[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] Roswell, New Mexico, July 4th, 1947.
[telephone ringing]
Hello?
No, sir, no problem. I just, uh, I just forgot something.
Of course not, sir.
No.
No one.
But I don't understand. That's not the way it happened, sir.
Yes, sir.
Right away.
Son, I want you to forget everything that you've seen or heard tonight.
Promise me.
Promise me you will never speak of this evening
to me or anyone else ever again.
I promise.
Good boy.
They're calling us on the radio, sergeant. We have to get back to the base.
[door shuts]
[garbled voices]
[man] Ah...
Jack, they have Tyler's Treats here.
-Look, sugar or chocolate chip? -Uh... both
No. No more junk. That's all you guys eat.
But Mom...
No more "but moms." We'll find something healthy,
like... fruit or vegetables.
Fine. I'll buy it with my own money, except that all I have in my wallet
is a picture of Daddy and a movie ticket stub.
You are in my power.
[man] Hey! Where do you think you're going?
I... I'm sorry. I'm sorry...
I... I'm hungry.
[man] So, that makes it OK to steal my stuff?
They told me... I thought they told me it was OK.
Who? Who told you?
Voices. The voices I though they said it was OK.
Excuse me.
I'll be right with ya, I gotta call the sheriff.
No, I don't think that's necessary.
No, maybe you don't, but a drifter like this will steal you blind
if you go easy on him.
Look, I don't think he meant any harm. I'll pay for whatever he took.
Please?
[man] Huh?
I think these are yours now.
Thank you. I like cookies.
OK.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Ah.
I'm Fi. What's your name?
-Andrew. -Hey, Andrew.
Is that some kind of radio?
My daddy... My daddy gave it to me.
Oh, it's cool.
-So, where are you headed? -Albuquerque.
-You have family there? -Sister. I want to see my sister.
Is she your big sister or your little sister?
My big sister. She used to look out for me.
Yeah.
I have a big brother. He looks out for me, too.
She can't look out for me anymore. I look out for myself now.
Look out for myself.
Uh-huh...
I don't know, man. He seems kind of... you know...
-Completely insane? -He's not insane, Jack.
-He's sweet. -Sweet?
Fi, the guy hears voices.
You don't know what he could do,
and besides, we do have a "no hitchhikers" rule, right Mom?
-Yeah. -Mom, we're going to Albuquerque anyway.
Plus, we've got big strong guys to protect us.
Yeah, well, I am kind of buff.
He needs help, Mom.
[horn honking]
What are you doing, you crazy old coot?!
You trying to get yourself killed?!
OK, we're taking him.
Andrew! Wait up.
OK, so, now that we're bending the rules a little bit,
can I have a midnight curfew?
-[scoffs] No. -OK, 11:00?
[gasps]
Mom? Are you OK?
I think I'd like to talk to Andrew's sister.
[snoring]
[knocking at door]
Andrew.
Hi, Becca. Hi, Becca.
Uh-huh? Yeah?
-Where did you find him? -At a gas station.
He said he wanted to come see you so we gave him a lift.
Well, thanks for bringing him here. Let me get you some money for gas.
Oh, no, no, please, you don't have to do that.
He's sweet. We were happy to help him.
Well, thanks again.
Andrew's not quite right. I do my best to keep track of him, but...
Oh, he said you protected him when you guys were kids.
Yeah. We were air force brats.
Life on the base got a little rough sometimes.
Was your dad the one in the air force?
-He talked about him. -He did?
Oh, he just said the little box he has, your dad gave it to him.
-You know, the one he carries around. -Yeah, well, I don't know
anything about that.
Andrew, Andrew, and Becca.
See, Becca? You and me.
Roswell?
Well, thanks again. I'll take care of Andrew from here.
What? Yeah?
[Jack] I'm at Mach 10. I'm think I'm going to break up.
[Carey] Straighten it out. You're going to run into the mountain!
Whoa!
Watch it! You're going to burn me with your thruster.
[yells] Bank left! I'm taking the Polar route.
No, you can't go left. We're going to run out of fuel.
