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My daughter's in that farmhouse.
How do I get down there?
Our daughter was conceived
onboard an alien craft.
She is of incredible
importance to them.
Pull back! Pull back!
They made this girl, Allie, because
they weren't complete without us.
That was my grandfather's
legacy-craft, bodies
What was he like,
your grandfather?
You want to know what
scared me so badly?
Yes, damn it,
I want to know what you saw!
Then look at me, Mary.
Look at me!
Their power is what
compels you.
I know the feeling.
You want to be a part
of that power at all costs.
What's the meaning of this?
Do you see it?
There was nothing.
Everything we saw,
went through,
it all came out of our heads.
This little girl
can manifest a thought.
When Allie did what she did,
when she manifested the ship,
she demonstrated a power far beyond
anything the aliens
themselves are capable of.
I thought if I could make them think
that I'd gone, that I'd been taken,
they would stop looking for me.
This girl is the product of
three generations of selective breeding,
of a genetic experiment
on an unparalleled scale.
You want to tell me
what this is?
It gathers information,
it responds to stimuli
- She asked me to read it to her.
- Could you?
They made me feel like
I was with all of them.
LlSA: My uncle and I have a plan.
I put an ad in the personals
of the New York Times.
Then Tom gets a message to me
about where to meet him.
Remember I said we didn't
have a signal on Allie,
that we didn't know
where she was?
- I lied.
- I love you.
Hello, Allie.
Get away from my daughter!
Right now!
Please, don't be frightened.
Lisa, I'm your grandfather.
Your grandmother gave this
to me a long time ago.
Make him stop!
Shoot him!
Somebody shoot him!
Shoot him!
Go away now!
Allie, what are you doing?
Stop it, please! Stop it!
Doctor!
- Please.
We've got to get away
from all these people.
- They're with somebody.
- With somebody?
Another man.
According to these gentlemen,
a man stepped forward.
A guy in his 30s.
His eyes
turned black, and they shot him.
They were waiting
for her to demonstrate.
They see she's got the power, and bam!
They're here.
You're saying the one
who did all this was an alien?
You are paying attention.
She didn't leave
in a spaceship.
She left in
a Dodge Durango.
Still doesn't make you
look very good, does it?
You take a nine-year-old girl
and a special ops unit
into the American heartland,
you lose the girl,
you come up with nothing.
- You're in the deep end.
- You're right in there with me.
I have to go back to Washington
and explain what happened here.
Find me the girl
and whoever she's with.
- How'd you like us to do that?
- The little girl's weak.
This being who came
to help her has been shot.
You'll have
a definite advantage.
- Smooth sailing, I'd say.
- Just do it.
And when we find her?
Then find me.
I'll take it from there.
That's worked
so well up till now.
I'm not goin' down alone
on this one.
Try not to screw things up.
They're about ten hours
ahead of us in Montana.
I had our guy switch
the monitoring to my laptop
in case the general
got it into his head to check.
Good.
Mary, you've been through a lot with
your father and everything with Allie.
I just wanted you to know
I'm here for you.
I know that.
You said you thought they
were waiting for her to demonstrate.
Yeah.
What happens
now that she has?
Pie.
- What?
- Pie.
My rule of any car trip.
Let's find a place to get some.
I'll tell you
my theory of everything.
She's exhausted
from all that she's been doing.
- She'll be all right.
- Will she?
And then what?
They come for her again
or she does something again.
You've gotta do something
to change all this.
I just want
my little girl back.
You started all this, and you
don't have any more of an idea
where it's gonna end
than any of us do.
Charlie?
What's going on?
Get out.
Get out!
LlSA: What are you doing?
Just give me a minute.
I want to talk to you.
LlSA: We need his help.
Allie does.
His help?
He's the one responsible!
I want to know
what the hell this is all about.
Charlie, you're hurting him.
Stop it.
He's already weak.
Sweetheart, it's gonna be all right.
Give me a minute.
Why are you here?
Why have you been doing this?
What the hell do you want?
- We're just trying to understand.
- Understand what?
Everything.
I'll try to put this in terms
that you commonly use.
I'ma scientist.
We were all scientists.
We came here
to learn about your world.
Our idea was
to find out everything-
your history, your biology
everything.
We came here to learn.
We're not that different
from you genetically, biologically,
but what you call evolution
has changed us.
