01x03 - Black Box

[bunniefuu]

THE SIGNAL

[Paula moans softly]

[Sven] Four hours.

Yeah.

Just stay here.

[Paula sighs]

There's nothing out there.

You won't find happiness.

This isn't about finding my happiness.

Hmm.

What's it about, then?

I know it's difficult

for you to imagine, but there are

[sighs]things that are bigger than us.

Things worth fighting for.

There are also things that

are much smaller than us,

and they need you,

[inhales deeply] Right here.

You know what I'm trying to do

up there, Sven?

Mm-hmm.

What if Charlie could hear again?

Mm, Charlie can hear just fine.

Hear with her own ears.

Without a computer.

The tickle of music on her sensory cells.

Charlie is wonderful the way she is.

[poignant music playing]

[scoffs]

- Who'd have guessed it?

- What?

- When I told you I was pregnant.

- No, no.

- Remember?

- No. That's not fair.

You didn't want us

to bring a child into the world.

Not because of the child.

Because of the world.

Now the worst thing you can imagine is

someone taking Charlie away from you.

[echoing] Papa!

[tense music playing]

Charlie! Charlie!

[gasps]

- [faint radio chatter]

- [beeping]

[breathing shakily]

[exhales]

[Hadi sighs]

[tires squealing]

Charlie!

Charlie. Charlie!

f*ck!

What did you do with her? Where is she?

- Who?

- My daughter!

- [man groans]

- [Sven] Huh?

- Huh?

- Oops.

Is she gone?

Then welcome to the club, I guess.

Where is she? Tell me!

[man laughing]

Please!

Go on.

Finish what you started.

- [sobs]

- What?

[sobbing] You forgot about me.

You and your people can take me too!

[sighs]

[man continues sobbing]

Don't leave me behind!

[gasps] I'm still here.

[sniffles] I'm still here.

Don't leave me here.

Why why did you leave me?

[man continues crying]

[Sven sobs]

- I'm sorry.

- [siren approaching]

[woman] Let's start.

[child laughing]

- [scribbling]

- [child cooing]

Okay.

All right

Three,

two,

one.

[click]

[clicking sounds echo]

[coos]

Charlie

Charlie!

Can you hear us?

[Paula gasps]

Oh my God!

[Paula] Oh my

[gasps]

Can you hear me? Do you hear me, Charlie?

[birdsong]

Can you hear me?

[quiet music playing]

[horn blares]

- [horn blares]

- [Charlie gasps]

- [gasps]

- [heavy rainfall]

- [Benisha] So, it's

- [Paula] It's real. It's out there.

And Hadi is looking for it.

Secretly. But he doesn't know

when it's transmitting.

- Where is he now?

- He's asleep. Why would he do that?

Oh, there are plenty of reasons, dear,

though it's really hard to believe.

[sighs] We vetted him thoroughly.

Hmm. As thoroughly as me?

[Benisha sighs]

The good news is

he knows what he's looking for

but not where to find it.

I know exactly where we were

and where the station was when I heard it.

You watch out.

- I will.

- [beeping]

I will find it.

That's my girl.

[chuckles]

- [rainfall]

- [vehicle approaching]

Charlie!

[breathing shakily]

Charlie?

sh*t.

- [man] How long has she been missing?

- I, uh Four and a half hours?

And you think she was abducted?

No, that's not I don't know.

But plenty of people want

to hurt us right now.

Really?

If she did run away, do you know

where she might have gone?

- I don't.

- Did she say anything?

- No!

- Did you have a fight?

No, no, no! We never fight!

We don't

Hello? Are you still there?

- Paula

- What?

She'd said that

She said her mom called her.

What? Her mom called her?

[white noise hissing]

Hello? Hello?

[white noise hissing]

[somber music playing]

[laughs]

[switches radio off]

[sighs]

[birdsong]

[laughs]

[white noise hissing]

[white noise stops]

Paula?

[breathing shakily]

Paula?

[somber music continues]

[crow cawing]

Paula.

[white noise hissing]

[sighs]

[switches radio off]

"Don't be afraid."

HI, CHARLIE

YES, I HEAR YOU, SWEETHEAR

"I want to see you too."

