All language subtitles for 02 Jacob And Jesse - Miniseries 2002 English

02 Jacob And Jesse - Miniseries 2002 English

[KATE] In ordinary times,

ordinary boys led ordinary lives
filled with ordinary things,

but these were not ordinary times,

and Charlie Chestnut
was no ordinary boy.

He was the invited guest
of Artemis P. Fonswick.

All the animals knew Artemis.

It was hard not to know a squirrel
who was four feet tall.

Artemis lived in the biggest
oak tree in the woods.

Inside the tree was
a three-room house

with a bedroom and a sitting room

and a pantry with as many nuts
as a person,

or a squirrel, for that matter,
would ever want to eat.

You could only find Artemis' home
if you'd been invited,

and now Charlie Chestnut
had been invited.

[BOY] Mum?

Go to sleep, Jesse.

You think Daddy
ever thinks about us?

Of course he does, honey.

You think he'll ever
come and see me?

You know I love you very much,

and you know
Bill loves you, too,

just like you were his own boy.

Was it the war
that made Daddy go away?

Kind of, honey.

I don't really remember him.

I just thought maybe

if you could call him
on the phone or something

that he could be
my invited guest.

Go to sleep.

- Jesse asleep?
- Yeah.

Did Charlie go into the woods
and find Artemis yet?

We always get to the part
where he's about to go.

Love to know what happens
when he gets to Artemis' house.

You'll get there.

He's asking about his father again.

He wants to know
if Russell can come visit.

What did you tell him?

What can I tell him?

How about you, Kate?

You still miss him?

I'm married to you now, Bill.

That's not what I asked you.

That's what I thought.

Hey.

Hey.

He ran out on us.

You were there,
and you didn't go anywhere.

Don't think I don't know that.

[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]

[MOANING]

[CHUCKLES]

[GRUNTS]

[ALLIE]
When you're a kid. All you ever want

is for the stories
your mum reads you to be true.

You think you can crawl inside
the world that's in every book

and live in the pictures on every page.

But deep down you know
that this isn't something

that could ever happen.

And it's knowing that the magic
isn't quite there.

That it's just over the next hill
or maybe in the next story.

That makes you feel safe
in your bed at night.

You really wouldn't want it
to be any other way.

Whoa.

[laughs]

JESSE: Whoa.

[RADIO PLAYING COUNTRY MUSIC]

[GASPS]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

[MAN] There'll be no more need
for weapons that kill men.

Think those Volturans
were on the level?

I'm sure they were.

There have never been
any people in history

who wouldn't be free
of a dictator if they could.

Alpha was sure pleased.

He said he'd supervise their elections.

[MAN] If all men...

[BOY] Little green men! Fire your ray gun!

Worship as they wished.

The universe need never
know war again.

- [GUNS BUZZ]
- Aah!

[ALLIE]
There are times when it seems

like the whole world is afraid...

Captain Video,
blast the Martian invader!

They're no use against Zultan!

When the fear is something
you have to live with

day in and day out.

- Use the nails from last year.
- I'm trying.

When people get scared.
They do a lot of different things.

They fight or they run.

They destroy
the thing they're afraid of.

Or they put a lot of distance
between it and them...

Hey! Watch it!

Make it something you can shoot at
with a friction-action gun.

We'll get a tree tonight
when I get home, okay?

Okay.

Bye, boys!

And try not to destroy
the universe, all right?

[BOY] Bye!

We took this craft apart
more than ten years ago.

More than ten years,
and we still have no idea how it ran,

no clue what its power source was

or what the aerodynamics
involved were.

In fact, we know less now

than we did when we found
the damn thing.

Just chime in if I've left
anything out, gentlemen.

Two years ago, some tiny circuit

you thought might
do something electrical.

Or was it something
that stored information?

The year before,
you thought you'd found out

what the thing was made of.

Ten years, gentlemen,

and so far all we have to show
for all your hard work

is a way to hold my pants up
without a belt.

Sir, we're dealing with
technology so far beyond ours,

we can't even find a place to start.

We are in a space race. Gentlemen.

Suppose another craft crashed or
was brought down over the Soviet Union.

Could you imagine the implications

if the Russians were
to master this technology first?

I hardly think that's likely.

Do you have a better explanation
for the success of Sputnik?

- Sput...
- Do you?

This is Dr Kreutz.

He's here with Lockheed,
working on a technology

for a plane that can fly
undetected by radar.

You may have seen the prototype
out in the yard.

His is a project that shows
some signs of yielding results.

Dr Kreutz has agreed
to come to our program

for an indefinite period of time.

Of course,
a physicist of such eminence

comes with his own people.

