Speaking of Contact . . .

Dr. David Drumlin: Ellie, I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that’s an understatement. What you don’t know is that I agree. I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line — where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world.

Dr. Ellie Arroway: Funny, I always believed that the world is what we make of it.