What? We can't run out of fuel. To use up that much fuel,
we'd have to have played this game for, like, four hours.
[beeping]
So, that video game was how much per hour?
[door closing]
Hey, guys. Whatcha you been doing?
-Uh... -[both] Reading.
Whoa! Roswell, Lies and UFOs?
Isn't that, um, where the spaceship crashed?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, that story's been disproved, like, a thousand different ways.
What library had all these books on all that garbage?
Oh, I didn't have to go to the library. These are all the books I had on the bus.
Honey, what name are we looking for again?
Koerner.
-Who's Koerner? -Don't know yet.
If you guys are into science fiction, there's some great new paperbacks out.
Do you know who first reported the UFO crash? The US air force.
Really?
[Fi] Walter Haut, the information officer
for the 509th bombardment group in Roswell, recalls getting a call
from Colonel William Blanchard at the headquarters
on the morning of July 7th, 1947.
Blanchard told him to put out a press release
saying that they had recovered the wreckage of a flying saucer.
They really said that?
Grandpa Will heard it on the radio was he was 12 years old.
He told me how everybody was totally freaked out.
And later that same day, at a press conference in Fort Worth, Texas,
they said it was a weather balloon.
Oh, come on, Jack, doesn't that seem a little suspicious?
Oh, come on, Carey.
What's harder to believe, that they made a mistake, or that they found a UFO?
I don't know, Jack.
Some people who were there saw some really strange things,
like this guy, an undertaker, Glenn Dennis.
He says that after the crash, the air force called him
and asked him for miniature caskets, and a nurse from the hospital
where they supposedly took the aliens even drew him pictures of their bodies.
They say that some were still alive.
Mom, what's happened to you?
You can't be buying into all this.
I find it... interesting.
Koerner.
-Where? -Right here.
"Sergeant Matthew Koerner at the press conference, denying UFO report."
-So he was there. -Wait, do we know him?
No, but we know his kids, Becca and Andrew.
Andrew? Your drifter friend?
Mom, we've got to go back and talk to him.
I'm not sure who's more nuts, you or him.
I don't think he's nuts, I just think he needs someone to believe him.
About what?
About what happened to him when he was a kid in Roswell.
I don't know. When I went to sleep, he was right here on the couch.
This morning, he was gone.
-Do you have any idea where he went? -He never tells me.
He just comes, and he stays for a week or a month or a night,
and then he disappears.
How am I supposed to stop him?
-You can't blame yourself. -Well, who should I blame?
I'm the only one he's got. One lousy sister.
Has he seen doctors?
You mean shrinks? About a hundred.
He's been therapized to death, he's... he's been medicated,
he's had shock treatments, I...
I let them do that to him, and he still hears those voices.
Miss Koerner?
What if something happened to Andrew
when he was a little kid that caused all this?
What are you talking about?
Well, your dad was Sergeant Matthew Koerner,
one of the ones that discovered the UFO crash that happened at Roswell.
That was a lie.
People spread dirty lies about my father, about how he said he found UFO wreckage.
Well, he didn't. He never said that. It was a weather balloon.
Well, let's say Andrew did see something--
You want to know why my brother is nuts? Is that what you're fishing for?
Well, let me tell you. That whole UFO thing tore the base apart,
and our family was caught right in the middle of it.
My father was ridiculed.
His career was ruined, and it broke up our family.
And no matter how hard I tried to protect Andrew...
I couldn't, not from that.
[sighs] He's too old to be living on the streets.
I'm afraid one of these days he'll...
If you want to try and find him, we'd like to help.
Mom, we're just off Pecos Avenue.
Um, we'll meet you back at the car in about ten minutes.
[Molly] OK, honey.
I can't imagine what it's like living like this.
Yeah. Me either.
Jack, do you think that... that just maybe
something did actually happen to Andrew in Roswell?
I don't know.
Maybe he heard so many rumors about this UFO thing
that... that he actually started believing them.
Or maybe Andrew's father touched one of the aliens,
and got some sort of, like, like, alien flu,
or... or alien chicken pox or something, whatever, listen...
and he got infected and came back and passed it on to Andrew,
which is exactly why Andrew's crazy.
