Original subtitles

- Previously on "resident alien"...

- Break me out of here, but you have to do it quick.

- What do you mean?

- Your people will send someone else

to kill everyone for you.

- Including asta?

- You're an alien. You know, phone home.

Call them and tell them not to come.

- I will try to build a radio to contact my people.

Mm.

Yes!

- Time for you two to get to colorado

to find me whatever was flying that machine.

- Max, who is that? Why is he wearing a white coat?

- Are you the town doctor? - Yes, I am.

- I remember everything,

even though I'm not supposed to.

Most people don't.

There were others in the ship, you know, who were taken?

Like an intergalactic orphanage.

- Growing up that way probably felt very alienating.

- Showed me my mom and dad a few times.

Been searching for them ever since the aliens

dumped me back here five years ago.

- Then I can imagine the complicated feelings

you have for them.

All that time, all those missed opportunities.

- It's the missing things, right, doc?

The missing things are what help you heal.

Attachments, like you said.

Feel like I'm a single thread

from blowing away in the wind altogether.

- Unfortunately, we're out of time this week.

- Same time next week? - Mm.

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[tires screech]

[brown bird's "fingers to the bone"]

[driving bluegrass music]

- ♪ I work my fingers to the bone ♪

♪ not a pretty little penny have I got to show ♪

♪ I ain't looking for much just a little bit of rest ♪

♪ by the side of the road ♪

♪ I lift my voice to the forces above ♪

♪ the lords of labor and the goddess of love ♪

♪ ain't I been a good, hard-working ♪

♪ faithful servant and son?

♪ ♪

- what do you think about the new one?

- I'm not sure yet... [robert inaudible]

but I'll find out.

I'll find the truth about all of them.

[brown bird's "bilgewater"]

[laidback acoustic strumming]

♪ ♪

- children, a pestilence.

They are not so much born, but replicate like a virus,

continuing humanity's path toward destruction.

Plus, it is illegal to make them work,

so they are just gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe.

- Listen up, skin bags.

I have built a radio to tell my people

not to come and kill everyone, including you.

That was difficult.

I am now the savior of the human race,

so you can give me my alien ball back.

- I would, but I gave your ball to my dad.

He uses it to golf.

- You cannot golf with that ball.

- Maybe you can't because you're a bad golfer,

but he got a hole in one, and in that hole was bird poop.

So now your silver alien ball is covered in bird poop.

- I changed my mind.

I am going to tell my people to save everyone but you,

and when you are dead, I'm going to freeze you

and make snow cones out of your gross, dead ice

and add the worst snow cone flavor to it--papaya.

- That's dark.

- You know what I'm gonna do to you?

- What could you do to me?

- [inaudible]

- you are a monster.

You will bring me my alien ball.

You sick, broken child.

- That's cool.

He's building a radio to save us.

- Are you a goldfish? It's not a radio.

It's a bomb.

[bat clacks]

[cheers and applause]

- humans live to consume,

and their appetites are endless.

They drop garbage on the ground

wherever they go.

Earth is like a house they've lit on fire

but continue to live in,

and they use the earth's resources

to make ugly things like teal crocs

and truck ducks.

- You rock, d'arcy!

[cheers and applause] - d'arcy!

- D'arcy!

- All right, d'arcy! Let's go, patience!

- Whoo!

- He seems like a nice guy. She looks happy.

- I am not engaging.

Keeping my distance, and you don't have to comment.

It's called boundaries. - [chuckles]

- could you hypothetically do a background check?

Wait, nope. Say nothing.

- All right, patience!

Let's hold 'em to zero runs.

That's right, zero runs

on the board for jessup.

Three for patience.

Thus patience-- better than jessup.

- Hey, there.

Didn't recognize you not flat on your back.

- That's nice hair, bloom.

Next time, I'll show you how to do a real braid.

- Just let me know if you want me to have the pitcher

slow it down for you so you can get a hit.

- I'll take it as slow or as fast as you want to go.

[crowd yelling]

- second base, second base!