As of today, you gentlemen
are reassigned to other duties.

We've been receiving reports
of very strange radio signals

coming from our base in Iceland.

Captain Bowen has the details
of your transportation for you.

Merry Christmas.

I'm afraid I owe you
an apology, Doctor.

Why?

One of the burdens that comes
with this assignment...

I report directly to the president.

General Eisenhower
is not a patient man.

I've led him to believe that some
of your technological advances

were derived from our research.

What advances?

General Eisenhower
was particularly impressed

by the Explorer satellites
you sent up earlier this year.

I hope when you meet the president,

you won't disabuse him
of his impression.

And be reassigned to Iceland
a week before Christmas?

Certainly not.

Let me see your little bird.

[ALARM SOUNDING]

The interior wasn't damaged
in the crash.

It's exactly as it was
when we found it.

May I?

It is easy to see
what has baffled your researchers

for all these years.

No instrument panels,
no monitoring devices.

Nothing.

And yet even now there is
a sense of energy here.

We have to limit exposure in here.

There's some sort of field
or something.

In about six minutes,
your head will start to ache.

Twenty minutes maximum before
you have a cerebral haemorrhage.

You will never get this craft
off the ground without an engine.

We can't find the engine.

There were five of them.

They died in 1947.

KREUTZ: These are beings

of unimaginable power of mind.

The ability to reach inside
a man's mind and give him

the images lurking there...
Surely that requires more energy

than what is needed
to guide a ship among the stars.

The power of mind...
That is the energy source

your scientists
have been unable to find.

What do you suggest we do, Doc,

wait until they crash again?

- That is one option.
- What's another one?

Find someone else
with unimaginable power of mind.

[CHILDREN CHATTERING]

Oreos and a peanut-butter-
and-jelly sandwich.

You're wrong.

My mum promised me
a steak sandwich and pie.

How'd you do that, weirdo?

Your mum and dad
had a fight last night

about him being drunk.

She used the steak on her eye.

She didn't feel much
like making anything fancy.

You're dead, brainier.

[BELL RINGS]

Hey, there he is.

Talk to me
about my parents again, creep.

Are you hiding in the bushes
outside my house?

Tell me where you were,
you little weirdo!

[BOY] Get him!

You're gonna die.

Travis.

Travis, look at me.

Aah! Aah! Aah!

[SOBBING]

No. No. No...

[BOY] What did you do, freak?

[TRAVIS SOBBING]

[CHRISTMAS SONG PLAYING ON RADIO]

I'm sorry I was late, hun.
I got working in that shed.

Lost all track of time.

How was the last day of school?

Everybody excited
about the big vacation?

Honey, are you feeling all right?

You don't have a fever.

I made you some fried chicken
and brought you a Pepsi.

Here you go.

You can eat it now or you can rest
until we get to Amarillo.

I love you, honey,

every day and twice on Sunday.

[WHISTLE BLOWING]

[MAN]
Rock and Roll died last March 24th

when Elvis went into the army.

Wouldn't you agree, Captain?

I was just saying
Rock n Roll died

when Elvis went in the army.

Yeah, if you say so.

The captain's not one
for conversation.

The way he holds on
to that ratty duffel of his,

you'd think it was full of gold.

Go easy. He is not right.

I'm just trying to make
friendly conversation.

Man thinks he's
the only one with a past.

My father liked to say
that there were these things in life

that didn't make any sense.

And they could never
make any sense.

And if you were anywhere
near smart. You knew that.

But your job was not to give up.

To keep on trying to make sense
out of them anyway.

Trying to understand things
that could never be understood.

I guess maybe people will
always find different names

for their answers.

But the one thing is

their questions
will always be the same.

[MAN]
It was on my second trip to Venus

that I first met Renuthia and learned
the answer to the question

that I'm sure has brought you
here this evening,

and that is,

What do our space brothers
and sisters want from us?

Well, what they want
more than anything

is for all of us to be friends.

Hey!

Hey, Captain.

Give those back.

Yeah, what the hell, Captain.

Sure.

Uhh!

[MAN]
This is the dawning of a new era

of peace and understanding.

That is truly
what they want us to know,

that we are all part
of the same great whole,

that we all belong to the light.

These people are very gentle.

Their message
is only one of kindness.

You want to tell us what you think

about Elvis getting drafted,
or are you still too hoi polloi?

I want my things back.

Your hero medals?
What you get your medals for?

What kind of man
did you used to be

before you became
just another lost soul?

You hit him again,
I believe he'll die.

He'll die or I'm gonna
have to give back his things,

and I don't want to do that.

The Feds! Come on, fellas!

