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- [Reporter] With president Helen Colton
arriving for the G7 Summit in Brussels,
the crisis in the Ukraine
will be the main issue discussed.
The other six leaders taking part
will also address issues on trade security
and climate change.
This will be the first G7 Summit
hosted by the European Union.
Originally, a G8 Summit was to take place
in Sochi, Russia, but with that nation's invasion
and annexation of the Crimea in Ukraine,
the decision was made to expel Russia from this summit
and move it to Brussels.
With Russia, President Colton must manage
this diplomatic falling out
as the United States relies on Russia's space program
to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.
(door opening)
(footsteps thumping)
- [President Colton] Do we have any idea what he wants?
- [Elisabeth] No. Just wanted, more like demanded a meeting.
- And he flew from Colorado to Brussels?
- Well, it must be important.
- Bill?
- Yes, Madam President.
- I need a moment.
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- [Major Sampson] You want to start with this one, sir?
- [General Reager] Yes. And the rest can follow in this order.
- Coffee, Major?
- Oh no. Thank you, sir. I am fully leaded.
(papers flipping)
Sir, do you think she'll believe us?
- Believe? Well, that's a good question.
But no matter what she believes it won't change the facts.
Have you met the president?
- No, sir. I haven't.
I almost did when she came to inspect Vandenberg
last month.
- Ah yes. Her surprise base inspections.
They aren't going as well as you'd think
- Sir?
- Oh, forget it.
Just a word of advice.
Colton uses Seward as a Pit Bull.
If she asks you a direct question,
you give her a complete answer.
The last thing you wanna do
is get into a debate with her.
Trust me.
- Understood, sir.
Well, anyone else-
(door opening)
- Excuse me. Who are you?
(door shutting)
- [Cedric Yonah] You must be General Reager and Major Sampson.
- This is a closed door meeting.
- Yes. The door is closed.
I'm Cedric Yonah and this is James Griffin.
- Well, excuse me, Mr. Yonah, what is your purpose here?
- General, when I was advised at this meeting,
my colleague and I were asked to attend.
- And who was that?
- Who was, what?
- Who asked you to attend?
- General, Major, let's no get off on the wrong foot,
shall we?
You know as well as I, that on occasion,
outside experts are called in to assist.
(door opening)
- Madam President.
(door shutting)
- General Reager, I haven't seen you
since that Navstar launch of Cape Canaveral.
How's the Directorate?
- As always, Madam President, 100%.
Oh, I'd like you to meet Major Ellen Sampson.
- Ah, Major Sampson, a pleasure.
- Likewise, Madam President.
- And where were you stationed?
- Space and Missile Systems, El Segundo.
- Ah, I should figure when old John here called a meeting,
that space would factor into it.
Welcome.
- Thank you, Madam President.
- Forgive me Madam President,
but I thought this was going to be a closed meeting.
- Oh, my dear General, you know my policy, always a witness
or in this case, an expert or two.
And of course, you both know Elisabeth Seward,
my National Security Advisor.
- Elisabeth.
- Ma'am.
- General, Major.
Elisabeth, perhaps you could introduce our other two guests,
although it looked like
you were all exchanging pleasantries when we walked in.
- Of a sort.
- General, Major, this is Cedric Yonah,
science attache to the president and James Griffin,
who was with JPL and now the Shinar Center of Science.
- Oh yes, the DC think tank behind the upgrades
to the Deep Space Network.
- The very one, Major.
No point in launching satellites
if we can't communicate with them.
- Agreed.
- Yonah. Yonah, that's Hebrew for dove, isn't it?
- It is.
- Well, now that we're all introduced,
General, this is your bailiwick.
I can give you just about an hour.
- Thank you, Madam president
if you would all take your seats.
(footsteps thumping)
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- That's a pretty old school setup
for this level of briefing.
- Old-school?
A Faraday shield is protecting this room
and the adjacent hallway from electromagnetic fields.
- Wow. That explains why the Secret Service
confiscated our cell phones before we entered the elevator.
But there will be a record of this meeting.
Simply put, there's a hole in the president's schedule
because she's here.
How long do you think it will take
before some intrepid reporter starts asking questions
that I'm just gonna guess you don't want answered.
- Ma'am the answer is simple.
The Commander of Air Force Space Command
requested an emergency meeting with the president
- And as Commander,
I must protest the presence of these two civilians.
They're not part of my command.
- No. They're part of mine. Shall we get on with it?
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- Of course, Madam President. Major.
This point in space is known as Lagrange Point Two.
Just about 1 million miles from Earth.
This is one of five such celestial points relative to Earth,
but is the Lagrange Point Two
that observes the Earth, Moon and Sun.
They're called parking places in space
because the combined gravitational forces
of all three bodies create a place of equilibrium.
So a satellite can literally park there
and make observations.
- Madam President, when the James Webb Telescope
launches in 2019, it'll be parked at this point.
Sorry, General.
- Please tell me you didn't request this meeting
to give me a science lesson.
- No, Madam president. Next slide.
You mentioned the Directorate earlier.
As you know, the Directorate overseas GPS launch, military
and other highly classified communications
for the Department of Defense.
You're looking at a Milstar satellite
in geostationary orbit.
And that orbit is about 24,000 miles from earth.
As you may know, Madam President,
we have five of these military communication satellites
in orbit.
On August 15 last year, this satellite intercepted a signal
that originated from Lagrange Point Two.
At first, our concern was that someone was trying
to hack into Milstar,
but at the time that didn't seem to be the case.
- Why is that?
- The only satellite operating in LG2
is a European Space Agency space observatory called, Gaia.
And it's not configured to communicate with Milstar.
- Then what was it?
- Another satellite.
(soft music)
- But you just said that the only one operating there was...
- Gaia.
- Yes. Thank you.
- Who intercepted the signal?
- My unit did
- Sure. It wasn't an Earth-based signal that reflected
off some piece of space debris?
- Positive.
- Major, science isn't about positives.
It's about a probable set of conclusions based on facts.
- Emissions from a neutron star?
- Negative.
- Comment?
- Negative.
This signal was in the upper band
of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- What part?
X-ray, and before you tell me
it's not possible scientifically,
you know, as well as I, that NASA has been looking
into X-ray transmissions.
- But it's not NASA.
- No, and it's not the Europeans.
- But this signal could be faked.
- Sure. If there was a transmitter 900 AUs from Earth,
but considering Voyager 1 is just over 100 AUs from Earth,
I would say it's unlikely.
- Look, this could be Russia, China,
hell, it could be Iran, for all we know.
- Madam President, With all due respect,
there isn't a satellite launch
from this planet that we don't know about.
