- Carolyn McAdams: All right, listen, um, I gotta go, um, is there anything else you want when I come back?
- David: How about a Big Mac, large fries and a Coke? They're still around, I hope.
- Carolyn McAdams: Well, now, that all depends, Do you want New Coke, Classic Coke, Cherry Coke, Diet Coke or caffeine-free Coke?
- David: Huh?
- Carolyn McAdams: Nothing, Forget it.
- David: My dad took me to see the Bee Gees a couple months ago. Who did you see?
- Carolyn McAdams: Twisted Sister.
- David: Never heard of her.
- Carolyn McAdams: It's a him.
- David: Oh.
- Carolyn McAdams: Actually, it's a them.
- R.A.L.F. (Robotic Assistant Labor Facilitator): Pardon me, coming through.
- David: If I stay, those scientists will experiment on me like a guinea pig for the rest of my life.
- Max: If I take you back in time, you could be vaporized. It's very risky, David.
- David: Let's do it.
- [Max prepares the ship]
- David: Max? Will I ever see you again?
- Max: [sadly; his voice returned to its normal tone] I don't know. We must start the journey. Hold on tight, Davey.
- David: I'm gonna miss you.
- Max: I'm gonna miss you too. Thanks.
- David: No big deal. Really. Come on, let's get out of here.
- Max: *Compliance*... Navigator.
- Woman Officer: David, what is the date today?
- David: [sighs] It's the Fourth of July.
- Woman Officer: And what year?
- David: [impatiently] 1978!
- Detective Banks: [a beat] David... who is the President of the United States?
- David: Duh. You need that for your paperwork?
- Detective Banks: Mmm-hmm.
- [long pause]
- Detective Banks: Well?
- David: It's Jimmy Carter!
- David: [long, awkward pause as the Woman Officer and Detective Banks look at David, then at each other]
- David: [to his family] I'm sorry, but I don't belong here now! I love you!
- [gets back in ship and flies off]
- Max: You need to be with your family, David.
- David: That is my family, but that's NOT my home. MY home is back in 1978!
- Max: I wish I could take you back in time, David, but it's just too risky.
- David: But if I stay, those scientists will treat me like a guinea pig for the rest of my life! I have to take that chance.
- Jeff Freeman, 16 Years: [shows David a 'missing' poster of him] Mom and Dad made me put those up on every tree and telephone pole for years, every Saturday. Mom just couldn't accept that you were dead.
- David Scott Freeman: Where do you go next, Max?
- Max: Back in time to when I picked up my creatures. By now they're so hungry, they could eat a zigzog.
- David Scott Freeman: What's a zigzog?
- Max: Kind of like a hippo, but with feathers.
- David: [trying to find his family's new home] Can't you give me a signal in the air to go by?
- Jeff Freeman, 16 Years: If I have to set the house on fire, you'll find it.
- Max: Are we there yet? Where are we anyway?
- David: Geez, I have no idea where we are. We got to get directions.
- Max, David: [they hear "Trapped in My Mind" coming from a convertible on the highway] Hmm.
- David: I wonder if that's that Twisted Sister stuff Carolyn was talking about.
- Teen in Car: Come on.
- David: [they lower the space ship beside the car at a stop sign] Hi, you wouldn't happen to know the way to Fort Lauderdale, would you?
- Max: [Max sticks his 'head' out] Try to make your directions clear because we get lost easy.
- Teen in Car: [freaking out] Floor it!
- [they speed off]
- Max: Hey! Thanks for nothing!... Were those geeks, David?
- David: Yes, Max. Those were geeks.
- David: That's it?
- Max: That's it, Davy!
- David: Davy?
- Max: If you wanna learn how to swim, you have to jump in the water. Don't forget to feed Bruiser. Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun... Whoa! I think I got some stuff out of your head that has nothing to do with navigating this ship!
- David: You sound just like a human!
- Max: No! That dumb dog will never learn to catch a frisbee. You are the inferior species, you dumb dork!
- David: Buttface!
- Max: Scuz-bucket! Ha-ha!
- Radar operator 1: Japanese air force report sightings of the aircraft above Tokyo sir.
- Dr. Faraday: Tokyo?
- Radar operator 2: Japanese air force reports the aircraft has left Japanese airspace.
- Dr. Faraday: Where's it going now?
- David Scott Freeman: Mom... have I really been gone eight years?
- Helen Freeman: Yeah.
- David Scott Freeman: It's like a bad dream.
- David: How come "Starsky & Hutch" isn't on?
- Carolyn McAdams: That show was canceled a long time ago.
- David: That was my favorite show!
- [referring to the TV playing a music video]
- David: And what's this stuff?
- Carolyn McAdams: You've *never* seen a music video before?
- David: Nah-uh. I've been gone for eight years?
- Carolyn McAdams: Gone where? Outer space?
- [David turns to her]
- David: Could be.
- [Carolyn has arrived at David's parents' home to tell them what's happened to David]
- Carolyn McAdams: So right now he's up there somewhere, flying around inside it.
- Helen Freeman: [beat] In-inside a spaceship?
- Dr. Faraday: David... Where is Phaelon?
- David: [sighs in annoyance] How am I supposed to know?
