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Maggie tracks down her estranged and reclusive father Lloyd; together they attempt to make first contact
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00:01:37Okay, sweetie, you're all set.
00:01:38You need anything else?
00:01:40No, I'm okay.
00:01:44Okay.
00:01:45Well, enjoy, hon.
00:01:47I'll be fine.
00:01:48Let's go.
00:01:51I'm sorry.
00:02:00I'll be fine.
00:02:03The Amanda, the city's house.
00:02:05We have to sit down for your lives, so you're all set, and you'll be fine.
00:02:39Hello?
00:03:12Hello?
00:03:31Oh my God!
00:03:40Fuck.
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00:06:03Come here, buddy.
00:06:13It's a cherry bark maple.
00:06:16You know what I planted the original?
00:06:19The old house?
00:06:20Sprigged it.
00:06:23Brought this 2,000 miles.
00:06:28It's really, really pretty in the wintertime.
00:06:32Leaves all come down.
00:06:34Barks a brilliant red coral blaze.
00:06:38You remember that tree?
00:06:45I think so.
00:06:47Uh...
00:06:48Yeah.
00:06:49Yeah, you and I planted it as a seedling.
00:06:51So this is a step tree.
00:06:56Yeah, it was our tree.
00:07:00It was probably the last time we saw each other.
00:07:09It's got really pretty leaves.
00:07:13The bark is very beautiful.
00:07:15I like the way the wind carries the...
00:07:26The wind, how it moves through the leaves.
00:07:29It's really nice, don't you think?
00:07:34Dad.
00:07:43I can't really take a harsh climate.
00:07:49Yeah, winter's pretty tough on them.
00:07:56Okay, come on.
00:07:58Like this.
00:07:59Come on.
00:08:17Found this old ball.
00:08:29There you go.
00:08:32See?
00:08:33She got the whistle down.
00:08:35Yeah.
00:08:36Right.
00:09:05Yeah.
00:09:35Yeah.
00:10:11Yeah.
00:10:12Hi.
00:10:13What are you doing up?
00:10:15Can't sleep.
00:10:17Um...
00:10:18You going somewhere?
00:10:20Uh...
00:10:21Yeah, Amigo and I were just going to go, make the rounds.
00:10:27So, have a good night.
00:10:29Might want to wake him up.
00:10:32I'll come with you.
00:10:33Nah, you know, it's really something he prefers to...
00:10:36Just he and I, quality alone time.
00:10:40Just grabbing my coat.
00:10:41Amigo, what the fuck?
00:10:50If he starts blinking his eyes a lot, that means he's nauseous.
00:10:55Seems okay right now.
00:10:57Ah, yeah, it's been a while since he threw up in the truck.
00:11:01So tell me more about this music, Dad.
00:11:05Yeah.
00:11:07It's a lot of harmonic distortion.
00:11:09But then I run it through the board with inanimate objects, bleach bottle, pie pan.
00:11:21Pipe pans are actually pretty sweaty.
00:11:26That sort of thing.
00:11:27You're going to take a ride up here in the next gravel road.
00:11:30Dad, where are we going?
00:11:32Uh, you know.
00:11:34Good night to go searching.
00:11:37Right, Migs?
00:12:02Oh, fuck.
00:12:04What are we looking for?
00:12:07Are you?
00:12:08We usually show up around now.
00:12:15What exactly?
00:12:16You'll see.
00:12:18It's a...
00:12:20It's a brain smash.
00:12:27Oh, look.
00:12:29Look.
00:12:30Right above the horizon.
00:12:31See those flashing lights?
00:12:33See those lights?
00:12:34No.
00:12:34No.
00:12:34Here.
00:12:35Look through these.
00:12:37Straight ahead.
00:12:38Right on the horizon.
00:12:39You see them?
00:12:40No.
00:12:41Are these clean?
00:12:42Okay.
00:12:43Forget these.
00:12:44Hold on.
00:12:44Here.
00:12:44Come here.
00:12:45Look through the camera.
00:12:46There's an infrared filter there.
00:12:51Red blinking lights?
00:12:54Yeah.
00:12:54But what are they doing?
00:12:56Moving.
00:12:58Okay.
00:13:00So it is a...
00:13:02Airplane?
00:13:02No.
00:13:03No.
00:13:03An airplane can't hover like that, Maggie.
00:13:05Is it hovering?
00:13:06Yes.
00:13:07They're hovering.
00:13:08So you gotta think bigger.
00:13:09Think bigger.
00:13:10Think interplanetary.
00:13:16You can say it.
00:13:19A UFO?
00:13:20Yes.
00:13:20Whoa.
00:13:20What?
00:13:22Well, technically it's an IFO,
00:13:23because you just identified it.
00:13:25Yeah.
00:13:26They're communicating with us.
00:13:28Oh.
00:13:29You know, I gotta signal them back.
00:13:32I used Moore's code.
00:13:34That way they know that I saw them.
00:13:48The series of dots and dashes.
00:13:52Samuel Moore's.
00:13:531830s.
00:13:56The red orbs.
00:13:57Those are the ones that are most vivid.
00:14:03Yeah.
00:14:09It's amazing, man.
00:14:12So much that we don't know about.
00:14:16So much mankind doesn't want to know about.
00:14:21It's a shame.
00:14:31Mm-hmm.
00:14:42They're gone.
