1
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<i>Clearly, I've never been there, but...</i>

2
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<i>...usually the situation,
obviously a major malfunction.</i>

3
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<i>Whether or not their president is a crook.</i>

4
00:01:17,302 --> 00:01:18,594
<i>Well, I'm not a crook.</i>

5
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<i>Small step for man, one giant leap for...</i>

6
00:01:22,764 --> 00:01:26,934
<i>Robert Kennedy was shot
in that ballroom.</i>

7
00:01:28,437 --> 00:01:31,105
<i>Thank God almighty, we are free at last.</i>

8
00:01:31,273 --> 00:01:33,900
<i>A sniper has fired at President Kennedy.</i>

9
00:01:41,283 --> 00:01:42,617
<i>The Communist party...</i>

10
00:01:42,784 --> 00:01:45,036
<i>...or have you ever been
a member of the Communist party?</i>

11
00:01:45,204 --> 00:01:49,457
<i>Old soldiers never die. They just...</i>

12
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<i>Hi-yo, Silver!</i>

13
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<i>Something never before experienced...</i>

14
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<i>1941, a date which will live...</i>

15
00:02:05,641 --> 00:02:10,019
<i>And we continue this final edition
of our Maxwell House Good News of 1939.</i>

16
00:02:10,187 --> 00:02:12,313
<i>Good evening,
Mr. And Mrs. North America...</i>

17
00:02:12,481 --> 00:02:14,857
<i>...and all the ships at sea.
Let's go to press.</i>

18
00:03:32,393 --> 00:03:36,563
CQ, this is W-9 GFO.

19
00:03:38,065 --> 00:03:42,527
CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?

20
00:03:44,113 --> 00:03:45,530
CQ.

21
00:03:45,698 --> 00:03:50,201
CQ, this is W-9 GFO here.

22
00:03:50,369 --> 00:03:52,037
Come back?

23
00:03:55,541 --> 00:04:00,545
CQ, CQ, this is W-9 GFO.
Is anybody out there?

24
00:04:00,713 --> 00:04:02,005
Not getting anything.

25
00:04:02,173 --> 00:04:03,757
Small moves, Ellie.

26
00:04:05,217 --> 00:04:06,593
Small moves.

27
00:04:09,095 --> 00:04:13,599
CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?

28
00:04:13,767 --> 00:04:17,770
Copy, W-9 GFO. K-4 WLD here.

29
00:04:17,937 --> 00:04:21,190
- What do I say?
- Just be yourself.

30
00:04:21,649 --> 00:04:25,861
- Where are you, K-4 WLD? Come back?
- Pensacola. Over.

31
00:04:26,029 --> 00:04:27,613
Pensacola, where's Pensacola?

32
00:04:27,781 --> 00:04:29,782
I'll give you a hint.

33
00:04:29,949 --> 00:04:31,241
Orange juice.

34
00:04:33,953 --> 00:04:37,790
Copy that, K-4 WLD.
How's the weather down there in Florida?

35
00:04:39,084 --> 00:04:41,335
Pensacola, Florida.

36
00:04:41,503 --> 00:04:44,171
I have to tell you, Sparks...

37
00:04:44,339 --> 00:04:47,841
...one thousand, one hundred
and sixteen miles.

38
00:04:48,009 --> 00:04:51,470
Pretty good. That's the farthest yet.

39
00:05:03,858 --> 00:05:07,152
- Can we hear all the way to New York?
- Sure.

40
00:05:08,530 --> 00:05:12,491
- Can we hear all the way to California?
- I don't see why not.

41
00:05:13,243 --> 00:05:16,954
- Can we hear all the way to Alaska?
- Yeah, on a really clear day.

42
00:05:17,163 --> 00:05:19,665
Can we hear all the way to China?

43
00:05:20,208 --> 00:05:22,251
On a really, really clear day.

44
00:05:24,546 --> 00:05:27,172
Could we talk to the moon?

45
00:05:27,340 --> 00:05:30,175
Well, if it's a big enough radio,
I don't see why not.

46
00:05:30,843 --> 00:05:32,844
Could we talk to Jupiter?

47
00:05:33,053 --> 00:05:35,847
Or what's the one after that?

48
00:05:36,014 --> 00:05:37,849
Don't tell me.

49
00:05:39,685 --> 00:05:41,352
I'll give you a hint.

50
00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:42,687
Hula-Hoops.

51
00:05:42,896 --> 00:05:46,190
- Saturn. Could we talk to Saturn?
- Mm-hm.

52
00:05:50,779 --> 00:05:53,781
Dad, could we talk to Mom?

53
00:05:58,871 --> 00:06:01,956
I don't think even the biggest radio
could reach that far.

54
00:06:07,087 --> 00:06:09,380
All right, no more stalling.

55
00:06:10,924 --> 00:06:12,383
Okay.

56
00:06:13,969 --> 00:06:15,344
Pensacola.

57
00:06:22,144 --> 00:06:24,479
Oh, Ellie, that's a beauty.

58
00:06:25,981 --> 00:06:27,732
Now get some sleep.

59
00:06:35,741 --> 00:06:37,783
- Hey, Dad?
- Yeah?

60
00:06:37,951 --> 00:06:40,745
Do you think there's people
on other planets?

61
00:06:40,913 --> 00:06:42,580
I don't know, Sparks.

62
00:06:44,082 --> 00:06:46,083
But I guess I'd say...

63
00:06:46,251 --> 00:06:48,419
...if it is just us...

64
00:06:49,588 --> 00:06:51,923
...it seems like an awful waste of space.

65
00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:11,274
CQ, CQ.

66
00:07:11,442 --> 00:07:13,777
CQ, this is W-9 GFO.

67
00:07:13,986 --> 00:07:17,113
Repeat. This is W-9 GFO. Come back?

68
00:07:18,658 --> 00:07:22,035
CQ, this is W-9 GFO. Come back?

69
00:07:24,664 --> 00:07:27,123
I'm gonna need a bigger antenna.

70
00:07:53,693 --> 00:07:55,443
What do you think, Doctor Arroway?

71
00:07:55,611 --> 00:07:57,612
Isn't she a beauty?

72
00:08:01,158 --> 00:08:02,284
It'll do.

73
00:08:02,493 --> 00:08:04,452
The village is five miles away.

74
00:08:04,662 --> 00:08:09,249
There's a general store in the cantina.
They can order anything from San Juan.

75
00:08:09,417 --> 00:08:11,001
And when can I get some dish time?

76
00:08:11,168 --> 00:08:14,546
Dr. Clark said you wouldn't
be able to wait. Your first shift is tonight.

77
00:08:14,714 --> 00:08:15,839
All right.

78
00:09:10,977 --> 00:09:12,478
Go back.

79
00:09:13,897 --> 00:09:16,982
Try back a little bit.
You had something there.

80
00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:19,443
There.

81
00:09:19,611 --> 00:09:22,696
- Right there?
- You hear it? Right there, that's it.

82
00:09:22,864 --> 00:09:26,742
All right, 1221.46.
That's well within the L band.

83
00:09:26,910 --> 00:09:29,995
- Check off-axis.
- Uh-huh. On it.

84
00:09:31,081 --> 00:09:33,749
It's not in the neighborhood.

85
00:09:39,381 --> 00:09:41,048
Ah.

86
00:09:42,216 --> 00:09:46,094
Here it is. J-1741 plus 2748.

87
00:09:46,261 --> 00:09:49,931
Catalogued November 4, 1982. Pulsar.

88
00:09:50,766 --> 00:09:55,269
Well, I don't know, it must've been...
The glitch in the timing is what threw me.

89
00:09:55,437 --> 00:09:57,146
Must've been a starquake.

90
00:09:58,524 --> 00:10:02,360
I think it's great that you listen.
Most people don't do that anymore.

91
00:10:02,528 --> 00:10:05,405
It's just an old habit.
You know, it makes it feel more real.

92
00:10:05,572 --> 00:10:08,449
- Ellie.
- Kent. Kent Clark.

93
00:10:09,493 --> 00:10:10,618
Hey.

94
00:10:10,786 --> 00:10:15,081
They said you've been up at Owens Valley
working under Drumlin.

95
00:10:15,249 --> 00:10:16,833
How did you like him?

96
00:10:19,795 --> 00:10:24,132
That much? And about what I'd expect
after what he had to say about you.

97
00:10:24,299 --> 00:10:26,300
What was that?

98
00:10:26,468 --> 00:10:29,595
That you are brilliant, driven...

99
00:10:29,763 --> 00:10:32,765
...a major pain in the ass,
and obsessed with a field of study...

100
00:10:32,933 --> 00:10:36,102
...that he considers tantamount
to professional suicide.

101
00:10:37,020 --> 00:10:40,148
- Anything else?
- Those were the highlights.

102
00:10:40,315 --> 00:10:42,608
Davio, Dr. Vernon. Dr. Arroway.

103
00:10:42,776 --> 00:10:44,235
- Hey. Hi there.
- How you doing?

104
00:10:44,403 --> 00:10:48,990
And I believe you've already met our
tireless research assistant, Mr. Fisher...

105
00:10:49,158 --> 00:10:51,951
- Here, I need you to sign...
- ...as well as his cologne.

106
00:10:52,119 --> 00:10:54,704
Brook's looking at the black hole
at the center of M-87.

107
00:10:54,872 --> 00:10:58,624
Eli's studying Markarian 541,
a major gamma-ray source.

108
00:10:58,792 --> 00:11:03,838
And Dr. Arroway will be spending her
precious telescope time listening for, um...

109
00:11:04,214 --> 00:11:06,214
Listening for, um...

110
00:11:06,382 --> 00:11:07,875
Little green men.

111
00:11:15,933 --> 00:11:19,519
One down, a couple billion to go.

112
00:11:36,204 --> 00:11:38,163
Arecibo, right?

113
00:11:39,332 --> 00:11:40,499
Does it show?

114
00:11:41,125 --> 00:11:42,375
Yeah.

115
00:11:42,543 --> 00:11:44,836
- Cracker Jack?
- No, thanks.

116
00:11:45,004 --> 00:11:46,546
- Mind if I sit down?
- Sure.

117
00:11:48,216 --> 00:11:52,219
I hear the locals, they call it El Radar.

118
00:11:52,386 --> 00:11:55,222
Convinced it has
some dark military purpose.

119
00:11:55,389 --> 00:11:56,807
I think we're pretty harmless.

120
00:11:58,267 --> 00:11:59,392
Palmer Joss.

121
00:12:00,228 --> 00:12:02,687
- Ellie Arroway.
- Nice to meet you, Ellie.

122
00:12:03,898 --> 00:12:06,858
What are you studying up there?

123
00:12:08,528 --> 00:12:09,903
The usual.

124
00:12:10,071 --> 00:12:13,114
You know. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars,
stuff like that.

125
00:12:13,282 --> 00:12:15,867
What are you...?
What are you writing?

126
00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:20,413
The usual. Nouns, adverbs,
adjective here and there.

127
00:12:21,749 --> 00:12:23,250
I work on a project called SETI.

128
00:12:24,043 --> 00:12:26,086
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

129
00:12:26,754 --> 00:12:30,339
Wow. Man, that is out there.

130
00:12:31,132 --> 00:12:32,967
Wait, are you a student or something?

131
00:12:33,134 --> 00:12:36,428
Mm-mm. I'm a writer.
I'm writing a book.

132
00:12:36,596 --> 00:12:41,267
Down here doing research about how
technology affects Third World cultures.

133
00:12:41,434 --> 00:12:44,270
I'm also looking for this guy
David Drumlin.

134
00:12:44,437 --> 00:12:48,899
He's the new head of the National Science
Foundation. I'm trying to get an interview.

135
00:12:49,776 --> 00:12:52,778
- I take it you know him?
- Mm-hm.

136
00:12:52,946 --> 00:12:54,905
You could say that.

137
00:12:55,740 --> 00:12:59,410
SETI, man.
That's fringe.

138
00:12:59,578 --> 00:13:01,120
I've crossed paths with this guy.

139
00:13:01,288 --> 00:13:03,956
Something like that
must really chap his ass, huh?

140
00:13:06,918 --> 00:13:08,294
Compass.

141
00:13:09,963 --> 00:13:11,547
For you, EI.

142
00:13:16,136 --> 00:13:17,928
You better keep this.

143
00:13:18,805 --> 00:13:20,931
Might save your life someday.

144
00:13:25,103 --> 00:13:26,896
Will you have dinner with me tonight?

145
00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,673
I...

146
00:13:29,941 --> 00:13:33,569
I don't make a very good research subject.
I'm just not very quotable.

147
00:13:33,737 --> 00:13:37,489
No quotes. No quotes. Scout's honor.
Just a good meal, good company.

148
00:13:38,325 --> 00:13:40,159
I gotta go.

149
00:13:43,371 --> 00:13:45,497
But, uh...
But...

150
00:13:48,793 --> 00:13:50,828
Drumlin's coming in this Tuesday.

151
00:13:59,511 --> 00:14:03,389
Now I remember why I took that desk job.

152
00:14:04,391 --> 00:14:06,935
- Dr. Drumlin, how are you?
- Dr. Drumlin.

153
00:14:07,895 --> 00:14:09,979
Glad you could make it, David.

154
00:14:10,439 --> 00:14:13,691
If I'd known it was gonna take
three planes, I might've reconsidered.

155
00:14:13,859 --> 00:14:15,234
How is that new office?

156
00:14:15,402 --> 00:14:19,989
I'm still settling in. They already wanna take
half my budget and give it to the Pentagon.

157
00:14:20,157 --> 00:14:23,034
Ellie. Still waiting for E.T. To call?

158
00:14:23,202 --> 00:14:27,205
- Well, I understand we're having a little...
- Good to see you too.

159
00:14:27,373 --> 00:14:28,373
Asshole.

160
00:14:28,540 --> 00:14:30,875
Uh-oh. Looks like
it's gonna be a long night.

161
00:14:31,043 --> 00:14:35,505
Science must first be accountable to the
people who are paying for it, the taxpayers.

162
00:14:35,673 --> 00:14:39,050
We need to stop wasting money
on pie-in-the-sky abstractions...

163
00:14:39,218 --> 00:14:42,178
...and start spending it on practical,
measurable ways...

164
00:14:42,346 --> 00:14:45,223
...to improve the lives of the people
who are footing the bill.

165
00:14:45,391 --> 00:14:48,518
Not unlike my L-band,
globular-clusters work.

166
00:14:48,686 --> 00:14:51,729
Wait, you're saying you wanna do away
with all pure research now?

167
00:14:51,897 --> 00:14:55,233
What's wrong with science being practical?
Even profitable?

168
00:14:55,442 --> 00:14:59,278
Nothing, as long as your motive
is the search for truth.

169
00:14:59,446 --> 00:15:02,573
Which is exactly what
the pursuit of science is.

170
00:15:04,118 --> 00:15:05,952
That's a rather interesting position...

171
00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,789
...coming from a man on a crusade
against the evils of technology...

172
00:15:09,957 --> 00:15:11,040
...Father Joss.

173
00:15:11,709 --> 00:15:14,085
I'm not against technology, doctor.

174
00:15:14,253 --> 00:15:18,505
I'm against the men who deify it
at the expense of human truth.

175
00:15:22,343 --> 00:15:25,554
Kent, I've been meaning to have
a word with you. Over here, please.

176
00:15:25,722 --> 00:15:27,597
Yeah, I'll just...

177
00:15:31,602 --> 00:15:34,730
I think that hurt my chances
with that interview. What do you think?

178
00:15:35,356 --> 00:15:37,190
You're a priest?

179
00:15:38,693 --> 00:15:39,943
No, not really.

180
00:15:40,611 --> 00:15:43,697
I got my Masters in Divinity...

181
00:15:43,865 --> 00:15:47,451
...then dropped out of seminary to
do some secular humanitarian work...

182
00:15:47,618 --> 00:15:50,120
...coordinating efforts
for Third World churches.

183
00:15:50,705 --> 00:15:53,373
I couldn't live with
the whole celibacy thing.

184
00:15:55,752 --> 00:15:57,127
You could...

185
00:15:57,295 --> 00:15:59,880
You could call me a man of the cloth...

186
00:16:00,715 --> 00:16:02,299
...without the cloth.

187
00:16:05,636 --> 00:16:07,304
You wanna get out of here?

188
00:16:09,223 --> 00:16:12,726
All right, you see that sort of large,
W-shaped constellation right there?

189
00:16:12,894 --> 00:16:14,352
That's Cassiopeia.

190
00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,066
And Cassiopeia A gives off
a whole lot of radio signals.

191
00:16:19,233 --> 00:16:23,737
I actually listen to them a lot.
It's a remnant of a supernova.

192
00:16:24,447 --> 00:16:27,324
When did you know
you wanted to be an astronomer?

193
00:16:27,825 --> 00:16:29,284
Well, when I...

194
00:16:29,452 --> 00:16:33,288
When I was about 8 years old,
I was watching the sunset...

195
00:16:33,456 --> 00:16:36,833
...and I asked my dad,
"What's that bright star over there?"

196
00:16:37,001 --> 00:16:39,669
Dad, what's that star there?

197
00:16:40,253 --> 00:16:43,339
And he said that it wasn't
really a star at all. It was actually...

198
00:16:43,507 --> 00:16:45,174
That's not a star, it's a planet.

199
00:16:45,342 --> 00:16:46,967
A whole planet called Venus...

200
00:16:47,135 --> 00:16:49,136
That's the planet Venus.

201
00:16:51,473 --> 00:16:55,434
Which should be over there soon.

202
00:16:55,602 --> 00:16:58,312
He said,
"You know why they called it Venus?"

203
00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,774
"Because they thought
it was so beautiful and glowing."

204
00:17:01,942 --> 00:17:04,026
"But what they didn't know..."

205
00:17:04,194 --> 00:17:06,821
"...is that it's filled with..."

206
00:17:08,031 --> 00:17:11,742
"...deadly gases and sulfuric acid rain."

207
00:17:12,786 --> 00:17:16,997
"Wow," I thought,
"This is it! I'm hooked."

208
00:17:18,542 --> 00:17:22,545
You know, there are four hundred billion
stars out there...

209
00:17:22,712 --> 00:17:24,964
...just in our galaxy alone.

210
00:17:25,298 --> 00:17:29,218
If only one out of a million
of those had planets...

211
00:17:29,386 --> 00:17:32,555
...all right, and if just one
out of a million of those had life...

212
00:17:32,722 --> 00:17:37,351
...and if just one out of a million
of those had intelligent life...

213
00:17:37,644 --> 00:17:42,648
...there would be literally millions
of civilizations out there.

214
00:17:44,067 --> 00:17:46,152
Well, if there wasn't...

215
00:17:46,570 --> 00:17:49,071
...it'd be an awful waste of space.

216
00:17:54,661 --> 00:17:56,412
Amen.

217
00:18:04,753 --> 00:18:09,757
So I was lying there,
just looking at the sky.

218
00:18:12,678 --> 00:18:16,514
And then I felt something.
I don't know, I...

219
00:18:17,016 --> 00:18:19,893
All I know is that I wasn't alone.

220
00:18:20,060 --> 00:18:24,981
And for the first time in my life
I wasn't scared of nothing, you know?

221
00:18:25,149 --> 00:18:27,108
Not even dying.

222
00:18:32,448 --> 00:18:34,490
It was God.

223
00:18:36,952 --> 00:18:39,287
And there's no chance that...

224
00:18:39,455 --> 00:18:43,708
...you had this experience because
some part of you needed to have it?

225
00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,463
I mean, I'm a reasonably intelligent guy,
but this...

226
00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:55,303
No, this... No, my intellect,
it couldn't even touch this.

227
00:18:55,471 --> 00:18:56,512
No.