"Come."

[gasps]

"Come to me!"

[beeping]

[bird caws]

[metal creaking]

[mysterious music playing]

[dog barking]

[barking inaudible]

[muffled sounds]

[yelps]

[keys jangle]

[door closes]

Perhaps we could have

a moment of your time?

[faint radio chatter]

Wow, look at you.

Barely three weeks in,

bouncin' around like a little bird.

- Yeah, I'm getting used to it.

- How's your battle with death goin'?

Oh, death is still trying to resist,

but we're on it.

You got a great partner there.

Ambitious guy.

You can't get him away from work.

[pensive music playing]

[Paula] What do you always say about me

when we play Fox and Hare?

[Sven laughs]

You know exactly what I say.

Why do I lose that game?

[Sven] Uh

Look, you're the most intelligent person

I know by far. You're always smart

Yeah, but seldom clever.

[Sven laughs]

[faint radio chatter]

If the hare has no teeth,

how can it beat the fox?

[Sven] By always staying

two steps ahead of the fox.

[exhales]

And if there are a lot of foxes?

Hey, what's up? What are we talking about?

Nothing. It's just a game.

Just getting a few tips

from the master. That's all.

Paula, if you played for keeps,

no one would ever beat you

at Fox and Hare.

- [laughs] No one.

- [sighs] Okay.

[whispers] I love you.

I love you too.

[rain pattering]

[clears throat]

Four days ago with you on the balcony

was the first one I'd had in seven years.

Got a pack the next day.

Just please let me go.

You'd better start

telling me a really good story.

What were you doing at Rainer Beu's house?

[breathing shakily]

My daughter is missing. Please let me go.

Okay.

We can drive

to the nearest police station.

They'll look for your daughter,

and we'll have all the time in the world

to discuss what you were doing.

No, you're not listening at all,

God f*cking damn it!

- They'll help find her.

- No one's helping us! No one!

[scoffs]

You really believe you're the victim.

You know what still fascinates me

after all this time?

In all my years on the job, no one

I've ever met thought he was the bad guy.

Not the mass m*rder*r.

Not the t*rror1st.

It's always someone else.

When you tricked me for information

on the balcony after I'd lost my wife

Was that good?

Or was that bad?

I show up, I try to find out

what really happened, I go home.

Good and evil aren't my department.

That's what the law is for.

So you wanna find out

what really happened?

- [chuckles] Yeah.

- Yeah?

Okay, tell me, then.

Where's Rainer?

What's on the security camera

before I got there?

Why was the "live footage"

of the landing not live?

What was Paula trying to say

before she suddenly disappeared?

Why does everyone with

something to say suddenly disappear, huh?

You wanna hear a good story? [taps leg]

There it is.

What is it?

If I told you, you wouldn't believe it.

You have to see for yourself.

Where?

It's in my car.

[sighs]

[tense, quiet music playing]

- [clank]

- [alarm blares]

- sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!

- [Hadi] What's going on?

We're losing some pressure.

There might be a leak.

[Jake] Let's move! Come on.

We gotta get out and fix it.

Hadi, get over to the Japanese section.

We have to close the airlocks.

And where is Paula?

- [beeping]

- Paula!

[air hissing]

f*ck!

[Paula whispers] Okay.

Always stay a step ahead.

[breathing heavily]

Always stay a step ahead.

[static crackling]

[voice] Hello?

[Paula gasps]

Hello?

Hello. [gasps]

There you are.

Hello?

TOP SECRET - FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

CLASSIFIED

- [music fades]

- Go ahead.

Break the law you love so much.

But

there's no going back once you do it.

[tense music resumes]

[gasps]

[whispers] Holy sh*t!

It's getting closer.

So then

It's coming.

Something's on its way to us.

[laughs nervously]

Now I see why they're keeping it secret.

Uh I'm sorry.

Sorry for what?

[starts engine]

Are you insane?

f*ck!

Sven, stop the car!

You won't get a hundred meters!

I said stop!

Listen, it's all pretty clear.

You you won't let me go.

Not with that file.

And then these people will

take care of me and my daughter.

Just like Rainer was taken care of.

