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01:37Eric, you weren't supposed to be here until 7 o'clock tonight.
01:57Yeah, well, something told me to come in early and monitor my listening post, and I've done it this time. I know it.
02:04I've picked up a radio transmission from an extraterrestrial civilization. I've got proof right here.
02:10Eric, you are going to drive yourself and everyone around here crazy.
02:15This is an extraterrestrial language chain.
02:18After Dr. Reiner translates this tape, you're not going to call me crazy.
02:22You're going to call me the first man to make contact with an alien life form.
02:26Don't you think that you have bothered Dr. Reiner enough?
02:29I mean, the last tape you were sure was an alien communication turned out to be a pulsar.
02:33Well, that would have been a perfect way to disguise it, but this is no pulsar. This is direct contact.
02:38Eric, Professor Vanderveer has work for you to do here.
02:42I don't have to be here until 7 o'clock, remember?
02:44Dr. Reiner! Dr. Reiner!
03:02In here, Eric!
03:04Oh, there you are. The front door wasn't locked. I didn't want to bother you, so I just came in.
03:09You know, I almost racked my scooter coming over from CRI.
03:11All right. Dr. Reiner, this is it. Alien communication.
03:18Eric, you're starting to be like the boy who cried wolf.
03:22Oh, that was a fable.
03:24This is scientific evidence, empirical proof that my theory is correct.
03:28Extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us on a daily basis.
03:31Only, not only don't we know their language, we don't even realize it is one.
03:36Let's play the tape. I'm always searching for new languages.
03:39Oh, no. I got to get back to work or else Professor Vanderveer will have a conniption fit.
03:44So, keep the tape. Guard it with your life. I've got another one on my listening post.
03:48It's a language. You'll hear.
03:50Extraterrestrial civilizations are out there trying to communicate with us.
03:53You translate this, sir, and we'll both be famous.
03:57Oh, yeah. You're already famous.
03:59This will be different. This will be historic.
04:01Historic.
04:01Historic.
04:01Historic.
04:01Historic.
04:31Before subtracting line 12 from line 15B, compute lines 2C and line 34.
04:54Man. Simplified income tax laws. My what?
05:02You having problems, Alex?
05:04Yeah.
05:06When's your birth date?
05:08May 1st.
05:09Oh, well, then.
05:13There it's figures.
05:14According to this horoscope, you Tauruses should put aside your work and attend to personal relationships.
05:22You don't really believe in that stuff, do you, Tully?
05:25After two shipwrecks and three broken engagements, you bet your sweet patootie, I believe, in the stars.
05:31And if I had checked my astrological charts each dang time, I would have known when my house was descending.
05:39Descending? Sounds like it almost collapsed.
05:43You're in no position to talk about collapsing houses.
05:46Don't worry about me.
05:48These topsy-turvy boots seem to be working just fine.
05:52Just forget I'm here.
05:54Let's see.
05:55Where was I?
05:55Oh, Tauruses should be prepared for the unexpected arrival of a friend who is often in your thoughts.
06:05Thanks, friend.
06:10Give me strength.
06:18Okay, residence.
06:20Oh, no.
06:21Oh, hang on just a minute.
06:23Dr. Reiner.
06:24Oh, tell him I won't be long.
06:26He's on his way.
06:27The doctor, is everything okay?
06:29Oh, yeah, it's Dr. Reiner.
06:31He's a doctor of linguistics.
06:32I worked with him when I was with the government.
06:38Thanks.
06:41Hi, John.
06:42Long time no see.
06:43How are you?
06:44I'm fine, Simon.
06:45Yes, it's been too long.
06:47Listen, something fascinating has fallen into my lap,
06:50and I want a second opinion.
06:52Do you think you can come over to my house and listen to something?
06:55Yeah, absolutely.
06:55What is it?
06:56You listen and tell me what you think it is.
06:58Remember where I live?
06:59Yeah, it's up by the mountains, isn't it?
