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You're watching Vox Friday.

50 years ago, Navy pilot Adam MacArthur was abducted by aliens.

No.

He's returned with an incredible mission. Things are happening. Things

that could affect the course of history.

And I have to interfere before it's too late. What do you want with those

records? Clearly, those are the people that he's targeting.

I know that you're receiving signals from deep space because I'm hearing them

too. Whatever is generating these signals is getting closer.

This is war.

And I'm the last line of defense.

What advice put on that rocket? A thermonuclear laser.

If they use that weapon, they'll start a war.

It's beautiful.

Isn't it, Melissa?

I like the moving lights.

Like the cars?

Yeah, it looks like the Disney electrical parade.

Danny, I wish I could do what you do.

You will.

All the work I do is with my brain.

And yours works just fine.

Except it can't talk to my muscles.

But it's...

How you use your mind that's important, right?

Right.

Danny, I wish that you were my brother.

You're just saying that.

No.

Advanced work in the study of brainwaves.

Personal background.

Abusive father.

Multiple foster homes. College dropout.

Last seen entering a cult in Los Angeles, California.

It's almost time, Melissa.

Can I do it? please you remember the password uh-huh

Wow. Wait.

There's more?

The landing site?

You bet.

Do not land immediately.

And how the hell do you expect me to explain this one to the Congressional

Investigation Committee, Vise? Your happy trigger finger went and triggered

off another Waco.

I need to come up with some answers.

And fast.

That's why you get paid the big bucks, sir.

I simply explained that the suspect, Adam MacArthur...

took refuge within the cult, and you had no choice but to... Don't you understand

the position I'm in here?

This had national press coverage. It can't be swept away.

It was broadcast on national television.

Perhaps the senator thinks that we should have knocked and asked if

MacArthur could come out and play.

Oh, shut up, Vice.

Senator, this is what you've got to do.

You tell him that Colonel Vice was in California for the launching of the

Extra Atmospheric Radio Telescope.

Now explain that to him, Vice. Start talking.

The telescope was successfully launched.

The unidentified object being tracked was on a clear course toward Earth.

MacArthur joined Omega, an abduction cult, in an attempt to avoid capture.

How are you feeling?

Simple words, but filled with humanity.

And that's the irony.

It wasn't until I was taken that I found someone who cared enough to ask.

After my abduction, I'd realized that I'd been called, and I at last

knew my purpose.

You don't have to be an abductee to join our community.

Many of our members have not had an encounter, but they have found true

peace and a deeper meaning in their lives. And as we wait for the glorious

day when we will ascend,

We rejoice in these simple gifts.

Thank you.

Every member is treasured

his or her contribution.

Hello, Fred.

How are you feeling today?

Pretty good. Thanks.

What's playing?

Leave behind the emptiness of your current life and join us.

Channel Omega.

Our own television broadcast.

All our members get to speak to the public as often as they want.

Imagine really being heard by all those people.

Must be very gratifying.

It is.

What's your name?

Adam. Are you interested in joining our community?

Adam.

The Omega.

We had dismissed this cult as a group of fanatics.

We're not sure whether MacArthur joined Omega or Omega joined MacArthur.

Either way, it was a deal with Adele.

Welcome, Adam.

We've been expecting you. I'm Catherine, your facilitator. Please, come in.

It's my job to help you get settled into our little group. So if you have any

questions or worries, needs, just ask.

Okay. Let me take you on a quick tour before I show you your room.

This is our school.

Eventually, you'll be given a work assignment that best suits your skills,

but for the first couple of days, we want you to just get comfortable.

Over here, we're planting a vegetable garden.

We're short a green thumb or two if you're interested.

i've been told i have a way with plants well good i'll keep it in mind please

come over here we also broadcast our television channel through our web page

on the internet global access amazing thing yes we get well over a thousand

hits a day please come this way

now this is your room it only has one tv

but you get four channels at once Three more than I need.

This is for you.

We'll go to the bank once you fill out the power of attorney.

I don't have a bank.

Oh, where do you keep your assets?

Guess I don't have any.

Is that a problem?

No, absolutely not.

We believe that everyone has something to contribute, that we're all here for a

reason, and we'll find yours. Mommy?

