Disclosure Day (2026) – Transcript

Disclosure Day (2026)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: David Koepp
Story by: Steven Spielberg
Release dates:  June 2, 2026 (Le Grand Rex); June 12, 2026 (United States)
Stars: Emily Blunt (Margaret Fairchild), Delaney Cuthbert (Young Margaret), Josh O’Connor (Dr. Daniel Kellner), Tyler Renaud (Young Daniel), Colin Firth (Noah Scanlon), Eve Hewson (Jane Blankenship), Colman Domingo (Hugo Wakefield), Wyatt Russell (Jackson), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Casper Boyd), Elizabeth Marvel (Sister Maura), Hettienne Park (Serena), Tommy Martinez (Dave Santiago), Gabby Beans (Angela Childs), Jeremy Shamos (Claypool), Brandon Wilson (Nathan Twinning), Priyanka Kedia (Grace Zhao), Elliot Villar (Diaz), Noah Robbins (Munsey), Michael Gaston (General Dobbs).

Plot: As the planet is on the brink of World War III, cybersecurity specialist Dr. Daniel Kellner has stolen material from his employer, a secretive U.S. government contractor known as the Wardex Corporation. Kellner’s theft includes an artifact of extraterrestrial technology, documents, and hard drives containing videos of extraterrestrial contact dating to the Roswell incident. When cornered by Wardex CEO Noah Scanlon, Kellner threatens him with the extraterrestrial device and escapes with his girlfriend, Jane Blankenship; they hide at her former convent.

In Kansas City, NBC meteorologist Margaret Fairchild is preparing for work when a cardinal flies into her home. The incident stimulates a psychic ability in Margaret to intuit people’s thoughts and speak in languages she has never learned. During a live weather broadcast, Margaret unexpectedly begins speaking in an unknown language. Footage of the broadcast goes viral and draws the attention of Wardex, which identifies the language as extraterrestrial. After being examined at a hospital, Margaret flees Wardex agents who are posing as the FBI.

Daniel explains to Jane that Wardex has been experimenting on extraterrestrial captives and reverse engineering their technology; he is part of a plot to reveal the truth. When he sees the clip of Margaret speaking the extraterrestrial language, he understands what she said. Scanlon uses one of the extraterrestrial devices to telepathically force Jane to attack Daniel and later track them to a motel.

Before Daniel is captured, he helps Jane escape with the extraterrestrial device. Margaret’s psychic ability allows her to locate Daniel at a black site. The two escape when Margaret empathically convinces their captors to let them go. One of Scanlon’s unaffected men, Casper Boyd, rams their car into the side of a passing freight train; Daniel pulls Margaret out in time for them to climb onto the train.

Margaret and Daniel finally connect with Hugo Wakefield, who leads a team of former Wardex employees intent on disclosing evidence of extraterrestrials to the world. They have reconstructed Margaret’s childhood home in order to recover suppressed memories. When they were ten, she and Daniel were simultaneously abducted by extraterrestrials and given complementary powers; the extraterrestrials disguise themselves as harmless animals in order to observe them.

Hugo’s team, along with Margaret and Daniel, enter Margaret’s television station to broadcast the truth. Scanlon’s team turns off the power, but Jane arrives and gives her device to Margaret, who uses it to restore the power. Defeated, Scanlon decides to stop hiding the truth and watches as Margaret announces “Disclosure Day” to the world.

Daniel uploads all of the stolen videos to a satellite feed. A blindsided national anchorwoman attempts to narrate the footage as the stunned world stops to watch evidence of extraterrestrial life; the impending war seems to halt. Hugo brings one of the extraterrestrials[a] he secreted out of Wardex into the studio. The extraterrestrial whispers to Daniel, who relays the message to Margaret. She returns to the camera and repeats the message, which she begins by saying “Listen.”

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Transcript

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♪ ♪

[crowd clamoring]

[boot thumping]

CROWD: One! Two! Three!

[laughs menacingly]

Yeah!

[yells]

[yells, grunts]

[cheering]

Come on! Yeah!

Come on!

[yells]

[laughs]

[crowd shouting]

Let’s do this! Come on!

Come on!

[yells, grunts]

Come on! Come on!

[chair clatters]

[grunts] Come on.

Let’s do this. Come on.

[crowd shouting]

[wrestlers grunting]

MAN: Let the backpack slip off next time everyone stands.

[cheering]

Where’s Jane?

Daniel Kellner.

Do you want to see her again or not?

[crowd cheering]

Relax.

Enjoy the match.

Just got to make sure it’s all there.

[crowd cheering]

MAN 2: 7.23.48.83 through 3.14.84A.

11.17.55…

I make a total of 107 IronClad drives, 128 gig each.

You want me to do a recount? Uh, when we finish, yes.

Printed documents approximately 200 pages.

What’s the date range?

Uh, we can catalog that when we get back.

But I’m seeing as far back as 1947 and as recent as last year.

[door creaks open]

[lively crowd chatter in distance]

♪ ♪

[breathing heavily]

Well, this is all rather disappointing.

Where’s Jane?

[trembling breaths]

Are you okay? Yeah.

DANIEL: Careful. [snips zip tie]

[Jane whimpering] Hey.

Who turned you?

Give me the names, all of them, and you two can call a cab.

It’s here.

[backpack drops to ground]

Where is it?

Put your weapon on the ground! [others shouting]

Do not fire! Do not fire.

If you fire, it could activate the device.

Loosen your grip, Daniel.

If you squeeze, it activates. Soften your grip.

Put it down. You don’t know how to use it.

I know how you used it. And it almost killed me.

Now, place the device on the ground.

I should do to you what you did to them.

Stand down, Serena.

[breathing heavily]

Do not exert any pressure on it.

Just loosen your grip.

Loosen your grip. That’s it.

Just open your hand.

That’s it.

Okay. Okay.

Sweep everything into the backpack and get in the car.

Please, Jane.

Get out.

You’re not running some malware op.

You can’t hide behind a screen in your SCIF.

The world is on the brink.

Do you actually believe that dumping inventory will be anything more than a dangerous distraction?

I watched the interrogations.

History doesn’t have a reset key.

If you do this, there’s no undoing it.

That’s the plan.

[engine starts]

[tires squealing]

Boyd.

He sits at a desk.

How did he beat you?

They said you committed treason?

It’s not treason. They’re not the government, and they lie for a living.

What is going on, Daniel?

Their cars have trackers.

We got to get rid of this.

Please just take me home.

They’d be waiting at your apartment.

Hey, hand me the clear plastic bag.

Okay. Steer for a second.

Okay. Okay.

[dialing phone]

Okay, okay. [line ringing]

Hugo, I’m clear.

HUGO [over phone]: Daniel, I’m so proud of you.

They kidnapped Jane to get to me.

She’s with me now.

HUGO: Is she all right?

Not really, Hugo.

Where do I do the drop?

No drop yet.

[power tools buzzing]

Get secure, and then…

DANIEL: No, no, no.

Send the guy for the bag now.

Somebody needs to run with this thing.

That’s you.

You’ve got the ball.

I don’t want the ball.

No, the plan was I get it out of the facility, and I-I did.

HUGO: I decided you were best qualified to keep the material safe.

Are you out of your mind?

No, I’m not a field guy, Hugo.

I-I did the tech work. That’s all I can do.

You just stay with me.

We’re on plan.

Waiting now for someone else to be activated.

When they are, we’ll know what comes next.

Leave Jane somewhere safe and get secure for the night.

Oh, no. I-I’m not leaving her alone.

She’ll be safer without you. But she wasn’t.

I’m gonna need you to drop a marker when you get secure.

Our friend Santiago will find you in the morning.

I should just dump everything online right now.

You cannot, under any circumstances, do that.

For now, we wait.

Stay alert. Find shelter.

Santiago will put us together in the morning.

Destroy your phone.

[sighs]

[siren wailing in distance]

Danny.

Satellite burner phones.

They got their own encrypted network.

We only use them once.

What exactly do you do for a living?

We got to get secure for the night.

No apartments, no motels.

Has to be somewhere I’ve never been before in my life.

I know a place close to here.

[elevator bell chimes]

Musgrave at DoD wants a briefing.

SCANLON: Get Wakefield down here now.

Tell Musgrave it was a minor breach.

Recovery is in process.

Sir, he will not want to hear it from me.

If I pick up the phone, it means I’m concerned.

If they even get a whiff of that, we’ll have the entire military and intelligence apparatus up here in an hour.

Handle him.

Anything relevant to this on news feeds?

Not yet.

Socials or secure private?

All quiet.

12 no-shows here today.

All with empty desks.

All clearance above G5.

[busy chatter]

All right, so we’re dealing with an operation carefully coordinated and executed.

Why? With what goal?

If they wanted the archive out, Kellner would have already released it, but he hasn’t, which means somebody’s maintaining decision space.

But for how long, we don’t know, so think quickly.

Daniel Kellner has a doctorate in theoretical and applied cybersecurity, and he’s spent the better part of eight years safeguarding high-side data, so what does that tell us about him?

Ideas.

Come on. He built the firewalls.

He knows how to breach them.

They’re already breached. We got to play past that.

AGENT: We got to maintain standard skip tracing.

AGENT 2: Well, I can access SYNTRAK.

SERENA: What’s the next thing he does?

BOYD: Sir.

Hugo Wakefield didn’t show up for work this morning.

[sighs] His desk was cleaned out.

Hugo?

Second device is missing from deep storage.

Where’s the third?

Locked down in the cold room.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[vehicle door closes]

DANIEL: How do you know they’ll answer it?

‘Cause that’s what we do.

How do you know this place?

Jane.

