Starman

OFFICER: Mike, call for back-up. Benny, you all right?

BENNY: I don't think so...

OFFICER: Benny, this is me. I'm going to take a look.

BENNY: Don't you think you should call a backup?

OFFICER: No, we can handle this.

BENNY: What did I tell you?

OFFICER: Probably kids.

OFFICER: Benny, there's nothing there.

BENNY: There is. They came out of the belly of the ship and then went to the first terrace and flew down into the houses.

OFFICER: Flew?! Oh, come on Benny...

BENNY: Right in line with that burning tree.

OFFICER: I don't see anything.

BENNY: It's there. The fog's thicker now, but it's there. What do you think started those fires?

OFFICER: Benny, God, take it easy...

BENNY: I don't want to scare them away.

JENNY: Do you have a good map of Death Valley?

CLERK: We should have. Let me see.

JENNY: You have one with two beds?

CLERK: Sure.

JENNY: I'll take that.

CLERK: Fill this out. Will this be cash or credit card?

JENNY: Credit card.

CLERK: I'll have to run your card off now.

JENNY: We're only going to be here a few hours...

CLERK: It's still the full price.

CLERK: What can I do for you folks?

JENNY: How much are your rooms?

CLERK: Thirty-seven fifty for one person, forty-nine fifty for two.

CLERK: Gate three. It's boarding now.

JENNY: Thank you.

CLERK: Have a nice trip.

COOK: Well, here we are... You go down that ramp there, you're sure to get a ride.

STAR MAN: Thank you.

COOK: And don't be shy about your English. You speak better than a lot of people I know. Take care of yourself.

COOK: What do you think of America?

STAR MAN: It is beautiful.

COOK: Do you have children?

STAR MAN: No.

COOK: They're damned expensive and a pain in the ass sometimes, but I wouldn't trade having them for anything.

COOK: Food. Eat. I prepare food. I work as a cook. That's how I make money.

STAR MAN: I understand.

COOK: What do you do?

STAR MAN: I make maps.

COOK: Hey, that sounds interesting. You like it?

STAR MAN: Eh... yes.

COOK: Make any money?

STAR MAN: No.

COOK: You don't get rich as a cook, either, believe me. I got a girl going to college this fall. The wife had to go back to nursing to help pay for it.

JENNY: Where did you stop last?

DRIVER: What the hell do you think you're doing?

JENNY: Where did you stop last?

DRIVER: Stay right there...

JENNY: What was your last stop?

DRIVER: Elmo's...

JENNY: Where's that?

DRIVER: About five miles back.

JENNY: No!!! No!!!

DRIVER: He's got a gun!!

FOX: Recognize this?

MAJOR BELL: It's a copy of the plaque NASA sent into space on the Pioneer probes.

FOX: Houston found it in the extraterrestrial's suit.

MAJOR BELL: They must have picked it up in space.

FOX: We're going... Damn! We'll tell the press that there was an accident. Chemical warfare spill. That cover cannot be violated in any way. Understand me, Shermin?

MAJOR BELL: Major Bell here, sir. We have to tell these people that we're friendly. That this whole thing was a mistake. Is anyone trying to contact the ship?

FOX: Shermin, I want you and Bell to start looking for the one on the ground.

SHERMIN: George... Do you hear me, George?

FOX: What?

SHERMIN: I just retired.

FOX: Shermin!! Shermin!!!

FOX: No deal.

SHERMIN: I'm afraid we can't let you go.

SHERMIN: Hello George.

FOX: Shermin...

SHERMIN: What's all this for?

FOX: We have a new directive. I'm taking over.

SHERMIN: We don't have to do it that way. We can catch him this time.

FOX: Washington thinks it's too late for that.

SHERMIN: I've never been taken off an assignment in my life. Give me twenty- four hours and I'll have him for you.

FOX: You're not hearing me.

SHERMIN: You can change a directive, George. You've done it before. Listen to me. He's going somewhere in Death Valley. Lathrop Wells was never anything but a bus stop. East is the nuclear site. There are no roads in there. She was teaching him to hitchhike. I'm telling you. We block the four roads into Death Valley and we got him.

FOX: We'll do that. But how are we going to hold him? He can change himself into a man. He can disappear.

SHERMIN: That's the chance we have to take.

FOX: No, we don't.

