Previously on "Miracles"...
Father's got some guy who's supposed to check for miracles.
Pleased to meet you. I'm the guy.
I'm afraid there's no miracle here.
I show up, deliver the bad news and move on.
What's the point of faith if it's never tested?
There's a case in Cottonwood, this one looks like the real thing.
What did Tommy do?
He said he hoped I'd get better soon.
The next morning, I could see.
He heals people.
You have no idea what this takes out of him.
For God's sake, it's killing him!
He healed people, I saw it.
He died healing me.
Why would God do that?
Who said it was God?
I've seen what you've seen.
Call me, we may be able to help each other.
- I'm Paul Callan. - Come in.
In just a few moments, we'll begin our descent into Boston.
At that time, the captain will turn on the "fasten seat belts" sign.
And we'll ask all passengers to return their seats
and tray tables to an upright position.
I'm sorry.
Oh, no problem.
We're gonna land. Thank God for that, huh?
I hate flying.
So you've mentioned.
Repeatedly.
I'll be right back.
Still waiting on that third pillow.
I'm sorry, ma'am, the flight is full. All the pillows..
The seat won't go back.
Uh, press that button right there.
I need a drink.
- So do I. - Excuse me?
I'm sorry, the drink service is over. We'll be landing shortly.
Oh, thanks.
What did you say?
Thanks?
I may cry.
You're very welcome, young lady.
Well, he's kinda cute, what's his name?
He's not cute.
He's a one-ton, 20-foot-long predator.
From the mid-cretaceous period.
order saurischia, suborder the ropoda.
Is that what you're going to be when you grow up?
Yep, a paleontologist.
And after that, a botanist.
My mom says I can be anything.
Yeah, when she grows up.
You're lucky.
Why?
You get to fly everywhere for free.
Excuse me, paying customer over here.
Can I get a little service, pal?
But I guess the people aren't very nice.
Flight 134, this is Boston Tower, radar contact.
We have you in sight.
Clear to land runway 29er. Wind 3-1-0 at 1-0.
This is the captain, we'll be on the ground momentarily.
Flight attendants, please take your seats for landing.
Please, don't crash.
What's that?
134, you'll be on the ground in..
Flight 134, this is Boston tower. Do you read me? Over.
Flight 134, where are you?
I just saw them.
Where did they go?
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I had them on radar and I had a visual,
and I'm telling you, they just disappeared.
Clear the runway.
Flight 134, do you read me?
My God.. it was beautiful.
- Hi, Paul. - Hey.
- It's good to see you. - You too.
We'll need to photocopy two forms of I.D.
A driver's license and social security card should be fine.
Um, before I sign anything, I need to talk to Mr. Keel.
Paul.
What if we take a walk?
Why were you following me?
You're a good investigator,
something which I desperately need
in light of the coming darkness.
I also believe that your former employer..
didn't fully appreciate your rather unique gifts.
Gifts?
Like seeing "God is now here" written in my own blood.
Yes.
You do play a significant role in all of this, Paul.
All of what? The large event you spoke of?
I don't believe in the end of the world, Keel.
It's not exactly a comforting thought.
In fact, it's probably better if you don't.
What do I have to do with all of this?
Isn't that what you came here to find out?
Why are you here, Paul?
I think this was a bad idea.
I'm sorry.
Tommy is dead.
I don't know why he died and you lived.
I don't know why it had to happen that way, but it did.
Now, something's coming, Paul.
The signs are everywhere.
Famine, fires, floods.
A startling rise in everything from
U.F.O. sightings to miraculous visitations to
so-called simple crimes of passion.
Nothing.. is simple anymore.
Yes?
I'm on my way.
Something very strange just occured at Logan airport.
Are you coming?
His name is Charles Jergensen. He's a senior officer in the NSA.
The youngest ever, if I'm not mistaken.
How do you know him?
We were at Cambridge together.
He was a Yank, bright, a long way from home.
I tried to educate him in the British ways.