[sobbing]: Oh… oh, my dear.

The monsignor has finally surrendered his sneakers.

Oh. [chuckling]

Oh, I couldn’t bear his other shoes.

I know. They always squeaked so horribly.

[both laughing]

[imitating squeaking footsteps]

Oh, we have missed you very much, my dear.

Oh, come on.

All I ever did was drive you and the other sisters crazy.

Mm, well, you do ask a lot of questions.

Did Teresa ever get through her postulancy?

She sailed through.

Once she stopped sneaking out at night.

JANE: No.

SISTER MAURA: The monsignor has her teaching third grade at St. Anthony’s.

JANE: Oh, she’ll be fantastic with kids.

BOTH: Saint Benedicta.

Hold this against your eye.

I’m not going to ask you any questions.

It’s not my business.

But Jane is.

Whatever you have done, you must hold yourself accountable.

But leave Jane out of it.

She can stay with us.

[chuckling]: You were a nun?

We’ve had sex. What do you think?

I think everything you told me about yourself isn’t true.

You have an enormous amount of nerve.

Yeah, I kept things to myself because I had to sign away my life, but your thing…

[chuckles] You were an actual nun?

A novitiate.

Why didn’t you say anything?

I omitted a portion of my story.

People judge you.

When was all this?

Three years ago.

And I’m not answering any more questions until you do.

What did you steal?

I stole the data they paid me to protect.

Why would you do that?

‘Cause people have a right to know the truth.

And what is it, this truth you stole?

So… you wanted to be a nun, but what, you lost your faith?

I lost my calling.

How long have you worked for these people?

Since, um…

Since I got out… of federal prison eight years ago.

I did 19 months in Petersburg for cybercrimes.

WARDEX recruited me straight out of the parking lot the day I was released.

Even with your record? Because of my record.

I keep secrets for a living.

I-I didn’t mean to keep them from you.

Three months ago, I didn’t know half of what I know now.

Jane…

I’m doing the right thing.

The data that I took, it’s not proprietary.

It shouldn’t be.

It’s the truth we know.

And WARDEX doesn’t own it any more than they can own air or light.

What I stole, it belongs to eight billion people, the whole wide world.

And I’m a part of it now.

I’m just sorry that… that they made you a part of it, too.

[sniffles]

MARGARET [over speaker]: You know, and all that warm, moist air that’s been hanging around, it is gonna smash into this cold front swooping down from the north.

It is gonna shove that warm air all the way up through the troposphere.

[laughing]: It’s gonna mass-condense it like crazy.

And if that formation goes high enough, it’ll supercool the water vapor.

We’re gonna get my favorite precipitation of all time.

Mia, I have to. I have to.

I’m sorry, I can’t. I can’t stop.

It’s hail.

Weather Shimmy!

SHEA: Hey! The Weather Shimmy.

MIA: We haven’t seen that move in a while.

MARGARET: Well, the weather hasn’t exactly given me anything to dance about lately, you know what I mean?

[Jackson laughing] MIA: I don’t know if I want

exciting weather. [Margaret laughs over speaker]

MARGARET: Just let your hair down.

SHEA: No, thanks. I’ll take a nice, boring 72 degrees

and sunny day anytime.

MARGARET: Fine, no more

Weather Shimmies for you, then, Shea.

MIA: Oh!

MARGARET: That is it. Nope. Done.

SHEA: Can’t take Weather Shimmy away.

It’s my favorite thing in the world.

MIA: Hey, you could start a dance craze with that.

SHEA: You know, I hear there can be big money in those.

Asked you not to watch those. It’s great.

It’s great. Don’t even.

The Weather Shimmy is hot. [chuckles]

You gonna keep it? Yeah, you like that, huh?

I do. I do.

You know what? So will everybody else.

It wouldn’t be so condescending, ’cause I think the only thing that you really got wrong was the weather.

I don’t know, just, uh… doesn’t look like hail to me.

Did you watch the thing I sent you?

What thing?

The audition.

Oh, shit.

Yes, no. I’m sorry.

I’m sorry. I just… I forgot.

[stammering]: I’ll watch it now.

Okay, but listen.

Gunther taped it for me, all right?

And the anchors edit their own copy at KCXE, so I wrote it myself.

Just bear it in mind, okay? Okay. [muttering]

This is Margaret Fairchild at KCXE 4 Kansas City.

Reports from Pyongyang took a worrying turn as KPA dissidents seized four more military bases east of the Nakdonggang River, including two with nuclear capability.

At the same time, Russian state television reiterated its starkest threats yet to Seoul, regarding the massing of its forces at the 38th parallel.

In the North, Vice Marshal Pak Myong-sun now claims full control of at least…

It’s good.

It’s good. That’s really good.

You’re really… It’s so good. Really?

Yeah, it’s really good.

You’re-you’re… you’re good.

You’re always good. I’m serious.

Look, it’s just, I love what you’re doing now.

You know? You got weather power.

You got KCXE weather hair on, and, you know, it’s like, “K Sexy.”

I think we should move.

Again?

Yep. Okay. You just wallpapered the bedroom in a rented loft, and you want to move again.

MARGARET: I know. Where-where do you want to move now?

I don’t know, just, like, bigger market, bigger city.

We were in Dallas last year.

That’s not a bigger market? Dallas is…

Dallas didn’t feel right, didn’t…

I don’t know, I just don’t think

Dallas is where I was supposed to be.

Well, then… okay, like, where are you supposed to be, Maggie?

[Margaret sighs]

I’m gonna know when I get there.

I am.

Honey.

Can’t you just sit still for, like, one minute?

Okay.

Look.

I’m good here. I know.

Okay? Like, I’m in the flow.

I get to play my own stuff. I don’t have to DJ anymore.

I just got Wednesdays and Saturdays down at McFeely’s.

The answer to every problem is not just to pack up the U-Haul.

[wings fluttering]

[bird chirping]

Look, look, look.

[chuckles]

JACKSON [laughing]: Wow.

[laughing]: Oh… oh, my God.

[taking deep breath]

♪ ♪ [laughing]: That’s crazy.

All right, go. Shoo. Get out of here.

Go. Shoo. Out of here.

[chuckles] Gutsy little bird, huh?

Mag, you okay? [footsteps approaching]

Hey, Mag, you okay? You okay? [groans softly]

Are you all right?

[speaking Russian]

Uh… New York…

[continues in Russian]

…Chicago.

Where did you learn…

[continues in Russian]

Mag.

Okay. [laughs]

All right, wow. Okay, Maggie.

Okay, stop, stop, stop, stop.

[continues in Russian] Okay, stop.

Stop it! Stop! [gasps]

What the hell was that?

What do you mean?

Is it Russian, or is it Polish or something

for, like, a story? I’m not following you, sweetie.

Was that what you were learning yester…

What do you mean? We’re just talking about it.

Wh-When did you learn Russian?

[laughing]: Russian?

I don’t know.

Ooh. Oh, God, I got to go. I’m late.

I’m on live at 7:23. I got moved up.

Oh. Okay. Okay.

Let’s just talk about it later, okay? I need my shoes.

Well, uh, we can talk about it now and…

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Like, if you… if you want to get your purse, here. Oh. Mm!

It’s okay. It’s all okay. Yeah.

We can… we can discuss it, okay?

Okay, yeah. I love you.

Love you, too.

Bye. Okay.

[“The Sweet Escape” by Gwen Stefani ft. Akon playing]

♪ Woo-hoo, yee-hoo ♪

[engine starts] ♪ Woo-hoo ♪

♪ Yee-hoo ♪

[tires squealing] ♪ Woo-hoo, yee-hoo ♪

♪ Woo-hoo ♪

♪ Yee-hoo ♪

♪ If I could escape ♪

[singing along]: ♪ I would, but first of all, let me say ♪

♪ I must apologize for acting stank ♪

♪ And treating you this way, ’cause I’ve been acting like ♪

♪ Sour milk all on the floor ♪

[siren whooping]

♪ It’s your fault, you didn’t shut the refrigerator… ♪

Oh, shoot.

♪ If I could escape ♪

♪ And re-create a place that’s my own world… ♪

[music shuts off]

[tires squeal]

[indistinct police radio chatter]

Sorry, don’t blame me. Blame the music. I’m so sorry.

Go ahead and turn your engine off for me, please.

Sure, yeah. You know how it is. Like, it’s a fun song, it’s a beautiful day, you just sing along, you go too fast and…

License and registration.

Absolutely.

[seat belt clicks]

Here’s that.

Here’s…

There you go.

Go ahead and take your license out of your wallet, please.

Sure. Yeah.

It’s an old picture.

Just go ahead and step out of the car, please.

Um, is… is that totally necessary?

It’s just, for my job, I have to be exactly on the dot, like, to the minute, ’cause we go on… I get it.

I know who you are. The weather can wait.

Just step out of the car for me, please.

Sir, I…

I don’t want to have to ask you again.

Oh, you’re just having a bad day.

What?

She didn’t mean it. Who?

Anna. Those things she said to you this morning, she didn’t mean it, she didn’t mean it.

It just kind of came out. It’s hard.

She’s up all night with the baby.

How do you know…

Go get her the red velvet cupcakes.

It’s a good idea– with the purple sprinkles on them.

And then tonight you go to Neptune’s Table, you order the lobster, you do that funny thing with the claws.

That always makes her laugh. It’s good, it’s good.

You don’t regret having the baby.

Nothing like your dad. Stop telling yourself that.

You know the card with the dancing angels on it?

It’s nice. It’s beautiful.

Just don’t go writing the big apology inside.

She doesn’t need it. She just needs a nap.

She needs a nap, and you could do with one, too.

