:57:01
Impossible?
:57:03
Is there anyone who might
have been up to the challenge?
:57:07
Someone with extraordinary
technical expertise...
:57:09
...enormous financial resources...
:57:12
...someone perverse enough, eccentric
enough to come up with the idea?
:57:17
Hadden?
:57:19
S. R. Hadden.
:57:25
You're implying that this was...
:57:27
...some kind of a hoax?
That he engineered this?
:57:30
S. R. Hadden...
:57:31
...a legendary power broker in
perhaps his final bid for immortality.
:57:36
Maybe he wanted to
exploit new technologies...
:57:39
...having world governments
pick up the tab.
:57:41
Perhaps this was his
final altruistic gesture...
:57:44
...to unite the world in some
common goal. Maybe all of the above.
:57:48
S. R. Hadden, a brilliant...
:57:50
...and complicated man.
:57:55
Doctor, are you familiar
with the scientific precept...
:57:59
...known as Occam's Razor?
:58:07
Yes.
:58:10
It means the simplest explanation
generally tends to be the right one.
:58:15
Exactly.
:58:16
You tell me.
What is more likely here?
:58:19
A message from aliens
results in a magical machine...
:58:22
...that whisks you
to the center of the galaxy...
:58:25
...to windsurf with Dad
and a split second later...
:58:28
...returns you home
without a single shred of proof?
:58:32
Or that your experience
is the result of being...
:58:35
...the unwitting star
in the farewell performance of one...
:58:39
...S.R. Hadden?
:58:40
A man with the means and motive
to play you and all of us...
:58:44
...as pawns in the most elaborate,
most expensive hoax of all time?
:58:53
You come to us with no evidence,
no records...
:58:57
...no artifacts--
:58:59
...only a story that, to put it mildly,
strains credibility.