Geoffrey Blake credited as playing...
Fisher
- Ellie Arroway: [hearing the message on her headphones] Holy shit...
- [unplugs her equipment, jumps into her car and speeds away towards headquarters, shouting into walkie-talkie]
- Ellie Arroway: Right ascension, eighteen hours, thirty-six minutes, fifty-six point two seconds! Declination, less thirty-six degrees, forty-six minutes, fifty-six point two seconds! Confirm! Right ascension, eighteen hours thirty-six minutes, fifty-six point two seconds! HEY! Is anybody awake in there? I'm moving the array! CONFIRM!
- Fisher: Boss has a bogey!
- [Ellie continues to shout coordinates over the walkie-talkie]
- Willie: [into the walkie-talkie] What? Huh? Uh, I, I can't... Fish!
- [tosses Fisher the walkie-talkie]
- Fisher: [into walkie-talkie] We're on it!
- Ellie Arroway: I'm moving the rest of them now and I need you to confirm the coordinates!
- Fisher: [to Willie] Check the status of the array! She's doing all the dishes.
- Willie: All systems nominal.
- Fisher: [Looking at the pulse signal on the monitor] Hello!
- [to Willie]
- Fisher: I need a full systems check!
- [over walkie-talkie]
- Fisher: Coordinates confirmed, Willie's checking the system now!
- Ellie Arroway: Stay on top of the system's diagnostics! Check the reference point offsets and I want you off axis on twenty-seven the second we get there! And tell Willie to break out the big boy!
- Willie: Copy that! Uh, Willie I -
- [Ellie is still speaking on the walkie-talkie]
- Willie: Yeah, go, go Ellie!
- Ellie Arroway: ...'Cause I can hear it on the headphones! We've gotta be sure about this!
- Fisher: [to Willie] Gimme another array status!
- Willie: Her four are online, the rest are tracking in!
- Fisher: [to Ellie] Your four are online, the rest are tracking in!
- Willie: But there's a bad drive on sixteen!
- Fisher: [repeats to Ellie] Your four are online, the rest are tracking in, but there's a bad drive on sixteen, copy that? What do you want me to do about the source cube?
- Ellie Arroway: [pulling up in her car, still over walkie-talkie as she runs inside and up the stairs] Look, forget about it and hold the cube! Go get ready to set the target frequency to manual the second we're aligned! Do you copy? I want you to go off-axis on twenty-seven the second we're there! And leave the yellow frequency where it is! Stay on it Fish, don't let it get away, if you lose it just scan the band, run every frequency you can think of!
- [bursting into the control room]
- Ellie Arroway: How you doin'?