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Is that a plane?

What the hell is that?

Excuse me, Professor Hendricks?

Why didn't I get credit for number five?

You didn't write anything.

You missed a trivial solution
x=0 and y=0.

I didn't miss it.
I didn't think it was important.

Find all solutions.

You understand the definition
of "all", Mr Echevaro?

"Sometimes non-trivial solutions
can be found,

sometimes they can't.
Paradoxically, it is when

the trivial solution is the only solution
that it's the most important case."

Exactly.
This is a homogenous system of equations

and the important question is whether
there are any non-trivial solutions.

If that's the important question
then why didn't you just ask us

if there are any non-trivial solutions?

Because I want you
to mathematically find all solutions.

But the most important question is whether
the trivial solution is the only one.

Indeed.

That is the case with this problem.

So, why is it trivial
if it's so important?

Now, I saw x=0 and y=0 was the only one
so, I didn't waste my time with it,

AKA trivial.

- I believe you're convoluting your words.
- I'm not. It's very misleading.

The book even says "paradoxically".

Sit down.

Anybody else before I finish up here?

Thank you.

So, in the lab for next time

you should do problems one through 43.

The GDP of Assumption Land is 30,000,

the price level is 28,
the money supply is 560,000, right?

So, if the government decides
to flood the market,

increase the money supply
by a factor of 1.31,

what economic variable will be affected

and what will its new value be?

Why does every problem have to take place
in Assumption Land?

Can't they just say, like, a real country?

Well, it's easier than saying
"Let's assume" every single time.

You did know that's why it's called
"Assumption Land"?

- Speaking of flooding the market.
- Hey!

Did you know if everyone stopped
using condoms,

it would actually lower the rate of STDs?

There would be more people
without STDs doing it.

So, the chances of catching something
would actually be lower.

You do not pay me enough for this crap.

Hey, Derek, you want to do
that lab tonight?

Get it over with before the exam?

- Derek?
- Did you hear about this?

"Flight operations at Cincinnati
Northern Kentucky International Airport

were temporarily suspended this afternoon
after reports of a mysterious aircraft

hovering above the airport.

Witnesses included route mechanics
and other airport employees."

This article says it looked like

a silver disc the size of a dime
just below the clouds.

Dude, Natalie does not want to hear
about this.

"A United ramp mechanic who wished
to remain anonymous,

witnessed the aircraft and saw it depart.

However, he was surprised to hear
radio chatter between a pilot

and ground control several minutes later
at 3:12 pm when someone in the tower said,

'It's still here.'"

People in the tower work with times
all day long, okay? Very specific times.

There's no way that they would get
something like that wrong.

So, the fact that one guy is saying
one thing

and everyone else is saying
something else, it doesn't make any sense.

How long did you watch it for?

- I ran away. I was scared.
- Why were you scared?

- Because of the noise.
- What did it sound like?

- Like someone was playing the flute.
- Was it very loud?

- What's the case number?
- RW-11-02-04.

Rebecca Watkins, Omega, Georgia.

- Access code?
- Blue-15-EOXC.

What can I do for you, Mr Ahls?

I'd like to archive this case file.

Insufficient evidence;

subject is being released
from surveillance.

It felt like all the air was running out

and that the plants were going to die
and everything was bad.

The contents are being accessed right now.

Would you like me to check
and see who's accessing them?

No, cut it off.

Okay, BLACKBOX-RW-11-02-04
has been archived

and is no longer remotely accessible
at any clearance level.

Is there anything else I can do for you,
Mr Ahls?

No. Thank you.

- Ahls.
- We got a call from DHS

about a sighting in sector 6,
UTC negative 4, 39.04319 latitude,

negative 84.65842 longitude,
ground elevation 896,

UAP elevation approximately 2,800.

It was right over Cincinnati Airport.

Radio?

We intercepted a signal across
all frequencies.

We're sending you the radar feed
from the time of the sighting.

We interviewed all the witnesses,
and we now believe it was a small drone...

Roland Junger, Airport Director.

You know, I would have suggested
that you fly directly into here...

I hope your cameras
are up to DHS specs

because I'm going to need the footage

from every single one
in this entire facility.

All terminals, gates, hallways, stores,
employee locker rooms,

baggage claims, runways,
fences, hangars, parking lots.

I'm also going to need
all the tower recordings,

passenger manifests,
and my team is going to need four rooms,

conference rooms preferably.

I don't have four conference rooms
here in the terminal.

You have two, plus the EOC
I will take those

and one of your larger rooms,
and I will tell you which one.

So, you want me to shut everything down

and start kicking people out of
their offices in the middle of the day?

No, nothing gets shut down.

Everything continues as normal.
There is one other thing though.

The man who is giving
a press conference out front,

we do need to shut him down,
immediately. Thank you.

