Taken

- Are you about ready, Patty? - Ready.

Okay.

We were coming back from a fishing trip,

and we're on Highway 89 coming out of Tahoe City.

It wasn't a fishing trip. You always tell it as a fishing trip.

We'd gone to visit the Nortons.

No, no, no. We didn't visit the Nortons.

We were fishing Echo Lake.

There was no fishing on this trip.

One of the most memorable nights of your life, and you don't remember--

- I know I wasn't fishing. - Can I finish telling the man the story?

I'm not saying don't tell him.

"Get your facts straight," is all I'm saying.

You know what? She always does this to me.

Anyway, we're coming down Highway 89 from Tahoe City--

you're not gonna argue about it being Highway 89?

Why would I?

God. Anyway, so I look at my watch,

and it's 7.30, and then, all of a sudden--

All of a sudden, there's this blinding flash.

I mean... you know what it's like

when you stare into the sun when you were a kid?

It was a lot brighter than that.

Why would he have stared at the sun?

- Most kids do. - I never did.

Well, aren't we the second coming?

- Can I finish the story? - Who's stopping you?

You are, dear.

Anyway, this light, it doesn't even pass over us,

but more like through us, and then it's up in the sky,

and then it goes down behind these pine trees,

so we stop the car and we get out,

we got this glowing behind the trees, and we have no idea what it is--

My Mike was so brave.

- Well, you were, sweetheart. - I didn't do anything.

You took my hand and told me not to worry.

Yeah, well, anybody would've done that.

Oh, no, they wouldn't have.

So, anyway, this light starts coming through the trees,

and then the car dies.

We're up on this mountain, and my car goes dead.

We got curved roads, we got a steep drop-off,

engine won't start, I've got no steering,

but here's the funny thing, see-- with this light coming at us,

I don't care because I know that we're gonna be all right.

The next thing we know, we're driving down Walnut Street

and pulling up in front of our house.

It's 5.00 in the morning. The sky is just starting to get pink.

We're at the top of that hill at 7.30 at night,

we didn't get to the bottom till 5.00 in the morning,

more than nine hours later.

And this is all just what happened that night.

It wasn't till about three months later that Mike started having the dreams.

You know, you wouldn't think that dreams could scare you,

but mine got so bad, I wouldn't go to sleep.

I was having them, too, but neither of us were talking about it,

so neither of us knew what the other was dreaming.

We'd just be sitting there watching TV, trying not to fall asleep,

not knowing what was on the other person's mind.

It wasn't until we got sent to that hypnotherapies Dr Fulton.

That's when we both remembered where we'd been

that night for that nine and a half hours and who we'd been with.

This is a picture Mike drew when Dr Fulton asked him under hypnosis

what happened to us on the road that night.

And that there... is a picture that Patty drew

when the doc asked her the same question.

This is the truth of it, and there can be no doubt--

is that my wife Patricia and I were taken by aliens.

We've been interviewed quite a few times.

You seem to have more than just a passing interest in this.

Do you have your own story?

If a dream is just a dream.

something that happens in your mind while you're asleep.

then that's all right.

It's yours to take with you into the morning.

and it fades away there in the light.

But when the dreams start to come while you're awake.

and they come with the light. then that is not all right.

What we look for then is other people

who have dreamed what we've dreamed.

who have seen what we've seen.

When the dreams become real.

sometimes the only comfort you can find is in knowing that you're not alone.

# I caught up with my ex-boyfriend #

# You're the reason I'm in this mess #

# And when they show up #

# I'll give them what you said #

# Your address #

I just get to this place where I feel like it is so totally out of my control.

I just don't see the point. It all ends, anyway, right?

So why bother?

I get up every day, all I see is the end of the day,

and I just--I'm not into doing anything at all.

I--I could use some help with that.

When you play a song, when you're right in the middle,

are you thinking about how the song ends?

No way. It's all I can do to get through a song

just staying focused right where I am.

Oh...okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Dude, this little girl's profound.

Hi, Mum.

Hey. Are we here to get enlightenment or play some rock'n' roll?

Hey, you sit close to me, all right?

My timing's always a little better when you're around.

That's 'cause she's a drummer's daughter.

# This is the heart of nowhere #

# It's a dark, one-way street #

# This is the land... #

As long as I can remember. people have liked to talk to me.

You know. kind of how somebody says something to you.

Doesn't have to mean so much.

It's just that it opens a door for you.

and you can see into a room you couldn't see into before.

It doesn't really matter how you got there.

The important part is.

you're seeing something new and different.

# This is the heart of nowhere #

- Morning. - Morning.

Rough waters out there.

This new footage of Allie just came in from our man in Seattle.

She can block a shot on goal, but other than that,

she hasn't demonstrated any of the kind of powers we were expecting.

She's a little kid. Give her time.

A lot of genetic traits don't demonstrate until just before adolescence.

Schizophrenia, for example.

We still can't pick her up.

They'll just take her back like they did when we tried for Lisa.

- That used to be the case. - "Used to be"?

Wanna see what we can do? Step this way.

Microwave radiation-- that part of the light spectrum,

in the case of the oven, 1 2.5 centimetres, to be exact.

We block that wavelength, and the hamster's on easy street.

But we let that same wavelength through...

Jeez.

In meditation, we learn the oneness of all things,

the harmony that flows through nature.

This is the same idea, stripped of the comforting notion of divinity,

that we find in science, more specifically in mathematics.

One, one, two, three, five, eight. The Fibonacci Sequence.

One number added to the one before it

makes the next number in the sequence,

and from this sequence, we get the golden mean.

We find these numbers everywhere-- shells, nebulae,

the spiral of a pine cone, bee hives...DNA.

God's equation writ large across the heavens.

The cow grazing contentedly in the meadow,

the grass on which she grazes, the breeze that blows through.

All parts of the one, the whole.

- Is this going somewhere? - Their crafts hold five.

Add the number of confirmed sightings in New Mexico last year--1,597.

They have three fingers, one thumb.

The number of breeding pairs you charted last year

when you were figuring out who Allie was--55.

1, 3, 5, 55, 1,597.

All Fibonacci numbers.

How many lights on the board? 46,367.

- And with our little friend Allie? - 46,368.

The 24th Fibonacci.

So, how do we take our revelation and turn it into an effective block

so that we can grab little 46,368--

our little Allie?

This is Peter Miller.

Mr Miller's been taken 1 3 times. Oh, don't worry.

I'm not gonna splatter him all over the room.

Janitorial would never forgive me.

Mr Miller has an implant.

We're monitoring it.

You can see it right here on the map.

Topeka, Montpelier, Somerset, Augusta.

There we are-- Ellsworth, Maine.

Right here.

The implants broadcast on a spread spectrum.

The frequencies are all based around the hydrogen hyperfine transition line,

the most fundamental wavelength in the universe.

Check this out.

We block those frequencies,

and in much the same manner as the hamster didn't splatter,

the implant doesn't register.

If we wanna pick someone up, we ought to be able to do it

without having them grabbed right back.

Will this work on the girl?

Allie has no implant. She doesn't need one.

She's got the neuron spiral.

But the same principle applies.

We can block her frequency, too.

And they can't find her.

Okay, let's pick her up before she demonstrates.

After that, we may not be able to.

We're sure she hasn't demonstrated at all yet, right?

Not according to our agent.

You know that therapy group her mother's in?

We have someone in that group.

Good.

I believe this all has to do with the landing strip

at the bottom of Lake Superior.

You look at the contrails.

As soon as they appeared in the sky above St. Paul,

the incidence of severe upper respiratory infection