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America remains at peace.

Yes, Montana.

I'd like to party and notion myself if I could, June.

OK.

I figure this here alien come

from a tribe we don't know nothing about, do we?

Anything we say just be per speculation.

But I tell you what I reckon.

I reckon that alien don't mean no harm at all.

I reckon he just took himself down here to have a look,

see at the land

and the people's

on it and the spirit of exploration.

See, I don't look on a Feller alien all suspicious like.

No, we ain't American.

No, we ain't a creature of God's green earth,

but he's a creature of Somers.

So we.

Now let's show the old fellas from hospitality.

And if he turns out to be a dirty dog,

which I reckon he ain't, well, that'll be a job

for the United States Armed Forces.

And they never lost a war yet.

Thank you Do.

I agree with Montana.

No.

Neptune.

Which way did he go?

Well, I think he went from here to here to here to.

I don't know where.

My mother couldn't remember which was which.

So she made-up her own constellations.

Now once the coat hanger

that once a leaky faucet

over there on Friday with spatula.

My mother is a constellation,

or at least part of 1A Swiss scientist

named a hypothetical

star after her.

Really.

What's it called?

Mitch Campbell, X9 Major?

I don't know.

Look it up.

Is she interested in astronomy?

Your mother?

Couldn't start him.

I don't mean that as a criticism, by the way.

It's her job to be famous anyway.

I'm sick of her face, but I love her voice.

She should do more radio.

I never had children.

Sometimes I wonder if I wish I should have.

I discovered a hypothetical star myself.

By the way, where is it?

Which one?

Right there.

Partly blocked by that burned out light bulb.

What happened?

After you.

Sometimes I think I feel more at home outside the Earth's atmosphere.

Ohh wow.

Me too.

Did it come out?

I mean the other one Ohh.

OK.

You feel different.

Hey.

Feel different?

I don't feel anything at all.

Me neither.

I'm not a good mother.

I love my daughter,

but I'm not a good mother

because unfortunately for her,

she's not

my first priority and kind of there's always already the thing

I plan to do next.

I love my daughter, by the way, I I I love all my children.

We have a magical time when we're together.

I'll have another girl and a boy.

They live with my second ex-husband in Utah.

He rarely sees them either.

I wish I felt guilty at least, but I don't experience that emotion.

If I understand it correctly, I played it.

Of course, you never feel guilty in real life,

not to my knowledge.

Through violent men, starting with my father's brother.

And uncles.

There's always already the thing I plan to do next, too.

Usually it's a war.

Nobody can compete with that, can they?

Probably not.

Under the USO tour, once, it was thrilling.

I think I see how I see it.

I mean, I think I know now what I realise we are.

OK, two catastrophically wounded people

who don't express the depths of their pain because.

We don't want to.

That's our connexion.

Do you agree?

Uh-huh.

What's the?

Let's change the subject, shall we?

It's open.

Hello in here.

Hello.

Hello.

I'm just your neighbour, Stanley.

Zach wanted to make sure you

and your daughter

have everything you might need at the

moment.

Thank you.

I think so.

What a strange experience in this is, isn't it?

I went to law school with your former agent.

By the way.

Morning.

Yeah, this morning 0.

That came out.

OK, came out, all my pictures come out.

Anyway.

As I say, we were just across the driveway.

As my son-in-law seems to have established,

it's in my best wishes to Mark and his family.

In contact with the outside world,

though I don't speak to him,

to tell you the truth.

I love your hairdo like that.

God.

You see that wonderful crackly patch right out there

between the dead cactuses and the

dried up riverbed?

I think.

So that's your parcel.

How much of it?

Well, well, it's actually an interesting financial mechanism.

You don't technically own anything outright.

You own stock in the town in the form of a loan

with a 50 year maturity rate.

Then at the end, the loan is forgiven.

The daring.

How about water?

Of course I understand.

There isn't any.

This is a desert opportunity.

It's an experiment.

I don't care anymore.

I dare you.

Or I don't dare you.

It doesn't matter to me.

You wish.

I give up.

What's the cause?

What's the meaning?

Why do you always have to dare something?

I don't know.

Maybe it's because I'm afraid.

Otherwise.

Nobody will.

Notice.

My existence.

In the universe.

Do you what?

Test Are you what?

The client that cactus out there, ohh you don't have.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

We met before.

I'm the mother of that cookie trooper who idolises you.

Are you thought you might not recognise me out of uniform.

You were very good in the one about the tramp in the brothel

who gets amnesia and paediatrician,

who were very officially maybe my favourite character of them.

