Taken

Doctor! - Please.

We've got to get away from all these people.

- They're with somebody. - With somebody?

Another man.

According to these gentlemen, a man stepped forward.

A guy in his 30s. His eyes turned black, and they shot him.

They were waiting for her to demonstrate.

They see she's got the power, and bam! They're here.

You're saying the one who did all this was an alien?

You are paying attention.

She didn't leave in a spaceship.

She left in a Dodge Durango.

Still doesn't make you look very good, does it?

You take a nine-year-old girl

and a special ops unit into the American heartland,

you lose the girl, you come up with nothing.

- You're in the deep end. - You're right in there with me.

I have to go back to Washington and explain what happened here.

Find me the girl and whoever she's with.

- How'd you like us to do that? - The little girl's weak.

This being who came to help her has been shot.

You'll have a definite advantage.

- Smooth sailing, I'd say. - Just do it.

And when we find her?

Then find me. I'll take it from there.

That's worked so well up till now.

I'm not goin' down alone on this one.

Try not to screw things up.

They're about ten hours ahead of us in Montana.

I had our guy switch the monitoring to my laptop

in case the general got it into his head to check.

Good.

Mary, you've been through a lot with your father and everything with Allie.

I just wanted you to know I'm here for you.

I know that.

You said you thought they were waiting for her to demonstrate.

Yeah.

What happens now that she has?

Pie.

- What? - Pie.

My rule of any car trip. Let's find a place to get some.

I'll tell you my theory of everything.

She's exhausted from all that she's been doing.

- She'll be all right. - Will she?

And then what?

They come for her again or she does something again.

You've gotta do something to change all this.

I just want my little girl back.

You started all this, and you don't have any more of an idea

where it's gonna end than any of us do.

Charlie? What's going on?

Get out. Get out!

What are you doing?

Just give me a minute. I want to talk to you.

We need his help. Allie does.

His help? He's the one responsible!

I want to know what the hell this is all about.

Charlie, you're hurting him. Stop it. He's already weak.

Sweetheart, it's gonna be all right. Give me a minute.

Why are you here?

Why have you been doing this? What the hell do you want?

- We're just trying to understand. - Understand what?

Everything.

I'll try to put this in terms that you commonly use.

I'm...a scientist.

We were all scientists.

We came here to learn about your world.

Our idea was to find out everything--

your history, your biology...

everything.

We came here to learn.

We're not that different from you genetically, biologically,

but what you call evolution has changed us.

We see things in you that... we no longer recognize in ourselves.

What do we know?

They're this energy that can manifest itself in different ways--

as the beings we've seen,

as their crafts,

as our thoughts.

There's no right or wrong about them.

The whole concept of right and wrong was...alien to us.

The idea that the things we were doing were cruel...

They have no concept of kindness or cruelty,

no way of seeing beyond the oneness of all that energy...

...to the separateness,

the uniqueness, your ability to hate, to love, to feel.

You have compassion as well as cruelty.

We lack both.

Or that is, the traits lie dormant...

...in their brains, like the animal that lives far back inside all of us.

But an experience of something basic can awaken that primitive thing.

And that's what happened.

Your grandmother Sally, she took me in and showed me a great kindness.

Something could have touched one of them, something simple,

awakened the sense of what was missing,

something gone and half-remembered.

And so our greatest experiment began.

Could they put it back,

this thing that had been bred out of them for eons and eons?

Your emotional core--

your strength, your feeling--

and our more-evolved consciousness...

could we bring these two together?

If we could do this, we would have the next...

...step in the evolution of life.

The experiment was an unqualified success.

What do you think is gonna happen next?

Allie goes with us. We work with her.

We help her to understand our part of the equation.

That's never gonna happen.

You still don't get it.

This...thing you saw in my grandmother, this compassion, our humanity--

you still don't have a clue what that means.

Allie is my daughter. She is nine years old.

I love her with all my heart and soul.

You will never take her away from me.

She can't stay here, Lisa.

She did too much.

If she uses her power again, that part of her that's us, it will kill her.

You were right.

Those people will keep coming after her,

and she will do something to keep you or Charlie safe.

It's the only place for her.

That is what's next.

No, it isn't.

You've inflicted enough pain on this planet.

It's over. Let it go. Go away.

Montana. Looks like they've stopped.

We should be able to catch up with them tonight.

Tomorrow morning at the latest.

We've taken it all the way together, haven't we?

I don't know what you mean.

We're gonna be there when it comes together.

We're gonna know we did our part.

Our part?

Keep Allie safe, so they can finish their work.

You're fine with that, aren't you? Them finishing their work.

I can't wait.

That's all you want, right? Front seat at the show?

They're more highly evolved than we are.

She's more highly evolved than they are.

It's the way of the Tao. Nature takes its course.

What if it's our nature to fight back?

Then we lose.

Evolution 101.

Pretty weird couple of days.

Yeah, pretty weird.

You all right?

I just want to be home listening to my CDs...

...playing soccer with my friends.

I know.

I'm just a little kid.

I didn't ask anyone to make me special.

My friend Dale.

his son was killed in the Gulf War.

Allie showed him his boy.

We all saw him clear as day...

Your uncle should have seen the ad we put in the paper by now.

He will. He'll call.

What else happened. Cynthia?

People were there from the government.

people who'd come to take her.

I want to hear the rest of this.

but right now we've got a call I've been hoping for.

I'm gonna ask you to please stay on hold a few minutes.

As he does from time to time.

noted UFO-logiest Tom Clarke is checking in.

- Talk to me. Tom. Hi. Bill.

Tom Clarke. What news from the front. my friend?

I've got nothing tonight but a false alarm.

I'm calling from Gray's Lake in Idaho.

Gray's Lake. Promising name.

Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom!

Hey, there, sweetie.

Hey.

- It's good to see you. - Good to see you, too.

Is this him?

- He's my dad. - I know.

- Tom. - Charlie.

Thanks for taking such good care of our family.

What kind of adventures you been on lately?

- A lot's been goin' on. - Oh, yeah?

Tom?

It's good to see you.

I thought we'd go into Mexico through Texas.

I got a guy down in El Paso. He's working on the documents.

He's gonna meet us at my mum's old place in Lubbock.

I was thinking that you guys should go down to South America.

I've got a family there who can put you up indefinitely in Buenos Aires.

It's a big change, but I just think it's something you have to do.

What? You've got a feeling?

This is all...

...supposed to be going somewhere, that's all.

Mexico sounds like a good idea.

What do we do about him?

He doesn't look too good.

I don't think we'll have to worry about him much longer.

People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life

is to always see things for what they really are.

But everything we do. every plan we make is kind of a lie.