Close Encounters of the Third Kind Page #2

Ice cream!

This is nuts.

Wait a minute!

What are you guys doing? Hey!

That's Ohio!

That's a quarter!

Jesus, look at those suckers.

They're glued to the road!

Honey, wake up!

Ronnie, wake up!

You're not gonna believe what I saw!

Don't! Not now.

No, listen!

I never would have believed it!

There was this--

In the cab there was this whole--

It went-- It was-- There was a red

whoosh that--

Roy.

Ike called you.

And McGovern.

They want you to call.

They couldn't reach you.

I turned the radio off.

Don't do that. The phone rang

off the hook.

It woke Sylvia up two times already.

You'd better call them.

You know those pictures in National

Geographic, the aurora borealis?

This is better than that. Come on!

Come on, Ronnie, get up.

-What's wrong?

-Nothing. I don't know.

-Get up!

-Is it an accident?

It's not an accident.

You wanted out of the house, right?

Not at 4:
00 in the morning.

Ronnie, I need you

to see something with me.

It's really important.

Okay. All right.

What about the kids?

The kids! I'll get the kids.

Sylvia, we're going on an adventure.

Toby! Brad! Come on! Get up.

It's better than Goofy Golf!

I'm going as fast as I can!

Come on.

Hi, Mrs. Harris.

Roy, there's Mrs. Harris.

There better be a good reason

for this...

...because it doesn't make sense!

All right, Roy, I really think

you've proved your point.

You're sunburned. Look at you.

Honey, what is that?

Roy, what did it look like?

It was like an ice-cream cone.

What flavor?

Orange.

It was orange.

It wasn't like an ice-cream cone.

It was more like a shell.

Like a taco?

Was it like one of those Sara Lee

moon-shaped cookies?

Those crescent cookies?

Don't you think I'm taking this

really well?

I remember coming to places like

this just to look at each other.

Snuggle.

I don't believe it.

I don't believe it!

I don't believe it.

It's the Cotopaxi.

-Why is it here?

-Beats the sh*t out of me.

Is this the bathroom?

This is not your toy to play with

every time I turn around.

He looks like a 50l50 Bar.

All right, out of this house.

All of you. Out of my house.

I'm sorry, but you're

not to play with this!

Get out while I clean up your mess!

Thank you very much.

I found this overnight tanning stuff.

I want you to spray it on half

your face, so it's all one color.

It makes my face look yellow.

What does this remind you of?

Then we'll tell everybody

you fell asleep...

...under the sun lamp

on your right side.

What for?

Dad, can I ask you a question?

Are they for real?

That's what for.

No, they are not for real.

Go outside and have a hot dog, okay?

Ronnie, don't tell him that.

Don't talk about this until you know

what you're talking about.

lf I can't talk about it,

how will I know what's going on?

What?

Mom, I believe in them.

I believe in them too.

No, you don't.

Dad says we do.

No, he does not.

Do you, Roy?

All I want to do is know

what's going on.

Nothing's going on!

It's just one of those things.

Which things? Which things?

-I don't want to hear about this.

-This is very important!

I won't let it lay here.

I'm gonna call somebody!

I'm not listening. I'm not listening.

I saw something last night

that I can't explain.

I saw something last night

I can't explain.

I'm going out there again tonight.

No, you're not.

Yes, I am.

No, you're not.

Yes, I am.

No, you're not.

Do they live on the moon?

They got bases there so at night

they can come through your window.

This isn't a moon burn, goddamn it!

-You came through my window last.

-You hurt me!

-You took all my covers.

-Roy's not like that.

He loves his work. Don't say that!

What did he do?

He was with us all night!

I won't have to go tonight.

He is not like that at all!

Stop yelling at me!

Can't you tell him about this?

Hello?

I can't believe it.

Roy...

...you got fired.

They didn't even want to talk to you.

Where were the sounds coming from?

Where did these sounds come from?

Tell us, please.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I beg your pardon,

but my English is not good too.

I want to share with you now...

...the breakthrough

that happened in India.

We think it means something.

We think it is important.

To help you learn, I am using the hand

sign created by Zoltn Kodly.

Kodly developed these signs

to teach music to deaf children.

Hello?

Hi.

Hi, how are you? You came here too?

Yes. Jillian Guiler.

Roy Neary.

Sorry about what happened.

-Good night!

-What?

Look at you.

You got the same burn.

Yeah, but it's better on you.

You got it all over at least.

I gotta tan the other side tonight.

How's the kid? I'm really sorry.

I'll be right back.

Raise your head a bit

and give me a smile.

He's a little young for a record,

don't you think?

Weird.

I know this sounds crazy, but

ever since yesterday on the road...

...I've been seeing this shape.

In shaving cream and pillows....

Damn it, I know this!

I know what this is.

This means something.

This is important.

Here they come!

Get the camera!

Out of the northwest!

It's like Halloween for grownups.

Trick or treat.

Wait a minute!

The patterns are:

-We received two 1 5-minute broadcasts.

-Non-random signals?

interval, 40 pulses.

Another five-second break,

and 30 pulses.

then a new set of numbers.

-1 04 rapid pulses.

-Lord!

Wait 60 seconds and the

whole doggone thing repeats.

-Where are the signals from?

-The neighborhood.

Light-travel time, roughly 7 seconds.

Well within the plane

of the ecliptic.

Are these non-random signals here, 40,

They should be. We've sent

this combination out for weeks.

All we're getting back

are numbers.

This could mean the India sounds

reached a dead end.

They don't mean a thing.

There's so much we don't know.

How about where the signals originate?

Excuse me.

What letter is 1 04?

Excuse me.

Before I got paid to speak French...

...I used to read maps.

This first number is a longitude.

Two sets of three numbers.

Degrees, minutes and seconds.

The first number has three digits,

and the last two are below 60.

It's not in the right ascension

and declination on the sky.

These have to be Earth coordinates.

There's a globe in the office.

This is what we need.

Maybe there's a release pin

underneath here.

That's a $2500 globe!

What are you doing?

All right, everybody, quiet down!

Hold it down!

The antenna. How dumb!

-Which way's it pointing?

-Northeast.

That's Wyoming.

We'll need a geodetic survey map

of Wyoming.

I want it to the square yard.

The Army has a geodetic

survey map of Wyoming.

Toys!

Toys!

Oh, my God!

You can come and play now.

You can come and play now.

Come in through the door.

One...two...three....

Mom, look! The sun's here!

Oh, my God!

Go away!

Clean everything up!

-Mom, let me listen!

-Wait a minute!

Mom, look!

Come in through the door.

Barry!

May we have a statement?

The report you gave to the police

was spectacular.

We need it for the 6:00 news.

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