- Second! Second!

- Got him. - No way.

- You're out. - Yeah!

- Way to go d'arcy!

- ♪ take it to the bank ♪

♪ all the way, gang ♪

- fast enough for you? - [chuckles]

- nice job, d'arcy!

[plucky electronic music]

- I'll be right back.

- [whispers] sit in front of us.

The fate of everyone on earth is at stake.

- She thinks harry's building a bomb.

- He's not. It's a radio.

- When somebody shows you who they are,

believe them the first time.

- That's pretty deep for someone your age.

- It's maya angelou. Dr. Maya angelou.

An actual doctor,

unlike the alien who pretended to be one.

What else does he pretend to do?

[crowd yelling]

[clack]

- oh! - Foul ball.

- Ha!

Ha ha ha. - Harry.

- What are you looking at? Get your own ball.

- Harry. - Mine.

I just caught it. - Harry.

Here you go. - Thanks.

- Good job, kid.

- I want that back.

- What are you doing?

- Watching the game.

When these hammy humans are finished,

I'm going to pick the celestial flowers

that grew from the water of my spaceship.

It is for my radio.

- What do flowers have to do with your radio?

- Plants have the most complex biochemistry

of anything in nature,

yet humans give them to say,

"I love you.

Here are some flowers. You are dead."

- I want to see this radio.

[clack] [applause]

- why is she looking at me like that?

Do I have a booger on the edge of my nose?

Is it on my face?

- You know, I've always really been interested in radios.

- Mm-hmm. - Like, how do they work?

You know, like this one, for instance.

Like, how does it actually send a signal across the universe

all the way to your planet?

- In two days, at exactly 11:06 a.M.,

the earth's axial tilt

will be in line with the mars transit station.

- Transit station on mars? That's weird.

We didn't know anything about that.

- Ha ha ha!

Humans don't know anything about anything.

- Mm-hmm. - It's funny because it's true.

So this fissure of tellurium

will boost the radio signal,

bouncing the message off of the radio transmitter

which humans have named oumuamua.

- Huh.

- And it will send the message to my people.

- All the way to your planet.

- Off the radio transmitter.

Anyway, it will send them the message,

and they will not come and kill everyone.

I have to do it at that exact time.

- Why that exact time?

- Because the...

[sniffs]

the conditions will be ideal,

and they will not be ideal again for an entire year,

and then it will be too late.

Why are you squinting at me?

Why are you asking so many questions?

Do I have a booger on my face? Point at the booger.

- Mm, I think you're lying about what this is.

- Painful.

- Your last radio ended up being a human death bomb,

and you lied that whole time.

- Well, you just lied to me just now

about being interested in radios.

I knew you were lying. You're not a good actress.

You could not play a beach corpse

on "law and order." - excuse me.

You know, this "tellurium fissure,"

it goes right through the reservation,

so I think that's maybe where we're gonna go to set it up.

- We? - Yes, we.

My dad and I are coming

just to make sure you're not lying.

- Still painful.

[upbeat music]

[chatter, laughter]

- good to see you.

- I like being on the reservation.

It feels comfortable. There is a warmth to it.

They must like it too, since they're always together.

- Hey, harry. Let's get you some food.

- Yes. - [giggles]

- big leroy.

- Yep. - Get harry a plate, yeah?

- Yeah, for sure.

Oh, oh, hey, hey.

- And how's little leroy? - Hopefully almost here.

Starting to kick like a little fancy dancer.

- Oh.

[laughter]

are you outdoorsy, harry? - Yes.

My people prefer it outdoors.

- Oh, who are your people?

- The dutch.

- All right, here you go. Enjoy.

- Thank you.

- You're that harry weirdo who came with dan and asta.

- And you're that weirdo who talks to weirdos.

Weirdo.

- [chuckles]

I'm drew.

It's all kind of my fault.

You know, it's like every time I leave the city

and come back to the rez,

they gotta invite everybody over.

Exhausting.

- I'm exhausted just listening to you.

- I don't know.

Ever feel like you belong someplace else?