SHERMIN: Then you're going to have to do it without me.

FOX: You're a career intelligence officer, Shermin. You'll be in the air with us.

SHERMIN: You're talking about taking a life. The most unique life form on this planet. I think we're better than that.

SHERMIN: Maybe... look, this is just something to think about... from what I got at the shopping center, it was more scared than anything else... I don't feel it's as big a threat as you think it is...

FOX: Is that what's affecting your performance?

SHERMIN: I'm not being unpatriotic, and I'm doing my damndest to catch them. Bell's up on 80 and I'm down here on 70 past Grand Junction. They're heading west. If they're not flying we have a damn good chance of getting them. All I'm asking is that you people think about it.

FOX: You just do your job, Shermin. We'll make the policy.

FOX: We're growing very concerned back here. There's no use pretending otherwise. We're rapidly approaching a 'condition red.' People are beginning to ask difficult questions.

SHERMIN: I'll make this as simple as I can, George. They disappeared.

FOX: I don't care where you're from you just can't disappear into thin air.

SHERMIN: George, listen to what you're saying. This thing's changed itself into a man. Disappearing may not be that big a deal.

FOX: So far you've let it cross the heart of America. For two days it has been absorbing information that is detrimental to our security. I don't see the humor in that.

SHERMIN: You sure you want this, because... that's putting an awful lot of faith in people we have no control over...

FOX: I'm afraid the situation demands that kind of risk.

SHERMIN: I don't like it, George...

FOX: Dammit Shermin. Earlier you were asking for help. What's changed?

SHERMIN: It's messy... the thing's got a gun... We're just asking for somebody to get killed...

FOX: We don't know what else to do. We need results.

SHERMIN: You'll get results one way or the other, that's for sure... Okay.

FOX: I'm gonna be here if you need anything.

SHERMIN: The extraterrestrial now looks like this.

FOX: Oh shit!!!

FOX: Why did you let it get into a populated area?

SHERMIN: It's taken on a disguise.

FOX: Clarify that.

SHERMIN: It's made itself look like the woman's dead husband.

SHERMIN: George, we've just confirmed the existence of the live extraterrestrial.

FOX: When can we expect containment?

SHERMIN: Well, we're in pursuit of a green Mustang...

FOX: It's in a green Mustang?

SHERMIN: Yes. It's kidnapped a woman at gunpoint and from what we can make out is forcing her to drive it somewhere.

SHERMIN: Then it's not an accident that they found us.

FOX: We don't think that's necessarily bad. At least it's a point of contact.

SHERMIN: Not necessarily bad! If they knew we were here why didn't they let us know they were coming?

FOX: We'll get those answers when you find the one you're looking for.

SHERMIN: That's not going to happen, George, unless you get us the help you promised us.

FOX: We've been back and forth on this all day and keeping in mind the panic that would occur if this got to the general public, it's been decided not to expand the search at this time.

SHERMIN: Don't let them do it this way, George. It's too important. We can't find this thing alone.

FOX: You have to. We're trying to contact the ship. If we do, I'll let you know immediately. Good luck.

FOX: Contain it and get back to me.

SHERMIN: What do you mean by 'contain?'

SHERMIN: We'll need a lot of help, George. You could hide an army up here.

FOX: I'm going to the White House right now. I'll try and get you everything you need.

SHERMIN: Wait, wait... What are my orders if we find this thing?

SHERMIN: It's real, George.

FOX: There's no mistake? You're absolutely sure?

SHERMIN: I saw it with my own eyes. We've killed an extraterrestrial and...

FOX: Is there any possibility that it's a hoax? Could you be mistaken?

SHERMIN: None. And there's another one in the area that's alive. I don't know if it's the only one. I don't know if it was left here by accident or it's part of an inva...

FOX: Get the body out of there. Load it on the Air Force chopper and get it to Wright Patterson. They'll take it from there... We didn't expect this, Shermin.

SHERMIN: Neither did I.

JENNY: I won't let anyone hurt you.

FOX: Watch it. They're coming out.

FOX: Mrs. Haydn...

FOX: This is George Fox...

JENNY: I want to speak to Marc Shermin.

FOX: You can speak to me, Mrs. Haydn. I'm in charge of this operation now.

JENNY: If I don't speak to Mr. Shermin, I'm hanging up.

