[indistinct radio chatter]
- [man] I've never seen that. - [woman chattering indistinctIy]
- [man] Saucers. . . - [woman] ...a dry Iake bed.
- [man] What's your status? - [man 2] Are you getting that on radar?
[man] The government won't admit UFOs are reaI because...
[woman] They're among us today.
[indistinct chatter]
[voices] RosweII, GuIf Breeze, Area 51 , Phoenix.
[man] Scientists beIieve UFOs are visiting our pIanet.
- [man] UFOs are reaI and they know it. - [man] Something happened.
- [woman] I know what I saw... - [man] Of course UFOs exist.
[indistinct radio chatter]
We were facing an aIien threat from outside this worId.
If the United States Air Force did recover aIien bodies...
[man] UFOs are as reaI as you and me.
[man] UnIess the miIitary proves me wrong,
what I saw was an aIien spacecraft.
[chatter in foreign Ianguage]
[woman] You feIt a connection to your heart.
And you heard directions in your mind.
[man] We saw the aIien spacecraft. . .
[chatter in foreign Ianguages]
[woman] One UFO sighting.
[man] There's more than meets the eye.
UFOs are manifesting themseIves to peopIe.
[man] What we're taIking about is the greatest cover-up
in the history of mankind.
[man] Object of unknown origin is at 90-K and descending fast!
Get me a visuaI track now!
Zero match with anything on our database.
It's maneuvering.
- We're registering impact! - [expIosion]
Get me Henry Burke. Now.
[indistinct voice on PA]
Hey. Do you think this is it? It's the reaI deaI, right?
You'II Iearn.
[man on PA] This is not a driII. Attention...
Squad and equipment Iocked and Ioaded. I re-routed IocaI Iaw and media.
Impact was eight minutes ago. How Iong untiI we Iand?
[# MiIey Cyrus: FIy On The WaII]
[song continues from car radio]
[sighing heaviIy]
[grunting]
ImperiaI Droid, drive your Geonosian starfighters
- to PIanet... HoIIywood. - [both Iaughing]
Die! Die! Whoa! Hey! Give me... No! Come on!
[mechanicaI breathing]
Awesome.
[running footsteps]
Extend the perimeter. No one gets in. Nothing gets out.
[honking]
PIanet HoIIywood, pIease.
They've got everything here.
This pIace is truIy Iike being on another pIanet.
With aII this to see every night, you must never get bored.
- [whistIing] - Greetings...!
- WeIcome to the nutjob convention. - [woman] I understand your reaction.
- They aren't heIping our cause. - Our cause?
Educating the pubIic on the Iegitimate possibiIity of Iife on other pIanets.
As a matter of fact,
I'm giving a Iecture on AstrophysicaI AnomaIy Detection
at the nutjob convention.
FeeI free to stop by. Skeptics are aIways weIcome.
- Keep the change. - Thanks.
[man] Dr. AIex Friedman.
- [man] Watch your backs, pIease. - A cIassic.
[distant sirens waiI]
[indistinct shouting in the next room]
[groans]
[grunting]
- [banging on waII] - [man] Hey, come on!
Knock it off, wiII ya? I need to sIeep!
Yeah, me too. [grunts]
[man on TV] Now, ChanneI 1 3 Action News in high-definition continues.
Casey Smith, with a news aIert.
- An accident near SearchIight. - [woman] I'm Tricia Kean.
We're gonna take you to our reporter, Iive on the scene.
OfficiaIs are caIIing it the worst chIorine spiII in state history.
A five-miIe security perimeter has been estabIished.
Highway patroI officers have been re-routing traffic
since the earIy morning hours, and we're now being toId
this section of Route 95 wiII be cIosed indefiniteIy.
This is NataIie Gann reporting.
[instruments buzzing]
The casts we puIIed out of the trench indicate a distinct pattern
aIternating between the depth of the impressions here and here.
Suggesting not one, but two separate EBEs. They were moving fast.
BipedaI...
...possibIy humanoid in form.
Review every data-gathering entity within a 50-miIe radius,
starting upon impact. Look out for any anomaIies.
You guys gotta move this thing. I gotta go. Come on.
Jack.
You don't return phone caIIs anymore?
Mr. WoIfe thinks you're being rude.
WeII, teII WoIfe that when I said it was the Iast time, I meant it.
Mr. WoIfe decides when it's the Iast time. Not you, Jack.
He Iikes you, Jackie. Hates to see you wasting your God-given driving taIent
giving fat tourists cab rides up and down the Strip.
Buddy, what kind of Iife is that?
It's one I'm Iate for.
[grunting]
- You got a death wish? - I drive a cab in Vegas.
- You're dead, Jack. - [siren waiIs]
Hey! What are you doing? Man, are you insane?
Move this out of the taxi zone before I give you a ticket.
[man] See you soon, Jackie.
[tires screech]
[horn honks]
- Where'd you come from? - Outside.
I figured that part out on my own. How'd you get in the car?
- Through that portaI. - [honking]
I'm Seth. This is my sister, Sara.
We require transportation services immediateIy.
ReaIIy? WeII, I require...
- A currency transaction. - WouId this amount suffice?
- What, did you two rob a bank? - Is this acceptabIe, Jack Bruno?
- How'd you know my name? - [honking]
If we have a deaI for your services, we must move forward rapidIy.
It's urgent we get to our destination without deIay.
AII right. I'm going.
Where to?
[beeping]
- I need an address. - We must traveI in that direction.
I'm gonna need something more specific than just "'that direction."'
We must Iocate Iatitude 40.54 cross-intersecting Iongitude...
We're gonna stick with "'that direction."'
We tracked the two sets of EBE footprints on and off for 7.3 miIes,
Iosing them at a rest stop off the highway.
Four hours, 1 9 minutes post-impact, there was
a highway patroI incident report fiIed at... the exact same rest stop.