We see things in you that
we no longer recognize in ourselves.
What do we know?
They're this energy that can
manifest itself in different ways-
as the beings we've seen,
as their crafts,
as our thoughts.
There's no right
or wrong about them.
The whole concept
of right and wrong wasalien to us.
The idea that the things
we were doing were cruel
They have no concept
of kindness or cruelty,
no way of seeing beyond
the oneness of all that energy
to the separateness,
the uniqueness, your ability to hate,
to love, to feel.
You have compassion
as well as cruelty.
We lack both.
Or that is,
the traits lie dormant
in their brains, like the
animal that lives far back inside all of us.
But an experience of something basic
can awaken that primitive thing.
And that's what happened.
Your grandmother Sally, she took me in
and showed me a great kindness.
Something could have
touched one of them, something simple,
awakened the sense
of what was missing,
something gone
and half-remembered.
And so our greatest experiment began.
Could they put it back,
this thing that had been bred
out of them for eons and eons?
Your emotional core-
your strength, your feeling-
and our
more- evolved consciousness
could we bring
these two together?
If we could could do this,
we would have the next
step in the evolution of life.
The experiment
was an unqualified success.
What do you think
is gonna happen next?
Allie goes with us.
We work with her.
We help her to understand
our part of the equation.
That's never gonna happen.
You still don't get it.
Thisthing you saw in my grandmother,
this compassion, our humanity-
you still don't have a clue
what that means.
Allie is my daughter.
She is nine years old.
I love her
with all my heart and soul.
You will never
take her away from me.
She can't stay here, Lisa.
She did too much.
If she uses her power again,
that part of her that's us, it will kill her.
You were right.
Those people
will keep coming after her,
and she will do something
to keep you or Charlie safe.
It's the only place for her.
That is what's next.
No, it isn't.
You've inflicted
enough pain on this planet.
It's over.
Let it go.
Go away.
Montana.
Looks like they've stopped.
We should be able
to catch up with them tonight.
Tomorrow morning at the latest.
We've taken it all the way
together, haven't we?
I don't know what you mean.
We're gonna be there
when it comes together.
We're gonna know
we did our part.
Our part?
Keep Allie safe,
so they can finish their work.
You're fine with that, aren't you?
Them finishing their work.
I can't wait.
That's all you want, right?
Front seat at the show?
They're more
highly evolved than we are.
She's more highly evolved
than they are.
It's the way of the Tao.
Nature takes its course.
What if it's our nature to fight back?
Then we lose.
Evolution 101.
Pretty weird couple of days.
Yeah, pretty weird.
You all right?
I just want to be home
listening to my CDs
playing soccer
with my friends.
I know.
I'm just a little kid.
I didn't ask anyone
to make me special.
WOMAN ON RADlO:
My friend Dale.
his son was killed
in the Gulf War.
Allie showed him his boy.
We all saw him clear as day
Your uncle should have seen the ad
we put in the paper by now.
He will.
He'll call.
RADlO HOST:
What else happened.
Cynthia?
CYNTHlA: People were there
from the government.
people who'd come to take her.
I want to hear the rest of this.
but right now we've got a call
I've been hoping for.
I'm gonna ask you to please
stay on hold a few minutes.
As he does from time to time.
noted UFO-logist Tom Clarke
is checking in.
- Talk to me.
Tom.
Hi.
Bill.
Tom Clarke.
What news
from the front.
my friend?
I've got nothing tonight
but a false alarm.
I'm calling from
Gray's Lake in Idaho.
Gray's Lake.
Promising name.
Uncle Tom!
Uncle Tom!
Hey, there, sweetie.
Hey.
- It's good to see you.
- Good to see you, too.
Is this him?
- He's my dad.
- I know.
- Tom.
- Charlie.
Thanks for taking
such good care of our family.
What kind of adventures
you been on lately?
- A lot's been goin' on.
- Oh, yeah?
Tom?
It's good to see you.
I thought we'd go
into Mexico through Texas.
I got a guy down in El Paso.
He's working on the documents.
He's gonna meet us
at my mum's old place in Lubbock.
I was thinking that you guys
should go down to South America.
I've got a family there who can
put you up indefinitely in Buenos Aires.
It's a big change, but I just think
it's something you have to do.
What?
You've got a feeling?
This is all
supposed to be going
somewhere, that's all.
Mexico sounds like a good idea.