FOX: Okay...

SHERMIN: Mrs. Haydn...

JENNY: He doesn't want to hurt anybody. Please leave him alone.

SHERMIN: Is he on his way to Lathrop Wells?

JENNY: Mr... I'm sorry, what was your name again?

SHERMIN: Marc Shermin.

JENNY: Mr. Shermin, I'm hanging up now. If you want to ask me any questions, call me at home in a couple of days. I'm in the book.

SHERMIN: Do you know what you were kidnapped by?

SHERMIN: Is the man who kidnapped you there now?

JENNY: I told you. He let me go. I'm on my way home.

SHERMIN: Get a highway patrol unit over there.

SHERMIN: This is Marc Shermin. Where are you, Mrs. Haydn?

JENNY: I don't know. Someplace called Elmo's. Look, I just wanted to tell you that I'm all right and I'm on my way home.

SHERMIN: You've been through quite an ordeal, Mrs. Haydn. Why don't you stay where you are and let us pick you up? We'll fly you home.

JENNY: No. You'll want to ask a lot of questions I don't want to answer right now. I already have a ride.

STAR MAN: Tell the baby about me.

JENNY: I will.

STAR MAN: Goodbye.

STAR MAN: I love you.

JENNY: I'm never going to see you again, am I?

STAR MAN: No.

STAR MAN: What do I do now?

JENNY: You say you love me and kiss me 'goodbye.'

JENNY: Well...

STAR MAN: I must go.

JENNY: Where do you think you're going?

STAR MAN: Thank you, Jennyhaydn. You are good. I must go alone now.

JENNY: I said I would get you to your ship and that's where we're going to say goodbye.

STAR MAN: The yellow one.

JENNY: Oh, wow... I'll tell you what. When the baby is born, we'll go out in my back yard and wave to you.

STAR MAN: I will wave to you.

STAR MAN: There.

JENNY: Where?

JENNY: I'm sure we could find a country and western station.

STAR MAN: No, thank you.

JENNY: How long will it take you to get home?

STAR MAN: Many, many days and nights...

JENNY: Would you put some of your singing in this for the baby?

STAR MAN: You want the baby to laugh at me.

JENNY: Yes.

JENNY: This is yours...

STAR MAN: If you want to keep it, you can.

JENNY: I'd like to...

JENNY: It'll tell you pretty much everything about us...

STAR MAN: This is very interesting. We are born knowing our history. We have other books. But not a book like this.

JENNY: Any words you don't know you can find in the dictionary.

STAR MAN: I understand.

JENNY: It'll give you the different countries, how they came to be, what they are now, how America came to be, the governments, the languages... everything.

STAR MAN: Many of my people will not believe those things are possible. On my planet there is only one government, one people, one language. I will be asked a lot of questions.

JENNY: What will you say about us?

STAR MAN: I will say that we can be friends.

JENNY: We can.

JENNY: This is crazy. We don't have time for this.

STAR MAN: I know how to gamble now.

JENNY: You won ten dollars. Big deal. If we don't get a good ride before dark we could miss your ship.

STAR MAN: I want to get money for you and the baby.

JENNY: I don't need any money for the baby. I'll be fine.

STAR MAN: Inflation, tuition, college. Children are damned expensive. I know.

JENNY: The cook again?

STAR MAN: Yes.

JENNY: If I ever run into that guy, I'm going to kick his ass.

JENNY: Here are two quarters. When you lose these, you're not going to get anymore.

STAR MAN: I understand. Thank you.

STAR MAN: May I have twenty-five cents, please?

JENNY: What for?

STAR MAN: I want to gamble.

STAR MAN: The cowboys were right. You can make money fast gambling.

JENNY: You don't make money gambling. You lose it.

STAR MAN: They are beautiful.

JENNY: Yes, they are.

STAR MAN: You have been very good to me, Jennyhaydn. You said you wanted a baby, so I gave you one.

JENNY: But...

STAR MAN: It will be human and it will look like this. But when it comes it will know everything I know and everything you know. That is something from my planet that I want your baby to have.

JENNY: I told you it's impossible for me to have a baby.

STAR MAN: You will have this baby. If you want it. If you don't, I can stop it now.

JENNY: Oh, you're pretty...

STAR MAN: I gave you a baby last night.

JENNY: Hello... hello. How are you this morning?