07:01Rock Canyon Road.
07:03Right.
07:03It's still the only house for miles around.
07:05How soon do you think you can be here?
07:07Well, I'm on my way.
07:08Thank you, Simon.
07:09It'll be good to see you again.
07:10Good to see you, John.
07:11Good to see you, John.
07:41Good to see you, John.
08:11Good to see you, John.
08:20He's dead.
08:29Electrocution.
08:30Should have used the old-fashioned potter's wheel,
08:33the kind with the foot pedal.
08:34These electric ones.
08:36Throw wet clay on there, one spark, and...
08:38Lieutenant, we found the body over here.
08:41That's a good ten feet from the wheel.
08:43Electricity can throw you pretty good.
08:45We still can't be sure it was that wheel that killed him.
08:48It was that, or he was struck by lightning.
08:51And there ain't too many clouds in the sky.
08:53Either way, I'm afraid your friend's death was accidental.
08:56All right.
08:56Thank you, Lieutenant.
08:58Mr. McKay and I would like to hang around for a little while, if that's okay.
09:00I always cooperate with the feds.
09:02Good night.
09:03Good night.
09:03Good night.
09:04Alex, John said he wanted me to listen to something.
09:07He said something fell in his lap, and he wanted a second opinion.
09:11Yeah, but he didn't say what it was, did he?
09:12He never said much.
09:14He knew a hundred languages, a thousand dialects,
09:16but he was preferred sitting at his potter's will.
09:27Let's try this.
09:43It's blank.
09:44It doesn't make sense.
09:46What?
09:47Why would that tape be wound down to the middle if there was nothing on it?
09:53Let's try these.
10:01Blank.
10:07All these tapes are blank.
10:09Well, they must have been degoused in a race by the same jolt of electricity that killed Dr. Reiner.
10:13You're talking about a very big electrical field, Alex.
10:17Much bigger than could come from just this small potter's wheel.
10:21You don't think this was an accident either, do you, Simon?
10:23I don't know what went on here, but I know it was very unusual.
10:26It's just too bad these tapes have all been erased, otherwise we might have something to go on.
10:31You know, I still think we might have something to go on.
10:34Come on.
10:38Come on.
10:42Come on.
10:43Come on, Dr. Reiner.
11:04Why don't you answer?
11:05Come on.
11:25Come on.
11:26All right, where is it?
11:54I want it back, and I want it back right now.
11:56Eric, what's the problem here?
11:58She is. She's jealous of my work.
12:00She stole my tape, switched it for a blank one.
12:03Oh, come on, Eric, grow up.
12:05What would I want with your tape?
12:07Oh, that's easy.
12:08So you can get all the glory for yourself.
12:10Now, Eric, Eric, calm down.
12:12You and Jane are colleagues.
12:14Everyone here supports your work.
12:16Just tell me what tape you're talking about.
12:18Evidence of extraterrestrial communication.
12:20I recorded it last night.
12:21No, no, Professor Vanderveer, honest, I swear.
12:25This isn't wishful thinking.
12:26This time, it's for real.
12:28When Dr. Reiner deciphers that tape,
12:30you'll see that I'm not the boy who cried wolf,
12:32that I'm a scientist.
12:34And my age has nothing to do with my discovery.
12:36Eric, Dr. Reiner is dead.
12:39Oh, no.
12:41That can't be.
12:42No, I can't.
12:43What are you talking about?
12:44Oh, it's them.
12:50Oh.
12:56Simon, what makes you think this is going to work?
12:59Well, Alex, archaeologists working on the ruins in Pompeii,
13:03they found they could hear the sound of the volcano erupting.
13:06It was recorded in the grooves on the pots.
13:08When you get through listening to that vase,
13:11I got a rolling pin that's got a few tales to tell.
13:14Tilly, this is the vase that John Reiner was working on
13:17before he was electrocuted.
13:18Now, he was making these concentric designs with a stylus.
13:22He could have recorded the sounds in the room.
