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A journalist returns home after the death of her father and discovers a mysterious cassette tape describing strange disappearances and mysterious lights appearing in the skies of West Texas.
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00:00:28Beep
00:04:22Listen, I don't know why you're off dicking around in cowboy land right now.
00:04:26And frankly, I don't give a damn.
00:04:28But I don't have something to show on.
00:04:31Can you buy me some time?
00:04:33How long?
00:04:35A week.
00:04:42Oh, thanks, Brian, you're the best.
00:04:47Listen, I have to go.
00:04:48I have to take another call.
00:04:51Alexander, hold...
00:04:52Hey, Liz, I'm on my way.
00:04:54I hope I'm not cutting it too close.
00:04:56The security at LaGuardia was hell.
00:05:00Cutting it close?
00:05:02Is that supposed to be some kind of sick joke, Alex?
00:05:07Wait, what are you talking about?
00:05:09What am I talking about?
00:05:11You know what?
00:05:12I can't do this.
00:05:13Ryan said I shouldn't call you, and he was right.
00:05:17I'm done.
00:05:19Don't call me again.
00:05:21Call you?
00:05:22You called me.
00:05:23I don't know why you're pissed at me, but can it wait until after the service?
00:05:28I'm, uh, how far away?
00:05:30Three minutes.
00:05:31I'm three minutes away.
00:05:33It's already over, Alex.
00:05:38What?
00:05:39Wait, what?
00:05:40What are you talking about?
00:05:43The funeral's already over.
00:05:46Dad's under six feet of dirt, and he has been for two days.
00:05:51Two days?
00:05:54But you, you told me that...
00:05:57That I'm sure a big city journalist girl, like yourself, had more important things to do.
00:06:02Some hot new story, or hot new guy, or is it girls now?
00:06:07I forget.
00:06:08Lizzie!
00:06:10I...
00:06:10No, don't.
00:06:14Save your breath.
00:06:15I don't need to hear your excuses.
00:06:18The funeral's over.
00:06:19Go home.
00:06:24Um, the house.
00:06:26Um, Dad's house.
00:06:27Let me, uh, uh, help me.
00:06:30Let me help you.
00:06:31Like, pack up.
00:06:32Please?
00:06:34Already done.
00:06:37We just finished up this morning.
00:06:40There was just a few boxes of junk left in his study.
00:06:43All of his manuscripts and notes had been donated back to the Chronicle.
00:06:47There wasn't much else.
00:06:50Dad kind of lost it towards the end.
00:06:54He's been in and out of rehab a dozen times for the last couple of years.
00:06:59But you didn't know that, did you, Alex?
00:07:03Dad was an alcoholic, and that's probably what killed him.
00:07:06But you wouldn't know because you never call.
00:07:10Because you're too good for us now, Alexandra.
00:07:12You always were.
00:07:13Lizzie, I never thought that.
00:07:18He talked about you all the time, you know?
00:07:22How ungrateful you were.
00:07:25After everything he did for you, you ran that big magazine job and helped on the next plane to New
00:07:30York without even a goodbye or a thank you.
00:07:32Liz, I had to start immediately, and I called as soon as I got there.
00:07:35Enough.
00:07:37Enough excuses.
00:07:39That I don't care.
00:07:44Did, um, did, um, did, did Daddy really say those things?
00:07:54He said, he said he was disappointed in you.
00:08:06Goodbye, Alex.
00:08:08Don't try and call me back.
00:08:11I want an answer.
00:08:37Ma'am, we're here.
00:08:41Excuse me, miss?
00:08:45Miss?
00:08:49Is this not the right location?
00:08:53What?
00:08:54I mean, yes, it is.
00:08:57It is.
00:08:59F***.
00:09:13Um, can you, um, can you, uh, take me here?
00:09:18I'll, uh, I'll tip double.
00:09:20Yes, ma'am.
00:09:21I'll see you, um, can you, uh, do you, uh, do you see the right location?
00:09:51All right.
00:10:01I don't know.
00:10:26Have a good evening, miss.
00:11:07I don't know.
00:11:21I don't know.
00:12:05You never did get into the 21st century, did you, Dad?
00:12:35I don't know.
00:12:45I don't know.
00:12:53I don't know.
00:13:19I don't know.
00:13:29I don't know.
00:13:58I don't know.
00:14:01I don't know.
00:14:36I don't know.
00:14:57I don't know.