00:14:45Yeah, they don't stay long.
00:14:46They just drop by to let me know they're around.
00:14:51They're kind of...
00:14:54interplanetary drive-by.
00:14:58The violent imagery, though.
00:15:07Well...
00:15:07It's better.
00:15:13It's good.
00:15:14It's a good first sighting.
00:15:16There they are, father, daughter.
00:15:19Excellent conditions.
00:15:21I knew everything was accomplished that needed to be accomplished.
00:15:26Okay, that's it.
00:15:28You wanna drive those?
00:15:30Okay.
00:15:30Once your assholes start showing up right around daybreak.
00:15:37Come on, Ego.
00:15:39Come on, buddy.
00:15:40Come on, Ego.
00:15:51Come on, buddy.
00:15:56Come on, Ego.
00:16:01Just to be clear,
00:16:03they reached out to me first.
00:16:06It was, like,
00:16:08three years ago.
00:16:11Okay.
00:16:12I mean, at first, it was just a flash of light,
00:16:15a flash of color.
00:16:19But I...
00:16:21They started flying geometric patterns I thought
00:16:23it'd be rude not to acknowledge their presence.
00:16:27But they found me for a reason.
00:16:30They knew.
00:16:34Knew what, Dad?
00:16:38I was listening.
00:17:03Not out of a pool.
00:17:04I remember that the
00:17:04symbol that looks like roadway is permanent.
00:17:05So, it was just a touch.
00:17:05And it thì, like yourHA,
00:17:44It's pulsing, it's sending signals, there's no question in my mind, it's pulse, it's pulsing.
00:17:49She's completely shape-shifting.
00:17:51Okay, now they're moving Matt back into a more fundamental, almost triangulated formation.
00:17:55But the red orb is clearly...
00:17:58Oh, look at that. I'm gonna assume that's the leader.
00:18:01It's so abrupt and so quick.
00:18:09Can pose some sort of a threat. Probably would have known about it a long time ago.
00:18:15Push came to shove, we can do some shoving back.
00:18:19I know how to defend the Northwest Quadrant.
00:18:23All I've ever seen is peace and contentment in their signaling.
00:18:30Hey! What the fuck are you doing here?
00:18:33I warned you people not to show up again.
00:18:37You don't have any authority to be here.
00:19:06No worries.
00:19:08Yeah.
00:19:08No worries.
00:19:09No worries.
00:19:57Yeah, they were really biting about a month ago.
00:20:04Probably not going to get anything today.
00:20:06I never used to catch much fish anyway, Dad.
00:20:09I used to catch your share, but I don't know about today.
00:20:15We probably have to manage our expectations.
00:20:20How's Michael?
00:20:23I haven't seen him for a very long time.
00:20:29There's a Ben, though.
00:20:35Ben is my husband.
00:20:41He got married.
00:20:49It wasn't a big event or anything like that.
00:20:55Just him and I at town hall.
00:20:58Our friend made us dinner later.
00:21:03Mom wasn't there.
00:21:05Bucky wasn't there.
00:21:06He was really small.
00:21:10What's his name?
00:21:11Ben?
00:21:12Mm-hmm.
00:21:15What does he do?
00:21:18He's a graphic designer.
00:21:21He's a good person.
00:21:24I think you'd like him.
00:21:27Maybe not some of his jokes, but...
00:21:32Do you know how to use a chainsaw?
00:21:36Dad.
00:21:38It's important.
00:21:43Well, I've always heard the...
00:21:47best way to make a marriage last...
00:21:50Dad?
00:21:50I don't want this.
00:21:53Let's just fish.
00:21:55I think...
00:21:57I think fathers are supposed to give daughters advice.
00:22:00Yeah.
00:22:02Sometimes.
00:22:06Not now.
00:22:15Oh, shit!
00:22:18Maggie!
00:22:21Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie.
00:22:26Mr. Bobby Sark!
00:22:27In the house!
00:22:29Oh, well.
00:22:31Bobby Sark!
00:22:32On the creek!
00:22:34Oh, man.
00:22:36Come on.
00:22:37Talk to old Bobby.
00:22:38Bobby will help you out with all your problems.
00:22:44Hi, Bobby.
00:22:45What's up, Maggie?
00:22:46It's been a long time.
00:22:49Too long, Maggie.
00:22:50Too long.
00:22:56What?
00:23:00What are you doing here?
00:23:02I just thought I'd drop by.
00:23:04See if there's anything heart-to-heart you want to talk about.
00:23:09Well...
00:23:11Yeah, I could use your help.
00:23:14Cool.
00:23:18I'm worried about my dad.
00:23:24Okay.
00:23:27He's out here in the middle of nowhere with no friends, just a dog, some blinking lights, a slot.
00:23:42And I worry about him.
00:23:47And I worry about him.
00:23:48Do you know the last time you went to the doctor?
00:23:55Do you think it's been a long time?
00:24:01I've been noticing these things about him.
00:24:04I've been noticing these things about him.
00:24:06We'll be talking.
00:24:08And he's with me.
00:24:10And then suddenly...
00:24:17Do you know what that's about?
00:24:20Do you know what that's about?
00:24:40I'd like to do that with you.
00:24:42It's T-Tuesday.
00:24:48Mm-hmm.
00:24:57Want to get a milkshake?
00:25:00Sure.
