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00:36Let's go.
01:20Bullshit.
01:21It is this freaking wide.
01:23And it's periodic.
01:26Bullshit.
01:27Show me.
01:35Something terrestrial.
01:36Gotta be.
01:37Bouncing off the moon.
01:39Gee.
01:40Never thought to check that.
01:42Look at that slope, man.
01:44You could ski down that thing.
01:45It is drifting.
01:47Look here.
01:48Zoom in.
01:49Zoom in.
01:50See that variation?
01:51And look.
01:52This gap here.
01:53This is where it stops.
01:54Then starts over.
01:55It repeats every 78 seconds.
01:58The whole entire thing.
02:00Three hours straight and no end in sight.
02:06It can't be.
02:20It's got to be something bouncing off the...
02:22Off 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.
02:29Always on their radios talking about trees.
02:31Dave, it's not Smokey Bear we're picking up.
02:33Look at that signal.
02:35It's drifting.
02:37What is it, Dave?
02:44Looks like simple pulse width modulation.
02:46Old 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.
02:56The 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 base four.
03:24Quaternary.
03:25Oh.
03:26This 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 did we put on Voyagers 1 and 2?
03:47Chuck Berry?
03:49Maybe this is just their version of Johnny B. Goode.
03:53Imagine the power it took to send it.
03:57Megawatts?
03:59Gigawatts?
04:00And that's if it's pointed only at us.
04:03Antenna the size of Africa.
04:04Bigger.
04:07You go to all that trouble to send a message.
04:10It's got to be more than just hello.
04:12Hello.
04:14And why make it hard to understand?
04:17Quaternary?
04:18It's like encryption.
04:19Why would you bother to...
04:30It's not quaternary.
04:36I think I know what it is.
05:00It's a long way.
05:09You know what I mean?
05:21The twin moons hung low and full, two wine-green eyes peering over the horizon as if to steal
05:27a glimpse into Acacia's soul. She paced the blood-soaked decks of the Mercator looking
05:32for something, anything, that might take her mind off Rabanne. Ascending the foc'sle, her
05:38gaze lingered over a bare-chested young sailor. On hands and knees, he scrubbed, his sinewy
05:44forearms stretched taut as he washed away all trace of the day's fight. With a languid
05:49nod, Lucasia bade him follow to her cabin. Little did this callow deckhand know that serving
05:57at his captain's pleasure might take on such sweet meaning. Or, regrettably, that it would
06:03last but a single night. Later, at four bells, Lucasia stood by the mizzenmast. Once again,
06:14she was alone. She pulled her topcoat tighter, fingering its coarse wool. As her thoughts
06:20flashed back to Rabanne, it had been he who first wrapped the coat around her, whispering
06:25in her ear, may this keep you warm in my absence, my shy. With that, Rabanne, proud, haughty
06:35rabanne, mounted the plank and leaped from sight. The amaranth and slipsand closed over him, leaving
06:44Mary a whipple.
06:58Attention! Lovers of speculative historical romance literature, best-selling author Carole Sterka,
07:04will now sign her new novel, Bloodsong of Wickero, the fourth book in her Wins of Wickero trilogy.
07:09Waikaro, please, the twins of Waikaro. And Bloodsong is the best yet. God, are you in for a treat.
07:19Let's go, sang-wooks!
07:23Rabanne is alive, right?
07:26Maureen.
07:27You can read it.
07:28Why, well, tonight, I've already unplugged the phone.
07:30Just, no. Rabanne's not on the cover.
07:34No, he's not.
07:35Yeah, he's never not been on the cover, Carole.
07:39If Rabanne doesn't come back, I'm done.
07:46Page 218.
07:50Okay.
07:51Okay.
07:52Bye.
07:53Thanks, Maureen.
07:54Hi.
07:56Hi.
07:57Hi, Oka.
07:57Lately, I can't take your ideas now.
08:00It's Christine.
08:01Hi, Ben.
08:05Love it.
08:08Happy reading.
08:09This is Nikki with her pillow.
08:11Nikki with her...
08:11Oh, 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.
08:23Rabanne.
08:23And that galmo fell in the cargo hold.
08:25Do you remember what it was loaded with?
08:27Madovian Spice Fruit.
08:28Which Lucasia is...
08:32Deathly allergic to.
08:34Oh, you guys want a picture too?
08:34And a cop like Chris.
08:39Thank you so much.
08:40Hi, Tonya.
08:41Are you excited?
08:42Hi, Eva.
08:44I got two books.
08:45One for the tub.
08:46This is authentic.
08:47Let's just like LeBan's.
08:49Okay.
08:49It's really sharp.
08:50Okay, so three things.
