Alien vs. Hunter Page #4

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They're obsessed with selling Congress

on planetary colonization.

Agrigenetics is one of the first steps.

A lot of this came from your SETI labs

after NASA pulled the plug on the funding.

It's impressive.

Almost as impressive as your cornfield.

What do you really think

is in that block of ice?

I'm sorry for what I said.

I know how much your work meant to you.

You look good.

What do we know about this Julian Rome?

Killed in an automobile accident.

He graduated from Stanford University

with a degree in Applied Linguistics.

Top of his class. On a fast track

for a doctorate when he got in trouble...

with a female student in one of his classes.

He never finished his doctorate.

He ended up working for SETI

as a decoding cryptologist.

- He's an alien hunter.

- Was an alien hunter.

When NASA pulled the plug,

he left SETI and returned to teaching.

This time at Berkeley.

He's been there for two years.

What's the connection

between Gierach and Rome?

Gierach actually contacted Dr. Bachman

that I told you about.

Bachman turned it over to Rome.

There's something else.

What's that?

The student he had the affair with,

her name is Katherine Brecher.

She's one of the researchers

down at Rundell Peak.

- "Osler"?

- Wait till you read this.

- That's my brother and me.

- Sorry.

I'm Grisham, Communications Officer.

I know. I read about you

when you were with SETI.

You must've been really desperate

for entertainment.

The kind of stuff you guys are doing

really interests me.

Were doing. It's all history now.

I found the signal

when they brought the block in here.

How'd you read it?

When the weather's good

we use a Landsat satellite.

- It was in the background noise.

- Between 2 and 6 gigahertz?

Yeah, how'd you know?

That's where we always kind of

expected it would be.

So you really think it's artificial?

I know it's artificial.

Could be an elaborate hoax.

Could be.

- Hello, Julian.

- Hello.

- Sit down.

- Thank you.

- Join us.

- I'd like to get some coffee.

- There.

- There? Great. Thank you.

Who haven't you met yet?

I haven't met anybody.

This is Abell, our maintenance officer.

And these lovely ladies are Shelly Cline...

- Hello.

- Hi.

...and Dacia Petrov.

I don't think you've met Dr. Straub, Julian.

You look much smaller

with your clothes on.

- You're still here?

- Yeah, for a while.

The weather seems to be getting worse.

You were employed by SETI

as a cryptologist.

What exactly do you do?

- It's like an interpreter.

- Interpreting what?

Messages from outer space, my dear.

"E.T. Phone home."

Cryptologists determine

if a valid communication's been received...

and then they try and decipher

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