And my wife.

[clicking]

[whooshing]

You gotta be sh1tting me. Paula.

Paula!

Paula? This is Jake. Are you with us?

- Can you hear me?

- [Hadi] Paula!

- Get the oxygen tank.

- [Hadi] I'm on my way.

A bigger drop and she could have died.

I'm sorry.

I had my earphones on.

- It's all right.

- I heard the alarm too late.

- I'm sorry.

- Come. We need to get you some oxygen.

[Paula] I'm sorry.

[coughs] I'm sorry.

[clicking and bleeping]

[faint radio chatter]

[birds cawing]

- [sighs]

- Give me your phone now, please.

[investigator] You know

everyone will be looking for you?

Yeah. [chuckles]

And the file, please.

It's my insurance policy.

No one would believe me without it.

Yeah, no one would believe you.

If you really wanna know what

happened to that passenger plane,

then help me.

Rainer talked to the aviation authority

in Santiago, who told him, uh

He wrote this down.

I have no idea what it means.

Got your cigs?

[both chuckle]

Yeah, you know it.

Maybe you could give me a head start.

It's up to you.

And take care of yourself.

There's a target on both our backs now.

[starts engine]

- [Benisha] When will it be here?

- [Paula] It's hard to tell.

- It's moving. So are we.

- [radio chatter]

I need more information to calculate

if it's going to hit Earth,

and if so, when and where.

So, what are we talking? Years? Months?

[chuckles] No.

I think we're talking weeks.

Nobody must know.

- What?

- Do you think we're ready?

Look at us.

Do you think the world is ready, Paula?

We can't agree on anything.

Something is coming to greet us, Paula.

It's going to turn everything we know

upside down.

They're going to talk.

They're going to fight.

They will just botch it up.

Find out all that you can.

Come back down safely.

Speak to nobody.

They might be listening to us even now.

No one must know.

That's what Hadi said.

Yes, isn't that ironic?

- [chuckles]

- Paula?

- Yes?

- You're out of my reach.

You're there on your own now.

Nobody must be trusted.

Nobody.

[poignant music playing]

[dog barking]

[mouths]

[barking continues]

[music fades]

[metal squeaking]

[clunk]

You! Freeze!

I mean that quite literally. Do not move.

And now lift your foot up very carefully.

Very carefully.

I'm on it.

Grab that barrel and bring it over.

Is is that

The barrel, please!

f*ck.

[grunts]

Um

[woman] And

Ugh. Oh, that was close.

I knew I'd forgotten one.

[sighs shakily]

Would that have blown me up?

No, no, Could have lost your foot, maybe.

- Why didn't you use the front entrance?

- [sighs] Why

- Where'd that thing come from?

- They're Teller mines.

I got 'em over there, from the old

death strip before it was cleared.

They've already taken out two deer.

[Sven] Huh.

Now I can finally let my dog out.

Thank you.

Are you are you completely insane?

I don't need people

coming onto my property.

- This is an autonomous domain.

- [sighs]

Where's your car?

What for?

Hmm.

- Can I please see my daughter now?

- [woman] Yeah, just a minute.

- Ha! There!

- [clank]

Uh

I knew you'd been tagged.

[grunts]

- And lock it.

- [pigeon cooing]

All right, my lovely,

why don't we send them

on a little excursion, huh?

And she's off!

That'll buy us some peace and quiet.

Where's my daughter?

Let's just say

it's good you finally made it.

She won't eat anything, she won't sleep.

She cries and cries and cries.

And I have no idea what

she's trying to say, not a single word.

This wasn't supposed to happen.

I thought you'd come with her!

How did you get Charlie to come out here?

- She thought I was your wife.

- You?

Let's just say I have a few recordings.

And the rest I whispered.

It's more mysterious that way, anyway.

You have recordings of my wife?

I'll explain later. Charlie!

[emotional music playing]

Charlie!

[Charlie sobbing]

[music fades]

- [woman] Anke?

- Yeah?

Stop.

Back, back, back, back.

What the hell?

Is that the end of the recording?

No, this is the recording.

Only it's black.

Okay. This is getting crazy.

[Timme] I thought

you were bringing in Groth.