- Yes.

[solemn music]

♪ ♪

- hey, deputy, I had to drop some shirts off

at the dry cleaners, so they gave me

your dress here to give to you.

- I don't have any dry cleaning.

Wait, I've been looking all over for that dress.

Did you take it in for me? I would have remembered.

- No, I don't make a habit

of walking around with women's clothing.

Although, I do like dresses with pockets.

It makes the handbag optional.

Of course, you could always just throw

a couple bandolier belts over your shoulders

and tuck little tampons in each little bullet slot.

- Sir, how many tampons do you think I need?

- Shit, as many as you can carry.

Tampons are extremely versatile.

You can use them for gunshot wounds,

for a sweaty brow. - Oh.

- They actually should market 'em to men

and call 'em manpons. I'd buy them.

- That's quite the ted talk, sir.

Um, judy cooper is here to see you.

- Oh, shit.

- I think she thinks you're dating

because you danced with her.

- I ain't danced with her. She danced on me.

- Hi, judy.

- I brought you a cake.

It's store-bought.

- Okay. - Yep.

Well, so do you wanna put your number in my phone or...

- Uh-uh. No, no, no, no, no.

- Ah, this guy's old-school. Mm-hmm.

I like that. - Yeah.

- So I'll just give you my number.

[light music]

♪ ♪

use it or lose it.

- Okay. - Okay.

- Okay. It's right on your hand.

All right.

- You got it. - Okay.

- Bye, judy. - Bye, judy.

O-kay. There she is in the window.

- Oh, just in case we missed it.

- Oh, look at that. She--she waving there.

- She's...[laughing]. - Is she gone?

- It might be fun. - Oh, hell no.

Are you crazy? - Come on.

All you do is work and take care of your dad.

Like, when was the last time you went on a date?

- I've got people I can call.

- That was a very long lunch.

How do humans talk for hours

about different ways to cook their meat?

- It's a good hike to the campsite.

Got decent elevation.

- Yeah, most importantly, it's in the middle of nowhere.

- Why is that important? - Oh, I don't know.

I normally prefer not to have

a lot of people watching when I try

to contact an alien race. - Hey, wait up!

Jay's gonna watch the kids so we can come with you.

- Oh! - And I brought jerky.

- Oh, uh...

[quirky music]

♪ ♪

[quiet music]

♪ ♪

- hi, honey. - Hey.

- I know you've been working hard

on those patience family day ideas,

so I brought you tacos for lunch.

- Ah, you are the best.

Thank you.

- Mm-hmm.

Oh, my god.

No, this isn't even albuquerque.

We're--we're in mexico.

I am literally eating from a taco truck

parked at a mayan temple.

- I'm so glad you love them.

They are from a new restaurant in jessup.

Really?

You were just at a mayan temple.

- Well, maybe I don't appreciate

their human sacrifices.

- So you spit out good food

just because it comes from jessup?

- This is food from the town that is slandering our town.

- The town mayor is slandering us, not the town,

and he's probably a perfectly lovely guy.

He's done a nice job with jessup.

The town's got a good vibe going on.

- Well, patience had a good vibe too,

before all this murder stuff happened.

- Mm-hmm. - You know, not counting

the dead miners

or the church burning down in the '80s.

- I'm gonna be honest with you.

I think that you could learn a thing or two from them

about reshaping our town's image.

Look, there's a restaurant in jessup

that has a great happy hour.

Let's go tonight.

If you hate it, you can use everything

you hate in your commercial.

We'll call it research.

- Actually not a bad idea. - Mm-hmm.

- Okay, I'll check it out.

- Yeah, there's my man.

There's my little taco hound. - [chuckles]

[mellow pop music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ leave all your possessions ♪

♪ leave behind your clothes ♪

♪ can we run into the wild? ♪

♪ place the sun ♪

♪ into the wild ♪

♪ see the world just like you did ♪

♪ when you were just a child ♪

♪ can we run ♪

♪ into the wild? ♪

♪ into the wild ♪

♪ ♪

- are you guys ready to fish in the morning?

