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[music]

>> Tensions between the Soviet Union and US

remain at an all-time high after the

Soviets shot down Korean Airlines flight

007, killing all 269 passengers. The

Soviets claim that KAL 007 was a spy

[music] plane that deviated off course

and flew over a top-secret Soviet

military installation. And after last

week's nuclear false alarm incident,

most Americans feel that the threat of a

Cold War erupting is imminent.

>> [music]

>> Okay, attitude roll 25.10,

pitch.

>> [music]

>> What happened to 118?

Confirming an 815. Houston, how do you

read? Gemini 7, repeat your

transmission. Confirming multiple

unidentified on the ASA, heading towards

the Great Plains. Attention, Sylvia. Is

this real world or exercise? This is

real world. Alerting WPR, Gemini 7, we

don't see any unidentified aircraft on

our system. Go ahead and reset your

reconnoiter. Reconnoiter at full

capacity. Less than 10 people Redbirds

make first impact.

All right. Time for bed.

Now?

You cannot be serious.

Someone just shot J.R. That was probably

Sue Ellen. Grandpa can tell you all

about it in the morning.

Right, Dad?

Come on, Space Cadet, bedtime.

>> [snorts]

>> Now?

And now, [clears throat] nuclear weapons

in the news. Ever since the first atomic

bomb was dropped on Japan nearly 40

years ago, people have been talking

about doing away with nuclear weapons

because of the massive destruction they

cause. But since the United States and

the Soviet Union both have nuclear

weapons

>> I will not fall for that again. had to

keep building more of them to offset

what each sees as a threat from the

other.

>> What's wrong, Mom? You look like you're

about to have a cow. Oh, it's nothing.

Just know if anything happens, I'm going

to save you, okay?

Um,

okay.

Don't get mental.

Hey, you have been spending a lot of

time with Grandpa since we moved him in,

huh? Yeah, he's fun.

Sometimes I can tell he misses Grandma,

though. I just think that you should

start making friends with kids your own

age.

Grandpa is a lot of fun, but he would

make a terrible prom date. Ew, I know.

Trust me, I know. And whatever you do,

do not let him get you in trouble on

that ham. Did you know that your grandpa

had zero tin classification in World War

II?

He could hack his way into any system.

Don't worry. He's already shown me the

way. Last week we made contact with the

astronauts on Columbia II. Okay, no. If

NASA wanted your help on the shuttle

program

>> They'd send me to space camp.

>> Yes.

Watch out, Firefly. They'll put that

butt of yours right in a slammer.

That's only if you're over 18, Wendy.

>> [clears throat]

>> Wendy, I know it's the '80s, but it's

still cool to call me Mom. Yeah? Well,

it would be even cooler if you told me

why on God's earth you named me after a

bug and not Grandma. You know, I really

wish I could. I just I suddenly I cannot

remember. Mhm.

Good night, my firefly in the sky.

Night.

Good night.

It's my daddy's out here.

Oh.

What did you tell him?

Yes, Justin, you are looking at a very

disturbing live shot there. We don't

know the details, but there is one

report, yet unconfirmed, that a missile

has just hit the World Trade Center.

No sign of how many more are headed this

way.

Dad, do you see this? We have learned

that the US has moved to DEFCON 1 after

reports that a 9.2 [music]

magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles was

felt after the first impact. The White

House has just been evacuated. The

airports [music] have been instructed to

ground all planes.

Probability of

We are under attack.

We've [music] uh just been told to

evacuate.

Now?

What is happening?

>> [music]

[music]

>> Dad,

we got to go.

May!

May, come on, get up. Get up. Come on,

we got to go. Come on.

>> [music]

>> Come on.

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

Dad?

Come on.

Okay, get in.

Help me with the back door.

Go, you got her?

I think the aliens got me. I wish it

[music] was that.

What time is it? I don't know. May, I

don't know.

Come on!

All right, come on, May.

Come on.

Dad, I'm coming back for you. I'm coming

back, okay?

I'll be back. May, go. What about

Grandpa? [crying]

Where are we going, Grandpa?

Grandpa!

Daddy, you're going to crash, Dad.

Thanks, Dad.

Huh.

Come on, come on.

No.

I did.

Huh. Can't trust the White House press

man. Hey, good morning. Come on, join

me. Uh, no, thanks. Don't be like

sweating to the oldies.

>> Oh, come on. It does the body some good.

Yeah.

So does milk.

So does milk.

May!

Don't open that door.

May!

I think he got a kid. No, we haven't

seen him. I think I'll ask him if I

trouble him.

Okay, stop.

This is so sad. Can't believe

Hey guys, what's so sad? Guys? As if.

We're ladies of the '80s. Get a clue,

will you?

So tragic. Did you hear? The last new

kid on the block died from the cough.

They've been playing their videos all

day long on MTV. MTV?

What's that?

Oh my god, are you kidding?

Music television? And what are you

listening to, anyway? Def Leppard.

They're so yesterday. No one listens to

hair bands anymore.

Princess, what's happening?

Hey, we're having a birthday party at

the roller rink this weekend. It's going

to be totally rad. You have to be there.

I'll be bummed to the max if you don't

come. Totally, I'll be there.

Is she invited?

Sure, she can come.

But she probably can't afford it. It's

really expensive to get in. Your parents

are poor. No offense, though.

Just being honest.

Try outs tomorrow. You should totally

try out. Cindy Man Cindy dropped out.

You could be my co-captain.

Totally. [laughter]

I've been practicing an hour before

school every day for the last 3 weeks.

>> [laughter]

>> Well, they say the early bird gets the

worm. Say what? What?

Okay, whatever.

I

need to go back home. I didn't realize I

forgot something. Aw.

But the bus is like right here.

You're going to miss the bus,

freakazoid.

>> [laughter]

>> Bye-bye.

Early bird gets the worm.

Really?

Let's be tickle worm per week.

Oh, hey.

I'll take one of those key lime pies

with the alien shavings. All right,

that'll be 1985.

Are you a believer? Oh, yes. Some say

the Soviets that spacecraft down in the

bowels of Area 51

and their magnetic force fields are

keeping us alive. Well, and some would

say if you went out to Area 51 and then

looked under a rock, all you'd find is a

big pile of manure and cockroaches, but

who am I to say,

Go ahead and keep it.

Thank you.

Have a good day.

>> [music]

>> You know, Becky, if you put half as much

time into your homework as you do boys,

you would be my star pupil.

Glad you could finally make it. Don't

mention it.

Nice pants.

Where'd you get those pants, homosaurus?

>> [laughter]

>> All right, you little monsters, it's

your lucky day. No pop quiz.