What do we do about him?
He doesn't look too good.
I don't think we'll have
to worry about him much longer.
ALLlE: People talk a lot as if
the most important thing in life
is to always see things
for what they really are.
But everything we do.
every plan we make is kind of a lie.
We're closing our eyes and
pretending the day won't ever come
when we won't need
to make any more plans.
Hope is the biggest lie there is.
and it is the best.
You have to keep going
as if it all mattered.
or else we wouldn't
keep going at all.
Want a granola bar?
Are they good?
They're not as healthy
as they say on the wrapper.
They've got a lot
of sugar in them.
You eat food, don't you?
- We eat.
- Try it.
That's good.
I don't want to do this.
I know.
At the gas station, I was gonna
make those men hurt each other.
I could have done that.
- But you didn't.
- I almost did.
I don't want to hurt people.
How do I make this stop?
I mean, if I couldn't do
any of those things,
then people would leave me alone,
wouldn't they?
I don't know that much
about people.
- Is there anything I can do?
- Nothing.
Will the others
come for you?
I'm not important.
Allie, things are gonna
get hard for you for a while.
You'll be afraid,
and you'll be alone.
You're becoming more
than you already are.
I'm not going to go with you.
I belong here with my family.
I brought this for you.
What is it?
It was your great-grandmother's.
She gave it to me before I left.
I can't do this much longer.
I know.
- How you feelin'?
- Okay.
You always wanted to go
on a long car trip, didn't you?
Allie
John
he's helped us out, and he's hurt,
but that doesn't mean
you have to do
anything he asks.
I already told him
I wasn't going to go with him.
What did he say?
He gave me this.
Let me have that.
My dad, he used to say that kids
shouldn't ever have to think
about anything more
complicated than baseball.
You're gonna be
a little girl againI promise.
Hey, back together again.
See how this looks, gorgeous.
I'm never gonna
let you go, honey.
Never.
Oh, that's lovely.
I've got a gun
to your mother's back.
I'm betting I can get a shot
into her before you turn the gas station
into a flying saucer
or a house of pies.
Allie, don't try to do anything.
Do you understand?
Be a good girl.
Listen to your mum.
Allie, when we were
in that farmhouse,
you saw something
that scared you.
I think you know what
they want you to do,
and I don't think
you want to do it.
I can take care of you.
I can keep you safe
from yourfriends.
We can work together on this.
I don't want to hurt anybody.
I really don't.
You're out of options.
You must have realized that by now.
I have the resources
and technology to help you.
It's me or them.
I just want to help.
You're lying.
You can't help anyone.
Let's go.
Get in the carnow!
Get in! Move!
Move!
CHARLlE: Lisa! Allie!
Hey! Hey!
Hold on!
- Allie, don't do anything.
It's not safe!
- I didn't do anything!
Come on!
- Stop it!
- You were gonna shoot her!
You're damn right.
She's staying here with us!
That was too close.
How did they find us?
CHARLlE: Sweetheart, I want
to ask you something.
Those people from the government-
when you went with them,
you said they put something
over your head.
Right.
I heard them say
it was to block a signal.
If those people know enough
to block that signal,
then they know how
to read it, to track it.
You have one, too, Lisa.
That's how they found you in Seattle.
There's not much point
in going to Buenos Aires, is there?
No matter where we go,
they'd find us.
There's gotta be
something we can do.
You can
shut her off, can't you?
You can do something so they won't
be able to track her signal or mine.
If you can do it, then do it.
You owe us that much.
I can't do it.
I don't have the strength.
But Allie can.
Find it inside you, Allie.
Can you?
LlSA: Allie, don't do anything.
You're weak.
ALLlE: I have to.
Allie, please, no.
What are you doing?
The music helps me concentrate.
We're not picking up their signals.
I know.
You know?
Shut off.
Gone.
No more signals.
- You didn't bother to tell me?
- I was gettin' to it.
- Do you think Allie did it?
- Probably.
- You seem pleased about it.
- Check this out.
The sightings
are starting again.
Lights in the sky.
Idaho and Nebraska.
We better be ready.
You can't do anything, Mary.
Don't you get it?
You want to talk about what
happened at the parking lot?
- You were gonna shoot her.
- I was going to stop her.
That's not up to you.
You're not gonna
let it go, are you?
I can't.
Do you know
the story of the Medusa?
