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This won't be understood, not now...
Hello.
They still want an American to go, doctor.
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...which you turned down to pursue SETI work...
...will be gone, dead and buried.
Continue.
Boy, this is really gonna change the Miss Universe contest.
...they got from the 1930s. They're just getting them.
Why can't we just trust the original...?
Security, stage one alert.
Uh-oh. Looks like it's gonna be a long night.
- Eighty-five percent. - All bearing tips are on the profile.
I, for one, believe her.
- I was looking for patterns in the chaos. - Doesn't matter, we're a joke to them.
You know the Very Large Array in New Mexico?
Even a scientist has to admit...
Yes.
Isn't that correct, doctor?
Yes.
We're picking up some low-frequency noise.
...there will be a substantial amount of energy generated at the core.
Frequency 9.85.
- Crew Ops? - Nothing wrong with Elmer.
But there's a bad drive on 16.
...how tiny and insignificant...
...on the Machine's design and function.
If the president wishes to stay this course...
In time, you'll take another.
Life support, how is she doing?
Bingo. I had Willie ask Rattan to retune to 8.9247 gigahertz.
I wanna show you something.
What?
It was God.
- Are you ready? - Yeah, go ahead.
Controlled by Americans...
...we must confess that your proposal seems less like science...
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
- The White House. - Mr. Joss.
Your having sent this all over the world may constitute a breach of national security.
We'll be able to monitor the stresses and effects...
- Did you love your father? - What?
Well, it's complicated, Ellie.
The fact that it recorded static isn't what interests me.
Does it show?
...why do you think these aliens would go to all this trouble?
Thank you, Elmer.
Yeah, I sure have, Larry.
We thought this might make things easier for you.
...and in multiple dimensions.
Yes, well, if nothing else...
I'm sorry I wasted your time.
We're homeless.
I'm go.
...to descend upon the VLA facility here in the desert of New Mexico.
...and he's our first ambassador to outer space?
Good question, Larry.
Okay, they understand that. You're at the top of a very short list.
Two, three, five, seven, those are all prime numbers.
What?
Which will need help to receive and decode.
That they recorded it and sent it back is saying, "Hello, we heard you."
It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before.
However, the appointment to the committee of Michael Kitz...
Something, some...
"Because they thought it was so beautiful and glowing."
Well, this message is from a civilization that may be anywhere...
Even as it promises answers to some of our oldest questions...
I got a visual on the door.
none none
I couldn't imagine living in a world where God didn't exist.
...and your stamina.
What do you think, Doctor Arroway?
You're living on a space station?
We're locked. Systems check out, signal across the board. What's the frequency?
People have been looking at Vega for years with no results.
And there are others?
On my mark.
Well, I... I guess I should...
Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony and concede...
- Can we hear all the way to New York? - Sure.
Patch the recording into the image processor.
Okay, look, I understand...
Moses with a few billion new commandments.
Why buy one when you can have two at twice the price?
Clearly, I've never been there, but...
...who doesn't believe in God.
...so complex, drawing on many disciplines...
If I'd known it was gonna take three planes, I might've reconsidered.
Forty percent.
...has been received by American scientists. Claire Shipman is at the White House.
Lights.
If it's attention you want, you got that. Vega.
Bring you tens of thousands of light years and then send you home without proof?
Five...
There is no evidence they actually exist, is there?
That's what I've been trying to tell everyone.
...built by the Japanese subcontractors...
I just couldn't in good conscience vote for a person...
Well, I suppose it would be:
Tell me something, doctor...
Something never before experienced...
It would be a dynamite place to do serious SETI...
...in all of human history.
Don't tell me.
Actually, I quite like it up here.
- White Sands? - On this frequency? No.
...I accept this great honor...
I'm okay to go.
...to unite the world in some common goal. Maybe all of the above.
- Fish! - We're on it.
This key section, uncovered tonight and obtained exclusively by CNN...
I have guests so rarely, it's important to me that they feel welcome in my home.
Science, in this case.
Hey.
- Dynamics... - I can confirm the walkway retraction.
It's so beautiful.