Oh, bravo. Bravo.

Thank you for being so transparent about

your feelings.

All right.

Who wants to tell me what today is?

It's the 2-year anniversary of the

attack. Well, let's not call it an

attack.

Well, that's what it was. It definitely

wasn't the aliens. I think we should

have dropped the atomic bomb on them. I

would have given that two thumbs up for

me. Thankfully, our actor/president

didn't feel the same way.

Actually, Mr. Reagan showed true

restraint that day.

Too many lives already lost. No need to

lose any more.

Daniel, why don't you wake up and smell

what you're shoveling? An eye for an eye

only ends up blinding the entire planet.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed

man is king. Well, for your information,

Garby, a king needs a queen to have a

kingdom.

And from the lips of Sloan Peterson, who

got a glimpse of you in the locker room,

you'll never be king with that little

>> Moving right along.

Who can tell me what the final straw was

that set off the war?

I thought it was because the Soviets

shot down the Korean airplane that

drifted off course. Well, that certainly

started it.

Did you know that before the attack, 90%

of all airplanes drifted off course by

as much as 100 miles. Now, their paths

have to be near perfect, within 5 miles.

But the final straw that ignited the

Cold War was none other than a military

simulation.

Has anyone heard of the Able Archer 83

drill?

The Able Archer 83 drill is when the US

went to DEFCON 1 and simulated a full-on

global thermal nuclear attack. They even

went so far as to airlift the president

out of the country, like in the movie

WarGames.

The Soviet Union thought they were about

to be hit with a full-on nuclear

invasion.

So, instead of reacting, they

overreacted and deployed six dozen

warheads.

Precisely. How did you all handle the

lockdowns?

I was scared. Everybody [snorts] was.

No food in the supermarket,

no toilet paper.

It was scary.

But it was.

Couldn't go outside. And if you did go

outside, you had to wear a mask because

the radiation was so high and everyone

was so terrified of getting the cough.

Did anything positive come from the

attack?

No. It's starting to feel normal again,

but everyone pretends as if it never

happened.

It's like we aren't allowed to feel any

animosity towards the Russians for what

they did. My dad said the Russians blew

up Area 51 because when the spaceship

crashed in the '50s, the US military

wouldn't let their scientists come and

see it. So, they told everybody about

Area 51, so all the nutjobs would go and

try to find it.

>> The urban legend and delusional world

that is known as Area 51, now known as

Space Rock.

So,

does anyone here believe in aliens?

We are not the first creatures to rule

this Earth.

The dinosaurs roamed this land over 65

million years ago. We are just a

microcosm in this galactic universe. And

like every living creature, we are born

with the curiosity to discover the

unknown. That's why you hear these

stories of old people wandering the

desert naked looking for the fountain of

youth.

Or some alien to help them figure out

where their wrinkly butts disappeared

to.

>> [laughter]

>> Urban legend has it that Space Rock is a

place with healing powers that

originated from the crashed spaceship in

Roswell.

Hidden safely in a volcanic crater miles

under the Earth in a land that is

constantly drifting with the sands of

time.

800 knots heading below the hard deck.

Dead ahead, 8 miles. Launch Maverick on

alert five.

Let's turn and burn.

I don't know how they ever shoot down

hostile enemies with [music] these

things on.

Can't see [ __ ]

Yo, wasted. Did [music] you hear?

What?

That Jester said?

Or that they opened up another Ponderosa

down the street with an even better

salad bar?

Salad bar?

What the hell is a salad bar?

Whatever. No, Ferris Bueller hit the

high level on asteroids.

So, they pulled the plug. They pulled

the freaking plug, man.

Here we go again.

>> [music]

[music]

>> Well, that was your fun.

Got to go. See you in class. Shimon.

Hi, May. Do you want me to carry your

books for you?

Uh, no, Donald. Actually, my name is

Ronald, not Donald. I told you not if

you wear those

>> boy on the planet? Well, I can be.

Want to grab my face then?

Well, can I admire your gun today? Maybe

after lunch.

Blinkety blink.

Then we begin.

Yes, now we can.

We always have to begin under your

conditions.

Where did we leave off?

I remember her at the door and remember

her yelling [music] at me not to open

it.

But I did.

I looked back at her one last time. She

sat on the ground with with one foot

bracing against the door [music] of the

ship.

She had her hands wrapped around my

fingers.

She didn't have a good hold on me. As I

opened up my hands, they immediately

ripped me away.

She looked at me for a split second,

almost

almost asking for forgiveness for not

being able to save me.

And that was the

last day I saw her.

The day I was taken.

Was that the first and only time you've

been abducted? I don't know exactly. It

might not even be the first time I was

taken. It sounds like disorientation

impact syndrome.

Has it been this way since your

childhood? My childhood was a dream.

What a joyful time it was.

Not perfect.

But whose is?

And I survived Wally World and two

nuclear attacks.

How many people can say that? I think

you've learned how to dig and nest

all of your problems into a giant hole.

I've heard this all before. Fictitious

seduction syndrome, false memory,

whatever you want to call it.

I'm not Alice.

I don't need to fall down a rabbit hole

to find my cupcake mountain wonderland

of happy thoughts. So if you're not

Princess Lolly and you're not Alice,

it must be the rabbit. And even if

anyone ever figures out how to get you

out, they'll just dive further down to

the hole.

Je ne sais pas.

See, that's the constant, the childish

references to childish games. If only

life could be a dream.

Shouldn't.

Do you still dream about fireflies?

What do you dream about? Is there ever a

daydream or a thought? You know, I

wonder, will the fireflies in the sky

lead you out of the darkness?

Doubtful. They could only blink, blink.

I'd have to fight my way through the

nothingness,

the darkness, hoping there's light at

the end.

Or as you once mentioned, the rolling

blackouts. That is the origin of the

rabbit hole that you need to fall down.

Look, I'll fall down as far as the

basement of the Alamo will take me. I

just

I don't know what good it will do to

talk about the blackouts.

I don't think there's anything there I

want to remember. But there is. Go back

into a world of nothingness.

In the darkness.

>> [sighs and gasps]

>> Calgon, take me away. Okay, let your

mind go. Your body will follow. When I

count down from five to one,

you will go through a doorway of time, a

world you locked away from everyone.

Four,

three,

two,

one.

Now, your mind should be in a world of

nothingness. There's no earth below us,

just floating,

drifting,

calling home.

What do you see?

Space worm.

What? That's it?

Where's the beef? McDonald's, the corner

of Broadway and Belmont. Well, maybe I

wouldn't have to go there if you voted

for Mondale instead of the Gephardt.