My music box broke.

Oh. And Danny's too busy to fix it. Okay, sweetie, I'm coming.

Adam, relax and get settled in.

There's snacks in the kitchen and dinner's at seven.

Oh, and be sure to stop by the studio.

Thomas will want to greet you.

Here, let me see that, honey.

There are all days I can't remember.

Lost.

From the time I was six or seven, they'd come.

They'd take me.

Thomas says my pain was caused because I didn't understand.

Thomas helped me face my abduction and rechannel my energy.

Life is harder for those of us who've been taken.

But when the great day comes, we will be released into joy.

Thomas loves me.

Loves us all.

Can I help you?

That wasn't whistled. Yeah. Ah, Adam, welcome.

We're very glad to have you join us. Glad to be here, Thomas.

We're about to tape some new members. You can be next.

Just talk about whatever's on your mind.

I don't think I'm ready.

Who is?

None of us is prepared for this existence.

That's why it's so important to focus on the future.

On the side.

And then we will begin the rapture.

Our ascent to joy.

Thanks to Danny.

No, thanks to you. As soon as Danny's work is finished, We'll prepare the

landing site, the ship will land, and we'll begin our journey.

We're close, so close I can feel it.

Now you have work to do, young man. Carry on.

What sign are you waiting for, Thomas?

Come.

See for yourself.

We can tune in to every terrestrial broadcasting.

When the sign comes, we'll catch it.

Now it's time for your testimonial Testimonials are an important

responsibility Come on

Hello

I've just arrived and

I'd like to say how impressed

And touched I am.

Everyone's so accepting of me.

I'm a stranger.

I guess that's what it's about.

Accepting strangers and providing a family.

I haven't been with my own family in a very long

time.

She's gonna be okay, alright?

Hold on. You're going to be fine.

It's a seizure. She has cerebral palsy, and sometimes her brain misfires.

It's going to be okay, Missy. I promise.

All right?

Missy?

It's going to be okay.

Easy.

Thank you.

I'm Danny.

It's nice to meet you, Danny.

You can call me Adam.

Hi. Hi.

Thanks for helping me.

You're welcome, Alyssa.

Some hi-fi setup.

No, it's not.

You don't know a lot, do you?

I see.

Don't be rude.

Sorry.

That's okay.

Electronics sure have changed a lot since I was a kid.

Did you learn all this in school?

I spent two years at Caltech before I came here.

You modified the focal point.

I thought you said you didn't know very much about this stuff.

Quick study.

Yeah, well, I'm working on destructive interference.

You know, how, like, you use a sound to cancel out another sound.

No.

All right, actually, go bang that drum over there.

All right, Missy?

Yeah?

No.

Do it again.

How do you know that?

I created the exact opposite noise.

So when the two sound waves mix, they cancel each other out.

Okay, now try this.

And aim it right there.

There?

You're blocking the light waves.

No, no, no. Not blocking.

Canceling. I'm creating the exact opposite light waves.

So when the two meet, they cancel each other out, too.

Pretty neat, huh?

You're making anti-television. That's a great idea.

Actually, I'm not just working with light and sound waves.

I can do it with electricity, too.

And other stuff.

Oh, yeah? Like what?

Thomas! Thomas! Quick, it's a sign!

Patch into deck B. Rotate immediately.

I can feel it. It's time. I know it is.

I just know it.

Daniel.

You're behind schedule.

You've been wasting time today. Not...

Concentrate. When the sign comes, we must be ready.

I know, Tom. I'm sorry. It just, it takes time. Don't interrupt me when I'm

speaking. All of us work hard to give you a home and a family.

All we ask in return is that you do your part.

Is that too much to ask? That you show some consideration, some respect for the

rest of us? And make a contribution to this family?

Is it?

I've just arrived, and I've got to say how touched I am.

Everyone's been so accepting of me, and I'm a stranger to them. We got another

one that's looking for the dysfunctional family he's never had. I guess that's

what it's all about.

Grab that frame. Accepting strangers. I do.

Cross-check this with FBI subversives.

Modem it to Washington right away.

I want an ID on this guy before morning.

Something about him makes my nose twitch.

These agents have filed formal complaints about you with the

Congressional Investigation Committee.