I don't know why nobody else liked it.

Yes, me neither.

Thank you.

Some people liked it.

Oh, I'm sure I did.

Who hit you?

Am I not in this?

Excuse me, I'm not in this.

I bet you it's on the other eyes paying.

Some people do do like that.

Ohh, I'm sure I thought it might have been your second ex-husband in Utah.

If I sleep on a cot instead of the sofa bed,

that might leave me to set up a darkroom

in the pool house.

Is that possible?

Is a compromise?

It depends on the measurements

so that they can actually carpool the girls to school

by golf cart.

You know, if I cut across A14T, how's that close the elementary?

How can you 2 even think about this?

The world will never be the same.

What happens next?

Nobody knows.

We'll leave, visit us again.

We speak to us.

What we say.

Why do we steal our asteroid?

Was it ours in the 1st place?

Does he like us?

Nobody knows.

That's true.

What's out there?

Something.

The meaning of life.

Maybe there is one.

I hope you're still biscuits.

You took his picture, Dad.

I'm a photographer.

As compared.

You really want to stand there?

No.

But you need me.

She didn't love me, you know Who said she didn't?

I've been on my own for 12 years, after all,

and remember my wife drank herself to death.

What that means?

In my loneliness, or perhaps because of it,

I learned not to judge.

People take people's I find them, not as others find them.

And most of all, to give complete and unquestioning faith

to the people I love.

I don't know if that includes you.

But it included my daughter and your four children.

So you're welcome to stay with me for as long as you wish,

whether I like it or not,

which I don't, by the way.

Stop helping us.

Or in grief.

Me too.

You.

Are you planning to abandon us?

I was.

As a temporary measure, what?

But I decided against any of it.

I sense

that the wedding nurses have hired a babysitter in addition to you.

I'm not planning to abandon you anymore,

even as a temporary measure,

which is all it

ever would have.

I forgive you for considering it.

Evening soldier.

Can I ask you to stick this time in the pay phone for me please?

Our public telephone service has been suspended

until further notice.

I know it.

The thing is, right before the hubbub yesterday

I made a trunk call to my cousin long

distance and the operator let me have a surcharge

because all I had was 3 pennies.

I don't feel right stealing from the telephone company.

Although it might convey a different meaning on his planet,

it's true he even has a planet.

By the way, he might be nomadic operator.

Just 977-O station to station.

Thank you.

Hello.

Who's calling?

Good evening, Missus.

Weatherford.

It's Ricky Cho.

May I have a word with?

It's after nine.

He's already drinking his old team.

Can't this wait until tomorrow?

I'm afraid not, Mrs Weatherford.

I wouldn't disturb you

if it were one of the utmost importance

to the weekly Bobcat.

I just need a minute of this time.

Some kind of romance between the two of you.

Who you who you know us?

Well, I'm yesterday doesn't like me in that way.

Well, I think you're pretty smart, but I think you're pretty dumb.

Hello, Skip, we got a scoop.

The first hints of the future existence of Asteroid City

were revealed during a special

seminar scheduled at the playwrights request.

Comrade, how can we help you?

Well, The thing is, let's say I'd like to make a scene

where all my characters are each

gently, privately seduced into the deepest,

dreamiest slumber of their lives

as a result

of their shared experience of a bewildering and bedazzling.

Celestial mystery.

The sleeping scene.

A scene of sleep,

but I don't know how to write it yet yet.

I thought perhaps if you and your wonderfully talented pupils

just improvise,

something

might reveal itself.

Who wasn't going to be famous on any given day.

Roll call and Salzburg Keitel's classroom

was a now dazzling list of undiscovered luminaries.

Lynus Mouth.

Lucretia Shaver.

Walter Geronimo.

Asquith Eden.

Mercedes.

Ford.

Even unofficially Jones Hall.

Was it about the play?

Infinity and I don't know what else?

Is there a title?

I'm torn.

Maybe the cosmic wilderness.

You like that one?

Not really.

What's the alternative title?

I mean, what's the name of the small town on the California, Nevada, Arizona desert

where

the story takes place?

OK, who here has ever actually fallen asleep on stage

during a live performance in front

of the paying audience?

I spent the 1st 3/4 of act

two of the welterweight on a massage table

with no lines to

the last minute and a half.

One night and not at all on purpose.

You did this?

No.

Did you miss your cue?

Almost.

I heard it and I woke up very scared,

but I knew my lines.

Good morning.

Morning.

So what brings you here today?

We haven't seen you in six weeks.

Lavender and lemons opened last night and very good.