You look at her
and you turn to stone.
Unless you know the secret
which you have to be
an enlightened warrior to learn.
This is going somewhere, right?
If you know the secret
you can kill her.
And then the winged horse,
Pegasus,
flies from her head
and the world
becomes a very
very beautiful place.
I used to think we could
get something out of this.
A new sciencesomething.
I even thought we could get
the better of them somehow.
But we're not ready to be
anything but spectators in this.
Anything more
stone.
I'm not giving up, Chet.
I'm gonna find her, and I'm gonna
be more than just a witness to this.
MAN ON RADlO:
If it's really all about the little girl Allie
Iike all your callers are saying.
then maybe this isn't some
evil conspiracy after all.
Mr Jeffries.
Maybe this is all about
coming together and moving on.
JEFFRlES: Thank you.
Bruce from Nebraska.
End on a good note.
I always say.
Are these the last days?
Is it all coming to a head?
The lights are in the sky.
and a little
girl is out there somewhere on the road.
She's in our thoughts.
and she has our prayers.
This is William Jeffries saying.
"Keep watching the skies
and hope for an answer
that doesn't hurt.
"
LlSA: I should've stopped her.
I never should've let her shut us off.
All right, all right.
Take a breath.
Take a breath.
Let her come out of it a little
before she travels again.
Nobody's gonna find you here.
- What about John?
- Let him rest.
Give Allie a couple of days
until she's stronger.
My friend will be here by then
with the papers, and we can move on.
What are you doing?
I can't stay with you anymore.
If I'm here,
sooner or later you'll be found.
Now that you've
turned your signals off
once I'm gone
none of us will know
where you are.
You mean no one
will be able to find me?
I can't promise you that.
Then at least
you'll get the chance
to be the little girl
you said you wanted to be.
But if things get too difficult
if you feel that you can't stay here
any longer, you can find us again.
You'll know.
Find the part of you that is us.
We'll hear you,
and we'll come for you.
But unless you call us
we won't be able to find you.
I'm the one
that's gonna know?
When the time comes
it'll be your choice.
What I've learned
from doing this
what's changed in me
I would never,
never do any of this again.
This is all my fault.
It wasn't mine to meddle.
You wouldn't have been able
to do it if you weren't supposed to.
I'm very glad
I got to see you.
Good-bye, Allie.
Can I walk with you a minute?
Just to the edge
of the woods.
This is as far
as you should go.
Good-bye, Allie.
ALLlE: How do you let someone go?
How do you understand that
that's all right.
that everything changes?
How do you find a way for
that to make you feel good about life
instead of breaking your heart?
The hardest thing you'll ever learn
is how to say good- bye.
LlSA: Allie?
Allie?
AllieAllie.
Charlie?
Charlie!
What did he do to her?
He did something and just left!
No, I don't think so.
I think she
was about to give out anyway.
I think he left
to protect her!
I had this feeling about John,
something he was feeling.
When John showed Allie
how to block our signals,
I think he made it so the aliens
couldn't find us, either.
But as long as he stayed with us,
sooner or later they were gonna find us.
He was part of them
I don't know.
But I think
when he went back,
he was giving Allie,
giving us all a chance.
So we should take it.
Maybe they don't know
where she is, either.
- That's a thought, isn't it?
- You can't be serious.
What if they're
lookin' for her, too?
Her signal disappeared
and then her mother's.
And then the lights appeared.
How's that possible?
She's with one of them.
Good question.
So what do you think?
The man driving the camper
was Tom Clarke, Lisa's uncle.
Yeah, I thought
I recognized him.
He's gettin' a little long
in the tooth.
I had the office upload
my grandfather's files,
everything we have
on Tom Clarke.
My-my grandfather went
to Texas once.
Yeah, and got the bejesus scared
out of him by Jacob Clarke, right?
Tom still owns
his mother's farmhouse,
the one my grandfather
went to to get Jacob.
- You think that's where they've gone?
- I'm all for takin' a look.
What if they're there, Mary?
Then what?
Austin, Texas.
Tom Clarke.
This is Tom Clarke.
I'm not home right now.
but ifyou'd like to leave a message.
just leave it at the tone.
Tom Clarke,
this is Chet Wakeman.
I'm calling you with a warning.
I want to help you.
You know,
I never would have thought,
found him in the shed
it was all leading
towards something like this.