Um yeah.

We struck out. He was gone.

Didn't you hear? His daughter is missing.

That took you both four hours?

Yeah.

That's interesting,

because half an hour ago,

somebody checked out the security footage

from the evidence locker.

Really?

- They have it!

- Have what?

The black box.

I'm sorry, Dad.

No, I'm sorry.

She's not here.

She's not here at all anymore, is she?

No.

[emotional music playing]

But I'm here.

[sniffling]

You were there for my big game.

And when I broke my arm.

Yes.

Where was Mom?

[sighs]

She was already gone even then.

No, Charlie, that's not true.

Mom was doing something really big.

And I think

she's with us right now too.

[music fades]

[woman] Come here! Come quick!

You have to hear this!

[garbled voices

and static crackling on recording]

[man] Get out! No!

You cannot have the intercom. Get out!

- [Hadi] We are not doing anything.

- [Paula] Sven

- [Hadi] We just need the intercom.

- [Paula] Listen to me.

- [man] Oxygen 100%.

- [Hadi] It's okay!

[Paula] You have to listen to me

very carefully, right now.

And you have to listen to Carlotta,

above all. You can't do it alone.

You need each other. I need both of you.

Remember when I said

that some things are bigger than us?

I'm sorry.

I love you!

- [feedback whining]

- [static crackling]

How is this possible?

How'd the media get this before us?

Welcome to the new world order.

It sounded like they were

as surprised as everyone else.

Come.

What does that mean?

Uh I think it means that

we're suddenly not t*rrorists anymore.

- Why?

- The crash wasn't Mom's fault.

[sighs]

I don't get it. What was Mom saying?

Uh I

I think she's sending us a message.

- She wants something from us.

- What?

- I don't

- What does she want?

Charlie, I don't know, I don't

I don't understand it either.

[sighs]

She found something in space.

- What did she find?

- Uh [sighs]

Where do I start? Uh

[voice] Hello?

[white noise hissing]

Hello?

Hello?

- That's what she found.

- Wh

Wait, where'd you get that?

We heard it for the first time

two years ago.

We were using the old Russian channel

because we, uh

Well [chuckles]

Let's just say we're a tiny community

determined to take a stand

against this tyrannical state. [grunts]

So we always want to be sure

that no one's listening in.

That's why this message scared us so much.

We suddenly heard

someone transmit on our channel!

The others immediately switched to another

channel they thought was more secure.

But I kept thinking

what is this kid doing on here?

Only it wasn't a kid.

It was always the same message.

Every 13 days for a couple of hours.

And it just kept getting clearer.

Then, about three months ago,

I started hearing something else.

Every evening, a mother and a daughter.

And I realized

that the mother was on the ISS.

I could hear the signal,

so I knew she could hear it too.

So I thought that was my chance.

Maybe she could see

where it was coming from.

I couldn't ask her,

because who knew who might be listening?

So I didn't say a word.

Such things can only be discussed

face to face.

I've known that since the old days.

And I knew she had found something.

She was there. Every 13 days. But what?

What did she find?

TOP SECRE

[faint radio chatter]

I knew it!

- They're coming.

- Who's coming?

- Aliens.

- We can't say that for sure.

- It can imitate our language

- Aliens!

- We don't know

- We know enough to say that!

It's coming from out there.

Who else could it be, huh?

The man in the moon? Or else Laika,

out for an afternoon space walk?

Dogs don't get that old.

I was just joking, kid.

Of course this is from aliens.

Aliens?

[radio chatter continues]

Pack this all up. Grab your laptop.

We're going to my place.

- Okay.

- And turn off your cell phone.

Uh why?

Well, uh

No, forget it. I'm getting paranoid.

[exhales]

[grunting]

What are you reading there?

It's about the aliens.

[woman] Ah, that's from back in my day.

[Charlie] It was during the Cold w*r.

Atomic winter.

- [woman] Mm-hmm.

- Mm. She loves that.

She's always scaring other kids with it.

Did you know that the old border

ran through here?

- Really?

- Yeah, about a hundred meters away.

It was just like a little island,

surrounded by barbed wire.

You could only get across at one place,

and you had to ask permission

just to go shopping.

