Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost) are two British geeks on the trip of a lifetime to the States. Comic-con followed by a road trip to Nevada to see the Black Mail Box and soak up some UFO atmosphere. Little did they realise that they were about to have a VERY close encounter and end up fighting to save the life of an alien named Paul.
Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost) are two British geeks on the trip of a lifetime to the States. Comic-con followed by a road trip to Nevada to see the Black Mail Box and soak up some UFO atmosphere. Little did they realise that they were about to have a VERY close encounter and end up fighting to save the life of an alien named Paul.
Graeme & Clive have popped in to a UFO themed diner in Nevada for a bite to eat. But not all patrons are as keen on Pat Stevens' choice of decoration or clientele.
Pat
Hey, fellas! How you doin' today?
Gus
What is this... some kind of gay bar?
Pat
No. Just a place where you can get a bite to eat and maybe... share a close encounter.
Jake
Yep. Sounds like a gay bar.
Clip 2
Graeme & Clive have just encountered Paul for the first time. Clive has passed out and p*ssed his pants. Graeme is the last man standing.
Graeme
Are you an alien?
Paul
To you, I am, yes.
Graeme
Are you gonna probe us?
Paul
Why.. does everyone... always assume that? What am I doing? Am I harvesting farts? How much can I learn from an ass?
Graeme
Wha... ah... eh... what?
Paul
I'm sorry.
Clip 3
Clive is still out cold. Graeme is trying to get his head around having an alien in the passenger seat of the RV. An alien that he's actually talking to.
Graeme
How come... how come I can understand you? Are you using some sort of neural language router?
Paul
Actually, I'm speaking English, you fu*king idiot!
Graeme
That's... not nice.
Paul
That was mean. Um, look I'm all tense. I was just involved in a major car crash.
Graeme
That was your fault!
Paul
I can't reach the pedals. My legs are too little. I had to use the parking brake. Okay?
Clip 4
Clive is now awake and driving. But he, too, is struggling with having an alien hitchhiker on board. Especially one which is using the kitchenette to rustle up snacks and drinks for them.
Graeme
What's the matter, Clive?
Clive
There is an alien in the kitchenette making bagels and coffee.
Graeme
Did you want tea?
Clip 5
Agent Zoil is interrogating the two newbies, Haggard and O'Reilly about the roadblock they've been conducting.
Agent Zoil
You have any traffic through here?
Haggard
No. Just a... couple of hillbilly types.
O'Reilly
Yeah.
Haggard
Two nerds in an RV.
Agent Zoil
Nerds, huh?
O'Reilly
Yes. They've come from Comic-con. They met Adam Shadowchild.
Agent Zoil
Who the hell's Adam Shadowchild?
O'Reilly
Oh... he wrote Prison Hulk 431, okay? Uh, Jenny Starpepper and the Spinning Worm. Right? Flux in Uranus...
Agent Zoil
You know you're a grown man, right? Probably shave, pay taxes... have pubic hair?
O'Reilly
All of those things.
Clip 6
Graeme is drawing a portrait of Paul as he reclines on the RV's couch. Paul can't help but quote Kate Winslet in Titanic.
Paul
You gonna draw me like one of your French girls, Jack?
[Purses his lips and makes a kissing sound]
Clip 7
Paul, Graeme and Clive have pulled in to an RV park for the night. Clive is barbecuing. Paul is curious as to the "relationship" between he and Graeme.
Paul
Can I ask you something?
Clive
Yeah, sure.
Paul
You and Graeme. Are you guys, uh...
Clive
What?
Paul
You know...
[PAUL begins miming someone giving a man oral sex]
You know... You guys, two guys... Aren't you getting me?
[The first mime not having worked, PAUL begins to mime someone receiving something sizeable in their... you know...]
Clive
What are you doing?!
Paul
[Still miming someone being buggered]
Oh, yeah, yeah, uh, yeah!
Clive
I don't know what you mean.
Paul
GAY!
Clive
No. Why do people keep saying that?
Paul
No, I was just wondering.
Clip 8
Ruth is in the RV, arguing with Paul through a closed bathroom about evolution vs. God. She hasn't met him yet. Yet...