Thousands of passengers from all over
the world fly through CVG every day,

but what about the ones
from out of this world?

Well earlier today, airline employees
and passengers

claimed they saw
a mysterious object

hovering over the airport
for several minutes

before it shot off into the sky,
cutting a hole in the clouds.

So, what do four billion light years
or frequent flyer miles get you?

Well, not so fast.
Airport spokesman, Dave Ellison,

held a news conference
to address that incident.

We interviewed all of the witnesses...

and we now believe
that it was a small drone.

Four to five feet in diameter,
that drifted into our airspace.

That's what's going to happen if Amazon
does this whole drone delivery thing.

You know dropping Kindles into the middle
of the runways.

It wasn't a drone okay.
The descriptions don't match,

the times don't match.

The route mechanic said it was
the size of a...

A what?

Dime held at arm's length.

Does that match what was on TV?

What that guy said, four to five feet?

- No way.
- Dude, how do you even calculate that?

You don't know how high it was.

Well, somebody said that it was about
a 100 to 200 feet below cloud cover.

How high was cloud cover?
That's about 3,550?

- No?
- Shut up, Lee!

It was 2,900 feet, so 27 to 2,800.

So, let's just say 2,750.

Dude, don't you have exams to study for
or something?

Don't you have exams to study for
or something?

- Yes. Yeah.
- That’s what I thought.

Bye.

So now, how big is a dime?

17.9 millimetres.

17.9 millimetres.
Now, what's arm's length? Like...

What is that? Like two feet.
Maybe a bit less. 20 inches?

- 22 inches.
- Oh crap.

I forgot about Professor Magg's Panel.
It's this weekend.

You know that thing I'm setting up,
helping at the door.

You're still coming, right?

- Derek?
- Yeah.

Okay. Well, I'm not going to stay late

because I've got to take the practice GRE
the next morning.

Where's that at?

It's over by Xavier.
It's like a 30-minute walk.

- I'll drop you off.
- You don't have a car.

- I'll borrow Lee's.
- Is Lee okay with that?

Can you make sure?
Because I can't miss this.

- I can't miss this.
- Yeah.

X equals 88. It doesn't match!

X equals 88. He was lying!
The guy on TV was lying.

It's not four to five feet.
It's way bigger.

- Hello?
- Hi. Mr Ellison?

- Yes.
- I was just wondering

if we could ask you some questions
about the sighting at the airport.

- I'm sorry. Who is this?
- My name is Derek Echevaro,

and I got your cell phone number
from the voicemail at your office.

Who do you work for?

The News Record.
We just had a few questions

we wanted to ask you based
on eyewitness accounts,

- there were some things that we learned...
- I've never heard of The News Record.

- Is that based out of Ohio?
- University of Cincinnati.

University? You mean...

- Yes?
- I think we got disconnected.

Do not call this number again.

All I want to know is why you thought
it was four to five feet in diameter.

Witness account says it was about the size
of a dime held at arm's length.

Cloud cover was 2,900 feet,
it was about 100 to 200 feet

below that which would make it
88 feet in diameter.

Sir, Whitley is in the field
with a potential witness

and she's claiming to have heart problems.

There are plenty of other witnesses
they need to talk to.

Call an ambulance and have them move on.

Paramedics will have to take her
to Edgewood instead of Florence anyway.

Excuse me.

I keep getting calls from this guy.

He's saying he knows
the aircraft was 88 feet across.

- Did you get his name of this person?
- Derek Echevaro.

Thanks, Dave.

Did any camera get a visual on this UAP?

- Pull up Gate A8.
- Yes sir.

No, nothing there. How about A18?

Do we have a clearer shot
of the south runway?

I'm not seeing anything.
How about the north side perimeter?

There you go.

There is nothing.
Let's go back inside the terminal, A4.

Yes sir.

All right, freeze that.

I want the names of all those passengers.
Now, take me to the ticket counter.

Freeze that.
Okay, rewind it.

I want all those employees
and anyone else from the ground

in Conference Room A.

I've been told that
this is a federal investigation now.

So, you should know
that if any of you talk to anyone,

your co-workers, your friends,
your family, including your spouses,

you could be charged with obstruction
of justice.

Where's everyone else?
Why's it just us here?

Yeah, why is it just us here?

What's going on?

They're saying it's a plane now.
Natalie texted me.

Look at this.

Okay.

"After reviewing the witness testimony,
federal officials have come

to the conclusion
that the mysterious aircraft

seen over Cincinnati/
Northern Kentucky International Airport,

was in fact a Gulfstream IV airplane
with a length of 88 feet...

88 feet...

"It matches witness descriptions
and investigators are confident

- that the mystery has been solved."
- He's using my math!

He's using what I told him on the phone
to cover it up.

