Close Encounters of the Third Kind Scene 14 Summary

  • Roy joins a crowd watching for UFOs on the hillside. There, he reconnects with Jillian and Barry.
  • Barry's playing with mud and Roy recognizes the mountain-like shape he's making.
  • Roy explains that, ever since the UFO incident, he's been seeing that shape in everything, and he believes it means something important.
  • Lights appear on the horizon and everyone's excited to welcome their new E.T. neighbors to the neighborhood.
  • But the lights turn out to be helicopters that fly over the crowd because… reasons.
  • Roy sees the helicopter downdraft shaking a sign like the UFO did and begins to question exactly what it was he saw.
  • We guess that was the point.