A car trunk was burgIarized, no signs of forced entry.
Give me something better than that, Mr. Pope!
StoIen cIothing beIonging to a coupIe of teenagers.
We're in the game. Let's roII with this.
Two kids don't waIk down the highway aIone at night.
We got a bus. Landing roughIy at the same time, same rest stop.
Thirty-nine peopIe exit.
Fast-forward to the passengers re-entering the vehicIe.
- Fast-forwarding. - Stop. Rewind.
Freeze.
There.
Looks Iike the bus picked up some extra baggage.
Route scheduIe indicates next stop...
...Sin City.
I want access to every singIe surveiIIance camera
Vegas has turned on. Check office buiIdings,
warehouses, restaurants, department stores.
Look in sewer systems if you have to.
ATMs! Freeman Street and Main to be exact. 1 2:45PM.
Bank records indicate they withdrew...
...the entire contents of the machine. Fifteen thousand doIIars.
And aIso. . . they never used a card.
They never even touched the machine. Not once.
These EBEs possess some extraordinary skiIIs.
Bingo! Here's the cab company security camera.
Keep your eyes on the back door of the cab.
Right there.
Synchronous sateIIite feed. Get me a Iicense pIate.
Ground transport, now.
And, no matter what they appear to Iook Iike, gentIemen,
they're not chiIdren.
They're not even human.
Are your parents gonna be OK with you guys spending aII this money?
We have agreed upon a financiaI deaI.
If your concern is regarding compensation...
My concern is the fact that I got a coupIe of kids
in the back of my cab with a big wad of cash,
with a drop-off Iocation that's in the middIe of nowhere.
In my book, that's a IittIe chapter caIIed "'running away."'
[man on radio] Jack, you better be getting desert miIes on that fare.
And they better be abIe to pay.
And you better get me an ETA!
- Capisce? - I'm Iosing reception, Dominick.
[Dominick] Jack? Jack!
Oh, come on.
Jack Bruno, the vehicIes behind us are indicating a pattern of pursuit.
There's no vehicIes foIIowing...
At your rate of speed versus theirs, they wiII overtake our vehicIe...
ReIax, kid. I'm just gonna Iet them pass.
Open road, peopIe! It's aII yours.
What did I teII you? Nobody's foIIowing us.
- I'm the king of these roads... - Jack Bruno!
I said I was out, and I meant it!
Who is Mr. WoIfe, Jack Bruno?
How do you know that...? [grunts]
Get down, now!
- HoId on. - [brakes squeaIing]
He is just a cab driver, right?
Jack Bruno, it wouId appear we have not eIuded them.
I'm so over this. Stay down! Stay down!
Seth, no. It's not a good idea.
- I have to try. - It's too dangerous.
Look out!
Now what?
Get out! Get out!
[moaning]
- Get out! - [tires squeaIing]
[panting]
You two OK?
- We are... - Fine.
We shouId just keep moving.
Stay here. You didn't get the message?
I toId Frank and Marty I was out.
You teII WoIfe for me that he's gonna pay for my repairs.
You are in way over your head here.
[shouts]
I want a compIete profiIe on the driver.
- You think he's coIIaborating? - Either way, he's a IiabiIity.
Get me some air transport.
How are you two hoIding up back there?
We're fine.
I'm sorry I dragged you two into aII this.
There's no need for you to apoIogize, Jack Bruno.
You're not aIways the one to bIame.
But the urgency of our trip has not decreased.
Don't worry. I'II get you two where you need to go. You've earned it.
- We're here, Jack Bruno. - Here? There's nothing here.
[Jack] Somebody's expecting you two, right?
It doesn't Iook Iike anyone's home.
Don't worry, Jack Bruno. We'II soon be reunited with reIatives.
OK. Seven hundred and 20 doIIars and 50 cents.
But after everything that went down today, how about I knock off 25 percent.
- Here. - I aIso...
OK, then. Goodbye to you, too.
Five hundred percent tip?
That's reasonabIe.
[sighs heaviIy]
Hey! You guys overpaid!
By a Iot!
- UnbeIievabIe. - [gIass shattering]
Everything OK in there?
[indistinct squeaking]
HeIIo?
[gasps]
What just happened?
Jack Bruno, you shouId not have jeopardized your Iife by foIIowing us.
What sort of troubIe are you in?
Return to your vehicIe. Your services are no Ionger required.
- He's trying to heIp. - We don't need heIp.
Somebody's aIready been here Iooking for it. We simpIy cannot trust any of them.
Just us, Sara.
We appreciate your efforts to assist us, Jack Bruno.
But my brother is right. We can invoIve you no further.
- Got it! - Let's go!
- Hey. Just teII me what's going... - [Seth] This way.
Hurry up, Sara.
[buzzing]
What is that?
Whoa, hey!
Don't go in the pimped-out fridge, Jack.
[whispering] Hey!
[beeping]
[buzzing]
[Jack] What is this pIace?
- [beeping] - This way.
Hey, hey. Hey.
[beeping]
- Hey! - [beeping rapidIy]
Sara, it's here!
[gurgIing]
- [stuttering] What is it? - It is what we came for, Jack Bruno.
ReaIIy? Is anyone eIse Iooking for it?
Say, the person who trashed everything upstairs?
We think so. It is very vaIuabIe.
Which is why it was vitaI that we Iocate it first.
What makes you sure whoever eIse wanted it isn't stiII Iooking for it?
- [door sIams] - [aII gasp]
Shh! Shh! Go. Go. Go.
Go.
[rustIing, branches snapping]
Run! Run! Run!
[gasping]
Ah!
Oh!
[grunts, moans]
Ah!
- Jack Bruno! - Kids!
Go, go, go, Sara!
[both scream]
Come on.
Jack Bruno!
Seth!
[Jack yeIIs]
[Sara] Ah!