13:24Very much like the way a record is made.
13:28Now, if we can be quiet for a second.
13:29Alex, you've never been aboard ship on a clear Arctic night.
13:59There's a lot moving around up there if you're looking.
14:02Now, believe me.
14:03Tilly, I'd believe in astrology before I'd believe in UFOs.
14:07Spoken like a true Taurus.
14:09Tell her, Simon.
14:10There's never been a scientifically proved UFO sighting.
14:13Never.
14:14Yeah, he's right, Tilly.
14:15I've seen him.
14:17That's all the proof I need.
14:18Yeah, she's right, Alex.
14:21Well, we can't both be right.
14:22Of course you can.
14:24Life has many answers.
14:26Only mathematics has one true one.
14:27Now, there's billions of planets out there,
14:30many of them much older than Earth.
14:32Some of them are capable of sustaining life.
14:35Now, we're sending out signals to them every day.
14:38Perhaps to someone out there,
14:39we seem like aliens from another world.
14:44The front door was...
14:45This is it.
14:52Alien communication.
14:53Dr.
15:07dr bandervere i may not have the tape but this is a computer printout of the waveform patterns
15:28that were on it and this was no pulsar it was intelligent communication eric where are you
15:34going an alien force killed dr reiner and i'm gonna prove it
16:04excuse me we're looking for somebody named eric and he rides a scooter i think it's a motor scooter
16:29was there an accident oh nothing like that but does he work here who are you alex jagger i'm a
16:36federal agent this is my associate i know who you are you're simon mckay i'm charles vanderveer this
16:41is my assistant jane whittier it's an honor to meet such a revered colleague likewise i'm sure
16:46but we do need to talk to eric quickly do you know where he might be i'm afraid you missed him he was
16:51upset over the sudden death of an associate it wouldn't be dr reiner would it yes great shock
16:57to all of us now eric and dr reiner were working on a project together would that be eric's theory
17:03of extraterrestrial communication yes in fact eric had apparently just delivered another tape to dr
17:09reiner for analysis some boy this eric excuse me uh you'll have to forgive jane ever since eric won
17:18a doctoral research grant she's had to show the good part of his normal workload well he's a doctorate
17:23student is he youngest in the country far as i know his grant is to probe deep space for signs of
17:30intelligent life eric doesn't think too many of us down here qualify can you tell us where eric lives
17:36yes there's this dirt road just south of town now you turn to your right and you'll see this trailer up
17:43yeah there's a scooter this must be it certainly likes to live alone
18:07i like him already
18:12simon mckay eric yanson oh yeah mr mckay please please come in yeah okay take this oh sure
18:23oh it is an honor a real honor to meet you sir you know my toys toys no no no i've never had time for
18:33toys you wrote one of my favorite articles when i was a kid in the advanced science journal february
18:3878 all the rest of the articles were the same old boring stuff but yours like leaped off the page at me
18:44in an ever-expanding universe man's quest for understanding must never diminish it must expand
18:50along with the stars i'm very flattered you remember that remember it i live by it well this
18:57is my friend alex chaga all right eric we're here about dr reiner what do you know about his death
19:02yesterday i know who killed him you do an extraterrestrial life form they're here and i've
19:11got proof i'd like to hear it how did you know it was audio well we know you gave john reiner a tape
19:18and uh it was erased when he died of course it was erased they don't want anybody knowing they're
19:23here that's why they killed him before he could decipher the tape i have waveform patterns from
19:29the transmission i picked up i had a copy of the tape but somebody i don't know but look look at
19:36these frequencies the patterns that they repeat see this is not a coincidence or some freak atmospheric
19:42condition this is a language it's an alien language it is very interesting come on guys aliens are not
19:51attacking the earth okay what is that it's them they're here alex stop him don't go out there
20:00oh why do i meet them stay here here alex put this on eric i hope it'll insulate us against electricity
20:21it was them i told you they were here damn it whoa we got the step melted
20:41wow do you realize if we would have just died we would have been killed by aliens what a way to