Whoa!

Get away from me!

[BANGING]

Just go... now!

Get away from me!

[WHIMPERS]

[SCREAMING]

That is the message
that I want to leave with you tonight.

They mean us no harm.
They don't want to hurt us.

More than anything else,
they want us to know...

they come in peace.

[RUSSELL] No!

No! No, not again, you bastards!

No! Aah!

[SCREAMS ECHOING IN DISTANCE]

[BOY GASPING]

[WHISPERS] Jesse.

I've met them, too.
One of them, at least.

There you are.

Do you think
they'll be coming back soon?

Our time and their time
is not the same time.

Are you planning on coming
to our New Year's festival?

I hadn't heard of it, actually.

Fifteen dollars
includes a buffet dinner.

We're gonna call
our space brothers and sisters.

- Thank you.
- Bye, now.

[GASPS]

[FLAMES CRACKLING]

Breakfast?

Compliments of Irish Dave
and the others.

- They're gone?
- Left in kind of a hurry.

Um...

Dave, um, wanted you
to have these back

and to know that he was sorry

and that if he ever
saw you again...

Which he hopes that he doesn't...
That you would...

You would please forgive him.

[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]

Whenever you're in the mood,

I, uh... I wouldn't mind knowing
what happened here last night.

I was a pilot in the war.
Did I mention that?

- You flew B-17s, right?
- That's right... 23 missions.

I guess you earned
those medals the hard way.

My crew.

Nine men. All of them are dead.

What happened?

Something like
what happened last night.

We were taken.

That's the best way
I know how to describe it.

Taken by who?

Whatever they did to us,
it killed my men.

I know that for a fact.

What I don't know...

what I c...
What I can't understand...

is why am I alive?

What's that?

These are aeronautical maps
of the United States.

You see, I keep a record.

Every place they pick me up,

the exact location, the exact time.

I-I-I'm just trying
to find a pattern to it.

If... if I could know
when they were coming,

- I could...
- You could what... run?

- You could get away?
- Yeah.

From what I saw last night, it...

it seems like
you're a bit outclassed.

Maybe they don't know, either.

They don't know why
you're the only one that lived.

Maybe that's why
they keep taking you...

To find out
what sort of thing you've got.

Maybe there's something
in the blood...

something that makes you special.

♪ O come ye to Bethlehem ♪

♪ Come and behold him ♪

♪ Born the King of angels ♪

♪ O come let us adore Him ♪

♪ O come let us adore Him ♪

♪ O come let us adore Him ♪

♪ Christ the Lord ♪

[KNOCKS]

[CONVERSATION,
PIANO PLAYING IN BACKGROUND]

Hey, Jesse.

Jesse, your mother needs
your help in the living room.

Go ahead.

You're not welcome here, Russell.

I know. I had something
I needed to tell Jesse.

You lost the chance when you
ran out on him and his mother.

- You can stay in the lockup.
- I didn't come here for that.

Well, you can't stay here.
I don't want Kate seeing ya.

Bill, Jesse's in danger.
I need to talk to him.

It's not gonna happen, Russell.

- [GIRL] Watch out!
- [BOY] Here goes!

[GIRL 2]
How about we build us a snowman?

Here I come!

We need more sticks for hair.

[BOY] Ow! That hurt.

- [GIRL] He's okay?
- [GIRL 2] Yeah.

- Gotcha.
- Hurry!

Hello, Jesse.

Christmas is all about hope.

Kids hope for new toys.

You get older. And the toys get bigger.
But the hope stays the same.

Some people might hope
for peace on earth

or maybe for a better tomorrow.
Whatever their idea of that might be.

But most people still just want
something bright and shiny and new.

[JET FLYING OVERHEAD]

It's a local. Get us as far
as maybe the Kentucky line.

- You ever done this before?
- No, sir.

- You willing to try?
- You bet.

On 3... 1, 2, 3!

- What are you looking at?
- You look just like your mother.

Everyone says I look more like you.

I don't see it.

Oh, I got something.

Yeah.

I've, uh, been wanting
to give you these.

There you go.

Merry Christmas.

These are your war medals?

You can put 'em on later if you want.

I got this one the first time
I was shot down, over Belgium.

This one was for one time
when we took a lot of flak,

and I got some in my leg.

And this one...

That's a Silver Star.

Got that on my last mission.

When you were shot down and captured
and you saved your entire crew.

Mum said it was the war
that made you go away.

But you know it wasn't, don't you?

So... is this what
you been doing the whole time?

This where you live?

Yeah, I live where I can.

Listen to me, Jesse.

What was happening to me...

