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[MUSIC CHATTER
PLAYING ON RADIO]

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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
- Clearly, I've never been there, but...

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MAN 2:usually the situation,
obviously a major malfunction.

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[PEOPLE CHATTERING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES ON RADIO]

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MAN 3:
- Whether or not their president is a crook.

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MAN 4:
Well, I'm not a crook.

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MAN 5:
- Small step for man, one giant leap for...

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MAN 6: Robert Kennedy was shot
in that ballroom.

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MAN 7:
Thank God almighty, we are free at last.

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MAN 8:
A sniper has fired at President Kennedy.

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MAN 9:
- The Communist party...

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...or have you ever been
a member of the Communist party?
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MAN 10:
Old soldiers never die. They just...

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MAN 11:
Hi-yo, Silver!

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MAN 12:
- Something never before experienced...

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MAN 13:
- 1941, a date which will live...

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MAN 14: And we continue this final edition
of our Maxwell House Good News of 1939.

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MAN 15: Good evening,
Mr. And Mrs. North America...

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...and all the ships at sea.
Let's go to press.

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[MUSIC AND CHATTER FADING]

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GIRL:
CQ, this is W-9 GFO.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?

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CQ.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO here.

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Come back?

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[KNOCKING]

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[DOOR OPENS]

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CQ, CQ, this is W-9 GFO.
Is anybody out there?

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Not getting anything.

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Small moves, Ellie.

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Small moves.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?

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MAN:
Copy, W-9 GFO. K-4 WLD here.

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- What do I say?
- Just be yourself.

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- Where are you, K-4 WLD? Come back?
- Pensacola. Over.

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Pensacola, where's Pensacola?

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I'll give you a hint.

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Orange juice.

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Copy that, K-4 WLD.
How's the weather down there in Florida?

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TED:
Pensacola, Florida.

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I have to tell you, Sparks...

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...one thousand, one hundred
and sixteen miles.

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Pretty good. That's the farthest yet.

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ELLIE: Can we hear all the way to New York?
TED: Sure.

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ELLIE: Can we hear all the way to California?
TED: I don't see why not.

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ELLIE: Can we hear all the way to Alaska?
TED: Yeah, on a really clear day.

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ELLIE:
Can we hear all the way to China?

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TED:
On a really, really clear day.

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[CHUCKLING]

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ELLIE:
Could we talk to the moon?

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TED: Well, if it's a big enough radio,
I don't see why not.

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ELLIE:
Could we talk to Jupiter?

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Or what's the one after that?

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Don't tell me.

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TED:
I'll give you a hint.

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Hula-Hoops.

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- Saturn. Could we talk to Saturn?
- Mm-hm.

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Dad, could we talk to Mom?

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I don't think even the biggest radio
could reach that far.

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All right, no more stalling.

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Okay.

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Pensacola.

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Oh, Ellie, that's a beauty.

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Now get some sleep.

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- Hey, Dad?
- Yeah?

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Do you think there's people
on other planets?

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I don't know, Sparks.

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But I guess I'd say...

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...if it is just us...

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...it seems like an awful waste of space.

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CQ, CQ.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO.

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Repeat. This is W-9 GFO. Come back?

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO. Come back?

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I'm gonna need a bigger antenna.

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MAN:
What do you think, Doctor Arroway?

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Isn't she a beauty?

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Lt'll do.

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FISHER:
The village is five miles away.

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There's a general store in the cantina.
They can order anything from San Juan.

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ELLIE:
And when can I get some dish time?

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FISHER: Dr. Clark said you wouldn't
be able to wait. Your first shift is tonight.

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ELLIE:
All right.

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[STATIC BUZZING OVER RADIO]

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Go back.

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Try back a little bit.
You had something there.

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[WHIRRING ON RADIO]

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There.

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- Right there?
- You hear it? Right there, that's it.

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ELLIE: All right, 1221.46.
That's well within the L band.

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- Check off-axis.
- Uh-huh. On it.
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It's not in the neighborhood.

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Ah.

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Here it is. J-1741 plus 2748.

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Catalogued November 4, 1982. Pulsar.

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Well, I don't know, it must've been...
The glitch in the timing is what threw me.

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Must've been a starquake.

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[WHIRRING STOPS]

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I think it's great that you listen.
Most people don't do that anymore.

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It's just an old habit.
You know, it makes it feel more real.

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- Ellie.
- Kent. Kent Clark.

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Hey.

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They said you've been up at Owens Valley
working under Drumlin.

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How did you like him?

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[ELLIE SIGHS]

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That much? And about what I'd expect
after what he had to say about you.

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What was that?

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That you are brilliant, driven...

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...a major pain in the ass,
and obsessed with a field of study...

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...that he considers tantamount
to professional suicide.

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- Anything else?
- Those were the highlights.

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Davio, Dr. Vernon. Dr. Arroway.

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ELLIE: Hey. Hi there.
- How you doing?

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And I believe you've already met our
tireless research assistant, Mr. Fisher...

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- Here, I need you to sign...
...as well as his cologne.

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Brook's looking at the black hole
at the center of M-87.

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Eli's studying Markarian 541,
a major gamma-ray source.
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And Dr. Arroway will be spending her
precious telescope time listening for, um...

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Listening for...

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Little green men.

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One down, a couple billion to go.

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[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

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Arecibo, right?

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Does it show?

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Yeah.

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- Cracker Jack?
- No, thanks.

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- Mind if I sit down?
- Sure.

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I hear the locals, they call it El Radar.

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Convinced it has
some dark military purpose.

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I think we're pretty harmless.

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Palmer Joss.

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- Ellie Arroway.
- Nice to meet you, Ellie.

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What are you studying up there?

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The usual.

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You know. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars,
stuff like that.

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What are you...? What are you writing?

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The usual. Nouns, adverbs,
adjective here and there.

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I work on a project called SETI.

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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

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Wow. Man, that is out there.

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Wait, are you a student or something?

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Mm-mm. I'm a writer. I'm writing a book.

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Down here doing research about how
technology affects Third World cultures.

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I'm also looking for this guy
David Drumlin.
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He's the new head of the National Science
Foundation. I'm trying to get an interview.

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- I take it you know him?
- Mm-hm.

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You could say that.

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SETI, man. That's fringe.

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I've crossed paths with this guy.

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Something like that
must really chap his ass, huh?

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Compass.

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For you, EI.

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You better keep this.

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Might save your life someday.

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Will you have dinner with me tonight?

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L...

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I don't make a very good research subject.
I'm just not very quotable.

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No quotes. No quotes. Scout's honor.
Just a good meal, good company.

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I gotta go.

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But, uh...

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Drumlirs coming in this Tuesday.

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Now I remember why I took that desk job.

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- Dr. Drumlin, how are you?
- Dr. Drumlin.

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Glad you could make it, David.

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If I'd known it was gonna take
three planes, I might've reconsidered.

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How is that new office?

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I'm still settling in. They already wanna take
half my budget and give it to the Pentagon.

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Ellie. Still waiting for E.T. To call?

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- Well, I understand we're having a little...
- Good to see you too.

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Asshole.

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Uh-oh. Looks like
it's gonna be a long night.
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Science must first be accountable to the
people who are paying for it, the taxpayers.

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We need to stop wasting money
on pie-in-the-sky abstractions...

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...and start spending it on practical,
measurable ways...

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...to improve the lives of the people
who are footing the bill.

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Not unlike my L-band,
globular-clusters work.

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Wait, you're saying you wanna do away
with all pure research now?

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What's wrong with science being practical?
Even profitable?

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Nothing, as long as your motive
is the search for truth.

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Which is exactly what
the pursuit of science is.

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That's a rather interesting position...

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...coming from a man on a crusade
against the evils of technology...

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...Father Joss.

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PALMER:
I'm not against technology, doctor.

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I'm against the men who deify it
at the expense of human truth.

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Kent, I've been meaning to have
a word with you. Over here, please.

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KENT:
Yeah, I'll just...

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I think that hurt my chances
with that interview. What do you think?

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You're a priest?

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No, not really.

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I got my Masters in Divinity...

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...then dropped out of seminary to
do some secular humanitarian work...

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...coordinating efforts
for Third World churches.

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I couldn't live with
the whole celibacy thing.

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You could...

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You could call me a man of the cloth...
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...without the cloth.

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You wanna get out of here?

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All right, you see that sort of large,
W-shaped constellation right there?

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That's Cassiopeia.

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And Cassiopeia A gives off
a whole lot of radio signals.

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I actually listen to them a lot.
It's a remnant of a supernova.

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When did you know
you wanted to be an astronomer?

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Well, when l...

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When I was about 8 years old,
I was watching the sunset...

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...and I asked my dad,
"What's that bright star over there?"

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Dad, what's that star there?

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And he said that it wasrt
really a star at all. It was actually...

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That's not a star, it's a planet.
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- A whole planet called Venus...

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That's the planet Venus.

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- Which should be over there soon.

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He said,
"You know why they called it Venus?

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Because they thought
it was so beautiful and glowing.

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But what they didn't know...

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...is that it's filled with...

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...deadly gases and sulfuric acid rain."

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"Wow," I thought,
"This is it! I'm hooked."

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You know, there are four hundred billion
stars out there...

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...just in our galaxy alone.

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If only one out of a million
of those had planets...

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...all right, and ifjust one
out of a million of those had life...

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...and ifjust one out of a million
of those had intelligent life...

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...there would be literally millions
of civilizations out there.

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Well, if there wasrt...

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...it'd be an awful waste of space.

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Amen.

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PALMER: So I was lying there,
just looking at the sky.

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And then I felt something. I don't know, l...

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All I know is that I wasrt alone.

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And for the first time in my life
I wasrt scared of nothing, you know?

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Not even dying.

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It was God.

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And there's no chance that...

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...you had this experience because
some part of you needed to have it?

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I mean, I'm a reasonably intelligent guy,
but this...

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No, this... No, my intellect,
it couldn't even touch this.

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No.

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I've been to Sunday school a few times.

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Uh-huh. And?

241
00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:10,064
Well, I just kept asking all these
really annoying questions like:

242
00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:13,192
"All right, then where did Mrs. Cain
come from?"

243
00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:17,071
And pretty soon they called my dad
and they asked him...

244
00:19:17,239 --> 00:19:19,991
...if he wouldn't mind just
keeping me home from now on.

245
00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:22,201
Your dad...

246
00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:26,372
- Is it this guy?
- Yeah.

247
00:19:28,250 --> 00:19:30,710
You're close to him, aren't you?

248
00:19:31,587 --> 00:19:35,047
Yeah, I was.
He died when I was 9 years old.

249
00:19:36,925 --> 00:19:38,926
I never got to know my mother.

250
00:19:40,512 --> 00:19:41,846
I'm sorry.

251
00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:48,269
That's gotta be tough.

252
00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,148
Yeah.

253
00:19:52,774 --> 00:19:54,775
Being alone.

254
00:20:03,285 --> 00:20:04,535
What do you say...

255
00:20:04,745 --> 00:20:08,247
...we pack a picnic tomorrow morning
and hike up to old Mount Arecibo?

256
00:20:09,124 --> 00:20:12,126
I don't think I can. I gotta work.

257
00:20:13,921 --> 00:20:17,548
All right, how about dinner, then,
tomorrow night? I know a great dive.

258
00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:19,675
I don't think so.

259
00:20:23,972 --> 00:20:27,141
- Ellie, did I miss something?
- Huh?

260
00:20:28,268 --> 00:20:31,479
No. Shit, I'm late.

261
00:20:32,439 --> 00:20:36,025
I told Kent that I'd be there at 10:30.

262
00:20:37,986 --> 00:20:39,779
You know, I'm not trying to push you.

263
00:20:39,988 --> 00:20:42,406
No, no. I've wanted to look at
this sector for weeks.

264
00:20:42,574 --> 00:20:47,828
Just hang out and sleep in.
And there's a bunch of food in the fridge.

265
00:20:47,996 --> 00:20:49,163
Okay?

266
00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:51,165
How can I reach you?

267
00:20:51,833 --> 00:20:54,335
Just leave your number. I'll call you.

268
00:21:15,816 --> 00:21:16,857
YOUNG ELLIE:
Dad!

269
00:21:18,902 --> 00:21:21,904
Dad, it's starting, you're gonna miss it.

270
00:21:25,033 --> 00:21:27,326
Dad, there's another one. Hurry up.

271
00:21:27,494 --> 00:21:29,870
TED:
In a minute, Sparks. I'm almost done.

272
00:21:30,038 --> 00:21:32,873
There's another one.
Come on, hurry up, Dad!

273
00:21:34,918 --> 00:21:36,919
[CLATTERING]

274
00:21:38,213 --> 00:21:52,810
Dad?

275
00:22:02,946 --> 00:22:04,030
Daddy?

276
00:22:17,002 --> 00:22:26,427
Dad.
277
00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:30,348
I'll get the medicine.

278
00:23:45,924 --> 00:23:47,591
Ellie.

279
00:23:49,177 --> 00:23:51,846
I know it's hard to understand this now...

280
00:23:52,848 --> 00:23:57,351
...but we aren't always meant to know
why things happen the way they do.

281
00:23:57,894 --> 00:24:02,231
Sometimes we just have to accept it
as God's will.

282
00:24:04,192 --> 00:24:07,862
I should have kept some medicine
in the downstairs bathroom.

283
00:24:08,029 --> 00:24:10,573
Then I could've gotten to it sooner.

284
00:24:26,548 --> 00:24:29,008
[CHATTERING]

285
00:24:36,099 --> 00:24:37,766
YOUNG ELLIE:
CQ...

286
00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:41,896
...this is W-9 GFO. Do you copy?

287
00:24:45,066 --> 00:24:47,735
Dad, this is Ellie. Come back.

288
00:24:50,906 --> 00:24:52,948
This is Eleanor Arroway...

289
00:24:53,116 --> 00:24:56,702
...transmitting on 14.2 megahertz.

290
00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:00,789
Dad.
291
00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:04,335
Are you there?

292
00:25:06,463 --> 00:25:07,922
Come back.

293
00:25:10,842 --> 00:25:12,259
Dad.

294
00:25:14,638 --> 00:25:16,096
Are you there?

295
00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:18,641
Dad, this is Ellie.

296
00:25:27,651 --> 00:25:30,152
[BEEPING]

297
00:25:48,004 --> 00:25:49,964
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]

298
00:25:50,131 --> 00:25:51,423
Ellie.

299
00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:54,969
Hi, Kent. What are you doing
up so early, huh?

300
00:25:55,637 --> 00:25:56,971
I was thinking...

301
00:25:57,681 --> 00:25:59,223
...we'd make a pretty good team.

302
00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:00,432
What?

303
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,103
We could put together
a kick-ass ad-hoc SETI program.

304
00:26:04,312 --> 00:26:06,522
You know the Very Large Array
in New Mexico?
305
00:26:06,690 --> 00:26:09,149
It would be a dynamite place
to do serious SETl...

306
00:26:09,317 --> 00:26:11,986
What are you talking about, Kent?

307
00:26:13,446 --> 00:26:15,322
Drumlin pulled the plug.

308
00:26:15,949 --> 00:26:17,074
We're homeless.

309
00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:29,461
Hey, watch it.

310
00:26:31,214 --> 00:26:33,132
ELLIE:
Is it true, huh? Did you pull the plug?

311
00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:35,676
You can't see it now,
but I'm doing you a favor.

312
00:26:35,844 --> 00:26:40,014
You are far too promising a scientist
to be wasting your gifts on this nonsense.

313
00:26:40,181 --> 00:26:42,182
Look, I don't consider what could be...

314
00:26:42,392 --> 00:26:45,394
...the most important discovery
of the human race nonsense, okay?

315
00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:46,979
There's 400 billion stars...

316
00:26:47,147 --> 00:26:50,024
And two probabilities.
One, there is intelligent life...

317
00:26:50,233 --> 00:26:53,235
...but it's so far away you'll
never contact it in your lifetime.
318
00:26:53,403 --> 00:26:55,613
- And two!
- You're making a decision...

319
00:26:55,780 --> 00:27:00,200
There's nothing but noble gases and carbon
compounds and you're wasting your time.

320
00:27:00,368 --> 00:27:03,454
In the meantime, you won't be published,
won't be taken seriously.

321
00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:05,331
And your career will be over.

322
00:27:05,498 --> 00:27:08,876
So what? It's my life.

323
00:27:45,914 --> 00:27:48,791
Hey, Kent. You were right.

324
00:27:48,958 --> 00:27:52,670
Screw Drumlin. We're gonna raise
the money. We're going to New Mexico.

325
00:27:52,837 --> 00:27:55,381
KENT: Chicago has all the stuff,
but let me know how it goes.

326
00:27:55,548 --> 00:27:58,425
I've got some more corporate stops
on the East Coast for you.

327
00:27:58,593 --> 00:28:01,762
Hey, Fish, did that investor from Houston
ever get back to us?

328
00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:03,931
FISHER:
I'm gonna hit him up on my way to L.A.

329
00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:06,266
ELLIE: Try begging for some of that
Hollywood money.

330
00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:10,062
Why not? They've been making money
off of aliens for years, right?

331
00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:13,065
- Begging is good for the soul.
- We'll see about that.

332
00:28:13,233 --> 00:28:14,900
- Just do me a favor.
- Yeah.

333
00:28:15,068 --> 00:28:17,861
Try not to be too confrontational.

334
00:28:18,029 --> 00:28:20,489
Huh? Confrontational? Me?
What do you mean?

335
00:28:20,657 --> 00:28:22,282
I'm gonna see if I left anything.

336
00:28:55,650 --> 00:28:59,486
ELLIE: This is a unique time in our history,
in the history of any civilization.

337
00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:02,448
It's the moment
of the acquisition of technology.

338
00:29:02,657 --> 00:29:05,492
That's the moment
where contact becomes possible.

339
00:29:06,202 --> 00:29:11,039
The Very Large Array in New Mexico
is the key to our chances for success.

340
00:29:11,207 --> 00:29:13,459
With its 27 linked radio telescopes...

341
00:29:13,626 --> 00:29:17,004
...we can search more accurately
than at any other conventional facility.

342
00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:22,342
Now, we've gotten approval to buy
the telescope time from the government.

343
00:29:22,844 --> 00:29:25,012
Now all we really need is the money.

344
00:29:25,805 --> 00:29:27,806
A nice presentation, doctor.

345
00:29:28,516 --> 00:29:33,020
But while our foundation arm has a mandate
to support experimental programs...

346
00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:37,149
...we must confess that
your proposal seems less like science...

