1 00:00:06,924 --> 00:00:09,427 Behold the mighty cockroach. 2 00:00:12,263 --> 00:00:18,519 Believed to have originated in the silurian period over 350 million years ago... 3 00:00:18,603 --> 00:00:24,358 They can be found in every part of the world from the tropics to the arctic. 4 00:00:24,442 --> 00:00:27,361 There exists 4,000 known species... 5 00:00:28,112 --> 00:00:31,365 And in a year a single female can produce... 6 00:00:31,449 --> 00:00:34,202 Over half a million descendants. 7 00:00:35,244 --> 00:00:37,288 Radiation doesn't kill them. 8 00:00:37,413 --> 00:00:41,792 By evolutionary standards, they are nearly flawless creatures... 9 00:00:41,918 --> 00:00:45,213 But creatures nevertheless. 10 00:00:45,296 --> 00:00:47,965 Possessing only a simple nervous system... 11 00:00:48,090 --> 00:00:53,804 Their behaviour is dictated solely by responses to environmental stimuli. 12 00:00:53,930 --> 00:00:58,059 Unlike us, they are incapable of thought... 13 00:00:58,142 --> 00:01:01,145 Of self-illumination. 14 00:01:03,898 --> 00:01:07,818 Compared to the roach, we are gods... 15 00:01:07,902 --> 00:01:10,821 And must therefore act accordingly. 16 00:01:14,951 --> 00:01:18,663 Is it true if you decapitate them, they continue to live... 17 00:01:18,746 --> 00:01:21,749 Eventually dying of starvation? 18 00:01:22,333 --> 00:01:24,835 Look, buddy, I just kill 'em. 19 00:01:29,173 --> 00:01:31,676 Well, that's why I called you. 20 00:01:33,010 --> 00:01:36,681 I thought that nowadays you froze the insects to death. 21 00:01:36,806 --> 00:01:39,517 Freeze 'em? Where's the fun in that? 22 00:01:39,642 --> 00:01:42,770 No, we got a new pesticide that works like a fungus. 23 00:01:42,853 --> 00:01:47,191 It not only kills the infected roach, but that roach then spreads the disease... 24 00:01:47,316 --> 00:01:50,444 To every other roach it comes into contact with. 25 00:01:50,528 --> 00:01:53,155 Just as long as you get rid of them. 26 00:01:53,864 --> 00:01:56,534 Bugs, you know... 27 00:01:56,659 --> 00:01:59,161 They drive me crazy. 28 00:02:07,169 --> 00:02:09,463 Why, you arrogant little... 29 00:02:48,419 --> 00:02:51,589 I forgot to tell you, I also found a roach on... 30 00:04:05,579 --> 00:04:06,622 Mulder. 31 00:04:06,705 --> 00:04:08,666 I've been trying to reach you all day. 32 00:04:08,791 --> 00:04:11,043 My apartment complex was being fumigated 33 00:04:11,127 --> 00:04:13,337 so I thought I'd get away for the weekend. 34 00:04:13,421 --> 00:04:16,340 - I came up to Massachusetts. - Visiting your mother? 35 00:04:16,465 --> 00:04:20,094 No. Just sitting and thinking. 36 00:04:21,345 --> 00:04:24,849 Accounts of unidentified coloured lights hovering in the skies... 37 00:04:24,974 --> 00:04:27,935 Were reported in this area last night. 38 00:04:28,018 --> 00:04:33,357 Look, Scully, I know it's not your inclination, but did you ever look up into the night sky... 39 00:04:33,482 --> 00:04:37,111 And feel certain that not only was something up there... 40 00:04:37,194 --> 00:04:40,781 But it was looking down on you at that exact same moment... 41 00:04:40,865 --> 00:04:44,827 And was just as curious about you as you are about it? 42 00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:49,874 The only thing more fortuitous than the emergence of life on this planet... 43 00:04:49,999 --> 00:04:53,294 Is that, through random laws of biological evqution... 44 00:04:53,377 --> 00:04:57,631 An intelligence as complex as ours ever emanated from it. 45 00:04:57,715 --> 00:05:03,137 The very idea of intelligent alien life is not only astronomically improbable... 46 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:07,308 But at its most basic level downright anti-danninian. 47 00:05:07,391 --> 00:05:09,894 Scully, what are you wearing? 48 00:05:11,395 --> 00:05:15,149 I understand what you're saying, but I just need to keep looking. 49 00:05:15,232 --> 00:05:19,904 Yeah, we”, don't look too hard. You might not like what you find. 50 00:05:19,987 --> 00:05:24,742 Isn't that what dr zaius said to charlton heston at the end of planet of the apes? 51 00:05:25,159 --> 00:05:27,661 And look what happened. 52 00:05:28,996 --> 00:05:32,750 - Scully, I gotta go. - What? Mulder, what's going on? 53 00:05:32,833 --> 00:05:34,919 Mulder. 54 00:05:41,425 --> 00:05:44,345 How ya doin'? What are you doin'? 55 00:05:45,596 --> 00:05:48,849 - Just sitting, thinking. - Sittin' and thinkin'. 56 00:05:48,933 --> 00:05:52,436 And talkin' on the phone. Who with, your drug dealer? 57 00:05:52,561 --> 00:05:55,064 Let me see some ID. 58 00:06:00,194 --> 00:06:03,531 The bureau? You on a case? 59 00:06:03,614 --> 00:06:08,369 I heard reports of several ufo sightings in this area last night. Did you see anything? 60 00:06:08,452 --> 00:06:12,373 No, sir, not personally. But we did receive a lot of telephone calls. 61 00:06:12,456 --> 00:06:14,959 - Any more calls tonight? - No, sir. 62 00:06:16,085 --> 00:06:18,546 The FBI keeps tabs on these things? 63 00:06:22,633 --> 00:06:26,887 I don't like to pry, but why are you sitting here with your wiper blades on? 64 00:06:26,971 --> 00:06:31,100 I was just knocking off some bugs that landed on my... 65 00:06:32,268 --> 00:06:35,145 - Landed on my windshield. - Cockroaches? 66 00:06:35,271 --> 00:06:37,314 Maybe. Maybe beetles. I don't know. 67 00:06:37,439 --> 00:06:41,944 - I'm not really good with bugs. - This is despatch. Come in. Over. 68 00:06:51,662 --> 00:06:54,415 - Sorry to disturb you, sir. - What's the matter? 