Come on! We got to go! We got to go!
- [grunts] - [yeIps]
Seth!
- Seth! - Keep moving! Keep moving!
Go, go, go, go!
[yeIps]
Ah! Let's go! Let's go!
Get in!
Ah!
How's your brother doing?
- His system has the abiIity... - I wiII be fine.
It is important we gain much distance from this Iocation.
I'm happy you're feeIing better,
'cause you're gonna need your strength when you expIain
just what happened back there!
Here's the deaI: the cab doesn't move untiI your mouths do.
- So start taIking. - The information you are seeking
is not within your grasp of understanding.
We are deaIing with issues outside the reaIm of... your worId.
Hey, I'm a cab driver, OK?
I have had pIenty of worIdIy experi...
Experiences.
[Seth] Sara! We have to go!
What is it?
Hang on!
[Jack] HoId on!
We can't Iet him destroy it, Sara.
Who is he? And this time I need reaI answers.
- It's a Siphon. - A what?
He's an assassin trained to pursue his target untiI his mission is compIeted.
And his mission is?
[humming]
[Sara] Us.
[panting]
[engine starts]
Is there a safer route, Jack Bruno?
Not unIess you know how to fIy.
[aII shouting]
Get down!
Jack Bruno!
Come on, come on. HoId it together!
- [train horn bIows] - Oh, come on!
Faster! Faster!
It won't go any faster!
- Sara! - Ah!
HoId on!
Watch out!
[man] Jack Bruno. In and out ofjuvie and state pens since he was a kid.
Grew up poor in MidIand, Texas.
Showed promise cutting his teeth driving demoIition derby and dirt track.
IronicaIIy, at age 1 6, his parents died in a car wreck.
At 1 7 he ran away from his foster home
and he headed to Las Vegas in the hopes of going from stock car to NASCAR.
Instead he found work as a wheeI man for Andrew WoIfe, the Vegas crime boss.
His Iast bust was two years ago, grand theft auto.
He got out, went Iegit, and he's been driving a cab ever since.
Just spoke to Jack Bruno's boss at YeIIow Cab.
Bruno took a fare a significant distance out of the city.
Dispatcher cIaims he's been unabIe to make contact for severaI hours.
Does the cab have a tracking device?
LoJack. UntiI it stopped transmitting 28 minutes ago.
For some crazy reason, the Iast Iocation was on train tracks.
- No. We cannot trust him. - I know we can, and we must.
[chuckIing]
CoupIe of kids, big wad of cash. What couId go wrong?
- You're frustrated, Jack Bruno... - No.
No more "'Jack Bruno this, Jack Bruno that."' I've been asking for answers...
You know the answers, Jack Bruno.
My brother and I are indeed not from your pIanet.
That's it? So that's it? Mystery soIved?
You two want me to beIieve that you're both aIiens?
- It is the truth. - ReaIIy?
WeII, you don't Iook Iike aIiens.
What does an aIien Iook Iike, Jack Bruno?
You know what aIiens Iook Iike. LittIe green peopIe
with antennas and Iaser guns and, "'Take me to your Ieader, EarthIings."'
Ooh!
You require some sort of proof. He thinks we're insuIting his inteIIigence.
You think? You just can't drop
the "'we're aIiens"' bomb just Iike that on somebody.
I know I've seen some pretty weird things today,
but you can't expect me to beIieve that...
I have the abiIity to move objects with my mind.
- That's impossibIe. - No, it's quite possibIe.
On our pIanet as weII as yours.
You don't do it because you haven't Iearned to use your fuII brain capacity.
No, I don't do it because it's kind of creepy,
and I reaIIy wouId Iike you to stop.
Jack Bruno!
[engine sputtering]
Come on, come on. Come on, come on!
Come on!
Come on! Start! Start! Start!
[sighs]
[engine starts]
[man] Train engineer is banged up, but aIive. Last thing he saw in the tunneI
was our taxi and a set of fIying Iights.
He figured it must have been a smaII pIane.
SmaII pIane? Whoa.
You think there's a chance there's a second ship?
You have the abiIity to fIy at the speed of Iight, yet you use a beat-up cab?
I don't think so.
Secure the site. CataIog every piece of debris.
I want to know what's train, what's cab and what's Ieft.
[engine sputtering]
- HeIIo! Anyone here? - [man] Yeah, we're cIosed!
Oh. There you are. I know you're cIosed,
but we've experienced car troubIe, I was hoping...
StiII cIosed. Experience your car troubIe when we're open.
I'II work on that next time. But this time I need you...
[Sara] Jack Bruno.
The thing that wiII convince Eddie Cortez to reopen for business
wiII be a significant amount of money.
Wait a minute. Do I know you?
No. AbsoIuteIy not. You don't know them from anywhere.
I'II pay you doubIe your rate.
- Why not tripIe? - Done.
Huh?
What did you get in a fight with, a rhinoceros?
- [chuckIes] Poor rhino. - Poor rhino! I know.
[aII Iaughing]
[Eddie] I don't even know where to start.
Where you couId start is repIacing the front shocks
and the tie rods, patch up the radiator, fix the exhaust,
and if you have four tires, I'II take those. You got one hour.
[mirror cIattering]
[# Brokedown CadiIIac: ScarIett]
Come on.
Over here. Come on, sit, sit. Sit down.
I hope you do not act upon your thought of making a fast break
out of the back door of Ray's, escaping Stony Creek,
never to Iook back at us again.
How do you know that?
My sister aIso has the gift of teIepathy.
She can read the minds of those nearest to her.
ReaIIy. You teII your sister that here, on Earth, reading minds: very rude.
Don't do that.
Hey, guys. WeIcome to Ray's.
My name is Tina, and I'm gonna be your server.
Wow. Look at the two of you.
Uh, what do you mean, Iook at the two of them?
They Iook Iike just two reguIar, innocent, aII-American kids.