228
00:18:58,974 --> 00:19:01,559
I've been to Sunday school a few times.

229
00:19:02,978 --> 00:19:04,729
Uh-huh. And?

230
00:19:04,897 --> 00:19:10,151
Well, I just kept asking all these
really annoying questions like:

231
00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:13,279
"All right, then where did Mrs. Cain
come from?"

232
00:19:14,573 --> 00:19:17,158
And pretty soon they called my dad
and they asked him...

233
00:19:17,326 --> 00:19:20,078
...if he wouldn't mind just
keeping me home from now on.

234
00:19:20,246 --> 00:19:22,288
Your dad...

235
00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:26,459
- Is it this guy?
- Yeah.

236
00:19:28,336 --> 00:19:30,796
You're close to him, aren't you?

237
00:19:31,673 --> 00:19:35,133
Yeah, I was.
He died when I was 9 years old.

238
00:19:37,011 --> 00:19:39,012
I never got to know my mother.

239
00:19:40,598 --> 00:19:41,932
I'm sorry.

240
00:19:46,437 --> 00:19:48,355
That's gotta be tough.

241
00:19:50,566 --> 00:19:52,234
Yeah.

242
00:19:52,860 --> 00:19:54,861
Being alone.

243
00:20:03,371 --> 00:20:04,621
What do you say...

244
00:20:04,831 --> 00:20:08,333
...we pack a picnic tomorrow morning
and hike up to old Mount Arecibo?

245
00:20:09,210 --> 00:20:12,212
I don't think I can.
I gotta work.

246
00:20:14,007 --> 00:20:17,634
All right, how about dinner, then,
tomorrow night? I know a great dive.

247
00:20:17,802 --> 00:20:19,761
I don't think so.

248
00:20:24,058 --> 00:20:27,227
- Ellie, did I miss something?
- Huh?

249
00:20:28,354 --> 00:20:31,565
No. Shit, I'm late.

250
00:20:32,525 --> 00:20:36,111
I told Kent that I'd be there at 10:30.

251
00:20:38,072 --> 00:20:39,865
You know, I'm not trying to push you.

252
00:20:40,074 --> 00:20:42,492
No, no. I've wanted to look at
this sector for weeks.

253
00:20:42,660 --> 00:20:47,914
Just hang out and sleep in.
And there's a bunch of food in the fridge.

254
00:20:48,082 --> 00:20:49,249
Okay?

255
00:20:49,417 --> 00:20:51,251
How can I reach you?

256
00:20:51,918 --> 00:20:54,420
Just leave your number.
I'll call you.

257
00:21:15,901 --> 00:21:16,942
Dad!

258
00:21:18,987 --> 00:21:21,989
Dad, it's starting,
you're gonna miss it.

259
00:21:25,118 --> 00:21:27,411
Dad, there's another one.
Hurry up.

260
00:21:27,579 --> 00:21:29,955
In a minute, Sparks.
I'm almost done.

261
00:21:30,123 --> 00:21:32,958
There's another one.
Come on, hurry up, Dad!

262
00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:39,395
Dad?

263
00:21:51,896 --> 00:21:52,895
Dad?

264
00:22:03,031 --> 00:22:04,115
Daddy?

265
00:22:17,086 --> 00:22:18,211
Dad.

266
00:22:21,912 --> 00:22:22,912
Dad.

267
00:22:24,913 --> 00:22:26,113
Dad.

268
00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:30,232
I'll get the medicine.

269
00:23:46,007 --> 00:23:47,674
Ellie.

270
00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:51,929
I know it's hard to understand this now...

271
00:23:52,931 --> 00:23:57,434
...but we aren't always meant to know
why things happen the way they do.

272
00:23:57,977 --> 00:24:02,314
Sometimes we just have to accept it
as God's will.

273
00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:07,945
I should have kept some medicine
in the downstairs bathroom.

274
00:24:08,112 --> 00:24:10,656
Then I could've gotten to it sooner.

275
00:24:36,182 --> 00:24:37,849
CQ...

276
00:24:38,685 --> 00:24:41,979
...this is W-9 GFO. Do you copy?

277
00:24:45,149 --> 00:24:47,818
Dad, this is Ellie.
Come back.

278
00:24:50,989 --> 00:24:53,031
This is Eleanor Arroway...

279
00:24:53,199 --> 00:24:56,785
...transmitting on 14.2 megahertz.

280
00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:00,872
Dad.

281
00:25:02,916 --> 00:25:04,417
Are you there?

282
00:25:06,545 --> 00:25:08,004
Come back.

283
00:25:10,924 --> 00:25:12,341
Dad.

284
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,178
Are you there?

285
00:25:17,222 --> 00:25:18,723
Dad, this is Ellie.

286
00:25:50,213 --> 00:25:51,505
Ellie.

287
00:25:51,673 --> 00:25:55,051
Hi, Kent. What are you doing
up so early, huh?

288
00:25:55,719 --> 00:25:57,053
I was thinking...

289
00:25:57,763 --> 00:25:59,305
...we'd make a pretty good team.

290
00:25:59,473 --> 00:26:00,514
What?

291
00:26:00,682 --> 00:26:04,185
We could put together
a kick-ass ad-hoc SETI program.

292
00:26:04,394 --> 00:26:06,604
You know the Very Large Array
in New Mexico?

293
00:26:06,772 --> 00:26:09,231
It would be a dynamite place
to do serious SETI...

294
00:26:09,399 --> 00:26:12,068
What are you talking about, Kent?

295
00:26:13,528 --> 00:26:15,404
Drumlin pulled the plug.

296
00:26:16,031 --> 00:26:17,156
We're homeless.

297
00:26:27,750 --> 00:26:29,542
Hey, watch it.

298
00:26:31,295 --> 00:26:33,213
Is it true, huh? Did you pull the plug?

299
00:26:33,381 --> 00:26:35,757
You can't see it now,
but I'm doing you a favor.

300
00:26:35,925 --> 00:26:40,095
You are far too promising a scientist
to be wasting your gifts on this nonsense.

301
00:26:40,262 --> 00:26:42,263
Look, I don't consider what could be...

302
00:26:42,473 --> 00:26:45,475
...the most important discovery
of the human race nonsense, okay?

303
00:26:45,643 --> 00:26:47,060
There's 400 billion stars...

304
00:26:47,228 --> 00:26:50,105
And two probabilities.
One, there is intelligent life...

305
00:26:50,314 --> 00:26:53,316
...but it's so far away you'll
never contact it in your lifetime.

306
00:26:53,484 --> 00:26:55,694
- And two!
- You're making a decision...

307
00:26:55,861 --> 00:27:00,281
There's nothing but noble gases and carbon
compounds and you're wasting your time.

308
00:27:00,449 --> 00:27:03,535
In the meantime, you won't be published,
won't be taken seriously.

309
00:27:03,703 --> 00:27:05,412
And your career will be over.

310
00:27:05,579 --> 00:27:08,957
So what? It's my life.

311
00:27:45,995 --> 00:27:48,872
Hey, Kent.
You were right.

312
00:27:49,039 --> 00:27:52,750
Screw Drumlin. We're gonna raise
the money. We're going to New Mexico.

313
00:27:52,917 --> 00:27:55,461
Chicago has all the stuff,
but let me know how it goes.

314
00:27:55,628 --> 00:27:58,505
I've got some more corporate stops
on the East Coast for you.

315
00:27:58,673 --> 00:28:01,842
Hey, Fish, did that investor from Houston
ever get back to us?

316
00:28:02,010 --> 00:28:04,011
I'm gonna hit him up on my way to L.A.

317
00:28:04,220 --> 00:28:06,346
Try begging for some of that
Hollywood money.

318
00:28:06,556 --> 00:28:10,142
Why not? They've been making money
off of aliens for years, right?

319
00:28:10,310 --> 00:28:13,145
- Begging is good for the soul.
- We'll see about that.

320
00:28:13,313 --> 00:28:14,980
- Just do me a favor.
- Yeah.

321
00:28:15,148 --> 00:28:17,941
Try not to be too confrontational.

322
00:28:18,109 --> 00:28:20,569
Huh? Confrontational? Me?
What do you mean?

323
00:28:20,737 --> 00:28:22,362
I'm gonna see if I left anything.

324
00:28:55,730 --> 00:28:59,566
This is a unique time in our history,
in the history of any civilization.

325
00:28:59,734 --> 00:29:02,528
It's the moment
of the acquisition of technology.

326
00:29:02,737 --> 00:29:05,572
That's the moment
where contact becomes possible.

327
00:29:06,282 --> 00:29:11,119
The Very Large Array in New Mexico
is the key to our chances for success.

328
00:29:11,287 --> 00:29:13,538
With its 27 linked radio telescopes...

329
00:29:13,705 --> 00:29:17,083
...we can search more accurately
than at any other conventional facility.

330
00:29:17,251 --> 00:29:22,421
Now, we've gotten approval to buy
the telescope time from the government.

331
00:29:22,923 --> 00:29:25,091
Now all we really need is the money.

332
00:29:25,884 --> 00:29:27,885
A nice presentation, doctor.

333
00:29:28,595 --> 00:29:33,099
But while our foundation arm has a mandate
to support experimental programs...

334
00:29:33,267 --> 00:29:37,228
...we must confess that
your proposal seems less like science...

335
00:29:37,396 --> 00:29:39,105
...and more like science fiction.

336
00:29:41,608 --> 00:29:43,067
Science fiction.

337
00:29:46,488 --> 00:29:48,281
You're right.

338
00:29:48,740 --> 00:29:50,324
It's crazy.

339
00:29:51,118 --> 00:29:54,078
Nuts.

340
00:29:55,622 --> 00:29:57,123
You wanna hear something nutty?

341
00:29:57,291 --> 00:29:59,959
A couple guys wanted to build
something called an airplane.

342
00:30:00,127 --> 00:30:03,296
You get people to go in it
and fly like birds. Ridiculous, right?

343
00:30:03,463 --> 00:30:05,423
Or what about
breaking the sound barrier...

344
00:30:05,591 --> 00:30:09,218
...or rockets to the moon,
or atomic energy or a mission to Mars?

345
00:30:09,428 --> 00:30:11,262
Science fiction, right?

346
00:30:11,430 --> 00:30:12,555
Look.

347
00:30:12,723 --> 00:30:16,976
All I'm asking is for you to
just have the tiniest bit of vision.

348
00:30:17,144 --> 00:30:20,730
You know, to just step back for one minute
and look at the big picture.

349
00:30:20,898 --> 00:30:22,356
To take a chance on something...

350
00:30:22,524 --> 00:30:26,152
...which might end up being
the most profoundly impactful moment...

351
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,489
...for humanity, for the history of history.

352
00:30:33,702 --> 00:30:35,244
I'm sorry.

353
00:30:36,371 --> 00:30:37,996
I just spent the last 13 months...

354
00:30:38,664 --> 00:30:42,000
...coming into rooms like this
and talking to people like you.

355
00:30:42,418 --> 00:30:45,128
The truth is, you're my last chance, so...

356
00:30:45,296 --> 00:30:46,755
I'm sorry I wasted your time.

357
00:30:46,923 --> 00:30:48,214
Doctor.

358
00:30:48,382 --> 00:30:49,450
Yes, sir.

359
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:53,851
Yes, sir.

360
00:30:57,852 --> 00:30:59,050
Yes, sir.

361
00:31:01,938 --> 00:31:03,146
You have your money.

362
00:31:06,192 --> 00:31:10,987
Thank you.

363
00:31:57,535 --> 00:32:01,578
Oh! Perfect cast.
Come on, fishy.

364
00:32:01,746 --> 00:32:05,416
Frank, look at the size
of that son of a bitch!

365
00:32:17,846 --> 00:32:19,930
Welcome back, Dr. C.

366
00:32:20,098 --> 00:32:21,598
How'd it go?

367
00:32:22,267 --> 00:32:25,519
- How was the trip?
- I've had better.

368
00:32:26,021 --> 00:32:29,106
Drumlin. What is this?
This his personal vendetta now?

369
00:32:29,274 --> 00:32:33,193
It's not just Drumlin. There's been enormous
pressure from other scientists as well.

370
00:32:33,361 --> 00:32:36,613
It doesn't matter anyway,
Hadder's funding us for another two years.

371
00:32:36,781 --> 00:32:39,950
Uh... These are government-owned
telescopes, they can lease to whomever.

372
00:32:40,118 --> 00:32:43,912
And they don't want the high priestess
of the desert using them anymore.

373
00:32:44,748 --> 00:32:45,789
What?

374
00:32:45,957 --> 00:32:49,293
Staring at static on TV for hours,
listening to washing machines.

375
00:32:49,461 --> 00:32:51,837
Did you really think these stories
wouldn't get out?

376
00:32:52,005 --> 00:32:55,758
- I was looking for patterns in the chaos.
- Doesn't matter, we're a joke to them.

377
00:32:55,925 --> 00:32:57,468
They want us out.

378
00:32:58,928 --> 00:33:02,264
We've got three months
until the paperwork goes through.

379
00:33:04,976 --> 00:33:08,145
Fine. I'll start looking for other funding.
I'll just start...

380
00:33:08,313 --> 00:33:12,816
Could you face reality, please?
Just this once, Ellie. We lost.

381
00:33:12,984 --> 00:33:14,651
It's over.

382
00:33:20,992 --> 00:33:22,659
Fine.

383
00:33:22,827 --> 00:33:24,827
But I'm not stopping.

384
00:33:24,995 --> 00:33:27,997
If I have to go it alone, I'll go it alone.
I've done it before.

385
00:34:17,756 --> 00:34:21,509
<i>My guest tonight is author
and theologian Palmer Joss.</i>

386
00:34:21,677 --> 00:34:26,681
<i>He's become a spiritual counselor of sorts
and a recent fixture at the White House.</i>

387
00:34:26,849 --> 00:34:29,809
<i>"God's Diplomat,"
according to The New York Times.</i>

388
00:34:30,018 --> 00:34:33,688
<i>His latest book, Losing Faith,
is currently number one...</i>

389
00:34:33,897 --> 00:34:36,232
<i>...on that publications bestseller list.</i>

390
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,900
<i>Thanks for being with us, Palmer.</i>

391
00:34:38,068 --> 00:34:40,862
<i>You have had quite a ride
this last couple of years.</i>

392
00:34:41,029 --> 00:34:43,489
<i>Yeah, I sure have, Larry.</i>

393
00:34:43,657 --> 00:34:46,159
You know, Fish, I was thinking.

394
00:34:46,326 --> 00:34:50,662
<i>Who would make the best astronomers?
I mean, think about it.</i>

395
00:34:50,830 --> 00:34:56,835
Who has the perfect synthesis
of career and lifestyle?

396
00:34:57,003 --> 00:34:59,921
- I give.
- Vampires!

397
00:35:00,089 --> 00:35:02,507
<i>Are you anti-technology?
Are you anti-science?</i>

398
00:35:02,675 --> 00:35:04,676
<i>No, not at all.</i>

399
00:35:04,844 --> 00:35:07,721
<i>The question that I'm asking is this:</i>

400
00:35:08,389 --> 00:35:11,099
<i>Are we happier as a human race?</i>

401
00:35:11,267 --> 00:35:16,188
<i>Is the world fundamentally a better place
because of science and technology?</i>

402
00:35:16,898 --> 00:35:19,357
<i>We shop at home, we surf the Web...</i>

403
00:35:19,567 --> 00:35:22,360
<i>...but at the same time we feel emptier...</i>

404
00:35:22,528 --> 00:35:27,365
<i>...and more cut off from each other
than at any other time in human history.</i>

405
00:35:27,533 --> 00:35:30,202
<i>I mean, we're becoming
a synthesized society...</i>

406
00:35:30,369 --> 00:35:33,005
<i>...in a great, big hurry
to get to the next...</i>

407
00:35:47,094 --> 00:35:50,597
<i>I think it's because we're looking
for the meaning. What is the meaning?</i>

408
00:35:50,765 --> 00:35:53,475
<i>We have mindless jobs,
we take frantic vacations.</i>

409
00:35:53,893 --> 00:35:56,895
<i>Deficit finance trips to the mall
to buy more things...</i>

410
00:35:57,104 --> 00:36:00,774
<i>...that we think are gonna fill
these holes in our lives.</i>

411
00:36:00,942 --> 00:36:03,485
<i>Is it any wonder that we've lost
our sense of direction?</i>

412
00:36:44,359 --> 00:36:46,026
Holy shit.

413
00:37:04,337 --> 00:37:10,384
Right ascension,
18 hours, 36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.

414
00:37:10,552 --> 00:37:15,556
Declination, plus 36 degrees,
46 minutes...

415
00:37:15,724 --> 00:37:18,892
...56.2 seconds!

416
00:37:20,562 --> 00:37:22,062
Confirm!

417
00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:28,152
Right ascension, 18 hours, 36 minutes,
56.2 seconds!

418
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,155
Hey, is anybody awake in there?
I'm moving the array!

419
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:35,034
- Confirm!
- Boss has a bogey!

420
00:37:35,243 --> 00:37:40,371
Right ascension, 18 hours,
36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.

421
00:37:40,539 --> 00:37:42,790
- Fish!
- We're on it.

422
00:37:42,958 --> 00:37:47,295
Plus 36 hours,
47 minutes and 1 second.

423
00:37:47,463 --> 00:37:51,215
Strong possible pulse chain
on Sub-Array 4.

424
00:37:51,425 --> 00:37:54,761
I'm moving the rest of them now.
I need you to confirm the coordinates.

425
00:37:54,928 --> 00:37:56,929
Check the status of the array.

426
00:37:57,097 --> 00:38:00,975
- She's doing all the dishes.
- All systems nominal.

427
00:38:05,606 --> 00:38:07,190
Hello.

428
00:38:07,941 --> 00:38:09,692
I need a full systems check.

429
00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:12,695
Coordinates confirmed.
Willie's checking the system now.

430
00:38:12,863 --> 00:38:15,865
Stay on top of the systems diagnostics.

431
00:38:16,033 --> 00:38:17,742
Check the reference point offsets.

432
00:38:17,951 --> 00:38:21,954
And I want you off-axis on 27
the second we get there.

433
00:38:22,122 --> 00:38:24,624
And tell Willie to break out the big boy.

434
00:38:26,210 --> 00:38:28,544
Copy that. Willie...

435
00:38:28,712 --> 00:38:29,962
Yeah. Go, Ellie.

436
00:38:30,130 --> 00:38:33,424
I can hear can it on the headphones.
We gotta be sure about this.

437
00:38:33,592 --> 00:38:36,302
Give me another array status.

438
00:38:37,721 --> 00:38:40,640
Her four are online,
the rest are tracking in.

439
00:38:40,808 --> 00:38:43,559
Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in.

440
00:38:43,727 --> 00:38:46,104
But there's a bad drive on 16.

441
00:38:46,313 --> 00:38:48,815
Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in...

442
00:38:48,982 --> 00:38:51,818
...but there's a bad drive on 16.
Copy that?

443
00:38:53,070 --> 00:38:55,363
What do you want me to do
about the source queue?

444
00:38:55,531 --> 00:38:57,615
Look, forget about it and hold the queue.

445
00:38:57,783 --> 00:39:01,952
Go get ready to set the target frequency
to manual the second we're aligned.

446
00:39:02,161 --> 00:39:06,498
Do you copy? I want you to go
off-axis on 27 the second we're there.

447
00:39:06,749 --> 00:39:09,584
And leave the LO frequency where it is.

448
00:39:09,752 --> 00:39:13,046
Stay on it, Fish, don't let it get away.
If you lose it, scan the band.

449
00:39:13,214 --> 00:39:16,508
Run every frequency you can think of.

450
00:39:21,097 --> 00:39:22,806
How you doing?