Do you think I could go now?

Thank you.

[seat belt clicks]

[engine starts]

What the fu…

[indistinct police radio chatter]

Global tensions are near a breaking point as both American and Russian strategic bombers have reportedly flown to their fail-safe points, ready to proceed with strike orders if given.

In a rare public statement, the Pentagon confirmed that the United States has raised its defense readiness condition to DEFCON 2.

Colonel Susan Ramirez issued a stark message earlier today: “We are in the most dangerous hours our nation has faced since the 1962 Cuban Missile…”

[tires squealing]

[engine shuts off]

Oh, God.

You’re really late. I know. I know.

It’s not my fault.

MIA [over speaker]: Here at home, there’s been a surge of residents fleeing areas near key military installations, including…

Clay. I know. No. Wow. Very generous of you to show up three minutes before you’re on.

It could not be avoided. This cop…

No, you know what can’t be avoided?

…pulled me over. Deadlines.

I know. I understand. I’m so sorry.

If we say, “Now here’s Margaret Fairchild with the weather…”

Right. …and we cut to you and there’s no you, that’s the deadline problem. Total disaster. It’s just, the weirdest thing just happened to me. Can I just…

I need to… Up, up, up.

Let’s do it on the run. Come on.

Move, move, move, move, move. Okay. Okay, give me my shoes.

We’re in crisis mode. Okay.

Your segment’s cut to 90 seconds.

Then you throw to Shea for the governor’s “remain calm” thing.

Mm-hmm. Then network takes it back early.

This cop pulled me over, and I don’t even know what happened.

I just started talking, and the words were just coming out, and I was just like…

[babbling] Yeah, tell me at the break.

But, like, he knew what it meant. No, no, you know what?

Tell me never. Okay.

And if someday you want to even be considered for weekend anchor, don’t do this to me again. Don’t say that.

Who is that? DaeSeong Park.

Visiting fellow at the Korean Studies Institute at U of M.

Oh, gosh, why is he so upset? ‘Cause he’s Korean.

Are you not following anything? 90 seconds.

Margaret, come on. This way.

It’s time for you to go to the police.

Someone has to stop him. Maria needs you.

Do it now. Do it now.

INTERPRETER: He’s saying that the actions of North Korea are understandable and…

PARK: No, no. Excuse me.

[speaking Korean]

MARGARET: No, no, no, no. No.

“Recognizable.” “Recognizable,” he said.

[speaking Korean]

[conversing in Korean]

Predictable. Predictable. Yeah.

[Park continues in Korean] Yes. He’s saying…

No, he’s saying the actions are not justified.

They’re only familiar. There’s this escalation.

It follows a pattern. You know, it follows a pattern.

It’s not, um… he’s not endorsing aggression.

It’s a very important distinction.

Sorry, the words are just kind of close.

It’s okay. I think you just didn’t hear him.

Since when do you speak Korean?

Speak Korean? What?

For God’s sake, you’re on in 15.

Okay. I know, I know, I know.

Stalled front from the northwest is gonna move through

metro area midafternoon. Uh-huh.

Rapid temp drops, heavy rain, maybe hail.

Stay weather-aware, et cetera, et cetera.

FLOOR MANAGER: Five seconds.

TECH: It’s all loaded in.

MIA: Let’s go to Margaret Fairchild with the forecast, and she’ll tell us what’s in store for us today.

Margaret. Thanks, Mia.

And good morning, Kansas City.

[chuckling]: Let’s take a look at today…

[breathing heavily]

Let’s… let’s… let’s take a look at today.

W-We’re gonna… we’re gonna take a look at today. Today… today is…

T-TToday is… today…

T-Today is…

[speaking unintelligibly]

[clicks tongue, makes hissing sound]

[speaking unintelligibly]

[Margaret clicking tongue]

[clicking tongue rapidly]

[mouthing] [whispers]: Get off her.

Get off her. Cut away. Okay. Take it to camera three.

Take it to camera three. Go. You got to take it. Take it.

Okay. Clearly some troubles with the maps and the, uh, forecast and our sound.

Let us work on that, because we know you need your weather news this morning.

[Margaret clicking tongue] We’ll take a short break, and when we come back, we’ll find out if you need to take your umbrella or your sunscreen with you tomorrow.

Stay with us. [breath trembling]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Margaret.

Margaret. Margaret! Call an ambulance!

Get some water. Hey, hey, hey!

Margaret! Margaret!

Everybody, back up, please!

[horn honking] Oh, shit.

[panting]

You’re safe here.

Soon as I’m out from under this, I’m coming back.

I promise you, I am coming back for you.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Hell of a day to sleep in, you know that?

Sorry. Sorry.

Get back inside.

This is the safest place you can be.

At some point soon, I’ll say, “Danny, it’s time you tell me everything.”

And you will tell me everything.

What are we waiting for?

Let’s go.

[engine starts]

Hugo, what do we do now?

How long do I have to hold on to this?

HUGO [over phone]: You’re in good hands with Santiago.

He knows exactly where he’s taking you.

Down!

WARDEX. Clear.

They’re out here looking for me.

How am I supposed to keep us alive?

HUGO: Santiago is taking you to a safe house.

When you arrive, you can check back in with me.

[line clicks]

SCANLON: General Dobbs, you have learned what we know when we know it, far in excess of our reporting obligations.

Let-let’s get an Azimuth Check here.

This is the most significant security lapse

in your organization’s history. It’s a catastrophe.

DoD has significant IRR that we can deploy immediately.

That is a mistake. Do not open the aperture on this.

Operational overlap… There are 12,000 FBI field agents

at our disposal. …is a terrible idea!

I don’t know why we don’t utilize them.

The last thing we need is 12,000 underinformed Feds stomping around and calling attention to themselves, so please stay in your lane.

If we need the full battle rattle, I’ll call you.

Sorry to interrupt.

This just hit social media.

A TV news broadcast from Kansas City, Missouri.

It’s out there now.

[Margaret clicking tongue on video]

Who is she?

Local weather lady at KCXE 4, Kansas City, Missouri.

Margaret Fairchild, 38, born Cerritos, California, never married, no children, bachelor’s degree in broadcasting.

Do we have a dialect sample in the archives?

Yes.

And it matched.

What do you want to do? Find her before Hugo does.

Who do we have on the ground in Kansas City?

I’m on it.

MRI TECH: Okay, Margaret, we’re gonna get started.

Test is gonna be really noisy, so I’m gonna give you this ball in your hand in case if you need me throughout the test.

Squeeze it any time you need to stop, okay?

Okay, yeah. Keep your eyes closed, okay?

I’ll be speaking to you the entire time

you’re in there, okay?

MARGARET: Okay.

MRI TECH: And here we go. You’re going in.

How are you doing?

MARGARET: I’m fine.

[engine revving]

[truck departing]

[birds chirping]

[sighs]

♪ ♪

[gasps softly]

Oh, look.

Look, look, look.

Are you okay?

They’re just deer.

It’s that stare.

It’s like…

It’s like they’re scared, but they’re not.

They’re bold, but they run when you reach for your camera.

It’s time, Danny.

What is going on?

You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.

So I’m gonna show you.

Your MRI is normal.

No strokes or masses.

So, it’s not neoplastic, and there’s no infarction.

You didn’t find anything?

Most people would find that reassuring.

Well, I just… What’s going on with me?

That just doesn’t make sense.

Well, have you been under a lot of stress lately?

No. No.

I mean, today, but not before today.

Your father had Parkinson’s?

Are you saying that’s what it is?

No, no, no. Not necessarily.

But at what age was onset?

He was 46, 47.

I was a teenager when he died, and…

Are they watching us? Who are those guys?

They’re with the FBI.

They have some questions for you after we’re finished here.

MARGARET: How do you know they’re FBI?

They showed identification.

They’re not FBI.

Ms. Fairchild… have you ever sought counseling for the traumatic event that happened when you were a child?

I don’t remember it. I was ten years old.

Do you have nightmares related to the event?

No.

A-All the time. All the time.

Uh, it’s the same dream about butterflies and a “Hansel and Gretel” house in the woods.

Um, and also, she sings in her sleep sometimes.

No, I don’t do that. Little kids’ songs.

I don’t do that. Do I do that? You do. You do. You do.

She does. [knocking at door]

Excuse me a minute. What are you doing?

She needs the infor… What? How could you do…

They need the information. How could you tell them the one thing I never told anyone but you?

You didn’t tell me much about it. I don’t know.

Because I don’t remember it, and then you tell a complete stranger that I sing in my sleep.

I mean, do I speak Korean in my sleep, too?

They’re not strangers. They’re doctors.

You pull your pants down in front of them.

You tell them stuff. That’s how it works.

What the hell is the FBI doing here?

♪ ♪

Kellner. Daniel Kellner.

Daniel Kellner.

Uh… Do you know who that is?

Uh, um, that’s Dr. Coleman.

Who’s Daniel Kellner?

I don’t know, but those guys wish he was dead.

What?

Act like I need help getting to the bathroom.

Okay? Do you?

Can you just roll with it, Jackson? My God.

All right, hang on. Yeah.

Hi. Uh, she needs to use the bathroom.

I just need the bathroom. Yeah.

Okay. Good. Okay? Okay?

Okay. Good. Okay.

All right, let’s, um…

Just, can we talk about it for a second?

Uh, hey, Mag, can we talk? Oh, perfect.

All right, can we just slow down for one minute?

I just want to, uh, talk to you about what you’re doing.

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie.

Maggie, what are you doing? Getting dressed.

We’re leaving. We’re leaving. What?

Got to go. Got to go. What?