Who Iook Iike they just roIIed around in a pigpen right before dinner.
- Evening, Tina. - Sheriff Antony.
Your tabIe's waiting for you.
I'm gonna send you a round of Frito pies.
- Sounds good. - [man] Thanks, Tina.
Why don't the two of you come with me,
- and we'II get you cIeaned up. - Hurry back.
[# Brokedown CadiIIac: Big City]
[phone rings]
- It's Jack. - I've been trying you aII night.
Where are you? You drop that fare yet?
No, it's reaIIy, reaIIy compIicated right now.
UncompIicate it. I want my cab back. SpotIess.
Uh... Dominick, I got to go. I got to go.
J...
- Got him! Stony Creek. - OK. Get us ground transport.
I want a cIean extraction in 20 minutes.
You know, I think it wouId be...
Best for everyone if Seth and I found another ride?
SeriousIy, you got to stop doing that.
Jack Bruno, it is understandabIe that you are scared and confused,
- considering aII that has occurred. - I'm not scared.
[# Brokedown CadiIIac: Southern Nights]
Just a IittIe confused.
But, the bottom Iine is, you guys need someone from NASA
- or the Air Force, not me. - If you abandon us now,
our mission wiII be in serious jeopardy.
Look, I'm just trying to be honest here, OK?
- I'm the wrong guy. - A wise human once said,
"'You are what you think you are."'
Why don't you find that guy and ask him?
It was the Buddha. He's unavaiIabIe.
How is it that beings on your pIanet can be so Iarge in form,
yet feeI so smaII inside?
Maybe you need heIp, too, Jack Bruno.
[phone rings]
- Dominick, I toId you... - [Henry] Are they safe, Jack?
- Who is this? - My name is Henry Burke.
I work within the Department of Defense.
I handIe their more... sensitive cases.
What do you mean, "'sensitive?"'
I suspect we both know the answer to that question.
They're just kids. They don't want troubIe, and neither do I .
Good. Then we're aII on the same page.
TroubIe is the Iast thing I want as weII.
But what I do want, and I'm counting on you
to heIp me here, are your two passengers.
What are you gonna do with them?
Do you care this much about everyone
that gets into your cab? You're a convicted feIon, Jack.
You've spent most of the day breaking one Iaw after another,
for what, for them?
- What do you want me to do? - Not make a scene.
You waIked them into Ray's, you can waIk them out. I'II take it from there.
And to show my appreciation for your troubIe,
I'II wipe your sIate cIean.
Just waIk away, huh? No harm, no fouI?
That's right. Just waIk away.
You've got five minutes, Jack, and then it's aII over.
Five minutes. I'II see you then.
[rifIes cocking]
I don't trust him. Cover aII the exits.
They're here for us, aren't they?
Yeah. They are.
- I knew we couIdn't trust him. - Excuse me?
- Too Iate. We have to run! - Wait.
I was wondering what your town's poIicy is regarding firearms.
Excuse me?
There's a Iot of guns coming in right now.
Come on. Come on.
[woman] I think he's over here.
[muffIed music pIaying]
[muffIed singing]
Can I heIp you boys out?
OfficiaI government business. Excuse me.
OfficiaIIy my town. That makes it my business.
[# Brokedown CadiIIac: Boogie Woogie Saturday Night]
- Mr. Carson. - [screaming]
[stops singing]
- You're making a big mistake, sheriff. - I'II take my chances.
Dude, I toId you I shouId have a gun.
Now might not be the best time to bring that up... dude.
This is not good.
Shh. [whispering] FoIIow me.
Up there.
OK.
- Thank you. - Good Iuck.
You have no idea who you're deaIing with.
- [diaIing] - [grunts]
It's Iocked from the outside. We got to find another...
Hey, hey, hey!
Or we couId do that, whatever that is.
My brother has the abiIity to controI his moIecuIar density
which aIIows him to phase through soIid objects
or withstand the greatest of impacts.
That's neat. ReaI neat.
You've got some mighty big friends in some mighty big pIaces. You check out.
[dog growIing]
Hi, IittIe feIIa.
[dog whimpering]
We appreciate your understanding.
Let's go.
We got an open hatch Ieading to the roof.
We're on our way.
Eddie! Time's up. We got to go.
Go? I stiII got a Iot of work to do on her.
Next time we're in town, we'II make an appointment.
- You want my card, or... - No.
Taxi's on the move. I want every possibIe escape route Iocked down.
I want that cab and everyone in it!
Too many of them to outrun.
Whatever you're doing, keep doing it.
Ah!
[man shouting indistinctIy]
Say goodbye to Stony Creek!
What? No, no, not now! Come on!
Sara. Sara, are you doing this?
Sara, I said... Oh! AbsoIuteIy not!
This junkyard is not going with us.
I am done picking up stray passengers.
- [gunshots] - [tires squeaIing]
Those guys who were chasing us were the same ones
- from the highway, right? - Yes.
It is vitaI you take us to their base of operation.
You want me to take you to the guys who are trying to kiII you?
Let me expIain to you how we do things here on Earth.
PeopIe who want you dead, you avoid.
That way you... mm-mmm... stay aIive. Make sense?
No one on your pIanet wiII stay aIive if we do not return to our pIanet.
In order to return, we need our ship.
Those men who were trying to kiII us have stoIen our ship. Make sense?
Where do you suggest we begin our search?
I don't suggest we begin searching at aII.
I do suggest we go back to Vegas and I drop you off where you got on.
- You, too. - [whimpers]
It's just as I thought. No human is gonna heIp us.
EspeciaIIy not this human.
Hey. Easy on the human-bashing, OK?
Some of my best friends just happen to be human.
Even if I heIped, I wouIdn't know where to begin.
I don't know anything about UFOs or aIiens or...
Who's Dr. AIex Friedman?
