1 00:00:09,594 --> 00:00:13,598 When I began my field research here these frogs were thriving. 2 00:00:13,723 --> 00:00:17,685 Since then the adult population has dropped to fewer than 200. 3 00:00:17,768 --> 00:00:21,439 If you don't take protective measures, in a few years... 4 00:00:22,523 --> 00:00:25,860 Rana sphenocephala will be extinct here. 5 00:00:27,111 --> 00:00:32,450 Frog populations are declining all over the globe, dr Faraday. No one knows why. 6 00:00:32,575 --> 00:00:35,786 We can't place them all on the endangered species list. 7 00:00:36,037 --> 00:00:39,540 You'd find a way if it were cute, furry mammals we were talking about. 8 00:00:39,624 --> 00:00:44,378 Regardless, your study remains inconclusive. Speculative, at best. 9 00:00:44,462 --> 00:00:49,884 You have no evidence the frog depopulation is the sole result of human encroachment. 10 00:00:49,967 --> 00:00:52,970 A frog holocaust is currently being executed, dr Bailey. 11 00:00:53,054 --> 00:00:55,806 And man is the executioner. 12 00:00:55,890 --> 00:00:57,975 You're a biologist, Faraday. 13 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:01,395 You've never heard of survival of the fittest? 14 00:01:01,479 --> 00:01:04,982 Well, don't forget that rule also applies to mankind! 15 00:01:06,651 --> 00:01:09,654 You can't turn your back on nature! 16 00:01:09,737 --> 00:01:12,406 Or nature will turn her back on you! 17 00:01:23,751 --> 00:01:25,836 Ah, dammit! 18 00:01:26,587 --> 00:01:28,673 Freakin' beeper. 19 00:01:49,277 --> 00:01:51,362 (Wings flapping) 20 00:02:04,667 --> 00:02:06,711 (Beeping) 21 00:02:15,052 --> 00:02:16,887 (Rustle, crunching) 22 00:02:16,971 --> 00:02:19,056 Argh! 23 00:02:26,230 --> 00:02:28,899 No! No! No! 24 00:02:29,358 --> 00:02:31,235 Argh! 25 00:03:34,757 --> 00:03:36,217 (Whimpering) 26 00:03:38,260 --> 00:03:43,599 - Nature's calling. We should pull over soon. - Did you really have to bring that thing? 27 00:03:44,058 --> 00:03:48,396 You wake me up on a Saturday morning, tell me to be ready in five minutes... 28 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:51,232 My mom's away, all dog-sitters are booked, 29 00:03:51,315 --> 00:03:54,318 and you know how I feel about kennels. 30 00:03:54,443 --> 00:03:58,072 So, unless you wanna lose your deposit on the car, I suggest we pull over. 31 00:03:58,155 --> 00:04:01,575 All right. I'm lost anyway. I gotta stop and ask for directions. 32 00:04:01,659 --> 00:04:05,913 I know I'm lost as to why you're so interested in this missing-persons case. 33 00:04:05,996 --> 00:04:10,584 Dr Bailey works for the us forestry service. It makes his disappearance a federal case. 34 00:04:10,668 --> 00:04:13,087 It's notjurisdiction I'm questioning. 35 00:04:13,170 --> 00:04:16,257 Dr Bailey's not the first person to go missing from the lake. 36 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:19,760 Two weeks ago a boy scout troop was out here fossil-hunting. 37 00:04:19,844 --> 00:04:24,181 Their troop leader went to relieve himself, and hasn't been heard from since. 38 00:04:24,306 --> 00:04:27,435 So you think there's a serial killer at large? 39 00:04:27,518 --> 00:04:30,020 The operative word being large. 40 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:43,492 - What are you leaving out? - Why do you think I'm leaving anything out? 41 00:04:43,659 --> 00:04:46,787 Multiple missing-persons cases are not that uncommon. 42 00:04:46,871 --> 00:04:49,790 Why this one warrants a flight halfway across the country 43 00:04:49,874 --> 00:04:53,169 and a two-hour drive's a mystery! 44 00:04:53,961 --> 00:04:56,213 Oh, tell me you're not serious! 45 00:05:05,055 --> 00:05:09,560 According to the sheriff's report, you were the last person to see dr Bailey alive. 46 00:05:09,685 --> 00:05:11,228 That's what they tell me. 47 00:05:11,353 --> 00:05:14,565 You argued over an endangered species petition. 48 00:05:14,648 --> 00:05:16,901 Bailey was the worst kind of hypocrite. 49 00:05:16,984 --> 00:05:21,405 Closest he came to communing with nature was subscribing to national geographic. 50 00:05:21,489 --> 00:05:24,825 - You sound bitter, dr Faraday. - Of course I'm bitter. 51 00:05:24,909 --> 00:05:29,497 The man wrote off three years of carefully collected data in a two-hour inspection. 52 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:32,750 Which doesn't mean I plotted his demise. 53 00:05:34,043 --> 00:05:36,086 That is what you were suggesting. 54 00:05:36,212 --> 00:05:39,715 Aside from having a motive, you don't seem too upset. 55 00:05:39,924 --> 00:05:42,009 You expect me to cry for one man 56 00:05:42,092 --> 00:05:45,346 when entire species are on the brink of extinction? 57 00:05:45,429 --> 00:05:50,017 You know the wildlife in and around this lake as well as anybody, don't you? 58 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:51,519 I'd say that's accurate. 59 00:05:51,602 --> 00:05:56,607 Are you aware of any indigenous species that's capable of attacking a human being? 