STAR MAN: Do they talk?!

JENNY: No, they don't talk... We talk to them.

STAR MAN: I understand.

JENNY: Good morning.

STAR MAN: Horses.

JENNY: You don't forget anything, do you?

STAR MAN: No.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Nothing.

STAR MAN: You are cold.

JENNY: You're damn right I am.

STAR MAN: I do not get cold.

JENNY: Why don't you send one of your radio balloons and tell your captain that you might be late?

STAR MAN: I used the last one to jump off the cliff...

JENNY: Let's find a place out of the rain. I'm sure we'll get a ride in the morning.

STAR MAN: I can't be late. I don't know if the radio balloons work above your planet. I don't know if my words went to the ship. If I'm not there, the captain will think I'm dead and go.

JENNY: We'll get a ride in the morning.

JENNY: What are you saying?

STAR MAN: You can stop. I will go on alone.

JENNY: We're too far away to walk. Don't you understand?

JENNY: We're not going to get a ride tonight.

STAR MAN: I can't stay on this planet.

JENNY: No one's traveling in this weather.

STAR MAN: You promised you would get me to my ship.

JENNY: I will. I will. We still have another day.

STAR MAN: You promised.

JENNY: What do you want from me? There are no cars on this road. I didn't ask for this stupid storm.

STAR MAN: Asshole!!

JENNY: Where did you learn that?

STAR MAN: The cook.

JENNY: Where are you going?

STAR MAN: I must meet my ship.

JENNY: Why can't we wait here for a ride?

STAR MAN: I feel better if I move.

JENNY: We're hundreds of miles from where you have to be.

STAR MAN: If I don't meet the ship, my people will go home without me.

JENNY: Please understand. If you go this way, you'll never get to your ship. The police know about Lathrop Wells. We have to go another way. I'll get you to your ship. I promise.

STAR MAN: I will go. But not you.

JENNY: You shit! I'll decide if I go or not. Not you. I don't know what you do on your planet, but I didn't think that was very nice walking out on me like you did.

STAR MAN: I don't want you to be hurt.

JENNY: Come on.

STAR MAN: I told you goodbye. Why are you here?

JENNY: The police are waiting for you up ahead. There's a roadblock. You have to go back.

STAR MAN: This car will take me to Las Vegas. I cannot go back.

JENNY: The police know about Lathrop Wells. We have to go another way. Come on.

STAR MAN: Are you angry at me?

JENNY: No. I'm just not tired. Let's go.

STAR MAN: The machine gave me two. Should I put one back?

JENNY: No. Get in.

STAR MAN: You can have one.

JENNY: I'm not sleepy anymore. Let's drive for a little while longer.

JENNY: You shouldn't drink so much of that stuff. It's bad for you.

STAR MAN: On the radio they say it's good.

JENNY: Hurry up.

JENNY: Put that back.

STAR MAN: But I have never seen this before. I am not complete.

STAR MAN: I am not a good singer.

JENNY: That was beautiful.

STAR MAN: You liked my singing?

JENNY: Yes. Sing some more.

JENNY: Do you have music up there?

STAR MAN: Yes.

JENNY: I'd like to hear it. Can you sing something?

STAR MAN: I do not want to.

JENNY: Don't be afraid... I'd really like to hear it.

STAR MAN: I like this music.

JENNY: I've noticed... Do you understand what they're saying?

STAR MAN: Not all... but it feels like a kiss.

JENNY: Nobody knows.

STAR MAN: Why?

JENNY: I don't know.

JENNY: What are you doing?

STAR MAN: Are you my friend?

JENNY: Yes.

STAR MAN: I am your friend.

JENNY: You thought we were a different planet?!

STAR MAN: No. My ship was doing a map of all the suns and...

JENNY: Stars... When a sun is far away, we call it a 'star.'

STAR MAN: We were doing a map of the stars and all the other things up there when we saw a small ship. My... eh... we kidnapped it. On it there was a map that said how to come to Earth. This was very important. Before then, we thought we were the only people in all the stars.

JENNY: You did? That's funny. So did we.

STAR MAN: Yes?

JENNY: Yes.

STAR MAN: We told our home, and the people who tell us what to do on my planet said to come and look but not to talk, not to land, not to shoot. Just to look from up there. We came and... the driver of my ship...

