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Your mother was my friend.

What do you want from me?

l wanna help you.

he creature

the being, right on your table.

You really are my father.

Mest

[Scott] Do you think we'll ever find my mom?

[Paul] We'll find her.

[students chattering]

[Paul] It sure is a beautiful campus.

[Scott] Hey, I've been thinking ! might

apply here when I'm ready for college.

You know, my science teac

l have a remarkable aptitude for astronomy.

-You figure it's in my blood

Or maybe it's because I helped you

with your last homework assignment.

Well, ! got an A on the test. I did that by myself.

Wish l could go to the lecture with you.

But I'm gonna go over and check out the job center on campus,

All right. Good idea. But whatever you

get, remember, just make sure it's

-Low profile. -Right.

-Take notes, huh?

[chuckles] Yeah.

[sighs]

You here for the tests

I'm not’sure.

The notice ! read

We're doing a series of psyc'

We pay $25 an hour to participate.

You have to be available for two hours

at a time on two consecutive days.

What do I have to do?

Just answer t

Like the test you used to take in grade school.

Oh. [chuckles] Those.

When do you wanna start?

How’ about now?

Fine.

[Paul clears throat]

I'm Katherine Bradford.

[coughs]

[sighs] Wuinien of these colors do you feel

Blue.

Which do you find the most restful?

Blue.

the feeling "cheerful"?

Blue.

like blue:

Which of these do you fee best illustrates the word "discove

The United States of America.

l said discovery not democracy.

l know.

This one.

A conversation.

This one.

[Katherine sighs]

[sighs]

You said dolphin?

[laughs]

! read' somewhere where the dolphin

is one of the most intelligent

[chuckles]

What, you think ! got it wrong?

Let's just say, your answers were a little

[chuckling] Bet you threw a real blip in their curve.

expression when you sa id “dolphin,

Probably thought you pulling his leg.

You mean her leg.

Was she pretty?

She was...

beautiful:

[scientist] Stan says you're bored.

Because you're not paying

ghtest attention to your work.

In fact, he sent over the results

of one of those tests you gave yesterday.

The subject doesn't fit any

of the four personality

even any of the sub-groups.

It's not my fault. ! just down what they say.

! can't help it if they don't choose to cooperate.

Damn it} Katherine!

Well, you shouldn't even be doing this kind of work.

You know that as well as I do. Stan only took you in as a favor to me.

Come back where you belong.

I don't belong here, Dan. Not now.

The hell you’ don't. Why are you fighting this?

Ever since Andrew died, you've crawled into a shell.

You don't give a damn about yourself, about your work, about anything.

The work I love doesn't exist anymore.

That's why we need you back. Finish what you've started!

You don't give up a lifeti

for some lousy misunderstanding.

Misunderstanding? Is that what you call it?

Katherine.

‘t wanna deceive you

any more than I did.

But he understood! what we were up against:

Why can't you?

ENeiny scientific program

If we wanna continue our work, we have to go where the money is.

-You can go with-- -[knock on door]

Speak of the devil.

Dr. Bradford. An honor and a pleasure.

You can go where the money is, if you have to.

But count me out.

l can't count you out.

There's five days left before the money runs out.

Doctor, I'm afraid the only way we can renew that grant

-[phone ringing]

[students chattering]

Hello:

-Mr. Forrester.

You're the last person

enough fun and games yesterday?

-What do you mean? -[sighs]

You'll be happy to know your little

comedy routine like a charm.

Those answers you gave

nearly cost me my job.

-! didn't mean to get you into trouble. -Didn't you?

Well, l may have put a blip in your curve,

but the answers I gave were the way I felt.

[sighs]

All right, then.

Let's give it another go, shall we?

What does this look like to you?

A man with a telescope.

And! this?

Rain. And a rainbow.

[Katherine sighs]

What do you here?

l see a woman.

A woman?

Mest

A woman with a lot of dreams.

She once knew how to fly, but she's forgotten now.

So, what did you do before you

started volunteering for tests?

I'm a photographer.

Bet you're good at it.

Well, take care, Katherine.

[chuckles] Do you want a ride home?

Sure.

hat's someone like you doing givi

[brakes squeak]

[both sigh]

Damn, We're practically neighbors. I'm just a few blocks away.

Is there a Mrs. Forrester?

[car door closes]

-Bye-bye.

[engine starts]

[door closes]

-You got a ride home?

So, who is she?

She's from the university.

Mest

How have they been going? You haven't

been saying anything weird, have you?

They went fine.

Then why did she drive you home?

-When do you turn this in? -Oh, tomorrow.

The Science Institute

is doing the judging.

It looks fine. But it's not complete.

-What do you mean?