(soft music)
- General, what exactly are you trying to tell me?
Madam President,
it was a satellite of extraterrestrial origin.
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- Dear God.
General, how did you get this picture?
- Yes, how did you?
Satellites are next to impossible to image?
there's virtually no ambient light in space.
- To be frank, we got very lucky.
Major, do we have a slide of the X-37?
- Yes sir. I believe so.
(papers flips)
- We're being watched
- [Reager] So it would it seem.
- But by who or what?
- Madam President, if I may,
just bring us all back to Earth for a moment.
Since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957
there have been over what?
6,000 satellites launched into space?
This predates the National Reconnaissance Office
and the Space Surveillance Networks.
I agree with the general that the United States tracks
all watches from around the world now, but in the 1960s,
'70s, even '80s,
come on, it wasn't technically possible back then.
- I had no idea you were such
a historian on space, Elisabeth.
- That's why I'm here. I briefed her.
- Oh, did you?
Interesting.
- Ready, sir.
- Thank you, Major.
Madam President,
you're familiar with the Boeing X-37 space plane.
On the day of discovery,
this plane was on its second test flight.
On my order, I sent the plane to the LG2
where the signal originated,
with on-board lights and cameras,
the following images were produced.
- Well, thank you for confirming the rumored EM drive,
but that still doesn't confirm
that it's extra terrestrial in origin.
- Oh, it does.
When the satellite engages its engine and leave quickly.
We haven't been able to track it since.
- Then all you have, General is a picture
that could lend itself to a science fiction story.
- (scoffs) Mr. Science Attache,
in addition to the X-ray transmission that we have,
the X- 37 also recorded some very interesting readings.
- What kind?
- Propulsion.
Yes, we have an experimental ION drive on the X-37,
but that pales in comparison to the anti-gravity drive
on the satellite.
So we're no longer in the world of science fiction,
but fact, and the fact remains Madam President,
that a satellite of extra terrestrial origin
was discovered at LG2
with communication and propulsion technologies
that do not exist on Earth.
- Who else knows about this?
- Aside from those in this room,
only a handful of techs from Sampson's unit
and Senator Hadrian.
The signal telemetry and mission records of the X-37
are now controlled by my office.
- You know, if Sorenson finds out about this
or any of these other alien disclosure groups
were in of it.
- Sorenson?
- Oh, a political activist that heads up
Solar Research Group.
He tried putting pressure on the president
to disclose what she knew about UFOs
or more precisely, the extra terrestrial presence issue.
- Christ, I need some coffee.
Let's take five.
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- Government has painted itself into a real corner
with this UFO matter.
Damned if they say something. Damned if they don't.
They only believe what they see.
- It doesn't matter. It's academic.
- Do you think Reager will be a help or a hindrance?
- Please, he is a career military officer on a mission.
Which actually it gives me an idea.
- What's your impression of the president?
- If I dint know any better, sir, I'd say she's scared.
- Aren't you? Hell, aren't we all?
With all that we know, we should have seen this one coming.
Keep your eye on Cedric.
- That's not hard sir. He's keeping them on me.
- If an opportunity presents itself, take it.
We need to know more about him.
(President Colton sighs loudly)
(coffee pouring)
- I just can't believe this.
- Neither can I.
(President Colton sighs loudly)
- What would your advice be?
- Well, whatever happens,
there's only one thing you have to remember,
you're the president.
(soft music)
- Madam President, it was truly an honor to meet you,
but I must beg to leave.
I have a flight today.
- Oh, I'm sorry to see you go.
I've enjoyed your commentary on this,
what are we calling it?
Development or discovery?
- Revelation.
- That's as good a word as any.
James, I'd like you to stay in touch
with Elisabeth's office.
I might have some follow-up questions for you.
- Of course, Madam President.
- Leaving in the middle of a presidential briefing.
- I thought you'd be happy, General.
- What could possibly be more important?
- You know the old adage, ask me no questions,
- And I'll tell you no lies.
- Imagine if we did that in Washington
- Mr. Griffin, I do want to remind you,
this meeting is classified.
- General, you have my word that no one
on this planet will know.
Madam President, Madam Advisor, General, Major.
- Safe travels.
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(door opening)
(door shutting)
(footstep thumping)
- Bill, I need to get to the field as quickly as possible.
- [Bill] Yes, sir.
(upbeat music)
(footsteps thumping)
- General, forgive the obvious,
you discovered this alleged alien-
- There's nothing alleged about it.
- You don't mind if I finish, do you?
You discovered this satellite on August 15th,
why are we just hearing about this now on June 4th,
nearly a year after this incident?
- And why brief Senator Hadrian,
the Chairman of the Senate Committee of Armed Services
before the president?
- They make a point, John.
I'd like an answer before you continue.
- To be frank Madam President,
we needed to be certain
there was something to brief you on
and to compartmentalize the entire operation.
- You mean hide from inquiry?
- I mean keep it from the public.
That's why I went to Hadrian.
Do you think it's a good idea
for the public to know about this?
Do you? They can barely handle bad weather.
That's the one downside of a democracy disclosure
for some things that just can't be disclosed,
and to ensure compliance with any ridiculous
Freedom of Information Act requests,
the documentation has been removed from government files.
Call it what you want.
I call it, protecting the people from themselves.
And before you utter one more word,
the president will agree with me on this.
- He's right, Elisabeth.
There are just some matters of state
that can't be disclosed.
Speaking of disclosure,
I'd like to know where Mr. Griffin went in such a hurry,
given his background
and the subject matter that we're talking about.
Don't you find it odd that he left so abruptly?
(helicopter flying)
- Very well.
He went to the European Space Operations Center
in Darmstadt, Germany.
We want to know if the Gaia observatory
reported anything unusual.
We would've told you Madam President,
but we didn't want any military interference.
- You're gonna have more than military-
- General, I'm satisfied.
Let's all secure from Defcon 3, shall we?
- It's a prudent action.
Albeit a bit underhanded.
- So you haven't been able to track this satellite?
- Not the satellite itself.
- But I thought the satellite-
- Communication.
After we ruled out a hack of Milstar,
we believe it came down to line of sight,
and that our satellite simply got in the way.
- How did you possibly come up with that conclusion?
- Our satellites don't communicate the X-ray transmission.
Our satellite simply recorded what it received
or more precisely what passed through it.
- But that still doesn't prove your line of sight theory.
- It doesn't disprove it either.
It's a theory for many deductions.
Fact, no satellite launched from Earth
whether military or civilian communicates
via X-ray transmissions.