On what grounds?

Sabotaging Bureau operations by abusing your NSA jurisdiction.

As far as I'm concerned, nothing's out of my jurisdiction, Senator.

Sounds like that's part of the problem, Colonel.

Look, Vice, just explain exactly what happened. We'll decide how to spin it to

the investigation committee.

We were finishing procedures on Eagle One when I received word of a power

outage in Los Angeles.

Colonel, you might want to take a look at this.

A third of Los Angeles was blacked out last night.

Ain't we will do that, Sergeant.

Folks just have to crack open a few more windows.

That's not all, sir.

NSA satellite picked it up.

All the lights in a five-mile radius were out, except for that.

Sweet mother... What is it, sir?

Ex-Marsha spot.

Colonel?

It's a landing strip.

Sergeant Roberts?

Sir, an agent Lawson just motored a picture of MacArthur to Washington.

Wilcox is heading straight to Los Angeles.

And so are we.

Mrs. Weiss?

I'd like to say how impressed and touched I am.

Everyone's so accepting of me. And I'm a stranger to that. I'll take it you know

him. I guess that's what it's all about. Not as well as we'd like to, ma'am.

What's your interest, Lawson?

I might ask you the same.

Ladies first.

Watch yourself, Agent.

Southern charm makes me break out in hives.

Goes by the name of Adam MacArthur.

Alias? Assumed identity of a dead man.

We believe he's a highly trained assassin.

And he came to the right place.

I got this tape of him off Channel Omega.

Which is?

A television broadcast from the estate across the street.

We've been monitoring them for almost a week.

Naughty movies?

Technoterrorism disguised as religion.

They're a UFO cult.

Use the channel to spread the word.

No law against televangelism.

But there is a law against blacking out a city of three and a half million

people. Could you turn that down, please?

Sure.

How are they involved?

We traced the power disruption to their house.

What'd they do? Plug in too many toasters?

What kind of technology makes that possible?

If I knew that, I could get a warrant and go in.

Why do you think MacArthur showed up here?

Well, I could fill your hat with conjecture, but it still wouldn't fit.

How long before you have the goods to go in?

We're almost there.

As long as you three cowboys don't spook him into doing something stupid, we

should have a warrant in 24 hours.

Spook them?

They don't already know that you're here?

Not a clue.

Three new FBI agents.

Yet they arrived this morning.

When the sign comes, we must proceed with the

rapture. Nothing must stop us.

You understand that, Danny, don't you?

You'll have your project completed in time, won't you?

Yes, Thomas.

How are you feeling?

My music box won't play.

Maybe it's all tired out.

But it's not fair. It's not even old.

My dad gave it to me before my mom and I left.

Let me take a look.

Thanks, Adam. You're just like Danny. He takes care of me.

You spend a lot of time with Danny.

Sure, somebody's got to help him with his project and stuff.

Since a new transmitter showed up, it's going to happen real soon.

And he's got to be ready.

What's happening really soon?

We all go up into the spaceship.

Mama says the men in the spaceship will help my brain so my muscles can work.

Is that why she brought you here?

Uh-huh.

But the bad men across the street don't want us to go, so that's why Thomas has

guns. Thomas has guns?

Everybody gets one if the bad men come.

Let's hope that doesn't happen, okay?

Sure. Okay.

There you go.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

He works. I knew you could do it. I knew it.

I'm gonna go show mom right now.

He never... Well, no one ever really, truly saw me.

Who I was deep inside.

That I wasn't...

Why are you watching that crap?

It's not all crap.

This woman got out of an abusive relationship and found unconditional

love and support.

And?

And we all need a little unconditional love and support, Laura.

What's the matter?

Wilcox don't hug you enough?

I was at the end of my rope when I found Tom. They have an interesting message

about this life being a classroom.

How we're all learning.

Good golly, Miss Molly, you're getting brainwashed.

Not that you got a whole lot of brain to wash.

Without bound, without limit.

That's what it means to belong here.

And we welcome all who would join us.

All of my new family.

You're working hard.

Yeah, I'm trying to catch up. I've almost got the wave generator finished,

but I'm not done with the program to run it. I've got to finish before... Before

the mothership comes.

