The last scene in the movie wasn’t supposed to be the scene that ends up in the movie.
The last scene was going to be all of us playing Dungeons and Dragons again, except this time, Elliott’s the dungeon master.
And so that was supposed to be the final scene, it was in the script and everything, and then they would pan up to the roof and you’d see the communicator and it’s still working — in other words, Elliott is still in touch with E.T..
Because he was the one that found ET, he sort of got in with the group.