Got to go. What are you talk…

Oh, God. I’m so sorry. Hi. Uh…

Excuse me. What do you mean?

You mean busting out? Yep.

Wh-What’s wrong with you? What’s wrong is I have a very uncooperative boyfriend right…

Oh, you got to be kidding me. What? What did I do?

You know exactly what I’m talking about.

What did I do? Maggie.

Shoes. Shoes, shoes.

Yeah, sure.

Here. Thank you.

How’s it going?

♪ ♪

WARDEX?

Stands for Waived Reporting Development and Extraction.

Of what?

Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, 1973.

Who’s the guy with Nixon?

Big TV star in the ’50s.

Nixon wanted to impress him.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Are they children?

No.

Are they… people?

No.

Are they human?

This next part’s hard to watch.

It’s what Hugo showed me that got me into this.

Okay?

Okay.

[taps key]

MED TECH 1 [on video]: We’re gonna need vitals.

We’ve got no baseline. [overlapping chatter on video]

MED TECH 2: Pulse ox can’t read.

No standard landmarks…

MED TECH 3: Ketamine?

Four to six milligrams?

SCANLON: No more sedatives.

I want baseline stress data first.

MED TECH 4: Shift your grip. Secure the ankles.

[clicking vocalizations] Stabilize head and right arm.

[shrieks]

[distressed shrieking, clicking]

MED TECH 3: Head’s moving too much.

I need a padded restraint.

SCANLON: I have it. I need cerebrospinal fluid.

Advance the needle 18 centimeters, ventral to the medulla. [shuddering breaths]

MED TECH 1: It’s in distress. Administering propofol.

SCANLON: Negative. No anesthesia.

We lost one that way. Do it now.

Insert it now.

[pained shrieking]

[shrieking stops]

[shuddering breaths]

There’s more.

79 years more.

I have all of it.

[whirring]

[electronic trilling]

[buzzing]

Hugo is the only one who had a relationship with it, and he knew what he was doing with that thing.

Pull up Kellner’s data.

Give me the device.

BOYD: If systolic goes below 90 like last time, I’m pulling you out.

MED TECH: Watch for tachyarrhythmia, subdural hemorrhage.

MED TECH 2: Copy.

[monitor beeping]

[quiet chatter]

♪ ♪

[beeping growing faster]

[whimpers]

[yells, groans]

I’m fine. I’m fine!

What happened?

I had focus, gave myself over, saw Kellner for a split second, then… sledgehammer, whiteout.

Sucked all the air out of my lungs.

Is he an experiencer?

You can’t dive on them.

He can’t have been. I’d have known.

He’s Hugo’s guy.

There’s gonna be a whole lot we don’t know.

Maybe, but I’m not going back in there to find out.

Pull the data on the girlfriend.

There have been retrieval programs of exotic craft.

Interrogation of nonhuman biologics.

Reverse engineering and technology exploitation.

All of it… run by WARDEX, the Department of Defense and the defense industry.

It has the highest level of military and private sector classification in American history.

[wind howling outside]

They’ve run it since the early ’70s without government funding.

Too many tax dollars to try and hide, and-and off-world artifacts are too profitable to leave in the hands of appointed officials, especially after the Nixon thing.

Presidents are civilians again after eight years, so… so there’s no longer a reason to read them in on any of this.

I was a part of all that until I saw what you just saw.

This all stops now.

What are you gonna do?

Full disclosure to the whole world all at once.

Have you considered what effect that’ll have?

On everything?

What…

It’s not up to me to decide if it’s… if it’s good or bad for people to know.

Then how is it up to you to decide that the right to know outweighs the consequences of knowing?

Are you saying we leave this up to WARDEX?

‘Cause they-they’ve already decided this belongs to them, this core truth about the universe.

It’s wrong. You can’t do that.

Think about…

People will see them as deities.

They’ll stop believing in God. [scoffs]

Well, you left the church.

Not because I stopped believing, because I could no longer say with certainty that God is divine, but I believe profoundly that he’s essential.

He’s how we define ourselves.

He’s what keeps whole civilizations together.

We’ve been raised to believe in a supreme being, and now you want to show us actual supreme beings?

People can’t handle both.

Of course they can.

No, they can’t.

Look at our history with any sudden change.

And now, with the world about to blow up in all our faces?

You’ll get panic and-and chaos, and God help us.

Hugo’s expecting me to check in.

No signal.

No signal.

I’ll try the other side of the hill.

[door opens and closes]

[Jackson grunting, panting]

[thunder rumbling]

Okay. [knocking]

Unlock the door! [engine starts]

What? Jackson, come on!

[lock clicks] Oh, shit. Sorry.

Oh, sorry, sorry.

Okay. Oh, my God.

[phone ringing]

[Jackson stammers]

If you answer that in French, I swear to God

I’m marching you right back inside.

Hello?

HUGO [over phone]: I’ve been waiting a very long time to meet you, Ms. Fairchild.

Who is this?

A friend.

And if I’m right about you, Margaret, you’d know if I wasn’t.

No, I don’t… I don’t know you any more than I know what’s happening to me.

HUGO: Very few people could manage this as well as you.

I’m not managing it. I’m not. Who-who is that?

I am frightened. I’m frightened out of my wits.

Because you’re just a passenger on your way somewhere.

Let us help you get there. Help me how?

What do you mean?

Is that the FBI? Shh!

HUGO: We want to offer you our protection.

We held back on reaching out until after we saw your weather report.

You held back?

What do you mean? What does that mean?

Are you gonna need a lawyer?

Who is 873-2626?

Since you know that number, you must already know who it belongs to.

Kellner?

Kellner?

All right.

Listen carefully.

You cannot go home.

If you have another direction in mind, even a vague inclination, follow it.

If we can find you by phone, others can

find you in the world. No, it’s too late.

They… Uh, they already found me.

Hang up immediately. Destroy your phone.

How will you find me?

I have every confidence you’ll find us.

Do it now.

Wait, wait. What are you… Wh-What are you doing?!

Back up over the phone.

What? Back up!

Come on. Okay, I’d like to point out that I’m being extremely cool here and that I’m rolling with it, and that was a $600 phone.

Well, it’s still a $600 phone ’cause you missed it.

Jackson, pull forward till you hear the crunch.

Come on. Sorry.

Oh, my God, you missed it again. Oh, my God.

Okay. [mutters] What?

Okay.

Pull forward. Go, go, go.

Keep going. Keep going.

Okay. Okay.

Okay, let’s go. Let’s go. Uh… wh-where?

North. Why?

Because that’s where Daniel Kellner is.

Oh, my God. [stammering]

Who is this dude? Is he some guy from your past

that you never told me about? I don’t know, Jackson.

Or what is it? You’re giving me a headache.

I don’t know what I’m doing here.

I don’t know who he is.

I just know he’s someplace north.

That’s all I know, okay? [hailstones clacking]

Oh, my God. What is that sound?

Your hailstorm. Wow.

Weather Shimmy?

Just drive. Just drive.

[electronic trilling, beeping]

♪ ♪

[sighs]

[electronic warbling]

[crate thuds on table]

You got Kellner on 2626.

Look at the video I just sent you.

DANIEL [over phone]: Okay, hold on.

[Margaret clicking tongue on video]

Yeah. So?

She’s the one we’ve been waiting for.

DANIEL: Her? Why?

Did you not hear her?

DANIEL: Yeah, I heard her.

And you still ask why?

“Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know”?

That’s all she had to say?

“Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know”?

That’s what she said?

You didn’t hear it?

We all heard it.

We couldn’t understand it. It’s not English.

[chuckling]: Of course it is.

I’m listening to it right now.

I’m sending you to Kansas City, where she’s from.

We’ll get a car to you. Leave tonight. Hey, wait.

Wait a second. Wait a second. Do not travel by day.

You’re not hearing it? It’s-it’s perfectly clear.

Detour past tollbooths and turnpikes.

DANIEL: Hey, listen to me.

Have you played this to other people?

Stay with me.

A motel room key will be in the car with directions.

Santiago will retrieve you in the morning.

By then, I’ll know what comes next.

Hugo, you’re scaring the shit out of me.

There are two of you, Daniel.

There’s always been just the two of you.

[rustling]

♪ ♪

[breathing heavily]

[pills rattling]

[gasping]

[trembling breaths]

[exhales slowly]

[trembling breaths continue]

[whirring]

♪ ♪

[muffled shattering]

[glass shards clinking]

♪ ♪

[hands clap] [gasps]

[sharp, heavy breathing]

[praying in Latin]

♪ ♪

Hello, Jane.

Please.

Have a seat.

Where are you right now, Jane?

What is your location?

I don’t know. Relax, please.

Who are you? I’ll ask the questions.

Are you still with Daniel Kellner?

He’s outside.

Where were you last night?

[breath trembling]

[snarls]

[panting]

BP’s high but holding: 156/94. O2’s decent at 96, but sodium’s climbing. Heart rate’s hot, too– 118.

Potassium’s borderline, too. Jane!

Stand by, Ringer’s. Jane!

Jane! [gasps]

Where were you last night?

Monastery of St. Clare of the Dawn.

Monastery St. Clare?

Of course.

I remember St. Clare from my Sunday school.

She was too sick to go to midnight Mass, and she had a vision of it instead.

She was in two places at once, like me.

Monastery of St. Clare. Got it.

13 miles southeast of the District.

When you left, which way did you drive?

[Jane’s breath trembling]

I don’t know.

Was the sun up?

Yes.

Did you drive into it or away from it?

It was on the right.

I don’t like you.

Not required.

Sun on the right.

Sun on the right– they’re headed due north, possibly northwest.

Could be on 27, 18 or the interstate.

Interstate not likely.

