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02:20It's gotta be something bouncing off the... off the...
02:22It's not bouncing off the moon, Dave.
02:25Well, maybe it's those Chatty Cathy's at the Forest Service.
02:28I hate those guys, always on the radios talking about trees.
02:31Dave, it's not Smokey Bear we're picking up.
02:33Look at that signal. It's drifting.
02:37What is it, then?
02:44Looks like simple pulse width modulation. Old school, like Morse code.
02:49Maybe somehow it's the time signal out of Fort Collins.
02:53They use pulse width modulation.
02:55It's not the atomic clock. The atomic clock changes every minute because it's a clock.
02:58This is the same exact data repeated every 78 seconds.
03:01Plus, this is coming from 600 light years away.
03:08This Morse code of yours seems to be split four ways.
03:14The pulses are of equal duration, but they're positioned across four different frequencies.
03:20Looks like a player piano.
03:21So not binary, but bass four. Quaternary.
03:25Oh, this won't be easy to crack.
03:40What do you think it says?
03:41Maybe just, hello?
03:43Hey, we're out here.
03:45What'd we put on Voyagers 1 and 2? Chuck Berry?
03:48Maybe this is just their version of Johnny B. Goode.
03:53Imagine the power it took to send it.
03:58Megawatts? Gigawatts?
04:00And that's if it's pointed only at us.
04:03Antenna the size of Africa. Bigger.
04:07You go to all that trouble to send a message.
04:10It's gotta be more than just hello.
04:14And why make it hard to understand?
04:17Quaternary?
04:18It's like encryption. Why would you bother to...
04:30It's not quaternary.
04:36I think I know what it is.
05:21The twin moons hung low and full.
05:24Two wine-green eyes peering over the horizon as if to steal a glimpse into Acacia's soul.
05:29She paced the blood-soaked decks of the Mercator looking for something, anything,
05:33that might take her mind off Rabanne.
05:36Ascending the foc'sle, her gaze lingered over a bare-chested young sailor.
05:41On hands and knees, he scrubbed, his sinewy forearms stretched taut as he washed away all trace of the day's
05:47fight.
05:48With a languid nod,
05:52Lucasia bade him follow to her cabin.
05:55Little did this callow deckhand know that serving at his captain's pleasure might take on such sweet meaning.
06:01Or, regrettably, that it would last but a single night.
06:08Later, at four bells, Lucasia stood by the mizzenmast.
06:12Once again, she was alone.
06:16She pulled her top coat tighter, fingering its coarse wool, as her thoughts flashed back to Rabanne.
06:22It had been he who first wrapped the coat around her, whispering in her ear,
06:26May this keep you warm in my absence, my shy.
06:32With that, Rabanne, proud, haughty Rabanne, mounted the plank and leaped from sight.
06:40The amaranth and slipstand closed over him, leaving Mary a ripple.
06:58Attention, lovers of speculative historical romance literature, best-selling author Carol Sturka,
07:04will now sign her new novel, Bloodsong of Wiccaro, the fourth book in her Wins of Wiccaro trilogy.
07:09Wiccaro, please, the twins of Wiccaro.
07:13And Bloodsong is the best yet.
07:16God, are you in for a treat.
07:19Let's go, Sandworks!
07:23Rabanne is alive, right?
07:26Maureen.
07:27You can read it.
07:28Why, well, tonight, I've already unplugged the phone.
07:31Just, no, Rabanne's not on the cover.
07:34No, he's not.
07:35Yeah, he's never not been on the cover, Carol.
07:38If Rabanne doesn't come back, I'm done.
07:46Page 218.
07:50Okay.
07:51Okay.
07:52Bye.
07:53Thanks, Maureen.
07:55Good to see you.
07:56Hi.
07:56Hi, Oban.
07:57Lately, I can't take your ideas here.
08:01Hi, Ben.
08:05Love it.
08:08Happy reading.
08:09This is Nikki with her pillow.
08:11Nikki with her.
08:12Oh, my gosh.