Might say raves.

By the way, I'm available.

What did he teach?

Example.

Sleep.

It's not death.

The body keeps busy breathing air,

pumping blood,

thinking maybe you pay a visit to your

dead mother.

Maybe you go to bed with your ex-wife or husband.

Maybe you're climbing the Matterhorn Connie.

You wake up with a new scene 3/4 written in your head already.

Schubert, you wake up with a hangover.

Important things happen.

Is there something to play?

I think so.

Let's work on the scene from the outside in.

Be inert than dream.

Where are we coming and when?

Talk to us, yes.

One week later.

Our cast of characters, already tenuous grasp of reality,

has further slipped in quarantine,

and the group begins to occupy a space

of most peculiar emotional dimensions.

Meanwhile, the information blockade spearheaded by General Griff Gibson

has been, it

appears.

Incomplete.

I hope you are aware you and your accomplices

may still face felony prosecution,

possibly

even a treason charge.

I'll fight it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary,

and win.

The president.

He's furious.

Thanks a lot, Ricky.

I don't know what to say.

Journal.

Gibson.

I'm don't apologise, Dad.

The public has a right to.

The truth is you report this tribunal is a mockery.

What about Steam Deck?

Who took the photograph?

It's on the front page of every newspaper on the planet.

Can't we arrest him as well?

Unfortunately, no.

He dropped a print in the mail to his photo agency

first thing Tuesday morning.

And the postman got it before we did.

He's innocent.

Supposedly he did a nude of Mitch Campbell too.

And she Campbell of Mitch Campbell.

As you know, boys and girls,

your parents arrived late last night

by military helicopter.

They've been sequestered.

That metal head over there for the past several hours

while the government scientists

explained the situation to them all.

Everything's already in the newspapers.

It's my understanding about to go into this closed circuit

television set at any moment.

Everything's connected,

but nothing's working with the Lesson plan.

Then, Billy, I did the Aliens Flying Saucer

with the hubcap and a chicken pot pie tin.

Good work.

Very accurate.

Jupiter.

Fifth planet from the sun.

Largest in our solar system.

Yes, please.

I did the alien on its home planet.

Well done, how wonderful.

Due to extreme atmospheric conditions

and anti cyclonic storm

has raged on Jupiter's

surface for over a yes twice I wrote a song about him.

Ohh.

This may not be the time for a musical performance.

That's.

Best Montana Part of the interruption June the boys

not heard old who I was scrolling

up a little warble.

So we learned ourselves the plate.

123.

Barely on Walmart.

And it's gonna be about 6 foot 7.

Don't you know?

Mean to our brother or your friend or foe?

All of.

Comma.

Ring.

Bring up.

This was on all the role I forgot to develop in the glove box.

self-portrait was shrapnel.

Do page 45.

What have you done?

How could you?

Said shouting and crying.

So shouting, crying.

How could you?

Ohh, couldn't I?

How couldn't you?

That's what I'm asking.

It was over already.

You were free.

What's the point of committing suicide when there's nothing left to escape?

Maybe there was a problem all along.

Stairs for a moment.

And then it says I smash everything off the shelf.

The smash everything off the shelf.

Such a sickening waste.

Think of the people.

Think of the places.

Think of the world.

For rehearsal, I'm not even in this picture.

I'm a war photographer.

Is your grief.

Such a sickening waste.

Think of the people.

Think of the places.

Think of the world.

You could have seen the Lords.

I've already seen it.

She is she.

Is she a ghost?

It's not clear.

Uh then the the?

In the corner comes in, orders me out of the room.

I slowly turn away and close the door,

see my sandwich is running.

My daughter saw.

What?

Ohh.

Dina saw us through this window in your bedroom yesterday.

Did you tell that we were rehearsing again?

I didn't think of that I should have.

But it's too late because I admitted everything.

Did you tell wardrobe?

Hard to say.

She can keep a secret.

I don't know if you will.

This isn't the beginning of something ugly.

Is there?

Is it?

Probably not.

Unless maybe it is.

I don't like the way that guy looked at us.

OK, the alien.

How did he like?

We're doomed.

Maybe we are.

What did you just do?

I burned my head on the quicker griddle.

Why?

It's not clear.

Show me.

You really did it.

That actually happened.

Ohh.

How long can they keep us in Asteroid City legally, I mean.

Well, I'm not an attorney,

but I'd say as long as they like.

I think we have to file an injunction

and successfully argue the case six months to a

year.

Of course, we also need to initiate a civil suit for Las Vegas.

