Case NOT Closed

All right, we're back, and we are going to take you right into an assessment of our active investigation.

This whole thing began with what we were bringing to the table, right, which was our account.

We were the first witnesses to take the stand, as it were, when we told our story about J.C. And that whole story was even possible simply because you and I had come together previously.

over a personal story of mine regarding John Harrington, as everyone calls him, the man who cried himself to sleep.

And he had disclosed to me when I was 18, I tell you the story, Dark Skies is born, we're on the air, and JC comes to our premiere party, crashes it in order to give us the all-important message that sound, light, and frequency is the secrets of the universe.

And here's your little party memento in the formula.

Wow.

Yeah.

But the active investigation wasn't just about what was going on in Hollywood writ large.

We actively investigated our own story and found things in our own story that surprised us.

Among one of the great investigative tools for us is I kept most of the Dark Skies stuff.

And I guess you kept some stuff, too, in our respective archives.

organizational methods i had over the years every time i ran across something throwing it into an area of my office and because i couldn't bear to give it away or get rid of it or shred it or anything it turned out to be incredibly useful because i found production memos and things of all manner that sort of put things into a different order in some cases i had remembered something going on in one way and thought that preceded something else, and it was the other way around.

So what we ended up figuring out is that we had these two separate stories we both had lived.

And over the course of time, they feel like a single story in a way.

Now, not to take anything away from your own individual story of John Harrington or my own individual stories, but they did merge.

And, for example, what we ended up telling people over the course of the season is how this whole strangeness at Dark Skies happened.

But the things that we started to... think were the story, the guy coming to the party, that comes toward the end of it.

We discovered this whole other thing.

For example, when you and I had met, all right, I had done a movie called Official Denial that was very ufological.

And I had been contacted myself by a guy who called in while I was at Lois and Clark.

I'd forgotten all about this guy.

And he asked me to give him a name.

And I had a project at the time where I had a name, John Longar.

And I said, your name's John Longar.