand what? That you walked into my life and

you stayed for a moment and you walked right back out? No, I got it.

Every moment matters, Charlie.

Even if you just hold it briefly in your heart, it's worthwhile.

It means you're free.

It's either that or emptiness.

How can you tell the difference?

Because you listen for echoes.

And if you don't hear them, you are free.

You have to know this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

And I'll never leave you.

Just going away.

Okay.

Go Go Go You

gonna tell me who you are?

The answer isn't that far away You just have to open your eyes

Charlie?

Here, take a look.

What is this?

Stay tuned for scenes from the next episode of The Visitor.

Five. Whatever is generating these signals is getting closer.

Four. I know that you're receiving signals from deep space because I'm

hearing them too. Contact.

An all-new Visitor, next Friday at 8, 7 central on Fox.

Last year on the season finale of The X-Files, Fox Mulder was hoaxed by a

clever but fake alien autopsy, and Dana Scully, his partner, testified against

him. I come here today to report on the illegitimacy of Agent Mulder's work.

What could such betrayal do to a man like Mulder?

Agent Mulder died late last night from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound

to the head.

The world is waiting for the season premiere of The X-Files November 2nd on

FOX. Now, the time is near for the millennium.