Teddy is worried about the bees. Their survival is threatened, and he knows who’s responsible. It’s the Andromedans – the aliens who walk among us disguised as human beings. Their experiments are killing the bees and endangering human life, and unless someone acts quickly to stop them, the end is nigh.
This is the desperate scenario that Teddy (Jesse Plemons) explains to his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis), a hulking naïf who, despite twinges of doubt, is incapable of arguing against this theory. If Teddy says the aliens are coming to get us, that’s the way it is. All his cousin’s intensive study on the Internet can’t have been for nothing.
Don has no choice but to go along with Teddy’s plan to kidnap a powerful Andromedan and force “it” to grant him an audience on their spaceship during the night of the forthcoming lunar eclipse. Once on board, Teddy intends to negotiate for the fate of the planet, convincing the aliens to abandon their experiments and leave us in peace.
The Andromedan they are targeting is Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), high-flying CEO of the big pharmaceutical company in which Teddy has a job packing boxes in the mail-order department. Although the operation doesn’t go exactly according to plan, they succeed in capturing Michelle. The immediate priority while she is unconscious is to shave her head and cover her with antihistamine cream to prevent her communicating telepathically with her fellow aliens.