The Arrival is a 1996 science fiction horror film written and directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen, and co-starring Lindsay Crouse, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, and Richard Schiff. Sheen stars as radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky who discovers evidence of intelligent alien life and quickly gets thrown into the middle of a conspiracy that turns his life upside down. Plot Zane Zaminsky, a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light-years from Earth. Zane reports this to his supervisor, Phil "Gordi" Gordian, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but Gordi dismisses the findings. Zane soon finds that he has been fired because of supposed budget cuts and is blacklisted, preventing him from working at other telescopes. Taking a job as a television satellite dish installer, he creates his own telescope array using his customers' dishes in the neighborhood, operating it secretly from his attic with the help of his young next-door neighbor, Kiki. Zane relocates the radio signal, but it is drowned out by a terrestrial signal from a Mexican radio station. Zane attempts to consult his former coworker, Calvin, but finds that he has just died, purportedly from carbon monoxide poisoning. Zane travels to Mexico and finds that the radio station was burnt to the ground. Searching the town, he comes across a recently constructed power plant, where he helps NCAR climatologist Ilana Green protect her atmospheric analysis equipment from the plant's overzealous security forces. While in custody at the plant, Ilana explains that the Earth's temperature has recently and abruptly risen a few degrees, melting the polar ice and shifting the ecosystem. She is investigating the power plant, one of several recently built across the developing world, that appears to be the cause of the increase. The two are released but without Ilana's equipment, and Zane notices that one of the guards looks identical to Gordi. As Zane and Ilana regroup, Gordi has agents posing as gardeners release a device in Zane's attic that consumes all of Zane's equipment. Zane leaves Ilana to further investigate the power plant, and scorpions planted in her room kill her. Zane discovers that the plant is a front for an underground base for aliens, who are able to infiltrate human society with an external skin, and that the base expels large amounts of greenhouse gas. He is caught but escapes back into