Fact, the signal terminated over the Atlantic Ocean.
Fact, no military or civilian aircraft, surface ships,
or submarines were anywhere near
the termination of the signal.
So where does that leave us?
- Your tell us, Major.
- You're familiar with Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Of course.
- Once you eliminate the impossible,
what remains no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Laugh all you want.
Madam President, we strongly believe that this satellite
was communicating with something that,
well, something that we just can't see
because the fact remains that a signal
must be received by something.
The fact that we can't see it does not mean
that it doesn't exist.
- Your conclusion is ridiculous.
- Not nearly as ridiculous as your deliberate dismissal.
You're supposed to be the National Security Adviser.
Aren't you the least bit concerned about this?
- I'm concerned that Russia,
a member of the United Nations Security Council
has invaded the Crimea and the president should be talking
to her allies upstairs
rather than listening to fantasy downstairs, okay?
I'm concerned that you are wasting the president's time,
but hey, look, I get it.
You have a picture
and a signal and you think that-
- Major, excuse me.
You are also painfully, aware that X-ray can originate
from a supernova, other space phenomenon?
- But it does come down to modulation, doesn't it?
A supernova isn't trying to communicate.
You also know, or maybe you don't,
that NASA has been experimenting with this technology.
Madam President, if NASA is successful,
the result will be high-rates of data
transmitted over vast distances of space
and the ability to communicate with hypersonic vehicles
during atmosphere, free entry.
Mr. Griffith would confirm all this, but he's, oh yes,
he's left for ESOC.
- General, have you decoded these transmissions?
- This is why it's taken so long
to bring this to your attention.
I'll take over, Major.
Madam President, what I'm about to disclose
has a NATO security classification as CTS,
it's Cosmic Top Secret.
High security rating possible.
Before I continue, I need your authorization
to declassify this information to him.
- I have more clearance that you can possibly know.
- Not with me, you don't.
- Madam President, a moment.
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Reager knows that Cedric is in this room
he has all necessary clearances, why ask you?
- He wants to know where my alliances fall.
He's plotting something.
What, I don't know yet, but body language speaks volumes.
Reager wants something.
- And Cedric wants to know what.
- We need to find out where this is going.
General, you have my authorization.
(soft music)
- The planet Earth
designated the Blue Marble during Apollo 17.
Stunning, isn't it?
But here's what you have to know
if you plan to land on it.
There are presently over 3,500 satellites in orbit.
We are tracking over 500,000 pieces
of orbital debris.
Now this traffic is traveling at 17,000 miles per hour.
in Earth's atmosphere, civilian and military flight tracking
is just as important.
This year alone, there will be over 100,000 civilian flights
around the world.
The Military, NATO, ESA
and other civilian and commercial partners have to navigate
this traffic for more reasons than I can count.
Apparently, so to those that control this satellite.
- What exactly are you saying, General?
- Navigation.
This satellite wasn't just observing earth.
It was communicating in the same way
that we communicate with our spacecraft and aircraft.
It wasn't just imagery, either.
Transponder codes for all civilian and military satellites
and aircraft were recorded.
There were also weather forecasting models.
We also found what we believe to be a flight plan,
leaving from the Atlantic ocean and off the planet.
- A flight plan?
- Where did the plan track to?
- That we don't know.
- Something isn't just watching us,
they're already here.
(suspenseful music)
- Precisely.
- It's curious, isn't it?
- What is?
- This.
(suspenseful music)
Governments spends billions on space exploration
in the search for extra terrestrial life.
Earth scientists have discovered nearly 1000
extra solar planets, some in the habitable zone.
Radio telescopes, beaming and beaming,
hoping to make contact.
And what happens?
You discover they're right here.
Congratulations. You can both add another medal
to your fruit salads.
- Excuse me. That's disrespectful.
- Cedric, the General and Major are decorated officers
with a track record of outstanding-
- Madam President forgive me. I mean, no disrespect.
It's a compliment to your command.
- Well, then compliment us with your scientific insight
on what we may be dealing with.
- There are many insights we could make.
Just looking at the configuration and size of the satellite
means that there could be a similarity to Earth's development
in terms of communications.
Anti gravity propulsion though, that's a revolution.
If in fact the X-37 readings were correct.
It means the propulsion can be achieved
at near light, speed in space.
And on planets like Earth.
Gravity cancellation technology
would make conventional airports and airplanes obsolete.
In essence, picture a helicopter
without the need for rotating blades.
Now, if such a satellite were to originate
from another solar system,
it could be one nearby, say Gliese or Promixa Centauri.
Ask anyone who has worked in this field
and they'll tell you the navigation of space
is complicated and dangerous.
It looks empty to the lay person,
but in fact is littered with debris like Earth orbit.
Now for a long extended journey they would need
or at least want something along the lines
of asteroid deflectors for starters.
- Asteroid deflectors?
- Yes, devices that fly apart,
but in concert with the primary space vehicle
to repel, deflect or even destroy space debris
that poses a threat to navigation.
NASA is working on a plan now to install laser cannons
on the ISS for just such debris.
It's a shame the satellite disappeared.
Imagine the knowledge, if it was reversed engineered.
Of course, there's one thing you can't tell
from these images or even the transmission.
- And what's that?
- How long the satellite has been an orbit.
Could be one year. It could be 100.
It could be a thousand.
My point is, wherever they're from,
regardless of what they look like,
they are an advanced civilization, but not infallible.
- The comm signal that passed through our satellite.
- Exactly.
- What do you think they want?
- You don't need to be a scientist to answer that,
Madam President.
I would postulate the same thing NASA wants
when new horizons intercepts Pluto next year.
- Answers.
- Answers are something that we need, Cedric.
So where do we go from here, General?
- It's not where we go. It's where we are.
Using our military satellite networks
in cooperation with other nations
and ground stations around the world,
I've assembled a team of scientists and engineers
and various agencies to detect
and track this alien presence.
But our present funding and certain inter-agency rules
prohibit us from taking this further.
I need your authorization to divert funding
from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Authorization Act of 2014.
This funding will be placed
at the National Reconnaissance Office
and administered by Space Command.
NASA won't ask any questions.
Any budget shortfall will be handled by Congress
under Senator Hadrian's lead.
(suspenseful music)
Operation Troy, Madam President.
(suspenseful music)
- What are you afraid of, General?
- It's not about being afraid.
It's about knowing who they are and what they want.
And let us be clear,
nobody undertakes a multi light year space journey
just because it's Monday.
- That's right, General, a journey.
And you don't know what they want or who they are.
You are assuming, just on your actions alone,
they're malevolent.