00:15:05I don't know.
00:15:32I don't know.
00:15:36I don't know.
00:15:53I don't know.
00:15:57I don't know.
00:16:05I don't know.
00:16:06I don't know.
00:16:07I don't know.
00:16:43I don't know.
00:17:02I don't know.
00:17:14I don't know.
00:17:17I don't know.
00:17:19I don't know.
00:17:22I don't know.
00:17:24I don't know.
00:17:26I don't know.
00:17:49but I don't know.
00:17:51I don't know.
00:17:52I don't know.
00:17:56My father's parents were farm laborers in the Mexican village of Ohinaga.
00:18:01My father was a strong, hard-working man, man of faith.
00:18:08In the 1920s, the mining operation really started booming, you know.
00:18:14Cinnabar, they called it.
00:18:15The red rock used to make mercury.
00:18:22Poor Mexican could make a good wage.
00:18:25Chipping away down the mines, you know.
00:18:29When we were reached Ohinaga, my father packed up me, my mother, my two brothers,
00:18:37and hauled us across the desert.
00:18:40All the way to Telingua.
00:18:44It was an amazing sight to me.
00:18:48I mean, men white, brown, black, all strung full of fire like my father,
00:18:53bored holes into the earth, an army of human ants.
00:19:01All this, I saw with wonders in my eyes.
00:19:08It was a magical moment for me.
00:19:14Mr. Cuevas, have you ever considered becoming a writer?
00:19:20Because you'd make a damn good one.
00:19:26I don't know about that.
00:19:29When did you first see the light?
00:19:35Well, I was about ten years old.
00:19:38Or a cabin.
00:19:41I was built by my father's own hands.
00:19:43Just sat beside the edge of the village, facing the mines.
00:19:50I remember I was sleeping.
00:19:53When I was suddenly awoken by a bright light.
00:19:57I mean, it must have been, like, bright outside the window.
00:20:01Because the light was so blinding.
00:20:04I remember thinking how strange it was, because the light didn't even cast a shadow.
00:20:13And it seemed like it was an eternity, but it was perhaps only seconds in a flash.
00:20:19The light was gone.
00:20:22Ran through the window to go look, and there it was.
00:20:27A bright glowing ball just hovering over, like, just 20 feet off the ground.
00:20:34And it was blue, and then it went to red, and then green, and then, quicker than you could blink,
00:20:42it was hovering over the Jesus mountains.
00:20:45And then, just like that, it vanished.
00:20:47I mean, just right into the night.
00:20:54Did you tell anyone?
00:20:58No.
00:21:00Why?
00:21:03Because people disappear when they get too close to the lights.
00:21:26It's extremely creepy, but it is not me.
00:21:27It is.
00:21:27No.
00:21:48It's so smart.
00:21:49I don't think I'm sorry.
00:21:49I'm sorry.
00:21:50I'm sorry.
00:21:50Passengers for flight 1247 CFW to LaGuardia, the flight is on time. Boarding will begin 30 minutes prior to take
00:21:58off.
00:22:01We can wait for him.
00:22:05Arthur.
00:22:09Arthur Rodriguez, please come to the flight test.
00:22:50October 15th, 10 p.m., Wild Cactus Saloon, Terra Lingua. I'm here with Mario Cuevas. I've got a fresh lone
00:22:59star and Mario's got another hot cup of joe. Mario, how are you feeling?
00:23:04I'm good. How are you, Mr. Bennett?
00:23:07Please, call me Art. And I'm intrigued. That's how I am.
00:23:14Now, when we last left off, you said that you saw these ghost lights as a kid. How they didn't
00:23:22cast a shadow. That they blasted off over the Cheezo some 30 miles away in a fraction of a second.
00:23:33Now, you said that some disappear when they get to go see the lights, yes.
00:23:40But you didn't disappear.
00:23:45No. I did not.
00:23:49Now, you also told me that people have been seeing these lights for years. Generations, even. But does anyone have
00:23:58any idea of what these lights are?
00:24:01Well, the name should give you a clue. Some say that the lights are the dead spirits of Apache warriors.
00:24:09Cheezo's Apaches were the original inhabitants of this valley.
00:24:13Chief of South Day was a great warrior. And his Baron was captured and ultimately executed at Ujinaga.
00:24:27Some legends say that the lights are fires lit by a spirit leading the lost people home.
00:24:38And others say the lights are the spirit of the Indian himself.