69 00:06:54,498 --> 00:06:56,834 Another roach attack. 70 00:07:05,092 --> 00:07:07,511 - Hello. - I think you better get up here. 71 00:07:07,595 --> 00:07:08,637 What is it? 72 00:07:08,721 --> 00:07:11,348 Cockroaches are mortally attacking people. 73 00:07:11,432 --> 00:07:15,436 I'm not gonna ask you if you said what I think you said. I know it's what you said. 74 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:18,856 I'm with a bug exterminator whose recently deceased body... 75 00:07:18,939 --> 00:07:21,942 Was discovered with cockroaches crawling all over him. 76 00:07:22,026 --> 00:07:26,530 The sheriff says two other bodies were found in the same condition this afternoon. 77 00:07:26,614 --> 00:07:27,781 Where are you again? 78 00:07:27,865 --> 00:07:30,784 Miller's grove. It has a large science constituency. 79 00:07:30,868 --> 00:07:34,538 The other incidents involved a biologist and an astrophysicist. 80 00:07:34,663 --> 00:07:38,042 The witness to this case is an alternative-fuel researcher. 81 00:07:38,125 --> 00:07:41,462 These reports are not coming from yahoos out in the boondocks. 82 00:07:41,545 --> 00:07:47,217 The image of those cockroaches has been permanently imprinted onto my brain. 83 00:07:48,510 --> 00:07:51,138 I see them every time I close my eyes. 84 00:07:51,221 --> 00:07:53,724 Try not to close your eyes. 85 00:07:56,060 --> 00:07:57,978 How am I gonna sleep? 86 00:07:58,062 --> 00:08:00,064 And where? 87 00:08:00,189 --> 00:08:03,317 I'm certainly not spending the night here. 88 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,070 Maybe you could get a motel room or something. 89 00:08:06,195 --> 00:08:09,657 - Were there insect bites on the body? - Insect bites? 90 00:08:10,741 --> 00:08:14,328 Cos millions of people are actually allergic to cockroaches. 91 00:08:14,411 --> 00:08:19,083 There have been reported cases of fatal reactions. It's called anaphylactic shock. 92 00:08:19,208 --> 00:08:22,252 - Anaphylactic shock? - Such reactions have occurred to... 93 00:08:22,336 --> 00:08:25,255 Entomologists or exterminators. 94 00:08:25,381 --> 00:08:28,676 - Ok, we'll check that out. - You still want me to come up? 95 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:31,845 No, no, no. I'm sure you're right. Thanks, Scully. 96 00:08:31,929 --> 00:08:34,682 - Who was that? - My drug dealer. 97 00:08:44,942 --> 00:08:47,444 Dude, that's some good crap. 98 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:51,782 Come on, it's your hoot. 99 00:08:53,117 --> 00:08:58,455 - I don't know about this, you guys. - You really ought to, you know. Try it. 100 00:08:59,456 --> 00:09:04,712 This stuff takes your mind and just sort of, you know, expands it. 101 00:09:04,795 --> 00:09:10,134 Well, something tells me it's more than my mind you guys are interested in expanding. 102 00:09:10,968 --> 00:09:14,054 - Well, how about another beer, then? - Ok. 103 00:09:14,138 --> 00:09:18,142 I don't know. I think you're makin' a mistake here. 104 00:09:18,225 --> 00:09:21,770 Beer is just, you know... beer. 105 00:09:24,481 --> 00:09:30,404 But this stuff, it, like, swings the doors of perception so wide open... 106 00:09:30,487 --> 00:09:32,740 You can see a whole nother world out there. 107 00:09:32,823 --> 00:09:35,075 But it's still like this world, you know. 108 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:40,414 It tweaks your mind and does this whole altered-state thing to it. 109 00:09:40,497 --> 00:09:44,334 And suddenly you see reality as it, you know... 110 00:09:44,418 --> 00:09:46,670 Really exists. 111 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:53,761 - Oh, god! - Dude, what's wrong, man? 112 00:09:58,599 --> 00:10:00,768 Oh, god! 113 00:10:00,851 --> 00:10:03,353 - Roaches! - Dude, you're freakin', man 114 00:10:03,437 --> 00:10:05,522 roaches! Cockroaches! 115 00:10:07,357 --> 00:10:09,443 Stop it! 116 00:10:23,373 --> 00:10:25,459 Stay. 117 00:10:28,003 --> 00:10:29,004 Hello? 118 00:10:29,087 --> 00:10:30,857 I take it back. I think you better get up here. 119 00:10:30,881 --> 00:10:33,717 - Another roach attack? - This was no allergic reaction. 120 00:10:33,842 --> 00:10:36,136 Two witnesses claim they saw the victim screaming 121 00:10:36,220 --> 00:10:38,305 about roaches burrowing into him. 122 00:10:38,388 --> 00:10:41,308 - Are there insects in the body? - We haven't located any. 123 00:10:41,391 --> 00:10:45,145 - But there are wounds all over the body. - From the cockroaches? 124 00:10:45,229 --> 00:10:49,233 Well, the victim did attempt to extract the insects using a razor blade. 125 00:10:49,358 --> 00:10:53,654 We're not sure all the incisions are self-inflicted, except for the severed artery. 126 00:10:53,737 --> 00:10:59,076 - Was there any evidence of drug use? - Well, he did have a home-made lab setup. 127 00:10:59,201 --> 00:11:01,870 I'm not sure what he was producing. 128 00:11:03,705 --> 00:11:08,752 Oh, man! It smells like a septic tank. Will you make sure this gets analysed here? 129 00:11:08,877 --> 00:11:12,339 There's a psychotic disorder associated with some drug abuse... 130 00:11:12,422 --> 00:11:16,844 Where the abuser has delusions that insects are infesting their epidermis. 131 00:11:16,927 --> 00:11:19,847 - It's called ekbom syndrome. - Ekbom syndrome? 132 00:11:19,930 --> 00:11:24,434 The victim cuts himself in an attempt to extract the imaginary insect. 133 00:11:24,518 --> 00:11:29,106 - You still want me to come up? - No. You're probably right. 