[theme song plays]
♪ Demons come from every side ♪
♪ In the darkness is the light ♪
♪ Out of the shadows of my life ♪
♪ In the darkness is the light ♪
♪ Surrender will win the fight ♪
♪ This girl's walked on fire and ice ♪
♪ But I come out ♪
♪ On the other side of paradise ♪
♪ Paradise ♪
[Fi] Proof of alien visitation!
For years, mysterious patterns have been appearing
in grain fields all over the world.
These photos of so-called crop circles
show conclusively that an extra-terrestrial menace
is planning world domination in our very own backyard!
OK, some crop circles are probably fakes.
But the more you find out about these things, the weirder they seem.
In spite of the name, crop circles come in all kinds of shapes,
always geometrically perfect.
And there are never any trails found leading away from them.
So, who's making them?
Is it possible these things are messages of some kind?
And who's trying to communicate with us? And what is it they're trying to say?
But how could he drop out just before a big concert like this?
I told you to not let him do that session in Nashville.
Good guitar players get stolen all the time.
OK, so where am I going to steal one?
Molly, this is Harvest Aid. There'll be a lot of bands there.
-Somebody will help us out. -Yo, we're going to hit the bakery.
You guys care to join us for a chocolate eclair?
Not now, honey.
Oh, but you know what?
Pick up a couple dozen glazed donuts for Ned and the crew.
Carey, get me some jelly ones too, OK?
And three loaves of wheat bread.
-[Fi] Will do. -And some muffins!
Hey, you think they could bake us a guitar player?
[all laugh]
[woman] Thank you very much.
So, what can I get for you?
-Uh, can I have a brownie, please? -Of course.
Oh, Greg, honey, would you bring over that other tray of brownies?
Sure, Mom.
And we need three loaves of wheat bread, and two dozen glazed donuts, please.
Yo, Carey, you gotta tell Mom and Dad sooner or later.
You think they're going to be happy to hear I dropped out of college?
Mom's head is going to explode.
Well, then, warn me before you tell her, then, OK?
Oh, man, don't tell me they don't have 'em.
Chocolate eclairs are in the other case, back right corner.
Thanks.
Wait, how did he know...
So, your mom's playing the concert.
Uh, yeah. She does a lot of stuff for charity.
Yeah. I'm sure it's great publicity for her.
So, would you like anything else?
Uh... no, thank you.
What was his problem?
You'd think he'd appreciate what Mom's doing for the farmers out here.
Hey, I wanna know how he knew I was gonna ask for a chocolate eclair.
I was wondering how did he knew Mom was playing the concert.
[bus engine starts]
Hello? Big blue tour bus.
I guess that could have something to do with it.
[people chattering]
-How about Jukom? -He's doing a CD.
Look, I'm here.
OK, Valencia. He's always available.
I'm checking.
Look, he owes us one. He can have his honeymoon anytime.
Hello?
Suddenly, he's not available. You know, they're not that good anyway.
I'll keep trying while you go do your sound check.
Here's a thought. Carey.
Forget it.
Irene, it's just for tomorrow. He's good enough and he knows the music.
Molly, being a musician is no career for a sane person.
-No offense. -Irene, it's one gig.
I don't want to encourage him. That business degree that he's going for
will serve him a lot better when he hits 30
than playing guitar in some band.
Don't worry, Moll. I... I will find someone.
Kill me now.
No luck yet, huh?
Do me a favor, honey.
This is the local guy who's coordinating the permits, Jim something.
Ask him if they signed any new bands that can loan us a guitar player.
I'll go check with the other managers.
[man] Hello?
-Hey. I'd like to speak to-- -Jim's not in right now.
Can I take a message?
Very funny, Candy.
Hey, Fi, if mom gets back before we do,
tell her we're in search of a video arcade.
-Hey, wait up. I'll go with you. -OK...
-Time's up. See you. -Jack!
I'll walk slow.
Hey, guys, wait up!
I've been playing the guitar my whole life,
and she won't even consider letting me fill in for one gig.
[sighs] I know what she's thinking... you know?
[voices whispering]
She's thinking that I can't pull it off.
Wait, what do you mean, you know what she's thinking?
-She's my mom, you know. -Oh, right.
I knew that.
[Casey] Isn't that the guy from the bakery?
Oh... maybe we better steer clear, man.
No.
-You want some help? -We don't need your help.
No, I meant unloading the truck.
Yeah, I know what you meant.
If you guys have a farm, this concert is for you, too.
I don't know what you think, but we're here to help.
What, you guys ride in here, play a few songs and leave,
and you think you're saving farming in America?
The reality is, we're running right on the edge,
trying to keep up with the corporate farms,
no time to let our fields go fallow, cutting everything to the bone.
OK, I'm sure it's tough.
Tough? Hm...
I take care of our farm by myself while my mom runs the bakery.