08:12It looks so good.
08:13You made this?
08:14Yes.
08:15This is Christine.
08:16This is Paulina and support person.
08:18This is Carlotta.
08:19Say Rabanne.
08:21Rabanne.
08:22Hi.
08:23When Rabanne and Ergamel fell in the cargo hold, do you remember what it was loaded with?
08:27Madovian Spicefruit.
08:28Which Lucasia is...
08:32Deathly allergic to.
08:33Oh, you guys want a picture too?
08:35Yes.
08:39Thank you so much.
08:40Hi, Tanya.
08:41Hi.
08:42Are you excited?
08:42Hi, Eva.
08:44I got two books.
08:45One for the tub.
08:46This is an authentic petless, just like LeBan's.
08:49Okay.
08:49Careful, it's really sharp.
08:51Okay.
08:51So, three things.
08:52A, when finally are they going to make a Waikaro movie?
08:55Please tell me it'll be an actual theater, it's not on the Lifetime Network.
08:58B, you've got to get ILM to do the slipstand.
09:01Otherwise, it's just going to look like mailed.
09:03Pardon my French.
09:03And C, at a small but very crucial point, as a two-masted scooter, the Mercator would not possess a
09:10mizzenmast, so...
09:12Craig, I'm going to need you to put this back in the bag before the store manager sees it.
09:16Oh.
09:17Right?
09:18Your humble servant.
09:21Oh, that's the one!
09:23Oh, I love you.
09:23Thank you guys so much.
09:25Thank you guys.
09:26See you at the next one.
09:26Happy weekend.
09:27All right.
09:28All right.
09:33Hi ladies.
09:34I have us going to the Hyatt Regency Dallas.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Thanks.
09:38Perfect.
09:40That was quite a send off.
09:41I'm sorry, should I know who you are?
09:44Uh, depends.
09:45You a big fan of mindless crap?
09:46Haha.
10:20Good morning, Doc.
10:22Oh, it certainly is.
10:25Hey, Mel.
10:26Hey.
10:27Oh, where'd those come from?
10:29Yours truly.
10:31Help yourself.
10:32I think they're mostly glazed, but one box ought to be sprinkled, powdered and all that.
10:36What did we do to deserve this?
10:38Uh, my 14-year-old son from Arch and Band.
10:43Oh, aren't you a good dad.
10:44What does she play?
10:46Trombone.
10:47Dr. D.
10:49Good evening.
10:50Morning.
10:51Whatever.
10:52Look what Mel brought.
10:53Ooh, for us?
10:54Yeah, please.
10:56They got you two working late.
10:57Yeah, I gotta guess a bunch of rats.
11:01So how goes the big project?
11:03What have you heard?
11:05I don't know.
11:06Things?
11:09Well, our team's fairly certain we've got a sequence that encodes for a lysogenic virus,
11:13but after eight whole months of animal testing...
11:15macaques, rabbits, mice...
11:16Guinea pigs.
11:17Guinea pigs.
11:18Now rats.
11:19No clinical signs whatsoever.
11:24Put another way?
11:26We got bupkis.
11:28We got bupkis.
11:45Okay, how do you want to do this?
11:47Uh, I can put him to sleep if you want to do the cardiac sticks.
11:51I hate the cardiac sticks.
11:53You're more than welcome to gas him.
11:56I hate gassing him.
11:58Might be in the wrong career.
12:00Alright, cardiac sticks it is.
12:03Let's get it over with.
12:06Uh-oh.
12:09Check it out.
12:11Oh, damn.
12:13What do you figure happened there?
12:20I don't know.
12:44He's looking pretty dead to me.
12:48You got a heartbeat?
12:50Can't feel jack shit in these gloves.
13:00Huh.
13:01Huh.
13:02What?
13:03He's absolutely got a heartbeat.
13:06Strong one.
13:06Just bam, bam, bam.
13:07It's weird.
13:08If I didn't know any better, I'd-
13:09Ow!
13:10God, oh shit.
13:11Oh no.