There's your beef.

Don't be a spaz. Gosh.

That ain't how we talk to grownups

around here. We teach you better manners

than that. Yes, sir.

That's the last bit of our water, FYI.

Oh, I'll just get more from the sink.

Hey, uh-uh. Space cadet, sit down.

Remember we don't drink that water.

Right. When are we getting more water?

My nan said that they're going to get a

drop at night, so I will stop first

thing in the morning.

Well, get all you can. Contamination

level's been so high, who knows how long

we have to. We're completely out of

water.

Did I just see you feeding that bear?

We can't afford to be feeding four miles

around here.

You got to choose. It's either you or

him.

Come on.

You or him.

I guess it's me.

So, when you heading out? Right after

breakfast. Mhm.

Do we get to come visit this time?

Oh, I don't think so. Last time Murphy

got the cough from her family and half

the crew got bumped, so. Right. Yeah.

It's It's just tense right now.

They've been having some problems with

the O-rings.

I know what O-rings are.

They're the boosters.

Like these.

Huh. So, you find one in that bowl about

the size of this room,

I'll gladly take it. Mhm.

You want some coffee?

Whoa, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.

OH MY GOSH. OH MY GOSH, I'm sorry. Stop.

You're making it worse. I'm sorry.

How was this funny?

Yeah? You still think it's funny?

Do you think this is funny, huh? Stop.

Never raise your voice at me in my

house.

Are we clear?

She was just trying to play.

It's okay, Daddy.

You going to change your suit?

I don't have another suit.

Daddy,

are you going to the dark side of the

moon again? Mhm. And if the schedule

holds, I'll be on the next Challenger

flight, too. Well, you can take my bear

with you.

He can give you company on your way up

to space, and then you can leave him on

the moon

for the aliens. You want me to leave

that old ratty bear on a cold and dusty

crater all alone?

There ain't no getting him back.

You okay with that?

I okay.

>> [laughter]

>> I okay.

>> [clears throat]

>> Or you don't have to go this time. You

can stay. Yeah? You know anyone else

that can fly that bucket of bolts? No.

Didn't think so.

Hey, who's the best pilot you ever saw?

I'm looking at him. Who is it? Who?

It's you, Daddy. Bet your butt it is.

What?

Why are you wearing all that makeup?

>> [snorts]

>> Oh, Daddy, you're almost forgot.

Mushka.

Yeah.

Take care of that bear.

Thank you.

Eight hours of cleaning has to violate

the child labor laws somewhere. Paint

the vents, sand the floor. It's called

chores. Hey, because you asked, there's

more.

It'll be fun. We'll set it to music. The

world's tiniest violin.

So lame.

>> Oh gosh, come on, let's go.

Oh,

hi, hi.

This is all Grandpa's stuff.

Yeah, it is.

And um it's time to let it go.

Let it go? Like throw it out? What you

talking about, Wendy?

I'm talking about you helping me out.

I can't do this one. I need you to be

the adult, okay? Mhm. All right, I want

you to pack up these babies, and if you

find anything cool, we'll box it up and

then have a yard sale. Mhm.

It'll be totally rad.

>> Mhm.

Get to it. Thank you. I love you. Mhm.

Mhm.

Fudge.

Grandpa's not like radios.

>> [snorts]

>> I'm going to go

>> I wonder if anyone's still on the ham.

Beam me up, Scotty.

Mayday, Orson. Come in, Orson.

No?

Okay.

This is Mayday, Star Killer 51. Does

anyone copy my transmission?

This is Mayday, Star Killer 51, calling

from Roswell, Nevada. Anyone there?

Luckily, I'm only carrying half a load,

but yeah, anyone with a big rig in the

westbound 80-90, watch out for black

ice.

That's a big 10-4. Good, buddy. Over.

Well, all right. Who do I have the

pleasure of talking to?

This is Mayday, Star Killer 51.

Who is the man on the ham? Taco Tony 45.

Just crossed the Arizona border an hour

ago. Now driving through some light snow

down in Tucson. About to call it a

night. I've been driving so long,

starting to see crazy things. Like what?

Blinding lights, mostly.

UFO lights? You think?

After 10 hours of driving, all the

lights start looking the same.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a

UFO since

since that picture show in Ogden. Called

The Body Snatchers.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are

you, little lady?

11. Be 12 in 15 days. All that time to

live life, grow up, get married, have a

family, buy a house, and hopefully you

don't come home to a note saying your

wife's moved on to greener pastures.

That's what's happening to my mom and

dad right now.

Growing apart.

That's just part of life.

God damn it, Wendy.

>> Whoa, language, lady. Don't have a cow,

all right?

Mommy dearest.

So, this is where you go to give

late-night love advice, huh, Dr. Ruth? I

am what I am.

Grandpa and I used to sit here for

hours. He would talk to all these

people, from Denver to the DMZ. And when

he couldn't find anyone to talk to, he

would tell me about all the different

ways he killed enemy soldiers in Korea.

Sounds like that.

>> [snorts]

>> Hey, if you're going to talk on the ham,

be careful who you talk to. These aren't

your standard everyday consumer radios.

When your grandpa left the army, they

came looking for these a couple times.

What do you say? It's getting late. Just

5 more minutes, please. All right.

5 minutes. Why can't you be like normal

kids and watch Baywatch and Growing

Pains? My whole life is a growing pain.

Oh, my whole life is a growing pain.

Houston, we have a problem.

The couple over there with the kid who's

coughing up a lung and scaring away all

the customers.

I think he's got the cough.

You're going to have to ask them to

leave.

Me? Ugh.

I'm me.

Cuz I don't want to get it. I don't want

to get it.

Send them on their way.

God, give me strength.

That's a cute little rabbit you got

there. It's very kind of you, dear, but

don't bother.

He can't answer you back.

We'd like to order now, uh two

shortcakes and a coffee black, and

Walter will have the oatmeal and a side

of bacon.

Sure you can

hear me all the way over there? You

know, I actually think we might have to

ask you guys to leave. We'll do no such

thing.

Not until we've eaten. Your son seems

sick, like he has the

Grandson, and he's fine.

Really.

Mickey.

His name's Mickey.

Ma'am, Mickey doesn't seem fine.

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to pass

judgement.

Of course you are.

I wouldn't expect anything less from

somebody like you.

>> Betty.

I'm sorry.

It's just that it's

been like this everywhere we go.

He's not contagious.

You can't spread it around to everybody

like

they say on the tube.

He's got cancer.

Not the kind of cough.

I am so sorry.

Thank you.

We're simply passing through. We just

need to get some fuel and eat before we

drop him off.