451
00:39:27,019 --> 00:39:28,145
Talk to me, guys.

452
00:39:28,354 --> 00:39:32,190
Partially polarized set of moving pulses,
amplitude modulated.

453
00:39:32,358 --> 00:39:36,027
We're locked. Systems check out, signal
across the board. What's the frequency?

454
00:39:36,195 --> 00:39:39,239
4.46, 23 gigahertz.

455
00:39:40,616 --> 00:39:43,869
Hydrogen times pi. Told you.

456
00:39:44,036 --> 00:39:45,829
Strong sucker too.

457
00:39:45,997 --> 00:39:48,331
I got it! I got it, I got it!
I'm patched in.

458
00:39:49,041 --> 00:39:50,709
All right, let me hear it.

459
00:39:55,756 --> 00:39:57,215
Listen to that.

460
00:39:59,469 --> 00:40:01,720
Make me a liar, Fish.

461
00:40:01,888 --> 00:40:04,556
It could be AWACS out of Kirtland
jamming us.

462
00:40:04,724 --> 00:40:06,099
But I'm doubting it.

463
00:40:06,267 --> 00:40:08,894
All right, let's see
if F.U.D.D.'s reading it too.

464
00:40:09,729 --> 00:40:13,064
Willie, patch it back
and give me the off-axis.

465
00:40:13,232 --> 00:40:14,900
- Are we recording?
- Never stopped.

466
00:40:16,986 --> 00:40:18,278
Thank you, Elmer.

467
00:40:18,488 --> 00:40:20,405
AWACS status is negative.

468
00:40:20,573 --> 00:40:23,407
- White Sands?
- On this frequency? No.

469
00:40:23,575 --> 00:40:25,075
I'm gonna punch up the darks.

470
00:40:28,246 --> 00:40:31,916
How's the spying tonight, guys?
Come on.

471
00:40:34,252 --> 00:40:36,754
NORAD's not tracking
any snoops in this vector.

472
00:40:36,922 --> 00:40:38,506
Shuttle Endeavor is in sleep mode.

473
00:40:38,673 --> 00:40:41,175
Okay, point source confirmed.

474
00:40:41,343 --> 00:40:43,928
- Whatever it is, it ain't local.
- Position?

475
00:40:44,095 --> 00:40:46,764
I checked interferometry.
Somewhere in Lyra, I think.

476
00:40:46,932 --> 00:40:48,432
- Vega?
- Can't be.

477
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,851
It's only 26 light years away.

478
00:40:51,019 --> 00:40:53,979
- What's the peak intensity?
- Coming up.

479
00:40:54,147 --> 00:40:55,397
Vega.

480
00:40:55,565 --> 00:40:59,527
Vega. I scanned it a bunch of times at
Arecibo. It was negative results, always.

481
00:40:59,736 --> 00:41:03,113
Got it. Reading over 100 janskys.

482
00:41:03,281 --> 00:41:05,658
Jesus. I could pick it up on my...

483
00:41:08,787 --> 00:41:09,787
No.

484
00:41:43,113 --> 00:41:44,154
Come on.

485
00:41:46,491 --> 00:41:48,575
All right, it's restarting.

486
00:41:49,034 --> 00:41:50,785
Wait a minute.
Those are numbers.

487
00:41:50,995 --> 00:41:54,080
That was a three,
the one before it was a two.

488
00:41:54,248 --> 00:41:57,667
Base-10 numbers. Just start counting now,
see how far can we get.

489
00:41:57,835 --> 00:41:59,460
One.

490
00:42:05,009 --> 00:42:06,092
- Seven.
- Seven.

491
00:42:08,929 --> 00:42:10,513
Those are primes.

492
00:42:10,681 --> 00:42:13,266
Two, three, five, seven,
those are all prime numbers.

493
00:42:13,434 --> 00:42:15,393
There's no way
that's a natural phenomenon.

494
00:42:15,561 --> 00:42:16,686
- Holy shit.
- Okay, okay.

495
00:42:16,854 --> 00:42:20,189
Let's just calm down
and pull up the star file on Vega.

496
00:42:20,733 --> 00:42:23,693
It doesn't make any sense.
The system is too young...

497
00:42:23,861 --> 00:42:25,862
...so it can't have a planetary system...

498
00:42:26,030 --> 00:42:29,449
...let alone life
or a technological civilization.

499
00:42:29,617 --> 00:42:32,201
Maybe they didn't grow up there.
Maybe they're visiting.

500
00:42:32,369 --> 00:42:35,705
Spacecraft? This system is full of debris.
It would get clobbered.

501
00:42:35,873 --> 00:42:40,043
Well, not if they used their laser blasters
and photon torpedoes.

502
00:42:40,210 --> 00:42:43,630
- That's not funny.
- How else are we gonna explain it?

503
00:42:43,797 --> 00:42:47,008
Willie's right. If we go public with this
and we're wrong, that's it.

504
00:42:47,176 --> 00:42:49,677
It's over.
We're cooked.

505
00:42:50,679 --> 00:42:53,264
God, I wish Kent was here.

506
00:42:53,432 --> 00:42:57,518
Whatever the signal is, we better
do something soon. Vega's gonna set.

507
00:42:58,062 --> 00:43:04,651
Position confirmed.
We've got 4.4623 gigahertz, confirmed.

508
00:43:04,818 --> 00:43:07,737
We've got 112 janskys.

509
00:43:07,905 --> 00:43:10,365
All right, do you have
a source location yet?

510
00:43:12,909 --> 00:43:15,827
We put it right smack in the middle.

511
00:43:15,995 --> 00:43:17,579
Vega.

512
00:43:19,415 --> 00:43:22,417
Okay, thanks, Ian. Keep tracking
and we'll get back to you.

513
00:43:22,585 --> 00:43:24,252
Yeah, right-o.

514
00:43:34,430 --> 00:43:35,931
Okay, 101.

515
00:43:36,099 --> 00:43:40,852
The pulse sequenced through every
prime number between two and 101.

516
00:43:42,438 --> 00:43:44,439
Who are we gonna call now?

517
00:43:47,276 --> 00:43:48,360
Everybody.

518
00:43:56,119 --> 00:43:59,538
The rumors are flying,
the implications extraordinary.

519
00:43:59,706 --> 00:44:03,333
This morning's detection of an unidentified
radio source from deep space...

520
00:44:03,501 --> 00:44:06,128
...can neither be confirmed nor denied.

521
00:44:06,295 --> 00:44:08,088
But the military presence arriving...

522
00:44:08,256 --> 00:44:12,134
Sources close to the VLA report
that the planet has been contacted...

523
00:44:12,301 --> 00:44:14,261
...by some form of intelligent being...

524
00:44:14,429 --> 00:44:17,931
...living outside of our solar system.
Again, there is no confirmation...

525
00:44:18,099 --> 00:44:22,018
...that the official IAU communique
was sent from this government facility.

526
00:44:22,186 --> 00:44:24,896
I want all of these people out of here.

527
00:44:25,064 --> 00:44:26,857
Where's the girl?

528
00:44:31,028 --> 00:44:33,947
Twenty-two stations worldwide
now confirming the signal.

529
00:44:34,115 --> 00:44:35,906
Vega is currently below our horizon...

530
00:44:36,074 --> 00:44:38,534
...so what you're hearing
is the signal from...

531
00:44:38,702 --> 00:44:42,496
Get decryption people in here now.
Lunacharsky is visiting at Cal Tech.

532
00:44:42,664 --> 00:44:44,123
Explain this to me.

533
00:44:44,332 --> 00:44:48,210
If the source of the signal is so
sophisticated, why the remedial math?

534
00:44:48,378 --> 00:44:50,171
Exactly, why don't they speak English?

535
00:44:50,338 --> 00:44:53,549
Maybe because 70 percent of the planet
speaks other languages.

536
00:44:53,717 --> 00:44:56,510
Mathematics is
the only truly universal language.

537
00:44:57,220 --> 00:44:59,805
It's no coincidence
that they're using primes.

538
00:45:00,015 --> 00:45:02,224
- I don't get it.
- Prime numbers.

539
00:45:02,392 --> 00:45:06,187
That would be integers that are
only divisible by themselves and one.

540
00:45:09,065 --> 00:45:12,693
We think this may be a beacon,
some kind of an announcement...

541
00:45:12,861 --> 00:45:13,986
...to get our attention.

542
00:45:14,196 --> 00:45:17,865
If it's attention you want, you got that.
Vega.

543
00:45:18,074 --> 00:45:21,577
People have been looking at Vega for years
with no results.

544
00:45:21,745 --> 00:45:24,580
And now yesterday they start
broadcasting primes. Why?

545
00:45:24,748 --> 00:45:28,626
Well, it's hardly yesterday, because the
signal has been transmitting for 26 years.

546
00:45:28,794 --> 00:45:30,252
Dr. Arroway.

547
00:45:30,420 --> 00:45:34,632
- Excuse me, who are you?
- Michael Kitz, National Security Advisor.

548
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,091
Let me first say that your...

549
00:45:36,259 --> 00:45:40,221
Actually, first, could you ask the gentlemen
with the firearms to wait outside?

550
00:45:40,388 --> 00:45:42,389
This is supposed to be a civilian facility.

551
00:45:48,855 --> 00:45:51,482
- Doctor, with all due respect to your...
- Excuse me.

552
00:45:51,858 --> 00:45:55,194
Hey, hey, hey.
Hi, I'm so glad you're back.

553
00:45:55,779 --> 00:45:58,988
Come on, I got something for you to hear.
Is this great?

554
00:45:59,156 --> 00:46:01,574
- Who are all these people?
- I have no idea.

555
00:46:01,784 --> 00:46:04,744
Sit down. And we could use some help
with the spectrum analysis.

556
00:46:04,912 --> 00:46:06,871
- Listen to that. I'll get on it.
- Headsets.

557
00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:09,123
So I'll just come right to the point,
shall I?

558
00:46:09,416 --> 00:46:13,419
Your having sent this all over the world may
constitute a breach of national security.

559
00:46:13,587 --> 00:46:15,255
This isn't a person-to-person call.

560
00:46:15,464 --> 00:46:19,968
You can't think that a civilization sending
this would intend it just for Americans.

561
00:46:20,135 --> 00:46:21,970
I'm saying you might have consulted us.

562
00:46:22,137 --> 00:46:25,932
- The contents could be extremely sensitive.
- You want to classify prime numbers?

563
00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:29,853
Mike, please. We're only in line
with Vega so many hours a day.

564
00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:34,482
The only way to monitor the signal
is to get the cooperation of other stations.

565
00:46:34,650 --> 00:46:39,028
If Dr. Arroway hadn't acted quickly,
we could have lost key elements.

566
00:46:39,196 --> 00:46:40,822
Okay, fine, they've got the primes.

567
00:46:40,990 --> 00:46:44,117
If you're right about there being a more
significant transmission...

568
00:46:44,285 --> 00:46:45,952
Which will need help
to receive and decode.

569
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:47,954
Doctor, do you understand that my job
is to protect...?

570
00:46:48,122 --> 00:46:49,914
- Shh!
- What?

571
00:46:50,082 --> 00:46:52,166
- Listen.
- I hear it.

572
00:46:52,334 --> 00:46:54,085
- Hear what?
- Harmonic.

573
00:46:54,253 --> 00:46:58,506
Bingo. I had Willie ask Rattan
to retune to 8.9247 gigahertz.

574
00:46:58,674 --> 00:47:00,174
There's a lot more here, folks.

575
00:47:00,342 --> 00:47:03,303
- Fish, let's get on the negative sideband.
- I'm already on it.

576
00:47:03,470 --> 00:47:05,054
- What is going on?
- Another signal.

577
00:47:05,222 --> 00:47:06,556
Another signal, look at that.

578
00:47:06,724 --> 00:47:09,851
A second signal at double the frequency.
It looks like a...

579
00:47:10,019 --> 00:47:11,394
Somebody get a TV monitor.

580
00:47:11,937 --> 00:47:14,022
Patch the recording
into the image processor.

581
00:47:14,189 --> 00:47:17,483
- You want the new data?
- Yeah, the new frequency we just recorded.

582
00:47:17,693 --> 00:47:19,611
David, explain this to me, please.

583
00:47:19,778 --> 00:47:22,905
With the prime there's another signal.
Looks like a TV transmission.

584
00:47:23,072 --> 00:47:24,239
We're hot.

585
00:47:24,407 --> 00:47:27,492
Do me a favor, go get the blinds.
There is a lot of glare.

586
00:47:27,660 --> 00:47:29,161
You're patched in.

587
00:47:29,329 --> 00:47:33,498
All right, it's definitely an image.
Let's try and stabilize it.

588
00:47:37,545 --> 00:47:39,046
What do you make of that, Fish?

589
00:47:39,213 --> 00:47:42,633
It's two different interlaced frames.
I'm framing one.

590
00:47:46,012 --> 00:47:48,764
- It's just noise.
- Trying frame two.

591
00:47:49,515 --> 00:47:53,268
I've got an offset carrier here.
I think it's audio.

592
00:47:53,436 --> 00:47:54,686
Plug it in, plug it in.

593
00:47:59,025 --> 00:48:00,317
Center that segment.

594
00:48:00,485 --> 00:48:02,027
Centering.

595
00:48:05,907 --> 00:48:08,867
- Can you clean it up any more than that?
- I'm working on it.

596
00:48:21,881 --> 00:48:23,215
What the hell...?

597
00:48:24,050 --> 00:48:25,217
Try zooming out.

598
00:48:29,097 --> 00:48:30,222
All right, freeze.

599
00:48:30,390 --> 00:48:31,723
Reverse values.

600
00:48:33,393 --> 00:48:35,519
Try zooming out again.

601
00:48:39,107 --> 00:48:41,233
Rotate 90 degrees counterclock...

602
00:48:42,735 --> 00:48:44,695
My God.

603
00:48:49,741 --> 00:48:52,702
- Okay.
- What's going on?

604
00:48:52,869 --> 00:48:55,538
You're not gonna believe this.

605
00:49:08,969 --> 00:49:10,720
Does anybody speak German?

606
00:49:12,139 --> 00:49:14,557
"I declare the Games in Berlin..."

607
00:49:15,642 --> 00:49:17,393
"...at the celebration..."

608
00:49:17,602 --> 00:49:21,981
"...of the first Olympics of the new era
has opened."

609
00:49:32,784 --> 00:49:34,201
Get me the White House.

610
00:49:34,828 --> 00:49:37,538
Twenty million people died
defeating that son of a bitch...

611
00:49:37,706 --> 00:49:39,915
...and he's our first ambassador
to outer space?

612
00:49:40,083 --> 00:49:42,418
- Actually...
- The broadcast from the '36 Olympics...

613
00:49:42,586 --> 00:49:45,588
...was the first television transmission
that went into space.

614
00:49:45,756 --> 00:49:49,133
That they recorded it and sent it back
is saying, "Hello, we heard you."

615
00:49:49,301 --> 00:49:51,761
Or, "Sieg Heil, you're our kind of people."

616
00:49:51,970 --> 00:49:54,638
Wait. Hitler and his politics
have nothing to do with this.

617
00:49:54,806 --> 00:49:58,309
It's highly unlikely they would understand,
and people need to understand...

618
00:49:58,477 --> 00:50:00,644
The people are in very good hands,
Dr. Arroway.

619
00:50:00,812 --> 00:50:01,812
We'll take it from here.

620
00:50:01,980 --> 00:50:04,065
The White House has just released...

621
00:50:04,232 --> 00:50:05,316
Smile, folks.
We're on.

622
00:50:05,484 --> 00:50:08,402
- A statement confirming a message
from deep space...

623
00:50:08,570 --> 00:50:12,655
...has been received by American scientists.
Claire Shipman is at the White House.

624
00:50:12,823 --> 00:50:15,992
Donna, we've been told the president
will have only a few remarks...

625
00:50:16,202 --> 00:50:17,660
...about today's announcement...

626
00:50:17,828 --> 00:50:21,247
...and that he won't be taking
any questions from the press.

627
00:50:26,212 --> 00:50:27,545
Good afternoon.

628
00:50:30,424 --> 00:50:34,636
I'm glad to be joined by my
science and technology advisor.

629
00:50:36,472 --> 00:50:39,307
This is the product
of years of exploration...

630
00:50:39,517 --> 00:50:42,727
...by some of the world's
most distinguished scientists.

631
00:50:42,937 --> 00:50:47,148
Like all discoveries, this one
will and should continue to be reviewed...

632
00:50:47,358 --> 00:50:50,110
...examined and scrutinized.

633
00:50:50,319 --> 00:50:53,404
It must be confirmed by other scientists.

634
00:50:53,572 --> 00:50:59,369
The fact that something of this magnitude
is being explored is another...

635
00:50:59,537 --> 00:51:03,414
Fish, what is the story over here?
I thought Ellie was supposed to be on.

636
00:51:03,624 --> 00:51:05,125
I don't know.

637
00:51:05,751 --> 00:51:08,711
Guys? Guys? Um...

638
00:51:09,505 --> 00:51:12,340
You know those interlaced frames
that we thought were noise?

639
00:51:13,175 --> 00:51:15,844
This has structure.
I'm hearing structure.

640
00:51:17,221 --> 00:51:19,472
If this discovery is confirmed...

641
00:51:19,682 --> 00:51:23,309
...it will be one of the most stunning
insights into our universe...

642
00:51:23,519 --> 00:51:25,562
...that science has ever uncovered.

643
00:51:26,063 --> 00:51:31,234
Its implications are as far-reaching
and awe-inspiring as can be imagined.

644
00:51:31,443 --> 00:51:34,903
Even as it promises answers
to some of our oldest questions...

645
00:51:35,113 --> 00:51:38,532
...it poses still others,
even more fundamental.

646
00:51:38,741 --> 00:51:42,369
We will continue to listen closely
to what it has to say...

647
00:51:42,579 --> 00:51:46,123
...as we continue the search for answers
and for knowledge...

648
00:51:46,332 --> 00:51:52,004
...that is as old as humanity itself
but essential to our people's future.

649
00:51:52,338 --> 00:51:53,797
- Thank you.
- Sir...

650
00:51:53,965 --> 00:51:56,091
Is there a considerable
global security threat?

651
00:51:56,259 --> 00:51:59,386
I'll answer your questions at the end,
but first a few corrections.

652
00:51:59,554 --> 00:52:03,557
The message was received Friday morning,
6:31 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.

653
00:52:03,766 --> 00:52:08,353
It was largely mathematical, and in spite of
reports you may have seen to the contrary...

654
00:52:08,521 --> 00:52:11,064
...appears to be completely benign
in nature.

655
00:52:11,274 --> 00:52:15,027
Let me say that again.
The message is completely benign.

656
00:52:15,195 --> 00:52:18,697
The president has been in touch
with heads of state from around the world...

657
00:52:18,865 --> 00:52:21,617
...and every possible security measure
is being taken.

658
00:52:21,784 --> 00:52:24,828
To better explain to you
the events of the last 48 hours...

659
00:52:25,038 --> 00:52:29,458
...I'm turning you over to the leader of the
team that made this remarkable discovery...

660
00:52:29,626 --> 00:52:33,795
...Dr. David Drumlin,
special science advisor to the president.

661
00:52:41,721 --> 00:52:44,556
Thank you, Rachel. Hello.

662
00:52:46,476 --> 00:52:48,936
In 1936
a very faint television signal...

663
00:52:49,145 --> 00:52:52,231
...transmitted the opening ceremonies
of the Olympic Games...

664
00:52:52,398 --> 00:52:56,068
...as a show
of German superior technology.

665
00:52:57,152 --> 00:52:59,237
That signal left Earth
at the speed of light...

666
00:53:01,573 --> 00:53:05,409
...and 26 years later arrived in the vicinity
of the star we call Vega.

