Really, We have Nothing

Scene Eight (Before contact and first, shadowy glimpse of the Heptapods) We're gonna go down there, and you're gonna start your job. Okay. Okay? Okay. Everybody, move out! Alpha detail is in position. Team is in position. We're on the move. Condor, Alpha's now in the nave. Setting up equipment and telemetry. Over. So, what happens now? They arrive. Dr. Banks? Dr. Banks? You can start. Scene Nine (After contact and decontamination) ...in airlock. Do not stop until you have passed the airlock door. Do not attempt to remove Hazmat suits without assistance from authorized personnel. Repeat: Hazmat suits without assistance from authorized personnel. Wait. Just a minute. Just a minute. Clear. All right Step on out, please Now hold that. Am I fired? You're better than the last guy. That doesn't make me feel any better. You both have till : hours to figure something out. Okay. What happens then? You go back in. Scene Ten (Scientists working; latest news report) Violence continues to spread across the US today in the wake of the twelve landings. The president has declared a mandatory dusk-to-dawn curfew after the crackdown by the national guard failed to prevent a third night of looting across the country. In North Dakota, a hundred and forty-four members of the Saint Lawrence pentecostal cult are feared dead after they set their compound ablaze. Their website claims the arrival of the aliens set in motion a prophesy that... Scene Eleven ( scientists working in the camp, before Second Contact) Uh, we're up in fifteen. You got any new intel? Yeah, we've been playing back some of their sounds. Where does that get you? Well, they play audio back at us, from an unseen source. Audio of what? Uh, it's bits of conversation from the room. Random clips of dialogue. Really, we have nothing.