- And what evidence do you have that benevolent?
- Have they attacked you? No.
- We don't know that.
We don't know what they're doing here,
but they certainly have some sort of stealth technology.
- And you don't?
Why do you fly your stealth bombers and drones
to hostile territory?
To protect yourself.
Has it dawned on you that these, whatever they are,
are doing the same?
- No, it hasn't.
Because in our case, we know who we're dealing with,
human beings
- Mr. Yonah, this is about military preparedness.
It's that simple.
We don't know what we're dealing with.
- Exactly. You don't.
This action into the unknown
could seriously put our national security in jeopardy,
nevermind the security of our planet.
Isn't this the time to act on fact rather than fiction?
- That's the point, to get some.
We are operating literally in the dark,
the darkness of space.
The whole point of Operation Troy,
is to shed light on this darkness.
- Indeed. This is a time to study and investigate.
Can you imagine what you could learn from them?
- All we've learned is that we're being watched,
and our land air and space assets are being tracked.
To what end, who knows?
- Would you not agree that this discovery gives credence to,
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known?"
- This isn't the time or place to quote Carl Sagan.
- That quote is mistakenly attributed to him.
When in fact it was created by a reporter.
- What's your point, Cedric?
- My point Madam President,
is that in light of the magnitude of this discovery
it's too easy for mistakes to be made.
- All you scientists are alike.
You deal with the unknown, but you're remarkably,
predictable in your actions.
- As are you General, you sadly deal in absolutes
because the unknown terrifies you
- General, if I sign this,
what's the objective of Operation Troy
- Identification.
(murmured conversation)
(war sounds)
If they're going to watch us, we'll return the favor.
The objective is to identify where they are on this planet.
And if possible, the solar system.
Once identified, communications will be open.
My concern, Madam President is despite them being here,
they've made no effort to communicate with us.
Instead of silent, stealth-like invasion
has already happened.
Just because a bomb hasn't been dropped
does not mean the war has not begun.
So yes, I am afraid.
Afraid of the unknown, as you should be, Madam President
and everyone else in room.
(suspenseful music)
- Your xenophobia, General is painfully apparent.
what does Reager stand for? Something Germanic, isn't it?
How fitting someone with a Germanic name
talks about identifying people?
How fitting such a person commands a military apparatus.
- How dare you compare me-
- I'm not comparing you to anyone except yourself.
Unless people like me speak up loud and often,
and at the moment it matters,
history is a strange habit of repeating itself.
How many times in the history of mankind
have people been identified by the fear of others?
How many times have they been marked by the ignorance
of hate under the organization of the state?
Those that wouldn't open their eyes,
those that failed to learn,
to make any attempt to understand
that just because you don't know someone
doesn't mean they're your enemy.
They could be your friend.
- A friend doesn't operate in stealth,
there in the open with a hand of friendship
or at least curiosity.
Not some comm signal,
revealing the identification of our planes,
our ships and our submarines.
With the exception of you, everyone in this room
has taken the oath.
It's our job to protect this country against enemies,
both foreign and domestic.
And if this doesn't qualify as foreign,
you can have all my stars
because that is exactly where they're from.
And until the day comes that they reveal themselves
and their intentions to us,
they will be treated as a cancer in our world.
- And be eradicated.
You're right, General.
I haven't taken an oath
because how many times throughout history
do these oaths end in, "So help me, God."
You may be looking for a divine intervention
if your plans bear fruit.
This fruit you so longingly are looking to accomplish
could usher in a new revelation.
Has it even remotely occurred to you,
instead acting on fear of what you don't understand,
you want to detect, track and identify them,
and you don't even know what them is.
I'm a man of science and one could say a history,
when your government enacted the Indian Removal Act,
it never occurred to President Jackson
that someday the Native Americans unique place in the world
might be needed.
Thankfully, they and their language survived
and helped you end a World War.
Has it occurred to you that whoever they are
it might someday help you in your hour of need.
Maybe they already are.
Do you want to identify them
because you were scared of what you don't understand.
If you don't want to understand space, why look up,
keep your head down.
Thankfully Galileo never did.
But by looking up, he went against the state.
Not a state of arms, but a state of mind and beliefs.
Beliefs so distorted centuries later,
that millions would detect track
and identified by a state so consumed with fear from within
they couldn't see without,
is ironic in so many ways that you have a space program
that failed state.
A state that is now an ally,
whose Chancellor went before your Congress
and recounted one phrase of the constitution that proclaims,
"Human dignity shall be inviolable."
Sadly, the action you are postulating today,
is a violation of the dignity and the oath you took.
Simply, "There is no price one can set
on the future of humanity so long as it is tempered
with the best intentions of mankind."
You said those words, Madam President to your Congress
to fund the space program, not to militarize it.
I wonder what giant leap for mankind
will be attained if you signed this order.
Indeed, Madam President, the Trojan horse in this room-
- Sit down.
(intense music)
(claps) well, what a wonderful speech that was,
full of life, perspective and replete with history,
but not one solid contemporary idea on what we should do.
The history is littered with people like you,
all talk and no action.
Neville Chamberlain would have loved you.
But yes, I love this uniform and what it represents.
And I have no problem, issue, or reservation
saying that I support and defend the constitution
of the United States, period.
And if that goes against your moral standings
and sensibilities, so be it.
That's your right.
Because as an American, you have that choice.
That's the beauty of the constitution, freedom of choice.
And if that freedom gets bloodied along the way, so be it.
But I no longer have the time, inclination or interest
in debating this with you any longer.
I live in the here and now, not last week
and not seven centuries ago.
And though history may have some lessons to learn from,
I have no interest in writing its last chapter.
And I'll be God damned
if something else writes it for us.
(intense music)
Forgive me, Madam President.
What say you?
- It seems odd, does it?
That we are here in a bunker like wars long past.
But today we decide on a fate that none of us know
or can even predict.
I've always been a supporter of the space program,
you know that.
But unlike presidents before me,
I am faced with the revelation that mankind is not alone.
I have to believe that our intention
has always been one of science, but let's not kid ourselves.
There's always been a military component to this,
this next frontier.
This is about the science of anything.
We need to know who or what we're dealing with
before we can deal with them.
They have the upper hand of what we don't know,
but that is something that we need to know.
It's not about fear, but intelligence.
I think we can all agree that
before the New World was discovered,
all Erikson had was the horizon to look at
and it stars to guide him,
but we need to know what the beyond this horizon,
and why out of over 200 billions stars,
they were guided to us.
(upbeat music)
I'm sorry, it's this world first.
(ominous music)
God help us.
(ominous music)
- Thank you, Madam President.