20:51end it all my guess is it was a jet helicopter with a 500 watt frampton light simon jet helicopters
20:57don't electrify everything in their path talk some sense into the kid will you i'd love to if any of
21:02this made sense alex all i know whatever was out here killed john rayner just tried to kill us
21:10the only link is eric's tape i think it's a lot safer if you came with us eric
21:15simon's right yeah well so am i and we're gonna prove it right mr mckay we'll look at the facts and
21:23try and find out the truth so why'd you do it do what drop out rob the scientific community of your
21:32genius waste it on silly toys well eric i thought there were enough serious geniuses in the world
21:38it's about time i had a funny one isn't it what's this an abridged electrocyclotron it's just a hula hoop
21:44look what do you do with it i'll show you that is fun have a go oh no thanks that's all right
21:56well i mean all work and no play gets things accomplished eric when i was six i wrote a paper
22:03on ancient greek mythology as a basis for archaeological exploration i wrote it because
22:08no one would play with me well that's my point exactly playing's a waste of time when
22:13when you're done there's nothing to show for it you still had your paper i would have preferred to
22:18have some friends now tilly had the right idea she said life is like a bowl of stew too much of any
22:25one ingredient and you spoil the taste everything has to be in balance you have to be able to savor
22:30each flavor i had a bike once at least part of your childhood was normal i took off the wheels and
22:38chain redesigned the frame and made an evacuation pump out of it eric excuse me simon eric does anybody
22:45besides dr vanderveer and jane what do you know about that tape no except for of course the aliens
22:53of course i'm gonna go check them out simon who the aliens
22:57why is it that people think we're the only intelligent life in the universe
23:07well you see there's two sorts of people there's the prove it to me people and there's the anything's
23:12possible people now shall we see what's possible let's do it who knows what goes through eric's mind
23:23he's 16 which makes me a nosy prime older sister rather than a research associate
23:30i mean for all i know he probably picked up some sunspot activity and let his imagination run away
23:35yeah but that doesn't explain why somebody killed professor reiner and try to kill eric
23:39i'm an astronomer mr jagger not a detective all i can tell you about eric is that he has a vivid
23:45imagination so i take it you don't believe in ufos mr jagger a scientist cannot afford the luxury of
23:53imagination eric doesn't know that yet i mean in that way he's still a child yeah i know somebody
24:00just like that uh what time does professor vanderveer usually show up here by nine
24:05i appreciate you talking to me good night good night
24:21this is trojan
24:38say that again slowly i said eric jansen is still alive the attack last night didn't kill him tell me where
24:47is uh the young man now he's with some scientist who has a government agent living with him he was
24:55just here asking me questions do you know the scientist's name the agent is alex jagger the
25:00scientist name is simon mckay
25:05thank you for that information jane when you receive the final transmission from our spy on the
25:11submarine bring it to me immediately will you yes sir what are we going to do about eric
25:16i will take care of everything good night jane
25:28something the matter no no as soon as we receive the final coded transmission via satellite
25:36i will deliver to your government the service i guaranteed and we will deliver the balance of your
25:4210 million dollars but this nuclear accident must occur before the arms talks begin i said i will deliver
25:54i need only one more transmission in order to supply the data i require
26:02at that time i will supersede the pentagon's computer link to the nuclear submarine poseidon and trigger the
26:10warheads the warheads the rest utilizing the propaganda of a u.s nuclear accident will be up to you
26:19and then i will finish off mckay
26:25stop the coin what did you say
26:30oh just some uh personal business i need to attend to
26:36announcing the first
26:49the first time of the warheads the warheads the warheads the warheads the warheads the warheads
26:55hi eric good morning how did you sleep oh i dreamt a lot what about you
27:01i've been up all night but i want to show you something look at this i think i've cracked the code