I bet you there is no record
of a Gulfstream IV coming in

or out of the airport that day.

Go to ATCAudioLive.com.
Look up Cincinnati.

ATCAudioLive.

- Somebody must've taken it down.
- No, it's live streaming.

People listen to that stuff all day,
every day.

Somebody recorded it.

We'll be out of here soon, okay?
You'll never be alone.

Yeah, United maintenance flight is just
joining alpha from the international,

what's your number, again?

United maintenance 44.

Hey.

Hey!
So, when are we going to do the lab?

I don't know.

Today's not so good.
I didn't go to Diff. EQ.

Why not?
Didn't you have an exam?

Where are you?

I'm at Cincinnati Airport.

This terminal is crawling
with federal agents.

Why would they still be here
if they already figured out what it was?

It is an airport.
How did you get in?

Bought the cheapest ticket I could find.

Derek!
We need to start the lab today.

I can't get a B in Hendricks' class.

Professor Hendricks?

Hi.

I was just wondering,
it's such a crazy time.

My midterms one after the other,
I was just wondering...

If you are asking for an extension,
the answer is no.

Why?

Derek, you are one of the brightest
students I have ever had,

and you are also the most disruptive
and argumentative.

Even when you know other people are right,
you argue your point.

Well, that trivial-non-trivial stuff
is so confusing...

No, it isn't... not for you.

You're on scholarship
from the Akamai Foundation.

Yes, I read my students' files.

And you got that scholarship
because you placed in the Olympiad

which is one of the top
math competitions in the country

and you are failing my class.

Is there something we need to talk about?

No.

I've been at CVG a long time
and I've never seen an object like this.

What was it like at the airport
after the sighting? Chaos, I imagine?

It was fairly chaotic.

The government showed up
after about two hours

and there were agents everywhere.
And then they brought us all

into a conference room,
everyone who had seen it.

They didn't tell us what was going on.

They took away our phones;
they kept us there for about ten hours.

They didn't let us call home,
didn't let us use the internet.

It was terrifying.

The airline employee said
he heard radio chatter

from pilots and other airport workers
about the unidentified object.

However, despite repeated requests,
the FAA has yet to turn over

any transcripts or recordings
from the tower radio that day.

You really think someone's gonna
have this recording on here?

Is this a...
Is this part of that airline forum thing?

It's a chatroom on Tor.

What's Tor?

It's one of the ways to get
into the dark web,

which is where people do things
that are illegal

because it's very hard to trace.

"TheirPlansAgainstUs"?

Whose plans against us?

It's H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.

"ATCronnie, Pilot81604".

Man, you know, these are just a bunch
of people in Yoda outfits

making up fake accounts.

It might not be the pilot of a 747,

it might be someone who flies
little planes...

Yeah, or it might be someone
who was born on August 16th, 2004, right?

What are the numbers at the end?
81604?

Probably 13 years old.

Here we go.
"CincyDawn" says they have them.

Dawn?

D-A-W-N? Like the name Dawn?

- What's her deal?
- Oh, God.

What?
She probably goes to UC.

She's probably not interested.

- Probably real smart...
- Probably 13.

- Right.
- Right.

Why are there so many files?

United, American, these
are all the different frequencies.

Here we go, here's the tower.

United 367 preparing for takeoff.

Not sure
if you're picking this up on radar,

but to our left looks like
a stationary drone, some sort of drone.

On the runway?

No, south of that.
Down by you guys in the tower;

altitude maybe 2,700 feet.
Please advise.

I'm not seeing anything,
but I'll have a look.

The hell was that noise?

You have eyes on it now?

Yeah, it's not moving,
just hanging out there.

Copy that, 367. Stand by.

Anyone else hearing this?

What is it, Hal?

367, I'm getting confirmation
down here that it's still there.

- What'd she say?
- Did she say Al?

Copy that, 367, standby.

Anyone else hearing this?

What is it, Hal?

Sounds like "Hal".
I heard an "H".

- 367, I'm getting confirmation.
- Yeah.

- Tower.
- Hi, I'm looking for Hal.

Hal, Al, Hal.

Hal Lapierre?

Yes. Is he on shift right now?

Let me check.

Good luck with Hal, dude.
I'm going to get you a drink.

Hey, yo, Zach! Where's that vodka?

Two, three... 523...

Five over...

Hello? Who's calling?

Sir, you couldn't have seen it.

Who is this?

They said you saw the UFO, on the radio.

They said that you said
that it was still there.

Are you a reporter?
I can't talk about this.

Why not?

Because I can't, okay. I'm sorry.

No, no, wait, wait. I understand
that somebody told you

that you're not allowed to
talk about it but...

- No, no, I never said that.
- Sir, there's literally

no way that you could have seen it
because you would have had to been

- looking almost directly up...
- It wasn't that...

