Elio

Okay. How about

a rocket dog with space chips?

Spaghetti with meteors?

Galactic grape cup?

Elio, you have to eat something.

Do you remember what your mom used to order for you?

Major Solís, what are you doing here?

Hey! Yeah, I-I'm with my nephew.

I'm trying to get him to eat.

Oh, right. Your nephew.

I heard about your brother and his wife. I'm so sorry.

Thank you.

We're managing.

What about the astronaut program?

-Weren't you about - No. Not anymore.

The, um-- The timing just isn't right.

Of course.

But it's-- But it's been great

spending time with my new roommate.

Right, buddy?

Oh, no.

Hello from the children of Planet Earth.

Since the dawn of time,

humans have gazed at the stars and wondered

are we alone?

Voyager is our attempt to find out.

This intrepid explorer is on a mission,

traveling farther than any human has ever gone,

to the distant reaches of the cosmos and beyond.

Voyager will never see those who made it again.

It will drift on, solitary and alone.

But maybe one day,

distant worlds will receive its message

and Voyager will complete its mission,

proving we aren't so alone after all.

Elio! Elio!

Elio

Are you-- Are you hurt? What happened?

What happened?

Is life really out there, Tía Olga?

What?

Come on.

You can't run away like that, Elio.

[Voyager recording speaking Serbian]

[Voyager recording speaking Dutch]

I would like to extend the greetings

of the government and the people of Canada.

[overlapping Voyager recordings]

Hello from the children of Planet Earth.

Oh, wait.

- -

Okay.

Elio!

-Hey. -

Are you Elio?

Who wants to know?

You put flyers up for a Ham Radio Club?

Uh

Uh, I-I am Elio Solís,

president and leader of the Ham Radio Club

of this beach.

Cool. I'm Bryce.

Great, cool, awesome. Did you bring it?

Oh-Oh, yeah.

It's my dad's ham radio, but I have my own call sign.

It's PXLOL

which sometimes makes people I talk to laugh.

How far have you called?

On Friday I talked to

Ohio.

Oh.

If I can pair these together, I can double their reach.

Okay, you can go now.

Go? Wait.

Where's everyone else?

Unfortunately, most of our members came down with, uh

amnesia and forgot to come,

but I'll see you at the next meetup in three months!

-What's up, Bryce? -Hey.

Oh. Oh. Oh.

-One, two - Oh.

You almost messed up there.

Hey. Uh

- Uh-huh. -Oh.

Oh, yeah.

-Swoosh! -Nice.

This is Caleb. He wanted to come too.

Oh. Hey.

What's with the hat?

Uh

Like I said, the meetup's been postponed.

Shingles is no joke.

I thought it was amnesia.

Oh, my gosh, you're right. It's spreading.

You better go before you catch it. Bye!

-Yo, what's up with this guy? -Dude, chill.

He's the kid whose parents died.

Hey, that's classified information.

As leader of this radio club, I hereby

- -

-Whoa. -Did you do that?

-Shh, shh, shh. -No.

-Is this supposed to happen? -Don't. Stop it!

Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?

-Let me see that. -Don't touch that.

-I was just looking at it. -I have to respond.

-Let go! -Quit it.

No!

- -Yo, that was not my fault.

-I-I didn't mean to -

-Uh -Oh, come on.

You suborbital, gaseous

waste of mass!

-Whoa. -Activate supernova blast!

Get off of me, you little freak.

-Come on, guys, stop! - He bit me!

Hey, what are you doing?

Unbelievable!

Fighting on the beach, skipping school?

Am I going to have to put a tracker on you?

- -

Now your eye. Ay Mamá.

The doctor said not to touch it for two weeks.

-Elio! -Oh.

You meant starting now.

This is serious! What were you thinking?

I was minding my own business, taking in the night air

and suddenly these ruffians attacked me.

No, no, no.

Look at me in the eye

and for once, tell me the truth.

No. I'm not learning Elioese.

Major Solís.

You going to the seminar tonight?

There'll be a speaker from the Astronaut Selection Program.

No. No, no.

Something came up.

Oh, is this the nephew

we've heard so much about?

Yes, that's him.

- Gloodle! -Stop it!

I don't know if this is boundary testing

or sleep regression, or

Which one of these is you?

I don't know, but I think that one is you.

Okay, I've got one last meeting.

So, I need you to sit here

and not move or speak

or injure yourself for ten minutes.

I have enough to deal with already.

What's with this emergency meeting?

Oh, you didn't hear?

Melmac thinks he found aliens.

This ought to be good.

All right, Mr. Melmac, let's hear it.

Major

Major Solís, earlier today,

I found this signal coming from interstellar space.

Melmac, please.

-It's late -Wait, wait, wait.

Listen closely.

Hello, Planet Earth.

Hello, Planet Earth.

In 1977, NASA launched the

-The Golden Record. -The Golden Record! Yes.

-The what? -The Golden Record, sir,

was Earth's message in a bottle.

Hello from the children of Planet Earth.

Don't you see?

Hello, Planet Earth.

I think someone in interstellar space

found our message and is sending it back to us

as a reply!

-Melmac -Major

-Melmac -Major!

We can't just leave it like this, we have to respond.

I've already rerouted every satellite

to send the signal back.

Sure, it might cause a few system failures.

Whoop. Sorry. Maybe a small electrical fire,

but it would be worth it for first contact!

I have everything cued up and ready to go.

Just say the word!

If someone or something is calling out to Earth,

who on Earth do you want taking that call?

-You -

-should go home. -Oh.