347
00:29:37,317 --> 00:29:39,026
...and more like science fiction.

348
00:29:41,529 --> 00:29:42,988
Science fiction.

349
00:29:46,409 --> 00:29:48,202
You're right.

350
00:29:48,661 --> 00:29:50,245
It's crazy.

351
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:53,999
In fact, it's even worse than that: Nuts.

352
00:29:55,543 --> 00:29:57,044
You wanna hear something nutty?

353
00:29:57,212 --> 00:29:59,880
A couple guys wanted to build
something called an airplane.

354
00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:03,217
You get people to go in it and fly like birds.
Ridiculous, right?

355
00:30:03,384 --> 00:30:05,344
Or what about
breaking the sound barrier...
356
00:30:05,512 --> 00:30:09,139
...or rockets to the moon,
or atomic energy or a mission to Mars?

357
00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:11,183
Science fiction, right?

358
00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:12,476
Look.

359
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:16,897
All I'm asking is for you to
just have the tiniest bit of vision.

360
00:30:17,065 --> 00:30:20,651
You know, to just step back for one minute
and look at the big picture.

361
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,277
To take a chance on something...

362
00:30:22,445 --> 00:30:26,073
...which might end up being
the most profoundly impactful moment...

363
00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:30,410
...for humanity, for the history of history.

364
00:30:33,623 --> 00:30:35,165
I'm sorry.

365
00:30:36,292 --> 00:30:37,918
I just spent the last 13 months...

366
00:30:38,586 --> 00:30:41,922
...coming into rooms like this
and talking to people like you.

367
00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:45,050
The truth is, you're my last chance, so...

368
00:30:45,218 --> 00:30:46,677
I'm sorry I wasted your time.

369
00:30:46,845 --> 00:30:48,136
Doctor.

370
00:30:48,304 --> 00:30:58,772
Yes, sir.

371
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:03,068
You have your money.

372
00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:10,909
Thank you.

373
00:31:39,272 --> 00:31:41,773
[MOTOR HUMMING]

374
00:31:57,457 --> 00:32:01,501
MAN:
Oh! Perfect cast. Come on, fishy.

375
00:32:01,669 --> 00:32:05,339
Frank, look at the size
of that son of a bitch!

376
00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:19,853
Welcome back, Dr. C.

377
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:21,521
How'd it go?

378
00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:25,442
- How was the trip?
- I've had better.

379
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:29,029
Drumlin. What is this?
This his personal vendetta now?

380
00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:33,116
It's not just Drumlin. There's been enormous
pressure from other scientists as well.

381
00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:36,536
It doesn't matter anyway,
Hadders funding us for another two years.

382
00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:39,873
Uh... These are government-owned
telescopes, they can lease to whomever.

383
00:32:40,041 --> 00:32:43,835
And they don't want the high priestess
of the desert using them anymore.

384
00:32:44,671 --> 00:32:45,712
What?

385
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,216
Staring at static on TV for hours,
listening to washing machines.

386
00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:51,760
Did you really think these stories
wouldn't get out?

387
00:32:51,928 --> 00:32:55,681
- I was looking for patterns in the chaos.
- Doesrt matter, we're a joke to them.

388
00:32:55,848 --> 00:32:57,391
They want us out.

389
00:32:58,851 --> 00:33:02,187
We've got three months
until the paperwork goes through.

390
00:33:04,899 --> 00:33:08,068
Fine. I'll start looking for other funding.
I'll just start...

391
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:12,739
Could you face reality, please?
Just this once, Ellie. We lost.

392
00:33:12,907 --> 00:33:14,574
It's over.

393
00:33:20,915 --> 00:33:22,582
Fine.

394
00:33:22,750 --> 00:33:24,751
But I'm not stopping.

395
00:33:24,919 --> 00:33:27,921
If I have to go it alone, I'll go it alone.
I've done it before.

396
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,433
My guest tonight is author
and theologian Palmer Joss.

397
00:34:21,601 --> 00:34:26,605
He's become a spiritual counselor of sorts
and a recent fixture at the White House.

398
00:34:26,773 --> 00:34:29,733
"God's Diplomat,"
according to The New York Times.

399
00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:33,612
His latest book, Losing Faith,
is currently number one...

400
00:34:33,821 --> 00:34:36,156
...on that publicatiors bestseller list.

401
00:34:36,324 --> 00:34:37,824
Thanks for being with us, Palmer.

402
00:34:37,992 --> 00:34:40,786
You have had quite a ride
this last couple of years.

403
00:34:40,953 --> 00:34:43,413
Yeah, I sure have, Larry.

404
00:34:43,581 --> 00:34:46,083
You know, Fish, I was thinking.

405
00:34:46,250 --> 00:34:50,587
Who would make the best astronomers?
I mean, think about it.

406
00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:56,760
Who has the perfect synthesis
of career and lifestyle?

407
00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:59,846
- I give.
- Vampires!
408
00:35:00,014 --> 00:35:02,432
Are you anti-technology?
Are you anti-science?

409
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,601
PALMER:
No, not at all.

410
00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:07,646
The question that I'm asking is this:

411
00:35:08,314 --> 00:35:11,024
Are we happier as a human race?

412
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:16,113
Is the world fundamentally a better place
because of science and technology?

413
00:35:16,823 --> 00:35:19,282
We shop at home, we surf the Web...

414
00:35:19,492 --> 00:35:22,285
...but at the same time we feel emptier...

415
00:35:22,453 --> 00:35:27,290
...and more cut off from each other
than at any other time in human history.

416
00:35:27,458 --> 00:35:30,127
I mean, we're becoming
a synthesized society...

417
00:35:30,294 --> 00:35:33,630
...in a great, big hurry
to get to the next...

418
00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:50,522
I think it's because we're looking
for the meaning. What is the meaning?

419
00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:53,400
We have mindless jobs,
we take frantic vacations.

420
00:35:53,818 --> 00:35:56,820
Deficit finance trips to the mall
to buy more things...

421
00:35:57,029 --> 00:36:00,699
...that we think are gonna fill
these holes in our lives.

422
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:03,410
Is it any wonder that we've lost
our sense of direction?

423
00:36:19,135 --> 00:36:23,889
[BUZZING AND PULSING]

424
00:36:44,285 --> 00:36:45,952
Holy shit.

425
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:01,301
[ENGINE STARTS]

426
00:37:04,263 --> 00:37:10,310
Right ascension,
18 hours, 36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.

427
00:37:10,478 --> 00:37:15,482
Declination, plus 36 degrees,
46 minutes...

428
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:18,818
...56.2 seconds!

429
00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:21,988
Confirm!

430
00:37:22,156 --> 00:37:28,078
Right ascension, 18 hours, 36 minutes,
56.2 seconds!

431
00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:31,081
Hey, is anybody awake in there?
I'm moving the array!

432
00:37:32,166 --> 00:37:34,960
- Confirm!
- Boss has a bogey!

433
00:37:35,169 --> 00:37:40,298
Right ascension, 18 hours,
36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.

434
00:37:40,466 --> 00:37:42,717
- Fish!
- We're on it.

435
00:37:42,885 --> 00:37:47,222
Plus 36 hours,
47 minutes and 1 second.

436
00:37:47,390 --> 00:37:51,142
Strong possible pulse chain
on Sub-Array 4.

437
00:37:51,352 --> 00:37:54,688
I'm moving the rest of them now.
I need you to confirm the coordinates.

438
00:37:54,855 --> 00:37:56,856
Check the status of the array.

439
00:37:57,024 --> 00:38:00,902
- She's doing all the dishes.
- All systems nominal.

440
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:07,117
Hello.

441
00:38:07,868 --> 00:38:09,619
I need a full systems check.

442
00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:12,622
Coordinates confirmed.
Willie's checking the system now.

443
00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:15,792
Stay on top of the systems diagnostics.

444
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,669
Check the reference point offsets.

445
00:38:17,878 --> 00:38:21,881
And I want you off-axis on 27
the second we get there.

446
00:38:22,049 --> 00:38:24,551
And tell Willie to break out the big boy.

447
00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:28,471
Copy that. Willie...

448
00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:29,889
Yeah. Go, Ellie.

449
00:38:30,057 --> 00:38:33,351
I can hear can it on the headphones.
We gotta be sure about this.

450
00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:36,229
Give me another array status.

451
00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:40,567
Her four are online,
the rest are tracking in.

452
00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:43,486
FISHER: Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in.

453
00:38:43,654 --> 00:38:46,031
But there's a bad drive on 16.

454
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:48,742
Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in...

455
00:38:48,909 --> 00:38:51,745
...but there's a bad drive on 16.
Copy that?

456
00:38:52,997 --> 00:38:55,290
What do you want me to do
about the source queue?

457
00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:57,542
Look, forget about it and hold the queue.

458
00:38:57,710 --> 00:39:01,880
Go get ready to set the target frequency
to manual the second we're aligned.

459
00:39:02,089 --> 00:39:06,426
Do you copy? I want you to go
off-axis on 27 the second we're there.

460
00:39:06,677 --> 00:39:09,512
And leave the LO frequency where it is.

461
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,974
Stay on it, Fish, don't let it get away.
If you lose it, scan the band.

462
00:39:13,142 --> 00:39:16,436
Run every frequency you can think of.

463
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:22,734
How you doing?

464
00:39:26,947 --> 00:39:28,073
Talk to me, guys.

465
00:39:28,282 --> 00:39:32,118
Partially polarized set of moving pulses,
amplitude modulated.

466
00:39:32,286 --> 00:39:35,955
We're locked. Systems check out, signal
across the board. What's the frequency?

467
00:39:36,123 --> 00:39:39,167
4.46, 23 gigahertz.

468
00:39:40,544 --> 00:39:43,797
Hydrogen times pi. Told you.

469
00:39:43,964 --> 00:39:45,757
Strong sucker too.

470
00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:48,259
I got it! I got it, I got it!
I'm patched in.

471
00:39:48,969 --> 00:39:50,637
ELLIE:
All right, let me hear it.

472
00:39:53,766 --> 00:39:55,517
[PULSING]

473
00:39:55,684 --> 00:39:57,143
Listen to that.

474
00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:01,648
Make me a liar, Fish.

475
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:04,484
It could be AWACS out of Kirtland
jamming us.

476
00:40:04,652 --> 00:40:06,027
But I'm doubting it.

477
00:40:06,195 --> 00:40:08,822
All right, let's see
if F.U.D.D.'s reading it too.

478
00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:12,992
Willie, patch it back
and give me the off-axis.

479
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:14,828
- Are we recording?
- Never stopped.

480
00:40:16,914 --> 00:40:18,206
Thank you, Elmer.

481
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:20,333
AWACS status is negative.

482
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:23,336
- White Sands?
- On this frequency? No.

483
00:40:23,504 --> 00:40:25,004
I'm gonna punch up the darks.

484
00:40:28,175 --> 00:40:31,845
How's the spying tonight, guys?
Come on.

485
00:40:34,181 --> 00:40:36,683
FISHER: NORAD's not tracking
any snoops in this vector.

486
00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:38,435
Shuttle Endeavor is in sleep mode.

487
00:40:38,602 --> 00:40:41,104
Okay, point source confirmed.

488
00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:43,857
- Whatever it is, it ain't local.
- Position?

489
00:40:44,024 --> 00:40:46,693
WILLIE: I checked interferometry.
Somewhere in Lyra, I think.

490
00:40:46,861 --> 00:40:48,361
- Vega?
FISHER: Can't be.

491
00:40:48,529 --> 00:40:50,780
It's only 26 light years away.

492
00:40:50,948 --> 00:40:53,908
- What's the peak intensity?
FISHER: Coming up.

493
00:40:54,076 --> 00:40:55,326
ELLIE:
Vega.

494
00:40:55,494 --> 00:40:59,456
Vega. I scanned it a bunch of times at
Arecibo. It was negative results, always.

495
00:40:59,665 --> 00:41:03,042
Got it. Reading over 100 janskys.

496
00:41:03,210 --> 00:41:05,587
Jesus. I could pick it up on my...

497
00:41:05,754 --> 00:41:07,964
[PULSING STOPS]

498
00:41:08,716 --> 00:41:09,716
No.
499
00:41:40,247 --> 00:41:42,874
[PULSING]

500
00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:44,083
Come on.

501
00:41:46,420 --> 00:41:48,505
All right, it's restarting.

502
00:41:48,964 --> 00:41:50,715
Wait a minute. Those are numbers.

503
00:41:50,925 --> 00:41:54,010
That was a three,
the one before it was a two.

504
00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:57,597
Base-10 numbers. Just start counting now,
see how far can we get.

505
00:41:57,765 --> 00:41:59,390
One.

506
00:42:04,939 --> 00:42:06,022
WILLIE: Seven.
ELLIE: Seven.

507
00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:10,443
Those are primes.

508
00:42:10,611 --> 00:42:13,196
Two, three, five, seven,
those are all prime numbers.

509
00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:15,323
There's no way
that's a natural phenomenon.

510
00:42:15,491 --> 00:42:16,616
- Holy shit.
- Okay, okay.

511
00:42:16,784 --> 00:42:20,119
Let's just calm down
and pull up the star file on Vega.
512
00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:23,623
FISHER: It doesn't make any sense.
The system is too young...

513
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:25,792
...so it can't have a planetary system...

514
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,379
...let alone life
or a technological civilization.

515
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:32,131
Maybe they didn't grow up there.
Maybe they're visiting.

516
00:42:32,299 --> 00:42:35,635
Spacecraft? This system is
full of debris. It would get clobbered.

517
00:42:35,803 --> 00:42:39,973
Well, not if they used their laser blasters
and photon torpedoes.

518
00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:43,560
- That's not funny.
- How else are we gonna explain it?

519
00:42:43,727 --> 00:42:46,938
Willie's right. If we go public with this
and we're wrong, that's it.

520
00:42:47,106 --> 00:42:49,607
It's over. We're cooked.

521
00:42:50,609 --> 00:42:53,194
God, I wish Kent was here.

522
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:57,448
Whatever the signal is, we better
do something soon. Vega's gonna set.

523
00:42:57,992 --> 00:43:04,581
Position confirmed.
We've got 4.4623 gigahertz, confirmed.

524
00:43:04,748 --> 00:43:07,667
We've got 112 janskys.

525
00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:10,295
All right, do you have
a source location yet?

526
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,758
We put it right smack in the middle.

527
00:43:15,926 --> 00:43:17,510
Vega.

528
00:43:19,346 --> 00:43:22,348
Okay, thanks, lan. Keep tracking
and we'll get back to you.

529
00:43:22,516 --> 00:43:24,183
Yeah, right-o.

530
00:43:34,361 --> 00:43:35,862
FISHER:
Okay, 101.

531
00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:40,783
The pulse sequenced through every
prime number between two and 101.

532
00:43:42,369 --> 00:43:44,370
Who are we gonna call now?

533
00:43:47,207 --> 00:43:48,291
Everybody.

534
00:43:56,050 --> 00:43:59,469
MAN 1 [ON TV]: The rumors are flying,
the implications extraordinary.

535
00:43:59,637 --> 00:44:03,264
This morning's detection of an unidentified
radio source from deep space...

536
00:44:03,432 --> 00:44:06,059
...can neither be confirmed nor denied.

537
00:44:06,226 --> 00:44:08,019
But the military presence arriving...

538
00:44:08,187 --> 00:44:12,065
MAN 2: Sources close to the VLA report
that the planet has been contacted...

539
00:44:12,232 --> 00:44:14,192
...by some form of intelligent being...

540
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,862
...living outside of our solar system.
Again, there is no confirmation...

541
00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:21,949
...that the official IAU communiqué
was sent from this government facility.

542
00:44:22,117 --> 00:44:24,827
KITZ:
I want all of these people out of here.

543
00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:26,788
Where's the girl?

544
00:44:30,959 --> 00:44:33,878
Twenty-two stations worldwide
now confirming the signal.

545
00:44:34,046 --> 00:44:35,838
Vega is currently below our horizon...

546
00:44:36,006 --> 00:44:38,466
...so what you're hearing
is the signal from-

547
00:44:38,634 --> 00:44:42,428
Get decryption people in here now.
Lunacharsky is visiting at Cal Tech.

548
00:44:42,596 --> 00:44:44,055
Explain this to me.

549
00:44:44,264 --> 00:44:48,142
If the source of the signal is so
sophisticated, why the remedial math?

550
00:44:48,310 --> 00:44:50,103
Exactly, why don't they speak English?

551
00:44:50,270 --> 00:44:53,481
Maybe because 70 percent of the planet
speaks other languages.

552
00:44:53,649 --> 00:44:56,442
Mathematics is
the only truly universal language.

553
00:44:57,152 --> 00:44:59,737
It's no coincidence
that they're using primes.

554
00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:02,156
- I don't get it.
- Prime numbers.

555
00:45:02,324 --> 00:45:06,119
That would be integers that are
only divisible by themselves and one.

556
00:45:08,997 --> 00:45:12,625
We think this may be a beacon,
some kind of an announcement...

557
00:45:12,793 --> 00:45:13,918
...to get our attention.

558
00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,797
If it's attention you want, you got that.
One thing: Vega.

559
00:45:18,006 --> 00:45:21,509
People have been looking at Vega for years
with no results.

560
00:45:21,677 --> 00:45:24,512
And now yesterday they start
broadcasting primes. Why?

561
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,558
Well, it's hardly yesterday, because the
signal has been transmitting for 26 years.

562
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:30,184
Dr. Arroway.

563
00:45:30,352 --> 00:45:34,564
- Excuse me, who are you?
- Michael Kitz, National Security Advisor.

564
00:45:34,732 --> 00:45:36,023
Let me first say that your...

565
00:45:36,191 --> 00:45:40,153
Actually, first, could you ask the gentlemen
with the firearms to wait outside?

566
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,321
This is supposed to be a civilian facility.

567
00:45:48,787 --> 00:45:51,414
- Doctor, with all due respect to your...
- Excuse me.

568
00:45:51,790 --> 00:45:55,126
Hey, hey, hey.
Hi, I'm so glad you're back.

569
00:45:55,711 --> 00:45:58,921
Come on, I got something for you to hear.
Is this great?

570
00:45:59,089 --> 00:46:01,507
- Who are all these people?
- I have no idea.

571
00:46:01,717 --> 00:46:04,677
Sit down. And we could use some help
with the spectrum analysis.

572
00:46:04,845 --> 00:46:06,804
- Listen to that. I'll get on it.
- Headsets.