Maybe you just walk out right now.

I'm not sure they could stop us without killing somebody.

Interesting idea.

What kind of mileage you think that jetpack gets?

That's Roger or his son.

Apparently he's been prosecuted for revealing state secrets.

Don't ever make it stick.

I'm in no hurry.

I like the desert.

I like aliens.

Well.

Put that back.

The projects remain under secure lockdown.

No stargazers permitted personal access

without the expression invented.

This death rate may be true.

Tell us went on in Guada Canal anymore.

Everyone, please.

It's been a difficult quarantine.

Damn it, telling the fans now stand down, you hear that?

General Gibson said.

Stand down.

You married, of course, will reconstitute the projects at a later time.

Probably after dinner.

Try it.

Type Hunter Doris Day Out Jack the Ripper out Faint Crosby.

Shirley Temple Out out of Orson Welles.

Lucille Ball Out.

Marlon Brando out.

Queen Elizabeth Mickey Mantle out Out You'll Brenner.

Louis Armstrong Out.

Lana Turner Out.

Betty Grable Ella Fitzgerald Out Out Rock Hudson Out Jerry

Lewis Out Out Greta Garbo.

Carl Marks Out Jordan Mark out.

Charles Darwin.

Walter Pigeon Out.

Emily Dickinson Bellway.

Who's responsible for stealing my radio telescope,

my signal processing receiver,

and

my entire spectrum graphical monitoring network?

They're trying to contact the alien.

I appreciate that.

But what about Doctor Hickenlooper?

If you're trying to contact the alien, include me.

Did you hear anything from him so far?

What's all this?

They put the American flag just to be patriotic.

Now we need to really mean something.

A universal message.

Not only to earthlings.

We already thought of everything we could think of across a star,

4 leaf, Clover, letters,

numbers, hieroglyphics.

What's the point of projecting a star into the moon exactly?

I asked that since Super equals MC squared,

I still think it's too easy.

This is our chance to be actually worthwhile in our lifetimes.

I see what you mean.

Whose turn was in the middle of mine?

And better start over.

They were

above the settings on the spectrograph over here

if you wouldn't mind

William Henry Bragg,

we are warning label indicates that the.

It's all worthwhile and you're a lifetime.

This, I mean, OK, your curiosity is your most important asset.

Trusted.

Trust your curiosity, OK.

The resources of my lab will always be available to you

after this thing is over.

I mean, you could maybe sort of be my protege.

If you like, we can prove the hypothesis of celestial flotation

and get the math right.

Final let's try.

I think I see the dots from space burned into your eyeballs.

I'm sorry about your mother.

I missed mine too, and she died 46 years ago.

Thank you.

I've already petitioned the State Assembly

to change the name of the town from Asteroid

City to Alien Landing, USA.

This municipality might end up being the centre

of a vast community of stargazers

and

space cadets.

It's a historic offering.

As you know, the Asteroid Day itinerary

had to be suspended last week

due to the factual

reality of our circumstances.

However, I have an announcement to make.

Doctor Hickenlooper and the Military Science Research

and Experimentation Division

in

conjunction with the Larkins Foundation,

have officially selected a recipient for this

year's Hickenlooper Scholarship,

and you're all going home first thing tomorrow morning.

President has opted to lift the quarantine by executive decree.

I'd like to take this opportunity.

And by the way, all of this year's project,

setting aside my own differences of opinion

with Ricky Cho, were of the very highest calibre,

without exception, to officially declare.

And what's

happening now, I don't know.

It's today.

It's been inventoried.

Under the provisions of National Security Emergency Scrimmage Plan X,

the lifting of

the quarantine which I just announced

is now cancelled or at least postponed due to the

unexpected new event which.

Why does OK Burner sit on the quicker?

I still don't understand the play.

What?

Where are you going?

I'll be right back.

I don't play him as an alien.

Actually, I play him as a metaphor.

That's my interpretation.

Metaphor for what?

I don't know yet.

We don't pin it down.

Schubert.

Schubert.

Schubert.

Yes.

What's wrong?

Are you on?

Technically, But General Gibson just started the scene

where the president doesn't accept

his resignation.

I've got 6 1/2 minutes before my next line.

I need an answer to a question I want to ask, OK?

Am I doing it right?

Well, I told you before,

there's too much business with the pipe,

with the lighter, with

the camera, with the eyebrow,

and aside from that,

on the whole, the answer to your question.

So that.

You're doing them just right.

In fact, in my opinion, you didn't just become oggy.

He became you.

I feel lost.

Good.