I didn't want to bring it home
to you and your mother.

Who are they?

I don't know.

Can you keep them
from coming back for me again?

I don't know that, either.

But I'm sure as hell gonna try.

[SCREEN DOOR CREAKS]

Jacob!

- Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas!

You look great.

[TOM] Watch out, now!

Hey, there, little brother.
Where's Mum?

She's in the shed.

In the shed?
What's she doing in there?

- She's working on something.
- Working? It's Christmas Day.

I didn't bring
all these presents for nothing.

I think she thought
you were coming later.

She hasn't put the turkey
in the oven yet.

I should go see if I can help.

Hello, hello!

Merry Christmas!
I thought I heard your car.

[TOM] Mama?

Hey, there.

Merry Christmas.
What are y'all doing here so soon?

I thought you weren't coming
till this evening.

Well, it's 5:00.

Goodness gracious,
where does the time go?

What are you doing in there,
making moonshine?

Oh, get on inside.
I'm so happy to see y'all.

[ERIC] This one's kind of messy.

[SAM]
I think it's the usual... underwear.

[ERIC] Doesn't make any noise.

Sounds like clothes.

This one looks like a cookie, here.

Mum, is Dad home yet?

Not yet, sweetheart.

Could I open just one present?

Let's just wait
a little while longer, okay?

Your dad wants to be here
when you open his gifts.

- How much longer, Mum?
- Just a little while.

[O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL PLAYING]

Tom's pulling money in hand over fist
on that real estate, Mama.

I know he is.
I'm so proud of him.

And of you. First one
in our family to go to college.

Tom and I were talking about
with all his extra money,

maybe he could get Jacob
into a school some place.

Jacob is fine here with me.

The school that Tom found
is in Montana.

It's for children
who are special, different.

Of course he's different.

When is the last time
you saw him laugh or cry?

When is the last time he hugged you?
When is the last time he smiled?

This school might be able
to help him, Mum.

There's nothing wrong with Jacob.

He's fine here with me.

[OVEN TIMER DINGS]

I'm sorry about the turkey, y'all.

Merry Christmas.

- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas, Mama.

[RUSSELL] Merry Christmas.

[LAUGHING]

- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas, Esther.

Ladies, come on.

It's a wonderful service you
are providing for your country.

We appreciate this.

[CAMERAS WHIRRING]

It's been 20 minutes.
We have to get them out.

- Give it another five minutes.
- Sir, that will kill them.

They were dead the second
they set foot on this base.

[UNLOCKS DOOR]

[DROPS KEYS ON TABLE]

The boys are asleep.

We waited as long as we could.

I'm sorry. Something came up.

You gave them both
a Lionel train set.

Sam got
the Space Patrol board game

and the Leave It To Beaver
lunch box.

Eric got the Leave It To Beaver
board game

and the Space Patrol lunch box.

They both got Hula Hoops.

What did I give you?

A hell of a lot more
than I bargained for.

[BRAKES SQUEAK]

[GRUNTING]

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

This is kind of mean, Tom.

Becky, Mum really
believes this crap.

That's why she's always taking
Jacob to all those conventions.

All we have to do
is show her that it's a trick,

make her see how easy it is to fake.

You were with me.
We saw those lights in the sky.

The Lubbock Lights, yeah.

Quarrington wrote a chapter
about it in his book

and Popular Science
had an article about it.

It was a reflection of street lamps
off a flock of plover birds.

We were little kids, Becky.
We saw what we wanted to see.

Just because some creepy guy
ends up in our barn

doesn't mean he's from Mars.

Venus. Quarrington says
they're from Venus.

If you turn on the porch light, it'll
make it look more like it's in the sky.

Jake, what are you doing up?

I don't want to go away to school.

There was a lady
watching me in class.

She wasn't from here.
I could sense her interest.

Jacob, you have to try to understand...
You have sort of a gift, an insight.

I get that from my father.

You need to be in a place
where people understand you.

If I go away,
who's gonna take care of Mum?

[SALLY] Kids!

Y'all come here! It's ready!

I call this a contractor.

What do you think?

Yeah. Uh...

- What is it?
- It's sort of like a radio.

I'm hoping to transmit
a message up into space.

Sounds kind of crazy, doesn't it?

Why do you want to send
a message into space?

Because I miss Jacob's father

and I want him to know
that we're all right.

And I want him
to come and get us.

I want him to know
that we're ready to go.

Go where, Mum?

Home.

[TYRES SQUEALING]

Jesse?

[CAR DOORS OPENING]

Jesse?!

Jesse?

Jesse!

[GUNS COCK]

[BILL] Don't move, Russell.