For obvious reasons,
updates will not appear on your daily intelligence brief.
- You can update my office, General I'll -
- I'll update the president.
- My job as the National Security Advisor is to-
- Advise the president on matters of terrestrial security,
not space.
(ominous music)
Madam President.
Let's plan to meet when you get back to Washington,
I'm sure I'll have an update for you then.
- Very good, General.
- Of course, all my best at the G7.
This invasion by the Russian's not good.
Hard to believe they were once an ally.
Major?
- Yes, sir.
- I'll see you at the briefing.
- Yes sir.
- Madam President.
(upbeat music)
(door opening)
(door shutting)
(papers flipping)
- Major, I'd like to have that file.
- Yes, Madam President.
- And the USB?
- Madam President, I don't think I could...
Of course, Madam President.
- How many of us have dreamed of this moment?
The moment when we learned that we're not alone?
And what's the first step that we take?
A military one.
History will record the day I signed this order.
My God, what have I done?
- You've done what is necessary for the moment
because something tells me the alternative
may have been far worse.
While I don't agree with it, I understand your decision.
History is replete with moments like this,
but moments are never the whole picture
that is yet to be painted.
- I wish I could share your spirited optimism, Cedric.
- Optimism is what we must have, Madam President
so the darkest hour turns into the brightest day.
- Madam President, it was a pleasure to meet you today.
I'm sorry the circumstances.
- Think nothing of it, Major.
These are revealing times, if not conflicted ones.
- May I ask which base you might be visiting next?
- You may ask.
- Major, may I ask where you're headed?
I could use a ride to the field.
- Mr. Griffin was your ride, I gather.
- Yes, I could hire a car, but-
- No, no, that'd be fine.
I'm not due back at Chievres until later this afternoon.
I'd be happy to do it.
- Thank you. Madam President, until our next meeting.
- Safe travels, Cedric.
- Madam President.
- Elisabeth.
- Ma'am.
(ominous music)
(door opening)
(upbeat music)
(door shutting)
- With the stroke of a pen,
I just unleashed hell on Earth.
(door opening)
- Where am I taking you?
- It's a private field about 10 kilometers from the city.
I'll direct you.
- If you have the address I can GPS it.
- Why did you sign it?
- We needed to know who we're dealing with.
Since the knowledge of an alien presence on Earth
was conveyed to me by my predecessor,
on the day after I assumed office,
my fear has always been that at some point,
the military would rest control of our armed forces
from civilian command.
It's easier to monitor him if I agree with him.
If I fight him, he'll burrow into a hole so deep and black,
not even Kepler could find him (sighs loudly).
Issue the code, Argonaut Two.
Argonaut, he's not here.
- Yes, he is. Contact his embassy.
- Yes. Yes, Madam President.
- Elisabeth, everyone's been identified,
take every precaution.
(door opening)
(door shutting)
(soft music)
(footsteps thumping)
(door shutting)
(soft music)
(suspense music)
(airplane engine roaring)
(suspense music)
- Senator Hadrian
- I'm sure you've had enough formalities for one day.
Paul will do.
- And so will this.
- Excellent.
- Anything on Yonah?
- No, nothing.
There are no records on a Cedric Yonah in any civilian
or military database.
- What? He's a science attache for Colton.
- Hmm. No, he isn't.
Our intel can't decide
if he was invited by Seward or Griffin.
- And what about him? Griffin?
He checks out so far, but if he was in Germany,
he didn't go through Brussels.
- How did he leave?
- Helicopter, no flight plan and even more disturbing,
we've lost him on the radar.
- That's not possible in this airspace.
- Someone made it possible just like this.
- What the hell?
- They're all like this from the meeting.
But if you take a look at your drive, they're all fine.
That camera we hid in your fruit salad
seemed to work wonderfully.
And we picked up your signal as you came topside.
- [Reager] It's not mechanical.
- No. And I'm afraid
Sampson is gonna have the same results.
By the way, we haven't heard from her
since she went down underneath for the meeting.
Has she reported back to you?
- That's disturbing.
I disabled the Faraday shield after I left.
Click back to the meeting.
No, something's not right.
No background, no picture.
You don't think you could be one of the people?
- Who knows?
- Well, whoever he is, he knows who I am.
- But we know who he works with.
And this meeting was always about intelligence.
(soft music)
(knocking on the door)
(soft music)
- Yes.
(door opening)
- Madam President, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
and the President of the Russian Federation.
(door shutting)
- Alison, thank you so much.
- Well, I was just upstairs, but...
- Sergei, I appreciate this.
You know I wouldn't have called Argonaut Two if it wasn't-
- Elisabeth briefed us.
- Stephen, where is Elisabeth?
- She's in communication with the Synedrion Council.
- Let us know when she returns. Thank you.
- Madam President.
- Allison, there's coffee, tea.
(soft music)
- You didn't push the panic button because of a satellite
we already knew about.
Your military is out of control.
- And yours isn't? You invaded and annexed Crimea.
- Crimea's parliament voted for independence.
- Oh, please. After you installed a pro Russian government.
- Your sanctions against us will not be-
- Sergei. Helen. We're not here
to talk about matters of state.
(soft music)
- You're right?
Of course. My apologies.
- Well, now that we have detente.
Helen, Argonaut Two is only called
when one of the space is an imminent outside threat,
but this isn't outside it's inside.
(soft music)
- I had no idea you were such a historian on space,
Elisabeth.
- That's why I'm here. I briefed her.
- Well, one thing was quite clear,
Seward and Yonah are not casual acquaintances.
I wonder, have we been played?
- In what sense?
- There are only two possibilities.
Either they made a mistake, which I doubt.
Or they deliberately sent a signal
through Milstar to smoke us out.
I don't think it was the former.
- Why would they possibly do that?
- Answers. The crash in 47. The conference in 72.
He mentioned reverse engineering
and seemed to go off a cliff when I told him
we decoded the signal.
We've been waiting for a move.
This could have been it.
- No, I don't see it.
Would you have given the Taliban classified intel
to disclosed their exact locations?
No. Misinformation, of course.
And you remember the day the signal was cracked
and you took the information, clarified it with our records.
You nearly had a stroke.
And the method we use to crack that signal,
the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to them.
- Them!
(mysterious music)
- Does he know about Apollo?
- This invasion by the Russians, not good.
Hard to believe they were once an ally.
- Helen, this is bigger than Apollo.
It transcends all of us.
- Jesus Christ.
- And he's not working alone.
- What was her reaction?
- Dejected.
- And insurgency?
- I suspect in all our militaries.
that's why I called Argonaut Two.