08:52A, when finally are they gonna make a Waikaro movie?
08:55And please tell me it'll be an actual theater's not on the Lifetime Network.
08:58B, you gotta get ILM to do the slip stand.
09:01Otherwise, it's just gonna look like mailed.
09:03Pardon my French.
09:03And C, a small but very crucial point.
09:07As a two-masted scooter, the Mercator would not possess a mizzenmast.
09:11So...
09:12Craig, I'm gonna need you to put this back in the bag before the store manager sees it.
09:16Oh.
09:17Right?
09:17Your humble servant.
09:21Oh, that's the one.
09:23Oh, that's the one.
09:23I love you.
09:23Thank you so much.
09:25Thank you so much.
09:26See you at the next one.
09:26Happy reading.
09:27All right.
09:28All right.
09:33Hi, ladies.
09:34I have us going to the Hyatt Regency Dallas.
09:37Hi.
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?
09:47Uh-huh.
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?
10:38Ah.
10:39My 14-year-old son from marching band.
10:43Oh.
10:43Aren't you a good dad?
10:44What does she play?
10:46Trombone.
10:47Dr. D.
10:49Good evening, morning, whatever.
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?
11:07Well, our team's fairly certain we've got a sequence that encodes for a lysogenic
11:12Lyrus, but 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, we 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 them.
11:56I hate gassing them.
11:58Might be in the wrong career.
12:00Alright.
12:00Cardiac 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, what?
13:04He'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-
13:09Ow!
13:10God!
13:10Oh, shit!
13:11Oh, no.
13:12You've got to 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 emerged.
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?
13:33Let's go.
13:43Right there?
13:51Let's mark 336.
13:54And, uh,
13:58Jen?
14:02Talk to me, Jen!
14:03Jen!
14:04Jen!
14:04Jen!
14:07I'm getting all right now.
14:09I got you.
14:11I'll be goodbye.
14:12I got you.
14:22Jen, can you hear me?
14:23It's going to be fine.
14:25You're going to be all right.
14:27Come on.
14:28You're going to be all right.
14:29You're going to be all right.
14:30You hear me?
14:30Jen!
14:31Come on.
14:31Come on.
14:32Come on.
14:32Talk to me.
14:33Come on, 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, hey, hey, hey, Jen.
14:48Can you hear me?
14:50Jen, just say something.
15:01Damn it.
15:03Are you kidding me?
15:05You're kidding me?
15:32Can you believe this thing?
15:36You got skinny arms.
15:37You think I'm maybe...
15:42Hey.
16:25Yes?
16:39You're welcome.
16:46You're welcome.
16:49You're welcome.
16:50Let's go.
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18:57Let's go.
19:08Let's go.
19:18Yeah, I'll be home about an hour.
19:21Okay.
19:26Let's go.
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20:34Let's go.
20:39Dry Manhattan, and a Diet Pepsi.
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.
20:53I 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 glasses 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.
21:19Why do I have to make so much money?
21:22How do you bear it?
21:32Bunch of dummies.
21:34Wow.
21:34It'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.
21:49He's a Corsair, not a pirate.
21:53Mandovian spice fruit.
21:57Jesus, that...
21:58It's like a bad episode of Star Trek.
22:00All right, so how about you throw everybody a change up?
22:01Hmm?
22:02Greensand?
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, barely.
22:14Pardon me.
22:14So put it out already.
22:15I can't just...
22:16It...
22:18It needs polishing.
22:21Obviously.
22:21I mean, it does, right?
22:22But okay, take the next few months and polish.
22:25I'll work it out.
22:25I'll buy you some more time before your next Ycara.
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, too.
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 figure...
23:03You make even one person happy?
23:06Maybe that's not art.
23:09It's something.
23:17To Rabanne.
23:19Proud, haughty Rabanne.
23:29Did you bring your cigarettes?
23:31Since when do you smoke?
23:33Since now?
23:34Made my rise all over the town.
23:38When I were born.
23:41Can't everybody's like to have what I got.
23:44Keep going down this borderline.
23:47It's what you find me here.
23:49That's my name.
23:56I don't know.
23:56Are you trying to start a forest fire?
23:57Stop wasting my butane.
24:01Stop 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, by the way.
24:06That's etiquette.
24:07Yeah.
24:07On a plane, do you put your own oxygen mask on first?
24:13Ooh.
24:14You're gonna hear it.
24:15Houston Mom, 78, says about Blood Song.
24:18Best Waikaro ever!
24:19All caps.
24:20And, uh...
24:2316, 17!
24:25No!
24:25Exclamation points.
24:25Wow.
24:26Is that a new record?
24:27It's gotta be.