Where the hell is Jesse?
What have you done with him?

I don't know.
I don't know what's going on!

[OWEN] I told Eisenhower
we had the saucer running.

I promised him a demonstration
by the second week in January.

That gives us two weeks.

Would you like to tell me
what the hell went wrong?

It's that kind of attitude
that lost you people the war.

The theory was sound.

The Erenberg twins
simply were not psychic enough.

Not psychic enough?

They were the highest-rated
sensitive on the Rhine scale.

The professor at Duke said they
were the best he'd ever seen!

All right,
so what are we gonna do?

I go back to working on planes
powered by an energy I understand.

[CHUCKLES]
I'm afraid you can't do that.

I've had you moved to the military.
You work for me now.

You told your president
the test was a success.

In order to keep me here with you,
you'd have to admit you had failed.

We lost the war because the Russians
betrayed our trust.

There was never
a question of our attitude.

[DOOR CLOSES]

What the hell you two looking at?

Jesse!

[MAN] I'll go 100 yards this way!

Come on, boys. Find him!

[BILL] Jesse!

[MAN]
Holler if you hear us, Jess!

Keep moving out!

[MAN 2] On the left flank!

Jesse!

Kate.

You bastard. What did you do?

I came back to try to save him.

Save him?
What are you talking about?

They're done with me.

I don't know how I know it, but I do.

I don't want to hear this.

I just want to know
what you did with my son.

I didn't do anything with him.

They did.

They took him.

Kate, Jesse is special.

They're seeing if he's ready.

Ready for what?

Aah!

Get away from me!

Aah!

This New Year's Eve party
you're going to...

We think you should
leave Jacob here with us.

Y'all don't think he should be exposed
to all the crazy people?

He gets tired so easily.
Staying up that late...

No, we don't think he should be
exposed to all those crazy people.

I'll be back tomorrow night.

Y'all aren't gonna sneak him off
to one of those schools?

No. We'd need
your signature anyway.

We're gonna sit around here
and do some card tricks.

I don't know, maybe he is better off
with all the loonies.

I'll tell him he's staying here.

I bet he already knows.

[SCREEN DOOR OPENS]

Oh, I love you...

every day and twice on Sundays.

I'll see you later.

This is the last of the raw data.
Still lots to go through.

I want to look at everything.

[MARTY] 200 sightings
in Central Illinois Christmas Day.

- Anything?
- The Cold War.

These people are frightened
and delusional.

You're not helping me.

[HOWARD] Man who says he's
been visited by representatives

of the planet Arnadon.

Six hundred hovering
yellow discs over Duluth.

Woman who says the broadcasts
on her television are from outer space.

[MARTY] Got the surveillance photos in
from the Quarrington lecture in Amarillo.

He's beautiful.
He will say anything we tell him to say.

Trips to Venus, space brothers.

I came up with that one...
space brothers.

It's very inspired.

When you two are done,
let's get back to work.

[MARTY] Yes, sir. Ahem.

These people
call themselves Contactees.

They believe they've had
contact with aliens.

A bunch of them have built machines
to talk to their space brothers.

They're all getting together
on New Year's Eve.

They're gonna turn on the machines.

Maybe we could borrow
one of the machines,

call a spaceman, and ask him
to come fly his ship for Ike.

Maybe we don't need to call anybody.
Go back one.

No, one more.

How old do you think that kid is?

Why do people want
so desperately not to be alone?

Why is it more comforting
to think you are being watched

than to know
that no one at all is watching?

And why. Really. Does that
make us any less alone?

In the end.
If there are others out there.

Then wouldn't we be. All of us.
Still alone together?

J-a-c-o-b.

Jacob.

That your card?

No? What was your card?

Jack of diamonds.

Jack.

Jack for Jake, right?

They're old cards.
You know, the wax...

There's a new deck
in the top drawer there.

Why don't you go get it?

We'll try it with that deck.

Maybe then I can get it to work.

[POP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

Aw, come on.
That's a good trick.

[LAUGHS]

Hey, Jake, come here.
I want to talk to you about something.

How long has Mum been
talking about, you know,

going to outer space and stuff?

I don't know.
It's just something she says sometimes.

How long has she
been building that machine?

She's not crazy. She's just sad.

Well... you think
this is the best place for you to be?

You know,
around somebody who's so sad?

Thank you all for coming,
and a Happy New Year!

[CROWD] Happy New Year!

Are you all ready
to greet our space brothers?

Yes, we are!

I see a lot of you have brought
devices for that purpose.

If you'll just turn them on now,

then we can enjoy
a nice leisurely buffet

and hope that we have
some guests join the party.

