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you've been worried about it, and, um--

Okay, come here. Come here.

Everybody gather closely.

l'm gonna-- May l use your glasses?

What you're about to see

is not a trick.

Okay? lt-- lt's just, um--

Well l-l-let's call it

an experiment in energy.

- Oh!

- Cool.

- Well, everything there is...

- Are you getting this?

is made up of

some living energy, okay?

See, now, all this is is a-- is kind

of a dance, or a partnership between...

the energy coming from me

and the, uh, energy of the plastic.

- Now, now, tha-tha-that's it, see.

- Well, why can't we do it?

Well, focus, um, the clarity

of thought. l-l don't know.

M-May-Maybe you can, Banes.

What about the UFOs?

What are they?

- l don't know that either.

- Yes, you do. Yes, you do!

Um, this power began the night

that you saw the object in the sky?

T-T-That was a light.

Now, now, let me, let me

just finish this one thing.

Now, now, we were talking

about a partnership.

Now, do you, do you know what the

largest living organism in the world is?

Okay, it's a-- it's a grove of aspen

trees in Colorado. Acres of aspens.

Okay, now, they thought

they were disconnected, separate,

but indeed they found out

that they weren't,

that, that there was one giant organism

with the same root system.

What sort of light was it?

- Now, that-that's not unlike us.

- Answer the question!

- We, we think that we're disconnected,

- Why won't you tell us what

you know about the UFOs?

- Can you move a table?

- but, you know, we're--

- How did you feel

when you saw that light?

- l think you know more

than you're telling us.

- We're not. Now imagine--

imagine, if you will--

Have you seen the light since

the 28th, or any other activity?

- Are you hiding something?

- Hey, hey. Hey, come on!

- Just put your hands on my boy.

- lt was aliens. Admit it!

- Move the glasses some more.

- Can you bend spoons?

- Now, we all know what you can do.

- Hey, leave George alone.

- Why won't you touch the boy?

- Please, he's dying. Just do it.

George! George!

George? George, can you see me?

George. George, are you okay?

Mr Malley? Are you all right?

- You look sorrowful.

- No.

What's the matter? Can't think

of any more tests to give me?

How did you, uh, manage to get

your pressure to come down?

Oh, l found my pace.

A simple thing, really.

- Hard to explain.

- What, you figure l'm too thick?

What l figure about you...

is that you're stalling.

l'm not stalling, no.

l'm-l'm waiting.

- For what?

- Reinforcements.

Well, you pick good people.

You bet.

See--

George. George.

There's a tumor in your brain...

that's spread out like a hand.

Threads of it, you know, everywhere.

But instead of dysfunction--

Now, here's the mystery, George.

lnstead of destroying

brain function,

so far it's been stimulating it,

and we can't understand that.

You have more area of active brain use

than anybody ever tested, ever,

b-because of those tentacles.

l mean, we've seen tumors

like this before.

lt's called astrocytoma, and

it explains, uh, the dizziness and...

the illusion of light.

But the way it's in there,

waking up areas of the brain,

it's a...

big mystery, so--

And it's killing me.

- Well, uh--

- For sure?

We got a call from

the best brain man in the country.

l mean, actually,

he's one of the best in the world.

- He's gonna study your tests

and then talk to you.

- Hmm.

But, uh, the blood flow

is in danger now,

and, uh, you're gonna

start to weaken, maybe...

black out.

We, we really don't know. lt's, it's--

But it's a damn lousy scenario, you see.

Let me sit down here a minute.

Goddam it.

Something happened

about 25 years ago...

when you broke your leg

and l set it, George.

l don't know what to call it,

but, uh,

somehow you got into

my heart more than most,

and for--

and for a man

who's never been a father,

l sure feel like

l'm losin' a son.

Yeah.

Georgie.

Yeah.

Can l do something for you,

George? Anything?

Yes. Next spring,

when you plant the south 40,

l want you to use

the new fertilizer.

- l want you to put corn in that field,

and l know what you're thinking--

- l can't put corn in there.

You're thinking that

it's too tough a crop, but it's not.

l'm telling you. You'll get

four to five years without rotation.

Now, trust me on this.

Hey.

- l'm gonna wait outside.

- Okay.

Doc, you wanna come with me?

Yeah.

Bye, Doc.

Now, uh, he didn't say how long.

Days or weeks.

They don't-- They don't know.

l'm so sorry, Lace.

l know how you hate surprises.

l tried so hard not to love you.

- How'd you make out?

- Terrible.

Hey, would you, uh,

love me the rest of my life?

No, l'm gonna love you

for the rest of mine.

George Malley?

l'm Dr Wellin.

George, l'm recording this because...

l'm going to be asking you

some very important questions.

- You ready?

- Not another test?

No. No, no. No more tests.

A dialogue.

l'm going to ask for your permission for

my team to perform open brain surgery.

But l don't want you to answer

'til we've had our dialogue, all right?

Bu-But you s-s-said that

this tumor was inoperable.

l think the odds are very small,

say one in five hundred,

that we'd be able to remove enough

of the tumor to even prolong your life.

- Well, why, why--

- But, but what l want to explain is...

that this would not be

a lifesaving operation.

This would be--

Call it an expedition.

This would be

a voyage of discovery.

You're in a position to contribute

as much to our knowledge...

as any man or woman

who's come before you.

And if you were

to wait, and, uh,

do this operation after l'm done

with my brain, what, what would, uh--

lf that's what you want,

yes, an autopsy, that's all we'll do.

But it wouldn't be as useful?

The study of a living,

active brain would tell us volumes.

All right, so if you were

to do this operation,

wouldn't it most likely kill me

or at least shorten my life?

-George, l-l'm asking you to try

and see the larger picture.

-Mm-hmm.

To realize what you have to offer to us,

the ones you're leaving behind.

You could be

our greatest teacher, George. Hmm?

l can be your biographer,

in a sense.

l can present you to the world.

But that's not me.

That's just my brain. Do you understand?

Look, Doctor, you know,

l just might have something

to say in my last few hours.

l-l just might have

something to say.

What you're saying is that

l have something to teach,

and yet you're willing to end me

to study my brain under a microscope.

- N-Now, is that all l'm here for?

- What else?

- You're not a scholar or a think--

- l-l-l'll tell you what l am, okay?

l'll tell you what l think l am.

l think l'm what everybody can be.

Everyone with

a malignant, tentacled--

No, no, no, no. lt's-- lt's--

Tha-tha-that just helped me

get here, okay?

l mean, anybody can get here.

lt's-- l'm-- l'm

the possibility, all right?

l mean, l think you've got this

desperate grasp on, uh, technology...

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