60 00:05:56,732 --> 00:05:58,400 Yes. 61 00:05:59,443 --> 00:06:03,280 - Another human being. - Aside from that. Is there a creature that... 62 00:06:03,364 --> 00:06:07,952 Has anyone ever told you two you have a great problem coming to the point? 63 00:06:09,453 --> 00:06:12,623 Ok. In your work, have you come across any evidence... 64 00:06:12,748 --> 00:06:17,586 That lends support to the existence of this creature they call big blue? 65 00:06:18,796 --> 00:06:21,966 See, this is what always happens. This is how it starts. 66 00:06:22,049 --> 00:06:25,719 - What? - The deerction, sleight of hand. 67 00:06:25,803 --> 00:06:29,557 Whenever an issue requires any real thought or mental effort... 68 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:34,270 People turn to ufos and sea serpents and sasquatch. 69 00:06:35,813 --> 00:06:38,357 Afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV - 70 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,901 they've reduced our attention span so much... 71 00:06:40,985 --> 00:06:45,656 That soon our ability to think will be as extinct as the rana sphenocephala frog. 72 00:06:45,781 --> 00:06:50,119 I'll take that diatribe to mean you don't believe in the existence of such a creature. 73 00:06:50,327 --> 00:06:52,413 I won't even grace that with a reply. 74 00:06:52,496 --> 00:06:55,249 A prehistoric animal in a lake is not without precedent. 75 00:06:55,332 --> 00:06:59,587 Last August they pulled a bull shark from lake onota in Massachusetts. 76 00:06:59,837 --> 00:07:02,798 An anomaly, which proves nothing. 77 00:07:04,341 --> 00:07:08,095 It only serves as fodder for pseudoscientists... 78 00:07:08,178 --> 00:07:11,765 With nothing better to do than chase fairy tales. 79 00:07:11,849 --> 00:07:13,976 Excuse me. 80 00:07:16,854 --> 00:07:20,691 (Mulder) Lake creatures have been reported for centuries in many countries. 81 00:07:20,774 --> 00:07:26,113 From the monsters in Loch Ness and shiel, to the ogopogo in lake okanagan. 82 00:07:26,196 --> 00:07:29,450 (Scully) And lake champlain, lagarfljot, Iceland... 83 00:07:29,533 --> 00:07:33,203 - Sounds like you know about the subject. - I did as a kid... 84 00:07:33,287 --> 00:07:36,040 But then I grew up and became a scientist. 85 00:07:36,165 --> 00:07:40,336 Some grown-up cryptozoologists think it's an evolutionary throwback, 86 00:07:40,419 --> 00:07:42,713 possibly prehistoric. 87 00:07:42,796 --> 00:07:45,549 - An aquatic dinosaur. - A plesiosaur, actually. 88 00:07:45,633 --> 00:07:49,386 Though, admittedly, there's not a lot of hard evidence to back that up. 89 00:07:49,470 --> 00:07:52,389 You know why? Because those creatures don't exist. 90 00:07:52,473 --> 00:07:55,976 They are folk tales born out of some collective fear of the unknown. 91 00:07:56,060 --> 00:07:57,394 How many folk tales do you know 92 00:07:57,478 --> 00:08:00,064 that could eat a boy scout leader and a biologist? 93 00:08:21,752 --> 00:08:23,879 Check this out, Scully. 94 00:08:27,257 --> 00:08:31,345 It looks an insect casing or carapace. Something from a beetle. 95 00:08:31,428 --> 00:08:35,933 - (Man) How can I help you folks? - We're looking for the lakeview cabins. 96 00:08:36,058 --> 00:08:38,811 Oh, you passed the turn-off a few miles back. 97 00:08:38,894 --> 00:08:41,522 It's pretty tough to find. 98 00:08:41,605 --> 00:08:46,110 A map might help. Oh, they're $2.50 each, plus uncle Sam. 99 00:08:46,777 --> 00:08:48,696 Fine. 100 00:08:48,779 --> 00:08:52,449 If you don't mind my sayin', don't look like you're here for the trout. 101 00:08:52,533 --> 00:08:56,453 No. We're with the FBI. We're investigating two missing-persons reports. 102 00:08:56,704 --> 00:09:01,917 Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's big news round here. Everybody's been talkin' about it. 103 00:09:02,376 --> 00:09:06,964 - What are they saying? - Same thing they've been saying for years. 104 00:09:07,047 --> 00:09:08,716 I'm not one for spreading rumours. 105 00:09:08,799 --> 00:09:11,635 The truth is, I've heard the stories since I was a kid. 106 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,806 - About big blue? What kind of stories? - Well... 107 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,893 I was ten years old, fishin' with my daddy... 108 00:09:19,977 --> 00:09:23,731 And I heard a big commotion clear across the lake. 109 00:09:23,814 --> 00:09:29,403 A wailing sound, the likes of which I had never heard before - haven't heard since. 110 00:09:29,486 --> 00:09:34,908 My daddy told me later it was a cow who'd escaped and was drinking by the lake... 111 00:09:34,992 --> 00:09:38,287 When old blue came up and snatched her right off the bank. 112 00:09:38,495 --> 00:09:41,749 - That's quite a story. - Well, that's just one. 113 00:09:41,832 --> 00:09:45,002 Those stories must sell a lot of t-shirts. 114 00:09:45,502 --> 00:09:47,921 Well, a man's gotta survive. 115 00:09:48,338 --> 00:09:50,466 Do you believe those stories? 116 00:09:50,758 --> 00:09:54,094 Every man's gotta look at the evidence, decide for himself. 