You've got to stop hanging out with my sister.
Yeah, I know. I'm starting to scare myself.
-[Andrew] What? -Hey.
I don't understand. I don't understand.
-Mom? We found him. -Shh...
[Molly] We're on our way.
[Andrew mumbles]
-[Carey] Hey, Andrew. -What?
I don't understand. I don't understand.
-So, your sister's worried about you. -Becca. I hurt Becca.
-What do you mean? -When I'm around, it hurts her.
I'm not going to be around anymore.
Andrew, can I be honest with you?
Becca thinks that if you stay on the street like this,
you're going to die.
I have a little brother,
and I know that if he ever died on the street,
it'd be like I died, too.
I'd never forgive myself. That's why you need to go back.
Andrew, I want you to promise me you're not going to run away anymore.
Andrew, I need you to promise me.
I'm sorry, Becca.
I'm sorry.
Andrew, can you tell me when you started hearing the voices?
Long time ago. Long time.
Back when you lived in Roswell?
Roswell.
Yeah. Roswell.
You remember Roswell, Becca? You remember Mommy and Daddy?
Of course I do, Andrew.
I hear the voices all the time. They talk to me.
I think they try to tell me what to do.
Andrew...
I can never understand them, Becca.
Almost, I can.
If I could understand them, I would know what to do.
Did something happen in Roswell? Something you saw?
Did it have to do with your daddy?
I don't understand. I don't understand.
I don't know if they want me to tell.
Andrew, the voices aren't in the box.
-The voices are in your head. -No, no, they're in the box!
In the box!
July 4th, 1947.
Do you remember that date, Andrew?
-Do you remember what happened that day? -Not supposed to tell.
Not supposed to tell anybody. Daddy said.
Daddy said? Daddy said what?
That's the day that Daddy brought home the pieces from the spaceship.
Spaceship?
[Andrew] He put them on the kitchen table in a big wooden box.
Pieces were all broken and twisted, but everything glowed...
Daddy said they was Martians, and one of them was still alive.
Andrew, stop it.
Then there was a phone call.
When Daddy wasn't looking,
was when I did the bad thing.
Then Daddy came back, and he said he was never there, never,
and I could never tell anybody, ever,
and I never did.
Now I did.
What was the bad thing you did, Andrew?
[garbled voices]
I took this out of the box.
[garbled voices]
Are those the voices you've been hearing?
Can you help me understand them?
I... I think if you took that out of the box...
I don't think anybody could understand them,
anybody... human.
I don't want to have this anymore.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you, Becca.
I wanted to, but daddy said--
It's all right, Andrew. It's all right.
I'm so tired, Becca. Could I lie down?
Of course, Andrew.
I'll take care of you now.
[Carey] I cannot believe she actually gave that to you.
Well, I think Andrew's done with it.
This is so unbelievably amazing.
I mean, this could be like, a walkie-talkie to other planets.
They could be listening to us right now.
Uh, hello, there's no way that little box could be a radio
that communicates between planets
without decades of silence in the conversation.
It's against the laws of physics.
So, if aliens can build spaceships,
who said they can't find their way around the laws of physics?
Yeah, well, get back to me
when you can prove there are aliens who build spaceships.
Blah, blah, blah.
[garbled voices]
Wait!
What is it, baby?
-I am Fi. -[garbled voice]
-I like aliens. -[garbled voice]
Jack, you're right! It's not a radio.
-Thank you. -It's a translator!
You mean, like... human to alien?
That's why Andrew thought he was hearing voices all of his life.
It was just translating what anybody said.
That's crazy.
-Well, what else could it be? -How about a kids' toy?
You know, like those ones we used to have that went "moo."
[Fi] Well, if it's a toy, it's a toy from outer space.
I've got to get online,
see if a ufologist around here has heard about it.
Fi! I'll get her.
What do you think, Ms. P?
I don't know, Carey.
I guess there's a whole lot more going on than we'll ever really understand.
-Like... what's a ufologist? -[laughs]
[rumbling]
[alien] She is almost ready.