- [the computers come up with charted galaxies]
- Scientist #1: He's searching through star charts!
- [David goes bewildered seeing this, the screens change]
- Scientist #2: Sir, I think he's downloading.
- David: Wait...
- Scientist #1: My God, these are uncharted systems!
- Scientist #2: Our computers don't contain this information.
- [the computers then come up with an outer system as it closes in on the requested planet, Faraday peers in closely]
- Dr. Faraday: David, is this Phaelon?
- David: [uncomfortably] I don't know!
- [the computers answer, 'Yes' much to Faraday's delight]
- David: [scared, runs off] LET ME OUT OF HERE!
- Dr. Faraday: Uh-- David! David?
- [David runs across the hallway without stopping once]
- Dr. Faraday: [to himself] 48 hours is not going to be enough time, hmm?
- Control Room Guard #1: [as they see David peeking out of the ship] Holy shit, it's an alien!
- Control Room Guard #2: No, you idiot, it's the kid!
- David: [returns to the house] Bruiser? Here, Bruiser!
- [David runs into the door somehow locked]
- David: [bangs furiously, thinking it's Jeff] Open up, you little punk! Do you hear me! I SAID OPEN UP!
- [the door opens, a different woman looks at him]
- David: Who are you?
- Mrs. Howard: Who are you?
- David: Uh... I'm David, I live here.
- Mrs. Howard: [pauses then smiles] Think you have toe wrong house, dear.
- David: [stops her from closing the door, worried] Where's my mom?
- Mrs. Howard: [concerned] I've no idea. Oh, are you lost?
- [David runs in, everything in the house is totally different]
- Mrs. Howard: HEY! Where do you think you're going? Now just a minute--you made a mistake!
- David: [goes very worried] Mom? Dad?
- [David runs in the kitchen then upstairs as the woman tries to stop him]
- David: Mom!
- Mrs. Howard: LARRY!
- [David runs up to what used to be his bedroom, it is now a study, David sees a man reading his newspaper]
- Mr. Howard: [smiles] What's the problem, son?
- [David shakes his head and runs off]
- Mr. Howard: Now, calm down, son! Now, nobody's going to hurt you.
- [David stops midway at the stairs between the two people]
- Mr. Howard: What's your name? Where do you live?
- [David goes afraid and confused]
- David: [tearfully] Please... Where's my mom and dad?
- Mr. Howard: Janet, call the police.
- Max: [distantly] Navigator!
- [David quickly wakes up]
- Max: Are you there?
- David: [whispers] Yes. I'm here.
- Max: Help... me...
- David: [walks to the window peering at the hangar] Help you? How?
- Max: Are you coming?
- Max: Yes. I'm coming.
- [the door opens getting David's attention]
- R.A.L.F. (Robotic Assistant Labor Facilitator): Pardon me, coming through.
- Max: Get... in... the R.A.L.F. unit.
- Jeff Freeman, 16 Years: [as Carolyn visits, looks out the window] Dad, there are some guys coming toward the house.
- Carolyn McAdams: Do you have a back door?
- Helen Freeman: Yes, it's back there.
- Carolyn McAdams: [quickly runs out] It was nice meeting you all, and I'll call you if I hear anything.
- [Carolyn runs out until a NASA guy grabs her]
- Carolyn McAdams: Hey, let go of me!
- Bixby: Sorry, Miss McAdams, I have to take you back to the base.
- [a dog viciously barks and attacks at the RALF robot sensing David]
- NASA Officer: Hey, come on, we'll get you your own breakfast.
- Dr. Faraday: [as the scientist study on the spaceship] Have you tried everything?
- Observation Guard: Everything, sir, it's completely impregnable.
- Dr. Faraday: We must get inside. For all we know, something may be living or perhaps even dying inside this.
- Observation Guard: It appears to be seamless--no way in, no way out.
- Dr. Faraday: Okay, bring the computers up to synchronization slowly. Let's see if we can latch the data at a higher rate.
- [Faraday gestures one scientist near David to ask him anything]
- Scientist #1: Well, what is your name?
- [Before David could say anything, the computer gives out David's full name on the screens]
- Scientist #2: We're in synch.
- David: Wait a sec! How'd that happen? I didn't say a thing!
- Dr. Faraday: Next question.
- Scientist #1: David, where have you been for the last eight years?
- David: [nervously] I already told you: I don't know.
- [the computers give the answer, 'In Analysis Mode on Phaelon', Faraday and the others go shocked and confused]
- Jeff Freeman, 16 Years: I'm sorry I jumped out of that tree and scared you I fell very rotten about it.
- David: Just take me somewhere where they can't find us.
- Max: Compliance.
- [the ship takes a dive down to the ocean]
- Max: What are you doing! YAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
- [the ship splashes into the water down to the ocean floor]
- Max: I didn't say take us under the ocean; all I asked for was a place they couldn't find us!
- Max: This was the first place suggested by my databanks.
- Max: [goes to the window and feels for anything] Will this thing leak?
- Max: Navigator, I do not leak; you leak. Remember?
- Jeff Freeman, 16 Years: You should have seen mom she kept all your stuff in you're room she refused to believe you were dead. its 1986 man 8 years since that night