573
00:46:06,972 --> 00:46:09,056
So I'll just come right to the point,
shall I?

574
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:13,352
Your having sent this all over the world may
constitute a breach of national security.
575
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,188
This isn't a person-to-person call.

576
00:46:15,397 --> 00:46:19,901
You can't think that a civilization sending
this would intend it just for Americans.

577
00:46:20,068 --> 00:46:21,903
I'm saying you might have consulted us.

578
00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:25,865
- The contents could be extremely sensitive.
- You want to classify prime numbers?

579
00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:29,786
Mike, please. We're only in line
with Vega so many hours a day.

580
00:46:29,953 --> 00:46:34,415
The only way to monitor the signal
is to get the cooperation of other stations.

581
00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:38,961
If Dr. Arroway hadrt acted quickly,
we could have lost key elements.

582
00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:40,755
Okay, fine, they've got the primes.

583
00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:44,050
If you're right about there being a more
significant transmission...

584
00:46:44,218 --> 00:46:45,885
Which will need help
to receive and decode.

585
00:46:46,053 --> 00:46:47,887
Doctor, do you understand that my job
is to protect...?

586
00:46:48,055 --> 00:46:49,847
KENT: Shh!
- What?

587
00:46:50,015 --> 00:46:52,099
- Listen.
- I hear it.

588
00:46:52,267 --> 00:46:54,018
- Hear what?
- Harmonic.

589
00:46:54,186 --> 00:46:58,439
Bingo. I had Willie ask Rattan
to retune to 8.9247 gigahertz.

590
00:46:58,607 --> 00:47:00,107
There's a lot more here, folks.

591
00:47:00,275 --> 00:47:03,236
- Fish, let's get on the negative sideband.
FISHER: I'm already on it.

592
00:47:03,403 --> 00:47:04,987
KITZ: What is going on?
DRUMLIN: Another signal.

593
00:47:05,155 --> 00:47:06,489
Another signal, look at that.

594
00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:09,784
A second signal at double the frequency.
It looks like a...

595
00:47:09,952 --> 00:47:11,327
Somebody get a TV monitor.

596
00:47:11,870 --> 00:47:13,955
Patch the recording
into the image processor.

597
00:47:14,122 --> 00:47:17,416
- You want the new data?
- Yeah, the new frequency we just recorded.

598
00:47:17,626 --> 00:47:19,544
David, explain this to me, please.

599
00:47:19,711 --> 00:47:22,839
With the prime there's another signal.
Looks like a TV transmission.
600
00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:24,173
WILLIE:
We're hot.

601
00:47:24,341 --> 00:47:27,426
Do me a favor, go get the blinds.
There is a lot of glare.

602
00:47:27,594 --> 00:47:29,095
You're patched in.

603
00:47:29,263 --> 00:47:33,432
All right, it's definitely an image.
Let's try and stabilize it.

604
00:47:37,479 --> 00:47:38,980
What do you make of that, Fish?

605
00:47:39,147 --> 00:47:42,567
It's two different interlaced frames.
I'm framing one.

606
00:47:45,946 --> 00:47:48,698
ELLIE: It's just noise.
FISHER: Trying frame two.

607
00:47:49,449 --> 00:47:53,202
I've got an offset carrier here.
I think it's audio.

608
00:47:53,370 --> 00:47:54,620
Plug it in, plug it in.

609
00:47:58,959 --> 00:48:00,251
Center that segment.

610
00:48:00,419 --> 00:48:01,961
FISHER:
Centering.

611
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:08,801
- Can you clean it up any more than that?
FISHER: I'm working on it.

612
00:48:21,815 --> 00:48:23,149
What the hell...?

613
00:48:23,984 --> 00:48:25,151
Try zooming out.

614
00:48:29,031 --> 00:48:30,156
All right, freeze.

615
00:48:30,324 --> 00:48:31,657
Reverse values.

616
00:48:33,327 --> 00:48:35,453
Try zooming out again.

617
00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:41,167
Rotate 90 degrees counterclock...

618
00:48:42,669 --> 00:48:44,629
DRUMLIN:
My God.

619
00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:49,008
[HITLER SPEAKING IN GERMAN
ON RADIO]

620
00:48:49,676 --> 00:48:52,637
- Okay.
KENT: What's going on?

621
00:48:52,804 --> 00:48:55,473
You're not gonna believe this.

622
00:49:08,904 --> 00:49:10,655
Does anybody speak German?

623
00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:14,492
"I declare the Games in Berlin...

624
00:49:15,577 --> 00:49:17,328
...at the celebration...

625
00:49:17,537 --> 00:49:21,916
...of the first Olympics of the new era
has opened."

626
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,136
Get me the White House.

627
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:37,473
Twenty million people died
defeating that son of a bitch...

628
00:49:37,641 --> 00:49:39,850
...and he's our first ambassador
to outer space?

629
00:49:40,018 --> 00:49:42,353
- Actually...
- The broadcast from the '36 Olympics...

630
00:49:42,521 --> 00:49:45,523
...was the first television transmission
that went into space.

631
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:49,068
That they recorded it and sent it back
is saying, "Hello, we heard you."

632
00:49:49,236 --> 00:49:51,696
Or, "Sjeg Heil, you're our kind of people."

633
00:49:51,905 --> 00:49:54,573
Wait. Hitler and his politics
have nothing to do with this.

634
00:49:54,741 --> 00:49:58,244
It's highly unlikely they would understand,
and people need to understand...

635
00:49:58,412 --> 00:50:00,579
The people are in very good hands,
Dr. Arroway.

636
00:50:00,747 --> 00:50:01,747
We'll take it from here.

637
00:50:01,915 --> 00:50:04,000
WOMAN [ON TV]:
The White House has just released...

638
00:50:04,167 --> 00:50:05,251
Smile, folks. We're on.
639
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:08,337
- A statement confirming a message
from deep space...

640
00:50:08,505 --> 00:50:12,591
...has been received by American scientists.
Claire Shipman is at the White House.

641
00:50:12,759 --> 00:50:15,928
Donna, we've been told the president
will have only a few remarks...

642
00:50:16,138 --> 00:50:17,596
...about today's announcement...

643
00:50:17,764 --> 00:50:21,183
...and that he won't be taking
any questions from the press.

644
00:50:26,148 --> 00:50:27,481
Good afternoon.

645
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,572
I'm glad to be joined by my
science and technology advisor.

646
00:50:36,408 --> 00:50:39,243
This is the product
of years of exploration...

647
00:50:39,453 --> 00:50:42,663
...by some of the world's
most distinguished scientists.

648
00:50:42,873 --> 00:50:47,084
Like all discoveries, this one
will and should continue to be reviewed...

649
00:50:47,294 --> 00:50:50,046
...examined and scrutinized.

650
00:50:50,255 --> 00:50:53,340
It must be confirmed by other scientists.

651
00:50:53,508 --> 00:50:59,305
The fact that something of this magnitude
is being explored is another...

652
00:50:59,473 --> 00:51:03,350
Fish, what is the story over here?
I thought Ellie was supposed to be on.

653
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,061
I don't know.

654
00:51:05,687 --> 00:51:08,647
Guys? Guys? Um...

655
00:51:09,441 --> 00:51:12,276
You know those interlaced frames
that we thought were noise?

656
00:51:13,111 --> 00:51:15,780
This has structure. I'm hearing structure.

657
00:51:17,157 --> 00:51:19,408
If this discovery is confirmed...

658
00:51:19,618 --> 00:51:23,245
...it will be one of the most stunning
insights into our universe...

659
00:51:23,455 --> 00:51:25,498
...that science has ever uncovered.

660
00:51:25,999 --> 00:51:31,170
Its implications are as far-reaching
and awe-inspiring as can be imagined.

661
00:51:31,379 --> 00:51:34,840
Even as it promises answers
to some of our oldest questions...

662
00:51:35,050 --> 00:51:38,469
...it poses still others,
even more fundamental.

663
00:51:38,678 --> 00:51:42,306
We will continue to listen closely
to what it has to say...

664
00:51:42,516 --> 00:51:46,060
...as we continue the search for answers
and for knowledge...

665
00:51:46,269 --> 00:51:51,941
...that is as old as humanity itself
but essential to our people's future.

666
00:51:52,275 --> 00:51:53,734
- Thank you.
MAN: Sir...

667
00:51:53,902 --> 00:51:56,028
Is there a considerable
global security threat?

668
00:51:56,196 --> 00:51:59,323
I'll answer your questions at the end,
but first a few corrections.

669
00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:03,494
The message was received Friday morning,
6:31 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.

670
00:52:03,703 --> 00:52:08,290
It was largely mathematical, and in spite of
reports you may have seen to the contrary...

671
00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:11,001
...appears to be completely benign
in nature.

672
00:52:11,211 --> 00:52:14,964
Let me say that again.
The message is completely benign.

673
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:18,634
The president has been in touch
with heads of state from around the world...

674
00:52:18,802 --> 00:52:21,554
...and every possible security measure
is being taken.

675
00:52:21,721 --> 00:52:24,765
To better explain to you
the events of the last 48 hours...
676
00:52:24,975 --> 00:52:29,395
...l'm turning you over to the leader of the
team that made this remarkable discovery...

677
00:52:29,563 --> 00:52:33,732
...Dr. David Drumlin,
special science advisor to the president.

678
00:52:41,658 --> 00:52:44,493
Thank you, Rachel. Hello.

679
00:52:46,413 --> 00:52:48,873
In 1936
a very faint television signal...

680
00:52:49,082 --> 00:52:52,168
...transmitted the opening ceremonies
of the Olympic Games...

681
00:52:52,335 --> 00:52:56,005
...as a show
of German superior technology.

682
00:52:57,090 --> 00:52:59,175
That signal left Earth
at the speed of light...

683
00:52:59,342 --> 00:53:01,343
[PHONE RINGING]

684
00:53:01,511 --> 00:53:05,347
...and 26 years later arrived in the vicinity
of the star we call Vega.

685
00:53:06,266 --> 00:53:10,102
That signal has been sent back to us
hugely amplified...

686
00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:12,938
...an unmistakable sign of intelligence.

687
00:53:13,106 --> 00:53:14,607
ELLIE:
You're online, Kent, go ahead.

688
00:53:14,774 --> 00:53:18,986
KENT: The Adolf transmission used 25 frames
per second but we're receiving 50.

689
00:53:19,154 --> 00:53:23,115
So we canned the other 25
through a series of search algorithms.

690
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:25,826
We found a series of markers
on the top of each frame.

691
00:53:25,994 --> 00:53:27,703
- Are you ready?
- Yeah, go ahead.

692
00:53:27,871 --> 00:53:31,123
- Send it, Willie.
WILLIE: Okay, here it comes.

693
00:53:34,377 --> 00:53:35,711
KENT:
It's digital...

694
00:53:35,879 --> 00:53:40,132
...massive amounts of data which
extend right to the higher harmonics.

695
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,551
Jackpot.

696
00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:45,387
ELLIE:
All right, as you'll see...

697
00:53:45,555 --> 00:53:48,849
...interlaced with the frames
of the original Hitler image...

698
00:53:49,017 --> 00:53:51,977
...we found these sections.

699
00:53:52,145 --> 00:53:55,648
Now, we thought they were just noise,
but they're actually data...

700
00:53:55,815 --> 00:53:57,107
...huge amounts of it.
701
00:53:57,275 --> 00:54:01,820
When we combine this with the data from
the amplification of the original signal...

702
00:54:01,988 --> 00:54:05,282
...we get these encrypted pages of text.

703
00:54:05,492 --> 00:54:09,662
Now, no two are alike and
we've uncovered over 10,000 already.

704
00:54:09,829 --> 00:54:12,248
What does it mean, doctor?

705
00:54:12,415 --> 00:54:14,750
Well, we have no idea.
It could be anything.

706
00:54:14,918 --> 00:54:17,628
It could be the first volume
of an Encyclopedia Galactica.

707
00:54:17,796 --> 00:54:20,714
Instructions to acquaint us
with their colonization procedures.

708
00:54:20,882 --> 00:54:22,841
Moses with a few billion
new commandments.

709
00:54:23,009 --> 00:54:25,302
How long will it take to decode it?

710
00:54:25,512 --> 00:54:28,847
It could take forever.
We really need a primer...

711
00:54:29,015 --> 00:54:32,101
We need to get the best
decryption people we have.

712
00:54:32,602 --> 00:54:36,855
I intend to use the VLA
as my command post.

713
00:54:37,023 --> 00:54:40,442
In the meantime, my office
has made out a preliminary budget.

714
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:44,571
Wait a minute.
This is a privately-funded operation.

715
00:54:44,781 --> 00:54:47,074
We're only leasing dish time
from the government...

716
00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:50,369
If there's a more clear case
of eminent domain, I've never seen it.

717
00:54:50,537 --> 00:54:53,122
I'm going to recommend
we militarize this project.

718
00:54:53,290 --> 00:54:55,666
What? This is my project.

719
00:54:55,834 --> 00:54:59,211
Nobody knows more about these scenarios
than I do. David, tell them...

720
00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:02,756
Excuse me, could we calm down here?

721
00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:07,636
Now, I'm going to recommend that
Dr. Drumlin coordinate the decryption effort.

722
00:55:07,804 --> 00:55:11,181
However, in light of Dr. Arroway's
long experience in these matters...

723
00:55:11,349 --> 00:55:15,561
...for the time being, she will continue
to direct operations at the VLA...

724
00:55:15,729 --> 00:55:20,399
...understanding that future discoveries
will be kept in strictest confidence...

725
00:55:20,567 --> 00:55:22,484
...until such time as the president...

726
00:55:22,652 --> 00:55:26,655
...can decide the most suitable
course of action. Understood?

727
00:55:26,823 --> 00:55:28,032
Yes.

728
00:55:28,325 --> 00:55:30,951
MAN:
This is CNN Breaking News.

729
00:55:31,119 --> 00:55:34,079
The president made a statement,
calling the message from Vega...

730
00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:36,415
...one of the most stunning insights
into our...

731
00:55:36,624 --> 00:55:41,628
Attendance at religious services has
risen a dramatic 39 percent in recent days.

732
00:55:41,796 --> 00:55:45,632
...as police in three German divisions
clashed with neo-Nazi protesters.

733
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,926
So it turns out
there's life on other planets.

734
00:55:48,136 --> 00:55:51,764
Boy, this is really gonna change
the Miss Universe contest.

735
00:55:52,432 --> 00:55:56,769
Health officials from around the world are
concerned that the message from Vega...

736
00:55:56,936 --> 00:55:59,563
...might trigger a rash of mass suicides...

737
00:55:59,773 --> 00:56:02,399
...not unlike the recent cult deaths
near San Diego...
738
00:56:02,609 --> 00:56:04,568
Even a scientist has to admit...

739
00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:09,281
...that there are some pretty serious
religious overtones to all this.

740
00:56:09,449 --> 00:56:11,617
Let's hear from someone
whose organization...

741
00:56:11,826 --> 00:56:14,370
...has been accused of conducting
its own inquisition:

742
00:56:14,537 --> 00:56:17,164
Richard Rank,
head of the Conservative coalition.

743
00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:18,415
Thank you.

744
00:56:18,583 --> 00:56:22,961
This is yet another example of science
intruding into matters of faith.

745
00:56:24,005 --> 00:56:27,299
This means they
have been reacting to TV signals...

746
00:56:27,509 --> 00:56:30,427
...they got from the 1930s.
They're just getting them.

747
00:56:30,637 --> 00:56:34,306
Imagine how disappointed
they're gonna be if they're Cubs fans.

748
00:56:34,474 --> 00:56:37,643
We now take you to Jeremy Roth,
who is reporting on events...

749
00:56:37,852 --> 00:56:41,313
...at the Very Large Array
near Socorro, New Mexico.
750
00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:43,357
Like a bolt from the blue it came.

751
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:47,694
The message from Vega has caused
thousands of believers and non-believers...

752
00:56:47,862 --> 00:56:51,782
...to descend upon the VLA facility
here in the desert of New Mexico.

753
00:56:51,991 --> 00:56:54,493
Many have come to protest,
many to pray...

754
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:59,498
...but most have come to participate
in what has become the best show in town.

755
00:57:06,131 --> 00:57:09,258
[CHATTERING]

756
00:57:26,359 --> 00:57:28,277
[CHANTING]

757
00:57:59,517 --> 00:58:05,397
That's right. I'll be there in Vega,
thank you very much.

758
00:58:08,401 --> 00:58:11,320
CHORUS [SINGING]: Hajl to Vega
Hail to Vega, Hail to Vega

759
00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:14,740
Hail to Vega

760
00:58:16,075 --> 00:58:17,743
But they have failed!

761
00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:20,871
It's the same people who,
again and again...

762
00:58:21,039 --> 00:58:23,457
...have brought us
to the brink of destruction.
763
00:58:23,666 --> 00:58:27,711
Who've polluted our air,
who've poisoned our water.

764
00:58:28,922 --> 00:58:30,923
Now these scientists...

765
00:58:31,925 --> 00:58:33,759
...have had their chance.

766
00:58:33,927 --> 00:58:37,346
Are these the kind of people...

767
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:40,641
...that you want
talking to your God for you?

768
00:58:40,808 --> 00:58:42,768
[PEOPLE YELLING INDISTINCTLY]

769
00:58:45,104 --> 00:58:47,189
MAN [ON TV]:
Efforts continue around the clock.

770
00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:51,109
But for now, almost 2 full weeks
after the message's arrival...

771
00:58:51,277 --> 00:58:54,446
...scientists here at the VLA
still have no answers...

772
00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:56,365
...only more questions.

773
00:58:56,533 --> 00:59:00,244
Jeremy Roth, CNN,
Soccorro, New Mexico.

774
00:59:00,411 --> 00:59:03,747
More on the quest
for the message's meaning, after this.

775
00:59:06,584 --> 00:59:08,335
They gotta line up somehow.
776
00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:10,462
Yeah, well, this one doesn't fit, either.

777
00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:13,298
We've tried over a million permutations.

778
00:59:13,466 --> 00:59:16,969
Always, I can only get
three corners to fit.

779
00:59:17,971 --> 00:59:20,097
I don't understand their significance.

780
01:00:01,973 --> 01:00:04,683
What...? Somebody broke in...

781
01:00:06,686 --> 01:00:08,729
[PHONE RINGS]

782
01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:12,190
Hello?

783
01:00:13,109 --> 01:00:16,528
Hey, listen, I don't know who you are,
but you broke into the database...

784
01:00:19,365 --> 01:00:21,074
What? Now?