Focus on frontage roads or county highways.

Did you pass a street sign?

JANE: Yes.

What did it say?

[breath continues trembling]

“Silver Spring: 120 miles.”

Street sign, “Silver Spring: 120 miles.”

AGENT: I’ve got half a dozen towns off the 26.

Silver Hollow, Oakshade, Ironmere, Stonemont…

Try for more details, Jane.

What else did you pass?

[breath continues trembling]

A river.

Passed a river.

Did you see a sign for a town after that?

Yes. What did it say?

[whimpering]

S-Sykesville.

Sykesville. Sykesville.

Field is narrowed. Track and converge.

Charlie 27, take the lead. You’re four miles out.

Maintain maximum legal speed.

How soon after you saw the sign did you make a turn?

A few minutes. Few minutes.

Did you turn right or left?

Right. Right.

Do you remember the name of the road?

No.

Do you remember anything about the road?

[breath continues trembling]

[whirring]

[breath stops trembling]

It was a dirt road.

Dirt road.

Ash Hollow Road, three and a quarter miles outside Sykesville, dead end.

Farmhouse at the end.

And found it.

Ash Hollow Road.

Target is a farmhouse.

[tires squealing]

You’ve done very well, Jane.

A service to your country.

But I have to ask you one more thing.

If we can’t find Daniel or we miss him again, you may need to stop him yourself any way you can.

[cries out in pain]

Hang on. BP just tanked. 88 on 62.

Uh, heart rate’s dropping– down to 59.

Uh, O2 is 93 and falling. 91. [Scanlon coughing]

[breathing deeply]

92 on 60 and holding. O2’s still dropping, though.

Let’s start bagging. [monitor beeping rapidly]

Make sure you secure the airway.

[air pumping] High 80s. Keep going.

Get away!

[breathing heavily] [beeping slows]

Jane.

What Daniel is trying to do is wrong.

It’s dangerous.

It would tip the balance in an already destabilized world.

JANE: Yes.

Jane, could you stop him if you had to?

No. No.

“Father, if you be willing, “let this cup pass me by.

Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

And what did Christ say next?

“By my will, thine will be done.”

If the moment comes, I’ll be with you, and you’ll act, Jane, out of love for Daniel, out of love for the human race.

Now look around the room.

Slowly.

Left to right.

Stop there.

Get up.

Walk to the counter.

♪ ♪

Pull out the chopping knife.

Give me your phone!

Oh, shit! What? Give me your phone.

Jackson, come on, come on, come on, give me your phone.

Give me your phone. Give me your phone.

Okay, hold on, hold on! Come on!

Why? So you can throw it out the window again?

[phone ringing]

Hey, Hugo, why am I the only one…

Daniel Kellner. Oh, my God, Daniel Kellner.

MARGARET [over phone]: They know where you are.

They know. Do you understand?

Who is this?

Do not go back to the house.

Scan-Scanlon dove on Jane.

Does that mean anything to you?

Okay. Give me your… Look, they found you.

I don’t know who you are, and I don’t know who they are, but they’re gonna kill you.

Give me the phone. They are gonna kill you both.

Give me my phone! You need to leave.

Give me my phone, Maggie! Give me my phone! Oh, my God!

I’m so done with your crazy shit!

[line clicks]

[panting]

[vehicles approaching]

[Daniel breathing heavily]

[softly]: Okay. Okay.

[birds chirping]

[panting]

[vehicle door opens]

[grunts]

[vehicle door closes]

[indistinct chatter]

[car door opens]

Okay.

[engine starts]

What am I doing? What am I doing?

What am I doing? What am I doing? Okay.

What am I doing? What am I doing?

What am I doing? What am I doing? Hold it!

What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I doing? Stop!

Hey! He’s in the car! Watch out, watch out, watch out!

What am I doing? [engine revving]

AGENT: Shoot the tires!

It’s him! It’s him!

Watch out!

[indistinct shouting]

[gunfire]

AGENT: Go for the tires!

[panting]

Oh, shit.

[engines revving in distance]

[tires squealing]

What am I doing? What am I doing?

What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I…

What am I doing?

Hands up! Stop!

Get him!

Get out! Now!

Get out of the car! [engine revving]

Let me see your hands! Hands up!

Hands up! [tires squealing]

♪ ♪

[breathing heavily]

[engines revving]

[Daniel grunts]

Get your seat belt on!

Jane!

Jane.

[engines revving]

[breathing heavily]

[whimpering]

[heavy, shaky breathing]

[straining]

[grunts]

[whimpering, straining]

[screams] [cries out in pain]

[breathing heavily]

[indistinct chatter]

He’s seizing. Stretch him out. Watch his head.

Watch his head. I need a bite block.

♪ ♪

[grunts]

[gun fires]

Get down!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[tires squealing]

[gasps]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no.

Look, Jane, it wasn’t you. It wasn’t you.

It was Scanlon.

The device. The device.

Roll him on three. One, two, three, go.

What the hell just happened?

Secure the device! I got it. I got it.

I’m gloved. I’m gloved.

[tires squeal]

[engine revving]

Look behind us! Tell me what you see!

Dust. I see dust.

They’re coming! They’re coming!

Stop, stop, stop, stop!

[tires squealing]

[rocks clattering]

[panting]

Run!

JANE: Wait!

What are you doing? Put it in drive!

[urgent chatter]

You see them? You got a visual?

Anybody got eyes on anything? They must have gone over.

Requesting underwater search and recovery

on site right now. They’re down. They’re down.

They’re down. They’re in the water.

Can we get a team down there and see if we can find them?

We need some divers. Down there.

[chatter continues indistinctly]

[horns honking]

[panicked chatter]

They all think the world’s going to hell.

Got to get going now, Jackson, okay?

Daniel Kellner’s gonna be there.

Not right now, but he will be soon.

We got to go north. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Got to go north right now. No, we need to…

We need to go back to the hospital. No, no, no, Jack.

This is not something you get treated for. It’s not…

You know what’s wrong with you, is that you think there’s something wrong with me.

Look at me. Look at me.

If I moved, you’d stay.

What? Kansas City.

You want me to move. You’re gonna stay.

[sighs]

You know, this thing that’s happening, it’s…

[takes deep breath]

It’s not coming from me.

It’s like I’m just a passenger.

That’s not a bad thing.

It’s, like, a really good thing.

It’s like your music. Uh-huh.

You know when you’re in the flow?

And it just feels…

I’m in the flow.

Okay.

And I told you I’d tell you when I get where I’m supposed to be, and… this is it.

Okay. Right here.

It’s where I’m supposed to be. Okay.

S-So… we need to go north because that’s where Daniel Kellner is?

Sorry. No. He’s east.

Oh. And… He’s east now.

How do you know that it’s east?

It’s just, I have this vague inclination.

But he’s east now. He’s somewhere east.

And where is “somewhere”?

You want me to drive?

I need a water.

[entry bell jingling]

Hey.

Hello. Hi.

Hi. Um…

Will you do me a favor?

Dr. Coleman? [lively chatter]

Uh, uh, yes, yes. Thank you, thank you for taking the call.

Uh, I-I don’t know.

She just took off, and y-y-yes, it’s getting worse, much worse.

Yes, please. Thank you.

Yes. Hold on one second.

Excuse me, sir.

Do you know the address around here?

37 Pearl Street, Decatur.

37 Pearl Street, Decatur.

We’ll be here. Thank you.

[entry bell jingling]

BOY: Hey, mister.

She said to say she loves you, but she’s going east.

Why Kansas City?

Best to focus on getting you there tomorrow.

DANIEL [panting]: Hugo, I’m…

Uh, it’s coming back to me.

Things are coming back to me.

What things?

Animals.

Friendly, terrifying animals looking at me.

And you can’t look away no matter how hard you try?

No, no. They have to look away first.

Is this a memory or a dream?

I can’t tell anymore.

[shower water running]

HUGO: Daniel?

Daniel.

Daniel.

It wasn’t your idea to recruit me, was it?

Not just for this but-but to WARDEX in the first place.

No, it wasn’t.

And there was a reason?

A specific reason why you wanted me?

Other than your prodigious gift for numbers? Yes.

You decided to keep all of this to yourself?

Because I care about you.

Because you have a job to do.

And nothing can get in the way of that.

There’s parts of me… from when I was a kid that I should be able to know, and I don’t.

They’re just gone.

I’m so scared.

You don’t need to be.

You have me and someone else.

And when the time is right, everything will become clear.

Daniel, there’s a place you’ll need to be in the morning without fail.

There will be no other day like tomorrow.

Where do you need me to go?

KCXE?

What’s KCXE?

Danny, I’m gonna ask you to do something.

[Margaret speaking indistinctly on video]

I want you first to look at this.

[Margaret speaking unintelligibly on video]

Do you understand what she’s saying?

I hear her. It-it’s gibberish.

I can’t understand it.

Okay, I-I just heard this for the first time, and I can.

It’s English. English?

I mean, it’s-it’s math turned English in my head, translated into words.

When I look at this, I hear this.

[Margaret clicking tongue on video]

Danny, I’m gonna ask you to do something.

You can’t trust me anymore.

[insects chirping] [sign creaking]

[gasps softly]

[hisses in pain]

[sighs]

[whimpers]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[breathing heavily] [monitor beeping steadily]

Got him.

[groans]

[engine revving]

[engines revving]

[tires squealing]

[Daniel gasping]

[urgent chatter]

They’re here. [gasps]

They’re here. What?

Take that end. Go, go, go.

[panting]

The backpack. The backpack! You first.

[urgent chatter continues]

Come on.

This is all I’ve got.

You’re coming, right?

[banging at door] Shit.

