Taken: Taken
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Taken
- 10.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 10
- First Aired: 12/13/2002
- Prod Code: 110
Lisa, Charlie and Allie are on the run from Mary and the Army. With nowhere to go, they return to Lubbock. Allie is forced to make the most difficult decision of their lives. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- Leslie Bohem
- Director:
- Michael Katleman
- Stars:
- Adam Kaufman (Charlie Keys)
- Michael Jeter (William Jeffries)
- Heather Donahue (Mary Crawford)
- James McDaniel (General Beers)
- Eric Close (John (Alien Visitor))
- Emily Bergl (Lisa Clarke)
- Matt Frewer (Dr. Chet Wakeman)
- Dakota Fanning (Allie Keys)
- Ryan Hurst (Tom Clarke)
- Recurring Role:
- Camille Sullivan (Nina Toth)
- Guest Star:
- Roger R. Cross (Captain Walker)
- Shawn Reis (National Guard Soldier)
- Suzette Meyers (TV Reporter)
- Ben Cotton (Denny)
- Linda Ko (Cynthia)
- Roger Haskett (Man in Crowd)
- Wendy Russell (Woman in Crowd)
- Justin Chatwin (Clauson)
- Sam Easton (Doofus)
- Mark Shera (Radio Caller(Bruce from Nebraska))
- Brian Markinson (Ray Morrison)
- Nathaniel Deveaux (Dale Watson)
- Gwynyth Walsh (Doctor/Abductee)
- Tom Clarke (Ryan Hurst) is the only human character to last throughout the entire series. edit »
- Tom Clarke (Ryan Hurst) and John (Eric Close) are the only characters to appear in both this installment and the first, "Beyond the Sky". edit »
- Dakota Fanning (Allie Keys) is the only one whose name appears in the opening credits of all ten episodes. edit »
- Mary Crawford appeared in more episodes than any other character, seven...all except for "Beyond the Sky", "Jacob and Jesse" and "High Hopes". In second place are Jesse Keys and Dr. Chet Wakeman, who both appear in six episodes. edit »
- When Allie is walking with John (in alien form), they appear to be holding hands. But if you look closely, you can see their hands aren't in contact. edit »
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- Dr. Chet Wakeman: (To Mary, after his death) There's something I wanted to share with you. We're all so desperate for meaning, aren't we? All of us. You too, Mary, even if you think you're not. You want answers, and in that way, I think the aliens are gonna disappoint you. Here's the stone truth of it: They're still asking the same questions we are. No one is God here. We're all in the same boat. edit »
- (Two simultaneous, different conversations)
John, Alien Visitor: I'll try to put this in terms that you commonly use. I'm a scientist. We were all scientists. We came here to learn about your world. Our idea was to find out everything: your history, your biology, everything. We came here to learn. We're not that different from you, genetically, biologically. But what you call evolution has changed us. We see things in you that we no longer recognize in ourselves.
Dr. Chet Wakeman: What do we know? They're this energy that can manifest itself in different ways: as the beings we've seen, as their crafts, as our thoughts. There's no right or wrong about them.
John, Alien Visitor: The whole concept of right and wrong was... alien to us. The idea that the things we were doing were cruel...
Dr. Chet Wakeman: They have no concept of kindness or cruelty. No way of seeing beyond the 'oneness' of all that energy...
John, Alien Visitor: ...to the separateness, the uniqueness, your ability to hate, to love, to feel. You have compassion, as well as cruelty. We-we lack both. Or that is, the traits lie dormant...
Dr. Chet Wakeman: ...in their brains. Like the animal that lives far back inside all of us. But an experience of something basic can awaken that primitive thing.
John, Alien Visitor: And that's what happened. Your grandmother, Sally. She took me in and showed me a great kindness.
Mary Crawford: Something could've touched one of them, something small and simple, and awakened this sense of what was missing. Something gone and half-remembered.
John, Alien Visitor: And so our greatest experiment began.
Mary Crawford: Could they put it back, this thing that had been bred out of them for eons and eons?
John, Alien Visitor: Your emotional core, your strength, your feeling, and our more evolved consciousness. Could we bring these two together? If we could do this, we would have the next...
Mary Crawford: ...step in the evolution of life.
John, Alien Visitor: (looking at Allie) The experiment was an unqualified success. edit » - (Mary is using her laptop, when a video file of Chet appears)
Chet: Hiya, Toots! I programmed this video file to send itself in twenty-four hours if I didn't delete it. I didn't delete it, so I guess you must've deleted me... Yeah, I sorta saw that one coming. edit » - Allie: (narrating) My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky. She liked to watch the clouds in the day and the stars at night...especially the stars. We would play a game sometimes, a game called "What's Beyond the Sky?" We would imagine darkness or a blinding light or something else that we didn't know how to name. But of course, that was just a game. There's nothing beyond the sky. The sky just is, and it goes on and on, and we play all of our games beneath it. edit »
- Allie: (narrating) I don't know what will happen next. I don't know what I'm going to be, what I'm going to learn, but what I do know is this—life, all life, is about asking questions, not about knowing answers. It is wanting to see what's over the next hill that keeps us all going. We have to keep asking questions, wanting to understand. Even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking the questions. edit »
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