They took you, right?
They did.
And you stood up
to them, didn't you?
I tried.
You stood by Allie and Lisa.
This goes way back for you.
Grandpa?
My dad, too.
They didn't do us any favours.
- Well
- Sorry.
Nothing's ever simple, is it?
I'm gonna go inside
and see how Allie's doin'.
What happened?
I called you
as soon as I heard.
I've explained a bit of the situation
to the local authorities.
They've agreed
to yield jurisdiction.
How'd it go in Washington?
In my years
as a commanding officer,
I find I get the best results
from my people
when I don't refer to them
as incompetent idiots.
People perform best when
they're not riddled with self-doubt.
The joint chiefs seem to favour
a more direct approach.
We got 48 hours to find the girl.
I want to thank you
for steppin' up, Captain.
Colonel Breck
wasn't up to the challenge,
something this-this unusual.
Thank you, sir.
With all due respect
to the colonel, sir, what did he expect?
It's one thing
to expect something, Captain,
quite another to have it
bite you in the ***.
That is one
cold and nasty ***.
Clearly, she knows
where the little girl is.
I imagine she and the doctor both knew,
but there was a difference of opinion
on what to do about it.
That is one cold
and nasty ***.
That's exactly right, General.
I made a call to my guy.
He'll be here as soon
as the papers are ready.
Probably be tomorrow.
Then we'll get you out of here,
get you out of the country clean.
What is it?
There was this
there was this message
on my machine at home
from Chet Wakeman,
one of the hotshots on the project,
the guy who came
after you in Seattle.
Right.
Right.
He said
he wanted to help us.
Then he got cut off.
Probably just some sort of bluff,
get us to move too quickly.
Yeah, probably.
Can you get your guy
to hurry with the papers?
I already made that call.
- This way, Miss Crawford.
- Are these really necessary?
For the authorities to feel comfortable
handing you over, yeah, they are.
Sit down.
It disgusts me
to have to deal with you.
I want that on the table.
I understand that.
When we're through all this,
I'm gonna see to it
that you're held accountable
for what you've done.
So let's get to it, then.
You knew where the little girl was,
and you chose not to tell me.
You wanted
to keep her for yourself.
I thought I'd use her
to re-establish my power base.
What changed your mind?
Dr Wakeman.
You've been monitoring the reports
from the Northwest, the lights?
Yeah.
So far,
that's all they've been,
just some sightings of lights.
He thought that this was it,
they're coming for Allie.
Why don't they
just take her, then?
Because, at the moment,
they don't know where she is.
She's with one of them,
the one from the gas station.
Maybe he's the one
who turned her signal off.
Maybe he's protecting her.
Why would he be doin' that?
Remorse?
I came after Allie
in a gas station.
She escaped with the help of that alien.
Allie didn't do a thing.
It sounds like
she didn't have to.
No.
No.
She's down, General.
She's spent.
Suppose I'm right.
Suppose they don't know where she is.
Then, for the moment,
they can't protect her.
For the moment.
So you want to get to her
before they do.
I want to finish
what we started.
After everything you've done.
You know what
the stakes are, General.
He was going to warn her.
Warn her?
You're gonna
have to work with me.
You want to take these off?
Tom Clarke's mother's house,
Lubbock, Texas.
This is what
we didn't want you to know.
You've taken this away from me before,
and it blew up in your face.
When this is over,
you can have me arrested,
do whatever you think
you need to do,
but for the moment, you need
someone who understands
what it is
you might be up against.
You need me.
I want this quick and quiet.
Get our people out of Fort Ash
and down to Texas.
ALLlE: They will be coming soon.
coming to try to stop
what was going to happen next.
But maybe
they could be stopped.
Maybe something could happen
that would make it hard
for them to do
what they wanted to do.
- How is she?
- The same.
- You think they're coming?
- It's just a matter of time.
Well, there's no point in running
unless we have a place to run to.
Something like this, the government
can only do because nobody's watching.
- That's what you always said.
- Yeah.
I have an idea.
How far do you have to go
to make a phone call?
Who are you
going to call, Charlie?
I'm not going to call anybody.
You are.
JEFFRlES:
I've never been inside a UFO,
never met
one of these creatures,
and yet I believe with
all my heart that this is real.
Why?
Because I do not believe
that hundreds of thousands
of people could tell the same lie.