134 00:11:29,189 --> 00:11:32,526 - I'm sorry to bother you. - It's no bother. 135 00:11:32,609 --> 00:11:34,695 Bye. 136 00:11:37,114 --> 00:11:38,949 Hey! 137 00:11:40,284 --> 00:11:42,369 Braindead. Couldn't get anything out of 'em. 138 00:11:42,452 --> 00:11:44,037 How about some urine? 139 00:11:44,121 --> 00:11:46,206 For a drug test. 140 00:12:02,472 --> 00:12:05,225 - Did you get it? - Get me a container. 141 00:12:10,731 --> 00:12:14,067 - I think I killed it. - You didn't kill it. You annihilated it. 142 00:12:14,151 --> 00:12:16,820 It must have moulted. It's just empty exoskeleton. 143 00:12:16,945 --> 00:12:20,073 At least we have evidence that cockroaches were here. 144 00:12:20,157 --> 00:12:26,079 We've got more than that, sheriff. I think that bug's exoskeleton was made of metal. 145 00:12:37,674 --> 00:12:42,512 - Nothing more than a skin abrasion. - Caused by a metallic substance? 146 00:12:42,596 --> 00:12:46,266 Why don't we wait until the analysis of the compound is finished... 147 00:12:46,350 --> 00:12:49,311 Before jumping to any conclusions? 148 00:12:51,104 --> 00:12:56,610 Agent mulder, as a doctor, I always find it best to be completely honest and open... 149 00:12:56,693 --> 00:13:00,113 With my patients, no matter how unpleasant the information. 150 00:13:00,197 --> 00:13:02,699 What do you need to tell me? 151 00:13:02,824 --> 00:13:05,494 No, I need you to tell me something. 152 00:13:07,371 --> 00:13:09,873 What the hell is going on here? 153 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:15,045 - Are we in any danger? - I don't know. 154 00:13:15,379 --> 00:13:18,882 - We”, should I evacuate my family? - I wouldn't know. 155 00:13:19,549 --> 00:13:22,469 They're waiting for you to examine the boy's body. 156 00:13:22,552 --> 00:13:25,722 Yeah, soon as I take a little break. 157 00:13:25,847 --> 00:13:31,228 After talking with agent mulder here, I suddenly feel slightly constipated. 158 00:13:33,563 --> 00:13:34,898 What's his problem? 159 00:13:35,023 --> 00:13:38,402 He's upset that I don't know what's going on here. 160 00:13:39,403 --> 00:13:41,488 So what the hell is goin' on here? 161 00:14:13,729 --> 00:14:18,692 Just because I work for the government doesn't mean I'm an expert on cockroaches. 162 00:14:18,775 --> 00:14:22,946 You're saying you don't know anything about the government's experiments here? 163 00:14:23,071 --> 00:14:26,616 - Experiments? - A department of agriculture agent... 164 00:14:26,742 --> 00:14:29,536 Sets up base on a couple of acres across town. 165 00:14:29,619 --> 00:14:33,373 Nobody knows exactly what's goin' on out there. It's top-secret. 166 00:14:33,457 --> 00:14:36,626 - Very hush-hush. - What are you suggesting? 167 00:14:36,752 --> 00:14:40,380 Killer bees were a genetic experiment gone awry. 168 00:14:40,756 --> 00:14:43,383 Let loose on an unsuspecting populace. 169 00:14:43,467 --> 00:14:48,388 Who's to say the government hasn't created a new breed of killer cockroaches? 170 00:14:48,472 --> 00:14:53,143 You might wanna keep that theory to yourself, sheriff. No need to create a panic. 171 00:14:53,226 --> 00:14:56,980 Oh! Oh, my god! Help! Somebody help me! 172 00:14:59,149 --> 00:15:01,985 - What the hell happened? - Cockroaches. 173 00:15:02,069 --> 00:15:05,906 - He was covered in cockroaches. - I don't see any roaches. 174 00:15:05,989 --> 00:15:10,160 Well, when I went out to look for help and I came back, they'd disappeared. 175 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,468 Gently. 176 00:15:26,676 --> 00:15:28,804 Gently. 177 00:15:33,934 --> 00:15:36,353 It doesn't appear odd in any... 178 00:15:40,774 --> 00:15:43,944 Next time let me handle the roaches. 179 00:15:48,448 --> 00:15:49,366 Who died now? 180 00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:53,620 The medical examiner. His body was found next to a toilet covered with roaches. 181 00:15:53,703 --> 00:15:56,289 - I really think you should come. - A toilet? 182 00:15:56,373 --> 00:16:00,794 Check his eyes. Is one of them bloodshot, with a dilated pupil? 183 00:16:02,212 --> 00:16:05,715 - Well, yeah. - It was probably a brain aneurysm. 184 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:06,883 Brain aneurysm? 185 00:16:07,008 --> 00:16:11,972 Straining too forcefully is very common causation for bursting a brain aneurysm. 186 00:16:12,055 --> 00:16:15,642 - How do you explain the roaches, though? - Did you catch any? 187 00:16:15,725 --> 00:16:18,895 - Almost. - I don't know what to tell you, mulder. 188 00:16:18,979 --> 00:16:24,109 I just hope you're not implying you've come across an infestation of killer cockroaches. 189 00:16:32,909 --> 00:16:36,663 - Mulder. - Mulder, I've been doing some research. 190 00:16:36,746 --> 00:16:40,500 In the '80s there was a cockroach species previously only found in Asia. 191 00:16:40,584 --> 00:16:45,338 Since then it's appeared in Florida. They've now established themselves in this country. 192 00:16:45,422 --> 00:16:49,843 - Do they attack people? - No, but they're different than our breeds. 193 00:16:49,926 --> 00:16:52,596 They fly long distances and are attracted to light. 194 00:16:52,679 --> 00:16:56,183 - Do they attack people? - I'm suggesting that what's happening... 195 00:16:56,266 --> 00:16:59,186 Might be the introduction of a new species of cockroach, 196 00:16:59,269 --> 00:17:00,854 one that is attracted to people. 