- And how'd that go? - Not entirely well.
You don't like him?
No, I don't.
But I respect him, he's very dedicated and..
once upon a time, we shared similar interests.
So, what happened?
He wanted to change the world.
And you didn't?
No, as a matter of fact, I did not.
That's quite a philosophy.
This is big. They've got half the army out here.
Can I see your ID's, please?
Flight 134 landed as scheduled at 2:26 P.M.
Just prior to landing, there was a small fire
in one of the lavatories, a small fire.
However, federal regulations demand
that the cause be throroughly investigated.
I'm sure we all understand how important safety
is in the current climate.
As soon as the authorities complete their investigation
the passengers will be released.
My wife has severe medical problems.
We realize this is very hard for everyone, please..
Yes, sir, the lockdown will remain so
untill we get to the bottom of this.
It isn't terrorists.
It's nothing we've ever seen before.
We're doing all that.
We're bringing in some people to explore a possible..
paranormal ramifications.
What in the hell took you so long?
Pleasure to see you too, Charlie.
Paul Callan, Evelyn Santos. Make them some badges.
Neither of you have ever been convicted of a federal crime?
Consider yourselves sworn in.
This investigation is closed-door.
Discussion it with anyone off premises
will be considered an act of treason.
Do we understand one another?
Now that you have us sufficiently terrified,
care to tell us what's going on?
Eastern Commuter flight 134
was scheduled to land at 2:26 this afternoon
When the control tower lost radar and visual contact.
-It disappeared? - For exactly 64 seconds.
Okay.
It then reappeared in the exact same location and landed safely.
What happened to the passengers?
We don't know. We're interviewing the ones who are coherent,
but everyone's got a different story.
We've got two hours max to get out in front of this thing
before the media starts peeling our skin.
So, what do you want from us?
Answers.
You guys investigate strange occurences.
Well, something very strange happened to these people.
We got to get as much information out of them as possible.
What's under the sheet?
Passenger 13B.
Burned to death, near plane lavatory.
There's no other evidence of a fire.
We need to know how the hell all this happened.
And we need to know it now.
Let's go.
No cameras, notes, or personal recording devices
are allowed in or out of the site.
I have a .38-caliber bullet lodged in the anterior lobe of my brain.
It was declared inoperable by Dr. Mitchelson.
At Brigham and Women's Hospital January 14th, 1998.
You're a police officer?
Former.
She's clean.
Okay, let's go.
As you can see, we're shorthanded.
If you need to use the restroom, see the guards at the door.
This is triage. We make sure they're medically fit,
and then we debrief them.
You make take notes, but you cannot leave the premises
with them or anything else.
Make sure you wear your badges at all times.
Come on!
This is Michael Garcia of the NTSB. You'll be reporting to him.
He'll get you started on your interviews.
Thanks, Mike.
There's something I want you to see.
Okay, we're trying to establish what exactly happened..
the moment the plane..
Disappeared?
Encountered difficulty.
How are the passengers?
Let me show you.
I don't believe these two even knew each other
before the plane took off.
Complete and utter silence.
And for the first time in my life,
I felt like I finally belonged.
And then.
- There he was. - Who?
Well..
Satan.
There were bright lights.
And a loud noise.
Like an explosion?
Singing.
Thousands of voices.
It was beautiful.
The most wonderful thing is happened.
I have to talk to my husband.
He has to know.
Would you like to sit down?
No.
Am I dreaming?
I don't think so.
I have to see my husband, he..
I mean he has to see me.
Why?
I have severe frontal and parietal lobe damage.
At least, I did when I got on that plane.
You have a brain injury?
Oh, I have a whopper of a brain injury.
A kinetic mutism. Do you know what that means?
I can't move, walk, stand or speak.
Hi. My name is Evelyn.
What's yours?
Deanna Thompson.
Can you tell me what happened on the airplane?
I saw...
What did you see?
The rest of my life.
You mean..?
Oh, yeah.
People down there have some problems.