If you don't have your rods, you can share mine.

- Uh, yeah, thanks,

but, um, I think harry really wants to take a hike

in the morning, so we're probably gonna do that.

- Oh, that sounds so fun. I'll join you guys.

I know a great spot.

- Oh, wow.

Yeah, you know, fishing's your thing though.

You should definitely do that.

- No, that's ridiculous. I'll fish later.

- Oh, I was actually--

- why don't you hang back with me, cuz?

I might kinda want to learn how to fish.

- Oh! - Mm-hmm.

- Oh, oh, all right, well,

I guess you're stuck with harry.

- Yeah.

- And, you come with me to find some wood.

- I'll be right there.

You're welcome.

- What? - I'm a ho.

I know about ho shit.

Go be a freak in the forest. I won't tell no one.

- No, no, no, no, that's not-- - I'm already walking away.

- Oh, dude, dude, dude, no, no, no, that's not--

do you need some help? - No.

The portable house is broken.

And your family people are going to ruin the plan.

- I took care of them.

And if you want to do this, we're setting up over there.

In the meantime, there's the mountain.

It's gonna take a long time to get there from camp.

- We have to get there at 11:06 a.M., precisely.

This is our one chance.

- Yeah. You said.

- You are looking constipated again.

- I'm gonna go talk to my dad.

- Don't play poker, my girl.

- I want to believe him.

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

do you trust harry?

- What I believe should have nothing to do

with what you believe.

Deep down in your gut, do you trust him?

- Yeah, I do.

- Good.

That makes one of us.

- See, lots of plastic straws in this restaurant,

but no turtles. Coincidence?

- Sweetie, could you please just try and enjoy yourself?

- Did I hear someone is concerned about the straws?

Ours are made from cornstarch.

They decompose and are very friendly

to our aquatic dwelling friends.

- Well, what if the turtles are on land

and they eat the straws when they're dry?

Very sharp. - He's just making a joke.

- [laughs] of course.

Can I start you all with a glass

of jessup's world-famous spring water?

- Famous? That's odd.

I always thought water was just water because it's water.

- I totally understand you thinking that

since you've never had our water.

- Fine, I'll have a glass of ice water please.

- Oh, we don't do ice water here.

If you put ice in the water, you can't taste the water.

- Wow.

- You know, I think we're just gonna need

another couple of minutes.

- Might be a murder in jessup after all.

- Yeah, there might be.

[blues music]

♪ ♪

- whoo, nice! - Yeah.

- Hey, you look happy.

- It is nice to be somewhere

that is untouched by human consumption and greed.

And the music was...Not bad.

- It's not completely untouched.

I been camping here since I was a boy.

Summer comes later, less water in the streams.

Wouldn't be surprised if it all dried up someday.

- As a tribe, we can do a ceremony and give thanks,

but if the change isn't happening globally,

it's just not gonna make a difference.

♪ ♪

- these people seem to understand.

Maybe there is no saving the humans.

If my people kill them all, they die,

but if we do not kill the humans,

they will destroy the planet, then they will die anyway,

and every beautiful thing on this planet

will die with them.

- It doesn't make sense.

Like, how could I drop a whole dress off at the dry cleaners

and not even remember?

- That's weird, especially for you.

Yeah, you've a flawless memory.

You always remember everywhere I stash my weed.

- [clears throat] - [clears throat]

that's some smile from someone

who just lost another baseball game.

- Still playing. Different game though.

We both could win. - [chuckles]

- oh, I'm sorry.

That should have sounded really cheesy, but it didn't,

and I'm suspicious.

I'm gonna need to see some id.

- That's a clever way to get my name.

It's elliot.

I even got a lanyard from my worksite.

- Worksite? - Yeah.

- Very adult.

- I got a degree in archaeology

thinking I was gonna be the indigenous indiana jones.

- I'd watch that.

So did you find the ark?

- Not yet.

I don't give up very easily

when I'm looking for something special.

- Right.

