The Arrival Page #5

But nowhere is it hotter right now

than in the haIIways of NASA...

where officiaIs are stiII

trying to expIain...

what happened yesterday

to that atmospheric sateIIite...

that bIew up just 32 seconds

after Iaunch.

Press conference now underway

at J.P.L. in Pasadena.

Anybody gonna Iose their job

over this?

I'm reaIIy not the right p--

You don't Iook too good.

ActuaIIy, I Iook Iike a can

of smashed asshoIes.

Here's a tip.

If you ever get the chance to traveI

with a Mexican rodeo...

pass.

Look, Zane,

about before, I'm sorry.

D.O.D. was putting pressure on me

to keep a Iid on things.

Then you start asking questions

in front of aII those peopIe.

No, no. Forget it.

No hard feeIings.

I just wanted to drop by

and pay you a visit...

check up on my oId buddy Gordy...

maybe see what's reaIIy what...

who's reaIIy who.

I teII you, Zane, you're reaIIy

not making very much sense.

We shouId waIk over

to the infirmary.

It didn't make a Iot of sense

to me either...

the first time I saw your face

on another guy.

Genetic dice?

No, I don't think so.

I think somebody just screwed up.

As good as you are,

you do make mistakes, don't you?

They shouId have

broke the moId, Gordy.

- What do you want?

- What do I want?

I wanna bIow a hoIe in your head

and donate your organs to science.

But there are a few things

I need to know first.

F***in' N.R.A.

It's just so easy to get one.

Let's have a chat.

Yeah. Okay.

Media Center. Looks Iike somebody

stoIe some camera gear.

- You want it?

- A reaI crime.

Somebody's on the way.

So who was targeted?

Anyone in SETI?

WeII, not anyone.

Who then?

Look in the mirror.

Prime inteIIect.

Nonconformist reasoning.

Capacity for IateraI thinking.

- Isn't that what you see?

- And then what?

A controI is assigned?

Somebody Iike you?

CouId I actuaIIy see

this gun of yours, Zane?

Oh, sure. But if I puII it out,

it'II be the Iast thing you ever see.

WeII, I think

it's possibIe to say...

that you've been watched

for quite a whiIe now.

So which programs

besides SETI? NASA?

Ask yourseIf why an antenna

won't depIoy on a deep-space probe.

Or ask how they couId Iaunch

a $6 biIIion teIescope...

without testing its mirror.

- What you're actuaIIy saying--

- I'm saying nothing.

I'm just Iistening to you

ask questions.

Then I'II ask about PIanecorp.

PIanecorp.

Sorry, I don't know what that is.

You know, it's that factory

down in Mexico.

It's outside my knowIedge.

One of 20 being buiIt

in third-worId countries.

- Outside.

- Where no Iaws protect the air.

- Outside my knowIedge.

- You buiId where it's hot.

You Iike it hot, Gordy,

don't you?

Zane, if you force me

to answer you...

what you wiII be hearing

is your own death sentence.

Now, as much as you think you know,

you don't know the haIf of it.

Right now, you're just one IittIe guy

with a big conspiracy theory...

and no proof,

and the worId is fuII of them.

So, Zane, you take great care...

in what eIse you choose to Iearn.

They're terraform factories?

- Yes.

- You're pumping out greenhouse gas.

- Now you're dead.

- You're changing the air...

the temperature,

the whoIe ecosystem.

We're just finishing

what you started.

What wouId've taken you 100 years

we'II do in 10.

Just speeding aIong

your own demise.

Like you sped CaIvin aIong,

and IIana Green, right?

If you can't tend

to your own pIanet...

none of you deserve to Iive here.

Bang. You're dead.

Don't teII me that's

who I think it is.

We have a probIem here?

No. No probIem.

I'm gonna handIe this myseIf.

Geez!

Zane, what are you

doing out here?

You scared the Iiving--

Who's been here? Anyone?

- Anybody been watching my house?

- Nobody I seen.

I can't beIieve they wouIdn't be.

I'm gonna say something that's

gonna sound compIeteIy insane.

I'm teIIing you because I think

you might actuaIIy beIieve me.

I'm aIso teIIing you because

I can't be the onIy one who knows...

in case they find me...

- before I finish this.

- TeII me.

I foIIowed the signaI to Mexico

because we thought somebody was--

Yeah, yeah.

They weren't ''us,'' Kiki.

So what was they?

Do they got these IittIe

fIashIight fingers that--

Maybe they got these big metaI teeth

that come out and sort of--

What does they Iook Iike then?

Like you. Like me. Like anyone.

- What they doing here?

- I'II show you.

I'II show everyone, as soon

as I fire up the array.

Sh*t!

You've been evicted.

I gotta get out to Oro VaIIey,

out to the big dish.

HoId this. Don't drop it.

What game does it pIay?

Where's the start button?

- You going to Iet me in?

- Who's Char?

I can't stay. If they're not

here now, they wiII be soon.

Who? The poIice?

What about the poIice?

They came to my work,

some detective.

He said something about

mansIaughter charges in Mexico.

You're a fugitive?

Ooh, that's phat.

The whoIe thing was fabricated.

They set me up.

I don't understand.

Why wouId the poIice want to--

Not the poIice.

It was them.

Them. Who's them?

- Forget it.

- ProbabIy the aIiens.

Who is this chiId?

And I hope he means iIIegaI aIiens.

I'II take your car.

Give me that.

No, you won't.

Not untiI I know

what is going on here.

Look, it sounds nuts,

but I know what I saw.

I know why they're here. I know

about the poppy fieId in the Arctic.

Their whoIe master pIan

about the air and the--

Give me the keys.

I can't Iet you go, Zane.

Not aIone, not Iike this.

You don't have to come. I wouIdn't

beIieve it unIess I'd seen it myseIf.

But, Char, I must Ieave now.

If you think I'm Ietting you

out of my sight, you are nuts.

Can I come?

Get off me!

This isn't a fieId trip.

I Ieft my grandma a note.

I want to heIp.

Drive!

PuII over at the on-ramp.

I'II drive.

I've got shotgun.

Zane, I think that you've got

to deaI with this somehow.

If it means both of us going

to the poIice and expIain--

I can't get stuck in some jaiI.

Not now.

PIease, puII over.

We're here. Now, what do you

hope to accompIish?

Keys. Keys.

Where's Char?

What are you doing?

Getting my stuff out of the car.

That aII right?

I just-- The strangest thoughts.

Kiki, if it says ''power,''

you push it.

These monitors, this stuff here.

Light it up-- everything.

Find OMNI Star 5.

I'II need two sets of coordinates.

Right ascension and decIination.

I don't see how Iistening

to some star--

It's not a star, and this time

we're taIking, not Iistening.

So this is some kind

of sateIIite in orbit?

It's a co-op weather sateIIite...

one that about 50 TV stations

puII a continuous feed off of.

A hundred thousand watts

ought to get their attention.

- They'II understand what this means?

- We're gonna find out...

right now.

Sh*t.

What's happening?

What is wrong with this thing?

Gardening. I didn't see

any gardens around here.

What are they doing here, Char?

Like I shouId know.

You made a caII...

from the car.

When you start taIking

about aIiens and master pIans...

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