Breach! Here!

[urgent chatter]

No, come on, come on, come on. You got to take this.

[urgent chatter continues]

And for God’s sake, Jane, don’t touch what’s inside.

Go. Go.

[urgent chatter continues]

[grunting] Get out of there!

Get on the ground!

They’re burned.

[breathing heavily]

[agents shouting indistinctly in distance]

It’s not here.

Where’s the device?

[sighs]

[jet engine whirring]

♪ ♪

SCANLON: You’ve been misled, Daniel.

We can talk another time about how hurtful all this has been to me, but here we are.

The archive’s safe.

And now you’re going to tell me the name of every confederate at WARDEX and what exactly Hugo’s operation is planning.

But first, without all this nonsense… you’re going to tell me what you did with the device.

[tires squealing]

♪ ♪

[tires squeal]

The hell do you think you’re doing driving like that?

You are Agent Thomas Farley.

Your ten-digit I.D. code is 3893398887.

What’s the day code?

Kentucky filly.

[tires squealing]

Agent Grady? Yes, ma’am.

Kentucky filly. Mr. Scanlon sent for me.

Follow me.

[engine shuts off]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

You’re her.

Margaret Fairchild.

Jocelyn.

Jocelyn.

[gasps]

[grunting]

Leave her!

Stand down.

I know you.

I know you, too.

There’s two coming out.

Don’t allow them off the base.

Hey. Hey. Hey, back inside.

MARGARET: I’ve waited too long to tell you, and now it’s too late.

But I loved you like my own son.

Stop. Stop. Stop.

They said we could go up to the lake on Friday, and-and Grandma and Grandpa will be there, and-and Uncle Howard and Bobby and Teresa and everybody.

♪ ♪

How do you know these people?

MARGARET: I don’t.

You were just talking to them.

I don’t understand what’s happening.

MARGARET: Just get in!

What did you see? [engine starts]

My wife.

My God.

What is she?

Unstoppable.

♪ ♪

[beeping]

DANIEL: Where are you taking us?

MARGARET: Kansas City.

DANIEL: Why there?

I have to. You don’t have to go so…

Yeah, uh, yeah, I do. Uh, you’re enjoying this.

Yeah, I mean, it-it feels good. It feels good, and then…

Yeah, but-but… but you know. You know.

I mean, you’ve been driving like a maniac the last few days, you know.

How do you know that? I just know things.

It’s just, something happened to me a couple of days ago, and now I-I know things.

Things I don’t really want to know, and all the things I do want to know, I don’t really know at all, so I’ve just been kind of rolling with it.

You know, like… Oh, wow, you were in jail?

That must have been so… Hey, hey!

[tires squealing]

MARGARET: You see what I mean?

It’s crazy. It’s crazy.

I look at somebody, and I just drop in on them.

It’s like, for a few seconds, I am them.

I see the things that they’ve lived.

It’s just like it’s all happening to me, too.

You know, like-like… like right now your shoulder’s killing you.

Yeah, and you-you just want to yell, “Keep your eyes on the road!” Keep your eyes on the road!

I know, and you can’t stop thinking about Jane, and Jane should be back at the Monastery St. Clare.

You’re absolutely right. Jane?

But then yesterday, I’m driving with Jackson, and I flashed on you without seeing you.

[makes whooshing sound] It was so strong.

I dropped right in on you without even needing to look at you, and that was the first time that crazy shit has ever happened to me.

How long you been able to do this?

Since yesterday.

Since the bird.

What bird? This-this bird.

Flew in through my window.

It was beautiful, I looked at it, and then it-it…

Was it a cardinal?

Holy sh… How the…

You’re freaking me the fuck out.

[tires squealing] [crossing bell dinging]

I was 20. I was in college.

You were flunking out, basically, right?

Yeah, I-I was pretty smart.

You were, but it was the partying.

It was the partying and the drugs.

I mean, ketamine? Come on, dude.

Could you please stop? Sorry. I’m stopping.

I was 20. I was in college. Yes.

Uh, it was dark, I-I was in bed, and I dreamed that something was watching me.

I woke up, and there was this bird.

It was a cardinal. In the window, and it-it looked at me, and after that, everything just changed.

I saw things: context, patterns, artifacting.

I could see it all.

Arrays and conditionals just appeared in my head…

Fully solved. “If P, then Q.”

Exactly. Solved equations

without even thinking… And you could read eight-bit binary data like it was English, like it was nothing. Yeah.

How do you know all this?

I don’t. You do.

God, you hated it.

It was a curse. Yeah.

I couldn’t relate to anybody.

I lost every friend I ever had because I-I couldn’t stand

to be around people. [train horn blaring]

Until you met Jane.

[train horn continues blaring] [bell clanging]

“Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know.”

What? That’s what you said on TV.

They said I was talking nonsense.

I understood every word.

What happened to us?

[Daniel grunts] [gasps] Oh, my God.

[tires squealing]

[both grunting]

Who is it?!

Boyd, stop!

Boyd!

[engine revving]

[grunts]

Shit.

We got to jump! We got to bail!

I can’t! I’m standing on the brakes!

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

He’s backing up! Get out now!

[both grunting]

[Margaret screaming] All right, all right!

Get to the ladder!

MARGARET: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

DANIEL: Okay.

[train horn blasting in distance]

[horn continues blasting]

[both grunting]

[bullets ricocheting] [grunting]

[gasping, whimpering]

[horn honking] [tires squealing]

[train horn blaring]

Go! Jump!

[metallic creaking]

[gasps]

[horn blasting]

You got to jump!

Jump! Now!

[Daniel straining] [breathing heavily]

[muffled shouting]

[grunting]

[heavy, gasping breaths]

Oh, my God.

[piano strings resonating]

I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.

I can’t breathe.

It’s okay. It’s okay. I can’t breathe.

I think you’re having a panic attack. Oh, my God.

It’s okay. It’s okay. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

It’s okay. I’m used to ’em. [stammers] My hands.

We’re okay. It’s like my dad.

It’s like my dad. My hands. No, no, no. No, no, no, no.

It’s like Parkinson’s. It’s like Parkinson’s.

It’s not the same thing. It’s not that.

Yes, it is. It’s the same.

No, he couldn’t control it. I can’t control it.

I can’t control it. You can.

[sobbing]: Oh, my God. I ran away from him.

I didn’t want to be around him anymore. No, no, no. Stop.

I want this gone! Okay.

I just want it gone! I want it gone!

I want it gone! I just have no mind of my own anymore!

Okay, stop! Stop! Stop talking! Stop.

Give me your hands.

Okay, look at me. No, no, no.

Look at me. I-I’m gonna see things.

I’m gonna see things. Please. Okay.

Breathe through your nose. Breathe through your nose.

[both taking deep breaths]

That’s it. Okay.

I can’t feel my hands.

Okay. Okay.

Okay, give me your hands. Come on.

Come on. Put your hands there. [piano strings thrumming]

Feel that. Okay, you feel that?

I’m here. I’m here.

We’re here.

We’re okay. Okay.

We’re okay. We’re okay.

We’re okay.

We’re okay now. You’re okay.

[heavy breathing continues]

We’re okay.

Okay.

[breathing calms down]

Thank you.

Kellner called in from a gas station outside Mount Leonard.

I’ll meet Santiago and his crew.

We can be there in a couple hours.

[Hugo grunts]

H-Hugo?

Could everyone leave the staging area for a minute, please?

Now, please! Out! Yeah. Okay, let’s go.

[sighs]

[door opens] [groans]

SCANLON: Hello, Hugo.

♪ ♪

Noah, please.

It’s terribly misguided for you to dive with that thing.

It’s not a magic wand.

And it’s not a weapon, but it has functions very far beyond your limited use of it.

Kellner was an experiencer, wasn’t he?

That’s why I couldn’t dive on him.

Yes.

He was.

And In Vivo 17 told you to recruit him?

Not in any way you’d understand.

If this is all their plan, Hugo, you can be sure it’s in their interests, not ours.

That’s a very lonely way to look at the world.

No, don’t condescend to me.

I’m listening to you, Noah.

Something I’ve learned quite a bit about.

From your friends?

Yes.

They regard empathy as an evolutionary advantage, as the foremost evolutionary advantage, in fact, the core of animate existence.

Our rejection of this understanding is leading us to our extinction.

And is your bleeding heart why you helped it escape?

Five years ago.

That was you, wasn’t it?

Yes.

The utter insanity of that act aside, how could you lie to me for five years every time you walked through the door?

Everything you said to me, it was all diversion.

When precisely did you lose your bearings?

Around the time you lost yours.

When you lost her.

You lost her and almost immediately were lost to me.

Because you shut down.

Do not presume to know me.

When she died, you reduced everyone to need-to-know, including me.

Because you were very clear.

All you needed to know was them, and they are not knowable, not by us.

They will be.

In Vivo 17 is nonhuman but nearer to God, Noah, than you or I.

You don’t need to fear them.

I fear us.

The entire reason WARDEX exists is because of our knowledge, certain that the human race cannot accept what we know.

That truth will upend all established order across the entire world.

The archive Kellner stole is a virus against which the world has zero immunity.

I have spent 35 years protecting…

Your own wealth and power– that’s all you’ve been protecting.

Noah. Noah.

There is an essential need in all of us to believe and an equal need to be believed.

You’ve violated every standard of evidence.

You’ve infantilized anyone who only wanted to understand what they’ve witnessed.

You’ve brutally stifled their questions, shouted them down, ridiculed and shamed and overridden them for the crime of simply being astonished.

We believe the believers and then deny the world the chance to believe them, too.

But people keep wondering, encountering the unknown, telling others of their experiences.