27:07code what do you mean come here you may have been on the right track it might not have been the sound
27:12you recorded that was so important it could have been the actual wave patterns now look at this wait
27:17those look like the wave patterns yeah except these come from an ancient indian civilization it's a
27:22language that's extinct perhaps if we can translate the language we'll crack the code no alien intelligence
27:29wouldn't need to use a code yeah perhaps people on earth might
27:33i can't believe i i mean you think whatever killed dr reiner and tried to kill us with some ordinary
27:43hitman or something i didn't say ordinary but perhaps alex was right no he's wrong you're both wrong
27:52eric a good scientist has to be very careful not to want to prove something so badly
27:58he loses his objectivity i've never lost my objectivity eric all of you you have no imagination
28:05no vision so you you squash anybody who does our man on the submarine is scheduled to transmit any
28:13moment now the timing the timing of this incident is critical a steady comrade we're into the system
28:22we have the same access to the submarine's missiles as the pentagon all we need now is
28:28the missile destruct code and then we can detonate the nuclear warheads from here
28:41i've got it
28:44oh no what is it alex this is an access code it's an access code to a weapon system a weapon system whose
28:52it's ours simon simon eric's gone he left us on his bed
29:05oh he says he's gone to the institute to prove his theories correct
29:09i told him to stay here what a stupid headstrong simon it's the way you were somebody at the institute's
29:15involved in this simon tilly ring the institute get hold of eric and tell him to stay locked up in
29:21his listening post we've got to go
29:23that's it last piece of the puzzle
29:33hey what's going on here hold him cheng take him with us we can't leave him here
29:37you've got bad timing boy come on it's clear bring him
29:50mr mckay it's eric and jane whittier
29:53well it's mckay and friend lose them
30:06did you see he was with him in the car who those two from hong kong trojan's men
30:11trojan i should have not leave us behind this
30:28oh i can't shake him off come on mr cheng get him off us
30:35simon get down
30:41they severed the brake lights
31:00we better get back the only way to find eric is to track trojan down
31:11today you will see your work your efforts affect the entire world alter history
31:19now you wanted the world to know your name
31:22eric jansen the boy who made contact with those not of this earth you see the submarine depicted
31:29here now that submarine contains a full complement of nuclear missiles it is in direct satellite link
31:36with a pentagon from where the missiles can be launched and triggered by remote control now this
31:42is where your imaginative genius comes in when jane
31:49dear faithful jane
31:51told me of your listening post things fell into place for me
31:55you see jane was able to receive the coded transmissions from our spy and the submarine whilst i was able to prepare a place in which to use them
32:06and then you stumbled in on one of our transmissions and thought that you had discovered aliens from beyond
32:14i thought dr reiner's death very creative didn't you
32:20a jet helicopter with an advanced taser gun
32:24it erased the tapes you brought him and it kept your illusion
32:32alive
32:34well with this final transmission
32:40control of the nuclear warheads will pass from the pentagon to me
32:46decipher this and reprogram the satellite codes for detonation
32:50yes sir
32:52in two hours
32:54i will explode a nuclear warhead on that submarine
32:59to the world it will seem like an accident
33:03proof that the american nuclear defense system is unreliable
33:09it will shift the balance of power
33:12all those men on the submarine will die
33:15even the one who works for you
33:17but the man is a traitor to his country
33:21as for you
33:22you will have played your part in altering history
33:27and this time
33:29even simon mckay can't stop me
33:36now if trying to invade the satellite defense system we have to reprogram it first
33:41if i can get into the satellite before he does
33:43i can triangulate his transmission beam back to where he is and find out where he's working from
33:54the pentagon will deny responsibility
33:58excuse me
34:00my medication
34:03good health