00:24:45Do you know what Cheezo's means?
00:24:49I do not.
00:24:52It's Apache, meaning ghost.
00:24:58And there are other stories.
00:25:01Some say the lights are burst of gas.
00:25:04St. Elmo's Fire escaping from the mines and igniting to the dry desert sky.
00:25:11But that doesn't make sense to me.
00:25:15Because I've seen the mine gas light up and burn.
00:25:20It's bright and it's hot and it's God just like that.
00:25:24It doesn't stick around like the lights do.
00:25:29Other stories? Let me see.
00:25:32I once met an old airman from the base in Marfa.
00:25:35Who told me that he was sure that Nazis were flying over the Mexican border, spying on the American citizens.
00:25:43That they were developing some secret advanced airship that would zip around at impossible speed and then vanish into the
00:25:53sky.
00:25:53Just like that.
00:25:56But don't you think that we would know that the Germans had that kind of edge on us?
00:26:01And this was in the forties during the war.
00:26:05No, that didn't make sense either to me.
00:26:07And of course there's that more recent idea.
00:26:11Little green men?
00:26:16Or something like them.
00:26:23Well, what do you think they are?
00:26:31Mario?
00:26:34Well, my mother had an idea.
00:26:38She was very reluctant to talk about the lights.
00:26:42You see, she was that superstitious Mexican.
00:26:49I think she felt that talking about the lights gave them power.
00:26:56For years, my brothers and I prodded her.
00:27:01And always she would change the subject.
00:27:03Or find something to occupy us so we would give it up.
00:27:07But finally...
00:27:12Finally...
00:27:13Finally, when I should give in.
00:27:14And I remember it vividly.
00:27:18She looked at all three of us.
00:27:20Very serious.
00:27:23And said...
00:27:26Hijos...
00:27:28Those lights are not to be messed with.
00:27:31Son peligrosos.
00:27:33They are dangerous.
00:27:37And what are they?
00:27:39We asked.
00:27:41But why has she snapped?
00:27:44Witches.
00:27:45Yes.
00:27:52Now...
00:27:55Now, you said that...
00:27:57When people get...
00:27:59Too close to the lights...
00:28:02You said they disappear.
00:28:06How do you know that?
00:28:12Because my father was a woman.
00:28:24Because my father was a woman.
00:28:37By the way...
00:28:46I mean, our mother of God.
00:28:47You said that it was a woman.
00:28:49He said that she was an actress.
00:28:49She told her to come out with her.
00:28:51We had a woman.
00:28:52And she's even a woman.
00:29:00She did not care for her.
00:29:04She was an actress.
00:29:12Alexandra!
00:29:13Brian, just shut up for a second.
00:29:15What?
00:29:15Hold on, I just...
00:29:15Seriously.
00:29:16For once.
00:29:17Just shut up.
00:29:19I have my story for the magazine.
00:29:21Wait, what?
00:29:21Really?
00:29:24You'll have it by the end of the week.
00:29:26That's great!
00:29:27What's up?
00:29:32Hey!
00:29:33Hey!
00:29:33Hey!
00:29:34Hey!
00:29:40Oh!
00:29:41God, I hold the back, baby!
00:29:44But no one I'm rocking.
00:29:46Want to be tall just locked in so far to pop.
00:29:50Got a bigger catch in me, baby!
00:29:53I maybe don't know too long,?