197 00:17:00,937 --> 00:17:03,690 That all makes perfect sense. I don't like it at all. 198 00:17:03,773 --> 00:17:06,860 Did you know that the federal government has been... 199 00:17:06,943 --> 00:17:09,112 Conducting secret experiments here? 200 00:17:09,237 --> 00:17:12,449 You're not thinking of trespassing onto government property? 201 00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:17,954 - I know you've done it in the past, but I... - It's too late. I'm already inside. 202 00:17:20,790 --> 00:17:24,628 - Well, what's going on? What do you see? - I'm in a house. 203 00:17:24,753 --> 00:17:27,380 It's apparently empty. 204 00:17:27,464 --> 00:17:32,802 - What does the place look like? - It's a typical two-storey suburban house. 205 00:17:33,970 --> 00:17:38,892 Nice big living room, sparsely furnished, nice carpets, fireplace. 206 00:17:38,975 --> 00:17:42,312 Nice kitchen, modern appliances. 207 00:17:45,732 --> 00:17:49,069 - Moving walls. - Moving walls? 208 00:17:50,487 --> 00:17:52,489 Yeah. 209 00:17:52,614 --> 00:17:54,658 They're rippling. 210 00:17:56,993 --> 00:17:59,663 - Oh! Cockroaches! - What?! 211 00:17:59,746 --> 00:18:02,457 Cockroaches. They're everywhere! 212 00:18:05,835 --> 00:18:08,171 Ugh! I'm surrounded. 213 00:18:08,296 --> 00:18:11,758 - You've got to get out of there right now. - No! 214 00:18:11,841 --> 00:18:16,012 - Are you all right? What happened? - Flashlight went out. 215 00:18:17,347 --> 00:18:19,933 Mulder, what's going on? 216 00:18:20,016 --> 00:18:22,352 Gotta go. 217 00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:24,521 Mulder! Mulder! 218 00:18:30,110 --> 00:18:33,613 May I ask why you're trespassing on government property? 219 00:18:33,697 --> 00:18:36,616 - I'm a federal agent. - Soaml 220 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:38,201 agent mulder, FBI. 221 00:18:38,618 --> 00:18:42,497 Dr berenbaum, usda, agricultural research service. 222 00:18:42,872 --> 00:18:45,709 Dr berenbaum, I'm gonna have to ask you a few questions. 223 00:18:45,834 --> 00:18:48,295 For instance? 224 00:18:48,378 --> 00:18:51,965 What's a woman like you doing in a place like this? 225 00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:59,139 By studying how insects respond to changes in light, temperature... 226 00:18:59,222 --> 00:19:03,727 Air currents, food availability, we can determine the best ways to eradicate them. 227 00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:08,648 Why all the secrecy about your research? You got the good townspeople suspicious. 228 00:19:08,732 --> 00:19:12,485 You expect us to advertise that we've intentionally infested a house... 229 00:19:12,569 --> 00:19:14,738 With thousands of cockroaches? 230 00:19:14,863 --> 00:19:18,908 But those cockroaches, are they a normal species? 231 00:19:18,992 --> 00:19:21,328 They're a common one. 232 00:19:21,411 --> 00:19:26,916 Have you ever come across a type of cockroach that is attracted to people? 233 00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:31,254 Most cockroaches have been known to wash themselves 234 00:19:31,338 --> 00:19:33,256 after being touched by humans. 235 00:19:33,381 --> 00:19:37,260 So you've never seen an instance where a cockroach attacks a human being? 236 00:19:37,385 --> 00:19:41,264 There have been cases where cockroaches crawled into a person's ear, nose... 237 00:19:41,389 --> 00:19:43,433 Nose? 238 00:19:45,435 --> 00:19:47,687 What is that there? 239 00:19:47,771 --> 00:19:50,273 It's just a pet project of mine. 240 00:19:51,733 --> 00:19:54,527 Since an insect's exoskeleton is a dielectric... 241 00:19:54,611 --> 00:19:57,697 Surrounding the conductive medium of its body fluid... 242 00:19:57,781 --> 00:19:59,699 When introduced into an electrical field, 243 00:19:59,783 --> 00:20:04,162 the brush discharge results in a coloured flare. 244 00:20:05,121 --> 00:20:07,415 What is that supposed to prove? 245 00:20:08,124 --> 00:20:12,379 Well, it's my theory that ufos are actually insect swarms. 246 00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:17,634 I don't know if you know anything about ufos, but all the characteristics of... 247 00:20:17,759 --> 00:20:20,512 A typical sighting are shared with nocturnal insects 248 00:20:20,595 --> 00:20:22,806 swarming through an electrical field. 249 00:20:22,889 --> 00:20:26,976 The sudden appearance of a coloured, glowing light hovering in the night sky. 250 00:20:27,102 --> 00:20:30,397 Moving in a non-mechanical manner, possibly humming. 251 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,733 Creating interference with radio and television signals... 252 00:20:33,817 --> 00:20:36,319 Then suddenly disappearing. 253 00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:40,573 As... nocturnal insect swarms. 254 00:20:40,824 --> 00:20:43,326 It's... it's fascinating. 255 00:20:43,993 --> 00:20:46,996 Everything about insects is fascinating. 256 00:20:47,122 --> 00:20:49,582 They are truly remarkable creatures. 257 00:20:49,666 --> 00:20:52,419 So beautiful and so honest. 258 00:20:52,794 --> 00:20:54,671 Honest? 259 00:20:54,754 --> 00:21:00,093 Eat, sleep, defecate, procreate. That's all they do. 260 00:21:00,176 --> 00:21:03,304 That's all we do, but at least insects don't kid themselves 261 00:21:03,388 --> 00:21:06,433 that it's anything more than that. 262 00:21:06,516 --> 00:21:09,436 Does my scientific detachment disturb you? 263 00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:13,314 No. No, actually, I find it quite refreshing. 264 00:21:18,528 --> 00:21:20,822 Not now. You know, um... 265 00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:27,662 I have always found insects to be very interesting. 