This one, we're worried about.
He was the flight attendant.
So any idea what in God's name happened here?
That's what we're about to find out.
Emotions are running high outside terminal 16
at Logan airport this afternoon.
as families continue to wait for word on their loved ones
from eastern commuter flight 134.
Government sources cited possible terrorist activity as the cause..
Excuse me, Miss?
My wife is profoundly disable. She's in a wheelchair.
She's traveling with her nurse. I need to know she's all right.
We're doing everything we can, Mr. Longridge.
Longview!
Yes, yes, because it's pinecones.
And pineapples!
Subject's EEG displaying elevated alpha waves.
You're using two cameras?
Yeah, in case one malfunctions.
Subject's blood pressure is still 180 over 70.
Hey, hey, hey!
Shh!
Do you know the language?
I believe he's speaking Aramaic.
Like Jesus?
Not with what he's saying.
That language has been dead for 2,000 years.
You can understand it?
A little.
I get married at 22..
to Glen Thompson.
He didn't do too well in school.
But his uncle's with the county.
And he gets Glen a job.
Flagman on the highway crew.
We save up all year for a trip to the Grand Canyon.
Ethan and Ally are carsick the whole time.
Ethan and Ally?
Our two kids.
I know I'm supposed to love them.
But they're really difficult.
We were on our honeymoon.
And I'd been on the ski team in college, and Mark..
Well.. first, he says that we can't afford anything fancy.
Maybe two days in Tijuana.
And then he takes me to the Swiss alps.
Oh, it was heaven.
And I'm showing off a little bit.
Okay, a lot.
And I'm doing all the black diamonds and jumps.
And I lost it. I hit the lift tower.
That was 21 years ago.
Mark never blinked.
He's taken care of me all these years.
I can't.. I mean, couldn't do anything for myself.
That's why I have to see him and tell him.
What do you wanna tell him?
That I know.
Every time he touches my face
or he brushes my hair or he bathes me.
I know how much he loves me.
He's such a good man.
And all these years, I've never been able to tell him.
I know, but I can't tell him I know.
I can't tell him how much I love him.
This is really silly.
I'm really happy. I can't wait to see him and tell him.
You will.
Joyce? Where's Joyce?
Who's Joyce?
My nurse. She was on the plane with me.
Poor thing, she hates flying.
She's always afraid that the plane is going to crash
and we're all gonna burn to death.
Karen, could you excuse me for a moment?
Of course. I'll be right here.
Doing that.
Heart weight 6.2 ounces.
You can't be here.
- Move or I'll move you. - Okay.
I try to go back to school, but Glen gets layed off.
So I get a second job, working at the florist's.
I have always liked plants.
And then, on my 39th birthday,
My father dies of lung cancer.
Why don't I go get us some water?
I believe that word is "toad."
How are you doing, Phil?
I think we can let him out of the jacket now.
It's all right.
"Modulating frequencies, temporary cohesion."
What does it all mean, Alva?
I think he's using aramaic, which is one of the..
world's oldest languages to express certain..
theoretical projections of modern physics.
Like what?
Cold fusion.
Perpetual motion.
et cetera.
What happened up there?
We've got to make this quick.
In about two minutes, they'll start looking for me.
I have a theory about what happened.
I think that each of those passengers brought their own induvidual
experience to the phenomenon that they encountered.
Which explains why each experienced something different.
I think you're right.
Deanna was talking to the flight attendant just before it happened,
and he asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up.
She was thinking about her future and she saw it.
I think it goes further than that.
Karen's nurse was terrified she would crash and burn to death.
I'll give you one guess who we saw on that gurney.
Hold on. She thought about crashing and burning
so vividly that it actually happened?
Yes. I think for one minute and 4 seconds..
those people were in a higher realm, a realm where..
Consciousness determines reality.
What do you think is what you are.
Karen told me she was asleep
and dreaming what she always dreams, that
she can walk and talk to her husband.
So, this flight attendant who's speaking in tongues,
what was on his mind when it happened?