Just the two of us.
You're not the only one, you know?
I'm not the only one what?
Just leave us alone.
Fine.
[vo] Stay out of this.
And there's a lot of scientific theories about how it could be possible,
but the point is, we all have the capacity for ESP.
It's just very rare that anyone actually develops the ability
enough to be aware of it.
Didn't Ned say you're supposed to be studying for this math test.
Mom, people all over this town know stuff without us telling them.
That Harron kid made this comment, it was like he knows about Dad.
Well, if this ability is so rare,
how could a whole town start to develop it?
I don't know.
But what worries me more is that, well, I think maybe I'm developing it.
So, it's contagious?
Fi, I'm sorry, I find this a little hard to believe.
OK, a lot hard to believe. But I do know one thing;
if you don't study for this math test, you're going to need ESP,
because the only way you're going to pass it is to read Ned's mind.
-So, you don't believe me. -I don't know.
But I do know that I have a rehearsal in ten minutes.
Irene got SHeDAISY to lend us their guitar player for the day.
So, why don't we hit the books in the morning?
[computer voice] You have mail.
OK, Mom.
Alien connection?
Crop circle?
"Although the affected wheat stalks are bent in horizontal positions,
they are not broken,
and the wheat continues to grow after the circle has formed.
As a result, farmers are able to harvest the wheat,
and typically mix it in with the rest of the crop."
They harvest the wheat.
[drum kit playing]
So, you think that eating wheat from crop circles is giving everybody ESP?
The circles are formed by heat.
Maybe it's changing the molecular structure of the wheat or something.
What?
Do you have a better explanation for a full town of mind-readers?
But, Fi, the one crop circle appeared here, like, five years ago.
Nobody's reported any since then.
Maybe somebody's trying to keep them a secret now.
Maybe the whole town's trying to keep them a secret.
-Why would they do that? -I don't know.
But if the wheat is ending up in the bread around here,
there's somebody I'd sure like to ask. Come on.
Thanks, guys.
-Hello again. -[both] Hey.
So, what can I get for you kids?
-Don't you know? -Why would I know?
Well, um, I was just in here yesterday, and the brownies were delicious.
Oh...
Yeah, I'll take another one of those eclairs, please.
So, you get this stuff from the grain on your farm?
-That's right. -Wow, how cool is that?
-Must be awesome living out on a farm. -Well, we like it.
But living so far out, do you ever get visitors of any kind?
We have friends that come to see us. Why?
I guess it just seems so isolated.
I'd be scared living out there. Have you ever been scared?
[door chime ringing]
Never. If you'll excuse me.
Mr. and Mrs. Howell, how are you?
[crowd cheering]
[music playing]
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ I'm gonna tell you something You don't want to hear ♪
Look, I know you think I'm being inflexible.
-I didn't say that. -You didn't have to.
-Irene... -I'm going to talk to the stage manager.
Oh...
I don't know, Fi. I couldn't tell.
She must know something.
Hey, son. Come on and give me a hand with those amps.
Yeah, Pop.
Well, he was good in the rehearsal, and Irene says that he's
the best guitar player on the roster for today.
OK, I trust you.
[voice whispering]
You know what, baby?
You're absolutely right. Carey can do it.
He knows the songs, and there's no reason to bring someone in from outside.
That was what you said, wasn't it?
Sort of... yeah.
SHeDAISY's almost done, Molly. You ready?
Um, Irene, listen, I know this is probably really bad timing,
but I want Carey to play guitar for me today.
Molly, we talked about this.
Have you talked about it with him?
[voice whispering]
He dropped out. He's dropped out of college.
-I'm right, aren't I? -Yes.
-You knew? -Irene...
That's why he hasn't wanted to talk about it.
I can't believe I didn't pick up on what was going on around here.
Oh, man.
Irene, he promised me he would tell you himself.
-I'm sorry. -Yeah.
You do what you've got to do today. Carey and I can talk later.
Irene, wait.
Fiona, please.
She just guessed, all right? I'm surprised it took her this long.
Carey!
Grab your guitar, buddy, you're going on.
-No way! -Yes, way.
-Are you serious? -Hurry up.
I've got to change. I've got to change.
You're not going to be sorry, Mrs. P!
Ned, you might want to talk to Irene when you get a minute.
Yeah.
Hey, did you hear? Are you going to come?
I've got to figure something out first.
But it's Carey's first time, Fi.
Clu, it's getting out of hand. It's affecting all of us now!
It's OK, I'll go with her.
Go find us a seat, dude.
This better be important, Fi.
♪ A statue from Japan ♪
♪ Funny little buddha man ♪
[lyrics indistinct]
♪ I've got the umbrella Here comes the rain ♪
[lyrics indistinct]
♪ Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Little goodbye ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Little goodbyes ♪
Yay! Whoo!
-You guys were great. -Thank you.