117 00:09:54,178 --> 00:09:58,015 - (Door opens) - But if you wanna ask a real expert... 118 00:09:58,098 --> 00:10:02,436 You should probably talk to ansel here. He's out there practically every day. 119 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:05,647 It was his daddy's cow that got eaten. 120 00:10:05,814 --> 00:10:08,192 Can you get these developed by tomorrow? 121 00:10:08,317 --> 00:10:11,195 Give me another five rolls. Put 'em on my tab. 122 00:10:11,278 --> 00:10:13,530 These folks are with the FBI, ansel. 123 00:10:13,655 --> 00:10:17,785 They're looking into that unsolved mystery of how those people disappeared. 124 00:10:17,868 --> 00:10:20,120 Unsolved mystery? 125 00:10:20,204 --> 00:10:24,792 - Since when's it a mystery? - So you think big blue's responsible? 126 00:10:24,875 --> 00:10:26,960 Don't you? 127 00:10:27,044 --> 00:10:29,379 Have you ever actually seen it? 128 00:10:29,505 --> 00:10:32,007 Not directly, no. 129 00:10:33,008 --> 00:10:34,885 But I aim to. 130 00:10:34,968 --> 00:10:40,516 One day I'll be in the right place at the right time, and I will snap a shot of that monster. 131 00:10:44,645 --> 00:10:46,897 There we go. 132 00:11:29,189 --> 00:11:32,025 If you hit striker's cove, you've gone too far. 133 00:11:32,109 --> 00:11:35,612 - (Door opens) - Call the sheriff! We got a floater! 134 00:12:05,058 --> 00:12:08,437 It's Scott moosley, the boy scout troop leader. 135 00:12:09,813 --> 00:12:13,233 - Well, his fly's undone. - Are you insinuating something? 136 00:12:13,317 --> 00:12:18,322 No. Most drowning victims have high levels of alcohol in them and their flies unzipped. 137 00:12:18,405 --> 00:12:23,577 While urinating over the sides of boats, they lose their balance, fall in and drown. 138 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:27,164 It still doesn't explain why half of him is still missing. 139 00:12:27,247 --> 00:12:30,334 - Looks like something took a big bite. - Maybe not so big. 140 00:12:30,417 --> 00:12:32,920 - What do you mean? - Fish eat decomposing matter. 141 00:12:33,003 --> 00:12:37,591 Any body suspended in this environment for a period of time will become a food source. 142 00:12:37,674 --> 00:12:40,177 We eat fish and fish eat us. 143 00:12:41,178 --> 00:12:45,140 Are fish also known for eating half and saving half for later? 144 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:47,244 (Rustling) 145 00:14:02,092 --> 00:14:03,927 (Splashing) 146 00:14:04,052 --> 00:14:06,096 Argh! 147 00:14:08,223 --> 00:14:11,518 Oh, god, no! No! Argh! No! 148 00:14:11,601 --> 00:14:14,104 Help me! Help me! Argh! 149 00:14:16,356 --> 00:14:18,233 (Screaming) 150 00:14:24,281 --> 00:14:26,408 (Camera clicking) 151 00:14:28,618 --> 00:14:32,664 - (Ansel) Like I said, I recognised his hat. - How could you not? 152 00:14:33,623 --> 00:14:37,836 There's Ted Bertram's four-by parked a mile up that way, here's his hat... 153 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:40,297 And here's these tracks. 154 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:42,507 Know what I'm sayin'? 155 00:14:42,591 --> 00:14:45,010 I mean, look at the size of these tracks. 156 00:14:45,093 --> 00:14:48,472 Mulder, this is sheriff Lance head. 157 00:14:48,555 --> 00:14:51,433 Wait. Watch out... Watch out for the tracks. 158 00:14:51,683 --> 00:14:54,394 Careful. Watch out where you're walking. 159 00:14:56,396 --> 00:14:58,482 Queequeg. 160 00:15:01,401 --> 00:15:05,155 Pleasure. Ansel, why don't you go check the woods? 161 00:15:05,947 --> 00:15:07,949 Today's the day, sheriff. 162 00:15:08,033 --> 00:15:09,785 - I'm gonna get him. - (Sighs) Yeah. 163 00:15:09,868 --> 00:15:12,370 - Any sign of Ted Bertram? - No. 164 00:15:12,454 --> 00:15:17,000 I'm notjumping to conclusions. Speakin' of which, I hear you want to close the lake. 165 00:15:17,084 --> 00:15:19,252 Just until we figure out what's going on. 166 00:15:19,419 --> 00:15:23,173 Well, I can tell you what's goin' on. Same thing that goes on every year. 167 00:15:23,256 --> 00:15:26,802 Fishermen get drunk, they drown. Folks get run over by a powerboat. 168 00:15:26,885 --> 00:15:31,640 Hell, on a lake this size you'll have eight, nine deaths a season. It's a statistical fact. 169 00:15:31,723 --> 00:15:33,600 But you got two or three in as many weeks. 170 00:15:33,683 --> 00:15:36,645 I'd say you're outside your bell curve, sheriff. 171 00:15:36,728 --> 00:15:39,564 Agent... mulder? Mulder? 172 00:15:39,648 --> 00:15:43,527 This lake has 48 miles of shoreline. 173 00:15:43,610 --> 00:15:46,154 I got four deputies full time. 174 00:15:46,238 --> 00:15:48,740 Now, to close down a lake this size... 175 00:15:48,824 --> 00:15:52,369 Hell, you'd have to call out the national guard for that to happen. 176 00:15:52,452 --> 00:15:55,205 - You'd need irrefutable proof. - And these tracks? 177 00:15:55,288 --> 00:15:58,083 A creature as large as the one you're looking for 178 00:15:58,166 --> 00:16:01,128 would have left much deeper impressions. 179 00:16:01,211 --> 00:16:02,879 Queequeg! 180 00:16:03,004 --> 00:16:06,133 Queequeg, come back here! Queequeg! 