Phenomenon Page #4

And here we go. There.

- Yeah.

- See, that, that's their,

that's their garden.

You see? Well, that's old stuff.

lt's, uh, and it's, uh,

declassified.

But now this stuff is trickier.

This is, uh, trigraphs

and tetragraphs and ABBA class.

- George--

- Yep?

Why don't you just tell me

what you want me to send?

All right. Send this.

Why don't you send this?

''Mind your garden. Frost coming.

Luck on the Mozop.''

Want to know what Mozop is?

lt's okay.

lt's your game, George.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Have you sat in this chair yet?

- lt's nice.

- Yeah, yeah.

You should give her

a call right now.

Naw. Let her cool off.

l figure l'll give her 'bout a year.

Pick up the phone and call her, George.

Look who's talkin'.

Diana Ross fan club, right? Have

you said ten words to a woman this year?

- Ah, l'm sorry, Nate.

- Your transmission's finished, sir.

l've just been going

through some things lately.

Everybody's going through somethin'.

l know, but, uh, this thing's

been hard for me to handle.

Let me show you somethin'.

You suppose they magnetized you?

l don't know, buddy. l wish l did.

- What we got here?

- Doc, are we glad to see you.

You better hurry. This man--

One of you go to the garbage and

bring me any food containers you find.

Somebody else, go in the cabinets

and look for damaged or swollen cans.

- Food poisoning.

- l think.

Now what the hell is he saying?

Who speaks Spanish?

That's Portuguese.

They just came in last week.

Portuguese?

He's trying to tell us

something about Berto.

That's the little one.

lt's a little boy.

All right, some of you

search around here for the kid.

l'm gonna tell you right now,

he could be pretty darn sick.

Now, Bonnie, wait. Uh--

Get on the phone

and get George Malley over here.

Tell him what's goin' on, and

tell him to stop at the library

for an English/Portuguese book.

Tell him to find out how to ask

where a lost boy is.

- Got that?

- George Malley?

You bet. George.

Go on. Do it. Just go on. Go on!

Don't you answer that?

Not when l'm workin'.

l've been farmin' all my life,

but this growth is amazing, George.

-This is embarrassin'.

-You know, l wanna try this

fertilizer on your south 40.

You just sprayed my boots.

lt's the worst soil in the county.

Can't even get weeds

to grow in that field.

But l bet we can get corn

to grow in that field.

You bet? You don't have

any money to bet.

You spent all your money

on chairs, remember?

George Malley?

- Yeah, l'm George Malley.

- l'm John Ringold.

We talked on the phone the other day.

- John Ringold?

- Yes.

- From Berkeley?

- Yes.

All right. Hi. Hey,

l'm glad you came by.

- Will your dog let me step out?

- Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, he just has a thing

for seismologists.

- Yeah, come on out.

- Thank you.

Yeah, this is

my friend, Nate Pope.

- How do?

- How do you do?

W-W-Well, let me get you

a cold drink. Come on in.

- From the university, huh?

- Yes.

- Uh-huh.

And, uh, we are

very interested in how...

you were able to predict

that earthquake, Mr Malley.

Oh, that.

You see, l, l, just picked up

the subsonic frequency waves, right?

And, of course, l was standing

on the fault, so that made it easier.

- W-W-What instrumentation did you use?

- Just me.

lf you think that's somethin',

you should see him

move stuff with his brain.

Nate, never mind that. You see,

l felt the ultra-low frequency waves,

and they kind of made me

dizzy and nauseous, right?

And that's how

l perceived all this.

We've been studying quake prediction

for ten years.

There's no record of any person

ever feeling the pre-quake activity.

Now there is.

We have some ULF equipment

in our labs.

Could you come in

for an experiment?

- Come to Berkeley?

- Yes.

Yes.

Well, my department would like

to interview you and clear this up.

l-l-l would be-- l would be

so glad to come to Berkeley.

Do you-- Do you think l could meet

w-w-with some other departments as well?

l-l-l have some experiments l'd,

l'd like to show you. Come with me.

They're nice.

All right. Well, uh, let's see.

Um-- Oh, oh, yes.

Here. Okay, now look, um--

l've taken solar panels, and

l've actually germinated the seeds...

t-that made these,

these, these plants grow.

l'm trying to change

the electromagnetic field, right?

- Um, Mr Malley?

- l took, uh, incandescent lighting,

- Mr Malley?

- and l turned it into sunlight,

which actually made

these, these plants grow.

- Mr Malley?

- Oh, now, look--

l-l took pig manure,

and l turned it into a f-fuel...

which l-l believe

will actually run an automobile.

All l'm interested in

is the earthquake.

We need to know if

that was a fluke, a coincidence.

A fluke?

George, why don't you

move something with your mind?

Maybe move his, uh,

something like that?

- Look, Mr Ringold--

- Doctor.

D-D-Doctor Ringold, uh,

l-l-- Look, l--

l've got-- l've got my garden out there,

and t-t-that acts like a lab, right?

And l, l got everything

that you see here, but l--

- l really need to talk

to people like you, okay?

- Hey, George!

- George, are you home?

- Please don't go, okay?

- George, get out here!

- Please-- Just please don't go.

Hey, George!

George, Doc says,

you better come right now!

What's the matter?

Come on, man.

lt's an emergency!

You gotta learn how to talk Portuguese

on the way over there.

l gotta go.

Portuguese? Learn Portuguese?

Why don't you go along, Professor?

George, Doc's inside.

He thinks it's food poisoning.

Hey, George.

- Hey, Doc. George is here.

- He's gonna be fine, George,

but his grandson is missing.

Now, if they ate the same thing,

the boy could be a lot worse off.

You brought the book?

- Yeah, l have it.

- All right. Okay.

Ask him where the boy is?

He's in orchard.

He said he's in the orchard.

All right. Okay.

He said that they ate something bad,

and he thinks the b-- the boy is sick.

Tito drove the truck

while l-l read the book.

George Malley. You learned

the Portuguese language in 20 minutes?

Not all of it.

- What are we lookin' for here, a kid?

- What's the kid's name?

- lt's Alberto. Berto, Alberto, yeah.

- Alberto? Alberto.

Now, let-- let's spread out

and comb these-- comb these trees.

Everybody, let's go.

- Okay.

- Look real careful.

- Alberto!

Call out his name.

- Alberto!

- Alberto!

- Alberto!

- Alberto!

- Alberto!

- Alberto!

- Berto!

- Alberto!

- Alberto!

- Where are you, kid?

- Alberto, where are you, fella?

We're comin'.

- Alberto!

- Alberto!

- Berto!

- Berto!

No, nothin' over here!

George, whatcha got!

Huh? What?

- He's not in the orchard.

- Huh?

He's sick, Doc.

- He's there.

- Where is he, George? Where?

- Over here.

- Okay. Let's go.

We're with you.

We're with you.

What's goin' on?

You okay, George?

lt's not me. lt's him.

Tell me where he is.

l don't know. l don't know.

Look! There's a ladder under there!

Come on.

He was right!

He's up here!

Doc! Better get up here fast.

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