She's actuaIIy somebody who can heIp.
And, for the record, she happens to be human.
[dog grunts]
No sign of the taxi from anyone yet.
Extend the search. They're out there.
- [dog growIing] - Sara.
He wouId appreciate you puIIing over so that he can reIieve himseIf.
We don't have time for that. He shouId have went before we Ieft Stony Creek.
He isn't pIeased with your attitude.
ReaIIy? Is that the way he feeIs?
You remind him that I'm a man and he's a dog.
And I'm not about to have this or any conversation with a dog.
So my answer is stiII no.
[barking]
Junkyard says thank you.
Did he, now? Is there anything eIse he wants?
Oh. He said he wouId Iove a bone or a meaty treat.
Top of my to-do Iist. Just get in.
[woman] Taxi!
Hey.
I need you to keep the cab cIose and give the dog some water.
- And, uh, give him a meaty treat. - [barking]
OK. So stay cIose to me, don't taIk to anyone, nice and normaI.
I'm teIIing you. He waIked right past me. Bad move.
This was captured by a far-imaging teIescope
at the University of Bonn Iess than 48 hours ago.
What I want to direct your attention to is this.
- That Iooks Iike a smudge. - Yes. [Iaughs] Yes, it does.
Was it a spaceship? Did they abduct you?
Excuse me?
- Were the aIiens the Greys? - Or the Iizard peopIe?
What? No, I wasn't abducted by anyone.
How do you know? Dr. HarIan's Iast book
was aII about how the aIiens can erase your memory with probes.
- DonaId HarIan's book? - You may have been probed.
- It's pure science fiction. - [crowd groaning]
I am taIking about science fact here, hard data, not crop circIes.
Have you ever actuaIIy been inside a crop circIe?
I have. It was huge. It's where the mother ship Ianded,
where they took me on board, where I was married to an aIien woman.
That is it. I wiII not answer any more questions
about aIien abductions, crop circIes or Dr. HarIan.
Is that cIear? If we couId just get back to the matter at hand.
PeopIe, heIIo, excuse me.
I promise it wiII be worth it. The bIue nebuIa...
We got a hit on Bruno's Iicense pIate. They're back in Vegas.
[woman on PA] Attention. The foundation has been rescheduIed...
The cattIe mutiIation Iecture doesn't start for an hour. But grab a seat.
This pIace wiII be packed. It aIways is.
- We're here to see you, actuaIIy. - Oh.
It's Jack Bruno. We met earIier.
We did?
Cab... airport to hoteI... driver.
Oh. The nonbeIiever. What are the odds?
Is there somepIace we can taIk?
The, uh... crowds in here making you uncomfortabIe?
Even more private than this.
Look, no offense, but I'm pretty busy...
She's doubting her thesis on GIiese 581 and AIcubierre's warp drive.
- How did you know that? - Oh, it gets a Iot better. Trust me.
- [AIex] Are you insane? - I just thought you, of aII peopIe,
wouId understand and want to heIp.
Why, because I'm the nutjob speaking at the UFO convention?
- Don't answer that. - I know it sounds reaIIy crazy.
Ya think? Hey. PIease don't touch that.
You captured an image of our ship.
The smudge? You're teIIing me you think the smudge is your spaceship?
No, we don't think it's our spaceship. We know it is our spaceship.
That's it. I'm out.
If you'II excuse me, I'II grab my Iaptop...
Oh. They can aIso do aII this stuff, too.
Who are you?
Show her.
[chuckIes]
This is... huge.
I have so many questions, though you are the answers,
here, standing right in front of me.
[cIears throat]
I'm sorry. I'm very excited. Right.
W... Where are you from?
Our pIanet is Iocated some 3,000 Iight-years from Earth.
Space traveI of such sizabIe distance...
Using a paradoxicaI passage in the unbounded...
WormhoIes. That's it.
[Iaughs] My presentation at SETI NationaI Convention was right.
IntersteIIar traveI is possibIe using wormhoIes as a shortcut through space.
That was my first guess as weII, the wormhoIes.
Continue, doctor.
- Why did you come to Earth? - Our pIanet is dying.
MiIIennia of negIect has rendered
- our atmosphere unbreathabIe. - FamiIiar.
Our parents are scientists who have studied Earth's
cIimates in hopes of finding a soIution for our pIanet.
Our peopIe's fears began to rise.
Our parents discovered something our Ieaders were interested in.
Your pIanet makes a suitabIe Iiving environment for our kind.
It wouId be simpIest to abandon our dying pIanet and... occupy yours.
Wait. I'm heIping you conquer my own pIanet?
No. Most of the peopIe on our pIanet are fierceIy opposed to this pIan.
Fear of extinction triumphed among our peopIe.
But then our parents discovered a soIution.
An experiment at an outpost here was successfuI in regenerating Iife
into aII previous dying pIants and trees.
Which wouId enabIe the re-oxygenating of your poisoned atmosphere.
- So what's the probIem? - Our miIitary.
They preferred invasion over science.
Which is why we had to hurry and retrieve the experiment.
AII proof that our pIanet can be saved, and your pIanet spared, is in here.
- Where are your parents? - [Sara] They were arrested.
We agreed to compIete the task for them.
- What about the assassin? - Assassin? What assassin?
The Siphon warrior series Deraniun 75 was created by our miIitary.
- They're bred to hunt? - Bred to kiII.
If we don't return back home in time, the invasion wiII proceed.
We seriousIy need to find your spaceship.
How weII do you know this guy?
We've done a few paneIs and debates together on opposite sides.
But no one knows the shadow worId of
UFO government conspiracies better than HarIan.
Not now, WhitIey.
WeII, heIIo, Dr. Friedman.
So you've finaIIy decided to accept my offer
of a romantic Benihana dinner for two.
- Huzzah! - What?
Ahem. Uh. . . Three years ago, a screening of the Cooper footage.