667
00:53:06,328 --> 00:53:10,164
That signal has been sent back to us
hugely amplified...

668
00:53:10,332 --> 00:53:13,000
...an unmistakable sign of intelligence.

669
00:53:13,168 --> 00:53:14,669
You're online, Kent, go ahead.

670
00:53:14,836 --> 00:53:19,048
The Adolf transmission used 25 frames
per second but we're receiving 50.

671
00:53:19,216 --> 00:53:23,177
So we canned the other 25
through a series of search algorithms.

672
00:53:23,345 --> 00:53:25,888
We found a series of markers
on the top of each frame.

673
00:53:26,056 --> 00:53:27,765
- Are you ready?
- Yeah, go ahead.

674
00:53:27,933 --> 00:53:31,185
- Send it, Willie.
- Okay, here it comes.

675
00:53:34,439 --> 00:53:35,773
It's digital...

676
00:53:35,941 --> 00:53:40,194
...massive amounts of data which
extend right to the higher harmonics.

677
00:53:40,862 --> 00:53:42,613
Jackpot.

678
00:53:43,532 --> 00:53:45,449
All right, as you'll see...

679
00:53:45,617 --> 00:53:48,911
...interlaced with the frames
of the original Hitler image...

680
00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:52,039
...we found these sections.

681
00:53:52,207 --> 00:53:55,710
Now, we thought they were just noise,
but they're actually data...

682
00:53:55,877 --> 00:53:57,169
...huge amounts of it.

683
00:53:57,337 --> 00:54:01,882
When we combine this with the data from
the amplification of the original signal...

684
00:54:02,050 --> 00:54:05,344
...we get these encrypted pages of text.

685
00:54:05,554 --> 00:54:09,724
Now, no two are alike and
we've uncovered over 10,000 already.

686
00:54:09,891 --> 00:54:12,310
What does it mean, doctor?

687
00:54:12,477 --> 00:54:14,812
Well, we have no idea.
It could be anything.

688
00:54:14,980 --> 00:54:17,690
It could be the first volume
of an Encyclopedia Galactica.

689
00:54:17,858 --> 00:54:20,775
Instructions to acquaint us
with their colonization procedures.

690
00:54:20,943 --> 00:54:22,902
Moses with a few billion
new commandments.

691
00:54:23,070 --> 00:54:25,363
How long will it take to decode it?

692
00:54:25,573 --> 00:54:28,908
It could take forever.
We really need a primer...

693
00:54:29,076 --> 00:54:32,162
We need to get the best
decryption people we have.

694
00:54:32,663 --> 00:54:36,916
I intend to use the VLA
as my command post.

695
00:54:37,084 --> 00:54:40,503
In the meantime, my office
has made out a preliminary budget.

696
00:54:40,671 --> 00:54:44,632
Wait a minute.
This is a privately-funded operation.

697
00:54:44,842 --> 00:54:47,135
We're only leasing dish time
from the government...

698
00:54:47,345 --> 00:54:50,430
If there's a more clear case
of eminent domain, I've never seen it.

699
00:54:50,598 --> 00:54:53,183
I'm going to recommend
we militarize this project.

700
00:54:53,351 --> 00:54:55,727
What? This is my project.

701
00:54:55,895 --> 00:54:59,272
Nobody knows more about these scenarios
than I do. David, tell them...

702
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,817
Excuse me, could we calm down here?

703
00:55:03,027 --> 00:55:07,697
Now, I'm going to recommend that
Dr. Drumlin coordinate the decryption effort.

704
00:55:07,865 --> 00:55:11,242
However, in light of Dr. Arroway's
long experience in these matters...

705
00:55:11,410 --> 00:55:15,622
...for the time being, she will continue
to direct operations at the VLA...

706
00:55:15,790 --> 00:55:20,460
...understanding that future discoveries
will be kept in strictest confidence...

707
00:55:20,628 --> 00:55:22,545
...until such time as the president...

708
00:55:22,713 --> 00:55:26,716
...can decide the most suitable
course of action. Understood?

709
00:55:26,884 --> 00:55:28,093
Yes.

710
00:55:28,386 --> 00:55:31,012
This is CNN Breaking News.

711
00:55:31,180 --> 00:55:34,140
The president made a statement,
calling the message from Vega...

712
00:55:34,350 --> 00:55:36,476
...one of the most stunning insights
into our...

713
00:55:36,685 --> 00:55:41,689
Attendance at religious services has
risen a dramatic 39 percent in recent days.

714
00:55:41,857 --> 00:55:45,692
...as police in three German divisions
clashed with neo-Nazi protesters.

715
00:55:45,860 --> 00:55:47,986
So it turns out
there's life on other planets.

716
00:55:48,196 --> 00:55:51,824
Boy, this is really gonna change
the Miss Universe contest.

717
00:55:52,492 --> 00:55:56,829
Health officials from around the world are
concerned that the message from Vega...

718
00:55:56,996 --> 00:55:59,623
...might trigger a rash of mass suicides...

719
00:55:59,833 --> 00:56:02,459
...not unlike the recent cult deaths
near San Diego...

720
00:56:02,669 --> 00:56:04,628
Even a scientist has to admit...

721
00:56:04,838 --> 00:56:09,341
...that there are some pretty serious
religious overtones to all this.

722
00:56:09,509 --> 00:56:11,677
Let's hear from someone
whose organization...

723
00:56:11,886 --> 00:56:14,430
...has been accused of conducting
its own inquisition:

724
00:56:14,597 --> 00:56:17,224
Richard Rank,
head of the Conservative coalition.

725
00:56:17,392 --> 00:56:18,475
Thank you.

726
00:56:18,643 --> 00:56:23,021
This is yet another example of science
intruding into matters of faith.

727
00:56:24,065 --> 00:56:27,359
This means they
have been reacting to TV signals...

728
00:56:27,569 --> 00:56:30,487
...they got from the 1930s.
They're just getting them.

729
00:56:30,697 --> 00:56:34,366
Imagine how disappointed
they're gonna be if they're Cubs fans.

730
00:56:34,534 --> 00:56:37,703
We now take you to Jeremy Roth,
who is reporting on events...

731
00:56:37,912 --> 00:56:41,373
...at the Very Large Array
near Socorro, New Mexico.

732
00:56:41,583 --> 00:56:43,417
Like a bolt from the blue it came.

733
00:56:43,585 --> 00:56:47,754
The message from Vega has caused
thousands of believers and non-believers...

734
00:56:47,922 --> 00:56:51,842
...to descend upon the VLA facility
here in the desert of New Mexico.

735
00:56:52,051 --> 00:56:54,553
Many have come to protest,
many to pray...

736
00:56:54,721 --> 00:56:59,558
...but most have come to participate
in what has become the best show in town.

737
00:57:59,576 --> 00:58:05,456
That's right. I'll be there in Vega,
thank you very much.

738
00:58:08,460 --> 00:58:11,379
Hail to Vega
Hail to Vega, Hail to Vega

739
00:58:11,547 --> 00:58:14,799
Hail to Vega

740
00:58:16,134 --> 00:58:17,802
But they have failed!

741
00:58:18,387 --> 00:58:20,930
It's the same people who,
again and again...

742
00:58:21,098 --> 00:58:23,516
...have brought us
to the brink of destruction.

743
00:58:23,725 --> 00:58:27,770
Who've polluted our air,
who've poisoned our water.

744
00:58:28,981 --> 00:58:30,982
Now these scientists...

745
00:58:31,983 --> 00:58:33,817
...have had their chance.

746
00:58:33,985 --> 00:58:37,404
Are these the kind of people...

747
00:58:37,572 --> 00:58:40,699
...that you want
talking to your God for you?

748
00:58:45,162 --> 00:58:47,247
Efforts continue around the clock.

749
00:58:47,582 --> 00:58:51,167
But for now, almost 2 full weeks
after the message's arrival...

750
00:58:51,335 --> 00:58:54,504
...scientists here at the VLA
still have no answers...

751
00:58:54,672 --> 00:58:56,423
...only more questions.

752
00:58:56,591 --> 00:59:00,302
Jeremy Roth, CNN,
Soccorro, New Mexico.

753
00:59:00,469 --> 00:59:03,805
More on the quest
for the message's meaning, after this.

754
00:59:06,642 --> 00:59:08,393
They gotta line up somehow.

755
00:59:08,561 --> 00:59:10,520
Yeah, well, this one doesn't fit, either.

756
00:59:10,688 --> 00:59:13,356
We've tried over a million permutations.

757
00:59:13,524 --> 00:59:17,027
Always, I can only get
three corners to fit.

758
00:59:18,029 --> 00:59:20,155
I don't understand their significance.

759
01:00:02,030 --> 01:00:04,740
What...? Somebody broke in...

760
01:00:11,081 --> 01:00:12,247
Hello?

761
01:00:13,166 --> 01:00:16,585
Hey, listen, I don't know who you are,
but you broke into the database...

762
01:00:19,422 --> 01:00:21,131
What? Now?

763
01:00:23,593 --> 01:00:24,760
Where?

764
01:00:37,774 --> 01:00:39,191
I'll be there.

765
01:01:06,803 --> 01:01:08,137
You should feel fortunate.

766
01:01:08,888 --> 01:01:10,389
He hardly lands for anyone.

767
01:01:41,962 --> 01:01:43,921
Dr. Arroway...

768
01:01:47,843 --> 01:01:49,177
...I presume?

769
01:01:50,471 --> 01:01:51,596
Mr. Hadden.

770
01:01:52,890 --> 01:01:56,142
I've had my eye on you
a long time, doctor.

771
01:01:56,935 --> 01:02:00,438
I consider you one of my
most valuable long-term investments.

772
01:02:02,316 --> 01:02:04,692
And when it comes to my investments...

773
01:02:06,487 --> 01:02:09,155
...I always do my homework.

774
01:02:13,869 --> 01:02:15,620
Eleanor Ann Arroway...

775
01:02:15,829 --> 01:02:18,331
...born 25th August, 1964...

776
01:02:18,540 --> 01:02:20,124
...De Pere, Wisconsin.

777
01:02:20,334 --> 01:02:24,545
Mother, Joanna, died
from complications during childbirth.

778
01:02:25,255 --> 01:02:27,965
Early testing indicated
high predisposition...

779
01:02:28,133 --> 01:02:31,219
...towards science and mathematics.

780
01:02:31,887 --> 01:02:33,054
Father, Theodore...

781
01:02:33,222 --> 01:02:36,766
...advised to provide
enrichment activities along these lines...

782
01:02:36,975 --> 01:02:39,727
...did so conscientiously
until his death...

783
01:02:39,895 --> 01:02:44,564
...from myocardial infarction,
November 10, 1974.

784
01:02:45,149 --> 01:02:48,401
You graduated from
high school in 1979...

785
01:02:48,569 --> 01:02:50,695
...almost two full years early.

786
01:02:52,114 --> 01:02:56,493
Awarded full scholarship, M.I. T,
graduated magna cum laude.

787
01:02:57,453 --> 01:02:59,162
Doctoral work, Cal Tech...

788
01:02:59,372 --> 01:03:02,707
...where you did breakthrough work
on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser...

789
01:03:02,875 --> 01:03:07,003
...dramatically increasing
the sensitivity of radio telescopes.

790
01:03:07,338 --> 01:03:11,049
Subsequently offered a teaching position
at Harvard University...

791
01:03:11,259 --> 01:03:14,344
...which you turned down
to pursue SETI work...

792
01:03:14,554 --> 01:03:17,973
...at the Arecibo Observatory
in Puerto Rico.

793
01:03:20,393 --> 01:03:26,248
Changes in NSF policy
gave rise to certain funding problems...

794
01:03:27,733 --> 01:03:31,736
...at which point
you came to my attention.

795
01:03:33,072 --> 01:03:35,282
You compromised our security codes.

796
01:03:37,743 --> 01:03:39,578
Once upon a time...

797
01:03:41,581 --> 01:03:43,832
...I was a hell of an engineer.

798
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,418
Please, sit, doctor.

799
01:03:46,586 --> 01:03:51,715
I have guests so rarely, it's important to me
that they feel welcome in my home.

800
01:03:52,300 --> 01:03:54,050
You live here?

801
01:03:55,261 --> 01:03:58,597
I find it convenient
to keep my interests...

802
01:03:59,765 --> 01:04:00,891
...mobile.

803
01:04:03,477 --> 01:04:08,397
Anyway, I've had my fill
of life on the ground.

804
01:04:08,899 --> 01:04:11,025
Well, I... I guess I should...

805
01:04:11,484 --> 01:04:15,279
Well, I guess I should thank you
for having bailed me out all that time.

806
01:04:20,619 --> 01:04:22,745
I know a good bet when I see one.

807
01:04:25,123 --> 01:04:28,334
Earl Grey. No sugar, no milk, I believe.

808
01:04:31,296 --> 01:04:33,130
What am I doing here?

809
01:04:43,475 --> 01:04:46,602
The powers that be
have been very busy lately...

810
01:04:47,437 --> 01:04:52,775
...falling over each other to position
themselves for the game of the millennium.

811
01:04:59,032 --> 01:05:01,825
Maybe I can help deal you back in.

812
01:05:03,078 --> 01:05:05,496
I didn't realize that I was out.

813
01:05:05,997 --> 01:05:08,290
No, maybe not out...

814
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,293
...but certainly being handed your hat.

815
01:05:16,716 --> 01:05:20,386
I've had a long time
to make enemies, doctor.

816
01:05:23,974 --> 01:05:27,810
And there are many governments,
business interests...

817
01:05:27,978 --> 01:05:31,980
...even religious leaders that
would like to see me depart this earth.

818
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:35,984
And I'll grant them their wish
soon enough.

819
01:05:36,527 --> 01:05:40,071
But before I do,
I wish to make a small contribution.

820
01:05:40,823 --> 01:05:45,410
A final gesture of goodwill to the people
of this little planet that have given...

821
01:05:48,205 --> 01:05:50,999
From whom I have taken so much.

822
01:05:54,461 --> 01:05:55,920
You found the primer.

823
01:05:58,340 --> 01:06:00,216
Clever girl.

824
01:06:00,384 --> 01:06:01,426
Lights.

825
01:06:10,019 --> 01:06:13,187
Pages and pages of data.

826
01:06:13,355 --> 01:06:16,482
Over 63,000 in all.

827
01:06:16,650 --> 01:06:18,735
And on the perimeter of each...

828
01:06:18,902 --> 01:06:22,530
Alignment symbols, a registration mark,
but they don't line up.

829
01:06:23,115 --> 01:06:26,284
They do, if you think like a Vegan.

830
01:06:27,202 --> 01:06:30,204
An alien intelligence
has got be more advanced...

831
01:06:30,372 --> 01:06:34,459
...and that means efficiency
functioning on multiple levels...

832
01:06:34,626 --> 01:06:38,463
...and in multiple dimensions.

833
01:06:42,426 --> 01:06:44,844
Yes, of course!

834
01:06:45,012 --> 01:06:46,054
Where's the primer?

835
01:06:46,555 --> 01:06:47,972
You'll see.

836
01:06:48,474 --> 01:06:52,935
Every three-dimensional page
contains a piece of the primer.

837
01:06:55,104 --> 01:06:58,607
There it was all the time,
staring you in the face.

838
01:06:59,692 --> 01:07:03,612
Buried within the message itself
is the key to decoding it.

839
01:07:03,780 --> 01:07:07,032
Within the layering of the matrix,
we have these basic equations:

840
01:07:08,993 --> 01:07:13,038
So with this very elementary foundation,
they have given us a kind of...

841
01:07:13,206 --> 01:07:15,791
...general scientific vocabulary.

842
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,293
We now have the symbols
for true and false...

843
01:07:18,503 --> 01:07:19,795
This was the key...

844
01:07:19,962 --> 01:07:22,464
...that allowed us
to decipher their language...

845
01:07:22,673 --> 01:07:26,343
...for physics, geometry, chemistry.
Next frame, Ellie.

846
01:07:27,553 --> 01:07:31,515
Yes, and when we apply this
to the rest of the message...

847
01:07:32,266 --> 01:07:33,350
...we find this.

848
01:07:37,939 --> 01:07:40,857
Those look like engineering schematics,
almost like blueprints.

849
01:07:41,025 --> 01:07:42,651
Yeah.

850
01:07:42,819 --> 01:07:43,902
Yes.

851
01:07:44,070 --> 01:07:47,364
It is our belief that
the message contains instructions...

852
01:07:47,573 --> 01:07:51,034
...for building something,
some kind of machine.

853
01:07:51,202 --> 01:07:54,329
A machine? That does what, doctor?

854
01:07:54,497 --> 01:07:56,706
We don't know.
It might be some type...

855
01:07:57,667 --> 01:08:03,213
...of advanced communication device,
or a teaching machine of some kind.

856
01:08:03,714 --> 01:08:07,008
Or it might turn out to be
some kind of a transport.

857
01:08:07,426 --> 01:08:09,886
- Transport?
- There's no proof of that.

858
01:08:10,054 --> 01:08:13,890
The fact is, you don't know what it does.
It could be anything.

859
01:08:14,058 --> 01:08:17,393
Could be a Trojan horse. We build it
and out pours the entire Vegan army.

860
01:08:17,561 --> 01:08:20,229
Why bother risking the personnel?
It could be a weapon.

861
01:08:20,438 --> 01:08:22,731
Right. Some kind of
a doomsday machine.

862
01:08:22,899 --> 01:08:25,401
Exactly. Every time they detect
a new civilization...

863
01:08:25,569 --> 01:08:28,028
...they fax these construction documents
from space.

864
01:08:28,196 --> 01:08:31,824
We poor saps build whatever this is
and blow ourselves to kingdom come.

865
01:08:31,992 --> 01:08:34,910
There's no reason to believe
that their intentions are hostile.

866
01:08:35,078 --> 01:08:39,415
Why is the default position of the egghead
set that aliens would always be benign?

867
01:08:39,583 --> 01:08:42,042
- Why is that, doctor?
- We pose no threat to them.

868
01:08:42,210 --> 01:08:46,630
It would be like us going out of our way
to destroy microbes on an anthill in Africa

869
01:08:46,798 --> 01:08:48,382
That's an interesting analogy.

870
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:52,970
And how guilty would we feel if we
destroyed a few microbes on an anthill?

871
01:08:53,138 --> 01:08:55,514
I hope you're right, doctor. I really do.

872
01:08:55,682 --> 01:08:59,143
But right now my job is to protect
American lives from any threat.

873
01:08:59,311 --> 01:09:01,645
In that regard, I am obligated
to assume the worst.

874
01:09:01,897 --> 01:09:03,981
Well, yes, and I am forced
to agree with you.

875
01:09:04,149 --> 01:09:05,566
My problem is this:

876
01:09:06,193 --> 01:09:09,403
The content of that message
is morally ambiguous at best.

877
01:09:10,071 --> 01:09:13,616
Now, our internal numbers show
support for this is incredibly soft.

878
01:09:13,783 --> 01:09:16,452
If the president wishes
to stay this course...

879
01:09:16,620 --> 01:09:19,288
...you're gonna find his numbers
going south like a duck.

880
01:09:19,456 --> 01:09:21,874
- This is nuts.
- Excuse me...

881
01:09:22,042 --> 01:09:23,459
...miss.

882
01:09:23,627 --> 01:09:26,003
We know nothing
of these creatures' values.

883
01:09:26,171 --> 01:09:28,964
The fact is, we don't even know
whether they believe in God.

884
01:09:29,132 --> 01:09:32,885
- This doesn't make any sense. If you...
- Excuse me, Dr. Arroway.

885
01:09:33,094 --> 01:09:35,554
We won't be suppressing
any opinions here today.