On our side was barbed wire,

and on your side there were missiles.

And yet all of humankind

sent out a message.

Together!

"Together?" Huh!

Did you tell her that?

[laughs]

[breathes deeply]

Do you think they look like this?

Nah people made those up.

That's why they all look

a bit like people already.

Yeah, but

they all look evil too.

Yeah, like I said.

People made them up.

[sighs]

Why does Mom want aliens

who might be evil to land here?

I mean, well, you know your Mom's logic.

She always assumes the best. [chuckles]

Hmm.

[pensive music playing]

- [sighs]

- So.

Bed time. Hmm? Get some rest.

[sighs]

- Papa?

- Hmm?

If someone wants to do something evil,

and is technically so advanced

that they can travel to Earth

Yeah?

Would they announce

their arrival beforehand?

Would that be smart?

Probably not. Hmm. No.

See that? Mom's logic is logical.

Huh.

[chuckles]

[sighs]

[coffee maker hissing]

Okay, Rainer calls Santiago

from his house,

then he disappears.

What did he want to know?

Well, this is the number

for aviation authority,

and this is the number

for the airport in Santiago.

And this is just the departure time.

Nothing mysterious. [sighs]

Could we get the flight information

without anyone in our office finding out?

Passenger list, the crew,

ground personnel, all that stuff?

Yeah, I think so.

But our office already went through it.

All of it.

[insects chirping]

[metal creaking]

I preferred the old days better.

You knew who the enemy was.

Well, lucky you, because it feels like

they're coming back. Hah! The old days.

Yeah, just more complicated.

As if we're somehow cursed,

doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

Over and over again.

I would always tell my students

to imagine the progress of history

like an upward sloping line.

But of course, that's a lie.

History is a circle.

Maybe it's time

for someone to break us out.

- Let's go over it again. 171 passengers.

- [whistling]

Three of them with disabilities.

One no-show.

Fourteen vegetarians. Stop that.

Three families with small children.

Thirty-six sitting in business class,

half full. No first.

What are we missing here?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm still here.

Okay. Thank you. Bye.

They confirmed, it's just like he wrote.

The flight left

right at its scheduled time, no delay.

- The aviation authority agrees.

- Right.

But the airport says that

That the flight left

24 minutes behind schedule.

And that's what's on all the documents.

Why would anyone falsify that?

Yeah. Exactly.

What for?

[Sven] I must be too stupid.

I don't get it.

Why didn't she just say what happened?

Is that a serious question?

[recording playing]

- [Paula] You have to listen to me now

- You mean

And you have to

If she'd said it right out,

the transmission

never would've been made public.

- [Paula] You need to

- [woman] Of course not.

[Sven sighs]

Remember when I said

some things are bigger than us?

She wants us to make it public!

- I love you.

- [woman] Yeah.

She she wants it so everyone finds out

and they can't erase it from the record.

- [clattering]

- What is it?

[clanking and rumbling]

[mysterious music playing]

Go get your daughter.

Charlie! Charlie!

Charlie!

[loud clanking]

Hurry!

[engines rumbling]

[helicopter flying over]

[dramatic music playing]

What are you waiting for? Come on!

What is that?

This is my bunker.

If they think I'm an amateur, they

don't know who they're dealing with.

- You have a panic room?

- Yeah. With supplies to last us two years.

We should be just fine until

the aliens arrive. Hurry, get inside!

[Sven] What about Paula's message?

We'll worry about getting it out

after we're safe.

If they get their hands on you now,

you're done for.

Then no one will find out anyway.

Ugh does it have a radio?

- A way to contact the outside?

- Uh not yet.

[poignant music playing]

[sighs] What would Mom say?

Everything will be fine.

Okay.

Yeah, we at least have to give it a shot.

Idiots!

[music swells]

[radio chatter]

[helicopter hovering in distance]

[man 1] Hedgehog Two with an update.

They're running south into the forest.

- [Charlie yelps]

- [Sven] Careful! Are you okay?

[tense music playing]

[man 2] Hedgehog Two,

do you have a visual?

Hedgehog Two, we're moving

forward into the forest. Do you copy?