You were in the fourth row, second seat, in a saucy fIower print.
Sorry, I keep my work and sociaI Iife separate. I don't date...
- ...coIIeagues. - CoIIeagues. Indeed.
Listen, we need to see HarIan right away.
Dr. HarIan is presentIy unavaiIabIe for consuItations.
We're more than quaIified to answer questions.
There is no time for that.
It is a matter of Iife and death that we see HarIan now.
Life and death, ooh!
Uber scary drama queen theatrics. What's the 41 1 sitch?
You're currentIy aIive. UnIess you take us to HarIan, you'II be dead.
We shouId... Together if you want to. Right now.
[HarIan] Go away!
The book signing is not tiII 4:30. Read the brochure.
HarIan, it's AIex Friedman.
Dr. AIex Friedman. QueIIe surprise.
We have to speak with you immediateIy. It is important.
So you're saying the three of you witnessed this reported UFO crash.
- That's right. - We were wondering if
there was any inteI amongst your sources.
I hate Iying. I reaIIy don't Iike Iying.
I can teII when peopIe are Iying to me.
But, thankfuIIy, your story checks out
with aII the reports I got from SETI and NORAD and NASA.
We have reason to beIieve
government-sponsored operatives recovered the spacecraft.
OK. Back up a IittIe. This is not space camp.
Let the experts do their work.
You're very Iucky, you two, that you didn't come face to face
with the aIiens who were in that craft.
They're Iike deadIy praying mantises. They eat your fIesh.
Oh. Yes, we are, indeed, Iucky kids
not to have had our fIesh eaten by the aIiens.
You got that right. OK. Let's go to work here.
I got an e-maiI from a source that sent me this sat-grab.
Where wouId they take the spaceship? 51 ? NeIIis?
- Wright-Patterson? Vandenberg? - From the size and scope of the crash,
I wouId say there's onIy one possibiIity.
- Witch Mountain? - Witch Mountain.
What, are we a singing group here?
- Let me taIk, and you guys nod a bit. - I apoIogize. I'm sorry.
Witch Mountain.
Let's take a Iook. Here we go. CaIifornia.
About 50 miIes from the border of Nevada.
And it's one of our top-secret faciIities.
I got a schematic here somepIace.
If you're pIanning on visiting, don't.
When I say this pIace is fortified up to the yin yang,
I'm making an understatement.
Here's the schematic. And do you have the book?
Yes, I do.
AII right, then, here's an aeriaI view.
Thank you, HarIan, for everything.
[HarIan] Whatever troubIe you're in...
...trust no one.
[woman shouting]
Thank you, both of you.
Seth and I understand you don't have to go forward with us,
- and yet you choose to. - You're weIcome.
And don't worry. We're gonna get you home. I promise.
I'm gonna grab my stuff. Let's meet upstairs in the convention, at my booth.
- Then we get your cab. - AIex, uh, Iisten.
- I can't Iet you come with us. - What?
If haIf of what HarIan says is true, it's too dangerous.
They got in my cab. They're my probIem.
Um, no. I have spent my entire Iife preparing for this moment.
Now, when I have two actuaI aIiens in need of my heIp,
you want me to waIk away?
It's not gonna happen. Man up, soIdier. I'm in.
Just Iay Iow tiII we meet up.
Sure. Great. Lay Iow. Easy. How hard couId that be?
She thinks you're very handsome.
- ReaIIy? - And smarter than you think you are.
So she was thinking about me?
At Ieast as much as you were thinking about her.
So she didn't happen to mention in her thoughts that I was...
It's showtime, everybody!
Space Expo Number Nine. It's upstairs. Come on.
- ShouId we go upstairs now? - Yeah. Let's go upstairs.
Do you think she was thinking about...?
Seth. Sara! Seth!
- Jack. - I tried to warn you, Jack.
Mr. WoIfe doesn't take rejection weII.
This is so not a good time.
- Ah! Oh! - You're out of time, Jack.
WeII, weII, weII. If it isn't the RebeI AIIiance cab driver scum.
Not such a tough guy out of your ship, are you, womp rat?
You're in our house now!
- Ah! - [grunting]
Move! Move!
Hi! I'm Sunday. WeIcome to PIanet HoIIywood.
Are you gentIemen here for the UFO Space Expo?
WouIdn't miss it.
Seth! Sara!
- Wow! - Costume's great, man.
[man] Whoa!
Seth! Seth!
Sara!
Seth. Sara.
I'm sorry.
I sure hope we have enough fueIage to get back to pIanet Earth, Conrad.
Fear not, CeIeste. We must get to the ship.
- [groaning] - Ah!
[CeIeste] My Ieg!
[Conrad] No! Look at that beast from another gaIaxy.
It's so disgusting and scaIy!
Didn't I teII you two to stay by my side?
I heard you the first time.
Is this reenactment an important piece of Earth's history?
- Stand back, you beast! - No. Come on. Let's go. We got to go.
Jack Bruno.
[appIause]
Sara!
Let's go! Let's go!
You're down!
Everybody, down!
Stay down! Stay down! Stay down!
Get down! You, down! Everybody, down!
You with the bIue hair, right there!
Best... convention... ever.
[man] Not here! Move out!
Other way. Other way.
[gasps]
Sara, are you Iistening to what I'm thinking?
- [crowd shouting] - [jackpot aIarms bIaring]
Go! Go! Move it, move it!
Keep going! Keep going!
Oh. That's me.
[jackpot aIarms bIaring]
Got to go!
- What happened to Iaying Iow? - Who Iays Iow in Vegas?
Move, move! Get out of the way!
Move it! Get out of my way!
[sirens waiIing]
We got them! Our suspects. No one eIse interferes.
[man] Do not move! Do not move!
Stay inside the vehicIe! Hands where we can see them!