[ahem]

coming.

- He's cute. - That guy? No.

I can't date him. His hair's way nicer than mine.

- You're, like, even worse than mike.

- Oh, real talk, though.

The munsters are coming to town for the summer.

- Gerald and bethany are here?

- It's my dad's birthday tomorrow.

- Aw. - Will you come to dinner?

They love you, and if you're there,

maybe they'll have fun and not try to fix my life.

- Of course, and it will be fun.

But why are you still talking to me?

- Sorry, ma'am, we're all out of t-shirts.

- Damn it.

- Asked around about you. - Oh, great.

So you know I'm a disaster.

- I know you're a professional skier.

- That was a long time ago.

- Who you were isn't who you are.

You're funny and smart,

and you got a wicked arm.

And you're pretty.

Uh, actually, I think you're really, really pretty.

So you should let me take you out to dinner tomorrow.

- I already have a dinner thing,

but if you're down for dessert, we could meet up after.

Okay, oh, and be sure to be holding a single red rose

so I can tell you apart

from all the other hot guys waiting for a lady.

- That's good.

Now can I buy a drink for your friend

down at the end of the bar

for telling you to flirt with me?

- [chuckles]

[background chatter]

- courtesy of our mayor.

- Hi, mitch green, mayor of jessup.

It is so nice to have a fellow mayor visiting.

Good to meet you, ben.

- That is so nice of you.

- This water is from the '73 wildfire.

Smoke settled on an exceptional snowpack,

giving the water clear tones of mesquite.

- Yeah, I think we're probably pretty good on the water.

- You're angry about the ad.

Look, a little rivalry's good for the both of us.

You'll understand in a few years

when you've been a mayor for a little longer.

- Well, I have been a mayor for quite some time,

and I have seen... [pat] a lot.

- The truth is, you just have a tougher hill to climb.

See, we have the best water in the world,

and you have 59 dead miners.

It's...So tragic.

- That's not tragic.

The 59 is a story about sacrifice.

- [chuckles] sorry, mrs. Mayor,

but doesn't play like sacrifice.

It plays like the beginning of a horror movie.

Am I right, ben?

- I actually have a name. It's kate.

I'm a teacher and I have a jd/ph.D.

In environmental law from cu boulder.

- I meant no disrespect. - Oh, yes, you did.

The 59 is a beautiful story

about people who are willing to die to save each other.

We're a town full of heroes.

And if you can't see that, you're an idiot.

By the way, your water tastes like shit,

and who the hell puts cacao nibs in a citrus salad?

It's gross.

- Can't help with the anger issues,

but... Your salad will be comped.

[dinner music playing]

♪ ♪

- what happened to "he's probably a perfectly nice guy?"

- screw him. We're outta here.

What a douchebag.

[distant coyote howling]

[mosquito buzzing]

- ow, no.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- [singing in indigenous language]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[dramatic chords, chorus]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- 60 seconds.

- The petals.

- Tell me it's a radio. - It's a radio.

- Okay, I believe you. I have to.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[device humming]

[device pulses]

- thank you. Thank you for this.

For saving all of us.

- You are welcome. - [laughs]

- the signal will tell my people

not to come and kill everyone for 50 years.

- What?

- After you are old and die, then my people will come,

and they will kill the rest of the human race.

- What? - You're welcome!

- 50 years?

- You get to live, and the planet gets to live.

I'm a genius. - No. We need to stop it!

- Ten more seconds.

- My people need to come and save the bison.

- Ow, you're hurting me.

- I'm sorry. No!

- I'm going to smash it!

- Liar! No!

[power down hum]

this was it.

Our last chance.

Now you are going to die too.

- I guess you'll just have to figure something else out.

- Why do you care?

I'm experiencing anger.

You were going to be dead long before they come!

- How do you still not get this?

This is not just about me.

What about everyone that I care about?

- D'arcy will be dead many years before you.

- You have to figure this out. - [groans]

I am pacing out of anger!

If my device had delivered its message,

we would have 50 years to figure this out.