-Well, it's missing some satellites.

What?

There's one here...

and here, and here.

Are you sure?

[chuckles]

Yeah, I'm sure.

Katherine?

[Katherine sighs]

[sighs]

! haven't been in this office

for almost a year.

S strange,

they haven't changed a thing

There is so much to learn.

Andrew Bradford.

Is that your husband?

Was.

He died a year ago in a car accident.

Thank you. But finished grieving

a long time ago.

Katherine, what happened?

If you belong here, why did you leave?

Andrew and I came here right out of college.

We were newlyweds.

Our heads full of big dreams.

working on the Odyssey 2.

The probe sent out to explore

the solar system.

Mm-hmm.

[sighs]

It was an exciting time for all of us.

Planets we'd! only seen through telescopes

and artists’ imaginations,

we were finally seelng up close

[sighs] And then about two years ago,

after it passed Uranus

-It ran out of power. -Mm-hmm.

So, the government

sanctioned a follow-up mission.

We were going back to the planets.

Only this time

with the latest in technology.

[sighs] Andrew and ! developed a new type of image enhancer.

It would give us sharper photographs, truer colors.

All of a sudden, the grant money started pouring in.

Andi then Andrew died.

It took a while, but ! finally came back to the project.

Then one night...

and ! found! a report that he had written,

detailing our progress

-It was for the Pentagon. -Pentagon?

The image enhancer would be used

in a military spy satellite.

And! Andrew knew it.

Dean Willett knew it.

[sighs]

But they never told me.

I thought ! knew him.

And\ when the government came calling

there are two people scheduled

for testing this afternoon.

Could you call and cancel them?

Mest

Thanks.

[knock on door]

What's this?

[Katherine] The money from the tests.

Four hours, $100.

I figured the mail would take several days.

So, ! thought I'd deliver it myself.

Thank you.

Well... [chuckles]

Yeah, well...

Thanks.

but have you been outside yet today?

Yes, yes, I have.

It's a nice day, isn't it?

Yes. It’s very nice.

mean, this time of year, it's beauti

Very beautiful.

Look, you wouldn't wanna go for a walk with me, would you?

‘d understand if you'd already

had something planned.

0, when you were a kid)

what did you wanna be when you grew up?

When Iwas a kid?

Yeah. Did you have any big dreams?

You! know, were you gonna be a doctor, a lawyer, a senator maybe?

l wanted to be a pilot.

A pilot. Yeah.

Wouldn't it be great to just take off

[Paul sighs]

More wonderful than you know.

You Know, my dreams weren't too diffe

There's a great, big universe out there

just waiting to be explored.

I'm not doing a damn thing about it.

What about the Odyssey 3?

They want to finish your work on the image enhancer.

Yes: They even sent’a guy

from the Pentagon to try and convince me.

-Well, why don't you do it? -[sighs]

Because it's financed by the military.

Is that'So bad?

Don't tell me you're on their side.

I don't take sides.

[chuckles] Well, you should.

[scoffs] l mean, we have to take a stand.

What's the point of being a scientist

and making new discoveries,

ilita

The same discoveries are used! for good)

when I was showing you all those pictures

I'd)show you something that was sad or angry

and you only'saw the beauty and! the hope

[sighs]

And when you...

You touched my hand...

and looked at me,

! felt as if you were looking right inside me.

You're a very special man, Paul Forrester.

Scott.

! want you to meet Katherine Bradford.

This is my son, Scott.

-[Scott] Hi.

-Hi.

Is heishy? [chuckles]

No.

a4

€ Saw US

AC

I think so.

It's okay.

[door opens]

That wasn't very friendly, Scott.

You're falling in love with her, aren't you?

I don't know.

think maybe that's what I'm feeli

-Dad, you can't fa

-Love is the most wonderful

of being a human.

-Dad. -] know that it's wrong.

! Know Fox will catch up to Us someday,

But I don't think I can hell it.

[students, scientists chattering]

2 of the best.

Such’a\ charming) boy who turned it'in too.

the entry form of this project.

-Scott Hayden? -Yeah.

and this is Major Holmes.

[chuckling] This is pretty royal treatment.

Is this your project,

Yeah.

Sein where aie you get

Uh, ! read about it in a book.

Well, you've obviously, uh,

gone to a lot of trouble to be accurate, Scott.

A few of which you couldn't have read out of a book.

Well, uh, ! got most of it from the book and I figured, you know,

since the book was printed,

so I just kinda threw in a few.

Tellme, son) Who worked with you’ on this?

Nobody. I told you, I'm just a kid, I made it up.

We're gonna have to call his parents in.

Is your mother at home?

He only has a father listed.

Paul Forrester. Forrester, Wait a minute!