785
01:00:23,536 --> 01:00:24,703
Where?

786
01:00:24,871 --> 01:00:26,788
[FAX MACHINE HUMMING]

787
01:00:37,717 --> 01:00:39,134
I'll be there.

788
01:01:06,746 --> 01:01:08,080
MAN 1:
You should feel fortunate.

789
01:01:08,831 --> 01:01:10,332
He hardly lands for anyone.
790
01:01:41,906 --> 01:01:43,865
MAN 2:
Dr. Arroway...

791
01:01:47,787 --> 01:01:49,121
...I presume?

792
01:01:50,415 --> 01:01:51,540
Mr. Hadden.

793
01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:56,086
I've had my eye on you
a long time, doctor.

794
01:01:56,879 --> 01:02:00,382
I consider you one of my
most valuable long-term investments.

795
01:02:02,260 --> 01:02:04,636
And when it comes to my investments...

796
01:02:06,431 --> 01:02:09,099
...I always do my homework.

797
01:02:13,813 --> 01:02:15,564
Eleanor Ann Arroway...

798
01:02:15,773 --> 01:02:18,275
...born 25th August, 1964...

799
01:02:18,484 --> 01:02:20,068
...De Pere, Wisconsin.

800
01:02:20,278 --> 01:02:24,489
Mother, Joanna, died
from complications during childbirth.

801
01:02:25,199 --> 01:02:27,909
Early testing indicated
high predisposition...

802
01:02:28,077 --> 01:02:31,163
...towards science and mathematics.

803
01:02:31,831 --> 01:02:32,998
Father, Theodore...

804
01:02:33,166 --> 01:02:36,710
...advised to provide
enrichment activities along these lines...

805
01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:39,671
...did so conscientiously
until his death...

806
01:02:39,839 --> 01:02:44,509
...from myocardial infarction,
November 10, 1974.

807
01:02:45,094 --> 01:02:48,346
You graduated from
high school in 1979...

808
01:02:48,514 --> 01:02:50,640
...almost two full years early.

809
01:02:52,059 --> 01:02:56,438
Awarded full scholarship, M.I. T,
graduated magna cum laude.

810
01:02:57,398 --> 01:02:59,107
Doctoral work, Cal Tech...

811
01:02:59,317 --> 01:03:02,652
...where you did breakthrough work
on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser...

812
01:03:02,820 --> 01:03:06,948
...dramatically increasing
the sensitivity of radio telescopes.

813
01:03:07,283 --> 01:03:10,994
Subsequently offered a teaching position
at Harvard University...

814
01:03:11,204 --> 01:03:14,289
...which you turned down
to pursue SETI work...

815
01:03:14,499 --> 01:03:17,918
...at the Arecibo Observatory
in Puerto Rico.

816
01:03:20,338 --> 01:03:26,593
Changes in NSF policy
gave rise to certain funding problems...

817
01:03:27,678 --> 01:03:31,681
...at which point
you came to my attention.

818
01:03:33,017 --> 01:03:35,227
You compromised our security codes.

819
01:03:37,688 --> 01:03:39,523
Once upon a time...

820
01:03:41,526 --> 01:03:43,777
...I was a hell of an engineer.

821
01:03:43,945 --> 01:03:46,363
Please, sit, doctor.

822
01:03:46,531 --> 01:03:51,660
I have guests so rarely, it's important to me
that they feel welcome in my home.

823
01:03:52,245 --> 01:03:53,995
You live here?

824
01:03:55,206 --> 01:03:58,542
I find it convenient
to keep my interests...

825
01:03:59,710 --> 01:04:00,836
...mobile.

826
01:04:03,422 --> 01:04:08,343
Anyway, I've had my fill
of life on the ground.

827
01:04:08,845 --> 01:04:10,971
Well, l... I guess I should...

828
01:04:11,430 --> 01:04:15,225
Well, I guess I should thank you
for having bailed me out all that time.
829
01:04:20,565 --> 01:04:22,691
I know a good bet when I see one.

830
01:04:25,069 --> 01:04:28,280
Earl Grey. No sugar, no milk, I believe.

831
01:04:31,242 --> 01:04:33,076
What am I doing here?

832
01:04:34,078 --> 01:04:36,454
[CHUCKLES]

833
01:04:43,421 --> 01:04:46,548
The powers that be
have been very busy lately...

834
01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:52,721
...falling over each other to position
themselves for the game of the millennium.

835
01:04:58,978 --> 01:05:01,771
Maybe I can help deal you back in.

836
01:05:03,024 --> 01:05:05,442
I didn't realize that I was out.

837
01:05:05,943 --> 01:05:08,236
No, maybe not out...

838
01:05:08,946 --> 01:05:11,239
...but certainly being handed your hat.

839
01:05:16,662 --> 01:05:20,332
I've had a long time
to make enemies, doctor.

840
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,756
And there are many governments,
business interests...

841
01:05:27,924 --> 01:05:31,927
...even religious leaders that
would like to see me depart this earth.

842
01:05:33,387 --> 01:05:35,931
And I'll grant them their wish
soon enough.

843
01:05:36,474 --> 01:05:40,018
But before I do,
I wish to make a small contribution.

844
01:05:40,770 --> 01:05:45,357
A final gesture of goodwill to the
people of this little planet that have given...

845
01:05:48,152 --> 01:05:50,946
From whom I have taken so much.

846
01:05:54,408 --> 01:05:55,867
You found the primer.

847
01:05:58,287 --> 01:06:00,163
Clever girl.

848
01:06:00,331 --> 01:06:01,373
Lights.

849
01:06:09,966 --> 01:06:13,134
Pages and pages of data.

850
01:06:13,302 --> 01:06:16,429
Over 63,000 in all.

851
01:06:16,597 --> 01:06:18,682
And on the perimeter of each...

852
01:06:18,849 --> 01:06:22,477
Alignment symbols, a registration mark,
but they don't line up.

853
01:06:23,062 --> 01:06:26,231
They do, if you think like a Vegan.

854
01:06:27,149 --> 01:06:30,151
An alien intelligence
has got be more advanced...

855
01:06:30,319 --> 01:06:34,406
...and that means efficiency
functioning on multiple levels...

856
01:06:34,573 --> 01:06:38,410
...and in multiple dimensions.

857
01:06:42,373 --> 01:06:44,791
Yes, of course!

858
01:06:44,959 --> 01:06:46,001
Where's the primer?

859
01:06:46,502 --> 01:06:47,919
You'll see.

860
01:06:48,421 --> 01:06:52,882
Every three-dimensional page
contains a piece of the primer.

861
01:06:55,052 --> 01:06:58,555
There it was all the time,
staring you in the face.

862
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,560
Buried within the message itself
is the key to decoding it.

863
01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:06,980
Within the layering of the matrix,
we have these basic equations:

864
01:07:08,941 --> 01:07:12,986
So with this very elementary foundation,
they have given us a kind of...

865
01:07:13,154 --> 01:07:15,739
...general scientific vocabulary.

866
01:07:15,948 --> 01:07:18,241
We now have the symbols
for true and false...

867
01:07:18,451 --> 01:07:19,743
This was the key...

868
01:07:19,910 --> 01:07:22,412
...that allowed us
to decipher their language...

869
01:07:22,621 --> 01:07:26,291
...for physics, geometry, chemistry.
Next frame, Ellie.

870
01:07:27,501 --> 01:07:31,463
Yes, and when we apply this
to the rest of the message...

871
01:07:32,214 --> 01:07:33,298
...we find this.

872
01:07:37,887 --> 01:07:40,805
Those look like engineering schematics,
almost like blueprints.

873
01:07:40,973 --> 01:07:42,599
Yeah.

874
01:07:42,767 --> 01:07:43,850
Yes.

875
01:07:44,018 --> 01:07:47,312
It is our belief that
the message contains instructions...

876
01:07:47,521 --> 01:07:50,982
...for building something,
some kind of machine.

877
01:07:51,150 --> 01:07:54,277
A machine? That does what, doctor?

878
01:07:54,445 --> 01:07:56,654
We don't know.
It might be some type...

879
01:07:57,615 --> 01:08:03,161
...of advanced communication device,
or a teaching machine of some kind.

880
01:08:03,662 --> 01:08:06,956
Or it might turn out to be
some kind of a transport.

881
01:08:07,374 --> 01:08:09,834
- Transport?
- There's no proof of that.

882
01:08:10,002 --> 01:08:13,838
The fact is, you don't know what it does.
It could be anything.

883
01:08:14,006 --> 01:08:17,342
Could be a Trojan horse. We build it
and out pours the entire Vegan army.

884
01:08:17,510 --> 01:08:20,178
Why bother risking the personnel?
It could be a weapon.

885
01:08:20,387 --> 01:08:22,680
Right. Some kind of
a doomsday machine.

886
01:08:22,848 --> 01:08:25,350
Exactly. Every time they detect
a new civilization...

887
01:08:25,518 --> 01:08:27,977
...they fax these construction documents
from space.

888
01:08:28,145 --> 01:08:31,773
We poor saps build whatever this is
and blow ourselves to kingdom come.

889
01:08:31,941 --> 01:08:34,859
There's no reason to believe
that their intentions are hostile.

890
01:08:35,027 --> 01:08:39,364
Why is the default position of the egghead
set that aliens would always be benign?

891
01:08:39,532 --> 01:08:41,991
- Why is that, doctor?
- We pose no threat to them.

892
01:08:42,159 --> 01:08:46,579
It would be like us going out of our way
to destroy microbes on an anthill in Africa
893
01:08:46,747 --> 01:08:48,331
DRUMLIN:
That's an interesting analogy.

894
01:08:48,749 --> 01:08:52,919
And how guilty would we feel if we
destroyed a few microbes on an anthill?

895
01:08:53,087 --> 01:08:55,463
I hope you're right, doctor. I really do.

896
01:08:55,631 --> 01:08:59,092
But right now my job is to protect
American lives from any threat.

897
01:08:59,260 --> 01:09:01,594
In that regard, I am obligated
to assume the worst.

898
01:09:01,846 --> 01:09:03,930
Well, yes, and I am forced
to agree with you.

899
01:09:04,098 --> 01:09:05,515
My problem is this:

900
01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:09,352
The content of that message
is morally ambiguous at best.

901
01:09:10,020 --> 01:09:13,565
Now, our internal numbers show
support for this is incredibly soft.

902
01:09:13,732 --> 01:09:16,401
If the president wishes
to stay this course...

903
01:09:16,569 --> 01:09:19,237
...you're gonna find his numbers
going south like a duck.

904
01:09:19,405 --> 01:09:21,823
- This is nuts.
RANK: Excuse me...

905
01:09:21,991 --> 01:09:23,408
...miss.

906
01:09:23,576 --> 01:09:25,952
We know nothing
of these creatures' values.

907
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,913
The fact is, we don't even know
whether they believe in God.

908
01:09:29,081 --> 01:09:32,834
- This doesn't make any sense. If you...
CONSTANTINE: Excuse me, Dr. Arroway.

909
01:09:33,043 --> 01:09:35,503
We won't be suppressing
any opinions here today.

910
01:09:36,380 --> 01:09:39,090
No, of course not. I understand.

911
01:09:39,508 --> 01:09:41,426
What I meant to say...

912
01:09:41,594 --> 01:09:45,054
...is the message was written
in the language of science.

913
01:09:45,222 --> 01:09:48,600
Now, if it had been religious in nature,
it should have taken the form...

914
01:09:48,767 --> 01:09:51,394
...of a burning bush
or a booming voice from the sky.

915
01:09:51,604 --> 01:09:53,688
But a voice from the sky...

916
01:09:54,773 --> 01:09:57,609
...is exactly what you found,
Doctor Arroway.

917
01:10:00,988 --> 01:10:02,947
I'm sorry I'm late, ma'am.
918
01:10:03,115 --> 01:10:08,328
Now, I agree with Mr. Rank
that there are unavoidable...

919
01:10:08,537 --> 01:10:10,705
...religious implications at stake here.

920
01:10:10,873 --> 01:10:13,291
But that doesn't justify
taking an alarmist position.

921
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:18,087
My hope here is that we can find
a common ground...

922
01:10:18,255 --> 01:10:20,965
...break through any obstacles
that may have kept us apart.

923
01:10:21,133 --> 01:10:24,552
KITZ: Well, perhaps...
- Listen, I need to make one thing very clear.

924
01:10:24,762 --> 01:10:29,390
Our organization will not be placated
with flowery New Age rhetoric...

925
01:10:30,392 --> 01:10:31,893
Mr. President.

926
01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:35,647
The President met
with his top advisors today...

927
01:10:35,814 --> 01:10:39,234
...regarding the latest efforts
to decode the message.

928
01:10:39,401 --> 01:10:44,072
While there has been some progress,
the official line remains a cautious one.

929
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:48,868
If you're asking when we'll find out
what the purpose of that machine is...

930
01:10:49,870 --> 01:10:52,580
...maybe tomorrow,
maybe next year, maybe never.

931
01:10:57,002 --> 01:11:01,589
There he is. The man with his finger
on the spiritual pulse of the nation.

932
01:11:02,967 --> 01:11:06,386
- It's so good to see you, Ellie.
- You too.

933
01:11:07,638 --> 01:11:11,599
Your discovery, all of this.
It must be a real vindication.

934
01:11:12,268 --> 01:11:13,935
I'm really happy for you.

935
01:11:14,561 --> 01:11:18,523
- Are you?
- Mr. Joss, the president is waiting.

936
01:11:19,900 --> 01:11:23,027
- Okay. Yeah.
- The president is waiting.

937
01:11:26,949 --> 01:11:30,827
- Ellie, see you at the reception tonight?
- Yeah, I wouldn't miss it.

938
01:11:30,995 --> 01:11:32,870
All right, great.

939
01:11:42,881 --> 01:11:45,216
Excuse me, Miss Constantine,
may I speak to you?

940
01:11:45,384 --> 01:11:46,801
Certainly.

941
01:11:48,554 --> 01:11:50,763
- I have a big problem.
- Yes?

942
01:11:50,931 --> 01:11:52,432
Um...
943
01:11:52,599 --> 01:11:55,393
Do you know where I can find,
like, a really great dress?

944
01:12:02,401 --> 01:12:04,902
[PEOPLE YELLING INDISTINCTLY]

945
01:12:12,077 --> 01:12:18,916
God created man in the form of himself,
not in the form of monkeys!

946
01:12:20,252 --> 01:12:22,420
MAN 1: The Lord is God!
MAN 2: Praise God.

947
01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:26,799
MAN 3: Praise the Lord!
MAN 4: You're wasting my tax dollars!

948
01:12:27,593 --> 01:12:31,220
Get a job.
Don't waste my tax dollars.

949
01:12:31,388 --> 01:12:33,139
You hear me?

950
01:12:52,117 --> 01:12:53,910
Wow.

951
01:12:56,455 --> 01:12:58,122
You look beautiful, Ellie.

952
01:12:59,792 --> 01:13:02,126
- So do you.
- You really do.

953
01:13:05,798 --> 01:13:07,256
I read your book.

954
01:13:08,217 --> 01:13:09,717
Here we go.

955
01:13:09,885 --> 01:13:11,969
Would you like me to quote you?
956
01:13:12,137 --> 01:13:17,141
"Ironically, the thing that people
are most hungry for, meaning...

957
01:13:17,309 --> 01:13:20,645
...is the one thing that science
hasn't been able to give them."

958
01:13:20,813 --> 01:13:23,689
Yeah. Yeah.

959
01:13:24,316 --> 01:13:29,112
Come on. It's like you're saying
that science killed God.

960
01:13:29,279 --> 01:13:32,490
What if science simply revealed...

961
01:13:32,658 --> 01:13:35,159
...that he never existed
in the first place?

962
01:13:38,497 --> 01:13:41,666
- I think we're gonna need to get some air.
- What?

963
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:43,668
And a few more of these.

964
01:13:45,087 --> 01:13:47,338
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

965
01:13:48,340 --> 01:13:51,509
- A little chilly out here.
- Yeah, this is nice.

966
01:13:51,677 --> 01:13:53,052
- I got one for you.
- What?

967
01:13:53,220 --> 01:13:54,971
Occam's razor. Ever heard of it?

968
01:13:55,180 --> 01:13:57,849
Hoccam's razor.
Sounds like some slasher movie.

969
01:13:58,016 --> 01:14:01,602
No, Occam's Razor.
It's a basic scientific principle. It says...

970
01:14:01,770 --> 01:14:05,356
...all things being equal, the simplest
explanation tends to be the right one.

971
01:14:05,524 --> 01:14:07,150
- Makes sense to me.
- All right.

972
01:14:07,317 --> 01:14:10,111
- So, what's more likely? Thank you.
- You're welcome.

973
01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:12,905
An all-powerful, mysterious God
created the universe...

974
01:14:13,115 --> 01:14:15,950
...and then decided not to give
any proof of his existence?

975
01:14:16,118 --> 01:14:20,955
Or that he simply doesn't exist at all
and that we created him...

976
01:14:21,123 --> 01:14:23,624
...so we wouldn't have to feel
so small and alone.

977
01:14:24,543 --> 01:14:25,793
I don't know.

978
01:14:25,961 --> 01:14:29,964
I couldn't imagine living in a world
where God didn't exist.

979
01:14:30,632 --> 01:14:32,300
I wouldn't want to.

980
01:14:32,968 --> 01:14:35,386
How do you know that
you're not deluding yourself?
981
01:14:36,054 --> 01:14:39,307
I mean, for me, I'd need proof.

982
01:14:40,142 --> 01:14:41,642
Proof?

983
01:14:44,521 --> 01:14:47,023
- Did you love your father?
- What?

984
01:14:47,191 --> 01:14:48,983
Your dad, did you love him?

985
01:14:49,985 --> 01:14:52,820
Yes. Very much.

986
01:14:55,657 --> 01:14:57,200
Prove it.

987
01:14:59,995 --> 01:15:01,913
[PHONE RINGS]

988
01:15:03,707 --> 01:15:04,749
Kent.

989
01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:05,917
[PAGER BEEPING]

990
01:15:06,084 --> 01:15:09,086
- The White House.
- Mr. Joss.

991
01:15:10,255 --> 01:15:13,216
DRUMLIN: I don't want excuses.
Whoever is responsible, I want their head.

992
01:15:13,383 --> 01:15:16,344
- Ellie?
- What happened?

993
01:15:16,512 --> 01:15:17,929
You were right all along.

994
01:15:18,096 --> 01:15:21,224
The decryption team at the VLA
has been working around the clock...