00:25:29Oh, this is where Charlie works.
00:25:32Yeah, she's great.
00:25:34She's the only cool person in this godforsaken town.
00:25:39Hi, Charlie.
00:25:40Hey.
00:25:40How are you?
00:25:41I am well.
00:25:42How are you?
00:25:44Charlie's Maggie, my daughter.
00:25:46This is Charles, my friend.
00:25:48Hey.
00:25:52How's Mika doing?
00:25:53He's good.
00:25:54Yeah.
00:25:54He's good.
00:25:55Yeah.
00:26:00We're going to eat.
00:26:01Okay.
00:26:02I'll get your table ready.
00:26:09Egg whites in last.
00:26:10Fold them in.
00:26:11Keep the bubbles.
00:26:13No flat pancakes.
00:26:15That would be tragic.
00:26:17Milkshakes.
00:26:19Nice.
00:26:19Oh.
00:26:20You guys look like you've had an adventure today.
00:26:24What have you been doing?
00:26:25We went fishing.
00:26:27With Bobby Sock.
00:26:28Mm-hmm.
00:26:30Who's Bobby Sock?
00:26:31He's a sock.
00:26:34You know what?
00:26:35I think he was in middle school, and there was a kid that was messing with her.
00:26:43I think his name was it Sean Boogerson?
00:26:48Boogerson.
00:26:57Boogerson.
00:26:58He was singing Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man, because my voice had dropped significantly
00:27:02that year, and he thought it was very funny and very clever.
00:27:06For some reason, I thought it was...
00:27:08And then got the whole school bus singing it on our class trip on the way back from the
00:27:12exploratorium.
00:27:13So that was the day that I ran away.
00:27:16Where did you go to?
00:27:18Very far away place.
00:27:20The fort that we built in the backyard.
00:27:24Mm-hmm.
00:27:24I wanted to be supportive, so I brought her a juice box.
00:27:29Took me a snack pack.
00:27:30Oh.
00:27:31Hoping that she would come back into the house.
00:27:35Had nice words.
00:27:36Yeah, she wouldn't talk to me, but she'd talk to Bobby Sock.
00:27:41What did he say?
00:27:43He said, this too shall pass.
00:27:47Voice gets me every time.
00:27:50Are you sure that was his name?
00:27:51How could I forget it?
00:27:53That stuff sticks.
00:27:56So silly, but it does.
00:28:00Bobby Sock to the rescue.
00:28:03Mm-hmm.
00:28:04Here's to Bobby Sock.
00:28:05Yes.
00:28:06Here's to Bobby Sock.
00:28:08Bobby Sock.
00:28:26Yeah, I've only seen it once.
00:28:29I don't even remember when.
00:28:322008, 2007.
00:28:34That's really, it's the white whale.
00:28:38White whale.
00:28:39White whale.
00:28:39White whale.
00:28:40White whale.
00:28:41White whale.
00:28:42If I may have, he's a white whale.
00:28:47Unidentified white whale.
00:28:50It's huge.
00:28:53Great oceanic beast.
00:28:56But in the galaxy.
00:29:00What?
00:29:01It's long.
00:29:03Like a bridle train.
00:29:07Dad.
00:29:08A galactic serpent.
00:29:10You okay?
00:29:11Dad, what's up?
00:29:12What are you doing?
00:29:14Just watching you.
00:29:16It's the way I used to watch you when you'd be at your basketball game, sitting on the bench.
00:29:24Keywords on the bench.
00:29:27Slam dunk Tuesday.
00:29:30Pretty good.
00:29:30I haven't seen it.
00:29:32I haven't seen it.
00:29:32Oh, gosh.
00:29:33You remember that?
00:29:35Oh, yeah.
00:29:36I wrote that a very long time ago.
00:29:39What was I?
00:29:40Six, seven, eight?
00:29:41I'm surprised you remember that.
00:29:43It's just nice to see that you're pursuing your passion.
00:29:47Funny that you say that, because, um...
00:29:50Wait, wait.
00:29:52There's the best part.
00:29:54Tomorrow's not a night.
00:30:05Yeah.
00:30:08Yeah.
00:30:31There you go.
00:30:35Just country coffee, chicory.
00:30:37It's not anything fancy like you get in the city.
00:30:40I don't drink fancy coffee in the city.
00:30:44Right.
00:30:49It's gonna look better when it's dry.
00:30:52Yeah, I'm sure.
00:30:54Acid Man's kind of funny, though.
00:30:58Acid Man.
00:31:00These townie kids.
00:31:02Just fucking around.
00:31:04I was gonna ask you, what made you pick this place?
00:31:08Ah, you know, it's a good place to be left alone.
00:31:13Sorry that's not working out for you.
00:31:15It's working out for me.
00:31:18What about you, Maggie?
00:31:19What brings you out here?
00:31:22I told you.
00:31:24I wanted to check in on you.
00:31:28What else?
00:31:34Come on, Migo.
00:31:35Come on.
00:31:36I need a bullshit Betty out here.
00:31:39Come up with a better answer.
00:31:45Hey.
00:31:50You know, how about a thank you for traveling 2,000 miles to be here?
00:31:56Do you know what that took?
00:31:58It took a plane, a layover, another plane, a long-ass car journey.
00:32:01That was 18 hours door-to-door.
00:32:03That is what it took to be here with you.