886
01:09:36,431 --> 01:09:39,141
No, of course not.
I understand.

887
01:09:39,559 --> 01:09:41,476
What I meant to say...

888
01:09:41,644 --> 01:09:45,104
...is the message was written
in the language of science.

889
01:09:45,272 --> 01:09:48,650
Now, if it had been religious in nature,
it should have taken the form...

890
01:09:48,817 --> 01:09:51,444
...of a burning bush
or a booming voice from the sky.

891
01:09:51,654 --> 01:09:53,738
But a voice from the sky...

892
01:09:54,823 --> 01:09:57,659
...is exactly what you found,
Doctor Arroway.

893
01:10:01,038 --> 01:10:02,997
I'm sorry I'm late, ma'am.

894
01:10:03,165 --> 01:10:08,378
Now, I agree with Mr. Rank
that there are unavoidable...

895
01:10:08,587 --> 01:10:10,755
...religious implications at stake here.

896
01:10:10,923 --> 01:10:13,341
But that doesn't justify
taking an alarmist position.

897
01:10:15,386 --> 01:10:18,137
My hope here is that we can find
a common ground...

898
01:10:18,305 --> 01:10:21,015
...break through any obstacles
that may have kept us apart.

899
01:10:21,183 --> 01:10:24,602
- Well, perhaps...
- Listen, I need to make one thing very clear.

900
01:10:24,812 --> 01:10:29,440
Our organization will not be placated
with flowery New Age rhetoric...

901
01:10:30,442 --> 01:10:31,943
Mr. President.

902
01:10:33,404 --> 01:10:35,697
The President met
with his top advisors today...

903
01:10:35,864 --> 01:10:39,284
...regarding the latest efforts
to decode the message.

904
01:10:39,451 --> 01:10:44,122
While there has been some progress,
the official line remains a cautious one.

905
01:10:44,290 --> 01:10:48,918
If you're asking when we'll find out
what the purpose of that machine is...

906
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,630
...maybe tomorrow,
maybe next year, maybe never.

907
01:10:57,052 --> 01:11:01,639
There he is. The man with his finger
on the spiritual pulse of the nation.

908
01:11:03,017 --> 01:11:06,435
- It's so good to see you, Ellie.
- You too.

909
01:11:07,687 --> 01:11:11,648
Your discovery, all of this.
It must be a real vindication.

910
01:11:12,317 --> 01:11:13,984
I'm really happy for you.

911
01:11:14,610 --> 01:11:18,572
- Are you?
- Mr. Joss, the president is waiting.

912
01:11:19,949 --> 01:11:23,076
- Okay. Yeah.
- The president is waiting.

913
01:11:26,998 --> 01:11:30,876
- Ellie, see you at the reception tonight?
- Yeah, I wouldn't miss it.

914
01:11:31,044 --> 01:11:32,919
All right, great.

915
01:11:42,930 --> 01:11:45,265
Excuse me, Miss Constantine,
may I speak to you?

916
01:11:45,433 --> 01:11:46,850
Certainly.

917
01:11:48,603 --> 01:11:50,812
- I have a big problem.
- Yes?

918
01:11:50,980 --> 01:11:52,481
Um...

919
01:11:52,648 --> 01:11:55,442
Do you know where I can find,
like, a really great dress?

920
01:12:12,126 --> 01:12:18,465
God created man in the form of himself,
not in the form of monkeys!

921
01:12:20,301 --> 01:12:22,469
- The Lord is God!
- Praise God.

922
01:12:22,637 --> 01:12:26,848
- Praise the Lord!
- You're wasting my tax dollars!

923
01:12:27,642 --> 01:12:31,268
Get a job.
Don't waste my tax dollars.

924
01:12:31,436 --> 01:12:33,187
You hear me?

925
01:12:52,165 --> 01:12:53,958
Wow.

926
01:12:56,503 --> 01:12:58,170
You look beautiful, Ellie.

927
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,174
- So do you.
- You really do.

928
01:13:05,846 --> 01:13:07,304
I read your book.

929
01:13:08,265 --> 01:13:09,765
Here we go.

930
01:13:09,933 --> 01:13:12,017
Would you like me to quote you?

931
01:13:12,185 --> 01:13:17,189
"Ironically, the thing that people
are most hungry for, meaning...

932
01:13:17,357 --> 01:13:20,693
...is the one thing that science
hasn't been able to give them."

933
01:13:20,861 --> 01:13:23,737
Yeah. Yeah.

934
01:13:24,364 --> 01:13:29,160
Come on. It's like you're saying
that science killed God.

935
01:13:29,327 --> 01:13:32,538
What if science simply revealed...

936
01:13:32,706 --> 01:13:35,207
...that he never existed
in the first place?

937
01:13:38,545 --> 01:13:41,714
- I think we're gonna need to get some air.
- What?

938
01:13:41,882 --> 01:13:43,716
And a few more of these.

939
01:13:45,135 --> 01:13:47,386
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

940
01:13:48,388 --> 01:13:51,557
- A little chilly out here.
- Yeah, this is nice.

941
01:13:51,725 --> 01:13:53,099
- I got one for you.
- What?

942
01:13:53,267 --> 01:13:55,018
Occam's razor.
Ever heard of it?

943
01:13:55,227 --> 01:13:57,896
Hoccam's razor.
Sounds like some slasher movie.

944
01:13:58,063 --> 01:14:01,649
No, Occam's Razor.
It's a basic scientific principle. It says...

945
01:14:01,817 --> 01:14:05,403
...all things being equal, the simplest
explanation tends to be the right one.

946
01:14:05,571 --> 01:14:07,197
- Makes sense to me.
- All right.

947
01:14:07,364 --> 01:14:10,158
- So, what's more likely? Thank you.
- You're welcome.

948
01:14:10,326 --> 01:14:12,952
An all-powerful, mysterious God
created the universe...

949
01:14:13,162 --> 01:14:15,997
...and then decided not to give
any proof of his existence?

950
01:14:16,165 --> 01:14:21,002
Or that he simply doesn't exist at all
and that we created him...

951
01:14:21,170 --> 01:14:23,671
...so we wouldn't have to feel
so small and alone.

952
01:14:24,590 --> 01:14:25,840
I don't know.

953
01:14:26,008 --> 01:14:30,011
I couldn't imagine living in a world
where God didn't exist.

954
01:14:30,679 --> 01:14:32,347
I wouldn't want to.

955
01:14:33,015 --> 01:14:35,433
How do you know that
you're not deluding yourself?

956
01:14:36,101 --> 01:14:39,354
I mean, for me, I'd need proof.

957
01:14:40,189 --> 01:14:41,689
Proof?

958
01:14:44,568 --> 01:14:47,070
- Did you love your father?
- What?

959
01:14:47,238 --> 01:14:49,030
Your dad, did you love him?

960
01:14:50,032 --> 01:14:52,867
Yes. Very much.

961
01:14:55,704 --> 01:14:57,247
Prove it.

962
01:15:03,754 --> 01:15:04,796
Kent.

963
01:15:06,131 --> 01:15:09,133
- The White House.
- Mr. Joss.

964
01:15:10,302 --> 01:15:13,263
I don't want excuses.
Whoever is responsible, I want their head.

965
01:15:13,430 --> 01:15:16,390
- Ellie?
- What happened?

966
01:15:16,558 --> 01:15:17,975
You were right all along.

967
01:15:18,142 --> 01:15:21,270
The decryption team at the VLA
has been working around the clock...

968
01:15:21,437 --> 01:15:24,147
...and the hard work has finally paid off.

969
01:15:24,315 --> 01:15:28,277
This key section, uncovered tonight
and obtained exclusively by CNN...

970
01:15:28,444 --> 01:15:31,071
...shows an illustration
of what is of a human figure...

971
01:15:31,239 --> 01:15:34,074
...inside a geometric structure
of some kind.

972
01:15:34,242 --> 01:15:36,076
This and other contextual clues...

973
01:15:36,244 --> 01:15:39,329
...now lead scientists to believe
that the message is, in fact...

974
01:15:39,497 --> 01:15:43,041
- President called an emergency meeting.
- Yeah, I imagine he would.

975
01:15:43,209 --> 01:15:46,336
- Designed to take
a single human occupant into space...

976
01:15:46,504 --> 01:15:49,172
...presumably to the star Vega.

977
01:16:07,692 --> 01:16:09,651
I'm gonna miss
my mother's birthday party.

978
01:16:09,819 --> 01:16:12,696
Call her in the morning,
tell her why you didn't show up.

979
01:16:12,864 --> 01:16:14,364
Tell me.

980
01:16:14,532 --> 01:16:15,657
They're gonna build it.

981
01:16:15,825 --> 01:16:16,867
Who gets to go?

982
01:16:17,035 --> 01:16:20,370
The president's just gone international
to spread the risk and cost...

983
01:16:20,538 --> 01:16:22,080
Who gets to go, though?

984
01:16:22,248 --> 01:16:23,874
Well, it's complicated, Ellie.

985
01:16:24,792 --> 01:16:25,834
What?

986
01:16:26,002 --> 01:16:28,837
They have formed a group
of international candidates.

987
01:16:29,005 --> 01:16:31,048
Now, it's your discovery.

988
01:16:31,466 --> 01:16:35,344
Okay, they understand that.
You're at the top of a very short list.

989
01:16:35,511 --> 01:16:38,055
But they're also putting together
a selection committee.

990
01:16:38,222 --> 01:16:42,391
It's made of scholars, theologians,
scientists, philosophers...

991
01:16:42,559 --> 01:16:43,559
You're on it.

992
01:16:44,770 --> 01:16:46,062
I've been asked, yes.

993
01:16:49,024 --> 01:16:50,691
I guess that means...

994
01:16:51,276 --> 01:16:54,028
...that you're a selector,
I'm a selectee and we can't...

995
01:16:54,196 --> 01:16:55,529
Yeah.

996
01:16:55,697 --> 01:16:58,115
What you don't understand, Ellie, is...

997
01:16:58,283 --> 01:17:00,409
- I understand.
- Ellie...

998
01:17:01,036 --> 01:17:05,373
I want you to know, whatever happens,
as far as I'm concerned...

999
01:17:05,957 --> 01:17:07,458
Well...

1000
01:17:08,627 --> 01:17:10,211
...good luck.

1001
01:17:14,216 --> 01:17:17,677
Well, whatever you do, make sure
he doesn't monopolize the committee.

1002
01:17:17,844 --> 01:17:19,929
He is not on the committee, Ellie.

1003
01:17:21,682 --> 01:17:23,099
What?

1004
01:17:23,892 --> 01:17:26,936
He just resigned as science advisor.
He wants to be the one to go.

1005
01:17:29,147 --> 01:17:32,441
The president is already
beginning to feel the financial pinch.

1006
01:17:32,734 --> 01:17:34,819
Sources say the cost of the project...

1007
01:17:34,986 --> 01:17:38,614
...is spiraling
to more than a third of a trillion dollars...

1008
01:17:38,782 --> 01:17:42,368
...making this what may be
the most expensive single project...

1009
01:17:42,577 --> 01:17:44,453
...in all of human history.

1010
01:17:44,663 --> 01:17:47,998
Meanwhile, months of debate finally
reached a conclusion last week...

1011
01:17:48,166 --> 01:17:51,293
...as 10 candidates
were selected by the IMC...

1012
01:17:51,461 --> 01:17:55,423
...representing a cross section of
political, philosophical and religious views.

1013
01:17:55,632 --> 01:17:58,509
Many of these are the same experts
who have been consulting...

1014
01:17:58,677 --> 01:18:00,720
...on the Machine's design and function.

1015
01:18:00,929 --> 01:18:05,140
They will be actively participating on-site
during the construction process.

1016
01:18:05,307 --> 01:18:08,643
But the choice of these 10 candidates
has not been without controversy.

1017
01:18:08,811 --> 01:18:11,646
Fully one-third of the candidates
are American.

1018
01:18:11,814 --> 01:18:14,566
Many international observers
are asking why.

1019
01:18:14,734 --> 01:18:17,861
The U.S. Is shouldering an
enormous percentage of the financial...

1020
01:18:18,070 --> 01:18:21,030
Isn't it true that the contractors,
like Hadden Industries...

1021
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:24,576
...are making those contributions
in exchange for technology rights?

1022
01:18:24,785 --> 01:18:28,288
Different nations are being compensated
in different ways. For example...

1023
01:18:28,456 --> 01:18:33,001
Japan made headlines when it announced it
would forego candidate representation...

1024
01:18:33,169 --> 01:18:36,379
...in exchange for the systems integration
subcontract.

1025
01:18:36,547 --> 01:18:41,509
On what basis do you choose
a human being to represent humanity?

1026
01:18:41,719 --> 01:18:42,927
Good question, Larry.

1027
01:18:43,095 --> 01:18:45,054
Yes, well, if nothing else...

1028
01:18:45,222 --> 01:18:49,225
...it should be somebody who is fluent in
the language the message was given in.

1029
01:18:49,393 --> 01:18:50,602
Science, in this case.

1030
01:18:51,228 --> 01:18:53,646
Doctor Arroway,
despite your obvious enthusiasm...

1031
01:18:53,856 --> 01:18:56,065
...there's been a lot of criticism of late...

1032
01:18:56,317 --> 01:18:58,818
...that this whole endeavor
is simply too dangerous.

1033
01:18:58,986 --> 01:19:01,571
Some of that criticism from scientists.

1034
01:19:01,781 --> 01:19:04,574
One Nobel Prize winner recently noted,
his words:

1035
01:19:05,367 --> 01:19:07,076
"There is every indication...

1036
01:19:07,286 --> 01:19:11,080
"...that this is simply beyond our
capabilities, that this endeavor will fail..."

1037
01:19:11,290 --> 01:19:14,918
"...and that the Machine's occupant
will pay for that failure with their life."

1038
01:19:15,085 --> 01:19:16,753
How do you respond to that?

1039
01:19:16,962 --> 01:19:20,340
Well, this message is from
a civilization that may be anywhere...

1040
01:19:20,549 --> 01:19:24,260
...from hundreds to millions
and millions of years ahead of us.

1041
01:19:24,512 --> 01:19:27,679
I have to believe that
an intelligence that advanced...

1042
01:19:28,306 --> 01:19:30,307
...knows what they're doing.

1043
01:19:31,226 --> 01:19:35,187
Now all it requires on our part is...

1044
01:19:35,355 --> 01:19:36,396
Faith?

1045
01:19:39,484 --> 01:19:41,568
I was gonna say a sense of adventure.

1046
01:19:41,778 --> 01:19:42,986
And in breaking news...

1047
01:19:43,571 --> 01:19:44,863
...a former astronaut...

1048
01:19:45,073 --> 01:19:48,909
...considered to be the leading American
candidate for the Machine seat...

1049
01:19:49,118 --> 01:19:51,411
...has unexpectedly dropped out
of the running.

1050
01:19:51,830 --> 01:19:54,915
Russell met with reporters this afternoon
at his Houston home.

1051
01:19:55,250 --> 01:19:59,211
I told my dad
that I didn't want him to go.

1052
01:19:59,420 --> 01:20:01,129
Daddy, don't go.

1053
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,885
Nothing would give me more pride
than to...

1054
01:20:07,554 --> 01:20:09,555
...represent my country.

1055
01:20:09,722 --> 01:20:11,932
But what can I say to this?

1056
01:20:12,517 --> 01:20:16,353
Consortium officials had no comment,
but sources within the delegation...

1057
01:20:16,521 --> 01:20:18,522
...have disclosed that Dr. Arroway...

1058
01:20:18,690 --> 01:20:22,776
...appears to now be the front-runner
for the Machine seat.

1059
01:20:23,611 --> 01:20:25,988
"Meet me at noon. Must talk."

1060
01:20:26,155 --> 01:20:28,907
I didn't expect to be getting
a message like this from you.

1061
01:20:29,075 --> 01:20:30,284
Thanks for coming.

1062
01:20:30,493 --> 01:20:33,453
So is this kosher?
Fraternizing with the enemy?

1063
01:20:33,621 --> 01:20:37,124
Selectors and selectees mingling around?

1064
01:20:37,292 --> 01:20:39,459
Can we talk about Einstein?

1065
01:20:39,627 --> 01:20:41,795
Yeah, sure. Okay.

1066
01:20:41,963 --> 01:20:43,380
- Special relativity.
- Yeah.

1067
01:20:43,548 --> 01:20:45,173
This machine...

1068
01:20:45,758 --> 01:20:50,678
...now, if it works, and you travel to Vega
at even close to the speed of light...

1069
01:20:50,846 --> 01:20:53,347
...when you come back...
- If you come back.

1070
01:20:55,517 --> 01:20:57,518
If you come back...

1071
01:20:57,686 --> 01:21:01,981
...you'll only be 4 years older, but over
50 years would have passed here on Earth.

1072
01:21:02,149 --> 01:21:03,858
Basically, yeah.

1073
01:21:04,359 --> 01:21:06,944
And everybody that you care about...

1074
01:21:07,821 --> 01:21:10,156
...will be gone, dead and buried.

1075
01:21:10,991 --> 01:21:14,994
If you came back,
if you survived at all, which...

1076
01:21:16,330 --> 01:21:20,041
Look, Palmer, nobody's saying
this isn't dangerous, all right?

1077
01:21:20,208 --> 01:21:24,337
The rest of the candidates and myself,
we fully understand the risks we're taking.

1078
01:21:24,504 --> 01:21:25,755
Why?

1079
01:21:25,923 --> 01:21:28,633
Because it's a historic opportunity.
The world needs...

1080
01:21:28,842 --> 01:21:31,469
No, you, Ellie.
You. You personally.

1081
01:21:32,512 --> 01:21:35,306
By doing this,
you're willing to give your life.

1082
01:21:35,515 --> 01:21:37,683
You're willing to die for it.

1083
01:21:39,519 --> 01:21:40,811
Why?

1084
01:21:44,524 --> 01:21:48,235
From as long as I can remember,
I've been searching for...

1085
01:21:48,862 --> 01:21:50,529
...something...

1086
01:21:50,739 --> 01:21:54,533
...some reason why we're here.
What are we doing here? Who are we?

1087
01:21:55,535 --> 01:21:59,413
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...

1088
01:22:00,916 --> 01:22:03,918
I don't know,
I think it's worth a human life.

1089
01:22:04,586 --> 01:22:06,128
Don't you?

1090
01:22:12,636 --> 01:22:15,261
You're an incredibly brave woman, Ellie.

1091
01:22:18,057 --> 01:22:20,183
Or incredibly nuts.

1092
01:22:42,248 --> 01:22:43,748
Palmer...

1093
01:22:49,463 --> 01:22:51,548
I'm really confused.

1094
01:22:52,842 --> 01:22:54,092
So am I.

1095
01:22:55,344 --> 01:22:58,930
I think I speak for us all
when I thank you for your patience.

1096
01:22:59,140 --> 01:23:02,600
Myself, I have one final question,
Dr. Arroway.

1097
01:23:04,103 --> 01:23:06,438
If you should meet these Vegans...

1098
01:23:06,647 --> 01:23:10,942
...and were permitted only
one question to ask of them...

1099
01:23:11,110 --> 01:23:12,777
...what would it be?

1100
01:23:14,238 --> 01:23:16,281
Well, I suppose it would be:

1101
01:23:16,449 --> 01:23:18,116
"How did you do it?"

1102
01:23:18,659 --> 01:23:23,121
"How did you evolve? How did you
survive this technological adolescence..."

1103
01:23:23,289 --> 01:23:25,206
"...without destroying yourself?"

1104
01:23:25,958 --> 01:23:30,837
That more than any other question is one
I personally would like to have answered.

1105
01:23:31,172 --> 01:23:33,006
Not too bad, Mike.

