:56:02
There is no direct evidence, no.
:56:04
Tell me...
:56:05
...why would these aliens
go to all this trouble?
:56:09
Bring you thousands of light years,
then send you home without proof?
:56:13
They said it's how it's been done
for billions of years.
:56:16
You have no proof because
they didn't want you to have any.
:56:20
A phenomenon known in psychiatric
circles as a self-reinforcing delusion.
:56:25
You think I was delusional?
:56:27
I do think you may have suffered
some kind of an episode. Yes, I do.
:56:31
I'd like to propose
an alternate hypothesis...
:56:34
...and I'd like you to bring
your scientific expertise to bear on it.
:56:38
To fake a signal from Vega...
:56:41
...what would you need?
:56:44
You'd need a satellite to transmit it,
but it would be impossible to--
:56:48
You'd need a satellite
and launch capabilities to orbit it.
:56:52
And the message itself.
To put something like this together...
:56:55
...so complex,
drawing on many disciplines--
:56:58
Would be impossible.
: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?