There is an overhang on the tower
that would have blocked your view,

and I know
that you could get in trouble

- No, that's not what...
- For talking about it, but there's no way

that you could have seen it
even if it was there.

I never said I saw it! I...

Mr Lapierre?

He didn't see it, he heard it.

The static.

Wh... what about it?

That's what he heard.

The interference is from the UFO.

Yeah, it's not moving,
just hanging out there.

Copy that, 367, stand by.

It's a sequence of tones.
Each is one-tenth of a second

represented here by these circles,
and then the dashes are one-tenth

of a second of silence
so in total, it's 2,623 symbols

which comes out
to four minutes and 23 seconds.

And then it started to repeat itself,
but it stopped.

I have no idea why.

You think it's some sort of signal?

What's that?
Nine, four, three, three?

Well, I was thinking maybe it was binary
like a 32-bit computer

looks at chunks of 32, 64 at 64.

I have no idea how to break this up,
but I think that it's a 14-bit

because you've got 14 circles here
at the beginning and at the end.

So, if it is 14,

this chunk comes out to 9,433 okay?

Or you could bring it into
two seven-digit chunks,

one is 73 and one is 89.

You gonna come over again today?
Do you wanna help figure this out?

No, I have to study.

I don't get anything done
when Lee is around.

Will you at least take a copy home?

Afternoon.

Non-homogenous systems.

These are systems
that might not have any solutions at all.

It's open.

Hi. My name is Natalie,
I'm in your Linear Algebra class,

and I was wondering about letters
of recommendation.

I only give letters of recommendation
to students who finish with an A,

so I will talk to you at the end
of the semester.

Right, okay.
Sorry if I'm jumping the gun.

Would it maybe be possible to get
an extension on the lab?

- I already told Derek no.
- Yeah.

He's got a lot going on right now.

From what I've read, a lot
of the best mathematicians

do their best work in their early 20's;
Einstein, Ramanujan...

Riemann, Abel, Galois, I know the list.

You.

Look, I've made my contributions.

Now it's your turn,
but you have got to do the lab.

Either get him on board,
or do it yourself.

Okay.
Thank you.

Hello, leave a message.

Lee, I've figured it out. It's dates.
And it's close to 0.007297.

That's the Fine-Structure Constant,
but it's in 14-digit chunks.

I think maybe they're trying
to figure out how smart we are.

Or they're trying to tell us
that they're from a planet

that has the same physical laws as ours.

But they're not from five billion
light years away...

He's already figured it out.
It's the FSC.

Isn't the lead singer like the main part
of the band?

So, it may as well be a cover band
with like,

you know, it's like the same guitarist
and everything,

but I just feel like on a basic level,
like it's pretty different right?

I mean, I don't know.

Lee, did you get my message?
They're using basic math

as a way to communicate: 1+2=3, 3-2=1.

Okay and the Fine-Structure Constant
is in there.

So maybe they're trying to tell us
they're actually from somewhere nearby

or maybe they're just trying to establish
a common mathematical language

so that we can actually decode it.
I mean, anyone who knows basic math

and physics, knows numbers
like 3.14159 and 0.007297.

Yeah, of course.
What is this 38?

That's binary.

Then there's 2,623 times 2,953.

Okay so 2,623 is the total number
of bits in the signal.

Each one is one-tenth of a second long.
That comes out to roughly 774,572 seconds.

So that's almost exactly nine days, okay.
So, Tuesday, the day of the sighting,

plus nine days, that's next Thursday.
That's six days from now.

Okay, so what's happening Thursday?

Maybe it's coming back.

I'm not an astrophysicist
so thank you for coming.

I just want to ask you a few questions
about the Fine-Structure Constant.

I'm told that you could shed some light
on it, how it could be used as a benchmark

for determining intelligence
or pinpointing a location in space.

Using the FSC to determine intelligence
is fairly straightforward,

but using it to pinpoint a location
in space is problematic.

Say the FSC is different
in different parts of space,

which there's essentially no evidence of.

If the FSC did depend on things
like local density, and if two places,

way far apart from each other
had the same local density,

they might also have the same FSC.

And if you gave that number to someone,
how would they know which place to go?

But if we had more than one,
couldn't we use them the same way

we use pulsars to pinpoint locations?

Over a much greater distance, obviously?

The idea that it's different
in different parts of space

isn't really the focus of research now.

You know, I have a room full of scientists
who haven't been able

to explain anything to me.

The mystery continues
concerning the object seen

hovering over CVG this past Tuesday
which the FAA says

is no longer unidentified,
but was actually a Gulfstream IV airplane.

Reports of more bizarre activity around
the time of the sighting have surfaced,

including widespread disruption of radio
and cell phone signals.