34:03fitting isn't it that a man poisoned by radiation should unleash this nuclear humiliation on the country that poisoned him
34:19as for the pentagon the denials of responsibility will not calm an outraged public
34:26you will have the propaganda you paid for how much longer will it be
34:30we have to reprogram the satellite first then the countdown will begin
34:35i'm ready to transmit
34:38the reprogramming is underway
34:44it's transmitting from somewhere nearby can you pinpoint it for us
35:04uh-huh
35:12yeah
35:19yeah this is on the coast just south of point loman
35:21yeah that's where fort mcpherson is it's an old nike missile base it's been abandoned for years
35:27let's go
35:35we're not going to be able to get in through the front door
35:37yeah i'm calling in the military simon it's too risky for us to go in there alone
35:41no the minute troy knows there's an assault he'll detonate the warheads
35:44if we're going to rescue eric and get troy and we've got to go in alone
35:48commando style
35:49now we're going to get inside
35:50follow me
35:57come on simon you've done some
36:07strange things before but this is really stretching it no alex dowsing really works
36:13it's a stick it's a branch you cut out of a tree you can't tell me there's any scientific
36:18basis for water would you yeah but i'm not looking for water am i that's why i'm going to
36:22coil this copper wire around it you see electric companies have used copper rods to find cables
36:29gas companies have found oil nobody knows how it works but somehow it does
36:34this is ridiculous alex it won't take long
36:49we don't have long
36:57wait a minute i think we've got something come on you're doing that to the stick no i'm not you
37:03feel take this one you're not moving there no this thing science can't explain but we've got to
37:11start digging here for what what's under there this is the way in
37:17the satellite has been reprogrammed your moment of immortality has arrived begin the countdown at five
37:26minutes
37:30five minutes and counting down
37:47how do you know this was here we said this is an old missile base is bound to be ventilation shafts
37:52how do you know this is come on come on come on
38:03hey simon
38:22here put this on i'm picking up uh five six three eight kilometers
38:35keep still
38:41wait a minute
38:52try and activated the security system that floor must have a hundred thousand volts running through it
39:12the ceiling doesn't
39:20uh
39:35chang stop it oh bring him over here
39:48you can't do this you gotta stop you can't kill all those people wait until we've all done here
39:56and use this taser gun to make his dreams of aliens come true
40:04it'd be my pleasure
40:16you
40:20and
40:22and
40:24and
40:26and
40:30and
40:34You fell off the kitchen ceiling, did you know, Simon?
40:48Alex, positive thing.
41:04No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
41:34No, no, no, no, no.
42:04No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
42:34No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
43:04No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
43:34Simon, come on, this place is going to blow.
43:38It's going to hurt.
43:40It's going to hurt.
43:41Oh.
43:43No.
43:44Simon, have you got your multi-tool?
43:54Yeah.
43:55Let's short it out.
43:59Come on, let's go.
44:00Mr. Rick, it's a dead end.
44:06Let's go up the ladder, Eric, quick.
44:19Come on.
44:20Come on, Eric, quick.
44:21Don't go away.
44:33Don't go away.
44:35Oh, well, that's great news.
44:52Yeah, right.
44:54I'll have a full report on your desk this afternoon.
44:57Good.
44:57Thanks a lot.
45:01Okay, I get it.
45:02So it's centrifugal force keeping it in orbit around the body's mass.
45:06Eric, don't analyze it.
45:07Have fun with it.
45:08Uh, Simon?
45:09Uh, just keep going.
45:11Don't think about it.
45:17The FBI picked up Jane and Carol here at the airport.
45:20What about trying?
45:22They searched the wreckage.
45:24No trace of him.
45:26Well, I ain't got the figure for it, but here's the technique.
45:31You can't do it.
45:32Eric, anyone can do it.
45:34Look, even Alex.
45:35Go and show him, Alex.
45:36Oh, I don't know.
45:37Now, come on, Alex.
45:38It says in your horoscope that today you are to move in important circles.
45:43I'm doing it.
45:44I'm doing it.
45:46Yeah, see, you're doing it because you're having fun.
45:48And he's not doing it.
45:49He's not having fun.
45:50Oh, yeah?
45:50Yeah, and I'm having fun and I'm not doing it.
45:55Just a few more swivels till then you've got it.
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