00:29:55football
00:29:56goes championing
00:29:56Because I really wanna rock and roll
00:30:54I wanna rock and roll
00:30:56I wanna rock and roll
00:31:40I know you're disappointed in me
00:31:42But I'm gonna try to be the daughter you deserve
00:31:54You started this story
00:31:55So I'm gonna finish it
00:31:57I'm gonna finish it
00:31:58I'm gonna finish it
00:32:06I'm gonna finish it
00:32:28I'm gonna finish it
00:32:32I'm gonna finish it
00:32:34I'm gonna finish it
00:32:37I'm gonna finish it
00:32:41I'm gonna finish it
00:32:48I'm gonna finish it
00:32:57I'm gonna finish it
00:33:17all right this is Arthur Steve Bennett I am here with my good pal Mario Cuevas it is October 15
00:33:241978 the time is 11 13 p.m. I'm on my third lone star my fist cigarette and I must
00:33:40say that coffee
00:33:41you're sipping on is starting to look mighty nice I make better I'm sure you do now Mario all levity
00:33:52aside you just told me something rather serious your father disappeared yes now please don't take
00:34:02offense to my next question but is it possible that he just skipped town hitchhiked his way out
00:34:09of Dodge I mean my life couldn't have been all campfires and marshmallows no I don't take offense
00:34:19and yes you have every right to ask that question but honestly I have to say no my father Reynaldo
00:34:30was
00:34:31his name loved his family more than anything else and on top of that he loved his work no matter
00:34:40what
00:34:41the job was because it brought life to his family so I know he wouldn't have left us at least
00:34:52not on his
00:34:53own will maybe it was an accident Reynaldo fell down a mine shaft and nobody saw another valid question
00:35:08very possible but still I don't think this is the case my father was very careful plus at this time
00:35:19we were in the lingua for over 10 years now my father knew the lingua like the back of his
00:35:26hand
00:35:28and he could navigate the mines blindfolded if he had to
00:35:34I don't have beef with your father someone that might have wanted him gone once more
00:35:42you have smart questions
00:35:46but Arthur Art you're missing the point I'm trying to make here
00:35:55that now
00:35:59I'll ask you again Arthur
00:36:04what did you see
00:36:09I don't know
00:36:12I don't know
00:36:15give him more
00:36:24what do you want with me
00:36:25I don't know anything
00:36:27I don't remember anything
00:36:32now Mr. Bennett we know that that's not true
00:36:36we know for a fact you spoke extensively with a Mr. Mario Cuevas back in 1978
00:36:44and we know every detail of those conversations
00:36:49Mario Cuevas back in the morning
00:36:51Mario Cuevas back in the morning
00:36:51Mario Cuevas back in the morning
00:36:51he was most cooperative with a little friendly persuasion of course
00:36:56don't tell them
00:36:59I'm afraid he already did
00:37:03Alex
00:37:05what was that Mr. Bennett
00:37:15Alex
00:37:17don't tell them
00:37:18anything
00:37:22are you a father Art?
00:37:24a father?
00:37:25no I'm not
00:37:27though I can't say I ruled it out
00:37:29me either
00:37:31not that I didn't desire it
00:37:34but I made a point to avoid it
00:37:37and maybe I suffer from it
00:37:41I guess I assumed that one day like my father
00:37:46I would go missing too
00:37:49and I wouldn't wish that upon any other child
00:37:52what I went through
00:37:54not anything in the world
00:37:57okay now Mario when you say
00:38:00when you say disappeared what do you actually mean?
00:38:03I mean disappear
00:38:05banish
00:38:07no mas
00:38:25no mas
00:38:28no
00:38:30no
00:41:05We know about the tapes, Alexandra.
00:41:08We know you have them.
00:41:14We will be waiting.
00:41:17And we will find you.
00:41:19You must sleep.
00:41:21We do not sleep.
00:41:30We will run.
00:41:35We will be waiting.
00:41:38We will be waiting.
00:41:40We will be waiting.
00:42:09Terralingo, Texas.
00:42:10October 15th, it is just about midnight.
00:42:15I have foregone another Lone Star in lieu of that good black coffee that Mario has been sipping on.
00:42:25You need a refill, Mario?
00:42:27No, I'm okay.
00:42:29Maybe a tequila.
00:42:32So much as I like to, Art.
00:42:35I don't want you or anyone listening to think I'm telling tall tales.
00:42:42Okay, you mean to say, you actually believe that people disappear, that they vanish when you see the lights?
00:42:49I think I already said I did.
00:42:51Okay.
00:42:52Mario, I didn't mean to...
00:42:54You know, it's not a question of belief.
00:42:56Okay?
00:42:57I saw it.
00:42:58Others, too.
00:43:00In fact, it's been happening for generations.
00:43:02But nobody talks about it.
00:43:05But, you know, people go missing here all the time.
00:43:09You could walk a hundred miles into a desert and not run into one soul.
00:43:14So it's easy to say that someone got lost or they fell down some mine shaft.
00:43:20But the locals know people have been disappearing here for hundreds of years.
00:43:26Maybe longer.
00:43:28And it's because of those lights.
00:43:31Art, why did you come out here?
00:43:34Huh?
00:43:37If you're so skeptical, why did you come all the way here?
00:43:45What?
00:43:50Tell me what happened.
00:43:57It was 1940.
00:44:00I was 17 and just started working in the mines myself.
