Strangers (Knowing)

The Strangers are minor, but incredibly pivotal, protagonists in the 2009 sci-fi film Knowing. They are a mysterious species of clairvoyant hyper-advanced aliens, who sought to save life on Earth from extinction. For most of the film, the Strangers bear human-like appearances, but their true forms are humanoid energy beings who appear to have translucent organs within their see-through bodies. When they fly, energy that trails behind them gives them the appearance of classic winged angels, which they are an allusion to.
For reasons unknown, the Strangers only collected animals and select humans who were capable of hearing their telepathic speech. However, as their powers deal with seeing the future, it is possible that they are merely following a form of destiny in saving the select lifeforms, as if recognizing that the other humans were fated to die.
One Stranger's human appearance was portrayed by D.G. Maloney.
== History ==
The Strangers, an enigmatic and benevolent species, came from unknown depths of space. In the 20th century, Earth was nearing destruction. Knowing this, the Strangers came to Earth in 1959, seeking out any who could hear their telepathic voice. One human child, named Lucinda Embry, who lived in Lexington, Massachusetts, had the ability to hear their voice, their clairvoyant abilities revealing the coordinates, dates, and death tolls of many impending disasters that would occur in the next 50 years. Lucinda, overcome by the visions, wrote down all the numbers on a sheet of paper as part of a school assignment. Before Lucinda finished the page, it was put in a time capsule filled with drawings of children's interpretations of the future in 50 years, as a project funded by William Dawes Elementary School. In an attempt to finish her message, Lucinda scratched the remaining numbers on the door of the school closet with her bare hands the night after the time capsule was buried.
For the next 50 years, the Strangers' whereabouts were unknown, possibly assembling their resources for the evacuation of chosen lifeforms, and sending out more telepathic calls to those who could hear them. In the early 21st century, the time capsule was opened, Lucina's page being given to a boy named Caleb Koestler, son of widowed MIT astrophysics professor John Koestler. As John discovered what the numbers really were, realizing that his wife died in one of the predicted disasters, Caleb began to hear the voice of the Strangers.
After failing to stop two of the impending disasters, leaving just one left on the paper, John and Lucinda's daughter Diana Embry then investigated Lucinda's old mobile home, and discovered that the casualty number for the last set of numbers on Lucinda's paper, "33", was actually "EE" in reverse, which meant "Everyone Else," predicting the incoming extinction event. Caleb, along with Diana's daughter Abby, also able to hear the Strangers' speech, were left to rest in the car as the adults searched, only to awake and encounter the Strangers, disguised in human form. Outside the mobile home, John confronts one of the Strangers, demanding to know who it was. The Stranger merely opened its mouth, revealing a bright light and vanishing. Abby, who also experienced the Strangers' clairvoyance, colored in an engraving of the sun in Lucinda's mobile home, making John realize that the extinction event would be a massive solar flare that would strike the planet.
Diana, believing that she could find refuge in a nearby cave system, attempted to flee there with Abby, and John discovered the last of Lucinda's message in the door, finding what appeared to be coordinates for somewhere safe from the blast. He attempted to tell this to Diana, but Diana, growing increasingly hysterical, simply took both Abby and Caleb into her Mazda3 (BK) and tried to drive to the caves. However, the Strangers, knowing that Diana was fated to die on that day, as she was told many times by Lucina, take Diana's Mazda3 (BK) with the children still inside when she stopped at a gas station. Diana stole a 1994 Jeep Cherokee to chase them, but was promptly killed by a collision with a semi-truck, just as her mother predicted. John, following the coordinates, arrived back at Lucinda's mobile home, where the Strangers had arrived with the children, and two rabbits the children had collected. There, the Strangers' human disguises dissolved, showing their true forms to the humans, as their ships, resembling wheels within wheels surrounded by wings, interstellar arks meant to carry the survivors off-world. John, recognizing that he never heard the Strangers' voice, now knew that he was fated to stay on Earth, and convinces his son to leave with Abby and the rabbits, the Strangers carrying the children aboard the ship, as many other ships across the planet collected all humans who heard the Strangers, along with select Earth life, and left the planet. Earth then began crumbling as the solar activity and public reveal of the event created chaos and anarchy throughout the world, and John then took the opportunity to be with his parents one last time, reconciling with his estranged father just before the flare obliterated Earth's surface.
In unknown depths of space, the Strangers arrived on an idyllic Earth-like planet, where they landed and set Caleb and Abby down on the new world. The two children released their rabbits and ran through a field of wheat-like alien plants, as other Stranger arks deposited more survivors to continue humanity's existence, before receding back into the sky.
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