Verizon, AT&T and Sprint all confirmed
major service interruptions

in the Ohio and Kentucky area
near the airport,

with T-Mobile being the least affected.

Were you open last Tuesday?

Did you hear about the thing
at the airport?

No, I didn't see it, but I heard about it.

And I think it might have messed
with my cell phone.

I kept getting all this static.

Hey! Were you open, last Tuesday?

So, if this was a UFO, right?

And there were aliens on it...

what do you think they would look like?

You mean, do I think they're like
little grey people with big black eyes?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

Think about this.

I can take these two shakers, right?

Put them in front of you
and count them. One, two...

because they stay in place, right?

But if I was from a liquid planet,

and I don't mean a planet
that's just covered in ocean,

but one that is molten
all the way through,

by the time I put the second one down,

- the first...
- Will burn up!

- No, Lee. The first one,
- Or it would be gone.

Well, it could have moved off.

You know, I asked
what they would look like.

Well, they probably look like...

something so far beyond
what you could possibly imagine.

"Found something in the signal.
I'll tell you

if you come to the party tonight."

What party?

It's probably that Sigma Kai thing.

Is that... is that Natalie?

9,433 is a prime number;

the multiplier at the end of the signal.

9,433 times 38.

- So, what does that mean?
- Well, a sequence of prime numbers

could mean it came
from an intelligent lifeform,

but one on its own doesn't mean
anything necessarily.

- So, you're going?
- To what?

To the party
that you just agreed to go to.

We're heading over at eight.

You're right, this is stupid.
I'm can't, I'm sorry.

This is first...

Text me if you change your mind.

- Campus Police.
- Yeah, hey, I just got home,

and someone has broken
into my apartment, okay.

All my stuff's... oh, shit.

My webcam's on.

There's an executable running
in the System Processes

and my webcam was on.
I didn't turn it on.

Could you possibly have a virus?

It's not a virus.
It's not behaving like a virus.

Did anyone physically break in here?

Yeah.

I just have one more question.
Whose is this?

There was an executable running
in the background

and I had no idea what it was.

I tried reformatting the computer,
but it just showed up again.

It was on Lee's computer too.

Hello, leave a message.

- I saw something in the activity monitor.
- He's still not answering.

It looks like somebody was...
Had tried to change the size of...

2,623 doesn't have any other divisors

other than 43 and 61, does it?

Those are both prime.

So, if I resize the window 61 by 43...

it's a grid!

All the dots line up!
Why didn't I see this before?

They wanted us to know that 2,623
meant something, like the Arecibo Signal.

The signal that Frank Drake and Carl Sagan
sent out in space in the '70's, right?

That was a semi-prime number too.

We have to go.
Professor Magg's panel discussion;

it's today.

Nine, four, three, three times 38,
Nine, four, three, three times 22;

what do these two lines mean?

I wonder if they've got anything to do
with the Fine-Structure Constant.

Can anyone explain to me how this
can be used for determining intelligence?

As well as pinpointing
a location in space?

How come we don't know everything
there is to know about this number?

People?

I guarantee you,
if this was the Manhattan Project

or you all were trying to decode
the Enigma machine,

things would be a little bit different
in here.

So, I'm gonna try to put this
in a little bit of perspective for you.

Ten to the 16 watts of energy.

Now, I know you're all familiar
with the Kardashev Scale,

Type I, Type II, Type III civilisations.

Type I is a global civilisation
that controls an energy level

roughly equivalent
to all of the solar energy

striking the planet's surface.

Ten to the 16 or 17 watts.

Type II controls all the energy
from a star and Type III is galactic.

Right now, we are about a Type 0.7.

We are becoming a global civilisation,
but we are not quite there yet.

We control... roughly ten
to the 13 watts of energy.

Now, scientists like you,

have calculated that we might
possibly make the transition

to a Type I in the next
hundred years or so,

if we don't destroy ourselves first.

We should see evidence
of Type I, Type II, Type III civilisations

everywhere in the universe,
if they existed,

but what have we found so far?

Nothing, which makes me think

it's either very rare or impossible
to make that first step

to becoming a Type I,
but whatever, or whomever, showed up

at CVG the other day,
travelled huge distances to get here.

They have a mastery of space travel that,
well, we can't even begin to understand.

Chances are they have made
that first step, maybe even the second.

And we need to find out how they did it
and learn from that

because I don't know about you, but...

I'm pretty sure we can't do it on our own.

It's eight o' clock,
have you tried calling Lee at all?

He's going to be fine.

The second you sat down,
you had your computer open

and you were working on that crap!

I bet you totally forgot about tomorrow.

You're taking the practice GRE at 9:00,
I'm driving you.

Now will you please just...
Will you come with me,

because there's something
I want to show you.

- Derek, I'm going home.
- I didn't sleep at all last night.