Walter.

What?

She lives here, for God's sake. It's no

secret. Everyone here knows about Space

Rock.

Space Rock? Didn't that place go sour

after the attack? Nobody knows if that's

true or not.

It's not like anybody [music] ever found

it.

But we're going to try.

What choice do we have anyways?

God has failed us and refuses to answer

our prayers, so

maybe they will.

They?

They will take him. They will heal him.

They will make him new again.

And they will bring him back to us. I

know that in my heart.

If

if you wouldn't mind, please.

Of course.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's it?

River Decky.

You're [snorts] the one.

Oh, did you see Small Wonder last night?

So good.

You mean the show with the robot?

Man, I love [snorts] that freaking

[music] show. Vicki cracks me up. So

real. And really, Vicki is far from

real.

She's a girl who plays a robot. Not

believable at all.

That acting, that boy's come on.

The show is basically a nerd's wet

dream. The father is a robotic engineer

who made her because his only son,

Jerry, drove his mother away. And now,

all his dad has left to show for all the

disappointments in his life is Jerry and

Vicki, his teenage sex robot. No.

You really think that?

Like, they do it?

How do they do it? If he made her a

girl, why wouldn't he give her all the

parts? The mom left as soon as he made

her.

See how she fills that void? Damn.

Vicki the sex robot? You just blew my

freaking mind.

I don't think I'm ever going to be able

to watch that show again. Why you always

got to rain on my parade? Cuz I'm still

coping with the idea of an actor for a

president.

And the way things are going, I'm never

going to find out who shot J.R.

Word.

Okay, class, get your books out. Turn to

page 35 in your book One Day in the Life

of Ivan Denisovich.

Okay, everyone, just close your eyes.

This will all be over quickly.

>> No, no, wait.

No wait. Wait, wait, wait. No.

No no wait. It's not me.

No.

No, you're making a mistake. It's not

me.

No why?

Okay, let's focus up. There's nothing we

can do about that now. He'll be fine.

Yeah. You mean after they're done

scrubbing his skin away?

Okay.

Gertie, today's the day. You're the last

student to give your oral assignment.

You up for it?

Not quite ready to share your vision

board yet?

Want to give it a try tomorrow?

>> [laughter]

>> Okay, class.

I know this news is going to be terribly

upsetting,

but Friday's test will be postponed till

next week. Oh.

Ah, simmer, simmer down you little

rodents.

Instead,

we are going to spend the morning

watching Challenger shuttle launch. Now,

as you know, the high school teacher,

Christa McAuliffe, who is the first

civilian to go into space, what you may

not know is that May's father, who was

part of Gemini 15, will now be joining

Mrs. McAuliffe on the Challenger. Isn't

that right, May? Wait.

I thought your dad was a janitor.

>> [laughter]

>> Yeah, if your dad's an astronaut, why

can't he buy him better clothes?

>> Eat my shorts, dipstick. You don't know

anything.

>> Hey, take a chill pill, will you? I

mean, without him there'd be no one to

install the satellites, and the retards

won't be able to watch Mr. Rogers on

Saturday mornings. You're just jealous

cuz your dad's in prison for stealing

from all the old people who had money in

the stock market.

>> Guys, at least my dad didn't get bumped

off two space missions because they

thought he was a pedo.

>> Enough, Brad. Enough. Principal's

office, now. Way to go, Beavis.

Butt head.

Loser.

Such a waste of your book space.

Okay, kids, under your desk.

>> [crying]

>> Ma'am,

are you okay?

>> [crying]

>> Excuse me, do you need help?

Did you find the boy?

My boy.

My sweet boy.

Oh, where did you go, boy?

Where did you go?

They

They took him.

They said they'd bring him back in 51

days when he was better.

He's better now, right?

Where did you go, boy?

Where do you think they go?

His school got The children. My god,

where did the children go?

WHERE DID YOU GO?

WHERE IS MY BOY?

My

Where are you?

Where is my boy?

So, you haven't been on base.

Where have you been?

Elliot.

Oh my god.

>> [laughter]

>> Babe.

Elliot.

Where have you been?

Hey, Elliot.

Elliot.

May, go back to your room.

>> [music]

>> What?

So, I guess my definition of quarantine

is a little bit different than NASA's.

You want to stay 6 ft away from me, be

my guest. Quarantine hasn't started yet.

Then where were you for the last 7 days?

Hey, Daddy, if you're home on Friday,

maybe we can go see a movie or watch a

rerun of Dallas. Yeah, cuz your daughter

missed you.

You don't think that you could have

called her?

No, I couldn't.

There's what you missed.

I can't wait to get back on the ham. I

was talking to my friend Ivan yesterday.

He's from Belarus. He's always

complaining about his wife's bad

cooking.

And uh one day he's going to die of

dysentery.

He used to work at the power plant until

the nuclear disaster. He thinks the

Americans had something to do with it.

Missy,

I don't want to hear another word about

the Russians at the dinner table.

Are we clear? Crystal.

Gosh, it's not like I clubbed a baby

seal or something.

Fine, I'll ignore them.

Seems to work pretty good around here

these days. Who else do you talk to

besides people at the USSR?

People in Serbia, Okinawa, pretty much

everywhere. I even talked to an old

astronaut named Vlad. He's from a

country that rhymes with Watcha, but

isn't Russia.

And he said that they were actually the

first ones to land on the moon, and that

they weren't authorized to report their

experience because they had multiple

encounters with UFO spacecrafts.

What else did he tell you? About Laika,

the Watcha space dog that was sent to

space and orbited Earth for a week, and

that NASA hired Stanley somebody to help

the US fake the first moon landing.

Enough.

Not another word from you.

Great men died getting us to the moon.

Well, here you are,

in my house, spewing this garbage. We

did not fake the landing.

They did not beat us to the moon.

And Laika, the dog,

did not orbit for a week.

She burned up a few hours after launch

when their capsule overheated. She was

spam in a can thanks to the Russians who

sure as [ __ ] are not your friends. If

you haven't recognized that yet, why

don't you show me where New York is on a

map. I'm sorry.

I didn't mean that.

May, it's okay.

Hey, Daddy, when you go to the dark side

of the moon, can you check on Mushka for

me? I don't know what happened to your

bear. So, where is he then? Where is

Mushka?

Did you even go to the moon?

I have to go.

Wait, you didn't tell me who the best

pilot is.

Do you know who the best pilot I ever

saw is?

Wait, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

What are you sorry for?

Sorry.

It's okay.

Turn that thing off, will you? Same

thing every day. He knows trying to keep

us all living in a constant state of

fear.

