[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] Ever feel really out of place?
Well, you're not the first to feel like that.
Check out this battery. They found it in Iraq in 1957,
in the middle of a bunch of stuff that's 2,000 years old.
Over the last few decades,
archaeologists have started to find lots of objects
that really don't belong where they were found.
They call them OOPAs, which stands for out of place artifacts.
This fossil spark plug, called the "Coso artifact," is another one.
Was there some kind of ancient civilization building big stone cars?
And if so, where'd they get the technology?
I'm sorry, that information is classified.
-Smile! -[camera clicks]
One more time, but goofy.
[Molly] All right, how's this?
Ahh...
[Fi chuckles] Got it.
[both laughing]
This could be the last picture of my mom before she gets a record deal.
-Well, I'm not holding my breath. -I am.
-Uh... nice place, Irene. -[electronic bird clucking]
I got a discount.
-Excuse me, we have a reservation. -I'm sorry, I'm not...
-Tad Raxall? -Mr. Raxall?
Ah... checking in? [chuckles]
What are you doing here?
Well, I... I... I can't access cover story.
Abort, shut down, re... reboot.
I'm back. Hi, guys.
I was just checking to see if you checked in because,
um, I was following your tour on the internet
and I was here on business,
and I remembered I promised Fi that I would give her a copy
of the beta version of my new web browser
with built-ins for streaming audio and video. [chuckles]
You did get my e-mail about this, didn't you?
-Oh, yeah. The e-mail. -You knew Tad was coming?
Well, he did promise me a copy of the browser eight months ago.
And I thought, well, you know, since we're both here,
we could interface a little. [chuckles]
You know, maybe, uh, sing a few rounds of the jingle you wrote for my company.
You know... ♪ We're all one with Star Dot Star ♪
Or... or... or do a crossword puzzle, or... or maybe...
Go on a... date.
A date?
[stuttering] It doesn't have to be anything formal, with clothes.
[chuckles] No, no, no... Of course.
Of course, we'll wear clothes, but not formal clothes.
Focus, focus, focus...
Hey, Tad, what are you doing here?
Nothing!
I mean... I... I... I...
I'm talking to Fi, that's all. Nothing else. [chuckles]
Fee fi fo fum, let's power-browse in hypertext.
-Can I go, Mom? -Um, sure.
Oh, oh, oh... um... for you... It's a rose. See?
Uh... it's from my garden in Utah, but I've been here a week, um...
Well, it's red.
Um... thank you.
Oh, you're... you're welcome.
I'm going to go now.
Who was that?
That is Tad Raxall, the world's richest computer genius.
Really?
That wouldn't have been my first guess.
[laughs]
You work here, don't you?
[computer beeps]
[sighs] Thanks for saving my diskette back there.
Thanks for the upgrade.
Oh, yeah, it's a multi-panel browsing environment.
Lets you search, chat, download, print...
-You really like mom, don't you? -And watch a movie all at the same time.
-Simplicity, the wave of the future. -But you didn't come here for a date.
-Who told you that? -You did.
You said you were here on business.
Now, what type of business brings you to a little tiny town like Paradise, Virginia?
-[Tad] What are you doing? -[Fi] Multi-tasking.
Hmm... Langley.
Home of the CIA.
Is that why you're here, to work with the CIA?
Not necessarily.
But why would they put you up in a place like this?
They want to keep the project low profile. It's very hush-hush.
You are working for them. It must be very important.
Well, I thought it would be. Then they showed me the cheese wheel.
The cheese wheel?
They told me they'd found this... thing, made out of a beryllium alloy.
They thought it might be a computer,
so I took a cat scan of the original and made a 3-D model.
[computer beeps]
-[Fi] How does it work? -[Tad] Well, it doesn't.
The thing has no power source. Ergo, it's not a computer.
It might be a piece of art.
Actually, you know, it wouldn't look too bad in my foyer.
Could it possibly have a battery inside?
Huh? No. No batteries, no solar panels,
no little mice running around inside generating a magnetic field.
Actually, it was a complete waste of time.
The only bright spot is that Molly would be here, too.
And actually, that's the only reason I agreed to come at all.
But, alas, my plans for a romantic interface have been shredded
like yesterday's government secrets.
-Mr. Raxall... -No, no, no, no. Tad.
[Fi] Uh, Tad...
[indistinct chatter]
[Fi] Maybe if you didn't try so hard, if you just tried to be yourself...
Be myself?
Um... No, that wouldn't work.
You don't really know me, Fi, I'm... I'm... I...
No, no, that wouldn't work at all.
[Casey] Fi? Fi?
Did you see the old guy in the coat check area?
-Old guy? -Yeah.
He had this, uh, this little computer thing,
or something, I'd swear your face was on it.
-[Jack] What? -Yeah.
Wait, was he a little guy, white hair, goatee?
Yes.
-I saw him watching us in the lobby. -That sounds like my contact.
-Is he the one who broke into our suite? -You have a suite?
-My mom gets discounts. -Wait, someone broke in to our suite?