181 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:10,720 (Whimpering) 182 00:16:13,431 --> 00:16:18,520 - Mulder! Sheriff, come take a look at this. - (Sheriff) What you got? 183 00:16:20,814 --> 00:16:24,276 - There's your lake monster, mulder. - That's what it looks like. 184 00:16:24,359 --> 00:16:28,738 - It's all a hoax. - I'll be damned! Sure seems like it. 185 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,120 Yeah, but what happened to the hoaxer? 186 00:16:38,123 --> 00:16:41,668 (Man) I saw it on the discovery channel. 187 00:16:43,336 --> 00:16:49,384 They got, like, this whole, you know, cult built up around these tree toads. 188 00:16:50,677 --> 00:16:56,433 The skin's got these hallucinogenic properties - let's you see all these visions. 189 00:16:56,933 --> 00:16:59,519 It's really spiritual. 190 00:16:59,603 --> 00:17:01,396 Yeah? 191 00:17:02,647 --> 00:17:04,733 I don't know. 192 00:17:06,234 --> 00:17:08,862 It's supposed to take the doors of perception 193 00:17:08,945 --> 00:17:11,823 and swing them so wide open, you know. 194 00:17:11,907 --> 00:17:16,745 Plus you get to see all these really cool streaks and trails and crap. 195 00:17:29,883 --> 00:17:31,760 Well? 196 00:17:34,471 --> 00:17:37,641 - Are you sure that's even a toad? - Argh! 197 00:17:39,142 --> 00:17:42,729 Dude, what's wrong with you?! You made me drop my toad! 198 00:17:42,812 --> 00:17:45,732 Chill out, man. I'll get you another one. 199 00:17:52,155 --> 00:17:55,408 How long till we get down to lauderdale? 200 00:17:55,492 --> 00:17:56,660 (Screaming) 201 00:18:09,005 --> 00:18:11,174 Dude! 202 00:18:12,550 --> 00:18:15,553 Oh... no! 203 00:18:21,726 --> 00:18:23,603 Dude? 204 00:18:31,569 --> 00:18:33,655 (Sher/fl) How about you? 205 00:18:34,656 --> 00:18:36,783 Neither of you can remember anything? 206 00:18:36,866 --> 00:18:39,953 - Great(!) - If this is a hoax, it's an elaborate one. 207 00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:44,207 I got zip out of them - no tellin' what they've been smokin'! What's it look like? 208 00:18:44,291 --> 00:18:48,712 It's hard to tell without an autopsy, but it looks like propeller damage from a boat. 209 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:53,633 - Well, this is a designated boating area. - 20 feet from shore and twice in one day? 210 00:18:53,717 --> 00:18:56,636 Mulder, look at it out there. It's like rush hour. 211 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,596 I think you're ignoring the obvious. 212 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:00,307 What about Ted Bertram? 213 00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:03,852 He might've stepped in something and bled into those funny shoes. 214 00:19:03,935 --> 00:19:07,355 He's probably so embarrassed he doesn't want to show his face. 215 00:19:07,439 --> 00:19:10,859 Is that the psychological approach to crime solving? 216 00:19:10,942 --> 00:19:16,865 Regardless of what I believe, there's no hard evidence that it's what you believe. 217 00:19:18,033 --> 00:19:21,411 (Ansel) I see your true colours 218 00:19:21,494 --> 00:19:23,913 shining through 219 00:19:23,997 --> 00:19:27,584 I see your true colours 220 00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:30,545 and that's why I love you 221 00:19:30,628 --> 00:19:33,173 so don't be afraid 222 00:19:33,882 --> 00:19:35,884 to show your true 223 00:19:36,259 --> 00:19:38,136 blue 224 00:19:38,219 --> 00:19:40,722 colours 225 00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:44,601 ok, big blue, you're mine. 226 00:19:46,227 --> 00:19:48,313 Today's the day! 227 00:19:56,529 --> 00:19:58,490 Colours 228 00:19:58,573 --> 00:20:01,868 and that's why I love you 229 00:20:11,753 --> 00:20:13,505 Crap! Jesus! 230 00:20:15,965 --> 00:20:17,842 Argh! 231 00:20:24,182 --> 00:20:26,684 This has been exposed. Can you develop it? 232 00:20:26,768 --> 00:20:28,603 Yes, sir. 233 00:20:28,812 --> 00:20:30,563 Three in one day. 234 00:20:30,647 --> 00:20:34,275 Driving from crime scene to crime scene is giving me highway hypnosis. 235 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,071 - Close down the lake. - I done told you once. It ain't that simple. 236 00:20:38,154 --> 00:20:40,657 I just ain't got the manpower. 237 00:20:40,782 --> 00:20:43,034 Furthermore... 238 00:20:43,159 --> 00:20:46,830 I'm not at all convinced we're dealing with an aquatic menace. 239 00:20:47,122 --> 00:20:51,126 He's right. Those two sets of remains we've found so far are inconclusive. 240 00:20:51,209 --> 00:20:54,045 We really need to find this body. 241 00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:56,423 My thoughts exactly, ma'am. 242 00:20:56,506 --> 00:20:58,842 If you'll give us a couple more minutes... 243 00:20:59,175 --> 00:21:01,553 - Argh! - Sheriff! 244 00:21:01,678 --> 00:21:03,513 Shenfi! 245 00:21:11,479 --> 00:21:13,523 (Officer) You all right, sheriff? 246 00:21:15,358 --> 00:21:18,236 Are you ok, sheriff? 247 00:21:18,361 --> 00:21:20,071 Something... 