Tank, take a chill pill. I wanted to see

if Charles in Charge is on. Didn't all

the actors on that show get blown up?

Everybody got zapped except for Scott

Baio. They had to recast a whole new

family.

I wonder if they'll ever do the same for

Joanie Loves Chachi. Yeah, they'll never

bring back Joanie Loves Chachi.

Woah, what's that doing?

We got to figure out what's going on. I

don't know if it's a distress call or

what,

but that transmission has been repeating

for the last 51 days. And when I type

the same series of numbers in, someone

or something sends back the exact same

message, but always in a different

order.

>> [snorts]

>> And the day I started responding, we

moved into DEFCON 2 for the first time

since the attack.

And then 2 days later, a Soviet fleet of

submarines surfaced off of Alaska.

Oh.

Wait, so who's sending the signal? Like

secret military or

Or maybe it's a lost alien ship trying

to phone home.

I don't know where you get your

delusions, Laser Lips.

Executing aircraft heading 360.

>> [cough]

>> Roger, taking a heading of 360.

>> worse and worse. I identify the site.

850, do not engage the target from the

south.

>> hoping this is a simulation.

I don't think so.

>> Bring him in. That does not sound like

an exercise. I identify the I think it's

time to buzz the tower, Goose.

>> Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't let you

do that. There's no breaking this force

field.

Sometimes you got to say what the [ __ ]

Base, can I have those coordinates

again?

51 X-ray Foxtrot Henry Alpha Mary 10.

Please confirm your clearance.

25 Bravo Victor 67 Alpha 3 36 Alpha 2686

Charlie Charlie 8377.

Grandpa would be so proud of me.

That's right on top of Falcon Lake.

Keep the track. Fire on target 6065.

It's got to be aliens. What do we do?

Andrew Alamo, call off Alamo. Hostile

unconfirmed. Not possible. Unidentified

is down. Down as in landed?

Negative, he's down.

That sounded like a kid. Cobra, please

confirm your comms.

Uh everything is fine here. Situation

normal. No kids, we're fine here now.

Thank you. Uh how are you? Base, trace

the outgoing transmission mark.

They shot it down. Yeah. And that wasn't

a Soviet interceptor. They don't fly

single mission.

The unidentified has to be an alien

spacecraft. Look, if the coordinates are

correct, then

the crash site is less than 5 miles away

from here.

You want to go see a dead body? You bet

your ass I do. Tomorrow, right after

shuttle launch. No, man, no time to

wait. We need to find that black box and

see what really happened. Tell you what,

I'll go and check it out and if I can

find something, you'll read about me in

the next week's cover of the National

Enquirer. Uh

These little kitty toys aren't going to

work that far away.

That's what you think.

Grandpa made these for me with A1A

military grade satellite parts.

Sweet.

Conflict between the US and the Soviet

Union reached its highest levels since

the Cold War when a US military plane

was instructed to change its course

mid-flight and fly [music] below 10,000

ft over restricted Soviet airspace near

Falcon Lake. The pilot was returned to

safely, but his plane

>> Oh, now you've done it. Oh, [ __ ] What?

>> Now, what happens if I want to make a

call, huh? Maybe today, tomorrow, 2020.

Oh, that. Right, sorry. I thought you

meant I was responsible. No, you're not

responsible and you proved it once

again.

Who knows how many times your dad has

tried to call? Do you know what today

is? Launch day. Launch day, yes. Fix it.

Sorry, I'll fix it.

transponder's inability to keep a proper

course. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union

remains on high alert and has moved up a

fleet of submarines and warships to the

Gulf of Alaska. And now we send you back

to our scheduled programming of Small

Wonder.

We got to go. You're going to be late

for school.

T minus 15 seconds.

T minus 10.

9 8 7 6 We have main engine start.

4 3 2 1

and lift off. Lift off. for the

28th space [applause] shuttle mission

and it is cleared to the tower.

Challenger, go with throttle up.

Daddy.

>> [snorts]

[music]

>> Flight controllers here looking very

carefully at the situation.

Obviously a major malfunction.

No.

No.

You didn't pick me up.

Is he

No.

No.

Jeremiah is trying to cover up the fact

that they were shot by another Soviet

war.

Now all we can do is wait for round

three of nuclear holocaust.

Jeremiah,

are you there?

I really need to talk to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah, where are you?

Jeremiah, is that you?

Please answer.

Okay.

My mom said girls our age shouldn't be

wearing those kind of jeans.

But I convinced [music] her to buy them

for me anyways.

She's definitely got the look.

Yeah, well, I said goodbye Jordache. And

from now on, nothing will come between

me and my Calvin's. [music]

What are you going to do?

Just watch me, Lauren.

And don't embarrass me.

Good.

Hey, loser. I found this in the ground

and I thought of you.

How nice of you.

I saw you watching us at practice

yesterday.

So what? Since they kicked you out of

the science club,

now you think you have to take up

cheerleading. Doesn't look that hard.

But it's not my jam. Girls who don't

have a lot going on upstairs become

cheerleaders. Oh, is that what you

think? That it doesn't take any brains,

huh?

Like

do you even know how hard it is to do a

triple lindy?

Seriously. Triple lindy?

Can't even imagine. Way I see it,

cheerleading and failure made for girls

like you two.

Girls with good looks and eating

disorders. The good thing is my brains

and good teeth will get me much farther

than your short-lived looks ever will,

especially after another 5 years of

gagging yourself in the locker room. All

that acid will definitely make your

teeth slide right out of your perky

mouth like a Pez dispenser. Just being

honest.

No offense.

Right?

I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't do that.

Well, there was that one time last week

where I walked in on you in the

bathroom. Lynn, shut your face.

But don't even think about trying out.

I doubt your trailer park family could

even afford the application fee. Oh, and

uh next time they find you wandering the

desert at night,

maybe they'll find your dad, too.

What's left of him.

Where? We're walking.

Incoming. Nerf alert.

This can't be happening. I don't know he

has a first name. It's O S T.

>> Donald, what What I tell you?

I thought would only give me the time of

day if I was the last one on Earth.

And?

Pretty much all you got, doesn't it?

Take a walk, Donald.

I swear I'm worth it. I'm Donald, beat

it.

If you insist. I do. Okay.

Try that.

Okay.

I am okay.

What a lovely house you have.

>> Ah, thank you. Thank you so much. May

she be home at any moment now. Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hey, what are you doing? Those are my

radios.

Hey, you, stop. May, come on. Come on in

here. Come sit down.

Take a picture. It'll last longer.

Is this her?

Is this the famous Mayday Star Killer

51? Do you want to sell me a set of

encyclopedias?