1106
01:23:33,674 --> 01:23:34,966
I join Dr. Bergeron...

1107
01:23:35,134 --> 01:23:38,594
...in expressing thanks for
your patience, Dr. Arroway.

1108
01:23:38,803 --> 01:23:41,305
We've all been most impressed
with your candor...

1109
01:23:41,473 --> 01:23:43,515
...and your stamina.

1110
01:23:43,683 --> 01:23:46,852
I believe we are ready to move on
to your final statement.

1111
01:23:47,020 --> 01:23:48,937
Madam Chairman,
I have one more question.

1112
01:23:49,105 --> 01:23:50,856
Yes, Mr. Joss.

1113
01:23:51,483 --> 01:23:53,484
Dr. Arroway...

1114
01:23:54,861 --> 01:23:57,196
Would you consider yourself...

1115
01:23:57,697 --> 01:24:00,324
...a spiritual person?

1116
01:24:02,994 --> 01:24:04,745
Uh...

1117
01:24:05,497 --> 01:24:08,832
I don't really understand
the point of the question.

1118
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,877
I consider myself a moral person.

1119
01:24:12,045 --> 01:24:14,004
I'm sure we all agree that is the case...

1120
01:24:14,172 --> 01:24:16,673
...but I think what Mr. Joss
is in fact asking...

1121
01:24:16,841 --> 01:24:18,675
Do you believe in God...

1122
01:24:20,678 --> 01:24:22,679
...Dr. Arroway?

1123
01:24:27,185 --> 01:24:29,603
As a scientist...

1124
01:24:29,771 --> 01:24:33,232
...I rely on empirical evidence,
and in this matter...

1125
01:24:33,399 --> 01:24:37,111
...I don't believe
that there is data either way.

1126
01:24:37,695 --> 01:24:42,116
So your answer would in fact be
that you don't believe in God.

1127
01:24:45,537 --> 01:24:48,580
I don't understand the relevance
of the question.

1128
01:24:49,290 --> 01:24:54,419
Dr. Arroway,
95 percent of the world's population...

1129
01:24:54,587 --> 01:24:58,549
...believes in a supreme being
in one form or another.

1130
01:24:59,717 --> 01:25:02,927
I believe that makes the question
more than relevant.

1131
01:25:05,597 --> 01:25:07,306
Dr. Arroway?

1132
01:25:17,234 --> 01:25:19,235
I believe, um...

1133
01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:25,741
I believe I've already
answered that question.

1134
01:25:29,788 --> 01:25:33,291
I'm proud of what
we've achieved as a species...

1135
01:25:33,458 --> 01:25:35,459
...and as a civilization.

1136
01:25:37,129 --> 01:25:39,630
I would hate to see
everything we stand for...

1137
01:25:39,798 --> 01:25:43,718
...all that we have fought for
for a thousand generations...

1138
01:25:43,927 --> 01:25:46,262
...all that God has blessed us with...

1139
01:25:47,598 --> 01:25:49,140
...betrayed...

1140
01:25:50,100 --> 01:25:54,687
...in the final hour because we chose to
send a representative who did not put our...

1141
01:25:55,189 --> 01:25:57,982
...most cherished beliefs first.

1142
01:26:01,278 --> 01:26:02,445
Thank you.

1143
01:26:35,686 --> 01:26:36,978
Why did you do it?

1144
01:26:41,567 --> 01:26:45,737
Our job was to select someone
to speak for everybody.

1145
01:26:49,033 --> 01:26:52,494
I just couldn't in good conscience
vote for a person...

1146
01:26:52,662 --> 01:26:54,663
...who doesn't believe in God.

1147
01:26:56,707 --> 01:26:58,083
Someone who...

1148
01:26:58,251 --> 01:27:01,670
...honestly thinks
the other 95 percent of us...

1149
01:27:01,879 --> 01:27:04,839
...suffer from some form
of mass delusion.

1150
01:27:08,010 --> 01:27:10,095
I told the truth up there.

1151
01:27:11,389 --> 01:27:14,891
And Drumlin told you exactly
what you wanted to hear.

1152
01:27:50,051 --> 01:27:52,636
With full humility and utmost gratitude...

1153
01:27:52,804 --> 01:27:55,014
...I accept this great honor...

1154
01:27:55,223 --> 01:27:59,268
...and I promise I will do my best
to represent my nation...

1155
01:27:59,436 --> 01:28:04,565
...my planet and my God
on this historic journey.

1156
01:28:04,733 --> 01:28:07,067
I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

1157
01:28:49,652 --> 01:28:52,613
There's
a carnival atmosphere at Cape Canaveral...

1158
01:28:52,781 --> 01:28:54,823
...as the International
Machine Consortium...

1159
01:28:54,991 --> 01:28:58,452
...hosts as much a media event
as a systems test.

1160
01:28:58,953 --> 01:29:02,623
David Drumlin is supervising
the on-site portion of the test.

1161
01:29:02,832 --> 01:29:04,625
We spoke with him earlier today.

1162
01:29:04,793 --> 01:29:07,294
We'll be able to monitor
the stresses and effects...

1163
01:29:07,462 --> 01:29:09,797
...using the robot passenger...

1164
01:29:10,298 --> 01:29:12,591
...who we lovingly call Elmer.

1165
01:29:12,758 --> 01:29:15,885
We are coming up
on T-minus two hours and counting.

1166
01:29:16,053 --> 01:29:18,096
All Machine systems are go.

1167
01:29:18,263 --> 01:29:21,140
Dr. Arroway, the press would like to
ask you a few questions...

1168
01:29:21,308 --> 01:29:23,976
...as soon as they're done
with Dr. Drumlin.

1169
01:29:25,270 --> 01:29:27,522
Now, at the moment
where we release the pod...

1170
01:29:27,689 --> 01:29:31,275
...there will be a substantial
amount of energy generated at the core.

1171
01:29:31,777 --> 01:29:34,153
We'll be able to monitor
the stresses and effects...

1172
01:29:34,321 --> 01:29:38,491
...using our robot passenger,
who we lovingly call Elmer.

1173
01:29:39,993 --> 01:29:41,619
- Thank you.
- Welcome.

1174
01:29:41,787 --> 01:29:43,704
The test area is clear and go.

1175
01:29:43,872 --> 01:29:46,666
Sir, they're ready for you out at the site.

1176
01:29:46,834 --> 01:29:48,459
Yeah, just a minute.

1177
01:29:49,503 --> 01:29:52,797
The test director has issued a go
to enter the final countdown phase.

1178
01:29:52,965 --> 01:29:54,298
Ellie.

1179
01:29:54,466 --> 01:29:56,843
- Congratulations, David.
- Glad you could come.

1180
01:29:58,178 --> 01:30:00,638
Didn't, uh, expect to see you here.

1181
01:30:01,348 --> 01:30:06,185
Well, I'm still, you know,
Crew Ops at the Control Center.

1182
01:30:06,854 --> 01:30:10,857
And I suppose the fact that I discovered
the message means that I have PR value.

1183
01:30:11,024 --> 01:30:12,692
Of course.

1184
01:30:14,194 --> 01:30:17,363
Ellie, I know you must think
this is all very unfair.

1185
01:30:18,031 --> 01:30:20,324
And maybe that's an understatement.

1186
01:30:21,410 --> 01:30:23,786
What you don't know is, I agree.

1187
01:30:24,371 --> 01:30:27,665
I wish the world was a place
where fair was the bottom line.

1188
01:30:27,833 --> 01:30:31,043
Where the kind of idealism you showed
at the hearing was rewarded...

1189
01:30:31,211 --> 01:30:33,504
...not taken advantage of.

1190
01:30:35,215 --> 01:30:38,341
Unfortunately,
we don't live in that world.

1191
01:30:40,386 --> 01:30:41,887
Funny...

1192
01:30:42,930 --> 01:30:46,391
...I always believed that the world
is what we make of it.

1193
01:30:48,060 --> 01:30:51,229
Excuse me, Dr. Drumlin, sir?

1194
01:30:52,857 --> 01:30:54,399
Good luck on the test.

1195
01:30:54,650 --> 01:30:56,985
- The pad leader has issued the order...
- Thank you.

1196
01:30:57,153 --> 01:31:00,322
...to clear the pad of all nonessential...
- Right this way, sir.

1197
01:31:04,827 --> 01:31:08,705
Test director, everything looks good
up here. We're ready to go.

1198
01:31:08,873 --> 01:31:11,875
All right, people, I want
things double and triple checked here.

1199
01:31:12,043 --> 01:31:15,629
We only get one shot at this.
Let's get it right.

1200
01:31:15,796 --> 01:31:18,882
Ladies and gentlemen,
we are ready for startup.

1201
01:31:19,091 --> 01:31:22,427
All controllers, I need a go-no-go
for test initiation.

1202
01:31:22,595 --> 01:31:23,595
- Mechanical?
- Go.

1203
01:31:23,763 --> 01:31:24,804
- Electrical?
- Go.

1204
01:31:24,972 --> 01:31:26,056
- Dynamics?
- Go.

1205
01:31:26,224 --> 01:31:27,516
- Communications?
- Go.

1206
01:31:27,683 --> 01:31:28,725
- Pod systems?
- Go

1207
01:31:28,893 --> 01:31:30,435
- Safety?
- Go.

1208
01:31:30,603 --> 01:31:33,522
Crew Ops, verify all pre-test
procedures are complete.

1209
01:31:33,689 --> 01:31:35,106
Yes, verified. I'm go.

1210
01:31:35,274 --> 01:31:37,776
Pad leader, we are good.
Is everything okay with you?

1211
01:31:37,944 --> 01:31:40,612
Roger. The pad is a go.

1212
01:31:40,780 --> 01:31:43,615
Test initiation, on my mark.

1213
01:31:44,075 --> 01:31:45,450
Five...

1214
01:31:45,618 --> 01:31:46,868
...four...

1215
01:31:47,036 --> 01:31:48,328
...three...

1216
01:31:48,496 --> 01:31:49,704
...two...

1217
01:31:50,122 --> 01:31:51,623
...one.

1218
01:31:51,791 --> 01:31:53,208
Mark.

1219
01:31:53,376 --> 01:31:55,126
- Test start.
- Rings are unlocked.

1220
01:31:55,294 --> 01:31:57,045
Power levels indicate a good start.

1221
01:31:57,213 --> 01:32:00,089
We have begun the full-scale
test of Earth's first system...

1222
01:32:00,257 --> 01:32:03,801
...built by the sharing of knowledge
with a neighbor in our universe.

1223
01:32:03,969 --> 01:32:06,220
All power sources on core induction bus.

1224
01:32:06,388 --> 01:32:08,013
IPV power transfer.

1225
01:32:08,181 --> 01:32:11,934
Ring motion detect.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie.

1226
01:32:12,978 --> 01:32:16,021
- Gerry, how are we looking?
- Looks good. We're underway.

1227
01:32:16,189 --> 01:32:17,940
Looks like we have a normal startup.

1228
01:32:18,108 --> 01:32:20,651
Roger, David.
It's looking good here.

1229
01:32:26,283 --> 01:32:29,410
We are moments away from
the initiation of the drop sequence.

1230
01:32:29,578 --> 01:32:31,579
All systems are go.

1231
01:32:33,707 --> 01:32:36,333
- Mechanical, you still happy?
- Roger that.

1232
01:32:36,501 --> 01:32:39,962
I'll tell you, this is very exciting
from up here.

1233
01:32:42,132 --> 01:32:45,759
- We've got 4 percent.
- We're confirming 4 percent.

1234
01:32:47,012 --> 01:32:50,347
Frequency 9.85.

1235
01:32:50,515 --> 01:32:56,270
Harmonics in the green.
G-level 1.1.

1236
01:32:56,438 --> 01:32:59,773
- Five percent.
- Confirmed. We are at 5 percent.

1237
01:32:59,941 --> 01:33:01,692
David, how's it looking to you?

1238
01:33:01,860 --> 01:33:04,695
Okay. I'm gonna take a look
and show you what we got.

1239
01:33:04,863 --> 01:33:07,031
All test-subject instrumentation
looks good.

1240
01:33:07,198 --> 01:33:10,868
Confirmed, we have a good picture
from Dr. Drumlins PRD.

1241
01:33:11,036 --> 01:33:13,495
Hope you guys are seeing
what I'm seeing.

1242
01:33:13,872 --> 01:33:15,789
All systems are go.

1243
01:33:17,375 --> 01:33:18,959
This is really something.

1244
01:33:19,169 --> 01:33:20,836
For purposes of this test...

1245
01:33:21,004 --> 01:33:25,214
...Dr. Drumlin will be on top of
the gantry crane that's over the Machine.

1246
01:33:25,382 --> 01:33:27,550
We've got some video animation...

1247
01:33:27,718 --> 01:33:31,220
...to show you just how this machine,
it is thought, will work.

1248
01:33:31,388 --> 01:33:33,056
The passenger pod will be released.

1249
01:33:33,265 --> 01:33:37,602
It will come down through the center of
the rings and into the Machine's core.

1250
01:33:37,770 --> 01:33:41,856
The big question everyone here is asking is,
of course, what happens then?

1251
01:33:42,024 --> 01:33:46,861
Some believe that the rings function as
some sort of an accelerator or something...

1252
01:33:47,029 --> 01:33:49,656
...sending its energy
into this passenger pod...

1253
01:33:49,823 --> 01:33:52,533
...making it rocket away
at near the speed of light.

1254
01:33:52,743 --> 01:33:57,372
Other people believe it might open up
a doorway to some other dimension.

1255
01:33:57,539 --> 01:34:01,000
Who's right?
Well, that's what today's test is all about.

1256
01:34:01,627 --> 01:34:04,087
- Thirty-five percent.
- Subsystems, are you ready?

1257
01:34:04,254 --> 01:34:07,423
- Forty percent normal acceleration.
- Roger, confirm 40 percent.

1258
01:34:07,633 --> 01:34:10,593
All controllers stand by
to initiate drop sequence...

1259
01:34:10,761 --> 01:34:12,345
...on my mark.

1260
01:34:12,513 --> 01:34:14,847
All systems ready for drop sequence.

1261
01:34:15,015 --> 01:34:17,266
Forty-five percent.

1262
01:34:17,434 --> 01:34:19,602
We're reading 45 percent.

1263
01:34:20,604 --> 01:34:22,605
Can you verify closure?

1264
01:34:23,899 --> 01:34:25,441
Forty-six.

1265
01:34:25,609 --> 01:34:30,279
All controllers stand by
to initiate IPV drop sequence. On my mark.

1266
01:34:30,948 --> 01:34:32,699
Forty-eight percent.

1267
01:34:33,325 --> 01:34:35,743
Test director,
I'm feeling a very strange vibration.

1268
01:34:35,911 --> 01:34:37,120
Are you feeling it down there?

1269
01:34:37,287 --> 01:34:39,247
Gerry, can you confirm any vibration?

1270
01:34:39,790 --> 01:34:41,624
Negative, everything looks good here.

1271
01:34:41,792 --> 01:34:43,793
- Crew Ops?
- Nothing wrong with Elmer.

1272
01:34:43,961 --> 01:34:45,795
We're not seeing anything abnormal.

1273
01:34:45,963 --> 01:34:48,755
No good. Hold the sequence.
I'm gonna take a direct reading.

1274
01:34:49,257 --> 01:34:52,634
- What the hell is he talking about?
- Can anyone say grandstanding?

1275
01:34:52,802 --> 01:34:54,803
He sure knows he's on TV!

1276
01:34:54,971 --> 01:34:58,098
Back home that's what we call
an overcooked ham.

1277
01:34:58,266 --> 01:35:00,767
I'm reading 10 kilohertz!

1278
01:35:00,935 --> 01:35:03,729
What's your reading on the first
and second order G-levels?

1279
01:35:03,938 --> 01:35:05,814
G-levels are right on.

1280
01:35:06,315 --> 01:35:09,818
We confirm Drumlins readings
and they're all normal. We're go.

1281
01:35:09,986 --> 01:35:11,486
Copy that, Dynamics.

1282
01:35:11,654 --> 01:35:14,406
I think we're okay,
but we'll let him finish.

1283
01:35:15,616 --> 01:35:17,659
- Mechanical, you still okay?
- Roger, chief.

1284
01:35:17,827 --> 01:35:19,161
We're right on the money.

1285
01:35:19,328 --> 01:35:21,621
We've got a security problem here.

1286
01:35:21,789 --> 01:35:23,373
Ellie, are you sure?

1287
01:35:23,541 --> 01:35:25,834
Yeah. This guy, he shouldn't be there.
I know him.

1288
01:35:26,002 --> 01:35:28,962
Gerry, execute the
rapid shutdown sequence.

1289
01:35:29,130 --> 01:35:32,424
Security, move emergency
response team into position one.

1290
01:35:32,592 --> 01:35:35,177
- Get me Drumlin on a secure loop, please.
- You got him.

1291
01:35:35,344 --> 01:35:38,847
- David, can you hear me?
- Yes, I hear.

1292
01:35:39,015 --> 01:35:41,308
All right, we've got
a security breach here.

1293
01:35:41,684 --> 01:35:43,685
Right behind you.
The tall guy.

1294
01:35:44,187 --> 01:35:47,439
The technician. See him?

1295
01:35:49,484 --> 01:35:51,860
He's not supposed to be there.

1296
01:35:56,532 --> 01:35:59,201
David, he's got something in his hand!

1297
01:35:59,368 --> 01:36:01,912
Him! Take him!
Security breach!

1298
01:36:02,580 --> 01:36:03,705
He's got a bomb!

1299
01:36:03,873 --> 01:36:06,500
I want that emergency-response
team up on the gantry now.

1300
01:36:06,667 --> 01:36:08,335
Security, stage one alert.

1301
01:36:08,503 --> 01:36:13,005
By God, move all the fire and
rescue personnel into position one.

1302
01:36:49,584 --> 01:36:51,710
All right, all right, back to your stations.

1303
01:36:51,878 --> 01:36:55,005
I need you to be professional, people.
Settle down.

1304
01:36:55,215 --> 01:36:58,092
Pad leader, pad leader, do you copy?

1305
01:37:15,527 --> 01:37:18,195
The scene earlier today,
when David Drumlin...

1306
01:37:18,405 --> 01:37:20,114
...advisor to two presidents...

1307
01:37:20,282 --> 01:37:24,285
...and winner of the National Academy
of Sciences lifetime award...

1308
01:37:24,452 --> 01:37:28,247
...was laid to rest
at Arlington National Cemetery.

1309
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:33,878
In a related story, last night's raid...

1310
01:37:34,045 --> 01:37:35,587
Can I help you?

1311
01:37:35,754 --> 01:37:39,799
- Oh, you're... I've got some mail for you.
...resulted in the discovery of this video.

1312
01:37:39,967 --> 01:37:44,679
The suicide note of the leader of the
terrorist group now believed responsible...

1313
01:37:44,847 --> 01:37:47,390
...for the explosion in Florida this week.

1314
01:37:47,558 --> 01:37:52,562
What we do,
we do for the goodness of all mankind.

1315
01:37:53,230 --> 01:37:56,149
This won't be understood, not now...

1316
01:37:56,317 --> 01:37:58,276
...but the apocalypse to come...

1317
01:37:59,445 --> 01:38:01,613
...will vindicate our faith.

1318
01:38:25,930 --> 01:38:27,764
Welcome home.

1319
01:39:33,538 --> 01:39:35,914
Oh, Comrade Arroway...

1320
01:39:36,082 --> 01:39:39,376
...he has been expecting your call.
One moment, please.

1321
01:39:49,137 --> 01:39:50,345
Mr. Hadden?

1322
01:39:50,972 --> 01:39:52,305
Doctor.