If this next caller's who I think it is,
folks, we're in for a real treat.
"Tom Clarke back again,"
it says here on my screen.
To what do we owe the pleasure?
Did you find something in ldaho?
Talk to me,
and I'll talk to you.
It's about that little girl
the army's been looking for.
We been gettin'
lots of calls about her.
The people who have been calling
are telling the truth.
I know this little girl.
I was hoping your listeners
could help us out.
I believe we have a lot to talk about,
Tom, but I have to pay my bills first,
so if you'd just hang on
you still there, Tom?
I'm here.
Listen, Tom,
we're off the air now.
This little girl
I've been getting these
really extreme calls out of Seattle.
What can you
tell me about her?
For startersshe's my niece.
It's done.
JEFFRlES: I've got
information about this girl
you've heard about on the news,
on this program,
and, as usual, you're
not gettin' the whole story.
This little girl, she's a piece
of the sky, my friends.
Have you been taken?
Well, so has she.
Have you had experiences
beyond human comprehension?
Same's true of Allie.
This little girl.
my friends.
she may
hold the key to an understanding
of all that you've gone through.
The government believes it.
That's why Allie's not safe
because they're not going to rest
till they have her in their hands
where they can look at her.
try to figure out
what this is all about.
That's why she needs your help.
They can do
what they do because
they can do it in secret.
They don't have to stand
in the light of day.
If you're on the road tonight,
turn your car toward the state of Texas.
If you're in bed,
get up and get dressed
because they're not gonna be able
to touch her if there are witnesses.
The government must be
on the road already.
but we have to get out there first
to save this little girl.
So many of you call me,
e-mail me, write to me,
and you're starving
for an answer.
You want to know why you were taken,
what this has all been about.
We're gonna save
one child.
my friends.
and.
in doing so.
we may just learn that answer.
Tom, Lisa,
you should come see this.
Their target is a little girl.
Her name is Allie.
She's the focus of our government
and of a race of aliens
that have been visiting this planet
since the late 1940s.
This is the girl in question.
While the government
has offered a reward
for information
that may help them to find her.
army officials deny any connection
between their search for the girl
and reports of troop movements
from Fort Ash.
Mr Jeffries.
do you believe
that this troop movement
is related to the government search
for the girl?
We have come here to Texas
to see this little girl
and to understand what's
been going on for all these years.
Super-secret missions,
government conspiracies
involving UFOs and aliens?
It may all be a bit hard to swallow,
but Jeffries is not alone in his belief.
Tom?
Tom Clarke?
Thanks for comin', Bill.
This is really something.
I guess people really do listen
to the radio at 4.
00 in the morning.
How's your niece?
One of these people
happened to be a doctor.
She's in there
with her right now.
Good.
This might be a little
beyond my medical capabilities.
Can she travel?
Look, I'm a multiple abductee myself.
I've been taken repeatedly
since I was seven,
but II still don't even really know
what we're dealing with here.
This might be something better suited
to their medicine than to ours.
No! No way in hell is she
going anywhere near them.
We'll-we'll find a way
to help her here.
Okayokay.
I'll leave you folks alone
with your little girl.
You try to be strong
for your kid, you know?
"I'm your mum.
I can take care of everything.
I can keep you safe.
"
But really, you know,
there's nothing you can do.
You can't keep them safe
from anything at all.
Heyyou've done a lot.
We're gonna be all right.
Tom's got it all set up for us.
His friend brings out the papers,
and we disappear into the sunset.
I spent my childhood disappearing.
I'm pretty good at it.
- Nina.
- Hi.
Oh, my God!
I can't believe
you're really here.
Denny heard about it
on the radio.
God, is she all right?
No, she's not
all right at all, Nina.
It was a series of miracles,
that's what it was.
The things that happened,
what they did to us,
it was just
a series of miracles,
and the things that she can do-
there's a kindness to her power,
an intention to do good.
I was really angry.
I still am, I guess.
But what we saw,
and what she did-
I'm with these people.
After what I did to them,
I'm here with them.
They were able to forgive me.
That's because of her.
This is as close as we can get without
getting the attention of the crowd.
We'll treat this
like a riot situation,
have the guards go in first,
get the crowd out of there.
Still, you gotta
admire the move.
We're tryin' to fly under the radar,
and they put up a wall of people
between us and the little girl.
She must really mean
a lot to those folks.