He's such a wounded guy.

I feel like my heart is getting broken.

My own personal heart every night.

Good.

Do I just keep doing without knowing anything?

Isn't it supposed to be some kind of an answer out there

in the cosmic wilderness Woodrose

line about the meaning of life?

Maybe there is one, right?

Well, that's my question.

I still don't understand the play.

Doesn't matter.

Just keep telling the story.

They're doing them right.

I need a breath of fresh air.

OK, but you won't find one.

Right.

Hello.

Ohh.

Sue, the wife who played by actress.

My scene was cut after one rehearsal.

We still use your photograph.

You remember the dialogue?

No.

We meet in a dream on the aliens planet.

Magnavox 27 actually it's one of the moons in it.

You say.

Did you talk to the alien?

I say not yet.

You say?

Why not?

I thought for sure he would have yelled and more made him laugh.

I say, or asked him, the secrets of the universe.

You say exactly.

I say I think he's shy.

You say.

Says Woodrow.

But I'm sure he'll grow out of it.

I mean, at least I hope you will without another.

I say.

He's a late bloomer, but.

Maybe.

I think you'll need to replace me.

You say what?

Why?

How?

I can't?

I say.

Maybe.

I think you'll need to try.

I'm not coming back, Archie.

Then you take a picture of me and start crying.

And I say.

I hope it comes out.

And I say.

All my pictures come out.

Good memory.

Why did they cut it?

Running down now I'm first lady

in waiting to the queen consort and fruit of a withering

by Mr Q.

June and the cowboy are already necking in the station waggon.

They're bandaging the understudies hand right now.

Ohh, it's you.

We almost would have had to see together.

Hello.

Hello.

Six months into the run,

the company received the news a catastrophic automobile accident,

Conrad ERP, American playwright,

unequalled and passion and imagination dead at 50.

All my characters are each gently,

privately seduced into the deepest,

dreamiest slumber

of their lives as a result of their shared experience

of a bewildering and dazzling celestial

mystery.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

What would that?

What's that mean?

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

What?

Say it again.

Who cares?

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

Why should you?

Yes, you can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep.

You have made out with.

You don't want to see.

You can't wake up if you don't want to sleep.

You can't wake up if you don't want to sleep.

Where they go.

Good morning, Mr Steinbeck.

Choose preference, please.

Apple, orange or tomato?

Where did they go, everybody?

Of course.

I understand

the president lifted the quarantine after all.

At midnight, he sent the whole gang home.

The troops, the Cowboys, the junior stargazers

and space cadets.

You are free to return back to wherever you came from.

We had 11 checkouts this morning.

I guess you overslept.

They returned your science projects, by the way.

Tomato right away.

The plan was to shovel it up and take her with us.

Like I said, we'll exhume the Tupperware.

We don't have any burial rights to this plot.

Here.

I would question whether, even as a plot, it isn't.

Let us pray.

Puppy.

Your heavenly Father,

we thank thee for the life of this magnificent woman

who was once

just a little girl like these three witches in training.

Which part alien, these three witches.

At one time we had no intention

of permanently burying her next to this unmarked cactus,

but I no longer have the strength to fight for her dignity.

Nor neither does Augie.

Do you no.

So we'll defer to the wishes of first stubborn daughters.

Woodrow any final farewell?

I don't believe in God anymore.

Fair enough.

Amen.

This kid, he just could be this Kitty Boo.

Five orders of five trucks and two black coffees.

Who needs to pay?

I've got a glass of strawberry.

Somebody went that scholarship.

I didn't.

One last name, General Gibson slipped it to me in line

in the communal showers.

I think he just wanted to get it over with.

It's actually a standard size track of typical dimensions,

the big ones only for show.

Congratulations, my friend.

That's is dependent.

Must be some kind of genius angry.

You must be some kind of brilliant.

As a gun, any strings attached to it may not you personally.

Are you planning to use it?

Probably spending on my girlfriend.

What do you write in that little book?

Next year's project confidentially.

OK.

Thank you.

Campbell left you her address.

It's just post office box.

What happened that night?

So that's none of your business?

No, of course it isn't.

I only ask because Woodrow told me that I told him.

And went to law school with a former agent.

Anyway, I don't object.

She's actually very gifted comedian.

That's true.

Another Adam Mobile test.

Painting train goes so fast, Freight train,

freight train going so fast.

I don't know what dream he's.

Golf.

I

don't know where he's.

What he's done.

But no future got no hope.

Just.

Roll.

Bringing bringing those so fast,

freight train, freight train go so fast.