995
01:15:21,391 --> 01:15:24,101
...and the hard work has finally paid off.

996
01:15:24,269 --> 01:15:28,231
This key section, uncovered tonight
and obtained exclusively by CNN...

997
01:15:28,398 --> 01:15:31,025
...shows an illustration
of what is of a human figure...

998
01:15:31,193 --> 01:15:34,028
...inside a geometric structure
of some kind.

999
01:15:34,196 --> 01:15:36,030
This and other contextual clues...

1000
01:15:36,198 --> 01:15:39,283
...now lead scientists to believe
that the message is, in fact...

1001
01:15:39,451 --> 01:15:42,995
- President called an emergency meeting.
- Yeah, I imagine he would.

1002
01:15:43,163 --> 01:15:46,290
- Designed to take
a single human occupant into space...

1003
01:15:46,458 --> 01:15:49,126
...presumably to the star Vega.

1004
01:16:07,646 --> 01:16:09,605
MAN: I'm gonna miss
my mother's birthday party.

1005
01:16:09,773 --> 01:16:12,650
KITZ: Call her in the morning,
tell her why you didn't show up.

1006
01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:14,318
Tell me.
1007
01:16:14,486 --> 01:16:15,611
They're gonna build it.

1008
01:16:15,779 --> 01:16:16,821
Who gets to go?

1009
01:16:16,989 --> 01:16:20,324
The president's just gone international
to spread the risk and cost...

1010
01:16:20,492 --> 01:16:22,034
Who gets to go, though?

1011
01:16:22,202 --> 01:16:23,828
Well, it's complicated, Ellie.

1012
01:16:24,746 --> 01:16:25,788
What?

1013
01:16:25,956 --> 01:16:28,791
They have formed a group
of international candidates.

1014
01:16:28,959 --> 01:16:31,002
Now, it's your discovery.

1015
01:16:31,420 --> 01:16:35,298
Okay, they understand that.
You're at the top of a very short list.

1016
01:16:35,465 --> 01:16:38,009
But they're also putting together
a selection committee.

1017
01:16:38,176 --> 01:16:42,346
It's made of scholars, theologians,
scientists, philosophers...

1018
01:16:42,514 --> 01:16:43,514
You're on it.

1019
01:16:44,725 --> 01:16:46,017
I've been asked, yes.

1020
01:16:48,979 --> 01:16:50,646
I guess that means...

1021
01:16:51,231 --> 01:16:53,983
...that you're a selector,
I'm a selectee and we can't...

1022
01:16:54,151 --> 01:16:55,484
Yeah.

1023
01:16:55,652 --> 01:16:58,070
What you don't understand, Ellie, is...

1024
01:16:58,238 --> 01:17:00,364
- I understand.
- Ellie...

1025
01:17:00,991 --> 01:17:05,328
I want you to know, whatever happens,
as far as I'm concerned...

1026
01:17:05,912 --> 01:17:07,413
Well...

1027
01:17:08,582 --> 01:17:10,166
...good luck.

1028
01:17:14,171 --> 01:17:17,632
Well, whatever you do, make sure
he doesn't monopolize the committee.

1029
01:17:17,799 --> 01:17:19,884
He is not on the committee, Ellie.

1030
01:17:21,637 --> 01:17:23,054
What?

1031
01:17:23,847 --> 01:17:26,891
He just resigned as science advisor.
He wants to be the one to go.

1032
01:17:29,102 --> 01:17:32,396
MAN [ON TV]: The president is already
beginning to feel the financial pinch.

1033
01:17:32,689 --> 01:17:34,774
Sources say the cost of the project...
1034
01:17:34,941 --> 01:17:38,569
...is spiraling
to more than a third of a trillion dollars...

1035
01:17:38,737 --> 01:17:42,323
...making this what may be
the most expensive single project...

1036
01:17:42,532 --> 01:17:44,408
...in all of human history.

1037
01:17:44,618 --> 01:17:47,953
Meanwhile, months of debate finally
reached a conclusion last week...

1038
01:17:48,121 --> 01:17:51,248
...as 10 candidates
were selected by the IMC...

1039
01:17:51,416 --> 01:17:55,378
...representing a cross section of
political, philosophical and religious views.

1040
01:17:55,587 --> 01:17:58,464
Many of these are the same experts
who have been consulting...

1041
01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:00,675
...on the Machine's design and function.

1042
01:18:00,884 --> 01:18:05,096
They will be actively participating on-site
during the construction process.

1043
01:18:05,263 --> 01:18:08,599
But the choice of these 10 candidates
has not been without controversy.

1044
01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:11,602
Fully one-third of the candidates
are American.

1045
01:18:11,770 --> 01:18:14,522
Many international observers
are asking why.
1046
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:17,817
The U.S. Is shouldering an
enormous percentage of the financial...

1047
01:18:18,026 --> 01:18:20,986
Isn't it true that the contractors,
like Hadden Industries...

1048
01:18:21,196 --> 01:18:24,532
...are making those contributions
in exchange for technology rights?

1049
01:18:24,741 --> 01:18:28,244
Different nations are being compensated
in different ways. For example...

1050
01:18:28,412 --> 01:18:32,957
Japan made headlines when it announced it
would forego candidate representation...

1051
01:18:33,125 --> 01:18:36,335
...in exchange for the systems integration
subcontract.

1052
01:18:36,503 --> 01:18:41,465
On what basis do you choose
a human being to represent humanity?

1053
01:18:41,675 --> 01:18:42,883
Good question, Larry.

1054
01:18:43,051 --> 01:18:45,010
Yes, well, if nothing else...

1055
01:18:45,178 --> 01:18:49,181
...it should be somebody who is fluent in
the language the message was given in.

1056
01:18:49,349 --> 01:18:50,558
Science, in this case.

1057
01:18:51,184 --> 01:18:53,602
Doctor Arroway,
despite your obvious enthusiasm...

1058
01:18:53,812 --> 01:18:56,021
...there's been a lot of criticism of late...

1059
01:18:56,273 --> 01:18:58,774
...that this whole endeavor
is simply too dangerous.

1060
01:18:58,942 --> 01:19:01,527
Some of that criticism from scientists.

1061
01:19:01,737 --> 01:19:04,530
One Nobel Prize winner recently noted,
his words:

1062
01:19:05,323 --> 01:19:07,032
"There is every indication...

1063
01:19:07,242 --> 01:19:11,036
...that this is simply beyond our capabilities,
that this endeavor will fail...

1064
01:19:11,246 --> 01:19:14,874
...and that the Machine's occupant
will pay for that failure with their life."

1065
01:19:15,041 --> 01:19:16,709
How do you respond to that?

1066
01:19:16,918 --> 01:19:20,296
ELLIE: Well, this message is from
a civilization that may be anywhere...

1067
01:19:20,505 --> 01:19:24,216
...from hundreds to millions
and millions of years ahead of us.

1068
01:19:24,468 --> 01:19:27,636
I have to believe that
an intelligence that advanced...

1069
01:19:28,263 --> 01:19:30,264
...knows what they're doing.

1070
01:19:31,183 --> 01:19:35,144
Now all it requires on our part is...

1071
01:19:35,312 --> 01:19:36,353
Faith?

1072
01:19:39,441 --> 01:19:41,525
I was gonna say a sense of adventure.

1073
01:19:41,735 --> 01:19:42,943
MAN:
And in breaking news...

1074
01:19:43,528 --> 01:19:44,820
...a former astronaut...

1075
01:19:45,030 --> 01:19:48,866
...considered to be the leading American
candidate for the Machine seat...

1076
01:19:49,075 --> 01:19:51,368
...has unexpectedly dropped out
of the running.

1077
01:19:51,787 --> 01:19:54,872
Russell met with reporters this afternoon
at his Houston home.

1078
01:19:55,207 --> 01:19:59,168
I told my dad
that I didn't want him to go.

1079
01:19:59,377 --> 01:20:01,086
Daddy, don't go.

1080
01:20:03,757 --> 01:20:06,842
Nothing would give me more pride
than to...

1081
01:20:07,511 --> 01:20:09,512
...represent my country.

1082
01:20:09,679 --> 01:20:11,889
But what can I say to this?

1083
01:20:12,474 --> 01:20:16,310
Consortium officials had no comment,
but sources within the delegation...

1084
01:20:16,478 --> 01:20:18,479
...have disclosed that Dr. Arroway...

1085
01:20:18,647 --> 01:20:22,733
...appears to now be the front-runner
for the Machine seat.

1086
01:20:23,568 --> 01:20:25,945
ELLIE:
"Meet me at noon. Must talk."

1087
01:20:26,112 --> 01:20:28,864
I didn't expect to be getting
a message like this from you.

1088
01:20:29,032 --> 01:20:30,241
Thanks for coming.

1089
01:20:30,450 --> 01:20:33,410
So is this kosher?
Fraternizing with the enemy?

1090
01:20:33,578 --> 01:20:37,081
Selectors and selectees mingling around?

1091
01:20:37,249 --> 01:20:39,416
Can we talk about Einstein?

1092
01:20:39,584 --> 01:20:41,752
Yeah, sure. Okay.

1093
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:43,337
- Special relativity.
- Yeah.

1094
01:20:43,505 --> 01:20:45,130
This machine...

1095
01:20:45,715 --> 01:20:50,636
...now, if it works, and you travel to Vega
at even close to the speed of light...

1096
01:20:50,804 --> 01:20:53,305
...when you come back...
- lf you come back.

1097
01:20:55,475 --> 01:20:57,476
If you come back...

1098
01:20:57,644 --> 01:21:01,939
...you'll only be 4 years older, but over
50 years would have passed here on Earth.

1099
01:21:02,107 --> 01:21:03,816
Basically, yeah.

1100
01:21:04,317 --> 01:21:06,902
And everybody that you care about...

1101
01:21:07,779 --> 01:21:10,114
...will be gone, dead and buried.

1102
01:21:10,949 --> 01:21:14,952
If you came back,
if you survived at all, which...

1103
01:21:16,288 --> 01:21:19,999
Look, Palmer, nobody's saying
this isn't dangerous, all right?

1104
01:21:20,166 --> 01:21:24,295
The rest of the candidates and myself,
we fully understand the risks we're taking.

1105
01:21:24,462 --> 01:21:25,713
Why?

1106
01:21:25,881 --> 01:21:28,591
Because it's a historic opportunity.
The world needs...

1107
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:31,427
No, you, Ellie. You. You personally.

1108
01:21:32,470 --> 01:21:35,264
By doing this,
you're willing to give your life.

1109
01:21:35,473 --> 01:21:37,641
You're willing to die for it.

1110
01:21:39,477 --> 01:21:40,769
Why?
1111
01:21:44,482 --> 01:21:48,193
From as long as I can remember,
I've been searching for...

1112
01:21:48,820 --> 01:21:50,487
...something...

1113
01:21:50,697 --> 01:21:54,491
...some reason why we're here.
What are we doing here? Who are we?

1114
01:21:55,493 --> 01:21:59,371
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...

1115
01:22:00,874 --> 01:22:03,876
I don't know,
I think it's won'th a human life.

1116
01:22:04,544 --> 01:22:06,086
Don't you?

1117
01:22:12,594 --> 01:22:15,220
You're an incredibly brave woman, Ellie.

1118
01:22:18,016 --> 01:22:20,142
Or incredibly nuts.

1119
01:22:42,207 --> 01:22:43,707
Palmer...

1120
01:22:49,422 --> 01:22:51,507
I'm really confused.

1121
01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:54,051
So am I.

1122
01:22:55,303 --> 01:22:58,889
I think I speak for us all
when I thank you for your patience.

1123
01:22:59,099 --> 01:23:02,559
Myself, I have one final question,
Dr. Arroway.
1124
01:23:04,062 --> 01:23:06,397
If you should meet these Vegans...

1125
01:23:06,606 --> 01:23:10,901
...and were permitted only
one question to ask of them...

1126
01:23:11,069 --> 01:23:12,736
...what would it be?

1127
01:23:14,197 --> 01:23:16,240
Well, I suppose it would be:

1128
01:23:16,408 --> 01:23:18,075
"How did you do it?

1129
01:23:18,618 --> 01:23:23,080
How did you evolve? How did you
survive this technological adolescence...

1130
01:23:23,248 --> 01:23:25,165
...without destroying yourself?"

1131
01:23:25,917 --> 01:23:30,796
That more than any other question is one
I personally would like to have answered.

1132
01:23:31,131 --> 01:23:32,965
Not too bad, Mike.

1133
01:23:33,633 --> 01:23:34,925
PATEL:
I join Dr. Bergeron...

1134
01:23:35,093 --> 01:23:38,554
...in expressing thanks for
your patience, Dr. Arroway.

1135
01:23:38,763 --> 01:23:41,265
We've all been most impressed
with your candor...

1136
01:23:41,433 --> 01:23:43,475
...and your stamina.

1137
01:23:43,643 --> 01:23:46,812
I believe we are ready to move on
to your final statement.

1138
01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:48,897
Madam Chairman,
I have one more question.

1139
01:23:49,065 --> 01:23:50,816
Yes, Mr. Joss.

1140
01:23:51,443 --> 01:23:53,444
Dr. Arroway...

1141
01:23:54,821 --> 01:23:57,156
Would you consider yourself...

1142
01:23:57,657 --> 01:24:00,284
...a spiritual person?

1143
01:24:02,954 --> 01:24:04,705
Uh...

1144
01:24:05,457 --> 01:24:08,792
I don't really understand
the point of the question.

1145
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,837
I consider myself a moral person.

1146
01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:13,964
PATEL:
I'm sure we all agree that is the case...

1147
01:24:14,132 --> 01:24:16,633
...but I think what Mr. Joss
is in fact asking...

1148
01:24:16,801 --> 01:24:18,635
Do you believe in God...

1149
01:24:20,638 --> 01:24:22,639
...Dr. Arroway?

1150
01:24:27,145 --> 01:24:29,563
As a scientist...
1151
01:24:29,731 --> 01:24:33,192
...I rely on empirical evidence,
and in this matter...

1152
01:24:33,359 --> 01:24:37,071
...I don't believe
that there is data either way.

1153
01:24:37,655 --> 01:24:42,076
PATEL: So your answer would in fact be
that you don't believe in God.

1154
01:24:45,497 --> 01:24:48,540
I don't understand the relevance
of the question.

1155
01:24:49,250 --> 01:24:54,379
Dr. Arroway,
95 percent of the world's population...

1156
01:24:54,547 --> 01:24:58,509
...believes in a supreme being
in one form or another.

1157
01:24:59,677 --> 01:25:02,888
I believe that makes the question
more than relevant.

1158
01:25:05,558 --> 01:25:07,267
PATEL:
Dr. Arroway?

1159
01:25:17,195 --> 01:25:19,196
I believe, um...

1160
01:25:23,201 --> 01:25:25,702
I believe I've already
answered that question.

1161
01:25:29,749 --> 01:25:33,252
I'm proud of what
we've achieved as a species...

1162
01:25:33,419 --> 01:25:35,420
...and as a civilization.
1163
01:25:37,090 --> 01:25:39,591
I would hate to see
everything we stand for...

1164
01:25:39,759 --> 01:25:43,679
...all that we have fought for
for a thousand generations...

1165
01:25:43,888 --> 01:25:46,223
...all that God has blessed us with...

1166
01:25:47,559 --> 01:25:49,101
...betrayed...

1167
01:25:50,061 --> 01:25:54,648
...in the final hour because we chose to
send a representative who did not put our...

1168
01:25:55,150 --> 01:25:57,943
...most cherished beliefs first.

1169
01:26:01,239 --> 01:26:02,406
Thank you.

1170
01:26:08,580 --> 01:26:10,914
[KNOCKING]

1171
01:26:35,648 --> 01:26:36,940
Why did you do it?

1172
01:26:41,529 --> 01:26:45,699
Ourjob was to select someone
to speak for everybody.

1173
01:26:48,995 --> 01:26:52,456
I just couldn't in good conscience
vote for a person...

1174
01:26:52,624 --> 01:26:54,625
...who doesn't believe in God.

1175
01:26:56,669 --> 01:26:58,045
Someone who...

1176
01:26:58,213 --> 01:27:01,632
...honestly thinks
the other 95 percent of us...

1177
01:27:01,841 --> 01:27:04,801
...suffer from some form
of mass delusion.

1178
01:27:07,972 --> 01:27:10,057
I told the truth up there.

1179
01:27:11,351 --> 01:27:14,853
And Drumlin told you exactly
what you wanted to hear.

1180
01:27:50,014 --> 01:27:52,599
DRUMLIN:
With full humility and utmost gratitude...

1181
01:27:52,767 --> 01:27:54,977
...I accept this great honor...

1182
01:27:55,186 --> 01:27:59,231
...and I promise I will do my best
to represent my nation...

1183
01:27:59,399 --> 01:28:04,528
...my planet and my God
on this historic journey.

1184
01:28:04,696 --> 01:28:07,030
I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

1185
01:28:07,198 --> 01:28:10,158
[APPLAUDING]

1186
01:28:49,615 --> 01:28:52,576
MAN [ON TV]: There's
a carnival atmosphere at Cape Canaveral...

1187
01:28:52,744 --> 01:28:54,786
...as the International
Machine Consortium...

1188
01:28:54,954 --> 01:28:58,415
...hosts as much a media event
as a systems test.
1189
01:28:58,916 --> 01:29:02,586
David Drumlin is supervising
the on-site portion of the test.

1190
01:29:02,795 --> 01:29:04,588
We spoke with him earlier today.

1191
01:29:04,756 --> 01:29:07,257
DRUMLIN: We'll be able to monjtor
the stresses and effects...

1192
01:29:07,425 --> 01:29:09,760
...using the robot passenger...

1193
01:29:10,261 --> 01:29:12,554
...who we lovingly call Elmer.

1194
01:29:12,722 --> 01:29:15,849
WOMAN [OVER SPEAKER]: We are coming up
on T-minus two hours and counting.

1195
01:29:16,017 --> 01:29:18,060
All Machine systems are go.

1196
01:29:18,227 --> 01:29:21,104
Dr. Arroway, the press would like to
ask you a few questions...

1197
01:29:21,272 --> 01:29:23,940
...as soon as they're done
with Dr. Drumlin.

1198
01:29:25,234 --> 01:29:27,486
DRUMLIN: Now, at the moment
where we release the pod...

1199
01:29:27,653 --> 01:29:31,239
...there will be a substantial
amount of energy generated at the core.