266 00:21:28,538 --> 00:21:29,789 Really? 267 00:21:36,045 --> 00:21:40,383 This is the fifth report of a deceased body found amongst a horde of cockroaches... 268 00:21:40,508 --> 00:21:43,136 But police are not confirming - yet - 269 00:21:43,219 --> 00:21:46,222 that the insects have anything to do with the fatalities. 270 00:21:46,347 --> 00:21:50,059 Police have denied that these deaths were the result of an outbreak... 271 00:21:50,143 --> 00:21:54,314 Of the ebola virus somehow being spread by infected cockroaches. 272 00:21:54,397 --> 00:21:57,734 For now these incidents remain under local jurisdiction... 273 00:21:57,817 --> 00:22:02,155 But a nurse here did confirm that an FBI agent is on the case. 274 00:22:02,238 --> 00:22:05,909 Police are asking that if you see any cockroaches, don't panic. 275 00:22:05,992 --> 00:22:10,830 Simply notify the local authorities and evacuate the area immediately. 276 00:22:10,914 --> 00:22:14,209 Reporting live, this is sky Lathan for channel 3 news. 277 00:22:14,542 --> 00:22:19,380 Then suddenly there was this terrible crash. You know, you could have been killed. 278 00:22:52,705 --> 00:22:55,458 Mulder, are you ok? 279 00:22:55,583 --> 00:22:58,795 - I can't sleep. - What happened at the usda site? 280 00:22:58,878 --> 00:23:03,883 They're conducting legitimate experiments. I met an entomologist, a dr berenbaum... 281 00:23:03,967 --> 00:23:08,054 Who agrees with your theory of an accidental importation of a new species. 282 00:23:08,137 --> 00:23:10,223 Did he tell you how to catch 'em? 283 00:23:10,306 --> 00:23:14,227 No, but she did tell me everything else there is to know about insects. 284 00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:15,395 She? 285 00:23:15,478 --> 00:23:19,315 Yeah. Did you know the ancient Egyptians worshipped the scarab beetle... 286 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:24,737 And maybe erected the pyramids to honour them, which may be symbolic dung heaps? 287 00:23:24,821 --> 00:23:29,158 Did you know the inventor of the flush toilet was named Thomas crapper? 288 00:23:29,242 --> 00:23:31,911 - Bambi has a theory I've never come across. - Who? 289 00:23:31,995 --> 00:23:35,915 - Dr berenbaum, anyway, her theory is... - Her name is Bambi? 290 00:23:36,583 --> 00:23:39,168 Yeah, both her parents were naturalists. 291 00:23:39,252 --> 00:23:44,841 Her theory is that ufos are nocturnal insect swarms passing through electrical airfields. 292 00:23:45,008 --> 00:23:49,345 - Her name is Bambi? - Scully, can I confess something to you? 293 00:23:50,513 --> 00:23:54,267 - Yeah, sure, ok. - I hate insects. 294 00:23:54,684 --> 00:23:58,771 You know, lots of people are afraid of insects, mulder. It's just... 295 00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:03,109 - It's a natural instinct of... - No, no, no, I'm not afraid of them. 296 00:24:03,192 --> 00:24:05,695 I hate them. 297 00:24:05,778 --> 00:24:09,699 One day back when I was a kid, I was climbing this tree... 298 00:24:09,782 --> 00:24:12,452 When I noticed this leaf walking towards me. 299 00:24:12,535 --> 00:24:16,205 - It took me for ever to realise it was no leaf. - A praying mantis? 300 00:24:16,331 --> 00:24:19,709 Yeah, I had a praying-mantis epiphany, and as a result I screamed. 301 00:24:19,792 --> 00:24:23,296 Not a girlie scream, but the scream of someone being confronted... 302 00:24:23,379 --> 00:24:28,551 By some before-unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet. 303 00:24:28,676 --> 00:24:32,972 Did you ever notice how a praying mantis's head resembles an alien's head? 304 00:24:33,056 --> 00:24:35,808 The mysteries of the natural world were revealed. 305 00:24:35,892 --> 00:24:38,227 Instead of being astounded, I was... 306 00:24:38,311 --> 00:24:39,562 Repulsed. 307 00:24:39,646 --> 00:24:42,523 Mulder, are you sure it wasn't a girlie scream? 308 00:24:42,815 --> 00:24:44,817 What was that? 309 00:24:44,901 --> 00:24:47,028 - I gotta go. - Mul... no... 310 00:24:50,531 --> 00:24:53,993 - Did you hear that too? - It came from over here. 311 00:24:55,411 --> 00:24:57,497 What the hell's goin' on? 312 00:24:58,164 --> 00:25:00,249 Hello? 313 00:25:01,167 --> 00:25:03,753 Is everything all right in there? 314 00:25:44,293 --> 00:25:47,880 - What happened this time? - One of the motel guests died. 315 00:25:48,297 --> 00:25:50,800 Mulder, I'm coming up there right now. 316 00:25:50,883 --> 00:25:54,721 Scully, I think this man died simply from a reaction to the cockroaches. 317 00:25:54,804 --> 00:25:57,890 Two cases of anaphylactic shock in the same day in the same town 318 00:25:57,974 --> 00:25:59,976 is highly improbable. 319 00:26:00,059 --> 00:26:03,479 I'm saying that this man simply had a heart attack. 320 00:26:04,105 --> 00:26:08,651 Word about the cockroach infestation and the deaths related to it has gotten out. 321 00:26:08,735 --> 00:26:12,822 I think this man simply saw some cockroaches and scared himself to death. 322 00:26:13,114 --> 00:26:16,492 Regardless, something strange is definitely going on up there. 323 00:26:16,617 --> 00:26:19,996 Maybe not. All your conjectures have proved correct. 324 00:26:20,121 --> 00:26:23,416 The exterminator did die from anaphylactic shock. 325 00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:25,918 The boy did die from self-inflicted wounds... 326 00:26:26,002 --> 00:26:30,006 And was getting high off methane fumes derived from burning manure. 