JENNY: The captain...

STAR MAN: The captain wanted to land to see close and to get some things from Earth to take home. The police came and shot at us. One of the people from my ship was killed.

JENNY: Oh, that's terrible. I'm sorry. Was he a good friend?

STAR MAN: I don't understand 'friend.'

JENNY: A friend is a person that is good to you... someone you like to be with... someone you like to laugh with...

STAR MAN: He was a good friend... The captain took the ship away fast and I was not in the ship.

JENNY: The police shouldn't have started shooting. But you can hardly blame them. You surprised them. They didn't know you were up there. When they saw you, they thought you were here to hurt us.

STAR MAN: I understand.

JENNY: Sounds like your captain's going to get hell when he gets back home.

STAR MAN: What is hell?

JENNY: It's bad.

STAR MAN: He will.

JENNY: Why did your ship land on this planet... on Earth?

STAR MAN: It was a mistake.

JENNY: What happened?

STAR MAN: I was afraid.

JENNY: Goodbye.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: It's a kiss... Goodbye...

STAR MAN: Jennyhaydn.

JENNY: Yes?

STAR MAN: Please stay.

JENNY: Well... I'm going to go now.

STAR MAN: Go?

JENNY: Yes. I have a long ride ahead of me... Goodbye.

STAR MAN: Goodbye.

JENNY: Don't be afraid. Do what I told you and you'll be okay.

STAR MAN: Yes.

JENNY: Don't worry. They're not going to hurt you. Come on. Only show this to the driver. Nobody else. And don't lose it.

STAR MAN: Can I have the gun?

JENNY: No.

STAR MAN: When do I get to Lathrop Wells?

JENNY: Tomorrow morning. Start hitch-hiking right away and...

JENNY: Your thumb tells the driver that you want a ride.

STAR MAN: The car will stop?

JENNY: Not every car, but... a car will stop... Maybe not the first car... maybe number eight, number fifteen...

STAR MAN: 'Lathrop Wells, please. I do not speak English.'

JENNY: You keep this. Now this is hitch- hike... You stand on the side of the road, the highway... you understand? And you face the cars going in the direction you want to go. When you see a car or a truck coming, you stick out your thumb like this...

JENNY: Say it.

STAR MAN: 'Salt Lake City, please. I do not speak English.'

JENNY: The driver will...

STAR MAN: But I speak English.

JENNY: Will you please do it my way? You'll get into trouble if you don't. If anybody talks to you, tell them... I do not speak English.

STAR MAN: I do not speak English.

JENNY: Right. In Omaha the driver will put you on the bus for Salt Lake City and the new driver will take... ...this part. When you get to Salt Lake City, ask the driver, 'Las Vegas, please'...

STAR MAN: 'Las Vegas, please. I do not speak English.' What is hitchhike?

JENNY: You want this ticket?

STAR MAN: Yes.

JENNY: Then don't be smart.

STAR MAN: But I must go here.

JENNY: I know that. But the buses don't go there.

STAR MAN: What is hitchhike?

JENNY: That's easy. I'll explain that in a minute. This is your ticket. When you get on the bus here, the driver will take this part. You will ride to Omaha. When you get to Omaha, ask the driver. 'Salt Lake City, please. I do not speak English.'

JENNY: The closest I was able to get you was Lathrop Wells...

STAR MAN: Is that a baby?

JENNY: Yes.

STAR MAN: A baby is a new person?

JENNY: Eh... yes...

STAR MAN: Do you have a baby?

JENNY: No... The closest...

STAR MAN: Why?

JENNY: I'd love to have a baby. But I can't...

STAR MAN: Why?

JENNY: I can't... Forget the baby. Okay? The closest I was able to get you was Lathrop Wells. You'll have to hitchhike the rest of the way.

JENNY: Do you understand what I'm saying to you? You can keep the car. That should be enough for gas from here to there. Please let me go.

STAR MAN: When we get here.

JENNY: Sun...

STAR MAN: Yes.

JENNY: Sun... day. No sun... night. You understand?

STAR MAN: Yes. Day... night.

JENNY: How many days and nights do you have to go... ...here?

STAR MAN: Three nights... two days.

JENNY: That's not much time. I'll just slow you down. I have to sleep. I'm very tired. And I have to wash and eat. You don't...

STAR MAN: I need you.