They are starved for the truth.

This 79-year terror campaign of obfuscation, lies and cover-up has to end!

We’re ready to show you a demonstration.

HUGO: Get out! Get out! Sorry, sir, we have…

Turn around and get out now!

Pull up the 12 who didn’t show up to work yesterday.

I need faces who are with him right now.

Her. Grace Zhao, neuro-services.

Him. Nathan Twinning, Hugo’s chief aide.

Got a back door into their mobile providers.

Hang on.

They shut down their phones last night… right here.

I’ll project their routes ahead to overlap.

I can give you the AI model within a quarter-mile radius.

[Scanlon breathing heavily]

[church bell tolling in distance]

Sister Maura. Sister.

[indistinct whispering]

Jane?

Where are you, Jane?

[quiet chatter] [bell dinging]

Does God love us?

I don’t mean, does he love us? I know he does.

Does he love only us?

‘Cause Genesis says that we’re his supreme creation, but do you think it’s possible that…

SISTER MAURA: On Earth.

What?

Genesis.

It says we are God’s supreme creation on Earth.

[bell dinging]

Do you think there could be others?

Yes.

I would think so.

Why would he make such a vast universe, yet save it only for us?

If you found out we weren’t alone, if… if someone showed you, proved it to you… would that frighten you?

SISTER MAURA: No. Why? Should it?

But what if it all collapsed?

For you and every other person of faith in the world.

Then what?

Oh.

My dear, Jane.

I don’t think that you ever doubted your belief in God.

I think you lost your faith in people.

They say you’re paying because you borrowed their phone?

Are you near the computer?

SISTER MAURA: Yes.

What is KCXE?

Just those letters– KCXE.

Remember being a kid?

Sure.

Mostly stuff after I was ten.

Can you tell anything about me from when I was small?

♪ ♪

It’s just a fox.

[brakes squealing]

DANIEL: No, no, no. No!

Stop! Stop! No. Daniel!

[indistinct chatter] [grunting]

Let’s go. Come with us. Hold on.

Hold on. Let’s go.

I know him. I know him.

We just got to check you real quick, make sure nobody’s in there with you.

[electronic trilling]

[electronic trilling]

Clear.

All right, let’s load up.

See, the thing about fire trucks– everyone gets the hell out of your way.

♪ ♪

[Daniel inhales deeply]

♪ ♪

I knew you’d make it.

I’m glad you knew.

Never a doubt.

DANIEL: Margaret.

Margaret.

Hello, Margaret.

Do you know who I am?

Of course. You’re Hugo.

Nathan.

Chloe. Malik.

Jordan. Letisha.

Grace.

Hi, Terri.

Kaitlyn. That’s Everett.

♪ ♪

I think we got it mostly right.

Margaret.

Why won’t you look at me?

Because you’re-you’re the guy.

You’re the guy who knows everything.

And I’m… and I’m not ready to know everything.

Including, like, why-why my mom and dad’s entire goddamn house is just sitting right there!

What is going on? Why are you doing this?

That’s where I grew up. That’s where I grew up.

This is my life. This is my life.

And this matters– what I want, who I am, not who I am as you or him or her, but as me.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No. No.

I will not be anyone’s religion.

[sobbing]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[whimpers softly]

My room.

Oh, my room.

Why would you build all of this?

To create a passage.

To return you to your experience in the most familiar way possible.

What experience?

The one you shared with Margaret.

I shared?

I am not going back there.

Hugo. How much do you remember about that night?

I don’t remember, and I don’t want to remember, and I don’t want you making me remember.

Okay. Oh, my…

HUGO: Wait. Wait.

Wait.

Everything that happened to you on the 23rd of February, 1996, is blocked. I don’t want to know anything about it.

The only way for you to know what’s next is to understand what came before.

I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t. Stop, stop, stop.

And then you’ll know your purpose.

Please don’t make me. I don’t want to hear it.

You won’t be a passenger anymore.

I told you no! [gasps]

You have the gift but no control.

No understanding of your purpose.

Not a clue as to what your situation will demand of you beyond today.

The only way for you to acquire it is to go back to where it all began.

To go home.

And when you do, Margaret, you’ll know everything.

More than what was ever humanly possible.

They gifted each of you.

Margaret, what was dormant in you for most of your life was activated only yesterday.

And yours, 15 years ago.

They gave you fluency in the language in which the book of the universe is written: mathematics.

Taught it to you, imbued it so you could understand them.

And they imbued you so you could understand us.

It’s the two of you.

[chuckles]

It’s always been just the two of you.

[quiet, indistinct chatter]

You can direct it or feel where it wants to take you.

It can find what you’re looking for.

It’ll be an instrument of your will.

But you must give yourself over to it.

I’ll find out what’s happening to me.

What?

It’s gonna be okay.

I promise.

♪ ♪

Whatever happens, Daniel, don’t you let go. Don’t you let go.

Margaret.

Look around the room one more time.

♪ ♪

You’re a ten-year-old girl asleep in your bed.

Something woke you up, didn’t it?

Yes.

So what did you do?

I sang my song.

[humming “Someday My Prince Will Come”]

♪ And away to his castle ♪

♪ We’ll go ♪

♪ To be happy forever ♪

♪ I know ♪

♪ And the birds will sing. ♪

♪ ♪

I can see them.

Right over there.

They’re coming into the room.

♪ ♪

[gruff, heavy breathing nearby]

[chitters softly]

♪ ♪

DANIEL: No, no, no, don’t go with them.

They’re not animals.

Don’t go with them. They’re not animals.

They’re not animals!

It’s okay. It’s okay. [panting] They’re not.

They-they present as animals to calm us.

When I walked through the glass, it was like this curtain of warm water.

And the snow… was so warm on my feet.

[long, slow gasp]

The house.

“Hansel and Gretel.”

[soft electrical warbling]

♪ ♪

[soft electrical warbling]

[soft whooshing]

[gruff, heavy breathing nearby]

[young Margaret breathing heavily]

[chittering]

[rapid, gasping breaths]

Shh.

Hold my hand.

[young Daniel’s breathing slowing down]

♪ ♪

[trembling breaths]

[soft electrical whooshing] [gasps]

[soft electrical crackling]

[soft whooshing, crackling]

[sharp whoosh] [gasps]

♪ ♪

[soft whirring]

[soft whooshing]

[breathing heavily]

Whoa.

Whoa.

♪ ♪

Hello, Hugo.

It’s so nice to finally know you.

[tires squealing]

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

They found us.

[labored breathing]

HUGO: Are they out front or out back?

Most likely on all sides.

Okay, give me the, uh… the-the-the thingy.

Thermal imaging showed 43 heat signatures inside here.

This whole area’s an industrial decay zone.

No other structure has more than five people in it.

[heavy, labored breathing]

[groans] Hey.

[grunts] Get on with it.

[whirring]

[electronic trilling, beeping]

♪ ♪ [hushed]: No one move.

No one make a sound.

They can’t see us.

Give it to me.

This is not right.

They can’t see us, but they can see this.

We need to move now.

This is not gonna last long. We got to go right now.

[hushed]: Look. They can’t see me.

They can’t see us. Let’s go.

Quiet, quiet.

Through the back doors. Any back door.

Go quiet. Go quiet. Down the alley.

Let’s go. Let’s go. Quiet.

Everybody, stop moving.

[rapid footsteps]

There. Look there.

Oh, God, I’m losing it.

I’m losing it. You need to go faster.

Get to the fire truck. I can’t hold on.

I can’t hold… We got to go.

Stay on the light.

MARGARET: I can’t hold on.

[groaning] [glass shattering]

[loud thud] [groans]

[Margaret gasps]

[creaking] [grunts]

DANIEL: Let’s go.

[device thrumming]

There. There. Stay on the light.

Stay on the light. The light! The light!

[groaning]

[groaning]

[engine starts]

[siren blaring]

[urgent chatter]

SANTIAGO: Hang on. Grab ahold of something.

[frantic chatter]

[engine revving]

[siren blaring]

[second siren blaring]

[panting]

[sirens fading in distance]

BOYD: Which one do we follow?!

There’s only one place she’s going.

[shuddering breaths] [device sizzling]

♪ ♪

SHEA [over speaker]: Urgent measures are being implemented across the European Union, where the Schengen Code has been invoked, closing all national borders…

I… I know. I know.

SHEA: …for an imminent inbound missile attack.

MIA: In North Korea, a second breakaway faction has announced it has taken control of as many as four military bases and confirm troop rollouts from Pyongyang.

Where’s Clay?

SHEA: Taran Davies at the BBC has a contact inside the Korean Central News Agency, the official news agency of the North Korean government, and had this to say earlier…

What are you doing here?

You should be in the hospital.

What…

Duncan is such a good boy, and he needs you there tomorrow, even if he can’t say it.

I’m going on air at the anchor desk to deliver a special report.

O… o-okay.

Okay.

How do I get to the control room?

I need to get to the loading dock.

This is Daniel. This is Hugo.

Clay, can you help us? Of course.

Uh, I don’t know what’s happening, but come on.

Hailey.

The loading dock is the second sign to the right.

What exactly is happening?

What’s up?

Margaret’s taking over the anchor desk.

What? Help her.

Okay. The control room.

Why am I doing this? Come on.

The control room’s upstairs. Just follow me.

I called the police about him.

Maria and I moved out. We’re with my sister now.

She’s good. Good.

Thank you. Of course.

Do you want makeup?

Yeah.

♪ ♪

What’s going on down there? I had to hard-cut to commercial.

CLAYPOOL: Special report. What report?

Who’s this guy? He’s gonna upload.

Do exactly what he says.