No, no.

And you can call me Ed. The only Ed I

know is Ed McMahon. Clearly, I'm not

here to give you a million dollars.

Make them stop.

>> It's okay, honey. Just talk to Mr.

Brown.

Wendy. Mhm. Would you mind making us a

pot of your delicious coffee?

Absolutely.

I'm 11. I don't drink coffee. Isn't that

special?

The innocence. Ben, how about a

popsicle?

All right, two popsicles coming up.

Your bedside manner

could use some work.

I make the effort to treat you like an

adult.

Doesn't suit you.

I make a second attempt to treat you

like a child.

But again, you won't partake. Fine,

then. I shall treat you like a malicious

adult who not only engaged but disrupted

a top secret military operation

which alerted the Soviets and nearly

cost the lives of thousands.

Here you go, Mr. Brown. Ah.

I do love these things.

Reminds me of my childhood.

No.

Here, take this.

I have to say

I am so excited to hear how you did it.

I don't recall. Neither did your

president.

But we got him to talk. I was only

trying to make contact. I was playing.

It was just a game. Do you know that you

exposed a top secret military exercise?

Nearly costing the government millions

of dollars? Sorry. Do you take

traveler's checks?

Cute.

Look, now.

The government doesn't care that you

made contact with an aircraft that was

shot down. What concerns us is that you

somehow

sent a successful transmission

to the Area 5115 Air Force Base. A base

that was blown up

in the Cold War.

Capiche? Capiche. Good. Who taught you

how to send code?

Was it your grandfather? Or your father?

The astronaut. My grandfather. So, I

didn't make contact with him? I'm sorry.

Him?

Aliens?

>> [laughter]

>> You are so freaking adorable.

She should be working for us, right?

>> [laughter]

>> So, what was it?

What device did you use to bypass the HF

at Space Command?

I told Henry that it had to be the

Bearcat modem. If I tell you, will I get

my radios back?

Once they do an investigation, take away

your license to operate any ham radios,

say forever.

Yes.

Of course. I crossed the streams using a

Morse code generator and a rubber ducky.

Rubber ducky?

I hooked up the Morse code generator to

the seven scanners and then bypassed a

high frequency RF transmitter with

rubber ducky antenna hack. Which zig

code to the Enigma machine.

The transmitted a series of secondary

signals that independently hop towers

using SOS transmissions. The piggybacked

from one of the workers inside Space

Command using his 27 MHz UHF two-way

walkie-talkie to embed the signal right

into the main frame system.

Brilliant.

Brilliant.

Do you think you could show me how you

Smurfed Joey in? Sure, thank Gargamel.

But on one condition.

Will you let me keep at least one radio?

>> [laughter]

>> Absolutely not.

Hello?

Mr. Brown?

Can anyone hear me?

Anyone?

Drifting.

Floating.

Weightless.

Calling.

Calling home?

Or where were you just then? The holding

cell. They kept me there 12 days.

Wouldn't let me see or even talk.

I

Wendy.

Did they hurt you?

Oh, yes. Needles in my arms, tubes down

my throat, condemnation bubble baths

every [ __ ] hour. Was the exposure

internal or external? Internal. Over

26,000 millirems.

That's way more than a lethal dose. Yet,

you're still here. Is that by

coincidence or by design? I've been like

this 10 years to the day. I

I keep rambling, rambling. Ramble back

home. Go back in the house. Are you home

during these blackouts?

Sometimes.

Is anyone with you? Somebody or

something hiding in the shadows? I don't

know.

So dark.

Very blurry. Don't worry about what you

don't see. What do you hear? Broken

ticking of music. Same melody, same song

always playing. What song?

Low harmony.

It's mechanical.

Let's go ahead and wake you.

When I count to three

you're going to open your eyes

and wake. Okay?

Okay.

One.

Four.

Three.

Give it a rest, will you?

Can you stop flicking your pick?

During these blackouts, where was your

mother?

Wasn't she your protector?

But there were several incidents where

she was nowhere to be found. So, either

she couldn't

or she chose not to save you. Yet, she

put you in harm's way.

And then conditioned you to think you

were in constant danger. Someone said

she she was in a state of shell shock

after the first blast.

But to no fault of her own,

the state declared her to be an unfit

mother and they took you away.

She almost regained custody of you. But

then something else happened.

Do you remember? That's in the past.

For God's sake, I was a child

trying to make sense of living in a

world with a constant threat of another

nuclear holocaust. We were all in a

state of constant fear. And what was

happening to me during all of this?

Having to go through that

when the world was ending

was unfucking imaginable. Unfortunately,

children end up becoming victims to

their parents' inability to parent.

Don't Jeremiah. Was he also a victim?

Tell me again about him. He had the

cough. He couldn't be saved.

What were his parents like?

What kind of dog did he have?

And what kind of house did he live in? A

dog.

Why does it matter what kind of dog he

had? Well, it has everything to do with

the dog.

Maybe the dog only wanted to be walked

for four blocks. Maybe the dog was

missing a leg and couldn't go far. I

mean, these are the kind of details that

you're purposely leaving out. Now,

you've told me all these stories about

Jeremiah, but you don't even know how

many spots the dog had.

He didn't even have a dog.

Okay. He went looking for the black box

from the second plane that got shot down

and he never came back.

Did he ever find the plane or the black

box? And when he never returned,

did you go looking for him?

Yeah.

I did. I That's been That's

>> [screaming]

>> Jeremiah?

I have a bad feeling about this.

Jeremiah!

Jeremiah?

Please be you.

Jeremiah!

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

Holy [ __ ] Batman.

I don't know.

I mean, she hasn't sleepwalked since she

was little. Like, maybe since she was

like 7 or 8.

Oh, she's here. All right, I'll talk to

you later.

Where have you been?

Where have Oh my god, what happened to

you?

May, what happened to you? Come on, it's

baby. Sit down. I don't know.

I don't remember.

Look at your face, May. Who did this to

you? Tell me, who did this?

I don't know. I don't I don't remember.

Oh my gosh. Does Geraldo have a broken

nose?

Uh,

forget the TV. Where were you?

May, space rocket doesn't exist.

You're not leaving this house again. Not

at all.

Mom, it is real. I found it. The

coordinates where the airplane was shot

down brought me right to the spacecraft.

And to Jeremiah. Who's Jeremiah? Mom,

it's real. Do I sound like a liar? No,

you sound about as believable as Jim and

Tammy Faye on Nightline.

Oh my gosh.

Stop. Stop. You're hurting me.

>> I'm trying to help you, May.

Just breathe.

Why do you smell like sulfur?