00:32:06No, thank you for that.
00:32:07Okay, how about to a lesser degree?
00:32:08Thank you for the paint job, Maggie.
00:32:10Or thank you for spending three weeks trying to find out where the hell you fucking were.
00:32:15Thank you for the paint job.
00:32:18I had no exact confirmation that this is where you lived.
00:32:22I took a leap of faith to be here.
00:32:25You were the one not writing me back.
00:32:27You were the one I couldn't figure out how to call.
00:32:29That was on you.
00:32:30Okay.
00:32:32You can stay.
00:32:34But I will not tolerate the lying.
00:32:37What have I said to you your entire life?
00:32:40The truth is more important than the facts.
00:32:43Yes.
00:32:44How great that some things never change.
00:32:46No lying here.
00:32:48Not by me, Go.
00:32:49Not by me.
00:32:51Your dog doesn't lie?
00:32:53It's a fact, Maggie.
00:32:58Cool.
00:33:24Hi, Ben.
00:33:26I know that you'd probably
00:33:29like to hear something from me.
00:33:36And...
00:33:47Come on.
00:33:49You want to play?
00:33:54Come on.
00:34:04Bring it back.
00:34:04Bring it back.
00:34:05Bring it back.
00:34:06Me go.
00:34:09One more time.
00:34:11Hmm.
00:34:33Me go.
00:34:37Oh, um...
00:34:43I'm looking for my dog.
00:34:46Have you seen him?
00:34:49Okay.
00:34:54Um...
00:34:57Me go.
00:35:01Me go.
00:35:02Me go.
00:35:04Get over here.
00:35:07Do you know how long I've been looking for you?
00:35:11You still have your ball.
00:35:13Huh?
00:35:14Huh?
00:35:15You made me so worried.
00:35:17Come on.
00:35:18Come on.
00:35:19Come on.
00:35:20Come on.
00:35:21Come on.
00:35:24Come on.
00:35:27Come on.
00:35:30Come on.
00:35:32Come on.
00:36:01I always knew you smoked.
00:36:03Really?
00:36:05I thought I hid it pretty well from you guys.
00:36:07Are you kidding me?
00:36:09Huh.
00:36:13My father, the preacher, had he tried his damnedest to keep me not smoking weed.
00:36:22Like, every day I'd go to school and he's like, don't smoke weed.
00:36:28So one time I went to him and I was going to borrow $20.
00:36:32He said, I'll give you the $20 as long as you don't spend it on marijuana.
00:36:37And I said, that's a deal.
00:36:38Thanks, Dad.
00:36:41Immediately went to my friend Donkey's house.
00:36:44We went and bought a $20 bag.
00:36:48And we smoked so much that we ended up feeding the rest of it to his cat.
00:36:56Roscoe.
00:36:59Just, what happened to the cat?
00:37:02The cat got so stoned he attacked Donkey.
00:37:07Oh, fuck.
00:37:08Everybody ended up at the hospital.
00:37:11Moral of the story.
00:37:13Just sweating.
00:37:13You can learn a lot from your father.
00:37:24They're real, you know.
00:37:27They're travelers.
00:37:32They don't, they don't have any aggression.
00:37:36They're so advanced beyond that.
00:37:39But they see the things that we do down here.
00:37:43Ice caps melting.
00:37:45Environmental disasters.
00:37:49Nuclear testing.
00:37:52There's a war.
00:37:55Starvation.
00:37:58They're just, they're so beyond that.
00:38:01I just, I can feel them.
00:38:03I just, they just want us to catch up.
00:38:06They want us to get past those obstacles.
00:38:16Yeah.
00:38:21That's nice to think about.
00:38:23If they had hostile intentions, I think we wouldn't be here.
00:38:27They'd have taken over a long time ago.
00:38:32Dad.
00:38:35You're an engineer.
00:38:36Yeah.
00:38:40Not, um, conspiracy theorist.
00:38:46What a buzzkill.
00:38:48I'm sorry.
00:38:49Uh.
00:38:52So what are you doing here?
00:38:55Told you.
00:39:00Yes.
00:39:03I guess, uh.
00:39:07I guess in a way.
00:39:11Kind of ran away from home.
00:39:13Okay.
00:39:15That's a start.
00:39:16Mm.
00:39:18Kind of just wanted to, um, you know, get away from it all for a moment.
00:39:23Mm-hmm.
00:39:26Yeah.
00:39:27So.
00:39:29Is that getting away from it all for a moment involved Ben?
00:39:34I just needed some time.
00:39:37Time to myself.
00:39:38It's pretty vague.
00:39:39I wasn't.
00:39:40Look, sometimes you're in a place and you're being asked all these questions you don't know the answer to.
00:39:45Constantly.
00:39:46Ben.
00:39:47Mm-hmm.
00:39:49Jammin'.
00:39:50Benjamin.
00:39:51Oh, my God.
00:39:53I didn't understand why you're.
00:39:58I'm fucking stoned.
00:40:00Uh.
00:40:03That's nice.
00:40:05Well.
00:40:06He seems like a good guy.
00:40:09He's a good guy.
00:40:11Good.
00:40:13Then you can figure it out.
00:40:17And until I do, I can just be here.
00:40:22Hm.
00:40:24I was here first.
00:40:30Yeah, well.
00:40:34Hm.