13:12You've gotta be kidding me.
13:15Did he break the skin?
13:17Um, yeah, I don't-
13:18Yeah, it's through the glove.
13:19Oh shit.
13:20Uh, soak it quick.
13:22If it's a merge.
13:23If it's bleeding, make sure to squeeze it out good.
13:26I'm gonna call this in as soon as I catch him, okay?
13:29Oh shit.
13:30You're you.
13:41You're right there.
13:42Oh shit.
13:42This is right there.
13:45Right there.
13:51That's marked 336.
13:54And uh,
13:54Uh-huh.
13:57Jen?
14:01Talk to me, Jen!
14:03Jen!
14:04Jen!
14:04Jen!
14:05Jen!
14:06I'm gonna go right now.
14:09Oh, I've got you.
14:11OK, come on.
14:12I've got you.
14:18Oh, God!
14:22Jen, did you hear me?
14:23It's gonna be fine.
14:25You're gonna be all right.
14:27Come on.
14:28You're gonna be all right.
14:29You're gonna be all right.
14:30You hear me?
14:31Come on, come on.
14:32Talk to me a lot, Jen.
14:33Come on.
14:34Jen!
14:35You all right?
14:37Jen?
14:38Just say something.
14:40Jen!
14:41I got you.
14:42I got you.
14:44Jen?
14:47Hey, Jen!
14:48Can you hear me?
14:50Jen, just say something.
14:53There's a lot of management Ó....
15:02You all right?!
15:02Damn it!
15:03Are you kidding me?
15:32Can you play this thing?
15:35You got skinny arms, you think you could maybe...
15:42Hey.
16:25Yes?
16:25Yes?
16:47You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
17:03You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
17:34You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
18:23You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
18:34You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
19:16You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
19:32You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
19:49You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
20:17You got skinny arms, you got skinny arms.
20:44Thanks.
20:48We could take a cab home.
20:50Don't tell me you don't need a drink, because you need a drink.
20:52I don't need a drink.
20:53You need a drink.
20:55You don't need a drink.
20:56I call bullshit on that.
20:58I need sleep, that's what I need.
21:00Hey, cheers to the best tour yet.
21:04You leave me hanging here?
21:05I do not clean buses with fucking Diet Pepsi.
21:08Best book tour.
21:10What is that?
21:11Is that like best stomach cancer?
21:13You endure it.
21:14You do not toast it.
21:15Oh, how I hate all those paying customers showering me with love and respect.
21:19And why do I have to make so much money?
21:22How do you bear it?
21:32Bunch of dummies.
21:34Wow.
21:35It's a ship that sails on sand?
21:38Purple sand?
21:39That's brilliant.
21:41The world needed that.
21:43And the world needed yet another female character who spends all her time mooning over some fucking
21:48proud and haughty pirate.
21:50He's a corsair, not a pirate.
21:53Nandovian Spicefruit.
21:56Jesus, that...
21:57It's like a bad episode of Star Trek.
22:00Alright, so how about you throw everybody a change up?
22:01Hmm?
22:02Green sand?
22:03Is that a purple?
22:05Maybe it's time for your serious book.
22:09Why not?
22:09You've been plugging away on it for five years.
22:12Four and a half.
22:13Barely.
22:14Pardon me.
22:14So put it out already.
22:15I can't just...
22:18It needs polishing.
22:21Obviously.
22:21I mean, it does, right?
22:22Okay, take the next few months and polish.
22:25I'll work it out.
22:26I'll buy you some more time before your next Wecaro.
22:30You really think Bitter Chrysalis is that good?
22:34I think people will love it.
22:42You ever read, um, Finnegan's Wake?
22:44No.
22:46I tried to.
22:47In grad school.
22:51It's probably great.
22:53I don't know.
22:55All I know is it made me miserable trying to get through it.
23:01I figured you make even one person happy.
23:06Maybe that's not art.
23:09It's something.
23:17To Rabanne.
23:19Proud.
23:20Haughty Rabanne.
