:48:01
That was a joke.
:48:02
Look, what if it
really happened?
:48:05
- What if that really happened?
- I think something's
taking over our school.
:48:09
The Body Snatchers is a story
somebody made up, dingus.
:48:11
It's located in the fiction
section of the library.
:48:13
So is Schindler's List. All fiction
is based on some truth, right?
:48:17
What does Miss Burke teach us
in English 101? Write what you know.
:48:20
How do we know
this writer guy...
:48:22
- Jack Finney.
- didn't encounter aliens
in his high school...
:48:23
which led him to write a book
about an alien invasion?
:48:27
- Your conspiracy theory is flawed.
- How so?
:48:29
Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers
is a blatant rip-off...
:48:31
of The Puppet Masters
by Robert Heinlein.
:48:33
So you can completely disregard
that entire work.
:48:35
Whatever.
The point is they're here,
:48:37
they've been here
and they're here again.
:48:39
You know, Casey, I think you've
been racked into the flagpole
one too many times.
:48:42
Look, how do you know
there's not a conspiracy?
:48:44
Maybe X-Files is right.
:48:46
Where do all these movies
come from anyway?
:48:48
How do we know Spielberg,
Lucas, Sonnenfeld,
:48:51
Emmerich haven't been
visited by aliens?
:48:54
You know, maybe they're
aliens themselves.
:48:56
Maybe they're simply preparing us
for what's to come.
:48:58
You know what, Casey,
it's fiction. Okay?
:49:00
- It's science fiction.
- Exactly.
:49:02
Everybody gets hung up on the science
part, which has nothing to do with it.
:49:05
They're getting at us
through the fiction.
:49:07
So, aliens have just been
setting us up over the years,
:49:10
creating this happy little
make-believe existence...
:49:12
with their E.T.
and their Men ln Black movies...
:49:14
just so that nobody would believe it
if it really happened?
:49:16
I think so.
Yeah.
:49:21
- You're not buying this, are you?
- No, I'm not.
:49:24
[ Tapping Table ]
But it's kind of cool.
:49:28
Okay, so what's missing?
:49:30
Well, in The Body Snatchers,
they were pods, but where are they?
:49:33
I mean, where are the pods?
:49:35
There are no pods.
:49:38
There's gotta be
something else.
:49:42
In Puppet Masters,
they were parasites.
:49:50
- I filled Stan in.
- Come with us. Stokely's
onto something.
:49:53
Really?
:49:57
Shit.
:49:59
[ Door Closes ]