1323
01:39:53,433 --> 01:39:55,225
How kind of you to call.

1324
01:39:55,935 --> 01:39:58,353
Mr. Hadden, where are you?

1325
01:40:00,064 --> 01:40:04,735
The Russian government was kind enough
to give me accommodations on Mir.

1326
01:40:05,570 --> 01:40:07,446
You're living on a space station?

1327
01:40:08,948 --> 01:40:11,283
It's quite simple, really.

1328
01:40:12,326 --> 01:40:15,912
The low-oxygen,
zero-gravity environment...

1329
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:20,792
...is the only thing keeping
the cancer from eating me alive.

1330
01:40:22,335 --> 01:40:25,046
Actually, I quite like it up here.

1331
01:40:25,505 --> 01:40:29,300
My little room has one hell of a view.

1332
01:40:36,475 --> 01:40:38,976
I wanna show you something.

1333
01:40:43,148 --> 01:40:45,608
Hokkaido Island.

1334
01:40:46,526 --> 01:40:48,903
The systems integration site.

1335
01:40:49,905 --> 01:40:52,156
Look closer.

1336
01:40:59,790 --> 01:41:03,417
First rule in government spending:

1337
01:41:03,585 --> 01:41:07,505
Why build one when you can have
two at twice the price?

1338
01:41:07,672 --> 01:41:11,467
Only, this one can be kept secret.

1339
01:41:11,635 --> 01:41:13,677
Controlled by Americans...

1340
01:41:13,845 --> 01:41:17,473
...built by the Japanese subcontractors...

1341
01:41:18,183 --> 01:41:21,769
...who also happen to be...

1342
01:41:21,937 --> 01:41:24,021
...recently acquired...

1343
01:41:24,189 --> 01:41:27,316
...wholly-owned subsidiaries...

1344
01:41:27,484 --> 01:41:29,860
...of Hadden Industries.
- Of Hadden Industries.

1345
01:41:33,031 --> 01:41:36,200
They still want
an American to go, doctor.

1346
01:41:39,830 --> 01:41:42,164
Wanna take a ride?

1347
01:42:24,290 --> 01:42:28,585
And augmenting our restraint and
communications console subsystem...

1348
01:42:28,752 --> 01:42:30,753
...we have your personal recording unit.

1349
01:42:30,921 --> 01:42:35,049
Normal, infrared and ultraviolet lenses.

1350
01:42:35,217 --> 01:42:39,262
Digital microchip good for
thousands of hours of recording.

1351
01:42:40,472 --> 01:42:42,557
Okay, look, I understand...

1352
01:42:42,725 --> 01:42:46,144
...the reason for recording
and documenting the mission.

1353
01:42:46,312 --> 01:42:49,147
But I just... I wanna go on record
one more time.

1354
01:42:49,315 --> 01:42:52,817
The transmitted specs
never said anything about any chair...

1355
01:42:53,068 --> 01:42:57,572
...or a restraining harness or survival gear.

1356
01:42:57,740 --> 01:42:59,574
Why can't we just trust the original...?

1357
01:42:59,742 --> 01:43:03,870
Doctor, both the IMC Board
and the SI team reviewed the matter...

1358
01:43:04,079 --> 01:43:07,832
...and concluded that
the design impact is negligible.

1359
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:09,708
Bottom line is...

1360
01:43:09,876 --> 01:43:12,211
...we're not putting anybody
aboard this machine...

1361
01:43:12,420 --> 01:43:15,422
...unless there is
some sort of minimal protection.

1362
01:43:15,590 --> 01:43:17,466
End of story.

1363
01:43:19,886 --> 01:43:23,138
- Okay.
- Ellie...

1364
01:43:24,015 --> 01:43:28,101
...we've been giving these to the astronauts
since the beginning of the space program.

1365
01:43:29,437 --> 01:43:31,730
It's never been made public, of course.

1366
01:43:31,940 --> 01:43:34,024
It's fast and it's painless.

1367
01:43:36,778 --> 01:43:39,655
I'm gonna travel 26 light years
to commit suicide?

1368
01:43:39,822 --> 01:43:42,032
Something may go wrong.

1369
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:44,952
There may be
an unforeseen mechanical failure.

1370
01:43:45,703 --> 01:43:48,789
You could be marooned, unable to return.

1371
01:43:49,958 --> 01:43:53,085
There are a thousand reasons
we can think of for you to have this...

1372
01:43:53,294 --> 01:43:56,463
...but mostly it's for the reasons
we can't think of.

1373
01:44:22,740 --> 01:44:23,865
Come in.

1374
01:44:25,410 --> 01:44:29,413
- Dr. Arroway, time to get ready.
- Thank you.

1375
01:44:40,090 --> 01:44:41,799
I know you don't have much time.

1376
01:44:41,967 --> 01:44:45,052
As soon as I found out about the Machine,
I called the president.

1377
01:44:45,262 --> 01:44:47,346
I came with Kitz.

1378
01:44:47,514 --> 01:44:49,807
I had to see you one more time.

1379
01:44:49,975 --> 01:44:51,726
- Oh, God, I'm sorry.
- It's okay.

1380
01:44:51,893 --> 01:44:53,769
No, I'm glad you came.

1381
01:44:53,937 --> 01:44:56,814
There's something I gotta say to you.

1382
01:44:57,691 --> 01:45:01,944
The reason I didn't vote for you to go was
a good reason, but it wasn't the real one.

1383
01:45:03,030 --> 01:45:05,031
I didn't vote for you to go...

1384
01:45:06,575 --> 01:45:08,743
...because I don't wanna lose you.

1385
01:45:09,786 --> 01:45:12,621
You find your way home, all right?

1386
01:45:29,014 --> 01:45:30,431
Twenty-three hours ago...

1387
01:45:30,599 --> 01:45:34,643
...the world was stunned by the
announcement of a second Machine...

1388
01:45:34,811 --> 01:45:37,938
...and its passenger,
Eleanor Ann Arroway.

1389
01:45:38,148 --> 01:45:41,734
Now the question
that's on everyone's mind:

1390
01:45:41,902 --> 01:45:43,903
Will history repeat itself?

1391
01:45:44,071 --> 01:45:46,364
With a piece of engineering
this complex...

1392
01:45:46,531 --> 01:45:50,618
...with so many unknowns,
could the unthinkable occur?

1393
01:45:50,786 --> 01:45:54,246
The security in Hokkaido
has been incredibly tight.

1394
01:45:54,414 --> 01:45:57,749
No reporters whatsoever
have been allowed near the site.

1395
01:48:19,724 --> 01:48:21,725
Thanks.

1396
01:48:38,284 --> 01:48:41,286
Magnetic restraint is secure.
All life support functions normal.

1397
01:48:41,496 --> 01:48:44,664
Roger that. Ellie, this is Control.
Do you copy?

1398
01:48:44,831 --> 01:48:47,166
Ellie to Control, reading you five-by-five.

1399
01:48:47,334 --> 01:48:51,420
- Comm 1, Give me Ellie's PRD.
- Video unit recording and transmitting.

1400
01:48:52,381 --> 01:48:54,924
- Are you reading me?
- That's affirmative.

1401
01:48:55,092 --> 01:48:57,385
Video looks good.

1402
01:48:57,553 --> 01:49:00,096
- Copy that, Control.
- Okay.

1403
01:49:00,264 --> 01:49:03,140
Ellie, we're gonna proceed
to button you up.

1404
01:49:03,308 --> 01:49:05,977
Roger, Control. I'm ready.

1405
01:49:09,398 --> 01:49:11,774
- Dynamics...
- I can confirm the walkway retraction.

1406
01:49:11,942 --> 01:49:12,942
- Systems?
- Go.

1407
01:49:13,110 --> 01:49:14,485
- Communications?
- Go.

1408
01:49:14,653 --> 01:49:16,320
- Life support?
- Go.

1409
01:49:16,488 --> 01:49:18,781
Ellie, we are go for closure.

1410
01:49:20,242 --> 01:49:22,118
I'm go here.

1411
01:49:22,995 --> 01:49:26,497
Mechanical, initiate
IPV closure sequence.

1412
01:49:28,125 --> 01:49:30,334
Hold on, let me get you a chair.

1413
01:49:31,044 --> 01:49:32,086
I'm go.

1414
01:49:32,254 --> 01:49:36,132
- It's nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz.
- You too.

1415
01:49:36,300 --> 01:49:38,134
Wouldn't peg him as a Polo man.

1416
01:49:47,686 --> 01:49:49,020
I got a visual on the door.

1417
01:49:49,187 --> 01:49:51,147
IPV escape system is armed.

1418
01:49:51,315 --> 01:49:53,316
Door is looking good.

1419
01:49:58,530 --> 01:50:00,197
Door alignment looks good.

1420
01:50:28,809 --> 01:50:30,894
Ellie, we are showing green
across the board.

1421
01:50:31,062 --> 01:50:34,397
Copy that, Control. IPV is secure.

1422
01:50:41,530 --> 01:50:43,531
We are at 30 percent.

1423
01:50:43,699 --> 01:50:44,991
Copy that, 30 percent.

1424
01:50:49,872 --> 01:50:52,540
- How you doing in there, EI?
- Kent?

1425
01:50:53,292 --> 01:50:56,086
- Is that you?
- That's a big affirmative.

1426
01:50:57,004 --> 01:50:58,588
Who let you in there, huh?

1427
01:50:58,756 --> 01:51:00,882
A higher power intervened.

1428
01:51:02,927 --> 01:51:04,260
Well, I'm glad you came.

1429
01:51:09,016 --> 01:51:10,183
Thirty-five percent.

1430
01:51:10,935 --> 01:51:12,435
Copy that, 35 percent.

1431
01:51:12,603 --> 01:51:13,937
- Mechanical?
- We're good.

1432
01:51:14,105 --> 01:51:15,438
Forty percent.

1433
01:51:19,068 --> 01:51:20,944
I'm picking up a moderate vibration here.

1434
01:51:22,113 --> 01:51:25,740
- Dynamics, can you confirm vibration?
- Everything looks good here.

1435
01:51:25,950 --> 01:51:29,202
She's feeling the same thing
they felt at the Cape at this point.

1436
01:51:29,370 --> 01:51:30,954
Ellie, the vibration is normal.

1437
01:51:31,122 --> 01:51:33,622
We are at 50 percent.
All systems nominal.

1438
01:51:33,790 --> 01:51:35,791
Copy that, 50 percent.

1439
01:51:40,964 --> 01:51:42,965
Vibration is getting a little stronger now.

1440
01:51:43,133 --> 01:51:45,968
We're picking up
some low-frequency noise.

1441
01:51:46,344 --> 01:51:49,430
- Mechanical, can you confirm?
- It looks fine to me.

1442
01:51:49,597 --> 01:51:52,975
- Roger. Gerry, what do you think?
- I'm still go.

1443
01:51:53,143 --> 01:51:54,768
People, we are still go.

1444
01:51:56,521 --> 01:51:58,981
What...? Something's happening.

1445
01:52:00,233 --> 01:52:02,901
I'm... There's...

1446
01:52:03,069 --> 01:52:05,904
There's a light. Do you see that?
I'm seeing some...

1447
01:52:06,656 --> 01:52:09,116
Something, some...

1448
01:52:09,284 --> 01:52:11,827
I can't tell whether it's daylight or not.

1449
01:52:11,995 --> 01:52:14,913
There it is again.
It's coming from the bottom.

1450
01:52:15,957 --> 01:52:17,499
Here, let me show you.
See that?

1451
01:52:17,667 --> 01:52:19,585
Negative.
Ellie, you're breaking up.

1452
01:52:19,753 --> 01:52:22,588
- Comm 1, can we boost her signal?
- Already at maximum.

1453
01:52:22,756 --> 01:52:24,298
Sixty-five percent.

1454
01:52:24,466 --> 01:52:26,175
The material is changing.

1455
01:52:26,342 --> 01:52:29,845
It's bordering on translucence.
But the system is intact.

1456
01:52:33,141 --> 01:52:37,519
It's gotta be some kind
of electromagnetic field.

1457
01:52:37,687 --> 01:52:40,689
- Are you reading this?
- Negative, we're seeing only interference.

1458
01:52:40,857 --> 01:52:46,195
It's becoming completely translucent.
I can't describe it. I can't even explain it.

1459
01:52:48,656 --> 01:52:49,698
Seventy percent.

1460
01:52:49,866 --> 01:52:52,201
People, we have intermittent comm,
but we are go.

1461
01:52:52,368 --> 01:52:56,829
- Initiate secondary drive systems.
- Initiating auxiliary booster sequence.

1462
01:52:57,039 --> 01:52:58,873
We're go for ignition.

1463
01:53:05,923 --> 01:53:08,382
We have auxiliary booster ignition.

1464
01:53:14,056 --> 01:53:15,556
Life support, how is she doing?

1465
01:53:15,724 --> 01:53:18,976
We still have data. Heart and respiration
are high but within limits.

1466
01:53:19,144 --> 01:53:20,228
Ellie, do you copy?

1467
01:53:20,437 --> 01:53:23,439
If you could hear, I am okay to go.

1468
01:53:27,236 --> 01:53:29,028
If you could hear me...

1469
01:53:32,115 --> 01:53:33,491
Eighty percent.

1470
01:53:33,659 --> 01:53:36,494
All vibration and G-levels are in the green.

1471
01:53:41,917 --> 01:53:44,252
Control, if you're reading me...

1472
01:53:44,419 --> 01:53:46,754
...I am okay to go. Okay to go.

1473
01:53:46,922 --> 01:53:50,716
- Eighty-five percent.
- All bearing tips are on the profile.

1474
01:53:51,593 --> 01:53:54,679
Ninety percent. We're detecting
some structural instability.

1475
01:53:54,847 --> 01:53:58,766
- Confirmed. Is she holding?
- We're within limits, barely.

1476
01:54:00,269 --> 01:54:06,190
I'm okay to go.

1477
01:54:12,114 --> 01:54:13,573
My God!

1478
01:54:24,625 --> 01:54:27,127
Okay to go. I'm okay.

1479
01:54:27,545 --> 01:54:29,045
Hundred percent target velocity.

1480
01:54:29,213 --> 01:54:30,422
Steve?

1481
01:54:30,590 --> 01:54:34,968
Tremendous EMI levels around the Machine.
All field measurements are off-scale.

1482
01:54:35,136 --> 01:54:37,596
Steve, we're approaching our abort limits.

1483
01:54:39,974 --> 01:54:41,057
Okay to go.

1484
01:54:46,272 --> 01:54:47,480
I hear her!

1485
01:54:47,648 --> 01:54:50,483
I hear her.
Barely, but she's there.

1486
01:54:50,651 --> 01:54:53,653
- Okay to go.
- She says she's okay to go.

1487
01:54:56,657 --> 01:54:58,783
Steve, we're real close.

1488
01:54:58,951 --> 01:55:01,828
- Electrical, reading in the core?
- Internal environment normal.

1489
01:55:01,996 --> 01:55:04,998
Inside the core, the weather's beautiful.

1490
01:55:09,086 --> 01:55:10,337
I'm okay to go.

1491
01:55:10,838 --> 01:55:14,299
Okay to go.
I'm okay to go.

1492
01:55:14,884 --> 01:55:17,218
Initiate drop sequence.

1493
01:55:19,805 --> 01:55:21,514
On my mark.

1494
01:55:22,224 --> 01:55:24,768
Ten, nine...

1495
01:55:25,853 --> 01:55:27,854
...eight...

1496
01:55:28,189 --> 01:55:31,191
...seven, six...

1497
01:55:31,359 --> 01:55:33,985
...five, four...

1498
01:55:34,153 --> 01:55:36,821
...three, two...

1499
01:55:36,989 --> 01:55:38,365
I'm okay to go.

1500
01:55:42,328 --> 01:55:44,119
Oh, God!

1501
01:55:53,380 --> 01:55:55,047
Ellie to Control.

1502
01:55:55,715 --> 01:55:58,066
Ellie to Control, do you read me?

1503
01:56:02,767 --> 01:56:05,166
Ellie to Control, do you read me?

1504
01:56:11,523 --> 01:56:14,942
I'm gonna try to keep recording.

1505
01:56:15,694 --> 01:56:20,239
I'm going through
some kind of a tunnel.

1506
01:56:34,921 --> 01:56:36,463
There's a light source ahead.

1507
01:56:36,965 --> 01:56:40,175
Brilliant and blue-white.

1508
01:56:41,386 --> 01:56:43,012
Residual radiation?

1509
01:56:54,774 --> 01:56:56,066
It's a star.

1510
01:56:56,651 --> 01:57:00,070
I must have gone through a wormhole.

1511
01:57:05,118 --> 01:57:06,535
It's Vega.

1512
01:57:17,755 --> 01:57:19,297
I'm in another wormhole now.

1513
01:57:22,968 --> 01:57:24,093
I had no idea.

1514
01:57:24,261 --> 01:57:26,054
A series of them.

1515
01:57:29,058 --> 01:57:30,308
They're alive.

1516
01:57:30,476 --> 01:57:34,437
It's like some kind of a transit system.

1517
01:57:35,439 --> 01:57:36,814
It's a subway.

1518
01:57:42,154 --> 01:57:43,946
Okay.

1519
01:57:44,114 --> 01:57:46,407
Okay, I've gotta keep talking.

1520
01:57:48,952 --> 01:57:52,830
It's a triple...
No, quadruple system.

1521
01:57:53,248 --> 01:57:54,499
It's beautiful.

1522
01:57:57,836 --> 01:57:59,253
They're alive.

1523
01:58:07,429 --> 01:58:09,097
Another wormhole!

1524
01:58:09,431 --> 01:58:11,265
This one is much more violent!

1525
01:59:44,692 --> 01:59:46,359
Some...

1526
01:59:46,819 --> 01:59:49,154
...celestial event...

1527
01:59:50,406 --> 01:59:52,115
No...

1528
01:59:52,283 --> 01:59:55,951
No words. No words...

1529
01:59:57,621 --> 01:59:59,830
...to describe it.

1530
02:00:01,249 --> 02:00:03,125
Poetry.

1531
02:00:04,294 --> 02:00:07,796
They should have sent a poet.

1532
02:00:08,089 --> 02:00:10,674
It's so beautiful.

1533
02:00:10,842 --> 02:00:12,301
Beautiful.

1534
02:00:14,137 --> 02:00:19,433
So beautiful.

1535
02:00:20,310 --> 02:00:23,199
I had no idea.

1536
02:00:24,300 --> 02:00:26,399
I had no idea.

1537
02:00:28,151 --> 02:00:31,487
I had no...

1538
02:00:32,781 --> 02:00:36,075
I had no idea.

1539
02:00:37,410 --> 02:00:39,916
I had no idea.

1540
02:00:40,917 --> 02:00:43,216
I had no idea.

1541
02:03:02,387 --> 02:03:03,762
Hi, Sparks.

1542
02:03:05,640 --> 02:03:07,140
Dad?

1543
02:03:14,607 --> 02:03:16,483
I missed you.

1544
02:03:22,115 --> 02:03:23,281
Aren't you...?

1545
02:03:23,491 --> 02:03:26,701
I'm sorry I couldn't
be there for you, sweetheart.

1546
02:03:36,504 --> 02:03:38,171
You're not real.

1547
02:03:39,674 --> 02:03:41,174
None of this is real.

1548
02:03:41,342 --> 02:03:43,510
That's my scientist.

1549
02:03:44,595 --> 02:03:48,974
When I was unconscious, you downloaded
my thoughts, my memory even.

1550
02:03:49,809 --> 02:03:51,852
Pensacola.

1551
02:03:54,355 --> 02:03:57,315
We thought this might
make things easier for you.

1552
02:04:10,829 --> 02:04:14,457
- Why did you contact us?
- You contacted us.