Could you get me

Katherine Bradford on the line,

Mest

What's wrong?

ill yeu excuse Us for a moment, Major?

Thank you.

This is the boy's science project.

He says he got the information

from a book and he made up the rest.

But, of course, we know differently, don't we?

We do?

You may not wanna work on the program, Katherine, but you just don't casually

give out classified information

to a high school student.

Now, do you know what kind of trouble you'd get in

ifhe ever found outabout this? Amm?

You're right. [sighs]

It was just a school project

[Dan] Damn right, you weren't thinking!

All right, then. Scott, you can go.

I'm sorry, but we're gonna have to

ify your entry from the fair.

Look, I'm sorry ! got you in trouble back there.

[students chattering]

Thanks for getting me off the hook.

It's alll right.

Where did you get the information?

That's impossible.

It's much accurate. Did your father help you?

Him? [enue Wit would he know

Scott, would you and your father like

to come to my house for dinner tonight?

“Uh -/'m a very good cook.

I don't know.

When's the last time you had a home-cooked meal?

can't remember. [chuckles]

Then we sent two space

to Jupiter's moon, lo.

Whole continents looked different

in just four months’ time.

The surface changes that rapidly?

Yeah.

Oh, if you lived on lo, you wouldn't get a weather report,

you'd get a geology report: [chuckles]

[chuckles]

"There's a new island

in the southeastern sea today.

Beware of eruptions due to

mountain building in the east.

[Scott clears throat]

\ didn't know you Were an) astronomy buff.

No, I've spent a few hours watching the stars.

So, what happened to Odyssey 2?

-Sun sensor? -Come on, I'll show you.

This is Andrew's den.

l keep meaning to throw all this stuff away,

but I never seem to get around to it.

See, the antenna transmits a beam

But if it tumbles, the sun sensor here

points away from the sun. It runs out of power.

Where Was it when you last had! contact?

On its way to Neptune.

It would have been our first encounter with that planet.

Well, if you go back to work on the Odyssey 3...

you can still reach Neptune someday.

Why is important to you

go back to the project?

It just seems like you

[sighs]

I've been happier in the last couple of days

than I've been in a long time.

[clears throat] Uh...

[saute] Oh, ! didn't realize

So, I should really go home and study for it.

Uh, come on, Dad, let's go.

Dad.

It's a great kid you got there.

He's sweet. And! smart.

at such an early age.

[objects clatter]

What are you doing?

Good idea.

[beeping on tape]

ing, chattering on tape]

[tape ends]

You knew what this was, didn't you?

Mest

I thought you'd wanna hear it

Well, you were wrong.

[sighs]

It was really like that, you know.

A room full of

mature scientists

screaming and yelling

Being blown away by what we were hearing.

Stay with me tonight, Paul. 1 need you.

Why not?

! didn't mean for us to get this close.

It shouldn't have happened.

I'm not who you think ! am.

What is that supposed to mean?

I was right.

[sighs]

You ald give Seoi)

[sighs] From the very

everything you've said, everything you've done.

discoveries being used for good.

It was all to get me back in the project, wasn't it?

First they sent Major Holmes

and then you.

My God, how you use and manipulate people.

And I thought...

[crying] ! really believed...

Katherine. No.

How could you? Get outta here.

[door slams]

Just get on the phone, ca and tell them to get that...

and tell them to get him off my back!

Would you please settle down?

You Would! do anything to get that grant.

Come on, you know this is more than just money.

Have you lost sight of the work we're doing here?

-That image enhancer you desi

-ls a wonder toy

for the military to exploit.

Katherine, you wrote the spin-off report.

You know that anything we develop

has civilian side benefits,

lications in other fields.

You know, yesterday...

But not now.

I've been set up one too many times.

l can't do it anymore.

[sighs]

I'm sorry, Dan.

I'm leaving the university.

-[Jim] Hi, Dan, how are you?

[Dan on phone] Nice try, Jim.

Katherine knows who he is:

-You might as well call him off.

Come’ on, you! know what! l'm/ talking about!

The guy you sent in to change her perspective on things.

[chuckles] What guy?

Paul! Forrester.

Hold on a second, Dan.

[computers beeping]

-[Mark] Yeah?

1?

Do we have an agent named Paul Forreste’

Um, I'll check.

Paul! Forrester.

No. But the name seems to raise a flag

on the Federal Security Agency.

-The FSA? -Yeah, here it is.

[scoffs] l can't believe it.

She thinks you're from the Pentagon?

[Paul] Yeah, they've sent people before

to try to talk her into going back

to her work for the government.

She thinks I'm one of ‘em.

-That all this was set up?

What are you gonna do?

