Laughlin What the hell is happening here?
It's that training mission from the Naval Air Station in Ft. Lauderdale...
Laughlin Who flies crates like these anymore?
No one. These planes were reported missing in 1945.
Laughlin But it looks brand new. Where's the pilot? I don't understand. Where's the crew? Hey! How the hell did it get here?
Laughlin Excuse me.Before I got paid to, uh, speak French, I, uh, I used to read maps. This first number is a longitude...Two sets of three numbers. Degrees, minutes, and seconds. The first number has three digits and the last two are below sixty. Obviously, it's not in the right ascension and declination on the sky. These have to be earth coordinates.
Surely, somebody has a map...There's a globe in the county supervisor's office.
Laughlin We need answers from you that are honest, direct, and to the point.
Where's Jillian?
Laughlin Do you realize the danger that you and your friend have risked? By coming here, you've exposed yourself to toxic gas...
There's nothing wrong with the air.
Laughlin What makes you say that?
I just know. There's nothing wrong with it.
Go outside and make me a liar.
Uh, look, I want to talk to the man in charge.
Laughlin Mr. Lacombe is the highest authority.
He isn't even an American.
Laughlin The two of you felt compelled to be here?
Yeah, you might say that.
Laughlin What did you expect to find?
An answer. That's not crazy, is it? [Laughlin and Lacombe speak to each other in French] Hold it, hold it, hold it! Is that it? Is that all you're gonna ask me? Well, I got a couple of thousand, god-damn questions, you know. I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy...If this is nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much? What the hell is going on around here?! Who the hell are you people?
You brought in twelve people to the decontamination camp instead of the evacuation center where they belong. I'd like to know why.
Laughlin Because this means something. These people have come from all over their country to a place they have been told will endanger their lives. Why?
Because somebody could be trying to subvert this whole operation by sending in fanatics and cultists and Christ knows what all.
Laughlin: [while showing sketches drawn of Devils Tower by all the captives] This is a small group of people who have shared a vision in common. Look. [He pulls up the shade to reveal the Tower in the window] It's still a mystery to me why they are here. Even they do not know why.
Laughlin We didn't choose this place! We didn't choose these people! They were invited!
They belong here more than we!
Laughlin I believe that for everyone of these anxious, anguished people who have come here this evening, there must be hundreds of others also touched by the implanted vision who never made it this far. It's simply because they never watched the television. Or perhaps they watched it, but never made the psychic connection.
It's a coincidence. It's not scientific.
Listen to me, Major Walsh, it is an event sociological.
Give her six quavers, then pause.
She sent us four quavers, a group of five quavers, a group of four semi-quavers...
What are we saying to each other?
Laughlin It seems they're trying to teach us a basic tonal vocabulary.
It's the first day of school, fellas. Take everything from the lady. Follow her pattern note for note.