I'm sure Lee didn't either.

What if he gets kicked out of school?

His Dad's a huge benefactor at UC.

Okay, now will you come with me?
Please?

Over here.

Okay, so if this is the distance
between the Sun and the Earth,

how far do you think
the next closest star is?

Proxima Centauri?

Twenty feet?

See, 71?

About twice as far as that, 4.3 miles.

Now, if that's our scale,

how big do you think the galaxy is?

You'd have to keep walking
in that direction

until you got right back here;
all the way around the world,

and then do that three more times.

And that's just our galaxy.

There are at least 100 billion
other galaxies out there.

Derek, do you know
why I did that panel today?

Because I live on Earth. And I need
to get in good with Professor Magg,

so he'll give me a recommendation
for grad school.

What's your plan? What are you doing?

'Cause it seems like the only thing
you care about

- is that signal.
- It is the only thing I care about.

When I was a kid, I saw something.

I was in the diner
where my mum used to work...

and I saw these lights outside.

Not like a helicopter light,
or airplane, or whatever.

I mean, they were...
They were moving together.

And it wasn't like some grainy video
where you can't see anything.

I saw it.

I tried to tell her about it,
but she didn't listen to me.

What was she supposed to do?

Believe me.

Do something.

- I don't know.
- Put yourself in her shoes.

You know, your kid
starts talking about aliens.

You know what I think?

I think she just didn't care.

Okay, so you have some baggage.

Doesn't give you the right
to treat everyone else like shit.

Hundreds of years go by...

and people make tiny, little improvements.

And then there's an opportunity to take
a giant leap forward.

Like with relativity,
or going to the moon.

When it's your finals week,

you cut yourself off from everyone.
You go to the library,

you drink 100 cans of Red Bull.

You don't talk to anyone
for, like, four days,

because you know everything
is riding on it.

This is my finals week.

What are the most important questions
in the world?

"Is there a God?"

"What happens when we die?"

And... "Are we alone in the universe?"

If anyone answered
any one of those questions,

it would change everything.

We're never as alone as we think we are.

Hey, we've...
we've been trying to call you.

Phone's dead.

What, did they give you a fine or what?

You're not going to get kicked out
of school, are you?

Lee, I...
I didn't know that stuff was in there,

but I think someone's monitoring
our computers.

Who?

What the fuck are the police going to do
about it?

Right. I probably
should have called the FBI.

So basically,
I got in trouble for nothing.

We almost figured it out, okay?
If you put it into a grid, 43 by 61,

it makes so much more sense.

And there are these two lines on it
and I think they might be coordinates.

- Could I borrow your car?
- No.

- Can you drive me to the airport then?
- Oh, man!

I have exams. Don't you?

Tuesday, but Dave Ellison has to see this.

And then what?

He's just going to crack
and admit to everything?

I don't see how he can deny it.

Can't you take a bus?

The only way I'm going to catch him
is if he's coming in or out of work.

And if I can't get into the employee lot,
I was going to follow him.

Home?

This is the last time. I will never
ask you for anything ever again.

That's him!

- Go, man!
- Yeah.

Before he gets away!

Mr Ellison?

Did you know that there was
a coded message in the tower recording?

- What?
- In the tower recording.

It sounded like there was interference,
but it was actually a signal.

I'm sorry. Who are you?

I'm Derek.
We spoke on the phone last week.

Excuse me? Is this the long-term lot?
I think I'm lost.

You held a press conference
at five o' clock that day.

I saw you on TV and you said that
you had interviewed everyone.

Did you do that yourself?

How in depth were they?
Were they five minutes or two hours or...

- I don't know...
- So, you didn't do it?

- He didn't say any...
- He who?

So, there was only one guy?

And how many people did you interview?
I mean, I know about eight

from the news article
and you could not have started until...

- Is there a problem here?
- 3:30 or 4:00 the earliest.

So, if there was one guy,
and each one was about a half-hour long,

and there were eight eye witnesses,

I don't see how you could have
started a press conference at 5:00.

Is there a problem here?

- We spoke to all of them briefly before...
- You said that, "We interviewed

- all the witnesses on that day."
- The actual interviews

- didn't take place until...
- But you didn't even do them!

Do you know how many threats
the airport gets every day?

If it's not somebody threatening
to blow up a plane,

they're going to bring on box cutters,
hijack it,

gun down people in the terminal,
you name it.

In the middle of all of this,
I have some maintenance workers say

they saw something
hovering near the runways, but it left,

so we checked surveillance.
There's no indication of it.

- Tower didn't see anything.
- They couldn't have seen...

So, what are we supposed to do?
Issue a no-fly warning to your aliens?

Try to convince the Air Force to scramble

just to shoot down something
that we can't find on radar?