JENNY: I won't tell anybody if that's what you're worried about. I promise. You'll keep...

STAR MAN: No.

JENNY: You'll keep the car. I'll take a bus... Am I going up there with you... in your ship... up there?

STAR MAN: No.

JENNY: Then let me go. You don't need me.

STAR MAN: No.

JENNY: I feel like I'm going crazy here. You're Scott. But he's dead. I don't know what's real anymore. I can't be here with you.

JENNY: When do you have to be here?

STAR MAN: I do not understand.

JENNY: How will I do this one?...

JENNY: Why are you going here? What is here?

STAR MAN: My... ...car will take me... ...up there... home.

STAR MAN: I will see it next time.

JENNY: You better.

JENNY: That was a red light!! I told you you have to stop at a red light!!

STAR MAN: It was yellow.

JENNY: You didn't even see it.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Music.

JENNY: Horses.

STAR MAN: Horses.

JENNY: What's the matter?

STAR MAN: Shit!

STAR MAN: What is... ...Coke?

JENNY: A drink.

STAR MAN: I...

JENNY: You want to try it?

STAR MAN: I want to try it.

JENNY: This stuff could kill... Be my guest.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Candy.

STAR MAN: Money.

JENNY: Yes.

JENNY: Satisfied? Now get out. Out.

STAR MAN: No.

JENNY: In your pocket, please...

STAR MAN: You. Mouth closed.

JENNY: Okay.

STAR MAN: Who?

JENNY: Attendant. He'll give us gas. Put the gun down. Under the seat. Under the seat...

STAR MAN: No.

JENNY: Oh God! You're going to get us both killed. Okay... in your pocket...

JENNY: Shit.

STAR MAN: Shit?

JENNY: No, no... don't say that. Bad word.

STAR MAN: Shit... shit... what shit?

JENNY: Stop!! Enough!! Jesus! You're worse than a parrot!!

STAR MAN: Who?

JENNY: My... husband.

STAR MAN: I am husband?

JENNY: No. I don't know what you are, but you're not Scott.

STAR MAN: No gas.

JENNY: I know.

STAR MAN: Gas.

JENNY: Closed.

JENNY: That's a big help. Where are you from?

STAR MAN: From?

JENNY: Are you from up there? Space?

STAR MAN: Space?

JENNY: Up there... I... eh... can't explain... But that's the only place you could be from.

JENNY: Who are you?

STAR MAN: I am...

STAR MAN: Who is he? Who is she? Who are you? Who am I? Who are you?

JENNY: I am Jenny Haydn.

STAR MAN: Jennyhaydn.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Not what. Who. What is for things. What? What? What? What? For people you use who. Who is he? Who is she? Who are you? Who am I?

STAR MAN: Go.

JENNY: It's closed... closed. We need one that's open.

STAR MAN: Closed?

JENNY: You'll see.

JENNY: No gas... car dead. We need gas. I don't want to get shot for running out of gas.

STAR MAN: Gas good?

JENNY: Yes. Very good.

JENNY: No gas.

STAR MAN: No gas.

JENNY: This car runs on gas.

STAR MAN: Minneapolis... good.

JENNY: You're full of tricks, aren't you?

STAR MAN: What?!

JENNY: Minneapolis.

STAR MAN: Minneapolis... Minneapolis...

JENNY: What are you doing?

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Smile.

STAR MAN: Smile... good?

JENNY: Yes.

STAR MAN: Mi-chi-gan driver li-see-ens... Jennyhaydn... Money?

JENNY: We're going to have to stop for gas soon.

JENNY: Money.

STAR MAN: Money.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: X...

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Pancakes.

STAR MAN: Pancakes.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Coupons.

STAR MAN: What?

JENNY: Flashlight.

JENNY: Which way?

STAR MAN: That way.

STAR MAN: Steering wheel... gear shift... dashboard...

JENNY: Good.

STAR MAN: Good.

STAR MAN: What?!

JENNY: Eh... police.

STAR MAN: Police...

JENNY: Steering wheel.

STAR MAN: Steering wheel.

JENNY: Gear shift.

STAR MAN: Gear shift.

JENNY: Dashboard.

STAR MAN: Dashboard.

JENNY: Steering wheel...

STAR MAN: What.

JENNY: Ah... no...

STAR MAN: Ah no.

