SERENA moves left, "accidentally" dropping a photograph. LIZ picks it up.)
LIZ: Who's the old geezer?
SERENA: (Reaching for the photo) Oh, that's nothing. No one.
LIZ: I'm pretty sure I've seen him before. (Holds it up.) Anyone recognize him?
ERIN: (Glancing up from her book) That's a picture of Isaac Ray.
LLOYD: Who's Isaac Ray?
ERIN: He's the old man who saw the flying saucer over Mapleville.
TASHA: The old man who claimed he saw a flying saucer.
DARBY: He was the one who started the whole rumor about an alien couple hiding in town.
DAN: And the alien baby they had.
MELISSA: And the strange light that beamed messages from outer space.
ISABEL: Whatever happened to him, anyway?
AMANDA: People got tired of listening to him, and he left town.
GRACE: I heard he left because he was afraid of the aliens.
WALLACE: I heard he left because he was abducted by the aliens.
ERIKA: I heard he went crazy.
TREVOR: He was crazy to begin with. That's why he ran around talking about aliens.
ROSALIND: Nobody knows if aliens exist or not.
ABBY: Until tonight, nobody knew you existed.
HILLARY: I don't believe there's intelligent life on other planets.
TINA: I'm not convinced there's intelligent life on this planet.
LAWRENCE: We've heard about this UFO since we were little kids. It's just a story.
(CAMMIE gives SERENA a nod. SERENA holds out a newspaper.)
SERENA: Well, they covered the story in the Mapleville Times.
ERIN: (Examines it.) It's a front page from 18 years ago. (Reads headline.) "Strange Lights Baffle Citizen."
LIZ: (Dismissing it) He was old and senile. Traffic lights probably baffled him.
SERENA: (Prodded by CAMMIE) Isaac claimed that the flying saucer beamed a light into our high school.
ALLEN: The one time something cool happens at school, and we weren't here to see it.
SERENA: Actually, we were all here when it happened.
ASHLEY: It happened eighteen years ago.
TINA: (Spotting the date on the paper) Eighteen years ago. Tonight!
ASHLEY: None of us were even born.
CAMMIE: But we were about to be. Our moms were expecting us.
HILLARY: My mom's expecting me now, so I'm just going to go.
KATIE: (Stepping in her way) Why are you in such a hurry to leave?
HILLARY: I'm leaving because this doesn't make any sense. How could we have all been here in the high school if we hadn't been born yet?



CAMMIE: This building was being used for night classes. We were all a few months from being born.
SERENA: (Holds up a sheet of paper. ERIN takes it.) Our moms and dads were all here for Lamaze.
GRACE: Lamaze? What's Lamaze? That sounds like alien language.
WALLACE: Actually, this sounds like alien language. (Makes an odd noise.) I-eep. Boop. Boop. Gahayah.
ERIKA: He goes to this school, and I'm the one known as the weird kid?
ROSALIND: At least you're known as something.
AMANDA: Lamaze is a class for parents who are having babies.
ERIN: (Points to the paper) This is the attendance sheet. All of our parents were here in the same class.
MELISSA: So our moms were in the school. We were in their bellies. And a big light shined down on us?
DAN: (Pats LLOYD on the back) It was the only time Lloyd ever seemed bright in a classroom.
TASHA: What do you think this light did?
WALLACE: (Guessing) It beamed down an alien!
ABBY: Cammie thinks aliens were already here. (Everyone reacts. ABBY holds up a notebook.) I found her notes. She thinks a husband and wife were living in Mapleville pretending to be human. That they were in Lamaze class trying to blend in. She thinks the flash of light was some sort of communication.
DARBY: (Quieting everyone's mumbles.) So this bright light came through the window and spoke to the alien parents? How come none of the human parents saw it?
CAMMIE: Well, that's the weird part.
MELISSA: Oh, that's the weird part? Up until now, everything's been so ordinary.
CAMMIE: I visited all the parents from the Lamaze class. None of them remember seeing the light.
TREVOR: You came to my house and talked to my parents? I live at my house and don't talk to them.
HILLARY: (To CAMMIE) Your mother was there. What does she say about the light?
CAMMIE: My mom was running late. She was in the hallway and didn't see it.
LIZ: No one saw it.
ERIN: No one except for the old man.
LAWRENCE: He was a crackpot.
ALLEN: He was a town nut case!
CAMMIE: He was my grandfather.
TINA: Isaac Ray was your grandfather?
SERENA: (Stands beside CAMMIE to show support) He still is. (The crowd mumbles again.)
CAMMIE: My dad got stuck at work that night, so my grandfather dropped my mom off at Lamaze. He was waiting in his car in the school parking lot when he saw the light.
ISABEL: He talked to you about this?
CAMMIE: Not a lot. He left town when I was little. He investigated things for a while, but he got tired of people making fun of him. When he left, I decided to continue his work.
DAN: So want to become the new town nut case?
LLOYD: We're seniors. We all need to figure out what we want to do with our lives.