327 00:26:30,131 --> 00:26:32,842 The medical examiner did die from a brain aneurysm. 328 00:26:32,925 --> 00:26:35,928 I still haven't been able to explain the cockroaches. 329 00:26:36,012 --> 00:26:39,265 Or the fact that their exoskeletons are made of metal. 330 00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:42,518 Metal? What are you talking about? 331 00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:44,270 Mulder? 332 00:26:44,353 --> 00:26:47,523 - Mulder, I'm coming up there. - Whatever. 333 00:26:57,492 --> 00:27:01,037 - Can you tell what kind of cockroach it is? - I should be able to. 334 00:27:01,162 --> 00:27:06,459 The abdomen's still attached and we differentiate species by their genitalia. 335 00:27:06,542 --> 00:27:09,045 - Oh, my god. - Is it abnormal? 336 00:27:09,128 --> 00:27:13,508 I'll say. He's hung like a club-tailed dragonfly! Excuse me. 337 00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:25,228 - Does it still look unusual? - Well, yes. For an insect genitalia. 338 00:27:25,311 --> 00:27:27,730 But maybe not for a microprocessor. 339 00:27:27,814 --> 00:27:30,900 You're implying that this insect is mechanical? 340 00:27:33,486 --> 00:27:35,738 What am I supposed to be looking at here? 341 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:38,741 Have you ever seen anything like this before? 342 00:27:38,866 --> 00:27:44,163 Only in science journals. I've read about an artificial-intelligence researcher... 343 00:27:44,247 --> 00:27:48,000 Who designs robots that resemble and behave like insects. 344 00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:51,587 I've never seen them, but I've often thought of visiting his lab. 345 00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:54,257 He works out of this town? 346 00:28:34,297 --> 00:28:38,092 - Dr Ivanov? - Why are you scaring my robots? 347 00:28:38,926 --> 00:28:42,555 For decades my colleagues in artificial intelligence... 348 00:28:42,638 --> 00:28:46,267 Have attempted to create an autonomous robot. 349 00:28:46,767 --> 00:28:51,647 By struggling to give their machines a humanlike brain, they have failed. 350 00:28:51,731 --> 00:28:53,816 A human brain is too complex. 351 00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:57,612 Too computational. It thinks too much. 352 00:28:58,154 --> 00:29:01,157 But insects merely react. 353 00:29:04,619 --> 00:29:08,748 I've used insects as my model, not just in design... 354 00:29:08,831 --> 00:29:12,668 But by giving them the simplest of computer programs: 355 00:29:12,793 --> 00:29:16,589 "Go to the object." "Go away from moving object." 356 00:29:16,672 --> 00:29:20,092 Governed only by sensors and reflex responses... 357 00:29:20,176 --> 00:29:24,263 They take on the behaviour of intelligent living beings. 358 00:29:24,347 --> 00:29:27,099 So this is programmed to head towards any object... 359 00:29:27,183 --> 00:29:29,852 Moving within the field of its sensors? 360 00:29:31,938 --> 00:29:34,023 Then why is it following me? 361 00:29:35,983 --> 00:29:37,485 It likes you. 362 00:29:38,986 --> 00:29:41,030 Your contract is with NASA? 363 00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:45,034 The goal is to transport a fleet of robots to another planet... 364 00:29:45,117 --> 00:29:48,788 And allow them to navigate the terrain with more intricacy... 365 00:29:48,871 --> 00:29:52,208 Than any space probe has done before. 366 00:29:52,291 --> 00:29:56,712 And it sounds slightly fantastic, but the only obstacle I can foresee... 367 00:29:56,837 --> 00:29:59,548 Is devising a renewable energy source. 368 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:04,470 In any case, this is the future of space exploration. 369 00:30:04,553 --> 00:30:07,348 It does not include living entities. 370 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,394 I'm just speculating, but if extraterrestrial life forms do exist... 371 00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:13,729 No need for speculation. I believe they do. 372 00:30:13,854 --> 00:30:17,733 If they're technologically advanced, and if your ideas about the future... 373 00:30:17,817 --> 00:30:21,821 - Of space exploration are correct... - The interplanetary explorers... 374 00:30:21,904 --> 00:30:26,742 Of alien civilisations will likely be mechanical in nature. Yes. 375 00:30:26,867 --> 00:30:31,330 Anyone who thinks alien visitation will come not in the form of robots... 376 00:30:31,414 --> 00:30:35,501 But of living beings with big eyes and grey skin... 377 00:30:35,584 --> 00:30:39,046 Has been brainwashed by too much science fiction. 378 00:30:47,013 --> 00:30:51,017 - Can you identify this? - I'm not really good with bugs. 379 00:30:51,934 --> 00:30:55,438 - A cricket's leg? - Try it under the microscope. 380 00:31:18,461 --> 00:31:20,546 Are you all right, dr Ivanov? 381 00:31:22,965 --> 00:31:25,092 Can you identify that? 382 00:31:28,137 --> 00:31:30,222 Sir? 383 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:37,980 It's... beyond my comprehension. 384 00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:44,737 Hey, kid! Move it! 385 00:31:51,827 --> 00:31:53,913 Letgo, buddy! 386 00:32:04,590 --> 00:32:06,675 Get back in the car! 387 00:32:10,471 --> 00:32:15,351 - Hey, what are you, crazy? - Hey, you idiot! You hit me! 388 00:32:19,355 --> 00:32:22,775 Excuse me. Do you sell road maps? Could you tell me where they are? 389 00:32:22,858 --> 00:32:25,611 - Come on. Hurry up. - What's going on here? 390 00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:27,363 Haven't you heard about the roaches? 