24:28Spoiler alert.
24:29Rabanne is back.
24:30And yummier than ever.
24:31Yummier than ever.
24:32Think she means?
24:33Mm-mm.
24:34You better belief he's got my permission to come aboard.
24:37I'd walk his plank any time.
24:39I'm sensing a nautical motif.
24:41A little bit.
24:41Think Houston Mom's off for meds again?
24:43I think Houston Mom would spread her legs for a grilled cheese sandwich.
24:48Huh.
24:51Look at that.
24:53What?
24:55What do you think they're doing?
24:57What's what doing?
24:58The planes.
24:59Look.
25:03I don't know.
25:04Was that weird?
25:05Yeah, it's weird.
25:06Isn't it?
25:07All of them kind of parallel like that?
25:10Huh.
25:22Anybody else weigh in?
25:24That's all the usual suspects.
25:26Plus a few new ones.
25:28Everybody loves it.
25:40You wanna answer a few questions for them?
25:43What now?
25:44No, no, no, no.
25:44Do one quick one.
25:45Let me know you're paying attention.
25:48Carol.
25:49My husband says Rabanne can be my hall pass, which I don't think is fair since Rabanne's
25:53not a real live person.
25:54Although 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 wanna tell the truth?
26:09Or do you have to lose?
26:13Put down George Clooney.
26:15What?
26:16Nothing.
26:17What's wrong with him?
26:17Nothing.
26:18Just...
26:18I mean, how about a hot Brazilian soccer player?
26:21Someone with dreadlocks.
26:22Hip it up.
26:24Just...
26:25Put George Clooney.
26:27It's safer.
26:34Shit!
26:49Oh.
26:56Buddy, you...
26:57You okay, buddy?
27:05Oh, Jesus.
27:17Helen?
27:18Should we call someone?
27:22Helen!
27:23Helen!
27:24Stop looking at the goddamn fu-
27:37Helen?
27:41Helen?
27:41Oh, my God.
27:43Helen?
27:44Helen?
27:47Helen?
27:51Help!
27:52Help!
27:52Somebody help us!
27:54Help!
27:56Just hang in there.
27:57Hang in...
27:58Hang in there.
27:59Just hang in there.
28:06Help!
28:08Oh, my amor!
28:10Oh, my amor!
28:17Fuck!
28:19Oh!
28:20Oh!
28:27Oh!
28:28Oh!
28:33I don't know.
29:04I don't know.
29:06I don't know.
29:11I don't know.
29:15I don't know.
29:21Please.
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32:06Oh, my God.
32:32Oh, thank God.
32:35Oh, thank God.
32:59Oh, my God.
33:30Oh, my God.
33:44Oh, my God.
34:13Oh, my God.
34:34Oh, my God.
34:54Oh, my God.
34:55Oh, my God.
34:59Oh, my God.
34:59Oh, my God.
35:07Oh, my God.
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35:21Oh, my God.
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35:24Oh, my God.
35:39Oh, my God.
35:40Oh, my God.
35:50Oh, my God.
36:23God damn it!
36:39No, no, no! God damn it!
36:41No, no, no! God damn it!
37:08Oh, my God.
37:26Oh, my God.
37:58Oh, my God.
38:01Oh, my God.
38:10Oh, my God.
38:24Oh, my God.
38:34Oh, my God.
38:38Oh, my God.
38:51Oh, my God.
38:52Get out.
38:53Get out.
38:54Go away.
38:59What the hell is wrong with you people?
39:02He just want to help, Harold.
39:05Go away.
39:16Oh, my God.
39:31Oh, my God.
39:57Oh, my God.
40:21Oh, my God.
40:50Oh, my God.
40:57Oh, my God.
41:26Oh, my God.
41:28Oh, my God.
41:30Oh, my God.
41:45Oh, my God.
42:03Oh, my God.
42:11Oh, my God.
42:15Oh, my God.
42:33Oh, my God.
42:36Oh, my God.
42:48Oh, my God.
43:11No, no, no, stop.
43:13Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't come any closer.
43:14We don't mean to scare you, Carol.
43:17You're in no danger.
43:18We really do want to help.
43:20Remember, April 2016, the last time you got locked out?
43:25You put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare,
43:27you put a spare key under the floor, the one on the right, back there.
43:38There you go.
43:42There you go.
43:42There you go.
43:46Leave me alone.
43:48Leave me alone.
43:49Sure, Carol.
43:50Just give us a couple of minutes to clear out.
44:15You put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare,
44:21you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare,
44:22you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare,
44:23you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare, you put a spare,
44:23you put a spare.
44:30We're very sorry for your loss.
44:58Let's go.
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