248 00:21:20,196 --> 00:21:24,576 Something brushed up against me out there. Something big... 249 00:21:24,701 --> 00:21:27,412 - Close the lake! - Right, sheriff. 250 00:21:27,537 --> 00:21:30,457 Call the state police and the wildlife, fish and game. 251 00:21:30,540 --> 00:21:33,501 You tell 'em we got an emergency situation! 252 00:21:37,714 --> 00:21:39,924 Looks like ansel took 'em during the attack. 253 00:21:40,008 --> 00:21:41,217 I agree. 254 00:21:41,342 --> 00:21:44,429 I just wish that he gave us something more. 255 00:21:47,599 --> 00:21:50,185 Whoa... look at this. 256 00:21:50,894 --> 00:21:53,229 Could this be a tooth? 257 00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:56,399 Yeah. It could be a lot of things, mulder. 258 00:21:57,567 --> 00:22:02,447 15 years of fruitless hunting, and all the guy comes up with is a blurry picture of a tooth? 259 00:22:02,572 --> 00:22:05,033 There are thousands of pictures here, Scully. 260 00:22:05,116 --> 00:22:10,371 There's gotta be some visual evidence somewhere. Here, go through these. 261 00:22:13,958 --> 00:22:18,922 Mulder, these are just a bunch of poorly composed tourist shots. 262 00:22:19,047 --> 00:22:21,216 That could be something. 263 00:22:21,299 --> 00:22:24,093 - A tooth? - (Whimpering) 264 00:22:27,722 --> 00:22:30,767 I'm taking queequeg for a walk. 265 00:22:31,476 --> 00:22:34,729 - Want me to come with you? - I'll be fine. 266 00:22:42,695 --> 00:22:47,033 - Good night, mulder. - All right. I'll see you in the morning. 267 00:22:55,124 --> 00:22:57,126 Come on, queequeg. 268 00:22:58,044 --> 00:22:59,295 (Sighs) 269 00:22:59,379 --> 00:23:02,674 Queequeg, we're not gonna go into the woods. 270 00:23:02,757 --> 00:23:06,219 Come on, do your business. I thought you had to go. 271 00:23:06,302 --> 00:23:08,555 Queequeg! 272 00:23:08,638 --> 00:23:10,682 What is it? 273 00:23:14,811 --> 00:23:17,689 Queequeg! Where are you going? 274 00:23:17,814 --> 00:23:19,691 Queequeg! 275 00:23:19,816 --> 00:23:21,985 Queequeg, come back here! 276 00:23:22,110 --> 00:23:23,861 Queequeg! 277 00:23:24,279 --> 00:23:26,155 Queequeg! 278 00:23:28,491 --> 00:23:31,119 - Queequeg! - (Barking) 279 00:23:35,123 --> 00:23:37,166 (Whimpering) 280 00:23:38,042 --> 00:23:39,502 (Growling) 281 00:23:39,627 --> 00:23:41,588 - Quee...? - (Squealing) 282 00:23:41,671 --> 00:23:43,548 Queeq... 283 00:23:50,096 --> 00:23:51,973 Quee... 284 00:23:59,689 --> 00:24:01,524 (Gasps) 285 00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:24,922 I'm sorry about queequeg. 286 00:24:27,925 --> 00:24:30,845 - I've learned something from these photos. - Mulder... 287 00:24:30,928 --> 00:24:33,723 They're not pictures of the monster, but of the lake - 288 00:24:33,806 --> 00:24:38,102 locations where the creature's been sighted over the past several years. Look. 289 00:24:38,186 --> 00:24:42,732 Five years ago all the sightings occurred in the centre of the lake. 290 00:24:42,815 --> 00:24:45,610 But the sightings have moved closer to shore... 291 00:24:45,693 --> 00:24:49,113 Until this year they're practically on the shore. 292 00:24:50,114 --> 00:24:52,742 Could you repeat the last part again? I faded out. 293 00:24:52,825 --> 00:24:54,911 Which... which part? 294 00:24:55,703 --> 00:24:57,830 After you said "I'm sorry." 295 00:24:59,499 --> 00:25:02,001 Can you drive a boat? 296 00:25:06,339 --> 00:25:10,885 - It's too bad we're not out here fishing. - We are fishing. 297 00:25:13,304 --> 00:25:18,601 - You really expect to find this thing. - You wanna head right... here. 298 00:25:19,310 --> 00:25:21,187 I'll take that as a yes. 299 00:25:21,312 --> 00:25:24,732 I know the difference between expectation and hope. 300 00:25:24,816 --> 00:25:27,443 "Seek and ye shall find," Scully. 301 00:25:27,819 --> 00:25:33,074 On old mariners' maps, the cartographers would designate uncharted territories... 302 00:25:33,157 --> 00:25:35,201 By writing "here be monsters." 303 00:25:35,284 --> 00:25:37,662 I have a map of new York cityjust like that. 304 00:25:38,037 --> 00:25:39,664 (Beeping) 305 00:25:39,747 --> 00:25:43,126 - What was that? - It ain't no bass. 306 00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:47,255 What is that? 307 00:25:49,382 --> 00:25:51,884 What is that, mulder? 308 00:25:53,302 --> 00:25:58,015 - There be monsters, Scully. - It looks like it's coming straight at us. 309 00:25:58,099 --> 00:26:00,268 Yup. That's what it looks like. 310 00:26:09,444 --> 00:26:13,114 Mayday! Mayday! Can anybody read me? 311 00:26:14,782 --> 00:26:18,327 This is a distress call from the Patricia rae! 312 00:26:18,411 --> 00:26:21,998 Pa7a3a27 I 313 00:26:22,081 --> 00:26:24,167 - I'm on... - (Crashing) 314 00:26:28,588 --> 00:26:32,759 - Mayday! Mayday! - Scully, let's get outta here! 315 00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:07,919 (Scully) There goes our $500 deposit. 316 00:27:11,506 --> 00:27:13,800 (Sighs) I say we swim to shore. 317 00:27:13,883 --> 00:27:17,720 - Swim? - Yeah. The shore can't be too far from here. 318 00:27:17,804 --> 00:27:19,889 In which direction? 