Like the first during the war
the only way to win this one is if we cooperate.
- Reager gives a whole new meaning to fifth column.
- What about Hadrian?
Is he part of this insurgency or just an unwilling pawn?
- It's hard to say at this point.
His committee has oversight over the military.
So it makes sense that he's in communication with him.
And there's also a rumor that he's going to
be Anderson's VP pick in the next presidential election.
- Then we should keep him close.
- Telling Colton about Apollo was the right thing to do.
She can't do anything about this publicly,
but we can privately.
This is about parity.
The playing field needs to be leveled.
- [Pilot] There's a whole fleet of them.
Look on the S.A. My gosh.
They're all going against the wind.
The wind is 120 knots to the west.
- That was as close as we ever got.
- Nothing the air force has can compete with any of these.
We need to get at least one of them.
What's the update with our prototype?
- In about 36 to 48 months.
What if she shows up?
We can't deny the Commander-in-Chief access.
If she learns what we've diverted funding
from NASA's Orion program for.
- That's why you went in with Troy
to make this diversion legal.
Besides, too many of Sampson's group
already know about the signal,
We had to tell the president.
- The meeting with Reager was never about
discovering the satellite,
but who would surface from within the military.
That was their plan.
Since 72, they've been desperate for intelligence.
Can't say I blame them.
But today both sides lost because all of the key players
have been revealed to each other.
If anyone was a pawn, it was me.
- And Cedric came to the meeting?
He hasn't been seen in public since the war.
- He insisted.
we tried to reason with him,
but there was no changing his mind.
Reager only heard and saw what he wanted too.
- There's no choice then.
We need to give the peace.
At any cost because the next war
could throw us to the dark ages.
- Then we need a grand alliance and a united front.
- If Colton shows up, she'll need to make a choice,
either this world or theirs
because until we know the extent this alien force has on us,
there's only one thing left to do.
(soft music)
- Put me through to Space Command
at Peterson Air Force Base.
This is General Reager,
by authorization of the President of the United States,
initiate Operation Troy.
(suspenseful music)
(keyboard clicking)
(suspenseful music)
- Reager's got everyone on the offensive.
So we need to keep all eyes looking down at Earth
rather than above.
- Conflicts.
- Yes and regional wars that we can contain
through back channels like this one.
And then while that front is moving forward,
we can start gathering intelligence on Reager's operation.
- Follow the money.
- Exactly.
The Pentagon's Advanced Aviation Threat Identification
Program ran out of money in 2012.
So he can't hide behind that.
And he's probably already tapped what he feels,
the CBO and treasury won't discover
along with black ops money.
But now he needs money for something else, something big.
I can feel it.
And it's not the sat networks,
they're already up and running.
- Well, while the money is being traced
there's plenty of hotspots to ignite regional conflicts.
We have to decide-
- Excuse me, (nervous laugh) let's hit pause for a moment.
Before we start playing God,
don't you think the time has come
that they reveal themselves?
- They tried that, Alison in 72.
I agree with Reager on one point,
we all know that despite the yearning of the masses,
wanting to know that they're not alone in this universe,
they actually prefer it that way.
Look, I don't like this job any more than you do,
but no prime minister or president
should be saddled with this knowledge.
Nevermind, responsibility.
That is the hand we've been dealt, and thank God.
So we're here playing cards in this cosmic game of poker,
I'll aim for a Royal.
- And let's be clear Allison.
This is not about playing God,
it is about delaying revelation.
Reager thinks he knows his enemy,
but his enemy is not who he thinks it is.
He's acting conventionally.
And if it's true that like-minded people,
in our respective military and intelligence operations
have been compromised and are following him,
then the only thing left for us to do
is to make their job on Earth as difficult as possible.
We of all nations should know that peace is not bloodness.
The last thing any of us need is a united insurgency.
To quote one of your predecessors,
"There is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure."
- Sergei, I think we can all agree
that nothing about this is easy or comforting,
but when the day comes that we no longer question ourselves,
we become the very people we're trying to defeat.
Let us hope we endure this.
(air raid siren)
- I understand.
(phone bangs)
Sampson left with Cedric 15 minutes ago,
and there's a radar and communications blackout
that radiates out 15 kilometers from the city.
- Griffin disappears, Cedric can't be identified, no comms.
This can't be a coincidence.
Put me through to Commander Halsey.
(suspenseful music)
- You should continue pushing into Donbass.
- What about the Security Council and NATO?
- Three of the five permanent members are in this room.
Ukraine is not part of NATO so article five doesn't apply.
Germany will complain,
but their economy relies on your good graces
so it will go nowhere.
Maybe superficial sanctions, but that's as far as it will go
- Coalition airstrikes against ISIL
will be starting next month.
With our intelligence, we can assist ISIL's reach
outside of their caliphate.
- Dear God, Helen. Do you know what you're saying?
If this gets out-
- Allison, if you have a pious solution for this,
we're all ears.
Arresting Reager and Hadrian is not an option.
First, there's no legal basis for it.
I mean, dismissing Reager would be one thing,
but removing a sitting Senator?
And let's be clear,
if cornered their option could lead to a conflict
of biblical proportions.
You know that.
Just like everyone else in this game,
we need intelligence.
Not just for them, but for ourselves.
Because when this dam breaks,
we better know who's on our ark.
Debate's over
- Well, as for debate, you knew there's growing voice
in the UK to leave the European Union.
If the vote is to leave, it will send the markets in turmoil
and destabilize the European economy.
But we can't force people to vote one way or the other.
- Elections can be influenced.
Depending on the outcome,
we could keep intelligence agencies
and governments busy for years.
The question you need to ask yourself
is who do you want to occupy the oval office
after you leave.
Who do you think is best equipped
to handle matters of space?
This is where we keep our friends close,
but our enemies closer.
(door opening)
(suspenseful music)
(car engine roaring)
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The council has known for some time that there is one hangar
that central can not see through.
As General Reager has been identified
as part of this military insurgency
and with his frequent trips to the base, the time has come,
where we need to know what's inside that hanger.
A bit of history.
During the Cold War, Wright was home
to the Aeronautical System Center
and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center.
If there was a new aerospace weapon or intelligence system
it was conceived, designed, tested,
and deployed from Wright,
but it was World War II that brought it home to us.
just after the war, Operation Paperclip landed 200 plus
Nazi German scientists and technicians at Wright.
The most famous of them was Wernher von Braun,
whose Saturn V rockets, landed men on the moon in 1969
and resulted in the greatest cover-up
in Earth's known history.
- Does the council have any idea what's in that hangar?