[Casey] Yeah, they went through all of our stuff,
but they didn't take anything.
And that's what I came down here to tell you.
He must have been shadowing me. This is outrageous!
They waste a week of my time analyzing a metal cheese wheel
and now they're violating your first... no, fourth...
Oh... one of your constitutional rights just because I talked to you.
[Jack] Did we miss something?
This is a crime against democracy. Our tax dollars pay their salary.
The cheese wheel shouldn't be secret. It should be in a museum.
Well... or possibly an art gallery.
Well, anyway, anyway, anyone should be able to see it.
So, could we see it?
Why not?
You think outside the box.
You're just the kind of person this project needs,
and, well, you two can come along too, because... well, you're with her.
Come on, let's go.
-[knocking at door] -Come in.
-Hi, Ned. -Hey, Molly.
-Uh, this got mixed up with Irene's stuff. -Oh, thank you.
Ah... you're thinking
that I should go on a date with Tad tonight.
-I didn't say that. -Well, you didn't have to say it.
-You were thinking it. -I wasn't thinking. I was relating.
I was remembering how nervous I was
the first time I ever asked Irene out on a date.
I thought she was so far out of my league, and, frankly, she did, too.
But I grew on her.
OK, so you're saying
that I should go out with Tad because he will grow on me?
Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is on behalf of guys everywhere...
Hey, you just never know.
-I'll see you later, Moll. -Bye, Ned.
[door opens, shuts]
What's that?
This morning, this was the coffee maker in my hotel room.
I reconfigured the microprocessor so I could make copies
of the magnetic strip on my security card.
Security sure is low for the CIA.
They want to keep this project low-profile.
Very hush-hush.
Hush, hush, hush, hush.
Hush.
Is this the cheese wheel?
-It's beautiful. -A work of art.
It must do something.
Why else would they bring you down here to analyze it?
[Tad] Well, they probably stole it from some foreign government
and had to justify the expense.
Oh, wow.
Wow, you guys, look at this.
This must have been an archaeology lab or something.
But you'd think they could at least get the old rocks out of it.
Wait a second, Tad. Look at this.
It's the same shape as the cheese wheel.
What are you saying? This came from that?
No, no, no. This couldn't come from that. It's impossible.
This is a highly machined piece of metal. Not a fossil.
Fi, Fi, move out of the way. I want to get a shot of the cheese wheel.
[Fi] Where are you from?
[electronic noises]
[Casey] She got it to work.
-What did you touch? -I didn't touch anything.
[Jack] Shh!
Guys, I believe it's time for Elvis to leave the building.
-But what about-- -Fi, we're leaving!
Quick, this way.
They don't like unauthorized personnel in the lab.
[Tad] What's an OOPA?
It stands for an out of place artifact.
Archaeologists find them sometimes, you know, things where they shouldn't be.
Wow. Look at number three.
[Tad] "A computer said to have been created
by the ancient underwater civilization of Atlantis."
Oh, well, this isn't fact. This is fable, myth, urban legend.
Ah... I don't know what's happened to the internet.
Tad, if you want to know the truth,
you can't be afraid to think outside the box.
All right, then, focus, focus. Problem solve.
-Let OOPA... -[both] Equal X.
Let's assume this is extremely advanced technology,
beyond anything even I'm aware of.
What makes it work? What made it move in the lab?
I don't know. I was just staring at it and thinking to myself,
"Where are you from?" And it moved.
It must have read my mind.
[phone ringing]
No, that's impossible.
Thought-control technology is only in the theoretical stages now.
They could hardly have had it in the Stone Age.
Hey, Tad, phone for you. It's, uh, Mrs. P.
Oh!
Hello?
Uh, tonight? Here? Really?
Could you hold for a second, please?
[laughing]
I'll make reservations.
Or... or should I wait for you to re-confirm?
Oh. Okey dokey. Great.
Why don't I hang that up for you?
I have a date with your mother.
I... I... I... have to go get ready.
I, uh, hope my cologne hasn't expired.
Wait, wait, Tad! But what about the OOPA?
Fi, forget about that thing, OK? It's over.
But, Jack, I sent it messages with my thoughts.
Well, it didn't send one back to you.
Maybe it did.
You think the pattern means something?
[Fi] That's how a computer works, right?
The binary system. Everything's made up of ones and zeros.
All right, so "open" and "closed" represents "ones" and "zeros?"
Maybe.
I'm done.
Did you ask it how to win the lottery?
I asked it where it was from...
[Jack] Then why did it give you numbers?
[typing]
-That's it. -What's it?
Map coordinates.
Thirty-four, 58, 12. Let's try north.
Twenty-three, 43, 27 east.
The locations are almost identical.
It must be the computer from Atlantis.
Fi, Atlantis is on a map of mythical places.
It never existed.
I asked that thing a question and it answered.
Maybe, maybe not.
The only way to know for sure is if we ask it another question.
Oh, no. Sorry, guys.
My spy career is over.
Can we ask it the real lottery numbers?