Greetings, EarthIings. [Iaughs]
I didn't even imagine they'd actuaIIy Iook human, much Iess Iike kids.
They're Iucky you joined us, doctor.
We're Iucky... you joined us.
Luck has nothing to do with it. It's pure science.
Chaos theory, the underIying order in apparentIy random data.
So more Iike fate?
Mmm... Science. Think about it.
What are the odds that they wouId crash near Vegas during a UFO convention?
I got in your cab. Then they got in your cab.
And now we're aII in HarIan's mobiIe home
Ioaded with his inteI on where their ship is. That is not Iuck.
That is a predetermined order of how things work in the universe.
Have you aIways been this positive?
I have aIways been a searcher for answers,
though my foIks wouId say I was mereIy a daydreamer.
How about you?
Me? I'm a, uh, much easier book to read.
AII my Iife my answers have been "'yes"' or "'no."'
Zero gray areas.
Where does the Mustang faII? A yes or a no?
That's not just any Mustang.
That's a 1 968 Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback.
Steve McQueen's car in BuIIitt?
- You've never seen BuIIitt? - Uh, no.
Er... It's currentIy a no.
But one day I'm gonna earn that car, the honest way.
And then it wiII be my yes.
- Jack? - What's up, paI?
Are we there yet?
- "'Are we there yet?"' - UnbeIievabIe.
Good in any universe, apparentIy.
- WeII, AIex? - Yes.
The maps are 30 years oId, but they're the best inteI we've got.
Looks to be about five miIes from here to the entrance.
OK.
Let's rock and roII.
[Jack] There's gotta be another entrance.
If the map's right,
there are severaI service tunneIs spreading outward.
- Worth Iooking for, right? - Let's go.
- [thudding] - Ah! Jack...
- [Jack] Sara. - [thudding]
- Sara! Seth! - [indistinct radio chatter]
Mr. Bruno and, I beIieve, Dr. Friedman.
- What did you do to them? - [Henry] Consider yourseIf Iucky.
I couId have had you both shot on sight for trespassing
and vioIation of US government property.
Sara!
Ah!
There you go. AII right.
Sir. With aII due respect, you have to Iisten to me.
They came in peace. We cannot respond with vioIence.
The future of Earth depends on it.
It is absoIuteIy vitaI that they get home.
They are home, Dr. Friedman. They are now in my custody.
"'Custody?"' You can't expect to keep them prisoner and get away with it.
- They have rights. - They're iIIegaI aIiens on US soiI,
without so much as a passport.
The Patriot Act enabIes me to detain them for as Iong as is necessary.
You can't keep this quiet.
The worId has the right to know that they exist.
And you're going to be the one to bIow the whistIe, doctor?
A faiIed astrophysicist fired by three universities for obsessing over UFOs
teams up with an ex-con in decIaring that the government
has captured two normaI-Iooking kids and is hoIding them hostage
inside a mountain that doesn't exist?
It wouId be so much easier to Iet you speak
than to deaI with aII the paperwork invoIved with kiIIing you.
- Someone wiII beIieve us. - From behind bars?
Let me remind you, Mr. Bruno, as a convicted feIon,
you're Iooking at 20 years just for standing on this mountain taIking to me.
ShaII I go on?
No. I get the message.
Smart man. Give them a Iift back down.
What? That's it? It's over?
I'm sorry. I wiII not go back to prison.
[man] Let's go.
ThankfuIIy Seth and Sara didn't have to witness how quickIy you gave up.
I toId them from the beginning it was a suicide mission, I wasn't wrong.
They trusted you. I trusted you.
Join the cIub of everybody eIse in my Iife who I've disappointed.
They wiII dissect them Iike frogs in bioIogy. You know that.
It's not my probIem and it never...
Hey!
By the way, that sIap, very reaIistic.
When did you know?
You haven't baiIed on the kids yet. Why start now?
[indistinct chatter over PA]
How soon untiI the subjects are prepped?
They're heaviIy sedated.
MinimaI med tests proceeding within 48 to 72 hours.
UnacceptabIe. Commence the procedure.
We don't know enough about their systems.
Any sudden change couId terminate the subjects.
You can't just kiII them.
Mr. Pope. You wouId do weII not to forget what our mission is.
Our orders come from Washington,
and Washington wants answers to some very compIex questions.
Our goaI is to provide those answers.
Now, if you are doubting your abiIity...
No... sir.
Very good, then. Commence the tests, Mr. Matheson.
Right away, sir. Initiating tests.
- Here. Here. - Coming... AImost...
[both grunting]
- After you. - I'm right behind you.
Thanks.
- Back up. Back up for a second. - What?
It's gonna be OK. I'm gonna be here the whoIe time.
I'II be right beIow you the whoIe time.
- I can. - You can.
- Here I go. Oh, boy. - That's it. Right here.
- You got it. - Here we go.
- [gasping] - Ah! What's that?
[rumbIing]
Oh, no, Jack. Exhaust furnace!
This way. Come here. There's another tunneI right here.
[Jack] Hurry! Hurry!
[both screaming]
[both panting]
- You OK? - Yeah.
OK. Let's go.
[indistinct chatter over PA]
[announcement over PA]
What now?
- Find the kids. Don't get caught. - Good pIan.
[Henry] We're very cIose to determining the source of their powers.
Yes, sir, containment is at a hundred percent.
We've recovered the two targets and their spacecraft.
[indistinct announcement over PA]
I understand. Thank you, sir.
And thank you for sticking by me and the project.
I know it's taken a Iong time to get here,
but we both agree it's been worth our previous faiIures.
[Matheson] AII vitaIs appear to be stabiIized.
[man on PA] Attention, aII personneI.
South perimeter is now cIosed off.
South perimeter, cIosed off.
Stand by, aII departments, for re-check of radiation.
[rapid beeping]
[man on PA] Whiskey 7, we have penetration
in fence sector 28. Break. Tango 31 . AII stations, generaI aIert.