00:40:37What the fuck?
00:40:39What?
00:40:40God damn it.
00:40:43Son of a bitch.
00:40:44You gotta say his name three times to summon him.
00:40:47Ass in man!
00:40:48Dad.
00:40:48Dad, what are you doing?
00:40:50Dad.
00:40:51Dad, dad, no.
00:40:52Hey, hey.
00:40:53Get out of here.
00:40:55Dad.
00:40:55Sons of bitches.
00:40:56Yeah, you're doing that.
00:40:57Oh, my God.
00:40:58Dad, Jesus Christ.
00:41:00What are you doing?
00:41:00See you, bitch.
00:41:02What the hell?
00:41:07Dad.
00:41:08I can't shoot at fucking kids.
00:41:11I did shoot at the kids.
00:41:13I fired a warning shot.
00:41:15Same thing.
00:41:17Well, if I'd wanted to hit one of them, I could have.
00:41:20I'm pretty good.
00:41:24What'd you want to do, hang out in the back of the truck like a pussy?
00:41:28Can't say that, dad.
00:41:30What, to a woman?
00:41:33Jesus.
00:41:50You ready?
00:41:52It's going to be a great night.
00:41:53It's going to be a really clear sky.
00:41:54It's beautiful.
00:41:56Do you mind if I sit this one out?
00:41:57Sure.
00:41:59It's really tired.
00:42:01Okay.
00:42:03Happy hunting.
00:42:04I prefer to call it searching.
00:42:07Can't tell if you're serious or not.
00:42:10You know, Maggie, I don't know that I've ever been more serious about anything.
00:42:15There's a global community of research scientists, engineers, experts like myself that have studied communication and physics to be able
00:42:27to reach out into the cosmos.
00:42:28But what it's really about is to connect with them.
00:42:32They're out there traveling the galaxy.
00:42:35They're looking at hundreds of worlds.
00:42:37Uh-huh.
00:42:38And they still come here to check on our planet, to make sure we're okay.
00:42:43And I think I do have a personal goal and an obligation to say thank you.
00:42:48Well, I can thank them with you another night.
00:42:57Okay.
00:42:58Okay.
00:42:58I'll be searching.
00:43:03It'd be a lot easier if we could just talk.
00:43:05Anything.
00:43:06Just, uh, call me when you're ready.
00:43:11All right.
00:43:31Dad?
00:43:34Dad?
00:43:35Dad, are you okay?
00:43:38Dad?
00:43:40What's going on?
00:43:44The truck won't start.
00:43:47Okay.
00:43:52What is it?
00:43:54A battery, or?
00:43:58The truck won't start.
00:44:03Okay.
00:44:10Um...
00:44:10That's okay.
00:44:14Dad, when was it that you...
00:44:15I'm sorry, the truck won't start.
00:44:17I get that.
00:44:18But that's okay.
00:44:20It's okay.
00:44:22I can drive you.
00:44:23I don't know what's wrong.
00:44:24I don't know what's wrong.
00:44:25It's fine.
00:44:27Let me drive you.
00:44:28No, I'd rather walk.
00:44:31Dad.
00:44:31Have a good night.
00:44:47Good night.
00:44:56I don't know.
00:45:33Oh, hi, hi.
00:45:35Hey.
00:45:35You gotta check this out.
00:45:36You gotta see this.
00:45:38This happened early this morning.
00:45:41Did you just get home?
00:45:42Yeah.
00:45:42Aren't you tired?
00:45:44No, no, no.
00:45:44I'm good.
00:45:45I'm good.
00:45:45Okay.
00:45:46Yeah.
00:45:47Here, watch.
00:45:48It's incontrovertible evidence.
00:45:50This is the place.
00:45:51Here at the reservoir.
00:45:53You see what's happening?
00:45:55Yeah, I've seen this one.
00:45:56No, no, no.
00:45:57This is this morning.
00:45:59Oh.
00:45:59So there's a pattern.
00:46:00They're signaling in a pattern.
00:46:01Mm-hmm.
00:46:02You see it?
00:46:03Going back.
00:46:04Going a little bit.
00:46:04Watch the lights.
00:46:05The other travelers.
00:46:06Three, two, one, and then it recycles.
00:46:11They're signaling in threes.
00:46:13There's that flash, flash, flash, and then flash with flash.
00:46:17So we gotta come back here.
00:46:19Sequencing of three.
00:46:20Yes.
00:46:21Boom.
00:46:21Yes, exactly.
00:46:23It's amazing, huh?
00:46:26What do you think?
00:46:29Like, so much to think about, you know.
00:46:32This is just fantastic.
00:46:34They want to make contact in two days.
00:46:37You know what?
00:46:38I'm gonna need your help.
00:46:40I've been working on something, and now I've got to ramp it up to make this two-day window.
00:46:44Okay?
00:46:45Are you with me?
00:46:46Come on.
00:46:49Down the woods.
00:46:51So you might spot a couple of those other cherry bark maples in here.
00:46:56I've seen a few in this area.
00:46:57I thought you said there was only one, and it was the one that we planted.
00:47:00Yeah, it's a special one, because we planted that one.
00:47:03These others are volunteers.
00:47:04So it's like they're the friends of our tree.
00:47:08Yeah.
00:47:11This is it.
00:47:13I mean, I know it doesn't look like much, but it's a work in progress.