Ancient mathematicians use to speak in metaphor
when their concepts got too unwieldy.
And I hope I'm the only one seeing this right now,
But I believe he's discovered a cutting-edge physics
one that our military leaders
would dearly like to get their hands on.
I'm guessing it's not the cure for cancer.
No, it's not. It's a methodology, and it seems sound to me for
disassembling reality as we know it.
Disassembling reality? What are you saying?
I'm saying that flight attendant
knows how to destroy the world.
He knows how to destroy the world?
What are you talking about?
It's not what I'm talking about, it's what he is talking about.
Our friend is conducting a lecture series
on the Physics of Destruction.
- Imagine a cr... - Shh.
Imagine a cross between Oppenheimer and Stalin.
Imagine the goverment getting their hands on that technology.
We have to stop that from happening.
I know, I just wish I knew how.
You don't think your NSA friend has picked up on this?
Aramaic is a difficult language,
I don't think the translators are seeing what I'm seeing yet.
Oh, there's one more thing.
What?
At one point, Phil used the phrase
"The dark is it's own thing".
Does this mean anything to you, Paul?
I think The Dark is it's own thing too.
Why?
Because the next thing he said was, "Tell Paul."
What the hell is this?
It's a brainstorming session. No luck yet.
First thing, no secret meetings.
Second thing, you need to get back upstairs.
Why? What's wrong?
Phil just started to speak english.
Oh, God. I needed that.
Can I bum a cigarette?
No.
- You don't smoke? - You're 11.
Right.
And besides think about what happened to your dad.
He died of lung cancer on your 39th birthday.
Oh, yeah. I forgot.
God, this is torture.
When are they gonna let us out of here?
Soon, I hope.
God, I just wanna run or do something.
Go hiking, shopping..
Or walk into a restaurant alone,
order some food that I can eat all by myself.
Hell, I even want to go skiing. How crazy is that?
That's not crazy at all.
- What's wrong? - A headache.
So.. What's first on the list when you get home?
First? That's between Mark and me.
Second..
The ocean.
Do you know how long it's been
since I went swimming in the ocean?
The vibrational modes are all ingral of course,
and the higher-order dimensions are curled so tightly,
they cannot be observed.
All matter is held in place by these vibrating string like entities.
Hold on a second.
What exactly do you mean by "entities"?
Frequencies. All matter is held in place by them.
If you disrupt the frequencies, the matter disperses.
It's like..
It's like that toy.
You know?
With the picture of the bald guy in that plastic frame
and all those little metal shavings?
And you use the magnet pen to bring up the shavings
and give him a beard, mustache, hair and stuff?
All matter in the universe is thus given
a kinda temporary cohesion, but it is..
...illusory.
What just happened to him?
Keel! I want to talk to him now. Keel!
What's wrong?
It's okay, it's okay.
We've got to let Karen Longview out of here.
Why?
It's wearing off or.. reversing.
Whatever happ.. she's getting sick again.
...bald guy in the plastic frame...
They're losing it.
Which means, you don't have much time.
Karen needs to see her husband now.
That's impossible.
Please explain to your friend that Karen Longview
isn't harboring any state secrets.
You've got no excuse to keep her here.
She wants to talk to her husband while she still can.
Give me five minutes. Alva, you get back in there.
Thanks for all your help.
Hey. Try not to let it get to you.
I don't see what the problem is.
If they don't want to let her out, fine.
Then at least bring him in.
I wasn't talking about that. I mean.. everything.
I felt the same way when I first joined up with Alva.
I don't know what I'm supposed to make of all of it. I mean..
A week from now, not one of these people is gonna
remember what happened in this hangar, but...
you and me, we are, and..
Sometimes I wish..
You wish you could forget?
No one leaves.
Thanks.
How are you feeling?
Tired. Not good.
My.. my head hurts.
Karen..
Whatever it was that happened on that plane..
It's stopping.
I'm not sure why, and I don't know how fast, but..