1200
01:29:31,741 --> 01:29:34,117
We'll be able to monitor
the stresses and effects...

1201
01:29:34,285 --> 01:29:38,455
...using our robot passenger,
who we lovingly call Elmer.

1202
01:29:38,623 --> 01:29:39,790
[CHUCKLES]

1203
01:29:39,957 --> 01:29:41,583
- Thank you.
- Welcome.

1204
01:29:41,751 --> 01:29:43,668
WOMAN:
- The test area is clear and go.

1205
01:29:43,836 --> 01:29:46,630
Sir, they're ready for you out at the site.

1206
01:29:46,798 --> 01:29:48,423
Yeah, just a minute.

1207
01:29:49,467 --> 01:29:52,761
WOMAN: The test director has issued a go
to enter the final countdown phase.

1208
01:29:52,929 --> 01:29:54,262
Ellie.

1209
01:29:54,430 --> 01:29:56,807
- Congratulations, David.
- Glad you could come.

1210
01:29:58,142 --> 01:30:00,602
Didrt, uh, expect to see you here.

1211
01:30:01,312 --> 01:30:06,149
Well, I'm still, you know,
Crew Ops at the Control Center.

1212
01:30:06,818 --> 01:30:10,821
And I suppose the fact that I discovered
the message means that I have PR value.

1213
01:30:10,988 --> 01:30:12,656
Of course.

1214
01:30:14,158 --> 01:30:17,327
Ellie, I know you must think
this is all very unfair.

1215
01:30:17,995 --> 01:30:20,288
And maybe that's an understatement.

1216
01:30:21,374 --> 01:30:23,750
What you don't know is, I agree.

1217
01:30:24,335 --> 01:30:27,629
I wish the world was a place
where fair was the bottom line.

1218
01:30:27,797 --> 01:30:31,007
Where the kind of idealism you showed
at the hearing was rewarded...

1219
01:30:31,175 --> 01:30:33,468
...not taken advantage of.

1220
01:30:35,179 --> 01:30:38,306
Unfortunately,
we don't live in that world.

1221
01:30:40,351 --> 01:30:41,852
Funny...

1222
01:30:42,895 --> 01:30:46,356
...I always believed that the world
is what we make of it.

1223
01:30:48,025 --> 01:30:51,194
Excuse me, Dr. Drumlin, sir?

1224
01:30:52,822 --> 01:30:54,364
Good luck on the test.

1225
01:30:54,615 --> 01:30:56,950
- The pad leader has issued the order...
- Thank you.

1226
01:30:57,118 --> 01:31:00,287
...to clear the pad of all nonessential...
- Right this way, sir.

1227
01:31:04,792 --> 01:31:08,670
Test director, everything looks good
up here. We're ready to go.

1228
01:31:08,838 --> 01:31:11,840
STEVE: All right, people, I want
things double and triple checked here.

1229
01:31:12,008 --> 01:31:15,594
We only get one shot at this.
Let's get it right.

1230
01:31:15,761 --> 01:31:18,847
Ladies and gentlemen,
we are ready for startup.

1231
01:31:19,056 --> 01:31:22,392
All controllers, I need a go-no-go
for test initiation.

1232
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:23,560
- Mechanical?
MAN 1: Go.

1233
01:31:23,728 --> 01:31:24,769
- Electrical?
MAN 2: Go.

1234
01:31:24,937 --> 01:31:26,021
- Dynamics?
MAN 3: Go.

1235
01:31:26,189 --> 01:31:27,481
- Communications?
MAN 4: Go.

1236
01:31:27,648 --> 01:31:28,690
- Pod systems?
WOMAN: Go

1237
01:31:28,858 --> 01:31:30,400
- Safety?
MAN 5: Go.

1238
01:31:30,568 --> 01:31:33,487
Crew Ops, verify all pre-test
procedures are complete.

1239
01:31:33,654 --> 01:31:35,071
Yes, verified. I'm go.

1240
01:31:35,239 --> 01:31:37,741
Pad leader, we are good.
Is everything okay with you?

1241
01:31:37,909 --> 01:31:40,577
Roger. The pad is a go.

1242
01:31:40,745 --> 01:31:43,580
STEVE:
Test initiation, on my mark.

1243
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:45,415
Five...

1244
01:31:45,583 --> 01:31:46,833
...four...

1245
01:31:47,001 --> 01:31:48,293
...three...

1246
01:31:48,461 --> 01:31:49,669
...two...

1247
01:31:50,087 --> 01:31:51,588
...one.

1248
01:31:51,756 --> 01:31:53,173
Mark.

1249
01:31:53,341 --> 01:31:55,091
MAN 1: Test start.
MAN 2: Rings are unlocked.

1250
01:31:55,259 --> 01:31:57,010
MAN 3:
Power levels indicate a good start.

1251
01:31:57,178 --> 01:32:00,055
WOMAN 1: We have begun the full-scale
test of Earth's first system...

1252
01:32:00,223 --> 01:32:03,767
...built by the sharing of knowledge
with a neighbor in our universe.
1253
01:32:03,935 --> 01:32:06,186
MAN 4:
All power sources on core induction bus.

1254
01:32:06,354 --> 01:32:07,979
WOMAN 2:
IPV power transfer.

1255
01:32:08,147 --> 01:32:11,900
GERRY: Ring motion detect.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie.

1256
01:32:12,944 --> 01:32:15,987
STEVE: Gerry, how are we looking?
GERRY: Looks good. We're underway.

1257
01:32:16,155 --> 01:32:17,906
DRUMLIN:
Looks like we have a normal startup.

1258
01:32:18,074 --> 01:32:20,617
STEVE:
Roger, David. It's looking good here.

1259
01:32:20,785 --> 01:32:23,036
[CHEERING]

1260
01:32:26,249 --> 01:32:29,376
WOMAN 1: We are moments away from
the initiation of the drop sequence.

1261
01:32:29,544 --> 01:32:31,545
All systems are go.

1262
01:32:33,673 --> 01:32:36,299
STEVE: Mechanical, you still happy?
MAN 1: Roger that.

1263
01:32:36,467 --> 01:32:39,928
DRUMLIN: I'll tell you, this is very exciting
from up here.

1264
01:32:42,098 --> 01:32:45,725
GERRY: We've got 4 percent.
DRUMLIN: We're confirming 4 percent.
1265
01:32:46,978 --> 01:32:50,313
Frequency 9.85.

1266
01:32:50,481 --> 01:32:56,236
Harmonics in the green. G-level 1.1.

1267
01:32:56,404 --> 01:32:59,739
- Five percent.
- Confirmed. We are at 5 percent.

1268
01:32:59,907 --> 01:33:01,658
David, how's it looking to you?

1269
01:33:01,826 --> 01:33:04,661
DRUMLIN: Okay. I'm gonna take a look
and show you what we got.

1270
01:33:04,829 --> 01:33:06,997
MAN 2: All test-subject instrumentation
looks good.

1271
01:33:07,164 --> 01:33:10,834
Confirmed, we have a good picture
from Dr. Drumlirs PRD.

1272
01:33:11,002 --> 01:33:13,461
DRUMLIN: Hope you guys are seeing
what I'm seeing.

1273
01:33:13,838 --> 01:33:15,755
MAN 3:
All systems are go.

1274
01:33:17,341 --> 01:33:18,925
DRUMLIN:
This is really something.

1275
01:33:19,135 --> 01:33:20,802
MAN 4:
For purposes of this test...

1276
01:33:20,970 --> 01:33:25,181
...Dr. Drumlin will be on top of
the gantry crane that's over the Machine.

1277
01:33:25,349 --> 01:33:27,517
We've got some video animation...

1278
01:33:27,685 --> 01:33:31,187
...to show you just how this machine,
it is thought, will work.

1279
01:33:31,355 --> 01:33:33,023
The passenger pod will be released.

1280
01:33:33,232 --> 01:33:37,569
It will come down through the center of
the rings and into the Machine's core.

1281
01:33:37,737 --> 01:33:41,823
The big question everyone here is asking is,
of course, what happens then?

1282
01:33:41,991 --> 01:33:46,828
Some believe that the rings function as
some sort of an accelerator or something...

1283
01:33:46,996 --> 01:33:49,623
...sending its energy
into this passenger pod...

1284
01:33:49,790 --> 01:33:52,500
...making it rocket away
at near the speed of light.

1285
01:33:52,710 --> 01:33:57,339
Other people believe it might open up
a doorway to some other dimension.

1286
01:33:57,506 --> 01:34:00,967
Who's right?
Well, that's what today's test is all about.

1287
01:34:01,594 --> 01:34:04,054
GERRY: Thirty-five percent.
MAN 1: Subsystems, are you ready?

1288
01:34:04,221 --> 01:34:07,390
GERRY: Forty percent normal acceleration.
MAN 2: Roger, confirm 40 percent.

1289
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,560
STEVE: All controllers stand by
to initiate drop sequence...

1290
01:34:10,728 --> 01:34:12,312
...on my mark.

1291
01:34:12,480 --> 01:34:14,814
MAN 3:
All systems ready for drop sequence.

1292
01:34:14,982 --> 01:34:17,233
GERRY:
Forty-five percent.

1293
01:34:17,401 --> 01:34:19,569
DRUMLIN:
We're reading 45 percent.

1294
01:34:20,571 --> 01:34:22,572
Can you verify closure?

1295
01:34:23,866 --> 01:34:25,408
GERRY:
Forty-six.

1296
01:34:25,576 --> 01:34:30,246
STEVE: All controllers stand by
to initiate IPV drop sequence. On my mark.

1297
01:34:30,915 --> 01:34:32,666
GERRY:
Forty-eight percent.

1298
01:34:33,292 --> 01:34:35,710
DRUMLIN: Test djrector,
I'm feeling a very strange vibration.

1299
01:34:35,878 --> 01:34:37,087
Are you feeling it down there?

1300
01:34:37,254 --> 01:34:39,214
STEVE:
Gerry, can you confirm any vibration?

1301
01:34:39,757 --> 01:34:41,591
GERRY:
Negative, everything looks good here.
1302
01:34:41,759 --> 01:34:43,760
- Crew Ops?
- Nothing wrong with Elmer.

1303
01:34:43,928 --> 01:34:45,762
We're not seeing anything abnormal.

1304
01:34:45,930 --> 01:34:48,723
DRUMLIN: No good. Hold the sequence.
I'm gonna take a direct reading.

1305
01:34:49,225 --> 01:34:52,602
STEVE: What the hell is he talking about?
- Can anyone say grandstanding?

1306
01:34:52,770 --> 01:34:54,771
He sure knows he's on TV!

1307
01:34:54,939 --> 01:34:58,066
Back home that's what we call
an overcooked ham.

1308
01:34:58,234 --> 01:35:00,735
DRUMLIN:
I'm reading 10 kilohertz!

1309
01:35:00,903 --> 01:35:03,697
What's your reading on the first
and second order G-levels?

1310
01:35:03,906 --> 01:35:05,782
MAN 1:
G-levels are right on.

1311
01:35:06,283 --> 01:35:09,786
MAN 2: We confirm Drumlirs readings
and they're all normal. We're go.

1312
01:35:09,954 --> 01:35:11,454
STEVE:
Copy that, Dynamics.

1313
01:35:11,622 --> 01:35:14,374
I think we're okay,
but we'll let him finish.

1314
01:35:15,584 --> 01:35:17,627
- Mechanical, you still okay?
MAN 3: Roger, chief.

1315
01:35:17,795 --> 01:35:19,129
We're right on the money.

1316
01:35:19,296 --> 01:35:21,589
We've got a security problem here.

1317
01:35:21,757 --> 01:35:23,341
Ellie, are you sure?

1318
01:35:23,509 --> 01:35:25,802
Yeah. This guy, he shouldn't be there.
I know him.

1319
01:35:25,970 --> 01:35:28,930
Gerry, execute the
rapid shutdown sequence.

1320
01:35:29,098 --> 01:35:32,392
Security, move emergency
response team into position one.

1321
01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:35,145
- Get me Drumlin on a secure loop, please.
- You got him.

1322
01:35:35,312 --> 01:35:38,815
- David, can you hear me?
DRUMLIN: Yes, I hear.

1323
01:35:38,983 --> 01:35:41,276
ELLIE: All right, we've got
a security breach here.

1324
01:35:41,652 --> 01:35:43,653
Right behind you. The tall guy.

1325
01:35:44,155 --> 01:35:47,407
The technician. See him?

1326
01:35:49,452 --> 01:35:51,828
He's not supposed to be there.

1327
01:35:56,500 --> 01:35:59,169
David, he's got something in his hand!

1328
01:35:59,336 --> 01:36:01,880
Him! Take him! Security breach!

1329
01:36:02,548 --> 01:36:03,673
He's got a bomb!

1330
01:36:03,841 --> 01:36:06,468
STEVE: I want that emergency-response
team up on the gantry now.

1331
01:36:06,635 --> 01:36:08,303
Security, stage one alert.

1332
01:36:08,471 --> 01:36:12,974
By God, move all the fire and
rescue personnel into position one.

1333
01:36:13,809 --> 01:36:15,643
[YELLING]

1334
01:36:28,991 --> 01:36:31,534
[SCREAMING]

1335
01:36:49,553 --> 01:36:51,679
STEVE:
All right, all right, back to your stations.

1336
01:36:51,847 --> 01:36:54,974
I need you to be professional, people.
Settle down.

1337
01:36:55,184 --> 01:36:58,061
Pad leader, pad leader, do you copy?

1338
01:37:15,496 --> 01:37:18,164
The scene earlier today,
when David Drumlin...

1339
01:37:18,374 --> 01:37:20,083
...advisor to two presidents...

1340
01:37:20,251 --> 01:37:24,254
...and winner of the National Academy
of Sciences lifetime award...

1341
01:37:24,421 --> 01:37:28,216
...was laid to rest
at Arlington National Cemetery.

1342
01:37:31,929 --> 01:37:33,847
In a related story, last night's raid...

1343
01:37:34,014 --> 01:37:35,557
Can I help you?

1344
01:37:35,724 --> 01:37:39,769
- Oh, you're... I've got some mail for you.
...resulted in the discovery of this video.

1345
01:37:39,937 --> 01:37:44,649
The suicide note of the leader of the
terrorist group now believed responsible...

1346
01:37:44,817 --> 01:37:47,360
...for the explosion in Florida this week.

1347
01:37:47,528 --> 01:37:52,532
What we do,
we do for the goodness of all mankind.

1348
01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:56,119
This won't be understood, not now...

1349
01:37:56,287 --> 01:37:58,246
...but the apocalypse to come...

1350
01:37:59,415 --> 01:38:01,583
...will vindicate our faith.

1351
01:38:10,718 --> 01:38:14,429
[PULSING]

1352
01:38:25,900 --> 01:38:27,734
Welcome home.

1353
01:39:23,332 --> 01:39:25,625
[MAN SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN
ON TV]
1354
01:39:33,509 --> 01:39:35,885
Oh, Comrade Arroway...

1355
01:39:36,053 --> 01:39:39,347
...he has been expecting your call.
One moment, please.

1356
01:39:49,108 --> 01:39:50,316
Mr. Hadden?

1357
01:39:50,943 --> 01:39:52,276
Doctor.

1358
01:39:53,404 --> 01:39:55,196
How kind of you to call.

1359
01:39:55,906 --> 01:39:58,324
Mr. Hadden, where are you?

1360
01:40:00,035 --> 01:40:04,706
The Russian government was kind enough
to give me accommodations on Mir.

1361
01:40:05,541 --> 01:40:07,417
You're living on a space station?

1362
01:40:08,919 --> 01:40:11,254
It's quite simple, really.

1363
01:40:12,297 --> 01:40:15,883
The low-oxygen,
zero-gravity environment...

1364
01:40:16,051 --> 01:40:20,763
...is the only thing keeping
the cancer from eating me alive.

1365
01:40:22,307 --> 01:40:25,018
Actually, I quite like it up here.

1366
01:40:25,477 --> 01:40:29,272
My little room has one hell of a view.

1367
01:40:36,447 --> 01:40:38,948
I wanna show you something.
1368
01:40:43,120 --> 01:40:45,580
Hokkaido Island.

1369
01:40:46,498 --> 01:40:48,875
The systems integration site.

1370
01:40:49,877 --> 01:40:52,128
Look closer.

1371
01:40:59,762 --> 01:41:03,389
First rule in government spending:

1372
01:41:03,557 --> 01:41:07,477
Why build one when you can have
two at twice the price?

1373
01:41:07,644 --> 01:41:11,439
Only, this one can be kept secret.

1374
01:41:11,607 --> 01:41:13,649
Controlled by Americans...

1375
01:41:13,817 --> 01:41:17,445
...built by the Japanese subcontractors...

1376
01:41:18,155 --> 01:41:21,741
...who also happen to be...

1377
01:41:21,909 --> 01:41:23,993
...recently acquired...

1378
01:41:24,161 --> 01:41:27,288
...wholly-owned subsidiaries...

1379
01:41:27,456 --> 01:41:29,832
...of Hadden Industries.
- Of Hadden Industries.

1380
01:41:33,003 --> 01:41:36,172
They still want
an American to go, doctor.

1381
01:41:39,802 --> 01:41:42,136
Wanna take a ride?
1382
01:42:24,263 --> 01:42:28,558
WOMAN: And augmenting our restraint and
communications console subsystem...

1383
01:42:28,725 --> 01:42:30,726
...we have your personal recording unit.

1384
01:42:30,894 --> 01:42:35,022
Normal, infrared and ultraviolet lenses.

1385
01:42:35,190 --> 01:42:39,235
Digital microchip good for
thousands of hours of recording.

1386
01:42:40,445 --> 01:42:42,530
Okay, look, I understand...

1387
01:42:42,698 --> 01:42:46,117
...the reason for recording
and documenting the mission.

1388
01:42:46,285 --> 01:42:49,120
But I just... I wanna go on record
one more time.

1389
01:42:49,288 --> 01:42:52,790
The transmitted specs
never said anything about any chair...

1390
01:42:53,041 --> 01:42:57,545
...or a restraining harness or survival gear.

1391
01:42:57,713 --> 01:42:59,547
Why can't we just trust the original...?

1392
01:42:59,715 --> 01:43:03,843
Doctor, both the IMC Board
and the SI team reviewed the matter...

1393
01:43:04,052 --> 01:43:07,805
...and concluded that
the design impact is negligible.

1394
01:43:07,973 --> 01:43:09,682
Bottom line is...
1395
01:43:09,850 --> 01:43:12,185
...we're not putting anybody
aboard this machine...