I’m putting it directly on your server.

This your coffee? Yes.

DANIEL: Where’s playback? [squeaks]

Uh, that’s me. Stand by. It’s kind of a lot.

TD, what are your playback channels?

They’re in W, X, Y and Z.

We’re gonna load up all of them.

It’s coming in raw, so you got to mix it.

And, hey, no tape delay. I mean, not a frame.

Go straight to the feed and leave it open.

Director, no cuts.

This plays itself.

It’s gonna go outside your market fast.

How do I route from the affiliate server so network has access?

You really think network’s gonna bump World War III for whatever you got?

You bet they will.

Hey, Shea. Yeah.

Uh, can you hop up?

What? Claypool said that Margaret’s gonna go on for a special report, so…

[stammering]

Get out of the chair, Shea. [Shea sighs]

MARGARET: Thanks. Yeah, sure.

MIA: Did you change your hair?

Uh, kinda.

Um, hi. Hi.

How are you? How are you doing?

Great.

♪ ♪

[tires squealing]

[urgent chatter]

Two teams, find the power source and the emergency generator, and shut them down.

Yes, sir.

Alpha Team, you’re with me on that substation.

Two blocks past Central Avenue.

SERENA: Bravo! Bravo Team! Let’s do it!

SERENA: Bravo, with me!

We’re looking for a backup generator in the back of this building.

Let’s go!

[urgent chatter]

[beeps] [sighs]: Okay.

[quiet, indistinct chatter]

[truck engine rumbling]

[brakes squeal]

[urgent chatter]

[beeping]

[busy chatter]

[beeping]

[grunts]

[tearing]

[beeps] Good to go.

[beeps]

[beeps]

[beeps] Set.

[beeps]

[busy chatter]

[explosion booming] [rumbling, creaking]

[concerned chatter]

FLOOR MANAGER: Stand by.

[bell rings]

Emergency generator kicks in in five seconds.

[clicking]

[power whirring]

[busy chatter]

PRODUCER: Stand by, camera three.

We are gonna go right to that shot of the courthouse.

[power tool buzzing]

[indistinct chatter]

Daniel, they’re outside. We-we need to go now.

[over speaker]: We need to go right now.

Hundred percent, good to go.

Margaret, you got me? I can hear you, Cooper. Yeah.

We’re live in ten. Okay. Thank you.

[indistinct chatter continues]

AGENT: Wait!

COOPER [over speaker]: Five, four…

There they are.

Shut ’em down.

COOPER: …three, two…

TECH DIRECTOR: Whoa!

[bell rings] [indistinct chatter]

Don’t look her in the eyes.

Just get her up.

AGENT: Wait!

AGENT 2: Pull it! Jane.

AGENT 3: Stop! Stop! Tell them the truth.

AGENT 4: Get back here.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! [frantic chatter]

[chatter quiets]

[shuddering breaths]

[whirring]

[busy chatter]

TECH DIRECTOR: We’re back online.

♪ ♪

Aren’t you gonna stop her?

Aren’t you gonna stop her?!

♪ ♪

[takes deep breath]

Okay, Cooper.

Somebody has to tell New York so they can see this.

Pick up the phone.

Call them. This can’t stay local.

Make sure they know.

[lively chatter]

New York control.

This is the director of KCXE 4 Kansas City.

We need you to take a look at our feed on Skypath right away.

Uh, yeah. Okay.

Uh, give me Kansas City feed on preview.

[lively overlapping chatter]

Quiet! Quiet! Shut up!

Take a look! Shut up! [chatter quiets]

Take a look at what’s on preview.

Who is this? Why are we looking at this lady?

Wipe to three.

Good evening.

I’m Margaret Fairchild with a special report.

Since 1973, a nongovernmental organization known as WARDEX has collected and repressed known instances of extraterrestrial visitation to our planet.

Further, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, WARDEX has confiscated, reverse engineered and manufactured technology based on recovered debris, and in some cases, they have engaged in the interrogation and mistreatment of the nonhuman occupants.

Yesterday, I met with a group of courageous people who until recently had worked to hide the truth.

But the truth belongs to you.

This is for you.

This is for all of us to see and to know.

This is disclosure day.

[inhales deeply]

MAN 1 [over speaker]: Viper-1, tally unknown contact at 2-70 angels 2-5.

MAN 2: Viper-2, drop-off. Where the hell did they go?

MAN 1: No squawk, no mode three.

MAN 2: Extreme acceleration, bull’s-eye 1-3541.

MAN 1: Locking coordinates.

[overlapping radio chatter]

MAN 2: Contacts divided in two.

MAN 1: There’s seven of them now. Splash, splash.

MAN 2: Holding supersonic underwater.

PRODUCER: Wait, you tell her live. I’ll deal with this.

Get me the Kansas City guy.

I’ll talk to him.

DIRECTOR: Top line.

PRODUCER: Who is this? Where did you get this stuff?

TECHNICIAN: Definitely says U.S. Air Force.

What the hell am I looking at? Did we verify this feed?

Is it fake? Is it AI?

Discriminator says no.

These are ground-truth pixels.

DIRECTOR: Hang on. How do we know it’s legit?

NBC ANCHOR: Europe remains on high alert across the entire continent, where the Schengen Code…

PRODUCER: Who are you? Where’d you get this stuff?

[overlapping radio chatter]

NBC ANCHOR: In the United States, the military readiness level is at its highest designation since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962…

Nicole, get Kansas City up on the wall. Wait, wait, wait.

We got to get somebody on the ground

who can verify this. No, there isn’t any time.

We need to break into programming.

I can’t do that. [stammers] Rebecca has to…

I’m not going through nine steps.

Somebody’s gonna pull it.

We got to pivot. Get in her ear.

Are you sure? Now! Go, go!

Cue the prompter. We got new copy coming.

Take a look at your preview monitor. New copy.

We are about to pivot from North Korea to another story.

Um, sorry.

We have just been handed an extraordinary development.

PRODUCER 2: I’ve got a “breaking” banner for you.

What does it say?

The thing she said in Kansas City.

Send it out.

Copy that. You got that?

Uh, we’re interrupting our coverage to switch to our affiliate in Kansas City.

KCXE has just obtained and is now releasing archival footage, classified images and video that until this moment are claimed to have been under government restriction.

We are attempting to authenticate now, but… okay, what I can tell you is…

Kit, do you see this? Oh, girl, I see it.

It’s on EchoStar 12, transponder ten, Ku digital.

Take it. DIRECTOR: What are you doing?

Sending it out on the pool feed.

KCXE Kansas City, this is Kit, NBC New York control.

What? You can’t do that. This is an NBC exclusive.

Not anymore. Are we giving them the bug, guys?

No. No. All right, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool.

I got to do a clean feed. I got it.

[sighs] CNN, this is Kit, NBC New York control.

30. RS 30. Take 30. Go. [snaps fingers]

This is an interrupt. ABC, this is Kit, NBC New York control. This is for all of us to see.

EchoStar 12, transponder ten. RS 22. 22, take.

BBC, this is Kit, NBC New York control. This is disclosure day.

RS 35. Take 35.

KIT: Pool feed, this is NBC New York.

You can go to EchoStar 12, transponder ten. Take. And 36.

Take 36. Go.

KIT: This is an interrupt.

[overlapping newscasts and busy chatter]

NEWS ANCHOR: …70 years.

Yeah, that is a U.S. Navy…

This is U.S. Navy footage, a wing camera somewhere over…

Some of these clips reportedly originated from secure military installations.

[news anchor speaking French]

[speaking Spanish]

We are seeing this for the first time along with you.

There you can see what looks like military footage.

My goodness, it’s from Roswell, New Mexico.

The long-rumored Roswell crash that would’ve been in 1947…

I’m told possibly July 8, 1947.

Roll back Y. Take Y. I can see a debris field.

Wait, there’s a date.

It says July 7, 1947.

Uh… we’re not…

Yeah, I’m not sure what this is.

I don’t know if…

I’m sorry, I…

I do not know what to say about this. Um…

Okay, I’m so sorry that you’re having to watch this along with me right now.

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It is unclear if this is an official government disclosure…

And take X. …or if it has been leaked to us unofficially.

Or if this is something else entirely.

Oh, my… Hey, control, is this going out live?

Are people seeing this?

You are seeing this.

Okay, we are… we are seeing this, too.

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I’m now being told this is part of a trove of material that may or may not have been cleared for public release.

34. RS 34, take.

There you can see it’s a… object.

Uh… uh, we… uh…

[sighs] My God.

There’s a lot more coming.

Take. [snaps fingers]

NBC ANCHOR: It’s Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, 1965.

It’s apparently another crash site with military.

Uh, there’s a… civilian who appears to be in charge.

My God, this is extraordinary.

Okay, let me be clear.

This is not live footage.

These are previously classified recordings, declassified only within the last hour.

Tonight’s international crisis was already approaching the unimaginable, but this is now inconceivable.

[voice breaking]: We appear to be… witnessing the public release of material long shrouded in secrecy: footage that raises profound questions about what is happening in our skies, what is the nature of who we are and what our place is… I’m sorry.

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38. Roll 38. [snaps fingers]

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NBC ANCHOR: We promise to stay with you to report only what we can verify, but we are no longer talking about unconfirmed reports.

The world has just changed profoundly.

If you are watching this, if you are seeing this… you are not alone.

[quiet chatter]

HUGO’S AIDE: Slowly.

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Yes, and then when you get… No, I’m saying, on…

[chatter stops]

[deep breathing]

[deep, wheezy breathing]

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[chitters softly]

[soft, clicking vocalizations]

[indistinct whispering]

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Listen.

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[melodic humming]

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