00:47:16Another one of your projects?
00:47:18Yeah.
00:47:19Yeah.
00:47:20Yeah, this is the Grand Communicator.
00:47:23Well, it's a stupid name, but you'll come up with something better, I think.
00:47:28I thought I told you about this.
00:47:29Did I tell you about this?
00:47:31You okay?
00:47:32I'm just not fully following.
00:47:33Well, okay, you remember Sedona, Fourth of July?
00:47:37Yes.
00:47:38That was just fun and games.
00:47:39This is gonna be...
00:47:44Ten times as big?
00:47:47And you're doing all of this...
00:47:49To communicate?
00:47:50Mm.
00:47:51With them?
00:47:54Uh...
00:47:55Do you remember Sedona?
00:47:57Yeah!
00:47:58Yeah, it was great.
00:47:59Four fire trucks.
00:48:01Yeah, but Maggie, nobody got hurt.
00:48:04Mom's eyebrows were singed off.
00:48:07Well...
00:48:08I told her to get back.
00:48:10Dad.
00:48:11Maggie.
00:48:11What?
00:48:12I don't think you completely understand the enormity of what I have to do.
00:48:16I have no choice but to respond.
00:48:18This is what it takes.
00:48:20I'm gonna go on record and say that I think this is really fucking dangerous.
00:48:25And crazy.
00:48:27I mean, look at how much...
00:48:31Crazy.
00:48:32I didn't call you crazy.
00:48:34I'm just saying this is crazy.
00:48:36You called this crazy.
00:48:38You know what, Maggie?
00:48:40I tried to bring you in on something bigger.
00:48:43Something bigger than you and me.
00:48:44Bigger than human civilization.
00:48:46And you turned out to be just like the fucking idiots that I used to work with.
00:48:50Those engineering pricks.
00:48:52And your mother.
00:48:53And your brother.
00:48:54And your grandparents.
00:48:56Nobody could ever support me in anything that I had to do that was important.
00:49:01You know what they are?
00:49:03They're cynics.
00:49:04They're skeptics.
00:49:05They're traitors.
00:49:10Are you a traitor, Maggie?
00:49:16I can't do this with you.
00:49:20Yeah.
00:49:23Like I had to go into town and get more supplies.
00:49:26Don't be here when I get back.
00:49:52You know what, Maggie?
00:49:57Come on.
00:50:06I can't.
00:50:06I can't.
00:50:07I can't do this with my hands.
00:50:13It's crazy.
00:50:49Oh, okay, oh, no, um, uh, you're gonna be fine, boy, you're gonna be fine.
00:51:14That's good, that's good, Mia.
00:51:17Dad, how's he doing?
00:51:20This isn't updating.
00:51:22Oh, this shitty fucking reception.
00:51:26I'm so, so sorry, I'm so sorry.
00:51:29I should have been watching you.
00:51:30Dad, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, okay?
00:51:34Oh, Miko.
00:51:36Miko, I'm so sorry.
00:51:39Take our left up here, it's a shortcut.
00:51:41Dad, it says to turn right.
00:51:42I know where we're going.
00:51:43You sure?
00:51:44Yes.
00:51:48Dad, where are we going?
00:51:50Just drive straight.
00:52:06There's a left up here, just stop there.
00:52:15Yeah, this is good.
00:52:25It's not your phone, Maggie.
00:52:26That's right.
00:52:26It's not your fault, we're going to be.
00:52:31No.
00:52:41You know where are we, give it a second?
00:52:45No, it's not your fault.
00:52:53You're sorry.
00:52:54It's not your fault.
00:52:56You're not looking at it, you're a good one.
00:54:25You know, your grandfather, Methodist minister, sat next to hundreds.
00:54:38I don't know how many people dying.
00:54:44And I always wanted to hear the same words from him.
00:54:48They were going on to a greater reward.
00:54:52He'd tell them exactly what they wanted to hear.
00:55:00The last time I saw him, he wanted me to tell him that there was a great reward.
00:55:08But I knew he didn't believe it.
00:55:11And I sure as shit wasn't going to stand there and lie to him.
00:55:15Why are you doing this?
00:55:17It's the only time I ever saw my father cry.
00:55:24He was just a scared old man.
00:55:29I just said, it's going to be over soon.
00:55:36And then I said goodbye.
00:55:51We could have been so different as a family.
00:55:59There was so much love there and support, and I felt safe.
00:56:05And then you sat us down and told Bucky and I that we were old enough and didn't need you
00:56:21anymore.
00:56:28Is there anything that could have made you stay?
00:56:43That's good to know.
00:56:46I spent a lot of time...
00:56:53I wanted you so badly.
00:56:56I had things I wanted to ask you, and not Mom, and not Bucky, and not...
00:57:04Oh, fuck.
00:57:07And the thing is, is that I am so...
00:57:11I'm you.
00:57:12I am you.
00:57:13I do the same things.
00:57:15In fact...
00:57:18I leave quicker.
00:57:31I left without telling him that I was leaving.
00:57:44Why are we like that?
00:57:53Dad.
00:57:59Dad.
00:58:06Have you heard any of this?
00:58:10Dad.
00:58:13Dad.
00:58:17I don't know.
00:59:06I don't know.
00:59:10I don't know who's land you're on.
00:59:11No, no.
00:59:11I'm in public.