- sh*t!

- No signal?

- We're closing in.

- Roger.

- Papa!

- Come on!

[urgent, dramatic music playing]

[Sven] Sh!

[Charlie gasps]

[music fades]

Well, look who we have here.

It's been our absolute pleasure

having you here on board. Cheers!

- [astronaut] Saluti!

- Cheers.

- Thanks for having us.

- Yeah, well, thank your billionaire.

Actually, I do.

We do.

[Jake] Was it worth the investment?

You guys find what you're lookin' for?

I mean, sometimes science is all about

finding what you weren't looking for.

[Jake] Oh, how very German of you.

Philosophical, poetic.

And just a gentle touch of depression.

- [chuckles]

- [Jake] Zum Wohl!

- [astronaut] Saluti!

- Zum Wohl.

- [Paula] Hmm!

- [beep]

[Hadi] We did it.

- Yeah.

- And no one noticed.

No.

Did you have any more episodes?

A couple. But, um

I just stopped

letting them bother me.

- Good.

- [chuckles]

I'm really proud of you.

Hmm.

[tense music playing]

Hadi, I know what you did.

But you won't find it.

Not with your systematic grid

or your digital search strategy.

Because you don't listen.

[Jake] Hey, there's the team!

Whoop, whoop!

- Come on! Party's over here!

- Come on, let's party!

- When it transmits next

- Come on!

it'll be here.

That's the ball game.

[music fades]

- I think I have it.

- Huh?

Did every passenger check a bag?

Or did any fly with just a carry-on?

What?

Did any passenger fly

with just a carry-on?

Uh, no, no. It was a transatlantic flight.

Everyone checked a bag.

It would've been strange not to.

- Hah!

- What is it?

The no-show.

There was a no-show.

Yeah, someone checked in

but didn't get on the plane.

That happens all the time.

Yeah, the problem isn't

the no-show itself.

Then what?

- You ever flown to Mallorca before?

- [sighs]

I have. Know what happens when someone

checks in but doesn't board the plane?

- Nope.

- They take their bags off the plane.

Know how long that takes?

- Forever?

- Forever.

At least 24 minutes.

But the flight actually left

the minute it was supposed to.

And what does that mean?

They didn't take the bags off the plane.

Bingo.

Well, who was the no-show?

[tense music playing]

[gasps]

sh*t! sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!

Do we have a number for Groth?

We have to warn Sven Groth!

I'm afraid something might happen to him.

[murmur of voices]

Right.

[Sven] Where are we?

You'll get your phone back after.

[Sven] After what?

Come on. This way.

[cop] Still nothing.

Either no signal or his phone's off.

[boss] Try him again.

[line ringing]

[sighs] Still no answer.

Send him a text message. Warn him.

- sh*t!

- [phone chimes]

What exactly are you afraid of?

Just ask Rainer Beu what happened

when he started calling those numbers.

The same numbers

we just called, you mean?

- We're targets.

- What?

[both gasp]

[somber music playing]

[man] You can go on in.

[helicopter flying over]

Fly me to the moon ♪

And let me play among the stars ♪

Let me see what spring is like ♪

On Jupiter and Mars ♪

In other words, hold my hand ♪

Rainer!

In other words, darling, kiss me ♪

Oh! Hmm.

- So they got you too.

- Fill my heart with song ♪

And let me sing forevermore ♪

You are all I long for ♪

All I worship and adore ♪

- [sounds fading]

- In other words, please be true ♪

In other words ♪

[quiet, tense music playing]

Paula.

[Paula shudders]

You have the coordinates

where it's going to land?

Yeah.

Where?

Here.

Just here.

- [beeping]

- [sighs]

[air hissing]

What are you doing? Hadi!

[yells]

[air hissing]

What are you doing? Let me out!

[banging]

We're right above the Atlantic.

In the big dead zone.

No Mission Control. No one at all.

The alarm is turned off,

and everyone's sleeping.

It's just you and me.

Paula.

Please give me the coordinates.

f*ck you, Hadi!

If you don't give them to me,

all will be lost.

Please, Paula!

All will be lost for who, Hadi?

For me or for you?

- Paula, we don't have much time.