You obviously don't need our guitar player anymore.
And after we've come this far.
[announcer] Let's hear it for SHeDAISY!
Actually, could I still borrow him to play rhythm?
Sure, if we can borrow yours later!
[laughing]
Carey!
[announcer] Now, a big, warm welcome for the Molly Phillips Band!
[crowd cheering]
[upbeat music plays]
♪ Dear party of the first part ♪
♪ It's time to draw the line ♪
♪ Time to make the list And divide up the broken heart ♪
♪ Dear mother of my daughter ♪
♪ Dear father of my son ♪
♪ It's time to face the problem ♪
♪ And find a proper dissolution ♪
Fi, I know this Harron kid's a pain, but this is private property.
Jack, if I'm right, these people are trespassing on our minds.
You don't seriously believe that there's some sort of ESP conspiracy
-going on around here, do you? -Not anymore.
I've been watching it affect us: me, Irene, even Mom.
It's gradual. And I don't think people realize it.
Or at least, most people don't.
And what could you possibly find here that could prove this wacky theory?
I don't know, but I think I'll know it when I see it.
Fi.
♪ This is the new math ♪
♪ We didn't add up So now we get to decide ♪
♪ This is the new math This is the new math ♪
♪ Still think it's a shame How we multiply and divide ♪
♪ Don't worry it'll be OK... ♪
Wow, a real crop circle.
Now we know how Greg spends his free time.
No... this is for real. Just like the pictures Candy sent.
-The stalks aren't broken. -So?
This means the wheat is still alive.
The Harron's are harvesting it and selling it through the bakery.
I was right. Jack, we've got to warn everybody.
Fi...
[voice] I told you to stay out of this!
-He's coming! -Who is?
Come on!
[Jack] Come on, this way.
[voice] Fi Phillips. So, that's your name.
I know your secrets, Fi Phillips.
-No! -What is it?
-He's in my head! -What?
Come on.
[voice] Do you want to know what Jack really thinks of you?
-Are you OK? -Yeah.
[voice] How angry he is at you?
-Stop it! -Stop what?
-Don't tell him anything! -What are you talking about?
Fi, we've got to get out of here.
I warned you to stay away.
We know we're not supposed to be here. We're leaving.
It's too late for that now.
She stuck her nose in where it doesn't belong!
Hey, I don't know what your problem is, but you'd better back off!
Greg! What's going on here?
They went into the wheat fields, Mom. They know.
Please... You can't tell anyone about those circles.
If people found out, sightseers or scientists or whoever,
we can't afford to lose the wheat that's in that field.
We're barely making it as it is.
So, that's what all this is about? Money?
You're willing to infect the people in your own town,
-all over the country? -Fi.
We don't sell it all over the country.
It only goes to the bakery. I make sure of that.
Infect? What's she talking about?
Oh, right, like you don't know.
She doesn't. She's allergic. She can't eat wheat.
[voice whispering]
Mom, don't think that. I wouldn't make people sick.
-What? -No, no, no, that's not it.
They didn't take me up with them.
It's just the wheat.
Is... is this... is this what you meant?
[voice whispering]
It's only temporary, Mom.
When we took that trip to Wichita, it wore off after a couple of days.
I just eat more than anybody else so I can protect us.
Mom, please. It's still me.
It's all right, honey. It's going to be all right.
Jim Highmacher called from the concert office.
He said that with all the national coverage,
they've made two million dollars in pledges already.
Our share will be enough that we can slow down.
We can let that field go fallow next season.
Maybe those... those things will stop coming.
[people chattering]
All I can say is, I hope the Harron's get a lot of money out of this concert
so they can both take a nice long, vacation.
If they're seeing little green men, they are working too hard.
Jack, you can't believe it was all their imagination.
What about the crop circles?
Ah... You're not the only one who can do research, Fi.
Ever do any reading about crop circles, like these two guys, Chorley and Bower,
who admitted they made a bunch of fake crop circles in England?
-You think this was a hoax? -Of course it was.
Come on, let's go catch the end of Mom's act.
Jack, people were affected by the wheat.
What, was that ESP stuff just a side effect?
♪ Goodbye ♪
[crowd cheering]
Yeah. Whoo!
[engine roaring]
[voices] Listen.
Did you hear it? Did you hear it, Jack?
I, uh, I heard a plane.
Was it them?
Didn't you hear a voice?
No.
The wheat.
The ESP.
They're trying to get us ready.
Who is? Ready to do what?
To listen.
♪ Dear party of the first part ♪
♪ It's time to draw the line ♪
♪ Time to make the list And divide up the broken heart ♪
♪ Dear mother of my daughter ♪
♪ Dear father of my son ♪
♪ It's time to face the problem ♪
♪ And find a proper dissolution ♪
♪ This is the new math ♪
♪ We didn't add up So now we get to decide ♪
♪ This is the new math ♪