23:29Did you bring your cigarette?
23:31Since when do you smoke?
23:33Since now?
23:35Since now?
23:36It's been a long time,
23:38Yeah.
23:41You're not ready.
23:44You're not ready.
23:45You're not ready.
23:45I'm ready.
23:49And I'm ready.
23:51I'm ready.
23:54I'm ready.
23:56You're ready.
23:56Are you trying to start a forest fire?
23:57Stop wasting my butane.
24:00Stop telling me how to smoke.
24:02I used to smoke in middle school.
24:04You know, you're supposed to light the other person's cigarette first, but that's etiquette.
24:07Yeah? On a plane, do you put your own oxygen mask on first?
24:13Ooh. You're gonna hear it. Houston Mom, 78, says about Bloodsong.
24:18BEST WICARO EVER! All caps. And, uh...
24:2316, 17, exclamation points. Wow. Is that a new record? It's gotta be.
24:28Spoiler alert. Rabanne is back and yummier than ever. Yummier than ever, I think she means.
24:34Mm-mm. You better believe he's got my permission to come aboard. I'd walk his plank anytime.
24:39I'm sensing a nautical motif. A little bit. Think Houston Mom's off for meds again?
24:43I think Houston Mom would spread her legs for a grilled cheese sandwich.
24:50Huh. Look at that. What? What do you think they're doing? What's what doing? The planes. Look.
25:03I don't know. What, is that weird? Yeah, it's weird. Isn't it? All of them kind of parallel like that?
25:10Huh.
25:22Anybody else weigh in? That's all the usual suspects. Plus, a few new ones.
25:28Everybody loves it.
25:40You want to answer a few questions for them?
25:43What, now? No, no, no, no.
25:44Eh, do a quick one. Let them know you're paying attention.
25:48Carol, my husband says Rabanne can be my hall pass, which I don't think is fair,
25:52since Rabanne's not a real-life person, although I wish he was.
25:55In real life, was there an actual man you were thinking of when you came up with Rabanne?
26:01That's hilarious.
26:05You want to tell the truth?
26:09What do you have to lose?
26:13Put down George Clooney.
26:15What?
26:16Nothing. What's wrong with him?
26:17Nothing. Just, I mean, how about a hot Brazilian soccer player, someone with dreadlocks?
26:22Hip it up.
26:25Just put George Clooney.
26:28It's safer.
26:34Shit!
26:36Oh.
26:56Buddy, you...
26:57You okay, buddy?
27:05Oh, Jesus.
27:17Helen, should we call someone?
27:22Helen!
27:23Helen, stop looking at the goddamn...
27:40Oh, my God, Helen!
27:44Helen?
27:46Oh, my God.
27:51Help!
27:52Help!
27:53Somebody help us!
27:54Help!
27:56Just hang in there.
27:57Hang in there.
27:58Hang in there.
27:59Just hang in there.
28:07Oh, my, my, my!
28:17My God.
28:19Oh, my God.
28:21Come on.
28:21...
28:28I don't know.
29:04I don't know.
29:22Please.
29:23Please.
29:27Please.
29:28Yes!
29:28Yes!
29:29Yes!
29:30Yes!
29:52Yes!
29:57Yes!
30:09Yes!
30:10Yes!
30:11Yes!
30:20Come on.
30:21Come on.
30:22Come on.
30:22Come on.
30:23Come on.
30:25Come on.
30:27Come on.
30:34Fuck you.
30:35Fuck you.
30:36Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
30:42Fuck you!
30:52You better get out.
30:53Come on, get out, get out!
30:59No!
31:00Fuck!
31:04Fuck it, go!
31:06Fuck it, go!
31:20Go!
31:38Oh, my God.
32:13Oh, my God.
32:36Oh, my God.
33:07Oh, my God.
33:07Oh, my God.
33:14Oh, my God.
33:15Oh, my God.
33:32Oh, my God.
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38:21Oh, my God.
38:34Oh, my God.
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39:24Oh, my God.
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55:58Oh, my God.
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