1553
02:04:14,624 --> 02:04:16,292
We were just listening.

1554
02:04:17,169 --> 02:04:18,461
And there are others?

1555
02:04:18,628 --> 02:04:20,254
Many others.

1556
02:04:25,093 --> 02:04:26,594
They all...

1557
02:04:26,761 --> 02:04:29,889
...travel here through that
transit system that you built?

1558
02:04:30,432 --> 02:04:31,932
We didn't build it.

1559
02:04:33,101 --> 02:04:34,602
We don't know who did.

1560
02:04:36,688 --> 02:04:39,648
No, they were gone
long before we ever got here.

1561
02:04:40,275 --> 02:04:42,109
Maybe someday they'll come back.

1562
02:04:42,944 --> 02:04:45,654
All the other civilizations that you find,
they come here?

1563
02:04:45,864 --> 02:04:47,072
Not all.

1564
02:04:48,867 --> 02:04:52,036
- Is this some test?
- No, no tests.

1565
02:04:54,956 --> 02:04:56,540
You have your mother's hands.

1566
02:05:06,718 --> 02:05:08,886
You're an interesting species...

1567
02:05:09,554 --> 02:05:11,514
...an interesting mix.

1568
02:05:12,432 --> 02:05:15,226
You're capable of
such beautiful dreams...

1569
02:05:16,269 --> 02:05:18,729
...and such horrible nightmares.

1570
02:05:19,898 --> 02:05:21,732
You feel so lost...

1571
02:05:22,317 --> 02:05:25,277
...so cut off, so alone.

1572
02:05:26,738 --> 02:05:28,489
Only you're not.

1573
02:05:30,574 --> 02:05:32,116
See...

1574
02:05:32,576 --> 02:05:34,202
In all our searching...

1575
02:05:34,411 --> 02:05:37,914
...the only thing we've found
that makes the emptiness bearable...

1576
02:05:38,082 --> 02:05:39,707
...is each other.

1577
02:05:43,462 --> 02:05:45,380
What happens now?

1578
02:05:46,423 --> 02:05:47,924
Now?

1579
02:05:48,842 --> 02:05:50,635
You go home.

1580
02:05:50,803 --> 02:05:52,220
Home?

1581
02:05:52,388 --> 02:05:55,473
But I have so many questions.

1582
02:05:55,641 --> 02:05:57,767
Do we get to come back?

1583
02:05:58,644 --> 02:06:00,895
This was just a first step.

1584
02:06:01,063 --> 02:06:02,814
In time, you'll take another.

1585
02:06:04,400 --> 02:06:06,776
But other people need to see
what I've seen...

1586
02:06:06,944 --> 02:06:09,988
This is the way it's been done
for billions of years.

1587
02:06:11,991 --> 02:06:14,617
- But I...
- Small moves, Ellie.

1588
02:06:16,078 --> 02:06:17,996
Small moves.

1589
02:07:01,080 --> 02:07:02,873
We've got video on Ellie.
Five-by-five.

1590
02:07:03,082 --> 02:07:04,958
She's through! She is in the net.

1591
02:07:05,126 --> 02:07:08,128
She's alive. Get the White House.
Get the president on the phone.

1592
02:07:08,296 --> 02:07:10,672
What's going on, Steve? How is she?
How is she?

1593
02:07:10,840 --> 02:07:12,549
Ellie, this is Control. Do you copy?

1594
02:07:12,717 --> 02:07:14,760
- What's going on?
- I don't know. Hang on.

1595
02:07:14,927 --> 02:07:16,553
- She is alive.
- Put her on the PA.

1596
02:07:16,721 --> 02:07:18,305
Ellie, just hold on tight.

1597
02:07:18,931 --> 02:07:22,225
We're still trying to determine
the nature of the malfunction...

1598
02:07:22,393 --> 02:07:24,895
...but the important thing is you're okay.

1599
02:07:25,063 --> 02:07:26,229
What?

1600
02:07:26,397 --> 02:07:30,192
It's all right, Ellie.
The important thing is that you're safe.

1601
02:07:31,152 --> 02:07:33,445
What malfunction?

1602
02:07:34,781 --> 02:07:36,239
What...?

1603
02:07:37,408 --> 02:07:39,034
What happened?

1604
02:07:40,370 --> 02:07:42,037
What day is this?

1605
02:07:42,705 --> 02:07:45,707
I'm sorry, Ellie,
did you say what day?

1606
02:07:46,793 --> 02:07:49,044
How long was I gone?

1607
02:07:50,797 --> 02:07:55,592
Ellie, the IPV dropped
straight through the Machine.

1608
02:07:55,760 --> 02:07:57,427
You didn't go anywhere.

1609
02:07:58,304 --> 02:08:01,640
But I did. I did go.

1610
02:08:01,808 --> 02:08:04,184
That's what I've been trying
to tell everyone.

1611
02:08:08,648 --> 02:08:11,733
But the headset
didn't record a single image?

1612
02:08:11,901 --> 02:08:14,528
Just this. Static.

1613
02:08:14,737 --> 02:08:15,779
Thank you.

1614
02:08:15,947 --> 02:08:19,365
Now, doctor, let me show you
what we saw.

1615
02:08:28,834 --> 02:08:32,670
Forty-three separate remote cameras
show exactly the same event.

1616
02:08:32,838 --> 02:08:34,380
The IPV dropped straight through.

1617
02:08:34,548 --> 02:08:38,134
Everyone who watched
saw exactly the same thing.

1618
02:08:38,301 --> 02:08:40,136
Nothing happened.

1619
02:08:41,471 --> 02:08:43,764
How do you explain this, doctor?

1620
02:08:45,767 --> 02:08:46,892
I can't.

1621
02:08:47,102 --> 02:08:48,561
I would encourage you...

1622
02:08:50,355 --> 02:08:54,525
...not to inflame this situation
beyond the facts.

1623
02:08:54,693 --> 02:08:58,112
Let us deal with this on the facts.

1624
02:08:58,280 --> 02:09:01,157
We are monitoring
what has actually happened.

1625
02:09:01,324 --> 02:09:06,662
We are taking what we believe
is factually appropriate steps.

1626
02:09:06,830 --> 02:09:10,040
Amid a flurry of accusations
and counter-accusations...

1627
02:09:10,250 --> 02:09:12,835
...by the nations representing
the Machine Consortium...

1628
02:09:13,003 --> 02:09:15,921
...the president has ordered
a special inquiry.

1629
02:09:16,131 --> 02:09:18,924
However, the appointment
to the committee of Michael Kitz...

1630
02:09:19,134 --> 02:09:21,969
...who has recently resigned
as National Security Advisor...

1631
02:09:22,137 --> 02:09:24,472
...has raised a number of eyebrows
on Capitol Hill.

1632
02:09:24,639 --> 02:09:28,434
I have made no decision to run for
Congress, I have announced no candidacy.

1633
02:09:28,602 --> 02:09:31,187
The fact that I resigned
as National Security Advisor...

1634
02:09:31,354 --> 02:09:33,063
...has nothing to do with anything...

1635
02:09:33,231 --> 02:09:36,400
...other than I want to devote
all of my energy to this inquiry.

1636
02:09:37,152 --> 02:09:41,821
The people of the world have a right
to know what really happened.

1637
02:09:42,656 --> 02:09:45,158
And yet every scientific
instrument confirms...

1638
02:09:45,326 --> 02:09:49,496
...the IPV was out of contact
for only a fraction of a second.

1639
02:09:49,663 --> 02:09:51,706
Isn't that correct, doctor?

1640
02:09:53,417 --> 02:09:55,710
A fraction of a second Earth time, yes.

1641
02:09:56,587 --> 02:09:57,837
Earth time?

1642
02:09:58,005 --> 02:10:01,633
Senator, I believe that the Machine
opened up a wormhole...

1643
02:10:01,801 --> 02:10:06,763
...a tunnel through the fabric of space-time,
also known as an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

1644
02:10:06,931 --> 02:10:11,059
Now, because of the effects of general
relativity, what I experienced as 18 hours...

1645
02:10:11,227 --> 02:10:13,478
...passed instantaneously on Earth.

1646
02:10:13,646 --> 02:10:17,982
Isn't it true that these wormholes you
speak of are merely theoretical predictions?

1647
02:10:18,150 --> 02:10:20,902
There is no evidence
they actually exist, is there?

1648
02:10:21,070 --> 02:10:22,779
There is no direct evidence, no.

1649
02:10:22,947 --> 02:10:24,697
Tell me something, doctor...

1650
02:10:24,865 --> 02:10:27,992
...why do you think these aliens
would go to all this trouble?

1651
02:10:28,160 --> 02:10:32,372
Bring you tens of thousands of light years
and then send you home without proof?

1652
02:10:33,040 --> 02:10:35,750
They said that's how it's been done
for billions of years.

1653
02:10:36,126 --> 02:10:39,712
That's very neat. You have no proof
because they didn't want you to have any.

1654
02:10:39,880 --> 02:10:44,634
A phenomenon known in psychiatric circles,
I believe, as a self-reinforcing delusion.

1655
02:10:45,219 --> 02:10:46,845
Is that what you think? Delusional?

1656
02:10:47,012 --> 02:10:51,140
Well, I do think you may have suffered
some kind of an episode. Yeah, I do.

1657
02:10:51,308 --> 02:10:54,185
Doctor, I'd like to propose
an alternate hypothesis...

1658
02:10:54,395 --> 02:10:58,064
...and I'd like you to bring
your scientific expertise to bear on it.

1659
02:10:58,232 --> 02:11:01,442
To fake a signal from Vega...

1660
02:11:02,111 --> 02:11:03,695
...what would you need?

1661
02:11:05,405 --> 02:11:09,199
You would need a satellite to transmit
the signal, but it would be impossible to...

1662
02:11:09,367 --> 02:11:13,287
You'd need a satellite and need launch
capabilities to put the satellite into orbit.

1663
02:11:13,454 --> 02:11:16,665
And the message itself.
To put something like this together...

1664
02:11:16,833 --> 02:11:19,126
...so complex,
drawing on many disciplines...

1665
02:11:19,294 --> 02:11:21,253
- Would be impossible.
- Impossible?

1666
02:11:22,547 --> 02:11:24,464
Impossible?

1667
02:11:24,632 --> 02:11:28,260
Is there anyone who might
have been up to the challenge?

1668
02:11:28,428 --> 02:11:30,888
Someone with extraordinary
technical expertise...

1669
02:11:31,055 --> 02:11:33,265
...enormous financial resources...

1670
02:11:33,433 --> 02:11:37,811
...someone perverse enough,
eccentric enough to come up with the idea?

1671
02:11:39,188 --> 02:11:40,230
Hadden?

1672
02:11:41,190 --> 02:11:43,650
S. R. Hadden.

1673
02:11:47,947 --> 02:11:50,991
You're implying that this was
all some kind of a hoax?

1674
02:11:51,159 --> 02:11:52,409
That he engineered this?

1675
02:11:52,577 --> 02:11:53,827
S. R. Hadden...

1676
02:11:53,995 --> 02:11:58,874
...a legendary power broker and manipulator
in perhaps his final bid for immortality.

1677
02:11:59,042 --> 02:12:01,710
Maybe he wanted to explore
and exploit new technologies...

1678
02:12:01,878 --> 02:12:04,087
...and get the governments
to pick up the tab.

1679
02:12:04,297 --> 02:12:07,049
Perhaps this was his
final altruistic gesture...

1680
02:12:07,300 --> 02:12:11,011
...to unite the world in some common goal.
Maybe all of the above.

1681
02:12:11,179 --> 02:12:16,099
S. R. Hadden, a brilliant
and complicated man.

1682
02:12:18,645 --> 02:12:22,898
Doctor, are you familiar
with the scientific precept...

1683
02:12:23,066 --> 02:12:25,192
...known as Occam's razor?

1684
02:12:31,406 --> 02:12:32,573
Yes.

1685
02:12:34,576 --> 02:12:36,661
It means that all things being equal...

1686
02:12:36,828 --> 02:12:39,330
...the simplest explanation
tends to be the right one.

1687
02:12:39,498 --> 02:12:41,040
Exactly.

1688
02:12:41,208 --> 02:12:43,668
Now, you tell me.
What is more likely here?

1689
02:12:43,835 --> 02:12:47,296
That a message from aliens
results in a magical machine...

1690
02:12:47,464 --> 02:12:50,174
...that whisks you away
to the center of the galaxy...

1691
02:12:50,384 --> 02:12:53,260
...to go windsurfing with your dad
and a split second later...

1692
02:12:53,428 --> 02:12:56,889
...returns you home
without a single shred of proof?

1693
02:12:57,057 --> 02:13:00,851
Or that your experience
is the result of being...

1694
02:13:01,019 --> 02:13:05,481
...the unwitting star in the farewell
performance of one S.R. Hadden?

1695
02:13:05,649 --> 02:13:09,443
A man with the means, motive and
opportunity to play you and the rest of us...

1696
02:13:09,695 --> 02:13:13,906
...as pawns in the biggest, most elaborate,
most expensive hoax of all time?

1697
02:13:15,200 --> 02:13:17,118
Dr. Arroway.

1698
02:13:18,996 --> 02:13:23,374
You come to us with no evidence,
no record...

1699
02:13:23,542 --> 02:13:25,334
...no artifacts.

1700
02:13:25,502 --> 02:13:29,672
Only a story that, to put it mildly,
strains credibility.

1701
02:13:30,799 --> 02:13:33,926
Over half a trillion dollars were spent.

1702
02:13:34,094 --> 02:13:37,096
Dozens of lives were lost.

1703
02:13:37,723 --> 02:13:42,435
Are you really gonna sit there
and tell us we should just take this all...

1704
02:13:43,186 --> 02:13:44,729
...on faith?

1705
02:13:48,734 --> 02:13:50,943
Please answer the question, doctor.

1706
02:13:54,864 --> 02:13:56,948
Is it possible that it didn't happen?

1707
02:13:57,116 --> 02:13:58,283
Yes.

1708
02:14:01,162 --> 02:14:04,289
As a scientist I must concede that.
I must volunteer that.

1709
02:14:08,627 --> 02:14:10,545
Wait a minute, let me get this straight.

1710
02:14:10,713 --> 02:14:14,591
You admit you have absolutely no
physical evidence to back up your story?

1711
02:14:14,925 --> 02:14:15,967
Yes.

1712
02:14:16,135 --> 02:14:19,179
You admit that you very well may have
hallucinated this whole thing?

1713
02:14:19,346 --> 02:14:22,140
- Yes.
- You admit that if you were in our position...

1714
02:14:22,308 --> 02:14:26,061
...you would respond with exactly the same
degree of incredulity and skepticism?

1715
02:14:26,228 --> 02:14:27,479
Yes.

1716
02:14:27,646 --> 02:14:30,607
Then why don't you simply withdraw
your testimony and concede...

1717
02:14:30,775 --> 02:14:35,945
...that this journey to the center of
the galaxy in fact never took place?

1718
02:14:38,949 --> 02:14:40,950
Because I can't.

1719
02:14:47,500 --> 02:14:51,169
I had an experience.

1720
02:14:52,838 --> 02:14:55,423
I can't prove it.
I can't even explain it.

1721
02:14:55,591 --> 02:14:58,676
But everything that I know as
a human being, everything I am...

1722
02:14:58,844 --> 02:15:00,970
...tells me it was real.

1723
02:15:03,015 --> 02:15:06,893
I was given something wonderful,
something that changed me forever.

1724
02:15:07,061 --> 02:15:08,603
A vision...

1725
02:15:08,771 --> 02:15:10,855
...of the universe...

1726
02:15:11,023 --> 02:15:13,691
...that tells us undeniably...

1727
02:15:13,859 --> 02:15:16,110
...how tiny and insignificant...

1728
02:15:16,277 --> 02:15:19,988
...and how rare and precious we all are.

1729
02:15:21,157 --> 02:15:23,575
A vision that tells us
that we belong to something...

1730
02:15:23,743 --> 02:15:29,414
...that is greater than ourselves,
that we are not... That none of us are alone.

1731
02:15:34,045 --> 02:15:38,048
I wish I could share that.

1732
02:15:40,552 --> 02:15:41,718
I wish...

1733
02:15:43,179 --> 02:15:47,224
...that everyone,
if even for one moment...

1734
02:15:47,392 --> 02:15:53,147
...could feel that awe
and humility and hope.

1735
02:15:53,565 --> 02:15:55,566
But...

1736
02:16:01,739 --> 02:16:04,032
That continues to be my wish.

1737
02:16:45,199 --> 02:16:48,534
Dr. Arroway, get a picture, please?
Get a photo over here?

1738
02:16:50,162 --> 02:16:51,787
Here comes Ellie.

1739
02:17:28,075 --> 02:17:30,993
Reverend Joss! Reverend Joss!

1740
02:17:31,161 --> 02:17:34,538
Reverend Joss, what do you believe?
What do you believe?

1741
02:17:38,794 --> 02:17:42,797
As a person of faith, I'm bound by
a different covenant than Dr. Arroway.

1742
02:17:44,549 --> 02:17:46,801
But our goal is one and the same.

1743
02:17:47,302 --> 02:17:48,928
The pursuit of truth.

1744
02:17:52,474 --> 02:17:53,766
I, for one, believe her.

1745
02:18:17,331 --> 02:18:20,208
So, what happens now?
We give her a medal?

1746
02:18:20,376 --> 02:18:23,253
I'd say at least a healthy grant.

1747
02:18:23,421 --> 02:18:26,881
I assume you read the confidential report
from the investigating committee?

1748
02:18:27,091 --> 02:18:28,842
I flipped through it.

1749
02:18:29,010 --> 02:18:33,221
I was especially interested
in the section on Arroway's video unit.

1750
02:18:34,015 --> 02:18:36,349
The one that recorded the static.

1751
02:18:37,601 --> 02:18:39,311
Continue.

1752
02:18:39,937 --> 02:18:43,773
The fact that it recorded static
isn't what interests me.

1753
02:18:48,612 --> 02:18:49,988
Continue.

1754
02:18:50,865 --> 02:18:52,699
What interests me...

1755
02:18:52,867 --> 02:18:56,703
...is that it recorded
approximately 18 hours of it.

1756
02:19:01,959 --> 02:19:03,877
That is interesting, isn't it?

1757
02:19:10,551 --> 02:19:14,387
You can see over there,
we're building 45 brand-new dishes.

1758
02:19:14,555 --> 02:19:18,516
And that means when you put them
together with all the radio telescopes...

1759
02:19:18,684 --> 02:19:20,185
...all over the world...

1760
02:19:20,353 --> 02:19:25,023
...then we get to hear farther into space
than anybody has ever heard before.

1761
02:19:25,191 --> 02:19:26,231
Yeah.

1762
02:19:26,399 --> 02:19:29,234
Are there other people
out there in the universe?

1763
02:19:30,278 --> 02:19:33,030
That's a good question.
What do you think, huh?

1764
02:19:33,615 --> 02:19:36,950
- I don't know.
- That's a good answer.

1765
02:19:37,827 --> 02:19:38,869
Skeptic, huh?

1766
02:19:40,163 --> 02:19:45,042
The important thing is that you all
keep searching for your own answers.

1767
02:19:45,210 --> 02:19:48,045
I'll tell you one thing
about the universe, though.

1768
02:19:48,213 --> 02:19:52,091
The universe is a pretty big place.

1769
02:19:53,093 --> 02:19:58,597
It's bigger than anything
anyone has ever dreamed of before.

1770
02:20:00,183 --> 02:20:01,850
So if it's just us...

1771
02:20:03,478 --> 02:20:06,271
...it seems like an awful waste of space.

1772
02:20:07,774 --> 02:20:09,149
Right?