- None. And security is biometric.
- Well, the answer is simple,
Wright is your the next base inspection.
- As Commander-in-Chief, you're the only one that can go.
- Well, there may be another, but time is short.
If I do this, we lay every, every card on the table.
I think we should wait.
- What for?
You need to take the same lead with Reager
as you just did with us.
(ominous music)
(heavy wind blowing)
(car doors banging)
(birds tweeting)
- Glad you knew how to get here.
It's weird that GPS didn't work.
(birds tweeting)
That was a long call you had, I hate teleconference calls,
especially when you just have to listen
while someone else drones on.
- Just because I was listening
doesn't mean I wasn't saying anything.
(upbeat music)
(birds tweeting)
- (sighs) It looks like your ride's not here yet.
Do you need to call someone?
Nope.
(birds tweeting)
So tell me Ellen, you've been in the military what?
Since high school?
- Just about.
- What brought you to the air force, specifically?
- Well, ever since I was a kid,
I wanted to know how to fly.
At first, it was just the remote control planes
and then before I knew it,
I was learning to fly a Cessna while in high school.
My father showed me.
- He was a pilot? Your parents must be proud.
- Yes. Commercial. He is.
Mom?
- She died when I was 10.
- Sorry.
- Oh, thank you. It's all right.
So it was just my dad, me.
I used to love when he would sneak me
on to the flight deck.
- Flying is rather intoxicating, isn't it?
- Oh, yes.
- Doing some work on the F-35?
- Not as much as I would like,
program is a development nightmare.
- So I hear.
So then you got a degree in aerospace engineering.
- Yes. How did you know?
- Just an educated guess with your satellite work.
Any other reasons why you joined the military?
Forgive my asking.
I always find the stories interesting.
- I guess a sense of adventure,
seeing new things, traveling.
What about you?
What made you so passionate about science and history?
That was quite the speech you gave to General Reager.
- Well, when you've been at it as long as I've been,
let's just say it's a long experience, long.
But for me it's how science transcends the past,
present and future.
I've always been curious, I guess, wanting to contribute,
wanting to understand the unknown,
something my parents instilled in me.
They taught me to understand that once you know the unknown,
it no longer frightens you because you can learn from it.
But learning is three-dimensional not two like Reager.
- You don't like him.
- It's nothing to do with like, but it's everything to do
with the fact that he came to that meeting
for one reason only, to get a signature.
- He's always been objective-driven.
He didn't rise to the rank he has without being decisive.
- True. We all have our objectives.
Speaking of, you and your group
must've been pretty excited when you made this discovery.
- Oh, it was incredible
to know that we're not alone,
but I'll admit it, I'm scared.
Maybe. Maybe I just don't understand this unknown.
- Yet. You see what was exciting to me
was the fact that some civilization found Earth
worthy to look at, to study.
Kepler may already be looking back,
but there's a technology gap
and so many don't understand what they can't see.
Someday direct imaging from Earth will be possible.
- I hope I'm around to see that.
- Unlike Reager, at least you want to see.
So how long have you worked with him?
- Of and on about 10 years? Why?
- Do you trust him?
- That's quite a question coming from a civilian.
It's not a matter of trust.
It's about following the chain of command
- And respecting that chain?
- Absolutely.
- I can imagine then you're conflicted
because you're still wondering how he decoded the signal.
What did Reager mean when he said,
- With everything we know,
we should have seen this one coming?
- How the hell did you hear that?
You were across the room?
- It doesn't matter, what does is what he meant.
- Cedric, I've enjoyed our talk,
but I am not disclosing classified information.
I think you can wait for your ride alone.
- Information that in addition to anti-gravity propulsion,
the satellite had stealth technology
and in fact, disappeared right in front of the X-37.
You remember what I told him?
How long the satellite has been in orbit?
It could be one year, it could be 100.
It could be a thousand.
- Neither one of you have any idea,
and it's been the subject of numerous conversations.
There is something we both know that Reager doesn't.
You're sure it wasn't Earth-based signal
that reflected off some piece of space debris?
When I asked you that you turned ashen white, just like now.
It was that moment when you and I made a connection.
Simply you lied to Reager either
because you didn't understand what you detected
or didn't want to understand it.
If the signal originated on earth from say,
a radio telescope, that would have been a different story.
The transmission originated in the atmosphere
to the satellite at LG2 through Milstar,
and back to its origin.
- How do you know all this?
- Because I sent it
You know, as well as I that signals intelligence
didn't decrypt the transmission.
Your civilian self probably wanted to know
how decryption was possible,
but your military training told you to just follow command,
but something, something told you
to report the origin of the signal differently.
"With everything we know," what did he mean?
- I could go to jail for this.
- You're already in a jail of conflict,
an untenable command structure.
- It's not that I didn't want to understand.
I didn't want him to.
He's beyond obsessed with anti-gravity propulsion.
He brought me and some others in several years ago
to go through everything we had on the subject,
from Project Sign, Grudge and Blue Book
to black opps aerospace programs.
He even once showed us a video
of something flying at a headwind of over 120 knots.
I say something because it's still unidentified.
All of us were caught up in it.
- How far did you get?
- Theoretically, we made some solid progress.
When he had his transfer everything we had
to a working group at Wright-Patterson,
we were led to believe it was to benefit the F-35 program.
We heard nothing for months,
then this signal brought us all back to General Reager.
- Compartmentalize.
One group does one thing, another does something else,
but only a handful, know everything.
Classic military structure.
- I've been honest with you Cedric.
Now you need to be honest with me.
How did you send this signal?
- How is a matter of science.
But make no mistake,
there's no coincidence that your group received a signal.
We knew you were monitoring
that particular Milstar satellite.
(birds tweeting)
- Oh my God.
You worked for General Reager, don't you?
This was all about intelligence, wasn't it?
We've been hearing about security sweeps,
surprise base inspections, national security.
Oh my God. What have I gotten into?
- Ellen, I don't work for Reager,
but yes, this is about intelligence.
We need your help.
- My help?
Wait, we?
- In your line of work, do the years, 1947 in 1972,
have any meaning to you?
- '47 was operation Blue Nose.
And while that ridiculous Roswell story
and '72 was when the Apollo program ended.
- Do you know why it ended?
- Everyone knows that, to develop the space shuttle.
(Cedric laughing)
(birds tweeting)
What the...
There's someone at the end of the field.
- I know.
(ominous music)
(birds tweeting)
My involvement in all this started before the war.
- Iraq?
- World War II.
There was a justifiable concern that after two millennia,
your technology wasn't progressing fast enough.
