The Signal Page #2

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I don't know!

Haley!

Haley!

Shh!

Listen.

Oh, my God.

Haley!

Haley!

Haley!

Can you speak?

Where am I?

I can't move.

Can you tell me your name?

Nicholas Eastman.

I'm Damon.

Dr. Wallace Damon.

I'm heading up the transition

team that's going to help you,

help all of us understand exactly

what you've been through.

What are you talking about?

Can you recall for me the first

time you encountered the signal?

The what?

Why can't I move?

What happened to us?

Due to the circumstances

surrounding your condition,

I'm afraid that our information

is extremely limited.

Wait, what's my condition?

What I'm about to tell you, Nic,

you may find a bit disturbing.

You have made

contact with an E.B.E.

E.B.E.?

Extraterrestrial

Biological Entity.

E.B.E.

I want to talk to my parents.

I'm sorry,

that's just not possible.

What are you talking about?

Where's Haley and Jonah?

What happened to us?

Why am I in a wheelchair?

Why...

Why are you wearing that suit?

We're not 100% certain about

what we're dealing with here.

The possibility for alien

contamination is very real.

When you say

"alien contamination,"

do you mean microbiological

contamination, as in foreign?

Hold still.

Oh.

It's just blood.

It's just blood.

I think we'll

stop here for today.

Contact values

at 9-8-47-91-72.

Level 12.

Do we know current value?

Stop! Will you stop?

Stop! Go back!

Can you go back?

What's wrong with Haley?

As advanced as we are,

it's amazing that a tool as crude

as a pen still has its place.

There we go.

I want to talk to Haley.

Please.

I'm afraid that's not

possible right now.

Why?

She's in good hands,

Nic, I promise you.

The best thing you can do for

her right now is to help us.

Now, will you please

try to cooperate with me?

Okay.

Good.

First I'm going to ask you

some simple control questions.

Do you have 10 toes?

Yes.

Are you from Earth?

Yes, I am from Earth.

Good, thank you.

Now, this signal that you and

your friends were pursuing,

when did you first encounter it?

You mean Nomad.

Yes.

MIT.

He got into our school's security

network and ruined some major servers,

including our personal ones.

Nic, I want you

to watch something.

A big mama sat in that chair.

You definitely

weren't pursuing a hacker.

Hey.

Hey.

Jonah?

Nic.

Jonah!

Nic!

Oh, my God! Jonah,

where are you?

I don't know.

I'm locked up, I'm in a room.

Me, too.

I'm in a locked room, dude.

Where are we?

I heard them say we're

not allowed above ground

because we were contaminated.

What the hell was Nomad?

What have they told you?

Not much.

I saw Haley.

She's in a coma or something.

Nic, they're doing

some weird sh*t here, man.

My body doesn't feel right.

Nic, I gotta go.

What? Where?

This place is run like a clock.

I can't believe

you're in the vent!

What?

Dude, I'm not in the vent.

I'm not in the vent!

Jonah! Jonah!

Why don't you have

any clocks that work?

Clocks that work?

Yeah.

The one in the hallway is stuck at 12:30.

Which hallway?

Seven windows back.

Left turn.

Four windows. Right turn.

Two windows on the right.

Next to the bathroom with its sign

upside down. It's stuck at 12:30.

Nic, it's a broken clock.

Thank you for bringing it

to my attention.

Can we please proceed

with the shapes and colors?

Screw this.

This is stupid.

What's the matter, Nic?

Can't you do it?

No, I choose not to do it.

Choose?

You choose not to do it?

That sounds like pride talking.

False and foolish pride.

That's all.

Pyramid, yellow.

And the... Cube, blue.

Sphere, green.

The blue tile

here that says "Zero"

corresponds with the green cube.

The yellow tile here that says

"Six" goes with the cube.

The green tile here that says "Five"

goes with the yellow pyramid.

The green cube goes with

the blue shaped cube.

The yellow written sphere goes

with the green-shaped sphere.

The blue written pyramid goes

with the yellow-shaped pyramid.

"Blue," written in yellow,

"yellow," in green,

correspond the visible colors and

shapes rather than the written words

because the spectral

quality of light

is more objective, so to speak,

than the written English

words of those colors.

I see.

You see?

What do you mean, you see?

You, Nic.

I see you and I

think I'm beginning

to understand

something more about you.

Understand what?

The colors, the shapes,

they have an effect on you.

I'd say it was an emotional effect,

wouldn't you?

I don't care about

the shapes and colors,

they don't mean anything to me.

They don't mean sh*t to me!

You're the one that's infuriating me,

you quack!

"Quack."

"Quack."

I wanna see Haley

and I'm not gonna say another

word until you let me see her.

Okay, Nic.

There's nothing on here.

She's in a coma, Nic.

There's nothing that can

be done for her right now.

I promise,

as soon as she wakes up,

you'll be

the first one to see her.

Right now we're doing

everything humanly possible.

Nic, this place is insane.

Yeah, I know.

Listen. You were right.

This place is run like a clock.

Listen, I need your help.

I've been keeping

some event sequences...

Nic, it was hard to

put all this together,

but, you know, I think

we're sick, or infected.

Hey, Jonah, stop thinking

like that, man. Seriously.

No, they're trying to keep whatever's

inside us from metastasizing.

Jonah, stop.

Nothing's metastasizing, okay?

We're fine. We're gonna be fine.

No, I'm not.

Just trust me on this.

No, my body is not.

We gotta get out of here.

Yeah, I know. We will.

Okay, I've got

the variables on my keypad.

Now I need you to take back

half the sequences, okay?

Yeah. I'll help.

Okay.

But my glasses are

messed up, though.

Hey, it's gonna be fine.

It's gonna be fine.

Don't worry about your glasses.

Okay, I'm gonna give it

to you spatially.

Three v three phone style.

Okay, you ready?

Yeah.

Okay.

Top-middle, middle-middle,

top-left, bottom-left.

2-5-1-7.

You got it?

Bottom-left first.

Middle-middle second.

Top-middle third.

Top-left last.

Nic, I'm having

a hard time handling this.

They made me drink some

weird stuff the other day

and I haven't really been

able to feel my arms.

Your arms?

What? What do you mean?

Oh, God!

Dude, who is it?

I gotta go.

Jonah, hold on a second.

Jonah! Jonah!

Jonah!

Agitate.

Everybody outside.

Recovery team to level 14.

Subject has breached.

Subject has escaped.

Oh, sorry,

I was just looking for the water fountain.

Recovery team to level 14.

Subject has breached.

Escaped.

Can you raise your arm?

What happened in the hallway?

Good.

Still no feeling in your legs?

What happened to Jonah?

Look, I know you guys know I can

talk to him through the vent.

What the hell did you

guys do with him?

Yes, Nic, we have

been listening to you,

but the truth of the matter...

The truth of the matter is,

total Mickey Mouse operation here.

Antiquated methodologies,

dinosaurs with government grants.

A whole facility built during

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