It's important that you listen to me right now.

There is no mothership.

That's ridiculous.

Of course there is. I've been there.

Thomas says it's coming back.

I know Thomas is like a father to you. Thomas loves me.

He would never lie to me. I'm not saying he's lying.

I'm saying maybe he's wrong.

He's not wrong.

He was abducted, too, just like I was.

You weren't abducted, and neither was Thomas.

Yes, I was.

You don't know, okay?

I do know, because I was taken. I've been with them. What are you doing? What

are you doing? You're lying.

I need your scanner.

Open your eyes Danny.

See what happened to me.

Who are you?

Quick. Hang on, hang on. I'll be right there.

My son, do you

know what you have witnessed?

Did you see it too?

It was the sign, Daniel.

The sign.

It's him.

He is the messenger.

Let the rapture begin.

Any sign of Oz?

No, sir.

Let's hope it stays that way.

He's been sniffing us out a little quicker than we've been sniffing him

out. How do you figure he does that?

I suspect he has a friend inside the Bureau.

You're not going to believe this. The Omega just declared MacArthur their

messenger from the mothership. Turn it up. Let's hear it.

In a way, not even I could have anticipated.

The sign has come, not as a signal, but incarnate.

The sign has been made flesh in the form of a man who we know and have welcomed

into our community as Adam.

Now we must show our faith.

This is the moment we've all been waiting for.

Joy hovers overhead, waiting for our signal of readiness, of acceptance.

Daniel's work is almost done.

Soon, very soon, we will rise into rapture.

What have you finished? What are you working on?

Electroencephalographic signals.

Brain waves.

I've designed a destructive interference signal that'll cancel all wave fields

within a two-mile radius of the transmitting antenna.

Everyone in that radius will die.

Why would you want that?

Thomas says we have to clear... Thomas is wrong. Thomas says we have to clear

the landing area of contamination.

By killing everyone?

Not us, silly.

The whole studio is shielded.

We'll be safe in here.

The symbol of the coming unification is at hand.

Welcome the messenger.

Thomas has told you that I am the messenger,

that I bring you the sign.

The sign that the mothership is ready to accept you and you believe him.

Do you believe me? Do you believe that I bring you the truth?

This is a critical point in our history.

And I am a messenger.

But I'm not bringing the message that you're expecting.

This plan for the rapture, taking of innocent lives, is wrong.

Thomas! Thomas!

Sweet mother, look at here.

Over there.

Who the hell is that?

This

is

supposed to be a covert surveillance, Vise. Why don't you just advertise your

presence on the side of a billboard?

You're just jealous because mine's bigger than yours.

You are compromising a very delicate operation here. What's delicate?

Arthur's inside and I'm going to get him.

What is with you, Vise? Are you afraid that if we catch him first, we'll find

out the truth?

The truth is, you have no idea how dangerous MacArthur really is. His

actions jeopardize the security of this whole country.

Daniel!

Where is he?

Where's Daniel?

Daniel!

Daniel!

When will it be ready?

Today, maybe two days. That's not good enough. It takes time, Thomas. The wave

generator's unstable.

You're jeopardizing everything. Do you understand?

Yes.

Yes. I didn't hear you. Yes. I didn't hear you. Yes, Thomas. I didn't hear

you. I didn't hear you. I didn't hear you.

Don't. Stop it.

Stop it. Leave him alone.

Leave him alone, Thomas.

Forgive me.

I'm sorry.

Sir.

Everything's in place, sir. We can be ready to deploy at your command.

Hear that, Lawson?

I'm going in with or without your feeble crew.

I'll notify Agent Wilcox.

You do that. Make sure you save my box seat.

Danny, are you okay?

Thomas is under an immense amount of pressure. Sometimes he loses his temper.

I can take it.

Come here.

Danny, listen to me.

I have a computer disc that contains the names of people who have the power to

change the course in history, and you are one of those people.

I know.

I'm making it possible for the rapture.

No, not that.

Your work with brain manipulation will revolutionize medicine. You're on the

wrong path.

My path is with Thomas.

Your path is to develop new treatments for people with neural disorders like

Melissa.

I can't help, Missy.

Cerebral palsy is caused by the brain's inability to control muscle movement.