00:59:12Oh, yeah?
00:59:13Fuck you.
00:59:13I'm going to report you to the Sheriff's Department.
00:59:16You are fucking...
00:59:17...punching.
00:59:18God!
00:59:20God!
00:59:22Hey!
00:59:24Hey!
00:59:24You come back here!
00:59:27Hey!
00:59:32Hey!
00:59:35You killed my dog!
00:59:40You killed my dog!
00:59:42Hey!
00:59:44Let's go.
01:00:15You're doing good with that.
01:00:17Well it's both difficult and easy at the same time.
01:00:21Say when. Huh?
01:00:32Please say when.
01:00:33Can't say it yet. Oh my.
01:00:36That is a beautiful whipped cream mountain.
01:00:38I love it. Enjoy it.
01:00:45Mmm.
01:00:50What's the secret in the sauce?
01:00:52No way.
01:00:53It stays in the vault.
01:00:55It's for my kids.
01:00:57Befriend them.
01:00:58And they'll give me all your secrets.
01:01:00No way.
01:01:01But they would love you.
01:01:03So you'll have to meet them.
01:01:05What are they like?
01:01:07They're cool.
01:01:09You know.
01:01:10Darren, my youngest, is a handful.
01:01:13He thinks very highly of himself.
01:01:17And Philip is just a raw nerf.
01:01:21He's just like all emotion.
01:01:23All the time.
01:01:24He's a teenager.
01:01:25It's beautiful.
01:01:27I wouldn't change a thing.
01:01:30Oh, that's bullshit.
01:01:31I would change.
01:01:34I would change a lot.
01:01:39But not them.
01:01:41Big act of faith.
01:01:43Having kids.
01:01:45Hmm.
01:01:47You have to be confident that.
01:01:50You're gonna figure it out.
01:01:53Try not to make mistakes.
01:01:54Try not to make the mistakes that your parents made.
01:01:59A lot of stuff.
01:02:01I'd imagine.
01:02:03You know.
01:02:34You'd better take time.
01:02:40Keep him too.
01:02:40There's one zit.
01:02:40There's a guest.
01:02:40Put him down.
01:02:50You're welcome.centsual
01:02:51Oh, what's
01:02:51I don't know.
01:03:29I don't know.
01:03:54I don't know.
01:04:21I don't know.
01:04:39I don't know.
01:04:43Dad.
01:04:46Smile.
01:04:48Dad.
01:04:51Whoa.
01:04:56Very good.
01:04:57Look at the ripples.
01:04:59Do you remember I taught you more scud when you were little?
01:05:02Yep.
01:05:06Wait there.
01:05:07Yeah, it kind of tilted down.
01:05:08There you go.
01:05:10Just a little bit.
01:05:12That's good.
01:05:14Try to do like a series of three dots.
01:05:18Two dashes and three dots.
01:05:23How do you do a dash?
01:05:25It's just a longer flip in the mirror.
01:05:32Good.
01:05:34Yeah.
01:05:36Unfortunately, you just called them assholes.
01:05:39What was I like when I was a baby?
01:05:44You never cried.
01:05:45No?
01:05:47Usually because you had a pillow over your face.
01:05:51Oh, you're a sweet baby.
01:05:53I used to call you Maggie Bear.
01:05:57Why?
01:05:58Your poops were the size of them.
01:05:59Oh my God, Dad.
01:06:00Disgusting.
01:06:09Here's your eggs.
01:06:12Just the way I like them.
01:06:14So basically, we're just going to be sending their signal back to them.
01:06:18It's repetition.
01:06:19It's mimicry.
01:06:20It's the most fundamental form of communication.
01:06:23Okay.
01:06:24Remember the first night we were out there and you saw the hovering lights?
01:06:27Thought it was an airplane?
01:06:28Mm-hmm.
01:06:29Through the filter and the camera, I could see what their color sequencing was.
01:06:33Mm-hmm.
01:06:33So we're just going to be sending that back.
01:06:36Green, white, blue, red.
01:06:39Pretty basic.
01:06:40Yeah?
01:06:41Yeah, you just, you want to acknowledge them.
01:06:44And then you start talking back.
01:06:46How's it going?
01:06:47Do you come in peace?
01:06:48That sort of thing.
01:06:50In that order?
01:06:51Yeah.
01:06:51Yeah, in that order.
01:06:53God, I don't know.
01:06:54Speak alien.
01:06:56Not yet.
01:06:58Okay.
01:06:59You see the way I did that?
01:07:01See the wires?
01:07:02Green, green, white, white, blue, blue, red, red.
01:07:09That's it.
01:07:10I need about a hundred more.
01:07:24Hey, grab that box.
01:07:28This is very heavy, you know.
01:07:31Can I just leave it?
01:07:33Dad.
01:07:34Oh, oh!
01:07:34I don't want to get too close.
01:07:36Ow!
01:07:37Okay.
01:07:38Eeh!
01:07:39This is not heavy.
01:07:40Fine.
01:07:42Ugh!
01:07:45Check position 11.
01:07:47Which one's 11?
01:07:51Thought about what you said the other day.
01:07:54Mm-hmm.
01:07:59Just in case something goes wrong.
01:08:02No.
01:08:03It's not going to do shit.
01:08:04It's a joke.
01:08:05I get it.
01:08:08We better check those sequences.