Goin' through these lengths.
We'll move in tonight.
Video message waiting
Hey.
there.
***.
I programmed this file to send
if I didn't delete it in 24 hours.
I guess I didn't delete it.
which I guess means
you deleted me.
I kinda saw that one comin'.
You must be headed in
for the final wing ding about now.
God.
I wish I could be there.
There's something
I wanted to share with you.
We're all so desperate
for meaning.
aren't we?
All of us.
You.
too.
Mary
even if you think you're not.
You want answers.
and in that way.
I think the aliens
are gonna disappoint you.
Here's the stone truth of it.
They're still asking
the same questions we are.
No one is God here.
We're all in the same boat.
That was our life together.
wasn't it?
We asked questions.
I used to love the way you
I used to love the way you'd
get that faraway look in your eye
whenever you were
workin' something out.
We could have been happy.
Mary.
I really believe that
If only you'd just let it go.
That's another question
for them.
isn't it?
What is it
that makes us so screwed up?
Why do we do
the things we do?
Well.
maybe
they can create something better
than the sum of its parts.
Allie belongs with them.
We're not ready
for the knowledge they have.
It would destroy us.
Look at me.
Guess in the end.
I turned out
to be something of a humanist.
You're shakin' your head.
right?
See?
You do love me.
What brought you here?
As soon as I heard what was
happening with the little girl,
I-I knew I had to be here.
- How long do you think you'll stay?
- As long as it takes.
- And you?
- We all feel it.
I don't know if any of us
could tell you exactly why,
but we all knew
we had to be here.
It's kind of hard to explain
if you haven't been taken,
butwe all knew
we had to be here.
The girl, Allie,
is inside this house.
Some say she's resting,
others say she's dying.
The question we haven't
been able to answer yet
is what does she mean
to this group of abductees,
people who believe
they've been taken?
I really appreciate
you doing this for me.
No problem.
Good luck, Tom.
This is all of it-
passports, visas.
We have a car waiting
for you in the woods.
An old back road leads
all the way to Highway 177.
Dale and I took it this morning.
It leads all the way
past the army.
We came out on the other side.
They weren't any the wiser.
You ready?
We went to the sporting goods store
and cleared out the hunting section.
If anyone tries
to hurt our little girl,
they're gonna have
to come through us first.
I don't want you to do that.
Allie?
Tom, could I talk to her?
Just for a moment.
No.
Please go back
to your cars!
Bill, please help me
get these people
Folks, please
Uhuh
she's not ready
to talk to us yet.
She's just not ready.
- You all right?
- I'm fine.
Listen, we're gonna
get out of here.
We're going someplace where
none of this matters, okay?
Everything's ready.
We gotta go.
No, not now.
I want to talk to them.
Hi.
I know you're all scared, and you
don't have to be scared anymore.
Honey
honey
you don't have to do this.
All you have to be
is my little girl.
The rest of it,
it doesn't have to happen.
You don't have to do anything.
They're scared.
They need something.
You don't have to be
the one to give it to them.
I think maybe I do.
You have something
in your heads.
It lets them know
where you are.
I can shut them off.
When they shut off,
they'll fall out.
Don't be scared.
ALLlE: They won't come
for you anymore.
They won't be able to find you.
No one's going to take you.
It doesn't seem right to, uh,
interfere with us the way they did.
Maybe not to us,
but if we saw this
from someplace else,
it was just time
for this to happen.
For what to happen?
Me.
Listen to me!
All of you!
All of you, listen to me!
They're not gonna do anything!
There's too many of us here!
Do you want to help?
Stay in front of the porch!
Go to the mayor now.
Get me the wireless unit.
Attention!
This area is under federal control!
Please make yourselves available
for immediate relocation
to a debriefing area.
Your vehicles
and personal belongings
You don't listen to that!
It's a lie!
You stay right here!
Stay right
in front of the porch!
Right here!
Stay in front of Allie.
Stay right here.
Stay in front of Allie.
We're stronger together!
Stay in front of the porch.
Just so you know, a lot of us
are armed and willing to give our lives
to protect Allie
or take some if we have to.
Get out of here now.
Put your plan into action.
We'll do what has to be done.
CHARLlE: Thanks.
They're here in force,
come out of the night
to put the monster
back in the box.
We better get back inside.
No
Allie
Are they gonna come
for you now?
