Taken

What makes us human?

That we can think?

That we can feel sorrow and pain?

Maybe.

That we can laugh?

I hope so.

We can hurt and we can laugh and we know a past and a present.

And. in some ways. a future.

Maybe what makes us human is that we know just enough

to think we know where we're going.

# Turn around, go back down, back the way you came #

# Can't you see that flash of fire, brighter than the day? #

Come on, Manny, let's go.

Wow.

This could be big.

We get these reports two, three times a week.

Mutilated cattle, dancing lights,

the sort of thing we're about to look at.

For you to come personally, you must have some reason.

The reports look good.

First one came in from a local pilot out of Gary,

then a commercial airline en route to Chicago.

This could finally be your proof, Dad.

I mean, this could finally show the threat is real.

We already know that, don't we?

Don't try so hard, kid.

Just do a good job. Your old man'll come around.

Keep these people back!

Keep them back.

Stay back, folks.

Out of the way, please. Stay back, folks.

We may need that. You never know what's out there.

Looks like a reporter.

Notify dispatch...

Reports are all good, Bob. This is real.

It's a landing strip. I'd stake my career on it.

Yes, tell the President, and tell him I believe it signals

that our friends will soon be here in force.

I really think you should look at this personally.

Thank you, Bob. Thank you.

- The President's on his way. - That's great news.

Why don't you...

go help out with crowd control or something.

Colonel Crawford. Toby Woodruff.

This is Ted Olson.

Where's the President?

Mr Olson is with the NSA. I'm with Defence.

The President felt you'd be better off dealing with the...

the "hands-on" guys.

The "hands-on" guys?

You been briefed?

Let's go for a little ride, and we'll see how you feel.

Look at that.

This has happened before, here and France, England, and Germany.

The scale of this, the intent.

Look at the formation. It's like a runway.

Like a landing strip?

If it's a landing strip, that means they could be--

Landing?

Think Nixon stands a chance at a second term?

My opinion, he'd have to fix the next election.

No one likes the creep.

Truman was President when I started this project.

I've survived four of them. Nixon will make five.

I've lasted this long

because I know how to ruin the people who get in my way.

What I want you puppies to do is get on the phone

and make the President know he has to be here immediately.

This is a threat to our country of unparalleled proportions.

You do that for me, because long after Richard Nixon

is just a faded memory,

I'll be around to make your lives a living hell.

Looks like there's another one here.

Dr Powell, we've got something.

Very nice, Buzz.

It's in remarkable condition.

Where'd you find it?

North six, west twelve.

- Where we found the drums? - And there's more.

Let's go check it out.

Do you think we could be onto a smoke hut?

Something the shaman used to drive out evil spirits?

Yeah, possibly.

Sarah's back on the demons again.

That's why we came here in the first place, isn't it?

Rumours of demons in the woods.

The places that the Russian settlers wouldn't go.

Places that people still won't go?

That and 80 years of research into the Tsimshian people.

Dr Powell.

Yeah. What's up, Daryl?

I found something.

Oh, yeah.

I don't think it's a smokehut.

Looks to me more like a funeral potlatch.

The drums, the bowls,

the raven to take the spirit into the next world.

We're all dead.

First, there's the demons, then we open up a tomb. We're toast.

Remind me, what are these demons supposed to be doing?

They're a native version of the legend

of the Incubus and Succubus.

They would take people from their homes to the woods,

and sometimes, the women would come back pregnant.

Sometimes, they don't come back at all.

Daryl, you okay?

I'm hurt, man.

Here. Buzz, grab a ladder.

How you doing, buddy?

I landed bad. I twisted my ankle.

We'll get you out. Don't worry.

What the...

Oh, my God.

Sir.

Yes?

23 years.

What are you going to do?

Learn to fly-fish.

For what it's worth...

I think you got a raw deal.

I tell my doctor I'm worried about my heart, my blood pressure.

He tells me to take these pills and to go fly-fishing.

Apparently there's something soothing about hooking a fish,

looking at them, then letting them go.

What about Jesse Keys?

My smoking gun.

16-year-old boy

with something put in his head by our friends.

You and I both know we're never gonna find him.

He disappeared from that bomb shelter and fell off the planet.

I'll tell you something.

I've never known what our friends were up to, not a clue.

Roswell, taking all these people.

But the way they took Jesse Keys...

whatever they're doing,

we don't stand a damn chance against them.

Is there something else?

I was just wondering where to put the desk.

I guess they didn't want to go outside the project.

They put me in charge.

Great.

Then you can look for Jesse Keys.

I asked my dad once about his dad. my grandfather.

I knew he'd had some hard times.

But I didn't know a lot more than that.

I said to my dad.

"I guess maybe he was kind of lost. "

"Not lost. really. " my dad said.

but for a while. he was definitely bewildered. "

# I hope to get home all right #

# Hey, Mr Spaceman #

# Won't you please take me along? #

# I won't do anything wrong #

# Hey, Mr Spaceman... #

What's the weirdest thing you ever saw?

And acid trips don't count.

I saw this two-headed snake once at the zoo in San Diego.

And one time, man...

I think I saw a flying saucer.

I've been on a flying saucer, more than once.

One time, I saw my father.

He'd been dead...

for four days.

Okay, my man.

Now, that is really and truly weird.

A waste of friggin' time and money, going to the moon.

You know what I admired about you back when we were over there?

I was in four different units while I was in 'Nam,

and you were the only one.

What do you mean, "only one"?

Officer who walked point.

Every single mission, you walked point.

At first, I thought it was just 'cause you was crazy...

Then maybe because you were the best guy in the whole world.

Or maybe because you'd seen something that was...

something other than that Ring of Hell that we were in.

It was because I was the best guy in the world.

See, now, me? I believe in everything.

You tell me there's aliens or that you've gone for a ride on a saucer...

sure, why not?

You tell me they killed the Kennedys

or started the war, and I am with you 1 00%%.

But what I'm sorry to hear is...

Is that your experience was so bad

that you could do what we did without even flinching.

I don't know what my experience was.

All I know is, my whole life is like that--

walking point through a jungle, waiting for something that...

I can't stop to happen to me.

No disrespect,

but how does that make you any different than anybody else?

How's my credit?

Sorry, but there's nothing I can do in that regard.

Willie, I saved your life. Come on.

Two times.

Now I'm gonna save yours.

Get straight.

I don't wanna get straight, Willie. I wanna get high.

I know, you want to get taken to that other world.

Well, that costs money.