:41:03
that an alien has landed...
:41:06
assumed the identity
of a dead house painter...
:41:09
from Madison, Wisconsin...
:41:11
and is presently out
tooling around the countryside...
:41:14
in a hopped-up,
orange and black...
:41:17
1977 Mustang?
:41:20
We have the following givens.
Look.
:41:23
That man, Scott Hayden,
died last April.
:41:26
He's dead and buried.
That's verified.
:41:28
He has no brothers,
no look-alike cousins.
:41:30
But still this morning
at approximately 6:00--
:41:33
All right, we have
been through all of that.
:41:36
I'm gonna ask you now,
how could it happen?
:41:39
We think it might be
some kind of a cloning deal...
:41:42
replication of an entire organism
from a single cell.
:41:45
- We found some of Scott Hayden's hair.
- Is that possible?
:41:48
Can you clone a living organism
from the hair of a dead man?
:41:52
Well, human hair consists
of keratinized cells...
:41:55
although in order to determine
whether replication is possible--
:41:58
I asked you a question.
:42:00
You mean us, in our
present state of technology?
:42:03
- Yes.
- No.
:42:05
What the hell
are we talking about?
:42:07
We're hypothesizing a technology
that's 100,000 years ahead of us.
:42:12
We're the ancients, Mr.Fox.
:42:15
Ancients?
:42:17
Technologically, yes.
We've just started.
:42:21
But even if you're right,
I still have problems.
:42:24
His knowledge of English.
:42:26
Listen to this.
:42:30
I helped put this package
together, you know.
:42:33
This was designed so that
an intelligent species...
:42:35
could get a working knowledge
of English...
:42:38
enough to get by, anyhow.
:42:40
A couple hundred word vocabulary,
a rough idea of syntax.
:42:42
Think of what it would mean to talk to
a being from a civilization like that.
:42:47
Think of what we could learn.
:42:50
Who represent almost all
of the human inhabitants...
:42:53
of the planet Earth,
I send greetings.
:42:56
Greetings! There. That's what
he said to Heinmuller on the road.