Close down the airport
and have people miss their flights

because of something that most people
don't even believe exist?

Even if the people in the tower
said they saw...

- They didn't see anything!
- You have eight independent descriptions

- from your own employees...
- Did you see it?

- We did a thorough investigation...
- So, the interviews were a formality!

We found that it was a Gulfstream IV,

- Look at the tower!
- Which matches what they saw.

- With the overhang, how could they know?
- What the other people saw.

- How would they even know that?
- Because it's what I told them to say!

I want them out of here.

Natalie, he admitted it.

Dave admitted it was a cover-up.

- Did you hear what I said?
- Yeah.

Are you... Are you mad at me?

What do you need, Derek? Study notes?

What? No.

Then why are you here?

I came here to tell this
'cause you're not answering your phone.

- Do you understand how huge this is?
- I missed the GRE because of you!

The practice GRE!

Derek, if you had the chance
to redo things

and all the circumstances were the same,
would you still have left me there?

That's what I thought.

Look, what do I have to do to fix this?

You can't, okay?
You had a choice and you made it.

Natalie?

You'll never be alone.
You know that, right?

Oh, shit!

Come on!

Hello?

Can I talk to Professor Hendricks, please?

Who is this?

It's Derek. I'm in one of her classes.

It's Derek. He says he's a student.

Derek? How did you get this number?

Look, I know it's late
and I shouldn't be here,

- but I have something...
- Here?

There are phone numbers
you can call where trained professionals

- are available 24 hours a day...
- You're the best...

- You're the best mathematician I know!
- to deal with this issue.

This isn't some bullshit textbook problem,
okay?

This is more complicated
than anything you've ever seen before.

And if I'm right, I've got 'til
three o'clock tomorrow to figure it out.

Where did this come from?

The tower radio at an airport.

Becca, is everything all right?

Yeah. Go back to bed.

We'll just be a minute.

- Sorry if I woke you guys up.
- No, you're not.

You know there was a man who lived
a long time ago,

a brilliant man, an inventor.

He took credit for other people's work.

He conducted dangerous experiments
with radiation

that cost his assistant his arms.

He even helped
to create the electric chair,

and he used it to kill somebody
in order to prove

that his competitor's technology
was dangerous.

His name was Thomas Edison.

You strike me as that kind of person,
Derek.

Now don't get me wrong,

I like electricity,
and the world needs people like that,

but I certainly
wouldn't want to be friends with him.

I'm sorry, could you sit down?

- You said this came from a tower radio?
- Yeah.

There was something hovering
over the airport last week.

Yeah, I heard about that.

I think that this is a signal
from that aircraft.

You know what I've never understood
about you conspiracy theorists?

Say you parked your car in the same spot
every single day outside school.

- I don't have a car.
- Let's just say you did.

And say you parked it in the same spot
every single day.

And then one day, you came out
and your car wasn't there,

and instead, there was an orange cone.

Would you automatically assume
that your car had turned

into an orange cone?
Or would you assume that...

- Professor...
- it had gotten towed,

or that you had accidentally parked it
in a different spot?

I don't see what that has to do
with anything.

You don't automatically jump
to the most extreme explanations.

You analyse the reasonable ones first.

I've done that, obviously!

And nothing that happened at the airport
makes any sense.

At all.

Do you have the tower recording?

No, south of that, down by you guys
in the tower. Altitude maybe 2700 feet...

I've not seen anything,
but I'll have a look.

Do you have eyes on it now?

- Yeah, it's not moving, just laying...
- No.

The signal strengths are different
on different channels.

The strongest is the American Ground ops,
and then the tower,

and then the quietest is United.

Okay.
United is 131.075 MHz,

the tower is 360.85,

American is 460.675.

It gets louder
as the frequency gets higher.

The phones.

T-Mobile is 700 to 1700 MHz and above.
The rest are 800, 850...

Every carrier had interference
except for T-Mobile for some calls.

So somewhere between 700 and...
Thank you... 1700 MHz, it stopped.

Wait, SETI said you should use 1,420 MHz
when you're sending a signal out,

because it has the same
radiation frequency as neutral hydrogen,

and hydrogen is the most common element
in the universe.

Any intelligent life form would know
that it's special.

So, maybe they broadcast
to all frequencies...

until it built up to 1,420 MHz,

and then they spiked it at 1,420 to draw
our attention to it.

What uses 1,400 MHz?

- Wireless telemetry systems.
- Hospitals.

Any hospital even remotely
near the airport

would've gone completely haywire.

- St. Elizabeth.
- Hello, this is Dr Edison

from the University
of Cincinnati Medical Centre.

We were just wondering if you had recently
had any issues

- with your wireless telemetry systems.
- Yeah, I think we did actually. Last week.

We had to send patients to Edgewood.

The only things we don't know
are these two lines.