JENNY: What?

STAR MAN: What.

STAR MAN: Please...

JENNY: Which way do you want to go?

STAR MAN: Please.

JENNY: Why are you doing this to me? I'll give you whatever...

STAR MAN: Please...

JENNY: Don't... don't do this... please...

MAN: Oh God, man... don't shoot me... My mistake... I'm sorry...

JENNY: He doesn't understand... just walk away...

JENNY: Help me!!!

MAN: Hey, she doesn't want to go with you. Come on.

MAN: Jesus Christ!! You crazy people...

JENNY: Call the police!!

MAN: Hey buddy... let her go...

JENNY: Help me!!

MAN: You could have killed us both!!

JENNY: He's kidnapping me!!!

TEENAGER: I have nothing to do. I'd like to help you.

JENNY: Don't worry. I'll be all right.

TEENAGER: Wait. Could I have your autograph?

JENNY: Sure.

TEENAGER: The five-fifty. We already passed it. But it'll take him way out of his way.

JENNY: Pull over. I've got to get back there.

TEENAGER: Why wouldn't he want to go through the roadblock?... What did you guys do?... I won't tell anybody.

JENNY: It's easier not to tell if you don't know.

TEENAGER: I'm telling you, you're going to find him at the roadblock, or right after, or not at all.

JENNY: If he didn't want to go through the roadblock, is there any other way to get to Vegas?

TEENAGER: Fly.

TEENAGER: They after you?

JENNY: What? No, of course not.

TEENAGER: Would be kinda neat if they were. I think I could outrun them. Maybe get my picture in the papers.

JENNY: I told you I'm looking for someone.

TEENAGER: In the cars, too?!

JENNY: I don't know where he is.

TEENAGER: This is going to be a real drag. I thought you wanted to go fast.

JENNY: You sure this is your car?

TEENAGER: My grandmother's rich.

JENNY: Slow down, slow down.

TEENAGER: Geez, Mrs. Haydn, we just got going.

SHERMIN: You get that, Lyman?

LYMAN: We're ready.

SHERMIN: Tell him I'm not here.

LYMAN: I did.

LYMAN: I know. She bought him a ticket for Lathrop Wells and put him on the bus. He didn't stay on though and they drove off together.

SHERMIN: Doesn't make sense.

LYMAN: Maybe he's turned her into one of them. They enter the crowd around the helicopter.

SHERMIN: Good... It looks like we might be the welcoming committee, so I think we should try and figure out what we're gonna do if we have to come face to face with this creature.

LYMAN: Bell wants us to get down on our knees and bow.

SHERMIN: Did your people have any contingencies rehearsed?

LYMAN: That's because the ones that were hurt, died. They couldn't talk to you.

SHERMIN: Any reports about monsters, people in Halloween masks, anything like that?

LYMAN: This is crazy. What were we going to do if that had been the ship? We have two thirty calibre machine guns, three M16's and some handguns.

SHERMIN: Give it a rest, Lyman.

SHERMIN: Aghh... I'm supposed to umpire a little league game tomorrow.

LYMAN: I wouldn't worry about it... There might not be any little league tomorrow.

LYMAN: Is it for real?

SHERMIN: Get Fox.

MAJOR BELL: They're gonna let some local cop blow him away.

LYMAN: Save us all a lot of trouble.

MAJOR BELL: Jesus Lyman, you're an ignorant fool.

LYMAN: Bullshit!

MAJOR BELL: You have no conception of this, do you?

LYMAN: You jerk! You look at all the sweetness and light and goodness you think'll come out of this. You know what's gonna come out of this... The end of religion, the end of civilization, the end of the earth. We could become slaves, we could become a colony of these things. Don't you see that? Are you too stupid to see that?

MAJOR BELL: I'm telling you they're probably friendly.

LYMAN: Then why did they try and sneak in the back door? Tell me that. Why didn't they contact us first and say...

MAJOR BELL: Nothing up there... The grass is matted down in a few places, but that could have been anything.

SHERMIN: It was the husband. The police finally got a hold of the witness at work and showed him a picture of the woman.

SHERMIN: How would you describe the sounds we heard coming out of that thing's helmet?

MAJOR BELL: It was kind of like clicking, maybe a language wasn't it?