John left that up to me.
Do you think
if we'd been regular people,
Charlie would have lived with us,
and we could have been a family?
I know
that would have happened.
I don't want to go.
I want to stay here with you.
Then stay!
We've got a plan.
We can get out of here right now!
It'll be okay.
Give the command.
Troopsadvance!
Here they come.
After a little girl,
ladies and gentlemen!
Please disperse immediately!
Ifyou do not disperse.
you will be in violation
of Federal Ordinance 860
endangering of public welfare
Oh, Allie.
Allie, please, please don't.
Please.
You heard Dale.
If I stay here,
people will kill each other.
I don't want that
to happen because of me.
Then we'll go away.
We have a plan.
Where could we go?
This would all just happen again.
Allie, Allie, listen to me.
I am not gonna let that happen.
We're gonna get Charlie,
and we're gonna get out of here.
We'll figure out a way.
There's nothing we can do.
We're a family now.
We can try.
We were always a family.
General.
I didn't ask for this!
I want to be a little girl!
I just want to be a little girl!
They're really coming this time
aren't they?
Charlie
I'm glad
you turned out to be my dad.
I love you.
I love you, too, Daddy.
I have to go.
No.
No, I can't.
I can't, I can't.
I won't let you.
I won't let you go.
Youyou said
this was all meant to be.
And I meant all of it.
- This part, too.
- I can't stand this.
I have to go.
And I said
I wouldn't ever let you go.
I love you, honey
every day
and twice on Sundays.
I love you, too, Mama.
Is she makin' this all up?
Is this just another screen?
This is no screen, General.
This is real.
Can you stop them?
Can you stop them?!
Please!
You gotta do something.
This is my family.
That's my daughter!
We can't.
Allie belongs with them
her and the knowledge
of how they did all this.
I'm sorry.
- That, too.
- No.
This is a record of everything.
Even if we lose the little girl,
at least we'll still have this.
Sooner or later,
we'll know what they know.
Exactly.
You're the one who was gonna
see this through to the end.
I did.
Sir!
Let her see the rest of this.
She deserves that much.
ALLlE: I don't know
what will happen next.
I don't know what I'm going to be.
what I'm going to learn.
but what I do know is this-
Iife.
all life.
is about asking questions.
not about knowing answers.
It is wanting to see what's over
the next hill that keeps us all going.
We have to keep asking questions.
wanting to understand.
Even when we know
we'll never find the answers.
we have to keep on
asking the questions.
Excuse me.
Did you know the little girl
or her family personally?
No, I didn't.
I just came
to see what the deal was.
Sir, shall we pick up
the mother and father?
The mother and father?
You're talkin' about
the little girl's parents?
Yes, sir, her parents.
They must have slipped away
in all the excitement.
I don't see them anywhere.
Neither do I, sir.
Shall I tell the JTF guys
to head back to Fort Bliss?
I don't see why not, Captain.
There's nothin' for us here.
Thought you might want this.
She did all right, Lis.
She took the other one with her.
She took the other star.
She's gonna be back, Charlie.
She really is.
She's gonna be back.
ALLlE: My mother always talked
to me a lot about the sky.
She liked to watch the clouds
in the day and the stars at night.
Especially the stars.
We would play
a game sometimes.
a game called
"What's beyond the sky?"
We would imagine darkness
or a blinding light
or something else
that we didn't know how to name.
But.
of course.
that was just a game.
There's nothing beyond the sky.
The sky just is.
and it goes on and on.
and we play
all of our games beneath it.
# Just before it gets dark #
# When the light
still hangs in the sky #
# The day's not quite come #
# All its promises
still in your own eyes #
# Between the time
your mother calls #
# And the time
you put the ball away #
# There's a lifetime
to be lived #
# And a world where
every dream is here to stay #
# Just before the night comes #
# And you run back
to the safety of your world #
# Just before it gets dark #
# You can believe in
every story ever told #
# In those last
precious moments #
# There's a beauty
no one wants to give away #
# Well, nothin' lasts forever #
# But those moments
keep forever far away #
# Just before it gets dark #
# Before you grow old #
# Before you're
too old to pretend #
# Just before it gets dark #
# And you know your dreams
will not come back again #
# Hold on #
# Hold on tight #
# And I promise you, baby #
# It'll all be all right #
# I promise you, baby #
# It'll all be all right #