00:44:05I worked in the sulfur mines.
00:44:08It was awful.
00:44:09Awful, grueling work.
00:44:1218 hours a day, sometimes.
00:44:15Two hundred feet underground.
00:44:17No light but the dim, glow of our headlamps.
00:44:21The choking fumes.
00:44:23And the stench like rotten eggs.
00:44:27I will admit, I was more than ready to blow some steam at the end of the week.
00:44:34Mezcal was our poison.
00:44:37Stronger than bourbon.
00:44:39Homemade by the men in the camp.
00:44:45Saturday was the unit's shift break.
00:44:48It was that one such Saturday that summer.
00:44:52I remember clearly.
00:44:55That sun just dipped under the horizon and the desert was that unearthly wash of blue
00:45:02accented by the last red shimmers of the dying sunlight.
00:45:06That blood draining from the rocks.
00:45:10We had to set down on a large boulder and begun to pass the bottle around.
00:45:16And then a shout went up from the direction of the mines.
00:45:21And man, it recognized, stood gaping and pointed at the sky.
00:45:26And we all looked.
00:45:28Though most of us knew what to expect.
00:45:31But that night, none of us were prepared.
00:45:39I mean, the lights, more than a dozen of them, all different shades and colors, hovered not
00:45:46far off in the distance.
00:45:50Several other men emerged from the mines, beckoned by the shouts of the man.
00:45:56But now he was silent.
00:45:59And we all were.
00:46:00I mean, we couldn't move or speak.
00:46:02I managed to glance down.
00:46:04Among the group of the men stood my father.
00:46:06Father!
00:46:07I wanted to scream, Papa, corre, run!
00:46:11But I could not.
00:46:13And as I hypnotized, the men walked slowly towards the lights.
00:46:18And the lights seemed to grow larger and brighter.
00:46:21I wanted to run against my father.
00:46:23I wanted to run with him.
00:46:25Away from the lights, away from the mines, away from the cursed land.
00:46:29I!
00:46:29I'm still a group of you!
00:46:33Arthur.
00:46:35You're not going anywhere until you talk to us.
00:46:41Tell us what happened.
00:46:44What did you see?
00:46:48Who are you?
00:46:51What do you mean?
00:46:54Out in the desert, in Terlingua, what did you see?
00:47:03I don't...
00:47:05I told you I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:08I've never been to Terlingua.
00:47:11I've never been there.
00:47:13Now let me go!
00:47:14I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:15I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:25I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:27I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:28I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:30I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:31I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:32I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:33I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:33I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:34I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:34I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:35I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:35I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:35I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:40I don't know what you're talking about.
00:47:49I'm gonna sit on this railroad track
00:47:56Until I start to get my wits back
00:48:03I've been so long, so short of rent
00:48:27I'm gonna sit on this
00:52:09Daddy!
00:52:19Daddy!
00:52:20It's me!
00:52:21No, Daddy!
00:52:22I'm so sorry!
00:52:22I'm so sorry!
00:52:50I'm so sorry!
00:53:10I'm sorry!
00:53:19I'm so sorry!
00:53:30I don't know.
00:53:58I don't know.
00:54:21I don't know.
00:55:00I don't know.
00:55:25I don't know.
00:56:22Do bars even close around these bars, Mario?
00:56:25I'm just going to enforce it.
00:56:28I suppose you're right.
00:56:33So, what happened next?
00:56:36What happened next?
00:56:43Well, son, Rose, and my father and six men were nowhere to be found.
00:56:49The four men began an inquiry immediately, and a search party was sent into the mines to search for the
00:56:58bodies.
00:57:00And, of course, they wouldn't find any.
00:57:07And then they showed up.
00:57:11Who?
00:57:13I don't know.
00:57:14I don't know, really.
00:57:14I guess we thought they were, like, government men.
00:57:17They were all in black.
00:57:21Black suits, black cars.
00:57:23We couldn't see their eyes.
00:57:29But how did they know when to come?
00:57:32Why did they care?
00:57:35Why did they care?
00:57:35Seven Mexicans missing in a night.
00:57:37It's hardly the concern of the government.
00:57:39Especially back then.
00:57:44And there was something strange about them.
00:57:48I mean, even right now, something was off.
00:57:55I can't put my finger on.
00:58:04Mario, I...
00:58:05Yeah, what?
00:58:11It's nothing.
00:58:13What did they do?
