The Finder

For eons, humans have gazed up at the stars and wondered:

Are we alone?

You flew me up here in a private jet, Doctor.

Why?

6 months ago, Shuttle Pilot Chuck Bradshaw and Copilot Jeremy Wren

re-entered the earth's atmosphere.

Mission control...

Looks like all systems are good for re-entry.

Bit of a bumpy ride.

Makes you feel alive, don't it?

Telemetry looks good.

They saw something shoot by,

moving at approximately twice their speed.

Anchor looks good. Stand by.

Shuttle entry's at what, 17,000 Miles per hour?

Which puts whatever they saw moving at 34,000 per hour.

That's fast.

All systems are go.

You calling that in?

Stand by.

I think I got my hands full.

You should be picking up speed.

Telemetry looks good. Anchor looks good.

Jeremy, I think you should have your hands full, too,

if you know what I mean.

Expect a little turbulence entering...

Astronauts, Shuttle Pilots,

the men who walked on the moon...

There's this unspoken rule.

You see something you can't explain,

you keep your mouth shut.

Houston?

Roger that. Go ahead.

We just saw a Santa Claus.

Hear the silence, man?

They don't know what to say.

Uh, this is Houston. That's a negative on the Santa Claus.

What you saw was a sun spot.

Sun spot?

Yeah. A sun spot

entering the atmosphere at mach 45? Come on.

What do you want from me, Dr. Hodgins?

I've been called a conspiracy theorist since I was 21.

I'm not afraid of being mocked.

My name is Major Jeremy Wren.

And if you're seeing this video...

It's because I'm dead.

Why?

Because I took this video

during my last shuttle landing.

And is Major Wren dead?

Car accident, two weeks ago.

Within hours, this video was on the Internet.

But here's the thing. It's been modified.

What they are doing is covering the truth with lies.

What does the pilot say?

Colonel Bradshaw?

He did the smart thing. He shut the hell up.

That is, until...

Colonel Bradshaw, do you have any comment

on the sudden death of Major Wren?

It's a great tragedy.

Did you see what Major Wren saw up there, colonel Bradshaw,

or was Major Wren insane?

Jeremy Wren was definitely not insane.

Since that little slip-up at Wren's funeral,

colonel Bradshaw has been fired for alcoholism.

Only thing is, he doesn't drink.

So they're after him because he wouldn't call his friend insane on TV?

Anyone can see from this video

that not only are there beans to spill,

Bradshaw is this far from spilling them.

What do you want me to find, the pilot?

No. In fact, he's the one that came to me.

Why you?

I have a certain stature in the community of skeptics.

Conspiracy theorists.

I want you to find the object.

The sun spot.

It's not a sun spot. It is an alien spacecraft

that crash-landed somewhere on planet earth. Find it.

Show it to the world, and Bradshaw gets his life back.

I don't believe in extraterrestrial visitations.

How can you not believe in extraterrestrial life?

I said I don't believe in visitations.

Aliens exist. Whatever Bradshaw and Wren saw proves it.

I'm in.

OK!

Great!

What do we do first?

We?

Hey, man, the Jeffersonian Forensics lab

has gone dark for a week while the federal coroner is on vacation.

So, I'm all yours.

All right. I need to talk to colonel Bradshaw.

That's impossible. He's in hiding.

Oh!

Hey!

Hey. Walter.

Colonel Bradshaw, Walter Sherman.

It's a pleasure to meet you, sir.

Do you believe that ultimate fulfillment

can only be found in the arms of a significant other?

There are an infinite number of paths to fulfillment.

"The soul is neither man nor woman."

What are you reading?

Some ladies' magazine from the eighties.

I'm reading the ancient Hindu text of wisdom called Upanishads.

I win.

What's up, Timo?

Come on in and get yourself a nice cold drink.

What's wrong?

Uncle shad wants to see us.

Both of us?

Both of us.

Probably about your arranged marriage,

which is anti-American.

We shouldn't discuss family business in front of you.

It's not our fault if Leo eavesdrops.

I'm pretty engrossed in this book.

I gave Shadrack the 10 grand worth of diamonds.

I'm confident he'll dissolve our engagement.

When?

Could be anytime.

So just be ready.

So how'd you make me?

Rocketeers all look at the sky

the way some men look at women. Dead giveaway.

I told you he was good.

In the future I'll keep my eyes on the ground.

Do you think it was the footage that got Major Wren killed?

I mean, isn't it obvious?

And they are coming after me now, hammer and tongs.

I've been fired. I can't find a job anywhere.

I'm being audited.

My wife just found emails saying I cheated on her.

I'm a totally faithful husband.

All of a sudden, colonel Bradshaw has a history

of mental illness and substance abuse?

How do I know you're not really a womanizing drunken crazy man?

I guess you're just gonna have to make your own determination on that count.

Was it you that put the footage on the Internet

after Wren died?

No. You know who did?

No idea.

It'd be nice to have the original footage.

It disappeared with Jeremy's death.

All right, I'm gonna need to talk to the guy that told you it was sun spots.

Mission Commander Ed Scanlan.

Ed lives here in D.C.

Get this... two weeks after the sighting, Scanlan retired

and immediately registered an advanced technology patent and became rich.

Scanlan did not get that technology from aliens.

Walter doesn't believe in extraterrestrial visitations.

Yeah, well, neither did I till I saw one zip by me at mach 45.

Come on.

OK. Thanks for the inside info.

All right. Nothing entered the atmosphere

at those coordinates at that time except for the shuttle.

Says who?

Guy who owes me a favor... Ira Messing.

Ira Messing, the asteroid tracker?

Yep. Ah, he's brilliant.

Wait a minute. Why does Dr. Messing owe you a favor?

'Cause I found a serial killer and a girlfriend for him.

In that order, but not the same person.

None of Messing's radio-telescopes registered the phenomenon.

Well, then, you know what that means.

It's an alien cloaking device.

It means that whoever is cooking this up

can intercept all data from hundreds or radio-telescopes

before it gets logged.

How can you refute the Mountain of evidence

that aliens have visited this planet?

There's no evidence.

There's some drawings and a lot of hokum.

What do you think that Bradshaw and Wren saw?

Some kind of experimental drone.

We don't have that kind of technology.

Well, they hold it back in order to maintain control.

The corporations. They?

And they decide what we can and cannot have.

The aliens are here, and they control the people

you think are controlling everything.

You are totally paranoid.

You are totally paranoid.

You're telling me the forensics lab at the Jeffersonian

suspects that Jeremy Wren's death was not an accident?

Mr. Scanlan, you have to admit it's suspicious.

Approximately 125 people die in traffic accidents every day in this country.

You factor in that he was agitated, depressed,

medicated, sleep-deprived, I'd say that makes it a near certainty.

Either that or he drove into oncoming traffic on purpose.

Oh, what, suicide by tractor trailer?

I didn't know Wren well.

I doubt he knew my real name.

He just called me mission control.

That's a pretty fancy watch you got there.

What did that set you back, 10 grand?

Excuse me?