9,433 times 38 and 9,433 times 22.

Maybe they're landing patterns,
or maybe they're coordinates.

- 207,526 metres north.
- How would they know what a metre is?

Or a foot, or anything.

Maybe it's not even north and east.
Maybe it's west and south.

Well, the equations are meant to be read
left to right and bottom to top,

and so, it would make sense
that the coordinates might be up and over.

But I think you need to talk
to a physicist or an astrophysicist.

I could recommend a couple.

What? Professor.

I know you think that if we stare
at that signal long enough,

that something is going to click,
but you can't force it.

And I am certainly not the person
who's going to help you crack it.

I mean, Maths, Science, Physics?
It's a young person's game.

Riemann. Galois.

Einstein.

Eugène Ehrhart was 60 when he got his PhD.

The Ehrhart polynomial?

Yitang Zhang was 57

when he proved
that there were an infinite number

of consecutive pairs of primes

that were separated by less than
70 million.

Two examples.

Schrödinger. Fröhlich. Smale.

Okay! Okay.

But I'm telling you...

you can't force it.

And sometimes, you just get stuck.

I know that look.

Okay.

I'm kicking you out.

We are servants
rather than masters of Mathematics.

So, you're saying I just have to wait
for it to come to me.

Do you know the definition of "we",
Mr Echevaro?

We need to be collecting
every channel across the state right now.

Afternoon.

Chapter four.
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.

Now, if we have a square matrix "A"
that represents a linear transformation,

then this matrix times the vector

is equal to a scalar lambda times
the same vector.

Now, the "v" is called an eigenvector,

and the lambda is called an eigenvalue,

and these kinds of problems
have applications in all kinds of things,

like structural engineering
and spin transitions and neutral hydrogen.

And it has a wavelength of 21 centimetres.

That would be significant, wouldn't it?

Derek?

It doesn't matter.

The matrix is double,
or half, or whatever.

21 centimetres.

21 centimetres, what?

The frequency of hydrogen.

The spectral line of neutral hydrogen
has a frequency of 1,420 MHz

and a wavelength of 21 centimetres.

Two lines, 38 increments east.

And 22 north.

And then you multiply both by 9,433.

And then by 21 centimetres.

The wavelength is the unit
of the measurement.

It is coordinates.

Lee? Lee?

I need to use your car?

Please.
I've only got one hour until three.

Go, man.

Go for it.

- Thank you.
- Yeah.

We are servants rather than masters
of Mathematics.

Remember when I told you
that 9,433 was a prime number?

Yes.

That would be significant, wouldn't it?

Derek?

What do you think they would look like?

Here's the keys, sir.

- Will you gentlemen excuse us, please?
- Yes sir.

Let's get those off of you.

The sighting at CVG wasn't the first.

There were others.

And every time we tried
to establish contact with them

using a variation of the Arecibo signal,
we failed.

They put the fine-structure constant
in their message

to build a common mathematical language.

I didn't know it could be used
for determining intelligence.

In the new signal we received today,
there are 19 decimal places.

We can only measure it to 12.

And this one is much more complex
than anything we've seen.

The last one was 14-bit,
but this one is 42-bit.

And not only is it laid out on a grid,
it's three-dimensional.

Which tells us a couple of thing. One...

They're a hell of a lot smarter than us.

And two, when we're trying to find them,
we might be off by a lot.

In their first signal, they sent
two-dimensional coordinates

here on Earth.

- In this new signal, I believe they sent...
- Three-dimensional coordinates in space.

Well, the focus of research now
is not that it changes

throughout the universe,
but that it changes over time.

Okay, so we have to work out
a more accurate way of measuring the FSC.

Which means developing new technologies,
new theories.

And that could take five years or 500.

Or five months, with your help.

And you do understand what this means?

We're not alone.

And then there's this story
you may have already heard about.

United Airlines employees who swear
that there's something other-worldly

in the skies above Chicago's
O'Hare Airport on November 7th,

but neither the FAA,
nor indeed their own employer,

appears to be taking them seriously.

Chicago Tribune, interviewing
several people anonymously,

including maintenance workers,
baggage handlers and pilots,

who each have all described
a dark grey, saucer-like object

that hovered low over Concourse C

of the United Airlines terminal
just before sunset

before shooting off into the sky.
Some say it moved so fast,

it literally punched a hole in the clouds.
United Airlines claims it had no record

of the sighting, even though employees say
they filled out reports.

The FAA initially told the Tribune that
it likewise had no information on the UFO.

Then, after the newspapers filed paperwork

under the Freedom of Information Act,
the FAA turned up a call

from the United Airlines supervisor
to the airport control tower

asking whether the object was on-radar.
And now, the agency has concluded

it was, quote, "weather phenomenon",
and it considers this case closed.