[HUMS]

[CRACKLES AND BUZZES]

[BEEPS]

[WHISTLING]

That's a sophisticated-looking device.
How does it work?

I made it from a plan
out of Fate magazine.

These antennas are supposed to
broadcast my brain waves up into space.

How do they do that?

Well, you could either buy this thing
that looked like a salad bowl

or you could use
this metal bucket over here.

I'm kidding.

Oh. [LAUGHS]

There's a radio transmitter in there.

I just turn on this microphone
and hope for the best.

You don't remember me, do you?

I come to a lot of these things.

Your machine... it's to send
a message to that...

to your friend you found
in the shed, am I right?

- You were...
- With the army.

I came to see you once.
I lost my job over your friend.

I filed a report saying
I believed the man in your shed

was an alien visitor
who had returned to his planet.

That opinion cost me my job
and my pension...

not to mention my marriage.

I thought you were looking for him
cause you knew he was from space.

There are levels and there are levels.

Once I told them what I knew,
they had to make me go away.

I'll tell you something, though,

all the time I worked for them,
I was never a believer.

It was just...

right before I met you
when I saw the lights in the sky.

You want to get a little dinner?

Mmm.

- Like your pendant.
- Thank you.

Actually, it used to be
a pair of earrings.

Belonged to my grandmother.

- What happened to the other one?
- I gave it away.

Now it truly is
a Lone Star, then, huh?

Think it'll work?

I don't know.

I think whatever their plan is,
it's not gonna be changed

'cause of a couple messages from us.

Well, why do you do it, then?

Passes the time.

Because I miss him

and there's something
that I want him to know about.

That's Tom, Becky.

These are my kids from my late
but not at all lamented husband.

That's Jacob.

[QUARRINGTON] Folks,
can I have your attention, please?

In a few moments,
it's going to be 1959,

so I'd like to say
Happy New Year again

and thank you all for coming out.

I'm... I'm only sorry
we weren't more successful,

but we're gonna try this
again next month,

so in the meantime, just, uh,
just keep watching the skies.

♪ Old acquaintance be forgot ♪

♪ And never brought to ♪

Maybe you should have sprung
for the salad bowl, huh?

[LAUGHS]

♪ Be forgot ♪

♪ And days of old ♪

He knows, Sally.
Wherever he is, he knows.

♪ Old Langsyne, my dear ♪

♪ For old Langsyne ♪

[GASPING]

[WHIRRING]

[WHIMPERS]

[SOBBING]

Aah!

It was nice running into you again
after all these years.

It was.

Maybe we'll see each other again
at one of these things,

although I have to admit
I'm getting a little tired

of Dr Quarrington and all
of his trips to Venus.

With Renuthia?

[both laugh]

You heading home in the morning?

- Mm.
- Well, I hope we do.

See each other again.

I do, too.

- Good night.
- Good night.

Owen?

You said that filing that report
cost you your marriage?

I was just thinking
that your wife must have been

a very foolish woman to let you go.

- Night.
- Good night.

[door closes]

[CRACK]

[BRAKES SQUEAL]

Are you gonna do that every day?

[SNIFFLES]
It's good to keep linen fresh.

Kate, we had to call off
the manhunt today.

Come on,
it's been seven days now.

- [SOBS] No.
- We have to...

Kate?

We have to face the facts now.

Okay? Come on.

He's just a little boy, Bill.

He's just a little boy.
I just...

[CRYING] No.

There you go. Like that.

[CAR APPROACHING]

Hey, y'all.

Kids, this is Owen Crawford.

About the only evidence
of UFOs at my convention

was the mysterious
breakdown of my truck.

Mr Crawford was kind enough
to give me a ride home.

Jacob!

Jacob?

- Tommy, go after him.
- Jacob?!

Jake?

Jacob?!

Jacob!

Jacob!

When you're little. You like to think
you know everything.

But the last thing you really want
is to know too much.

What you really want is for grown ups
to make the world a safe place

where dreams can come true
and promises are never broken.

And when you're little.
It doesn't seem like a lot to ask.

He's come here for me.

He wants to see if I'm special.

Well, then whatever you do...
don't act special.

Your mother tells me
you're in real estate, Tom.

I hear you cleaned up on
that East Texas boom last year.

I did all right.

Guess you'll be heading
back to your empire soon?

Yeah, I'm leaving tonight.

Sorry I won't get
more of a chance to talk.

What do you do now, Owen,
now that you're not a soldier?

I was never a soldier.
I was more of a spy.

[SALLY]
Gosh, I've never met a real spy before.

Really? How would you know?

It was never very glamorous.
I mostly filed reports.