391 00:32:27,446 --> 00:32:30,616 They're devouring people. We're getting outta here. 392 00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:33,786 - Have you seen any yourself? - No, but they're everywhere. 393 00:32:33,869 --> 00:32:38,374 Roaches aren't attacking people. They're spreading the ebola virus. Keep the change. 394 00:32:38,499 --> 00:32:41,043 We're all gonna be bleeding from our nipples. 395 00:32:41,127 --> 00:32:47,133 All right. Listen up! I'm agent Dana Scully from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 396 00:32:47,216 --> 00:32:50,553 I am assuring you that you are not in any danger. 397 00:32:50,678 --> 00:32:56,475 Everything is gonna be ok if you just calm down and start acting rationally. 398 00:32:56,559 --> 00:32:59,520 Now where the hell are those road maps? 399 00:33:03,065 --> 00:33:05,568 Hey! This last can is mine! 400 00:33:09,989 --> 00:33:12,575 Roaches! 401 00:33:47,943 --> 00:33:54,241 Well, doctor, I... I appreciate you taking the time to... answer my questions. 402 00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:57,119 Yeah. 403 00:34:27,316 --> 00:34:29,652 Greetings from planet earth. 404 00:34:37,660 --> 00:34:39,370 Well, it's a cockroach all right. 405 00:34:39,453 --> 00:34:42,539 It's not like the leg segment you had me examine earlier. 406 00:34:42,623 --> 00:34:45,084 - It's just a typical cockroach. - Even the... 407 00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:48,337 Yes, even the genitalia's normal. 408 00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:51,173 Cockroaches are common in this area this time of year. 409 00:34:51,298 --> 00:34:54,593 It's one of the reasons I set up my study here. 410 00:35:01,183 --> 00:35:03,852 - Mulder. - Mulder, this town is insane. 411 00:35:03,978 --> 00:35:07,940 - Where are you? - In a convenience store on the outskirts of... 412 00:35:08,649 --> 00:35:10,359 Civilisation. 413 00:35:10,484 --> 00:35:13,529 Look, I think I may have a lead. Remember dr eckerle... 414 00:35:13,612 --> 00:35:17,783 The alternative-fuel researcher that witnessed the exterminator's death? 415 00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:21,036 Well, the fuel that he's researching is methane gas. 416 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,206 - Methane derived from manure. - Manure? 417 00:35:24,331 --> 00:35:29,044 He has an import licence to bring in animal dung samples from outside the country. 418 00:35:29,169 --> 00:35:32,881 Now, maybe you can confirm this with your dr Bambi... 419 00:35:33,007 --> 00:35:35,968 But I think the cockroaches are dung eaters... 420 00:35:36,051 --> 00:35:38,971 And, if so, some of them may have been shipped accidentally 421 00:35:39,054 --> 00:35:40,556 in some of the samples. 422 00:35:40,681 --> 00:35:45,519 This fuel research facility could be ground zero for the infestation. 423 00:35:45,644 --> 00:35:50,816 If an alien civilisation were technologically advanced enough to build and send... 424 00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:54,570 Artificially intelligent robotic probes to space... 425 00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:56,572 Might they not have been able to perfect 426 00:35:56,655 --> 00:35:59,241 the extraction of methane fuel from manure... 427 00:35:59,325 --> 00:36:05,414 A replenishing energy source on a planet filled with dung-producing creatures? 428 00:36:08,417 --> 00:36:14,214 - I think you've been in this town too long. - Where's the research facility located? 429 00:36:20,179 --> 00:36:23,098 Bambi, you better wait here until I make sure it's safe. 430 00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:26,602 Be careful. We don't know what these cockroaches are capable of. 431 00:36:26,727 --> 00:36:28,354 If they're even cockroaches. 432 00:36:28,437 --> 00:36:31,607 I'm more worried about the human element. 433 00:37:31,166 --> 00:37:33,293 Dr eckerle? 434 00:37:34,837 --> 00:37:39,425 They're after me. First at my house. Then at the motel. 435 00:37:39,508 --> 00:37:42,010 And then I came here to get away. 436 00:37:43,929 --> 00:37:47,015 But... they're following me. 437 00:37:47,099 --> 00:37:49,852 You're not in any danger. They won't harm you. 438 00:37:49,935 --> 00:37:54,690 - I've seen them kill two men. - They weren't responsible for those deaths. 439 00:37:54,773 --> 00:37:56,525 But they might be responsible for ours 440 00:37:56,608 --> 00:38:00,112 if you fire your gun in a plant full of methane gas. 441 00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:02,322 Don't you understand? 442 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:06,535 The bugs... 443 00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:09,121 They drive me crazy. 444 00:38:14,668 --> 00:38:16,962 Let me guess. Bambi. 445 00:38:17,045 --> 00:38:21,216 Fox told me to wait out here while he checked inside first. 446 00:38:22,843 --> 00:38:25,387 Should I come along with you? 447 00:38:27,473 --> 00:38:30,392 This is no place for an entomologist. 448 00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:35,647 Why are these roaches making those weird noises? 449 00:38:35,731 --> 00:38:41,236 In Madagascar the roaches hiss by blowing air through holes in their upper thorax. 450 00:38:41,361 --> 00:38:43,739 Really? 451 00:38:43,822 --> 00:38:47,159 - How do you know so much about them? - I don't. 452 00:38:47,242 --> 00:38:50,037 That's why we shouldn't kill these but capture them for further study. 