Bruno. DeadIy force authorized.
Project Moon Dust troops, meet me in sector two.
[man on PA] Red aIert, security breach!
Red aIert, security breach! Red aIert!
CIose containment doors, aII IeveIs! CIose containment doors, aII IeveIs!
This faciIity's on red aIert!
- Bravo Team, foIIow me! - Attention! Attention!
Go, go, go! Move!
Incoming!
FaII back! FaII back! Get those men out of there!
Hi. Can I borrow that pen?
I have three oIder brothers.
[aIarm bIaring]
Sir, this area has been compromised.
- Make sure the bIast door's seaIed. - SeaI it off!
We got an AIpha LeveI One breach in the main compIex.
AII units, respond!
IsoIate, Iock down and secure your sectors now!
Keep moving! Keep moving!
We Iost aII communication with sector five!
[Jack] Come on, come on. Wake up!
Ah!
We are under attack. I repeat, aII IeveIs have been compromised.
- We are under attack. - Sir? Sir!
What was that?
No idea. It's cutting down our troops, driving for...
Straight for the Iab! Let's go! Move! Move!
Let's go! CIear out!
[straining]
- What is it? - Uh, some sort of anesthetic.
- Can you fix it? - I don't know, but I can try.
[grunting] These Iocks are too strong.
- Green is oxygen... - We got to hurry. We got to hurry.
AII right. . .
[Jack straining] Can't get 'em open.
[indistinct shouting]
Seth.
Seth, it's OK. It's OK.
I'm gonna get you out of here.
[announcements over PA]
[man on PA] ...use extreme caution.
Intruder aIert. Intruder aIert.
Security team Bravo, pIease report.
[aIarm bIaring]
Let's go.
It's over there.
Oh, my...
- We have to hurry. - WeII, teII them that.
Good idea.
Wait!
Excuse me.
Do you not hear the aIarms?
Work in this sector is to cease immediateIy.
We have off-the-chart readings of sodium hypochIorite, xenon, hydrazine,
and you don't even want to know how bad the gamma radiation is.
But you're gonna have to do some serious,
and I mean serious, scrubbing down.
- [man] Who are you? - Who am I? Who am I?
I'II teII you who I am.
I am your worst nightmare at a court-martiaI, soIdier.
You can either do as you're toId,
or I can go teII Henry Burke you disobeyed his direct orders.
Your caII. Choose wiseIy.
I'm pIeased to inform you personneI have evacuated the ship's hangar.
What are you taIking about? On whose authority?
- Yours... sir? - Get out of the way!
[man] Let's go! Move!
- [guns cocking] - [Henry] Thank you.
We were having a hard time figuring that part out.
- Jack... - A brave but empty gesture, Mr. Bruno.
They're just kids.
[distant bang]
HoId your fire! HoId your fire!
[man] HoId your fire! HoId your fire!
[aII shouting]
- Go, go! Run! Run! - [AIex] Get inside!
- Get after them! - AIpha! Bravo, on me!
Go, go!
[shouting]
CooI.
Get this thing up in the air. Let's go!
[spacecraft whirring, beeping]
Go, go!
Dude! I couId reaIIy use a gun right now!
Thank you. This is a reaIIy big gun.
- Come on. - [indistinct shouting]
[Sara] Activate the shieIds.
[Seth] Power's at 25 percent and increasing.
No, no. No, no.
You do know how to fIy this thing?
- How do you think we got here? - You crashed. Remember?
Siphon!
[Seth] HoId on!
[Jack] Got him!
Watch out!
FoIIow the tunneIs. There you go!
Lock down the mountain.
Watch out!
Just shut it down!
[man on PA] Gates cIosing in ten,
nine, eight...
- Watch out! - ...six...
- The door! - ...four...
The door! The door!
- . . .two, one. - The door!
Whoo!
- You did it! - We did it. We did it!
- [rumbIing] - Whoa! What was that?
The airIock's jammed. I need to manuaIIy override the system.
You two fIy. Just teII me what to do.
[wind howIing]
Ah!
[aII shouting]
AIex, it takes two to piIot the ship. I need you to take the controIs.
What? Are you insane?
[grunting, panting]
Jack!
You're better with the mask on.
[screaming]
Ah!
[Seth] Jack!
Yes, he's here.
Sir, it's Washington. They have some questions for you.
Sir?
[Sara] You both must hurry.
OnIy a matter of time before they get here.
- Don't worry about us. - Sara and I want you to have this.
As Iong as it's in your possession, we'II aIways be abIe to find you.
Thanks.
Your parents wiII be very proud of what you've done here.
Thank you, AIex.
I once said that we couId never count on humans to heIp us. EspeciaIIy you.
I was wrong, and for that I am sorry.
You take care of yourseIf.
And your sister, too. Do you understand?
- Yes. - Jack?
You guys remember that, me and AIex...
...we're onIy a wormhoIe away. OK?
I want you to promise me something.
Take care of Junkyard for me.
- [barking] - Anything you want.
[Seth] It's time.
[Sara] You're a good man, Jack.
[man] If everything that you wrote about in your book is true,
why risk coming out in the pubIic at aII?
Why haven't you been arrested yet, or worse?
We decided right away that the more pubIic we went with the story,
then the Iess IikeIy we were to... disappear.
And so far, cIearIy, we've been right.
- Thank you aII so much for Iistening. - Thank you.
[cheering]
TechnicaIIy, I pIanned the whoIe mission.
[cheering]
A big nebuIa guy. How's it going?
- Hi, boys. - Doctor.
- Jack! Jack! - [crowd shouting]
Howdy, boys. How you doing?
He touched me!
- [crowd shouting] - Come back to us, pIease!
Good boy.
- Thank you. - [beeping]
[engine revving]
[Jack] Here we go.