Now we will have 50 days if we are lucky.

- No, we would have had 50 years for you to do nothing!

- [grumbles]

- I know that you don't care unless it's me.

So guess what. It's me again.

[phone rumbling] shit, it's big leroy.

Hi, leroy.

Slow down. What happened?

- [groaning and breathing rapidly]

hi, sunny. Cavalry's here.

- Hey, harry's here.

He's a doctor. You're gonna be okay.

- I can do it.

All right, sunny, look at me.

Okay, breathe in deep.

Good.

Good.

Slow it down.

[big band music playing]

- ah. Hello, sweetheart.

- Hi, dad.

- Oh.

Look at you, my baby.

I love your confidence.

You'll just wear anything, won't you?

- Okay.

- I missed you.

- Well, I've just been here being confident.

- Stop it. [chuckles]

- well, it's good to see you, sweetheart.

How are you doing?

- Good. Happy birthday, dad.

- Bonsoir.

Your table is ready. Won't you follow me?

- After you. - Thank you.

- That's fine, but the most important question

is which one's your favorite?

- "dream warriors", obviously.

It had the most iconic freddy line of all time.

Both: Welcome to prime time, bitch.

[both chuckle]

- oh, my god, he's on a date.

I've been pushing him. It's finally happening.

- Fancy yourself a matchmaker?

- [chuckles] I don't know, maybe.

- That's good to know. - Oh, for...

- Okay, sunny.

The head came out, but it went back in.

I'm gonna try-- - that is shoulder dystocia.

- Is that bad? - I can fix it.

Because I spent an entire weekend last month

watching youtube videos on human birthing.

- No. - Also videos of a monkey

bathing a duck in the sink.

- Let me think.

- Asta, let the doctor do his job.

- It's okay. Come.

- You and you, help keep

sunny's thighs up towards her stomach.

Asta, place your hands suprapubically

over the fetal anterior shoulder,

applying pressure in a cpr style

in a downward lateral motion.

Be sure to like and subscribe.

- What about me? What do I do?

- Just hold her hand.

- [whimpering] - okay. You got this, baby.

- Okay, sunny, you're gonna have one big push.

Harry, tell me when you're ready.

- I'm ready.

- Okay, on the count of three, sunny.

One, two, three. Push.

- [singing in french]

♪ ♪

- here's little leroy.

My species would never come together

for a birth like this, and we never touch a newborn.

When the egg sack bursts and the young emerge,

the sulfuric ooze is toxic.

- We're gonna smudge that umbilical cord.

Wrap it in this buckskin.

Keep it in a cedar box, put it in the house.

We do this to keep the kid

from wandering too far...

[baby cries]

or for too long.

♪ ♪

- not bad, weirdo.

♪ ♪

- well, listen to me going on and on about myself

without asking you anything.

So tell me, what brought you to patience from d.C.?

- Ha. You know what?

I'm fine just talking about you, honestly.

- No, I'm serious.

- It's really not that interesting, you know.

Have you tried that burger place down by the lake?

Their burgers there,

they got burgers the size of your head.

- Oh, come on, I bet you're one of the most

pathologically interesting men in this whole town.

- Oh, wow. - I wanna know your story.

Ooh, is it dangerous?

Like [whispers] if you told me, you'd have to kill.

- So you wanna know why I moved here from d.C.?

- Mm-hmm. - Okay.

Well, I'll tell you,

I was a cop, and I made a mistake,

and my best friend died.

So I dragged my sick dad out here

to this shitty little town in the middle of nowhere,

that's full of people

who don't know how to leave well enough alone.

Good night.

- Oh, no. Excuse me.

- How are you doing, really, sweetheart?

Are you okay? - Great, I'm happy.

I'm doing incredibly good. Too good, actually.

- Because, you know, your mother and I were talking,

and there's a lot of very interesting possibilities

in park city. - Some really cute men too.

Very outdoorsy. You like that.

- You know you can accomplish anything

if you just put your mind to it.

- Remember how driven she was, even as a little girl?