Mum says you got fired for the one
you filed on our... visitor.

Well, the, uh, the army and I
had a disagreement.

Let's just put it that way.

So what do I do now, Tom?

They didn't exactly give me
a letter of recommendation.

I knocked around the Southwest
for a while, odd jobs and such,

then an uncle died
and I came into a little money.

I was thinking
about buying into something...

A gas station or restaurant.

Mr Tyler's talking about
selling the diner, isn't he?

He already knew about Mr Tyler.
That's why he said it.

[SALLY] Jacob.

Sorry.

[TOM] What are you telling him
to buy the diner for?

It just came out.
He seems nice enough.

He got booted out of the army

for saying the guy in our shed
was from outer space.

Mum met him
at a flying saucer party.

She needs someone in her life, Tom.

I'm going back to U. T.,
you're going back to work.

If Jacob goes away,
she'll be all alone.

Yeah, just her
and the little green men.

Y'all be careful on this road, okay?

- You gonna call me?
- I will, Mama.

Mum, will you think
about what we talked about?

I already thought about it, honey.

[TOM] Come on, sis.

We got miles and miles of Texas.

You take care, Jake.

You kids drive safe, now.

[ENGINE STARTS]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

[MAN ON TV] Come on out. Pete!

This one's a fight
you're never gonna win!

Don't leave on my account, son.

I'm sorry. I don't know
what's gotten into him.

He's jealous. We'll work it out.

- What are you watching?
- A western.

Good guys in white,
bad guys in black.

No spacemen in green? [CHUCKLES]

In town. Doc can
get you all patched up!

- May I?
- Please.

- Help me.
- No. Thanks!

[GUNSHOTS]

I was, uh, gonna go into town
and find a motel room.

I was hoping I could meet you
at the diner in the morning,

talk to this... Mr Tyler,
was it? About his place.

Sure. That would be fine.

Sally, you don't think
I'm crowding you here.

I just...

Well, it sounds like a fine opportunity.

Well, I think it is.
Long as you do one thing.

You gotta change
Tyler's chicken recipe.

Tyler makes the worst fried chicken
in all of West Texas.

[MAN] I've always loved you.

[WOMAN] You think you can just
run off and leave a girl?

[MAN] I've done things
I can't ever make up for.

Owen, you don't have to get
a room in town tonight

if you don't want to.

- It's time to move on.
- Then we'll go together...

I'll go change the bedding
in Tom's old bedroom.

You can sleep there tonight.

[MAN] Somewhere out in the woods.

[WOMAN] Don't go.

What are you doing?

Pete. Come back. Come back!

- [GUNSHOTS]
- [WOMAN] Pete!

No! No! [CRYING]

[WHISTLING O SUSANNA]

I'm never gonna fly your saucer.
Not ever.

[SCREEN DOOR OPENS]

[SALLY]
You two finally making friends?

Yes. Yes.

We were getting acquainted.

In fact, Jacob just told me
everything I need to know.

[ANNE] Marty, Anne Crawford.

Sam fell off the roof
and broke his neck.

They don't know if he's gonna live.

If he does, who knows
if he's ever gonna walk again.

I'm in Las Vegas
at the hospital there.

Marty, I know Owen's
not in Washington.

This is the kind of thing that he needs
to hear from me in person.

He'll thank you for it, Marty.
I promise you that.

Lubbock, Texas?

I can find it.

I found that two days
after he left here.

Nothings grown since.

My heart's sort of like that patch.

You need to know that if you're...
You're gonna stay.

I come from a long line of farmers.

We can grow corn in a field
where grass won't grow.

I'm not going anywhere, Sally.
I'm not.

You're the sun
and the moon to me.

[SALLY] Okay, I'm coming down.
Y'all don't let me fall.

Did you tell him
about your idea yet?

I thought he'd rather
hear it from you.

Sweetie, Mr Crawford thought today
might be a fine day to take you fishing.

Would you like that?

Nothing like a day on a lake
for getting acquainted.

I'm sure your mum
will be fine here without us.

[FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE EATER
PLAYING ON RADIO]

♪ Well. I saw the thing ♪
♪ coming out of the sky ♪

♪ It had one long horn ♪

[LOWERS VOLUME]

It'll go easier for your mum
if you help me out.

You know that.

♪ It was a one-eyed. ♪
♪ One-horned ♪

What are you gonna do afterwards...
dissect me?

Depends on how much you can tell us
without us having to cut you open.

♪ To me ♪

♪ Well. He came down to earth ♪

We're just the beginning
of this, you and me.

It doesn't end with us.

And there's something else
you should know

in case you think
you've won anything.