01:08:10Okay.
01:08:12One's a go.
01:08:13Make sure the firing trigger is off right now.
01:08:16Four's a go.
01:08:18Five's a go.
01:08:19Six.
01:08:20Seven.
01:08:22So what?
01:08:23They're just going to show up or something?
01:08:25Listen.
01:08:26We have to signal them when the moment is right.
01:08:29I can't tell what part of you is real.
01:08:38You're not like me.
01:08:42That's real.
01:08:46You're willing to stick it out.
01:08:49You're always that way.
01:08:51What do you mean?
01:08:54A little girl.
01:08:55You just had...
01:08:57You had such dedication.
01:09:02You're just a little bit lost right now.
01:09:07Whatever you decide to do,
01:09:09don't do what I did.
01:09:13Don't throw it all away.
01:09:22If it's a girl,
01:09:24you should think about the name Jacqueline.
01:09:27I swear to one to name you.
01:09:31What?
01:09:32I still like the name.
01:09:35Dad, how did you know?
01:09:37You're going to be a great mother, Maggie.
01:09:41I don't know.
01:09:47Get ready.
01:09:48What?
01:09:51What?
01:09:52Hit it.
01:09:53Now?
01:09:54Now.
01:09:55Okay.
01:09:55I can't do the name for the name of my...
01:10:07You're going to be a great mother.
01:10:09I can't do it.
01:10:10I can't do it.
01:10:12I can't do it.
01:10:15Wait.
01:10:15I can't do it.
01:10:17I can't do it.
01:10:17You're not right.
01:10:17I can't do it.
01:10:18I can't do it.
01:10:20I can't do it.
01:10:22Oh, my God.
01:10:23Oh, my God.
01:10:38Oh, my God.
01:11:10Oh, my God.
01:11:24Oh, my God.
01:11:30Bad?
01:11:33Hmm.
01:11:40And then...
01:11:41I guess they decided not to show.
01:11:50Yeah, fuckers.
01:12:00Hmm.
01:12:19Oh, my God.
01:12:24Oh, my God.
01:12:47Oh, my God.
01:13:06Oh, my God.
01:13:10Oh, my God.
01:13:12Oh, my God.
01:13:15Oh, my God.
01:14:29I couldn't sleep.
01:14:30Been up all night.
01:14:34It's just their communication is so complex.
01:14:38Just got to try and figure out where I went wrong.
01:14:41I just got to think bigger, do better math.
01:14:46I just got to keep going with it.
01:14:50I know it's early, but any new theories?
01:14:56Yes, I do.
01:14:57Have you ever heard of extended binary coded decimal interchange code?
01:15:03It's a mouthful.
01:15:05It's EBCDIC.
01:15:07It's an 8-bit code capable of 256 characters and a variety of 8-bit combinations.
01:15:15But I think, given the precision of the code and the numerics,
01:15:22might be able to break through with them.
01:15:28Any idea on timing?
01:15:34July?
01:15:36I think, maybe.
01:15:38Yeah?
01:15:38Yeah.
01:15:41Yeah, I think July.
01:15:42Okay.
01:15:43No specific date in July?
01:15:46Just July?
01:15:47No.
01:15:49What are you doing?
01:15:51Just making a note to circle back with you about specific dates.
01:15:57That's great.
01:15:59But I got to be honest.
01:16:00I think that maybe the color coding was wrong.
01:16:04That's okay.
01:16:06I mean, maybe the color coding sequencing.
01:16:11Maybe it's not important.
01:16:12Exactly.
01:16:13That's exactly what I was thinking.
01:16:14Uh-huh.
01:16:15I'm just going to go back to the fundamentals of communication.
01:16:18Well, we talked about that before.
01:16:20Mm.
01:16:22No, wait.
01:16:23It's July.
01:16:26Mm-hmm.
01:16:26I mean, you're going to be...
01:16:29Huge?
01:16:30Yeah, you're going to...
01:16:32Can't miss first contact.
01:16:34Well, it's on a dartboard.
01:16:37I-I-I-I-I-so, you know, if you can't make it, I completely understand.
01:16:41You can keep me posted.
01:16:43Okay.
01:16:49You know, me and I are going to miss you when you're gone, Maggie.
01:16:54Okay.
01:17:03So that, um, e-the...
01:17:07What is it?
01:17:08The e-e-e-ber...
01:17:12The name of that sequencing.
01:17:18It's okay.
01:17:26Okay.
01:17:28Okay.
01:17:49Okay.
01:18:19Okay.
01:18:43Yesterday, I played ball with Jesse.
01:18:46It was really fun. We, I had the ball and she tried to take it from me.
01:18:50Yeah?
01:18:51Yeah.
01:18:52But it was still really fun.
01:18:55That's crazy.
01:18:57Both you and Jesse?
01:18:58Yeah.
01:19:00We were screaming.
01:19:02It was loud.
01:19:04It was very loud.
01:19:09Well, it was a Tuesday.
01:19:12And what I'm about to tell you next, you won't believe.
01:19:19Jesse did it first.
01:19:22Then I did it.
01:19:29It felt as though we could fly.
01:19:32Yeah?
01:19:33We were there all afternoon.
01:19:36Dunk after dunk after dunk.
01:19:49We never told anyone else.
01:19:53They wouldn't have believed us.
01:20:03We didn't need them to.
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