319 00:27:28,397 --> 00:27:34,028 Yeah. You know, living in the city, you forget that night is actually so, uh, dark. 320 00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:38,282 Living in a city, you forget a lot of things. 321 00:27:38,366 --> 00:27:42,954 There you're always thinking about being mugged or hit by a car. 322 00:27:43,746 --> 00:27:48,793 It's not until you get back to nature until you realise everything is out to get you. 323 00:27:48,876 --> 00:27:53,673 That's why father always taught me to... respect nature - 324 00:27:55,216 --> 00:27:57,718 cos it has no respect for you. 325 00:28:00,763 --> 00:28:02,849 (Splashing) 326 00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:11,065 (Splash, bubbling) 327 00:28:24,954 --> 00:28:27,039 That was him, Scully. 328 00:28:27,123 --> 00:28:29,417 That was big blue. 329 00:28:30,251 --> 00:28:32,628 So what if it was? 330 00:28:34,547 --> 00:28:36,424 Mulder, what are we doing here? 331 00:28:36,507 --> 00:28:39,427 What do you mean "what are we doing here?" 332 00:28:39,510 --> 00:28:42,013 What are you hoping to accomplish? 333 00:28:44,932 --> 00:28:48,227 So many of the things we investigate are intangible... 334 00:28:48,311 --> 00:28:52,815 But this creature exists within the specific earthly confines of this lake. 335 00:28:52,899 --> 00:28:55,359 - And iwanna find it. - What for? 336 00:28:55,443 --> 00:28:57,904 You're a scientist. Why do you ask that? 337 00:28:57,987 --> 00:29:00,114 It would be miraculous. 338 00:29:00,197 --> 00:29:03,326 It could revolutionise evolutionary biological thinking. 339 00:29:04,285 --> 00:29:07,622 Is that really the reason why? 340 00:29:07,705 --> 00:29:11,542 You know when you showed me those pictures that the photographer took? 341 00:29:11,626 --> 00:29:13,711 Wanna know what I really saw in them? 342 00:29:13,961 --> 00:29:16,255 - A tooth? - No. You. 343 00:29:16,339 --> 00:29:18,799 That man is your future. 344 00:29:18,883 --> 00:29:25,431 Listening only to himself, hoping to glimpse the truth for who knows what reason. 345 00:29:25,514 --> 00:29:28,768 I read in his journals that he hoped to live off the copyright fees 346 00:29:28,851 --> 00:29:30,519 from a big blue photo. 347 00:29:33,397 --> 00:29:36,484 As dumb as it sounds, at least it's a legitimate reason. 348 00:29:36,609 --> 00:29:39,654 You don't think my reasons are legitimate? 349 00:29:39,737 --> 00:29:43,366 Mulder, sometimes I just can't figure them out. 350 00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:46,285 (Splashing) 351 00:29:54,335 --> 00:29:56,128 Mulder! 352 00:30:02,301 --> 00:30:04,387 (Quacking) 353 00:30:09,141 --> 00:30:10,810 (Laughs) 354 00:30:12,812 --> 00:30:15,147 I'm still tempted to fire. 355 00:30:21,070 --> 00:30:24,490 Hey, Scully, do you think you could ever cannibalise someone? 356 00:30:24,573 --> 00:30:27,284 I mean, if you really had to? 357 00:30:27,368 --> 00:30:30,037 Well, as much as the idea's abhorrent to me... 358 00:30:30,121 --> 00:30:35,251 I suppose under certain conditions the living entity is practically conditioned... 359 00:30:35,334 --> 00:30:40,965 To perform whatever extreme measures are necessary to ensure its survival. 360 00:30:41,048 --> 00:30:43,426 I suppose I'm no different. 361 00:30:44,385 --> 00:30:46,637 You've lost some weight recently. 362 00:30:46,721 --> 00:30:50,016 Yeah, actually, I have. Thanks for... 363 00:30:51,559 --> 00:30:52,601 (Chuckles) 364 00:30:52,685 --> 00:30:55,104 But it is amazing what some animals will do 365 00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:57,857 to guarantee the continuation of the species. 366 00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:01,068 A creature of this size must have adapted its behaviour... 367 00:31:01,152 --> 00:31:05,072 To minimise its chances of being seen by its only predator - us. 368 00:31:05,448 --> 00:31:09,952 This coming closer to shore for its prey must be an act of desperation on its part. 369 00:31:10,036 --> 00:31:12,121 Poor queequeg. 370 00:31:16,459 --> 00:31:19,128 Why did you name the dog queequeg? 371 00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:22,131 It was the name of the harpoonist in Moby dick. 372 00:31:22,631 --> 00:31:26,594 My father used to read to me from Moby dick when I was a little girl. 373 00:31:26,677 --> 00:31:29,513 I called him ahab and he called me Starbuck. 374 00:31:29,597 --> 00:31:31,348 So I named my dog queequeg. 375 00:31:34,185 --> 00:31:36,645 That's funny. I just realised something. 376 00:31:36,729 --> 00:31:39,857 - That's a bizarre name for a dog, huh? - No. 377 00:31:40,524 --> 00:31:42,610 How much you're like ahab. 378 00:31:43,736 --> 00:31:48,157 You're so consumed by your personal vengeance against life... 379 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,951 Whether it be its cruelties or its mysteries... 380 00:31:51,035 --> 00:31:55,122 That everything takes on a warped significance... 381 00:31:55,206 --> 00:31:57,792 To fit your megalomaniacal cosmology. 