453 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,748 Put the gun down. 454 00:38:57,753 --> 00:39:00,088 - Have I lost my mind? - No. 455 00:39:00,589 --> 00:39:04,760 You've had a very stressful day that's affected your ability to think clearly. 456 00:39:04,843 --> 00:39:07,054 Yourjudgment is a little clouded right now. 457 00:39:07,137 --> 00:39:08,263 It is? 458 00:39:11,767 --> 00:39:16,104 Then how do I know that you're not a cockroach? 459 00:39:18,732 --> 00:39:20,776 Mulder? 460 00:39:23,529 --> 00:39:25,614 Mulder! 461 00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:36,375 I assure you, dr eckerle, I'm just as human as you are. If not more so. 462 00:39:40,462 --> 00:39:42,965 You are one of them! 463 00:39:50,389 --> 00:39:53,934 - Mulder! - Get out! This whole place could blow! 464 00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:57,479 Get down! 465 00:40:14,997 --> 00:40:17,082 Crap. 466 00:40:21,336 --> 00:40:25,591 It's like a crematorium. I don't think we're gonna locate the doctor's remains. 467 00:40:25,674 --> 00:40:29,595 - Or anything else for that matter. - It's not as bad as some of the other fires. 468 00:40:29,678 --> 00:40:32,514 - There were others? - Four, to be exact. 469 00:40:32,598 --> 00:40:37,019 Plus 18 automobile accidents, 13 assault and batteries, two stores were looted. 470 00:40:37,144 --> 00:40:41,273 36 injuries all total, half of 'em from insecticide poisoning. 471 00:40:41,356 --> 00:40:44,359 But we didn't receive reports on cockroaches 472 00:40:44,443 --> 00:40:46,123 or othennise for the last couple of hours. 473 00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:49,865 Maybe this town's finally come to its senses. 474 00:40:49,990 --> 00:40:53,785 You two oughta go home and get some rest. You look pooped. 475 00:40:55,537 --> 00:40:57,539 Agent mulder! 476 00:40:57,664 --> 00:41:00,167 They told me I could locate you here. 477 00:41:01,293 --> 00:41:06,131 Those segments you showed me earlier - may I examine them again? 478 00:41:06,214 --> 00:41:09,217 Well, they're completely desiccated. 479 00:41:09,343 --> 00:41:12,137 Just like the moulted exoskeleton. 480 00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:16,058 Many insects don't develop wings until their last moulting stage. 481 00:41:16,350 --> 00:41:19,394 Perhaps these things had their final moult... 482 00:41:19,478 --> 00:41:22,481 And have flown off back to wherever they originated. 483 00:41:22,564 --> 00:41:28,487 - Yeah, that would explain everything - May I borrow this for further study? 484 00:41:28,570 --> 00:41:32,658 I've already had a similar sample analysed. It's nothing but common metals. 485 00:41:32,741 --> 00:41:36,703 - What do you hope to find from it? - His destiny. 486 00:41:38,747 --> 00:41:43,418 Isn't that what dr zaius said to Zira at the end of the planet of the apes? 487 00:41:43,919 --> 00:41:47,255 - It's one of my favourite movies. - Mine too. 488 00:41:47,381 --> 00:41:49,841 I love science fiction. 489 00:41:49,925 --> 00:41:52,761 I'm also fascinated by your research. 490 00:41:52,886 --> 00:41:55,430 Have you considered programming your robots... 491 00:41:55,514 --> 00:41:58,767 To mimic behaviour of social insects like ants or bees? 492 00:41:58,892 --> 00:42:00,936 As a matter of fact, I have. 493 00:42:01,061 --> 00:42:03,105 You know, I read... 494 00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:13,907 Smart is sexy. 495 00:42:15,367 --> 00:42:18,704 Think of it this way. By the time there's another invasion... 496 00:42:18,787 --> 00:42:22,290 Of artificially intelligent, dung-eating robotic probes... 497 00:42:22,374 --> 00:42:26,294 Maybe their uberchildren will have devised a way to save our planet. 498 00:42:26,420 --> 00:42:29,798 You know, I never thought I'd say this to you, Scully... 499 00:42:29,923 --> 00:42:32,217 But you smell bad. 500 00:42:37,597 --> 00:42:40,142 Our cerebral cortex is the greatest achievement... 501 00:42:40,267 --> 00:42:43,979 Of the evolutionary processes. Big deal. 502 00:42:44,062 --> 00:42:47,566 While allowing us intellect and self-consciousness... 503 00:42:47,649 --> 00:42:51,570 It is all too often overruled by our inner instinctive brain: 504 00:42:51,653 --> 00:42:56,825 The one that tells us to react, not reflect, to run rather than ruminate. 505 00:43:02,831 --> 00:43:05,917 Maybe we have gone as far as we can go, and the next advance... 506 00:43:06,001 --> 00:43:10,338 Whatever that may be, will be made by beings we create using our own tech... 507 00:43:12,466 --> 00:43:14,509 T... ech - 508 00:43:17,512 --> 00:43:21,516 Technology. Life forms we can design and program not to be... 509 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:26,313 Ultimately governed and constricted by the rules of survival. 510 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,777 Perhaps that step has already been achieved on another planet... 511 00:43:31,860 --> 00:43:35,030 By organisms that had a billion years' head start on us. 512 00:43:35,113 --> 00:43:38,950 If these beings ever visited us, would we recognise what we were seeing? 513 00:43:39,034 --> 00:43:42,037 And would they react in anything but horror... 514 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,374 At seeing such mindless, primitive, hideous creatures? 515 00:44:27,249 --> 00:44:30,502 Visiontext subtitles: Sally Lewis 516 00:44:43,515 --> 00:44:45,225 I made this!