Are you going to be sick?

All right. Come on, go go to the

bathroom.

Go.

Can I have soup with that?

Chicken noodle.

Your favorite. Oh, right. Thanks, Mama.

You're welcome.

>> [snorts]

>> Looks like Mikey doesn't like it. What I

forget?

Sour cream.

Sour cream.

May.

May.

>> [music]

>> Hi, something's not [music] right.

I don't know what to do. That's why I'm

calling you.

Okay, how does How do you explain

[music] this? Okay, there's

She sleeps for 16 hours a day and then

is constantly throwing up and then the

next day she's completely fine.

The cough It is not the [ __ ] cough.

Has your daughter been exposed to

radiation in the last 30 days?

Is she suffering [music] from CWC?

>> CWC? The love cough.

No.

When's the last time her radiation

levels were checked? Um, 6 weeks ago. I

have all the paperwork. They're normal.

Okay.

Red circular growths I She has three red

circular growths right here.

Can you just tell me what is wrong with

my baby so we can save her? Please.

Wendy, our daughters go to the same

school.

And off the record, May is showing signs

of someone with stage four cancer. And I

don't know what to make of it. She came

in clean, but overnight she started

developing alarming levels

of radiation exposure.

And this is all so new.

There's no telling how long the

contamination of these bonds will impact

us or how long it'll even take to show

up. But this is what we're seeing now.

So, she's dying.

That's it.

Can you please help me understand

because I don't. Last week, she was

bedridden.

But 2 days ago,

we're playing outside all day long.

I had to beg her to come back inside.

So, please tell me, what is that?

Terminal lucidity. It's a cruel joke

that God plays on us. It's uh what we

call the last hurrah. It's when a

patient rallies at the end. Sadly, it

can give people false hope, but it's one

final thing to hold on to.

Save my baby.

Please.

I'm going to save you.

Ma'am, you really should wear a mask

around her. She's pretty weak and you

don't want to risk anything. Got it.

>> [snorts]

>> Mhm.

Hi, May.

It's time.

Time for what?

The ship is waiting. What ship is here?

It's okay.

I'll find it.

>> [snorts]

>> Okay, you can go.

Okay, you can go if you want to.

Don't be afraid.

>> [snorts]

>> Baby.

Baby, May.

May.

Stay. Stay May,

May, May, May.

Stay with me. No, stay with me.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

>> [screaming]

>> WHY ARE YOU CRYING?

STOP.

MAY.

I'M GOING OKAY.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

What do I do? What do I do?

I know that place.

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

[music]

[panting]

>> Jacob.

Jacob.

>> [crying]

[snorts]

>> Jacob.

Jacob.

>> [panting]

[crying]

[panting]

>> 78103 traffic stop.

Okay.

That doesn't make any sense.

Now, the hospital made two separate

reports.

The last report states that you was

banned from the premises and that you

snuck in in the middle of the night and

stole your daughter out of ICU.

But now you're telling me that

none of that happened

and that she willfully came with you and

asked you to take her into the middle of

the desert

to meet with

aliens.

But someone or something caused all

those wounds.

But you woke up today with no

recollection of what happened or who

took her. Yes.

That's exactly what I'm telling you.

Okay.

I'm going to ask you again.

Where is she?

I already told you.

They took her. They

Who took her? Them.

Them.

The ones from

I have answered your questions. I'm

done. Are you going to help me find her

or not?

You know where she is.

Stop. You know the drill.

I'm sleepy.

>> [bell]

>> Well,

I won't be needing that today.

Levels are down. You're just under

11,000 millirems.

Last time we met,

you were well over 26,000.

It's good then.

Well, a few over 30, they'd send you

back to the Silkwood.

Do you care if I talk? I get kind of

nervous when I take tests.

Oh, it's just questions.

We're testing your response time. Shall

we begin?

You put a hamster in a cage, does he go

to the food first or get on the wheel

and spin?

Eat or spin.

Well, if you were the hamster, what

would you do?

Is this a test? No, we're just getting

warmed up.

My father used that same chapstick.

I told him I'd come back for him, but I

didn't.

Anyway, that chapstick was underneath

the seat of his car and I found it 2

years later. Why did you leave him?

To protect her.

Her?

My firefly in the sky. Oh, last time we

met, you told me you didn't have any

children. Why did you tell me you didn't

have any children? Because I don't. What

happened to firefly? I lost her.

I told her

to not go to that door.

And she went right to that.

I'll never forget that moment that she

turned around

and looked me right in the eyes that

last time. They ripped her out of my

hands.

She was

She was so scared. Do you know what it's

like to watch your child be ripped away

from you

>> [snorts]

>> and then living the rest of your life

knowing that you couldn't save her?

Thank you.

Thank you for acknowledging that. They

took her.

They took her.

I don't know where she is.

Where is she? Where is she? Where is

she? Where is she? I think about her all

the time.

I still wake up screaming for her.

Scars.

A lifetime of scars. Do I think she's

dead? No, I do not think she is dead.

I still feel her. I feel her with me all

the time.

My firefly.

I would never leave her. I would never

do that.

Could you tell her that for me, please?

I saved her. I told her I would save her

and I did.

I did it.

She's still waiting for mommy.

Do you know where she is?

>> [music]

>> I didn't have a clue.

He would never admit to it, but he was

afraid to go to space. And the night

before he left for space,

I was certain I was going to go into

labor. You were fighting to get out.

There was no stopping you. And then the

shuttle took off and 8 and 1/2 minutes

later,

you were born. The shuttle left the

atmosphere and [music] it began falling

and floating in space. And then your dad

got a bit of cabin fever and tried to

open the cabin door to jump out. And all

the other astronauts had to restrain

him. So, finally they calmed [music] him

down and leaned him against the

windshield and he grabbed a picture that

he took of me. My stomach was

>> [laughter]

>> like here to the Pacific. He said that

he saw all these lights

around the shuttle. He said that they

looked like little stars. He said that

the way that they lit up the capsule

it reminded him of whenever he and his

buddies would go chase fireflies down

[music] by Crater Lake. And that's how

you got your name, Firefly.

Mayday, Firefly Malone.

Your school called today.

>> [music]

>> Said that you were absent. And I said,

"You haven't been there for 3 years."

And I also thought there was no other

students left after the second blast.

What's that?

Firefly?

Is that you?

No, Firefly. If you're there, I know

that you probably don't

understand or even

I tried.

And I know

I know you're better off

not here.

That doesn't mean I don't miss you, cuz

I miss you, Firefly. Blink. Blink.

Blinky, blink.

I'm glad you told me that story.

It's my only constant.