382 00:31:58,501 --> 00:32:00,252 Are you coming on to me? 383 00:32:00,336 --> 00:32:06,008 It's just... the truth or a white whale - what difference does it make? 384 00:32:06,092 --> 00:32:09,220 Both obsessions are impossible to capture... 385 00:32:09,303 --> 00:32:11,722 And trying to do so will only leave you dead, 386 00:32:11,806 --> 00:32:14,475 along with everyone else you bring with you. 387 00:32:14,558 --> 00:32:16,644 You know, mulder, you are ahab. 388 00:32:19,021 --> 00:32:22,525 It's interesting you should say that - I always wanted a peg leg. 389 00:32:22,733 --> 00:32:25,152 It's a boyhood thing I never grew out of. 390 00:32:25,236 --> 00:32:27,988 I'm not being flippant. I've given it a lot of thought. 391 00:32:28,072 --> 00:32:30,741 If you have a peg leg or hooks for hands, 392 00:32:30,825 --> 00:32:33,452 maybe it's enough to simply carry on living... 393 00:32:33,536 --> 00:32:37,081 Bravely facing life with a disability. It's heroicjust to survive. 394 00:32:37,164 --> 00:32:41,252 But without these things, you're expected to make something of your life - 395 00:32:41,335 --> 00:32:43,337 earn a raise, wear a necktie. 396 00:32:43,420 --> 00:32:46,757 So, if anything, I'm actually the antithesis of ahab... 397 00:32:46,841 --> 00:32:50,678 Because if I did have a peg leg, I'd quite possibly be more happy... 398 00:32:50,761 --> 00:32:54,765 And not feel the need to chase after creatures of the unknown. 399 00:32:54,849 --> 00:32:58,102 - And that's not flippant? - (Laughs) No. 400 00:32:58,185 --> 00:33:01,397 Flippant is my favourite line from Moby dick. 401 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,860 "Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling." Yeah? 402 00:33:07,153 --> 00:33:09,155 (Splashing) 403 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:21,208 (Plop, then splashing) 404 00:33:21,292 --> 00:33:24,795 - What was that? - I don't know, but it ain't no duck. 405 00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:41,187 (Scully gasps) 406 00:33:41,270 --> 00:33:43,355 (Splash) 407 00:33:45,274 --> 00:33:48,360 I thought I heard voices. What are you two doing out here? 408 00:33:48,444 --> 00:33:51,739 - Dr Faraday? - Hope I'm not interrupting anything. 409 00:33:51,822 --> 00:33:55,201 No. No! We had a little trouble with our boat. 410 00:33:55,284 --> 00:33:56,744 Actually, it sank. 411 00:33:56,952 --> 00:34:00,497 - How'd that happen? - (Scully) It was my fault. 412 00:34:01,207 --> 00:34:04,793 We'd have been here all night if you hadn't answered our distress call. 413 00:34:04,877 --> 00:34:08,714 I didn't. I was walking by. I heard you talking. 414 00:34:08,797 --> 00:34:10,883 - Walking by? - Yeah. 415 00:34:10,966 --> 00:34:14,303 Yeah, the shore is just a stone's throw from here. 416 00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:18,807 Come on. I'll take you back. 417 00:34:41,205 --> 00:34:43,082 It was just out of fuel. 418 00:34:43,165 --> 00:34:47,336 The sheriff'll be along in a minute. I'd drive you myself, but I got work to do. 419 00:34:47,419 --> 00:34:51,840 What exactly is it that you're doing out here? It's well after midnight. 420 00:34:51,924 --> 00:34:57,012 Night is rana sphenocephala's most active period. This is its primary breeding ground. 421 00:34:57,096 --> 00:35:02,017 Or at least it used to be. Thousands of eggs used to cling to these reeds. 422 00:35:02,101 --> 00:35:04,353 Beautiful jelly clusters. 423 00:35:05,271 --> 00:35:09,525 Now one must turn over many a leaf in order to find potential offspring. 424 00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:11,694 - What's in the sack? - Adult frogs. 425 00:35:11,819 --> 00:35:16,532 I've been breeding them in captivity and releasing them into the wild. 426 00:35:17,658 --> 00:35:19,702 - This is striker's cove? - Mm-hm. 427 00:35:19,785 --> 00:35:22,371 - The frogs. - I beg your pardon. 428 00:35:22,496 --> 00:35:25,249 The unexplained depletion of frogs originates from this cove. 429 00:35:25,332 --> 00:35:27,710 It's the food chain. 430 00:35:27,793 --> 00:35:31,130 - What about it? - If you alter one life form in an ecosystem... 431 00:35:31,213 --> 00:35:34,967 The rest is necessarily affected, either by an increase or decrease. 432 00:35:35,050 --> 00:35:38,345 So if an aquatic dinosaur primarily ate frogs... 433 00:35:38,429 --> 00:35:40,306 Then if those frogs became scarce, 434 00:35:40,389 --> 00:35:42,808 it'd have to turn to an alternative food source. 435 00:35:42,891 --> 00:35:45,227 - Humans. - Agent mulder... 436 00:35:45,352 --> 00:35:50,232 You are taking my legitimate research and basic biological principle... 437 00:35:50,357 --> 00:35:52,359 And stretching them out of proportion, 438 00:35:52,443 --> 00:35:56,322 in an effort to give validity to a ludicrous theory. 439 00:35:56,655 --> 00:35:59,074 There is no prehistoric lake monster. 440 00:35:59,158 --> 00:36:03,120 This creature lives here. That explains the frogs' disappearance - 441 00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:07,583 for which you have no explanation, ludicrous or not - and the human attacks. 