- Remember that time on tv she saw that guy

pull the tablecloth off the table

without spilling anything? Do you remember that?

- Yes, she was so determined. She practiced and practiced.

She dressed up like a magician. She had the hat--

- I know, and she actually pulled the trick off.

She was so proud of herself.

You know, sweetheart, I have a friend, bill,

who runs a realty business.

Maybe there might be something in that for you.

-♪ oh, get me away from here, I'm dying ♪

♪ play me a song to set me free ♪

♪ nobody writes them like they used to ♪

♪ so it may as well be me ♪

♪ they always reach a sorry ending ♪

♪ they always get it in the end ♪

♪ still it was worth it as I ♪

both: Are you listening to us?

- ♪ turned the pages solemnly and then ♪

♪ with a winning smile, the boy ♪

♪ with naivety succeeds ♪

♪ at the final moment, I cried ♪

♪ I always cry at endings ♪

♪ oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all ♪

♪ from where I'm sitting, rain ♪

♪ falling against the lonely tenement has set my mind ♪

♪ to wander into the windows of my lovers ♪

♪ they never know unless I write ♪

♪ this is no declaration ♪

♪ I just thought I'd let you know goodbye ♪

♪ said the hero in the story ♪

♪ it is mightier than swords ♪

♪ I could kill you sure ♪

♪ but I could only make you cry with these words ♪

♪ cry with these words ♪

♪ cry with these words ♪

♪ cry with these words ♪

♪ oh, get me away, I'm dying ♪

♪ get me away, I'm dying ♪

♪ get me away, I'm dying ♪

♪ oh, I'm dying ♪

- you did a good job.

- I've held a lot of babies since jay was born...

But doing it like this with everyone around...

Everyone there for the little baby...

I don't know.

I'm never gonna be jay's mom, but maybe someday

I could at least be someone in the room.

- Do you remember in that glacier

when you first found out who I was?

- Yeah. How could I forget?

I was elbow deep in your chest cavity.

- I told you not to feel guilty

about giving jay up for adoption

because we send our offspring into the great ice wind desert.

I think I understand now

why you feel guilty.

Children.

Generation to generation,

the earth's troubles are passed on to them.

Babies on my planet are self-sufficient

and can survive on instinct alone.

Human children learn everything

from the humans around them.

Without nurturing parents to guide them,

those children become lost.

[acoustic music]

♪ ♪

without a community to help,

humans end up alone...

♪ ♪

with nobody to turn to when they're in trouble.

But there is still hope.

There are some who can find their strength.

- When people experience a loss of time,

their friends tell them it's normal,

it's not a big deal, when in fact it's often

because they've been abducted by aliens.

- I discovered there are some humans

who are taught how precious the earth is.

It is not enough to save them.

But if they can't, who will?

[classical music plays]

♪ ♪

- I think we may have gotten off on the wrong foot.

What do you know about lighthouses, ethan?

- I did a work-study one summer at a lighthouse

off the coast of portugal. It was breathtaking.

- They're symbols of guidance, of strength, of truth.

That's what I am interested in, the truth.

I know it hasn't been very comfortable,

but we've done everything above board because, in part,

I have a lot of reverence for your kind.

- Mid-westerners? - [chuckles]

- you're very likable, ethan.

Show me your true form.

- You're looking at it. - I know the truth.

My father and I, we saw your kind at the lighthouse,

and everyone made him feel like he was crazy.

And so he took his own light out of this world.

But I evolved. We evolve through pain.

- [screams]

- I thought that would make you change.

- My hand.

- [sighs]

you're a doctor. Fix it.

[classical music swells]

♪ ♪

what is it? - We just picked up a signal.

Lines of encrypted code, but the signature is alien.

[device beeping]

- ah, shut it off. Shut it off.

Ah, just woke me up from the best dream.

I was having a threesome with a starfish

and a little neck clam.

- It's receiving a signal...

[suspenseful music]

in my language.

- Seriously? W-what does it say?

- It's a phone number...

From new york city.

♪ ♪