Ruth
Nothing that you can say or do can shake my belief, or faith in the sure and certain knowledge that God made Heaven and Earth and created us all in his own image.
Paul
His own image? Well... I got a question.
[He bursts out of the RV's bathroom]
How do you explain me?
[RUTH swoons and begins to fall backwards, plank style]
Paul
She's goin'... she's fall... catch...
[RUTH hits the floor]
Paul
And that's Jenga!
Clip 9
Now that Ruth knows the "truth" she no longer has her faith. She no longer has any rules by which to live. Which opens up some intriguing possibilities.
Ruth
So everything that I have been told my whole life is just a big, fat lie. Do you know how that feels?
Graeme
No, look. Just because your truth isn't the true truth doesn't mean there is no truth, Ruth.
Ruth
That's easy for you to say.
Graeme
It's really not.
Ruth
So there's no Heaven? No Hell. No right, no wrong, no... sin. Wha... I can drink?
Graeme
If you like.
Ruth
I can fornicate.
Graeme
Maybe.
Ruth
I can curse.
Graeme
Well, yeah...
Ruth
PENISES!
Graeme
Ruth...
Ruth
ASSING HAIRY BOOBS, POOP, FARTING BUTTHOLES...
Graeme
Ruth, I'm not sure this is helping.
Clip 10
That moment when you invite a girl to sleep in your bed; with or without you and realise that it's full of soiled tissues. Yeah. That.
Graeme
You said you wanted to travel. All right? To see... like, new stuff. This is your chance. I, I, I... really think you should come with us.
Ruth
Where would I sleep?
Graeme
Well, I... I... I'll sleep on the sofa and then you can have my bed. You know? But I'd push the tissues off with a pen if I were you because I've had a cold.
Ruth
Oh.
Clip 11
Ruth is really getting the hang of cursing now. Well, she's mastered the basics but is in need of some refinement. And context.
Paul
Hey there, sleepyface.
Ruth
Fu*keroo... that was the best titty-farting sleep I have ever had.
Paul
Uh... I've got a feeling that you're new to cursing, Ruth. Look, cursing's fun... you've just gotta pick your moments, okay?
Graeme
Hey, maybe we should stop for some food. Is anybody hungry?
Paul
Fu*k yeah!
Graeme
Ruth?
Ruth
You bet your big, fat c*ck I am!
Clip 12
Ruth is thinking ahead but her suggestion takes the boys somewhat by surprise. And then this happens.
Ruth
Maybe I should call my Dad.
Paul
What?
Graeme
What? Why?
Ruth
I've been gone for a whole day and if he calls the police, they're going to be looking for us. If I don't there's a good chance we could all end up in Sh*tbutt City.
Paul
You're really getting the hang of this.
Ruth
Thanks, Dickmilk.
Clip 13
Agent Zoil has intercepted Ruth's call home. Whilst he keeps her talking, Haggard is running a trace on the public phone she's calling from. O'Reilly is just being a complete d*ck.
Agent Zoil
You've been abducted and the individual that you're travelling with is highly dangerous.
Ruth
Oh, no. He's... he's not dangerous. I mean, he's kinda rude. He curses a lot and a couple of times I've seen him scratch his... space... man... balls.
[O'REILLY bursts out laughing hysterically and is slapped in the face by AGENT ZOIL]
Agent Zoil
Please listen to me. Your father is extremely worried about you and we'd like to get you home, Miss Buggs.
Ruth
He showed me things.
O'Reilly
[To ZOIL]
She's talking about spaceman balls
[ZOIL slaps him a second time, silencing him]
O'Reilly
Ah!
Agent Zoil
You know I'm just trying to help you right, Ruth?
Ruth
I just... I don't know... what's real any more. I'm confused...
[The telephone trace has been successful]
Haggard
WE GOT THE B**CH!
O'Reilly
YEAH, DOG, UP HIGH...
[A third slap silences him for a third time]
Agent Zoil
Damnit, Haggard. Uh... Miss...
[RUTH hangs up]
Clip 14
Chased to the trailer by Gus and Jake, Graeme is anticipating a kicking when suddenly the door opens and Paul saves the day.