:10:00
That you are brilliant...
:10:02
...driven...
:10:03
...a major pain in the ass...
:10:05
...and obsessed with a field of study
he considers tantamount...
:10:08
...to professional suicide.
:10:10
Anything else?
:10:11
Those were the highlights.
:10:13
Davio, Dr. Vernon.
Dr. Arroway.
:10:17
Believe you've already met our tireless
research assistant, Mr. Fisher...
:10:22
...as well as his cologne.
:10:25
Brook's looking at the black hole
in M-87.
:10:27
Eli's studying Markarian 541,
a major gamma ray source.
:10:31
Dr. Arroway will be spending her
precious telescope time listening for...
:10:36
...listening for....
:10:38
Little green men.
:10:48
One down...
:10:49
...a couple billion to go.
:11:07
Arecibo, right?
:11:10
Does it show?
:11:13
Cracker Jack?
:11:14
No, thanks.
:11:15
Mind if I sit down?
:11:19
I hear the locals,
they call it "El Radar."
:11:22
Convinced it has some
dark military purpose.
:11:25
I think we're harmless.
:11:28
Palmer Joss.
:11:30
- Ellie Arroway.
- Nice to meet you, Ellie.
:11:34
What are you studying up there?
:11:38
The usual.
:11:39
Nebulae, quasars, pulsars,
stuff like that.
:11:44
What are you writing?
:11:45
The usual.
Nouns, adverbs...
:11:48
...adjective here and there.
:11:51
I work on a project, SETI.
:11:53
Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
:11:57
That is out there!