Of course I'm alive. Are you all right?
KRISTIN
That's what you were wearing the night
you disappeared.
ALEC
I've been gone a half hour.
KRISTIN
You're scaring me, Alec.
Alec looks around the yard more closely.
He studies the house, then her face.
ALEC
What happened to you? Why is everything
so different?
KRISTIN
Why are you acting like nothing's wrong?
Where have you been all this time?
ALEC
I was out in the field.
KRISTIN
You disappear for three and a half years,
then show up in the middle of the night
to tell me you've been out in the field?
ALEC
Three and a half years? What's the date?
KRISTIN
It's September 12.
ALEC
September 12? What year is it?
KRISTIN
Come on Alec, It's 2021.
ALEC
What happened on April 14, 2018?
KRISTIN
That was the night you disappeared. This
isn't funny. Everyone thinks you're dead.
ALEC
Why would anyone think that?
KRISTIN
Be honest with me. Is there someone else?
ALEC
Someone else? No! In fact, you won't
believe what just happened to me.
KRISTIN
Don't change the subject. How could you
leave me without even saying goodbye? I
thought we were happy.
ALEC
Kristin, love of my life, I'm right here.
You know I would never leave you. You had
a bad dream or something. I'm freezing.
Can I come inside please?
KRISTIN
(after a pause)
Yes, of course.
INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
They enter the living room and sit down on the couch.
ALEC
Check this out.
He offers her the Neutrino Drive.
She receives it cautiously. She looks it over, unimpressed, then sets it on the coffee table.
KRISTIN
What's this?
ALEC
I have no idea.
Kristin lowers her head, and then stands up.
KRISTIN
Please Alec, don't do this to me.
ALEC
Just hear me out.
Kristin sits back down.
ALEC (CONT’D)
After the party, I saw something out in
the field so I went to go check it out.
The next thing you know, I'm standing
face to face with an alien aboard his
spaceship.
KRISTIN
Alien, as in extraterrestrial?
ALEC
Yes. He took me into space for what