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FADE IN:
INT. ARROWAY HOUSE - EVENING
We open on the upstairs of a two-story house, where we see a young girl
talking into a radio transmitter.
YOUNG ELLIE
CQ, this is W9GFO. CQ, this is W9GFO here, come back. CQ, this is
W9GFO here, come back. CQ, CQ, this is W9GFO, is anybody out
there? (looks to her father) It not getting anything.
TED ARROWAY
Small moves Ellie, small moves.
YOUNG ELLIE
CQ, this is W9GFO here, come back.
RADIO OPEARATOR
Copy W9GFO. K4WLD here.
YOUNG ELLIE
What do I say?
TED ARROWAY
Just be yourself.
YOUNG ELLIE
Where are you K4WLD? Come back.
RADIO OPEARATOR
Pensacola, over.
YOUNG ELLIE
Pensacola? Where Pensacola?
TED ARROWAY
Il give you a hint... orange juice.
YOUNG ELLIE
Copy that K4WLD, how the weather down there in Florida?
TED ARROWAY
Pensacola, Florida. I have to tell you sparks, 1116 miles. That
the farthest yet.
YOUNG ELLIE
Dad, can we hear all the way to New York?
TED ARROWAY
Sure.
YOUNG ELLIE
Can we hear all the way to California?
TED ARROWAY
Absolutely.
YOUNG ELLIE
Can we hear all the way to Alaska?
TED ARROWAY
Yea, on a really clear day.
YOUNG ELLIE
Can we hear all the way to China?
TED ARROWAY
On a really, really clear day.
YOUNG ELLIE
Could we talk to the moon?
TED ARROWAY
Well, if it was a big enough radio, I don see why not.
YOUNG ELLIE
Could you talk to Jupiter? Or what the one after that? Umm,
don tell me..
TED ARROWAY
Il give you hint... hoolahoops.
YOUNG ELLIE
Saturn! Can we talk to Saturn?
TED ARROWAY
Uh huh.
YOUNG ELLIE
Dad, could we talk to Mom?
TED ARROWAY
I don think even the biggest radio can reach that far.
TED ARROWAY
Alright, no more stalling.
YOUNG ELLIE
K. (holds up a picture she drew of a beach in Florida).
Pensacola!
TED ARROWAY
Oh Ellie, that a beauty. Better get some sleep.
YOUNG ELLIE
Hey dad.
TED ARROWAY
Yea?
YOUNG ELLIE
Do you think there people on other planets?
TED ARROWAY
I don know sparks, but I guess I say, if it is just us, it
seems like an awful waste of space.
INT. ARROWAY HOUSE - NIGHT
That night, Ellie sneaks back into the room with the radio transmitter...
YOUNG ELLIE
CQ, CQ, CQ, this is W9GFO. Repeat, this is W9GFO, come back. CQ,
this is W9GFO, come back. I gonna need a bigger antenna.
CUT TO:
EXT. ARECIBO TELESCOPE - DAY
FISHER
What do you think Doctor Arroway? Ain she a beauty?
ELLIE
Itl do.
FISHER
The village is five miles away. There a general store in the
cantina. They can pretty much order anything you need from San
Wan.
ELLIE
When can I get some dish time?
FISHER
(laughs) Dr. Clark said you wouldn be able to wait. Youe
first shift is up tonight.
ELLIE
Alright!
INT. ARECIBO CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT
Ellie is sitting in the dark, with a headset on. She removes the headset,
and we can hear the static she listening to.
KENT CLARK
Go back.
ELLIE
What?
KENT CLARK
Try back a little, you had something there.
KENT CLARK
(Ellie moves the dial) There.
ELLIE
Right there?
KENT CLARK
Yea. Do you hear? Right there, yea, that it.
ELLIE
Yup. It by 1221.46. That well in the L-band.
KENT CLARK
Check off axis.
ELLIE
Uh huh, on it. Umm, it not in the neighbourhood. Ah, there it
is. J1741 plus 2748. Cataloged November 4, 1982. Pulsar. (Sigh)
Well, I don know, it must have been a glitch in the timing that
threw me.
KENT CLARK
I think it great that you listen. Most people don do that
anymore.
ELLIE
Ah, it just an old habit. You know, it makes it feel more real.
(Putting out her hand) Ellie.
KENT CLARK
Kent, Kent Clark (puts his hand out, but misses Ellie, we
realize that he blind)
ELLIE
Hi.
KENT CLARK
They said you been up at Owen valley working under Drumlin.
How you like him? (after Ellie doesn answer) That much? And
about what I expect after what he had to say about you.
ELLIE
What was that?
KENT CLARK
He said you were brilliant, driven, a major pain in the ass, and
obsessed with a field of study that he considers tantamount to
professional suicide.
Other scientist enter the room, turn on the lights.
DR. THADIA
Yo, what up?
KENT CLARK
Umm, those were the highlights.
KENT CLARK
Dr. Thadia, Dr. Burman... Dr. Arroway (greetings all around) and
I believe youe already met our tireless research assistant, Mr.
Fisher (who happens to be wearing a Cornell University Shirt).
ELLIE
Yup.
KENT CLARK
You can miss his cologne.
FISHER
(laughs) hey!
KENT CLARK
Chris is looking at the Black hole at the center of M87. Eli is
studying Marcarian 541, a major Gama-ray source, and Dr. Arroway
here will be spending here precious telescope time listening for
uh, listening for uh...
ELLIE
Little green men.
INT. ELLIE CABIN - NIGHT
ELLIE
(Sticking a thumbtack into a start chart) One down, couple of
billion to go.
INT. CATINA - DAY
Ellie buys two packs of thumbtacks from the general store merchant. Then
sits at a table and nurses a beer, when PALMER JOSS approaches.
PALMER
Arecibo, right?
ELLIE
Does it show?
PALMER
Yea. (opens up a box of crackerjacks, and offers some)
Crackerjack?
ELLIE
No. Thanks.
PALMER
Mind if I sit down.
ELLIE
Sure.
PALMER
I hear the locals; they call
