UFO: The Encounter Page #2

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fresh from the window sill.

It's a good choice, Jesus.

Only make the steak a little rare.

I am here to serve.

What would you like?

I'll have a chicken Caesar salad and a diet coke.

I'm sorry, all I serve here is water.

You don't have diet coke?

Fine.

I'll have water.

And I'll have a bacon cheese burger and diet coke.

All I serve here is water.

Okay, I'll have water.

Would you like fries with your cheese burger?

You know, there's something a little disconcerting about

a man named Jesus asking me if I want fries.

It's a simple question, sir.

No thanks.

Go ahead.

I don't care what you do anymore.

Yeah, I'll have French fries.

Excellent choice, Hank.

How did you know my name?

Well, it's Hank.

Isn't it, Catherine?

Hey, how did you know our names?

I'm Jesus.

I know everything.

I know all of you.

I've known you since before you were born

and I've got a plan for each of you.

A perfect plan.

All you have to do is believe in me.

Well folks, I don't know about the rest of you,

but I'm due back on planet Earth now.

So if you don't mind, we'll be leaving.

Hank?

Fine.

Catherine, wait.

Where are you going?

I got the keys to the car.

Catherine, wait.

You can go with me.

I've had enough of this freak show myself.

It's awfully good of you.

You can't leave with my wife.

It's obvious she doesn't want to stay with you.

Sorry, pal.

Enjoy the food.

Thanks a lot, Jesus.

My wife just left me.

She was going to leave you anyway, Hank.

Yeah, but..

Don't worry. She'll be back.

What a bunch of craziness.

You got that right.

Where am I taking you, by the way?

Away from here.

Seriously, if the road's closed,

I've got to go to Silverton.

Silverton's fine.

I can take a bus from there.

[engine not starting]

No. I cannot believe this.

We have just entered into the "Twilight Zone."

Who are you really?

Who do you say I am, Kayla?

Well, you could be Jesus and I could be Britney Spears.

Yeah, aren't you supposed to be in heaven or something?

What's it going to take to convince you?

How's this?

Funny.

You know, anyone can get a fake ID these days.

That's right, Kayla.

Even you.

How did you know that?

I'm Jesus.

I know everything

Melissa, for example, is heading up to Winnemucca for the weekend

to visit her boyfriend, Paul.

She thinks he's going to propose to her.

Is he?

Mm-hmm.

Yes!

I wouldn't be so excited if I were you.

Melissa, do you really want to marry a man who makes you drive

to propose to you?

You're a woman. You're precious.

I've got better for you than that.

What about me, Jesus?

What do you know about me besides my name?

I know your wife no longer wants to be Mrs. Hank Miller.

Is that true?

It is true.

Look, I don't know who you are,

but you have no right to interfere in my marriage.

I'm not interfering with your marriage, Hank.

I can save your marriage.

How can you save my marriage?

All you have to do is ask me.

Jesus.

Save my marriage.

Save my marriage. Please, Lord Jesus.

Jesus, save my marriage.

[engine not starting]

I can't believe it.

We've got to go back in there.

I will walk to Silverton before I go back in there.

He may be crazy, but he's probably harmless.

Probably?

Back so soon?

Car didn't start.

Aren't you worried about your meeting?

Your franchisee's meeting.

You've got what,

Be more like 3,000 by the end of next year.

It's impressive.

Nick, I can offer you greater riches.

Riches that can never be lost or stolen

or sunk by the stock market.

That's real good, Jesus.

Catherine.

Hank, please.

I meant what I said.

Is there somebody else?

Don't be ridiculous.

We can save our marriage.

It's too late.

Jesus can save our marriage.

Oh, you mean your friend over there?

Yes, he knows we're headed for divorce.

Does he?

That puts him one up on you.

Hey, did you eat all the bread?

Oh, sorry, I was hungry.

Hey, can we get some more bread over here?

There's plenty of bread there.

No, there isn't. It's--empty.

How did you do that?

I'm Jesus.

Will you come with me please?

Sure.

Well, as long as you're going to perform miracles,

why don't you turn my water into wine?

Am I losing my mind?

That bread basket was empty, wasn't it?

I thought it was.

And then suddenly it wasn't empty.

Doesn't that freak you out?

You haven't been some of the places I've been.

Plus it was your idea to come here.

Suppose..

Suppose it really is him.

Jesus?

Yeah.

Please.

Well, how did he know that stuff about my boyfriend?

He probably just overheard us talking.

No.

We didn't talk about that in there.

Look, I don't know what the explanation is,

but I'm sure there is one.

It's not so bad here.

There's free food and a warm place, so you can leave,

but I'm staying.

You shall see the Son of Man seated at the right hand

of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.

Your good book forgot to mention

there'd be a chance of scattered showers.

I'm glad to see that you remember some of what you read

in the Bible, Nick.

Especially that part.

That's like one of my favorite parts.

You can thank Gideons for that.

There's no telling what a man will do at 3 a.m.

in a Days Inn outside of Fargo.

You were searching, Nick.

I was bored.

Bored people turn on the TV.

You opened the Bible.

What were you looking for?

You tell me!

You know everything.

It was after the death of your father.

You were wondering how your parents could be so content with

so little, how your father could be as proud of his fruit stand

as you are of your fame and your millions.

I loved your parents, real, authentic, hard-working people.

More people went to your father's fruit stand

for his smile than for his fruit.

And you know who was great?

Your grandmother, Sadie.

I never knew her.

She died when I was little.

Of course you remember her.

In fact, you could say that she's the reason

we're here like this tonight.

What do you mean?

Your grandmother was a delight to my heart,

a humble woman filled with love and zeal, a real prayer warrior.

In her last years, her most passionate prayers, Nick,

were for you.

She was praying that you would come to me as your Lord

and Savior, that you'd come to eternal life.

I'm honoring her faithfulness by coming to you

and making this personal appeal.

Well, there's no need to go to all the trouble, Jesus.

Because I'm doing just fine on my own.

If I hadn't intervened tonight, you'd be dead.

You'd all be dead.

What?

The flooding left the road unstable.

Nick would have hit the curve too hard and each of you

would have followed him.

No, no, no.

Wait, wait, wait a minute. Let me get this straight.

You're trying to take credit for saving our lives

by keeping us off the road.

But if you are indeed God, then you created the storm

that caused the damage on the road.

So if we kept driving, you'd be responsible for our deaths.

You live in a fractured creation.

That's what's responsible for the storm.

I stepped in and took advantage of the storm to bring you all

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