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Josh?

Babe?

I'm here!

Hey.

Hey. I'm down here!

Baby?

Who is out there?

Hey!

Hey!

Hey, I'm here!

F***. Hey.

Josh! Who is there?! F***!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Who is there?!

F***. F***.

What were you doing

down there?

What do you mean?

Somebody locked me

down there.

Isabel, we're alone.

There's no one around.

Wait. Did you

lock me down there?

Did I lock you down there?

Yeah, yeah,

i locked you down there.

Well, I mean,

someone did.

Why the f*** would i

lock you down in a crawl space?

As you say,

nobody's here.

Yeah, there's no one around.

What are you thinking?

I don't know. I got home.

I'm tired,

and you're down there

crying and screaming,

and I pull you out.

Did you take your...

Did you take

your pills today?

F*** you.

I'm sorry. I...

It's fine.

No, it's not.

It's not.

Just... it's not

the same here, you know?

I know.

I know.

It's a chance for us

to start over.

We can heal together.

We can grow. We can...

Josh, I'm not a little kid.

I know you're afraid

i will do it again.

No.

It's not something

you can just sweep

under the rug.

I tried to kill myself.

I tried to kill myself.

Stop.

Josh, say...

"Isabel tried

to kill herself."

Stop. You're

being ridiculous. I--

you cannot pretend

it didn't happen, okay?

I make our family

and friends uncomfortable.

- What? No.

- I get that.

- No, that's not it.

- Yeah. But for you--

or maybe...

It's the fact that...

I lost our daughter.

That's the... Josh.

Or maybe you

can't face the facts,

and that's why

you feel it's necessary

to keep me away

in this f***ing house.

Look at me.

Josh...

Say it!

F***.

Josh?

Hey, babe. Isabel.

- Hmm?

- Hey, wake up.

Come downstairs

to the lab.

We found something.

-What?

Signal strength

now operating at 95%.

Hey. Hey.

Isabel, come on!

Hurry up.

I.D. Confirmed.

Welcome, Isabel.

- What is it?

- We got it.

You got what?

We got it.

You got what?

We got the signal.

Wait. The...

That signal?

Yeah, like from

another world.

Signal strength

now operating at 100%.

Okay, so,

so, what we did, we, um...

We cross-referenced

every shortwave station

across the planet.

You know what

they all had in common?

The same signal.

They've been

transmitting from earth

since as far back

as the records can take us.

And each signal,

um, is hidden

within our own

communication.

So, we took the data

of every single station

across the planet.

So, that just gave us

a clear picture

of where it was coming from.

It's almost like

putting the puzzle together.

Some of the signals

are stronger than others,

but when they're

all combined,

it gives us the coordinates

to ngc-6809.

Ngc-6809

is the same galactic cluster

that SETI received

a signal from back in '77.

It's been under our noses

the whole time.

Babe,

the whole f***ing time.

Nine years.

Nine years, buddy, and it

all comes down to this.

Tens of thousands

of light-years away.

5% loss

in signal strength.

Now operating at 95%.

Hey.

-Hi.

-You found it.

It's so lovely.

-You like it?

-You shouldn't have.

I wanted to.

Really did.

-Thank you.

-You're welcome.

I'm so proud of you.

What? What?

Oh.

I'd like to thank everybody

for driving all the way

out here tonight

to celebrate something

that is so dear to us.

Josh and I have been

working for this company

for over nine years now.

I propose a toast.

To Josh,

for his perseverance

and never giving up,

so that we can

scientifically prove

the shortwave signal

we found

is indeed not of this earth.

And to his lovely wife Isabel,

for letting us borrow him

long enough to get here.

And also

to my smoking-hot wife...

For putting up with my sh*t

the past nine years

and not having me committed.

I love you, babe.

Here's to the future.

You know, really,

really great work, Josh.

I can't begin to express

how amazed I am

with the two of you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate it.

I'm really excited.

Yeah.

You wanted to talk

to me about something?

Yeah. Uh...

There is something

that I have to tell you.

Go ahead. Shoot.

It's an interesting

painting, huh?

Yes, it is.

What do you think it means?

Uh, I have no idea.

Okay. So, what if

something from deep space

was trying to communicate

with someone on earth?

What if we haven't been

looking in the right place?

I mean, we've been so obsessed

with looking outwards,

when all we had to do

was just look

into our own backyards

to find these answers.

Listen, I'm not 100% sure

that I'm following you here.

Let me put it this way.

Have you ever skipped a rock

over a pond?

Sure. Of course.

Yeah, of course.

So, what happens?

Uh...

Sometimes

they make it across,

and sometimes they sink.

But they do make it across...

If it hits the right angle

and you throw it hard enough.

Correct?

-Uh, yeah.

Each time

the rock hits the surface...

It creates a ripple,

and that ripple

travels onwards,

and eventually

it dissipates on the shore.

However, since a sphere

has no edges,

there's nothing

stopping this ripple

from traveling

indefinitely.

Yeah, okay,

so think about the fish...

Uh-huh.

-At the bottom of the pond.

Okay.

They can feel

the vibrations...

I'm sure they can, yeah.

Yeah. So, eventually

they'll get curious,

and they'll swim up

to the surface

to investigate what's going on.

Sometimes

it could be food.

Perhaps it's rain, and sometimes

it could be nothing,

but one way or another...

They're gonna get an answer.

We're the fish, Robert.

I.D. Confirmed.

Welcome, Isabel.

I followed the vibrations up,

and I found something else.

You found

another signal.

I found the signal.

It's a hidden signal. It's weak,

but it uses our own

communication traffic,

and it's projected

somewhere into the universe,

and something is using

our own language

as a tool to send

a message back into space.

I don't... back home or,

i don't know.

So, the signal caused

a ripple effect

as it hit the ionosphere,

and parts of the signal

bounced back onto earth.

I don't know. I just, I...

I feel like...

I shouldn't

have found this signal.

What makes you

think that?

Well, because when I decoded

the binary inside the signal...

There was

a message attached.

What did it say?

It was an sos...

Along with

a set of coordinates.

And where did

those coordinates lead?

Here...

This house.

Signal strength

operating at 85%.

You do not share this

with anyone else.

It stays between me and you.

You got that?

Not your wife

and sure as hell not Thomas.

At least not until we figure out

what we're dealing with.

...six, nine...

There's something here,

isn't there?

There's something here?

First thing Monday morning,

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