Now, when you discover how to permanently redirect brainwave activity,

you can... you will change the world.

But Thomas said the mothership is our salvation.

Our destiny. He said I was chosen because of my abduction.

It's natural to bury a painful reality under a more palatable fantasy, Danny.

You're lying.

You're testing my faith.

I'm not lying.

You know I'm not.

It's your turn.

What are you talking about?

It's time to see the truth, Danny.

This is your real father.

Are you a moron?

This is why you'd rather think you were abducted.

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

What do I do now?

We get out of here, Danny. I can't. Of course you can't. No, I mean I can't

leave. They always know where I am.

We thought it was better to keep Danny safe at all times.

His work is so crucial.

How can this be the sign? He can't be the messenger.

He is.

He must be. He betrayed us. He tried to take Danny away.

The taking of human form has given him the weakness of human flesh, which he

was not prepared for.

We must begin the rapture immediately before any more members lose their

resolve.

Danny, I can't. You must.

I will not let you stop us.

Please, Danny, don't make me hurt you.

So kill me then, Thomas.

It won't solve your problem. The program is password protected.

How could you betray your family?

Do it!

Do it!

No.

Danny? Melissa!

Danny can't remember his password, but you know what it is, don't you, honey?

Come on, what's Danny's password?

Missy, don't... You have to tell me. It's very important.

Danny's just scared, that's all. But you're not scared, sweetie. No, you're a

big girl.

Mommy.

Remember why I brought you here?

Because it was the only way to help make you better. But I can't make you better

unless you tell me the password, please, sweetheart.

We have to go to the mothership.

Let me go!

The password's...

missy catherine thomas don't thomas thomas don't it's working

what the

hell is that

let's go all right let's move it out now take

out the power now

Okay.

Go! Go! Go!

Let's move it! Go!

Come on!

We cannot stop the rapture. We must defend ourselves.

Where

is he?

We must protect the messenger.

I repeat, send out MacArthur.

It doesn't matter.

I don't know where she is. She's not here with the other kids.

We'll find her.

Let's go this way.

This

way,

this way.

Get down.

No one goes in. Put the gun down, Catherine. Where's Missy? She's safe

inside with Thomas.

Let us in. It's over.

It's not over.

I'm going to help my little girl.

Thomas will make it work. It can't work.

They've knocked the antenna down. If Thomas tries to restart the wave

generator, it's going to feed back into the studio.

No!

Missy?

Mommy's here. Don't die, sweetie. Please don't die.

It's my fault. It's my fault, everything.

Thomas, Missy.

Her boss is fading.

I killed them.

Oh, sweetie.

I love you.

Oh, sweetie.

All right.

Nobody move.

How'd you do that with the girl?

I can't explain that to you, Sarah.

You know me?

I need your help.

That's rich.

You need my help.

Are you Adam MacArthur?

No, he disappeared in 1947.

Then who are you?

Somebody with a destiny to fulfill.

Now you're part of it.

Don't move.

None of you.

Stay where you are. We're running out of time here, Sarah.

Who the hell...

Still fancy joining?

I got the Federal Bureau of Unconditional Love.

What say we get a little something to eat?

On me.

Lordy, it's a national holiday.

Tell me.

What happened to you in the studio?

Nothing. Just played firefighter, that's all.

I was hoping maybe you, uh, cornered McGar.

Turned out he wasn't even in there.

Just ask that you keep a tighter rein on him. No problem.

I'm gonna take a big hit here.

You'll be all right.

For your sake, I better be.

You're skating on thin ice, Colonel.

Jeopardizing the NSA's reputation for a bunch of stargazing cult lunatics?

Need I remind you, stripes can come off.

They may be kooks, but they didn't have it wrong, sir.

Something's out there.

Something's coming.

Vice.

And sooner than you fools think.

Next Friday on The Visitor.

Time is running out.

You saw it in you for the first time in 30 years. How did you do that?

You were assigned to a classified government project.

He assisted in a program analyzing objects of unknown origin,

extraterrestrial artifacts.

What happened to those pieces, Ben? I need to find those pieces.

What are these things?

Find them at Carver's so you'll have your answer.

Now, the time is near for the Millennium on Fox.