-Nothing.

Well; we'll have to move on soon.

And! ! wouldn't be able to tell her why.

At least now she's angry with me instead of being hurt.

Maybe it's better this way.

hat you lied to her all this time?

You can't do that.

-l have no choice. -Dad.

It may hurt her when she finds out that you have to go.

hat's nothing compared to

what she’s feeling right now.

[dog barking in distance]

Yes, I'd like to know if Flight 126

to Denver is departing on time?

Thank you.

[sighs]

Edna, will you get a car for me

right away, please?

Yes, Captain, I'm here.

. Forrester, Paul Forrester.

whose name is Scott Hayden.

That's right. And! now there's also

one other thing I'd like to ask you

to do for me. I'd'like a full surveillance

on a professor at the Science Institute.

No, no. Actually, it's a woman. Uh...

Oh. Bradford. Katherine Bradford:

Right. She's likely to be our lead.

Now you! will have’a unit pick me up at the airport.

ell, my flight leaves in half an hour.

Right, ! gotta go.

No, no, can we talk about that when I get there?

Okay. Thank you. Bye.

Katherine, wait. Where are you going?

Away. Just leave me alone.

About what?

about how you tried to set me up?

I'm not from Washington. Nobody sent me to talk to you.

Well, then who are you?

-l want to explain. -[chattering on police radio]

[Paul] But not here.

Why are the police after you? What did you do?

I didn't do anything, Katherine.

Please.

I thought-- ! thought you were gonna tell me who you are.

lam. I

mi) gonna) show you

-[Switch clicks] -What are we doing here?

[sphere whirring]

[telescope whirring]

What are you doing?

Is this how you operate the telescope?

Mest

[whirring continues]

[computer beeping]

[telescope whirring]

[Fox] Have you talked’ to neighbors? Has anybody done any--

-Have you talked to each other?

[officer 1] She's on the run.

She's not at her house,

The woman has vanished off

[officer 2] We've watched every door to this house,

there's been no one in or out:

Look, alll asked for was a simple surveillance

until got out here. Was that so incredibly difficult--

[telescope whirring]

[whirring ends]

[sphere whirring]

What--

What is that thing?

It's a part of who ! am.

And this is where I'm from.

That's not possible.

Yes, it is.

You were a mapmaker of the stars?

Mest

Then, why did you come back here?

Because my son needed me.

There was no one to help him.

[clears throat]

So much about you makes sense to me now.

[chuckling]

Of meeting somebody like you.

There-- There are so many questions

lim not sure you'd! Understand the answers

Stay with me, Paul. You and Scott.

And there is so much you can teach me.

‘d make sure that they didn't find you.

[sighs]

Then let me come with you.

You have to stay here.

There's important work for you to do.

an't leave it unfinished.

About things, about people.

Do you want me to tell you what I've learned from you?

Mest

That human beings are endlessly creative:

for new ways to do things, new ideas.

That's what makes you so special.

And unique.

If you lose that, you won't survive.

There will always be people

who will abuse knowledge.

an't let that stop us

from discovering, can we?

Dad, can I talk to you? Privately?

It's all right, she knows.

The police have got

Katherine's place staked out.

Ops are everywhere, and Fox is with ‘em.

-I've got our stuff outside. -We have to go.

No, they'll be looking for that. We've gotta do this on our own.

[sighs]

another way out of here.

The road goes bac! he mountain

and ends up in the next county.

-Great. Let's go. -Wait.

-Dad, we gotta get outta here. -I gotta do this first.

[static on radio]

[sphere whirring]

[telescope rumbling]

[beeping on radio]

What's a five-letter word

[beeping on computer]

[Computers whirring]

Good God.

It's Odyssey 2.

[beeping continues]

Dad, we have to go.

Don't ever stop discovering and learning:

I promise.

Goodbye, Katherine.

Goodbye, Starman.

[computers beeping, whirring]

[scientists chattering]

Two years without a peep,

and then suddenly it starts up again

just like that.

foundlits source.

sor must have

Is that how it happened?

-Are we still on course?

it had been flying itself, all along.

Well, perhaps it was only waiting

until it had something new to show us.

Everything it shows us from now on will be a new discovery.

Dr. Bradford, congratulations.

Odyssey 2 is twuly

Thank you, Mr. Fox.

But the credit belongs to a lot of people, not just me.

l understand.

Believe me, l Understand!

Sorry we had to leave, Dad. She was a terrific lady.

Do you think we'll ever get to settle down?

Be a real family.

I don't know.

You still haven't told me how you found us.

[chuckles] Oh, ! used the sphere.

You've come a long way, Scott.

ill got a lot to learn, though.

[chuckles] Don't we all?