SHERMIN: Listen to this. A woman was kidnapped in Eau Claire this morning. When a citizen went to her rescue the kidnapper threatened him with a gun and shouted at him in a strange 'clicking gibberish'...

MAJOR BELL: It was a man though... right?

SHERMIN: The police think he was high on drugs...

SHERMIN: You married, Major?

MAJOR BELL: Twenty-eight years.

SHERMIN: To the same woman?

MAJOR BELL: Yes.

SHERMIN: I tried it once... Fourteen years ago... 'I was a lousy husband and a worse father. The only thing I'm good at is this... At least until yesterday.

SHERMIN: There's nothing... No reports of sightings or landings or anything... in the other parts of the country or overseas... Seems like a totally isolated incident.

MAJOR BELL: It was only an accident that we discovered them.

SHERMIN: I know, but...

SHERMIN: Oh, Jesus.

MAJOR BELL: We better get it into the box. Come on...

MAJOR BELL: After I called in, I had a chance to sit down with the three locals. They swear there's another one that didn't make the ship... It might be alive.

SHERMIN: People have made mistakes in these situations before.

MAJOR BELL: I've been investigating sightings for seventeen years, Mr. Shermin. This one's real. We have a dead extra- terrestrial in that tent and another one in the area that might be alive. We've been visited. It's finally happened and the sooner Washington accepts that and starts figuring out how we're going to deal with these beings, the better off we're going to be.

MAJOR BELL: We had a flight of F16's play tag with the spaceship over Michigan for an hour. Then it shot straight up and disappeared.

SHERMIN: Was there visual contact?

MAJOR BELL: No, sir. Radar.

SHERMIN: It could have been anything.

SHERMIN: There's a good chance you could be wrong about this thing then...

MAJOR BELL: Wait'll you see it.

SHERMIN: This has always been my favorite time of day.

MAJOR BELL: Very beautiful country up here...

SHERMIN: Any signs of biological contamination, excessive radiation, anything like that?

MAJOR BELL: Not on the landscape. We're trying to get a tube under the faceplate for a reading on possible deadly lifeforms but it's hard going.

SHERMIN: Can you see under the faceplate?

MAJOR BELL: No.

MAN: Good job, neither do I. What do you do for a living?

STAR MAN: I don't understand.

MAN: I'm a cook. Do you understand 'cook?'

STAR MAN: No.

STAR MAN: I don't understand.

MAN: Parlez vous Francais?... Habla Ingles?... Sprechen zie deutsch?

MAN: Where are you going?

STAR MAN: Las Vegas, please. I do not speak English.

MAN: Hop in.

WOMAN: I told you...

MAN: Judy, that's stupid.

WOMAN: Well, maybe these men won't think so. We were asleep when a helicopter woke me up. It made me so nervous I went into the kitchen for something to eat. I happened to look out the window and there was Scott Haydn with this green thing draped over his arm pulling Jenny down the walk to the car.

MAN: You know that's impossible!

WOMAN: I know what I saw. I've seen him enough times.

MAN: Scott Haydn is dead. He died about three months ago. We went to the funeral.

SECURITY GUARD: Eh... the store tells you to call when there's trouble, so they won't get sued... But that shouldn't matter if there's a reward, right?

SHERMIN: I wouldn't think so.

SECURITY GUARD: That's what I thought. So remember it was me because sometimes rewards come late, you know.

SHERMIN: We will. Something's wrong here. She's helping him now.

SECURITY GUARD: Is there a reward in this?

SHERMIN: Huh?... Eh... no, there isn't

SECURITY GUARD: Because I'm the one who called the police, you know.

SHERMIN: Yeah, thanks. We appreciate that.

SECURITY GUARD: Hey, it's none of my business why you're chasing a retard... You want my opinion, it's the girl. She had to hold the guy's hand all the way to the car like he was a kid.

SHERMIN: You saw that?

SECURITY GUARD: Hey... he didn't look like no big time criminal to me.

SHERMIN: All the roads into Death Valley are blocked. We'd like to talk to you.

STAR MAN: If I talk to you, I will miss my ship.

SHERMIN: Hold on a minute... Let's take the chance, George.

SHERMIN: Hello...

STAR MAN: I must get to my ship, Mr. Shermin.

SHERMIN: We can't let you do that.

STAR MAN: I don't want to hurt anybody. I just want to go home.