00:58:15Why are you afraid?
00:58:21Well...
00:58:24Well, they took us, me, the other men, that witnessed the lights.
00:58:30They put us in the back of a black truck.
00:58:34No, uh, seat, no window.
00:58:38And then we just drove.
00:58:44I mean, it seemed like hours and hours to drive.
00:58:49And then when we did stop,
00:58:54one of the men came out,
00:58:56opened the door.
00:59:00And it was night again.
00:59:03And I remember we were just in front of this...
00:59:07this big hangar.
00:59:09Did you know where you were?
00:59:11At the time, no.
00:59:13But later, I realized that we were just right outside Marfa.
00:59:17Only two hours away from DeLingua.
00:59:21They have an army base out there, right outside of...
00:59:24So they were government men.
00:59:25The CIA, maybe.
00:59:26Oh, we saw soldiers.
00:59:31But they were afraid.
00:59:33But they were taking orders from them, like...
00:59:36without no...
00:59:37any questions.
00:59:40And then they...
00:59:41took each one of us, one by one...
00:59:47inside the hangar...
00:59:49in the dark room.
00:59:55What happened next, Mario?
01:00:02Mario.
01:00:02Mario.
01:00:18I don't remember.
01:00:24Funny thing is, like,
01:00:25I don't remember none, remember.
01:00:28I don't remember none, remember.
01:00:55they were...
01:01:24I don't remember.
01:01:50I don't know.
01:02:17I don't know.
01:02:30I don't know.
01:02:57I don't know.
01:03:30I don't know.
01:04:03I don't know.
01:04:03I have to see Bennett here.
01:04:05It is.
01:04:09God, I don't know what time.
01:04:12I sent Mario home.
01:04:14Poor fellow was worn out.
01:04:21I don't know what I expected.
01:04:24I mean, a man contacts you and says he sees strange lights in the desert.
01:04:29And you drive 600 miles to the very ends of the earth to hear about it in person?
01:04:35And why did I come all the way out here?
01:04:42It's this place.
01:04:46It's like a magnet.
01:04:51Ever since Mario contacted me, it's been tugging on me like a hook in my gut.
01:05:00Terlingua.
01:05:05Terlingua.
01:05:09The name feels odd in the mouth.
01:05:14Like choking on a clam or swallowing your chewing tobacco.
01:05:19I don't know what I'm saying.
01:05:26I don't know what I'm saying.
01:05:30Sitting here, no city lights polluting my view, I behold a strange Martian landscape.
01:05:44The phantom silhouettes of the Chisos form a cocoon around the valley.
01:05:51And above them, a dizzying sea of stars.
01:05:58Brighter than I have ever or will ever see again.
01:06:07It truly feels like the very ends of the earth.
01:06:18Mario has agreed to meet me one more time.
01:06:21After he's had a few hours to sleep, of course.
01:06:26Honestly, I should be doing the same back at the motel, but...
01:06:31I just can't.
01:06:35I don't know, listening to Mario's story, it's stirred something in me.
01:06:45I need to talk to Mario one more time.
01:06:51I need to ask him one more question.
01:07:17Oh, one more thing.
01:07:19It's a strange thing, really.
01:07:23If I didn't mention it to Mario, it just didn't seem relevant at the time, but...
01:07:28On my way here, I feel crazy saying this, but I believe I've seen a woman.
01:07:39Now, at first I thought she was following me, but it's become apparent that she is not really
01:07:49there.
01:07:54I believe she's seen me too.
01:07:55I believe she's seen me too.
01:08:01I believe she's seen me too.
01:08:03I believe she's seen me too.
01:08:19I believe she's seen me too.
01:08:22I believe she's seen me too.
01:08:22I believe she's seen me too.
01:08:51I believe she's seen me too.
01:08:53I believe she's seen me too.
01:09:09Daddy, is that you?
01:09:12Arthur!
01:09:13I believe she's lost by children and sold by her mother?
01:09:19No, man!
01:09:20No, no, no, no, no.
01:09:26There We are!
01:09:42Okie Coole!
01:09:52I don't know.
01:10:24I don't know.
01:11:03I don't know.
01:11:13I don't know.
01:11:54I don't know.
01:12:36I don't know.
01:12:39I don't know.
01:12:41I don't know.
01:13:08I don't know.
01:13:16I don't know.
01:13:40I don't know.
01:13:51I don't know.