I'm not the only one that matters.

♪ One-eyed. One-horned ♪
♪ flying purple people eater ♪

♪ One-eyed. One-horned ♪
♪ flying purple people eater ♪

♪ Sure looks strange to me ♪

♪ I said. Mr Purple People Eater ♪

- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- Just a second!

[KNOCK]

I'm coming. Just a second!
I got something on the stove!

Jesus, I can't believe
I was that stupid.

No, Mama, you don't
have to worry about that.

We're gonna get him back.

[DOG BARKS]

[DOG HOWLS]

[DOG BARKING]

[KATE GASPS]

Jesse!

Oh, Jesse.

Oh, my. It's okay.

Jesse.

You're so cold.

They told me Jesse was home.

I left 50 bucks for you
with the front desk officer.

Don't come back here.

- Is Jesse all right?
- No thanks to you.

Did he say what happened?

You fell asleep
and he wandered off into the woods.

But he is all right?

Kate wanted me to let you go.

I'm up for keeping you
for the kidnapping charges.

I don't know what happened,
but he's been lost ten days.

No, he's not all right.

Wait, wait. Bill... Bill, please...

Uhh!

Russell, I meant what I said.
You don't come back here.

[GRUNTS]

Yeah, we should be there by tonight.

Oh, he's very well behaved.
I told him I'd kill his mum.

What are you... what are you
talking about, Marty?

And you told her where I was?

Do me a favour, Marty.
Go to my house,

see if my kids are there
with the housekeeper.

If they're both fine,
which I am sure they are,

then start shopping
for a very warm jacket.

No. Do I sound like I'm joking?

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

Gonna need your strength.

Mr Crawford, look at me.

[GROANING]

Aah! No!

No!

[SOBS]

No! No! No! No! No!

[SOBBING, SCREAMING]

I called the army.

They have no personnel records
of an Owen Crawford after 1947.

This just keeps getting
better and better, doesn't it?

What do you think
they want with Jacob?

You don't think
the government believes

in people from other planets?

No, I think
they want us to believe.

That way, anytime
they test some new missile,

they can blame a flying saucer.

- What do they want with Jacob?
- I don't know, Becky,

but whatever it is, I'm not gonna
let them get their hands on him.

Tom?

[BECKY] Jacob!

Jacob?

Oh, I'm so sorry.

I never should have let you go.

It's all right, Mum.

No, it's not.

I was a lonely, foolish woman.

Should you have
brought him back here?

It's all right, Mum.

Mr Crawford won't be coming back.

Let's get inside, Mama.

Come on. Let's get you inside.

You look terrible.
I was worried sick about you.

He's asleep.

I want him to go to that school.

He has to disappear.
If they come...

If they come looking for him,
there can't be a trace.

Tom and I have an idea about that.

You keep this safe for me, okay?

I may not ever see you again.

You'll think about me once in a while?

Every day and twice on Sundays.

I love you, Mum.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

What are you gonna do
about Eisenhower, sir?

We got a report
from the sheriff in Lubbock.

What?

The sheriff in Texas?

There was a fire.

Mother was working
on some sort of invention in her shed.

The kid died, sir.

Good.

What happened, Colonel?

You called in from the road, right?
Said you were bringing the kid in.

So how did he get all the way back
to Lubbock to be in that fire?

Did Marty tell you
he was leaving for Iceland?

I might reconsider...
give the two of you another chance.

That boy in Texas...
don't ever mention him to me again.

Glad to see
you're feeling all right, son.

What are you talking about, Dad?

While I was away,
I had this... I don't know...

Call it a premonition or something...
That you had been hurt.

Glad I was wrong.

Why don't you boys
get ready for bed?

- But, Dad...
- No, go ahead.

[SAM] Come on, let's go.

You followed me to Texas.

You were having an affair
with that woman.

In my work, sometimes what I do
can be distasteful.

I thought you understood that.

You'd like to leave me.

Yes.

You know too much about what I do.

- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- Come in.

- How you doing, buddy?
- I'm all right.

Jesse, I wanted
to tell you something.

Uh, I wanted to let you know...
um... that is,

if there's anything you want
to talk about at all,

anything that happened
while you were gone, uh...

I'm not really
that hard a guy to talk to.

I was just lost. That's all.

Yeah. Okay.

You know, your father,
he was a real hero once.

A real hero.
You should be proud of that.

Good night.

[SHUFFLING CARDS]

People believe
what they want to believe.

They find meaning where
they can. And they cling to it.

In the end. It really doesn't matter
what's a trick and what's true.

[CHILDREN PLAYING OUTDOORS]

What matters is that people believe.