I have to see Mark.
You can't.
I already asked. They're not gonna let anyone..
leave until it's over.
Until everyone's forgotten.
As if it had never happened at all?
I want to show you where it happened while I still can.
Aging paint? Deoxygenated water in the lavatories?
No tungsten in the light bulbs?
How am I gonna put this in a report?
A big flash of, uh..
Blue and yellow light right above the wing.
Get Garcia over here. He should hear this.
Yeah, this section right here.
Excuse me, sir.
Hold it!
There he is! Mark! Mark!
Doctor?
Look at this.
This is interesting.
The goverment has now ruled out suspected
terrorist activity in the investigation of flight 134.
However, sources do confirm that a fire in one of the
lavatories resulted in the tragic death of one passenger,
whose name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Wait a second, are you saying she'd be alive right now
if it wasn't for the autopsy?
There's no way we can know that for sure.
Still..
We informed the media that we have only one victim,
who was killed in a fire.
And yet, we now have an almost perfectly restored body.
Difficult to explain.
Burn her.
They're letting me go?
Yes. I convinced Charlie that sending you to jail
for 5 years would result in unwanted publicity.
- How's Karen? - She's not well.
That wasn't the most thought-out plan in the world, was it?
I had to do something.
We were brought here to observe, nothing more.
You sound just like your friend.
- I'm sorry. - No problem.
What's gonna happen to me?
They will take you somewhere..
Try to find out what it is you know.
But I don't know anything.
You did.
Even if you don't remember. And they will proceed
on the assumption that it's still in there somewhere.
I'm sorry.
Wait. Can't you do something?
Do you remember the last thing you were thinking
before it happened?
Passengers were running me ragged.
Being rude.
Making me feel like crap.
I started talking to this little girl.
She had a dinosaur book.
I asked her what she was gonna be when she grew up,
and she said she was gonna be a paleontologist and a botanist.
"When I grew up, my mom said I can be anything."
And I remember my mom saying that to me.
"Phil.. when you grow up..
You're gonna do big things. You'll be important.
You're gonna change the world."
Time to go.
Why don't you let this one go? Hmm?
Haven't I done you enough favors for one night?
Look.
He doesn't know anything. It's gone.
You're never gonna find what you're looking for.
It's late, I'm tired, and frankly, I've had enough of you
and your friends, Alva, so good night.
Charlie.
What?
May I at least say goodbye?
Make it quick.
Nshe...
Mhaymanuta!!
Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Get him out of here.
What the hell was that?
Traditional Aramaic farewell.
Good night, Charlie.
It's the bullet lady.
Go on.
Empty your pockets.
Must have been the keys.
That's it, okay?
You got some sort of problem?
A frightening day of questions for the friends and
relatives of flight 134 has ended in mostly happy reunions.
Mommy! Daddy!
...hours families waited for information..
What in God's name took you so long?
What was I supposed to do? They wouldn't let me leave.
So, It didn't look like you were exactly observing back there.
Ancient shamans believed that, uh, a sudden shock
coupled with the correct mnemonic prompt could erase
a person's short-term memory.
I hope it worked.
So, he really did want to destroy the world?
Well, I think he wanted what most people want.
To be important.
Where are you taking me?
I guess he got his wish.
Thank you.
Can I help you?
Uh, you don't know me. My name is Paul Callen.
I was with your wife yesterday.
-On the flight? - No, later.
Karen is..
She's a terrific person.
Anyway, this is..
Well, it's is something I thought you should see.
Please, don't ever tell anyone you have it.
He's taken care of me this whole time.
I can't, couldn't do anything for myself.
That's why I have to see him and tell him.
What do you wanna tell him?
That I know.
Every time he touches my face or brushes my hair or bathes me.
I know just how much he loves me.
He's just a good man.
And I've never been able to tell him all these years.
I know, but I can't tell him I know.
I can't tell him how much I love him.
This is silly, I'm really happy.
I can't wait to see him and tell him.
You will.
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