01:13:52I don't know.
01:13:56I don't know.
01:13:57I don't know.
01:14:11I don't know.
01:14:12I don't know.
01:14:20I don't know.
01:14:22I don't know.
01:14:27I don't know.
01:14:30I don't know.
01:14:32I don't know.
01:14:34I don't know.
01:14:37I don't know.
01:15:04I guess I was too late, Mario.
01:15:31I guess I was too late, Mario.
01:15:38I guess I was too late, Mario.
01:16:05How are you?
01:16:06Back so soon?
01:16:08I couldn't sleep.
01:16:11Yeah, neither could I.
01:16:14Sora, what did you want to ask me?
01:16:21Mario, there's something strange going on.
01:16:26I don't know, what's that?
01:16:30I mean, ever since you contacted me, ever since I took that god awful long drive out from Dallas
01:16:38to this far-flung patch of dust, I've had this crazy feeling that I'm being watched, that
01:16:49I'm being followed.
01:16:52I feel crazy saying it, but I keep seeing this.
01:17:00Yes, sir?
01:17:06No, never mind.
01:17:11I have this feeling stirring up in me.
01:17:16It's like this itch I can't scratch.
01:17:20It's like I just need a good hit of nicotine, but nothing quite cuts it.
01:17:27You want to see the lights?
01:17:32Yes.
01:17:35Yes, that's it.
01:17:39Well, Art, my friend, I could call you my friend, right?
01:17:44Yeah.
01:17:48Art, I know what you're feeling because I felt it too.
01:17:56It's like a craving, you know, like a magnet, or being in the gravity of a giant black star.
01:18:10And you feel like you can't fight it.
01:18:14But you can.
01:18:16I have.
01:18:18But that's a very dangerous thing you ask.
01:18:22Mario, I'm not asking you to follow me.
01:18:26I just need to know what to look.
01:18:30You told my story.
01:18:32And that's what I intended to do.
01:18:36I know how you're feeling.
01:18:38I know that burning feeling inside your head.
01:18:42It's maddening.
01:18:44And it's only going to get worse.
01:18:50What is it?
01:18:53It's the lights, Arthur.
01:18:56It's the lights.
01:19:01I'm afraid you're right.
01:19:04You know, for you, there's no turning back.
01:19:11But remember, bad things happen to those who chase lights.
01:19:22How, Mario?
01:19:27How can I see them?
01:19:35And now you're the other part of the night.
01:19:36I don't take it.
01:19:49It's almost sunrise.
01:19:53Mario has gone home and I'm alone.
01:19:59Mario's told me how to see the lights and he's told me where to go and I'm going there now.
01:20:07At the back of the cemetery there's a small gate which opens to a rocky path.
01:20:21Follow that path.
01:20:47Follow that path until you come to an old man.
01:21:04You'll know but smell.
01:21:10Suffering.
01:21:14Then all you had to do was wait.
01:21:16So here I am waiting.
01:21:36Oh my god.
01:21:38Oh my god it's here. The light is here.
01:21:42Oh my god it's beautiful.
01:21:43Hello.
01:21:46Debbie.
01:21:47Hello?
01:21:49Who are you?
01:21:54Arthur.
01:21:55My name is Alexandra Bennett.
01:21:57You don't know who I am.
01:22:00You call me Alex.
01:22:03You will call me Alex.
01:22:04You will call me Alex.
01:22:08I'm your daughter.
01:22:12I'm so sorry for everything.
01:22:15I'm so sorry that I wasn't there.
01:22:17I'm so sorry that I never said thank you.
01:22:19I'm sorry I left you alone.
01:22:20I'm so sorry for everything.
01:22:27Alexandra.
01:22:29Alex.
01:22:30Don't cry.
01:22:32Please don't cry.
01:22:34I do know you sweetie.
01:22:37I know you because I know myself.
01:22:39I can hear it in your voice.
01:22:41And if I know you like I know me then I know you are a good person.
01:22:46Stubborn?
01:22:47Sure.
01:22:48Bullheaded?
01:22:49Hell yes.
01:22:51Ambitious?
01:22:52Damn straight.
01:22:53I also know there's no way in hell you could disappoint me.
01:22:57So wipe those tears from your eyes you girl.
01:23:00And know your daddy loves you.
01:23:02And you cannot wait to meet you one day.
01:23:10I will need you.
01:23:12See her real soon.
01:23:24Daddy.
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