1396
01:43:12,394 --> 01:43:15,396
...unless there is
some sort of minimal protection.

1397
01:43:15,564 --> 01:43:17,440
End of story.

1398
01:43:19,860 --> 01:43:23,112
- Okay.
MAN: Ellie...

1399
01:43:23,989 --> 01:43:28,075
...we've been giving these to the astronauts
since the beginning of the space program.

1400
01:43:29,411 --> 01:43:31,704
It's never been made public, of course.

1401
01:43:31,914 --> 01:43:33,998
It's fast and it's painless.

1402
01:43:36,752 --> 01:43:39,629
I'm gonna travel 26 light years
to commit suicide?

1403
01:43:39,796 --> 01:43:42,006
Something may go wrong.

1404
01:43:42,174 --> 01:43:44,926
There may be
an unforeseen mechanical failure.

1405
01:43:45,677 --> 01:43:48,763
You could be marooned, unable to return.

1406
01:43:49,932 --> 01:43:53,059
There are a thousand reasons
we can think of for you to have this...

1407
01:43:53,268 --> 01:43:56,437
...but mostly it's for the reasons
we can't think of.

1408
01:44:21,505 --> 01:44:22,546
[KNOCKING]

1409
01:44:22,714 --> 01:44:23,839
Come in.

1410
01:44:25,384 --> 01:44:29,387
- Dr. Arroway, time to get ready.
- Thank you.

1411
01:44:40,065 --> 01:44:41,774
I know you don't have much time.

1412
01:44:41,942 --> 01:44:45,027
As soon as I found out about the Machine,
I called the president.

1413
01:44:45,237 --> 01:44:47,321
I came with Kitz.

1414
01:44:47,489 --> 01:44:49,782
I had to see you one more time.

1415
01:44:49,950 --> 01:44:51,701
- Oh, God, I'm sorry.
- It's okay.

1416
01:44:51,868 --> 01:44:53,744
No, I'm glad you came.

1417
01:44:53,912 --> 01:44:56,789
There's something I gotta say to you.

1418
01:44:57,666 --> 01:45:01,919
The reason I didn't vote for you to go was
a good reason, but it wasrt the real one.

1419
01:45:03,005 --> 01:45:05,006
I didn't vote for you to go...

1420
01:45:06,550 --> 01:45:08,718
...because I don't wanna lose you.

1421
01:45:09,761 --> 01:45:12,596
You find your way home, all right?

1422
01:45:28,989 --> 01:45:30,406
Twenty-three hours ago...

1423
01:45:30,574 --> 01:45:34,618
...the world was stunned by the
announcement of a second Machine...

1424
01:45:34,786 --> 01:45:37,913
...and its passenger,
Eleanor Ann Arroway.

1425
01:45:38,123 --> 01:45:41,709
Now the question
that's on everyone's mind:

1426
01:45:41,877 --> 01:45:43,878
Will history repeat itself?

1427
01:45:44,046 --> 01:45:46,339
With a piece of engineering
this complex...

1428
01:45:46,506 --> 01:45:50,593
...with so many unknowns,
could the unthinkable occur?

1429
01:45:50,761 --> 01:45:54,221
The security in Hokkaido
has been incredibly tight.

1430
01:45:54,389 --> 01:45:57,725
No reporters whatsoever
have been allowed near the site.

1431
01:48:19,701 --> 01:48:21,702
Thanks.

1432
01:48:38,261 --> 01:48:41,263
Magnetic restraint is secure.
All life support functions normal.

1433
01:48:41,473 --> 01:48:44,642
Roger that. Ellie, this is Control.
Do you copy?
1434
01:48:44,809 --> 01:48:47,144
Ellie to Control, reading you five-by-five.

1435
01:48:47,312 --> 01:48:51,398
- Comm 1, Give me Ellie's PRD.
- Video unit recording and transmitting.

1436
01:48:52,359 --> 01:48:54,902
- Are you reading me?
STEVE: That's affirmative.

1437
01:48:55,070 --> 01:48:57,363
Video looks good.

1438
01:48:57,531 --> 01:49:00,074
- Copy that, Control.
- Okay.

1439
01:49:00,242 --> 01:49:03,118
Ellie, we're gonna proceed
to button you up.

1440
01:49:03,286 --> 01:49:05,955
Roger, Control. I'm ready.

1441
01:49:09,376 --> 01:49:11,752
- Dynamics...
- I can confirm the walkway retraction.

1442
01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:12,920
STEVE: Systems?
MAN 1: Go.

1443
01:49:13,088 --> 01:49:14,463
STEVE: Communications?
MAN 2: Go.

1444
01:49:14,631 --> 01:49:16,298
STEVE: Life support?
WOMAN: Go.

1445
01:49:16,466 --> 01:49:18,759
Ellie, we are go for closure.

1446
01:49:20,220 --> 01:49:22,096
I'm go here.

1447
01:49:22,973 --> 01:49:26,475
STEVE: Mechanical, initiate
IPV closure sequence.

1448
01:49:28,103 --> 01:49:30,312
Hold on, let me get you a chair.

1449
01:49:31,022 --> 01:49:32,064
ELLIE:
I'm go.

1450
01:49:32,232 --> 01:49:36,110
- It's nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz.
- You too.

1451
01:49:36,278 --> 01:49:38,112
Wouldrt peg him as a Polo man.

1452
01:49:47,664 --> 01:49:48,998
I got a visual on the door.

1453
01:49:49,165 --> 01:49:51,125
WOMAN:
IPV escape system is armed.

1454
01:49:51,293 --> 01:49:53,294
Door is looking good.

1455
01:49:58,508 --> 01:50:00,175
Door alignment looks good.

1456
01:50:28,788 --> 01:50:30,873
Ellie, we are showing green
across the board.

1457
01:50:31,041 --> 01:50:34,376
Copy that, Control. IPV is secure.

1458
01:50:41,509 --> 01:50:43,510
GERRY:
We are at 30 percent.

1459
01:50:43,678 --> 01:50:44,970
Copy that, 30 percent.
1460
01:50:49,851 --> 01:50:52,519
- How you doing in there, EI?
- Kent?

1461
01:50:53,271 --> 01:50:56,065
- Is that you?
- That's a big affirmative.

1462
01:50:56,983 --> 01:50:58,567
Who let you in there, huh?

1463
01:50:58,735 --> 01:51:00,861
A higher power intervened.

1464
01:51:02,906 --> 01:51:04,239
Well, I'm glad you came.

1465
01:51:08,995 --> 01:51:10,162
GERRY:
Thirty-five percent.

1466
01:51:10,914 --> 01:51:12,414
Copy that, 35 percent.

1467
01:51:12,582 --> 01:51:13,916
- Mechanical?
- We're good.

1468
01:51:14,084 --> 01:51:15,417
Forty percent.

1469
01:51:19,047 --> 01:51:20,923
I'm picking up a moderate vibration here.

1470
01:51:22,092 --> 01:51:25,719
- Dynamics, can you confirm vibration?
GERRY: Everything looks good here.

1471
01:51:25,929 --> 01:51:29,181
She's feeling the same thing
they felt at the Cape at this point.

1472
01:51:29,349 --> 01:51:30,933
Ellie, the vibration is normal.
1473
01:51:31,101 --> 01:51:33,602
GERRY: We are at 50 percent.
All systems nominal.

1474
01:51:33,770 --> 01:51:35,771
Copy that, 50 percent.

1475
01:51:40,944 --> 01:51:42,945
Vibration is getting a little stronger now.

1476
01:51:43,113 --> 01:51:45,948
We're picking up
some low-frequency noise.

1477
01:51:46,324 --> 01:51:49,410
- Mechanical, can you confirm?
- It looks fine to me.

1478
01:51:49,577 --> 01:51:52,955
STEVE: Roger. Gerry, what do you think?
- I'm still go.

1479
01:51:53,123 --> 01:51:54,748
People, we are still go.

1480
01:51:56,501 --> 01:51:58,961
What...? Something's happening.

1481
01:52:00,213 --> 01:52:02,881
I'm... There's...

1482
01:52:03,049 --> 01:52:05,884
There's a light. Do you see that?
I'm seeing some...

1483
01:52:06,636 --> 01:52:09,096
Something, some...

1484
01:52:09,264 --> 01:52:11,807
I can't tell whether it's daylight or not.

1485
01:52:11,975 --> 01:52:14,893
There it is again.
It's coming from the bottom.

1486
01:52:15,937 --> 01:52:17,479
Here, let me show you. See that?

1487
01:52:17,647 --> 01:52:19,565
Negative. Ellie, you're breaking up.

1488
01:52:19,733 --> 01:52:22,568
- Comm 1, can we boost her signal?
- Already at maximum.

1489
01:52:22,736 --> 01:52:24,278
GERRY:
Sixty-five percent.

1490
01:52:24,446 --> 01:52:26,155
The material is changing.

1491
01:52:26,322 --> 01:52:29,825
It's bordering on translucence.
But the system is intact.

1492
01:52:33,121 --> 01:52:37,499
It's gotta be some kind
of electromagnetic field.

1493
01:52:37,667 --> 01:52:40,669
- Are you reading this?
- Negative, we're seeing only interference.

1494
01:52:40,837 --> 01:52:46,175
It's becoming completely translucent.
I can't describe it. I can't even explain it.

1495
01:52:48,636 --> 01:52:49,678
Seventy percent.

1496
01:52:49,846 --> 01:52:52,181
People, we have intermittent comm,
but we are go.

1497
01:52:52,348 --> 01:52:56,810
- Initiate secondary drive systems.
GERRY: Initiating auxiliary booster sequence.

1498
01:52:57,020 --> 01:52:58,854
MAN:
We're go for ignition.
1499
01:53:05,904 --> 01:53:08,363
We have auxiliary booster ignition.

1500
01:53:14,037 --> 01:53:15,537
Life support, how is she doing?

1501
01:53:15,705 --> 01:53:18,957
We still have data. Heart and respiration
are high but within limits.

1502
01:53:19,125 --> 01:53:20,209
Ellie, do you copy?

1503
01:53:20,418 --> 01:53:23,420
If you could hear, I am okay to go.

1504
01:53:27,217 --> 01:53:29,009
If you could hear me...

1505
01:53:32,096 --> 01:53:33,472
Eighty percent.

1506
01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:36,475
All vibration and G-levels are in the green.

1507
01:53:41,898 --> 01:53:44,233
Control, if you're reading me...

1508
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:46,735
...I am okay to go. Okay to go,

1509
01:53:46,903 --> 01:53:50,697
GERRY: Eighty-five percent.
MAN: All bearing tips are on the profile.

1510
01:53:51,574 --> 01:53:54,660
Ninety percent. We're detecting
some structural instability.

1511
01:53:54,828 --> 01:53:58,747
- Confirmed. Is she holding?
- We're within limits, barely.

1512
01:54:00,250 --> 01:54:06,171
I'm okay to go.

1513
01:54:12,095 --> 01:54:13,554
My God!

1514
01:54:24,607 --> 01:54:27,109
Okay to go. I'm okay.

1515
01:54:27,527 --> 01:54:29,027
Hundred percent target velocity.

1516
01:54:29,195 --> 01:54:30,404
MAN:
Steve?

1517
01:54:30,572 --> 01:54:34,950
Tremendous EMI levels around the Machine.
All field measurements are off-scale.

1518
01:54:35,118 --> 01:54:37,578
Steve, we're approaching our abort limits.

1519
01:54:39,956 --> 01:54:41,039
Okay to go.

1520
01:54:46,254 --> 01:54:47,462
I hear her!

1521
01:54:47,630 --> 01:54:50,465
I hear her. Barely, but she's there.

1522
01:54:50,633 --> 01:54:53,635
- Okay to go.
- She says she's okay to go.

1523
01:54:56,639 --> 01:54:58,765
Steve, we're real close.

1524
01:54:58,933 --> 01:55:01,810
- Electrical, reading in the core?
MAN: Internal environment normal.

1525
01:55:01,978 --> 01:55:04,980
Inside the core, the weather's beautiful.

1526
01:55:09,068 --> 01:55:10,319
I'm okay to go.

1527
01:55:10,820 --> 01:55:14,281
Okay to go. I'm okay to go.

1528
01:55:14,866 --> 01:55:17,200
STEVE:
Initiate drop sequence.

1529
01:55:19,787 --> 01:55:21,496
On my mark.

1530
01:55:22,206 --> 01:55:24,750
Ten, nine...

1531
01:55:25,835 --> 01:55:27,836
...eight...

1532
01:55:28,171 --> 01:55:31,173
...seven, six...

1533
01:55:31,341 --> 01:55:33,967
...five, four...

1534
01:55:34,135 --> 01:55:36,803
...three, two...

1535
01:55:36,971 --> 01:55:38,347
I'm okay to go.

1536
01:55:42,310 --> 01:55:44,102
Oh, God!

1537
01:55:53,363 --> 01:55:55,030
Ellie to Control.

1538
01:55:55,698 --> 01:56:05,749
Ellie to Control, do you read me?

1539
01:56:11,506 --> 01:56:14,925
I'm gonna try to keep recording.

1540
01:56:15,677 --> 01:56:20,222
I'm going through
some kind of a tunnel.

1541
01:56:34,904 --> 01:56:36,446
There's a light source ahead.

1542
01:56:36,948 --> 01:56:40,158
Brilliant and blue-white.

1543
01:56:41,369 --> 01:56:42,995
Residual radiation?

1544
01:56:54,757 --> 01:56:56,049
It's a star.

1545
01:56:56,634 --> 01:57:00,053
I must have gone through a wormhole.

1546
01:57:05,101 --> 01:57:06,518
It's Vega.

1547
01:57:17,739 --> 01:57:19,281
I'm in another wormhole now.

1548
01:57:22,952 --> 01:57:24,077
I had no idea.

1549
01:57:24,245 --> 01:57:26,038
A series of them.

1550
01:57:29,042 --> 01:57:30,292
They're alive.

1551
01:57:30,460 --> 01:57:34,421
It's like some kind of a transit system.

1552
01:57:35,423 --> 01:57:36,798
It's a subway.

1553
01:57:36,966 --> 01:57:38,467
[YELLS]

1554
01:57:42,138 --> 01:57:43,930
Okay.

1555
01:57:44,098 --> 01:57:46,391
Okay, I've gotta keep talking.

1556
01:57:48,936 --> 01:57:52,814
It's a triple... No, quadruple system.

1557
01:57:53,232 --> 01:57:54,483
It's beautiful.

1558
01:57:57,820 --> 01:57:59,237
They're alive.

1559
01:58:07,413 --> 01:58:09,081
Another wormhole!

1560
01:58:09,415 --> 01:58:11,249
This one is much more violent!

1561
01:59:44,677 --> 01:59:46,344
Some...

1562
01:59:46,804 --> 01:59:49,139
...celestial event...

1563
01:59:50,391 --> 01:59:52,100
No...

1564
01:59:52,268 --> 01:59:55,937
No words. No words...

1565
01:59:57,607 --> 01:59:59,816
...to describe it.

1566
02:00:01,235 --> 02:00:03,111
Poetry.

1567
02:00:04,280 --> 02:00:07,782
They should have sent a poet.

1568
02:00:08,075 --> 02:00:10,660
It's so beautiful.

1569
02:00:10,828 --> 02:00:12,287
Beautiful.
1570
02:00:14,123 --> 02:00:19,419
So beautiful.

1571
02:00:20,296 --> 02:00:26,885
I had no idea.

1572
02:00:28,137 --> 02:00:31,473
I had no...

1573
02:00:32,767 --> 02:00:36,061
I had no idea.

1574
02:00:37,396 --> 02:00:44,402
I had no idea. I had no idea.

1575
02:03:02,375 --> 02:03:03,750
Hi, Sparks.

1576
02:03:05,628 --> 02:03:07,128
Dad?

1577
02:03:14,595 --> 02:03:16,471
I missed you.

1578
02:03:22,103 --> 02:03:23,269
Arert you...?

1579
02:03:23,479 --> 02:03:26,689
I'm sorry I couldn't
be there for you, sweetheart.

1580
02:03:36,492 --> 02:03:38,159
You're not real.

1581
02:03:39,662 --> 02:03:41,162
None of this is real.

1582
02:03:41,330 --> 02:03:43,498
That's my scientist.

1583
02:03:44,583 --> 02:03:48,962
When I was unconscious, you downloaded
my thoughts, my memory even.

1584
02:03:49,797 --> 02:03:51,840
Pensacola.

1585
02:03:54,343 --> 02:03:57,303
We thought this might
make things easier for you.

1586
02:04:10,818 --> 02:04:14,446
- Why did you contact us?
- You contacted us.

1587
02:04:14,613 --> 02:04:16,281
We were just listening.

1588
02:04:17,158 --> 02:04:18,450
And there are others?

1589
02:04:18,617 --> 02:04:20,243
Many others.

1590
02:04:25,082 --> 02:04:26,583
They all...

1591
02:04:26,750 --> 02:04:29,878
...travel here through that
transit system that you built?

1592
02:04:30,421 --> 02:04:31,921
We didn't build it.

1593
02:04:33,090 --> 02:04:34,591
We don't know who did.

1594
02:04:36,677 --> 02:04:39,637
No, they were gone
long before we ever got here.

1595
02:04:40,264 --> 02:04:42,098
Maybe someday they'll come back.

1596
02:04:42,933 --> 02:04:45,643
All the other civilizations that you find,
they come here?

1597
02:04:45,853 --> 02:04:47,061
Not all.
1598
02:04:48,856 --> 02:04:52,025
- Is this some test?
- No, no tests.

1599
02:04:54,945 --> 02:04:56,529
You have your mother's hands.

1600
02:05:06,707 --> 02:05:08,875
You're an interesting species...

1601
02:05:09,543 --> 02:05:11,503
...an interesting mix.

1602
02:05:12,421 --> 02:05:15,215
You're capable of
such beautiful dreams...

1603
02:05:16,258 --> 02:05:18,718
...and such horrible nightmares.

1604
02:05:19,887 --> 02:05:21,721
You feel so lost...

1605
02:05:22,306 --> 02:05:25,266
...so cut off, so alone.

1606
02:05:26,727 --> 02:05:28,478
Only you're not.

1607
02:05:30,564 --> 02:05:32,106
See...

1608
02:05:32,566 --> 02:05:34,192
In all our searching...

1609
02:05:34,401 --> 02:05:37,904
...the only thing we've found
that makes the emptiness bearable...