If something happened to ours, for whatever reason,
there was no backstop.
How did Sagan say it, "In all this vastness,
there was no hint that help will come from elsewhere
to save us from ourselves."
So a decision was made to advance certain fields of science.
I was sent to the Peenemunde Army Research Center
in Germany.
It was truly the Cape Kennedy of its day.
Under the guise of a visiting scientist,
I offered assistance here and there,
particularly in areas of propulsion and guidance.
Well, I got caught up in my work
and showed them things I shouldn't have.
When I refused to cooperate further.
I was arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
You can imagine my disgust
when Reager was talking about identification,
not from my people, but the millions.
The millions that never went home.
Well, after the camp was liberated,
I found myself alone in the field, just waiting to go home.
The German scientists were repatriated to the United States
and continued their work or should I say some of my work.
There was no choice, but to monitor
all military installations for developments.
A couple of years after the war a patrol went down in Roswell,
for more reasons than I can count,
It was impossible to retrieve certain remains of the crew
and the aircraft's propulsion and stealth technologies.
We had high hopes during the 1960s though.
Perhaps the seeds of science planted in war
would come back in peace.
When first contact was finally made in 1969,
everything seemed to be progressing the way we wanted.
Oh, there were concerns in various governments
to say nothing of the military,
but Synedrion Council felt they had to proceed,
that living in the shadows was no longer an option.
In 1972, they agreed to meet with your
United Nations security council
to pave the way for revelation that mankind is not alone.
First contact, if you will.
The military escort never brought them to that meeting.
We've been looking for them ever since.
You can only imagine my guilt.
It didn't matter what our involvement was in your world
or our technology.
We couldn't find them.
It was Griffin's idea for the signal.
We had to know who would surface.
Signal was too tempting for Reager.
He knew there was only one group that could decrypt it.
- Group?
- Our parents, the ones your military kidnapped.
- (scoffs) Oh, come on. Seriously?
You don't honestly expect me to believe any of this, do you?
- I only expect you to believe what you can see?
(dramatic music)
- Governor, you asked for this?
- Thank you.
- Good to see you again, Major.
- Where there any problems?
- Aside from the curator? None.
(laughter)
- I'm not laughing. What did he call you?
- Governor.
- Governor of what?
- You haven't told her?
- Nearly everything, but.
- Major, Cedric Yonah, is the Governor of Dominion Earth
and Premier of the Synedrion Council.
(birds tweeting)
- I thought you said it was your parents on this council
or whatever.
- They were. We ascended after they disappeared.
James let's keep an open comm for transparency.
Was there anything else?
- During your conference with the council,
Central monitored Reager's calls
from Chievres Air Base to Patterson AFB,
on his order GPS and Sat comm Directorate,
Echelon and the Deep Space Network
received new detection programming.
To avoid intercept, Central has rerouted all comm traffic
to the secondary grid.
- That should buy us some time.
- Reager also inquired about your whereabouts Major Sampson.
Now civilian agencies and military installations
in the region are on high alert over a radar
and communications blackout.
The United States and United Kingdom's
are claiming it's Russian retaliation over the G7.
The Belgian authorities claim it's a terrorist attack.
NATO has elevated its alert readiness to Amber.
And F-16s have been scrambled from Melsbroek AB.
Central will hold the blackout until our departure.
- My God. How do you know all this?
- Why? X-ray communications, Major.
- Keep your eye on Cedric.
- That's not hard sir. He's keeping them on me.
- If an opportunity presents itself, take it.
We need to know more about him.
- Thank you, James.
- Of course. Major, I look forward to our next meeting.
Governor.
- There's a hanger at Wright-Patterson
that we can't see through.
That's why we need your help.
- What about your X-ray communications?
- Don't mock me. I'm in no mood for it.
It's sheathed in the same materials we use.
The crash of 47, the stealth technology,
if you know how to manufacture it,
it's easily adaptable to structures and satellites.
Ellen, I can't stress this next point enough.
I know you've heard some fantastic stories today.
And by the look on your face, you don't believe any of them.
But if Reager is developing what I think he is,
the balance of power could shift in such a direction
that life on this planet, as we know it, will be over.
Think, has it ever, ever occurred to you,
why the United States has built a military complex
that could destroy the world 10 times over.
Please don't tell me it's because of the Soviet Union.
It's because they know they aren't alone,
and paranoia is driving this uncontrollable madness.
We need to know where our parents are
and what's in that hanger.
I confess I'm running out of patience,
but the alternative to patience is not an option.
I've seen war in all its ugliness, too many times.
The lines of peace need to be drawn here,
between us, on this field, in this moment.
(tense music)
You sadly deal in absolutes
because the unknown terrifies you.
- General, if I sign this,
what's the objective of Operation Troy?
- Identification.
(birds tweeting)
(tense music)
- So help me, God,
what you've said is either all true or all a lie.
All my years of training have told me to listen,
stay calm and to act decisively.
But the oath I took, isn't just a set of words.
General Reager is one thing, but the president is another.
I cannot pledge my allegiance on just your words alone.
- Then you need to ask yourself,
once you eliminate the impossible whatever remains,
no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- Doveryai, no proveryai.
- Trust, but verify.
- This is exactly what they want. How can you trust her?
- How can I not try?
Can you see the forest for the trees?
(dramtic music)
(airplane engine humming)
(dramatic music)
- Oh, my God.
You told us everything in that meeting, everything.
- You only hear what, not what you should.
(dramatic music)
You only believe what you see.
(dramatic music)
This is for you.
NASA can verify its authenticity.
If you can help us, Griffin is your contact.
- Thank you.
(dramatic music)
- How old are you?
- Old enough to never forget.
- Why are you here?
- Answers.
You honestly don't believe we're the only ones here, do you?
- Where are you from?
- Earth.
(dramatic music)
(door shutting)
- General Reager, please.
(Reager bangs the phone)
- What is it?
- Sampson signal has reappeared.
- Where?
- A field. 10 kilometers from the city.
(dramatic music)
(soft music)
(dramatic music)
(door opening)
- Do you have any idea what he wants?
- No. He just wanted, more like demanded a meeting.
- And he flew from Colorado to Brussels?
- Well, it must be important.
- Bill.
- Yes, Madam president.
- I need a moment.
- If Reager learns what brought a Holocaust to your world
you're going to have to explain to this one,
why your people who've been here
for the last 2000 plus years.
- That's why it's imperative we find our parents.
If they talked under pressure or-
- Elisabeth, I understand, but understand me,
I'm only interested in protecting this planet
or as you people call it, the First World.
(footsteps thumping)
(door shutting)