- [alarm blares]

[alarm whirring and beeping]

[gasps]

Please don't let it end this way!

Give me the coordinates!

- Come on!

- Stop!

Paula, if the coordinates get out

to the public, it's over for us.

It will become a political disaster

that can only end one way.

You don't know!

It's bigger than you and me. Please!

Paula!

[whimpers]

Want some?

- All they have is boxed wine.

- I

- Wait, but I thought you were

- That I was dead?

Yeah.

[laughs]

Let's put it this way.

I had the feeling I'd gone

and made one too many calls.

So I placed myself

in the loving care of the state.

You mean you ran straight into the arms

of the people behind all this sh*t?

Which people?

You mean the German government?

The European Union?

- Politicians? The spy agencies?

- For instance, yeah.

Really?

You think it's all a big conspiracy?

[laughing loudly]

[helicopter flying low overhead]

- [shouting outside]

- [sighs]

It's more than a conspiracy.

- [man] Go, go, go!

- [Rainer] It's acute helplessness.

You're a history teacher.

Is there a single example

of when the community of nations

was faced with

a problem of epochal proportions

and quickly arrived at a wise solution?

They're doing what they always do.

They play it safe. Avoid any danger.

Secure reelection.

"No alternative"

is how they put it, I believe.

No alternative to what?

[Rainer] They're going to sh**t it down.

[Charlie] Why don't they want to meet

something that has come

from so far away to visit us?

Why don't they want to know who it is?

- [inhales]

- [man, outside] Get your a*s over here.

They're afraid.

Of course they're afraid.

Afraid they'll be evil?

Mm.

Most of the Aztec people weren't k*lled

as a direct result of

the Europeans' manifestly evil intentions.

They died of the childhood diseases

Europeans brought.

[man] Stand back!

And we just saw what

a moderately dangerous virus

did to our oft-touted

international "community."

[Sven scoffs]

[Rainer] What will the populists do

when they catch wind of it?

What will the Internet prophets do?

The media? The autocrats?

They'll drive us even further apart.

And what about all

this advanced technology?

God forbid

China gets its hands on it first!

Or Russia, or Iran,

or whoever they're afraid of.

We're not prepared.

[scoffs] No. We were never prepared.

[Rainer] We can't locate it.

We can't see it.

We don't have the ghost of an idea what

what kind of technology

we're dealing with here.

It's simply beyond our capabilities.

The only thing we have is the place.

And the time.

When?

[loud alarm blaring]

- Come.

- [Rainer] Oh.

- There goes our chance to meet our guests.

- [man] Everyone in position!

Come.

[alarm blaring]

- [sighs] I don't want to see.

- What?

[man] Go, go, go!

[sighs]

[groans]

[somber music playing]

[alarm blaring]

[Paula sobbing]

[yelps]

[wheezing and gasping]

Come on! Paula!

Say something!

- Paula.

- [groans]

48 degrees.

- 30

- 48 degrees.

35 minutes.

6.5 seconds north.

- 11 degrees.

- 11 degrees.

- 50 minutes.

- 50 minutes.

39.4 seconds east.

[shuddering]

- On September 6th.

- On September

At 6:17 a.m.

6:17. [gasps]

[grunts]

- [air hissing]

- [Paula gasping]

[gasping and sobbing]

Hey!

Thank you, Paula.

Please forgive me. I didn't want this.

I had to or else-

At this time, an unidentified flying

object will land on Earth.

I have been receiving its signal

for three months now.

What are you doing?

Everyone can hear us.

Now it's out.

You don't know what you've done.

[helicopter hovering]

[loud, deep alarm blaring]

[man] Stand by!

- [Charlie] Stop!

- [man] Stay down!

[Sven] No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Stop!

No!

[man yells]

[Sven gasps]

[poignant music playing]

[sighs]

[music fades]

[emotional music playing]

[music fades]

[mysterious music playing]

The darkest dreams ♪

Are my reality ♪

My mind a haze ♪

My waking is a thief ♪

You don't want to stay ♪

Here with me ♪

I am moving ♪

Through a silver stream ♪

[music fades]

[emotional instrumental music playing]

[music fades]