442 00:36:07,666 --> 00:36:12,171 That's crazy! If something was in these waters, you don't think I would've seen it? 443 00:36:12,254 --> 00:36:14,340 I've worked here for three years! 444 00:36:14,423 --> 00:36:18,093 I'm talking about an animal that's gone unnoticed for centuries. 445 00:36:18,218 --> 00:36:20,429 If it knows anything, it knows how to hide. 446 00:36:20,512 --> 00:36:24,683 They say the Loch Ness monster doesn't even live in the water, but in cliffs. 447 00:36:24,767 --> 00:36:26,435 Maybe big blue has an inland habitat, 448 00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:30,105 somewhere in the rocks or in this forest here. 449 00:36:30,189 --> 00:36:32,608 I have no time for these absurdities. 450 00:36:34,610 --> 00:36:38,739 If you'll excuse me, I have some amphibians to release. 451 00:36:41,909 --> 00:36:44,870 Well, captain, what now? 452 00:36:44,953 --> 00:36:47,623 (Sheriff) Agent Scully! Agent mulder! 453 00:36:48,082 --> 00:36:50,125 There's been another death. 454 00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:54,463 And this time it does appear to be an animal attack. Bit a fisherman's arm off. 455 00:36:54,588 --> 00:36:57,549 - Where? - Other side of the lake, couple of hours ago. 456 00:36:57,633 --> 00:37:00,219 I have the cooperation of the state police... 457 00:37:00,302 --> 00:37:05,307 Plus the full use of all the wildlife, fish and game vessels. A search is underway. 458 00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:08,977 No. We need those men searching this cove and these woods. 459 00:37:09,061 --> 00:37:12,147 But I got 30 boats on the water. If we're gonna kill this... 460 00:37:12,231 --> 00:37:15,692 We gotta sweep this cove. It's here at striker's cove. 461 00:37:15,776 --> 00:37:19,696 The boats are searching the area of the latest attack. I'm not gonna move 'em. 462 00:37:19,780 --> 00:37:23,242 If you wanna waste your time searching these woods, go ahead. 463 00:37:23,325 --> 00:37:25,577 I got me a lake monster to catch. 464 00:37:25,661 --> 00:37:28,330 (Woman over radio) Sheriff, this is dispatch. 465 00:37:28,455 --> 00:37:30,416 Sheriff... 466 00:37:30,499 --> 00:37:32,251 Agent mulder and I would appreciate it 467 00:37:32,334 --> 00:37:35,671 if you could spare two men to assist us here. 468 00:37:37,256 --> 00:37:39,633 All right. I'll send 'em on back. 469 00:37:43,178 --> 00:37:44,430 Thanks. 470 00:37:44,513 --> 00:37:46,598 (Rustle, then screaming) 471 00:37:46,682 --> 00:37:48,767 What was that? 472 00:37:50,436 --> 00:37:51,687 Dr Faraday. 473 00:37:58,193 --> 00:38:00,112 Argh! 474 00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:02,114 Argh! 475 00:38:07,536 --> 00:38:11,290 - What happened? - I think something grabbed my leg. Agh! 476 00:38:11,373 --> 00:38:13,417 - Did you see it? - No. (Groans) 477 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:16,670 It came from behind me. Before I knew it, 478 00:38:16,753 --> 00:38:19,965 it was shaking me back and forth. Then it let go. 479 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:22,301 Give me your belt. 480 00:38:23,677 --> 00:38:25,304 I didn't wanna believe you. 481 00:38:25,387 --> 00:38:29,558 Oh! You nicked an artery. We gotta get him to a hospital. He's losing blood. 482 00:38:29,725 --> 00:38:32,394 - Where did it go? - I didn't see it. Agh! 483 00:38:32,895 --> 00:38:36,148 I think I heard... It went through those reeds there. 484 00:38:36,231 --> 00:38:40,068 - Mulder, help is coming. - You take care of him, Scully. 485 00:38:40,152 --> 00:38:42,237 Mulder! 486 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,158 (Sighs) 487 00:38:46,241 --> 00:38:47,409 (Groans) 488 00:39:06,595 --> 00:39:08,096 (Twig snaps) 489 00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:34,414 (Movement) 490 00:40:00,607 --> 00:40:02,734 (Crack!) 491 00:40:23,338 --> 00:40:25,424 Alligator... 492 00:40:31,805 --> 00:40:34,933 (Voice over radio) Millikan county, unit three... 493 00:40:39,521 --> 00:40:42,024 (Sheriff) All right then. Go ahead. 494 00:40:53,285 --> 00:40:55,537 How's dr Faraday? 495 00:40:57,039 --> 00:40:59,708 He'll be fine. 496 00:40:59,833 --> 00:41:02,961 - How are you? - I'm fine. 497 00:41:04,713 --> 00:41:07,215 Well, you slew the big white whale, ahab. 498 00:41:07,299 --> 00:41:11,470 - Yeah, but I still don't have that peg leg. - How can you be disappointed? 499 00:41:11,553 --> 00:41:14,890 That alligator would've gone through the local population. 500 00:41:14,973 --> 00:41:17,225 I know. 501 00:41:17,309 --> 00:41:19,853 I guess I just wanted big blue to be real. 502 00:41:20,896 --> 00:41:23,899 I guess I see hope in such a possibility. 503 00:41:24,524 --> 00:41:29,488 Well, there's still hope. That's why these myths and stories have endured. 504 00:41:29,571 --> 00:41:31,907 People wanna believe. 505 00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:18,620 Visiontext subtitles: Natasha cohn 506 00:42:51,236 --> 00:42:52,946 (Child) I made this!