It helped remind me of what used to be.

But every night

I still wake in the sands of time.

I miss you, Mom.

Wherever you are.

And I know we'll meet again one day.

I know it.

But I'll miss you every day for the rest

of my life until

far away.

>> [snorts]

>> This ship is taking me far away.

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

>> Mayday, open that door.

Hey, Mayday.

Mayday.

Mayday.

Mayday.

>> [music]

>> Calling.

Calling home.

Space Rock.

I think we've come to the end of this

journey. It's time to say goodbye to

Space Rock.

Don't you think?

Do you remember when the second blast

happened?

Two weeks before the second attack,

there were multiple reports of a

sunburnt little girl walking along

Crater Lake trail carrying what was left

of her teddy bear. An old couple on the

way back from Hill Valley

stopped and picked you up. You were

there for 4 days when they found you,

without food or water. And somehow you

still survived. Old couple?

How do I remember?

Probably because the aliens from the

mothership gave you one too many

lobotomies. Jacob.

What?

I mean, come on. Again with the aliens?

She's never going to accept it. And

after everything you've been through,

you still don't believe aliens exist

anymore? Oh. [sighs]

I don't know, that's a tough one.

I do and I don't. Okay, well your time

to talk is over. See,

that's not right, because every time you

talk about it,

I can't stop thinking about it.

>> either ease it up or I can send you

back, okay?

Thank you.

Daniel, what do you think? Do aliens

exist?

No.

William, is Space Rock real? Yeah.

No.

It's prob- probably not.

Well, that's why we're all here today,

right? To find out what is real. The

last time anyone saw anything

[clears throat] that resembled the

mothership was the day that the

Challenger was launched. Area 51 was

destroyed way before that. No one's ever

seen anything that comes close to

resembling Space Rock. Firefly, you've

said multiple times that the aliens came

and took you, but for some reason they

kept bringing you back only to take you

again. Did the aliens ever leave you

with any permanent scars?

Or markings?

Just these.

Mayday, the aliens did not abduct you.

It was the men in the green hazmat

suits. Child Services came and to your

house

and they took you away. And your mother

kept you locked inside that house where

the highest radiation levels on record

were reported. You did almost die from

drinking water that you knew was

poisonous. That was your way of calling

for help. Mayday, she really was trying

to save you, but her mind was so far

gone.

She didn't know what she was trying to

save you from. Your memories of what

happened, they are a culmination of

other memories, hallucinations,

disillusions that were all caused by

radiation exposure. Your mind created a

false world

to protect you from what happened to you

as a child. And that is what we all now

know

as Roswell delirium.

And these memories

are ultimately your space rock.

>> [music]

>> Medea, your father was not an astronaut.

He was a janitor that worked for NASA.

And he was exposed [music] to 10 times

the radiation that you were. So much he

couldn't tell you and your mother apart.

And your friend, Jeremiah, [music] he

was imaginary. No.

Jeremiah got the cough.

They took him. That was the only way

they could save him. How can you deny

that? Are you denying that? Shame on

you. Then how do you explain [music]

that all of your friends

that you said were taken

are all sitting

>> [music]

>> right here

next to Jeremiah?

Medea, the prison cell that your mind

created, those four walls are caving in

now. So to finally move forward

you have to confront her. Now you

refused to see your father when he was

dying, but maybe seeing her will

ultimately

save you.

Her?

Wendy.

She hasn't seen you since you were 11.

In her mind, [music] she's probably

waiting for the aliens

to bring you back.

Medea, if you're up for it, I will get

the board to approve an offsite visit.

And I will go with you, support you.

So you can make peace with space rock.

Where is she?

Trust this.

Just trust yourself.

Just speak from your heart.

>> [bell]

[bell]

>> Warning.

Lights will be dimmed until inmate has

been safely implanted.

Thank you. Your time has begun.

51 minutes remaining.

>> [music]

[music]

>> Far away from what?

Far away

from the memories.

What memories?

What's waiting for us at space rock?

They're waiting.

It's okay though.

It's so safe.

It's so safe you wouldn't believe.

Are we in danger?

No, just you.

But they'll take you and they'll keep

you safe.

They will?

They're not real. Right?

Were they ever real?

Do you know who I am?

Blankety blank.

>> [snorts]

[laughter]

>> I missed you.

So much.

So much. I tried to forget about you.

Then the memory would sneak in its way

back in

and throw off all the other memories.

You've been gone so long.

So long.

>> [snorts]

>> So

the aliens didn't take me.

It was you.

You kept me from being taken by the men

in the green suits.

No.

No, no, no.

I wanted you to die.

You couldn't survive without the

machines. That's why I took you to them.

I took you. They said they were going to

save you.

And that they were going to keep you

until you were better.

Are you better?

My firefly in the sky, are you better?

Wendy, I wasn't dying.

But not for lack of trying.

God, did I try.

That's why I drank the water and kept

sneaking off to the desert.

I know you wanted to protect me, but you

were scared.

And rightfully so.

You were so scared you wouldn't let them

help us.

That's why you barricaded us in that

house.

You don't blame me for anything that

happened.

And they don't blame you.

Do you remember the last day

when they finally came for us?

I do. You told me not to open the door,

but I did it.

You probably [music] blamed yourself all

this time. You spent your whole lifetime

blaming yourself for what I did. I'm so

sorry [music] for that.

For what they've done to you.

For what I've done to you.

I only wanted to go to space rock to get

away from him.

But instead [music] they took me away

from you.

For good.

I told myself every day without you that

we would be together again.

>> [snorts]

>> And I waited a long time.

And that day never came. And I wanted to

be rescued. Especially from him. He

would call me by your name.

And no matter how many times I told him

I wasn't you, he couldn't see me. Even

when he stared into my eyes.

He took away the girl I was. And the

girl I was going to be.

And deep down I think you knew. But I

didn't know that you needed to be saved,

too.

I don't blame you.

Don't ever feel that it was your fault

because you couldn't protect me.

Okay?

I want you to know that, Wendy. You did

the best that you could. And you're

always going to be my mom.

Okay?

You're my mommy.

>> [snorts]

>> Thank you.

51 seconds remaining.

Did I save you?

>> [snorts]

>> My firefly in the sky.

I love you, mommy.

>> [snorts]

>> I will rise

in [music] visible

houses.

The world is just a stage.

The

everlasting

gaze.

Love and

blurring

in the middle.

They surely [music]

escaped this.

Seeing

>> [music]

>> them all the same.

>> [music]

>> Love and

blurring in

the middle.

>> [music]

>> Love and

>> [music]

>> blurring in

the middle.

Love and

>> [music]

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