1610
02:05:38,072 --> 02:05:39,697
...is each other.

1611
02:05:43,452 --> 02:05:45,370
What happens now?
1612
02:05:46,413 --> 02:05:47,914
Now?

1613
02:05:48,832 --> 02:05:50,625
You go home.

1614
02:05:50,793 --> 02:05:52,210
ELLIE:
Home?

1615
02:05:52,378 --> 02:05:55,463
But I have so many questions.

1616
02:05:55,631 --> 02:05:57,757
Do we get to come back?

1617
02:05:58,634 --> 02:06:00,885
This was just a first step.

1618
02:06:01,053 --> 02:06:02,804
In time, you'll take another.

1619
02:06:04,390 --> 02:06:06,766
But other people need to see
what I've seen...

1620
02:06:06,934 --> 02:06:09,978
This is the way it's been done
for billions of years.

1621
02:06:11,981 --> 02:06:14,607
- But l...
- Small moves, Ellie.

1622
02:06:16,068 --> 02:06:17,986
Small moves.

1623
02:07:01,071 --> 02:07:02,864
We've got video on Ellie.
Five-by-five.

1624
02:07:03,073 --> 02:07:04,949
STEVE:
She's through! She is in the net.
1625
02:07:05,117 --> 02:07:08,119
She's alive. Get the White House.
Get the president on the phone.

1626
02:07:08,287 --> 02:07:10,663
What's going on, Steve? How is she?
How is she?

1627
02:07:10,831 --> 02:07:12,540
STEVE:
Ellie, this is Control. Do you copy?

1628
02:07:12,708 --> 02:07:14,751
KENT: What's going on?
- I don't know. Hang on.

1629
02:07:14,918 --> 02:07:16,544
- She is alive.
STEVE: Put her on the PA.

1630
02:07:16,712 --> 02:07:18,296
Ellie, just hold on tight.

1631
02:07:18,922 --> 02:07:22,216
We're still trying to determine
the nature of the malfunction...

1632
02:07:22,384 --> 02:07:24,886
...but the important thing is you're okay.

1633
02:07:25,054 --> 02:07:26,220
What?

1634
02:07:26,388 --> 02:07:30,183
It's all right, Ellie.
The important thing is that you're safe.

1635
02:07:31,143 --> 02:07:33,436
What malfunction?

1636
02:07:34,772 --> 02:07:36,230
What...?

1637
02:07:37,399 --> 02:07:39,025
What happened?
1638
02:07:40,361 --> 02:07:42,028
What day is this?

1639
02:07:42,696 --> 02:07:45,698
I'm sorry, Ellie,
did you say what day?

1640
02:07:46,784 --> 02:07:49,035
How long was I gone?

1641
02:07:50,788 --> 02:07:55,583
Ellie, the IPV dropped
straight through the Machine.

1642
02:07:55,751 --> 02:07:57,418
You didn't go anywhere.

1643
02:07:58,295 --> 02:08:01,631
But I did. I did go.

1644
02:08:01,799 --> 02:08:04,175
That's what I've been trying
to tell everyone.

1645
02:08:08,639 --> 02:08:11,724
But the headset
didn't record a single image?

1646
02:08:11,892 --> 02:08:14,519
Just this. Static.

1647
02:08:14,728 --> 02:08:15,770
Thank you.

1648
02:08:15,938 --> 02:08:19,357
Now, doctor, let me show you
what we saw.

1649
02:08:28,826 --> 02:08:32,662
Forty-three separate remote cameras
show exactly the same event.

1650
02:08:32,830 --> 02:08:34,372
The IPV dropped straight through.

1651
02:08:34,540 --> 02:08:38,126
Everyone who watched
saw exactly the same thing.

1652
02:08:38,293 --> 02:08:40,128
Nothing happened.

1653
02:08:41,463 --> 02:08:43,756
How do you explain this, doctor?

1654
02:08:45,759 --> 02:08:46,884
I can't.

1655
02:08:47,094 --> 02:08:48,553
CLINTON:
I would encourage you...

1656
02:08:50,347 --> 02:08:54,517
...not to inflame this situation
beyond the facts.

1657
02:08:54,685 --> 02:08:58,104
Let us deal with this on the facts.

1658
02:08:58,272 --> 02:09:01,149
We are monitoring
what has actually happened.

1659
02:09:01,316 --> 02:09:06,654
We are taking what we believe
is factually appropriate steps.

1660
02:09:06,822 --> 02:09:10,032
Amid a flurry of accusations
and counter-accusations...

1661
02:09:10,242 --> 02:09:12,827
...by the nations representing
the Machine Consortium...

1662
02:09:12,995 --> 02:09:15,913
...the president has ordered
a special inquiry.

1663
02:09:16,123 --> 02:09:18,916
However, the appointment
to the committee of Michael Kitz...
1664
02:09:19,126 --> 02:09:21,961
...who has recently resigned
as National Security Advisor...

1665
02:09:22,129 --> 02:09:24,464
...has raised a number of eyebrows
on Capitol Hill.

1666
02:09:24,631 --> 02:09:28,426
I have made no decision to run for
Congress, I have announced no candidacy.

1667
02:09:28,594 --> 02:09:31,179
The fact that I resigned
as National Security Advisor...

1668
02:09:31,346 --> 02:09:33,055
...has nothing to do with anything...

1669
02:09:33,223 --> 02:09:36,392
...other than I want to devote
all of my energy to this inquiry.

1670
02:09:37,144 --> 02:09:41,814
The people of the world have a right
to know what really happened.

1671
02:09:42,649 --> 02:09:45,151
And yet every scientific
instrument confirms...

1672
02:09:45,319 --> 02:09:49,489
...the IPV was out of contact
for only a fraction of a second.

1673
02:09:49,656 --> 02:09:51,699
Isn't that correct, doctor?

1674
02:09:53,410 --> 02:09:55,703
A fraction of a second Earth time, yes.

1675
02:09:56,580 --> 02:09:57,830
SENATOR:
Earth time?

1676
02:09:57,998 --> 02:10:01,626
ELLIE: Senator, I believe that the Machine
opened up a wormhole...

1677
02:10:01,794 --> 02:10:06,756
...a tunnel through the fabric of space-time,
also known as an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

1678
02:10:06,924 --> 02:10:11,052
Now, because of the effects of general
relativity, what I experienced as 18 hours...

1679
02:10:11,220 --> 02:10:13,471
...passed instantaneously on Earth.

1680
02:10:13,639 --> 02:10:17,975
Isn't it true that these wormholes you
speak of are merely theoretical predictions?

1681
02:10:18,143 --> 02:10:20,895
There is no evidence
they actually exist, is there?

1682
02:10:21,063 --> 02:10:22,772
ELLIE:
There is no direct evidence, no.

1683
02:10:22,940 --> 02:10:24,690
KITZ:
Tell me something, doctor...

1684
02:10:24,858 --> 02:10:27,985
...why do you think these aliens
would go to all this trouble?

1685
02:10:28,153 --> 02:10:32,365
Bring you tens of thousands of light years
and then send you home without proof?

1686
02:10:33,033 --> 02:10:35,743
They said that's how it's been done
for billions of years.

1687
02:10:36,119 --> 02:10:39,705
KITZ: That's very neat. You have no proof
because they didn't want you to have any.

1688
02:10:39,873 --> 02:10:44,627
A phenomenon known in psychiatric circles,
I believe, as a self-reinforcing delusion.

1689
02:10:45,212 --> 02:10:46,838
Is that what you think? Delusional?

1690
02:10:47,005 --> 02:10:51,133
KITZ: Well, I do think you may have suffered
some kind of an episode. Yeah, I do.

1691
02:10:51,301 --> 02:10:54,178
Doctor, I'd like to propose
an alternate hypothesis...

1692
02:10:54,388 --> 02:10:58,057
...and I'd like you to bring
your scientific expertise to bear on it.

1693
02:10:58,225 --> 02:11:01,435
To fake a signal from Vega...

1694
02:11:02,104 --> 02:11:03,688
...what would you need?

1695
02:11:05,399 --> 02:11:09,193
You would need a satellite to transmit
the signal, but it would be impossible to...

1696
02:11:09,361 --> 02:11:13,281
You'd need a satellite and need launch
capabilities to put the satellite into orbit.

1697
02:11:13,448 --> 02:11:16,659
And the message itself.
To put something like this together...

1698
02:11:16,827 --> 02:11:19,120
...so complex,
drawing on many disciplines...

1699
02:11:19,288 --> 02:11:21,247
- Would be impossible.
KITZ: Lmpossible?

1700
02:11:22,541 --> 02:11:24,458
Lmpossible?
1701
02:11:24,626 --> 02:11:28,254
Is there anyone who might
have been up to the challenge?

1702
02:11:28,422 --> 02:11:30,882
Someone with extraordinary
technical expertise...

1703
02:11:31,049 --> 02:11:33,259
...enormous financial resources...

1704
02:11:33,427 --> 02:11:37,805
...someone perverse enough,
eccentric enough to come up with the idea?

1705
02:11:39,182 --> 02:11:40,224
Hadden?

1706
02:11:41,184 --> 02:11:43,644
S. R. Hadden.

1707
02:11:43,812 --> 02:11:46,439
[CROWD MURMURING]

1708
02:11:47,941 --> 02:11:50,985
You're implying that this was
all some kind of a hoax?

1709
02:11:51,153 --> 02:11:52,403
That he engineered this?

1710
02:11:52,571 --> 02:11:53,821
KITZ:
S. R. Hadden...

1711
02:11:53,989 --> 02:11:58,868
...a legendary power broker and manipulator
in perhaps his final bid for immortality.

1712
02:11:59,036 --> 02:12:01,704
Maybe he wanted to explore
and exploit new technologies...

1713
02:12:01,872 --> 02:12:04,081
...and get the governments
to pick up the tab.

1714
02:12:04,291 --> 02:12:07,043
Perhaps this was his
final altruistic gesture...

1715
02:12:07,294 --> 02:12:11,005
...to unite the world in some common goal.
Maybe all of the above.

1716
02:12:11,173 --> 02:12:16,093
S. R. Hadden, a brilliant
and complicated man.

1717
02:12:18,639 --> 02:12:22,892
Doctor, are you familiar
with the scientific precept...

1718
02:12:23,060 --> 02:12:25,186
...known as Occam's razor?

1719
02:12:31,401 --> 02:12:32,568
ELLIE:
Yes.

1720
02:12:34,571 --> 02:12:36,656
It means that all things being equal...

1721
02:12:36,823 --> 02:12:39,325
...the simplest explanation
tends to be the right one.

1722
02:12:39,493 --> 02:12:41,035
KITZ:
Exactly.

1723
02:12:41,203 --> 02:12:43,663
Now, you tell me.
What is more likely here?

1724
02:12:43,830 --> 02:12:47,291
That a message from aliens
results in a magical machine...

1725
02:12:47,459 --> 02:12:50,169
...that whisks you away
to the center of the galaxy...
1726
02:12:50,379 --> 02:12:53,255
...to go windsurfing with your dad
and a split second later...

1727
02:12:53,423 --> 02:12:56,884
...returns you home
without a single shred of proof?

1728
02:12:57,052 --> 02:13:00,846
Or that your experience
is the result of being...

1729
02:13:01,014 --> 02:13:05,476
...the unwitting star in the farewell
performance of one S.R. Hadden?

1730
02:13:05,644 --> 02:13:09,438
A man with the means, motive and
opportunity to play you and the rest of us...

1731
02:13:09,690 --> 02:13:13,901
...as pawns in the biggest, most elaborate,
most expensive hoax of all time?

1732
02:13:15,195 --> 02:13:17,113
MAN:
Dr. Arroway.

1733
02:13:18,991 --> 02:13:23,369
You come to us with no evidence,
no record...

1734
02:13:23,537 --> 02:13:25,329
...no artifacts.

1735
02:13:25,497 --> 02:13:29,667
Only a story that, to put it mildly,
strains credibility.

1736
02:13:30,794 --> 02:13:33,921
Over half a trillion dollars were spent.

1737
02:13:34,089 --> 02:13:37,091
Dozens of lives were lost.

1738
02:13:37,718 --> 02:13:42,430
Are you really gonna sit there
and tell us we should just take this all...

1739
02:13:43,181 --> 02:13:44,724
...on faith?

1740
02:13:48,729 --> 02:13:50,938
KITZ:
Please answer the question, doctor.

1741
02:13:54,860 --> 02:13:56,944
Is it possible that it didn't happen?

1742
02:13:57,112 --> 02:13:58,279
Yes.

1743
02:13:58,447 --> 02:14:00,990
[CROWD MURMURING]

1744
02:14:01,158 --> 02:14:04,285
As a scientist I must concede that.
I must volunteer that.

1745
02:14:08,623 --> 02:14:10,541
KITZ:
Wait a minute, let me get this straight.

1746
02:14:10,709 --> 02:14:14,587
You admit you have absolutely no
physical evidence to back up your story?

1747
02:14:14,921 --> 02:14:15,963
Yes.

1748
02:14:16,131 --> 02:14:19,175
You admit that you very well may have
hallucinated this whole thing?

1749
02:14:19,342 --> 02:14:22,136
- Yes.
- You admit that if you were in our position...

1750
02:14:22,304 --> 02:14:26,057
...you would respond with exactly the same
degree of incredulity and skepticism?
1751
02:14:26,224 --> 02:14:27,475
Yes.

1752
02:14:27,642 --> 02:14:30,603
Then why don't you simply withdraw
your testimony and concede...

1753
02:14:30,771 --> 02:14:35,941
...that this journey to the center of
the galaxy in fact never took place?

1754
02:14:38,945 --> 02:14:40,946
Because I can't.

1755
02:14:41,114 --> 02:14:43,824
[CROWD MURMURING]

1756
02:14:47,496 --> 02:14:51,165
I had an experience.

1757
02:14:52,834 --> 02:14:55,419
I can't prove it. I can't even explain it.

1758
02:14:55,587 --> 02:14:58,672
But everything that I know as
a human being, everything I am...

1759
02:14:58,840 --> 02:15:00,966
...tells me it was real.

1760
02:15:03,011 --> 02:15:06,889
I was given something wonderful,
something that changed me forever.

1761
02:15:07,057 --> 02:15:08,599
A vision...

1762
02:15:08,767 --> 02:15:10,851
...of the universe...

1763
02:15:11,019 --> 02:15:13,687
...that tells us undeniably...

1764
02:15:13,855 --> 02:15:16,107
...how tiny and insignificant...
1765
02:15:16,274 --> 02:15:19,985
...and how rare and precious we all are.

1766
02:15:21,154 --> 02:15:23,572
A vision that tells us
that we belong to something...

1767
02:15:23,740 --> 02:15:29,411
...that is greater than ourselves,
that we are not... That none of us are alone.

1768
02:15:34,042 --> 02:15:38,045
I wish I could share that.

1769
02:15:40,549 --> 02:15:41,715
I wish...

1770
02:15:43,176 --> 02:15:47,221
...that everyone,
if even for one moment...

1771
02:15:47,389 --> 02:15:53,144
...could feel that awe
and humility and hope.

1772
02:15:53,562 --> 02:15:55,563
But...

1773
02:16:01,736 --> 02:16:04,029
That continues to be my wish.

1774
02:16:45,197 --> 02:16:48,532
MAN 1: Dr. Arroway, get a picture, please?
Get a photo over here?

1775
02:16:50,160 --> 02:16:51,785
WOMAN:
Here comes Ellie.

1776
02:17:28,073 --> 02:17:30,991
MAN 2:
Reverend Joss! Reverend Joss!

1777
02:17:31,159 --> 02:17:34,536
MAN 3: Reverend Joss, what do you
believe? What do you believe?

1778
02:17:38,792 --> 02:17:42,795
As a person of faith, I'm bound by
a different covenant than Dr. Arroway.

1779
02:17:44,547 --> 02:17:46,799
But our goal is one and the same.

1780
02:17:47,300 --> 02:17:48,926
The pursuit of truth.

1781
02:17:52,472 --> 02:17:53,764
I, for one, believe her.

1782
02:18:17,330 --> 02:18:20,207
So, what happens now?
We give her a medal?

1783
02:18:20,375 --> 02:18:23,252
I'd say at least a healthy grant.

1784
02:18:23,420 --> 02:18:26,880
I assume you read the confidential report
from the investigating committee?

1785
02:18:27,090 --> 02:18:28,841
KITZ:
I flipped through it.

1786
02:18:29,009 --> 02:18:33,220
I was especially interested
in the section on Arroway's video unit.

1787
02:18:34,014 --> 02:18:36,348
The one that recorded the static.

1788
02:18:37,600 --> 02:18:39,310
Continue.

1789
02:18:39,936 --> 02:18:43,772
The fact that it recorded static
isn't what interests me.

1790
02:18:48,611 --> 02:18:49,987
Continue.
1791
02:18:50,864 --> 02:18:52,698
What interests me...

1792
02:18:52,866 --> 02:18:56,702
...is that it recorded
approximately 18 hours of it.

1793
02:19:01,958 --> 02:19:03,876
That is interesting, isn't it?

1794
02:19:10,550 --> 02:19:14,386
ELLIE: You can see over there,
we're building 45 brand-new dishes.

1795
02:19:14,554 --> 02:19:18,515
And that means when you put them
together with all the radio telescopes...

1796
02:19:18,683 --> 02:19:20,184
...all over the world...

1797
02:19:20,352 --> 02:19:25,022
...then we get to hear farther into space
than anybody has ever heard before.

1798
02:19:25,190 --> 02:19:26,231
Yeah.

1799
02:19:26,399 --> 02:19:29,234
Are there other people
out there in the universe?

1800
02:19:30,278 --> 02:19:33,030
That's a good question.
What do you think, huh?

1801
02:19:33,615 --> 02:19:36,950
- I don't know.
- That's a good answer.

1802
02:19:37,827 --> 02:19:38,869
Skeptic, huh?

1803
02:19:40,163 --> 02:19:45,042
The important thing is that you all
keep searching for your own answers.

1804
02:19:45,210 --> 02:19:48,045
I'll tell you one thing
about the universe, though.

1805
02:19:48,213 --> 02:19:52,091
The universe is a pretty big place.

1806
02:19:53,093 --> 02:19:58,597
It's bigger than anything
anyone has ever dreamed of before.

1807
02:20:00,183 --> 02:20:01,850
So if it's just us...

1808
02:20:03,478 --> 02:20:06,271
...it seems like an awful waste of space.

1809
02:20:07,774 --> 02:20:09,149
Right?