-No. -Please?
Thank you.
"Be yourself." Be yourself... [mutters]
What?
Uh, be yourself... Molly.
I mean, don't be afraid to be yourself around me.
A lot of people aren't because of my genius.
Well... not that you're short on RAM yourself... [chuckles]
Although I've never seen your test scores...
[clears throat]
Uh, did you know that if you, uh, rub a spoon with a napkin,
you upset its surface ions and you can make it, uh, stick to your nose?
Tad, Tad, why don't you, um, tell me something about yourself?
-Like what? -I don't know, um...
How about your favorite moment when you were a kid?
Oh, gosh, um...
Um, I was in my dad's workshop,
and I found this jar filled with little metal parts,
so I poured them out on the table, you know, to play with them.
But as I started to look at them, I started to see a pattern, a logic.
I could actually see in my mind how the pieces fit together.
It turned out they were pieces of an antique watch.
And when I put the last piece in, and wound it up... it... it...
-Well, "tick, tick, tick." -[both laughing]
-I made it work. -Wow.
Your father must have been really proud.
Oh, he was.
But then he made me do it again and again, in front of the neighbors.
I became very nervous around people.
Well, I don't think someone as secure as you couldn't understand.
Me? Secure? Are you kidding?
Right now, I'm waiting to hear about a record contract,
and I... I'm so nervous that if...
-Uh, you're convinced you won't get it. -Yes.
And... and you're angry at them for turning you down
-even though they haven't. -[chuckles] Yeah. How did you know?
I do that all the time.
-Hey, we do have something in common. -Yeah, paranoia.
Isn't it wonderful?
[both chuckle]
Molly, you have made my dream come 99.46% true.
Would you be willing to fill in the other .54%?
-How would I do that? -By singing a song...
just for me?
[playing piano]
♪ There's a house in the mountains ♪
♪ Filled with bits of me and you ♪
♪ I had a dream there ♪
♪ But morning came too soon ♪
♪ I've been holding on ♪
♪ It's been holding me back ♪
♪ I don't want to give in ♪
♪ But I know what you'd say to me ♪
♪ Finish this dream ♪
♪ Can I be more like a river ♪
♪ Less like a wall? ♪
♪ Not try to hold back these feelings at all ♪
♪ 'Cause when I miss you ♪
♪ When I'm dying to kiss you ♪
♪ I've got to let that flow ♪
♪ More like a river ♪
♪ 'Cause in the morning ♪
[device beeping]
♪ There are kids and dogs and bills ♪
♪ And sunlight ♪
♪ And a new day and a new day ♪
♪ And another new day ♪
♪ Without you ♪
OK, ask away.
Hold on. I've got to think of a really good question.
[beeping]
Time's up.
-Hey, I didn't ask it a question yet! -No, see, we have to leave!
[laughs] Then we're taking it with us.
Are you nuts?
[alarm blaring]
It won't open!
They must have locked it from the... outside.
I was just curious, all right?
-Go! -Go!
[laughs]
And to complete this wonderful evening, I've ordered the specialty du maison,
"cherries jubilee," in the shape of Krakatoa...
[both laughing]
You know, that volcanic island that blew up in the late 1800s.
Yeah... wow.
Uh, Tad?
Uh, you know, I think, uh...
-[Tad] Is it supposed to be this... -Oh, my...
It's not blowing out.
[Fi] Tad! You have got to help us!
-Baby, what's going on? -Where did you get that?
OK, we went back to the lab to ask it another question,
and that old guy showed up with these two big goons in black suits,
-and they started chasing us. -Goons?
-You've been chased by goons? -Well, that does it.
Yeah, gimmie. I'm going to take this back to my research facility in Utah,
and, uh, believe me, I am going to find out what this is.
I don't think that's a good idea.
I'll take that, if you don't mind.
Uh...
Tad, don't give it to him.
Wait.
Uh, I just want to know one thing.
You guys really work for the government or have I been duped?
What do you think?
Uh... what just happened here?
Um, dessert, anyone?
-Give you a hand with that, miss? -Sure.
-[sighs] -You OK?
All my photos of the OOPA were gone when I got back to my room last night,
along with my notes about the map coordinates.
All of my research disks are missing, too.
I am sorry, um, I didn't take your OOPA theory seriously.
Obviously, somebody else did.
You mean you take it seriously now?
-Even if I did, we have no proof. -Then we'll find proof.
I mean, we both saw it. We know it exists.
-I communicated with it. -[Tad] I know, I know.
-Good morning, Tad. -Oh, morning, Molly.
-Heard from the record company? -No, not yet.
-How about I buy the record company? -[laughing]
Then you can write your own contract.
Thank you.
And don't worry. They will call.
OK, everyone on the bus. We've got a sound check in two hours.
I guess we'll never know where that OOPA thing came from.
Fiona, knowing you, I'm sure you'll find it again sometime.
But, hey, if, uh, it really reads your thoughts, maybe it'll find you.
Yeah.
[man] Atlantis...
[electronic noises]